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Walter Teason. this month's artist, had a Contents for Deeetnbci' 1950 difficult job in paint- START IN ing our Christmas cover. The glittering NEXT WEEK ornaments are hard THE GENERAL WENT HOME (fiction) to catch with paints BY MARJORIE EXTRA MONEY for you in just and even finding such HOLMES 11 TWO HOURS AN EVENING selling decorations these days His old friends didn't know what to expect from finest style - and - comfort shoes! presented a problem. this VIP Harry Williamson made $21.50 in a sincle day — Ch^iles Tuttle aver- The sparkling glass aged $80.00 a week! figures you see here Be Direct Factory man for this were brought to this HOW THE REDS INVADED RADIO NO-LACE styie — 164 other fast- country many years sellers for men, women. Big selec- ago from Germany BY LOUIS FRANCIS BUDENZ 14 tion — top grade leathers — fine workmanship — huge stock! and they're a warm A famous ex-commie takes you behind the headlines reminder that we We Show You HOW! want to wish you a Customers everywhere Merry Christmas! A ROOM THAT WILL GROW WITH YOUR CHILD eager to buv — experience not needed. Start by sell- BY ROBERT SCHARFF 16 ing a pair at home — or get POSTIVIASTER: Please A few changes will keep it from becoming datecJ a pair yourself. That will send copies returned prove quality, value, ex- under labels Form 3579 clusive features, UN- to Post Office Box EQUALLED comfort - FIT. THE LEGION'S NEW BOSS We show you easy, sure loss, Indianapolis 6« ways to cash in on big Indiana. BY ROBERT B. PITKIN 18 ^^^^^ demand! National Commander Erie Cocke is an exceptional Tlie Atnerican Legion person Mogazine is the official publication of The Ameri- \^*^^ Shoes TINY TOWN, PA 20 con Legion and is owned exclusively by The Ameri- It's like the miniature villages under many Xmass can Legion. Copyright trees, but more so Air-Cushioned 1950. Pubhdied monthly EXCLUSIVE at 1100 W. Broodway, Velvet-eez Air Louisville, Ky. Acceptance HE HELPS WITH Cushion insole cradles feet THEM SEE THEIR EARS on for moiling ot special rate a carpet of air bubbles. 5-second BY GLENN ANDERSON Demonstrator in outfit practical- of posloge provided for in 22 Section 1 ly Guarantees profitable sales. 103, Act of Oct. Bob Gunderson wants other blind people to enjoy life 3, 1917, authorized Jon. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GUARANTY 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- LESS ROCKET, PLEASE! SEAL HELPS YOU CASH IN BIG! tion, $1.50. Entered as second class matter June BY W. F. MIKSCH 24 Everybody knows Good Housekeeping Seal 30, 1 948, at the Post on A rollicking account of a trip in a flying saucer Velvet-eez Shoes means satisfaction or money back. Office at Louisville, Ky., Helps CLINCH sales QUICK, builds customer con- under the Act of Marcfi fidence. 3, 1879. Non-member sub- MAIN STREET'S HEALTH scriptions should be sent MENTAL PROBLEM Sell MASOX to the Circulation Depart- BY MYRON STEARNS 26 ment of The American About a situation that concerns all of us directly Jackets • Legion Magazine, P. O, Coats! Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Increase your generous ad- Indiono. vance profits by taking easy orders for big selection of EXECUTIVE AND Warm. Sturdy, Handsome Jac- &ie ^atkiud^e^kmmm . ..29-36 kets and Coats! Tough Genu- ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES ine Horsehide. Soft Suede. Indianapolis Indiana Two-Tone Wool, popular Nylon 6, mixture Satin-Twill — nianv with quilted linings, warm fur EDITORIAL AND FeatMives collars, other features. In FREE ADVERTISING selling outfit, WRITE TODAY! PRODUCTS PARADE 4 MEMO TO THE LADIES.. 28 580 Fifth Avenue THE EDITORS' CORNER.. 6 NEWSLETTER 37 YOU DON'T INVEST A CENT! New York 19, N. Y. SOUND OFF! 8 VETS WITH IDEAS 47 PARTING SHOTS 64 EVERYTHING FURNISHED FREE WESTERN OFFICE Don't send 333 North Michigan Avenue Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not us a penny — now or ever — for this njoney-rnaking returned unless self-addressed, is included. opportunity! 46-year-old Leader Chicago I, Illinois be a stamped envelope the in field furnishes everything you need to begin &V^y'iW^lL^"stl,i'n"g''^ciu^*^,it%oX

Please notify the John Stelle, McLeons- Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Paul, Minn.; Harold A, ITMilLCy XFiH Deal. M 709. Chippewa Falls, Wis. Circulation Depart- boro, Illinois, Chairman Neb.; Charles E. Booth, Shindler, Newburgh, ment, Publications of the Legion Publico- Huntington, W. Va.; A. Ind.; Emmett Sofay, tions Commission; Dan C. Jackson, Lubbock, SELLING Division, P. O. Box Jacksonville, Flo.; Clo- W. Emmett, Ventura, Texos; Max Slepin, QUICK OUTFIT 1055, Indianapolis, vis Copelond, Little Colifornio and Lawrence Philadelphia, Pa.; Ro- Rock, Ark.; Poul B. Indiana, if you have W. Hager, Owensboro, land Baton Cocrehom, Dogue, Downington, MasonVhoe M(g,^^,, Dept. M-709 changed your ad- Kentucky, Vice-Choir- Rouge, La.; George D. Pa.; Josephus Daniels, Chippev/^F^JVtXWisctensin dress, using notice men. Members of the Boron, Bethany, Conn.; Jr., Raleigh, N. C; D. Rush big ^^£^^JIing form 22S which you Commission: J. Russell Long Armstrong, Spo- ^tfit.\how me how 1 con secure from Malta, Mon- kane, Earl Hitch- L. Sears, Toledo, Ohio; make quick TXTRA^t^^- >q spW time. Send big may Lorcombe, Wash.; tana; Dr. Charles R. cock, Glens Falls, N. Y.; George D. Levy, Sum- line of fast. selling\jip«!y and Sprments for men your Postmaster. Be Logan, Keokuk, lowc; Edgor Vaughon, St. ter, S. C. and women, including fSyKEi0\^ Slip On styles, sure to cut off the G. Velveleez Demonstrator,VotFS^.^!fles\ helps. Send address label on DirectOT of Publicatiom A dvisory Editor A dvertifing Director everything FREE and PREVID. o\n shoe size your Magazine and James F. O'Neil Alexander Gardiner Fred L. Maguire paste it in the space New York, N. Y. .\/.;n,/^in^; Editor provided. Always E.istern Adv. Mgr. Boyd B. Stuller WilliamM. DeVitalis give your 1950 James F. Barton A It Editor Western membership card Indianapolis, Ind. AlMorshol) Adv. Mgr. Fred E. Crawford, Jr. number and both A ss't to DiTCitor A fMH i.Ue Editors your new and Robert B. Pitkin Detroit A dr. Rep. Town State. your Frank Lisiecki old address. Editor JosephC. Keeley Irving Herschbein Charles 0. Hepler

2 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 ^^Here's the home for family life at Army camps... /

say Sgt. 1st Class Donald E. Fitzgerald and his pretty ivife, June, at an Army installation in the mid- ivest. They add. ''After dutyfrom coast to coast, we prefer the facilities of our trailer /jouie."

The Bug Hunter Hoiv a rogue's gallery of insects Helped us win in the Pacific By FAIRFAX DOWNEY

Before we invaded the Pacific Islands, a remarkable reconnais- sance had been made. It had taken place prior to 1918, for since then Jap-mandated territory had been closely guarded, and it concerned not garrisons and fortifications but bugs. Yet few scouts ever paid off better. Reports were filed on cards of the Department of Agriculture's index-catalogue of 100,000 animal parasites of the world. Our medics and services of supply rushed to consult it. From its information they began developing defenses "OUR PAYMENTS ARE CHEAPER THAN RENT," June tells us. "And when it's paid for furniture. against the insects and fungi we for, we have something to show our money ... a home and enjoy better facilities than when we were renting. newest would meet. Tough as those bugs Besides, we The electric refrigerator, gas range, sink and automatic heat!" were to take, they would have further cramped and even crippled PRICED FROM $1033 to $4995, task forces were it not for DDT including furnishings, these new and the other answers laboratories TCMA coaches are a boon to found. The catalogue also came up members of the Forces, with data on preserving meat and Armed materials in the tropics; on data for young marrieds, retired couples shelter and clothing best adapted and migratory workers. Make the to invaded areas; on plants useful TCMA emblem one of your guides for food and camouflage. to quality and satisfaction. For It helped win the war, did that the members of TCMA are the rogue's gallery of bugs, started by leaders of the industry . . . pio- Dr. Albert Hassall in 1891. It's of neering improved designs, build- present use to farms and cattle ing dependably to high standards. ranches on fighting ticks, blood- worms, roundworms, and lice; higher production for fur animals; "EVERYTHING IS SO CONVENIENT and FREE BOOK JUST OUT! increased stamina in hunting dogs; comfortable," says June, "with sepa- Complete information on coping with airplane-born parasites. rate bedrooms, bath, living room and TCMA coaches. Write TCMA, Dept. A-120, Civic Scientists come from all over the kitchen completely furnished." Opera Bldg., Chicago 6, lU. world to consult it, and it's rated as important as the F.B.I. 's fingerprint and photograph collection.

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • ! 7 ! New Allen-A Sensation! Products Parade

A sampling of items lolilch are in process of development or are comi7ig on the viarl;et. Mention of products in no way constit^ites an endorsement oj them, since in most cases Uieij are described as represented by manufacturers.

FOR BETTER LIGHT. An unusual filter-magnifier which can be clipped to any shape incandescent light bulb has been developed by the Fairbridge Co., 945 Main St., Bridgeport, Conn. Made of a strip of transparent Vinylite, the filter is said to block the red and yellow light from incandescent light rays, providing a white light similar to daylight. The filter in turn is fastened to a magnifier which increases the intensity of the light. The unit is readily attached to any bulb from 25 to 100 watts by means of spring wire clips, and the device can be turned in any position to focus the light Like comfort in action? This new Allen-A as desired. It will retail for 79^^. Atlastic* T-Shirt has live-rubber s-t-r-e-t-c-h in shoulder seams and collar for permanent shape-holding fit— in both WEAR GLASSES? If you do you'll be interested in a useful action and at ease! new gadget called SpecHolcler which protects eye glasses when you have to set them down. It consists of an attrac- tive case with pockets in which the glasses are inserted with the temples out. The SpecHolder can be attached by screws or cement to wall surfaces so your glasses will be near at hand wherever you are. Or, if you wish, you can get a model with a base. Offered by SpecHolder Sales Co., Allendale, N. J., the regular model sells for $1.00, and $1.25 with base. Postage is paid on prepaid orders.

PORTABLE CRIB. An attractive crib whicli can be easily folded and carried is the Carry Crib just brought on the market. It is completely enclosed in plastic even to screening which provides full ventilation on all four sides. The top, which also has a large plastic screen panel, is fully zippered so it can be opened completely. The crib is attached to a lightweight tubular steel frame which raises it about a foot off the floor. Measuring 36 inches long and 18 inches wide, and complete with a mattress, it retails "for about S19.95, higher in the West," according to the manu- facturer. Bunny Bear, Inc., Everett 49, Mass.

HOW TO PARADE IN THE RAIN. Three Minnesota Legion- These new Allen-A Atlastic' Briefs have naires got tired of parading through raindrops have live-rubber s-t-r-e-t-c-h at legs and waist- who band, naturally. But their new live-rubber put their damp heads together and come up with what and combed-yarn knit fly is Allen-A's they call the Smockster. This is a transparent slip-over alone. It gives you permanent fit plus mild raincoat, shaped like a 40 & 8 smock, plus a cap cover support. Ask for this newest Allen-A that they maintain will stay put. Made of heavy weight "wonder-wear" today! Goodyear vinyl, the Smockster is transparent, so uniforms, • New comfort colors and insignia show through. The Legionnaires who developed the outfit are Dick Lang and Howie Clark, of • smooth, New Winona, Minn., and Jerry Beskin, of Minneapolis. Price easy fit of the outfit is $3.50 from Veterans Specialties Co., Winona, ^Allen • New mild support! Minn.

A DO YOU LOVE YOUR DOG $34.90 WORTH? If you do you can buy him a gadget that he is sure to appreciate. It is called The Home Boarder and it feeds your dog auto- matically for a week — two feedings a da.v. The gadget is a closet with fourteen food-holding shelves, and each UNDERWEAR shelf holds a supply of food — cubed, biscuit, pellet or what have you — for a single feeding. A bell summons engineered with "live rubber" the dog to his dinner and he comes up to find his meal waiting for him. Water is also provided automatically. fits like your own skin I The Home Boarder is made by the James R. Coffing Co., Danville, 111. sReg. U. S. Pat. Off.-Pat. No. 2.282,2 1 4 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 !

WANT TO WOW 'EM WITH A UKE? Remember the famous ad slogan: "They laughed when I sat down at the piano''? If you recall that phrase you know the story — how the laughing turned to applause because Joe Doakes had taken a course in making like Iturbi and Rubinstein. The point of all this is that you too can turn jeers to cheers when you sit down with a ukulele. And you don't even have to take a correspondence course. Science has caught up with the musical instrument from Hawaii which Arthur Godfrey is responsible for disinterring. Science's contri- bution is a player device which you fasten over the neck of the uke. It has six buttons and each button when pressed plays a complete cliord. Made by Emenee Industries, Inc., 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City, the device with a song book sells for $1.49. If you want a uke, too, the whole outfit will cost you $5.98.

A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS GIFT. A new ininiaCurc electric reed organ which weighs only four pounds and is no bigger than a table radio has reached the market in time for Christmas. Priced at $18.75 tho instrument is made of Bakelile and has 25 piano keys, 15 white and 10 black, with a range of two full chromatic octaves from low C to middle C to high C. The organ is ready to play when plugged in to 110-115 volt A.C. current. A fractional horsepower motor propels a blower fan which distributes in-blown air into a compression chamber. When the keys are depressed the air under pressure is released causing the reeds to vibrate and producing the musical notes of the organ. The manufacturer is Magnus Harmonica Corporation, 4.39

Frelinghuysen Avenue. Newark .I. N. J.

CANDY CANES TO LOOK AT. Novel decorations for Christ- mas trees, canes (hat glow in four colors, day or night, without electricity, arc being marketed by The Ark, Inc., 3181 Morganford Road, St. Louis 16, Mo. Made of fluores- cent and luminescent plastic, shaped and striped like traditional candy canes, 41/2 inches long, they come in gay colors to brighten the tree. Another interesting feature is the price — only $1.00 a dozen postpaid.

STYLE PLUS SAFETY. Gloves for dress aud driving which combine style with a safety angle are being offered by the Glo-Glove Co., 989 Merchandise Mart. Chicago. The Glo-Gloves have a Scotchlite reflecting surface on the back so when they are worn after dark they are clearly visible to motorists. They reflect auto headlights brightly but the reflection is visible only to the person behind the headlights. This makes them particularly valuable as driving gloves since hand signals can't be missed if you're wearing them. The gloves come in six styles of dress and driving gloves for men and 11 other styles for men, women and children. They retail for $4.95 to $6.95.

NEW RUG COLORS FOR OLD. A way of dyeing rugs right on the floor is available by means of a product called Ruga- dub, a concentrated liquid dye made by The Chair-Loc Co., Freeport, N. Y. For use with pile -type, woven or hooked rugs, the product is mixed with water and applied to the rug with broad strokes of an ordinary scrubbing brush. No special preparation of the rug is necessary beyond vacuuming or brushing. A kit consisting of a pint of the dye — enough for a 9 by 12 rug ~ applicator scrub brush, measuring cup, and a two-quart pan sells for $4.20 postpaid. Colors are billiard green, deep hedge green, tobacco brown, maroon and midnight blue. The manufacturer points out that because AMERICA'S LARGEST-SELLING rugs and conditions vary, he cannot guarantee Rugadub's performance. However, he emphasizes that the product hiis been extensively tested. SMOKING TOBACCO

Merry Cbristnnis to every pipe FLEA BLASTER. An ingenious way of putting flea powder where it will do the most smoker on your Xmas shopping list good is incorporated in the just introduced Comb-A-Flea. an atomizer pel comb — or to any man who likes to roil his by the Mik-Tin Specialties Co., 6.30 Securities Bldg., Seattle 1, Wash. The device own cigarettes — with a big, full, one- consists of a comb with a rubber bulb attached. The bulb contains the powder which pound tin of Prince Albert! is blown through the hollow handle of the comb into the teeth which are also hollow. Choice, crimp cut, mild, flavorful The powder comes out tiny holes at the ends of the teeth, with enough pressure so tobacco — all ready for Christmas in a it reaches down to the skin of even long-haired dogs and cats. The powder, specially colorful, gift -packed Yuletide package prepared for this use, is said to be non-poisonous and non-injurious to warm-blooded built-in gift card right on top animals when used as directed. The comb with a trial fill of powder sells for $2.00 ... with a

postpaid. K.J. H^ymililt Tubaicu Co. , Winston-Salem. N.C.

HIic National Joy Smoke When loritinf) to manujacturers concerning items described here kindly mention that i/oti read about them in The American Legion Magazine

The American Legion Magazine • December. 1950 • 5 A'lrertiifement

From where I sit Ay JoQ Marsh

YOUR NEXT VACATION

Legionnaires who can, but don't, fit their vacation into the Legion National Convention don't know what they're mis- sing. Nowhere else, and at no other time, can John Legion find an entire U.S. New Use city to prepared welcome him, to put on a show for him, to recognize him as a special guest. At no other time can he For Old Windmills walk down the streets of a strange city and have his hat be his introduction to anyone and everyone. Next year, Miami. I drove past Curly Larson's farm LOOKING FOR A CUSTOMER? last week and saw him perched on top Here's some poop on us Legionnaires and our families provided by various his 75-year-old windmill. "Still of and sundry studies made in recent years thinking about tearing it downV^ I by several research groups. Legion families are more prosperous shouted up to him. than the average U. S. family. We aver- age nearly $4,500 a year income — which "Not on your life," says Curly as adds up to a total Legion family income he climbs down. "I'm getting myself of $13,149,000,000 a year (thirteen billion, that is.) a television set from Buzz Ellis and Legionnaires work hard at improving themselves. More than two and a half he says this windmill is going to come million Legionnaires went to high school, in mighty handy." and nearly one and a third million went on to college. Many of the half-million "Yow see," Curly went on, "Fm who did not get to high school are among the 750,000 Legionnaires who have taken going to put my TV antenna right one or more correspondence courses. Legionnaires own 2,542,000 private smack on top of it. Since the windmill autos, not counting the extra cars owned is a lot higher than the house, Fll get by 210,000 Legionnaires who own more than one car. Legionnaires own 309,000 the best reception around here— but if trucks. We Legionnaires drive our private cars it wasn't for Buzz and his advice, Fd 34,588,400,000 miles a year (34 billion, that have scrapped it." is.) Figures on how much gas, oil, tires are used aren't at hand. From where I sit, Curly's success We shave just about an even one billion times a year. Figures are lacking on how as a farmer and his popularity in town many whiskers get cut in the process, but is due, in a large part, to his open- it must be a capitolic number. Two million four hundred thirty-nine his willingness listen mindedness and to thousand of us own safety razors in which to people and their opinions. He'll we use 367,801,400 (367 million, that is) razor blades a year. The rest, except for listen to Buzz Ellis over a malted milk 200,000 gals, use electric or straight razors. or he and I can talk politics — each Cigarette smoking Legionnaires smoke over fourteen billion cigarettes a year. with a glass of temperate beer. Yes, That's over 701 million packs. It takes 2,- 304,000 of us to smoke that many. The Curly's as modern as television itself! others smoke cigars, pipes or nothing. Quite a few smoke cigars, pipes and cig- arettes, or combinations of the three. Those Legion families which serve beer serve 533,952,000 (533 million, that is) pints of beer in a year. Legionnaires know what time it is. They own 2,790,000 watches. They like good watches; 1,853,790 of those watches cost $50 or more. Legionnaires like informality to the ex- they over seven million Copyright, 1950, United States Brewers Foundation tent that buy g • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 sport shirts a year. That's some shirts! They purchase a Httle over ten million business shirts a year, and buy neckties at almost the same rate. They are harder on socks, buying over 33 million pairs a year. Legionnaires love their wives and chil- dren even if they do seem to spend a lot of time at the Post. Anyway, two million 544 thousand Legionnaires carry life in- surance and 750,000 of them carry more than one policy, so that all told Legion- naires carry 3,307,200 life insurance poli- cies. Homes are owned by 1,731,000 of us. Total value of our homes is over IQV2 billion dollars. There are 1,269,000 Legion- naires who rent homes. Of these, eighty per cent rent houses. These renting Le- gionnaires pay over 680 million dollars rent a year. Legionnaires own more radios than any other electric appliance. Only two per cent of us have no radio. Next on the list of widespread ownership of appliances after radios come refrigerators, washing machines and record players. We seem to be buying more of what we have. Of recent household purchases by Legionnaires radios lead the list, with rugs, washing machines and refrigerators in hot pursuit. We own just about an even five million flashlights. Over a million of us have a home work shop or work bench. Three hundred thousand own a power drill, nearly three hundred thousand own a power table saw. We use over forty million rolls of film in still cameras each year. We are a pretty busy bunch. Thirty- five per cent of us didn't take a vacation last year. When we do take a vacation we like seeing America. Nearly half of the two million who holidayed last year toured the U. S. A. A fifth took a summer Over 600,000 Bell Telephone People cottage, a tenth toured Canada, a tenth went to a seashore hotel, a little less than a tenth went to a mountain hotel and less than three per cent toured abroad. Are Helping to Get Things Done Nearly four-fifths of vacationing Le- gionnaires went in their own cars. The bulk of the rest went by train. However, there are so many Legionnaires that 78,000 It takes many things, all put That is the vital human force still went by plane. together, to provide good tele- that puts life into telephone ecpiip- Legionnaires are an odd age group. A million are between 26 and 35 years old. phone service for a big and busy ment and makes it work smoothly Another million are over forty-five. The Nation. and efficiently for millions of remaining million is divided into two smaller intermediate groups — one 36 to There are telephone instruments people. That is the priceless asset 45 years old, the other 18 to 25 years old. buildings of the Nation's telephone system. Two million served in War Two. One mil- and switchboards and lion served in War One. Forty- eight and almost endless miles of wires Essential as they are in peace, thousand are retreads who served in both wars. and cables across the country. the skill, courtesy and energy of Well, that sort of gives you an idea and These are important. But they Bell Telephone people are of even don't ask us who counted all those things. The figures are projections of representa- could not possibly do the job with- greater value in time of national tive samplings — of the Legion population out the skill, loyalty and courtesy defense. They are now helping the with overlapping items in more than a dozen different surveys checked against of more than 600,000 Bell Tele- country's industries and armed one another to determine the validity of phone men and women. forces to get things done. each one. Even so, we grant some of the numbers may be off a couple of thousand or so either way. Some of the big num- bers might well be off a million or so — like maybe a billion shaves a year is a BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM million off more or less. Anyway, there it is. R. B. p.

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • y Why do more shooters

use Remington ammunition than any other brand? SOUND OFF!

Writers must give name and address. Name with- held if requested. So many letters are being re- ceived it is not possible to promise answers. Keep your letters short. Address: Sound Off, The American Legion Magazine, HSO Fifth Ave., New York 19. N. Y

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FROM A U.S. SENATOR work. Under such a plan doubtful or bor- derline cases could investigated I cannot resist the urge to express the be be- fore heartiest commendation for the great a decision is rendered. Again I think I assistance rendered to us by The Ameri- am expressing the views of can Legion in the passage of the anti- many WW-II veterans when I say that no can willingly communist measure just enacted into law man enter the armed forces with the is over the President's veto. knowledge that he leav- ing behind We who have consistently supported a horde of political 4-F's and physical unfits greatest is this measure in the Senate realize the whose ailment an invaluable aid given through the Ameri- allergy to lead. ... R. M. Manley Buchanan, Va. can Legion Magazine toward a full un- derstanding of the dangers confronting LAWYERS AND THE REDS America and of the merits of this legis- I fail to understand the mental proc- lation. Despite misunderstandings of the esses of Post Commander Cushenberry nature of the bill's provisions, it will be of Oberlin, Kansas (Oct. issue, proved to be a bulwark for the defense p. 8). Why did he feel so impelled to rush to of our internal security. the defense of the lav/yers? Who "im- I felt privileged over the period of pugned the integrity and patriotism of Senate consideration of this mattei", to the American lawyer"? have lent every assistance toward its en- I found nothing in Terror By Law to actment. It is because I realize the tre- indicate that the author was trying to mendous assistance accorded by the smear the legal profession. . . . Comrade Legion that I send this letter to my com- Cushenberry's criticism follows the rades of the Legion. familiar and stereotyped form of attacks Herbert R. O'Conor against anyone who dares raise his voice Washington, D. C. Power Pattern to protest the destruction of our free in- MAN CALLS THE TURN stitutions by Kremlin-directed saboteurs. If Comrade Cushenberry will read The I have just read your article Who Buys Men the Commies Hate Most (Oct., 1950), in Remington "Express" At Your House? Hurray for the men. It's he'll see what we mean. We certainly do about time they get a little recognition. not class our "educators, writers, scien- Men know what they like to see on their is one of the reasons! tists, artists and clergymen" as leftists in women as well as in their homes. My general. . . . Yes, Remington "Express" shells de- husband has excellent taste and buys Communist propaganda fattens on liver smashing power. . . power aplenty most of my clothes. He does a wonderful such ill advised criticism as that voiced to fold up game, at all shotgun ranges. job, and knows a bargain when he sees by Comrade Cushenberry. Anyone who And those big green shells are lightning- one. More men should go shopping with read the newspaper accounts of the re- fast loads that get out there with per- their wives. Behind most well dressed cent trials of the eleven top communists fect patterns every shot . . . with the women is a man with excellent taste. in New York, of Alger Hiss, Miss Coplon, speed you need to bring down fast- Mrs. A. Orlando or Harry Bridges, knows that able moving game. Son Francisco, Calif. lawyers defended them and that those Top-flight performance like this lawyers used most unethical methods. makes Remington ammunition Amer- FOR SALARIED DRAFT BOARDS Dr. J. S. Flynn ica's favorite brand! other shell In view of the apparently dire need for No Post 339 has all these advantages: "Kleanbore" men for military service I should like to Ventura, Calif. priming, corrugated shell bodies, Flat- submit a plan to insure a fair and im- Top Crimp, lubricated wadding, nylon- partial selection of the men who are to LOYALTY OATH O.K. bonded top seal. All the extras! serve. Such selection cannot, will not, and When I read about the specious and Next time you buy shotgun shells, be made if the present draft board sys- much publicized objections to loyalty tem is allowed to continue to operate. buy the best . . . Remington "Express." oaths (even the President must take a World War II proved this point, I be- loyalty oath) and to the registration of lieve, to millions of veterans and many communists (known to be agents of a more millions of parents and loved ones. foreign power), but without in any way I suggest that the members of the draft restricting their rights of speech, ballot board for any given county or locality and press, I am reminded of Milton's be chosen at random from the eligible famous lines: **Jf IVh Remington persons far removed from the county or "License they mean when they cry Liberty; — It's Right!'* localities concerned, and that they be paid For who loves that, must first be wise and good" a salary sufficient to enable them to de- William Ross "Express"mm and "Kleonbore" are Reg. U. S. Pot. Off. vote their entire time to selective service Brooklyn, N. Y. by Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport 2, Conn, g • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 5^ /

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Contributed by this magazine in co-operation with the Magazine Publishers of America as a public service. "THAT SIR," the colonel said, "seems to l>c the welcoming hov^l from the old home town.'

SHADY LAKE, Iowa, June 15: The Food-for-Europe Committee met at the Elks' hall this afternoon. A faint hope that Major General Elliot Ainswood might come here He was their claim to glory — they for a rally was aroused when Mayor Spindler recalled that the general was born here. Doubtless many Shady Lake thought. But it was a phony homecoming citizens will remember him as a boy. While his work as Quartermaster General of the U. S. Army makes him one until they all stopped kidding themselves of America's busiest and most important men, a letter in- viting him to "come home" has been dispatched. SHADY LAKE, Iowa, June 22: The Food-for-Europe that one general makes an army. Committee is excited! A telegram was received yesterday from a member of Major General Elliot Ainswood's staff,

11 (Continued) The General Went Home

stating that the general would be pleased to consider a possible "date" with Shady Lake! The committee, while keeping its fingers crossed, is already mak- ing plans. SHADY LAKE, Iowa, July 13: GENERAL AINSWOOD TO VISIT SHADY LAKE! IMPORTANT NATIVE SON TO RETURN! GALA PROGRAM PLANNED. When Quartermaster General Ainswood retiirns to his birthplace, he will he feted with festivities starting in the early morn- ing and lasting far into the night. In addition to visiting the industries of Buena Vista County, the great man will pause to inspect his birthplace at 105 Seneca Street, now occupied by Miss Martha

Noonan, who remembers him well (see cut) . , . Yes, Martha Noonan excitedly told the young reporter who'd just taken her picture (imagine!

"DON'T PRETEND with me," she said. "Go ahead and kid the folks in the tall corn all you want. But don't try it on me. I've known real soldiers"

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Martha. Old sweetheart?

Had Grandma really fried the general a thicken?

A queen for a general

she'd be on the front page, Martha memory of my parents, of course, Noonan, spinster, seamstress, whom and. ..." A blush suddenly joined the the whole town loved but had never two eagerly applied spots of rouge on noticed before)—yes, she remembered her ". wrinkled cheeks. . . And the the general. You see her folks had general." bought this place from his folks, gra- "Now you're talking." The young cious, could it be forty-three years reporter wagged his pencil. "What do ago? She'd been only seven or eight you remember about the general then, but she remembered like it was himself?" yesterday, sitting on a prickly horse- "Well—" Martha Noonan hesitated. hair sofa in this very parlor, while her What did she remember, actually, be- father and the general's father talked yond a pair of rather dirty bare brown price. feet that raced her to the swing, the "We had to come back several whiskery feel of the ropes, the tilting times," Martha Noonan reminisced, board, and beside her, pumping, a her thin, needle-pricked fingers twist- grinning blur as the sky wheeled ing her long, jet beads. "The general's close? "Why, we played together then family was leaving town, so we bought and — several times afterward when the furnishings too, bought every- his folks came back to visit." (Good- thing. That highboy, the green por- ness, they mxist have.) "My, what a tieres, even that conch shell on the rough and tumble he was, but polite table! The general will find there have too. Girls go first, let me push you, all been few changes. I've tried to keep that. Folks would tease me about him, things pretty much as they were, in especially when I'd get his letters."

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(Hadn't there been a postcard or two General Ainswood will he the prin- from Waterloo, and her brothers hid- cipal speaker at a banquet to be held ing them?) "Of course" — a secretive, in the high school gym. One feature slightly abashed smile hovered about the evening's program will be the — of her mouth "it didn't mean anything." reading of a poem by "Uncle Doc" "Then I can put in that you were Natwick, who is not only county poet childhood sweethearts?" laureate, but enjoys the distinction of "Oh, my stars, I wouldn't say that having brought our celebrated towns-

exactly!" 7nan i7ito the world. . . But knowing it was exactly what he Uncle Doc Natwick hung his baggy would say, her heart was pounding as blue serge coat on a nail, turned back he shut his notebook and galloped his sleeves and eased himself into the down the walk. Martha Noonan turned chair beside his cluttered rolltop desk. and regarded the house in which she He was almost too tired to see, let had lived for almost fifty years, with alone compose. But a poet laureate newly shining eyes. was supposed to be able to summon At noon (the article continued) the his muse at the drop of a hat. Church Hayes Township Farmers Club wili dedications, harvest festivals. Lord serve an old-fashioned dinner at the knows what-all he was called upon Oscar Rickman place. Mrs. Rickman, to immortalize in rhyme. Immortalize, always one of the general's favorite rats! He grinned, whittling his pencil cooks, has volunteered to prepare the sharp with a big pocket knife. Still fried chicken. . . . there were folks that claimed he was Wearily, Grandma Rickman sur- as good as Eddie Guest. And old- veyed the great gran- fashioned, everyday ite dishpans piled high verse that helped folks with wings and legs was like medicine. In and breasts. All day the business of living, she'd been dressing dying or being born it the chickens and to- was the general prac- morrow she'd have to titioner, the depend- be up at dawn to start able old saw-bones the frying. Thank doctor — or poet — that goodness the 4-H delivered the goods. Club girls had volun- Shoving his spec- teered to set the tables. tacles farther down She hoped it'd be a his nose, he opened his nice day so they could worn old composition put some outside — book to a fresh page. never be room for that Doc had to Let's see now, what write the poem big delegation in the rhymed with general? house. Drat it, nothing even came close but What, she wondered with a recur- funeral! Better try Ainswood. Good? ring sense of astonishment and guilt, That was lucky. His pencil descended, had possessed her to tell the Town- its whisper against the paper mingled ship Club ladies she'd known the gen- with his breathing and the ticking of eral so well? But let a body get a the clock. The green desk light shone little praise, and no telling what her on the little curls of hair that ran tongue's liable to rattle. softly across his pink scalp, like steam.

"Well, I oughta be a good cook," How well I remember the house of she'd chuckled, when they compli- Ainswood. Where one wintry night mented her refreshments at the last I delivered a good Husky lad . . . meeting. "I used to fry chicken for Hold on now, had it been a winter General Ainswood himself." night? Anxiously he consulted the

But come right down to it, the gen- biography of the general he'd copied eral couldn't of been much more'n a from Who's Who. "Born, July 4, 1898." baby that time his folks came out for Then he'd have to make it "one sum- dinner! She did remember giving him mer's night." He'd have — a drumstick to chew on, but that was Suddenly the hand that was vigor- about all. And tomorrow, she knew ously erasing paused and began to with mounting horror, the ladies tremble. Eighteen-ninety-eight. Why, would expect her to be real friendly he hadn't even started practicing until with the general, talk over old times. nineteen hundred! He remembered Her plump, old, blue-veined hands because that was the year he'd got- shook, drying them on the roller towel. ten married. He pulled off his heavy If she only dared just be sick tomor- gold wedding ring and studied its row; in fact she felt a little sick al- engraving, to make sure. Yes sir, he'd ready, sick with fear and shame. If just been talking through his hat, tell- only she dared hide away in the kit- ing the mayor he'd spanked the breath chen, not show her face! How, oh how, of life into the general! would she ever get through it? He was (Continued on page 48)

13 Seven years ago the head commies of the country got

together to plot the best ways of penetrating the broa(^^ing

industry. Here a leader in the conspirac>^t^ls what happened

By LOUIS S^NCIS BUDENZ

that commission got along quite well. hi^lalDaloo against those Perhaps what best dramatized the who calJ«d^tention to the red connec- red penetration in this field was the tions^f fcertain radio writers and per- refusal this past August by the Eastern ^omiers. The pamphlet, Red Channels, Regional Council of the Sacjio Wriffer^ which had hsted the red front mem- G uild tc^b^ ijtie^i^ey Sfates Gov- berships of many voices hearc]^ oa^t^ !i^nr?n^in the Korean cconflict. Up on airways, -w^s^iw^^ rfifer^ecs lacing the ninth floor, that closely guarded k;^ ^e ^Imnns of what is considered center of the communist conspiracy in me responsible press. this country, the ways and means There was much weeping over Jean by which such subversion was to be Muir, although she has been a smuggled into the airways was out- ^ r^mber of organizations which lined. It was Alexander Trachtenberg,

^. are CTea^ysiu^versive. What was lost in al^'tbflib ^sm-gp of sentimentality was recognition of^n^ SCRIPT WRITER ^ct that the Soviet fifth column has ^ ha^a35j)ne of its chief items of business the thoi-^ Directives went out from New Yoi-1^ slim, gray-haired. Heller was one of to every communist local headquar- the angels of the party, engaged in a ters, written on little onion skin papers lucrative importing and exporting and addressed to mail drops, ordering business with Soviet Russia. Some of the profits from this Soviet trade he ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN POLGREN FOR A SMALL child this arrange- AS THE CHILD reaches school age ment gives the utmost in storage such changes as adding drawers to facilities, with ample shelf area the cabinet make a big difference

A Room that will Grow with

A CHILD'S CLOSET with adjustable clothes pole and shelves. It's made adjustable by attaching a horizontally notched board to each side of the closet. The notches are cut to receive the ends of a clothes pole. The adjust- able shelf or shelves, which fit above the clothes pole, are also notched to fit into the side board. In this way, both shelf and pole may be moved upward when necessary. Note the rack on the back of door for toys and rod for ties or ribbons. The mirror is for a young lady's room.

4 Before — Unfinished attic is just wasted space. After —A room for two boys. The ceiling is of insulating board and the walls are knotty pine board. Note the built-in bunks.

THE FOLD-AWAY train table illustrated is made in standard dimensions of commonly available materials, and utilizes pneumatic screen door type closers f(»r smooth, safe operation. Wall stor- age space, 6 inches deep, makes it possible to i)ut away water towers, switches and other train ac- cessories when not in use. The table, approxi- mately 4 by 6 feet, offers variety in track layout. Besides being a delight to model railroaders, the train table is easily adaptable for model build- ing and other hobbies and for a variety of games. The stand for the table, when not in use, folds against the wall as an attractive frame for chil- dren's pictures or to hold a bulletin board.

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THE ROOM acquires a grown-up look here even though it is the same room shown in the other pictures

A GIRL'S ROOM with everything she wishes. Three unpainted chests connected with plain plywood top YOUR CHILD make an efficient combination desk and dressing table

How to make a room for a boy or girl which can be

easily adapted to take care of the child's need as he grows up

By ROBERT SCHARFF

THIS AGE of individualism, girls and boys want rooms of their own and not only want them but, whenever possible, they should have them. Most parents, when attempting this, are confronted with 36* a problem of how to furnish and equip the room. The answer to this problem can be found in three general solutions: purchase ready-made children's furniture; remodel odds and ends of furniture pieces to fill the child's requirements; or design and make the furniture to suit the child's own needs. The latter meth- od, of course, is the best from the standpoint of both cost and the child. There is nothing complicated or difficult about de-

signing and building furniture ( Continued on page 61 THIS ROOM will please most masculine tastes. It empliasizes utilitarian functions in a combination workshop-bedroom. The shelves are made of either plywood or solid wood.

TO ASSEMBLE the bed, make the cornek posts first, add head and footboards, and then the side rails. When drilling the holes for bolting a side rail to the posts, lay the assembled foot and head sections on their sides, fit the rail into place and drive two nails through the rail and partially into the post, to hold it in place. Next drill the holes for the bolts through the side rail and the post at the same time, using two bolts at either end. Now move the nails. When the bed must be taken apart, the bolts can be re- moved. The springs are supported by three slots 3 inches wide to fit the width of the bed. If a double-decker bed is de- sired, the construction is the same except that the corner posts are made longer. 17

PROM i[ aOUNO Tbe Legion's New Boss

Erie Cocke, Jr., Legion's youngest Commander, has crowded a

lifetime into 29 years. Once "executed" by Nazis, he's still going strong.

By ROBERT B. PITKIN

^ufp^ 1 ou HAVE already read in your caught. Erie disguised himself as a nearby French lines. Seeing how l^>^^-y'l newspapers that Erie laborer by pushing a wheelbarrow and desperately the Germans wanted the ^iiXj^y Cocke, Jr., newly elected a shovel. bridge, the rest of the escaped pris- National Commander of The American The third time, he escaped with a oners stayed in the village to delay the Legion, was shot and left for dead by group of eighteen comrades. The little German retreat, until a heavy German a Nazi firing squad and that, at 29, he band of escapees armed themselves force overwhelmed the tiny garrison. is the youngest National Commander and occupied a small German town at Erie Cocke and his men were sub- the Legion has ever had. a bridge near Stuttgart not far behind dued, interrogated and shot April 24, The big, raw-boned, hazel-eyed, the German lines. They found the 1945. The executioners' volley put two soft-spoken native of Dawson, Georgia, bridge was needed for a large German bullets in Erie's stomach and one be- has a widely advertised war record. military withdrawal. In a pitched bat- tween his ribs, grazing his heart and Not so well-known is Erie's post war puncturing a lung. He fell backwards record, a career which seems like that and rolled over and the coup de grace of five men instead of just one. In fact was fired into his back above his kid- Cocke, who always looks as if he were neys. Then the Germans continued loafing, has the happy faculty of being their withdrawal. able to do six things at once while The villagers, cleaning up their town resting. in tidy German fashion, found Erie Stated as briefly as possible, the most breathing. When they had buried the publicized part of Erie's war record is dead they took him to an aid station, as follows. As a G3 officer in the in- where a doctor sewed up his stomach vasion route from Marseilles in 1944 with silk thread. The lung bleeding he was stabbed once in the right hand clotted, and temporarily paralyzed his by a Gestapo agent. Later, in a German left arm. town, he was shot in the left hand by Fourteen months and seventeen op- an elderly woman sniping out of a erations later Erie Cocke was back in window. He was also shot in the head circulation, 90 pounds lighter but, once by a pancaking ricochet. amazingly, still alive. Finally Erie was captured when he Cocke left Paris on a stretcher in a and a jeep driver. Corporal George A. C-54, June 2, 1945. On June 7 (he re- Schelhorn, Jr., of Alexandria, Va., ran members offhand the date of almost into a Nazi roadblock near the Colmar everything he ever did as well as most pocket. They were with the 103rd COCKE has a passion for details, phone numbers he has had to use) he and is tlie confidant of men and Division at the time. Cocke took a good arrived at Lawson General Hospital women in all walks of life. Above, beating during interrogation, a series of since his he inspects construction of Legion's in Atlanta. He underwent captors knew from captured papers new Washington office building operations that summer. In the fall the that he was an operations officer and and chats with men on the job. Army put him in Welch Convalescent should be able to tell them AUied plans Hospital in Florida, then shifted him for that area. to Oliver Genei-al Hospital in Augusta, He escaped from German POW Georgia, and back to Lawson again. camps three times. The first two times tie from superior positions Erie's little Much later, when he was back on he was retaken in Germany and re- party blocked the bridge with tractors, his feet, Cocke testified before the turned to captivity. On one of these killed over eighty and captured 592 Rivers Subcommittee of the House occasions he and a French companion German soldiers, who were success- Armed Services Committee on behalf

walked 150 miles west before getting fully marched by a small detail to of keeping Lawson ( Cont. on page 42)

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«TinyTown,Pa.

Soon miniature towns will

be springing up beneath mil-

lions of Christmas trees. Here's

one small town that could even

give Santa Claus some j)ointers

PHOTOS BY GEORGE PICKOW, THREE LIONS

ALL THE miniature villages built by hobbyists through- out the world, few if any are more realistic and complete than one which can be found in the home of Laurence T. Gieringer, who lives on Route 22, four miles west of Hambuig, Pa. Mr. Gieringer has been build- ing his tiny community for years and is still working on it since

EVEN IN A LITTLE \ illage you can't keep playing the same movie indefinitely, so Laurence Gieringer changes the billing on the marque of the Victory Theater

RELIGIOUS life is not ignored in the little community. The people considers it incomplete. Ac- on their way to church are wearing Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. he tually, there are two little towns in the community. One is an old- time village which goes by the name of Sleepy Hollow, and the other is a modern community called Fairfield. Both towns are complete with homes and busi- ness sections. Constructed of odd pieces of lumber, tin cans, cigar boxes, and other scraps, Mr. Gieringer's models scale three-eighths of an inch to a foot. "It looks," said one visitor, "like my own home town seen through the wrong end of a telescope." "It all started," said Laurence T. Gieringer, "when I was a young boy. I had climbed to the top of Mt. Penn and was looking down on the city of Reading (Pennsylvania). From that dis- tance the people and houses re- sembled toys. I thought that it would be nice to have a little town like that for my own." GIERINGER holds a miniature organ grinder wlio plays by remote control. The music comes from a hidden speaker

THIS YOUNG visitor to the village studies the models in the wagon

BASEBALL is a popular sport in Laurence Gieringer's tiny town. The THE CATHEDRAL has 44 hand Lilliputians have a pretty good turnout for their sandlot contest painted windows and organ music can be heard from within

21 WITH THIS device he invented. Bob can check a TV set. It's a photo- electric cell which scans a test pat- tern and tells when it is tuned

e helps them

with their

Bob Gunderson learned how much radio

can mean to a blind person. Then he set out to open the

field of electronics to everyone without sight.

thorities agog. The alarm, which By GLENN ANDERSON eliminates all complex wiring, trans- mits a fire message directly to a fire- house or other designated point and tells fire-fighters the exact point of o BE A SUCCESSFUL inventor, the New York Institute for the Edu- origin of a fire. Besides being used in engineer, teacher or publisher cation of the Blind, can take Inter- public buildings, hotels, warehouses is a good goal for any young man. To national Morse Code up to forty -five and ships, the equipment is now being combine two of these in a professional words a minute on a typewriter, and tested for use in the protection of our career is remarkable. But in the case has been a well known i-adio amateur national forests. of Robert W. Gunderson, who com- since 1934. A classic invention of his was a bines all four in his activities, it is But that isn't all. Bob has always radio antenna made out of used beer more than outstanding, for he has been a dreamer, a self-educated cans. "Worked swell," he says. "Cop- been blind since birth. thinker, gadgeteer and inventor. His per lining in the cans was the secret. I Bob Gunderson, a husky six-footer inventions include a remote-con- wanted to put it on the roof of one of with a paralyzing handshake and a trolled camera, a pocket-size radio, an the schools where I was teaching, but

deep baritone voice, has accomplished improved hearing aid for the deaf, and the pi incipal threw a fit. Wanted to more in thirty-two short years than many special electronic measuring de- know what the taxpayers would think most men without a handicap do in a vices. A new development of his. a if they saw beer cans on the roof of a long lifetime. He is a consulting engi- radically different type of fire-alarm public school, strung up and waving neer, is actively associated with sev- system, has leading fire control au- in the breeze." eral electronics companies, teaches at PHOTOS BY BOB ISEAH In addition to all his talents. Bob 22 boy special privileges they couldn't have afforded them. He grew up much like his sighted companions in the New Jersey community. There was just one exception. At an age when most boys play with trains and erector sets, Bob was building radio receivers and transmitters. The first of these didn't work because Bob made it out of an egg box, some corks and a rope as an antenna. But he was only three years old at the time, and his knowledge of electronics was limited to what he had heard grownups say about wireless telegraphy. Not many years after this pioneer efTort, he was listening to the world with sets he had planned and built himself. This matter of a blind person figuring out intricate radio circuits puzzles many people. "How do you read a circuit diagram?" they ask.

"I've never read one," he replies, "But I can visualize it. When you know

A CLEVER way of drawing diagrams for the blind is this system Bob worked out. A ball pen writing on cello- phane results in a raised im- pression the fingers can "see"

BOB and his wife worli togetlier proof- reading copy for "The Braille Technical Press" which goes to blind radio workers

has a spirit of self-reliance and unfail- ing good humor that is impossible to beat. After his appearance on the radio show This Is Your Lije, Ralph Edwards, the master of ceremonies, remarked that Gunderson's personal- ity stole the entire show. This ability to meet and compete with the world on an even footing stems from his ONE OF THE first les.sons Bob teaches mother's attitude of treating him the the blind who want to become radio same as her other children. technicians is the art of soldering "Mom never worried about my EVEN THOUGH he's a very busy man. Bob blindness and let me do whatever I is drafted for his well known domestic chore wanted to do. She used to say if I broke my arm, so what? My brother can see and he broke his arm. I never what you want to do, you do it." did," he recalled. In the early thirties Bob started attending the New York Institute for the There was no pampering in the Education of the Blind. Before he was graduated he was also a teacher, with Gunderson family. Bob's father was a class in radio which he inaugurated. This course, which he still teaches at a toolmaker, living in Kearney, N. J., night to blind stiidents, many of them ex-servicemen, presented many prob- at the time Bob was born, and even lems at the start. There was no previous pattern for teaching radio to the blind, if his parents had wanted to give the so he had to devise his own methods. (Contimied on page 62)

.23 Less Rockei, Please! couldn't fight Love. Love was Uni- sort versal, and that is why Meerla wore tVvis his Buck Rogers' Lucky-Orbit Ring ("Free with 10 Box-Tops for Limited science .ad Time Only") on the sixth finger of her left hand. It was, however, a rather frustrated pirates romance. For one thing. Captain Wit- kins couldn't very well sing love songs to her, since the only Earth songs he tbe could remember were loaded with the word "Moon" (Harvest Moon, June Moon, Carolina Moon, Moonglow. etc.) To Meerla, who had been born and raised there, the Moon was strictly old hat. She simply couldn't whip up By W. F. MIKSCH any romantic interest in the word. Nor did Witkins dare tell her that her "eyes were like stars," because up here on the stars' home grounds, the APTAIN JERRY WITKINS of the "Switch on the gyro-radek dissemina- stars themselves were not regarded Terra Strato- tor and see." very highly. In fact, stars were a Infinity Patrol In her excitement, Meerla bumped nuisance, what with their habit of nibbled at his the hydro-debilitator button. A stream banging into and denting the fenders pressed oxygen sandwich and stared of sticky Gamma crystals spewed out, on the late model rocketships. moodily out the elasti-plastic bubble setting the port jet afire. Another problem was Meerla's of his space ship. The shrinking emer- "You're not much help, Meerla," shape. She was only nineteen inches ald sickle that was Earth lay far be- Captain Witkins observed dryly, tall, and as big around as a tractor low. Up ahead, like a spreading stain beating out a stubborn blaze in his tire. While this was considered a per- of blood on a velvet rug, the planet vaporizer. fect proportion for Moon dwellei-s Mars came into view. If only his "I'm sorry," said Meerla, "but this (who had to be built to hug the road buddies in the Somerville, New Jer- wouldn't be happening to us if we'd on account of the low gravity on their sey, Science-Fiction Fan Club could settled in City and built planet) Captain Witkins realized that down Luna , see him now. Or better still — if only in one of father's craters." it might set tongues wagging back on he wei'e back in Somerville seeing For the past several light years, Main Street should he ever take her them! The truth is. Captain Witkins Meerla had been after Witkins to home with him. was getting a little fed up with all this build them a little Lunar love-nest. A high, humming noise—like a silent space. She had even clipped some building dog-whistle—filled the cabin. Meerla Suddenly the Flobboscope needle plans out of an old copy of Crater was busy at the vidi-phone, dialing made a full sweep and wavered Hovies and Gardens, and every time wrong numbers. I'd better get busy menacingly. His interceptor-deceptor- the space ship halted to let a comet too, thought Captain Witkins. If I don't receptor chattered wildly. Gad! What flash by, she would spread out the get the fire under control, it may was happening now? He switched on blueprints. She spread to the the viciscrim, but all he could get was started to now, hormone- a re-telecast of Howdy Doody. Damn but Captain dispensers. these gadgets, thought Captain Wit- Witkins And if I stop to kins. If he ever got back to Somerville, stopped her. put it out, we'll he'd write a sharp little note to the "This is no surely get editor of Breathless Planet Romances, time to take up ^BBB^^F^ l caught by Elec- suggesting they first test such space the housing tronic Elmer. devices as Meinz pendulums and visi- program," he Back in good scrims before mentioning them in snapped. "Get old Somerville, stories. on the vidi- Witkins and his Popping on his pair of fourth di- phone and call Command X at Jupi- fellow sci-fictioneers often had dis- mensional contact lenses, Captain ter Landing. Tell them we're slightly cussed what one should do in such an Witkins scanned the chromosphere. aflame. Meantime I'll have a go at emergency. He wished he could re- And then he saw It! Coming up fast shaking off Electronic Elmer." call what it was. on the outside was a whirling disk- He knew this fire was her fault, but He flipped on the toggle-sluicer, re- ship flying the flag of Mars! Its battle one look at her sweet ICTH-mask leased the schizoid-vibro control ai'm, deck was crowded with whooping with its graceful nose-like phenol tank and nosed over into a looping glide. Martian Space Pirates, each brand- drooping down over her lovely talk- Next cutting in his auxiliary erg ishing an atomic lance honed to the vent, and he couldn't stay angry at rotors, he hauled back hard on the finest edges in shaving history. her. He watched her patter aft on her molecular throttle. The big ship lifted. Captain Witkins turned to Meerla dainty diaphanous flippers, and he For a moment it shuddered, and so the Moon Maiden. "I think we're be- liked what he saw. After staring at did Captain Witkins. Then it levelled ing followed," he told her. nothing but lesser asteroids for off. He relaxed, and nonchalantly "Oh, dear!" cried Meerla. "Who's months on end, even Meerla looked flicked a loose isotope from the lapel tailing us now?" good to Captain Witkins. He had of his space-suit. If Elmer's clumsy "Probably Electronic Elmer and his fought the Venutians, the Neptutians, saucer had kept up with that maneu- Mad Martians," Captain Witkins said. the Inter-Planet Spy Ring, and the ver, he'd eat his quabba-regenerating ILLUSTRATED BY IRVING METTEL Monkey Men from Mercury. But he unit, gaskets (Continued on page 53) 25 atric care and advice — almost none — available in the average town. We are most keenly aware of this shortage Here's what the Legion is doing in a practical when uncared-for emotional unbal- ance explodes in violent crime. On the 25th of last June a quiet way to help strike at the heart of the mental health English house painter picked up an ax and bashed his wife's head in. Then he dressed his two little daughters, problem in everybody's home town who didn't know that their father had murdered their mother, took them out and gave them a fine time, buying them ice cream. After that he brought them home and smothered them. Like heart failure, that sudden hor- By MYRON STEARNS rible flare-up had been a long, long time on the way. A good psychiatrist, if he had been given the chance to AST FALL The American Our country needs more of the kind look into the matter years earlier, Legion, which four years of care and counsel psychiatrists can could very well have headed it off. ago contributed $50,000 to give, and needs it badly on every Main People who break down emotionally fight heart disease, gave $25,000 to an Street. While the medical profession don't really go from average to berserk affiliation of national mental hygiene and psychiatrists themselves still ar- in a second. They lose their mental foundations for the purpose of pro- gue about the limits of what psychia- and emotional balance for many dif- viding more psychiatric care and try can do and should do, psychiatry ferent reasons, which usually take mental hygiene clinics in America's is here to stay. And there is not nearly years to reach the snapping point. towns. enough psychiatric counsel to do the They usually know something bad is The gift is a sort of scouting party, job everybody admits it can do. happening, but don't know what to do insufficient in itself, that infiltrates to As any newspaper reader knows, about it. Last winter there were black the heart of a national problem which personality problems and mental ill- newspaper headlines when an unob- is widely recognized but not clearly ness of the preventable kind are not trusive veteran named Howard Unruh, defined in the minds of most people being prevented as they can and living over a drug store in Camden. today. should be. There is too little psychi- New Jersey, went off the deep end and

26 shot 13 people— friends, acquaintances, ILLUSTRATED By JOHN FOLGREN knew their emotional selves bellei. passers-by he had never seen before, overpowered. Or the Michigan farm- How many unhappy married cou- the children of strangers. He had er who wounded ten neighbors to ples, worried parents, "nervous'' been brooding for at least two years, "take with him" before ending his women, "defeated" breadwinners, building strange fears and distorted own life. quite aside from the men and women hatreds that finally foamed over in his Such accounts, reported as mere who "Slay Tot" or "Shoot Self and diseased mind. Ajter the crime psy- isolated horror stories, call for nation- Spouse" or "Kill Seven in Bar" might chiatrists said that though his was an wide action when we learn in addition go early to a psychiatrist if they knew unusual case his illness could have that half of all the hospital beds in where there was one they could been recognized earlier. the United States are today filled by afford? Disabling distui-bance extends The same papers that told about patients with mental or nervous dis- far beyond the field of the criminally the mad English house painter also orders. insane. We know that during World reported that an 83-year-old Ameri- True, we are moi"t apt to sit up and War Two mental or emotional unfit- can woman killed a 74-year-old man take notice at the violent crimes. Yet ness caused more than half of all dis- who went to bed with his shoes on. perhaps the biggest target for more charges from military service and dis- Another item concerned a 25-year- mental hygiene lies in the unhappi- qualified another two million from old husband who took his pregnant ness, worry, tension and vague fears — Selective Service. We know that our wife, 18 years old, to the home of her yes, even the aches and pains — of mental institutions are hugely over- sister, then made a $10 stick-up and thousands of people who are never crowded and understaffed. That in committed suicide when the police going to commit any crime, but who Veterans Administration Hospitals, as closed in on him. A story the same day could live more balanced lives if they in the others, half the beds are occu- told of a 30-year-old Long Island pied by men and women suffering mother with three children, eight, five HOW BIG IS THE COUNTRY'S from mental troubles — men and and two years old. She got up at four MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM? women who were okay when accepted o'clock in the morning without dis- for military service. And that two- turbing her sleeping husband, went fifths, 40 percent, of all Federal medi- in her nightgown to the bedroom of cal funds go for mental illness. her eight-year-old daughter, wrapped OF ALL We are now grudgingly buying a play-rope around the little girl's F e d e r a more and better mental hospitals, and neck and strangled her. "The world medical must buy far more, because of the sit- funds, isn't a good enough place for her to 40% uation we are in. But we might cut is spent on live in," she explained to her husband, mental both the cost and the human damage

' after she waked him up to tell him 1 1 n e s s if more expenditure went toward what she had done. local prevention. Three choice tid-bits in a single issue The chances are that your local of a morning newspaper, selected from hospital has (Continued on page 54) thousands only because they were strange enough, or dramatic enough, or horrible enough, to be "news" — like the bitter Indiana husband who earlier in the spring killed a pair of newlyweds, besides his own wife and two innocent children, before commit- ting suicide. Or the Brooklyn "crazy man" who went berserk and stabbed seven strangers with a 14-inch knife, killing four of them before he was

ONE-HALF of all U. S. Hospital beds are filled by patients with nervous or mental disorders

MOST personal- . . . and make IN WAR TWO, mental illness caused more than half of all medical discharges ity disorders be- "emotional crip- gin in childhood ples" in later life

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trick shots he always wants to try. Before you buy, though, check the make and By KITTY YORK model of his camera. If you want to give a golfer a treat, consider this Bandoleer nylon golf bag A lot of women find it hard to buy for made by Wilson Sporting Goods Co. This men. Here are some ideas to make the job easy one has compartments for 14 clubs. Large

I'll tell you a secret about your hus- able typewriter that weighs only nine band. If you act on it, you won't have any pounds and is so flat it fits in a briefcase. trouble in picking out Christmas presents Yet it has a full-size standard keyboard, for him that he'll love. plus some fancy features like the half The secret is this. If your husband is spacer. With a Skywriter, that man of like most men, he really doesn't want to yours will be able to write to you, even find socks, shirts, pajamas or humdrum on a train or a plane. It's priced under things like that under the Christmas tree. $70, plus tax. Those are the everyday items that he gets Here's a smart new cigarette lighter all year round, as he needs them, and he'd that really will work in the wind. A much prefer something different. built-in chimney does the trick. It's also What would he like? That's simple. He'd enjoy something size with stays. Combination hood and unusual. He may not admit it to you but utility pocket. It comes in blue nylon with he'd thrilled to receive the sort of be russet trim or in mist gray with British thing that he doesn't for himself. buy brown trim and sells for $26.50. Just ferret out that one luxury he has For the man who goes a -fishing this denying himself give it to him. been and new Utica Automatic Reel will make a He'll be overwhelmed. memorable Christmas. In a class of its If your is a hunting man, he'll husband own, this upright model of the famous gloat over the deluxe Remington new H-I line of automatic reels features light "Wingmaster" shotgun. The balance, speed construction, large capacity, heavy-duty wearing quality. It has new style line guides and has a capacity of 75 yards of equipped with an amazingly long flint that will last a year. It's the A.S.R. Ascot Windproof Lighter and it costs $7.50 at jewelry and department stores. He'll adore a radio all his own, that he can play wherever he wants— in his work- shop, or den, or off on a camping trip. Zenith's new portable, the "Universal," plays on AC, DC or batteries. It has the

and easy action of this pump action gun G line or 60 yards of heavier size line. makes it ideal for both hunting and skeet This 8V2-ounce reel sells for $8.00. shooting. It's a good-looking gun, too, If you want to avoid the crowds, you with a finely checkered stock and a dec- can do your shopping without even stir- can it in 16, orative grip cap. You get 12, ring from home by consulting the 1950 at sporting goods and de- and 20 gauges American Legion Emblem Catalog. (The partment stores for $87.95. Ask for Deluxe Adjutant of your husband's Post will have grade, model 870 ADL. a copy.) You'll find this 63-page, illus- is the thing for a traveling man. This trated booklet a wonderful compilation It's the Smith-Corona Skywriter, a port- of gifts, of all prices. What's best, each of them carries the Legion emblem. lone and sensitivity of a large set, but, Just by strumming through the catalog, when the Tip-Top dial is folded down, it you'll see an attractive Elgin 17-jewel looks like a small piece of luggage. You DuraPower wrist watch with an expan- can have either a black or a brown case. sion band, for $50. You'll see the "Tri- The price? $49.95 plus batteries. umph" desk set with a Lifetime SheafTer Is he a camera fiend? Then why not pen, for $17.50 plus tax. You'll see a grand surprise him with several rolls of film? all-wool, fringed MacRae automobile A dozen rolls of black and white or a robe for $11.75, and a splendid assortment half-dozen rolls of color film will make of men's jewelry by Swank— cuff links, tie him feel like a camera Croesus. For once, clips, tie chains, at prices that range from

he'll have enough film to waste on those $1.50 to $3.50, plus taxes. the end . • r ^ x3 The National Legionnaire

National Commander Cocke Steps Off1951 Membership Campaign in More Than 6,000 Mile Tour of 18 States

By JACK CEJNAR over their stateline. State police cars VA CALLS FOR BIDS FOR also convoyed the Commander every- American Legion 1951 Membership where. SURVEY OF MANAGEMENT been given a tremendous states the Com- activities have In a number of Sixteen commercial firms have been boost by National Commander Erie mander's visit marked the climax of the asked to submit bids for the conduct of Cocke's unprecedented 18-state post- first 1951 membership effort. In other a management survey of the Veterans which took him it kickoff. Every- Convention Motor Tour states signalled the Administration. This action was au- miles from coast to coast. where Department and District Com- 6,000 thorized by letter of Deputy Adminis- Cocke and his party left reported fine progress on 1951 Commander manders trator O. W. Clark in a proposal that Angeles, California, on October 15 campaigns. A number of Los membership went from the VA October 27. through Nevada, Idaho, Wyo- including those at Battle Moun- on a swing Posts Commercial firms in position to sub- ming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colo- tain, Nevada, and Twin Falls, Idaho, re- mit bids are asked to declare their in- rado, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mis- ported going over the top in enrolling tention in the matter by November 29. souri and Illinois. With only one day of their 1951 membership quotas. It is probable the management survey rest in Chicago on November 2, he con- Dedicated Legion Homes will get under way shortly after the first tinued eastward through Michigan, of the coming year. Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Commander Cocke dedicated a half Deputy Administrator Clark has ad- and Maryland, winding up on dozen new American Legion clubhouses Delaware vised the management survey firms con- in Washington, D. C. for during his whirlwind, nationwide tour. November 11 sidered thus far that the VA presently the annual Armistice Day Exercises at The Commander was accompanied by is engaged in administering some 300 his aide, John Sheffield of Quitman, Arlington. laws providing benefits for about 19 mil- It a rugged schedule. The Com- Georgia, and on the western half of his was lion living veterans, in addition to the drove up to 500 miles a day and tour by C. M. Wilson, of Indianapolis, mander dependents of deceased veterans of all averaged one speech for every 100 miles. National director of membership and wars. In Texas alone he made eight talks in Post activities. one da" uuring brief stops at points be- The unprecedented tour was referred VA Under Fire tween Amarillo and Wichita Falls. Typi- to as "Operation Jack Rabbit," because At present the VA is under fire from cal of his schedule was November 1st of the long daily hops. Incidentally it is a number of government agencies in ad- when he got out of bed at Hannibal, claimed that Commander Cocke, while dition to the criticism it receives from breakfast meet- and Missouri, addressed a on his tour, ate more peas, carrots non-government sources. The Hardy ing at Quincy, Illinois, a luncheon at mashed potatoes at banquets and public Committee in Congress has proposed a Peoria, and banquet at Joliet and speat dinners than any other man in America new type of insurance program. The the night in Chicago. in the same length of time. He also shook Teague Committee in Congress is start- so many hands in bone-breaking grips Arouses Enthusiasm ing an investigation of the administra- that callouses were raised on his right tion of the educational program. The Everywhere the Commander's appear- hand. He, however, counts this as small Citizens Committee for the Hoover Com- ance created the greatest enthusiasm. cost for the inspiration raised for the mission is continuing its efforts to se- Commander Cocke visited many towns 1951 membership campaign. cure radical changes in the Veterans no National American Legion goal for 1951 has where The membership Administration. The Rusk Committee chief had ever been. Local publicity been set at 3,363,449. recommended a management survey to everywhere was record-breaking. Press correct "cumbersome and unwieldy" ad- and radio cooperation was gratifying. ministrative practices. Welcoming ceremonies varied as to TEXAS POST PAYS HONOR While The American Legion, through size and color from community to com- its National Rehabilitation and Eco- munity but the hospitality was heart- TO COUNTY 5ELECTEES nomic Commissions, is resisting all pres- warming everywhere. During his tour, Arthur McNitzky ent efforts to dismember the VA, it has Commander Cocke was made an Indian O. Post No. 71, Denton, Texas, has expanded its pro- expressed no opinion with regard to the chief, a New Mexican colonel, a tem- gram of honoring all selectees who proposed management survey. porary Texas citizen, an Ozark hill-billy leave Denton County for the Armed The outline of methods to be followed and received many other honors. At Forces, according to Adjutant Bruce in making the survey cautions that "the Evanston, Wyoming, the whole town Davis. Each group is invited to a principal functions for specific study are turned out and Commander Cocke in an special meeting just prior to depar- those directly concerned with the ad- open-top roadster was paraded up and ture, with parents or wives also ministration of benefits and those con- down Main Street behind the music of present as guests of honor. At the meeting a few brief, in- cerned with the necessary supporting a high-stepping high school band. At banquet structive talks are made by mem- and staff services, as outlined in the or- Cameron, Arizona, (Population 85) ex- bers as a sort of preindoctrination ganization manual. The sui-vey will not cited youngsters who had looked forward course. be concerned with the substance of these to the National Commander's coming, are assigned Three Post members benefits, or with the laws or regulations took it upon themselves to guarantee a — only for the to each inductee not governing them, but only with the meth- .proper reception. When a last-minute banquet meeting, but to carry ods by which they are administered." schedule change made it impossible for through and keep in touch with each Those with preconceived notions about an all-Indian band to be present, five of man during his period of service. forms a of the are barred the youngsters improvised a band and This personal committee the administration VA with home folks and renders saying "no person serenaded Commander Cocke with tin liaison by the specification service in many ways to both the will be engaged in the survey who has plates, drums and toy horns. service man and his business and been employed by the VA At every state line the Department at any time home interests. or has participated in any previous officials of the next state to be visited who or indirectly." met Commander Cocke and escorted him study of the VA, directly The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • 29 JUNIOR BASEBALL HISTORY GEORGIA POST PLANS BIG MILITARY SERVICE WAGE MADE IN '50 COMPETITION 16-ACRE RECREATION PARK CREDIT SAVES A FAMILY

For the first time in 24 consecutive Following through on an active cam- Graphically demonstrating the tre- years of American Legion Junior Base- paign of community service, Smyrna mendous importance of the military ball competition, the National Champion (Georgia) Post No. 160 has purchased wage credit section of the new Social team of Captain Bill Erwin Post No. a 16-acre tract of land for expanded rec- Security law to the families of deceased 337, Oakland, California, won the top reational facilities for the people of WW2 veterans. Legionnaire James E. honors for the second successive year in South Cobb County. Amick, Kansas City, Kansas, points out the national finals played at Omaha, Commander R. F. Holahan announced one case. Nebraska, September 4 to 7. The Cali- plans for the construction of a baseball A Kansas City widow and her chil- fornians, undefeated in Sectional, Re- field, swimming pool, and picnic dren were excluded from Survivor's In- jyional and the National Finals, held true grounds. The building on the property surance benefits, for the reason that to their 1949 victories despite the loss of is to be remodeled as a clubhouse for when her veteran husband died in 1949 Captain Ray Herrara and eight other Teen Age Canteen and other civic or- he had insufficient Social Security cov- members of last year's team. ganizations in the area. erage. Under the terms of the new law The Oakland lads clinched the 1950 credit for each In order to further these plans, granting $160 wage crown when they humbled the strong service, the coverage was com- Smyrna Post has voted to apply funds month in team of Stockholm Post No. 245, St. pleted. as a result of that law, that were earmarked for an addition to Now, LoiDs, Missouri, by a score of 11 to 0. effective September 1950, the widow the Post home to the improvement of 1, The other two finalists, teams sponsored entitled to per month, which this property. is $82.14 by Richmond (Virginia) Post No. 1, and will be continued until her oldest child As part of its community service pro- Kearney Post No. 6, Bristol, Rhode Is- reaches the age of 18. Children are gram, the Post has in the past built and land, had been eliminated by the su- dropped at 18, but at 65' this widow lighted tennis courts, a softball field, perbly coached Bill Erwin team. The will be entitled to $37.60 per month for and sponsored the high school band. It team play was splendidly coordinated her remaining lifetime. also lends its aid to a variety of civic and the scores left no doubt as to the In this case the operation of the law projects. Smyrna Post was winner of superiority of the Oaklanders. is a family saver. Legionnaire Amick the trophy given at the Department History was also made in the program points out that in many communities Convention as the outstanding Post. when Omaha, Nebraska, was host to the there are similar cases — widows and Little World Series for the second suc- children of veterans in need because no cessive year. An all-time attendance rec- one has pointed out their rights under Ensign Policastro's Bracelet ord for the series was run up on Labor the military service wage credit provi- Day for the double-header when the Five years ago H. R. Kain, Charlotte, sions of the Social Security law. The turnstiles clicked off 12,638 paid admis- North Carolina, gave a service man a new law is particularly helpful to or- sions. The four-day tourney drew a total lift. Later he found a heavy silver iden- phans of veterans, and affords aid in of 34,775 fans who paid to see the games tification bracelet in his car, which evi- child welfare work. — less than in 1949 when there were five dently had been dropped by the service days of play. man, bearing the name of Carmen G. Fort Knox Post a Boomer In addition to other rewards and hon- Policastro. An inscription on the inside During WW2 it became necessary to ors, the Oakland Junior Champions Mother, 12-25-43." reads "From From deactivate N. Butler Briscoe Post No. made the trip to New York to attend the inquiries made through the Army, Ma- Knox, Kentucky. Reactivated third and fourth games of the big World 232, Fort rine Co) ps, and Navy, Mr. Kane identi- 14 members, it now has Series at Yankee Stadium. in 1948 with fied the owner as Ensign Carmen G. 1,200 members and a net worth of Policastro, who had served on LST 1032, $10,000. The Post and Auxiliary have METROPOLITAN POST GIVES but failed to find the man. The bracelet contributed nearly $5,000 to welfare, — TO VET HOSPITAL SERVICE has been sent to the Magazine office rehabilitation and charitable enter- it's here waiting the owner. prises. Monthly contributions given by mem- bers plus a generous sum from an an- SIX FALENZO BROTHERS BELONG TO ONE NEW YORK POST nual poppy sale enables Metropolitan Post No. 285, New York City, to serve disabled and hospitalized veterans throughout a wide area. One of the lead- ei's in hospital and rehabilitation work in its Department, the Post last year provided 16 top-notch variety shows to the Bronx, Halloran, Northport and other VA hospitals, according to Wil- liam H. (Bill) Mclntyre, Past Com- mander and one of the founders. In addition to regular visits and serv- ice work, the Post furnished Christmas and birthday gift packages, cigarettes, candies, books, motion picture sound projectors and other items. All of this was done in 1950, at a cost of $11,170.39 — about $3,000 of which was derived from the poppy sales. The fund went furthei- and bought more comfort and cheer because there was no cost of ad- ministering. Nearly ."^3,000 was expended on the Six brothers were inducted into the Lt. Herman Silverstein Post No. 218, Albany, American Legion Mountain Camp at New York, in one ceremony — and that conducted by Past National Commander Tupper Lake, and the Children's Camp. Edward N. Scheiberling. The Falenzo brothers, reading left to right, above, are: The welfare work is under the direction Guido and Benedict Falenzo, Commander John L. Donovan, Gene, Carmen and of Chairman Carl J. Fleck. Charles J. Anthony Falenzo. Seated, Arthur Falenzo and mother, Mrs. Elisa Falenzo, who is Strohmeyer is Post Commander. a member of the Auxiliary Unit.

gQ • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 ;

Rehab. Legislative Program for 1951 Outlined; Rusk

Committee Reports On VA Hospitals; GI Bill Notes

Major Items of Rehab. Mandates Being Readied for Action asked the Armed Forces not to mobilize the VA medical personnel now in the by 82nd Congress; VA Warns that Subsistence Overpayments Reserves; and recommended that steps Will be Collected from Schools; Changes in Training Regs be taken to secure inci-eased security for professional and medical personnel By T. O. KRAABEL action for the period of the present by the avoidance of radical budgetary National Rehabilitation Director world crisis. fluctuation. Resolution 77 asking Congress to In discussing the VA hospital bed The primary legislative program for clarify its intent regarding the veterans' program, the Rusk Committee made The Legion's National Rehabilitation right to training after July 25, 1951. public the prediction of the VA Chief Service is contained in twelve resolu- Resolution 577 adjusting the monthly Medical Director, Dr. Paul B. Magnu- tions adopted by the 32nd annual Na- death compensation rates for children son, that within five years in all prob- tional Convention held in Los Angeles where there is no widow, and increas- ability there will be empty beds in the in October. Additional items in the pro- ing the rates for dependent parents. VA general medical and surgical hos- pitals because of more rapid patient gram requiring legislative action may Rusk Committee Report be announced at a later date. turnover. The findings of the Legion's The twelve point rehabilitation legis- The Rusk Medical Committee on Vet- Rehabilitation Commission and Service lative program requiring action by the erans Affairs was appointed by the Officers fail to show any grounds- for 82nd Congress includes the following: President June 15 to review veterans' such a prediction. Resolution 342 to equalize benefits for hospitalization programs and needs of The Rusk Committee report states veterans for Korean hostilities with disabled veterans with special attention there are "at least five factors which those of World War IL These benefits to the problems of paraplegics and am- should enter into a determination of the are included in H.R. 9644, 81st Con- putees. While the committee was orig- maximum number of beds to be operated gress. inally created to deal with the storm of by the VA, assuliiing a given veterans' Resolution 451 providing for the res- protests that arose from the abrupt population. These include the degree to toration of the 16,000 bed cutbacR and manner in which the Birmingham VA which any so-called non-service-con- providing an adequate number of hos- Hospital at Van Nuys, Calif., was nected veteran can be expected to fi- pital beds in the VA. closed, the work of the Committee was nance a long-term disability; the ability Insurance resolutions to give adequate broadened to consider the whole pro- of the VA to staff hospital beds; the coverage to in-service personnel since gram of hospitalization for veterans. distribution of various types of VA June 25, 1950, and provide a program In the report to the President, made hospitals; the reduction in average for possible future hostilities. public October 25, the Rusk Committee length of patients' stay; and the wait- Program approved by the National gave high praise to the VA Department ing lists and probable future needs. Executive Committee October 1950, of Medicine and Surgery, with particu- 8, Care of Patients to secure an increase in medical educa- lar commendation for the paraplegics' tion facilities with a corresponding in- and amputee program; called for a "Based on civilian experiences in crease in the number of doctors. management survey to correct the which over 90 per cent of the patients Resolution 687 to equalize require- "cumbersome and unwieldy . . . organi- with tuberculosis or a neuropsychiatric ments for death pensions to widows and zational and administrative structure illness are unable to meet hospitalization children of World War II veterans, in- of the Veterans Administration"; asked costs," the report stated, "the care of cluding an increase in the income limi- Congress to "clarify" its intent with re- most veteran patients with these ill- tations, and adjustment of the scale of gard to the hospitalization of veterans nesses will have to be assumed by Fed- payments to 70 per cent of those for in so-called non-service-connected cases eral or State governments. The ultimate death compensation. cost in either instance is borne by the Resolution 446 to increase income taxpayer. This is true in many other limitations for ciualification for Part III i; types of chronic illnesses." NOTIFY VA OF RECALL TO I non-service-connected disability pen- Taking cognizance of the increasing sions, SERVICE; SAVE HEADACHES to increase the rates for such I i| age of the veteran population, the Rusk pensions, and amend existing legislation Committee states "there is now, and ]' Veterans recalled to active duty 1| in other regards. will be increasingly in the future, need 'i while they are drawing benefit pay- Resolution 596 !| for an intermediary type of hospital to secure consideration i', ments from VA can save themselves ]' of <'< cases of officers separated from serv- i\ and the Government a lot of trouble with a comprehensive rehabilitation pro-

ice i', with disability but not in receipt !| — and possible future headaches — gram, if the chronically ill veteran is to of by notifying VA immediately of !| that retirement pay. ]; be given dynamic rehabilitation

j> their recall. These benefit payments Resolution 279 which would amend J| will aid those capable of returning to a jl include GI Bill or Public Law 16 the War Claims Act of 1948 to extend J; self-sufficient, productive life in the i| subsistence allowances and conipen- <« benefits to military personnel who community." sation for setvice-connected disabili- eran to draw such VA payments J| zens who were prisoners >', Division of the service-con- of war while when he goes back into uniform. ;> tion study serving with the armed forces of allied I'l VA asks that if a vet receives such nected status of patients hospitalized by nations; and reopen for one year the ![ payment covering any period after the VA as of January 31, 1950. This date for filing claims under the Military ]' recall to the colors, he should return study showed that "70 per cent of the

j> it to the VA office which has his rec- Personnel Claims Act of 1945 for per- !| patients either have service-connected i', ords. Otherwise, it will be charged \> sonal property lost by military per- cases, or are permanently and totally '> il as an overpayment against hini. No- sonnel. disabled." tification of re-entry into the service <| Resolution !j 13 to re-activate or re- should include the vet's "C" (claim) The Legion National Rehabilitation establish ]| a Federal Board of Hospitali- <> number, complete name and address, staff is making further study of the \[ zation. >', the amount of the VA payment, \' Rusk Committee Report, with particu- it's for is to t Resolution 788 restating the 1948 «J what and the date he lar reference to the findings of the com- and 1949 national convention stand on 7 go back into service. s mittee dealing with future needs for VA veterans' pensions, with deferment of hospital construction. The American

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • 31 Legion estimate of the future hospital payable for less than 7 clock-hours per needs for the existing veterans' popu- week. FIRED IN 1812 lation is far greater than the estimates ;i BALL WAR Classroom Instruction published by the Rusk Committee. i; \\ IS RETURNED TO BRITAIN Effective October 1, 1950, a course offered on a clock-hour basis below the Health Resources Advisory Committee '\ A British cannonball fired against || college level, under the GI Bill, in which (! Lewes, Delaware, during the War of Chairman W. Stuart Symington, of theoretical classroom instruction pre- \\ 1812 was returned to Britain in a

jamin S. Albertson, Sr., who, as \\ erans' Medical Services, says the Health \\ cludes shop practice periods. Courses of

1 of Henlopen Post No. 5, 1 Commander Resources Advisory Committee "should \\ less than the minimum number of clock- '! The American Legion, was respon- provide a pattern for peacetime opera- will considered '\ hours per week be part- \\ sible for the contribution of many tion and the ultimate location of the time training and subsistence paid in \\ gifts for the crew of the namesake committee can be determined on the ball accordance with the following schedule: I; vessel in WW2. The was en- 1| basis of experience and possible future \' cased in a teakwood box made from \\ (1) less than 25 but not less than 18 legislation." i\ the wreck of the British sloop Dc- \< clock-hours — % time; (2) less than 18 i\ sank near s As presently constituted the Health braak, which capsized and but not less than 12 clock-hours — Vz Cape Henlopen in 1698. i', Resources Advisory Committee replaces time; (3) less than 12 clock-hours — % the Federal Board of Hospitalization, time; no subsistence is payable for less which was abolished in 1948, and trans- than 6 clock-hours per week. fers from the Bureau of the Budget the negligent failure to report is proven at function of making policy determina- a hearing before VA Committee on War Claims Commission tions on the number, size and location Waivers, the VA then takes action to The Commission reports that claim- of Federal hospitals. recover the overpayment from the school ants holding numbers in the 26,000 ser- Standing policy of the Legion Na- either by (1) offset from amounts other- ies were being paid on October 31, 1950. tional Rehabilitation Commission calls wise due the school, or (2) direct col- Because of increased efficiency and for the legislative creation of a Federal lection from the school. If the veteran added adjudicators the Commission is Board of Hospitalization. In substantial refunds to the VA*after the VA has now averaging approximately 5,000 pay- agreement with the Legion, the Rusk collected from the school, VA is then ments per month. By December 1, 1950 Committee reported "there is unanimous required to return the amount of over- it is estimated that they will be paying- agreement in your committee of the un- payment to the school. claims in the 31,000 series. Those hold- questioned and immediate need for a The veteran-student should realize ing claim numbers from 20,000 to 30,000 committee on health resources with that under these circumstances he should not make inquiry as to the status power of authoritative coordination." stands to lose all future benefits. His co- of claim before January 1, 1951. The Legion's policy would deny to such operation in reporting promptly to the a board the authority to operate Fed- school and VA excessive absences, drop- eral hospital programs. outs or interruptions will provide some RAY OLSON NEW HEAD OF Considered as an interim treatment protection when this occurs because of LEGION PRESS ASSOCIATION of the need for a Federal Board of Hos- illness or for some other legitimate ex- pitalization, the Health Resources Ad- cuse. Ordinarily, in the absence of this The American Legion Press Associa- visory Committee in the National Se- cooperation, the school might report un- tion, composed of some 800 editors and curity Resources Board is unusual in satisfactory progress which would be associate editors of American Legion that its pei-sonnel includes no repre- difficult, if not impossible, to justify publications throughout the country, sentation from any of the Federal hos- when applying for continued training held one of its most successful annual pital programs. at a later date. meetings in Los Angeles during the The members are: Chairman, Dr. National Convention. For the eighth Training on Clock-Hour Basis Howard A. Rusk, Associate Editor of consecutive year, Secretary Jack R. C. the New York Times; Dr. James C. Trade and technical courses offered Cann reported that the press group had Sargent, Professor of Urology, Mar- on a clock-hour basis below the college attained a new all-time high in member- quette University School of Medicine; level under the GI Bill, involving shop ship. Dr. Harold S. Diehl, Dean of Medical practice as an integral part thereof, will Officers of the Press Association Sciences, University of Minnesota; be considered a full-time course when a elected for the 1950-51 term are Ray David M. Heyman, President of the minimum of 30 hours per week of at- L. Olson, editor of The Reveille, Den- New York Foundation; Dr. Leo J. tendance is required. For such courses ver, Colorado, as President to succeed Schoeny, Chairman of the American in those schools which commenced oper- Bert Presson, Little Rock, Arkansas, Dental Association Council on Dental ation subsequent to July 13, 1949, the Department Adjutant and editor of the Health; Mrs. Rufh Kuehn, Dean of the effective date is October 1, 1950. For Arkansas Legionnaire. Presson was School of Nursing, University of Pitts- any new or existing course in schools placed on the Executive Board. Jack R. burgh; Dr. William P. Shepard, Pro- which have been in operation for a C. Cann, member of the National Public fessor of Public Health, Stanford Uni- period of one year prior to July 13, 1951, Relations Division staff at Indianapolis, versity; Dr. John Pastore, Executive (the effective date of Public Law 610, was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer, and Director of the Hospital Council of 81st Congress), the effective date is starts his ninth year in that office. Greater New York. July 1, 1951. Trade and technical courses coming under section 6 of this Subsistence Overpayments Connecticut Legion Gives Award Act will be those customarily learned Subsistence overpayments under the through apprenticeships or other train- For the fourth time in as many years, GI Bill will be collected by VA from ing on the job. Veterans enrolled in the Department of Connecticut pre- schools which willfully or negligently courses of less than 30 clock-hours sub- sented a Legion Award to a State man- fail to report veteran-students' exces- sequent to the effective dates will be in ufacturing firm which was considered sive absences, drop-outs, or interrup- part-time training with subsistence paid outstanding in employment of the physi- tions of training. This is authorized by in accordance with the following sched- cally handicapped. The 1950 winner was Public Law (310 which became effective ule: (1) Less than 30 but not less than the Pond Extract Company, of Clinton. July 1.3, 1950. 22 clock-hours per week — % time; (2) Pi-esentation was a highlight of a spe- This does not )-elieve the veteran- less than 22 but not less than 15 clock- cial program at Hartford which student from liability for subsistence hours— 1,2 time; (3) less than 15 clock- launched the national Employ the Physi- overpayments. If the school's willful or hours per week— time; no subsistence cally Handicapped Week.

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brought the song to Ross and asked him to put it in his show. It was used, and

* . . * * * LEGIONITEMS * * Ross thinks it has great possibilities. Hollywood (Florida) Post No. 92 has had an active year — instituted a com- Fort Campbell (Kentucky) Post No. Legion Post Commander to be called munity flag burning ceremony, cele- 233 purchased an iron lung for use at back to the colors. Correct him if he is brated the 25th anniversary of the the station hospital at a cost of $2,200. wrong. Post's sponsorship of a Scout Troop, A chest respirator was installed at the arranged the Post home for official same time. . . . For several years a giant Cambridge (Massachusetts) Post No. designation as a hurricane or disaster pair of cowboy pants has been the shelter, continued hospital visitations, 27 has set up a Daniel J. Crowley Memo- symbol of membership achievement in and led the way in many community rial Community Service Award in honor Wyoming, and this oversized pair of betterment enterprises. of a Past Commander and long-time ac- riders, gift of a manufacturing concern, tive worker. The award, in the form of has passed from Post to Post a num- a banner, is given to that Legion Post ber of times — by fair means or foul. Jersey City (New Jersey) Post No. 85 in Middlesex County which achieves the Cheyenne Post Drum and Bugle Corps claims that Miss Julia Kelly, Commander highest number of accredited points for has placed the contest on an organized for the 1949-50 term, was the first woman community service within the year. Ar- basis, with $300 in cash prizes, and the in that Department to command an lington Post No. 39, George R. Booney, privilege of holding the "riders" by the otherwise all-male Legion Post. Miss Commander, is the 1950 winner. . . . Con- Post making the most outstanding Kelly is serving the 1950-51 term as Ad- struction work is proceeding on the new membership record. . . . Samuel A. jutant of the Hudson County American club home for Rogers Park Post No. 108, (Uncle Sam) Levy, Buffalo, New York, Legion Committee. . . . When WW2 Navy Chicago, Illinois. Located at Devon and hopes he has started something. He vet James A. Dunn was installed as Com- Newgard Avenues, the cost of the land showed up at the VA Hospital at Buffalo mander of George Westinghouse Post No. and building, when completed, will run on Memorial Day and distributed new 230, Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, his to more than $250,000. The 3-story struc- $1 bills to the patients — at first a mys- father, John F. Dunn, a Past Commander ture will have all modern facilities with tery man whom the patients called of the Post, traveled some 250 miles to plenty of club space, auditorium, kitchen "Uncle Sam." Continuing his visits and serve as installing officer. The elder and dining rooms. Cornerstone was laid distribution, the 800 hospitalized vets Dunn is now a member of George F. on September 17, and it is expected that are hoping others will take a leaf from Lamm Post No. 622, Williamsville, New the new structure will be occupied about his book. Yoi-k. Is this a record? . . . When Vice the first of the new year. President Barkley visited Sioux City, Iowa, on October 6th, Commander S. P. Wolcott and Veto A. Vets, Chairman Salinas (California) Post No. 31 re- Lanny Ross, care CBS, New York, Committee, Edward H. Monahan cently completed a $35,000 Post home radio and television star, is looking for UMT which was formally dedicated on a WW2 vet named Robert G. Macauley, Post No. 64, had a long talk with him about Universal Military Training. Sunday, November 19. The Post held a author of "When the Moon Shines To- "Tombola Festival" in August, climax- night on New Guinea." When with a ing their drive to provide USO show on Iwo Jima, Macauley for $10,000 the Columbia City (Indiana) Post No. 98 needed furnishings. The first meeting in boasts another husband-wife team — the new home was a joint Post and HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP Jack Stephenson skippers the Post; his Auxiliary installation. . . . Members of HIS LEGION wife, Viola Stephenson, pilots the Aux- Davis (South Dakota) Post No. 176 GETS CARD iliary Unit. . . . East McKeesport turned out in force for a half day to (Pennsylvania) Post No. 947 made their lay 480 square feet of concrete sidewalk joint 1950 installation of officers a and plaster and repair the club house. . . . family affair — Benjamin F. (Hank) Thirty-tA^o years after leaving for com- Welsh was installed as Commander; bat duty overseas in WWl, vets of 321st Mrs. Nell Welsh, his wife, took over as Ambulance Company, originally com- President of the Auxiliary; Legion- posed of 119 men of Greensboro, Winston- naire Gleason was installed as Post Salem, Fayetteville and Burlington, Finance Officer; his wife, Ethel, be- North Carolina, met at Greensboro and came Treasurer of the Auxiliary; Ed- organized a vet society. Fish fry high- ward Helfrich was seated as Adjutant lighted the reunion. and his wife, Ruth, as Secretary. An- other couple did not match offices, Wil- liam Webster is Post Chaplain and his VA hospitals at Outwood, Kentucky; wife is First VP of the Auxiliary. . . . Kerrville, Texas, and Roseburg, Ore- Ringing the changes, Columbus Post gon, have received new table shuffle- No. 335, Atlantic City, New Jersey, has boards as the joint gifts of the local a mother and son team in command — American Legion Post and the Ameri- Joseph A. Jacobi is Commander and his can Shuffleboard Company, Union City, mother, Mrs. Catherine Jacobi, is Presi- N. J. . . . Louis A. Battey Post No. 4, dent. The Post has a new home, erected Augusta, Georgia, gave an outing and Ezzard Charles, (left), now the un- from foundation to roof by members at of the barbeque supper for 500 men of the disputed heavyweight champion a cost of $25,000, with a large lot set Augusta National Guard, Marine Re- World, receives his 1951 membership aside as a children's playground. serves and Engineer Company called card from Commander Elisha Hender- into active service. Mayor W. D. Jen- son, Jr., of John R. Fox Post No. 631, nings told the men : "This is not a fare- Lockland, Cincinnati, Ohio. The heavy- Daniel C. Gibbons Post No. 269, well party; we'll give you another bar- weight luminary of the boxing world, Chicago, Illinois, broke away from rou- beque when you i-eturn." . . . Legion- with this ceremony, tipped off the annual tine at the annual installation ceremony naire Carl Carwein was installed as membership drive. "Our Post is 6 years when a lady Marine installed a gent Commander of Charles A. Black Post old and has met its membership quota Gyrene Commander and staff. Marine No. 598, Parkers Landing, Pennsyl- every year — this year we hope to double Mary Margaret Fenlon, Past Commander vania, on August 23. Four days later our membership by going out for all of Terra-Aero-Maris Post and daughter he was called into active service as a members. We own land and will build of Department Commander Lawrence J. Captain. Adjutant S. L. McHenry be- a Post home in 1951," writes Adjutant Fenlon seated Marine J. Wesley Ries, lieves Captain Carwein is the first Samuel Finley. first WW2 skipper of the Post.

The American Legion Magazine • December. 1950 • WILLAND NAMED TO DIRECT dous collection. While the supply of the WEST VA. POST COMMANDER check list is limited and no general dis- LEGION AMERICANISM WORK tribution will be made, copies are being GETS GOVERNMENT PLACE sent out to all Legion Department His- Allen B. Willand, torians through the office of National Daniel W. Am- of Hammondsport, Historian Monte C. Sandlin for a check brose, WWl veteran New York, is the for unlisted titles, and further search and Commander of new Director of the for the ones that have eluded the library Colonel Charles Legion's American- sleuths. Other copies will be distributed Young Post No. 57, ism Division, with to post and field libraries through Army Charleston, West offices at the Nation- channels. Virginia, was recent- al Headquarters at This check list is preliminary to the ly appointed Govern- Indianapolis. He suc- publication of a definitive edition. WW2 ment Secretary of ceeds C. W. (Tom) vets are asked to look it over to see the Virgin Islands Allen B. Willand Sawyer, who re- what has been written about their out- by President Tru- signed some weeks ago to take up work fits. If there is a title that is not listed, Daniel W. Ambrose man. The position is with Freedom's Foundation at Valley write the compiler — C. E. Dornbusch, a most important one. It ranks next to Forge, Pennsylvania. New York Public Library, 5th Avenue the Governor of the Islands with pow- A native of Manchester, New Hamp- and 42nd Street, New York City. ers of the governor when that officer is shire, and graduate of the University of absent from his post. New Hampshire, the new Director had Secretary Ambrose holds a law degree long and arduous service in the Second LEGION TO HAVE DELEGATES from Howard University and has been World War. Wounded in the Battle of AT WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE a member of the West Virginia Bar the Bulge while serving with the 106th Association since 1926. He is a former Division, he was captured by the Nazis The AiTierican Legion will be well regional director of the National Bar when his regiment was all but destroyed. represented at the Midcentury White Association and is President of the While a prisoner of war at Nuremberg, Conference on House Children and Mountain State Bar Association. He Germany, he received his second wound Youth to be held in D. Washington, C, has been associated with the land de- during an American air bombardment. 3-7, according incomplete December to partment of the West Virginia State Holder of two Purple Heart medals, as reports received by the National Child Auditor's office since 1932. well as other awards, he was discharged Welfare Division. Long active in the Legion, he is also in 1946 after four years with the Army. Attendance at the conference will be a high ranking member of the Masonic Director Willand comes to the Legion only by invitation of the President. order and its affiliates and has inter- from the International Shoe Company, White House conferences on child wel- ested himself in civic affairs. Hammondsport, New York, with which fare have been held once each 10 years he had been associated the greater part since 1910. Previous conferences were of the time since his return to civil life. called by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, FIVE AREA CHILD WELFARE He is a member of Roswell McDaniels Harding, Hoover, and Franklin Roose- Post No. 407, Hammondsport. velt. MEETS SET FOR EARLY 1951 The Child Welfare Division is at- area child welfare conferences tempting to secure advance listings of Five ARMY. N. Y. P. L COMPILES scheduled for this winter, according all active American Legion and Auxili- are announcement by National Child WW2 HISTORY CHECK LIST ary members who have been invited to to Randel Shake. "Last attend the 1950 meeting, and already Welfare Director welfare confer- A check list of 1,223 unit histories of has information on Legion representa- year's series of child outfits has been published by the broke previous attendance rec- WW2 tives from 13 departments who will be ences 1951 meetings Army Historical Division in co-opera- present. ords, and we expect the tion attended," Shake said. with the New York Public Library. All members of Legion and Auxiliary to be even better work through- The Library's collection, most complete attending the White House Conference Interest in child welfare one in existence, the the Legion has never been higher. forms basis of are requested to register at the Wash- out the list — action pro- additional titles have been added ington Headquarters of The American The conferences will plan from official collections in effect mandates Washington. Legion, 734 -15th Street, N. W., V/a. h- grams for putting into They Taking a start while the war was still ington, D. C, telephone number Execu- of the 1950 National Convention. further in progress, the New York Public Li- tive 4811. will also study the need for brary has attempted to acquire and American Legion action to guarantee make available all unit histories. As care and protection for the children of many of these were printed in theatres veterans and to improve conditions for of operations in many quarters of the WAR DEAD RETURN TROPHY children generally. globe, the task of getting them together WON BY BIG DENVER POST Among the subjects for discussion was gigantic. A special division of the and study are juvenile delinquency, Library under the direction of Legion- Award of the Mancel Talcott improved services for children of hos- naire C. E. Dornbusch was set up. Aqui- Trophy to that Post in the Legion pitalized veterans, benefits for veterans selected as having done the most sition of copies of the all but forgotten under the amended Social Security Act, outstanding job in the Return of the copies meant tracking down individuals and child health. War Dead program was made at the who had copies, securing a schedule of the 1951 Area Child copy from National Convention at Los Angeles. The the printer — often his last one — or, as a The trophy was given to Leyden- Welfare Conferences follows: last resort, filming the treasured copy Chiles-Wiclcershani Post No. 1, Den- Area "A" (New England) March of a veteran. ver, Colorado, for permanent posses- 9-10, 1951, (City and Hotel not deter- These unit histories, even though sion. The committee making the mined) in New Hampshire. some are brief and sketchy, are invalu- award recommended tliat the pro- Area "B" (Middle Atlantic States) gram be continued and the National able to the student of the war. They February 2-3, 1951, Niagara Falls, New Finance Commission will be asked supplement the official histories, which York, Hotel Niagara. for funds to provide a new trophy. 1951, are often written from the command Honorable mention was accorded Area "C" (South) March 2-3, post standpoint. In fact, they comprise the National Guard of Honor of The Columbia, South Carolina, Jefferson the GI story of the war written by those American Legion. Washington, D.C.; Hotel. who are closest to the fighting and the Peoples Gas Post No. 336, Chicago, Area "D" (Middle- West) January service operation. Illinois; Austin F. Hanscom Post 5-6, 1951, Minneapolis, Minn., Hotel The American Legion, through units No. 167, Willniar, Minnesota, and Nicollet. Quincy Post No. Quincy, Illinois. and individual Legionnaires, has lent aid 37. Area "E" (West) January 11-13, and assistance to forming this ti-emen- 1951, Billings, Montana, Northern Hotel.

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with me— need to locate him to settle estate. 835th Guard Squadron, Scott Field, III., (Pri- H. O. Kramme, 505 Travis Ave., Mart, Texas. soner Guard) — Will Francis Franco, George COMRADES IN DISTRESS Naval Hospital—VA Hospital, Martinsburg, W. Georgia, M/Sgt. Robert Smith, S/Sgt. Westreak, Va.—Man suffering from stroke needs to find and Tullo Zyrantenllo, or others who serve

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • CO-OPERATIVE GROCERY IS Twenty Life Memberships ATTORNEY GEN. McGRATH Honoring its faithful veteran mem- TEXAS POST MEMBER-HELP bers, Edward M. McKee Post No. 131, HONORED BY LEGION POST Whitestone, Long Island, New York, When Woods W. Lynch Post No. 19, A gold medal for "outstanding service awarded life membership cards to 20 Midland, Texas, completed its new and to Legionnaires and for opposing com- Legionnaires had been members of modern home a few years ago — built on who munism" was presented to Attorney the Post 30 years or longer. a shoestring — members of the Post Among General J. Howard McGrath at a testi- them was L. Shapiro, one of the foun- looked over the field. The Post needed monial dinner on October 28. The dinner ders at the Paris Caucus in 1919. to keep an income and to do this it had was held under the auspices and the to hold the old members and enroll new award was made by Colonel Francis ones. LEGION WILL CONDUCT TIDE Vigo Post No. 1093, New York City, At the suggestion of Past Commander OF TOYS HOLIDAY CAMPAIGN Thirteen hundred persons were seated Q. M. (Shine) Shelton a commissary at the festal board in the Hotel Com- was installed in the building for the The American Legion, again this modore to pay honor to the Attorney General. the top-flight convenience of members only — and in- coming holiday time, will carry on its Among guests cidentally to provide a source of rev- "Tide of Toys" project which last year were John W. Snyder, Secretary of the Treasui-y; enue. The service as planned would fur- resulted in three million toys being de- Associate Justice Tom C. Clark nish members with everything they livered to the have-not children of of the U. S. Supreme Court, and needed in the grocery line on a co-op- Western European nations. Governor John O. Pastox-e of Rhode Is- land. Chief erative basis. At the beginning a mem- Bing Crosby, radio and motion pic- Judge Webster J. Oliver, bership U. Court, pi-esided fee of $2.50 per month was ture star, has accepted appointment as S. Customs as toast- charged to cover the overhead expenses. honorary chairman of the Tide of Toys master, and presentation of the medal All the planners were novices in the campaign, with Irving Geist of New was made by General Mark W. Clark. grocery business — but they had faith York City and Drew Pearson of Wash- in the plan. A wholesale grocery was ington, D. C. as honorary co-chairman. Youth Association Formed found that had faith in the Legion, and Thomas E. Paradine, New York City, Eighteen civic organizations of Mid- shelves in the new home were stocked will be national chairman. dletown. New York, have united to with essential goods bought on open Many of the children who receive sponsor a Middletown Youth Associa- account from this wholesaler. The Post these marks of friendship from young tion modeled after the nationally known announced that it was not going into Americans as a result of the first Tide Police Athletic League of New York the grocery business, but was simply ti-y- of Toys campaign, had never seen a City. The movement was sparked by ing to combat the high cost of living — toy. Thousands of letters of apprecia- Raymond J. Salvati, better known under it sold to members only and without any tion and thanks have been received by his ring name of Mike Sullivan, active solicitation. Business boomed and within donors who attached their names and Legionnaire and editor of The Legion- a few months the $2.50 service charge addresses to their toys sent last Christ- naire, published by Middletown Post per month was lifted. Members now get time. American Legion posts have mas No. 151. their cards and buy their groceries. heard from the directors and matrons The purpose of the Association is to Adjutant Floyd O. Rhoden reports of many orphanages in the countries combat juvenile delinquency by finding that the Post has eight full-time em- where distribution was made, attesting ways and means to interest the boys ployees, five of whom are employed in to the joy brought into the drab lives of and keep them busy in competitive sports the commissary. The other three care the children when they were given these and other activities. for the Post work and the club house. playthings sent to them by American As only one facet of this many-program- children of their own approximate ages. med Legion uijit, the commissary has The American Legion believes that Legion Day at Florida Fair for three years rendered a great service the friendships established between the February 1st has been set aside as to the members and has been the means children of the two continents as a re- American Legion Day at the Florida of getting new members and holding sult of the Tide of Toys will do much State Fair, scheduled to be held at the old ones. T. E. (Red) Steele, the toward establishing the future peace of Tampa January 30 through February present Commander, was one of the the world, when the children of today 10. This largest and most colorful win- original commissary planners. will be the adults of tomorrow. ter exposition in the South is attended by winter visitors from all parts of the country. At Legion Day last year, which ^ is set aside annually for the Legion of? WHAT'S DOING ON VET LEGISLATION ? Tampa and Hillsborough County, the LEGION BULLETIN TELLS ALL parade was one of the features, when 25 Legion musical outfits and other The status of all legislation in Congress affecting veterans and in which marching units in colorful display liv- Legionnaires are Interested is reported in the Legislative Bulletin of the Legion's ened the miles-long parade from the National Legislative Commission. This is available to Posts and Auxiliary Units (individuals too) at only $3.00 per session. downtown section to the fairground. You can subscribe to this authentic service for the first session of the 82nd Congress, beginning Jan. 3, 1951, by using the coupon below. Now's the time to The Puerto Rico Legion prepare for the legislative battles ahead. Of the 70,000 eligibles in the Depart- National Legislative Commission Date ment of Puerto Rico, which includes the The American Legion Virgin Islands, approximately 9,000 are 734 15th Street, N. W. enrolled in the Legion, reported De- Washington 5, D. C. partment Commander Juan H. Cintron, Attached find check (money order) for three dollars ($3.00) for which enter sub- of Ponce, who was a visitor to the office scription to the Legislative Bulletin of The American Legion for the entire 1st of the Magazine enroute to his Session of the 82nd Congress which convenes Jan. 3, 1951. Send same to: when island home from the National Conven- tion at Los Angeles. Commander Cin- Name tron was accompanied by Department (please print or type) Vice Commander Jesus M. Delgado, of Address Rio Piedras. A very thorough member- (please print or type) ship campaign has been set on foot and a marked increase is expected this year. Combating subversives and an active anti-communism campaign is a major I; Subscriber is member of: Legion; Auxiliary program of the Legion in Puerto Rico. 2g * The Ameiican Legion Magazine • December, 1950 : . . . , Veterans Newsletter

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

December, 1950

DEPENDENCY OF PARENTS OF POWs OUT-PATIENT TREATMENT FOR OLDER VETS:

Parents of deceased WW2 prisoners of war who Veterans of the Spanish-Americ an War . Boxer Re- qualify as survivors no longer have to prove de- bellion and Philippine Insurrection are now eligible pendency in order to receive payments under the War for out-patient medical care without regard to

Claims Act of 1948. . . .The "dependency" clause service-connection. . . .This benefit is authorized was stricken out in an amendment signed by President in Public Law 791, 8l3t Congress (passed over

Truman on September 30. . . .Law now reads "Parents veto) . . . .Service must have been performed between (in equal shares) if there is no widow, dependent April 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902 (or July 15, 1903, husband or child. "... .Amendment invalidates use of if the service was in Moro Province, Philippine

WCC Form 651 (Parents Certificate of Dependency) .... Islands) , and was discharged other than dishonor-

Those who have filed claims will be paid automati- ably. . . .These dates cover the three incidents in cally. . . .Parents who have not filed because of some which American troops were engaged. . . .An estimated feeling that they could not qualify under the 118,000 veterans have become potentially eligible original law should file immediately. . . .War Claims for full medical and dental care in VA clinics, or Act authorizes payment of $1 for each day member at home by fee basis physicians and dentists for of U.S. Armed Forces was held as POW by the enemy any illness or disability. if quality of food was lower than standard set by

Geneva Convention. . . .Commission has ruled that all SOCIAL SECURITY WAGE CREDIT FOR WW2 SERVICE: food issues were sub-standard. . . .If POW died in Of tremendous importan ce to WW2 vets is amendment prison or since, the widow or dependent husband or to Social Securit.y Law (Public Law 734, 81st Con- child is entitled to payment none, parents are gress) granting wage credit of $160 for each month eligible claimants . . . .War Claims Commission, work- of active military service between September 16, is claims as rapidly ing with limited staff, paying 1940, and July 24, 1947. ... (Legion at Los Angeles as possible. . . .Estimated 10,000 eligible survivors Convention asked that this credit be raised to $250 have not filed claims -- these eligibles are warned per month .).... It is estimated that some 80,000 again that the deadline is March 51 . 1951 and that persons -- veterans or dependents of veterans -- are the time for filing may not be extended. presently entitled to monthly benefits under Social NSLI DIVIDEND PAYABLE IN 1951: Security because of this wage credit .... In any case the payments will not come automatically -- the.v Approximately 8.000.000 WW2 vets will benefit mus t be applied for and proof of military service from a second NSLI dividend payment program now must be transmitted with application. . . .No such under way by the insurance service of VA. . . .The proof is required from veterans until claim is second dividend will cover the period 1948-51, and filed . . . .At least 18 months, either military serv- will include those veterans whose NSLI contracts ice or civilian employment or combination of both, reached an anniversary date in 1948. . . .The 81st is normally required. . . .Benefits are available only Congress appropriated $4,815,000 to pay for meeting at age 65 or upon death of insured person. . . .Eli- the cost of the new melon-cutting. . . .Additional gibles -- and those who think they are eligible -- funds will be needed, it is said. . . .Ma rch, 1951 is should consult the local Social Security office for set as the target date for starting distribution details, or to make out their applications. of the second NSL I checks . . . .The impact of new NSLI applications, approximating 8,000 daily, arising VA EDUCATION APPEALS BOARD: out of the increased mobilization of the Armed Forces intensified by the Korean fighting, has Appointmen t of t hree members of new Veterans served to complicate the preparations for payment Education Appeals Board created by Public Law 610, of the second NSLI dividend. 81st Congress, has been announced from the White

House. . . .They are: Dr. Charles M. Thompson, Spanish- DEPENDENTS' CHECKS MAILED OUT: American War vet. Dean emeritus of the University

of Illinois; Jo Zach Miller, WWl , retired banker The first dependents ' checks under the Dependents Assistance Act of 1950 were mailed from the Army and business executive of Kansas City, Mo., and Edward Louis Arpin, WW2, formerly an attorney of Finance Center, St. Louis, on November 30 . . . .Family allowances for dependents of enlisted men of Armed Butte, Montana, but more recently a contract

specialist in the VA. . . .This Board is established Forces became effective August 1, 1950 (Public Law to hear appeals of any education or training insti- 771, 81st Congress; . . . .Cash payment for first three tution affected by the provisions of PL 610, where months was paid to serviceman. . . .Thereafter by the school is dissatisfied with tuition payment check directly to the dependent. . . .The first three grades, recruit, private and private first class, rates, fees or other charges allowed by the VA in are required to allot $40 of monthly pay for de- connection with training provided for veterans pendent support, to which the Government adds $45 under the GI Bill for one dependent; $67.50 for two, or $85 for more CURBS ON HOME LOAN GUARANTY PROGRAM: than two dependents. . . .Higher pay grades of en- listed personnel are required to allot more of their O ffici a ls of The American Legion are fearful tha t pay, $60 for 4th and 5th grades; $80 for 6th and great damage will be done to the VA Home-Loan 7th, to receive the additional family allowance from Guaranty Program under new credit restriction regu- the Government. . . .All bona fide dependents of en- lations issued October 12 and 14, 1950. . . .VA re- listed military personnel are eligible, provided ceived orders to restrict vet housing program they do not occupy Government quarters. from the Housing and Home Finance Agency, which

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was given control of Federal National Mortgage ADVANCE NOTICE TO BE GIVEN BY MARINE CORPS: Association under Hoover Commission Reorganization All Marine Reserve Of ficers will be told by the Plan No. 24 of 1950. . . .Under new regulations, down first of the year the time they will be called to payment for veterans on new one- and two-family active duty. . . .Special effort will be made to give houses, which had been 5 percent, now range up to as much advance notice as possible to Reservists 45 percent on houses valued at $24,250 or more. . . . yet to be called so that they can plan their affairs Maturity period for such loans was cut from 30 to accordingly ... .Headquarters announced that Cap- 20 years for veterans. . . .VA later announced that in tains of the Volunteer Reserve will not be mobilized, cases of "real need" this period might be extended. except for a few specialists ... .First Lieutenants VA has announced that 55,000 requests for deter- having dates of initial appointment as Second Lieu- of mination of new appraisals for certificates tenants on June 17, 1944, or earlier, and who have reasonable value were filed prior to the time the continuous service in the Marine Corps Reserve, will new regulations became effective. . . .If acceptable also be exempt except for needed specialists. applications for home loan guarantees were subse- quently filed for each of these requests such COAST GUARD ACADEMY EXAMS: guarantees would be granted on the previously effec- Competitive examinations for appoin tmen t to the tive regulations requiring 5 percent down payments U.S. Coast Guard Ac ademy at New London, Connecticut, and extending the maturity date to 30 years. . . .VA will be held in major cities throughout the country received 71,000 applications for home loan guaran- on February 19 and 20, 1951. . . .All applications for tees in August. . . .Of these, 45,000 loans were closed such examinations must be postmarked not later than during the same period. January 15 1951. . . .Applications are desired from high school seniors who can qualify physically and

MILITARY GROUP LIFE INSURANCE, OR MUTUAL LIFE: who will graduate by June 30, 1951. . . .For detailed information and application blanks write the Com- Staff of House Committee on Vetjeran Affairs is mandantj^ Coast Guard Wash ington D.C. preparing legislation which, if enacted, will make iPTPij. 25, radical changes in insurance program for in-service AMERICANS WHO SERVED IN CANADIAN FORCES: personnel and for veterans .... Proposed program would meet objections arising out of workings of To cla rif.v statemen ts which have appeared in re- NSLI ... .Bills may be submitted to 81st Congress gard to War Service Gra tuities available to American recess session in November resulting from study by citizens who served in the Canadian Forces, the staff of House Veterans Affairs Committee meeting Canadian Department of Veteran Affairs has issued with representatives of Government agencies and the following statement, . . ."This gratuity is avail- Congressionally chartered veterans organizations. able only to WW2 veterans. It is not a new piece of legislation, but has been in effect since the end . . .Under the proposed legislation there would be no further expansion of U.S. Government Life or of the Second World War. The vast majority of Ameri- cans eligible for it have received it, but there National Service Life Insurance ... .However , exist- ing contracts would not be affected by the new are a few hundred who have not yet made application. enactments These comparative few should apply to the branch Under the plan so far as it has progressed. Mili- of the services, Army, Navy or Air Force, to which " tary Group Life Insurance in the amount of $10,000 they were attached. would be provided for every person in active serv- The statement, however, emphasized that in addi- tion to the gratuity, American citizens who served ice. . . .Every person discharged or released from active service would be entitled to make application with the Canadians also have available to them a for Military Mutual Life Insurance in like amount Re -establ ishment Credit which is based on period if the written application is filed within 120 and theatre of services in Canada. .. .These Re- establishment Credits may be used in a number of days from date of separation. . . .Premium deductions from pay would be automatic for in-service per- specified ways in Canada, but ex -members of the Canadian Forces resident in the U.S. may use them sonnel. . . .Premium payments for Military Mutual Life only for the payment of premiums on Veterans Insur- Insurance would be an individual responsibility. . . Administrative costs for MMLI would be charged to ance. . . .Some thousands of American citizens who the fund, rather than to the Government, as has served with the Canadians have not made application been the practice under the USGLI and NSLI programs. to use their Re-establishment Credit in this way. . . . "It is important that they make application soon because the right to apply for Veterans Insurance MEDICAL MEN REGISTER FOR DRAFT: ends February 20, 1951, or six years after dis- Under the so-c a lle d Doctor 's Draft Law (Public charge, whichever is the later date," the Department Law 779, 81st Congress) 13,968 physicians, 4,989 warns. . . .Full details about Re-establishment Credit dentists, and 2,144 veterinarians registered with and Veterans Insurance can be had by writing to the the Selective Service system October 16 on a special Canadian Departmen t of Veteran Affairs, O ttawa, call.... Most of those who registered under this Qut^liO-t. Canada,^ call were deferred from WW2 draft to continue their medical education, or served less than 21 months PAYROLL SAVINGS BOND CAMPAIGN: previously. . . .At present the Navy and Air Force are Stepped off on Novembe r Ij. the Treasury Depart- getting enough doctors to meet their need without ment ' s Payroll Savi ngs campaign has for its goal calling upon Selective Service. . . .The Army has the increase of participation in the Payroll Savings issued a call for 922 medical officers, 500 den- Plan to 50 percent or better in each of the nation's tists, and 100 veterinarians by January .... Imme- major industrial plants.... To attain this objec- diate needs of the Army are being met by assignment tive person-to-person solicitations will be of Navy medical officers to that branch of service. conducted .... The campaign will emphasize the im-

. . .As of October 20, the VA Department of Medicine portance of continuing the practice of thrift among and Surgery reported 65 residents, 73 full-time all working Americans .... Its purpose is to help doctors, 29 dentists, and 124 nurses had received absorb overtime pay and increased wages resulting calls from the Medical Reserve Units to which they from greater employment in defense industries.... were assigned. . . .Medical personnel boards of VA And it will be a backlog against the possible day are meeting with their opposite numbers in the Armed when employment declines .... The men who bought in Forces to discuss deferments of VA medicine and 1940 and through the early years of the war are surgery staff members where calls to active duty reaping the benefits of their savings. . . "Let 's Go " would be crippling to respective VA services. Let '.s All Buy Bonds !

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Expressed appreciation to Hon. Louis A. Johnson for services rendered by him as Secretary of Defense; commended Major General Lewis B. Hershey for intelligent, impartial and understanding direction of the Selective Service. Recommended that a U. S. Air Academy be established. Insisted that a single catalog and single cataloging be adopted for the Armed Forces so that supply procedures can be operated more efficiently at a vastly considerable saving in men, money and material. Urged that Legion Posts be encouraged to provide leadership in the development of civil defense and emergency relief plans in their communities, working with governmental authorities. Demanded effective civil defense plans for the internal security of the country and called upon Congress to provide funds and the President to establish an interim Federal Civil Defense Administration. De- plored delay and failure to implement a sound plan for civil defense although such a plan was presented by an authorized planning group as early as November, 1948. Warned of the immediate urgency of stockpiling of blood as part of the civil defense preparedness, and called upon Legion Posts to proceed at once with blood donor recruiting program in cooperation with the Red Cross. MERCHANT MARINE Adopted strong Merchant Marine policy, with warning that there is urgent need for a strong and adequate Merchant Marine as a vital component of the defense and military preparedness program; asked Con- gress to enact promptly shipping legislation to encourage construction and maintain- ance of ships of sufficient numbers, sizes and types to fully meet demand of national security, and to promote our domestic and foreign trade; insure availability of pas- senger ships for transportation of troops THE PARADE passes by the Los Angeles City Hall, near the end of the route with maximum safety and reasonable com- fort; that present laws requiring govern- ment-financed cargoes shipped to or from the United States be carried in American What the Los Angeles Convention Did ships, shall be continued as a national policy. ( Continued last month from That our reliance upon merchant ship- ping for military support and national de- fense be placed upon U. S. vessels, and REPORT OF SECURITY COMMITTEE primarily those of private ownership, and upon our shipbuilding and ship repair STATEMENT OF POLICY upon the principle of civilian control and facilities; that the Armed Forces make full

The American Legion recognizes its ob- local autonomy, be enacted into law by use of American shipping services, when ligation to recommend to the nation a Congress at the earliest practicable date; available to meet requirements; that military policy in balance with our world and that The American Legion devote its remedial legislation be enacted to protect leadership, designed to maintain our na- unremitting effort toward the enactment U. S. shipping from discrimnatory practices tional security and the maintenance of our and implementation of such legislation. by any foreign country; that Congress free institutions, and in keeping with such 3. That research in nuclear energy and in enact legislation prohibiting the practice of other scientific obligations as we may accept as a member fields be continued and ex- charging non-discrimnatory and non-com- of the United Nations supportable by our panded in order to contribute to the best pensatory rates by competing land carriers; economy. interest of the nation in peace as well as in that the attention of Congress is invited to war. "Merchant Marine Study and Investiga- Our experience in two world wars and 4. That the Merchant Marine be expanded tion." (S. 2494) and requested that its the trend of world events convinces us that for military service as a vital arm of our recommendations be implemented; that the a sound national security policy may mean national defense. American Merchant Marine should not be the difference between the survival or the 5. That the Central Intelligence Agency frozen at its present state of development destruction of our free institutions; and we be strengthened in accordance with the through restrictive provisions in appropria- know from the lessons of history that weak- purpose of the National Defense Act of tion bills. ness invites attack. 1947. That the United States advocate a policy To establish and maintain peace, we 6. That all phases of our transportation of the rehabilitation of the merchant recommend that the national security policy systems, domestic and foreign, contributing marine of Japan and Germany; commends of the United States be based upon the fol- to the national security be expanded. the forthright action of Congress in lowing principles: 7. That the National Security Resources effectively implementing prior resolutions 1. That Universal Military Training in Board acquire at the earliest practicable of The American Legion for a fair Panama accordance with The American Legion Plan date and maintain adequate stockpiles of Canal tolls policy; urge support, encourage- of National Security Training and based strategic materials. ment and pledge cooperation to newly- upon findings of the President's Advisory 8. That, in the interest of an economical created Federal Maritime Board and Commission on Universal Training, be and efficient use of the nation's resources, Maritime Administration. established as the basic source of military there be established a single supply catalog man power. system for the national military establish- NAVAL AFFAIRS 2. That Civil Defense Legislation, based ment. Reiterated stand of 1949 Convention in

40 urging the construction of a flush deck carrier with all modern improvements. (Referring to the super-carrier United States, construction canceled after keel was laid.) Declared Navy must have: Amphibious forces with which to transport troops to overseas positions and land them against opposition; carrier air forces as a highly mobile tactical air force at sea; surface fighting ships to support the amphibious forces and carrier forces; submarine forces of great power and high degree of tech- nological development; anti-submarine and naval reconnaissance forces, surface and air; supply ships and auxiliaries for the logistical support of all forces overseas, in- cluding land armies and land air forces; a Marine Corps maintained in numbers sufficient to insure a fighting force in readiness for any emergency, and an ex- panded Naval and Marine Corps air arm for support of amphibious ground forces. MILITARY AFFAIRS Reiterated support of unification of various branches of the Armed Services and urged revision to permit responsible military leaders, naval and air force lati- tude in designating forces and equipment for completion of missions. Asked amendment to Selective Service Law so that conscientious objectors now THE VICTORY parade for the new National Commander ends on the allowed to remain at home will be ordered stage of the auditorium with a rush and massing of Department markers! to work of national importance under Federal supervision. Requested that Secretary of Defense take steps to inform general public what units or individuals may or may not be ordered REPORT OF ECONOMIC COMMITTEE to active duty to increase the strength of all the Services to 3,000,000 men. EMPLOYMENT develop specific program for Western agri- Urged that a compulsory course of veterans, to adopt educa- Urged legislation granting re-employ- culture to assist and tion and intelligence be included as a part policy in that such program ment rights be extended to persons en- national order of the training course. presented to the several Depart- listing in the Armed Services, or reservists may be Proposed that any veteran of or 2 WWl on active duty for more than three years; ments. with minimum of 20 years acceptable serv- that coverage be extended to those enlist- ice since Dick in 1903 shall credited HOUSING Law be ing a second time or re-enlisting after June with all such actual service for purpose Protested issuance of regulations pre- 24, 1948; that this protection be extended of retirement. credit control on housing which so long as persons are liable for involuntary scribing That the U. S. initiate rights of with Philippine military duty under the Selective Service may have drastic effect upon the Government procedures necessary Bill: criticized the to re- Act; that persons rejected be permitted to veterans under the GI activate the Philippine Scouts as a part in handling GI loans, and called upon return to their jobs without loss of rights. delay of the U. S. Armed Forces for Adminstrator to situation immediate Asked restoration of an adequate Vet- the VA remedy service in Korea, or other places. adequate staffing of Loan Guaranty erans Employment Service staff, and for by Proposed changes in courts-martial setting adequate job classifica- sys- funds for operation. Service, up tem that appointment of court be made tion, promotion of Director to Assistant by Reiterated policy of full employment for and next higher over the urged priority in the use command accusing veterans and elimination of discrimination Administrator: oflicers or enlisted that and delay of non- man; the findings against older workers. of builders for homes and sentences of such courts construction until housing de- be reviewed Condemned any slow down of war pro- essential for approval or disapproval a are met, such non-essential by Judge Ad- duction, whether by capital, labor or selfish mands vocate of a higher that to reserved for employment command; General individuals. construction be Courts-Martial of five members be ap- at slack times; condemned hoarding of Opposed to the principle of any reduction pointed by President for ten year terms, building supplies, and called for improved of our standard protective tariffs which one court assigned to each Army, inspection in the building of GI homes by Air Force will lower our standard of living. and Naval Unit in time of peace, and to building contractors. Unalterable opposition to any proposed travel from command to as Soldiers' command change in Veterans Preference Act of Demanded legislation to amend needed. Sailors' Civil Relief .'Vet of 1940 to 1944, particularly further decentralization and loans of the duties and functions of the Civil protect veterans who have obtained under the GI Bill, now recalled into .service, EDWARD P. SKUBIC, Chicago, shows Service Commission; favored Civil Service from any undue loss or foreclosure of Chris Alberts the Post flag used in every credit for service in WW2 and endorsed homes or other property during period of National Convention parade since 1919 H.R. 87, now pending, which provides for such credit. military service. Favored change in Federal retirement Legion's housing program for 1951 in- law which permits employees to retire at cludes: Implement and carry out veterans any age at full annuity after 30 years' serv- housing policy under Public Law 171, 81st ice to allow veterans to retire after 25 years' Congress, as far as war conditions will per- service; opposed lowering amount of leave mit; urge continuation of strong and time, and protested the passing over of favorable secondary market for loans; re- veterans in favor of non-veterans in Civil affirm stand that cooperative housirJg for Service jobs. veterans be encouraged by the VA; con- tinuation of the disposition of Federally- AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION owned war and veterans' housing projects; Urged that Congress provide sufficient legislation granting more adequate relief funds for Farmers Home Loan Administra- to service men to guard against foreclosure: tion to meet agricultural credit needs of continue efforts to solve vet housing veteran applicants who cannot otherwise problem, and to encourage each Depart- obtain the necessary agricultural credits; ment to maintain an active housing com- National Economic Commission asked to mittee. The Legion^s New Boss (Continued from page 18) and Oliver Hospitals from being closed. father deeded the son the family farm in confused father with son, and son with Meanwhile, recuperating, he decided it Dawson, and in January, 1946 Erie went father. would be a good thing for a disabled "home to the farm" for the first time in In addition, since early childhood, Erie veteran to know the technical routine that eight years, at the age of 24. had a natural interest in the things the confronts a veteran with a claim before He took over management of the farm, Legion stands for, at home and interna- the VA, so he qualified himself as an ac- which is operated by seven tenant fam- tionally. As a school boy he had a passion credited veterans' rehabilitation repre- ilies, and put every cent he could raise for public speaking and public affairs, and sentative. He sports two cards permitting into improving it. Half the farm is in was nicknamed The Young Orator by his him to plead veterans' cases before the white-face cattle, under one family, and schoolmates. Athletics were out for him. Atlanta Regional Board and the Marietta, the balance of nearly 1200 acres is mostly An ankle affliction kept his left leg in a Ga., District Office of the VA. He has been in peanuts, under six other families. The brace until age six, and kept Erie on his own service officer. In September 1945, tenants and Erie to this day rim the crutches until he was nine. But he was between hospitals, he joined Davis Daniel farms on a cooperative basis. extremely active in student government Post 133 of the Legion at Dawson, Georgia, Farm management was active but irreg- and in the Junior Red Cross in high where his father Erie Cocke, Sr., had been ular work. To keep busier he took on school, and was on many occasions a first Post Commander. steady work as assistant general manager delegate to local and national Red Cross While hospitalized in 1945 — physically of the peanut butter manufacturing plant conventions. able to do little but constitutionally unable in Dawson, "largest single peanut butter He says, "I've been making speeches to do nothing — Erie went on the road in unit in the world." Also that spring he since I was big enough to stand on a chair." a stretcher, conducting a war bond drive. processed some veterans claims for Davis He recalls that as The Young Orator he He sold so many bonds that the Treasury Daniel Post and did administrative work had one pat speech on public affairs that Department ." awarded him a Distinguished then and later for the Post oratorical con- began, "We, the youth of tomorrow . . Service Certificate. He added this to his test, school award and Junior Baseball But his interest in national and com- collection of Silver Star, Purple Heart programs. In May he became vice-com- munity problems was far from juvejiile. with three Clusters, Bronze Star with mander of the Third Legion District of While still in school he arrived at a Clusters and French Croix de Guerre. Georgia. Soon, because of his background, conclusion that Legion elders have been Major General A. C. (Nuts) McAuliffe he had another job—traveling as a speaker hammering away at for years — that the recommended the Distinguished Service with the National Commander of the problems of the community, of the Cross for him on the field of battle. Legion. churches, of the schools, and of his area To this group of honors was added, in Erie had a large grasp of the Legion for were the same as the national problems, 1950, a Junior Chamber of Commerce a War Two veteran in 1946. His father. and their solution lay in million-fold award as "outstanding young man of 1949." Erie, Senior, was an early member of the action on America's Main Streets; that the Erie got that one for his work, as Georgia Legion, attended the first National Con- quality, character, nature, prosperity and Department Commander of the Legion, vention in Minneapolis, and served as security of America are made or broken in the joint Legion-Jaycee drive to un- National Executive Committeeman at the by every man and his neighbor, not by mask the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia. New Orleans convention in 1922. Erie, some faraway "they." And this, he de- When they let him out of Lawson Gen- Senior, was a National Vice-Commander cided, is the nature of democracy — the eral Hospital in January, 1946, Erie in 1922-23, and in 1946 was in his twelfth best form of government in the world, wanted to return to college for graduate year of service on Legion national defense but no better than the positive actions of work. He had left home in 1938 to go to committees, as a member of the Military the people who make it up. the University of Georgia where he earned Affairs Committee and chairman of the A Baptist by birth and training, Erie an AB degree in mid-winter of 1942. He Committee on the Merchant Marine. as a boy attended different church serv- was continuing his studies there when he Young Erie's mother, Elise Meadows ices "to find what everyone believed." He left for active duty in the Army in March, Cocke, had always been active in the says his early inquiries into public prob- 1942. But in 1946 he didn't feel strong Legion Auxiliary, and as a boy Erie was lems "curbed intolerance and prejudice enough to go to school, so he decided to a member of the Sons of the Legion. Since in me in my youth." He familiarized him- work a year and build himself up. His World War Two many old-timers have self with the public statements "of all leaders on the national scene since 1930, studying what they said and how they said it." When tornadoes devastated Gainesville, Georgia, on April 6, 1936, Erie, then fifteen, went into Gainesville with the American Red Cross. At that age, because of his conventioneering, he knew the national figures in the Red Cross and the state leaders in Georgia, so he made a job for himself as liaison "man" between the dif- ferent emergency agencies that poured into Gainesville. Erie was an Eagle Scout. He played in the ROTC band at North Fulton High School in Atlanta, and stayed in ROTC through school and college. He says, "I put on a uniform at 13 and never took it ofT until the end of War Two." He says with deep conviction that his terrific background of basic training and group organization is what pulled him through one 87-day stretch of uninter- rupted combat, four captivities and one execution in War Two, and he has told Congress as much.

WITH that background, in the spring of 1946, when he was trying to "work his strength back" at Daw.son, Erie was

42 • "^^^ American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 called upon by National Commander At Harvard they told him to go home. valuable asset to American youth in peace John Stelle to make frequent appearances But Erie learned they had already ac- or war. He had lived his own life in with him as an example of the kind of cepted 404 instead of 400 students. He accordance with this belief, had fought medical care the Legion expected VA said they ought to take him since they'd for his country and survived because of it. hospitals to give generally, and as an already broken their own rule. When the He had practically cheated to stay in the example of what it means for American Business School refused to make it 405, organized Reserve with his bad ankle in youth to be prepared for the hell of war Erie said he'd just sit there three days to pre-draft 1940. In his Red Cross disaster in an unsure world. see if all the others came. Three failed to work he had learned as a boy the kind of With his interest in public affairs, Erie show and Erie was in as the 402nd of a preparation we would need for civil de- couldn't resist these opportunities to travel class supposed to be 400. fense if we were to survive another war. around, meet people and speak on his When the class had completed a 24- In spite of the pressure at Harvard, Erie deepest convictions. month course in 16 months, the class continued to spend his energies on the He wasn't too fond of being Commander prophet named Elrle, the odd-penny, as outside as one of the Legion's spokesmen Stelle's "Exhibit A" but took it with good the most likely to succeed. Harvard is a for a strong and secure nation. grace, including Stelle's truthful but em- tough school, and Erie's classmates — most Meanwhile, at Harvard, the dean was barrassing introductions. He was happier of whom were older than he was and had putting Cocke's sunny disposition to work. when Stelle's voice wore out under the also seen rough war duty - had a devil of When some of Erie's classmates cracked strain of the speaking duties of a National a time getting through. Erie didn't emerge under the strain of concentrated studies Commander, and Erie could do the talking at the top of the class, in fact he never they tended to fall back on their war without the introductions. changed his ways. His thesis for his mas- experiences as a reason for their failure. But farm managing, peanut butter man- ter's degree in business administration This was only natural, and it was an ufacturing, Legion Post and District duties was on peanut farming and marketing. argument the dean couldn't meet on com- and barnstorming with the National Com- It didn't seem like much in Boston, but mon ground. He would send these men mander began to wear Erie down after a a rewrite of it sold for $150 in Georgia around to have supper with Erie, who few months at Dawson. His pre-war weight as a special study of the industry. He con- would listen to their stories until they of 215 pounds had settled to 210 on Army tinued to manage his farm by remote had nothing more to say. Then they would rations, then plummeted to about 125 control. He is still remembered at Harvard naturally ask Erie if he knew how it was after his execution. At Dawson his weight as the leader in reorganizing student ac- and Erie would tell his own story in his returned slowly and did not get above tivities in the Business School after the easy, smiling Georgia way. Some of these 150. He decided that he might be ready war. While at Harvard he went to the men could equal Erie's rough war experi- for school but wasn't ready for work yet. 1946 Legion National Convention in San ence, but none could beat it. After that the It didn't occur to him to cut down on his Francisco. His father had resigned as a dean could help the slipping student re- activities. Late in the spring of 1946 he member of the Legion's Military Affairs adjust. made up his mind to go to Harvard Busi- Committee, in February, 1946 and young Erie Cocke may be the only man who ness School. The school would take a Erie was appointed to the spot by Com- ever attended Harvard Business School, graduate class of 400 and had nearly 5000 mander Stelle. Instead of dropping this managed a farm and served actively on applicants. Erie's application was not ac- post while at Harvard, Erie became vice- a Legion national committee while spend- cepted, perhaps because his pre-war ing three months in a hospital. In Decem- grades at the University of Georgia were ber, 1946 his bullet holes began kicking only average. up and he went into Murphy General Cocke had never been what college stu- Hospital in Waltham, Mass. This was his dents call "grind," a meaning a monkish last hospitalization except for an appen- student who locks himself in with his dectomy in 1949. During December of 1946 books. As a pre-war college student he and January and February of 1947, he rented his fraternity building and ran it as commuted to classes at Harvard, return- for a boarding house summer students. ing to Waltham nights and weekends for In his junior year he Wally managed hospitalization. It was a neat trick to sell Butts' Georgia football team of Sinkwich. this idea to both the hospital and univer- Trippi fame. Cocke student business was sity. On top of this Georgia decided he manager of athletics in 1941-42, his senior was having life too easy, and in June year. He sold and delivered flowers to made him a Senior Vice-Commander of socially inclined classmates and ran a the Legion Department in Georgia. He student dry-cleaning agency. He was in excused himself from school in August four years at college, ROTC was on the of 1947 to attend the Legion National Con- debating team, was president of the Grid- vention in New York, where he was vice- iron in Club and active several honorary chairman of the convention committee on and special societies, such as the scouting National Defense. fraternity. Alpha Phi Omega; Phi Kappa On the 16th of September, 1947, Erie Literary Society (he was president of was offered a full time job as executive both) ; Blue Key and ODK. He was also director of the Agricultural and Industrial active in the YMCA. Development Board of the State of In 1946, Harvard Business School would Georgia, which is the same thing as the have preferred better pre-war grades. State Department of Commerce and has Though rejected by Harvard, Erie told since changed its name to that. Erie his folks "The way you were driving I just he was going up to Boston wanted the job. He finished final exams knew something wo^M happen!" anyway. at Harvard on September 24 and reported AMKHKAN LEGION MAO.VZINK 'Why go, son?" his father asked. "They for work in Atlanta the next day. won't take you." Since War Two the State of Georgia, "Heck," Erie said, "somebody out of chairman of the committee and then act- after a slow start, has made tremendous those 400 won't show up and I'll be right ing chairman. He commuted many week- strides to get out of the old doldrums of there." ends from Harvard to Washington, making the South - to diversify crops, attract in- He prepared a claim under Public Law radio platters and movies on unification dustry and use its own capital to redevelop 16 for veterans' education (disabled), and of the armed forces, civil defense, univer- the State. Erie Cocke stepped right into another under the GI Bill to serve until sal military training and control of the directing the main official state agency the first claim, was properly adjudicated. atom bomb. Erie was completely sold on of this program. He had been out of the As his own service officer he knew that the Legion's thirty-year stand that the state 16 months, but had lost no time, for delays might hold up the PL 16 claim. only national security and the most likely his absence coincided with the stagnation And in June he left for Boston, one year preserver of peace is national strength, of the Talmadge-Thompson confusion after he'd flown out of Paris on a stretcher. and that basic military training is a most during which Georgia had either no Gov-

The American Lpqion Magazine • Derember, 1950 • ornor or two depending on how you look of combat as a grim, cold, miserable, day as long as necessary. Because he never at it. apathetic, automatic, animal struggle for hurries and enjoys his work, it is not as When he took over the State develop- survival. strenuous as it may seem. A man who ment board it was standing still, keeping The image you get of Erie Cocke from devotes eight hours a day five days a week records but without a program. From the all this activity may be that of a young to his career, with a two week annual 25th of September. 1947 to the 15th of man with a nervous twitch rushing off in vacation, may put in 2,000 harried hours April, 1948 the board, under Erie Cocke's several directions at once. The truth of the a year. Cocke can accomplish much more direction, was reorganized and put in matter is that, although he is decisive in with his leisurely 4,500 hours a year. motion, and his program is still going, but speech and quick of mind, he is normally In addition, his judgment of people, his not under Erie. He resigned in April 1948 quiet, moves slowly and is in a constant sense of timing and his ability to grasp to become general industrial agent of the state of physical relaxation. His chief ac- the essentials of a problem prevent mis- Central of Georgia Railway — doing the tivity is listening and thinking. For sev- takes and backtracking that waste time same work for the towns along the rail- eral years he has been covering the and effort. His friends remark on his talent way's right of way, in Georgia and other country in what look like lightning dashes for concentrating on the main problem, southern States, that he had been doing to keep up with an arduous schedule. and his simultaneous mastery of detail. for the State of Georgia. He has become But Erie is careful to let the trains and He has a passion for information. associated recently with the Delta Air the planes do the hurrying while he rides, How much of this is inborn is a question. Lines as assistant to the president. and he knows why the telephone was His remarkably high sense of personal In 1948 Erie Cocke had his 27th birth- invented. Making an important phone call organization is perhaps a reflection of his day. It was three years since a preemptory in a hotel room, he may be sprawled out on sound military training. He certainly has sentence of death had been executed on the bed, legs and arms outstretched, with an inner drive to keep active, for, as Erie him by the German army. He was still the phone cradled against his face on says: "I took a vacation once in June managing his farm, had taken a graduate the pillow. Dealing with people, he has 1940 and was bored to death listening, on degree, had reorganized the student activ- all the time in the world. He makes the radio, to the Germans roar into France ities at Harvard Business School and the friends wherever he goes, meets every- while I sat on my bottom. Haven't taken program of his State's commerce depart- body, laughs easily, converses with a a vacation since, and tell people who want ment. More and more he was carrying friendly arm on one's shoulder and makes me to go fishing that I'm open for all the unending fight of The American you feel that since you have troubles and appointments after January 1952." He Legion to safeguard the country. In the he has not he might as well listen to yours. undoubtedly learned a good deal about fall of 1948 he was to lead that fight, as There are a number of reasons why evenly-paced accomplishment as a boy chairman of the Legion's National Secur- Cocke can do so much at such a seem- with a game leg. After War Two he had ity Commission. He was testifying increas- ingly slow pace. His activities in business to be active, yet couldn't rush. With his ingly before Congressional committees, and public affairs are his whole life. His stomach reduced by two-thirds and cross- not only on preparedness, but on such "social" life is not separate from his stitched more than a baseball, Erie things as rivers and harbors for the state career. He spends all his waking hours couldn't assimilate food while lying on commerce department, on the peanut acting or thinking on the many jobs he a hospital bed. His appetite jumped with industry, on veterans rehabilitation, on has undertaken, and in the company of activity, so between his seventeen opera- military hospitals. And that same summer people working on the same problems tions he had to get up and about, occupy- he was to become Commander of the he is working on. His mind never wastes ing his mind with things other than Legion Department of Georgia, join with time. When he reads he reads what he himself. "If I hadn't been active I'd have the Junior Chamber of Commerce to un- must know. He is unmarried and neither been bed-ridden," he says. mask the Klan, lead the Legion in its drinks nor smokes. By avoiding waste In 1949, a busier year than ever, Erie's drive for minimum education standards motion he can work long hours without broad-boned, six-foot-two-inch frame in Georgia, and successfully achieve legis- tiring, and his work is his recreation. As a finally carried 210 pounds again, and a lation requiring a loyalty oath for Georgia G3 officer in the army, sneaking into Nazi- "tendency to nervousness" which had been teachers. So effective did he become that held French villages at night ahead of with him since he was "executed" began Tass news agency in Russia awarded him U.S. troops to alert the French under- to disappear. Today there is little trace the honorary title of "warmonger," a signal ground, he on the go 22 hours a day was of it, if any. He is sunny and friendly, and title for a young man who has had a belly- for days and weeks at a stretch, with the does his level best to answer the oft- night. his ful of war, whose hazel eyes burn and big part of the day at Today asked questions: "Tell me, how does it whose face turns gray when he speaks year is 52 weeks, his week seven days, his feel to come back' from death," or "Wasn't it awful to be shot that way?" The answer to the last question is, "Yes." But Erie has no more idea how to answer the first than the Cherokee had when the kindly old lady asked him how it felt to be an Indian. Then, too, he is asked time and again to what he attributes his survival. "Training had everything to do with it," he says. "In basic training we even prac- ticed how to starve and I thought when the time came to starve I could do it as well as the next man without practice - but as a prisoner of war I learned differ- ently. Without sound basic training I might not have lasted long enough to be 'executed.'

"I have no more idea how I survived four bullets at close range in my mid- section than do the many well-wishers who ask me. It happened and I'm too humbly grateful to ask God for an ac- counting of why and how it was done." Each succeeding year has become busier for Cocke. His railway job took him around a lot, and in 1947-'48 he stumped the country speaking for the Legion's

national defense program - chiefly for the Universal Military Training program (or

^4 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 UMT) which had passed the House Armed second got a majority but fell short of the Services Committee but was bottled up in two-thirds needed for a bill that has failed Congress by the House Rules Committee, once. The Legion and the Jaycees will try a majority of whose members had voted again, Erie told the Junior Chamber when against defense measures in the early it recognized his leadership in the drive forties right up to the day Pearl Harbor by naming him "outstanding young man was bombed. of 1949." James F. O'Neil, National Commander A distinguished visitor to Georgia, with in 1947-48, says: "Erie ran himself ragged a heavy speaking program, recalls arriv- from one end of the country to the other ing in Atlanta seven hours late and being pleading for adequate peacetime defense. received by Cocke. Erie, who had just At times Marine ace Joe Foss of South returned from a trip to Louisiana, took Dakota and Erie barnstormed together, him to a hotel and showed him how to do with Foss flying the team." a lot of work easily in a hurry. "Erie had TOO LATB for Weed Chains when you're That year Perry Brown, of Texas, was recorders set up in six different rooms stuck in the snow. Put them on before on that floor of the hotel," says the visitor. you start. "In an hour and a half I made six separate radio transcriptions, and all the time Erie seemed to have nothing much to do. But under professional direction I've spent half a day making just one transcription — it can be even worse than posing for a pho- tograph. The guy gets things done."

Cocke is an odd mixture of a man with a grasp of large affairs and a down to earth neighborliness. His speech is in the plain vernacular of a Georgia country town, idiomatic and natural but expres- sive, noteworthy more for its warmth and for what it says than for its academic perfection, full of popular slang and vivid IT'S EASY to put on chains with Weed colloquial phrases. "I'll buy that!" he may Zip-On Tire Chain Appliers. Keep a say of a proposal put to him. "You've got pair handy. _ me like catching fish in a seine." Perhaps no picture of the Legion's new- est and youngest National Commander would be complete without an account from Erie Cocke of his major Legion national activity before he became Com- mander, the battle for peacetime national security.

"Sure, I like some girls. She's one!" "When War Two ended," he says, "we demobilized while Russia increased her AMEUICAN LEGION MAGAZINE military strength. No intelligent man needed any further proof of more trouble ahead. When Russia kept arming, sup- chairman of the Legion's National Secur- plied the stuff and know-how to overrun China, a power of half ity Commission. Erie Cocke moved into made world one the job when Brown was elected National of Korea, purged all but the yes-men in Central Europe, rattled sabers at Iran, Commander in the fall of 1948 — a few tried months after Cocke had been elected Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia and Berlin wouldn't Department Commander of Georgia. to squeeze us out of you think have to spell it out From this time on, Erie was doing so anyone would any more clearly. many things at once that there is no way to put them in writing in neat order. He "The non-communist world looked to kept in touch with his farm, which was in the U.S. for leadership. We supplied food- good hands. He declared himself a candi- leadership, money-leadership and talk- date for National Commander in 1949 and leadership. But we kept ourselves so toured the country again, campaigning weak that our talk could never be more with his War Two rivals — George N. Craig than words. of Indiana (successful candidate in 1949) "While Russia armed we all wanted and James F. Green of Nebraska. In the peace, but too many of us began thinking midst of the campaign, as if his midsection of peace as something in a vacuum, the hadn't been carved up enough already, he tragic kind of peace without strength and had his appendix removed. Without wait- peace without honor that Prime Minister ing to convalesce he kept right on with Neville Chamberlain spoke of when he his campaign, though he had to walk tried to deal with Hitler —'Peace in our around like an upside-down letter L for time,' with nothing more to guarantee it a while. than an umbrella and the willingness to During and between his travels he con- desert one's friends in the face of a bully. tinued to promote the interest of industries "The Constitution of the United States in the new Georgia and never let up in his says we should 'provide for the common drive for better national security. And it defense.' What should we have done be- was in this same year that he was still tween 1945 and 1950? Clearly we did the on the job in Georgia as Department Com- wrong thing, or not one American would mander stumping the State for various have died in Korea. If we had been Legion state mandates. The first attempt stronger there would have been no need to unmask the Klan failed to get a ma- for Russia to 'test' us. Should we have jority in the Georgia legislature. The kept a large standing army? Should we

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • have embarked on a munitions race? but a Gallup Poll showed 72% in favor had for universal military traming in "I didn't think so, and neither did The and nobody came up with a more reliable America, none seems more terrible to me American Legion. But we needed a kind index, one way or another. than the blood American boys have al- of positive preparedness that could be "The military was not enthusiastic, ready spilled on foreign soil because we appreciated without our seeming to 'shake probably because our bill would place didn't get UMT. I could not sleep these a fist.' One step .would have been univer- UMT under civilian control to overcome nights if I had been on the Rules Com- sal military training. That would give us the very real objections mothers, religious mittee of the House. a constant well of trained man-power leaders and others had against putting "We took to watering the bill down to in civilian clothes — to serve as a comfort our boys into the traditionally hard-boiled get some kind of action. We changed its to our friends and a warning to aggressors. atmosphere of the professional soldier in name to National Security Training, not With such trained reserves we could have time of nominal peace. to fool anybody but to make it more kept a much smaller standing army. The "Even so the Army ran its famous Fort palatable to the timid. Finally we wrote Legion drew up a thoughtful UMT bill, Knox experiment where UMT was tried a new bill, far weaker, setting up a volun- calling for four months' basic training for on a small scale — giving young men basic tary youth military training program all qualified young men immediately after training with decent quarters, decent liv- under civilian control. Congress was eye- high school, to be followed by a choice ing conditions and a good moral and edu- ing it pleasantly late in the spring of this of one of a large number of follow-ups in cational atmosphere. To the Army's year when the guns began booming in the reserves, the National Guard, ROTC, amazement the boys were well trained Korea and suddenly, too late, everybody the regular services or our military and well conditioned. saw that we needed something stronger! academies. "Neither major political party said it "We needed other things for national "We had this bill before the Congress was against UMT. In the presidential year security too, and we fought for them. We in 1947. It passed the House Armed Serv- 1948 the heads of both parties — President needed a strong merchant marine. The ices Committee 20-0. Then it got locked Truman and Governor Dewey — said they Legion had been saying this for thirty up in the House Rules Committee, under were for it. years, and my Dad had once been chair- Chairman Leo Allen of Illinois, and there "Russia was against it, and for my part man of the Legion's Merchant Marine it stayed, for the apparent reason that the of the fight to get the bill out of committee committee. But when the flames burst in Representatives thought it was political the Russian news agency Tass called this Korea we had trouble all summer moving dynamite. Georgia farmer a warmonger. available troops there because shipping "Some said mothers were against it, but "The only organized resistance to UMT was in such short supply. the Gold Star Mothers of America were in this country came from the communist "We needed constantly an up-to-date for it. 'party', and you'd think anybody above a set of plans for industrial mobilization in "So were the Gold Star Wives. high-type moron could figure why. case of emergency — no threat to world "Some said religious leaders were against "But the House of Representatives never peace, just blueprints. But they were it, but they endorsed it in great numbers. got a chance to vote on it, for we couldn't fouled up, between 1945 and 1950, by Cardinal Spellman okayed the Legion's drag it out of the Rules Committee, nor inertia and political quibbling involving UMT bill in New York on St. Patrick's would the two major parties drag it out by getting 'the right man' to head up such Day. petition. The communists got what they planning. "Some said the people were against it, wanted. Of all the fears that some people "With Russia flexing its muscles all over the world we needed faster and better organization of civil defense against invasion, air raids, guided missiles and atom bombs to prevent panics and moral collapse in our towns and cities if we were forced to a showdown. We didn't need voluntary night watchmen or men with pails of sand parading up and down our streets for the past five years, but we did need a plan of organization, with re- sponsible men in every community know- ing what their responsibilities would be. "These are some of the things I've worked for with other Legionnaires dur- ing the last five years. Whatever the job ahead may be we will keep working for the kind of strength and security in America that will be our duty as a world leader until the day that a union of all nations is active in practice as well as theory. I believe that sometime that day will come, for ideas like the League of Nations and the United Nations don't die unless they are murdered. Had Russia demobilized in step with us after War Two instead of making herself an armed camp, had she dropped her creed of world revolution and conquest and her lust to govern her neighbors, had she ceased planting fifth columns within the boun- daries of her United Nations partners, had she treated Poland and the Baltic States as we treated the Philippines, had she treated Germany as we treated Japan, had she opened her borders to intercourse with other peoples as all free nations have done, we might today have a peaceful world under the United Nations. But she did not and we encouraged her by grow- ing ever weaker while the Kremlin beat Schieffelin & Co., New York, N. Y. • Importers Since 1794 its breast and showed its teeth." the end

4g • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 . \ I // Vets with Graduate to IDEAS KAYWOODIE Hoiv other veterans are making good with unusual post-war projects

HE BUILDS CUSTOM BODIES through on all of his custom jobs, leaving ordinary collision and repair work to the When Herbert Y. Unger received his men who work for him. discharge from the Army Air Forces garly But this handicap may be eliminated in in 1946 he ah-eady had his career staked the near future if Unger can find men out for himself. In automobile body work who can measure up to his standards. He since he was fifteen, he made no bones could then turn over the smaller type about picking up his career where he had redesigning work to these men and con- dropped it three years before. Soon after centrate on larger undertakings. returning to civvies he opened his own Henry J. Blossy shop, the Unger Auto Body Company, on the outskirts of Washington, D. C. THE DUSTER KING From the New England states to Florida Tickling the female fancy with a color- custom car enthusiasts, from smooth- ful wool duster has developed into big faced boys in their early twenties to pot- business for a Milwaukee veteran. bellied business men of middle age, have Tom Gardner, who as a Navy lieutenant come to Unger for a "distinctive" auto- (jg) helped maneuver LCTs and LSTs motive look — for cheap. Unger obliges as during the war, operates a firm producing many as he can, changing the entire ap- fuzzy dusters that come right off the backs pearance of the cars he works on for of Australian and Canadian sheep. average costs of $500. This low price tag The idea for the business came shortly for custom body work work that is high- — after the war ended, when Gardner, who grade in every way — seems almost un- is also a part-time lawyer in Milwaukee, believably small when stacked against up hitched a ride to Sydney, Australia, to the $10,000, $15,000 and up charges usu- await transportation home. The generous ally exacted for such work. Aussies loaded him with presents, among Unger got started in custom body work them a quantity of gaily colored, fluffy in the latter part of 1946 friend when a wool dusters. drove in with a new Chevrolet convert- He was in for a big surprise on I'eturn- ible. Just back from Califoi'nia, he had ing to Wisconsin where he found that seen some of the lavish custom body work women went for his wool dusters in a big done in the movie colony, and he asked way. He gave them all away. Other Unger: "What can you do to car that my women wanted them, too, so Gardner de- will give it a distirctive look? I can't cided to make it a paying proposition. afford more than a few hundred dollars." He dug into his GI savings and sent to Although had Unger been concentrat- Australia for a load of dusters which sold ing on collision work, the challenge of so fast it amazed him. Since demand con- such a creative task intrigued him. He tinued high, Gardner ordered a larger studied the car's lines carefully and made shipment for the Christmas, 1947, season, a preliminary drawing, showing what but the Australia dock strike interfered changes he could accomplish for a little and the dusters didn't arrive until the over $400. His friend was duly impressed following February. and Unger started on his first redesign- Women still wanted the red, blue, green, ing job. yellow or maroon dusters, but Gardner Since then Unger has concentrated on didn't have the time for house-to-house custom body designing and has completed selling. The problem ruined his sleep for work on scores of cars. Because "There a time because he had hundreds of dol- is no obstacle to doing custom body work lars in his stock. the idea invested Then Katjwoodie is the best huij in pipes. on any car, no matter old, how as long as came one night to sell them through its body is sound and there is no rust or women's groups. corrosion." Ordinary " Gardner imports his sheep hides, with Super Groin & R'sBSH &Am'-! Grain Unger's tools are in no way elabo- the wool still attached but dyed bright rate. They include welding torches, ham- colors. He cuts the hides into narrow mers, metal rollers and other equipment strips and staples them to rattan handles. Super-Grain is "super"—and is processed in found most auto body shops. Only The result is a lively washable duster that for super-smoking. Drinkless conditioner Unger's skill and his unusual pride in his picks up dust without the aid of oil. has proved best: tobacco tars condense, work can be classed as "unusual." He sells his Woolie Wonder Duster ex- don't clog. Perfect briar, perfect balance, It is this personal meticulousness that through women's groups and clusively perfect smoke. has kept Unger from minting even more through mail orders for $1.25 each in the money from his new-found market for midwest and for $1.30 to buyers on either Write for Folder of Styles 2, pictures reasonably-priced Kaywoodies from $5. up, according to custom work. For coast. ttie quality of tfie briar. while he modestly admits that "any body About 1000 dusters a month are sold by Kaywoodie Company man who has imagination and can work Gardner, whose business address is Gard- with metal can do redesigning as good and ner and Co., Box 1224, Milwaukee 1, Wis. Established 1851 as cheaply as I can," he prefers to follow J. Papara C. 630 Fifth Avenue, New York . . and London

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mayor, the . . Comes complete with all supplies, instructions whole committee, good Lord, from the city siren . and 60-page Book of Ideas. maybe even the general himself, would FREE TRIAL OFFER: Trv it before vou be counting on him! It was already in the general flung back his covers and buy It! Write and a GEM OUTFIT will" be THE sent you postpaid. After 10 days, send only paper, what he'd claimed. Already printed leaped out of bed. "What the devil," he $7.50 or return the GEM, no questions asked. on the program: his The GEM must sell itself; you be the judge. Original poem. Birth of demanded of young aide who stood BOND EQUIPMENT CO. 'Dept-iaa the General, or Tribute to a Great Amer- grimiing in the bedroom door, "was that?'' 6633 Enright'St. Louis 5, Mo. icaii, by Uncle Doc, "That, sir," answered the colonel,

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gripped him. And a feeling of guilt. He or's speech of welcome, the general was winced, still hearing Hazel's cool jeering, aware of the rustling, bird-chirring si- LOOK OUT FOR "Elliot, it's too ridiculous, at this time — lence that mingled with the sound of the and after all, a hick village in loway!" softly chuffing train. Aware too that the "Iowa," he corrected, deeply stung. band leader had taken off his cap to mop RUBBEROSIS! "And remember, it's my home town. his bald head. As he turned, the general's They're darned nice people out there — heart leaped. Memories rose to the sur- old friends." face of his mind, like cloudy, stirred-up

"Are they?" she had asked archly, her wine . . . Saturday nights, popcorn, farm- thin brittle face bemused. "Funny I've ers shopping, and the tipsy old light- never heard you speak of them." studded bandstand where Piccolo Morse The general flushed as he brushed his stood in all his elephantine dignity, wav- thinning gray hair and reached for his ing a baton! cap. Because she was right. Because ac- "Piccolo!" he exclaimed, when the tually, he hardly remembered this town speech was done. He held out his hand.

"Don't tell me you're still around?" new but it blurs rain, smears muck, streaks As the old, red faced bandmaster stared glass. DEAD blades make dead drivers! at him, the general had the sensation of surprise and loss that comes with realiz- ing that those who impressed us as chil- dren may not even have been aware of us. "Oh, I was just one of the kids who m used to sneak on the bandstand and try to throw peanuts into the bass horn!" the general laughed, loud and hearty, to the people's delight. "You wouldn't remem-

ber me.'" THIS LIVE .4.V( O BLADE wipes clean,

"Why I do too!" Piccolo recovered clears rain, clears road muck . . . lets you SEE. Protects your loved ones. quickly. "Chased you off many a time." And they both laughed and shook hands # Often in six months or less the life is baked out of windshield wiper blades over and over, and the bandmaster was by corrosive film, wind burn and hot strutting, as best his old could, lead- feet sun. That's rubberosis, causing dead ing the band down Main Street, followed blades. Next time you buy gas, change by the general in the mayor's car. He to live, new Anco Blades — Rain- hadn't even bragged he remembered the Master for Flat Clear-Flex for general, like a lot of folks — but the gen- Flat or Curved windshields. eral had remembered him! Praise be, the general was thinking, all Mr. Dealer: Ask your Anco Dis- tributor about the sensational new through breakfast at the hotel. At least Anco Wiper Motor. A quick, easy re- I got off to a good start, I recognized placement for lazy vacuum motors.

Gives lots more power . . . lots less stall. some-body. Now the rest should be all Compensates for linkaRe wear to con- right. But regarding the program, he had trol wiping arc. Eliminates blade slap. "Because your father is repairing a turn. Who in thunder was this Martha the vacuum cleaner." Noonan, on whom he was supposed to THE ANDERSON COMPANY AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE; call? Gory, Indiana and its people at all! But he was in for it mm ARTHA NOONAN dropped the lace cur- now, there was no backing out. Iwl tain and turned back to the dustless "Ready, sir?" parlor. Disappointment lay heavy in her Free for Asthma "Ready." If he only were! breast, along with a guilty sense of re- suffer attacks of Asthma and choke A blast of music smote him as he ap- prieve. The committee had said around If you with and ga.p for breath, if restful sleep is difficult peared on the steps. It rose in brassy nine, and here it was after ten o'clock. because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for waves, sharp and sweet and deafening in But maybe it was best if they weren't a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA the crisp coolness of the summer dawn. coming. All those silly things they'd MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. Pomp and Circumstance. He smiled, a printed in the paper! And if the general No matter where you live or whether you have trifle foolishly, he felt, and snapped his came and showed he didn't even remem- faith in any medicine under the sun, send today arm in swift automatic salute to the ber her, she'd die, she'd simply never live for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Frontier Asthma Co. 954-D Frontier Bldg. colors. The Boy Scouts' color guard stood it down. 162 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. at attention, stiff and proud. To the right She felt foolish and heartsick though, a sea of green, the rosy-faced 4-H girls recalling her eager preparations. This in their smart little hats and uniforms. new crepe dress on which she'd labored To the left, blue and gold — the puffing, so many nights, her gray hair in stiff, un- WANTED banging earnestness of the Legion band. familiar curls from the beauty parlor, and And behind this swooping wing of wel- getting up at dawn to go over every inch MAN WITH CAR come, standing on tiptoe the better to see of the spotless house once more. him, other faces! It was six o'clock of an Then her heart leaped, beat wildly, her No Time Like August morning, the busy harvest season, throat went dry and tight. For cars, horns Now to Get In but people had scrambled from their beds, blaring, were approaching, stopping out AfcNess Business hastened here to meet his train! front. Martha stood frozen, hearing the It's no trick to make good money when you Something clawed at the general's ring of heels upon the walk, the heavy use vour car as a McNess"Store on Wheels." Farmers buy everything I throat. A prayer plunged through his tramp of feet upon the little sun-white can from McNess Men because UseYour they [ brain. McNess Products arc tops in quality, "Dear God, don't let them suspect porch. "Anybody home?" the mayor represent extra values. Attractive busi- CAR prizes and premiums; also how unworthy I am, don't let fail boomed jovially, beating upon the screen. ness-getting me money-saving deals to customers make to Raise them. Help me, oh help me to remember Then he simply opened the door and led selling McNess daily necessities a snap, f Start Now! Your some of them!" the delegation in, nearly knocking her We Supply Capital— There's no better work anywhere. Pays I

PAY i Now the music had ended, big- down. "Sorry to keep a couple of old well, permanent, need no experience to and a | start, and we supply capital to help you jowled mayor and a brisk eye-glassed sweethearts waiting," he bellowed. "Sorry get started quick. You begin making money first dav. Write at once for McNess Dealer Book. It's FREE. Chamber of Commerce secretary were we're late." Tells all — no obligation. (1) pumping his hand. Throughout the may- Martha beamed stiffly in the direction THE McNESS CO.. 916 Adams St.Jreeport. III. The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • ^9 of a uniform and held out her hand, only suddenly wet. The general really had to be stricken by the mayor's cry, "But loved her then, just like the paper said! that's not the general, Martha! That's The general sank back on the leather Colonel Jones. Here's the man you almost seat of the mayor's open car. Martha married, or so I understand." Noonan, he thought tenderly. Well, well. Staggered, wanting to die, she looked She had remembered him, at least. And up into a rather long, tired face, a face by golly, maybe there had been some boy with lines as deeply etched as her own. and girl attachment at that! its Smiling, at made selling the amazing new But it was a friendly face, and blue, he gazed the rolling country- PRESTO Fire Extinguisher! deep-socketed eyes were twinkling, as if side. Cattle knelt in a cool, muddy glen AMAZING new kind of fire extin- sharing her secret — and asking her to where a stream flashed. Endless green guisher. Tiny "Presto" (about his. lakes of corn rustling, size of a flashlight!) does job of share were shining like bullcy extinguishers that cost 4 times "Martha!" he said softly. "You haven't silk in the hot noon sun. On a stubbled as much, are 8 times as -^ heavy. Ends fires fast as changed a bit. You look just the same hill a strawstack had been sliced in two, 2 seconds. Fits in palm V as — " the wandered, focused on the like a loaf of brown bread. Like of hand. Never corrodes. eyes the bread Guaranteed ior 20 vears! R. E. MEADE pearly pink conch shell lying on the table, that was raised here, sufficient to feed the Sells for only $3.98!

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people began scraping back their chairs. began to dance. "It's been a wonderful "Ladies and Gentlemen — " The young Evidently they considered their laureate's day. One of the best in my life. And in eyeglassed master of ceremonies stood at tributes no treat, the general surmised. choosing you they've certainly given it the microphone now, and his face was As for himself, he was grateful to the perfect touch." grave. "I'm afraid I have a very sad an- escape to the lockers while the tables She pulled a little away and regarded nouncement to make." were being shoved aside. He took off his him, narrow-eyed. "Who do you think The whole room hushed. shoes and rubbed his feet. He let his belt you're kidding?" she said. "As — as you know, Uncle Doc Natwick out another notch and loosened his tie. The general started; still smiling, he was to have been with us tonight. It is He slipped out under the stars and tried to read her inscrutable face. "Hey, my sad duty to tell you he will never be smoked a reviving cigarette. Then, you're doing me wrong!" with us again. Uncle Doc is — dead." smoothing his hair and straightening his "You needn't pretend with me," she A shocked murmur went up, then blouse, he went inside to meet the queen. said. "I know what you're probably think- stilled; every ear strained. He was startled at how tall and lovely ing — tall corn is right. Corn in the native "Evidently he was returning from a call she was in her floating white dress, with sticks. Give 'em a thrill, General, but in the country when he collapsed. In — the crown of white carnations in her don't try it on me, I'm not easily im- in view of the circumstances, I think it smoke-black hair. How cool and poised pressed." only fitting that we conclude this even- — distant, almost! The general, who now Why — why, the rude little brat! The ing's festivities with a reading of his last realized he'd been expecting someone general threw back his head and laughed, poem, as — " a note of shame crept into more childish, even a bit shy and gauche, but he was shocked and somehow quite the voice that was now not quite steady was taken aback. hurt. Whatever of pleasure and comfort — "as originally planned." The announ- "Well, well, this is an honor!" he ex- he had drawn from this trying day began cer's gaze sought anxiously through the claimed gallantly, offering her his arm. to turn rancid in his breast. Once again, audience, and fell on the general and She said nothing as she took it, only re- and utterly now, he felt tired and old Millicent. He beckoned to the girl. garded him with those cool, dark, oddly and foolish, no longer a great man reaping With a brief, uncertain, startled look, challenging eyes. plaudits he deserved, but a rank impostor, she left the general's side. White skirts Then the high school band struck up a cheat. This youngster was probably lifted, she mounted the steps and disap- The Tall Corn song and together they right. As Hazel had been. peared in the wings. When she emerged descended the balcony stairs. Followed by "Honey, your beauty is exceeded only she somehow no longer looked tall and other couples, town dignitaries and their by your spunk." proud, but curiously small and fright- wives, high school athletes and their girls, "You see, I've known real soldiers," the ened. The general could see that her hand they began their tour of the long ellipse girl went grimly on. "One of my brothers was shaking as she took the paper. Draw- of the gym. The general stepped along was killed overseas, the other came back ing a deep breath, she turned, gazed out with sprightly vigor, bowing and beam- all jimmied up. I didn't notice the town over the uplifted faces. "T-Tribute to a ing and waving to the crowd. He was be- having any celebrations for them. You Great American," she stumbled over the ginning to enjoy himself again. That's needn't think — title. Then, in a voice that was very hum- what a pretty girl did for you, even an Her voice broke off suddenly, in much ble but quite clear, she went into the unbending young sophisticate like this. the same manner that the music stopped, sing-song phrases: He was remotely annoyed by her attitude, incomplete. Her eyes, and those of the How well I remember the house of so different from the glowing attentions general, had been drawn to the formida- Ainswood, he'd received all day, and remotely in- ble activity on the stage. The knots of Where one summer's night I delivered a good trigued. conferring people, the electrifying atmos- Husky lad grown most loved of Amer- He decided to flirt with her a little, try phere of bad news. Gradually the whole ica's sons, A man who does fight, not with bullets to break through her crust. Maybe the room had become aware of it; with mur- and guns. poor kid was just afraid, inside. murs of surprise, the shuffling feet had But keeps our dear soldiers warm and well fed. "Well!" he declared warmly, as they stopped. And from foreign fields brings back our loved dead — "

The general stood with his head bowed. He did not see the strange glance Milli- cent gave him.

And saves hungry people with shiploads of bread. Bread that we raise on our own fertile fields. That makes us all spokes in democra- cy's wheels. A man great and true, of whom we're all pi-oud. Let's give him a hand, folks, a hand that's real loud!"

Incredibly bad as the poem was, the audience stood dim-eyed as it listened. And at its close, no one moved or spoke for an instant. It was Millicent herself who was the first to fulfill its command, who started the applause. Applause which swelled, mounted, rang for several min- utes throughout the crowded gym. Then they were all swarming about the general, wringing his hand, wishing him well. And it no longer mattered who re- membered him or who didn't, because he remembered them now, all of them! For they were his people. The people of his birthplace and the people of his heart. The people who, as the poem said, were a part of the great wheel his shoulder must keep turning. The general straightened his shoulders. He seemed to grow a trifle taller and stronger as he stood there, smiling. The general had come home. Ihe END

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MjGSs itochetf Please! (Continued from page 25) and all. A minute later, Captain Witkins There was a rending crash as she tore A Super Electrode Magnetic Beam ate the unit. Not only had Elmer kept up through the forward cowl and sailed off Bridge and Anchor Grappling Device! — he'd actually moved in closer. Captain into space. Just like that — not even time Just the thing for boarding space ships Witkins tried another trick. It had worked for goodbyes. Already the frost was form- while in flight. Leave it to the Martians marvelously, he recalled, for the hero of ing on her space suit like sugar on a to dream up a swell idea like that! How that fine Hollywood epic, Operation doughnut. Ah, well, thought Captain the boys in the Somerville Scienti-fiction Rocketship. He swung his space-eraser- Witkins, at least the girl's got plenty of Club would love to hear about that in- retracer hard aport, and set the nuclear atmosphere. vention! Only they won't hear about it handbrake. He grinned widely when he Meerla's exit caused such chaos that at from me, I'm afraid, mused Captain Wit- saw the surprised faces of the Mars-men first Captain Witkins failed to notice the kins. Space ship afire. Lost my Moon as their craft went hurtling by, its space- soft, dark shadow that spilled through the Maiden. Captui'ed by the Mars-men. It's brakes hissing loudly but ineffectually. hole she'd left. When at last he did, his just one of those days! But his own deceleration had been too eyes followed the shadow to its source. His mouth corners twisted into a wry swift. Everything aft that wasn't bolted And suddenly the Captain was staring smile. He shrugged, and turned his back fast jettisoned forward. Pots and pans into the barrel of an ugly, snub-nosed to the Mad Martian. Then with deadly from the galley catapulted through the sonic dissolver. calm. Captain Witkins crossed to the cabin. The atomic stove zoomed through "Gotcha, bum!" Electronic Elmer controls and pressed the Total-Schmotal the escape hatch. And Meerla had been sneered. His evil little Martian sight-slits Disintegrator Detonator. upended by the sudden stop. Owing to regarded Captain Witkins unblinkingly. "Hey, what do you think you're doing, her exotic shape, she came rolling down "How did you get aboard?" Witkins Earthman?" Elmer rasped, as the first the aisle like a hoop of Miinster cheese, asked coolly. glymphoid explosions began to rock the picking up momentum until finally she "With my Super Electrode Magnetic rocket. plummeted past the astonished Captain at Beam Bridge and Anchor Grappling De- "I'm going up with my ship," the Cap- something just under the speed of light. vice,"' Elmer proudly explained. tain said. THE END

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GET YOUR COPY In any game your best het is — New 1950 "Official Rules of Card Games"— 256 pages, 165 games favorite card: Today, more than including CANASTA! For more fun with cords have lliis interesting ^ Man's BICYCLE. book now. Just mail 15^ witli name and address to Dept. 38, ever, BICYCLE leads all packs in popularity, with The United States Playing Cord Co., Cincinnati 12, Ohio. its longer life ... its better action in play. Seen (In Canada, The International Playing Card Co., Windsor, Ontario.) the new BICYCLE CANASTA Cards? A wise buy! Jiain Street^s 3tental Health Problem (Continued jrom page 27) no facilities for treating mental or nerv- rural county in the nation that could tomobile accident injuries, we now know! ous disturbance in its beginning, when not put a community mental hygiene But how many communities are keep- much of it can be stopped, and has only clinic to good use. Some time in his life ing abreast of such discoveries by afford- the state hospitals to turn to when local one American in every ten needs help ing the kind of medical service that treats folks reach the "commitment" stage. Yet for a personality disorder — just as he personality problems? careful research has shown that often might need it for tonsilitis or pneumonia. Suppose you would like to go to a good, half or more of the complaints people Only the most normal — or most lucky — but inexpensive, psychiatrist about some take to doctors have a "nervous"' origin. are able to maintain comfortable mental domestic tangle of your own, or some If serious they require care the average health through their lives. One in every inner uneasiness that rides you without MD is not qualified to give, psychiatric fifteen is likely to need treatment in a showing its face and is costing you friends care. mental institution. The difficulty may be and rubbing your family with sandpaper. In Chatham County, Georgia, a psychi- as mild as a cold or as serious as cancer. Or about some problem of your wife, or atric ward in a Savannah hospital is Yet, in spite of these facts, there is no one of your children. To whom can you treating disturbed people early in their field of medicine so complicated by mis- go about it? own town. William C. Harris, sheriff of understanding, misinformation, ignorance There are today, about 6000 psychia- Chatham County, reports a steady decline or futility. To tell a young mother or trists in the United States. That figures in commitments to state mental hospi- father to go home and stop worrying, as out to about one to every 25,000 persons tals among the affected population, with so many physicians must do, is often as if they were evenly distributed. But they 1949-50 commitments only 42 per cent of useless and mistaken as it would be to tell are not. In cities like New York and 1946-47, before the ward opened. Msgr. a middle-aged man to go home and stop Philadelphia there are one or more psy- James McNamara, retiring president of letting his arteries harden. That is prob- chiatrists for, say, every 10,000 persons; the Savannah Mental Hygiene Society, ably what the young mother who in some large areas there are less than ". in adds, . . this reduction is the result of strangled her eight-year-old daughter, one for each 100,000. Psychiatrists the thirteen-bed psychiatric ward in St. and the house painter who killed his private practice depend too much on Joseph's Hospital, Savannah." whole family were told more than once. well-to-do patients. To get more well- This ward was sponsored by George If you know your doctor real well, ask trained men, evenly distributed, more K. Gannam Post of The American Legion him how many times he has inwardly community clinics are needed to induce and its Auxiliary, and it shows what can thrown up his hands because the patient medical students to specialize. be done. At a time when Savannah jails with the backache, the fluttering heart, Why do so many of us need the help were housing people with advanced men- the short breath, the indigestion or the of psychiatrists? That's the $64 question. tal disturbances, awaiting space in state insomnia was really suffering from jeal- There are hundreds of different reasons, institutions, the Legionnaires started a ousy, the wrong job, an unreal attitude just as there are for indigestion, rheu- campaign to raise money for the local toward life, conflict with his wife — all matism and other clearly recognized ail- ward. The ward returned 586 of 597 pa- based on something psychological hidden ments. tients to society and normal life in 20 deeply from doctor and patient alike. Ask It is important to realize that our in- months, without the stigma of jail or him how many patients he'd like to send creased need of psychiatrists is not sim- "asylum" commitment. to a mental hygiene clinic in your home ply proof that as a people we are going Where such wards exist they ease the town, if there wei'e one. Ask him how to the dogs. Perhaps some people do get load on overtaxed state hospitals. They many he'd send to a private psychiatrist less solace from the simple things of life eliminate harmful delays in caring for if he thought the patient could afford one. and place less faith in religion than they people with advanced disorders. For the I mean his normal patients, you and your used to. Certainly more religion would future more preventive clinics are neighbors, who come to him with aches give moi'e people peace of mind, and show needed, not only to reduce as much as and pains. them how unimportant, really, are many possible the number of actual commit- The biggest and most baffling trend in of the things they let irritate them. But ments for real insanity, but chiefly to modern medicine is the constantly in- in a mind that is beginning to warp, re- raise the general mental health level of creasing number of physical ailments ligion warps, too. Unruh, the mad Cam- each community. which are being recognized as having a den murderer, had all the outward signs There is not a medium-sized town or "nervous" or personality origin. Even au- of a deeply religious man. And something else has happened that warns us we do not merely need a return to "the simple ways of our fathers." The same behavior that was normal once is now abnormal. We can no longer be as crazy as we used to! As our country has become more crowded, and as the adventurer has given way to law and order, people are more hemmed in by the restrictions imposed by living closer together. The Virginia gentleman of a century or more ago who felt himself slighted by the turn of a phrase or the tone of a voice could hon- orably demand satisfaction with sword or pistol at dawn, and get it. Today we'd say that he "Slew Pal Over Fancied In- sult." Would he be crazy now, but not then? Yes. Then, the young man who didn't like the color of his older brother's hair could "go West where a man is free." But we are no longer a nation of wanderers. In- stead of going where there's more elbow room we have to learn to live happily "Dad says burlesque is cheap and deqraditifj . . . and he's goiiig inside with ourselves and our neighbors. and iell them so!" are not more unstable than we AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE We used to be, ive are required to be more

54 • American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 stable, and adequate psychiatry can help Violent crime is only the most spec- us adjust better than our quick-tem- tacular of the problems more mental hy- pered, footloose forefathers. giene clinics could reduce. Unnecessary Today a man who begins to brood over divorce, juvenile delinquency, alcoholism, his bad luck, instead of bobbing up again unreasonable hatred or bui'sts of anger right where he is after each reverse as are all symptoms of emotional upset. The most of us do, is likely to become a mis- "neighborhood nuisance" is usually a fit if he does not straighten himself mentally sick man. out. He cannot shoot his neighbors in Thei'e has recently been a lot of public honor or kick over the traces and go indignation about sex-offenders. On this fight Indians. problem the Legion's Child Welfare Di- vision conducted hearings and investi- gations last spring in every one of its national areas, to determine what the Legion might do and ought to do in the war against these outrages. The Child Welfare workers learned that major sex offenses are not as com- mon, as predictable, or as preventable as a lot of legislators believed. To a lai'ge extent they are part of the larger mental hygiene problem. While a few sex-crime repeaters have gained national headlines with one climactic crime it is not gener- ally true that minor sex offenders develop into fiends, and it often happens that one fiendish crime is the first offense. Strong state laws against minor sex offenders are

failing to stop major sex crimes today, FIRST AID I, while the national study of fiendish FOR FAST RELIEF OF - met. crimes light UAIAEUS that might shed on the prob- HEADACHES lem has not yet been made. COLD DISCOMFORTS But in many instances a good psychi- "I'm jtist learning to drive . . . give MUSCULAR PAIN ." atrist, if he had been available to the dis- me a very weak gas, please . . AMEUICAN LEGION MAGAZINE turbed person in his own community as an accepted part of the community medi- NEW! DURABLE! 7 But peace of mind, a sunny disposi- cal service, might have done a hundred JEWELS 3 YEAR SERVICE GUARANTEEUARA times more than a too-late prison sen- tion, a good sense of proportion and real • Shock Re; tence. • Du.st Proc. _ -wwi happiness are no more impossible today • K.Mliuin Uial •% ^ •ei) Second Hand than they ever were. The world around Although it is impossible to predict 6 p. paid plus 70c tax distressed would vol- us has never put people off balance all by how many people Relund if not satisfied. Special! Order Now! Sorry no C.O.D.'s. itself, it is the inner adjustment of each untarily seek good mental counsel if it LADIES Wiitch. as above, smaller size $7.95 plus 80c tax. man and woman to meet the world on its were more widely available, there is no ELC0PR0DUCTSC0.,Dept.75 own terms that tells the story. One young need to be cynical about the prospect. man went stark mad on hearing the hor- Educating all of us to use mental health rible news that the Germans had marched facilities if we need them is a job which into Poland in 1939. A schoolmate joined can only be done when more such facili- Sm IN SPARE Tim the army, saw months of combat, was ties become available. And there are al- That's what L. H. Mix did last yearl You can make up to $2 or $3 an hour ready instances of taken prisoner, tortured, and came home many prospective pa- sharijening saws with the Foley to be a community leader. tients desperately seeking care. The Saw Filer. Steady cash business, no canvassing. Start spare time Nothing in world affairs explains the Legion is familiar with the cases of many — Free Book shows how. Write difference between those two young men. veterans who have fought for the right Foley Mfg. Co., 1239-0 Foley Bld<;., Minneapolis 18, Minn. The boy who went berserk lived in a to receive VA psychiatric care. Then family where three older people had there is the recent case of a young man talked at home and spoken on street who was turned down for a job in a mid- corners about the horror of war for western industrial plant for "medical rea- REGULATION MEDALS AND RIBBONS Ril.hon bars 3 space $1.35 battle stars .lO clusters twenty years. Their mission in life was sons." He returned to the medical office .25 Dischariie buttons .75 Rosettes .75 Mini.iture medals $2.00 and up. Regrulatlon medals $3.50

St. IVIlhlel-Chateau Thierry I Aisne to "save youth," but they approached it of the plant, said he knew there was French medals, Marne Sector) Verdun ( Meuse Argonne ) French something Commemorative ( 6 months in Army zone) $3.5(1 in such an irrational, emotional way that wrong with him mentally, each. Enameled Crests all Divisions — Armies and Airforces $1.0O each. they only aided in destroying the youth confessed that he had an "urge to kill" .Send $.10 coin or stamps for chart of 180 ribbons and complete price list. under their own roof. and begged for help to straighten him out GEORGE W. STUDLEY, Box 396, Avon, N. Y. So let us not blame our topsy-turvy before he "did something awful." world or the complexities of our civiliza- Early in this century a remarkable man tion for all our neuroses. Let us admit named Clifford Beers, who had twice that uncertain times, crowding and more been confined in a mental institution, f need 500 Men laws require better emotional balance and wrote a book called "The Mind That it J:.r SAMPLE make harder to attain. And let us avail Found Itself." It had almost as much in- ourselves of the science that has grown fluence on the growth of what was com- with these same times to help us master ing to be called mental hijgiene as "Uncle SUITS! our hidden fears, live with our neighbors, Tom's Cabin" had on the abolition of and raise children with inner strength slavery. The idea began to penetrate that Pay No Money — Send No Money! My plan is amazing! Just t.tke a few and balance. while some forms" of insanity are incur- easy ordcr.sfor my sensational value.") Let us able disease, in made-to-measure suits. Get your have a place to go in our own many, many others are the own suits WITHOUT A PENNY town when a blue mood or a sustained result of hidden fears and anxieties and COST and make money too! Men can't resist tlie outstanding style, emotion persists so long it warns that are entirely preventable with proper rec- long wear and low price of my made-to-meaaure suits. You need something is wrong with its, not the ognition and early treatment. no experience. Spare time pays big profits. Rush Qatnoand address today for world. Let us have a skilled professional In 1909 the National Committee for completedetails, big FREESAMPLEOUT- flT coDtaiDa more than 100 actual woolen Write todayl to talk to when Johnny is too good or Mental Hygiene was formed. By 1925 •dtnntM.lrtylo illnstratione.etc. PIONEER TAILORING CO., Dept. M-1005 too bad for a normal boy. there were a dozen or more psychiatric Congress & Tropp Sts., Chicago 7, Illinois

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and child-guidance clinics. During the The Legion's BOOK last 25 years the first big steps in the 3ar four prevention of mental disease and educa- SERVICE tion of the public have been taken. To- day there are 180 state and local Mental QIlirtHtmaH Hygiene Societies, scattered through 45 states, working with the National Asso- ciation for Mental Health, a newly formed union of all major national men- (Sift iCtat tal health organizations which the Legion was partly instrumental in forming. But, compared to the need in every PROFESSOR FODORSKI YOUR RUGGED CONSTITUTION community, there are pitifully few clinics Taylor we're By Robert Lewis By Bruce and Esther findlay today. In mental hygiene about where we were with tuberculosis 50 years A hilariously funny satire on college and football. Professor Fodorski, a refu- A book which, avoiding the language ago. The American Legion's gift of $25,000 gee, lands a job teaching at Southern of lawyers, explains in clear-cut fashion to a joint effort for more local prevention Baptist Institute of Technology where he the various sections of our "House of by these several united mental hygiene becomes fascinated by American football. Freedom," which protects us against groups may prove to be one of the most He learns the gome completely — then foreign invasion and domestic violence, important contributions the Legion has develops S.B.l.T.'s team into the most against unreasonable searches and sei- ever made. The heart disease gift of four effective, if unorthodox, team ever seen. zures, and provides those positive guar- years ago was gratifyingly successful in Finally, as head coach, he sees his boys that too often leading others to follow. This new dona- play Noire Dame for the v/orld cham- antees we take for granted. influential. pionship in the Finger Bowl. $2.75 288 pages. $3.00 tion may prove even more Since both prevention and treatment of mental troubles must start in childhood THE HINGE OF FATE HOW TO SURVIVE THE ATOMIC BOMB to be most effective in a long range pro- By Winston S. Churchill By Richard Gerstell gram, the money will be directed first Volume IV of Churchill's history of the toward child-guidance clinics to work This perfect companion to The Effects Second V/orld War gives us the decisive with children and parents, and, second year of the war — of Atomic Weapons tells you exactly what the beginnings of our toward additional training for psychia- invasion of Europe and of reconquest in to do before, during and after an atomic trists and their teammates— psychologists, the Pacific. $6.00 explosion. In step-by-step fashion it ex- nurses social workers. It is hoped The first and three volumes of Churchill's plains just what you should do to protect memoirs, Their Finest Hour, The Gather- more funds will be attracted to swell this yourself and others from bomb blast, heat /'ng Storm and The Grand Alliance ore work and furnish more local care for and radiation— and what steps are neces- also available at $6.00 each. adults too. sary to save yourself if you have been Today's mental clinics — what there are exposed to the bomb. $2.00 OFFICIAL HUNTING BOOK of them — have been called "Peace of Edited by Charles R. Jacobs Mind Factories.'' BEST ARMY SHORT STORIES — 1950 A veteran bombardier who had been Contains all the essential data that any hunter may want to know about the how, A collection of the twelve best short on more than 40 missions over Europe when and where of hunting in all areas stories submitted by officer and enlisted was directed recently to one of these of the U. S. A., Alaska, Canada, and clinics. severe each personnel in the U.S. Army's world-wide He had headaches Mexico. Included in detail are resumes of nausea. $3,000 Short Story Contest. Out of the morning, usually accompanied by habits, habitats and methods of hunting 500 submitted these 12 were chosen as The psychiatrist learned that crowds ter- every type of game, together with prac- rified veteran not the in originality and literary style. The him. The had tical guidance and advice by nationally best slightest idea what was wrong. known experts. $1.50 (paper bound) best Army fiction you can get, for only $2.50 (deluxe cloth bound). $2.50 Each mental hygiene case is like a de- tective story. The psychiatrist has to get NEVy UNIT HISTORIES as many clues as he can, and fit them together for a possible solution. In the 29th Infantry Div S5.00 45th Intontry Div $5.00 12th Infantry Regt $7.50 bombardier's case the nervous head- 30tli Infantry Div S4.00 76lh Infantry Div $5.00 S6th Fighter Group $10.00 aches had begun in Europe. Also his

33rd Infantry Div $7.50 96th Infantry Div $5.00 501st Porachute Regt. . .$3.75 desire to avoid crowds. Finally the psy- 37th Infantry Div 9th 504lh Porachute Regt. ..$5.00 $7.50 Marine Regt $5.00 chiatrist put the pieces together: the 4l5t Infantry Div $10.00 10lh Infantry Regt $5.00 Joint Task Force Seven.. $3. 50 headaches and queasiness had started in the excitement and anxiety of the briefing Write us for complete free list of available unit sessions before each mission. They got histories of both World War I and II worse and worse, and had continued after Order NOW: Cash or C. O. D. - the war was over and the briefing ses- sions were a thing of the past. Gradually, AMERICAN LEGION SERVICE BOOK as all this was explained, the vet began 734 15th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. to lose his fear of crowds, and little by Gentlemen little the headaches and nausea also

the I I . . Please send me books indicated. I enclose disappeared. Print titles below Send C.O.D. The National Institute of Mental Health of the United States Public Health Serv- ice was established in 1946. It set up a typical clinic, with the cooperation of local organizations, in a farming region near College Park, Maryland. Within a few months more than 150 cases were handled. Divorces were avoided, a man whose father had died was relieved of an overwhelming sense of guilt because he hadn't shown enough evidences of his affection, a young school-girl was en- abled to throw off a crippling sense of persecution. Patients were sent in by doc- tors, clergymen, and teachers; presently Post did. Just making your town want a AMAZING COMrORT — NO SPECIAL firTINC they began to come in under their own clinic, planting the idea where it will do steam. Parents brought their children, or the most good, or backing it up if it is came to be advised about them, learning already planted, is a big step. Speak to RUPTURE-EASER more about how to handle rebelliousness, your health authorities, your hospital For MEN^ WOMtN and CHILDREN ocealing, temper, inability to get along people, your police, your newspaper edi- with other children. tor. The backing of the Legion and other "I wish people all over the country civic organizations can help put a clinic could see the value of our clinic," one over, but only when the health authori- town official said. Yet he was one of the ties and others who will be responsible few who at first had not been in favor for running it are ready for such help. of having it set up. It costs about $35,000 a year to main- At least three clinics are needed for tain a good psychiatric clinic. But two every one in existence today, with far things make it cheap at that price. The more trained psychiatrists than we yet first is that in the long run it's much Double have. Gifts like that of the Legion and cheaper to prevent or cure mental dis- .\ strong, form fitting washable support. Back lac- ing adjustable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather WALLY bands. Unexcelled for comfort. Also used as after c'peiation support. Mail orders give measure around the lowest part of the abdomen. Specify riuht or left side or double. We Prepay Postage txcept on CO.D.'s. Over 200,000 Satisfied Users! 10 Day Trial Offer Money-back guarantee If you don't, get blessed relief. Oe/ay may be serious—OROEft TOOAYf PIPER BRACE CO. 308 E. 12th, Dept. AL-125, Konsos City 6, Mo. Earn nOO CASH plu« 24 wood card tables for your Legion Post! No risk. Nothing to pay.

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Executive Accountants and C. P. A's earn $4,000 to $10,000 a year. Thousands of firms need them. We train you thoroly at home in spare other groups and individuals are only ease than it is to care for it. It costs $7000, time for C. P. A's examinations or executive accountinjr positions. Previous experience unnecessary. Personal trainins: under supervision "pathfinders." To get the nation off on on the average, for each case committed of staff of C. P. A's. Placement counsel and help. Write for free book, •'Accountancv. the Profession That PavB." the right foot, communities are going to to an institution. In all, public institutions LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. Chicago III. have to start wanting mental hygiene for mental disorder cost more than $300,- A Correspondence Institution Dept. 12361-H, 5, clinics badly enough to do something 000,000 a year, which all comes out of about it. There is help available for com- your own and other taxpayers' pockets. munities that show they mean business. Second, under the National Mental What can you do, yourself? Health Act, each state has set up a State The first thing is for your own per- Mental Health Authority. It draws up a Genuine 100% GABARDINE sonal good. Increase your own knowledge program, approved by the Surgeon Gen- Imperfections very slight positively do not affect wear. Ideal for dress, school, play of what it means to keep well emotion- eral. It then gets two Federal dollars for Firm hard finish. Wrinkle and shine resistant Hetalns neat press. Zipper front. Roomy ally. You have to learn mental health State dollar. Community clinics get pockets. Blue. Tan. Gray. Sand. Lt Brown. Dk. each vn, Blue-Gray~ or Green" W.ilst: 28-42. rules, just as definitely as you had to a high priority in that set-up. For your Send ais SEND NO MONEY ,,,, learn how to keep physically healthy. $35,000-a-year clinic your community 3rd color choice. Pay postman only S4.95 plus small pstg. Or send money and s.ive Guarantee. Next, accept your social obligation for needs to contribute directly only about psCK- Money Back (Pt L.T.-1950 LINCOLNTAILORS Dept.AM-12 Lincoln, Neb. the mental health of others. As a parent, $10,000. That's less than the cost of two for example, you have no more impor- committed patients! tant job than the building of mental, as But it's got to be good. Your commu- VETERANS!! well as physical, health in your children. nity has to be ready for it, or it will fail.

After that, look over your community There has to be public interest in it, and Legislation is now pending in the — your own section of the city or the understanding of the need for it, be- Senate of the United States which would enable each one of you to compete fairly suburb or town or countryside — to see fore it can be successfully set up. Then in a CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION how adequate it is in the matter of help there's the difficulty of getting the ade- for apprentice positions in the U. S. for nervous people and mental cases. quately trained workers necessary to Government Service. Check the hospital facilities for such pa- make it truly helpful. "A poor clinic is a These apprenticeships are well-paid four year pathways to positions paying tients, the local hospitals. Check the discredit to the entire program." Poor up to $6,500 and $7,500 a year. schools: do they have a trained psychia- advice on mental hygiene is often worse Legislation has passed the house as trist or mental hygienist to help children? than no advice at all. H. R. 7185 and is now pending in the Senate as S. 3050. This bill, if passed, How about crime and delinquency? Do Now let's go back to the newspaper will allow YOU to compete for these jobs your local authorities see and understand cases that headlines, at the be- warranted as has been the practice for the past 60 that much crime is a problem in mental ginning of the article. Says the Surgeon years. If not passed, the entire structure health? General of the United States Public of the Civil Service Commission's prac- tice to hold examinations for apprentice What is your local recreation program? Health Service, Leonard A. Scheele: "One jobs will be obsolete. This Bill must be Is there one that is valuable for young of the best hopes for curbing violence is brought up for a vote, and then passed. people, and older people as well? Finally, early diagnosis and treatment of persons It is your future at stake. how about psychiatric advice for adults? with emotional disorders." For your own Write your Senator and request that he exert his every effort to bring this Bill, Is there enough in your town or county? sake, for that of your children, and for Senate 3050, up before the Senate of the Your Legion Post could do a lot to get that of your community, let's get wise to United States for a vote at THIS 81st a mental hygiene clinic started, even if it the crying need for better, earlier treat- Session of Congress. Time is important. didn't go as far as Savannah's Gannam ment of mental disease. the end Do it todav. The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • ^7 A

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By BING CROSBY

HONORARY CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAN legion's "TIDE OF TOYS"

/jjj ANY THANKS, men, for the signal honor you imJi^\ have given me — Honorary Chairman of your second "Tide of Toys," the tremendous program you began last year which sent three million toys to the unfortunate kids of other countries. But don't get any ideas that I'm just going to be a figurehead and let you fellows do the work! Just call me "Old Spearhead," because I have already hit the deck and gone into action to ad- vance your efforts. I have roped in my whole family, all my friends in the broadcasting and re- You learned last year that a lot of kids in Europe cording racket, and my sponsor for plenty free you sent toys to had never had a toy in their lives. time. We have already recorded a flock of new Think of it! Never had a toy in their lives until Christmas music to spread the good tidings. They you Legionnaires asked America's kids to give you have already mugged me in Santa's whiskers. toys for overseas from under their Christmas trees You Legionnaires have cast me in the role of — until you asked America's stores to give you toys "Poppa Santa Claus," and that's a part any man for overseas from their Christmas inventories. should be proud to play. You got three million toys in a few weeks from Along with yourselves and your neighbors you our wonderful American people. They must have are going to let me be Santa Claus! I mean you been waiting to be asked. are going to let me be part of filling that old soot- And now, you are going to do it again. covered sack with five million, or eight million, Right after Christmas you have leg work to do. or fifteen million dolls and trains and blocks and Again, you are going to let us all be Santa Claus. toy airplanes and autos and all the wonderful You are going to start out from your thousands of things that make the magic world of childhood. Legion Posts to make even a bigger "Tide of Toys." You are going to let me be one of the guys who You are going to your newspapers and your schools actually makes the smiles light up and the squeals and your children and your neighbors and their ring out and the pure rapture bloom on the faces children. of kids who have a hard time believing in anything Well, I promise you this. I am going into those good. homes and schools on the radio waves ahead of you And I want to tell you how I will work for your and spread the word. I'll tell them you're coming. "Tide of Toys" as I never worked for anything I'll do a little "panhandling" myself. before. This is a pleasure — let's join up and go! soothing fresh. oi tesfe'l drop- tirec put two our et

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• Amozing new The war and the Occupations linguist to take rest. 'Power without Powder" principle adds great effect upon our Word of his ability soon got have had a Is to shooting the people. Once, to have been abroad, around to the minister; and when ol ond Rifle with See them at your to he went to church the first Sunday was a distinction second only r free literoture. wealth and associated you with he was not merely welcomed back, Crosman Arms Co., Inc., Rochester 7, N. Y. "culture." Today such an average but was also asked, in view of this guy as the one who runs the gas fine linguistic accomplishment to station on the corner may know which he had applied himself dur- the Champs Elysees or the Schot- ing his absence, if he would not, MONiYMAKm OPPORWNfTY FOR YOU tenring well as he does Main perhaps, honor the congregation as WITHOUT tN¥£STMeNTy Street. As a GI the American be- with a rendition of the Lord's No experience needed to Oct o» our Local Dealer for came a cosmopolitan rivaled only Prayer, in Japanese, of course. MASTER Work Uniform garments. Every business concern a prospect. Advertising embroidered on by the British soldier. Our hero surveyed the ruddy garments is a big sates feature You con easily eorrt up to many thousands of dollors per year. We The most staid of Americans in Yankee complexions about him >UP:supply all Sales Equipment HtEE, Write foi'eign lands of and, to has some manner reassured of the distance ttO. lUSta UtMINT (0. DOT. 442 UUNBI, DR. native vocabulary. Prima for swell, the Mysterious East, decided to or okay, is standard American in oblige. Germany; so is danke for thanks, As the congregation bowed its bitte for please or you're welcome, heads, he intoned solemnly, "Oha- STOPS r0(76y WINDSHIELDS — and there are many other similar yoo gozaimasu konnichi wa- NEW Chemical MIH words and phrases in common use. komban wa — o-yasuviinasai." Discovery! Autoists Even in Japan this same thing hap- Good morning, good day, good ^'"^•^-i'JwilH over new FOG- STOP Windshield . Simply elido over windshield pens. A GI who has never strayed evening, good night. "Do7)io ariga- cally-treated Mitt — at on?e g!a:ris sparkles crystal clear. Blurry mist, frost, sleet, snow dis- off the path between his billet and too gozaimasu, doo itashimashite." appear like magic. Stops foKKing. Setlaltkewildf Sample offer sent im- headquarters will occasionally ex- Thank you very much, you're wel- mediately to all who eend nameatoDce. Hurry. Postcard will do. SEND NO UONEYi-iu«e claim. Ah so desu ka. "Is that so?" come. "A?io-«e. be?ijo wa doko t/our name. KRISTEE CO., Dept. 1474, AKRON 8. OHIO —a term which the Japanese seem desu ka — sukoshi — takusan — ikaga to use at least every other time they desu ka.'' Say there, where's the open their mouths. But Japanese toilet; a little much; how are you. LEARN RADIO is a baffling language, and even Rolling his tones sonorously, he — TELEVISION those GI's who stray easily never concluded, "M%tsume-san — wata- become very fluent. knshi wa — anata wa — tomodachi — Train at Home-Moke Good Money A story is told of one young GI, okjisan." Daughter, I, you, wife. Get Actual Lesson and 64-page book—both FltEE. See liow I train you AT HOME for good jobs and a bright returning home after a hitch in As he sat down the congregation future in America's fast growing industry. You get PRACTICAL KXPEKIENCE building Kadio. Tester, etc., Japan. His vocabulary was still stirred respectfully, and awaited with many kits of parts I send. Make extra money fixing Radios in spare time while learning. Strid Coupon NOW! studded with GI Japanese, which the parson's amen. impressed the home-towners. Mak- But before this could be uttered Y.!JP.?.ANS!.APPROVED ing the most of things, the boy used another voice spoke up from among • MR. J. K. SMITH, Pres., Dept. ON.TS ; Nat'l Radio lust., Washington 9, D. C. his handful of words and phrases the rear pews. softly, very Very I Mail me Sample Lesson and book FREE. lavishly and allowed his family and reverently, it said, "Ah so desu ka." Z Name , Age friends' conception of him as a — Izzat so? Afldress

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Channels list is consequently no surprise distort skillfully our sources of informa- States Senate hearings. I can remember to me. tion. That young man is a choice product the joy of the commission members when The red Politburo and the commission of the work of the red commission, and they learned that the Electronics contract had noted that World War II gave them is a symbol of how extensive and danger- had been arranged, and Gailmore was to the big chance to raid the big air waves, ous is the present red hold on the radio have the chance to poison American pub- and Ivy was instructed to play up the industry. lic opinion. "war effort" as the cause for red action The number of communists on the radio, Of course, Gailmore was not the first in this field. He was faithful to his instruc- to my knowledge, is a national disgrace. nor the last of the pro-red commentators. tions. He played up as his great model They range all the way from two eminent The commission saw that the controlled as to how the war effort should be "ad- women writers whom I have in mind as organization of the party got busy in this - vanced" the radio script writer Norman having followed every twist and turn respect. Out on the West Coast, the Cali- Corwin. It is Corwin who has worked so of the red line over to a batch of folk fornia CIO under the control of Harry closely with Earl Robinson, the author of singers. These people can be known, Bridges, and which was also to be expelled The Quiet Man from Kansas, written in since the very fact that they have been from the CIO in later days, put its man honor of Earl Browder. And it is Corwin, members or sponsors of so many commu- Sidney Rogers on a West Coast hook-up. a consistent member of communist fronts, nist fronts is an indication of where their There he remained for a number of years, including several declared subversive by hearts and sympathies lie. They are on spouting out pro-communist propaganda. the Attorney General, who has recently the radio today in large part as the fruit The communist-controlled United Electri- made a big effort to get a nationwide of the work of the red commission. cal Radio, and Machine Workers Union hookup to air a plea for freeing the ten What business in this crisis has a man was also called into the commission's red Hollywood writers. It was quite to the councils. Through its chief officers, Julius point, then, that the commission's voice, Emspak and James Matles, a plan was Peter Ivy, should hail Corwin, use him worked out which was shortly to put as a model, and make him the center of Arthur Gaeth on the air as commentator, the first big drive "for audience support." faithfully handing out the party line. "If the CBS had received merely 1,000 The red commission felt emboldened in of your letters," Ivy told the reds, "this, its work in its understanding that it had the best and most significant program on at least two friends on the Federal Com- the air could have been saved!" He was munications Commission. They were the then talking of Corwin's production, chairman, James C. Fly, who the Daily Passport for Adams, so lavish in its Worker praised generously, and Cliffoi'd praise of "our gallant ally, Soviet Russia." J. Durr, now vice-president of the com- The communists "went to town" as Ivy munist front, the National Lawyers Guild, told them to do. The secret orders from and active in other red-initiated organiza- the communist party headquarters in tions. Conditions in the Federal commis- New York, added to his pleadings, sent sion of that time, as I learned from them into action with "audience support." repeated discussions in the red group, While Corwin was the model selected, he made the infiltrators think in ambitious was only the beginning of the long list of terms. They worked out a big drive to get those who were boosted by the com- open communists openly on the radio, and munists. to take advantage of the FCC's ruling There was, for instance, an actress who that any political group which was as- has lately been in the news — blond, sailed could have time to answer back. In Hollywood-groomed, active on the Pacific these aims the reds made pretty good coast in radical causes, who visited me one headway. They did succeed in getting a evening in my Astoria home. That was lot of time, particularly on local stations, when she was eager to get instructions as like Earl Robinson to be on the air, a man in a plan which was carefully worked out. to how best to infiltrate the moving pic- who aided the reds at every turn in com- They also frightened many timid radio ture industry. I always remember the munist fronts, and who presented his songs stations into practical censorship of any interview with her, which she sought, be- to each communist party convention for anti-communist utterances. The mere cause as a red leader of that time, I had the first time? Then what about E. Y. threat to demand free time for a reply to caution her against being too open in ("Yip") Harburg, another devoted spon- was enough to shut down all criticisms of her red sympathies. That would have sor of subversive fronts, and a chief Soviet Russia and its agents here. On imperiled her. Through the work of the speaker on March 20, 1950 in honoring more than one occasion, the communist commission and the red network laid Dr. Edward K. Barsky for defying Con- commission was able to express satisfac- down in radio, she became prominent in gress in behalf of the reds? Harburg, in- tion on this point. this new field. cidentally, is currently engaged in doing That did not end the red schemes. An- There is a writer, too, a young man who the music for MGM's forthcoming pro- other project was the plan to have certain sent in a number of memoranda to the duction Hiickleberry Finn. concealed reds purchase small radio sta- commission. Through red aid he has grown One of the large features of the com- tions, and indeed some which were not so to be one of the prominent script writers, mission's work was to sneak commenta- small. I left the communist party (in and is now a mighty man in the business. tors, either outright communists or ap- October 1945) before this part of the pro- And yet, this young and important person, peasers of communism, onto the air. gram, though discussed often, could be whose fervent devotion to Stalin I recall Shortly after the commission got going, fully tested. so well, has logically been a member of it scored a big victory when the Elec- One advantage that the reds had, and almost every conceivable communist front tronics Corporation succeeded in putting which the commission fully discussed, of the last several years and has even William S. Gailmore on a big station as was the lack of knowledge by the Ameri- contributed to one of the outstanding red a news commentator. It is no secret that can public as to how concealed commun- journals. How well placed is he to conduct Samuel Novick, president of that corpora- ists act. There has been too much of an slyly that psychological warfare within tion, was more than "a friend of the com- assumption that the only red is the one America which Stalin counts upon so to munist party." It is known to me and to who conducts open and brazen commun- confuse the American people as to destroy many others that he was well acquainted ist propaganda. That sort of person, as them! What a tragedy and a crime is it with figures in the party's underground. the red leaders have known for years, that this man, whose allegiance is to the And it is also known that Gailmore was could be of little service: he would be Soviet dictatorship and not to the United identified as a member of the communist too soon exposed. What the communists States, is in such a prominent position to party in sworn testimony before United are interested in is the success of the cur-

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rent line given them by Moscow. The of the industry should not be blamed too function of the concealed communist on much for the red infiltration of broad- the radio or any place else is to further casting. Indeed, they too were victimized. WRITE FOR that line when possible — to prevent the However, there is no denying the fact "The Wonders of passage of anti-communist legislation by that many of them have been lax in try- crying "civil liberties," to come to the ing to purge their staffs of commies and TRAILERING" defense of other concealed communists i"ed stooges. when they are under attack, and to pre- So far as the artists and writers who From the pages of the real-life experi- ences of trailer cooch owners. Sanitary sent as pleasant a picture of the Soviet lent their aid to communist fronts are Refrigerator Compan/ has compiled dictatorship as occasion will permit. concerned, no one holds the view that this anrtusing little booklet. Real people in true-to-troilering situations . . . amusing, If none of these things is possible, in they cannot rehabilitate themselves. Let entertaining and informative. Sanitary, after years of making refrig-

trailer coaches, knows what it's all obcrut; you wilt, too, his field of work, then his service is pri- them tell the truth about their past asso- erators for after reading this booklet. It's yours by writing to vately to extend red influence and to ciations, a knowledge that they did wrong Sanitary Refrigerator Co. Dept. AL- 12 Fond du lac# Wit* contribute heavily to red causes. For in- and lend themselves actively to anti- stance, Hollywood for years has been communist causes. It is not sufficient to pouring thousands of dollars into subver- deny and try to cover up their organiza- sive work against the United States, par- tional links with the communists. After ticularly in regard to Hawaii. That is as all, to the extent that they joined red valuable to Stalin as an open red movie, fronts they are responsible for the pres- and on many occasions much more valu- ent situation in Korea and other lands, able. which injure America. START A However, there is even more. Before When you hear any uproar about the a new Soviet America can be erected, "persecution" of people in radio who have BUSINESS according to the communist plan, the old been connected with communist fronts, this American structure must be razed to the you can well remember that smoke has a Quick Way ground and the site excavated. Most habit of being associated with fire. You sub- I hove token in 100 mowers in versive, pro-communist work today is can check over the records of too many 5 weeks since I not actually peddling pro-communist or people at present in the radio business, got my Foley", soys George C. pro-Soviet propaganda but destroying and learn that those records are pro-red. Wise. and removing informed and troublesome I know more about many of them than FOLEY LAWN MOWER SHARPENER anti-communists, killing off anti-com- even these records show, for I know of start In spare time nnd mnlce a quick CASH PROFIT. The Foley handles up to 3 or 4 mowers per hour — munist scripts, this prices run $1.50 to S-T-fJO for hand mowers, S5.0U to books, plays, movies, pro- them through the work of red com- S8.no for power mowers. FREE BOOK— "HOW TO SHARPEN POWER MOWERS." grams, and so on, and otherwise stifling mission for infiltrating the radio field. avail- Prices S97.50 to fS 1 59 . 50 — easy payment terms able. Write todav for P'REE PLAN on lawn mower and killing off exposure and criticism. And I can say to you that from the view- business. No salesman will call. Equally important to them is the spread- point of the Soviet fifth column, the com- FOLEY MFG. CO. J 203-0 Foley BIdg., Mpls. 18, Minn. ing of confusion, suspicion and doubt con- mission's work was successful. There are cerning our government, history, and too many reds on the airways for national ILLUSTRATED COMIC traditions. What better lever for all this security. Is not an investigation of this BOOKLETS than radio with its tremendous power vital matter somewhat in order? I recom- THE KIND MEN LIKE! to reach millions? mend this move to the consideration of (VEST POCKET SIZE) loaded with rare car- I'd like to They are emphasize that the leaders the industry itself. the end toons. Full of Fun and Humor. 20 DIFFERENT booklets sent prepaid for $1 in plain Will sealed wrapper. No CO. D. A That Your Child 1 Room N. Y. Grow With C. GRAYKO, Dept. 2068, Box 520, G. P. P., ( Contimied from page 17) that will grow with your child. On the The sketches and photos on these pages LONG VIEW BINOCULARS IMPORTED market today there are any number of suggest a few space-saving bed designs materials which lend themselves to use that can built for both boys' and girls' be MILE in making such furniture. However, be- rooms. If you decide to make the beds or 101 fore starting, first plan just what furniture bunks yourself, measure the over-all di- iZl RANGE is required and where it should be placed. mensions of the box-spring and mattress

"At the beginning of each course, the from 4 p.m. Wednesday to midnight on tude for his help when it was needed. student always practices safety precau- Sunday. For this action during the flood During the war. Bob served as a con- tions. Each student is given a 250-volt he was nominated for the Outstanding sulting engineer and teacher to the Armed electric shock so he'll remember safety Radio Amateur Award Of The Year. Forces. While teaching radio to Signal when he reaches the high voltages. We've Again, in the fall of 1938, his radio sta- Corps students he devised a system to never lost a student yet," he said. tion became an angel of mercy to thou- speed up the training of their radio oper- Bob's work in "ham" radio goes back sands of victims of the disastrous hur- ators. Nights, with the assistance of his to the time he was a student at the New ricane that hit New England and Long blind students, he collected and repaired York Institute. Making up his mind that Island. He worked with the Red Cross hundreds of radio sets for service centers he wanted to talk to the world as well and many towns expressed their grati- and hospitals, throughout the country. as listen, he quickly qualified for all the His station W2JI0 served, too, under the Federal Communications Commission li- direction of Radio Intelligence Division censes necessary for both amateur and of the Army. Along with other blind commercial work. His amateur station hams, he monitored the air waves for with its call letters W2JI0 (which he says illegal broadcasts. He is very active in means "jump in the ocean"), has con- helping to rehabilitate blind veterans. tacted "hams" all over the world. Bob has been married for six years. He It is characteristic of Bob Gunderson met his wife. Lillian, while working as that he wasn't satisfied just to get a li- engineer for an electronics firm handling cense for himself. Encouraged by his own war contracts. Mrs. Gunderson reads all success and realizing the tremendous the technical magazines for Bob. In the satisfaction in radio for a blinded person, afternoon she selects and records the arti- he decided to help others without sight, cles on a wire recorder, and he listens to and persuaded the Federal Communica- them in the evening. tions Commission to allow the blind to "I'm a radio widow," smiles Mrs. Gund- take oral instead of written tests. erson. "But Bob helps me with the dishes

" "A ham license is an introduction to and does other household tasks. people, and the blind need all the com- In March, 1950 a life-long dream of panionship they can get. There are about Bob's became a reality when he published 500 blind hams in the country and I'm the first issue of The Braille Technical going to make a lot more." Press — The Radio and Electronic Maga- In 1937 Station W2JI0 paid off to hu- zine for the Blind. Through this publi- manity by handling more than a thousand cation he hopes to open a new horizon calls for food and serum during the great for the average sightless man. Ohio 'Valley flood. Owning the principal "Oh hoi)! And how much allotment The magazine, written in Braille, car- relief message station in the New York for each kid?" ries valuable repair information for radio area. Bob handled official messages from AMIOIUCAN I.KCION MAGAZINE repairmen, a monthly correspondence the Governor of Kentucky continuously course on fundamental electronics, and

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The American Legion Magazine • December, 1950 • my surprise, the G.I.'s didn't think so. They looked at the neckband sizes and after a try-on there was almost universal rejection with the complaint, "Too big!" I took all the sweaters back and closed up the supply room. Alone in the room, I tore off the neckband sizes and graded the sweaters down 10 sizes. The 40's be- came 30's, the 42's became 32's and so on down the line. The next day I announced a new ship- ment of sweaters. As the men swarmed WIT'S END in, I had them call out their sizes and Among life's most jjat/ietic sights issued accordingly. Most of the men who Are guests who crack their domes tried on their sweaters accepted them While searching for the bathroom lights without question and walked away sat- In other people's homes. isfied. A small group remained doubtful. — William W. Pratt of them griped, "Hey, this is still too "Isn't it about time you were getting up One and lighting the fire?" big!" their LABOR RELATIONS "Nope," yawned the old man. "I'll call I saw the others perk up ears and knew the entire situation hinged upon a The angry wife was letting off steam. the fire department. We might as well get used to these city conveniences right satisfactory answer. I managed to keep "All I do is wait on you hand and foot," my voice even as I replied, "They're cut she complained. "I'm getting fed up cater- — Dan Bennett full." These words apparently did the ing to your every whim!" trick. They all departed, well pleased The husband remained silent. PRINTED MATTER with their "new" sweaters. "Just suppose," his irate spouse con- in multitude — Sidney Levine tinued, "that we wives went on strike. Magazines What would you do then?" Roll daily ojj the press, eventually TORTOISE AND THE HOT ROD "Well, you just go ahead and strike," And they seem to THE Roll up to our address. replied the husband quietly. "I've got a I don't mind driving sloivly behind Magazines in multitude peach of a strike-breaker in mind." Yon ten-mile-an-hour sedan, Fill up our menage — F. G. Kernan I don't mind being forced to drii^e blind To rest unread and then pass on By this creeping, Meanderthal man; UNDOING To fill up our garage. — Ruth Christiansen I don't mind ivhen I honk at the jerk There would be much less ruing, To let me pass by bit* he tvon't And much less cause to rue, THE VAINER SEX But I do feel a wee bit of irk If folks weren't happier doing When he makes the green light and I In December 1942, I was in the Aleu- The things they shouldn't do! *• tians as Supply Sergeant at - Lloyd Rosenfield — S. H. Dewhurst Umnak. The weather was bitterly cold at the docks and I was anxious to get warm woolen A MORAL STORY CITY LIFE clothing for the G.I.'s unloading sup- A little boy of six was invited to lunch After 40 years in a little country village plies. After considerable effort, I managed in a friend's home. As soon as they were a couple sold their farm and decided to to secure 125 woolen sweaters ranging all seated at the table, the food was live in the city where they could enjoy from size 40 to 56. Though the sweaters served. The little visitor was frankly the comforts of life. They bought a house were too large for most of the men, I felt puzzled. With all the forthright honesty in a large city and on their first morning that their additional warmth would more of a child he asked his host: the wife arose before sunrise and said: than compensate for their bulky fit. To "Don't you say any prayers before you eat?" "No," mumbled the host, uncomfortable over the boy's blunt inquiry, "we don't take time for that." The little visitor thought silently for a moment and then he said: "You're just like my dog! You start right in!" — Dave Castle

SHE NEVER MAKES 40

A youthful figure is something you get when you ask a woman her age. — Edward Artin

MEMO TO THE BOSS

'Twas the day after payday, but all through the house Not a dime could we find, neither I nor my spouse. Our budget we'd watched with meticulous care. In hopes that we'd have a few nickels to spare; Still, all of our money, I'm sorry to tell. Just vanished as fast as a snowball in — well. To get to the point without further delay, I surely could use a slight raise in my pay. — Roy K. Kline . r Clhristmas GIFT APPEAL

L965 Evans lighter. Kmblem en- ameled in true colors on Legion blue background. Golden metal finish. L990— 15 Jewel ELGIN. Dura- $4.00 L962 Zippo famous windproof Power mainspring. lOK natural rolled gold plate case with stainless lighter. Satin chrome finish. Life- time guarantee. $3.25 steel back. $33.75. Other watches for Legionnaires and Auxiliares to $60.00

L975-10— lOK Gold. Heavy weight. Bulova Director. l!> jewel, gold hlled case, with matching expansion Hard-baked enamel design on sides. band. $33.75. Others to $71.50 Smart, exclusive design. $26.70 L977— lOK Gold. Black onyx top. Specify size. Good weight. $24.60. Available with synthetic blue sapphire $25.80. Synthetic Ruby $26.40. Specify stone desired and size.

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A454 — 72 Pieces— encased in solid wood tarnish resisting chest. Com- plete service for eight. 16 Tea Spoons, « each Hollow Handled Knives, Salad Forks, Iced Tea Spoons, butter spreaders, dinner forks, soup spoons, 3 serving spoons and one each Butter knife, sugar spoon. Cold Meat fork. Berry L715. spoon, Pastry server. Amity "Director" Billfold. L718. Boarded cowhide, hand colored in Enger-Kress Brown sheep brown. Hand-laced edges. Secret leather billfold. Double currency currency pocket and sliding card COMPLETE with chest, delivered— $1 pockets, hidden key container, re- 9.95 pockets, dujjlicate key pockets. movable 4-wing card and photo case. Three initials embossed in gold if Three initials stamped in gold if order prepaid. $9.00 order prepaid. $4.20

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L945 —Swank quality cuff links. Matches Tie Chain L9.j(i. $3.00 {Federal Tax included)

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Perfectly styled, pre-shrunk poplin Legion shirt. Fast-color embroidered collar insignia. Removable, good quality gold plated Legion buttons. L1105—Auto and Utility Robe. Name All sizes. All wool, fringed MacRae robe— .'52" X 72". Plaid design in rich colors. Street L756 Blue Shirt $4.85 Packed in suede, water-repellent L755 White Shirt $4.65 City State.. zipper ease with adjustable, remov- L751 AU wool Legion Gold Tie .85 able shoulder strap. Legion or Aux- Serial No. of 1950 Membership Card.. L750 All wool Legion Blue Tie .85 iliary woven emblem on robe. $11.75 complete. Specify color, neck size and sleeve length

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