The American Legion Magazine [Volume 47, No. 5 (November 1949)]

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What City Has the Most Pretty Girls? . . by harold helfer 11 Box 1055, Indian- They grow peaches in Georgia. Atlanta, that is apolis 6, Indiana. The Child Who Started a Lobby by bennett foster 14 The American Legion Mago- Many children will live because of Maude zine is the official publica- and the Legion tion of The American Legion and is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copy- How to Go Treasure Hunting at Home, .by frank rasky 16 right 1949. Published monthly at 1100 W. Broodwoy, You may have a small fortune somewhere on Louisville, Ky. Acceptonce your premises foi mailing ot special rote of postoge provided for in I Bill . Section 1103, Act of Oct. Saw the Gl Written (conclusion) .by dave camelon 18 3, 1917, outhorized Jon. 5, A wild ride from Georgia saved the 1925. Price, single copy, 15 day cents; yearly subscription, FEEL the difference in your scalp! What a $1.50. Entered as second Behind the Recipe Racket by bill miksch 20 wonderful wake-up glow — when you use class matter June 30, 1948. at the Post Office at Louis- Your wife may not like this, but you probably will Vitalis "Live- Action" care. That's Vitalis and ville, Ky., under the Act of the "60-Second Workout!" 50 seconds' mas- Morch 3, 1879. What You Can Do About.Membership 22 EXECUTIVE AND sage with active Vitalis (I) stimulates scalp Every Legionnaire ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES can be a Crusader (2) prevents dryness (3) routs flaky dandruff Indianapolis 6, Indiona (4) helps check excessive falling hair. Then What Does The Legion Do? 23 EDITORIAL AND 10 seconds to comb and you're all set! ADVERTISING The American Legion's most pressing problems One Park Avenue

from (fiction) . .by New York 16, N. Y. A Man Kansas james charles lynch 24 • . . ^iVes you WESTERN OFFICE The town needed a marshal and Conover was it 333 North Michigan Avenue Flags 26 Chicago 1, Illinois How Are Made James F. O'Neil, Man What goes on in the world's largest flag factory Chester, New Hampshire Handsomer Chairman of the Legion Publrcafions Commission, How You Can Help a Cripple by george waltz, jr. 28 Lawrence W. Hager, Owens Here is a Post project that is boro, Kentucky and Don W, worth while Emmett, Ventura, Colifor HAIR nia, Vice-Chairmen, Mem bers of the Commission Vilas H. V/holey, Racine The National Legionnaire. . . .29-36 Wis.; Tom W. M„cCaw^ Dennison, Ohio; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C Paul B. Dague, Downing FEATURES town, Po.; Josephus Daniels Jr., Raleigh, N. C; Georg« Previews 4 Newsletter 37 D. Levy, Sumter, S, C; Dr, Charles R, Logan, Keokuk Editors' Corner 6 Report from Hollywood. .44 lowo; Earl L. Meyer, Alii ance. Neb.; Charles E Booth, Huntington, W. Vo Sound Off! 8 Life in the Open 50 A. C. Jockson, Lubbock Texas; Mox Slepin, Phila Parting Shots 64 delphia, Po.; Roland Co crehom, Baton Rouge, La George D. Baron, Bethany Conn., Lang Armstrong S p o k o n e, Wo s h.; Ear Please notify the Circulation Department, Publications Division, P. O. Box difference in SEE the your hair! Now see Hitchcock, Glens Falls, N.Y. 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed your address, using Edgar Vaughn, St. how much neater, handsomer your hair G. Paul notice form 22S which you v/ill secure from your Postmaster. Be sure to Minn.; Harold A. Shindler. cut off the address label on your magazine and paste it in the space pro-

set to I looks — stay that way all day! No Newburgh, nd.; Emmett vided. Always give your 1950 membership cord number and both your "patent-leather" shine. Vitalis contains no Safoy, Jacksonville, Fla. new and your old address. greasy liquid petrolatum just pure, natural Director of Publications — James F. Barton vegetable oil. For a scalp that its best feels Indianapolis, tnd. The dog is generally considered man's and hair that /<9oA:s its ht^i.gzV Live- Action" Ass t to Director best friend, but at moments such as Vitalis at any drug counter or at your barber Frank Lisiecki the one shown on our front cover, he shop. Editor can be dov/nright unpopular. Albert Joseph C. Keeley Staehle, this month's artist, has de- Advisory Editor lighted millions of magazine readers skin speciaj'^*^, Alexander Gardiner • Mony v/ith his amusing portrayals of dog Managing Editor life, and he tells us that the pup who Boyd B. Stutler posed for this month's cover was so Art Editor prevents dry in love with his job that he tore two scalp, Al Marshall lotes Legion cops to shreds before the Associate Editors ness. painting was finished. We doubt, Robert B. Pitkin Irving Herschbein however, that many dogs could get Advertising Director two opportunities like this in real life. Fred L. Moguire Eastern Advertising Manager Russell Holt VIWIS Product of PICTURE CREDITS: Gabriel Benzur, Danny Coshtlgian ot Boston Globe, 11-13; Western Advertising Bristol-Myers Globe Photos. Pix, B. W. Cooke. Spears, W. Porter Ware, Pennbrook Milk Co., Manager and the 1617; Press Assn., 18-19; George E. Pickoiv from Three Lions, Inc., 26-27; Fred E. Crawford, Jr. Tom Knowles, 28. 60-Second Workout' 2 • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949

I 33 FINE BREWS BLENDED INTO ONE GREAT BEER C o p r. 1 949, Pa bst Br ewi ng C o.. Mi I wa u k««, WItco nti a O O Awione m teU he ks'l2±' Prkwiicwk ofRodiicts, Inventions, Ideas

A savipling of products which are in process of development or are coming on the market. Mention of products in no way constitutes an endorsement of them since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers.

OIL PUNCH. A practical method of piercing holes in steel by means of oil has been devised by engineers of the General Electric Company. Ordinary methods of piercing sheet metal use a metal punch, but the new system substitutes a column of oil for the punch. In both cases the size and shape of the hole follow the form of a die used with the sheet being punched. In operation, the column of oil is struck hard at the top. Since it is confined in all directions and cannot be compressed, the oil is forced to punch through the sheet steel which forms the bottom of the column and into

the hollow area of the die under the sheet. - .

FOR A KID'S CHRISTMAS. The Big Bad Wolf, Snow White and other story-book characters are brought to life ia novel fashion by means of Sound Story Action Sets being offered by the Baker Co., 737 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 11. The Sound Stories consist of 7-inch double-faced phonograph records plus a set of cut-out characters and backgrounds- which permit the child to enact the scenes described by the recordings. Made of Vinylite, the records are unbreak- able. Now ax^ailable are the stories of the Three Little Pigs, The Shoemaker and the Elves, The Three Bears, Snow White, Gingerbread Boy and Old MacDonald. A single Sound Story costs 50<-, or they can be purchased in sets of three for $1.25 or in sets of six for $2.35.

ELECTRIC SCREW DRIVER. A device which fits into any electric drill and which converts it into an automatic screw driver is being introduced by the F. N. Bertram Tool Co., 3121 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. Called the Bull Driver, it automatically centers on the screw groove and it releases itself automatically when the screw is driven home. It comes in three models. One is a self-centering model for driving screws up to #14 size, another self centering model drives small screws, and a third model is a hand- centering type. The attachment sells for $4.95.

• You can tell by the ladies' admiring GOT AN OUTBOARD MOTOR? The job of getting an outboard glances when a man has Pipe Appeal. And motor out of the water is simplified by a device being you can tell by his contentment that he manufactured by the Rite-Way Lift Co., of Berwyn, 111. strong bracket which allows you to has that pipe packed with mild, rich-tasting It consists of a movable tilt the motor and swing the shaft into the boat with little Prince Albert! Get P. A. — and see why it's effort. According to the manufacturer, even a 10 horse- America's largest-selling smoking tobacco! power motor can be handled with ease, permitting it to be R. J, Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. taken from the water for repairs or to clear a fouled pro- peller. The Rite- Way Lift comes in two sizes. For motors under 10 H.P., a model is available at $7.95 f.o.b. Berwyn. A larger size is available for $14.35 f.o.b.

REVOLUTION IN THE KITCHEN. A radically different pressure cooker which can be opened while it cooks, so that food can be tasted or seasoned, is being offered by the Burpee Can Sealer Co., Barrington, 111. The new Burpee cooker confines pressure in the sidewalls of the utensil so the food is surrounded by a jacket of steam instead of being cooked with live steam in the pressure chamber. It is because of this feature that the cover of the cooker can be lifted safely while food is actually cooking. Available in 4-quart and 8-quart sizes, the new cooker is made from triple-thick, drawn plate aluminum, with heat-resistant Bakelite handles, smartly styled for table service. There are no gauges to watch and THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE nothing mechanical to get out of order. A fool-proof relief valve assures that the cooker will never blow up. The Burpee pressure-jacket cooker retails at $19.95,

4 * The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 HOLD THINGS. Legionnaire Halbert M. Wood, an ardent fisherman, wanted to carry fishing poles on his car. As a result, he has come up with a gadget that can be used in many ways around the house. It is a rubber device with indentations of different sizes, and it has a rubber suction cup which permits it to be fastened anywhere. Around the work-bench, for instance, it will hold tools or paint brushes. Fastened to a kitchen range it holds small appli- ances. In the bathroom it can be used as a toothbrush holder plus a glass or soap. Selling for $1.50, the holder can be obtained from the WooDick Corporation, Box 181,

Madison 1, Wise.

FOR THE FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM. The problem of mounting photographs so they stay put is simplified with a new product called Photo Bond. This is a solution made with Vinylite resins which is easily applied and forms a permanent bond. Photos fastened with it were tested by soaking in water for as long as two days, and ex- posing them to sun-heat up to 200 degrees through plate glass, without causing them to lift from the mount. According to the manufacturer, the solution contains nothing that will have an ill effect on photographic paper. It is made by Photo Bond, 545 W. Market St., Akron, Ohio, and costs 65^ half-pint, $2.35 a quart, and $8.55 a gallon.

GIFT ITEM. A multi-purpose adjustable desk with its own light is the new Easelite developed by W. D. Rhodes & Company, 7800 W. Gregory St., Chicago. The unit consists of a small desk surface 12 by 10 inches with a lamp housed in a shade that rotates through 360 degrees to provide an evenly lighted surface in any position. It can be used as for reading or as a sickroom or bedroom lamp and table. Photographers, stamp collectors and other hobbyists will find it valuable. The Easelite sells for $5.95 and is individually packed to make a convenient gift item.

SMALL-SIZE MILK COOLER. A new, small-size electric cooler to serve farms which Winter calls for AMAZING have fewer than ten cows in their dairy herds, or to cool cream at larger dairies, has been announced by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. The new cooler, called the Cooleret, has room for either three five-gallon or two ten-gallon cans of milk or cream, and can cool them from 90 degrees down to 50 degrees in one hour. The cooler cabinet is of standard big-cooler construction. It is made of heavy-gauge galvanized steel, well-insulated and equipped with a hermetically sealed refrigeration unit and a motor-driven water circulator. It will sell for $210.

A JACK THAT GETS 'EM UP. If you have a new, low-slung car you will be interested in a novel hydraulic jack that safely raises a car without braking or blocking. Called from motor oil, too! the Royal Champ, it works on a new principle, opening like a jack-knife to give extra support. This assures safety Sound your ''Z" on all road surfaces. It is said not to damage low overhangs or gas tanks, and will not pinch off hydraulic lines. Made for PENNZOIL by the Vulcan Manufacturing Co., Winona, Minn., the Royal Champ sells for $11.95. /rnoH^msr" instant lubrication for WINDOW OPENER. There's no longer any need to strain your back to open "stuck- quick, safe winter starting! fast" windows, thanks to a simple gadget called the E-Z Windo-Lift being introduced by Semans and Company, 34 S. 17th St., Philadelphia. It is a lever which is ITSTAYSrOUeH' attached to a supporting bar at window-height, and a quick twist of the wrist permits you to raise the balkiest window. The price is $3.95. lasting safety to resist cold weather sludge!

MAGNETIC FLY BOX. A new kind of fly box, designed to reduce fly-changing time on the stream, has been announced by the Charles F. Orvis Co., Manchester, Vt. The box CHANGE NOk^S itself has a clear, plastic top so you can see the 36 flies which can be kept inside. The important feature, however, is a permanent rotating magnet assembly which holds the flies securely, even in a high wind, and allows quick, easy selection by tui-ning the dial. The price is $5.50.

RADIO SWITCH FOR THE HANDICAPPED. A radio program selector switch which was originally designed for disabled veterans and has found wide usage in veterans" hospitals is now being offered to the public by the Radio Corporation of America. The new radio attached permits the patient to select up to six stations by merely pulling a cord. The adjustable cord works the switch in a manner resembling that involved in ringing up fares on the familiar trolley meter. The price of the switch, k\ better dealers, coast to coast which is available through RCA sound products distributors, is $11.00. Oil Ass'n-. Pen

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The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • YOU WON'T GET ANYWHERE UNLESS YOU START

OLD BONES

When we asked Mr. David Camelon to write a series of thi-ee articles describing the writing of the GI Bill (see his final installment of / Saw the GI Bill Written, page 18) two problems faced us. One of these was the embarrassing problem of digging up the dead bones of the eerly resistance to the GI Bill which was <^ered by four of our fellow veterans' organizations. The story of the GI Bill cannot be told without including this major episode, so we leave it in and simply wish it had never happened. On many matters of veterans' affairs we all pull together, and we are happy to be ~able to report here that no veterans' organization is on record today as opposed to the meat of the GI Bill, which is this: Government, in addition to its debt to the war-disabled, owes all wartime servicemen suitable tools to regain ground lost in the competition of life while in service.

NOT THE WHOLE STORY

The other problem was this. The full story of the GI Bill is too large to tell in a few magazine articles. So how were we going to tell it? The bill has its roots in the experience of veterans of all wars, and its meatiest roots lie in the experience of the men of War One. It grew not only from the acute and personal problems of the veterans of War One, but from the problems of the nation after that war. Our national economy suffered and national social problems were adversely affected by the casting adrift of millions of servicemen Hunting parties have little respect for the man who's late. without adequate preparation for their readaptation to civil life, or of civil life's When time is so important, even a good excuse is rarely adaptation to them. Thus, 25 years later,

acceptable; a car-starting failure, never . . . for it can the GI Bill provided education not only for the sake of GIs but for the country be avoided. which must use their skills now and for years hence. Thus, much-maligned To arrive on time, be svire your car will start. When you 52-20 also helped both veteran and nation. If it could speak it would have this buy a battery for your car, buy to say for itself: "Hit me, kick me. But remember — there have been no veterans' starting assurance. REMEMBER, breadlines or riots since VJ Day. Nor has a single starting failure can be there been a demagogue elected to office by promising unemployed veterans the-

• far more costly than the little moon." _ . _ - ' The story of the GI Bill that is far tob extra for you pay a trustworthy big to tell outside of the covers of several Exide Battery. books is the story of the growth of its principles in the minds of many men over the 25 years before 1943. When crystal- lized into The Bill, those principles neatly absorbed the major shock of mass-dis- 1888... DEPENDABLE BAUERIES FOR 61 YEARS, ..1949 charge both for veterans and for the nation. "Exlde" Reo. Trade-mart U. S. Pat. Off. These principles probably first appeared THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, Philadelphia 32 in the spontaneous bitching of early War Exide Batteries of Canada, Limited, Toronto One dischargees. At first they felt, rather g • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 than thought out, their need for such a bill, and they said, bitterly: "We got $60 and a kick in the pants." Later the lack of national preparation for mass-discharge TAMPA, PATERSON had the soldier's touch of irony added to TUCSON, its expression: "When we went to war they told us nothing was too good for us. When we returned we found they meant just what they said." But thoughtful veterans, who were more interested in the actual problems than in venting their feelings, very early in the Twenties began developing the principle that it is a government problem to see to it that wartime servicemen, whether injured or not, are readapted to civilian life. They spoke from experience, and their experience suggested the details of government's responsibility. Missed education must be made up. Immediate unemployment upon discharge must be avoided if possible. If impossible, then its evil effects upon the men and society must be circumvented. Trade skills must be learned by men who missed learning them while at war. After a war, building must accelerate, and in a post-war inflation the veteran, who is in the poorest position to compete in the housing market and is in most need of a home, must have enforceable priorities or especially favorable credit in order to vie for living quarters in a housing crisis. What man first said these things? No one man. They were stated spontaneously, and with bitter undercurrents of expression, on the floors of many a Legion Post. They were framed into Post, District and Department resolutions, and may be found in many a resolution of Legion Na- tional Conventions prior to 1943. The seeds of the GI Bill were planted in the minds of many a local legislator by Legionnaires in his district. Long before War Two the GI Bill was an unannounced national policy of The American Legion, as a basic principle and as a group of separate ideas, ready to jell if another war should come. Horry Rosenthal, St. Also, out of the experience of the vet- Joseph, Mo., switched to erans of War One grew a sister policy. lighter Calvert. The as yet unwritten Bill must be admin- istered by one government agency. Who said that? Not one man, but every veteran who, in the three years following War One, had led a merry chase from pil- lar to post around Washington; who found \/\/lierever you go-* that his then few special benefits were handled by many agencies. These agencies rolled him not through one mass of It's good to know red tape, as one agency might, but through the same tangle time after time, with interesting variations and delightful con- trasts of policy. Smart to Switch When the GI Bill was finally written it It's was an extension of many years' work by many minds, thinking from the experience of millions of men. And it is the story of all those men and all those minds which tell Calvert we could not possibly in these to few pages. That is why we finally decided that since we could not tell you the whole Better story we would show you a whole story Lighter...Smoother..Tastes — the writing of the GI Bill as seen by one man, Mr. David Camelon, a reporter for the Washington Bureau of the Hearst BLENDED WHISKEY— 86.8 PROOF— 65% GRAIN Newspapers who watched the whole thing NEUTRAL SPIRITS, CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP.. N.Y.C, jell. RPB

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tire chains can really THE PADRE AND THE INDIANS When the calf is just a few weeks old, a tiny button can be detected right where Referring to the story Father Juhilo do for you on hard- the horn is starting. Put a drop of water and the Wild Indians which appeared in on the hair right over the button and rub issue, your April with William LaVarre the hair is packed snow, or ice it with a caustic stick until the author, I'd like to call your attention rubbed off and the skin is rather raw. That to a story that bears a remarkable re- is all you need to do. Not a sign of a horn THEY . . semblance to that of Father Jubilo — but will ever appear. • • shorter unlike him the priest survived his air- START easier STOP A five cent stick of caustic will dehorn plane trips. He is a Capuchino missionary • HOLD straighter • LAST longer a herd of calves. It is painless, bloodless named Father Cesareo Armellada. de and inexpensive. Any cattle man will Through the efforts of a group of us here BECAUSE OF. . verify the reliability of this method. in the United States and in South Ameri- • Two-Way Grip — Thanks so much for The American ca he was able to secure the promise, on Right and Left Hand Twist Legion Magazine (Braille Edition) and payment of a sum of several thousand with my very best wishes, I remain, • 288 Gripping Points dollars, of a factory-reconditioned Bell Ralph Carson • Heel-and-Toe Action helicopter. The missionaries at the Angels Veteran WWl of the Tukuku, deep in the jungle, have Blind Ward, Co. 8 Ask for — insist upon — already built a landing strip for the plane. VA Branch WEED-AMERICAN V BARS by name As I write this. Father Armellada is in Los Angeles, Calif. J?emember ... Drive Safely... Caracas, Venezuela, hoping for word from "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Carson his superiors in Spain to go ahead with The device to which Comrade —NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL engineers purchase of the Bell helicopter. refers has been developed by Electric Co. It was de- I am writing this to the magazine be- of the General Previews. Editors cause I am afraid that the story by Mr. scribed in the August LaVarre is likely to do more harm than good to the cause. The Motilon Indians THEY HOWL FOR JUSTICE are not of the type which he indicated, Having a firm belief that They Howl but merely beings have are human who for Justice by Gabriel Pressman (Sep- been driven deeper and deeper into the tember, 1949) will draw either directly jungle by the advance of civilization, or indirectly a certain amount of criticism which causes them to defend their homes from the minority party, I would like to and families against an onslaught. make this a special effort to praise you Trevor Bruce Burns and your staff for publishing Pressman's Rochester, N. Y. comparison of the Foley Square and Marko Street justices. THE Gl BILL SERIES I feel that with the airing and compari- sons of the two cases, many Americans I have read the first installment of Mr. will become more fully aware and awak- Camelon's / Saw the GI Bill Written with ened to the erroneous and prejudiced intense interest, and wish to compliment methods incorporated by the Communist him on the accurate reporting as I rec- dominated countries to ascertain "quick ognize it from my experience in the U. S. justice." House of Representatives at the time. I Although I feel that I neither qualify am no longer a member of the House, but nor especially care to be labeled a critic, I am still intensely interested in our treat- of I do not believe that the seriousness ment of these veterans. the Foley Square trial should be over- Walter C. Ploeser looked. The story of Judge Harold R. Clayton, Missouri Medina and the court's final verdict is Ml*. Camelon's final account appears in a very important step in our future asso- this issue on page 18. Editors ciation with the Communist party, its methods and convictions. THERE'S A SIMPLER WAY I sincerely hope, as probably you do, that if these men are found guilty, the The August issue of The American hand of true justice will not softly pat Legion Magazine had an article which them, but rather, will sternly grasp them i told of a new method of dehorning calves society. and remove them from American } is no with an electric instrument. There L. McDaniel xo In Business for Your Safety Richard doubt in my mind concerning the effi- New London, Wis. AMERICAN CHAIN & CABLE ciency of that method but there is an old J thing in a much The article which especially interested way of doing the same |j COMPANY, INC. more simple manner. me in the September issue was They Howl

g • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 for Justice, which compared the trial of one of my identification cards, which is the 12 communist "big shots" in New York exactly like a Rogue's Gallery card and with that of Cardinal Mindszenty in Hun- which I carry with me at all times. I am gary. It showed what a farce the com- always willing to show this to anyone at munists are trying to make out of our any time, even to any criminal. I am glad government's efforts to protect itself from to have any of those fellows know who I these insidious, corrupting termites that am as I live in a state where the citizens bore from within. Isn't there something still have a right to have guns in their we veterans can do? Are we supposed to homes or in their cars for their protection stand idly by while these agents of a for- so I am happy to have as many of our eign power try to wreck our government outlaws as possible know that I am and everything we love right under our "loaded for bear" at all times. very noses? Millions of us took gun in Identification has been my business for hand and v/cnt out to fight, and even gave the past twenty -five years and it will be up our lives if necessary, in order to my hobby for the balance of my life. I protect that which we hold dear. Why retired on pension from the Des Moines, cannot we Legionnaires as a united group Iowa police department where I was take some positive action now, and show Superintendent of the identification these communists that we are still capable bureau. I am a member of the Luke- of militant action when necessary! The Greenway post of the American Legion communists aren't backward about using here in Phoenix. I served in the U. S. force. William N. Barber Navy during World War One. Huntington, W. Va. Wm. M. Hammond Phoenix, Arizoyia -"""XT""'- BET THEY'RE BOTH GOOD An article in a back issue of The Ameri- can Legion Magazine some time ago, telling how one South American country BlMllfi""', solved her identification problem by re- quiring its inhabitants to carry a card with their picture, name, and fingerprints thereon, should prove interesting to our lawmakers of this country. With population and immigration at an all-time high and as all of us G.I.s are already "printed," Joe Drazenovich Chuck Drazenovich why not the rest? Fingerprints don't lie Your Football Forecast for '49 (Septem- and it would be much easier to tell who ber issue) carries photos of probable '49 was who. All-Americans. Give Joe Drazenovich a Otis McCann break—the picture you carry is that of his Pineville, La. brother Charles. This is my answer to Should We Use Matt Wasko Chile's Systeyn? I live on the border of the Past Coyyunander U. S. and Mexico and know the following Post 295 facts. The men in our Immigration Border Browyisville, Penna. Patrol want to do their duty, but have In Ed Fitzgerald's '49 Football Forecasts their hands tied due to rules and regula- of potential All-Americans, in the Sep- tions made in Washington. tember issue of the Legion Magazine, he I invite each reader to come and see for made an error which I'd like to call to himself the conditions of the Immigration your attention. As right guard, he selected in the field. The illegal entry into this country of undesirables can be stopped Penn State's Joe Drazenovich, yet the by At all shotgun ranges, Remington Ex- picture in the magazine is that of Chuck, the State Department. There's where your press shells give you the smashing power blocking back, who is Joe's younger troubles are, so don't go putting identifi- that knocks 'em down to stay. Reming- cation cards in pockets. brother. James O. Phillips my ton Flat-Top Crimp assures perfect game- Laredo, Texas VA Hospital, Ward 4B getting patterns every shot. Get maxi- Lebanon, Pa. mum performance from "Kleanbore" THE ARMY AS IT WASN'T priming, special wads, progressive burn- I would very much like to commend FINGERPRINTS ing powder. TryRemingtonExpress shells. you on the excellent article titled What This is in response to a suggestion by Army Are They Talkiyig About? in the Mr. b. C. Hulsey of Little Rock, Arkansas, September issue of The American Legion whose letter you published in your de- Magazine. Of all the articles I have read in partment for September, 1949. Personally the past few years, this most accurately I feel that Mr. Hulsey is exactly right and pictures the disgusting way in which the Spark photo shows unob- Miniature cannon ball! Each that Mr. Henry Alsmeyer, Jr., of Bishop, veteran is usually shown. As silly and structed flight of shot charge No. 4 pellet from o Rem- Texas, has the wrong slant on this problem light as this article was, it should sink producecJ by Remington Flat- ington Express shell leaves Top Crimp, Result: perfect the muzzle of a 12-gauge as so many well intentioned citizens have. into the minds of some writers that the pattern, maximum power, 30-inch barrel ota bout 1360 Many of our American citizens are so veterans are tired of being represented absolutely uniform distribu- feet per second; has energy proud of our system of freedom that they as a bunch of bums and a bunch of prank- tion of shot pellets. of about 13 ft. lbs. recoil in horror from every attempt to sters who won the war by accident, in- force them to do anything, even though stead of by sheer guts and courage. I sin- it may be to their decided benefit and with cerely hope that whoever wrote this article no chance of injury. will sit down and write a book, as he Wm. Reuter, Jr. shows the sensible threatens to do, with characters that are spirit in his letter when he says he is go- typical G.I. and with lingo that the ex- ing to fix up a picture and fingerprint G.I. the world over will know is the real identification card of himself and start service man talking. carrying it right now without waiting for • William W. Adams • "If It's Remington—It's Right!" the law to say he's got to. I am enclosing Blue River, Wise. "Express" and "Kleanbore" are Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. by Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport 2, Conn. The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • g This is how Chic Young, the cartoonist, makes a first rough sketch for the famous strip.

Then when each panel in a strip meets his approval, he makes a careful pencil rendering as above.

After this, the pencil rendering is carefully inked in, as you see here.

STEP BY STEP...

that's the way it's done successfully!

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Contributed by this magazine in co-operation with the Magazine Publishers of America as a public servicei WHAT CITY MS THE MOST

? PREITY GIRLS?

By HAROLD HELFER

You may disagree, but this expert on female

pulchritude maintains that no city in the U.S.A.

has more beautiful girls than Atlanta, Georgia

AM A GUY who has been around, and in a geographical sense too. I am a man of many parts. I have been from Boston to San Diego and from upper New York state to the Florida keys. I have been to Birmingham, Atlanta, Nashville and Knoxville and I've been to El Paso and Dallas. I've seen Biloxi and New Orleans and Santa Fe. I have whiled away time in North Carolina and South Carolina and Washington, D. C, and New York City. I've been to Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. I've been to southern California and northern California and up the northwest to Seattle, Washington. There is not a section of the land that I have not been to. And my conclusion after all this? My conclusion is that the prettiest girls are in Atlanta. I am not given to tossing off such statements lightly. But facts are facts, and about this there can be no doubt. At least one out of two Atlanta girls are pretty and the percentage may be even higher than that. But you can stand on a downtown Atlanta corner and there isn't a time that at least every other girl that comes by won't bring a pleasant gulp to the masculine throat. I have stood on an Atlanta corner and watched, by actual count, seventeen consecutive pretty girls walk by and you would have hesitated a long time before kicking the eighteenth out. I have heard it said that when a male Atlantan dies he does not ask to go to heaven but to be placed on a Peachtree Street corner on a breezy day. I do not doubt this in the least. Pleasanter sights are hard to imagine. (Continued on page 12)

PHOTO BY PAUL WING STUDIO

11 YOU FIND them coming out ol oflicc buildings BLONDES AND REDHEADS are well represented in Atlanta's unending beauty pageant

BUS DRIVERS make every stop, and with good reason ATLANTA is famous for other things, but who cares?

The only fair test concerning a take her, facially as well as otherwise. pretty girl up North or in any other town's feminine pulchritude is just to By and large, and with very little section of the country isn't as pretty stand on a downtown corner and look exception, the prettiest girls in the as a pretty girl in the South. What I at what passes by. Beauty contests can country are to be found in the deep mean to say is that the percentage of be misleading; one Miss America does South. And it is v/ith rather a heavy pretty girls is greater below the not a town of pretty girls make. Some- heart that I have to make this state- Mason-and-Dixon marker than any- times you will see a shape coming ment. It's not that I have anything where else. down the street that will just about against the South, it's just that, for the In Birmingham, for instance, about turn you every which way but loose time being and perhaps for a long one out of three girls is pretty. The inside, only to be beset with a bitterly spell, I will have to make my home same thing holds true for Montgomery, disappointed I-wuz-robbed feeling elsewhere. But what is so is so and Savannah, Nashville, Charleston and when the girl comes near because her one must look facts in the face, even Memphis. But in Tuscaloosa the ratio facial features do not measure up. But if up North these facts are not so win- is one out of five. I suppose the influx when I say pretty girl I am not minc- some. of girls from other parts of the coun- ing words. I mean a girl who is just Now I do not mean to say that a try to the University of Alabama is naturally pretty, any which way you PHOTOS BY GABRIEL BENZUR somewhat responsible for this. And 12 What About Other Cities?

They H.i ve Something Too

m SEATTLE. WASH.

JONI EVANS, a native of the Illinois metropolis, shows what you find there

THE AUTHOR says he's been in Dallas, but maybe he didn't meet Patricia Jones

mens of womanhood as you could hope to see any place, but their features are just a bit heavy set. Of course, I'll say this again, a pretty girl in New Orleans BOSTON, MASS. is just as pretty as a pretty girl in Atlanta or Birmingham. But there just naturally aren't as many of them. Whether you're in the French Quarters or on a corner on Canal Street, only one girl out of twelve who comes by is pretty. Miami is another Southern town that, sad to relate, does not come up to Southern standards in its ratio of pretty girls. Only one out of 10 girls in the environs of Miami is pretty, the national average. But there is a reason for this and, of course, it's because there are always so many visitors along the tip of the Florida peninsula from other parts of the country. MAYBE ATLANTA can top Donna Free- I hope no one thinks 1-out-of-lO is man but in Missouri they say, "show me" bad, though. In Boston, it's one out of 18 and in New York City it's one out PATTI PALMER proves that sightseeing of 20. in Boston is definitely worthwhile Boston girls, I have found, are very nice. I once mentioned casually to one something else having to do with it in New Orleans as anywhere on this that I was in the mood for a plate of may be because Tuscaloosa is strictly globe and I have found my fun and had Boston baked beans which I'd always a college town and girls with a lot of it in that sultry port of call. I have often heard so much about. She thereupon IQs may just not be as pretty as girls thought that maybe someday I'd go to insisted on spending our whole night who have other things on their minds. live there. The sazaracs are excellent, together going around looking for a A five-to-one ratio isn't bad at that, the bartenders understanding. plate of these beans, although I had though. The average pretty girl ratio As for the girls, they're good sports. really hoped to spend the evening in for the country as a whole is 1-in-lO. They drink a lot of coffee, but they can other ways. This speaks, of course, of Virtually all Southern towns have go all hours of the night. They dress high conscientiousness on the female a much better ratio than the national well and they're fancy steppers. I find Bostonian's part, even if it might also average. But there is one notable ex- them as provocative and charming as suggest something inflexible too. ception and that is New Orleans. girls anywhere, and I've been to Mon- But the irrevocable facts were these: Now New Orleans is a fine town and terey in Old Mexico and Honolulu in The baked beans, when finally pro- I hope no one gets me wrong. It has Young Hawaii. cured, were excellent. But the femi- narrow streets and a wide-open phi- But very pretty they are not. They nine sights along the way were a dis- losophy. You can have as good a time are well-built, as finely erected speci- appointment. (Continued on page 56)

13 The Child

A sick veteran's daughter

brought help to New Mexico's

tubercular children — but not

to herself...

WHEN MAUDE CRIED, THE HARD-TO-FIND «EO WAS EMPTIED AGAIN, FOR GRANDMOTHER TOOK HER HOME. SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE GIRL MUST REMAIN HOSPITALIZED By BENNETT FOSTER

HERE wouldn't BE any story In 1946 there was no institution in about for a way to return the child to ^here if Ed Hobbs had easily New Mexico which was required to the hospital. They talked to Murray found the proper care for receive and care for a tubercular child. Hintz, Director of the New Mexico little Maude in 1946 and if The State Sanatorium at Socorro had State Welfare Department and inci- Maude were now cured of her tuber- a long waiting list and, because of dentally a Legionnaire of long stand- culosis. Ed Hobbs and his fellow limited facilities, because there was ing. From him they learned that no Legionnaires and Auxiliares did find no way to isolate children from adults, legal machinery existed that could be care for her, after a lot of hard work, the State Sanatorium did not accept used. And in talking to Murray Hintz but it didn't stick. Today Maude (that patients under ten years of age. So the Committee's eyes were opened to is not her name) is eleven, she still has Ed Hobbs' committee went to work a sad situation, one that can be found tuberculosis and she is not being and after considerable search a pri- in many States. treated. But because of her a lot of vate hospital was found which agreed Great work was being done in New things have changed in New Mexico. to accept Maude, and she was ad- Mexico to detect tuberculosis in chil- In 1946, Maude, daughter of a New mitted. dren. Mobile units visited schools and Mexico War One veteran, was eight The case should have been closed, communities, screening for tubercu- years old. She lived with her father, but it wasn't. When Maude's grand- losis with skin tests and X-rays. Pub- her grandmother and a tubercular mother came to visit her, Maude cried lic Health doctors and nurses con- aunt. Her mother had died of tubercu- because she was homesick. Grand- ducted clinics and gave instructions losis and now Maude needed sana- mother knew just what to do about for home care. But when sanatorium torium care which her family couldn't that: she took her baby home — for care was needed the State had nothing afford. So two members of The Ameri- keeps. The girl's grandmother did not to offer. Adults could go on the waiting can Legion Auxiliary — Mrs. Carl Jop- understand at all that if Maude were list for care at the Socorro Sanatorium ling and Mrs. Lou Neighbors — brought to grow to womanhood she must re- but for children under ten there was her case to Edwin G. Hobbs of Albu- main hospitalized until the disease was nothing. Private care was hard to find querque. Hobbs was and still is chair- checked. Ignorance and mistaken love and very expensive, though the Public man of the Co-ordinated Child Wel- plucked Maude from the care that had Health Department and the Welfare fare Committee of the Legion's De- been found for her. Department would help find it. Some- partment of New Mexico. When Mrs. Jopling told the com- times, particularly for tubercular chil-" To care for Maude the Legion Com- mittee what grandmother had done, dren, that was an impossible job. mittee obtained a grant of money from she was more than disturbed, she was Little Maude now became part of a The American Legion's National Child just plain mad. larger picture. For the Legion's Child Welfare Fund, and it looked as if a "So were the rest of us," Ed Hobbs Welfare Committee a greater problem routine Legion Child Welfare case was says. "That little girl needed to be in loomed — the ironical puzzle of the nearing a satisfactory ending. One the hospital and we'd done a lot of mobile units that detect disease about hard job remained, and that was to work for nothing." which little could be done. Now not find a hospital that would care for The Committee was set back on its only Ed Hobbs' committee but the New the child. heels. Dismayed and angry they cast Mexico Department of The American

14 Who Started a

Legion decided it wanted a children's know. Now we had a chance to prove the Adjutant, and others traveling sanatorium in New Mexico. it." from here to there in the State adver- At first Legionnaire Hintz, the State New Mexico's state senators and tised the Legion's interest in providing Welfare Director, seemed to be the representatives are as tough-minded sanatorium facilities for tubercular logical target for action. a bunch of lawmakers as ever killed a children. Films on Child Welfare were "We built a fire under Murray bill. With a State economy squeeze on, shown at various Posts. Hintz," says Ed Hobbs, "and Murray and politics being politics, there would When Legion child welfare workers gave the hotfoot right back to us. be a lot of hands reaching for that from eleven western States met in "The Welfare Department had about $200,000. If the legislature were to act Santa Fe in December, 1946, New $200,000 for building purposes, but favorably public support would be Mexico's shortcomings were thorough- couldn't spend it without authority needed, so the Legion went to work. ly aired. The wife of the governor- from the legislature. Murray was Bulletins went out from Department elect was present, by invitation. tickled to death that we had dealt our- Headquarters. Mrs. Geraldine Mercer, Before January 1, 1947, Legionnaires selves in on his headache." Secretary of the Co-ordinated Child and Auxiliares had talked up the new Here Ed Hobbs pauses and grins Welfare Committee, wrote letters children's sanatorium in practically before he continues. around the State. Reid Mulkey, De- every community in New Mexico. "We're pretty good lobbyists, you partment Commander; Earl Starke, Little Maude (Continued on page 40)

THE PROBLEM OF MAKING THE HOSPITAL MONEY STRETCH FAR ENOUGH HAD STATE ENGINEERS BATTLING FLOODS

WHEN THEY CAME to the Rio Puerco it was in flood NINE TIMES the road was built and nine times washed and a road witli culvert had to be built below the bridge away. The contractor unloaded and returned to Santa Fe

588 Laws of 1947 S. J. R. No. 18

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 17 A Joint Resolution Directing the Department op Pubuc Welfare to Provide Separate Hospital pAaLiTiES for Medically Indigent Tubercular CmLUREN of the Statb OP New Mexico.

Be l> Resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico:

WHEREAS no separate hospital facilities are now available for care and treatment of New Mexico's indigent tubercular children, and WHEREAS, the State has recognized its responsibilities by providing hospital and medical care for its indigent tubercular adults, and WHEREAS, medical authorities recognize and recommend separate facilities for treatment of tubercular children, NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED jointly by the Sen- ate and the House of Representatives of the State of New Mexico that the Department of Public \Velfare immediately provide separate hospital facilities for medically indigent tubercular children of the State of New Mexico at a place and location in the State to be selected by the Department, and to use such funds of the Depart- ment of Public Welfare, as are available, to the end that the purposes of this resolution are immediately accomplished.

THE TRAIL that started with Maude produced this New "WHY WASN'T this done before?" demanded a grufE cowman Mexico resolution ordering a State child's TB Hospital at the opening of the Children's Wing at Socorro (above) How to Go Treasure Hunting at Home

By FRANK RASKY

ODDS AND ENDS THAT GRANDPA TUCKED AWAY IN HIS OLD TRUNK NOW HAVE A REAL CASH VALUU

of exhimiing other rare signatures from the twenty boxes. Johnson's attitude, of course, has changed from cynicism to one of joy in the profits from the "old stuff." One man's trash is another man's treasure. That This vetei-an's case is not unusual. With a little imagination (plus some individual application and industry) gives zest to the game of collecting anybody can amass cash and fun by collecting items that seem to be worth- less today, but will be treasures tomorrow. There are an uncounted number of passionately devoted collectors throughout the country (aside from professional dealei-s, many of FEW MONTHS AGO an ex-GI, son. He used to be editor of the old whom issue monthly catalogues) who A Robert Underwood Johnson, Jr., Century Magazine, you know. This is are prepared to pay you for your just returned from England to just an accumulation of old letters and trouble. his home at Stockbridge, Massachu- papers that is taking up valuable Of course not every item will turn setts, noticed rain leaking through the space." out to be a rarity worth a thousand roof onto some twenty cartons of yel- Before the veteran could summon dollars or so. About 90 percent of the lowing letters piled in a coi'ner of the the junkman his friend persuaded the purchases made by professional deal- attic. skeptical Johnson to first see what a ers in Americana are in the lower price "I guess it's time I got rid of this reputable autograph dealer thought of bracket with a range of from one to junk," he muttered to himself. And he the lot. When summoned, Mary A. one hundred dollars. Still, it's thrill- proceeded to do so, until a friend Benjamin, of 18 East 77th Street, New ing to cash in on apparently trivial stopped him. York City, whose business was estab- stuff, and you never know when you "What's inside those boxes?" the lished in 1887, pounced on the cartons will hit the jackpot. friend wanted to know. as she might on a diamond mine. The variety of things collectors hunt "Oh, just some old stuff," Johnson At this writing she has winnowed for, and are willing to pay good money said. It's the correspondence of my out 2,000 letters worth some hundreds for, is almost incredible. War posters grand-dad, Robert Underwood John- of dollars, and is still in the process which only a few years ago blossomed

16 ) COLLECTIONS FOLLOW NO SET PAHERN; EACH INDIVIDUAL FINDS HIS OWN INTEREST

on nearly evei'y fence and shop window are already being snapped up by collectors. Ancient automobiles, old catalogues—anything pertaining to the gas-buggy—is eagerly snapped up by Harry Austen Clark, Jr., of South- hampton, L. I., New York, who is President of the Veteran Motor Car Club of America, which has established an extensive museum covering almost the entire development of the automobile—with actual cars to match. War decorations, which some veterans carelessly tossed into closets, fetch a good price from Alfred Batson, of 1344 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. Knicknacks having to do with Franklin D. Roosevelt, personally or with his administration — anything uses high-powered LADY LAFAYETTE HOTEL, Walterboro, from campaign posters to gadgets — MRS. JOHN ALBRIGHT glass to examine a new button. She's head S. C, has a collection of 5,000 miniature dogs for cash are snatched up by John of the Button Society of Los Angeles, Cal. given by patrons in honor of owner's dog Valentine, 1558 Puebla Drive, Glen- dale, California. In fact, within the last MILK BOTTLES two years 150 Rooseveltiana addicts have banded themselves together into a national Franklin D. Roosevelt Col- lectors Association. They have a national president, Donald Scott Car- michael, who is a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer, and a semi-annual publication, The Franklin D. Roosevelt Collector, of which John Valentine is editor. Another collector, David Gwinn, 500 South 27th Street, Philadelphia, Penn- A FEW of the early milk bottles from the collection of David Gwinn, of Philadelphia sylvania, who is president of the Penn- whose collection has grown to museum proportions. He has the first ice cream freezer brook Milk Company, has devoted SHAVING MUGS years to building a collection of early milk bottles and other items relating to the milk industry. Starting as a personal hobby, he has expanded until his collection is representative of the growth of the industry. But it was not until the summer of 1949 that he was able to add the earliest known glass milk bottle, made in 1866, to the collection. Nathaniel T. Spear, Jr., 524 West

23rd Street, ( Continued on page 39

SHAVING MUGS of all kinds and from all people has interested W. Porter Ware, Sewanee, Tenn. — the kind that grandpa used. Collectors go in strong for mustache cups, too

B. W. COOKE, Glencoe, lU., has 1200 odd, curious and historic canes. He also collects footwear NATHANIEL SPEAR, JR., (in Legion uniform), has a fabulous collection of 940 bells of all kinds, all ages, from all countries. He's looking at a goat bell found in Greece --'mm I SAW TH E GI BILL WRITTEN

BY DAVID CAMELON

An eyewitness account of

the wartime battle in Wash- THROUGH A StASHiNG VHUMStRSTORM CONGRESSMAN SlBSON MM

ington to create the GI Bill

of Rights. Last of three parts

^ART ^^REE THE WILD RIDE FROM GEORGIA

COUNCIL of War early that Complete defeat faced the GI E HELD OUR afternoon of Feb. 17, 1944 — the daily meeting of the board of strategy on how to get the GI Bill of Rights passed. Bill after it had passed the House and Senate John Stelle, chairman of The American Legion's special GI Bill committee, had just unanimously! Then the Legion called for Gibson returned from a conference at the Capitol with Senator Bennett Champ Clark, first National Commander of the Legion, and one of the bill's staunchest advocates in Congress. The Washington representatives of four smaller veterans' organization — Omar B. Ketchum of the Veterans of Foreign Wars;

18 SWARD WAYCROSS, AND ON TO JACKSONVILLE, TO SAVE THE CI BILL. GEORGIA POLICE WATCHED ALL CROSSROADS, WHILE THE WASHINGTON PLANE WAITED

Millard W. Rice of the Disabled for a Legionnaire to approach these I went to Omar Ketchum's office, American Veterans; Frank Haley, of other organizations. But I'm an out- and talked to him for more than an the Military Order of the Purple sider. I know Omar Ketchum and Mil- hour. At last he said: Heart; and W. M. Floyd, National lard Rice. If you want me to, I'll see "My legislative committee is in Commander of the Regular Veterans what I can do." I was a Hearst corre- Washington. Let's talk to them." Organization — had sent a letter to spondent reporting the Legion's fight We had lunch at the Ambassador every member of Congress, opposing to put over the GI Bill. Hotel with the committee, headed by the GI Bill. John nodded. Past National Commander Paul G. "Everything that glitters is not "Yes," he said. "Go ahead and try." Wolman of (Continued on page 43) gold," they said. They had called upon Congress "not to be stampeded into hasty and unwise legislation." John Stelle was concerned. "The letter is embarrassing to our friends in the Congress," he said. "People don't know the relative strength of the various veterans' organizations. (The fact was that the four smaller organizations claimed a combined membership of 555,000 — little more than a third of the Legion's membership.) "The letter can't beat the GI Bill. But Senator Clark asked me to get those other organizations off his neck, if we can. They offer a wonderful excuse for some members of Congress to oppose the bill. "And when a friend asks you to do something for him, you have to try to do it." John looked inquiringly at the other members of his committee who were present. They nodded. They weren't afi-aid of the opposition — but if it em- barrassed our friends in any way, something had to be done. "John," I said, "it would be difficult

.... ON JUNE 22, 1944, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNED THE GI BILL. BEHIND THE PRESIDENT, EXTREME LEFT, SENATOR CLARK; EXTREME RIGHT, JOHN STELLE, BOTH PAST NATIONAL COMMANDERS OF THE LEGION. THIRD FROM RIGHT, FRANK SULLIVAN^t Behind the Recipe Racket

By W. F. MIKSCH

|SAT AT MY DESK, SCOwling at the letters on the office door: 3VIT3aT3a JIAT2 D aTAVIJiq — Y3M3aA Now what the hell did that mean? If you've ever wondered where your wife digs Oh, yes, of course! From the other side it would read okay. I should have remembered. I al- up certain dishes read this — out loud to her ready owed three months rent on the dump. High heels beat a sharp tattoo in the corridor. That would be my secretary, Miss Mincepie. Good kid. I owed her three years' salary too. She 20 opened the door, and carefully wiped "My wife collects these," Murphy Murphy has just had a little too much her fingerprints from the knob. said. of Mrs. Murphy's chowder." "Hi, shamus!" she said. "So what? Lots of people collect Together we filed the late Mr. Murphy I watched her long chocolate legs cigar bands or guppies." away in a drawer labeled "Stiffs," move toward me. For chocolate legs "Ah, but she tries them out on me!" along with some other cadavers left they were plenty good. Sound legs. His voice fell, "I think she is trying to over from the last case. Then I blew, Strong. They made the splinters fly do me in. Or do without me. One or 2302 Elm Terrace was just another as her spike heels dug into the office the other," small house with a roof. When I told floor. "Umm hmm. And you're fright- Mrs. Murphy of her husband shuffling "Guess what — we got a client!" Her ened?" ofiF this mortal soil, she laughed heart- ruby lips smiled a promise. I don't "Well, not exactly frightened. Just ily. It was a good thing Lieutenant know of what. (Some days I am not scared to death." Hogan of Homicide wasn't along. very bright.) Just then he clutched his stomach, Lieutenant Hogan has a suspicious "Smart girl! Here's a year's salary." and crashed to the floor. Mincepie nature when it comes to things like that, I ran my fingers through her dusty rushed in, her eyes wide with terror. She recognized the clippings, and straw hair. Gad! It really was straw! She stared at the dead man in dis- told me she got them out of Milady's I crushed her lips against mine. They belief. "No holes!" she exclaimed. "No Home Companion. "But," she added, were hard and cool, but afterwards I protruding dagger hilts!" "you ain't seen nothing yet. You should wished I hadn't done it. She had been "I'm afraid not, Mincepie," I replied take a look at what I've been cooking blowing bubble gum. "Drag him in," coolly. "He was strictly a meat-and- up for him tonight! Bananas rolled in I said simply. potatoes man on the wrong diet." gunpowder. How about staying for Mincepie dragged him in, and "I don't catch, shamus." dinner, handsome?" slammed him to the floor. He was a "Man the stomach pumps!" I cried. Her eyes bored into mine invitingly. dreary looking character, around "Hoist the Double Indemnity! Mr. Somewhere (Continued on page 58) thirty or sixty years old. (A private eye, like me, gets to be a pretty shrewd judge of age.) I slapped him around for a minute, then tapped him on top of his head with my ,38 Police Positive. "Sorry, professor, but this is a tough racket. I just wanted to let you know you've come to the best in the business. Now then," I rasped, blowing smoke in his face, "what's on your mind besides that lump I put there?" "My name is Murphy," he said. "I live at 2302 Elm Terrace North. I am in need of an eye." "You look like you could stand a whole new body," I countered. He di"agged out a scrap of mussed up paper. It looked like a recipe clipped from one of those fancy magazines for dames. "Read it," he said. I did. It went like this: Housewives: Here is just the thing to surprise hubby tonight! DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE DIPPED OYSTER JUMBOS 3 cups diced Oysters lyz cup Noodles Kelp 3 squares Chocolate 1 dozen Sweet Pickles 1 pint Sauerkraut Marinate the noodles; wring out kelp, strain. Add diced oysters, stir briskly, and squeeze into pat- ties. Dip in melted chocolate, bake in fast oven; garnish with whole pickles and serve. Just watch his face light up!

"Sounds like a code," I said. "But look at this one." Murphy handed me another clipping, while he turned as green as the decorations down at the Hibernian Hall. So help me, this one was a recipe for cooking hamburger with ginger snaps! SPLEEN'S VOICE rumbled with deadly menace as he ordered his girls ILLUSTRATED BY RALPH STEIN to whip up 200 recipes for the Special Prune Edition of the magazine

21 What You Can Do

THE DRIVE TO STRENGTHEN THE LEGION NEEDS YOUR ACTIVE

SUPPORT. HERE'S HOW YOU CAN JOIN IN "THE CRUSADES OF '50"

KETWEEN NOW and December The second crusade will start 31st, The American Legion November 12, 1949 and continue will stage two national drives to until December 31, 1949. Its ob- enroll a record membership for jective will be the enrollment of

1950. These campaigns have been 1,^5. new members. named the Membership Crusades This crusade will feature a tie- of '50, and have been designed to in with Good Neighbor Day on dovetail into and to supplement December 7, 1949, when all the advance membership pro- f Legionnaires will be urged to call grams of the 17,339 Posts of The on their neighbors. During this American Legion and to provide B crusade, American Legion Posts some national incentives for local will extend every assistance to efforts. veterans of World War II in mak- To find an appropriate name for this part, has been done by the organiza- ing applications to the VA for National membership drive The American tion in what it has accomplished not Service Life Insurance dividend pay- Legion went back into medieval his- only for veterans but for the country ments. All Posts will be provided with tory. It selected the phrase Crusades as a whole. As a Legionnaire, you un- these application blanks. of '50, because in all history there is no doubtedly know about our record. If American Legion 1950 membership better example of organized individual you don't, it is easy to learn about it. workers will be known as Crusaders. zeal than that displayed by the first You'll find some of it in this issue of The crusaders of old, wore armor plate. young crusaders when they set out in The American Legion Magazine, and The 1950 crusaders will wear the Blue search of the Holy Grail. previous issues will give you more. If and the Gold of The American Legion. This is the kind of zeal which will you want a good reference, get your The weapons of the first crusaders have to .spark the 1950 enrollment copy of the October issue, and read were lances and swords. campaign if The American Legion is the resolutions adopted at the National The American Legion crusaders will to achieve a new membership record. Convention. You can see from that use the potent arm of publicity. Effort on the part of the individual what The American Legion is driving They will be equipped with revised Legionnaire is essential to put the at, and the lines along which it has American Legion promotion material. drive across; the program will fail if been working for years. Few Ameri- This will include a new "It's A Fact" members generally leave it to their cans will take issue with those aims. folder and the pamphlet, "Specific In- leaders or a few of their fellows to To accomplish those aims we must vitation to Veterans to Join The carry the ball. have new members. Specifically, the American Legion." They will be fur- And just as each Legionnaire must quota of the Crusades of '50 is 3,554,540. nished speech material. They will be consider himself a crusader, so the They can be enrolled only through given effective blueprints for Post drive must be aimed at individual vet- crusading zeal — your zeal. community publicity campaigns. erans who have not yet joined our or- The first Crusades of '50 wiU run till A new booklet outlining complete ganization. It is hard to believe, but November 11th, 1949. The mission of Post planning and orgeinization for it is true that many veterans have this first crusade is to re-enroll by that dovetailing its own enrollment activi- never been asked to join The American date all 1949 members for 1950. Your ties into the Membership Crusades of Legion. It's up to you, as an individual, Post is now working on this but there 1950 has already been distributed to to extend the invitation. is not much time left to collect all re- all American Legion Posts. You don't have to be a super-sales- newals. Personal solicitation may be The plan calls for the immediate man to enlist veterans in The Ameri- necessary to accomplish this, and your creation of a Membership Crusades of can Legion. The selling, for the most Post can use you in this work. 1950 General Post Committee.

22 • The American Leqion Magazine • November, 1949 of our Field Service for changes and betterment which resulted from their visits, and it is still considering 196 more. The Field Service suggestions are concerned entirely with improving the VA from the veteran's point of view. Our National Field Service in the last year reviewed 16,135 veterans' cases, made 2,935 appearances before VA rating boards in behalf of veterans at no cost to the veterans. In addition the Field Service Representatives are the Legion's "road men" who visit and advise Legionnaires and veterans anywhere on all veteran or Legion matters. This covers a list of services too huge to itemize here. Our main veterans' service division is the National Rehabilitation Com- mission and its staff. Our Rehabilita- tion stafif is the largest of any of the divisions of the National organization. Along with the Field Service and the Department and local rehabilitation workers, it makes the Legion the giant of all veterans' services in America. We are the pen and the sword of the disabled veteran. By its very hugeness our Rehab work is impossible to de- scribe briefly without sadly under- stating the job. A few facts will only offer a brief glimpse at the work which a™t Does all Legionnaires support, and all veterans should be proud to support. In one month this year the Wash- ington staff and district offices of Na- tional Rehab handled 13,462 veterans THE Legion Do^ claims without cost to the veterans. The staff complains that it is too hard- pressed to compile complete and accurate statistics of its year-round work, and a visit to the office would show By GEORGE N. CRAIG there is reason for the complaint. Na- tional Rehab restricts itself to tough National Commander, The American Legion cases. Other claims in vastly greater

No matter how you put it, it all comes down in the end to you, knock- numbers are handled at the State or ing on the door of a neighboring veteran and asking him: "Joe, isn't it local levels. In addition to the Wash- about time you joined the Legion?" ington staff. Rehab has representatives If Joe's knowledge of the Legion is limited he has a right to ask: "What in all VA Regional and District offices does the Legion ever do?" to represent veterans there. course you can tell him about your Post, what kind fellows are Of of The National Rehabilitation Division in it, the things it does and the sociability it offers — and your Post ought is the friendly watchdog of VA's ad- to be good enough so that Joe's membership in it is worth far more than ministration of its duties and, working his annual dttes. You know the answer to that better than I do. And of course Joe gets one of America's leading magazines thrown in. in close cooperation with the Legisla- By all means tell Joe the Legion conceived and drafted the GI Bill and tive Commisson, is the watchdog of all piloted it through Congress over stiff opposition. Show him the current legislation affecting disabled veterans series of articles on the GI Bill in this magazine. But Joe still has a right and their dependents. Fifty-eight pages to know what we do as well as what we did — what his national member- of solid type comprise its present con- ship would mean. densed annual report of activities on I'd like to help you answer that question. all facets of matters relating to vet- Here are some of the things Joe ought to know about the Legion, things erans' claims and ratings. VA medical his membership would support, things he could partake in actix^ely, if he care, vocational rehabilitation uyished, as a Legionnaire. and education for the disabled, veterans" insurance, VA clinics, dental treatment, VA hospital occupancy, hospital |HE legion's number one obli- National Rehabilitation Division and construction, mental hygiene, physical gation is the care of disabled its staff and the National Field Service examination of disabled veterans, vet- veterans and their depen- The Field Service Representatives erans' appeals, disability insurance, dents. Two specialized divi- spend most of their time on the road, discharge reviews, record corrections, sions of the national organization are visiting VA ho.spitals and offices. Last vocational training and education un- engaged in this work. These ate the ypai the VA adnpfpd 20fi <;iiggf>,

Thp Arroriron I.A

When he walked into their trap the Kansan needed

help - but his only friend was a coward

By JAMES CHARLES LYNCH

|he twenty mile thread of road between Riverville and Elkhorn held close to the mountains and, this day, a breeze pushing across the valley floor crowded the dry heat up against the trace where the cooler air, flowing down from the high peaks,

trapped it. It was a miserable day for traveling and Jack Estes, who owned and drove the Riverville-Elkhorn stage, had invited his lone passenger to ride the seat with him, hoping to break the monotony with conversation. Now, with Riverville nineteen miles behind and Elkhorn only a mile ahead, the man spoke for the first time.

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT

THEY FORMED a triangle, and every step he took forced Will Conover's hand 'I've been wondering," he said, "what it is that makes a man a crook." "Why," said Jack, astonished, "I guess I don't know." "I'll swear I can't figure it out," the man muttered, and went back to his own thoughts. The passenger was a wiry man of medium height and with a fine head of yellow hair. There was a suggestion of strength in his slightly hawked nose and grey eyes, but this was oflfset by long lashes and an almost apologetic manner, as though he worried constantly about causing anyone an inconvenience. He had come to the barn, in Riverville, introduced himself as Will Conover, from Fort Bland, Kansas, and bought a one-way ride to Elkhorn. Estes could not figure him out.

^ Conover was too quiet to be a drum- mer, his hands were too large and square-shaped for him to be a gambler and he was just not big enough in size to be anything of importance. With Elkhorn in sight, Estes lifted his teams into a hard run and sent a high, shrill yell running ahead of them. During these reckless runs into his two terminals, Estes was an important man with everyone watching him and wondering how this human freight would affect their lives. Sometimes Jack's passengers brought him a Little reflected glory. Glancing aside at Will Conover, he decided there would be none this trip. They rocked into the town's outskirts where dogs rushed from non- descript shacks to bay their resent- ment and play dangerous tag with flying hooves. Then on past Handford's Blacksmith Shop and Wagon Works and on into Elkhorn's treeless business section. Here Estes touched the brake and swung over to the right, stopping before the rambling, two-story Parker House. The loungers and idle townspeople were scattered out there, waiting to appraise the load. Jessie Parker, a dark-haired, straight-standing young woman, waited hopefully on the vei-anda, just outside the entrance door. She was plainly dressed in blue-checkered gingham, but her face and figure made the simple dress attractive. Jessie was a warm and beautiful woman, made to be wanted and loved, but something had caused her to try to hide within herself and made her big, black eyes almost sullen. Before the motion stopped and Estes could re- lax, Conover said, "Who is she?" and there was an edge of excitement in his voice. Estes told him and said, "This is her hotel, the best in town. You're in luck, coming in today. My contract to stop here and give her first chance runs out with my next trip in." As if there were no other people on earth, Will Conover looked directly at Jessie Parker for a long time. And Jessie reacted by seeming to grow taller and less remote. When Conover turned his head again he said, "If it were my stage line, I'd renew that contract." "No you wouldn't," muttered Estes. "If you knew what was good for you, you'd stop first at Tom Walker's place. And (Continued on page 49)

25 2. AFTER THE CUTTING, the roUs of flags are stacked in store-rooms of the Verona plant. Many of these flags will be utilized as grave markers

How Flags Are Made

The flay you will unfurl on Armistice Day

pi'obably came from the workrooms shown here

ORt, AMERICAN FLAGS aif being ly output is 10,000,000 flags. These For the average small home, a flag made and sold these days, range from miniatures of postage of excellent quality can be obtained and the reason is a simple stamp size to mammoth special-order for from three to ten dollars. The most one. Fed up with the antics banners. One of these, made for a popular size for home use is four by six of subversives, loyal Americans want Detroit department store, was 90 by feet. For a couple of dollars more a to let the world know what side of the 270 feet. It took 2,000 yards of bunting, pole and bracket can be obtained, but fence they are on, and one way is by and seven and a half miles of thread. many people prefer to suspend the showing their colois. Flags which sel- Most flags are made of cotton since flag by means of screw -eyes which dom came out of attics are being this material lends itself to the smaller hold the flag by the rings fastened into brought forth on holidays, and fami- inexpensive types which are widely it. When the flag is suspended verti- lies which had no flags are buying used as grave markers, patriotic dis- cally in this way, flag etiquette re- them. plays and for small homes. Wool flags, quires that the stars on the blue field, Busy supplying this demand for Old which are usually larger, represent the the union, be uppermost and to the Glory is the firm of Annin & Co., which greatest output of Annin & Co. in dol- viewer's left. When it is displayed for more than a century has been lar volume. Silk is also extensively horizontally the union should be in the making flags. Oldest and largest flag- used, and growing in popularity is the same position. makers in the world, this company company's own blend of wool and Since flags are in an unusual cate- supplied flags which led our troops in nylon called Nylanin. gory as merchandise, and it might be the Mexican War and every war this Memorial Day, Independence Day, considered bad form to commercialize country has fought since then. During Flag Day, Constitution Day and their sale, buyers usually have to seek the Civil War, the company supplied Armistice Day are the most important out merchants handling them. How- flags to the North, but one day, long days for displays of our national colors, ever, this is no problem since flags can after the war was over, the widow of with Lincoln's and Washington's be purchased in virtually any com- Jefferson Davis stopped at the Annin Birthdays as runner-ups. The flag may munity. They are also available showroom and ordered a Confederate also be displayed with propriety on through the Legion Emblem Division banner. When the Marines raised our New Year's Day, Inauguration Day, at National Headquarters, Indianapo- flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Easter, Mother's Day, Labor Day, lis, which supplies large quantities of it was one made by this company. Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, Christ- American flags as well as Legion flags Two large factories, one in Verona, mas, and on such State holidays as the to Posts and Legionnaires. Annin & N. J., and the other in New York City, date of the State's admission to the Co. has been supplying The American are operated by Annin & Co. The year- Union. Legion with flags for many years.

26 3. HEMMING THE SIDES of the flags is done by 4. WHEN THE HEMMING is completed the long 5. THE FINISHED FLAG, its short automatic machines handling miles of flags daily lengths pass to this room where they are cut apart end seamed, is triple-stapled to a staff

6. THIS MODERN Betsy Ross uses a machine, but still there is a great deal 7. THE LAST STEP before a flag of this size is folded and of hand work on a large flag of the type you see fluttering from a tall mast. packed calls for several sharp-eyed workers. All loose threads Here the young lady is adding reinforcing corner pieces to this big fellow must be removed and it must be cleaned of bits of lint IN CLE

n mean

i<) a wncci ciiair. ii cosis oniy

By GEOKGi: H. WALTZ, JR.

OME MONTHS AGO, H. J. Rand, a Cleveland Legionnaire who has developed among other things the Bendix Economat Washer, was in Warm J. C. FLICKINGER of the Rand staff demonstrates the chair with power unit mounted Springs, Georgia, where he met a Navy veteran hopelessly crippled with polio. Affected by the man's helpless- ness — he was able to move only the fingers of his right hand — Rand de- 4 FORD STARTER RELAYS, OR 2 DOUBLE POLE RELAYS cided to do something about it. On his return to Cleveland he worked out a power unit for a wheel chair which CONVERTED SURPLUS 2 H.P. 24 VOLT D. C, MOTOR he later presented to the ex-sailor. Simply by operating the switches on a control box fastened to the arm of the chair, the vet is able to make the chair move in any direction. All of the parts used were bought at a war surplus outlet and an auto parts store. FIBER GEAR A war surplus electric motor provides 6" CAST IRON GEAR the driving power while the necessiiry electricity is supplied by a 6-volt storage battery which requires recharging only once every three days of use. The cost of everything, even including a battery charger, came to $80.44.

One of the editors of The American FRONT WHEELCHAIR CLAMP HAS REMOVABLE CLIP ON Legion Magazine recently saw a simi- UNDER SIDE OF PIN FOR -WOOD BRAKE SHOE quick DISCONNECT lar chair demonstrated at the labora- STANDARD 2' CASTERS tories of H. J. Rand & Associates, in Cleveland, and Legionnaire Rand vol- unteered the complete working plans THE ASSEMBLED UNIT. Clamps right, allow it to be fastened to conventional wheel chair for the use of others who might want to help those unable to help them- Basically, the power unit is a motor- use on another chair. selves. ized dolly fastened to a conventional The war-surplus 2 horsepower, 24 The diagrams are presented here- wheel chair and riding on its own volt D.C. motor (of the type used in with, together with a brief descrip- wheels (the driving wheel and two airplanes) drives a 6-inch rubber air- tion of the necessary steps to assemble casters) between the large wheels of plane tail wheel to provide the trac- the power unit. To the laymen, the the chair. Special quick-discormect tion. Being reversible, the motor can construction may seem a bit compli- fittings that clamp it to the wheel- be made to move the wheel chair either cated, but if your Post can enlist the chair frame make it a simple matter forward or backward by pushing either aid of a good mechanic the project to detach the unit for repairs or for of two switches. Steering is accom- should present no great difficulties. PHOTOS BY TOM KNOWLES plished (Continued on page 42)

I :

The Xationai LEGIOIVi\AIRE

Omnibus Benefit Bill Gets Senate Okay By Unanimous Vote—President Told of Legion Legislative Program

H.R. 5598 Increasing Pay to Vets make provision for veterans covered by NationalCommander Craig Talks Public Law 141, and was introduced in Passed Both Legion's Houses Without the House. Every effort will be made to To President About A Dissenting Vote secure prompt action on this bill. Legislative Program The enactment of H. R. 5598 was a signal accomplishment of which The By JOHN THOMAS TAYLOR American Legion and The American phia on August 29-September 1, 1949. of legislative man- National Legislative Director Legion Auxiliary may be justifiably This same summary of the proud. With the tremendous demands dates was sent to every member Following- a unanimous report by was printed in on Congress for large expenditures for House and Senate and the Senate Finance Committee, the Record. foreign aid, national defense, increased the Congressional Senate on September 27th unanimously social security, etc., not only have we Citing the tendency of the general passed The American Legion's Omnibus been able to hold the line, in the face public to forget the debt owing to the Bill, H. R. 5598, which would increase of attempts to reduce veterans benefits, Nation's defenders after a war is won. payments to disabled veterans and de- and prevent veterans and their depen- Commander Craig asked President pendents of veterans by $112,000,000 dents from being deprived of benefits .Truman to help keep the record straight. annually. The Bill, which been had heretofore provided, but we have im- He maintained that costs of rehabilitat- passed by the House by a vote of 356 proved the benefits of some veterans and ing disabled veterans, their dependents to 0 August 2nd, was sent to President their dependents. and veteran survivors can only be con- Truman for his approval without a sidered as deferred costs of war. He single vote against it in either the Craig Presents Legion Program sought Presidential backing for the House or Senate. National Commander George N. Legion's effort to have 16,000 beds re- Principal provisions of the bill, which Administration Craig presented to the President a sum- stored to the Veterans would carry out in whole or in part schedule, specify- mary of mandates calling for national hospital construction some of the rehabilitation mandates on neuropsychiatric facili- legislation which were adopted by the ing that more our priority legislative program, are especially to take care National Convention held in Philadel- ties are needed of veterans with mental and nervous Section 1 restores the so-called presumptive cases of World War I to 100-pcrcent com- disorders which are just now developing pensation, instead of 75 percent. Tliere are of their war experiences. some 20,000 cases involved, 95 percent of out which are either tuberculosis or neuropsy- BRAZIL Other highlights of the Legion pro- chiatric cases. There are also some paral- WILL HONOR NEW ysis cases, and a few other diseases, that gram discussed with the President in- were covered by the presumptive law of LEGION CHIEF ON NOV. 3 cluded recommendations for increase in 1924. the death pension payable to widows Section 2 provides additional periods of time The official homecoming for in which caanpensation be drawn for may George N. Craig, newly elected Na- and children of World War II veterans arrested cases of tuberculosis. It makes mandatory present Veterans Administra- tional Commander o^ The American to make it equal with that paid World tion resrulations with several liberalizing- Legion, will be celebrated in his War I cases; increased compensation features. home town, Brazil, Indiana, on parents of Section 3 (a) creates a new disability pay- for widows, children and ment schedule based on $150 for total dis- Thursday, November 3d. That date deceased veterans; and tighter control ability and ijilj for 10-percent disability. has been selected because it comes activities. This is of subversive groups and in lieu of the present schedules of midway between the annual con- $138 for total disability and $13.80 for Ifl-percent disability. ference of Department Commanders Reserve Components Section 3 ( b) increases the rate for a widow and Adjutants and the fall session with one child from $100 to $105 a month, of the National Executive Commit- and increases the rates for additional child By voice vote the Senate passed, with from $15 to $25. tee, both held at the National Head- amendments, H. R. 5007, to provide in- Section 1 amends the Dependency Allowance quarters in Indianapolis. Act to provide creased pay, allowances, and physical that those veterans 50 Some 10,000 Hoosiers are expected pjrcent or more disabled shall receive an disability retirement for members of additional allowance for dependents. This to turn out to do honor to National the uniformed services. The following section keeps the schedule of payments at Commander Craig, and in addition the same level, but reduces tlie disability recommendations there will be top flight leaders of two American Legion requirements to .'iO percent in lieu of the were included as amendments to the bill: present 60 percen!. This makes it possible the Legion from every State in the for all veterans 50 percent or more dis- Union in attendance. Legionnaire abled to receive additional compensation 1. Members of Reserve components who arc for their dependents. John H. Weaver, President of the retired or granted retirement pay for dis- Section S liberalizes the line of duty require- Brazil Chamber of Commerce, has ability would hereafter be given the same ment with respect to a disability incurred pay, rights, benefits and privileges as retired been named General Chairman for Regulars; and in , confinement under sentence of court the Archie martial or civil court where the offense did homecoming, and Mayor 2. Equalizing the physical retirement pay not involve a dishonorable discharge or Hamm will proclaim a half holiday. of Reserve officers with those of Regulars when the disability occurred in line of duty conviction of a felony to provide that such Schools and businesses will be closed veterans or their dependents shall receive in time of war or national emergency. during the afternoon. city the benefits to which thev would otherwise The will be entitled. be gaily decorated. These amendments are in accordance The parade, which is traditional with Resolution No. 512 adopted by our The bill as passed by the House did in such affairs, will start at 3 p.m., Philadelphia National Convention. not include provision for increasing and will feature the most outstand- compensation to those World War I ing Legion musical organizations in Hospitalization veterans being compensated under Pub- Indiana and Illinois. Featured en- lic Law 141, 73rd Congress. The Na- tertainment will be provided by National Rehabilitation Director T. tional Legislative Commissions endeav- Morton Downey, noted soloist, and O. Kraabel and Dr. H. D. Shapiro, by the one and only comedian team ored to have tne bill amended in the 'l Senior Medical Co~nsultant, testified be- of Olsen and Johnson. Senate, but without success. An addi- \ fore a subcommittee of the Senate Com- tional bill was immediately drawn up to mittee on Labor and Public Welfare in The American Legion Magazine * November, 1949 • 29 support of H. R. 6022, to increase the Every member of the Senate and served in the active military or naval rates of compensation of certain em- House should be contacted by as many service of the United States who is en- ployees of the Department of Medicine of their constituents as possible, urging titled to compensation under the pro- and Surgery of the Veterans Adminis- their opposition to any and all legisla- visions of Veterans Regulation Num- tration. They strongly advocated the tion which would modify the Veterans bered 1 (a), as amended, for permanent recommended adjustments in salaries Preference Law. The Congressional re- and total service-connected disability for physicians, surgeons and dental offi- cess will afford excellent opportunity due to the loss, or loss of use, by reason cers and nurses, as set forth in the bill. for many officers and members of our of amputation, ankylosis, progressive The Legion maintained that these mod- organizations, as well as all friends of muscular dystrophies, or paralysis, of est raises will in small part aid in the veterans to personally solicit Members both lower extremities, such as to pre- recruitment of higher type personnel, of Congress relative to the Veterans clude locomotion without the aid of which is the aim of all who are inter- Preference Law. Such efforts will un- braces, crutches, canes, or a wheel chair, ested in getting the best care for the questionably be made by opponents to shall be entitled to assistance in ac- veteran. The same day, the full Commit- veterans preference. The wholehearted quiring a suitable housing xmit with tee on Labor and Public Welfare voted support of the entire organization of special fixtures or movable facilities to fa\orably report H. R. 6022, without the Legion and Auxiliary is necessary made necessary by the nature of the amendment. On September 27, the Senate to offset the opposition. person's disability, and necessary lend passed H. R. 6022 and sent it to the therefor, subject to the provisions and Legislative Bulletin President for approval. limitations of Veterans Regulation The Senate passed S. 2541, to amend The Legislative Bulletin of The Numbered 1 (a), as amended, part IX." the Act entitled "an Act to establish a American Legion is issued by the Na- The new law provides that the Govern- Department of Medicine and Surgery tional Legislative Headquarters in ment may pay half of the cost of the in the Veterans Administration," to ex- Washington, D. C. The Bulletin is actu- home, with the Federal share not to extend the period for which employees ally a progress report on all legislation ceed $10,000. may be detailed for training and re- affecting veterans and contains infor- Prisoners of War search. mation regarding all congressional ac- The Senate confirmed the nomina- By voice vote, the Senate passed S. tion on the legislative program of The tions Daniel (Illinois), Mrs. 2453 to provide grants and scholarships American Legion, including Rehabilita- of F. Cleary Georgia L. Lusk Mexico), and for education in medical professions. tion, Housing, Employment, American- (New David N. Lewis York), to be The Philadelphia National Convention ism, Welfare, etc. The Bulletin is sent (New members of the Claims Commis- adopted Resolution No. 122, favoring out via first class mail each week while War sion. Federal appropriations for extension of Congress is in session. The House disagreed to Senate existing medical education facilities to The LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN is provide more doctors. strictly a non-profit American Legion amendments to H. R. 5300, the Third Deficiency Appropriations Bill for 1949, Tne House passed H. R. 6034 to au- publication designed to keep the or- and agreed requested by thorize $5,000,000 for a hospital for ganization currently informed and also to a conference the Senate. bill originally con- Negro veterans at the birthplace of to assist in propagating our national This tained item for Booker T. Washington in Virginia. legislative program. Subscription of a House of $281,000 administrative of the $3.00, which is less than our actual cost, expenses War Claims Commission, together with a Veterans Preference includes all BULLETINS and SUP- issued during each ses- provision that none of the funds could The well-organized and well-financed PLEMENTS sion of Congress. Order now for the be used by the Commission to carry on drive to sabotage veterans preference Second Session of the 81st Congress, studies of claims and make recommen- continues. The American Legion and which convenes in January. dations to the Congress. During con- The American Auxiliary Legion have sideration of the bill by the Senate Ap- made an heroic effort to counteract the Housing propriations Committee, the National efforts of those who deprive would vet- The American Legion and The Legislative Commission presented testi- erans of employment and retention American Legion Auxiliary have been mony in support of a larger appropria- benefits provided in the Veterans Pref- conducting an intensive drive to secure tion and strongly urged that the study erence Law. One such bill, S. has 660, favorable action on the so-called Spark- and report provision be stricken from been reached on the Senate Consent man Bill, S. 2246, which would carry the bill. As reported to and passed by Calendar on two different occasions, out many Legion recommendations for the Senate, the amount for the War and each time, due to our efforts, the veterans housing. The bill, entitled Claims Commission was increased to bill has been passed over. Hearings were "Housing Amendments of 1949," pro- $350,000 and the study and report pro- held by a subcommittee of the House vides for an expanded secondary market vision was eliminated. Post Office and Civil Service Commit- for GI first mortgage loans; increased tee on a similar bill, known as the Klein Merchant Marine guaranty maximums for GI first mort- Bill, H. R. 2446. Your National Legis- gage loans; "standby" direct loans un- The National Legislative Director lative Director testified during the hear- der certain conditions; and elimination presented to a number of Congressional ings by the subcommittee, expressing of Section 505 (a) of the Servicemen's leaders recommendations contained in the strong opposition Legion of the and Readjustment Act. a comprehensive resolution relative to Auxiliary to any modification of the S. 2246 was reported by the Senate the American Merchant Marine, which Veterans Preference Law. Subsequent- Banking and Currency Committee and was adopted by the Philadelphia Na- ly, the Philadelphia National Convention is on the Senate Calendar. If you have tional Convention. unanimously adopted a resolution, going not already done so, please communi- Subsequently, »the Senate reconsid- on record as opposing and condemning cate with the two Senators from your ered its action in connection with the in every particular and without compro- State and the Representative from your passage of the Foreign Military Aid Bill, mise, the Langer Bill, S. 660, the Klein Congressional District, requesting their H. R. 5895, and an amendment submit- Bill, Hoover Report and all other simi- support of this important bill. ted by Senator Warren G. Magnuson lar measures as being anti-veteran and The President signed S. 2146 to pro- (Washington), providing that 50 per- disruptive of the Federal service. vide certain additional rehabilitation cent of tonnages supplied shall be It is of the utmost importance that assistance for certain seriously disabled shipped in American vessels, was re- we keep this up fight. More than 901,000 veterans in order to remove an existing considered and adopted. The bill was persons with veteran perference are in inequality (Public Law 286 — 81st Con- then repassed and will go to conference. the Federal service. About nine percent gress). This law liberalizes the statute In passing H. R. 6008, supplemental of the veterans employed by the Gov- under which paraplegic veterans receive appropriations for 1950, the Senate in- ernment are women. Veterans' wives, special assistance in building specially cluded in the bill an amendment provid- widows and mothers in the service num- designed homes by providing that the ing $25,000,000 for the United States ber more than 17,000. Over 123,000 vet- Veterans Administration shall assist in Maritime Commission for repair of ves- erans are physically impaired. securing such homes "any person who sels in National Defense Reserve. 30 • The Ameiican Legion Magazine • November. 1949 HORATIO ALGER STORY OF "Making Democracy Work" Theme of SMALL POST IN ILLINOIS

Morton Grove (Illinois) Post No. 134 has a story that would vie with the best American Education Week, Nov. 6-12 of Horatio Alger's young heroes, according to a report submitted by Com- forceful Edu- The theme of American mander Robert R. Lutz. But Command- cation Week, which will be observed er Lutz thinks its greatest accomplish- throughout the nation the week of BADGES AND PROGRAMS OF ment is in the intangibles — that of November G-12, has focused unusual at- PHILA. CONCLAVE ON SALE leadership in drawing the people to- tention on programs for fostering gether in a better, finer and more co- democracy. This theme is "Making After the adjournment of the operative community spirit. Legion National Convention at Democracy Work." Reports coming to the end of Morton Grove Philadelphia it was found that a At WW2, the Americanism Division at National considerable number of the official Post had a membership of about 45 and Headquarters from the Legion's 17,300 convention badges and handsomely but few dollars in the treasury. WW2 Posts on American Education Week illustrated souvenir programs were vets came back and wanted something promotion indicate that a study of the left on hand. This surplus stock is to do, and now after five years of team- areas of democratic understanding being sold as souvenirs at 50 cents work the Post has acquired property which need strengthening in the schools each for badges and pi'ograms, plus and erected a Memorial Hall, has an of the nation is on the upsurge. 10 cents for postage. For SI. 10 you adjoining park and other property—all The Legion pamphlet on American get these permanent souvenirs of one of the Legion's greatest National valued at $100,000. The Post now has Education Week, "Key to Making De- Conventions. a membership of 165;' its home town mocracy Work," was distributed to the Send check or money order to The has 3,000 population. field during August and September. The American Legion National Conven- To conserve funds and make what high purpose of the observance this tion Corporation, Room 169. Old little they had go a long way, the Le- year is to give a clearer understanding Broad Street Station, 1401 ftlarket gionnaires and friends did a lot of the of the workings of democracy through Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa. work themselves. Even the Mayor, Max a broadening of the school program. Finke, worked with his hands on the The American Legion is alert to the bviilding and grounds, joining with oth- great need for strengthening American Awarded Life Membership er business men. democracy. The Legion's plan for meet- The Post is a part of the community (Iowa) ing this challenge is to make democracy When Manchester Post No. life. "We led the way by inaugurating a living and vital force in the everyday 45 was organized in July, 1919, Harry programs and activities suggested by life of every American. G. Utley was elected Commander, The American Legion Magazine and by Promotion of American Education though he was still overseas with the literature from Legion Headquarters," Week is a joint effoi't of four co- 324th Infantry. He served three terms says Commander Lutz. "Schools, sponsors — The American Legion, the as Commander, then filled in with other churches, community projects. Boy National Education Association, the jobs with his Post until 1941, when he Scouts and every worthwhile civic or- United States Office of Education, and became Service Officer—a place he still ganization in the village soon realized the National Congress of Parents and holds. As a reward for his thirty years that our Post was here to help and to Teachers. of service and devotion to his Post and promote any kind of a project that the organization he was awarded a life would improve the community. We as- Topic for Each Day membership. sisted materially in providing a 22-acrc The daily topics of American Educa- playground, and it was our Post that tion Week for 1949 are: "The Worth inaugurated the 'Know Your Local Gov- MEMBERSHIP-GETTERS V^^IN of the Individual," November 6; "Edu- ernment Better' program, which re- cational Opportunity," November 7 CRUSADERS OF '50 CARDS sulted in the election of one of the finest "Responsible Citizenship," November 8 local governments our village has ever "Health and Safety," November 9 enjoyed." "Home and Community Obligations,' November 10; "Our Freedom and Se- curity," Armistice Day, November 11, OAKLAND, CAL, TEAM IS and "Next Decade in Education," No- JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPION vember 12. W. C. "Tom" Sawyer, Director of the Battling through a series distin- National Americanism Commission, guished by top ball playing, the Junior commenting on the great interest mani- Baseball team sponsored by Oakland fest in American Education Week in (California) Post No. 337 clearly won local communities, said; "The avenue title as the new American Legion Junior of approach to making democracy a liv- Baseball champion of the United States ing and vital force is education. Educa- at Omaha, Nebraska, in the national tion in the duties and obligations, rights meet in early September. By defeating and privileges, and the freedom of a the team of Cincinnati (Ohio) Post No. democracy is the key to success in Know why this comrade is bubbling 507 by a score of 8 to 6 in the final game, making democracy xvork." over with pride? Know what card he is Oakland took the crown worn last year Director Sawyer continued: "Democ- holding? by the team of Trenton (New Jersey) racy, unlike other forms of government, That's his membership card in the Post No. 93 as king of the Junior is constantly reborn with each genera- Crusaders of '50, the exclusive outfit of American Legion teams. tion and its members grow up to assume member getters. He's already signed up All attendance records were shattered its duties and obligations, and to accept ten membei-s for 1950 for his Post. at the Omaha Little World series as its rights and privileges." You, too, can get that proud look, and 45,727 fans paid their way through the The Legion's American Education flash a CRUSADERS card on the guys turnstiles to watch the four contenders Week pamphlet is available for distribu- down at the Legion meeting. All you —teams from Atlanta, Georgia; Wheel- tion from the several Department Head- have to do is to get those ten members ing, West Virginia; Cincinnati and Oak- quarters. Other materials are available (new or old) signed on the dotted line land — battle for the coveted title. They from the National Education Associa- for '50. But do it now — before becem< were the survivors of more than 16,000 tion, 1201 16th Street, N. W., Washing- her 31! ball teams which began the competition ton, D. C. It's nifty for '50 to be a CRUSADER! early in the year.

The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 '31 railing paid for out of the $10,000 contributed by the men of the 5th. Vandalia, Illinois, Post Leads Drive Another war came. Again the Ger- mans destroyed the bridge on their re- treat from the Meuse Valley in 1945. Development of Factories This time it was destroyed beyond re- For New pair and the Red Diamond memorial Taking an early start in the Legion's^ community development drive after the went to the bottom of the river with new Community Development Program, success of "The Town That Came the rest of the structure. Crawford-Hale Post No. 95 has spark- Back," {The American Legion Maga- The 5th Division was not defeated. raised, bronze plugged the movement in its home city, zine, September, 1949), in Buchanan, Another fund was the Vandalia, Illinois. So successful was its Georgia, Crawford-Hale Post has again railing was brought up from the bed rebuilt first project that Illinois Department given clear proof of the important role of the Meuse. The bridge was Commander Merle E. Schaad, of an American Legion Post can play in and was dedicated to public service on Princeville, termed the accomplishment community development and progress August 7th—again with the ornamental as "outstanding." by organizing community action. bronze railing in memory of the dead Division. Vandalia, the first official capital of In addition to the activity of the Post, of the 5th dedication ceremonies attracted Illinois (1819 to 1839), is a small city the Auxiliary Unit took on the task of The of 5,288 population. In the process of contacting every home, business firm, wide attention. Major Benjamin Namm, settling down after the lush war years, civic and social organization to obtain Brooklyn, New York, who was gas of- during its the community felt the need of new the pledges. Mrs. Martin J. Enck, ficer of the old Red Diamond the enterprises and employment opportuni- Chairman of the Community Service battles in 1918, officially represented of the Fifth Division, and was ties for its people. Crawford-Hale Post Committee, headed the pledge commit- Society the principal American speaker. Com- determined to do something about it. tee, while M. L. Plessner served as over- Wilkes, Paris Spearheading a drive for $100,000 to all director of the campaign. mander Charles Denby a group of Legion- build a factory in Vandalia which would Crawford-Hale Post has been a leader Post No. 1, headed naires, including the Post's official color mean employment for 300 people and in community activities. It sponsors an an annual payroll of $500,000, Crawford- annual Christmas party for children, guard, at the ceremonies. Hale Post led off with a pledge of has built concrete tennis courts in the $3,000 toward the factory construction city park, banquetted the basketball fund. It was the top pledge in the entire teams of Vandalia and Brownstown, GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL FOR community. A garment manufacturing and only recently took over the duties BONUS FOR DELAWARE VETS company will occupy the factory when of the Fayette County draft board. It it is completed. has a 35-piece drum and bugle corps and Delaware WW2 vets are due to col- Under the leadership of Post Com- a completely uniformed burial squad lect a liberal bonus for their war service, mander Ralston Edwards; Ti-ustee Dan which has rendered final honors to each running up to $300, as a result of action Burtschi and Senior Vice Commander of the returned war dead. by a special session of the General As- Martin J. Corbell the Legion Post not The Post is lodged in an attractive sembly. That body passed a bill for the only turned in the top pledge, but the three-story memorial home, rated as bonus on October 1 and provided for its efforts of the 772 members were an one of the finest in Southern Illinois, payment. Governor Elbert N. Carvel important factor in the success of the and has grown from a charter member- signed the measure immediately after campaign. ship of 50 in 1919 to a 1949 enrollment its passage. Patterning its participation in the of 772. The bonus was authorized by the voters at a referendum held on July 19. The General Assembly was convened BAY STATE LEGION HOLDS ity was given in all the local papers. in special session by Governor Carvel The success of the project may be and the bill enacted follows substan- SCHOOL ITS FOR MEMBERS gauged by the tremendous demand for tially the proposal of the Legion at the the continuance of the school. It is now of that body. The The American Legion Academy, a last regular session planned to start the second session of which is now law, provides for school for newer members, is an activ- measure, the Academy in January, 1950, with an every Delaware veteran who ity of the Department of Massachusetts payment to enlarged program to care for 250 can- forces between under the direction of Department His- served with the armed didates. 1940, and June 30, 1946, torian John P. Sullivan. This school is September 16, per month for each designed to orient the newer members the sum of $15 stateside service, up to a maxi- in policies, problems, activities, and month in months, or $225. For over- procedures at the Post level. For ex- FIFTH DIVISION RESTORES mum of 15 month up to 15 ample, the Academy consists of ten ses- seas service, $20 per ITS MEMORIAL IN FRANCE of $300. sions, two hours each. The curriculum months, making a maximum veterans will covered such subjects as administrative The French town of Dun-sur-Meuse, More than 30,000 WW2 estimated that functions of Post officers, Post ceremo- of poignant memory to thousands of receive this bonus. It is the $300 nies, parliamentary procedures, how to veterans of both World Wars, again about 90 percent will draw service, or by a increase the Post treasury and other has splendid bronze railings on its re- maximum for overseas service. pertinent subjects. built bridge, thanks to the veterans of combination of home and foreign financed by a bond The objective of the Academy is to the fine old 5th (Red Diamond) In- The bonus is to be form of di- produce more active and well-informed fantry Division. In fact, it is the 5th's issue, and not through any Legionnaires and to furnish the back- own memorial to the dead it left behind rect taxation. admin- ground and training for potential Le- when it stormed across the bridgeless The measure provides for the gion leaders. The instructors are ex- river in October, 1918, to cut the vital istration of the bonus fund and pay- perienced Legionnaires selected because rail line and contribute mightily to the ments to veterans by four Administra- of prominence in their particular spe- collapse of the northeast German front. tors, whose appointment has not been cialty. The old bridge at Dun-sur-Meuse was announced. Blank forms for applica- The school started this past year as destroyed by the Germans in 1917. After tions will be prepared as quickly as pos- an experimental project. Some 75 stu- the war, old Red Diamond men who sible. Payments will start just as soon dent Legionnaires representing 13 Posts remembered their weeks of fighting in as the necessary preliminaries are com- in metropolitan Boston earned Certifi- that area, set about to raise a fund to pleted, but no definite date has been cates of Award. These were distributed place a permanent memorial in the fixed. One State official has been quoted with appropriate ceremonies at the dis- town. The new bridge was completed in as saying that it is possible to start the trict meetings in Suffolk, Middlesex and 1931, a handsome, strong and artistic fiow of checks by Christmas or very Norfolk counties. Considerable public- span, on which had been placed a bronze early in the new year.

22 * Tl*^ American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 Post employs a full-time Service Ofiicer, * who handled 759 service claims during * * * LEGIONITEMS * * the year ... Clark-Eliason Post No. 352, Somers Point, New Jersey, and its Aux- iliary sponsor an annual American Le- Ernest F. Oldenburg Post No. 216, won Department championship, and, fur- gion Day in its sector. Prizes are put Milford, Michigan, was host to Theo- ther, two city councilmen, the post- up for various contests, swimming, boat dore N. Penland, La Jolla, California, master, high school principal, and other races and biggest fish caught. The event, century-old last Commander-in-Chief of civic leaders are members of the Post... put on by a 35-member Post, has at- the Grand Army of the Republic, on Chris C. Wile, 1019 S. Harvard, Los An- tracted wide attention and has a big September immediately following ad- geles Cal., member of Post No. 8 at 6, 6, attendance each year. journment of the final Grand Encamp- Los Angeles, wants to know what Post ment of the GAR at Indianapolis. Com- in the Legion has the greatest number rade Penland was accompanied by his of 30-year members. Bobzin-Swinford Post No. 1098, grandson. Legionnaire Lawrence Guyer, Frankfort, Illinois, was organized by Milford, a member of the Post . . . WW2 vets in 1946 and in 1948 had a Claude A. Thorpe Post No. 10, largest mother-and-son combine in command of Legion unit in the Department of the lOO-MEMBER CARD AWARDED Post and Auxiliary, Mrs. Pearl M. Philippines, sparked the organization's FLORIDA LEGIONNAIRE Oetter, President, and son, Donald L. child welfare work by presenting a TO Oetter, Commander. For the 1949-50 check for $200 to Department Com- One of the very first official acts term this team installed Betty Lou Car- mander Alva J. Hill at the Department of National Commander George N. roll, daughter of Mrs. Oetter, as Auxi- Convention at Manila. The Post is Craig at Philadelphia, immediately liary President, and Russell Carroll, her located on Clark Air Force Base in after his election and speech of ac- brother-in-law, as Post Commander. Pampanga. ceptance, was to sign a 1950 Century Kenneth L. Oetter, brother of the Auxi- Citation Card which had been liary President and of the installing awarded to Earle T. Loucks by As its chief service for officer, was seated as the new Post Ad- community 1949, Campbell-Lossing Post No. 53, San- jutant . . . Alexander Bradley Burns Spivey-Aranda Post No. 63, Mosquero, ford, Florida. Illinois, New Mexico, and its Auxiliary have es- According to Department Com- Post No. 80, Downers Grove, tablished a snake-bite serum bank. The mander M. W. Wells, the card had has purchased a 41-acre tract on which serum will be available free of charge. been awarded Legionnaire Loucks its new home will be built. The site has The project grew out of the tragic death by his Post on August 15 when he already been used by the Post for the reported personal of 100 of a 6-year-old girl who was bitten by enrollment annual carnival and baseball park, and members for 1950 before August a rattlesnake — there was no serum at is being readied for a landing field for 10th. But as a matter of fact. Legion- hand for treatment. the Helicopter Air Service, Inc., which Legionnaires deter- naire Loucks had signed up 207 will give helicopter air mail delivery mined that this should not happen again. members for 1950 for his Post before to all of Chicagoland, . . . National Executive Committeeman the National Convention met on Au- Stille, John R. Box 1511, Tucson, Ari- gust 29th. ^^ if -> zona, lost a diamond-set Past Depart- Fred A. Thompson, Hollywood Post ment Commander's button during the No. 105, Portland, Oregon, who is 1st National Convention at Philadelphia. H« Vice Commander, Multnomah County lodged at the Normandie Hotel, 36th and Bob and Betty Burns, a husband-and- Council; Chairman of the Volunteer Chestnut Streets, and may have dropped wife team, took over command of Hyder- Blood Recruitment Committee and Presi- it there. He'll be mighty thankful for its Harlow Post No. 119 and Auxiliary dent of the Multnomah County Legion return. Unit, at Elma, Washington, for the Luncheon Club, reports an active cam- * 1949-50 term . . . Brothers, both vets paign, in cooperation with the Red Cross, of WW2, now skipper the Legion's two Sparking the emergency drive of to furnish blood free of cost to patients largest Posts in Kansas City, Missouri. Penobscot County Chapter, (Maine), of in the 13 northwestern counties of Ore- Henry Hudson Fox, Jr., Jackson County the National Foundation for Infantile gon and three southwest counties of Paralysis for $50,000, James W. Wil- prosecutor, now commands the Conboy- Washington . . . Distinguished names Nichols Post No. 341, biggest of the liams Post, of Bangor, kicked in $2,000 stud the roster of Air Service Post No. city's 43 units, and his younger broth- for an iron lung to be used at the East- 501, of New York City. Vice Admiral er, Kenneth Fox, editorial writer on the em Maine General Hospital . . . Organ- Charles E. Rosendahl, (retired) 1949 Kansas City Star, pilots Irwin Kirk- ized on July 1st, a brand new, all WW2 Commander, gave way to Lieut. Col. wood Post No. 386, second largest. Hen- senior drum and bugle corps — the John C. Meyer, one of the top living Air ry Hudson Fox, Sr., father of the two "Wildcats" of Orange, New Jersey — Force aces of WW2, for the 1950 term. Commanders, is a Legionnaire . . . seems ready to go places. In its initial His six Vice Commanders are Carel Van Another unusual Post setup is reported appearance at the Department Conven- Heukelom, former Assistant Military from the Show Me State. Lohman-Mey- tion at Wildwood on September 10th, Attache for Air to the Netherlands; er Post No. 258 at Concordia, Missouri, the "Wildcats" placed second as the Arthur Godfrey, radio commentator and picked Vernon for its high command for best marching unit and was within 1/500 former Navy wireless operator; Georg 1949-50 Vernon Rehkop is Post Com- of a point of first place in competition — Unger-Vetiesen, chairman of the Board mander; Mrs. Vernon Rehkop is Auxi- against some fifteen other crack corps of the Scandinavian Airlines and former liary President; Vernon Meyer is 2nd in the New Jersey area. director of special operations of the Vice Commander; Mrs. Vernon Meyer Scandinavian underground; Edmund E. is 2nd Vice President, and to top it off, Thomas, former member of the 100th the name of the 1st Vice Commander William J. Grayson Post No. 85, Lyn- Fighter Wing, 9th Air Force; Robert C is Vernon Schlesselman. wood, California, reports: For the Durham, manager of the editorial bu- fourth time it has given a Commander reau of the Metropolitan Life Insurance to the District, Ralph Smith; Wm. J. Company and former member of the Schenk, new Commander, is the nephew Coflfeyville (Kansas) Post No. 20 is Anti-Submarine Command, Air Force, of the Post's first Commander, Ben rated by the Daily Journal as one of the and Ansel E. Talbert, aviation editor of Warner; Buck Horn is the new Chef de largest and most active civic groups in the New York Herald Tribune and for- Gare of Harbor Voiture, 40 and 8; 1949-50 its home city. Activities in 1949 include mer Air Intelligence Officer of the Detachment Commander, Sons of the furnishing a room in the Memorial Hos- American Embassy, London. The Exec- American Legion, is Clair Lorton, whose pital; operating a booth at the Inter- utive Committee has Harry A. Bruno, mother. Amy Lorton, was honored at the State Fair; sponsored a Sea-Scout Ship, WWl pilot, Lt. Gen. Hubert R. Harmon, Department Convention for 16 years' and participated in all Legion youth General George C. Kenney, and Vice service with the SAL; SAL rifle team training and educational programs. The Admiral Emory S. Land. The Americcm Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • ^3 LEGION DIRECTOR PLACED classes in Posts. The four terms held BANQUET FOR TEACHERS have all been very successful and some ON WHITE HOUSE COMMITTEE thousands of graduates are scattered WINS KUDOS FOR LEGION about over the country. The American Legion will be repre- At the beginning of the school year, "I am amazed, indeed awed, by the sented on the 52-member committee ap- Glassport (Pennsylvania) Post No. 443 vast administrative and legislative ma- pointed by President Harry S. Truman gave a banquet to the 61 public and chinery the committees, boards and com- to draw up plans for a Mid-Century parochial school teachers in its area— missions, the nation-wide chain of of- White House Conference on Childi-en the first event of its kind in the district. fices which keep The American Legion and Youth. More than 300 Legionnaires gathered on the march toward a greater and Miss Emma C. Puschner, National around the banquet tables to honor the better America," wi'ites Legionnaire Child Welfare Director of The Amer- teachers, to give renewed assurance of Harry M. Cohn, Cincinnati lawer and ican Legion since 1925, has been des- full support of the education program, graduate of the fourth term. ignated by the President as a member and to further cement the friendly re- "As a member of the Robert E. of this committee, and was summoned lations which have existed for years. Bentley Post No. 50, Cincinnati, I in- to Washington for a preliminary meet- Judge Samuel A. Weiss and Con- troduced the matter of enrollment for ing on September 8 and 9. gressman Frank Buchanan were speak- the Extension Course last winter and The Mid-Century White House Con- ers of the evening, both of whom called obtained ten enrollments. ference on Children and Youth is sched- the aff"air "a step in the right direction," "Representing clients before the Vet- splendid idea." "If uled to be held December 3 to 9, 1950, and "a imique and erans' Admini.srr.-ition, I thought I knew and will be the fifth in a series of such there is any group that is apt to be for- something of tlie Legion's activities. conferences held each decade of the gotten, it is the teachers," Congress- But this Extension course opened my twentieth century. The Conference will man Buchanan said. "I know what I'm eyes to the 'drama of the Legion'—the call together leaders in all phases of talking about — I was a teacher for 15 intricate administrative details, the children's general stock-tak- years." work for a dramatic early history, the big business ing of the present status of children and Active in community affairs, Glass- of the Legion's sales department, the setting of port Post has been widely commended a goals for the future. impressive, as well as ag'gressive set-up "From the preliminary material for starting this movement in Western in Washington with its watchful care Pennsylvania. which I have seen. The American Le- of veteran interests, the magnificent Comander William E. Bradley, Jr., gion will be able to enter whole-heart- child welfare program reaching out and reports that the Post has organized a edly into the work of this Conference," embracing every worthy child of a vet- musical show to entertain hospitalized Miss Puschner said, "for its general eran, the powerful and influential Le- theme of emphasizing the child in his veterans in VA hospitals at Aspinwall gion national security program — all and Butler, and in hospitals for chil- own home and community is identical these and many more are factors which, the children's carried dren at Pittsburgh, Leetsdale and Som- with work on by in my judgment, have made the Legion erset. Vets were given cigarettes, candy, the Legion for the past quarter cen- the potent and national spokesman for tury." and other items — 2,545 men — and 800 all veterans. children received crayons, coloring The Conference itself has been plan- "The American Legion Extension In- in three books and candy. In addition, the Post ned stages. First a preliminary stitute is the greatest instrumentality period fact-finding action; conducted 45 military funerals, and has of and state in acquainting Legionnaires with all second, the general conference itself in made its home a center for the children these matters, and I strongly urge of the town. December, 1950; and finally a follow-up every Legionnaire who has the organi- Glassport Post has 202 members. period when all persons concerned with zation and his country at heart to en- the welfare of children will be called roll in this instructive endeavor." upon to achieve the new goals. KENTUCKY POST GIVES BIG Previous conferences, held in 1909, 1919, 1930 and 1940, resulted in many BOOST TO SCOUT PROGRAM forward steps, according to Miss Pusch- natiofn'm meetings set Frankfort (Kentucky) Post No. 7 ner. The establishment of the U. S. Chil- Troop which is for week oct. 31-nov. 6 sponsors one Boy Scout dren's Bureau, the emphasis and growth under the direction of Scoutmaster Gus of home-relief care for dependent chil- The annual Conference of Depart- Smith, Jr. But this Scout-conscious Post dren, improvements in child labor laws, ment Commanders and Adjutants is almost as equally interested in the and much other enlightened legislation will be held at National Headquar- welfare of the other four Troops in its ters at Indianapolis on October 31 may be traced directly to previous White home city. These Troops are sponsored through November 2. At the same House Conferences of Children. by various churches. time a number of the important "The American Legion will have a In order to keep the enrollment in all National Standing Commissions and special responsibility at the White Committees will be in session round- Troops at the highest level. Post Com- House Conference to represent the needs ing up their reports and recommen- mander Hugh Moore, Jr., hit upon an of veterans' children," Miss Puschner dations for presentation to the Na- idea which is working in Frankfort, added, "but since children of veteran tional Executive Committee. This and which can be adopted with profit parentag'e already number half of all national governing group will con- by Posts in any other town or city. children in 4 continue the U. S. we will also want vene on November and A list of the names, addresses and in session until the 6th. to contribute our part to the improve- birthdates of all boys who had passed Business wili be adjourned on the ment and advancement of child life their eleventh but had not reached their 3rd when it is expected that most of generally." secured from those in attendance will go to Brazil. thirteenth birthday was Indiana, to attend the official home- the schools. Commander Mocre then coming tendered by his home town wrote a personal letter to each boy on LEGION EXTENSION COURSE to National Commander George N. the list with which he sent a copy of the GIVES STUDENTS NEW VIEW Craig. Official Boy Scotit Handbook and a ros- The first Conference will be not- ter of the five troops in Frankfort listing able for the number of newly-elected Plans are shaping up for the fifth the names of the Scoutmasters and Department Commanders who had term of the Legion Extension Institute Leaders, their addresses and telephone service in WW2 — 23 of them, rang- course, as well as the day, time and according to C. M. Wilson, Di- ing in ages from 26-year-old Ralph numbers, rector of Membership and Post Activ- A. Johnson, of Virginia, to Bruce P. place of each Troop meeting. The initial ities. Distribution of material concern- Henderson, of Ohio, and W. J. Mc- mailing was 125, and is being continued ing the Institute, together with applica- Cleod, Jr., of South Carolina, both as the boys reach their eleventh year tion blanks, will be made through Head- 43. National Commander Craig, first and become eligible for membership- in quarters in the various Departments. National Chief who had service only the Boy Scouts. Letters and lists of the has turned 40. Enrollments may be made by individ- in WW2, boys were sent to all Scoutmasters at uals or, what is more desirable, by the same time for follow-up.

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U.S.S. West Mead and U.S.S. Hartford -Ship- mates please write: need help to straighten my Navy record. Jay Steele, Stouts Mills, W. Va. COMRADES IN DISTRESS U.S.S. Ludlow (#112) — Shipmates who remem- OUTFIT REUNIONS ber severe electrical shock sutt'ered by me while ship was at Pearl Harbor in 1921, please write. Bomber Groap, Eniwetok — Anyone who served Need help to establish service connection. Names Slst Base Headquarters, Air Base Alumni and Hall, with Job Pierpont Morgan Austin, staff sergeant, remembered QM2c Magee, Flc G. Yeolc H.A.(;.S. Alumni — 4th annual reunion will be killed in action on Eniwetok, Marshall Group, in A. J. Burnett, Lt. J. H. Carson, MMlc Briggs, held at Harlingen, Texas, between February 15th 1944, are requested to write. Widowed mother MM2c Dutcher. Address John J. Brunette, 483 and 28th, 1950. For particulars write to Norman unable to prove change of beneficiary in insur- Union St., New Bedford, Mass. McCauley, 260 Boyd St., Camden, N. J. Air Service Detachment, St. Nazaire, France, ance, probably made while on leave in Hawaii. 731st Ordnance (L-M) Co., 31st Infantry Divi- Alfred H. Rooker, Rt. Pleas- Send all information to L. B. Woodward, New (WWl)— 1, Mount sion- 2nd annual reunion at Hotel Astor, New York State Counselor, Hudson Falls, N. Y. ant, Texas, needs urgently to locate men who York City, April 29-30, 1950. Write Edgar G. 342nd Tank Bn., Camp Polk, N. C. — Assistance went through the Corps Clearing Office, St. Bryant, 332 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck, N. Y. needed to establish claim; particularly need state- Nazaire, February to May, 1919. Some names Co. D, 803 rd M. P. Battalion — 2nd reunion at ments of Sgt. Ben McLean, Pvt. Ben Quigley, remembered are Capt. L. V. McMurphy, CO., Hotel Edison, New York City, Saturday, Novem- ex-Detroit, Mich., Pvt. Stiller and Pvt. Thomas 1st Sgt. Holland, Corp. George W. Curr, Corp. ber 12, 7 p. m. For reservations write James C. Hocker, ex-Lansdowne, Pa. Write Wilbur E. John M. Vaughn, Adam Savalle, and William P. Cameron, 89 Little Plains Rd., Southampton, N. Y. Please write him. Hewitt, 403 W. Cecil St., Winchester, Va. Shannon. Hdqrs. Squadron, Fleet Air Wing, Naval Air 15th F.A., 2nd Division from Evacuation Hospital 17, Siberia (WWl)— Need — Need to hear Station, Coco Solo, C. Z. — Reunion planned, per- help to establish claim; service comrades please men who were on a burial detail with me on sonnel above station write Rolland E. Morris, write. Claude C. Ladd, 413 N. Harvey, Oklahoma Julv 22, 1918; statements to support claim. Box 13, New Cumberland, W. Va., to complete City, Okla. Clifford Cressy, 3340 W. 159th St., Rl, Harvey, 111. details. Co. M, 9th Infantry, (WWl) - Supporting Co. F, 111th Infantry, (WWl)-Lee Hargis, 653 l.)th Air Force Society — 3rd anniversary ball statements needed from service comrades, par- Grove Ave., Las Animas. Col., needs to locate 1st at Warwick Hotel, Philadelphia, Friday, Novem- ticularly Major L. T. Janda, ex-Drexel Hill, Pa., Sgt. Fisher and Pvt. Remington, above outfit; ber 18. Write Marvin J. Netsky, Publicity Com- Lt. Robert B. O'Laughlin and Joe Balate, for- help needed to prove service connection. mittee. P. O. Box 7622, Philadelphia 1, Pa. merly New York, and John Bailey, Pennsylvania, U. S. Navy — Robert Bauer, 213 "B," Husker- Fleet Hospital 115, Guam — Reunion at Chicago, ville, Lincoln, Neb., needs statement of Edmund Joe Zurek, Rt. 1, Holland, Texas. III., December 7-9, celebrating 5th anniversary Co. H, 23 rd Inf., Fort Sam Houston, Texas — Point, ex-Pharmacist Mate. U.S.N. Please write. of organization. Interested personnel write R. K. Co. H, 134th Med. Regt. Urgently need to locate men who served at above (WW2)-Will anyone Walker, care Walker Insurance and Real Estate, served station 1935 to 1938; particularly T. O. Foreman, who with Company at Fort Bragg, N. C., 507 Republic Bldg., Louisville, Ky. October, 1942, to January, of F.A.; Capt. Arville Ward Gillette, Infantry; CoL 1943, who knows 517th Parachute Combat Team — 1st reunion at injury back H. L. Landers, F.A., Major Ostrander and Capt. to my in accident, please write. Need Congress Hotel in Chicago, 111., November 11-12. statement to establish claim. L. C. Ball, M.C. Statements needed. William L. Lester M. Kimball, For further details and reservations contact Carmichael, Windom, Texas. 2729 N. Frederick Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wis. Charles J. Hillsdale, 5411 N. Campbell, Chicago, Fort Totten, N. 360th Engineer Regiment— Corp. Hazeltine, be- Y.-Will Leon C. Trefethen, 111. Claude Barrett, Theodore Shuloff or other lieved to live in Pennsylvania, who was in PX any PATSU 1-1, Fleet Air Wing 1- Reunion person served with at Fort or at Marseille, France, in December, 1944, please who me Totten planned; all former personnel interested write overseas write Luther B. Foster, 2811 HiU Drive, Eagle in 1917-8, please write. Statements ur- Harvey F. Foster, P. O. Box 760, Burlington, N. C. gently needed to substantiate claim. Rotfk 41, Cal. Statement needed. Edwin G. Battery D, 80th F.A., 7th Division — Reunion to POW Camp. Starlock 2-B, Germany -Will Pvt. Taylor, Belgrade Depot, Maine. be held in November. Write to Secretary, Frank Sea Bees, North Africa—Urgently need locate William Brantley, in this camp from December to C. Grieves, 3931 North Percy St., Philadelphia 40, Ernest Carlomango, New Jersey; Anthony J. details reservations. 29, 1944, to May 1, 1945, please write Perry Pa., for and Zuber, Michigan, and Jonathan B. Hammett, Branham, 302 Heyward St., Rock HiU, S. C. U.S.S. Solace — Annual reunion of shipmates West Virginia, served Needs statement to prove claim for frozen feet. who with me in 120th, of the Solace (WWl) at Philadelphia, Saturday, 275th Signal Const. Co., C.Z., and 40th Signal 513th and 626th Sea Bees in Africa. Paul November 5. Write Dr. R. A. Kern, Temple Uni- Const. Bn., ETO— Anyone who served with me De Forest, Barracks 2, Wadsworth, Kans. versity Hospital, 3401 N. Broad St., Philadelphia Battery 16th please write, particularly Major Powers at Gor- D, F.A., 4th Division (WWl)- 40, Pa., for details. Service gas Hospital, C.Z., who treated me about June, comrades of Joseph C. Schneider, please Medical Detachment, Post Hospital, Jefferson write. 1942. Statement needed. John R. Franklin, 5313 Statements needed to prove claim for Barracks, Mo. — Proposed reunion of 1918-19 widow; vet Calumet Ave., Chicago, lU. gassed and had asthma; was with Medics. Write O. C. ("Cal") Holcomb, American Battery E, 329th F. A. (WWl) -Anyone hav- outfit September 3, 1917, to June 18, 1919, and Legion Office, Memorial Bldg., Topeka, Kans. in all battles. * ing knowledge of hospitalization of Pvt. Burt J. Mrs. Joseph C. Schneider, 3902 No. Send names and addresses of former Medics. Francisco Ave., Gordon while overseas, please contact his widow, Chicago 18, Ilk 89th Division Society, California Sector — An- Mrs. Burt J. Gordon, Mantua, Ohio. Statements nual Armistice Day dinner at Scully Restaurant, needed, particularly John McCarthy, Akron. 4801 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, Cal., Novem- U.S.S. Menelaus — Urgently need to locate Ship- ber 5 at 7 p. m. Write Joe T. Woods, P. O. Box mate Richard Tyke, last heard of in Chicago. THE AMERICAN LEGION 7844, Sevalle Sta., Los Angeles 15, Cal. Statement needed for disability claim. James R. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Fort Washington, Md., MRU and 33rd Machine Records Unit—Plans being made for 1950 reunion Schmitt, Henry, 111. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Troop A, 16th Cavalry — Men who served with at Gatlinberg, Tenn. Ex-members invited to write Fred Flack, 1060 Hancock St., Brooklyn 21, N. Y., me in 1917-18 and who remember when horses AUGUST 31, 1949 stampeded at Camp Mercedes, Texas, running for details. U.S.S. Decde (D.E. 263) —Shipmates write over me and injuring my leg, please write. Capt. ASSETS R. K. Meade, CO., and was treated by Capt, Warren L. Thomas, 2145 South Hawthorne Rd., Cowan. Need statements to establish claim. Ben Cash on hand and on deposit..? 657,183.13 Winston-Salem, N. C, to complete arrangements first Noriega, 1624 Montana St., San Antonio 3, Texas. Receivables 159,588.44 for reunion. Co. F, 125th Inf., (WWl)— Any service com- Inventories 484,752.33 77th Division — Annual reunion dance at Hotel rade who can verify my illness and hospitaliza- Invested Funds 961,740.96 Roosevelt, New York City, November 5. Tickets, tion at Blois, France, March, 1918; particularly Permanent Trusts: $1.50, at door or from 77th Division Clubhouse, Capt. Jones, M.C, who had charge of my case, Overseas Graves Decoration 28 East 39th St., New York City. Vets both wars and reserve invited. please write. Hospital records lost. Joseph W. Trust Fund . .$ 251,472.03 Gorecki, Box 131, Pulaski, Wisconsin. Employees' Retirement 3590th SU, Ashford General Hospital -Reunion planned; write Victor L. Dreyer, 314 East 13th Military Prison Camp 2, Philippines—Will any- Trust Fund . . 1.044.718.72 1,296,190.75 one who served with Jack L. Westmoreland, St., New Albany, Ind. Real Estate, less depreciation.. 280,252.25 Chemical Warfare Service Veterans Associa- USMC, who died in above camp in 1944, please Furniture and Fixtures, less tion— CWS vets, both wars or now in service, write his father Tom Westmoreland, 315 South depreciation 278,031.73 interested in attending regional reunion in New Oak St., Holdenville, Okla. Statements needed to Deferred Charges 127,848.97 prove claim for benefits for POWs. York and Chicago, January, 1950, contact George Fort Myer, Fla. — Urgently need to locate $4,245.588.56 W. Nichols, Secretary-Treasurer, RFD 4, Kings- Robert Beazley, who served with me 1943 to ton, N. Y. U.S.S. Albemarle, (AV "E" Division — 1945, also Dr. C. H. Holmes. Statements needed LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE 5), to prove claim for disabilities. Eddie Stanford, 1950 reunion; write Gene F. (Pop) Nowlin, 725 233 Kelley Ave., Akron, Ohio. AND NET WORTH W. 37th St., Anderson. Ind., for details. Camp Shelby, Miss. — Will anyone who was U.S.S. Arneb (AKA-56) —Shipmates are asked Current Liabilities $ 158,095.80 to write M. W. Pennock, 882 Upton Ave., Battle with Otis Flippo, or the doctor who treated 278,480.66 Funds restricted as to use.... Creek, Mich., to arrange for 1st reunion. him in July, 1918, please write me. Must have Deferred Income 850,837.13 Co. A, 132nd Ordnance Battalion — Annual re- proof of his injury to re-establish claim. Mrs. Permanent Trusts: November 5-6 at Columbia Gorge Hotel, Ella Flippo, (wife), Batesville, Ark. Overseas Graves Decoration union Hood River, Oregon. Write James T. Henderson, Co. C, 62nd Armored Inf. Bn., 14th Armored Trust 251,472.03 S E. Hawthorne Blvd., Portland Oregon, Div. — Must have statements from men who were Employees' Retirement 2052 S. 15, for reservations. with me when I was injured by grenade in com- Trust 1,044,718.72 1,296,190.76 bat in France, to prove service connection. Write 29th Engineers — Annual reunion dinner, Con- Mervine T)aie Johnson, Box 424, Eureka, Montana. Net Worth: stance Hotel, Pasadena, Cal., November 5, 6:30 Headquarters Co., Maintenance Bn., Northern Restricted Capital: p. m. For info and reservations write Carl W. Ireland — Will anyone in above outfit in 1942 who Reserve Fund.$ 739,580.76 Renard, Secretary, 742 Omar St., Glendale 2, Cal. Restricted can furnish information to establish claim, please 3rd Armored Division Association—Philadelphia Fund 13,023.14 write Frank Moseby, P. O. Box 133, Sullivan. Ind. Chapter being formed. Interested vets get in Ist Co., CAC, Fort Winfield Scott, San Fran- Reserve for construction of Washington touch with M. Stuart Goldin, Acting Secretary, cisco, Cal. — WWl soldier needs help to establish 121 South Broad St., Philadelphia 7, Pa. Office 334,952.83 claim. Anyone who remembers injuries sustained 306th General Hospital — Reunion planned; hos- Real Estate . . 130.000.00 1,217,556.73 by Drewie J. Chapman while loading rifle shells pital personnel contact Frank Whclan, 230 York for target practice, particularly Capt. Cochran, Surplus $ 167,281.92 Street, Burlington, N. J. CO., in June to 1918. Drewie J. Chap- of income over ex- August, Excess 109th F. A. (WWl)— 2nd annual reunion at man, 1745 5th Ave., Huntington, Va. 8 month s 277,145.57 W. pense Westside Armory. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Armistice Battery C, 920 F.A. Bn., 95th Inf. Division — 444,427.49 Day, November 11. Dinner at 5 p. m. Ted Steg- Will served with or anyone who me in ETO in 1,661,984.22 maier. Chairman, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the States, please write. Am in need of state- Criminal Investigation Division (Army) — Re- ments to support claim. Dante Camo, 146-50 New $4.245.588.56 Washington, 12. York Blvd., Jamaica N. Y. union at D. C, November Con- 5. Weir, Burling Ave., Rochelle, Co. 47, Evac. Hospital, Camp Greenleaf, Ga. •Most of the dues for 1949 have been tact A. 48 New Need to locate men who were in this outfit with received and credited. The excess of income N. Y. me during flu epidemic, November and December, over expense will be available for opera- Headquarters Co., 708th Amph. Tank Battalion 1918, or who know the whereabouts of Lt. Round- tions for the remaining four months of 1949. —Reunion planned. Members of Battalion write ing. Write Michael Albanito, 100 Carter Ave., William E. (Bill) Decly, 3617 Taylor Blvd., Louis- Punxsutawney, Pa. ville, Ky. The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • —

DISABLED VETS URGED TO MILLIONS OF PENICILLIN SOCIETY OF 1st DIVISION REINSTA TE NSL INSURANCE UNITS GIVEN TO LEGION OPENS MEMBERSHIP DOORS By T. O, KRAABEL The Society of the 1st Division, which has National Rehabilitation Director heretofore confined its membership to combat vets of the Fighting First One of the more imiJortant amend- in the two World Wars, has opened its ments to the National Service Life doors to all men who have served with Insurance Act of 1940 which The Amer- the Division at any time. This impor- ican Legion was able to have enacted tant action, taken at the 31st annual by Congress is that with reference to Reunion at Philadelphia on August 26 the privilege of reinstatement by vet- and 27, increases the potential member- erans who have lost insurability because ship in the Society to 275,000, which far of disability incurred in or aggravated exceeds that of any other similar divi- by active military or naval service. sional group, according to Col. C. M. This is technically referred to as Sec- Eymer, Executive Secretary. tion 602(C) (2) and became effective This potential is broken down into through Public Law 589, 79th Congress, the 125,000 men who served with the August 1, 1946. It provides as to any outfit in the two World Wars, and the person who had active service between 150,000 men who passed through its October 8, 1940 and September 2, 1945, units between the wars. However, the both dates inclusive: amendment to the Society's constitu- George N. Craig, (left), National Com- any in tion "In case which application for mander of The American Legion, and does not make distinction between life or disability insurance or for rein- services, but all eligibles Thomas E. Paradine, Commander of makes mem- statement of such insurance is made bers of the same class and grade. Schenley Post No. 1190, New York City, prior to January the adminis- General Charles P. first 1, 1950, examine part of a gift of 960 million Summerall, trator shall not deny, for the purposes units of Penicillin presented through President of the Society and former of this or other section this part, Chief of Staff the Lieut. any of Schenley Post to Commander Craig im- of Army, and that the applicant is in health General B. good be- mediately after his election at Philadel- C. Huebner, Commander in cause of disability disabilities, Chief of in any or phia. The penicillin will be distributed the U. S. Armed Forces less than in total degree, resulting from to veterans and their families through the Europe and presently serving as Pres- or aggravated by such active service." Medical Advisoiy Board of the Legion's ident of the Society, termed this expan- On August 1, 1947, one year after National Rehabilitation Commission. sion of membership eligibility the most date of the enactment of the Insurance important and vital action taken by the Act of 1946, Technical Bulletin 9-44 was men of the 1st since its organization. issued by VA. It contained the VA in- The 1st Division has held 31 annual terpretation and set forth the princi- JUNIOR BASEBALL PLAYER national reunions, most of which have ples to be observed in applying this GETS HALL OF FAME SPOT been held concurrently with the Na- provision. tional Convention of The American The bulletin required that determina- Ray Herrera, sparkling shortstop Legion, or in the convention city just for the of (California) tions of service connected disability for team Oakland prior to the opening of the Legion Post No. 337, won a double victory this insurance purpose be made inde- national conclave. in the Little World series at Omaha pendently of ratings The Society publishes quarterly for compensation in early September. His team won a purposes. the 1949 title as champion of the magazine, The Bridgehead Sentinel, The American Legion has introduced Junior American Legion teams— and which is sent free to all active members. legislation not only to do away with the he won a spot in baseball's Hall of Col. C. M. Eymer, Executive Secretary, double standard of measuring service Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Box D, Ocean Beach Station, San Diego Herrera is the first American Legion iiicurred disabilities for compensation 7, Cal., will be pleased to answer all Junior Baseball player to win this and insurance purposes, but also to inquiries of interested 1st Division men honor, and have a place in the Hall extend who had service in the outfit at any time the time to January 1, 1952 with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and (H.R. 5574). It is very doubtful that others of baseball's great names. since its first activation in 1917. action on this legislation will be taken The hard hitting, smooth fielding at this session, but the matter will be captain of the new national cham- pursued by the Rehabilitation and pions was selected by a vote of a NEW ORLEANS POST PLANS Legislative Divisions. five man committee consisting of Bob Quinn, Director Hall of The American Legion does not agree of the $1,000,000 VET HOUSING Fame; Bob Finch, National Associa- with the restrictive interpretation placed tion of Professional Baseball Plans for a $1,000,000 veterans' hous- upon the above-cited section by the Leagues; Virgil Cory, of Sporting ing project to be sponsored by the Veterans Administration. Hundreds of News; Bob Phipps, of the Baseball Bienville Holmes Post No, 333 of The applications of service connected dis- Writers Association of America, and American Legion at New Orleans, abled for Miller, new insurance and reinstate- Dale of The American Louisiana, have been announced by its Legion. ment of lapsed policies have been re- adjutant, Andrew P. Carter. jected Herrera's picture will be placed due to the VA interpretation. The undertaking will be patterned on a plaque and hung in the Hall Despite the complications that have after the highly-successful Legion Vil- of Fame on January 1, to remain arisen, and despite these rejections, The there for a full year. He will also lage sponsored by the Nicholson Post American Legion strongly urges all get a trip to Cooperstown for the No. 38 at Baton Rouge. service connected disabled of WW2 to annual Hall of Fame game and Adjutant Carter said the post is now apply for reinstatement of insurance while there will be presented with in the process of acquiring a tract of before scroll the deadline of January 1, 1950. , a naming him as American land at Fillmore and Paris Streets for ? Legion Junior Baseball Player of development into a modem sub-division. Year. Mayfield Post Is Early Bird Lthe Work on the project, he said, would start November 1. Mayfield (Kentucky) Post No. 26 is Cost of the homes will be between the 58th Seabee Battalion Book early bird of the Bluegrass State $7,500 and $10,500, depending on size. the full 100 percent enrollment was com- Editor C. Edward Gideon, 205 Cochran No down payment will be required of pleted before the National Convention. Place, Valley Stream, New York, an- veterans. They will be given up to 25 In fact, the Post had 114 members in 1949, nounces publication of the 58 Seabee years to repay loans made under the but on first report sent in 142 for 1950 to Battalion Book. Members of the outfit G. I. Bill or under a combination of the Department Headquarters. can get theirs by writing the Editor. G. I. Bill-FHA provisions. 3g • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 , . . Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

November, 1949

age 21 cents, and age 55 and VA FORMULA FOR NSLI DIVIDENDS: WW2 vets can 22 cents ; 54, now calculate almost to a penny the share over, 20 cents on each $1 ,000 per month. . . . of the $2.800.000,000 NSLI dividend due No dividends will be paid for months when each one under a formula announced by Carl the insurance was in lapse . . . .Rates of R. Gray, Jr., VA chief Top checks under dividend per month for each $1 , 000 insurance this formula will be $528, but the general are exactly the same on term and converted

' on average, of course, will be much lower.... policies. . . .And here s the best guess The system devised for figuring the slices the $64 question : It is expected that checks of the melon is simple, arranged by age will start flowing out in January, 1950, payments will be completed brackets , with fixed sums for each $1,000 and that all insurance carried for every month the before June 50 policy was in force — all this requires a * * * * separate calculation for each policy pay- INCOME TAX EXEMPT: Equally ment to the 16,000,000 veterans and 500,000 NSLI DIVIDEND the word that comes survivors .... One age group is set up for cheering to WW2 vets is Internal Revenue all men and women 40 years of age or under from the Commissioner of special dividend to when the insurance was taken out — a bracket that the forthcoming not be subj ect to in which the mortality rate did not vary be paid by VA 212 NSLI will view, greatly and which covers the greatest num- income tax. ... In the Commissioner's the dividends are adjustments of the pre- ber of service people . . . . For all vets who insur- were 40 years old and younger when their miums paid by the veterans on their ance , and therefore the amount received insurance was issued , the refund will be the tax 55 cents per month for each $1,000, which does not constitute "income" under belongs means a total of $5.50 per month to those laws .... So what you get, comrades, to you. who carried the full $10,000 . . . .That re- ^ ^ ^ duces the over-all cost of the insurance ^ to an almost unbelievable minimum.... WWl VETS GET DIVIDEND: Some 435.000 vets Interested vets, and that includes nearly of WWl. holders of U.S. Government Life In-' every Joe and Jane who wore the uniform, can surance , have benefited by a special divi- figure out in a very few minutes how much dend of $40,000,000 by VA without blare of they have coming. . . . Payments are to be made bugle or roll of drum. .. .Payment was com- on each month the insurance was in force pleted in October to holders of the WWl whether still held or permitted to drop policies who took out insurance on a perma- after discharge. . . . from the date the insur- nent plan before January 1, 1944, and kept ance was out to the same month in taken it in force through December. 1948 . . . 1948 . . . .Here is how to do it for the 40 and Some permanent plan policy-holders did not under group : figure out the number of months receive a check because the full reserve paid, the amount of insurance at 55 cents back of the policy had not been built up. . . . per $1,000 per month, and multiply the The distribution was made to policies in number of months paid by the amount due effect as of a certai n cut-off date .... per month. ... For example , G.I. Joe had Policies which have terminated either $10,000 insurance in force from October, through death of the insured, completion of 1940, the month the NSLI became effective, contract , or dropped did not share in the and paid each premium regularly through special dividend . . . .VA advises that compu- September, 1948, he had 96 months paid, at tations as to contra cts that had t erminated $5.50 per month, amounting to a refund were not made , and will not be made . . . . VA credit of $528. . . .96 x $5.50 equals $528 . . . . points out that definitely there is no con- Simple, easy done and heart-warming. . .For nection b etween the special Government those above the age of 40 years at time the Life divid end (WWl) and the forthcoming insurance was written, the rate per month special dividend on National Service Life is scaled down, but the method of calcula- In surance (WW2) ... .Assets of the two in- tion remains the same. . . .Here are the rates surance programs are maintained in separate for : the upper age brackets age 41 , 52 cents trust funds, and the operations of one have per $1,000; age 42, 49 cents; age 43, 46 no bearing on the other. cents ; age 44, 43 cents ; age 45 , 40 cents ; age * * * * 46, 37 cents ; age 47, 34 cents ; age 48, 31 cents ; age 49, 28 cents ; age 50, 25 cents ; NEW VA RULES CURB GI SCHOOLING: Some mil- age 51, 24 cents ; age 52, 23 cents ; age 53, lions of WW2 vets who still have "credit"

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due them under the GI Bill may be unable to i:;.athority was a federal offense .... He use their educational privileges if a sur- pointed out that the Legion was an organi- prise crackdown on schools and schooling zation incorporated under a special Act of that act to by VA stands. .. .Beginning November 1, all Congress, and this ruling held veterans who apply for school or college be constitutional . . . .Constitutionality work or who want to change the:'.r courses of the Act was challenged by the Dettra Flag of study must get a new certific ate of Company, Oaks, Pe^uisylvania, which is charged with making commercial use of the eligibility from the VA. . . .Under the new regulations the vet must show that the insignia without permission . . . .Trial of the company, on eight course is essential to his employment . . . the case against VA authority for the stringent curbing counts, is pending. stems from Public Law 266, 81st Congress 3|c Sfk 3^ SfC (August 24, 1949) which prohibits spending WAR CLAIMS COMMISSION ORGANIZED: After money for courses which the Administrator long delay, the War Claims Commission has of VA determines to be avocational and rec- made formal organization with Daniel reational . . . .Though there had been signs Cleary as Chairman . . . .Organization prob- and portents of some sandbagging of bene- lems, including the formulation of the refits under the GI Bill, the regulations as quired forms for claims of some 125,000 announced came like a bolt from the blue American mi j i t ary personnel to whom ade- storm of protest and raised an immediate quate ration s were denied when prisoners of . . .The VA from both veterans and schools. war, and to an estimated 7,200 civilians instruction defines just what types of interned by the Japanese in the Philippines courses require justification, including and elsewhere in the Pacific. . . .The new courses part time courses correspondence . Commission strongly advises agains t filing courses in schools established after the informal claims .... It is suggested that passage of the GI Bill, June 22. 1944. and applicants wait for the official forms all types of so-called avocational and which will be available soon. . . .Plan of recreational courses, etc. . . . Summing up distribution is being worked out.... The the effect of the new requirements, Cecil money to pay the claims will come from Munson, Chief of the Legion' s Division of German and Japanese property confiscated Vocation and Education Training, says .... in this country . . . .A fund already set up "Those enrolled in schools are not affected. in the Treasury from this source is expected ...Those that have interrupted their to reach $150,000.000. courses or have attained their degrees and are planning to re-enter school in the * * * * future will have to justify their courses DEFENSE ASSISTANTS CONFIRMED: Secretary

for advanced degrees. . . .We do not antici- Louis Johnson's Defense Department's new pace that this will be difficult to do if top-level "unification team" was completed

they continue with their maj ors . . . . But if by Senate confirmation and swearing in

they change their courses in any way, full three Assistant Secretaries of Defense . . . justification will have to be made in terms They are Paul H. Griffith. Past National

of need for present o r future employment .... Commander of the Legion ; W. J. McNeil and

Supplementary certificates will be hon- Marx Leva . . . .Also . it is now Brigadier

ored up and until November 1. 3.949 . . . General Louis H. Renfrew. St. Louis Legion- Those issued for change of institution fcr naire who left a White House assignment to following the same coufse for credit will become Appointments Officer under Secre-

be honored until March 1, 1950. . . .We do not tary of Defense Johnson. . , .His promotion believe that veterans who have not initi- from Colonel was confirmed on September 7. ated any training program are going to have * * * * any trouble , especially in institutions of PROSTHETIC TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT: New higher learning. . . .The Legion' s division will be watchful, but the full impact York University' s College of Engineering. in of the restrictive regulations cannot be cooperation with the VA and National Re- determined until reports begin to come in search Council has set up a Prosthetic Test- ing and Development Laboratory to determine from the field. . . .A VA spokesman is quoted the efficiency and acceptability of new . c . "A substantial number of veterans will lose part of their GI privileges unless types of artificial limbs. . . .Civilian and they can justify their courses as being of veteran amputees are participating in the research. . . . They are fitted with new types value to their work" . . . .At any rate, all questionable courses are out. of artificial limbs and evaluate them through practical use for the purpose of * * * * gathering essential information on the COURT RULING PROTECTS LEGION INSIGNIA: An good and bad features of recently developed important ruling handed down by Judge Guy devices. Bard in the U.S. District Court at Phila- * * * * delphia gives full protection to the Legion ARMED FORCES DAY: With approval of Presi- emblem and insignia against unauthorized dent Truman, Secretary of Defense Louis use . ... In effect the ruling held that any Johnson has announced that the third commercial use of The American Legion em- Saturday in May will be Armed Forces Day . . . blem^ insignia or paraphernalia without This will replace the abolished special specific prior permission from proper service days. 38 HOW TO OO TREASURE HUNTING AT HOME (Continued from page 17)

New York City, piesidtrnt of Spear & Com- - numismatists — are fewer in number, month, has been dubbed the colJector of pany. New York and Pittsburgh furni- but are just as avid in pursuit of old coins collections he had 200 different collec- ture store chain, (active Legionnaire and and medallic tokens. Naturally few people tions from match labels to antique musi- last but one of the American Vice Presi- can afTord to collect Ming vases or Dres- cal instruments, all of which went into dents of FIDAC), has an almost fabulous den china. But, according to dealers, the the Museum of Hobbies at St. Augustine, collection of bells of all kinds, of all ages average American in the course of his life Florida. This institution draws collectors and brought together from all parts of the discards enough material to form an ex- from every State, as though it were a world during the past forty years. Start- tremely valuable collection — and they national shrine. W. Porter Ware, Vice ing with one arrowhead back in 1893, don't have to be items as obvious as cigar Chancellor of the University of the South, Samuel Favers, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, bands, either. Sewanee, Tennessee, has one of the world's now has some 16,000 Indian relics running Undoubtedly the best collection is one largest collections of shaving mugs, odd, from the original arrowhead to skeletons. related to a profession. Alva L. Summer- unusual, occupational, and some used by His is a one-man collection, in fact he lott, a druggist in Kalamazoo, Michigan, celebrities. He recently wrote a book, Oc- prides himself that most of the items are owns a remarkable assortment of mortars, cupational Shaving Mugs, based on his his own finds; that he seldom buys or pestles and medicine jugs used before the own collection. Fred Garland, a Pittsburgh trades, and never sells his discoveries. advent of the soda fountain and the hard- collector, has brought together a vast col- Some collectors branch out into related ware counter in drug stores. Dr. G. L. lection of multi-colored marbles which or even diverse lines, like the triple- children played with years ago. One New threat activities of Dr. Charles W. Olsen, York City man. Dr. Francis Blauston, is 6558 South Halsted Street, Chicago, Illi- celebrated for his stuf>endous array of nois, who while caring for a medical prac- odd and antique toothbrushes. tice that would seem to occupy his wak- Small town citizens are in an especially ing hours, still finds time to collect Abra- fortunate position to begin profit-making ham Lincoln, John Brown and the Mor- collections for two reasons. First of all, mons. His hobby is so engrossing to him they have more space than city folks who that he has expanded beyond mere mu- live in cramped apartments. Also, they seum pieces, and has added the old John live in an environment that most keenly Brown Farm at New Richmond, Pennsyl- mirrors the shifting trends of American vania, to the ever growing collection. In life. Any small towner who can handle order to care for the hundreds of items a camera is capable of putting together brought together he has taken the whole a pictorial biography of his town's growth floor of the building in which his office is which will some day be worth money to located as a showcase, thus his patients museums and historical societies. Dealers get a free museum visit every time they compete keenly for grassroots portraits make an appointment to see him. of this kind. Apart from its commercial side and the Every small town man has access to the money value of odd and curious items, circus. If he's wise, he'll hoard his circus collecting has a very definite social, edu- programs. Zealots like A. Morton Smith, cational and cultural importance. Col- of Gainesville, Texas, who is reputed to lectors are a gregarious lot. They like have the biggest circus collection in the nothing better than to get together to show country, pay fancy prizes for such things their acquisitions and to gossip with fel- as circus newspaper reviews, circus ad- low addicts. Consequently, most collecting vertisements and circus route books. Cir- groups have burgeoned into societies and cus programs which depict Phineas T. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE associations, with branches in nearly every Barnum promoting Tom Thumb, the community. The spread of association in- famous midget, are worth considerable. terest is as broad as the multifarious Howe, of Rochester, New York, has a col- Farm people and rural folk on RFD individual interests, ranging from match lection of stereoscopic views worth hun- routes often discard early Americana label, button, postcard and gadget groups dreds of dollars. Fred S. Ring, a retired without knowing that this "junk" is worth on up to the highest levels. Included in farmer of Owatonna, Minnesota, has the a tidy price to collectors. Oil lamps, still this series is the National Society of Auto- country's largest collection of pencils, ad- common in some sections, are fast becom- graph Collectors, headed by the distin- vertising and campaign buttons, while ing prizes to antique dealers. There is, guished authority on the "Signers," Dr. Mrs. Ring keeps the home cheery by the too, an amazing premium set on farm Joseph E. Fields, of Joliet, Illinois. Prob- ticking of some 200 clocks, and bright bells, jalopies of ancient vintage, buggies, ably the most devoted conventioneers are with 300 pairs of salt and pepper shakers. cuckoo clocks, old fashioned wall paper, antique collectors; every year local and Gypsy Rose Lee has the country's best sundials, rocking chairs, bottles, muskets, national groups hold antique shows in collection of StafTordshire plates with and hundreds of other items. McGuffey cities and towns across the entire breadth Gibson girls on them. Always an unortho- Readers are hunted by some dozens: old of the country. dox woman, Mae West owns a collection Currier & Ives prints bring handsome rates Stamp collecting is, of course, one facet of flirtatious chimpanzees. Wooden In- from specialists, and most any item of of the delightful diversion that deserves dians, which once guarded the door to home handcraft of past generations will a full-blown article all to itself - there neau"ly every tobacco shop, are eagerly find an easy market. are so many brothers of the stamp. They snapped up by a Terre Haute, Indiana, Generally, the first editions of maga- work in different phases in the same broad doctor who already has rounded up a zines and newspapers are well worth field, each one with a specialty of subject, wooden tribe large enough to carry on a saving. A file of the first few years of the issues, cancels, pre-cancels, errors and small war. And, indeed, there is one col- Aha California, started in 1849, is worth whathaveyou, and they range in all lector in New Jersey who has 100 prized a small fortune today, and there's fairly degrees from plain stamp savers to scien- Chic Sales in his back yard and will pay good money in old-timers like Godey's tific philatelists. H. L. Lindquist, 2 West cash for others. Leslie's, Peterson's, and the like. Special 24th Street, New York City, editor of Perhaps the most valuable items, aside editions of publications, though, are a Stamps Magazine, estimates their number from rare books and manuscripts, are gamble. Few could foresee that a file of at from twelve to fifteen million. So this those reflecting cultural and historical the Southern Literary Messenger when it considerable segment of the national aspects of the American scene. O. C. was edited by Edgar Allen Poe would population should provide a buyer for Lightner, publisher of Hobbies Magazine, bring big money 75 or a 100 years after most any old rare or scarce postal item a Chicago publication which is bought his death, or that a single copy of his thin found in most any old attic. Coin collectors by more than 40,000 collecting zealots each little pamphlet, Tamerlane, (Boston,

The American Legion Magazine • Novembei. 1949 • ^9 1827), would one day fetch more money Signed letters tucked away in old chests publishers of a national biographical cy- than Poe earned in his entire lifetime. and trunks are worth money only if the clopedia had cleaned out their files. She The same sort of principle applies to writer earned some distinction in an ear- traced the discarded niaterial to a junk books. Usually, first books written by lier day, or if written by some ooscure man at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and authors who spring to fame are far more person on a subject of interest to specialist found that he still had the papers - 25,000 valuable to collectors (because scarcer) collectors. But don't throw these old questioimaires filled in by American pub- than their later works. Sinclair Lewis's family letters out without checking on the lic men and celebrities over a period of Hike and the Aeroplane, published in 1912, value of the postage stamps—or, if of Civil years. Miss Benjamin bought hundreds of is worth $100; a first edition of his Prodi- War vintage, looking over the paper and them including three different question- gal Parents, 1938, is worth a piddling $1.50. enveloi)es. The letter may be written on naires which President Franklin D. Similarly, H. L. Menken's Ventures Into paper with a special design and enclosed Roosevelt had filled out in his own hand. Verse, 1903, (which he has tried to sup- in a "patriotic" envelope—these are worth "I sold them right off for a hundred press) would bring $100 as compared to $5 money. George N. Malpass, Saratoga dollars each," Miss Benjamin recalls. "To- for a first edition of Prejudices, his series Springs, New York, has gathered more day I could get five hundred each." published from 1927 on. There are, of than 8,000 "patriotic" envelopes of the What other things will be the rarities course, collectors who specialize in a Civil War period. of the future? You have only to look about single author or a single book, and whose The signatures of such modern celebri- you. Almost anything that touches on price on a certain piece is determined by ties as Vladimir Horowitz, the pianist, or modern society will have its place in the the want factor — how badly it is wanted Walter Winchell, the columnist, are good literature and history of tomorrow. As- to fill a gap on the shelves. Outstanding in only to the bobby-sox autograph hunters, suming that you are aged anywhere from this field is T. Henry Foster, Ottumwa, worth about 50 cents. Presidential signa- 25 to 60, if you'd collected the political Iowa, who has brought together some 300 tures are, naturally, the most valuable campaign buttons in your lifetime you'd first and early editions of Uncle Tom's but they, too, have a wide range of val- have earned yourself enough money to Cabin. ues. Intimate holograph letteis of Harry buy a week's meals at least. Political but- Although nearly every boy once read Truman are worth about $100; those of tons are going out, but it might be well them behind the barn, dime novels and Franklin D. Roosevelt as much as $500; to start with the campaign next year. Or nickel libraries—Tip Tops, Pluck & Luck, James A. Garfield about $50; Benjamin you might collect newspaper advertise- Nick Carter, The James Boys, and on Harrison, $10 and up. Some Lincoln letters ments which reveal the ephemeral vogues through an almost never-endmg list of fetch as much as $15,000 (vide Alfred in women's clothes, Or, just to mention a titles — are almost as scarce as dinosaurs Stern's purchase of Lincoln's letter to random dozen from an endless list, you today. Collectors like the celebrated 1949 sale of General Hooker, or the the might collect golf books, political cartoons, Charles Bragin, 1525 West 12th Street, fifth autograph copy of the Gettysburg advertising postcards, trolley transfers,

Brooklyn, New York, (he's the sparkplug Address at $54,000) . Lincoln values are aviation guides, menus, children's puzzle of the Dime Novel Club), or Cleurence high because there are in this country games, railroad timetables, war maps, Orser, of Page, North Dakota, pay well for more than 5,000 collectors of Lincolniana. gummed labels, valentines or Christmas these rarities nowadays—just as Goodwin Some Lincoln letters, though, bring as seals. Goldfaden, of Los Angeles, does for old little as $100, and informal notes even less. It seems to be true that we all have a sporting books which were published by Some dealers get a windfall of valuable touch of the magpie and pack-rat in- Reach and Spalding. It is likely that com- autographs once in a while by reading plete sets of comic books which are now the papers and acting promptly on what stinct in us. With a little ingenuity, we flooding the news stands will be worth is found in the news columns. Once, Mary can exploit that instinct and, besides in- fifty times the present value in some not A. Benjamin, New York autograph deal- dulging in an absorbing hobby, become distant day. er, read in her morning paper that the nicely paid curators of the future.

E CHILD WHO STARTED A LOB (Continued from page 15) could scarcely have dreamed of what she ray Hintz promised to do the job with Tony who arrive on the scene later. had started. the $200,000 he had on hand. How, we When the resolution was drawn to the The Legion was well represented at didn't know. But we decided to go after satisfaction of all concerned it was in- Santa Fe when, in January, Governor authority to spend that money and let troduced in the Senate and referred to a Thomas E. Mabry was inaugurated and Murray worry about making it stretch. committee. The Governor was interested the legislature met. There were Fred We dropped the bill and substituted Sen- in the measure, it was reported favorably Linn, perennial chairman of the Legis- ate Joint Resolution No. 17." out of committee and passed both cham- lative Committee of New Mexico's Legion This resolution called for no new taxes bers without a dissenting vote. The Legion Department; Reid Mulkey, the Depart- or appropriations, and so avoided embar- had pulled the cork; now it was up to the ment Commander; Ed Hobbs, and a good rassment to the administration. And be- State Welfare Board and the Welfare many others. cause it did not designate a particular Department to make the money stretch "I had a bill drawn and ready to pre- place for construction, a fight was elimi- as Murray Hintz had promised. serit," Fred Linn says. "But after we nated on that score. The State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at sounded out the legislature and talked It did call for immediate action and it Socorro was selected as the site for the with the Governor and Murray Hintz we also designated what children might use new facilities. There was plenty of room didn't use it." the new facilities. This was important. for building there and the Sanatorium There were definite reasons for leav- None of the interested parties, neither the already had a staff headed by Dr. Carl ing the bill in Fred Linn's pocket. The Legion nor the State officials, wished the Mulky, a nationally known chest special- incoming administration had been elected benefits of the measure to be limited to ist. Dr. Ralph M. Alley, also a specialist on a platform of no new taxes and no in- those on relief. There are many people in diseases of the chest, was resident creased spending. But the men who drew who are not on welfare rolls and who still physician. Also there was a corps of up the bill, knowing that $200,000 would cannot afford long continued hospital bills. nurses and attendants. provide bed space for only fifteen or Therefore Senate Joint Resolution No. The actual building offered a more diffi- twenty patients under present building 17 specified that the "Department of Pub- cult problem. Since the two-hundred costs, had incorporated an appropriation lic Welfare provide separate hospital fa- thousand dollars could have provided bed in the measure. cilities for medically indigent tubercular space for only fifteen or twenty additional Also, certain sections of the state with children." Tuberculosis can readily make patients; Murray Hintz entered into nego- hospitals and other public institutions of a fairly prosperous family "medically in- tions with the War Assets Administration. their own would be sure to want to trade digent." Just outside of Santa Fe was Bruns around when the bill came up for pas- All of these calculated political con- General Hospital, built by the Army dur- sage. These things were certain to cause siderations were vitally important to chil- ing the war and now deactivated. Its a fight which the Legion wished to avoid. dren who lay at home coughing and knew ward buildings were 150 feet long by 29% "And anyhow," Fred Linn adds, "Mur- nothing of them; children like Cecilia and feet wide, of frame construction, with

4Q • The American Legion Magazine • Novembei. 1949 asbestos shingle cover and sheet rock in- be done. A rotunda was built to house of Surgeons. If this is passed, and the terior. According to the architects and administrative offices and from this five probabilities are that it will be, the State contractors I have talked with, such of the buildings brought from Santa Fe Tubercular Sanatorium will be qualified buildings will last indefinitely in New stretched out like the fingers of a dis- to accept interns and operate a nurse's Mexico's dry climate. Six of these build- tended hand to form the Children's Wing. training school. ings were purchased from War Assets, at The sixth building was remodeled into On October 31, 1948, The American approximately 95% discount off cost, and an addition for the nurses' quarters, and Legion's Co-ordinated Child Welfare a contractor cut each building into three this was nearly as important as the Chil- Committee inspected the Children's Wing sections, loaded two sections on trucks dren's Wing itself. It has always been and held a meeting in the foyer of the for his first trip, and the show went on difficult to get nurses for the Sanatorium new nurses' quarters. On Sunday, the road. because of isolation and lack of housing, November 21 Governor Mabry and mem- Via U. S. Highway 85 the distance and the treatment of tuberculosis de- bers of his staff came down from the capi- from Santa Fe to Socorro is 137 miles, but pends largely on efficient nursing. The tal and dedicated the Wing. because of a railroad underpass, this road new nurses' quarters were designed to The dedication exercises were well at- could not be used. Another, longer, route eliminate this difficulty. tended. About 200 people were present, was taken but even this could not avoid For a year then, men worked on the not only state officials and Legionnaires the Rio Puerco. The bridge across the nurses' quarters and the Children's Wing, and Auxiliary members, but others from Puerco has a steel super structure and rejoining the sections, installing the various parts of the state. Some members of the legislature were there, and one, a gruff, full bodied cowman, made a speech, demanding to know why all this hadn't been done before. The Governor, the Legionnaires, the whole crowd, inspected the buildings and were well pleased with what they saw. Murray Hintz and the Welfare Board had done a job. For about $200,000 they had had provided bed space for 150 additional patients. Now there was a place for the kids. Two case histories, one before the wing was built and the other about three months after will show the difference it makes to New Mexico's tuberculous children. A boy named Tony was first reported to have active tuberculosis on July 16, 1947. Private care for him could not be foxmd. Nearly a year later, on June 10, 1948 Tony suffered a relapse. Still no care could be found though the Welfare people wrote every nursing home, hospital and every other proper institution in the State. On November 15th, after six- teen months, Tony was admitted to the Children's Wing, though it was not officially open. He is there now. A girl named Cecilia, not yet two years old, was admitted to the sanatorium last March, nine days after X-rays confirmed her need for hospitalization. No comment is necessary. The Legion did not stop working after men who move heavy equipment curse plumbing and heating fixtures, partition- the Wing was dedicated. All Posts and h and keep an eye on the weather, knowing ofT private rooms, connecting the Units in New Mexico are contributing ing that they must cross below the bridge. sprinkler system with which each build- to a comfort fund for the children, and For most of the year the Rio Puerco is ing was equipped, enlarging the central many have undertaken special projects a dry stream bed, but when there is rain heating plant to take the additional load, for the Wing. Armijo y Armijo Post #64 in the hills a full head of water runs. The putting in more electrical wiring and at Socorro particularly has taken the contractor, reaching the Puerco, crossed lights, painting, glazing, and finally, bring- Children's Wing as its special charge and his fingers and built a road below the ing in beds and bedside stands and chairs works continually to make it a pleasant, bridge. He also put in a culvert. The night and other equipment. The central section cheerful place; a place where children this work was finished the F*uerco ran in of the five was turned into a recreation such as Maude won't cry because they are flood and road and culvert went down- hall, the other four were wards and pri- lonely and homesick. stream. Nine roads were built; nine were vate rooms. And what of Maude? Her aunt has died washed out. The contractor unloaded the While this was taking place, another and of tuberculosis and the disease is still first two sections in a clearing above the unforeseen development occurred. The active in the child. Now eleven years old, bridge and went back to Santa Fe for Children's Wing, with its white walls and Maude is not in the Children's Wing. Al- more. He could not cross the Puerco until green roofs, made all the older buildings though, certainly, she is eligible for ad- the rainy season ended. seem drab and out of date. A whole pro- mission, no application has been made and While this was going on, Murray Hintz gram of remodeling and renovation was her family keeps her at home. But in was between the Puerco and a hard spot. called for and, as this article is written, New Mexico, the Legion and the State Governor Mabry's interest in the project is underway. The kitchen has been re- Welfare Department, the National Tuber- had not waned and he called up now and modeled, as have the dining rooms for culosis Association and the Public Health then to get a progress report. So did vari- staff and employees. A new, $30,000 sur- people are busy combatting ignorance and ous Legionnaires. Both Murray Hintz and gery is under construction. The whole selling the idea that the way to deal with the contractor were happy when, in plant is in the process of being brought TB is to detect it in its early stages and September, the rains stopped and the up to date and when this is done. Dr. then give proper treatment. And because - buildings reached their final site. Mulky, the Chief of Staff, plans to invite of Maude the proper treatment is there More than a year's work remained to an inspection by The American College at last. THE END

The American Legion Magazine • November. 1949 • .

HOW YOU CAN HELP A CRIPPLE will find grounded to the casing, must be insvilated it with sheet Bakelite or (Contimied from page 2H; from Fiberglas and a wire lead must be attached to each. This then will pro'vide four external leads — two field winding leads and two brush leads. To check your changes, connect one brush lead to one fie]d lead, attach the second field lead to one terminal of the 6-volt battery, and the second brush lead to the other terminal. The motor should run. Then, reversing the brush-lead connections should

reverse the motor if you have done the job right. Several changes also must be made in the four Ford relays used in the motor- reversing circuit and in the two Packard or Buick starter-motor solenoids used to operate the brakes. To convert each Ford relay, first remove the top and drill a small hole through the back of the housing close to the coil. With a soldering iron, melt ofl the wire connection (there will be TMKueNOUT two if two double-pole rather than four I *S I VI - HEX MWO BOLTS single-pole relays aire used) to the hous-

ing and replace it with a No. 18 wire lead -I2H- through the drilled hole. The top then % 1 1 FUT HEAD «ACH SCIIEW^ can be replaced and fastened by peening .2 'ill FLAT HEAD HACH SCREWS over the edge with a hammer. 2 1 1 H SPACCK 32r Since the two starter solenoids are used only for their mechanical action needed in applying the brakes, all electrical connections not needed to of>erate the solenoid must be eliminated. To do this, open H AXLE BEARING up the solenoid and remove the copper contact disk, replacing it with a piece of battery holder are welded, then fastened together with machine screws THE FRAME and fiber or other available insulating material that is the same thickness. Also clip through the use of two electrically con- 6 -volt storage battery can be used as the the wire leading to the small booster coil. trolled brake shoes that can be made power source. This cuts the available Replace the top and the solenoid relay. to bear against the wheels of the chair. power down from 2 horsepower to about In wiring the various electrical parts By operating either of two additional ^ horsepower, but still provides emple according to the diagram, No. 18 insulated switches to brake either the right or the drive to to move the chair easily on ramps wire can be used for all connections be- left wheel, the chair can be made to turn as well as on the level. tween the relays and the four micro- either to the right or to the left. Thus by As purchased, the 24-volt motor is switches mounted on the wheel -chair operating four push-button switches, the equipped with only a single terminal or arm. Number 10 instilated wire, however, occupant of the chair can make it go lead, the ground or motor casing serving should be used for all other connections. through just about any maneuver he de- as the second lead. To correct this, and The main frame and battery holder sires. To make the button pushing easy, also to provide the necessary connections should be fabricated by welding together light-to-the-touch microswitches are used for reversing the moxor, several simple lengths of 1 by 1 inch steel angle stock. and operate through relays. modifications must be made. First of all, The pillow blocks, fitted with ^ inch in- In the interests of simplicity, cost, and the two ends of the field winding must be side diameter bronze bearings obtainable weight, the 24-volt motor is operated at brought out through the motor's casing. in auto supply stores, should be machined a reduced voltage so that an ordinary Second, the two brush holders, which you and welded in place. The brake arms and quick-disconnect clamps can be formed by heating the metal with a torch and bending it to shape in a vise. Finally, if you get into any unsolvable mechanical or electrical difficulties, Jim Rand says he will be glad to try and set you straight. His address is 12720 Lake Shore Boulevard, Cleveland 8.

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED

6-volt storage batter>' S15.00 24-volt D.C. motor. 17.12 Airplane tail wheel 2.49 Starter solenoids 7.00

Pillow blocks . . 7.06 Wire and clips 2.93 Steel stock 2.07

Microswitches . 8.75

Battery charger . . 15.00 Casters 1.02 Gears and drive chain 1.50 N'uts and bolts .50 Total ....$80 44 (Note: Prices may vary jsliBhtlyl THF Fvn I SAW THE GI BILL WRITTEN

if ' - - ' " — Bahnnare. Tbey agreed to cooperate first "e : i . - r ^: i zi'-'i tiie Legion would meet with them. men: :: it i \ \ : - -.i;.;-; :.:t;::: I helped to arrange a meeting at the Statler Hotel between Stelle's commir.e^ and the Wokoan group. The VFW ar-^^: =^ formally to support the bill, and W;. - said: "I think that, in uniting the forces of these two great organizations, we have made history here.'" The conference in no way altered any of the basic provisioDS of the GI Bill of Rights as the Legion had introduced :'. A few suggestions were niade by VFW, and accepted by the Legion - chief among them the Lnsertion of the fig"^e $500,000,000 in that section «rf the bill au- thorizing the Veterans Administration to proceed with an adequate hospitalization program- THi LECios had avoided any specific figure when the GI Bill was drafted. It had included a provision directing the armed services to mm over to the \ et- erans Administration such hospital facilities as should no longer be needed by the Army and Navy after the war. The Legion's ptirpose was to provide adequate hospitalization without delay. We had done what our friends on Capi- tol Hill had asked: we had eKminatec "iie most effective part of the miyubition ire— smaller veterans' organizations. Omar Ketchum went before die Sena;^ and House Committees to voice stupor*. at the boll, aiAough later he gave as n: he^ in the dosing days of the battle, wher. it seoned that the GI Bill of Rights might be lost. While the VFW withdrew its oppcs.- ticm, Millard Rice of the DAY would n:: yield. On the 22d, in fadt, he addressee a new letter to Senator Walter F. George chairman at the Senate Finance Conmiit- tee, renewing his attack. "Your cautiouaness in resisting the 'blitz' methods nsed by an ill-advised group in its attempt to pat acroas the 'GI Bill of Rights' ... is indeed appreciated by those — America's disabled wsr veterans — whose future welfare -x-o'^z thereby very probably be unfav y afiected," he wrote. In fairness to Senator Geoxge, it dkoold be said that he was ahvays £avarabl7 in- clined to the GI BiU, and never at any time gave any evidence that he was "resisting'' its passage. 'This biLL" Rice conticued, "referred to as an Omnibus Bill, has been more ap- propriately described as ominous'.'' He bittezfy attadced die unenqpiagFineit compensation provisions of the bill, which have since benefitted over eight million veterans, saying: 'The lazy and 'diisely' types at veterans

would get the most l ieiipfita, wfaacoh the * resourceful, indnstzious and i'«»««^« ifl« i ti« i« t«i.

veterans would get the least I wfl iefits, if any." We read that sentence in uStex amaze- ment that anyone could £ear Aat dieze wotild be any a|jprijfirible number oe "lazy " and "chisely" veterans. 'We had faith in the veterans. We knew that while the disabled vet«^ would always have By R. WILSON BROWN ( Continued from page 43 ) able contributions to the bill which were accepted by the Legion and all of them Movie Headliners for IMovember became its active supporters. On March 13, 1944, Bennett Clark introduced a new version of the bill. There was no major change in its form or the benefits it offered. It was the Legion's bill, adapted by Harry Colmery to suit the ideas of those who had made construc- tive contribution to it, and, in many in- stances, had improved it. The bill was approved by the Senate Finance Conmiittee, March 17, by a unanimous vote. And, in an unprecedented move, as a result of Bennett Clark's work it was called up in the Senate with a total of 81 Senators as co -sponsors! Never in the history of the Senate had so many Senators given their names to a piece of pending legislation. The bill's passage in the Senate was guaranteed before it reached the floor! Bennett Clark was the means of getting those names. The Legion's committee worked with him — and one afternoon John Stelle came hurrying into Legion headquarters, waving a copy of the bill, and crying:" "By God, I got Alben Barkley, the majority leader, to sign it in his own hand- writing!" BATTLEGROUND (M-G-M) with this trip necessary?" which is food for Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo thought. FIFTY SENATORS were on the floor of the Montalhan and George Murphy. The humor amidst tragedy is vm- Senate when the bill came up for a That the screen can capture the story forced. Foot-sore and weary, the GIs vote. Senator Clark read the names of all of grimy foot-slogging infantrymen, are resting in the zero cold when the the sponsors — and other Senators later their hopes, fears and tragedies and, Nazis bombard them with leaflets asked that they be included. In the end, at the same time, preserve the ever- suggesting they surrender. George all but two members of the Senate en- present unintentional humor that Murphy, hobbling on frozen feet, dorsed the bill. characterizes the American GI, is the slowly picks up one after another and Passage by the Senate was unanimous. quality that makes this picture great. quietly retires behind a bush. There was jubilation at Legion head- Battleground is fact — the simple story Effective scene: General McAulilTe's quarters after the Senate action. We were of the average GI around whose fox- representative meets a German de- sure that the House would act at once, hole history was made in the crucial mand for American surrender with and that within a matter of days, a week battle of Bastogne in 1944. Author the General's historic quote—"NUTS!" or two at the most the GI Bill would Robert Pirosh knew what he was Van Johnson and George Murphy finally be enacted into law. writing for he was one of those who reach new acting heights, but the real John Stelle was host that night at the fought at Bastogne. Producer Dore surprise is a newcomer, James Whit- Embassy room at the Statler for a vic- Schary, who insists upon a message more, the laconic, tobacco-chewing tory dinner; a dinner, it was to appear, in his pictures, has it here in the platoon sergeant who could easily win that was a little premature. The bill had chaplain's minute sermon on "Was an Academy award. not yet passed the House of Representa- tives. After the Senate passed it, John Ran- kin, chairman of the House World War OF SPECIAL LEGION INTEREST COMEDY FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY Veterans Committee, promised swift con-

/ Married A Communist (R-K-0) Francis (U-I) . A talking mule helps sideration and action on the bill. The with Robert Ryan and Laraine Day. A Donald O'Connor win the war. Lots chairman himself was among those who hammer and sickle expose which all of clean laughs. very openly opposed veterans' unem- good Americans should see. The Lady Takes A Sailor (Warner). ployment compensation. But he did prom- Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic). A A Navy secret complicates business ise action. salute to the Leathernecks starring and love for Jane Wyman and Dennis Yet the days dragged on, the weeks 1,250 Marines and John Wayne. A good Morgan. Wyman is surprisingly good passed, and still the GI Bill of Rights was war document. as a comedienne. held up in the House World War Veterans' Love Happy (UA). If you like the Committee. STRICTLY ADULT COMEDY Marx brothers you will like this for Finally, a month later, Frank Sullivan Love Is Big Business (R-K-O). it is typical of their usual screen antics. sent a telegram to all Department Com- Claudette Colbert is determined to Free for All (U-I). Robert Cum- manders of the Legion. snag herself a rich husband in Robert mings and Ann Blythe engage in a "Delay has developed in the House Young. Acting is good; story is weak. rather far-fetched story idea billed as World War Veterans' Committee on re- comedy but not too funny. porting out our GI Bill," it read. "Pro- SUSPENSE gram has been before it since January 11. FOR THE SPORTSMAN but Chicago Deadline (Paramount) . Alan You have done magnificent work, Ladd as a newspaper reporter and The Story of Seabiscuit (Warner). would appreciate numerous telephone Donna Reed as the woman enact a dif- Just what the title implies except calls, telegrams or airmail letters to mem- ferent kind of suspense drama based minus the real Seabiscviit but with bers of House insisting committee cease upon Tiffany Thayer's book "One Shirley Temple and Barry Fitzgerald. delay and report bill without substantial Woman." It's Ladd's best in a long Unless you are a horse lover and en- change, House membership anxious to act while. joy racing pictures, skip it. on it." Sullivan's action had been precipi- tated by a disturbing development on the floor of the House. Representative Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, Re- publican leader, had asked when the GI Bill would reach the floor. Majority Lead- From where I sit er John McCormack had been unable to answer. Then Chairman Rankin rose, and said: "This is the most far-reaching and most explosive bill ever to reach Congress. The Joe Marsh committee is not going to be stampeded ^ ." into bringing out a half-baked bill . . Substantial opposition had developed, in particular, to the unemployment compensation provisions. One committee member, opposing that section, said: "This bill provides unemployment compensation which will not only cost five to six billion dollars, but will also drive a wedge into the ranks of the men now Sure You Haven't A in service. It will discriminate against the men who go right back to work." It was claimed in the House Committee that the unemployment compensation "Blind Spot"? provisions would make loafers out of the veterans — that in some sections of the country, at least, men would rather loaf As I was driving down Main Street on $20 a week than work. Harry Colmery gave the Legion's reply last Saturday, another car swung to that: out right in front of me. It turned "The American Legion has not lost faith in the veterans." out to be Buck Blake. He wasn't going The Army Times, influential service fast. It was just that he had something publication, in an editorial demanded: "Don't you think it's time to quit stall- else on his mind at that particular ing? The GI Bill of Rights has been in moment. committee since January." The editorial pointed out that some members of Congress had said the bill Buck's really one of the nicest fel- should be rev^rritten to prevent "encour- lows I've ever known. But, sometimes agement of idleness through over-liberal unemployment compensation provisions." he gets to day-dreaming on the road. "What kind of people do you think are He sort of gets a "blind spot" to what's fighting and winning this war?" the Army going on about him! Times asked. "The GI Bill of Rights is not charity. It merely provides a chance for service men and women to navigate under Now, lots of normally considerate their own power. They have been taken from jobs, homes and futures to win a folks have their "blind spots.'' It war. Certainly they deserve a little assist- could be anything from day-dreaming while driving a car to humming out loud at the movies.

From where I sit, it's mighty important to be on guard against your own "blind spots." The other feUow has a right to his "share of the road," too—whether it's having a taste for a temperate glass of sparkling beer or a desire to listen to some classical music if he wants to.

"All right: heads up there, Mac!"

The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • ance in making their readjustments." story. And, as a result, the people were The unemployment compensation pro- informed when it began to appear that visions had been worked out carefully the GI Bill was being stalled. Once again with the aid of many people. Stan Rector, the Legion's Departments and Posts had chairman of the legislative committee of gone to bat. the Interstate Conference of Employment The National Executive Committee of Security Agencies, had compiled the un- the Legion met in Washington from April employment compensation laws of all 26 to May 2, 1944, together with some States as a guide. thirty other national committees, com- The Legion believed it should not re- missions and boards; and their presence treat from its stand. Unemployment com- gave additional impetus to the Legion's pensation was an essential safeguard for demand for action. the returning veteran. Veterans accepting It was a difficult time for the Legion's it were to be called "the 52-20 Club," a gibe GI Bill committee — and particularly for derived from the provision that unem- Harry Colmery. He spent many hours ployed veterans might receive $20 a week with members of the House Committee, for as much as 52 weeks if they could not seeking compromises and agreements to honestly find employment. However, it induce them to report out the bill — and assured every man who needed it a very many sleepless nights preparing new, real measure of security, and veterans tentative drafts of the bill or some of its know today that its administration in most sections. IDEA! localities carried out the intent of the law. Finally the House Committee simply NEW LEG-COMFORT And the Legion held to its conviction over-rode its chairman's objections, and Tired of loose, creeping, binding shorts? that, whether or not there might be abuses reported out its version of the bill, in- by a trifling minority, the vast majority corporating all the fundamental princi- Step into a trim AUen-A Middie and step of sincere veterans could not be deprived ples for which the Legion fought, and the out in comfort! It's knJi to fit — follows of this essential benefit. House passed the GI Bill on May 18, 1944 every move of your leg — gives snug, ab- by a vote of 387 to 0. We celebrated that sorbent, no-creep coverage. Washes and THE LEGION prepared for a new and night. dries quickly, needs no ironing. In year- final fight for the bill. National Com- But a tough fight was still ahead of us. mander Atherton had designated the The bill, as the House passed it, differed 'round lightweight cotton, or with 25% Legion's birthday, March 15, as "national in administrative details from the Senate for wool cold-weather wear. Get several sign-up day" for petitions urging adop- version of the measure. On May 21 it was Allen-A Middies today! tion of the bill. Petitions bearing more sent to a joint Senate-House conference than a million names flooded the Wash- to iron out the differences. For name of nearest dealer, ington headquarters; and James P. Ring- Protracted meetings of the conferees send postcard to ley and Larry Fenlon of Chicago did an followed. It was reported that they were ALLEN-A outstanding job in producing them. So did deadlocked, that they could not come to across land. that the GI Bill of Rights PIQUA, OHIO Legionnaires the an agreement, Jack Cejnar, fearing a let-down of pub- would be lost. 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4g • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 You aren't still talking GI Bill ol Righis, "there is a delay of five to six hours on are you? That's dead and forgotten!" all calls to Georgia." Sam smiled. The news was crushing. But Jack Cejnar "Yes," he said, "we're talking about it, said: and we're going to get it passed." "The Atlanta Constitution is for us. Ketchum shook his head. They've written editorials, asking their "You're crazy," he said. readers to call on Congress to pass it. But we knew it wasn't dead. We weren't They'll help." going to let it die. Led by Stelle the Legion's special committee dug in and WE hadn't been able to get Douglas, fought. They marshaled every resource, Georgia, on our first meek try, but we every influence they could think of. took a different tack on the next try, and By Thursday, June 8, 1944 the conferees Stelle talked an operator into connecting That's nothing! had agreed on Sections I, II and III of the him with Atlanta. Dupont Wright, night bill, Constitution, Ed- including the education and loan editor of The and Rolfe My REGENS is completely features. In the main, the Senate had mondson, rewrite man and a veteran of yielded to the House versions. But they World War I, were on duty. They had a automatic, too! were deadlocked over Title IV — veterans' telephone priority they could use in an it left in situation was ex- placement. The Senate wanted emergency. When the Single motion United States Employment Service, plained to them, they decided this was the lights and closes with control exercised by a board of which certainly an emergency. "Slide-out" tank the Administrator of Veterans Affairs was Edmondson called Gibson's home in 6 lights pipe, too chairman. The House wanted to hand it Douglas. over entirely to the Veterans Administra- No answer! The Congressman was not Windproof "weath- tion, creating a new and separate employ- at home. er-guard" design ment organization, duplicating and paral- The Douglas telephone operator had Easy-filling leling the USES and state systems. heard the story — heard why we had to removable tank reach Gibson. Her attitude was like that Precision made THE LEGION backed the Senate position. of another telephone operator, that night, of solid brass It would give control to the VA, in who said: Guaranteed for keeping with the Legion's hard-learned "My husband just landed in Normandy. one full year lesson that veterans suffer when their We've got to pass that GI Bill for him." affairs are in many hands. Yet it would The Douglas operator said: STILL THE BEST LIGHTER BUY utilize the set-up of USES and avoid the "I'll find him for you — some way or within In nickel, chrome, enamel, creation of a wasteful new agency other!" ^^^q"* ^^ ^^ etched or rhodium finish * the VA. She began to telephone his friends. She There were seven Senators and seven learned that Gibson was supposed to be Representatives on the conference com- on the highway, some place between Val- mittee. Under the rules a bill would die dosta and Douglas, 70 miles apart. She if a majority of the representatives from thought he was on his way home. each house did not agree. "I'll ring him every five minutes until The seven Senators were in accord. But I get him," she said. the House group was evenly divided — Time was racing by. It was 9 o'clock — For best results with three voting to accept the Senate version, 10 o'clock - 11. any lighter use Regens Yellow Flints, Regens Lighter Fluid three opposing it. The seventh member If we did reach Gibson, how were we AT BEHER of the House group — Rep. John Gibson — going to get him to Washington? There JEWELRY, DRUG, TOBACCO AND DEPT. STORES was at home in Georgia, recovering from was an Army Air Force Base at Waycross, Regens Lighter Corporation an acute illness. forty miles away. Could we get an army 2 East 46th Street, New York 17 The deadlock lasted through Friday, bomber? and into Friday evening. As the confer- I put in a call for a friend, Bill West- ence broke up that evening, Rep. Kearney lake, chief of Air Force public relations. of New York, a Past National Commander I heard he was in California. Where? No of the VFW, staunch advocate of the one available at that hour knew. Legion's desires, told John Stelle: I called The Los Angeles Examiner, and "John, we can't hold this thing together explained the situation. much longer. We've agreed to meet once "We've got to talk to Westlake!" I said. more, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. If "I can only tell you he's some place in we can't reach an agreement then, the California." conferees will vote to report back to each Within half an hour, the Exan^iner house that they are unable to agree. The found him — and Bill Westlake was on the bill will be lost." wire. "What can we do?" John asked. "I'll do anything I can to help," he said. ?le(\\yo(m "Get John Gibson up here from "I'll telephone the commander at the Way- Georgia," Pat Kearney said. "He'll vote cross base, and he'll be at your service." and dVinq space in a — the right way. He's the only one who can He did. In a matter of minutes, the save the bill." Waycross commandant telephoned us. r>^ Guaranteed by jGood Housekeeping^ We knew John Gibson was for us. He "I haven't got a plane available," he „v^t/ Seal applies to trailer and not had sent his proxy to the conferees but said. "But there's an Eastern Airlines to furnishings, accessories and tires, mm the chairman of the House Committee re- plane due to leave Jacksonville, Fla., at Yes, sir, there are real man-sized rooms in the new, 1949 GLIDER Trailer. It has the latest kitchen, bathroom, living fused to accept it. 2: 20. If you can get Gibson here, I'll have room and bedroom appointments, and it cao be yours on Get Gibson to Washington by 10 o'clock a car ready to drive him to Jacksonville." convenient monthly installments. the next morning? Meanwhile, Past National Commander WRITE TODAY FOR FREE BOOKLET We looked at our watches. It was al- Roane Waring had telephoned Judge Know more about the modern new GLIDER ^ ready past 6 o'clock in the evening. We Robert Patterson, Undersecretary of War, Trailer. Write today for free illustrated booklet, "Glider Forty Niners" showing de- dashed from the Capitol, and raced back to get a top airplane priority for Gibson. tailed floor plans for every GLIDER model. to Legion headquarters. The priority was granted. John Stelle put in a call to Gibson's In Georgia, two radio stations, WSB in home in Douglas, Georgia. Atlanta, and WGOV in Valdosta, were "Sorry," the long distance operator said. broadcasting repeated appeals: TRAILER COMPANY 1828 WEST KINZIE STREET • CHICAGO 22, ILLINOIS The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • ^7 )

Imported Swiss Stop "Anyone knowing whereabouts of Con- It was Clark Luke. Through a slashing CHRONOGRAPH gressman John S. Gibson ask him to call thimderstorm they raced toward Way- With 2 Push Buttons Operator 2 in Washington immediately. cross. Georgia police provided a motor- WRIST WATCH $6.90 Important he be contacted." cycle escort. Police were watching all Plus 69c Fed. Tax X YR. WRITTEN GUARANTEE AND The Georgia State police also pitched cross-roads to divert traffic. The road was INSTRUCTIONS in helped. Told urgently he was clear all the to — RiVPn Handsome Stainless Steel and how way Waycross and to wivcii Expansion Band • "Wonder" Watch. For timing autos, airplanes, needed, a police lieutenant said: Jacksonville. horse races, athletics events • Tachometer • Telemeter • Hands "You bet we'll find him. I'm a former At Waycross, Gibson leaped from Luke's & Nos. Glow In Dark, • Unbreak- able Crystal • Large Red Sweep GI myself. I know how important that car into an army car, driven by Corporal Hand • Tells Time, • Measures Speed & Distance • Stop Watch • bill is." Jack Hunter, former Notre track Precision Made. Dame SENT ON APPROVAL. Deposit $6.90 plus tax and postage Policemen raced over the highways star, with Private First Class Nils Stevens with postman or send money order, save postage. (Same money back privilege. Gibson might be traveling. There'd be the of Warnock, Ohio, as relief driver. JEWELBOX, Dept. GA, 1674 Broadway, N. Y. 19, N. Y. roar of a siren, and a policeman would Less than three hours were left when wave a motorist to the side of the road. Gibson left his home at Douglas. And "What—what do you want?" the motor- Jacksonville was 150 miles away! Wear Sample Suit ist would say. "I wasn't speeding." The policeman would cut him short. THE ARMY car leaped forward — raced NOT li TO PAYi "Are you Gibson? No? Then on your through the storm at 90 miles an hour. Here's amazing plani Write me an way." disaster today and I'll show you how to get Once almost put an end to the a flne, all-wool made-to-measure suit trip. for yourself— to wear and show to friends. Just take a lew orders, that's IN Douglas, the hour had long The driver swimg out to pass a truck. alll Here's an easy way to get your DOWN own suit without paying Ic, and also passed the quitting time of the opera- Suddenly a sharp curve loomed ahead. make flne cash profit on every order you take. You send no money, now tor who was "sitting on Gibson's phone." The driver's hands tightened on the wheel. or ever. Just rush name and address tor Sample Woolens and Valuable But she didn't think of quitting. His foot found the brake. The car whipped Sample Suit Coupon. Act now. Then, sometime after 11, she called into the turn, tires screaming. Two wheels W. Z. GIBSON, 500 S. Throop Street Dept. Y-405, Chicago 7, Illinois Edmondson on The Constitution. left the road. It lurched and tilted sick- "I've got Congressman Gibson," she eningly. But just when it seemed certain Dealers said. to overturn, Corp, Hunter fought it back WHAM-0 Write SPORTSMAN Gibson was on the wire. He was told into control. HITS LIKE A .22 RIFLE - the situation. "I thought my feet would go through "I thought it was important," he said. the floor boards," Gibson said. "I heard the 'phone ringing as I was driv- Florida police waited at the state line, HUNTING ing in the yard. You bet I'll go to Wash- to escort the car to the airport, where the SLINGSHOT plane waiting. Po erfol, silent, occurole ington. They promised to vote my proxy." was Complete with 40 pellets ond extra Dupont Wright got John Stelle on the At 6: 37 a.m., the plane landed at Wash- ruboer strops. Ser>d $1.00 today to — vO M(g Co., Bo B ,South Posodena, Calif. wire in Washington, He relayed instruc- ington National Airport—and the Legion's PROFESSIONAL MODEL OF THE NAT L SLINGSHOT ASSN. tions between Stelle and Gibson — giving special committee greeted Gibson. He was Gibson the number of his plane priority, fighting mad. and other information. "There's supposed to be such a thing Pat Kelly of Georgia was part of the as Congressional courtesy," he said. "I DEALERS team in oxir Washington headquarters that can't understand why my proxy wasn't night. He and Lyon ("Count") Brandon voted." Products advertised in the columns of of Mississippi had been appointed to the Sharply at 10 o'clock, as the conference this magazine are being pre-sold to your committee—and had done yeomen's serv- committee went into session, Gibsor best customers — fellow Legionnaires ice. He telephoned Department Com- strode in. and their families. mander Clark Luke at Ocilla, Ga., got him "Hello, John," someone said. "Have you you know who they are. out of bed, and told him to drive to Doug- got the opposition licked down in Give them a chance fo purchase. las, pick Gibson up — and take him to Georgia?" Invite them to buy by displaying these Waycross, where the army car was wait- "Yes," Gibson answered, "I've got it products on your counter. ing. licked there. And now I've come up here to lick tries to the We have counter display material. any one who hold up MEANWHILE, in New York, the late Wiley GI Bill of Rights. If you would like to use it. Write: Smith, editor of the Hearst wire, got "Americans are dying in Normandy in Promotion Department Walter Sternberg, Eastern Airlines' traffic the greatest invasion in all history — and The American Legion Magazine manager, out of bed, and told him what anyone who dares to cast a vote against was needed. Eastern's plane had to be this bill should be publicized to all the One -Park Avenue, New York 16, N, Y, held at Jacksonville until Gibson could world. get there, "I'm going to hold a press conference "Don't worry," said Sternberg, "We'll after this meeting. And I'm going to ex- do it." pose anyone who doesn't vote for the GI He called Jacksonville with a single Bill of Rights." message: The deadlock was broken. The vote was "Bring Gibson to Washington on that unanimous for the bill — and the long plane if you have to wait all night." seven-months fight was won. The GI Bill Dupont Wright was given all this in- of Rights was reported back to the House formation. He relayed it to Gibson. Sud- and Senate — in the form the Legion denly, Gibson said: wanted it. The Senate approved it June "I just remembered — I haven't got any 12, and the House on June 13, 1944. cash on me!" A few days later, Sam Rorex had the Available in Consoles and Wright began to cast about for pleasure of carrying the bill to the White Complete Chassis an answer to that. for signature. Presi- FAC T O R Y -T O - YOU But Gibson said: House the President's LOW FACTORY "Never mind. There's always a poker dent Roosevelt signed it on June 22, in 30 DAYS TRIAL game at the Elks Club on Friday night. the presence of John Stelle, Frank Sulli- MIDWEST RADIO A TELEVISION COH I'll get some money from the boys," van, National Adjutant Donald G, Glas- D«pt,XI04, 909 Broadwoy, CInclnnoTi 3, Otilo Pleg,« »»nd m* yovr new FREE 1950 Catalog. Even as he spoke, he saw the head- coff, Harry Colmery and Ralph Mitchell, EE lights of an automobile turning into his aide to National Commander Warren 32-fog« yard, Atherton. ADDRESS. 4 C*l*r "This must be Clark Luke now," he said. The GI Bill of Rights -the Legion's bill CATALOG CUT "I'm on my way. Goodbye!" — was the law of the land. the end

43 * The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 . . A MAN FROM KANSAS (Continued irom page 25) if you know what's good for you, you thin cigar as he idled along. For some un- AHIAZINCIY LIFi-lIKE won't ever look at Jessie that way again." accountable reason, Conover's apparent "Because of Tom Walker?" sense of unawareness worried Estes, but "Because of Frank Trace, Walker's before he could make up his mind to do (tie tough partner in things around here. anything about it, Conover passed from VoU 'J Up Trace runs a spread up in the hills and sight. he'd just as soon kill a man for butting Ten minutes later Conover appeared with in here as not. He gets Jessie or nobody again on the far side of the street. When does." he came abreast of Walker's Saloon, he MIRACLE "Thanks," murmured Conover. paused and had a long look around. With SKIN Jumping the air of finally satisfied DOLL down, the man from Kansas a man with what dragged his two carpet bags out of the he looked upon, he threw his half smoked booth and walked through the crowd and cigar into the street and turned into I She Sits Upl She Sleepsl She Cries! up onto the hotel porch. Jessie reached Walker's. behind her and opened the screen door. Estes let a long half hour run out, then Conover paused and said something that left the bam and crossed the street to Sbe's LIFE SIZE! made her smile and then went on inside. find Conover. There were some things 24 INCHES TALL Jessie followed him, lifting her hand to about Elkhorn and its people Conover tuck in a stray wisp of hair. Everyone had better know and Jack intended to tell had seen her do that a himdred times, but him at once, before there was any trouble. this time it was different, there was a sort Conover was nowhere in sight, neither of off-stride, rattled awkwardness about in Walker's main room nor in the gambling the motion she made. No one missed it. wing beyond. Malone, the big, red -faced When the work at the barn was done, bartender poiired a drink, but Estes asked Estes moved into his cubby office. He him no questions. Malone could never poured a drink and downed it, then sat recall anything he had ever seen, never idle, looking out through the dusty win- knew what was going to happen next; he dow panes and letting his mind dwell was a perfect man for Walker. Estes upon the evilness that ran deep beneath swallowed the drink and walked outside the surface calmness of this town. again, turning toward the Parker House Beginning next week, when driving puzzled. into Elkhorn he would stop first at Tom The hotel door burst open in his face Walker's Hotel, next door to Tom Walker's and Jessie ran into him. Jack caught her Saloon. Harley Simmons, Elkhorn's and pushed her back. There were tears mayor, had suggested the change, after in her eyes and anger, and no color left coming directly from a talk with Walker. in her cheeks. Jack had agreed. The decision made him "Jack!" she said. "Get the doctor. feel ashamed of himself, but he did not Quick!" have the courage to buck Walker and Estes hurried away, knowing now why Trace, alone. Walker, with the help of Conover had never come out the front Trace, out in the hills, ran this end of door of Walker's Saloon. They had the county and, as their power grew, they dumped him in the alley. had less and less patience with those who Doc Ferris was in and not busy and opposed them. he did not even bother to ask what the Will Conover moved slowly into the trouble was vmtil they were on the way arc of Estes' vision. On his feet the Kansas to the hotel. man seemed taller. He carried himself "That man I brought in today," mut- erect and easily and drew slowly on a ( Continued on page 52) Beautiful gold-finish heart- shape locket necklace

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(Continued from page 49) water in her hands, glared at him. "You tured Estes. "He let the whole town see don't care who you let ride your stage, hirrj make a big eye at Jessie Parker and do you? she charged. "That man you then went into Walker's place. You'll palmed off on me is a crook Walker hired probably have to put the damned fool back to run the town." together again." "Walker hired him?" said Jack. Doc Ferris grunted and they turned "Simmons—Walker," said Jessie. "What's into the hotel. Jessie, waiting in the the difference. Simmons would stop lobby, grabbed the doctor's arm and led breathing if Walker told him to." Thin him toward the rear, on the ground floor, lipped, she stalked out of the room. toward her own quarters. That was not Estes looked at Dan Parker, lying on so good, either. the sofa. Dan was a tall, strapping young Twenty minutes later. Doc Ferris came man and Estes could not remember Dan "I LIKE A MAN back out into the lobby and looked curi- having ever lost a fight around town. WHO LIKES A ously at Estes. "Whatever made you think "What did you do?" Jack asked. "Get CIGAR" it was your passenger?" careless?"

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is the mild, inexpensive "It was Jessie's big brother, Dan. Noth- brought in today," said Dan. His head was ing really bad. Shoulder muscles tore completely bandaged and his right arm loose and a four inch gash in his head in a sling. "When Simmons made that last where he got sloughed with the barrel of trip out, it seemed he hired this Conover his own gun." for town marshal. Walker didn't take to "Who in the hell," asked Jack, startled, that Kansas man at first, he thought Sim- "did that to him?" mons should have hired a bigger man. "Your passenger," said Doc Ferris. That sort of made Conover sore and he "Will Conover." invited Walker out into the alley to prove PANETELA When Doc Ferris left, Estes walked how big he was. Tom didn't like that thoughtfully down the hall toward the either, so he told me to throw Conover Availoble at your deoler. rear of the building. Outside the last door out." Dan reached up and felt his band- If not send $2.40 for a box of he hesitated. Jessie's voice came through, aged head. 50 to Pennstate Cigar Corp,, sullen with anger. "I reached for Conover and he caught Phllo. 34, Po. We pay postage., "You could earn your living another my arm and damned near tore it off. The way, couldn't you? A fine brother. Work- next thing I knew, Malone had me out ing for the man who's trying to ruin me." in the alley. Seems like Conover had MAKE BIG MONEY! "Walker's not trying to ruin you," pro- knocked me cold with my own gun." . SPARE OR FULL TIME tested Dan Parker, his voice deep with Estes shook his head. "He didn't give NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. BIG PRO- FITS in new ' MIRACLE FINISH." Give vel the arrogance of youth and strength. "He me that impression." vety, luxurious surface to radios, lamps, toys, signs, store displays, auto trunk interiors, dash only wants to take the place off your "Don't ever let him get his hands on boards. Learn in few days. Our business is hands. You won't need it when marry you," warned Dan, wincing. "Any man booming. Help us fill HUGE DEMAND. New you "(nethod. EA.SY TO LEARN. Write for FREE Frank Trace." his size, who can handle me, is all right. details and SAMPLE. Do it now. Be first I COAST INDUSTRIES, Dept. ISB "Who's going to marry Frank Trace?" I hope he sticks around." 1 004 S. In Angelet St., lot Angeles 1 5 , Carrf. "Oh, use your head, Sis," complained "You think Walker will want him?" Dan Parker. "Frank's a big man. He's got Dan grew thoughtful. "I don't know if his mind set to terms. Conover wants four FISHERMAN AND POULTRY SHEARS on you, anyway, so what else they'll come PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR can you do. And there's no use of you times more than ordinary wages. If being mad at Conover. He's just a little Walker's willing to make up the differ- tough Simmons brought in to run the ence between what Simmons can pay and town." what Conover wants, then Walker will Estes knocked and walked on in. Jessie, have Elkhorn in his pocket. Conover's a wet towels over her arm and a basin of good man."

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The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • "Don't worry, my brother likes you. But gested he take off his badge, Conover larity to all other days ended. Handford's I meant to tell you, when you registered, obliged him. He not only ruined the miner, Blacksmith Shop looked closed down and that I can't feed you. I've too many steady but he practically wrecked the Last what few men were abroad in the busi- customers now. You won't like your room, Chance in the process. ness section of the town seemed in a hurry either. Somehow, I never can find time to Later, Conover rose from his evening to get where they were going. Only one clean up in Number Twenty, or make the meal and went out to the street and hauled man waited in front of the Parker House. bed. If you think that will be inconvenient, the two Telefair brothers off their horses Will Conover stood there, his arms folded I'll be glad to give you your money back." and beat up both of them for riding into and his back pressed against a porch post. "No," said Conover. "I'll take my meals town shooting their guns into the air. When Jack braked to a stop, Jessie out, until you can find a place for me, and It could have been coincidence, but it Parker came out and stood by the door. I'll take care of my own room. If I get was common knowledge that Tom Walker There was little color left in her cheeks tired of doing it, I'll let you know." resented Thaddeus Handford's outspoken and her whole body seemed drawn by He turned and started out, but stopped criticism and did not like the way the Last strain and fatigue. Estes climbed down at the door again. "If he were my brother, Chance cut into his liquor business. And and unloaded the baggage and, one by I wouldn't let him run with such bad everybody knew, that of all the ranchers one, his passengers, after a curious look company." in the hills, the Telefair brothers gave up and down the street, went on inside. "That's good advice," murmured Jessie, Frank Trace the most trouble. Jessie Parker followed them in as if she "but it's kind of hard to follow when you The next day being Thui-sday, Jack had just endured some kind of an ordeal. have a brother who takes a shine to every Estes made the run back to Riverville, Back on the high seat again, Estes crook who comes to town." glad to get away from Elkhorn. The looked down at Will Conover and said, By the time the saloons closed that people of that town knew all about the "What's the matter around here?" night, Mayor Simmons had made the deal the Kansas man had made with "The whole town acts like it's scared," rounds, pointing to himself with pride for Walker. And, perhaps with some excuse, said Will. "That's bad." having brought in a marshal who did not they tabbed Jack Estes as a friend of "Couldn't be because of your doings, carry a gun. It took Conover less time Conover. could it?" asked Jack. than that to prove he did not need one. Jack laid over in Riverville until Satur- "Yes," admitted Conover. "Yes it could." Before Handford closed his blacksmith day, then started back with a full load, Then he resumed his intense study of the shop, Conover sauntered in, picked up a two drummers, a young blonde woman cloud formations building up over the piece of iron bar and bent it into the with painted cheeks and a three-man hills tathe north. shape of a U, with his bare hands. Thad- government survey crew. As usual, just Estes drove on down to his barn. There, deus Handford, for all of his size and outside of Elkhorn, Jack let the teams go, when he climbed down, Ben Cash his barn strength, had to bring the metal to a red and went roaring into the town. Satur- man said, "There's going to be hell to heat in the forge before he could days, there were always more people on pay. Your new marshal is going to get straighten the piece to its original shape. hand to watch the stage arrive, and this himself killed." Just before supper, in the Last Chance was the last day Jessie Parker would get "That so?" Estes said, and wondered Saloon, Conover deliberately stepped on first chance at the travelers. why he was angry. the toes of a hard rock miner. When the At the outskirts of town, the dogs ran "It came out in the paper, yesterday," miner swore at the Kansas man and sug- at the rig, as usual, but there the simi- said Cash. "Him and Jessie Parker is going to get married." Estes spat into one of the stalls. "A lot must have happened since Thursday. OFOO£D What's got into her, anyway?" "Why Jessie didn't do anything," said Cash. "It was Conover who went to the paper. He even paid for the space it took to tell about it. Jessie's been trying to tell everybody it ain't so, but Conover tells everybody Jessie's just saying that because she's scared of Frank Trace. Con- over says he ain't scared of anybody." "What's Simmons saying?" Estes asked. "It's been said around," Cash told him, "that Simmons tried to fire Conover. But Conover, he's still wearing his star. Now he's anchored out there smellin' the wind. And he still don't carry a gun." APPROVED Estes went into his cubby office and stood there awhile, staring at the weapons FOR G.I. LOAN on the gunrack. Finally he selected a 30-30 carbine and let himself out the back door of the barn. 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5^ • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 bust that head of yours wide open again." up my mind," admitted the marshal. The day was i-unning out when Estes "Life's pretty short and what there is of saw Will Conover step away from the it goes pretty fast." WANT TO EARN porch and move two paces out onto the The gun in Frank Trace's hand blazed. walk. Then the jingle of saddle trappings The bullet struck the dust directly in $9000 A YEAR? and the dust-muffled tread of walking front of Conover, stopping him. Then here's your chance to enter a business horses carried into the slot between the "The end of you," said Trace, "is just offering an opportunity for unlimited earnings buildings. Two horsemen came into view. one step ahead of where you're standing. . . . plus the satisfaction of rendering a worth- One was Frank Trace and the other his If you want a fist fight you'll have to start while service in your own community. Many of riding boss, Phil Dufour. fighting from there. Why don't you play our representatives earn .$4000 to .$9000 a year and more! Trace was a big, full-bodied man with like you're a man and go get a gun?" To find out more about the opportunities a thick shock of brown hair and blue eyes "All right," said Conover. "If that's the offered to you in a life insurance sellinK career, bright by the made urges and ambitions way you want it." send for our free boolslet, "The Career for Me.'" that drove him. For all of his thirty odd turned He and walked slowly back to For those who qualify our program include-^ years, no one had been able to deny him the hotel, mounted the steps and passed an excellent on-the job training course, and the anything he wanted and his growing as- on inside. Leaning against the building, Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan provides liljeral commissions and service fees, with a surance that he was incapable of being Estes heard the creak of the inside stairs. comfortable retirement income at 65. For com- beaten made him an arrogant man. Conover seemed in no hurry as if now, I)lete information send for booklet today. Phil Dufour was slim and dark and he too, knew fear. almost bald. Possessing no great physical Estes turned his attention to the two THE MUTUAL LIFE on the street and suddenly men became INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK aware of what made him a stage driver, Street 'St' NewYorkS. N.Y barely earning a livelihood, and what 34 Nassau made Frank Trace a power in the county and a rich man. Trace and Dufour were waiting to kill Will Conover and, for all the fairness there was about the set-up, they might as well be shooting the marshal in the back, from ambush. Estes. himself, had both Trace and Dufour in his Let Me Send You sights. He could kill the two of them before they knew what hit them, and thus TH/S TAILORED SUIT AND MAKE UP TO $12. OO IN A DAY! YOU CAN GET this fine, tailored-to-measure suit as do Elkhorn a great favor, but he could a bonus, without paying one penny cash, by takine a few orders from friends. My plan also helps you not bring himself to do it. That, then, was make up to $12.00 in a day without experience or house •to - house canvassing. Big opportunity- the difference between them as men and, full or spare time. FREE — Send for Samples ai "Sure-Fire" MONf^Y-MAKlNG pl^ns. For quii waiting out return, Estes action write fully civinijacre. etc. Send no mone Conover's won- H.J.Collins. PROGRESS TAILORING CO. dered who was strong and who was weak. 500 S. Throop St., Dept. y.iqs Chicago 7, ill Trace and Dufour stepped out of their saddles, ejected the empty shells from "INVISIBLE their guns and reloaded. Trace said something and Dufour nodded. Then Tom Walker came out on the porch of his ELECTRONIC saloon and spoke. Trace turned and answered the man and Walker waved his EAR" HIDES cigar and smiled. Instead of turning back 'I ura so ii ying to support the famdy! inside, he decided to stay where he was. Don't I uhvays buy a sweepstake The screen door of the hotel slammed DEAFNESS ticket?" AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE and Will Conover came into view again. Transmits Even Whispers He had left his coat behind him and, With Startling Clarity! capabilities other than endurance, he had white shirted, he looked frail compared made himself a deadly man in other ways. to the big man from the hills. Conover • Now— a new way to hear uith- No one had ever seen him without a gun. wore his cartridge belt tight about his OHt any button in the ear— without Side by side they reined their horses waist, which made his gun ride high on dangling wires — without clumsy up before Tom Walker's Saloon. Then, as his hip. battery packs! A way that has if they had practiced it, and were shooting The instant Conover stepped oft the rendered old-style hearing-aids at some fencepost in the country, they walk, Dufour started to move down to a obsolete almost overnight. drew their guns and fired two shots apiece position opposite the Parker House, keep- Today Beltone's "Invisible through the windows of Vic Sloan's saddle ing on his own side of the street. This Electronic Ear" is enabling thou- shop, across the street. When the glass way he put Conover at the apex of a sands to hear clearly again — even crashed down and stopped making its triangle that kept widening at the base faintest whispers. Actually enables shattering noise, both men swung around and, every step he took forced Will you to hide your deafness while to face Will Conover. Conover's hand. The farther he let the bringing amazing new intensity Empty handed, Conover started slowly two men get apart, the worse his position and clarity of sound. "miracle" toward them. "I'm sorry you did that, and the slimmer his chance, and there was Find out about this new electronic today. Mail the FREE book coupon now. boys," he said. "Now I'll have to put you no way he could stop the manuever within jail." out drawing his gun, which the pair was Estes eased back the hammer of his obviously trying to make him do. carbine and stuck the barrel between the For a moment, Estes wished he had It^/^^^^ FOREMOST porch rail balusters, drawing a bead first stayed in the barn and away from having ONE-UNIT HEARING AID on Frank Trace and then on Phil Dufour, to make this kind of a decision, but it was SEND FOR VALUABLE FREE BOOK and not knowing what to do about it. too late now. If he turned and walked He could not shoot, that would be murder, back to the alley, he would always re- Beltone Hearing Aid Co., Dept. 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Grand gift for yourself mm\o I nn n't /TOUGH lush, I forget which), in a dress that and friends. Two 50 yd. spools Du Ponf might have showed plenty if there had / SMOOTH black NYLON. Top Quolily. Crafted, V FlAWltSS treated—ready for thrill of a "real — been anything to show. She was engaged strike" in fresh or salt water. Clear- in a whispered jaw-fest with a shifty-eyed >/ flexible view plostic case. Re-use for lures, etc. creep whom she called Spleen, whenever money-back Supply limited. guarantee OKe, Good .n U S A Onl, she got a chance to call him anything at ORDER MOW! Send to DepI C: LINECRAFT, CO all. Because Spleen did most of the talk- PHILADELPHIA 3, PA. ing. Miss Wetwhistle just nodded her head. I liked the way she nodded it. Some TINY RADIO — REALLY WORKS! babes are like that — good for nodding. FITS IN YOUR HAND! stall deadlines, Works on new "Perma- "Don't hand that about Crystal'* so It never needs troublesome dearie," Spleen hissed. "American hus- tubes, batteries or electric "plug-ins"I Easy to bands got to be made prvuie-minded, and use — Plays for notliing — Should last for Years. it's up to Us to do it." Beautiful HedPlastlcrase GUARANTEED TO WORK Now I recognized him! This was old on local proKrains by following Instructions. "Prune-Pusher" Spleen, the famous pub- G.B. of Ala. says "tiny radio is just wonderful! •• . lic relations man for the Southern Uca- ubMuumj^i.UUSenoOn vSI 00 p^y postman $2.99 c.O.D. plus postage or send $3.99 for postpaid delivery. Sent complete ready to play on sim- tan Prune Growers Institute — the guy ple attachment. Has personal phone. Wonderful gifts for boys and girls. Low priced. Order your Tiny Radio Now. who collected a thousand clams a day MIDWAY CO. DEPT. TAL-11 Kearney, Nebr. plus expenses to make prunes popular! Here was the genius who had given us such slogans as "A Prune In Every Pot," ^WAR SURPLUS VALUES! and "Chew A Prune To Feel Your Level Zipper Field Jacket — Water repellent wool lined, action back, sizes 32-42 $2.45 Worst." This was the same Spleen who Army Wool Pants (28-38 waist) .... 2.95 Army Wool Shirts (sizes 131/2 to 16) 2.25 talked last season's deb-of-the-year into Army Jacket (34-42) H.B.T 1,29 Army Pants (28-36) H.B.T 1.39 posing for an ad that read: "She's Love- Army Wool Blankets 3. 95 Army Raincoats ( Rub. ) 36-46. . . . 1.95 ly, She's Engaged, She Uses Prunes." Army Combat Boots, sizes 6-11. . . 3.95 Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back big cooking! Prunes, Send money we pay postage or Send Something was $1' deposit, balance COO plus postage probably. A |k DEPT. 251, 120 E. BROADWAY 11 II to press UUILIF. NEW YORK 2, N. Y. "But the food pages must go tomorrow," Miss Wetwhistle said. She bit lips, her fingernails, and the stem off her BRIMMS wristwatch, while her hands twisted apart a small stapling machine. It was almost as PLASTI4INER if she were a little nervous about something.

EASY TO "Just hold your presses, dearie," Spleen USE STRIPS told her. "I'll have two hundred different recipes for prunes by then, all typed up and double spaced." He turned to go, reached out his hand, gripped my nose, and twisted it hard to the right. "Excuse me," he said, "I thought it was the door- One application knob." Then I noticed the strange tattoo mark MAKES FALSE TEETH FIT on Spleen's wrist—just two straight lines, AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE like a pair of "I's," or two o'clock in for the life of your plates Roman numerals. If your plates are loose and slip or hurt... if they the country over. But I don't just "Excuse me," I said, "but are those two rock and cause sore gums ... you need Brimms Plasti- know Liner. Brimms Plasti-Liner gives instant relief, per- what can be done about it. You could, of I's on your wrist?" fect fit and lasting comfort. Lets you eat anything... talk freely without embarrassment. Ends forever course, issue a decree saying that no one "That's right," he snarled. the mess and bother of temporary "stickums" that section can have more than 1-out-of-lO "Start talking. What do they mean?" I last a few hours or days. pretty girls, the national average, but had to rough him up a little before he EASY TO USE. ..REFITS FALSE TEETH PERMANENTLY Lay soft Plasti-Liner strip on upper or lower plate. somehow that sounds communistic. sang. Even then his voice cracked on the Bite and it molds perfectly. Tasteless, odorless, Anyway, I have set things down just high notes. harmless to you and your plates. // hardens to your plate for lasting fit ana comfort. Even on old rubber the way they are. Prettiness is not every- "Indigestion, Incorporated." There was plates, Plasti-Liner gives good results six months thing, of course. And I think someday I fear in his eye, and something else. My to a year or longer. Removable as per directions. Guaranteed satisfaction or your money hack. will write a book along this line. fist, I believe. CCKin Kl f\ ••rtMCvO''''®''^*^. 25 package to reline A book with a soulful theme like that Indigestion, Incorporated! Just Hke atNOIMUmUntT botli upper and lower plates. Or a $1.25 package to reline one plate. Pay your postman can make a lot of money. Maybe enough Murder, Incorporated! I was on the trail when he delivers. Or send money now and save C. O. D. charges. Generous sample of special plate cleaner in- so that I can settle down for the rest of of a vicious ring of killers! cluded tree. my life in Atlanta on Peachtree "Anything I can do for you?" Miss PLASTI-LINCR COMPANY, 1740 Baii*y Avanua some Buffalo 11, N. y:. Dept. 28-B Street corner. the end Wetwhistle's voice was honeysweet and 53 * The Ameiican Legion Magazine • November, 1949 deep in her throat, like temple bells in a moving up behind me. But I never seem ground cellar. to hear those things fast enough. Some- "Only this at the moment, sister," I re- thing blasted behind my left ear and plied, leaning across the desk and kissing touched off an ammunition dump inside here. Her lips burned mine like fire. No my head. My eyes fogged over, and the wonder. She forgot to remove her ciga- red mists i^olled in . . . rette. Mincepie was pouring cold water on I tailed the man called Spleen to a my face. A little got in my mouth. First cheap district of town. He turned in at a water I tasted in years. Not bad. shabby tenement, walked up some shabby "Nice going, shamus," she cooed. "You stairs, and silently opened a shabby door. cracked this case wide open!" I guess it was a shabby thing to do, but "Yeah? Who cracked me?" I looked I crouched down at the keyhole and about. The surroundings were familiar. peeked in. I was in jail. There were a dozen half-starved dames "They've rounded up the whole Recipe at no increase in price! in the room, each chained to a desk. Their Ring," Mincepie went on. "All the ring Yes, in the 1950 Richard.son frightened eyes watched Spleen as he leaders of Indigestion, Incorporated are models you get a longer, entered. for long stretch at hard labor — headed a more livable trailer at no "The subject today," I heard Spleen writing more recipes. They ought to be price increase-your best buy announce savagely, "is prunes—as usual." in jail!" today. Write for complete This was it! The Great Plot! I was so "Well, I am! How did I get here?" information on these new calm that I trembled all over. Spleen's She ignored my question. "Just think! 23, 2.5 and 31-foot coaches. voice rumbled on with deadly menace. They were turning out recipes on a mass "Two hundred recipes for the Special production, assembly line scale for use Prune Edition of Milady's Home Covi- in ladies' magazines and radio cooking TRAILER COACHES panion by tomorrow. They don't have to schools. Poor Mr. Murphy, and all those ELKHART, INDIANA be edible, but they gotta contain prunes." poor, suffering husbands! But you broke He picked up a loaded bull whip. It it up, shamus," she said proudly. "You cracked like a pistol, which reminded me made America safe for digestion!" I hadn't brought mine along. "I repeat — How did I get in jail? And "Come, come, girls. Let's put on our who sapped me?" thinking caps!" Spleen went on. "Oh, that was Lieutenant Hogan of One of the dolls struggled to her feet, Homicide. He hit you and hauled you in on her eyes on the whip. "Er . . . how about a Peeping Tom charge. But he's releasing sauteeing prunes in a sour cream slaw, you in my custody, and I'm taking you and sprinkling with moth flakes? We home for a nice dinner." could call it, 'Prune Delight'." Things were breaking right again. Profitable Hobbies "Okay. Write it down," Spleen said. Mincepie's eyes were like deep pools. I 1v (i,v it U to make buutiful and uicful thing, out of "Here's a lulu!" put in another filly. felt like diving in. LlijUID PLASTICS. LIQUID MARBLE. LIQUID IVORy. LIQUID GLASS. CERAMICS. ETC, M.k. "Don't throw away old prune pits. Grind "Sounds great, Mincepie! A thick steak, l.w.lrv, sidi. ..t.a oyt. to«U. die. Kidgcci. (erimic, . . . a f,>llwn uielul lh,nii! Wf lupply I :hinc—MATEItAlS. INStlUCtlONS ai>4 lUmSI Sind ." only 2-i< lot I. Bif log of 300 castinB mattrul,. molds and xtcuone,, 2. A them up and . . serve with cooked fish left- smothered in onions b.;, Ii)t' (Catilog only— lOct role. Call is that one, 'Prune Penny Pincher'." lover! This something extra special I PIASTICASI COMrANT (OCrT. ) " 4«37 H. Kedil« Av*. ( If mI' io 'Prune Wagon Wheel Supreme'," re- read about today. Broccoli stems wrapped Chicago IS, III. nc4

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The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 • WHAT DOES THE LEGION DO? PHILO BURT Support (Continued jrom -page 23) vocational guidance, VA budget, VA ad- class of people, deserving of whatever special consideration by their federal gov- Aids Injured or ministrative practices, and tiie splendid iSM worlt of The American Legion Auxiliary ernment may be reasonable. Deformed Back in tlie VA hiospitals. Nobody, veteran or otherwise, has the Most veterans' riglits wliicii do not come right to deny any reasonable special fed- 'Almost helpless from a weak back," under tiie Legion's Reliabilitation Com- eral consideration for veterans in the says an elderly woman, "your appliance himself, for it is a jravo support which brou^rht almost in- mission are under tlie wing of our National name of anyone but stant relief and 1 have completely re- laid plain fact that veterans cannot avoid be- trained use of my back." Economic Commission wiiose worlc the foundation of much of the GI Bill. This ing a select class since they were made LIKE A PAIR OF SUPPORTING HANDS commission's staff today handles veterans' so by the government in two different Se- Gentle, uplifting: support, relieving; down- ward pressure. Mucli more comlcjrtable claims and appeals in cases having to do lective Service Acts. Veterans are the only tlian Plaster Casts, Leather or Celluloid in this country Jackets. Steel Kraces and it is less ex- with legitimate veterans' employment group of people whose pL'ri:^i\f I.ij^ht, cool, fle:^ible and easily claims for reasonable special considera- a

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gQ • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 trend to destroy both the only honorable was probably the total effort of thousands preference in government jobs and all of communities each to care for its own past strides toward a merit system of veterans' housing problem. In many com- federal employment. munities Legion Posts were the leaders Under the Economic Commission also in assembling the facts and working with comes the much-abused Housing Com- town officials to solve the problem. In this mittee, working at one of the most com- they had encouragement and help from plicated and stubborn problems of the their entire organization which held, and veterans' postwar world. In every area of still believes, that community efforts the Legion program it has been difficult to could have solved even more of the hous- keep some special requests of veterans ing crisis than they did. sepai'ate from the demands of those who We have consistently improved the ask the same things from government for priorities of veterans in government hous- GREAT —Make and Save Money all. In the field of veterans' housing this ing projects, though we believe we should FUN Fun for entire family at few rents per hour — real gift separation has been particularly difficult, have had top-rating from the start. We for dad.' With an EMRICK you can work m wood, metals or plastics. and the distinction has led to a great deal are still battling attempts to weaken the Make furniture items of all kinds for yourself or for sale — turn out adorable presents — save of misunderstanding and unnecessary GI loans. We have recently seen passed many dollars annually domg home repairs. An EMRICK includes big capacity, heavy-duty Lathe, hard feeling, which have greatly com- our bills for the sale of Greenbelt Towns Drill Press, Saw Arbor. Grinder. Sander — all m ONE plicated the task. Just as with jobs, the as veterans' housing developments. power machine, using ONE motor. Only S39-95 cash, or on Easy Payments Christmas delivery assured. 10-Day veteran has a claim for government help Now that Congress has passed its big Free Trial. MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. Thousands of satisfied customers — our 5Ist year in housing which is in no way related to housing bill we can report that it has Write for FREE Cataloj^. de^nbmg Big Pre Christmas other claims that the govei'nment has a written into it our demand for clear-cut Sale. EMRICK. INC.. 1881 Clinton, Kalamazoo. Muh. housing responsibility toward all. The priorities for veterans in low-cost homes, veteran was in a housing dilemma because something that was almost totally lacking of services rendered the government. He in the Taft-Ellender- Wagner Bill of four came home to "No Vacancies," and he was years ago when we were so stingingly dispossessed while absent on duty. Con- harpooned for opposing it as a cure to the gress would have done veterans a great veterans' housing emergency. favor if it had recognized from the start "Americanism" to the American Legion that veterans' housing and public housing is not just a slogan. Any Legionnaire can NEW CHEMICAL Mir Sensational t DRY Window Cleaner! Uses*^ nowater.iiO should be treated separately. But, with define the word by pointing to the work messy liquids. Chemically Treated, Stmply glide over windows; leaves glass sparklinfir clear. No heating water, no the major exception of the Bill, of the in this field leavy buckets to carry. No raprs, powders, sponpes. cham- GI from Legion of endeavor. ' mesa or muss. No red chapped hands. Dust, dirt, KTime. fo^ disappear like magic. Wonderful for auto vrindows, winaahieldvt the beginning of the postwar housing Legion Americanism is carried out at SAMPLES FOR AGENTS ^^Xt\fZ^'T iTo crisis public housing and veterans' hous- National, Department, District and Post send namti at onfe. A penny post-si will do. SEND NO MONEY— juti uour name. KRISTEE CO., 1457 Bar Street, AKRON, OHIO. ing were inextricably scrambled together. levels, and makes a staggering total In long-term problems the Legion has achievement, yet one in which there is MEMORIALS • PLAQUES always recognized that the general eco- no limit to possible growth. HONOR ROLLS nomic national problems of veterans de- Legion Americanism at work seeks to SOLID Special designs to fit any need. pend quite often on the solution of the do two things: to build good citizens with BRONZE Also stock designs in many styles problems of all. But veterans' housing was a deep and lasting appreciation of America and sizes. 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The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 ' Q\ stems from the heart and soul of the men emergency hardships for veterans' chil- and women who have fought for this dren where direct cash was necessary iiation. and has worked to solve the overall prob- In the making of good citizens we look lems of all children in sore need. In that to the children, and we want to see them time the total amount of direct cash bene- THAT grow up as free from criminal or phony- fits from the National Headquarters of the political corruption as possible. Our Legion to aid individual children has ex- CLOWN Americanism workers, from the Commis- ceeded $1,300,000, and the total Child sion to the Posts, combats juvenile de- Welfare expenditure of the Legion, the linquency by substituting more whole- American Legion Auxiliary, the 40 & 8, FIELDS some activities. Under their wing comes and the 8 & 40 (from the National level our enormous Junior Baseball program, down through the Post and Unit level) the country's hugest youth athletic organi- has exceeded 73 million dollars. zation. It was sports columnist Grantland The article The Child Who Started a Rice who said recently that the biggest

"cause of juvenile delinquency is r jnior stupidity." Legionnaires know that their W. C. FIELDS membership helps foster all our youth HIS FOLLIES AND FORTUNES programs, and any who wish to do more By Robert Lewis Taylor find in their Posts an instrument for the An amusing biography of W. C. Fields, who expression of leadership in such work. grew up with American vaudeville, became the Legion Americanism goes beyond cor- nation's greatest comedian; a life story as absurd recting the negative. It has a large posi- and unlikely as that of any character he ever portrayed. Get this book for sure laughs. $3.50 tive youth-training program whose values no sincere American could fail to endorse. THE AMERICAN EVERYDAY DICTIONARY Over 300,000 high school students com- Bdited Jess Stein by peted in Legion Oratorical contests this An up-to-date, full-sized, 570-page dictionary past year. The last year was the first in of 60,000 everyday words and meanings, plus a which the Legion, in all 48 states, con- guide to correct grammar and a section on rapid vocabulary building. Essential for home, school ducted Boys' States. These are youth con- "i DOI T BELIEVE and office. $1.00 claves in which youngsters convene in temporary "statehood" to run a demo- THE LEGIOr' THE AMERICAN COLLEGE DICTIONARY E cratic government themselves. Ninety- The most authoritative desk dictionary ever seven outstanding boys from various Boys' When you get that answer published. $5.00 States held a Boys' Nation at the national from a vet you've asked to join your Post, sure WHERE MY SHADOW FALLS capital the last week in July. They saw make that he learns what the By Leon G. Turrou the national government at work and Legion means and does. He A thrilling, true story about Leon G. Turrou were received by the President and other and his amazing experiences during twenty years can find out for himself if top government officials. of service for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. you give him your copies Under the heading of Americanism, This ace F.B.I, agent recounts many of his most of this magazine when dramatic cases — involving foreign spies, kid- Legion Posts sponsored an all-time high you've read them. nappers (includes the Lindbergh case), murderers of 3.686 Boy Scout Troops this past year. and white slavers. $2.75 The Americanism Commission works with the National Education Association BATAAN UNCENSORED Lobby elsewhere in this magazine, is an and the PTA on closer liaison between By Colonel B. B. Miller illustration of a Child Welfare activity in the school and the home. It made 17,000 This hard hitting book will shake the complac- a Legion Department. Today one-half of ency of those who have already forgotten the school awards last year as an impetus to the children of the nation are the children price we paid on Bataan for our unpreparedness. serious endeavor by school children, and of veterans, and the figure will go up. Colonel Miller commanded a Tank Battalion in could make many more. Noteworthy is Today it is still true that, as a veterans' the Philippines and his pen draws a vivid picture the marked improvement in the attitude organization, we must solve the general of the struggle and aftermath of the early Pacific of the NEA toward programs and policies campaign. $4.50 problems of all needy children if our own of the Legion, the result of close coopera- needy children's problems are to be solved. NEW UNIT HISTORIES tion by both bodies. There is still much work to be done in Ninth Army $6.00 129lli Infantry Regt...$5.00 The Americanism Commission's Acci- on the legislative front. Isl Covolry Div $3.00 Child Welfare 501st Parachute Rcgt..$3.75 dent Prevention Committee, sponsors llth Airborne Div. ...$6.00 13th Air Force $10.00 Today only about one fourth of the coun- adult and child safety programs. 37lh Infantry Div. ...$7.50 Isl Marine Div $6.50 ties in the country have the services of

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Write us for complete free list of available unit ognized as the toughest-hided enemy of we are still called upon for grants and histories of both World War I and II communism, fascism and other subversive other aid (and we wouldn't be if all wel- movements in this country. The Ameri- fare agencies of government were ade- canism Commission held four area con- quate) there is plenty of room for more Order NOW: Cash or C. O. D. I ferences on subversive activities this year, hands to push the local and state pro- AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE I and every month publishes its "Summary grams and to support the national pro- 734 15th St., N. W., Washington 5, D. C. of Trends and Developments," a report gram. Membership is one level of support. Gentlemen: of daily fact-finding on the activities and The Child Welfare job for children of War | Please send me the books indicated. false fronts of communist, fascist and Two veterans is just beginning. In 19'!:') j other subversive groups. asked to I enclose the National Headquarters was $ Send C.O.D. | The Legion's Child Welfare Commis- help about 20 War Two children per sion started out, 25 years ago, to protect month. The rate now is at 360 a month the orphans of veterans against hardship and the peak is in the future. from poverty and disease. Once again the A separate committee of the Child Wel- Legion quickly found that veterans' prob- fare Commission works for state legisla- lems overlap national problems. Most of tion for the education of war orphans.

Name (please print) the things which made hardships for vet- During the last year four states amended erans' orphans and the children of in- state scholarship acts so as to include Street digent veterans were the same things War Two orphans, and the total number which made hardships for all needy chil- of states with such scholarships is now 38. City Zone State I dren. The Legion has, for a quarter of a Three states increased the amount of NOV/49 i I century, been spending cash to alleviate scholarship awards for war orphans dur-

02 • The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 ing the last year. The Legion itself ans and their dependents have not been ber carry with him a supply "of member- awarded 20 college scholarships to or- deprived of a single benefit heretofore ship blanks and ask every desirable eli- phans of veterans this year. provided by a grateful government. gible to join now. Get your Auxiliary A Child Welfare activity which has Very briefly, above, I have attempted Unit to help you in this great drive for been well publicized already is worth re- to outline the major continuing programs members. Emphasize to every veteran the peating here. The Legion, in the interest of the American Legion. We are now in fact that membership in The American of children suffering from the scourge of our 1950 membership drive, and every Lsgion oiTers an opportunity to give serv- rheumatic fever, gave the American Heart prospective member is entitled to know ice to the community, state and nation. Association its earliest large gift, in the what kind of an organization he is as' ed Let's never let it be said again that amount of $50,000. And I must add that to join. It is impossible to believe that the there are millions of veterans waiting to those Child Welfare endeavors which we fifteen million veterans who are not be asked to join The American Legion. call "the Legion's" are borne equally, in Legionnaires take a more calloused atti- Let's ask them and ask them now. work and money, by The American Legion tude toward our programs than the three THE END and The American Legion Auxiliary. million who are Legionnaires. Therefore The American Legion's National Secur- I am certain that most of them are unin- editors' note: The American Legion ity Commission is charged with furthering formed about our main work. I believe, regularly conducts a correspondence the kind of strength in peacetime which then, that this outline of the Legion's work coiirse covering all our regular programs will best safeguard the United States may be helpful to our membership work- and the interyia^ structure of The Ameri- against war, and best prepare us for vic- ers now busy in the 1950 campaign, that can Legion. The programs outlined by tory in the event war is forced upon us. it tells Joe what he should know, and Commander Craig ahnv? and many others The Legion is firm in the belief that bul- that Joe should be as proud as we are to may he learned in f/ae. detail hy students lies pick on weaklings. This was our posi- support the Legion's work. of this course. Members interested may tion from 1919 to 1939 when few would Our job is cut out for us. Let's tell the learn more by asking Post Commanders agree. 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to give up card parties, night-clubbing sind betting on the horses." "For Pete's sake!" his companion exclaimed. "Now I suppose you're going to Parting Shots marry the girl?" "Well, no," said the young man reflec- tively. "After all that reforming, I'm sure I can do better." _ ^ ^ ^^^^^ FINANCIAL PIQUE

TlnXs matter ceases to be funny: FARE PLAY My friends are always short of money. In a race to grab

I must deplore this lack with sorrow . . The check for dinner Since I'm the one who wants to borrow. The slower contestant — By Leonard K. Schiff Comes in the winner. ¥¥Jf — By Orville E. Reed IMPERFECT VERDICT At a murder trial in Ohio last year the NOT FATALLY INJURED DAMP RECEPTION jury returned a verdict of not guilty A cowboy from the wide open spaces A man rushed into a bar in the early despite the fact that the prosecuting at- entered a drive-in restaurant on the out- morning and asked the bartender, who that torney had proved beyond a doubt skirts of a large midwestern city and or- was busy wiping the bar, if he knew any- the defendant was guilty. dered a steak. Ten minutes later the wait- thing that would stop hiccoughs. His For several seconds after the verdict ress brought in a T-bone steak that was answer was a slap across the face with the vi^as in court too bar read everyone was quite rare. The cowboy cut it with his wet towel. stunned to say anything. Then finally the steak knife and then called the waitress. Surprised and furious, the stranger de- judge found his voice. "Take this back to the cook and have manded the reason for such action. With "Mr. Foreman," said sternly. "What a placating grin the bartender replied, he it cooked," he said. ever made the jury think the defendant "But that has been cooked," said the "Well, you haven't got any hiccoughs now, "I I was not guilty?" girl. have you?" never said had any," was "Insanity, Your Honor," answered the "Cooked, heck," roared the cowboy, the indignant answer. "I wanted some- foreman. "I've seen steers hurt worse than that get thing for my wife. She's out in the car." "Insanity," exclaimed the judge. "Really, well!" — By Al Spong „ . Mr. Foreman, not all twelve of you." — By Alan Dale — By Stanley J. Meyer CREDITING THE EDITING TOO TRUE Though there are many magazines CALLING ALL WIVES Of all the people that we meet With which I am impressed, If you wish to rate The ones who really bore us, The one in which you're reading this On his ledger as "credit' Are not the folk who talk too much, Is quite, by far, the best. Agree that his story But those who just ignore us! — By Bernard I. Sharfman Is just like he said it. — By Catherine E. Berry SPECIALIST? — By Emily I. Alleman--.— SPAM SIGNS OF THE TIMES The restaurant owner was sampling the PARENTAL LOGIC Wpt jso long ago. there were two cars in soup made by his newly hired cook. "You Why do parents tell a youngster af nigKt~ Ei)ery parage: ^0%^ it's two families. say you served in France?" he asked. that he's too small to stay up — theri the- — By Bob McCaulay "Yes, sir," said the cook, "I was officer's following morning say he's too big to stay cook for two years and woimded three in bed? „ HE WEARS A HALO times." — By Mary Alkus observed the A bachelor was telling a companion "You're a lucky man," "It's wonder they didn't kill HABIT that at the request of a lady friend, he had owner. a given drinking and smoking. When the Generally speaking, my wife's okay, up — By Bud Mather companion remarked that he thought that And she's generally speaking night and bachelor agreed. BARRACKS' BULL ^ day. a rather large order, the — By Francis Gerard "Yes," he continued, "she also got me As the war yarns grow taller and taller Privates get bigger and generals smaller. — By Frank Miles

NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD After ten years on a tropical island, a shipwrecked sailor was overjoyed one morning to see a ship with a boat putting off for shore. Just before the boat was A- beached the officer in command tossed the sailor a bundle of newspapers. "Captain's compliments," he said. "Look these over, you lucky devil, and if you still want to be rescued, we'll be back for you tomorrow." _ j q Jewett

SWEET REMEMBRANCE

I If you'd keep her happy Hark to a sage; Remember the birthday But never the age. — By D. S. Halacy, Jr.

BACHELOR'S LAMENT The surest way to stop believing in dreams is to marry one. '^'^¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥^^^^ — By T. J. McInerney

• The American Legion Magazine • November, 1949 . — .

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