THE AMERICAN LEGIONMAGAZINE 2 O c • DECEMBER 1963 "WE DESERVE TO LOSE THE 19 64 OLYMPICS" BY OLYMPIC CHAMPION IRVING JAFFEE f SEE PAGE 16 JUDGE LOBLE IS TOUGH ON YOUNG CRIMINALS A COURT EXPERIMENT IN HELENA, MONT SEE PAGE 12 SEE PAGE 9 DANIEL F. FOLEY JIM YELLIG THE LEGION'S NEW COMMANDER AMERICA'S BY NUMBER PETE MARTIN ONE 4 SANTA CLAUS The real beauty of it is what's inside. A taste preferred by far to that of any other whiskey. Give Seagram's 7 Crown and be Sure. SEAGRAM DISTILLERS COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED WHISKEY. 86 PROOF. 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS ; The American LEGION DECEMBER 1963 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 Magazine The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Contents for December 1963 Ky., by The American Legion. Copyright 190.'* by The American Legion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single WHERE WE STAND OR FALL copy, 20 cents; yearly subscription, 82.00. Order nonmember subscriptions from the Cir- BY NATIONAL COMMANDER DANIEL F. FOLEY culation Department of The American Legion, Box Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 The greatest work of the Legion lies in the accumulative P.O. 1055, achievements of its Posts in their towns. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. lio* 1055, AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE SANTA CLAUS 9 Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office Form 3578. Attach old address label and A Pictorial feature give old and new addresses and current membership card number. Also be sure to If you mail a letter to Santa Claus, you'll agree, after a notify your Post Adjutant. look at page 9, that Jim Yellig is just the man to get it. The American Legion THE NATIONAL COMMANDER OF Executive and Administrative Offices THE AMERICAN LEGION 1963-1964 12 Indianapolis, Indiana 46206 BY PETE MARTIN Daniel F. Foley, National Commander America's best known interviewer interviews Daniel The American Legion F. Foley, of Minnesota, who was elected to head Publications Commission: the Legion at Miami Beach, Sept. 12. Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa (Chairman); Adolph F. Bremer, Winona. Minn. (Vice Chairman) ; Lang Armstrong, "WHY WE DESERVE TO LOSE THE OLYMPICS" 14 Spokane, Hash.; Charles E. Booth, Hunting- BY IRVING JAFFEE ton, W. Va.; John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, Fla.; Clovis Cope- A three-time Olympic skating champion sounds land, Morrilton, Ark.; Paul B. Digue. Down- Guyman, off on the double standard of amateurism ingtnwn. Pa.; Raymond Fields, Okla. Chris Hernandez. Savannah, Co.; George D. and its Cold War implications. Levy, Sumter, S. C; Edward Longstreth, La Jolla. Calif.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss.; Robert MONTANA'S EXPERIMENT WITH JUVENILE CRIME 16 Mitchler, Oswego, 111.; Harry H. Shaffer, Pills- BY DONALD JOHN GIESE burgh, Pa.; Harold \. Shindler, Lafayette, Ind.; William F. Taylor, Greensburg, Ky.; A look at Judge Lester Loble, of Helena, and Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; Robert his removal of secrecy from the trials of H. Wilder. Dadeville, lla. Edward McSweeney, juveniles who commit serious crimes. Armonk, /V. Y. (Consultant) The American Legion Magazine THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES IN WWII 18 Editorial & Advertising Offices BY DAVID LAVENDER 720 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10019 The all-but-forgotten affair when the guns of war erupted Publisher, James F. O'Neil in the night skies over Los Angeles, Calif. Editor Robert B. Pitkin THE OCARINAS AND THE PLASTER CASTS 20 Art Editor Al Marshall BY ROBERT HAZELLEAF Associate Editors How on earth could playing a "sweet potato" at a John Andreola Roy Miller WWII Army overseas hospital Christmas party James S. Swartz help mend the musician's broken body? Production Manager Ralph Peluso Copy Etlitor SHOULD CONGRESS ENACT THE PRESIDENT'S Grail S. Hanford HOSPITAL CARE PROGRAM FOR THE AGED? 22 Contributing Editor Pete Martin TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson pro: SEN. MAURINE B. NEUBERGER (D-ORE.) Indianapolis, Ind. con: SEN. WALLACE F. BENNETT (R-UTAH) Advertising Director Robert P. Redden Midwestern Adv. Sales Office DR. COLLINS' LIFE-SAVING "DOG TAGS" 24 Ray A. Jones BY LORRAINE JUDSON CARBARY, R.N. 35 East Wackcr Drive Chicago, III. 60601 What the California doctor started, to save his Washington Sales Office daughter's life, now protects many thousands. Jack L. Spore 1608 K. St. N.W. Washington. D.C. 20006 Departments Publisher's Representatives West Coast Arden E. Roney & Assoc. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 2 VETERANS NEWSLETTER 25 Los Angeles & San Francisco, CaliL Northwest 4 NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 27 The Harlowe Co. DATELINE WASHINGTON 7 ROD & GUN CLUB 48 Seattle. Wash. 98101 Southeast BOOKS 53 8 LEGION SHOPPER The Dawson Co. 11 PARTING SHOTS 5fi Miami. Fla. & Atlanta, Ga. Detroit Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted fcr consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, Arden E. Roney & Assoc. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Detroit. Mich. THE AMER ICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 1963 antibiotics to combat the bacterial com- plications. M. B. Levin, M.D. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Baltimore, Md. sir: You are to be commended on your October article on Ignace Jan Letters published do not necessarily ex- in October on the Gettysburg Address. Paderew- press the policy of The American Legion. ski. When I was only 12 years old I saw Keep letters short. Name and address must My very best wishes to Mr. Mahoney. this fine patriot, shortly before his un- be furnished. Expressions of opinion and Walter Resler requests for personal services are appreci- timely death in June 1941, at a resort in ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or Huntington, N. Y. Ridge, J. answered, due to lack of magazine staff for Oak N. —a dynamic personality these purposes. Requests for personal serv- with a quiet manner, whose words all ices which be legitimately asked sir: Since joining may of the Legion in 1945, I could The American Legion should be made to understand. have never enjoyed an issue of our mag- your Post Service Officer or your state Joseph Warchol (Department) American Legion Hq. Send azine as much as the October issue, nor letters to the editor to: Letters, The Saddle Brook, N. J. was I ever so completely interested in American Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave- nue. New York, N. Y. 10019. one. The article on the Gettysburg Ad- sir: Warmest congratulations on the dress by Tom Mahoney was especially publication of the October article on sir: I wish each and every American informative and scholarly. However, in Paderewski. It is heartening that the could read "I Saw Cuba Betrayed" by the "Editor's Corner" you said that "VE memory of one of the great geniuses of Dr. Sergio Rojas Santamarina, in the y day was hauled out of April" to be in- the early years of this century has been American Legion Magazine. October corporated with Armistice Day on Nov. brought to mind on the pages of an im- Clarence B. Calkins 11. Wasn't VE Day May 7, 1945? portant national magazine. The spirit of Wayland, Mich. Richard B. Foster this indomitable patriot still lives in Po- Southampton, N. Y. land's struggle for freedom. It was man- sir: I cannot resist congratulations on ifested in the Poznan riots and the pro- May 8 is the recognized date. Thanks. Dr. Rojas' article. It is absolutely factual American demonstrations when Vice and should be on the record. I spent 23 President Nixon visited Warsaw. It is years in for the Star sir: I salute you for the reminder in the Cuba Lone Cement manifested in the continued activities of Corp., until October "Editor's Corner" that August 18, 1960, when our the the constitutional government of the I "meaning of Veterans is to company was seized and had to run Day cele- Polish Republic in London under Presi- flight. brate our victories over from Castro on a Dutch the Kaiser, over dent August Zaliski and Prime Minister Hitler, over Tojo, as well as the accom- L. W. Bishop Antoni Pajak, on the basis that the Con- Winter Park, Fla. plishments of our men and boys who stitution of 1935, and not the communist ." kept at least half of Korea free. No gang, is the only legal government of sir: I just completed a lecture tour of patriotic American would want a repe- Poland today. This Polish government the United States and was delighted and tition of what last year happened when in exile, recognized by Ireland and surprised that everywhere I spoke, peo- Alger Hiss was given the platform on Spain, is the only government in the ple in the audience showed me copies a telecast which replaced special a Vet- world that has declared war on the of my article in your October issue. I had erans Day program previously sched- Soviet Union and it is ready, in the event had no idea of the enormous readership uled. of a conflict, to offer a free Polish army of your magazine. James S. Kemper to the cause of freedom, under the lead- Sergio Rojas Santamarina y Kemper Insurance Co. ership of the modern successors to Cologne, Germany Chicago, 111. Kosciuszko and Pulaski. Minor Molain sir: I have never enjoyed a more in- sir: William Gainfort's photos (October, Professor of History teresting magazine than the October "Letters to the Editor") showing people State College of Salem American Legion Magazine. I subscribe ignoring our flag, present a universal Salem, Mass. to more than 25 magazines and journals, problem, and there seems to be no way and frequently get behind in my read- to get them to give the flag the respect sir: You published a letter in October ing, but I always read The American due it.