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CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1952

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KATYN MASSACRE 11 BY ARTHUR BLISS LANE

Why did certain people try to hide the facts?

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AFTER ALL, SIR sentative in each country in which he is to work an American citizen of American Sir: In the December issue of the Legion parentage who has lived and worked in >-ou made a statement that rather insults that country and who knows its people me. As I think it would insult anybody and their good and bad points. who applies common sense to what they K. S. Littlejohn read. You stated that Supt. Goslin of Pasa- Mexico, Z>. F. dena got kicked out because the tax-payers were fed up with Goslin's innovations which had sent school costs to a record high. Also they began to feel that their kids were coming home a little fuzzy in the head. Before that in the same column (Editor's Corner) you made a sarcastic smear at the Saturday Review of Litera- ture and McCaWs. It seems to me if WANT REFERENCE LISTS OF MOVIE STARS you must smear such reputable and intelli-

gent magazines, and if you desire to let Sir: I think the surest, quickest way to iiave "us in on a little secret" you would do so Hollywood clean house is through its intelligently. And your little secret was pocketbook. G. H. Morgan one of the most stupidly vague secrets that Los Angeles

I ha\ e heard in a long time. \\'h>^ didn't Sir: Concerning Did the Movies Really \'ou tell us w hat "record high" and "how Clean House? in your December issue, why fuzzy"? After all, sir, there are some don't you print on a separate sheet and Americans who still question what they insert in every copy of next month's issue, read in print. W'hetlier it's your patriotic an alphabetical li.st of all those individuals magazine or not. I'm a student at Chico in Hollywood who are in any way con- State College, one has taught that when nected with the conmiunists? freedom one must or should use that free- W. E. Purviance dom intelligently. I should be interested in Los Angeles your reaction. But I am pessimistic enough to think that you won't publish this letter. Sir: Congratulations on the movie article.

I like to suggest that this be followed Criticism is hard to take. And according to would your Sound Off! column onh' those that up by a monthly boxed article listing those sound off favorably are ever heard. mo\ ies produced during that month in John Dolan w liich our communist friends and fellow Durham, Calif. travelers have a part in either production or acting. H. A. Thomson Upper Darby, Fa.

Sir: We can't clean the movies of its sub- versives unless we kill their sources of funds. The answer is simple. Publish a monthly list of the pictures which are not written, directed nor acted by any suspi- cious characters. Starve these bums out of existence. Harlan L. Reycroft POLITICAL DIPLOMATS }Vcst Hartford, Conn. Sir: I get so worked up o\ er the billions Sir: I believe Did the Movies Really Clean w e are sending to practically all the nations House? to be the greatest piec; of anti- of the free world and the apparent enmity communist literature 1 have read in some exhibited towards us by most of tiiem that No wonder its time. Please do not give up the good work I'x e tried to anal>'ze the cause. I am satisfied and would suggest that each month you that peoples are friendly enough and ap- print a list of pictures in production or Kentucky's om preciative when and if they understanil our about to be released that are employing peoples' unsclfisiiness in giving this help. reds. Antliony Sinionetti The trouble stems from the politicians. ?a\/or\te Stra/ght Bronx, New York City Washington has sent purely political ap- pointees, opinionated men, swelled with Almost every letter we received concern- Bourbon Whisky their new power, who do not know the new ing this article asked that we print lists of country or its people and, sometimes, even commies and pro-commies in movie-making. their language. These appointees exhibit in However, the industry insists it is giadually This Whisky Is 4 Years Old . 86 Proof cases an insufferable superiority. i\1y sug- eliminating sid)versive.s, so we'll wait and

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^ • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 INTO INFAMY NOT WORTHY Immediate Comfort Sir: As a college graduate and recent stu- Sir: It is regrettable to witness a publication dent at the University of Chicago I am And Relief for You which purports to be the official voice of inclined to consider the Louis Budenz arti- Tlie American Legion drag our organiza- cle Do Colleges Have to Hire Red Profes- tion into infamy. This publication is gradu- sors.'' not worthy of comment. ally becoming a prime threat to our demo- Robert A. Thiemecke cratic structure. The methods > our writers Chicago RUPTURE-EASER have used to expose communists ha\ c cer- (A PIPtR BRACl PRODUCT) tainly been questionable. One might expect Mr. Thiemecke, not thinking the article For MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN to read a communist version of Did the worthy of comment, then went on for sev- Movies Really Clean House? in Pravda eral hundred words, commenting. Editors after a Russian purge, but this insidious NOT EMPLOY COMMUNISTS piece of slander is unworthy of The Ameri- WOULD can Legion. Perry E. Tudor Sir: We regret that the University of Pitts- Yates City, III. burgh has been included by Mr. Louis F. Budenz among the institutions having a

faculty member who is a communist. The University of Pittsburgh would not and has never knowingly employed a commu- nist. Without any attempt to comment on Pat. Pend. ^*UJ/ Double $4*5 the accuracy of Mr. Budenz's opinions and conclusions, we wish to correct two errors A strong, form fit- of fact. Professor Alarion Hathway is not ting washable sup- now employed by the University of Pitts- port designed to burgh; her resignation was accepted by the THE NAME IS DOTTIE give you relief and board of trustees August 31, 1951. She was comfort. Adjustable back-lacing and Sir: You have again featured my daughter's never head of the department of Social adjustable leg strap. Snaps up in picture at the beginning of your convention Work at the University. She was a member news (page 29, No\embcr issue). As >'<)u of the faculty of the School of Social front. Soft flat groin pad—no steel have never printed her name, I thought per- Work, 1938-1950, during which time the or leather bands. Unexcelled for haps you did not know it. Her name is University had no proof that she was a comfort, invisible under light clothing. Dorothy O'Dell AlcClure, and she is known communist — nor has the University ever Washable. Also used as after opera- to friends as Dottic. She her many Legion had such proof. tion support. is the daughter of Past Commander Wil- Agnes L. Starrett • THE MOST EFFECTIVE HERNIA SUPPORT. liam E. McClure and Past President University Editor Thousands of people who have tried old- Veronica of Post and C. McClure Dundalk University of Pittsburgh fashioned, expensive devices turn to Rup- Auxiliary Unit 38, Department of Mary- ture-Easer for new comfort. land. William E. McClure • RUPTURE-EASER IS SANITARY. Baltimore, A4d. Can be washed without harm to fabric— you never offend when you wear Rupture- LEFTIES DISLIKE LOUIS • NO FITTING REQUIRED.

Sir: I want to congratulate \ ou on the ex- Just measure around the lowest part of the specify right or left cellent articles exposing communism in the abdomen and tide or double. U. S. In particular, the articles by Louis WE HELPED AN INSURANCE MAN Grateful Users Budenz are very informative and to the Sir: The article Can You Retire Respect- Over 300,000 Read What Others Say: point. He is certainly qualified to write on ably With Your Social Sectirity (Novem- it. C. of Corvalli*, Oregon, Air Mailt: "Send the subject, and the way the left-wingers ber issue) by Walter Ross and J. K. Lasser, me another Rupture-Easer so I will have one to change with. It is enabling me to work at are out to discredit him show he is hurting was one of the most readable explanations off top speed at my press machine 8 hrs. a day." them. Dick Bopp of the Social Security I Act have yet found. M. S. ol Anderson, Ind., thanks us and soys: Barrington, III. It will be very helpful to me, as an insur- "It is one of the finest things I have ever worn and has made my life worth living. It has given agent, ance in showing clients reasons for me untold ease and comfort." Sir: Wonder how many readers feel that providing for retirement at an early age. L. C. H., Blackburn, Mo., writes: "The Rupture- American Legion Easer I bought from you has done so much good The Magazine has had . . . To complete the fine job, you and the I couldn't forget you this Christmas season." too many articles b>' Budenz? I until I did authors might present another article ex- JHERE'S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR read The Value the E-Comvnrnist in of plaining Social Security benefits for widows , PROVEN PERFORMANCEI The American Mercury for November and ciiildren due to death of the family RUPTURE-EASER 195 L Mrs. Astrid A. Rydeen breadwinner. It would be a great service to 10 DAY TRIAL OFFER Los Angeles many families who would benefit from Money-back guarantee if you don't get blessed relief. ORDER TODAYI their father's more careful planning. It is are glad to give PIPER BRACE CO., DEPT. AL-22 T We this plug to The possible for a widow with children to lose 811 V/yandolte, Kansas City 6, Mo. American Mercury which is doing an excel- as much as $25,000 if the father ignores (Note: Be sure to give both size and side.t lent job in exposing reds and pinks. On the the Social Security Act provisions when subject of Budenz's value, Senator Pat planning his family's protection. USE THIS HANDY ORDER FORM McCarran recently made a statement which C. Valentine John Piper Brace Company, Dept. AL-22 answers those people who can't see why we Y. Buffalo. N. 811 Wyondotte, Kansos City 6, Mo. publish material by an ex-communist. Said Please send my RUPTURE-EASER by return mail. Senator McCarran: "/« such an investiga- AMERICANS CAN CLEAN HOUSE Rigtit Side $3.95 Measure around lowest part tion as this, where a possible conspiracy is Sir: As the wife of an ex-Marine and sister Left Side $3.95 of my obdomen is being examined, I'ery the INCHES. often onl\ evi- of two Army vets I read your magazine Double $4.95 dence obtainable derives from persons who every month and wish to congratulate you We Prepay Postage Except on C.O.D.'s (Note; Be sure to give both size and side.) once participated in the conspiracy. Thus on your articles about communists. Con- Enclosed is: Money Order Check for $ ex-communists, and agents of the goitern- cerning Hollywood communists and their Send CCD. ment posed as who communists, are often sympathizers, if the movie industry can't Nome the only source of evidence of trhat tran- clean house real Americans can siiow them spired behind doors closed to the non-com- how. Wc may see fewer movies but at least Address munists." This also explains why the reds we'll know our hard-earned dollars won't f - are desperately trying to discredit people be helping Russia. Mrs. D. L. Vance like Budenz. Editors Lemont, Pa. RUSH THIS COUPON NOW!

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ANOTHER SLICE OF FUTILITY One of the favorite topics of discus-

sion at United Nations seances is dis- armament, but the going always gets

rough w hen the globulists ponder \\ ays and means of checking on each other's arms-making potential. The peace-lov- ing Russkys don't want outsiders poking into their factories. But we wonder just what our diplomats think they'd gain if they did persuade Stalin to let UN inspectors look around (in return for, say, Alaska, the Philippines, the U.S.S. Missouri and a few billions cash). It reminds us of a stor>' they used to tell about the Krupp works in German>" after the last war. Under the terms of the treaty no war goods were to be made and the League of Nations had

inspectors there to check on it. Two plant workers had wives who were expecting babies so the men started stealing bab>' buggy parts to assemble at home. One day the two women met on the street. "Gerta," said one, "how are you com- ing with that baby buggy? Are you having trouble?" "Ya," said her friend. "No matter how Max puts together the parts it always comes up a machine-gun."

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW We keep getting mail from people who want to know as much as possible about the menace of communism. For those people and for every other Amer- ican who wants to protect himself against the greatest swindle ever per- petrated, some new books are "musts."

Heading the list is a picture histor\' of communism titled Si//CL' StiTliii. Com- piled by Boris Shub and Bernard Quint,

it traces the course of comnuinism from its beginnings as a philosophy, shows how it blossomed through treachery during \\'\Vl, and portrays the way in which Stalin and his fellow cut-

throats have been spreading it across the face of tlic earth ever since. However, there's more to this book than pictures. The text is equally well handled. Price

of the book is $3.95, and the publisher is Swen Publications. Notew orthy, too, is the new book by John T. Flynn, Tf'V.vVt' y'oii Slept, pub- lished by the Devin-Adair Co., and priced at $2.50. The Nezv York Times, for one, reviewed this volume nega- tively, but the reason is evident. Flynn makes the same point made by Irene Kuhn in Why Yoii Buy Books That Sell Communism, published in this mag-

• The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 azine in January of last \ ear, that the Times has a lot to answer for. However, we still think the best of the recent books exposing the China

sell-out is Freda Utley's The Ch'ma Story. And here's good news. The Henry Regnery Company has just brought out a paper-bound version for 50^. Copies are available from the Committee for the Conservation of

Faith and Freedom, 1 8 E. 48th St., New York Cit\'. All those who liked the article Do Colleges Have to Hire Red Frofessors? in our November issue will like God and Man at Yale, by William F. Buck- !• Cute Baby. This is Betsy Helvcston 2' Big Girl Now. Here's Betsy as she is ley, Jr., priced at $3.50. This too is re- as she appeared in a Bell teJephone today. She's grown a Jot and changed quired reading for those alarmed at advertisement in 19^0. a lot in the last twelve years. what goes on under the cloak of "aca- demic freedom."

MORE CAMPUS CAPERS JANUARY. 1952 Those of you who read Do Colleges 37,300,000 TELEPHONES Have To Hire Red Professors? in our November issue won't be too surprised at the academic efforts being made in JANUARY, 1940 behalf of Dirk Struik, a self-proclaimed 16,500,000 TELEPHONES Marxist, mentioned in that article. Struik is a professor at the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology who has been in- dicted under a Massachusetts anti-an- archy act. So, a group of 60 professors, clergymen, etc., under the leadership of one Dr. George Sarton of Harvard, are raising funds for his legal defense. We wonder hoiv many of these characters, so preoccupied with justice, chipped in even a dime for the defense of Mrs. Hester McC/illoiigh. You may recall that this housew ife was sued for $200,000 by a mouth organist named Adler and a hoofer named Draper because she dared to ask about the organizations these "artists" had tied up with. B>- the way the papers sa>' that Adler is tooting his mouth organ for the troops in Korea, courtesy of our British allies. 3' He's Bigger Too. Jn the last twelve years, the number of Bell telephones has been increased from 16,^00,000 to 37,300,000. THIS WILL BREAK YOUR HEART

Howard Fast, whose novels are high- ly regarded by communists, is asking people to subscribe money to get his We've Been Growing Along With Betsy latest effort published. Now that Angus Cameron, identified as a commie, no While Betsy has been growing up, the now more than three times as many longer works for Little, Brow n & Co., telephone system has been growing too. Long Distance circuits. that publishing house w on't handle any more Fast stuff. The figures are impressive. But far The new coast-to-coast ^af/t'o

Another scribbler w ho "is having a more important is what they mean in ^e/at^ system not only means better tough time is the whodunit author service to the people of this Nation. Long Distance service but also brings Dashiell Hammett. The government Millions who never had telephones Television to millions more people. wants him to ante up $100,628 in back before now have them because the Bell Above all is the value of good tele- taxes. Hammett has spent time in jail System has added nearly 21,000,000 phone service to the producti\'e capacity for contempt. As an officer of the sub- versive Civil Rights Congress, which new telephones since January, 1940. and security of the country. supplied bail for the commies who flew Business and industry are better able Nothing is more important to defense the coop, he refused to tell the court to serve the country because there are than quick, reliable communication. the source of the funds. Dashiell seems to have made a pretty big pot of dough, for one w ho isn't keen about our eco- Bell Telephone System nomic system

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What happened to the documents in the Pentagon that told . .

i i ii i numijuij i k jww^BiBpwippgiiijgiiiyf THE IRIITH IBOn THE KATYN FOREST

Served with a Congressional subpoena, Lt. Col. Donald Stewart, left, at last puts his eye- witness testimony concerning Katyn on the record. With him is Congressman Ray S. Mad- MASSACRE den, of Indiana, a Legionnaire who heads the House Committee studying the massacre.

By ARTHUR BLISS LANE FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO POLAND as told to the editors of The American Legion Magazine

In 1940 Stalin's gunmen slaughtered

15,000 Polish officers. Because of

mysterious influences in this

country, the facts about this

red atrocity have been kept

from most Americans.

crime. The crime has gone unpunished,

in fact unexposed, as I write this, by our Kremlin-appeasing officials. German and Japanese criminals, re- sponsible for the murder of defenseless In most cases only one inexpensive bullet was necessary, shot into the head. captives, have been convicted and hanged. But the souls of fifteen thou- sand brave Christian men still cry from beyond a pagan Soviet mass-gra\'eyard ." is . THE SNOW whirling around, in the pocketknife taken away . — and Americans have shaken hands, fields as much snow as in Janu- Betu ccn these t\v o quotations — from even feasted, with the murderers. What ." ary . . a last letter sent by a Polish officer, cap- has happened in, and to, our America "From dawn the day started in a spe- tive of the Red Army, to his family in that has made us, once the world's great cial way. Taken somewhere into a Soviet-occupied Poland, and from a people of international integrity, ap- wood, something like a country house. blood-smeared diary found on the body peasers for so long a time of pagan

Here a special search. I was relieved of of another Polish officer that was dug crimes and atheist criminals? my watch, pointing at 6 a.m., asked out of an evil Soviet forest — there are The facts of this unpunished crime about a wedding ring. Rubles, belt, long hidden facts of a savage, revolting go back, now, twelve duped years — to

11 LONG-HIDDEN PHOTOS OF ALLIED OFFICERS WHO OBSERVED THE 1943 KATYN EXHUMATION

Obtained by U.S. Intelligence Sources in 1945, these photographs were kept hidden during the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. They show (below) British and American Army Officers attending Katyn autopsies. Lt. Col. Van Vliet, then a Regular U.S. Army Major, is seen looking at scene between British Army Colonel Stevenson and British Army Captain Gilder, both of whose Intelligence Reports, sent to Washington, were hidden from the American people under strange circumstances. At Katyn on Poles, and in Korea Exhuming the body of a on U. S. captives, the same char- captive Polish Major acteristic kind of knot was used. murdered by the Soviets.

"You are Regular Officers of the U. S. and you must have an interest in what hap- British Armies," the Germans said. "Surely pened to officers of the Polish Army!"

(continued) JHE TRUTH ABOUT THE KATYN FOREST MASSACRE

the Spring of 1940. The Krcnihn, a few friendship, and rescue from the Nazis, Lieutenants, together with some 7,000 months earlier, in a treacherous instant was the man who commanded the in- selected Polish NCO technicians, were that suited Stalin and his Politburo, had vasion. Molotov in the Kremlin, and rounded up in Poland as prisoners of the broken all its treaties Avith Poland, at- Timoshenko in Poland, had issued their Kremlin and deported, like cattle, far tacked the Polish people from the rear notorious Order of the Day that, as of into Russia. while they were trying to defend their October, 1939, "Poland ceases to exist Into three of the 100 Polish prisoner- country from the Nazi blitzkrieg. Hitler as an independent state." of-war camps in the frigid Russian in- and Stalin, in a temporary alliance, had Two hundred and fifty thousand Po- terior all Polish officers were collected divided Poland and each taken a half. lish officers and soldiers, including 12 and concentrated. These sites were then The very Soviet General— Timoshenko Generals, 250 Colonels, 500 Majors, removed by Stalin from the Red Army's — who had publicly pledged the Poles 2,000 Captains, and over 5,000 young command and placed under Beria and

12 his Soviet secret police — the notorious officers did not know where they w ere lodge where "Senior NKVD Officials" NKVD. During the blizzardy winter of being taken. Some NKVD officials indulged themseh es in lust and murder. 1939-40 we know that Camp Kozielsk jovially fooled them into believing the\' For many years, prior to 1940, it had contained 4,500 Pohsh officers, Camp were being "freed." From diaries found been the Kremlin's secret burial place Starobielsk 3,920 officers, and Camp later on their bodies some of the officers to which Russians who displeased the Ostashkov 6,900 officers, hi these camps really thought they were being liber- Folitbiiro were taken, never to be seen the Kremhn's Beria, under Vyshinsky ated, that soon they would be back in again by their families or friends. and iMolotov, installed his most Into the forest of Katyn some "efficient" interrogators, photo- fifteen thousand Polish officers graphing each officer front and were taken that terrible spring side, finger-printing him, and HERE IS THE U. S. G-2 PENTAGON of 1940. Beria's NKVD execu- compiling a life-dossier of each GENERAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VAN tioners did their Moscow -or- captive and his Polish family. VLIET AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE REPORTS dered jobs with swift precision; These, as has -been well said, group by group the captive were the very flower of Polish Poles were led to the brinks of intellectual and military patri- great, deep pits, larger than our otism — and Beria had the job swimming pools, and shot of blighting them. through the backs of their heads "Poland no longer exists, and by Beria's pistol experts. In most never will exist again!" the cases onl>' one inexpensive bul- NKX^D specialists kept repeat- let was necessary, shot into the ing, as the)' tried many devices officer's neck, piercing his skull for turning Polish patriots into and exploding where his hair- Polish quislings. It is an ever- line and forehead met. lasting monument to all Polish Frequently, but not alwa>s, jaeople that, after five terrible the Polish officer's hands were months of communist indoc- tied behind his back, with spe- trination techniques in these spe- cial twine and with a peculiai- cial camps, Beria had obtained knot that tightened into flesh if only 20 of the officers as even any attempt to free the hands quisling candidates. w as made. \n Mnvch, 1940, Stalin, through Into the prepared excavations, Molotov, through \^yshinsky — 30 by 50 yards in area and in that chain of brutal command sometimes 18 feet deep, the nuu^- — sent Beria a Kremlin order: dered Polish officers were placed He was to "liquidate" the ada- in layers, heads in each layer ly- mant Polish officers as quickly CLAYTON BISSELL ing on top of legs and feet of and as secretly as possible. With Placed in charge of all U. S. Military Intelli- the corpses below. Into just one the destruction of the Polish gence by a mysterious Washington power, of these Soviet graves the Krem- officers, Stalin added, would also he received the Van Vliet report, marked it lin's executioners packed the be liquidated, throughout Po- "top secret," ordered the junior officer into bodies of two Generals, 12 personal silence because of "the possible land, "the whole apparatus of Colonels, 50 Lieutenant Colonels, political implications" — and then delivered it the bourgeois Polish state, leav- 165 Alajors, 440 Captains, 542 to the State Department under circumstances ing not one stone or skeleton for First Lieutenants, 930 Second Congress is investigating. the future." Lieutenants, and 146 military Between April 3rd and May doctors. Then they covered 12th, 1940, the three special over the excavation, stomped NKVD camps were evacuated of all Poland, with their families once again. down the sandy loam, and replanted it Polish officers. Those from the Kozielsk This evil forest of Katyn, 550 miles with pine and spruce saplings. As fast camp \\ere, we know, packed in long west by south of Moscow, at the head- as one mass grave was packed and dis- trains, and sent through Smolensk to waters of the Dnieper River, had, since guised another was waiting. an isolated railroad station at Gniez- 1934, been entirely isolated from or- Thus the Soviets — Stalin, Molotov, dovo. Here they were, around the dinary Russians. Beria of the Moscow Vyshinsky and Beria — massacred the clock, unloaded, day and night, thirty Kremlin was its master. ^Vithin it he captive flower of Poland's virile man- or more to a van load, and driven into had his notorious "Little Castle," over- hood, in one gigantic, bestial crime. a deep NKVD-guardcd forest. The looking the Dnieper, a bestial hunting Except for a twist of fate's sometimes punitive coincidence this crime might never have become known, or proven. The Kremhn thought the saplings, in the spring and summer of 1940, would THE RUINS OF WARSAW grow quickly and that, soon, behind their iron curtain, there would be noth- Ambassador and Mrs. Lane inspect- ing visible at Katyn but the forest. ing the ruins of the U. S. Embassy at of Kat\ Warsav/, Poland vi^here he was sent The disclosure of the crime n in 1945— where he saw Poland be- came unexpectedly and suddenh', in trayed and many brave Poles April, 1943. For three years the Polish liquidated by a postwar Polish Gov- Government in Exile, based in London, ernment whose nucleus was a group had been tr\'ing to solve the continuing of Russian-trained communists. mystery of what had happened to the Soviet-captured officers. For three years (Continued on page 53)

13 ILLUSTRATED BY GUERNEY MILLER

The Army needs not only men but pigeon trainers

Sgt. A. L. Palermo, entertainment spe- cialist at Fort Jay, N. Y., has to keep on good terms with talent. He's shown here with model Jean Carmine.

TII[Y NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD

Just because you didn't have duty like this doesn't mean this article isn't true.

By JOHN SHARNIK and HERBERT MITGANG

EVERY SO OFTEN soiiie draft-agc comic But the customer just shakes his head. in history have indulged in the con- walks into the Armed Services re- "Naw, that sounds too dull," he'll say versational sport of swapping gags, cruiting booth in the middle of with elaborate scorn. "Routine stuff! rumors and pipedreams about their ideas New York's Times Square and wag- Haven't you got something with a little of the softest spot in the Army. Back gishly asks tlie Army sergeant on duty more zip to it — like male nurse in a in 148 B. C., if you happened to eaves- there what he's got to offer in the way WAC hospital, or platoon guide for a drop on a couple of Roman legionnaires of "a really good job." The sergeant, U.S.O. troupe?" lounging around their barracks between with that gentle, big-brotherly air for Good gag? It's usually worth a mild rounds of the Third Punic War, you'd which Army non-coms are so widely yak. The funniest thing about it, though probably have found them fancifully celebrated (at least in recruiting cen- — and certainly the most fantastic — is shooting the bull about the sort of post ters), begins to run through his list of that these jobs, or their reasonable fac- they'd like to be transferred to — say, employment opportunities in the infan- similes, actually do exist! ferrying slave girls for the brass from try, artillery, ordnance and allied trades. GIs and prospective Gls of every era Carthage to Rome.

14 )

open Help Wanted columns the Army lists something like 450 dif- ferent "Alilitary Occupational Spe- cialties," including such startling Sgt. Osman is skipper of the ones as lumberjack, animal order- good ship T-160 which ferries passengers between Governors ly, underwater diver, pigeon train- Island and Staten Island. er, upholsterer, boatswain (\'es, that's the Army we're talking about), hammersmith, entertain- Nowadays the barracks' yarn-spin- M/Sgt. McCracken, game warden at Aber- ment specialist, bath processor ners manage to dream up equally cushy deen Proving Ground, tramps over thousands and sled driver. But some of these roles which they'd like to fill in the line of acres of beautiful fishing and hunting land. official titles conceal some highly of military duty. The truth is that unofficial-sounding duties. among the several million individuals How did it happen? Don't ask him. That "entertainment specialist" label, anonymously riding the Army's vast All he knows is he got orders one day for example. "GI promoter" would assembly line, there r.re some who have to report to a new assignment. Hospital more accurately describe the functions strayed, stumbled or steered themselves Detachment Number So-and-So, and of Sergeant Angelo Palermo, who holds into jobs that would suit almost any- there they were — women, \\ omen, down that job at Fort Jay, N. Y. Paler- body's wildest specifications for the women! mo is the camp's official host, party- plushiest of all positions. There's at least one man in the Army^ giver, show-producer and general mas-

Take that waggish volunteer's crack who does manage to get a\\'ay from it ter of non-militar\' ceremonies. It about the job in a WAC hospital. Any all — and strictly on the legit. He's amounts to a kind of one-man uniformed GI can just imagine himself muttering, Master Sergeant Raymond L. McCrac- impersonation of Sherman Billingsley, after a tough day in the ward, "\Vhat ken, of Roanoke, \'a. His occupation — Elsa Maxwell, Rodgers and Hammer- a spot to get stuck in! I join this man's GI game \\ arden. He and his GI depu- stein, and Casey Stengel — with over- Army to get away from it all, and what ties rule as kings over the lush wildlife tones of Bob Hope. do I get? Women, women, women! domain of the Aberdeen Proving Some of the more unsoldierly activi- Have to hold hands with them to take Ground, in Maryland. He draws his ties which the sergeant promotes are their pulse, tuck them into their httle monthly pay for tramping around its circuses, barbershop singing contests, bunks at night — next thing they'll be 37,701 acres of land and 36,754 acres of ball games, boat rides and fishing trips. asking to have their backs rubbed marsh and water, enforcing hunting and ("Of course I get to go along. My down!" fishing regulations. He finds time to motto is: The Promoter should always Only that's not imagination. Those land an occasional catch for the frying be on the job.") When things get dull are the words of a GI who actually held pan himself — in season, of course. around the post, Palermo himself fills the job — his post was a WAC hospital But these aren't the only green — or in with song, dance and fancy patter. down in Texas. olive drab — pastures. In its perpetually ( Covtiimed on page 61

15 .

BASKETBALL .

Typical of Midwestern ba fans are these excited young

You haven't seen basketba crazy best until you've seen wh on out in the heart of the U.S.A.

By DAVE CONDON

AvicTORY-srARVED eastern basketball coach once corralled tlie late George Keogan, for nian\ \ears leader of Notre Dame's successful quin- tets, to ask if it were true the Midwest bred its young \ms to be basketball players — and threw back the small ones. "Well," George explained, "you go around those small Illinois and Indiana towns and almost every yard has a Chic Sale and a makeshift backboard and basket. Far as I can tell, the basketball outfit gets more use. Midwest folks take the sport mighty serious. "I guess," George allow ed, "that the An alumnus, hungering for a repeat baskets, who think the w-hole thing prairie states are the basketball belt of of that success, recently wanted to started with George Mikan, the be- America." know when De Paul again would ha\ e spectacled giant from De Paul w ho w as Drawing onl>" from Notre Dame's the best five in the United States. voted basketball's greatest star in the home state, George had a bushel of evi- "Alaybe," answered Meyer, "when Associated Press half-centur>- poll. dence to back up that claim. What col- w e've got the best team in Illinois." But it has taken more than great legiate coach would relish competing in To fill that tall order, the De Paul teams, top flight coaches, and Mikan- a state that annually could present such quintet would have to be better than type athletes, to make the Alidwest formidable quintets as Indiana Univer- its Chicago rival, Loyola; Bradle\' Uni- basketball's focal point. The other in- sity, Purdue, Butler, and Notre Dame? versit)', down Peoria way, and the gredient is thousands of Ail-American Any athletic director who expected to Fighting Illini of University of Illinois. fans who might flunk an elementary w in everything against that competition All have been powerhouses in recent histor>' quiz, > et w ho quickh' can tell would immediately be carted off to the national tournaments. \"ou that no Indiana high school team funny house. Wow! Eight major league teams in ever has won the state championship in The company is equally as rugged two adjacent states! Basketball may have an unbeaten campaign; that Sam Barry's next door in Illinois, where one of been an eastern invention, but who cares University of Iowa crews shared the Keogan's most alert pupils, Ray Meyer, to argue that the Midwest doesn't hold Big 10 crown in 1923 and 1926, and that has been fashioning brilliant teams at the patent? Dale White scored 1,011 points for 13c Paul University. One was the sen- There are even t]uite a few of the Irving, Illinois, high school in 1946. sational quintet that won the National modern generation, too > oimg to know A few more rabid basketball bugs Invitation Tourney in 1945. about Dr. James Naismith and his peach even dispense such specialized informa-

16 great crowd by any standard, these fans packed the arena to see the opening game of the Illinois High School tournament.

THESE MEN HELPED BUILD MIDWESTERN BASKETBALL SUPREMACY.

Harry Combes Dolph Stanley John Wooden Ray Eddy University of Illinois Beloit College U.C.L. A. Purdue Univ.

tion as the fact that University of Wiscon- course, it's still in the rough stages. You'll sin's Bud Foster not onl) led the Badgers have to iron out the details." to a national championship in 1941, but that Combes carefully scanned the fan's dia- Bud was the largest baby ever born in Kan- gram, then sadly shook his head. .sas— at 133/^ pounds. "It's useless," said Combes. "You've got six One of these enthusiastic fans early last players in the Illinois lineup!" season sought out Harry Combes, University "Oh, sure," agreed the fan. "I said you'd

of Illinois coach. The fan had conceived a have to iron out the details. I just worked out play to improve the team's scoring punch. the unstoppable part." George Mikan, named as the "This is unstoppable," the fan raved. "Of (Continued on page 27) greatest player of the last 50 years by the Associated Press Mid-Century Poll. CAN YOU GET GOOD CAR[

IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ?

The Legion demanded the best possible

care at the least cost. Are we getting it?

By DONALD R. WILSON NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION

except in medical circles, in the battle benefit all Americans as well as the dis- of the billions in Washington. abled veterans. For their "money's By 1949, VA medicine had already worth" in veterans care, the whole pop- been revolutionized. The hue and cry ulation is getting better medicine. to abolish it that was raised on the out- In 1948, just three years after the A side that year has continued since. Yet bomb fell on Hiroshima, the Bronx VA YEARS AGO, in 1941, The most ELEVEN of the shooting is based on old Hospital in New York City began to American Legion let loose a blast truths that only applied to a corpse by treat a "hopeless" victim of thyroid against the care that sick and dis- 1949. Three years earlier VA had ripped cancer with "atomic medicine." Noth- abled veterans were getting from the its tottering old medical regime apart. In ing is yet a sure cure for cancer, but Veterans Administration. its place was built the most valuable the fact that this patient returned from The Legion said in effect that our dis- medical asset in the history of nations. the verge of death and is back on the abled comrades were not getting the The old stories die hard; yet today, job today symbolizes VA's leadership kind of care they deserved, and that the the VA revolution that began rolling in in the development of atomic medicine public was not getting close to its 1945 is without parallel in medical his- for all. The VA has 16 atom labs in money's worth. tory. operation and 24 more due to open soon. Still dissatisfied, in the dying days of Now, in less than six years, VA has Under Dr. George Lyon — ex-Manhat- WW II, the Legion repeated its charges developed the most progressive con- tan District — it has set up safety stand- and called for immediate complete re- cept of public-supported medicine ever ards and regulations that are models for organization of VA medicine. to be put in practice. It has opened its other atomic medicine labs around the A few years passed and suddenly, in doors to make the most of free cooper- country. VA has trained 400 atom ray 1949, other groups of men-less familiar ation between private and public medi- spotters for emergency service in the by far than the Legion in the field of cine. It has enlarged its horizon from event of an A bomb attack. It has veterans affairs— demanded that veterans that of "bureaucratic veterans medi- worked out an "atomic cocktail" to find medicine be wiped out; that a proposed cine" to take in the whole sweep of brain tumors without cutting the skull. brand new general government medical American medical and medico-social A VA project at California U. has come bureau take over the facilities — VA so problems. It has done this by swinging up with a device to measure the tiny bits that the people could "get their money's iiway from trends toward "socializa- of radiation used in medicine that is, for worth." tion," and at a price that is less than the practical purposes, 100 times more sen- To tlie surprise of many. The Ameri- prewar cost of inferior veterans medi- sitive than the Geiger counter. can Legion's answer to this idea was, cine. VA reports on tuberculosis are the in effect, "Hold on there!" The often indifferent treatment that most widely quoted in the world today, Since the Legion, wliich had been VA many disabled veterans got ten \ ears and VA's Philadelphia library of 50 medicine's earliest and most persistent ago has vanished. They are now getting iiiillion TB X-Ray films is a marvel of critic, staunchly opposes efforts to scrap the best care that can be had in the source material for advanced study of veterans medicine as a failure, who nation. the disease. The practical treatment of could be blamed for raising his eye- VA is not only giving veterans the tuberculosis with streptomycin came brows and asking: "Aren't you the fel- best care available, it is creating new- out of a joint project of forty VA and lows who were hollering the loudest not medicine to give them the best care two military hospitals. so long ago? What goes on here?" possible. Today a landslide of new and Today, with hundreds of V^A-spon- The very simple answer to what goes better "doctoring" flows outward from sored research projects, the editors of on has been buried almost out of sight, VA hospitals, clinics and laboratories to professional medical journals find their 18 magazines crowded with VA findings. VA does it. The VA is causing other gram, and went on to trace its begin- From 600 to 1,000 VA medical studies medical excitement abroad. Four \^A nings. find their way into professional jour- medical movies recently were among "As early as 1941," said Dr. Rennie, nals each year. The figure before WW the prize winners at the 12th Inter- "The American Legion, becoming con- II was about 40. national Exhibition of Cinematic Art, cerned with the inadequacies of medical Recently, hundreds of psychiatrists held at \'enice, Itah'. Three were train- care, passed their famous Resolution visited VA \\^inter Hospital, in Topeka, ing films covering epilepsy, brain in- 528, which was highly critical of the Kansas, to see VA technician Paul Ro- juries and cancer of the lung. The prevailing policies of the \^eterans Ad- land's astonishing work with the "living fourth. The Road to Reason, deals with ministration. They strongly reiterated dead" of the mental hospitals—the cata- the rehabilitation of the mentally ill, this in 1945. The result was a complete tonic patients who may sit motionless and has been adapted for television and reorganization, the results of which are and mute day after day. It was Roland's show n across the nation. These movies now evident." five-year work with some 250 of these show your doctor and mine what the To those who have seen it all happen, most hopeless of mental patients — re- latest and best methods are. "evident" isn't a strong enough word. turning some of them to their families Dr. Thomas A. C. Rennie recently Gone, today, are all traces of a con- and jobs—that caused all the excitement. boiled down the marvel of VA's medi- dition that would let any honest man Last October, Dr. Charles L. Ne^\•- cal revolution in an address before the label the VA hospitals as a closed order berry of the U. S. Public Health Serv- National Association for Alental Health. of medical politics, where out-of-date ice, published a "look at the VA" mes- The \'A's care of mental cases, said Dr. medicine could be practiced half- sage to ". doctors in industr>% who treat so Rennie. . . compares favorably with heartedly by a sleepy staff awaiting re- many of our civilian amputees. Said Dr. that of an>' private or university center tirement pensions. Newberry: "That our civilian attitude in America." Instead, \^A medicine is the opposite toward amputees is radically wrong is Dr. Rennie, who is professor of psy- of a closed system. Full of juice and proved by comparing the lot of the chiarr\- at Cornell Universit>' iMedical ambition, one of its best jobs is the fact civilian with that of the veteran ampu- School, said that the cost of veterans' that few of its achievements belong to tee. A careful study indicates that the mental care is "far below" the cost in the VA alone, but are the combined veteran an/pjitee n-ivds up ivith a bet- most private hospitals, and is "astonish- feats of the best tlicre is in American ter job than he had before he lost his ingly low" w hen the high t>'pe of serv- medicine. limb. The civilian, by contrast, is dotvn ice is considered. Today, VA facilities, laboratories, ." graded . . Dr. Rennie had more to say. He told wards and clinics — VA problems and Once, Germany led the world in the about the parts that General Omar assets — are shared on a give-and-take business of putting amputees back in Bradley and Major General Paul R. basis with the nation's leaders in medi- circulation. Recently a six-man team Hawle\' pla> ed in starting the new pro- cal study, medical care, medical educa- came over from Germany to see how PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS ( Continued on page 46)

19 100,000 AMERICAN CASUALTIES

15,000 AMERICANS KILLED*

THOUSANDS MORE BUTCHERED, BUT...

M OUICr ON IHE

By JAMES C. JONES, JR.

An angry report by a Marine who recently returned from the Korean combat zone.

AMERICANS IN KOREA havc been doublecrossed by Americans and life-saving. Yet tens of millions of back-sliding Ameri- in the United States. And some of us who have come cans cannot be bothered. back from that peninsula of misery are mighty ashamed Stepping on to U. S. shores is indeed a pleasant change, of the home folks. environmentally, but more than a little disquieting. When Yanks of the 8th Army, an infinitesimal cluster of men many of us made a similar trip home from the various compared to the U. S. potential, have carried the fight for battlefields of World War II, we enjoyed an abiding sense a nation which gives every indication of not caring, which of pride. There was the feeling that the whole country appears to prefer looking the other way, which concerns had been at war, seriously bent upon whipping the com- itself virtually not at all with the fearful casualties, and mon enemies. We survivors returned, knowing the nation which has dedicated itself almost exclusively to the better- had been solidly behind us, had counted heavily on us, and ment of its individual backyards. Those families which we were proud because we had not failed. have members in Korea evidently are the only people who Precious little pride accompanies the current homecoming. side completely and devotedly with U. S. fighters. (And I speak for a sizable number of buddies, as well as V^eterans of Korea experience a momentary, ephemeral for myself. My military job as a combat correspondent exhilaration when the ships ease up to U. S. piers: We are enabled me to meet many men, to learn much about their alive, not all of us are crippled, we are as healthy as can be feelings and convictions.) None of us can see where we expected, and there is joy in knowing that the next minute failed this time, but most of us can see where the home or week or year will not be spent fighting — at lea.st, not in guard corked off. No, homecoming is not the great fun Korea. Much of that exquisite, high tension happiness is it was in 1945. Rather, it is a little embarrassing, because dispelled in short order. some of us hatch the hot idea that we are little more than When we settle down enough to permit a searching look red-faced suckers. around, what we sec confirms the suspicions that were bred Bear in mind that we were probably less inspired about overseas. In the vernacular, nearly everyone here is fat. going into battle in 1950 than any other Americans in any Despite all the bellyaching about high prices and high taxes, other war. Why we were hustled into that stinking land it is quite apparent that nobody is starving, that millions of at all was well worth pondering. At first, many sloggers television aerials stud the house tops, that a vast number of entertained the notion that we were buying time for the cars on the streets are sleek new models, and that most America. What happened? Seven U. S. Divisions came to of the home-fronters are so busily occupied in tending their Korea in the first four months of the war, then the tap was own gardens that they seldom have time to drop in at a shut off. W^e felt that we had purchased the time, at pro- blood donor center to squeeze oflf a pint for the guy who is hibitive prices, but where were the rest of the soldiers our dribbling his away in a cruddy rice paddy. Giving blood nation of 155 million people was supposed to be supplying?

to the Armed Forces is quick, painless, free, soul-satisfying *Approximate, as of December 3, 1951

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GROUND m 'm MY HUSBAND IS MISSING OAf/e/s HALTS IN KOREA IN ACTION IN KOREA Order; HSl Ridgm Deny By Mrs. Ruby Peeler Red JetsHJlCqmer^ ARE LEGION, we wives of those who are Contradictory official statements have WE Missing In Action In Korea, living lives of confused and benumbed the public. nightmarish hopes and frustrations. We hope that they live, and then are spiritually convulsed with a feeling of guilt and selfishness for such thoughts. As with women throughout the centuries of wars fought for the various causes of freedom, and isms, and acquisitions, we Korean M. I. A. widows must face the grueling fact that our soldiers, if living, face the most torturous existence of any uniformed men by having fallen into enemy hands. From Taegu to Pyongyang, we wives have waited, while most of the populace laughed. We have wept calmly, and wept frantically, into our pillows, whUe caressing the undented pillow on the other side of the bed. Some of us dream. Not good dreams, as we'd wish. Sleep with pleasant dreams would help. But the dreams we have are too deeply permeated with the hopelessness, helplessness and brutality of the situa- tion to give sufficient rest to body and soul. The reds butchered GIs. Officials re- Some of us have broken down, just as have wives gretted the "timing" of the announcement. throughout the ages. I remember having had a doctor called to administer a sedative, months ago, when the first letters were received from prisoners of war. I can still see the look of disgust on his face as he said, "You can't live in the past, honey. You've got to live in the present." I was too sick in mind to ask, "What present? What about a future?" What had I for my hus- band's son? A country divided by party politics? A few were in Europe, but most of them were home, A country resurgent with organized crime? A school and there still are but seven U. S. Divisions in the line. ground surrounded with vultures who prey on the pittance of incoming manpower sent tumbling That young and bewildered with the offer of a drugged the conjecture that we might be trying to keep the com- existence that destroys all that for which men are munists out of Japan, too, for we learned belatedly that dying? Then, when the people stop to think, they another of the Yalta deals had situated the Russians only ask, "What are our troops doing in Korea, anyway?" a canoe's ride from Hokkaido, the northernmost island Bitter, ironic, and unpatriotic thoughts floated, of Japan. Keeping the Reds from engulfing Korea would merged and kaleidoscoped through my tortured and drugged brain, until, with relief, the foggy dreams not prevent them from sweeping across the last American and questions were chased away by the "yellowish- bastion in that part of the world, if they had a yearning brown" men, with slanting eyes, creeping, with ter- to occupy Nippon. Seven not-so-hot-to-trot Divisions rible grins on their faces, from every nook and in Korea would not, at any rate, and the lonesome pair cranny of my strange-familiar bedroom, to dance of U. S. Divisions now occupying Japan would be unable 'round my bed in a silly, bumpy, trotty dance, until to do much about it, either. the shot the doctor had so optimistically given me Morale could never be strong under such circumstances, lent oblivion. and mustering up courage (or developing a strong enough Oblivion! Blessed word! Wonderful thought! How we yearn for it, hope for it, pray for it, only to feeling of futility) to attack that next hill was excruciat- hang our heads in shame for the impulse. ingly difficult. Especially after that first bit of sweet We think of the blessedness of amnesia, of forget- scuttlebutt concerning peace talks. The capers at Kaesong fulness. Then we awaken from stupid, dream-laden soon appeared to be largely in the nature of international sleep. The room is not familiar. The pictures on the diddling, though, and viewing it thus, the infantryman walls are stupid and meaningless prints of pictures found going up that hill a little easier, although he could by stupid and meaningless, would-be artists. Who not see the worth of it. He might die, wondering to the dared hang them there? Who dared plan a room last if a cease-fire would be in effect next morning, or with windows that, no matter how widely opened, were airless, and cheerless, and without view? View? even at the moment he died. It took more than the usual Why should one need, or ask, that scapes of beauty allotment of guts, but he had it, and so he went up that be opened when one was alone? What is beauty? hill day after day. What is hope? My God, where am I? Where is the it helped Morale was anything but aflame in Korea, and familiar and loved? not one whit to be prodded ungently by a long shaft from One rushes to the window, and stares hard and the homeside. The American in Korea fought gallantly deep. Searches the surroundings with frantic hope because he was fighting for his life and he knew it. for the known, and believed-in part of a security ( Continued on page 51 geographically one's own. (Continued on page 60)

21 A little extra effort will get you "top dollar" for the old bus.

By MORGAN MORRIS

(WANT TO sell my car. What's the best tape. You will lose a substantial amount less, perhaps because he is more con- way to do it and how much should of money on the deal, of course, but venient, go back to him and tell him I ask? Should I turn it in to the deal- that is the penalty on a turn-in. After what the competition has offered you.

er who is selling me my new car or all, the dealer has no intention of giving There is a good chance that he will try should I try to sell it through an ad in you as much for your car as he will be to match their offer. the newspaper?" able to sell it for later. If possible, he The newspaper classified ad is prob- Almost twelve million people will ask will make as close to 20 percent on your ably the best way to sell a used car. It these questions this year. Few of them old car as he can and he would be a attracts the greatest number of people, will find the right answers. The ma- poor businessman if he did otherwise. it is relatively inexpensive and it is read jority will lose money, time and pa- There are exceptions. The car he is largely by people who are looking for tience trying to make a "good deal" selling you may be so hard to dispose a car. It has disadvantages, too. You will without having the slightest idea of of that he is willing to reduce its price be pestered by a lot of shoppers who what a good deal is in selling a used car. by giving you an inflated amount for have no intention of buying, you'll give The average American, when he sets your old car. Don't forget, though, demonstrations to people who are sure out to buy a new or used car, is very that in this case you will get a corre- they want the car but who never come

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Don't take the first offer. Shop around, and match Some people have trouble writing an Don't try to cover up anything out the offers you get from competitive dealers. ad. They tell too little or too much. of order. Honesty saves trouble.

conscious of price and will often go to spondingly smaller amount for the new back and you are tied to the house as extremes to save a few dollars, shopping car when the time comes for you to sell long as your ad runs. By and large, in so-called "low priced" areas or buy- it. If it's hard to sell now it will prob- however, these disadvantages are easily ing makes and models which do not ap- ably be hard to sell then. One general outweighed by the additional profit you peal to him except in price. Yet, this rule applies to all turn-ins. The more will make by selling your car directly same buyer, when he sells his old car, popular the make the dealer is selling rather than through a middleman. almost always makes a poor deal. He the less he will give you for your old One difficulty in newspaper selling is fails to observe even the simplest rules car. the inability of most of us to write an of used-car selling although there are Many of us, when we decide to turn attractive classified ad that will catch lessons to be seen all around him. our old car in on a new one, make the the eye of and appeal to the potential The easiest way to dispo.se of a used mistake of not "shopping around." We purchaser. We either give too little in- car is to turn it in to the dealer from agree to the price offered to us by the formation or too much and the sale is whom you are buying a new or used first dealer we happen to approach. Ac- lost as soon as the "prospect" reads the car. You drive it in, he appraises it and tually, another dealer, selling the same ad. Take this example: "'48 BUICK gives you a price which he will apply make of car, may be willing to give us SEDAN. GOOD CONDITION. BEST toward your new car. The whole trans- a higher price. If you find that this is OFFER, 15 JONES ST." You won't sell action is over in a matter of minutes so and you still want to buy >'our new many Buicks or any other make with and there is no fuss, discussion or red car from the dealer who has offered you this kind of ad. It gives almost no in-

22 car by describing it proudly, pointing out its best features. The real test of your selling ability comes when the prospect arrives for a demonstration. Have the car there ready for him to see. Let him inspect it thoroughly. Don't attempt to hide the

bad features, if there are any. It is bet- ter for you to show him the broken heater and offer to allow him for it in the price than to have him discover it himself. If he does he will think that

you are hiding it and that you are prob- ably hiding other deficiencies as well. Be friendly to the prospect and try to show enthusiasm for the car.

Remember, he is spending a sizeable amount of money and the purchase of a car may be the biggest purchase he has ever made. He is anxious to have a car but at the same time is afraid that he may be making an unwise choice. An indifferent manner and gruff answers formation at all. Is it a two-door or Although giving too little informa- to his questions will not put him at his four-door sedan? Is it a large or small tion is the usual fault in writing classi- ease or reassure him. If he brings his

Buick? Does it have an automatic trans- fied ads, giving too much is almost as wife with him to see the car, give them mission? Does it have heater and radio? bad. If the ad is too long and involved a chance to speak privately before com- What color is it? How much is it? or too flowery, the prospect will won- ing to a decision. If you don't, he may These are things that the potential buy- der if there isn't something wrong. turn the car down, unwilling to take er wants to know and unless your ad Why does this car need such high- the chance of finding out later that she tells him, his eye will move on down the pressure selling? does not approve of the car.

column until he finds a more informa- If possible, always give a telephone If the prospect is satisfied and de- tive ad. A far better way to write this number in your ad rather than a house cides to buy, come to an immediate ad would be -"BUICK 1948 ROAD- address and state the hours during understanding on how payment is to be

See what other individuals and Accept nothing but cash or a Be careful about those plates. It's obviously foolish to spend a dealers are asking for similar cars. certified check, to play safe. Some states won't allow transfers. lot of money fixing up an old car.

MASTER 4-DOOR SEDAN. DYNA- which you will be available. None of us made. He will probably offer a deposit FLOW, RADIO, HEATER. likes to make a trip to look at a car that to hold the car until he can arrange to MAROON, WHITE-WALL TIRES. may be unsuitable when we get there pay in full. He should receive a receipt PERFECT. $1400, MA-1899, AFTER and a potential buyer frequently has for the deposit, containing a full de- 5." This ad creates a picture in the mind no form of transportation in which to scription of the car (serial number, of the reader. It makes him desire to go to see your car. This may be the motor number, model, etc.). He will re- own your car. very reason why he is buying a car. turn this receipt to you when the sale The potential buyer wants to know If you make it hard for the customer he is completed. Do not sign over the title the exact model of the car. He wants will simply pass up your ad and go on of the car to him until the full price to know what equipment it has and its to another that involves no more diffi- is paid. color. Most of all he wants to know culty and bother than picking up a Accept nothing but cash or a certi- how much it costs. "Best offer" should telephone. Also, by using a telephone fied check for full payment. If the buy- only be used in special cases, such as number rather than an address you can er pleads that he can give you half or very old (or rough) or very desirable screen out many shoppers and those a third now and the rest Thursday, de- "new-used" cars, which are in great who are merely curious. cline, regretfully but firmly. Do not demand. Where the average car is con- When a prospect does call, tell him turn the car over to him until Thursday cerned, decide on what price you are what he wants to know about the car. (or whenever the full price is paid).

asking and put it in the ad. If you can, try to make him desire the (Continued on page 44)

23 DO YOU KNOW? HOW TO SHOW RESPECT TO OOR FlAG 3

A picture quiz which will show whether or not you know what you should about flag etiquette.

ANSWERS ON PAGE 28

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THESE illustrarions correct ^^"^""^ usage is being followed while in others there is some faux pas. Under each photograph space is provided for you to write whether or not you think things are as they should be, and why. When you have expressed your opinions turn to page 28 to see how many of the sixteen situations you have appraised correctly.

Incidentally, we wish to make it clear that the folks shown in these photographs know the right procedure in every case. They are Legionnaires from James B. Whipple Post 86, WUton, Conn., and where they acted out im- proper methods of handling the flag it was only to keep others from making the same errors.

PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS 15 16

25 Legion Rod and Gun Club

Do any of you woods characters know IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR what the word Orienteering means? A few CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAYOFF WITH SHELLS, CARTRIDGES, LINES OR LURES. of you might have practiced it during the last war. It started in Sweden during the A short time ago during the deer season guns and patterns," this sportsman writes. war years and then spread throughout in one of our eastern states one of the long- "Most of the outdoor magazines and others Europe. . . . Give up? It's simply the art of time residents of that particular state was that handle the subject make it so compli- using map and compass effectively in cross- killed while riding his bicjxle to the farm cated that I don't know if I'm reading or country traveling. If you know Orienteering of a nearby friend. He was riding on a dirt looking at a problem in calculus." no country can be too wild, no forest too road, completely unobscured by brush, First let me say that a shotgun is so-called deep. We're beginning to learn more about small trees, etc., and was dressed in bright because it fires a shell containing a quan- it here. clothing. The man w ho killed him claimed tity of lead shot. It is made with a smooth- that he thought the handlebars of the bore barrel. bicycle were "deer horns." Shotguns are made in several well-known A book that might be convenient next to Incidents of this kind, evidences of care- gauges, 10, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 410. Other your gun case is "Everyday Ballistics"; are lessness with firearms have led to hot con- gauges have been made in the past but simple and down to earth it is written by troversy in political and sporting worlds. not in common use. These include 4, 8, 14, Charles S. Cummings II, and published by "Morons and irrcsponsibles shouldn't be 24 and 32 gauges. Stackpole and Heck, Harrisburg, Penna allowed to carry death in their hands. Tests The unit of gauge measurement is based should be devised to stop them from buy- on numbers of lead balls weighing one is approximately the di- ing hunting licenses," say many sportsmen. pound. 12 gauge Choice information on your favorite the politicians, "there isn't a ameter of a lead ball of which 12 weigh "Uh uh," say sport is as close and as easy to get as a walk test that could be dreamed up that would one pound, 16 gauge is the diameter of a to > our local sporting goods store. Places certain emo- lead ball of which 16 weigh one pound, etc. measure man's reactions to like the Parker Sport Store in Manchester, fitness tests aren't The one exception is 410 gauge, which is tional problems. And New Hampshire, and F.d Felix's Sports actually .410 caliber. In terms of gauge, it any good." Shop in Roxbury, Connecticut, are a couple would be 36 gauge. of small sports shops that not only handle Bore diameters in thousandths of inches complete lines for the hunter and the fish- are as follows: erman, but are happy to answer tricky .780" ga. - .624" 10 ga. - 20 questions. Give them a tr>-. Support your -.553" 12ga. -.730" 28ga. local sports shops, and you'll find that think? As a reader of the What do you 16ga. -.678" 410 ga. -.410" they'll support you. . . . American Legion Magazine, and member of Shell length is measured in inches; in the most powerful gioups in the one of terms of the overall length of fired shell, your opinion is respected. Why not world with the crimp open. This applies both to send reactions to this page, THE ROD your Remington and Peters shells with the "New lend your thinking AND GUN CLUB, and and to shells with the old Flat-Top Crimp" The poor pups of America are in for on this problem? " roll crimp. 2 '/< shell measures about style A something new in food experimentation. We're interested in your thoughts and before it is fired, but l^i" I'/z" to lYs" Now one of the major dog food manufac- suggestions on the entire world of the out- overall after firing. This method of measur- turers is getting ready to put up dog food If you have thoughts or items that doors. ing has been adopted to conform to stand- send them with chlorophyll added. Chlorophyll is sup- should l)e expressed here, please chamber lengths of shotguns. A gun ard posed to kill odor and has already been sold use your suggestions, we're on. If we don't 2%" chamber will thus handle shells with a in various forms to humans totaling a $150,- that we won't be able to acknowledge " afraid gauge up to 2 % length. of the proper 000,000 annual take. Now with the produc- if use them, a box of shells them. But we do to know the number of pel- if you want tion of a (le

2g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 Basketball . . . Midwestern Style (Continued from page 19)

Combes didn't consider tlie incident Barry's feat of having shared two Big the Indiana prep championship in 1950 unusual. When it's basketball time in 10 crowns at Iowa before going west before taking over at Purdue. Illinois, almost everyone is a bit daffy. was regarded as adding distinction to Loyola of Chicago's George Ireland

Illinois is crazy about basketball, ad- Southern Cal's basketball program — un- was at Marmion Military Academy un- mittedly. Iowa and Wisconsin fans are til Stanford hired Ev Dean, winner of til this year and his predecessor at fanatics of the hoop game. But Indiana three Big 10 titles for Indiana. One of Loyola, Johnny Jordan, who moved on

is delirious, and raconteurs of Hoosier Dean's greatest Stanford stars was For- to coach Notre Dame, is only in his glories now skip over James Whitcomb rest Anderson, who had wandered to second season away from the Windy Riley, the Banks of the Wabash, and Palo Alto from Gary, Indiana. Ander- City's Mount Carmei High School. other such nonsense to tell you about son now is widely renowned as boss of The spawning of such illustrious foxy Everett Case, Cliff Wells, and coaches brings suspicion that Midwest Johnny Wooden, a few of the bright high schools put a bale of emphasis on of the the cage sport. That's absolutely cor- Hoosiers scattered in the corners ...Mi United States teaching basketball as it rect — as Ray Eddy can attest with a was meant to be played — Midwest fash- hatful of statistics. forwa1$d * 7*- ion, that is! "We have only about 165 schools There was a sudden dwindling of ON LiBEI|nr'S TEAM competing in football in Indiana," Eddy Indiana's younger male population relates. "Around 250 play baseball. More when Case, winner of four Hoosier high than 750 have basketball teams." school championships while at Frank- The figures are proportionately the fort, trotted to North Carolina State. same in Illinois, where better than 800 Then the youngsters began to bob up high schools compere on the hardwood, on the State campus— and the Wolfpack according to the latest roll call made started grabbing titles. Case won five by Albert Willis, executive secretary of straight Southern Conference crowns the Illinois High School Association. to enter this sixth season batting 1.000. Willis never ceases to be amazed at The Wolfpack's Ail-American for- the fervor reached over basketball, ward last year was Sam Ranzino, a 6 which has come a long way in Illinois since students at Farina in foot, 1 inch "southerner" from Gary, played a two- Indiana, who probably was overlooked room former church, dribbling through by midwestern coaches because he's so a wide doorway in passing from one "small." end of the arena to the other. Those While Case was adding midwestern were the days, too, when many countr>' style basketball to the North Carolina ^3t/vo MKIMIVmitSJ*ltY W9S2 gymnasiums were heated by pot-bellied curriculum, another gentleman from BOV SCOUTS OF AMERICA stoves that infringed on the playing in floor and it was an effective, if unsport- , Indiana was being saluted elsewhere Dixie. That would be Cliff Wells of ing, defensive measure to manipulate Tulane University in New Orleans, vet- the Bradley quintets coming out of the opposing team's star into a position where his backside eran of a long coaching tenure at Peoria, Ilhnois, and ranks as a leader in could get just a feel Logansport, Indiana, High School. the cage coaching profession which of the heat. "You'll generally find a basketball A straightforward fellow. Cliff let the Dean forsook this season. team representing any New Orleans folks entertain no illusions Even Ev Case had a whirl on the west Midwest crossroads junction where there's house," that they could get America's finest coast, serving briefly as Barr>''s assistant a Willis explains. quintet merely by hiring an Indiana after leaving Anderson, Indiana, where "Where there 're a couple of houses, might find coach — Midwest players were needed. he had built a winning high school team. you two teams." "Very few sections of the country will The graduations of Hoosiers Wells He easily could have added that most catch up soon with the Midwest," Wells and Case to top flight college positions of these hamlets generally sport mod- explains. "The Midwest got about a after outstanding records with high ern gymnasiums, some with seating ca- 20-year start." school quintets aren't unusual incidents pacities exceeding the township popu- Only pensioners and film struck dolls in the Midwestern picture. lation. outnumber midwestern basketball Baron Adolph Rupp, winner of three This concentrated high school pro- coaches in migrating to the Pacific national intercollegiate championships gram is fed by athletes geared to com- Coast. Wooden, an all-time great player at Kentucky, leaped into that job from petition from tender ages. Notre Dame's at Purdue, has won at least a division Freeport, Illinois, High School. Johnny Jordan claims parents no longer title each of the last three seasons at Dolph Stanley of Wisconsin's nation- brag when Junior takes his first step at University of California at Los Angeles. ally ranked Beloit College found his 10 months—they wait a few days longer Currently keeping Wooden from be- prep coaching record at Taylorville, and proudly report he's sinking baskets coming homesick for Indiana is John Illinois, the springboard to a better field. from 20 feet out. Moore, a 6 foot, 5 inch dandy who won Dolph's last Taylorville five went un- "The boys start young," Johnny re- Hoosier all-state high school honors. beaten in winning the 1944 Illinois high lates, "because it's easier to round up a And, fortunately for U.C.L.A., Moore school title and, when Dolph left, quite gang for basketball, and all they need so far hasn't experienced the nostalgia a few of his Taylorville athletes found is some nondescript hoop and the ball." that once struck a gangly Iowa young- things lonesome around the old home Jordan and Ev Case are a pair of ster the late Sam Barry welcomed to town. They solved this by enrolling at coaches emphasizing that the Midwest's University of Southern California. Beloit. long winter favors development of the This Iowa athlete was on the Trojan Harry Combes didn't even switch hoop game just as climatic conditions campus only a week before packing for towns in moving to University of Illi- help make California a hotbed of tennis. home. "Mighty pore corn country out nois from Champaign High School, This, of course, brings the question of here," he explained to Barry. while Ray Eddy directed Madison to why other frigid areas fail to catch the

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • 27 basketball fever. Tulane's Prof. Wells Tilden to the Chicago public school traded touchdowns almost every minute! has the answer. championship and was being pursued Basketball will make anyone nutty. "Other cold areas have ice skating, by De Paul, Bradley, and Illinois. He Fans are just more nutty in the Midwest hockey, and skiing to bid for attention," ultimately enrolled at Illinois. because there's more basketball. Wells says. "The big thing in Indiana, Though Kerr may have been a long Tom Morrow, a folksy Chicago news- Illinois, and Iowa is basketball." time finding his ability, he quickly dis- paper columnist, has allowed that bas- covered the fans' insanity. few hours ketball A youngster who looked for a hill A comes between cleanliness and worthy of skiing on in one of the after Tilden arrived at University of godliness in Indiana. That's also true in Illinois '49 state Three-I states. Wells allows, would be to play in the tourna- Wisconsin, where St. Croix Falls (pop- to Postl. ulation little better in a fix similar to the Engineer who ment, Johrmy rushed Coach than an even 1,000), people here are nuts," Kerr said. won the state championship sought to fit his locomotive into a cor- "The one 1950 ner in the roundhouse. "A fellow just offered |90 for my Saturday night, then postponed the cele- tickets." bration until Monday. Those lanky athletes who grow taller "I'm going to ask for a police escort," Raised eyebrows asked the St. Croix than Iowa's fabulous corn also play an Postl wailed. "If anyone hears you boys Falls fellows if they hadn't heard about important role in the success of the have tickets, we'll be mobbed. The gym the custom of ringing bells, racing fire Midwest's basketball program. Coaches seats only 6,900." trucks, and nice speeches by town offi- don't deny the pursuit of the string bean The small capacity of the lUini gym, cials, as was a custom the morning after fellows. which makes the Illinois High School a Midwestern school took a state hoop Adolph Rupp claims the doorway to Association as tight-fisted with tickets championship. his office at Kentucky is almost 6 feet, as a New York speculator with tickets Oh, yes, the St. Croix folks explained, 6 inches high — and boys who don't for "South Pacific," brings ridicule but a Sunday celebration was impossible bump their heads entering aren't en- from Indiana folks, who stress that for — their coach, Don Snyder, had to sing rolled. Harry Combes has a similar out- their state tournament Butler Univer- in the church choir! look at Illinois. sity's fieldhouse can seat 15,000. Nominations for the hottest shot ever "You know the way you can see into And, the Hoosiers add, more than to play in basketball's hot belt virtually four states from atop one of those tall 1,200,000 see the Indiana tournament have ceased with the dominance of Chicago buildings?" Harry asks. "Well, series, from opening eliminations to the Mikan, though if Giant George's name I like basketball players tall enough to final. Unfortunates who can't get seats were eliminated, Johnny Wooden well do that without going atop a building!" listen to the play over more than 40 might be considered top man. A lot also There's no doubt a midwestern coach radio stations. would be said for Andy Phillip of Illi- knows more about legs than Billy Rose Iowa's claim for the fan champion- nois, Ed (Moose) Krause of Notre — and the coaches whistle when they ship is that its fans even pack Drake Dame, and John J. Schommer, Univer- spot a long, spindly pair. fieldhouse for the finale of the high sity of Chicago AU-American before Consider Bill Postl, a Chicago high school girls^ tournament. Sometimes, World War I. school mentor. In Bill's January 1949, these fans agree, this brand of basket- Regional differences in styles of play Tilden quintet was finding the go- Tech ball isn't as polished as that displayed throughout the United States are fading ing rougher than a bearded lady's chin. by the males, but there is yet to be a away with increased intersectional com- in corridor. Bill Then, a school eyed the complaint about the form. petition. Most areas employ similar most beautiful legs he ever seen. had What breeds this great fan interest by styles, and though the Midwest long has They belonged to Johnny (Red) Kerr, Midwesterners? One reason is the num- been employing the style with the best then hining 6 feet, 8 inches. ber of participants, who draw a propor- success, other sectors must be making Bill talked fast. Johnny admitted play- tionately large number of fans. Other progress — they aren't spreading those ing some barnyard basketball, but reasons are commonplace anywhere the midwestern boys quite so thin this sea- thought a person had to be invited to game is played — its simplicity makes it son! And with those native sons staying play for Tilden. easy to follow and the action works the closer to home, the prairie state quintets "You're invited now," Postl said. spectators into hysteria. Imagine the ex- should become tougher than ever. Less than two months later, Kerr led citement at a football game if the teams THE END

Correct answer to Do You Know How To Show Respect To Our Flag? on paK*s 22 and 23

1. Wrong. A frayed flag should always on the left side. The soldier is salut- be on the speaker's left as he faces be removed. ing properly. the audience. 11. Wrong. The flag should be at the 2. Correct. The flag should always be 5. Wrong. The flag should never be peak of the staff. displayed in a ptjlling place. This one draped over a car. 12. Correct. The flag should always be is properly displayed, too, with the 6. The error here is that the use of flown before schools and public field in the upper left. flags on the speaker's table is incor- buildings. rect. Bunting should have been used. 3. Correct. When carried in a proces- 13. Wrong. This is no way to carry the sion with other flags the flag of the However, the flag on the wall is flag of our country. U.S.A. should be on the flags' own correctly displayed. 14. Correct. When suspended like this right, the marching right. It would 7. Correct. This is the right way to the flag should have the field in the also be correct in this case if the flag fold a flag. upper left as you face it. were in the center, ahead of the two 8. Correct. The minister at this burial 15. Wrong on two counts. The flag of flags flanking it. is at the head of the grave and the the United States should be on the flag's field is in the correct place. 4. Wrong on two counts. When the marching right and no other flag flag goes by, a male civilian should 9. Wrong. The flag should be lowered should be elevated above it.

remove his hat and place it over his before dark. 16. Wrong. The flag should never be heart. The lady in this case seems 10. Correct. The flag is on the speaker's allowed to touch the ground. to have forgotten that one's heart is right, and any other colors should THE END

28 * American Legion Magazine • February, 19S2 ' The Xatioivai Legionnaire

GROUP SEEKS TO DESTROY U.S. VET'S PROGRAM IN FOUR MONTHS

"Citizens" Lobby Speeding Efforts to Hamstring Vet Claims. tastic. Visualize 50 to 100 million rec- ords where 10 or 20 would do. Would Make VA Hospitals Public Institutions; Snarl Benefits Today VA keeps one master folder and Preference; Conflicting Groups Make Plans to Finish Job on each veteran with a claim, and it can apply to any sort of claim he may make. The group that calls itself the Citizens amount and quality of care available to The men who know the ropes in the Committee for the Hoover Report held veterans. Legion, the VFW, the DAV and the a grand strategy meeting last October If you looked at the above closely you Am Vets predict chaos and wasteful ex- in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New would see that the claims of the Citizens penditure of money in a sea of unneces- York and decided to have one more fling Committee and the conclusions of vet- sary record-keeping, if the Citizens Com- at breaking up the Veterans Adminis- erans service experts are different. In mittee does its job. tration. fact, they are the exact opposite. This time the group, headed by Dr. Experts in every chartered veterans Less Red Tape? Robert L. Johnson, President of Temple organization, whose job it is to see vet- Not only will many agencies handle University in Philadelphia, set next erans claims safely through the bureau- veterans claims, but many agencies will June 1st as the deadline to push the laws cracy, advise that you cannot save fed- handle the same claim. To get any ac- through Congress that would dismember eral funds by making three agencies to tion, the veteran will stumble over the the Veterans Administration and break do what one agency does now. usual growth of conflicting policies and up the federal veterans program. It was For example, they say, many agencies customs found in independent agencies. decided to raise $150,000 more in gifts instead of one would have to keep their This, say the experts, will bog veterans from well-to-do persons and groups, such own records — and the complement of claims down in newly created difficul- gifts to be tax-deductible. clerks that goes with them — on each ties between bureaus. New armies of The big job for the Committee is to veteran that ever had a claim and on clerks, expediters, catalysts and other get Congress to pass four major pro- each veteran that ever will have a claim. by-products of too-cumbersome govern- posals, three of which would dismember With 18 million living veterans and ment with which Washington agencies the Veterans Administration and turn three million more now in the making, are already clogged will be required, for the veterans hospitals into public insti- the possibilities for paper work are fan- the experts on the government payroll tutions, while the fourth would end vet- who render no direct service, but who do erans preference in getting or keeping business between bureaus, become more government jobs. and more necessary the more bureaus FOURTEEN BILLS, ONE RESULT there are. Especially when more bureaus The Exact Opposite are working on the same job — such as a These are the bills in Congress now Citizens Committee's veteran's claim. The lobbying that would break up the Federal doesn't think and "public information" program for veterans program (See story this The Citizens Committee these laws in the past is expected to con- page.). so. It has been circulating rosy broad- sides, newspaper editorials, mottoes, tinue. It has concentrated on spreading 1. Three identical bills to turn vet- the word that its proposed laws would: erans hospitals into public insti- slogans and simple cartoons that show tutions under a U.S. Department smiling, contented veterans in the world 1. Save federal funds, through claimed of Health. In the Senate, bill of the future, enjoying the prompt, effi- better management. number S1140. In the House of cient service of "good government." 2. Avoid wasteful duplication in gov- Representatives, bills numbered The veterans experts warn that it ernment. HR-3305 and HR-3688. ain't so. 3. Make better days for veterans 2. Three identical "red tape" bills VA red tape of today, they caution, through less red tape. reduce to a so-called to VA would be pure heaven beside the plans 4. Create better careers for veterans "Benefits Section," dependent on for the veteran of the future put for- in government jobs. other agencies to handle your ward by the Citizens Committee for the 5. Improve the medical service. claims. - Hoover Report. The veterans experts, The chief trouble the committee has Senate S-1151. House - HR-3316, HR-3686. with thirty years of experience behind run into during the last three years is 3. Three identical bills to create a them, say that a veteran who gets up to that all conscientious and responsible separate government insurance his knees today in a snarl with the VA students of veterans aff'airs have ad- corporation to handle your serv- would be over his head under the Hoover vised that the Committee's proposed ice insurance. proposals. For instance, at least two laws would: - Senate S-1138. bureaus instead of one will ensnarl the 1. Make the administration of veter- House - HR-3317 and HR-3677. war-wounded veteran seeking service- ans affairs more costly by hopelessly 4. Five nearly identical bills that connected compensation or hospitaliza- complicating them. would make veterans preference tion. And just as neither bureau will 2. duplication, in Civil Service unworkable. Create triplication and have the power to make the other act, Senate — Already passed last even quadruplication in government Oct. 19, as S-1135. so neither will be fully responsible to where none exists now. House - HR-2420, HR-2748, the veteran. When something goes 3. Vastly multiply the red tape that HR-3311 and HR-3687. wrong in either bureau, each can blame faces the veteran with a claim. You can help make your wishes the other. Guess who will be the goat, 4. Set government hiring back 80 known by cutting out the numbered the veterans expei-ts ask. years, by removing the last remaining items above and pasting them to a All the chartered veterans organiza- brakes to the crony system of hiring and brief note of your own, to be sent to tions are quick to point out that their firing in Civil Service. one of your Senators or your Rep- claims service for veterans will be great- < resentative. 5. Break up the best government hos- ly impaired if today's single central pital system (VA) and vastly reduce the agency responsible to veterans is delib- Th© AmericoQ Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • 29 f-^ * ' * ^ * ' * * 4 f * * * * * * ^ * ** ^ * * f * f *^^^ ^ erately wrecked, as recommended by the ^ were to be brought about. Let the prom- Citizens Committee. ise of savings "stand unadorned" was MAJOR LEAGUES GIVE 50G The chartered veterans organizations \ the instruction. If pressed for an ex- spend the dues of their members and TO JUNIOR BALL PROGRAM planation, members of the Committee gifts from the general public to steer were told, they could quote Mr. Hoover Major baseball leagues at their <> veterans claims through the VA at no || or Dr. Johnson as authorities and let it mid-December meeting voted to un- i\ charge to the veteran, whether or not I| go at that. This characteristic substitu- \> derwrite the national program of he is a member of the organization. They || tion of prestige for facts is worthy of '> American Legion Junior Baseball in report that their service staffs, no less \\ more attention. \\ the amount of $50,000 for 1952. As in J; than the bureaus, the taxpayers and the '> How, indeed, is a self-appointed com- \\ previous years, this amount is offered individual veterans, would find the to cover any deficit which exists i| mittee able to raise hundreds of thou- I|

Citizens Committee's multiple-bureau after the 17 national tournaments <1 sands of dollars to promote legislation J'

'i cure-all a costly, wasteful, time-consum- are completed. \\ whose effect will plainly be the opposite

|i ing, energy-wasting piece of chaos. With s A report of the 1951 American of what is claimed for it? How can it Legion Junior Baseball program was |i records, responsibility and authority in \\ win the enthusiastic support of able and presented at this meeting and en- i! veterans affairs scattered to the bureau- \\ experienced men and, by and large, the

1 1 graved copies of a recent American cratic winds, the service officers would (J support of both the honest and the dis- prestige. The Hoover Commission was

For instance, the Citizens Committee \\ league pitchers, who won 20 or more enormous before it had done a lick of ^ has its own veterans organization, some \ games during the season, are gradu- X work. ates of Legion baseball. Jt2 well-to-do veterans at this writing, J s Americans seem to buy everything on who call themselves the Independent prestige. Doctors' and dentists' prestige Veterans Committee. This veterans is borrowed to sell toothpaste and to- group seems to have no other purpose the Budget made that recommendation, bacco. Everything from whiskey to com- than to lend the name "veterans" to the but the Hoover Commission claimed its munism is sold on the good names of support of the Hoover proposals. It has figures and advice were responsible for actors, athletes, channel swimmers, sing- no service program of its own, and no the Budget Bureau action. ers, flagpole sitters, authors and kidnap obligation or dedication to veterans or The Citizens Committee for the victims. And it works. The Hoover their dependents. Thus it has nothing to with Hoover Report learned this year that it Commission was packed big names, feg,r from the consequences to veterans can no longer expect help from the Ad- at least one or another of which would of the laws it is promoting. Members of ministration in its proposals to bust up appeal to anyone. Such different people this group assail the regular veterans VA, which may be a backfiring of the as Herbert Hoover and Dean Acheson organizations as "undemocratic." Mean- loss of prestige suffered by the Hoover were on the masthead. while the 42-man group itself, which Commission through its bad advice on has no regular meetings, no veterans Natural Target the hospitals in 1949. program, no conventions, no posts, no If the reader is puzzled as to how With so much prestige waiting to be regular elections, and represents nobody, the members of the Citizens Committee exploited, somebody was bound to show offers to speak for all 13 million unor- can reasonably hope that their laws to up with something that could be sold ganized veterans in favor of the Citizens bust up the VA will save them tax by twisting the purpose of the Commis- Committee. This manifestation of "de- money— in view of the tremendous tangle sion a little that way. The comparatively mocracy" will bear watching. and duplication they will cause in the high level of those parts of the nineteen No More Vets Hospitals administration of veterans affairs—there volumes of the Hoover Report that did The Citizens Committee's medical pro- are two clues. not touch on the veterans program serves to emphasize what events have posal is to create a new U. S. Depart- Source of "Savings" proved : That the American war veter- ment of Health and give it the veterans the most hospitals for the purpose of turning In the early Twenties many bureaus ans benefit program was natural target for opportunism under them into public institutions in sixty handled veterans affairs. It was so diffi- Hoover Commission set-up. days. The rosiest of cartoons full of cult to satisfy a perfectly clear claim the smiling veterans in hospital beds handed under the veterans benefit laws of those There are two groups of people in this out by the Citizens Committee cannot days that a great number of claims country who hate each others' guts, but dispel the sober meaning of this pro- went unsatisfied. The veteran couldn't who each have their own reasons for posal, based on sheer arithmetic. Your fight his way through the red tape. wanting to strip the veterans program service officers report that something Again, in 1946, when the VA's GI — and a bi-partisan commission is the like 18,000 veterans are now on the wait- insurance records were dispersed ideal spot to find them both. ing list for care in the VA's all-veteran through force of circumstance, it was One group is the welfare staters, who hospitals. In addition the Armed Forces so hard to attend to the simplest insur- look with longing eyes at the tailor- are holding wounded Korea veterans in ance matter that millions of veterans made veterans program as a building service — some of them overseas — for dropped their insurance. block to be turned into everybody's pro- lack of veterans beds to hold them on The Citizens Committee's proposals gram. If you can keep the veterans in- discharge. Nevertheless the Citizens can recreate those conditions as an act stitutions but get rid of the veterans you Committee is sponsoring three bills in of will. The "savings" can come from are over the first hump. Then you can Congress right now, under which exist- unmet veterans claims that are lost in parcel the veterans institutions out po- ing veterans beds would be divorced red tape and from veterans denied hos- litically or any way you please. from VA and shared with patients in pitalization because the beds are full of The other group is the ultra-conserva- other categories. somebody else. It is significant that the tive camp who hate the welfare state, The present shortage in all-veteran Citizens Committee once passed the but also hate the expense of veterans beds is chiefly due to the stoppage of the word down the line to its members that medicine and veterans benefits in gen- post-War II VA hospital construction they could promise everybody savings eral, and who don't like to see the gov- program in 1949, when construction of of three or four billion dollars, but they ernment in the insurance business. Bust 16,000 beds was halted. The Bureau of were not to explain how the savings up the veterans and then the veterans

2Q • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 - institutions will just go away, they hope. It seems apparent that these opposite Legion Asks for State Laws to Curb Narcotic interests were present in the Hoover Commission from the start, and that there was almost unanimous agreement Sale and Use; Vigorous Campaign Is Planned among them that their prestige could be used to break up the veterans program The American Legion's all-out drive with the recommendations made by The with it influence. and the veterans' on the illicit sale and use of narcotics American Legion. This to been seems have agreed before is gathering momentum, according to a Another objective is to secure adop- the Hoover Commission began any of progress report issued by National Child tion of city ordnances which will pro- the studies that were supposed to be the Welfare Chairman Dr. A. H. Wittman, vide for the mandatory commitment and basis of its conclusions, and it is borne Philadelphia. treatment of addicts under the city out the fact that by the Commission com- "If the drive is sustained for another health program in the same way that pleted its studies of veterans affairs and 12 to 15 months we should be well over quarantine is provided for persons with made its report without seeking any in- the hump and on the way to a complete contagious diseases. formation from the men who know vet- victory," Dr. Wittman added. As an indication of the prairie-fire erans affairs — best the major veterans In 1950, long before the campaign to spread of the illicit drug traffic since service organizations. end teen-age dope use had reached any- the close of WW2, Dr. Wittman cited The Commission did not even apolo- thing like its present height, the Legion figures from the Federal Bureau of Nar- gize for by-passing the experienced rep- sounded a warning at the Los Angeles cotics showing that in 1946 there were resentatives of five million veterans. In Convention. When this warning went only 2,944 arrests for violation of the due time it submitted its report to Con- unheeded, the Legion took the initiative Federal narcotic drug act; in 1950 this gress that VA should be broken up into in June, 1951, by calling the first nation- figure had more than doubled to 6,163. chunks. wide narcotics crisis conference in New Of even greater import is the fact With its report complete, the Hoover York City. that in 1946 only three patients under Commission passed out of existence, and Doctors, law enforcement officers, re- the age of 21 were admitted to the Fed- there sprang up the unofficial Citizens ligious leaders, representatives of some eral Narcotics Hospital, Lexington, Committee for the Hoover Report, which 60 organizations, and even addicts took Kentucky, while in 1950 there were 766 took unto itself the Hoover name and part in this historic meeting. It gave to such admissions. The average age of prestige, and began to write bills and America its first inclusive and authori- persons admitted to this hospital push them in Congress. Today, be it tative picture of the extent and nature dropped fi'om 37 years to 26.7 years noted, the Citizens Committee has wan- of the present dope problem. during the same period. dered pretty far from the Hoover Re- Having measured the problem in all "We have made real progress," Dr. port itself, and is using the Hoover of its aspects, the next step was the Wittman said in concluding his interim Commission name to write laws the development of a plan of action. This report, "but there is still a lot of hard Hoover Commission itself did not pro- was done through a special narcotics work ahead if this evil is to be ban- pose. For instance, the Hoover Commis- committee headed by Past National ished from the shores of America. We sion did not propose to set up a U. S. Commander George N. Craig, of Indi- need the active help and support of Department of Health, but the commit- ana. This committee, after sifting thou- every one of the four million members tee for the Hoover Report does. sands of words of testimony and weigh- of The Legion and its Auxiliary." The welfare staters and the ultra- ing the many opinions expressed on the conservatives are still playing along to- subject, presented to the National Con- DEPT. gether in the Citizens Committee, like vention at Miami a 15-point anti-nar- SANDLIN ANNOmCES Pappa Katzenjammer smiling at Hans cotics program. HISTORY CONTEST !N 1952 and Fritz with a club behind his back. This program was adopted and the The conservatives seem to be putting up National Child Welfare Commission was National Historian Monte C. Sandlin most of the money and making the most assigned the job of carrying out the has announced a Department History noise, but the welfare staters seem to recommendations. Contest for 1952 as one of a series of have the best brains and consequently Some of the 15 points have already projects for Legion historians. All his- the best of the bargain in the legislation. been achieved, and through its five Area tories to be judged in the contest must However, enthusiasm is high in both Conferences this winter the Commis- be at the National Headquarters at In- camps. sion is organizing the strength of The dianapolis not later than August 15, and Should their laws ever go through American Legion and its Auxiliary to no entry will be considered unless it is (and apparently it is up to the proposed put into effect that part of the 15-point accompanied by a letter stating that the victims, the veterans, to stop them) the program dependent on state and local entry, both text and illustrations, are •uftra-conservatives on the Citizens Com- action. to become the permanent property of the mittee are apt to be in for a big surprise. The last session of Congress restored National Headquarters. as set up by National His- False Hopes the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to its The contest pre-war strength. The same session of torian Sandlin is designed for two types The government will still be in the Congress also amended the Federal nar- of entry. The first type will include his- insurance business, and it will still be cotic drug act to provide severer penal- tories covering the entire period from operating the veterans hospitals-but the ties for illegal sale of narcotics, in ac- the inception of the Department to any "for veterans only" sign will be gone. cord with Legion recommendations. time subsequent to 1948. The second The disabled veterans, and the widows The next big step is to have State type is restricted to a supplement to a and orphans of veterans may still be legislatures provide similar penalties for history already issued, provided it in- knocking at the door-not as proud and violation of State narcotic drug acts. cludes the period where the earlier his- deserving servants of their country but The necessary bills are in process of tory ended and covers at least ten years, as so many more people in a bigger, preparation for submission to State leg- thus bringing the entire series to date. longer line. The laws are tailored for the islatures at their next sessions. Indiana First awards will be $225 for Type welfare state, to wit : Take medicine out has already provided penalties to accord I, and $75 for Type II. Second award, of VA and it put in a U. S. Department $150 and will apply only to Type I. The of Health; Take insurance out of the awards will be accompanied by suitable VA and put it in a government insur- that. If you are from the Moon, there citations made to the individuals listed ance corporation; Change the name of is a sort of grim humor in the eagerness as the author or compiler. Any history to VA The Benefits Section and get it with which they are shelling out once to receive an award or a Certificate of ready to go to "some other agency" again to pay for what they hate the Honorable Mention must total not less palpably the Federal Security Agency. most. If you're a veteran who may ever than 70 points under the standards of The conservatives on the Citizens have a claim, or help a buddy with a comprehensiveness, arrangement, accu- Committee, who are making big dona- claim, it ain't funny. You lose no matter racy, readability, illustration, special tions in the hope of tax relief, can't see which side wins. features, and table of contents and index.

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 '31 ; LEGION ASKS FOR FULL UMT LAW Facing up to the national security secure the civilian control of the entire the age of 18 years. Through Selective needs of today and for a long-range program. Service they would be inducted into the plan for a great reservoir of trained The Legion's Special Committee called Training Corps after their graduation manpower for the future, The American upon by National Commander Wilson from high school and before they ac- Legion has initiated a vigorous cam- to make a study and analysis of the re- quire dependents or become established paign for the early enactment of a port of the President's National Secur- in a job. In this way there would be a sound Universal Military Training law ity Training Commission is composed of minimum of disruption of the trainee's by the present session of the 82nd Con- Past National Commanders Perry S. personal life. gress. This is a continuation of the Brown, Warren Atherton and Paul These youngsters would be trained by Legion's 33 year fight for a plan of na- Griffith; Granville S. Ridley, Chairman the Armed Forces, but would not be tional defense that embodies the train- of the Legion's National Security Train- members of the Armed Forces. The ing of youth as one of the most impor- ing Committee; Bruce P. Henderson, Corps would have its own code of con- tant safeguards to peace and security. Chairman of the National Security Com- duct and health, welfare and morals of Looking to that end, a Universal Mili- mission; Martin B. Buckner, Director the trainees would be rigidly safe- tary Training bill which will assure of the National Security Commission, guarded. During their six months in civilian control of the program, a maxi- and Miles D. Kennedy, Director of the uniform, the members of the Corps mum of training within a limited period National Legislative Commission. would receive basic military training with the least disruption of school and Hearings on the UMT bills were conducted apart from the regular economic life, and economy of its oper- opened by the House Armed Services forces, and differing in periods in the ation has been introduced at the request Committee on January 15. four arms of service. There would also of The American Legion. Congi-ess is "The bill sponsored by the Legion has be specialist school training, and on-the- required to act on the UMT legislation been drafted after a careful study by job training for some services, particu- before it within 45 legislative days after the American Legion's National Security larly in the Air Force. the bills are introduced. Upon completion of their six months The principle of Universal Military training in the Corps, the trainees Training was completely recognized by would return to their homes as mem- ;; SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS the present Congress by the enactment bers of the Reserve. It is this Reserve — last June of a bill which provided for MONTANA BONUS FOR VETS a great pool of trained men — which | the appointment of a five-man National would become the backbone of our na- \i The Montana State Supreme Court, Secui'ity Training Commission. This ; tional security. relatively small stand- on January 3, upheld the constitu- A

Commission, appointed by President '<', tionality of a $22,000,000 bonus for ing Army, bolstei-ed by a large trained Truman and confirmed by the Senate, WW2 veterans, paving the way for I| and ready Reserve, would be a deterrent to about 55,000 veterans. was required to study the whole Uni- \l payment !j to any aggressor. versal Military Training problem and The five judges were unanimous in Civilian control of the entire program

''< reversing 1922 decision, a |' the manpower needs, and to formulate a when is stressed both in theory and operation. '1 'I bonus to WWl vets was denied on an effective plan to provide for such a While the training would be military in

< ! the grounds of unconstitutionality. I system of youth training. The Commis- character conducted by selected cadres Money for payment is to come from 1; sion made its report and recommenda- a tax of 2 cents a package on eiga- from the Armed Forces, the trainees \ ; \ tions I of the Forces to the President and Congress on 'I rettes — tax went into effect about a \' would not be a part Armed

October 29, but action could not be taken '! year ago and has raised about s and not subject to regular military serv-

I; until the Congress re-convened on Janu- $1,500,000. j; ice while undergoing their term in the ary 8. National Security Training Corps. The objective is to educate the young men Civilian Control Demanded Commission to effect a universal mili- for service in future should emergency The National Security Training Com- tary training program which will bol- arise, and that, boiled down to its es- mission appointed by President Tru- ster our national defense, forewarn sence, amounts to training for survival. would-be aggressors, and fortify our man is composed of James W. Wads- Personal Safeguards worth, New York, former Representa- foreign policy," said Commander Wil- son. "The Legion reflects the will of the Primarily, the control of the Security tive, Chairman ; Dr. Karl T. Compton, Chairman of the Board of the Massa- American people in demanding early Training Corps begins right in the home chusetts Institute of Technology; Ad- passage of UMT legislation. area through the local Selective Service miral Thomas C. Kincaid, Retired; "Congress will welcome universal Boards. Ample provisions are made for Lieutenant General Raymond S. Mc- military training as a means to deferment of high school students until Lain, Controller of the Army, and Wil- strengthen our military position. It they graduate, or attain their 20th birth- liam L. Clayton, former Under-Secre- offers a long-range training plan which day. Students in college may be deferred tary of State. is economically practical and wholly until the end of the current academic The report submitted by this Com- consistent with our democratic tradi- year. Occupational deferments, particu- mission was full and complete, and with tions. larly for seasonal work, is recognized, in it was a suggested draft of a bill which "Enactment of the UMT program will as is also dependency deferments would establish a National Security do much to revive the respect for the cases of extreme hardship. Training Corps and provide for its United States among the nations of the Provision for the personal safety and operation. world. International high-jacking on welfare of the trainees has not been While praising the excellent work of men and material is perpetrated only neglected. Under the plan as given to the President's Commission, National against nations known to be militarily Congress the training agency shall pro- Commander Donald R. Wilson declared weak and vacillating. Universal military vide hospital, medical, surgical and den- that its members "have not gone far training, with adequate civilian con- tal care for the trainees, and they would enough in spelling out the powers and trols, is a part of The American come under the provisions of the Sol- controls to be reserved for the predomi- Legion's doctrine for peace through diers' and Sailors' Relief Act of 1940 to nantly civilian Commission." The strength in the years ahead." protect them against suits, eviction, im- Legion's bill, prepared after a careful position of taxes. Certain reemployment Highlights of the Bill study by a Special Committee of experts rights awarded to members of the on our national defense and security Under the proposed plan for a Uni- Armed Forces will be extended to train- training needs, differs from the bill versal Military Training Corps all ees, and they will have the right to make lecommended by the President's Com- young men who are physically fit would claims against the Government for loss, mission only in matters of making more be required to register upon reaching (Coyitinued on page 36)

22 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 :

40 & 8 MEMBER GETTERS Spiritual Re -Awakening Program Launched MADE HIGH RECORD IN '51

A list of eight champion membership by Legion; Special Service Set for February 3 getters, each of whom had signed up more than 500 members, was featured in A nation-wide movement for a spirit- This material is available to all Posts an article in the September number of ual re-awakening of the people of and Units upon request to National this Magazine. Two more were added to America "in one of the dark hours pi Headquarters. this list in the December number — and our country's history" has been launched National Chaplain Birkeland has now the Forty and Eight reports its top by The American Legion. urged all Department Chaplains to exert flight shock troopers in signing up National Commander Donald R. Wil- every effort to cooperate in launching of Legion members in 1951. Charles W. son has called upon the 17,333 Posts of divine guidance movements throughout Ardery, retiring Correspondant Na- The American Legion and the 14,000 their Departments. tional, compiled a list of 72 Voyageurs Units of the American Legion Auxiliary, who signed up more than 300 Legion representing a combined membership of members each. Twenty-eight Voyageurs MRS. RISHWORTH IS almost 4,000,000, to take the initiative NEW of this elite corps signed up more than in a mighty and continuing re-dedication SECRETARY OF AUXILIARY 500 each, six of whom were included in of faith in God, a program urging the September and December articles. church attendance every Sunday and Mrs. Jane Gould The other 22 are: Gustave C. Marousek, prayer for divine guidance every night. Rishworth, Aus- Voiture 7, New York, 1,685; Milton H. The movement will be inaugurated on tin, Texas, became Jacoby, Voiture 42, Pennsylvania, 868; Sunday, February 3, ninth anniversary National Secre- Paul C. Tarver, Voiture 441, Oklahoma, of the date when the Four Chaplains, tary of the Ameri- 823; Arthur J. Hopkins, Voiture 525, representing three faiths - Protestant, can Legion Auxil- Wisconsin, 758; Bert E. Barnes, Voiture Jewish and Catholic — surrendered their iary on January 1193, Tennessee, 754; John E. Hoey, life-belts to enlisted men and, praying 1. She succeeds Voiture 36, California, 663; John G. together, went down with the torpedoed Mrs. Gwendolyn Fritsby, Voiture 5, Pennsylvania, 640; U. S. Transport Dorchester. Wiggin Mac- E. Nielson, Voiture 149, Ohio, 625; A special memorial service will be Dowell, National Emile Champigny, Voiture 1113, Massa- held that date in the chapel of the Four Secretary for 23 chusetts, 623; J. W. Uselton, Voiture Chaplains in Philadelphia, of which Dr. Mis. Rishwoith years, whose re- 1397, Illinois, 621; Erwin Wall, Voiture Daniel A. Poling, father of one of the tirement was an- 497, Wisconsin, 609; D. J. Boric, Voiture chaplains - Lieutenant Clark V. Poling nounced in early December. At the time 677, Pennsylvania, 577; Thomas Dugan, of — is pastor. Participating in the cere- her appointment, Mrs. Rishworth Voiture 17, New York, 555; Dave Foley, was serving mony will be the National Commander, her fourth year as Secre- Voiture 125, New Jersey, 550; F. J. tary-Treasurer Rev. O. G. Birkeland, National Chap- of the Auxiliary's Texas Gutherlet, Voiture 113, Maryland, 537; Department. lain, and Dr. Poling. Andrew Crumps, Voiture 71, Iowa, 537; In her new position, Mrs. Rishworth Francis J. Graig and Earle S. Homan, Prayers for Enduring Peace is administrative executive of an organi- Voiture 1, Pennsylvania, a tie — 525 zation whose In a letter to the Chaplains and Com- 975,000 members and each; Francis V. Huber, Voiture 1370, 14,000 local it manders of all Legion Posts and corre- Units make one of the Pennsylvania, 509; George T. Schuerer, largest sponding officers of Auxiliary Units, women's organizations in the Voiture 382, Pennsylvania, 506; Walter world. All of National Commander Wilson said: the business and promo- E. Brown, Voiture 717, Illinois, 501, and tional work of the Auxiliary's extensive "Sunday, February 3, 1952, commem- Frank Fuentas, Voiture 35, Arizona, 501. national orates the anniversary of the fateful activities pass over her desk day on which the immortal Four Chap- at the national headquarters in Indian- apolis, Indiana. GEORGIA-MISSOURI IN BIG lains gave their lives when the U. S. In WW2 Mrs. Rishworth served as an Transport Dorchester was torpedoed in MEMBERSHIP SCRAP FOR MULE the North Atlantic. officer in the Women's Army Corps, with initial assignments at the Train- Missouri Legionnaires are dead set to "At the 33rd National Convention at WAAC ing Center at Des Moines, Iowa. For 16 get "Little Nell" back— the mule won by Miami a resolution was passed calling months she was a Squadron Geoigia in a memorable membership for the recognition of this historic and Commander in the 3rd Ferrying Group, Air Trans- contest in 1951— and another battle is inspiring event by observing this date, port Command. She discharged with raging between the two Departments. or the Sunday immediately preceding or was the rank of Major. The Missourians have put up 40 acres following it, as 'Go To Church Sunday' Born at of their good land against "Little Nell," throughout our nation, and encouraging Farmington, West Virginia, Mrs. Rishworth attended the public but if Georgia reports a higher percent- and urging our people to attend the schools and was graduated from the age of its membership quota to National church of their choice and pray to God West Virginia University in 1937 with Headquarters by March 31, Georgia to hasten the day of enduring peace. a Bachelor Degree in Legionnaires will keep the mule and "I urge the Chaplain and Commander public school music. She taught grade and high claim the 40 acres. Georgia Adjutant of every Legion Post and the Chaplain school music in Marion County, West Virginia, Joiner has worked out a battle-plan and Commander of every Auxiliary Unit Bob for five years, and was also organist and that puts every one of his Posts on the to make every effort to arrange appro- choir director in churches at Fairmont, front line. His appeal is to save "Little priate services in the churches of your West Virginia. Nell" from the "terrible fate of having community on the designated date. I Mrs. Rishworth is a member of both to return to Missouri." hope that these services will be the be- The American Legion and the American ginning of a continuing movement of Legion Auxiliary, holding membership church attendance every Sunday and Old Battery Holds Together in Post and Unit No. Austin, Texas. prayer to God every day." 76, Art Henry, Topeka, Kansas, Secre- Outlines of suggested activities such tary of the Battery A, 130th FA Asso- as the organization of community church Watch Your GI Insurance ciation, reports that this WWl outfit has parades, mass attendance in church by This is a reminder for WW2 veterans held together remarkably well, with an- groups, outdoor church services during Are you holding your GI term insur- nual reunions and whatnot. Out of the summer, use of window posters to pro- ance? If so, watch that expiration date. 335 members in WWl war service, all mote church attendance, forming "Go To Be sure that you renew your term in- but 19 are accounted for, with current Church" telephone committees, and pub- surance, or convert to a permanent plan addresses for the living. The next re- licity material suitable for a community before it expires. Otherwise, it's gone union of Battery A will be held at church program have been prepared. for good. Topeka on the last Sunday in September.

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • HIGH SCHOOL ORA TORICAL PAST COMMANDER HONORED; PUBLIC MEN QUIZZED IN CONTEST HITS NEW HIGH TURNS TABLES IN RESPONSE NBC-LEGION YOUTH FORUM

At least 46 Legion Department Ora- For 32 years K. The American Youth Forum, telecast torical Contest winners will compete for S. Adams, Chair- every Saturday from Washington, D. C, top honors in the 15th annual National man of the Phil- by NBC-TV in cooperation with The High School Oratorical Contest in 1952. lips Petroleum American Legion, brings national lead- Ohio and Washington will not compete, Company, Bartles- ers and young people into close touch. while New Hampshire is reported doubt- ville, Oklahoma, Every week from 50 to 60 teen-agers ful. has served James are brought together by the Legion to This announcement was made by H. Teel Post No. ask their questions directly to men who Allen B. Willand, Director of the Na- 105 actively, effi- should know the answers. tional Americanism Commission, after ciently and in These youngsters, senior high school a survey of the 49 continental Depart- many capacities. and junior college students, participate ments. First as a member in an unrehearsed completely extem- Interest in the 1952 contest is running of the Post's poraneous question and answer period high and indications are that the record championship with nationally known figures in govern- 300,000-plus number of high school stu- football team in 1920-21-22; as First ment, business and political life. The dents who competed in 1951 will be sub- Vice Commander; as Post Commander program is aired each Saturday evening, stantially increased. in 1928-29, and always as an advisor, 5:00 to 5:30, EST, with Theodore This stimulation is nation-wide and consultant and elder statesman. A din- Granik as moderator. can be attributed in no small measure ner in his honor and in appreciation of Among the prominent men who have to 16-year-old Jeanne Dickinson's feat his long service was held on the evening appeared on the program are Vice Presi- last year in winning the highest honors of December 4. dent Alben Barkley, Senators Cain, in the national finals held in John Mar- Speeches were made; T. B. Hudson, Kefauver, Humphreys, Moody, Tobey shall High School, Richmond, Virginia. President of the Past Commander's Club and Taft; Secretary of the Army Frank Miss Dickenson not only won the $4,000 presented Past Commander Adams with Pace, General Lewis Hershey, Harold scholarship with a thrilling display of a Legion cap and diamond-studded Past Stassen, and George Meaney, American forensic ability, but she was the first Commander's button. Then Post Com- Federation of Labor.

girl first-place winner in the 14 year mander R. O. Mason had his turn ; he In February Republican National history of the contest. presented the Past Commander with a Chairman Guy C. Gabrielson will face A second basic reason for increased gold Life Membership Card. the panel on the 2nd; his counterpart, interest was expressed only recently by Past Commander Adams responded Democratic National Chairman Frank Director Willand, who said: "It is great in words — and deeds. He said that the McKinney on the 9th, and Senator in these times for The American Legion greatest tribute ever paid him was the Frank Carlson of Kansas on the 16th. to sponsor this outstanding contest, the 250 Legionnaires who overflowed the If you like the program or have sug- basic theme of which is the American capacity of the Legion home banquet gestions to offer, write National Public Constitution. The heart of every adult room. Then the deeds - he turned over Relations Division, The American American should be warmed to see our to Commander Mason deed for a desir- Legion, 1608 K Street N. W., Washing- youthful citizens become acquainted able corner lot in the business section ton, D. C. with the basic law of the nation and to now used as a parking lot, to be used learn to cherish fervently the great as the Post sees fit, but with the hope freedoms which Americans enjoy as that it would provide financial security MIAMI CONVENTION MOVIE their inherent right under our demo- for future Post work and room for ex- cratic form of government." pansion in years to come. The Post once READY FOR GROUP SHOWING The National Oratorical Contests in owned the lot, but it was given in ex- The five Schenley Posts for the third 1952 will consist of 12 Regionals and 4 change for the present club home and consecutive year filmed the National Sectionals to be held during the week building property. Convention activities— 10,000 feet of 16- of April 14-18. The winners of the Sec- mm, all-color, sound motion picture * tional elimination contests will be Florida Post Home Burned scheduled to run about 30 minutes. The brought together in the national finals film is now available to Departments event at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on The clubhouse of Seminole Post No. and Posts in most places, and is fur- April 21. Ill, Tampa, Florida, burned on Novem- nished without cost, other than the ber 4, causing a loss of $40,000. The transpoi'tation charges. building was started in 1934 and was The film contains all the highlights of DATES FOR CHILD WELFARE constructed by volunteer work of the the great pageant, both on the streets members. Plans are under way for the and in the Convention hall. It was pro- CONFERENCES ANNOUNCED building of another clubhouse of mod- duced with the cooperation of the ern design, on which the members will Three area child welfare conferences Legion's Public Relations Staff, and is assist with labor and materials. covering all Eastern and Southern presented in newsreel style. States have been announced by Dr. A. Requests for the film should be di- H. Wittman, Philadelphia, Legion's Na- rected to Frank Rinn, Schenley Indus- tional Child Welfare Chairman. Con- tries, Inc., 350 Fifth Avenue, New York ference and KEITH MacKENZIE DIES dates locations are: \ 1, N. Y. Each Post should state the date Area B— Charleston, West Virginia, AT HOME IN CALIFORNIA i| on which it would like to show the film February 1 and 2. and give two or three alternate dates. Keith MacKeiizie, 20-year-old son !| Area C— Little Rock, Arkansas, March !| Films will be dispatched from the near- ' and only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vic 6-8. est Schenley office in which a film library ;i MacKenzie, Carmel, California, for- 14- Area A-Portland, Maine, March is maintained-and all requests will be '\ mer National Convention Director, 15. died in a fire at Carmel Woods in the u filled in the order of receipt. These will be combined conferences of early morning of December 24. !| ; child welfare workers of The American ![ Death was caused by asphyxiation !; 609, Legion, Forty and Eight, American from a mattress fire while spending Hanover Township Post No. presented a Legion Auxiliary, and Eight and Forty. i the night in a friend's guest house. ;> Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, All persons interested in the advance- s Funeral services were held at Car- 150-pound cake to the children in St. luent of the Legion's program of service '! mel, followed by burial on December i, Stanislaus Institute-offered as a tribute

!; 28 at Salem, Oregon, the old family ro children are invited to attend. to George Steve, Post Commander. The

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• The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 Ij/J Explorer Scouts Bob .McHenry and * Don Stewart served their daily good * * * LEGIONITEMS * * turn recently at Springfield, Ohio, when they out-ran a purse-snatcher in a chase of several blocks, overpowered him and Cedar Grove (Louisiana) Post No. 6 (Washington) Post No. 1. . . . With held him for the police. The Scouts, has acquired a 5-acre tract on Wallace repairs under way to enlarge the Glenn members of Explorer Scout Post No. 6 Lake near Shreveport and is raising Dyer Post No. 247 club house at Arca- funds to erect a club house. Before dia, California, city inspectors declared sponsored by Cultice-Ward Post No. 6, Ajnerican Legion, were passing in a car December 1 the Post had exceeded its the building unsafe for a scheduled culprit knocked down all-time high membership of 198 under blood donor rally. But rallying under when the a woman direction of Commander R. H. Greenlee, Commander Ed Newman and Contractor and grabbed her purse. . . . Dave Mc- of Post No. whose wife, Mrs. Jean Greenlee, skip- C. P. Cassady volunteer Legionnaires Manus, Adjutant Comrades 283, St. Bernard, Ohio, has been trying pers the Auxiliary Unit this year. . . . worked three days around the clock to non- Legionnaire Harold A. Eaton, Morris- complete the construction. Result: Blood out a series of letters to eligible Legionnaire veterans in his community town, New Jersey, was awarded the Sil- donors came to the home on schedule he has that it big divi- ver Antelope at a Region 2 meeting of time; 256 pints collected in the one day —and found pays dends. Just a chatty letter, telling of the Boy Scouts of America at Buffalo, Bloodmobile visit. of the benefits of Legion member- New York, for "noteworthy service of some ship, some of the activities of Comrades exceptional character to boyhood." Cita- Post, social and service, and with each tion lists outstanding Boy Scout service Kankakee (Illinois) Post No. 85 has letter he encloses an application blank. in several capacities, among which are scheduled a series of 13 weekly broad- Of course, the letter extends an invita- "his greatest contribution to youth pro- casts over WKAN, covering the major tion to enroll with the comrades in Com- grams has been in the development of phases of the Legion's broad program, rades Post. It's a good idea and worth the New Jersey Boys' State, held under with emphasis on local activities. The a trial in any community. the auspices of The American Legion, series has attracted wide-spread atten- of which he has served as Director for tion, and has been most helpful as a the past six years." means of educating the non-veteran pub- Vance T. Henry, Jr., 45th Division vet lic to the Legion work, reports Past who was wounded at Anzio, is making an Commander Anker C. Jensen. . . . South extended stay in Germany as dancer- David M. Vincent Post No. 120, High- Park Memorial Post No. 675, Dayton, entertainer at all the military bases in land Park, Michigan, claims a unique Ohio, broke a record for blood donation the American zone. He is a member of record in having on its membership rolls when donors gave 93 pints in a day. The Hamlet (North Carolina) Post No. 49, the State Service Officers of four major previous record from any community to as is his father, Vance T. Henry, Sr., veterans' organizations. They are: Carl Brown Hospital was 69 pints. Com- WWl vet, who attended the Legion Cau- Seaman, American Legion Department mander Ed Curtiss and Project Chair- cus at St. Louis in 1919, and every Na- Stoecklein credit success to Service Officer, and his corresponding man Joe tional Convention since. . . . Arthur numbers, Sidney J. Allen, Disabled good advance preparation and excellent Longfellow, Commander of Frank Fried American Veterans; Joseph W. Mann, community cooperation. Legionnaires Post, Mena, Arkansas, has started a Veterans of Foreign Wars, and John R. and workers on the job were served re- movement for the construction of a Dagenais, Amvets. ... An Americanism freshments by members of the Auxiliary county war memorial. Plan is to con- project taken on by Woodbury (Tennes- Unit. . . . A Report on Madison County, struct an aquarium of sufficient size to see) Post No. 167 is the organization of (Alabama), detailing its progress and display all types of fish and marine life a band in the County High School. Proj- civic advancement in 143 years of history that exist in Arkansas, under the title ect has lagged for want of instruments in an illustrated volume of 104 pages, "Polk County War Memorial Aquarium." —Americanism Chairman Ray Pettit, Box has been issued by the County Board of 62, Woodbury, would like to hear from Commissioners. The Report was pre- outfits that have discarded or replaced pared by Legionnaire James Record, Dickson City (Pennsylvania) Auxili- County Auditor, Huntsville, who has ary Unit No. 665 presented a wheel band instruments. . . . Lange-Ostrander- of of disabled to the Hurd Post No. 62, Columbus, Wisconsin, served as Adjutant and Commander chair for use VA honors its Past Commanders at a dinner the Huntsville Post. Hospital at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. each year. At the meeting in mid-Decem- ber, 21 of the 28 Past Commanders of the Post were present—three have passed on IDAHO POST HAS THREE PAST NATIONAL CHAPLAINS and three were unable to be present be- cause of illness or distance. The four immediate Past Commanders are WW2 vets, as is the current skipper. Com- mander John Platz.

When the High School at Flagler, Colorado, was destroyed by fire at the beginning of the school year, the local Nathaniel McBride Post No. 81 imme- diately offered its home in order that the school term might not be inter- rupted. The Legion home will continue Joseph N. Barnett Irvin Q. Wood Paul De F. Mortimore to be used for the high school until a

new building is constructed. . . . Here's Loren M. Trotter Post No. 35, Caldwell, Caldwell and removed to that city from a father-son combination serving as Idaho, has the unique distinction of hav- Wabasha, Minnesota, and to pay special Privates in the same outfit in WWl: ing three Past National Chaplains of The tribute to all three past national officers. Donald W. H. Morse enlisted June 12, American Legion on its current member- Chaplain Barnett's Legion service goes 1917, in Co. A, 1st Separate Battalion, ship roll. They are: Rev. Joseph Noyes back to 1919 when the Post at Grand Engineers, Oregon National Guard; on Barnett, 1930-31; Rev. Irvin Q. Wood, Junction, Colorado, was organized and July 18 his father, Fred G. Morse, en- Boise, Idaho, 1932-33; and Dr. Paul De F. he became Chaplain. Chaplain Wood was listed in the same outfit-NG outfit be- Mortimore, 1942-43. The Post held a big Commander of Loren M. Trotter Post in came Co. A, 116th Engineers, 41st Divi- get-together to welcome Chaplain Bar- 1928. Dr. Mortimore has recently accepted sion. Any others? The son died in 1923; nett, who has recently been appointed a pastorate at Bozeman, Montana, and the father is a 6-star member of Seattle vicar of St. David's Episcopal Church at has removed to that city. The American legion Magazine • February, 1952 • 35 MARY WELSH GETS GOLD 751st Field Artillery Bn.—2nd annual dinner- dance. New York City, Maixh 29; Hotel McAlpin. LIFE MEMBERSHIP CARD OUTFIT REUNIONS Contact Albert Peluso, 55 Brookside Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. 106th Cavalry Group (106th and 121st Sqdrns.) —3rd annual reunion, Urbana, 111., June 20-21. 2nd (Indian Head) Infantry Division—31st re- Write, Veterans, 106th Cavalry, Urbana Armory, union, San Antonio, Texas, July 24-26. For infor. Urbana, III. mation contact Robert C. Barr, National Presi- 48th Battalion— Reunion, Santa Rosa, Cal., July dent, 116 N. 3rd St.. Camden 2, N. J. 4. Contact Ed Heis, 2033 Danbeck Ave., Santa 2nd (Hell on Wheels) Armored Division— 2nd Rosa, Cal. annual reunion, New York City, May, 1952. Info 102nd (Ozark) Infantry Division—National re- from H. J. Levy, Secy., Hell on Wheels, APO union, Detroit, Mich., July 25-27; Fort Shelby 262, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Hotel. Write Reade S. Pierce, Reunion Chairman, 4th (Breakthrough) Armored Div. Assn.—6th 220 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor, Mich. annual reunion. New York City, June 19-21; Co. C, 107th Ammunition Train, 32nd Div., Hotel Statler. Address 4th Armored Div. Assn., (WWl)-( formerly Co. D, 4th Infantry, Wiscon- P. O. Box 247, Madison Square Sta., New York sin National Guard ) —Proposed 35th anniversary 10, N. Y. reunion. Black River Falls, Wis., July 13. Write 8th (Thundering Herd) Armored Div. Assn.— Lawrence E. Jones, 9 Main St., Black River Falls, 3rd annual reunion. New York City, July 4-6; Wis. Hotel Astor. Write Henry Rothenberg, National USS Leviathan Veterans Assn.— Annual re- President, Suite 1008, 33 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, union dinner. New York City, Saturday evening, 111. April 26; Dunhall's Restaurant, 40th and Broad- 82nd (All American) Airborne Div.— 6th an- way. Send reservations to R. L. Hedlander, Box nual reunion, Chicago, 111., July 4-6; Hotel Sher- 22, Greenwich, Conn. man. Contact Chester W. Novak, Secy., 6619 S. Stewart Ave., Chicago 21, III. 83rd (Thunderbolt) Infantry Div. Assn.-An- nual reunion, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21-23; IN Deshler-Wallick Hotel. Write R. Catalano, Seey- COMRADES DISTRESS Treas., 1435 Clark St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. In recognition of more than thirty Co. M, 307th Inf., 77th Div., (WWl)-34th an- niversary dinner and reunion, March Div. USS Armenia, (WWl)—Will anyone who knows years of devoted service to her Post, to 22; Wth Club House, 28 E. 39th St.. New York City. present address of Willium Herbert Lansing, Gun- the Legion and to disabled veterans, Miss Write Henry H. Ringen, 85 Vermilyea Ave., New ner, above ship, formerly of Omaha, Neb., and York his brother, Paul Lansing, Army vet., WWl, Welsh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 34, N. Y. Mary 601st Ordnance Bn.— Reunion, Waterloo, Iowa, formerly San Francisco, Cal., please write has been awarded a Gold Life Member- March 29-30. Details from Dick Street, 404 Com- Blanche Quaid, 50 Federal St., Boston, Mass. mercial BIdg., Waterloo, Iowa. Lansing brothers are entitled to substantial lega- ship card in Kathryn Mae Joyce Post 415th RR Tel. Bn. SC-Annual reunion, Chicago, cies; must be located in order to settle estates. No. 509, Pittsburgh. A charter member 111., April 26; Hotel Morrison. Info from James USS Wisconsin, (WWl)—Will shipmates' please J. Maher, Secy., 3723 S. Rockwell St.. Chicago write; need help to establish claim. Was Seaman of the Post, Miss served Welsh has con- 32, 111. 2/c, 2nd Div., June, 1917, to Jan., 1918, at York- stantly on all levels, Post, Department NOB. Palermo, Italy— Reunion of Base and town, Va. Alfred P. Paquin, 113 Lincoln St., connected units, Chicago, III.. June 14. Write Lewiston, Maine. and National, with emphasis on rehabili- W. A. Beam, P. O. Box 55, Moline, 111. 5th Receiving Co. Cadre, Camp Upton, L. I. tation work. She has served as Service 70th Naval Construction Bn.-Annual dance —Will Sgt. Alexander Rispoli or anyone who and entertainment. Feb. 1; annual smoker. April knows his present address please write. State- Officer and Commander of her Post; as 18, with Stephen H. Kearns Post, The American ment needed in case of Frank B. Stevens. Address District Commander; as delegate to De- Legion. Details from A. J. Benline, 2015 Municipal Theodore G. Newman, Service Officer, County BIdg.. Dept. of Housing and Buildings, New York Bldf?., Goshen, N. Y. partment and National Conventions; as 7, N. Y. 306th Medical, 81st Div. and 77th Div.-Need Alternate Natl. Executive Committeeman. 307th Infantry Vet. Assn., (WWl)-5th annual to locate James W. Wood, J. A. McBride, and reunion and dance. New York City, April 26; John Kerr, 306th Medical, and Charles Putney Hotel Vanderbilt. For info contact Henry C. and G. Sullivan, 77th Div., who were in hospital Lopez, Chairman, 77th Div. Club House, 28 E. with me. Need help to establish claim. Write 39th St., New York Roger W. Jones, 19803 Mountville Ave., Maple - 18, N. Y. FULL UMT LAW 297th Signal Inst. Co.— Reunion, Harrisburg, Heights, Ohio. Pa., October, 1952. Write John J. Thomas, 820 Camp Forrest and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. (WWl) (Continued from page 32) N. New St., Bethlehem, Pa. Urgently need to locate men who served with me Co. G. 152nd Inf.. 38th Div., (WW2)-2nd re- in Warehouse CI, USQMC, June, 1918, to Feb., damage, destruction or abandonment of union. New Castle, Ind., Aug. 30-31; Armory. 1919, particularly Sgt. John Harper, Corp. Rison, Contact Franklin Retz, 1620 Q Ave., New Castle, Buchanan, Lt. Hinkler. Capt. T. G. Tate, and personal property incident to training. Ind. Major Strauss, MC. Claim pending. Roy G. Byrd, For the development of character and Route 2, Norman Park, Ga. NCTC, Camp Quoddy, Maine—Need to locate good citizenship, every trainee will have men who were working with me in machine shop opportunity for religious worship in a when I injured my back, winter of 1944-45, par- THE AMERICAN LEGION ticularly Dewitt, IJrown of Texas, F. F. Bockel- church of his own faith. A character NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS man, and the Chief in charge of the shop. Charles guidance program comprised of lectures W. Swartz, R2, Stanberry, Mo. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 18th Field Artillery Band (WWl)-Need to on the duties and privileges of citizenship, NOVEMBER 30, 1951 hear from anyone who remembers me in order religion and similar subjects bearing to establish my service; records lost and personal ASSETS papers destroyed in fire, '^ill old timers please upon the basic ethical principles undei-- write. A. D. McCampbell, 7610 S. W. 19th Terrace,

Cash on hand and on deposit. . . 911,228.63 lying our social structure. .$ Miami 44, Florida. Receivables 1,030,667.54 Co. B, 28th ET Bn., ASFTC, Ft. Leonard Wood, Inventories Trainees will also be given an edu- 455,133.33 Mo.—Important that I locate men in basic train, Invested Funds cational and informational course on 459,482.11 ing with me, April to June, 1945, when I injured Permanent Trusts: my back on obstacle course, particularly Sgt. current events and their effect on the Overseas Graves Decoration Linquest, Cpl. Precie, Pvt. Faulks and Sgt. Trust Fund $ 254,515.84 Box Hammon, individual and his country. While re- Pound. Write John E. Carter, 65, Employees' Retirement Okla. strictive provisions are included to pre- Trust Fund 1,230.597.65 1,485,113.49 Co. A, 21st Inf., 24th Div.-Will anyone who vent demoralizing institutions within a Real Estate, less depreciation.... 904,564.12 served with me in SWPA, 1942-44, please write. Furniture and Fixtures, less Statements needed for claim. Lawrence D. Bren- reasonable distance from the camps or depreciation 304,833.84 nan, 12 Ashmun St., Springfield, Mass. Signal Will who served stations. Deferred Charges :. 67,217.48 Co. A, 56th Bn.— anyone or Dec. 10, 1943, $5,618.240.54 with me in England on about The long experience of The American and knows anything about an accident which in- volved injury to my back, please write. State- Legion in the study of the national se- LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE ments needed for disability claim, Darwin E. curity program and the need for a uni- AND NET WORTH Whitt, Room 262, Skyway Lodge, Fairborn, Ohio. 632nd Technical School Sqdrn., AFTTC, Gulf- versal military training system is being Current Liabilities $ 589,802.98 port, Miss.—Will anyone who served with my late made available to the Congress, and to Funds restricted as to use 472,943.67 son, John Bumbal in 1943-44, please write. Sus- Deferred Income 1,613,221.23 tained injuries in camp. Help needed to settle its individual members, through Na- Permanent Trusts: insurance and to obtain pension as his dependent tional Commander Wilson and the Spe- Overseas Graves Decoration widowed mother. Mrs. Susan Bumbal, 370 E. Trust 254,515.84 163rd St., Bronx, N. Y. cial $ Committee. Legion Posts and indi- Employees' Retirement 3rd Marine Division, (Mechanic Air Craft SSN vidual Legionnaires have been called Trust 1,235,905.27 1,490,421.11 747F)— Will anyone who was with Sgt. Raymond L. Jones in Pacific area. February, 1944, to July, upon to throw their weight into • the Net Worth: Restricted Capital: 1945, please write. Information needed about head injuries and hospitalization; widow and two battle for early enactment of a realistic Reserve Fund $ 23.464.13 small children need statements to establish record universal military training system as Restricted Fund . . 17,939.98 Reserve for construction for pension purposes. Write Mrs. Raymond L. 132 Oxford Road, Spartanburg, S. C. a backbone of our national security. Wash, office 780,294.40 Jones, Hdqrs. Battery. 426th Armored FA Bn., Camp Real Estate . 80.000.00 901,698.51 Time is of the essence. Delay might Bowie, Texas— Urgently need to locate Corp. Unrestricted Capital: lose the battle. Congress is limited to Harold Clark; will anyone who knows his present Surplus 254,310.33 address please write. Statement needed for claim. 45 legislative days for consideration of Excess of Income over Expense John A. Battelle, (No. 11163), Box 149, Attica, the Universal Militaiy Training law. 11 months 295.842.71 550,153.04 N. Y. 1.451,851.55 Battery A, 586th AAA, Camp Bowie, Texas- Write your two United States Senators service $5,618,240.54 Will anyone who remembers me in at and your member of the House of Rep- above camp, November, 1944, please write. State- ments needed for claim. Virgil M. Gauthier, Box resentatives today. 634, Pascoag, Rhode Island. 2g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 1

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1024 BIG PRIZES YOUR COMMON SENSE BE IT'S SO EASY TO ENTER! ALL YOU MUST AWARDED CAN WIN FOR YOU! DO IS WORK ONE PUZZLE! Each contribution of $1.00 to the fmr Legion's Welfare and Service Pro- 3 5 R E S 'h IeI'p This is your chance of a lifetime to gram, gives you three chances to v/in one of these v/onderful prizes. n R A O shore in the big $30,000 prize jack- 10 1 *lst Prize $10,000.00 pot! You don't have to be an expert H T R 1 M E Prize 12 13 *2nd 2,500.00 to find a winning solution! Plain or 1952 Ford Station Wagon E A E D "l u 15 18 will (of the election of the contestant) everyday common sense help R S E s A "s K Y M L

3rd Prize 1,000.00 19 20 21 you to win this contest. One simple *4th Prize 1,000.00 R A B P A puzzle is all you work. If you alone 22 23 *Next 6 Prizes (each) 500.00 1 R L L u M o R successfully solve it, you'll win the 20" Next 10 Prizes (each) Admiral 2* 25 newest-model TV sets — with triple-X E L S L 510,000 First Prize. In case of ties,

77 chassis— each retails at $289.95. 26 additional puzzles — similar to the S 1 N O E N T Next 200 Prizes (each) Remington 79 30 original in form but more difficult — Rand electric razors nationally adver- w A E D N will be submitted until all ties ore tised at $27.50 each. 32 T 'b K S A Next 250 Prizes (each) Telechron V O broken. Everything required to enter 35 Personality electric clocks as adver- O ''R M the Legion Contest is on the following tised in Life at $11.95 each. 36 P pages. It's different! It's fun! 'An additional 10% of each cash prize will A R D N S E be awarded special as a bonus to The It's for the benefit of your American Legion Post designated on your Official Puzzle Contest entry form. SEE NEXT PAGE FOR PUZZLE CLUES Welfare and Service Program!

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H T R 1 M E H T R 1 M E American Legion $30,000 Puzzle "a D "I u E "A E D Contest. The Legion must never relax IS U R S E A S K V M L - "r S E S A S K Y M L in the tremendous task of attracting R A "b "P A R UUDDH funds for our work in four important

1 R L L u R fields - VETERAN'S REHABILITATION, M O 1 R L L U M O R CHILD WELFARE, "e L S L E L S NATIONAL SECURITY 27 DDBD and AMERICANISM. Every contribu- S 1 N E T o S 1 N o "n B Dn tion to The American Legion Welfare A E D N W A E D N 31 and Service Program supports all of V T O "o K S A N V T O "O K S A these vital activities. Your help is M needed now — send your donation A R D N S H E rp A R D N S fvr E P and entry form to the Contest Committee without delay. 1 E 'P 'r 11 S s R A

'°H D R 1 M E E A E D "I U j miL yot/R "r S E S A "s K V M L 1 R A 'b "P A 1 comoH smt somm mAV 1 R L L U M O R [ 33 "e L S L A few moments devoted to solving this l 17 s 1 N O E "n T one simple puzzle, and tie-breakers W A E D N j if necessary, may win as much as "n V T O "O K S A 1 $10,000 in cash for you. Send your con- 'R M 1 test solutions, with a contribution of A R N S "h E P ] $1.00 or more for the American Legion Welfare and Service Program, to Legion OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK: National Headquarters today. The LEGION PUZZLE CONTEST No. 1 sooner your donation is received, the I understand that my entry will be judged on the

basis of the best solution submitted by me, and I it hereby agree to accept the rules of this contest and sooner can be put to work helping a the decision of the judges as binding upon me. Enclosed is my contribution of Sl.OO (in cash Vet and his family. Mail your official money order) to the CONTEST COMMITTEE. AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEAD- entry blank—without QUARTERS, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. delay— to Name_ 0^ Address.

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A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

WWl VETS AND GOVERNMENT INSURANCE: NEW FILM FOR EMPLOYMENT OF HANDICAPPED: Increasingly large number of letters indicate that many A new tool to overcome resistance to proper employment WWl vets are confused about their rights to continue U. S. of the handicapped is an excellent documentary 16-mm — Government Life Insurance. . . . Just to keep the record sound-color film. . . . Far livelier than its prosaic title straight, here are answers to most questions, right from the "An Investment in Human Welfare" — the film was originally VA. ... It must be remembered that USGLI applies only made for local rehabilitation use in West Virginia, where to WWl vets, WW2 vets have NSLI, and service people of Governor Okey Patteson is himself a double-leg amputee. . . . the Korean conflict have another type. The quality of the film, both as entertainment and education- The changes affecting USGLI, closing the door to new wise, led to a revision for national availability, produced by insurance, are contained in Servicemen's Indemnity and Unifilms, Inc., New York City. Insurance Acts of 1951 (Public Law 23) which became effec- The film documents amazing progress in fitting disabled for jobs, tive April 25, 1951. . . . Under this law no new USGLI policy reaches a high point in heart-warming scenes show- may be issued except as replacement for insurance which ing men whose disabilities qualify them better than anyone was surrendered for its cash value or for term insurance else for certain jobs. . . . Running time, 21 minutes. . . . The which expired while the insured was in active service after film is borrowable free for group showings through Regional

Offices of the Federal Security Agency. . . . address April 25, 1951. . . . Otherwise, WWl vets who were not in Name and active service on or after the new law was enacted, are not of such FSA office in your Region is available by sending your name and address clearly printed to FILM, entitled to new USGLI. . . . This means that such WWl vets — — REHAB as allow their term USGLI policies to expire without American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York City. renewing or converting them are not entitled to U. S. Govern- ment Life Insurance as veterans. SUES FOR DOUBLE-INDEMNITY:

But. . . . There is a clause which softens the hardboiled The courts have been called upon to decide whether the door-slamming. . . . The new law does not affect lapsed fighting in Korea is a war or whether it is just a "police USGLI term policies (as distinguished from expired term action." ... A Louisville, Kentucky, mother — Mrs. Edna policies.) . . . Nor does it affect lapsed permanent plan Smothers — has filed suit against the National Life and policies. . . . Therefore, WWl vets who have allowed either Accident Insurance Company to collect double indemnity on their term or their premium plan USGLI policies to lapse the policy carried by her son. Private Patrick H. Ford, Jr., by failure to pay premiums when due, may reinstate them killed in Korea last July 8. . . . Petition alleges that he was by payment of all premiums in arrears, with interest. . . . killed "accidentally" by a mortar shell in North Korea. . . .

Under another law (Public Law 101, August 2, 1951) holders Attorneys for the mother cite President Truman's statement of USGLI term policies may renew them every five years, that the Korean fighting is a "United Nations police action" without physical examination, with increased premium rate and not a war as authority. . . . The insurance policy held by for each five years — rate payable at the attained age of the Private Ford provides for double indemnity in case of acci- insured at the time renewal is made. dental death, but contains a clause excepting the double- indemnity provision in event death was due to service with

HEARINGS SET FOR KOREAN GI BILL: Armed Forces "at war." . . . Case presents angles of interest House Veterans Committee will open hearings early in to families of casualties — both injured and killed — over the February on legislation to extend GI Bill of Rights privileges country. to veterans of the Korean affair. . . . Chairman John E. Rankin, Mississippi, says that if Congress approves the STILL AT WAR WITH JAPAN: legislation, Korean veterans would have "virtually all the Notwithstanding the fact that a peace treaty was nego- benefits which WW2 veterans enjoy." . . . This includes tiated with Japan some months ago, the United States is

educational privileges, home and business loans, etc. . . . still technically at war with that country. . . . The wherefore However, the Administration has proposed a sharply scaled- is that the treaty signed at San Francisco has not been pre- down program for Korean vets. . . . Under its plan. Govern- sented to the U. S. Senate for ratification. . . . Washington ment tuition payments would be limited to half the actual scuttlebutt is that the treaty will be given to the Senate by charge. . . . The maximum payment would be $300 a year the State Department soon after the Congress convenes in instead of $500 under the old program which gave educa- January — but until Senate acts WW2, like Ol' Man River, tion and training to 7,756,000 WW2 vets. still goes rolling on. . . . State of war with Germany came to NEWSLETTER (continued)

a legal end by Joint Resolution of Congress — without nego- 1 Navy officer and 7 Marines, four of whom are living and

tiation of a peace treaty — signed by President Truman on 4 dead. . . . Army awards went to the following dead or October 19, 1951. missing: Major General William F. Dean, commanding 24th Infantry Division, reported prisoner of war; Pfc. Melvin F. WEST VIRGINIA BONUS BONDS SOLD: Brown, Mahaffey, Pennsylvania; 1st Lt. Frederick A. Henry, news for Virginia veterans of Good West both World Clinton, Oklahoma; Sgt. Charles W. Turner, Boston, Massa-

Wars. . . . Governor special Through Patteson's committee chusetts; M/Sgt. Travis E. Watkins, Gladwater, Texas; of bankers, West Virginia banks and citizens took the first Sgt. William R. Jecelin, Baltimore, Maryland; Pvt. Joseph offering of of bonus bonds in $37,500,000 WWl and WW2 R. Ouellette, Lowell, Massachusetts; Corp. Mitchell Red

record time. . . . State had set up a backlog of $8,000,000 in Cloud, Jr., Friendship, Wisconsin; Corp. Gordon M. Craig, funds for investment, but when the returns rolled in to State Elmwood, Massachusetts ; Pfc. Luther H. Story, Americus, Treasurer Ansel's office it that only a small part was found Georgia; Pfc. William Thompson, Brooklyn, New York;

of this fund would be needed. . . . Director of Veterans' Affairs Corp. John W. Collier, Worthington, Kentucky; 1st Lt. T. H. (Pat) McGovran released the bonus applications on Samuel S. Coursen, Madison, New Jersey; M/Sgt. Melvin January 2. . . . Checks started to flow out before the end of O. Handrich, Manawa, Wisconsin; Capt. Reginald B. Desi-

the month. . . . (See Newsletter, details, January, page 37, for derio. El Monte, California; Pfc. Richard G. Wilson, Cape

eligibility requirements, etc.) . . . Out-of-State vets get their Girardeau, Missouri; Sgt. 1/c Loren R. Kaufman, Dallas, applications by writing Department of Veterans' Affairs, Oregon; Lt. Col. Don C. Faith, Jr., Washington, Indiana; P. O. Box 5127, Capiol Station, Charleston, West Virginia. Pfc. Robert H. Young, Vallejo, California; Sgt. George D. STATE BONUS DEADLINES: Libby, Casco, Maine; Sgt. Nelson D. Brittin, Audubon,

North Dakota ; 2nd Lt. Darwin K. Kyle, South Charleston, Inquiries continue to come in about State bonus provi- West Virginia Sgt. 1 /c D. Edwards, Indianola, ; Junior sions, and particularly about the deadline for filing appli- Iowa; and Sgt. Charles R. Long, Kansas City, Missouri, cations. ... A lot of eligible veterans have been out of luck of the Army, and Major Louis J. Sebille, Chicago, Illinois, because of procrastination. . . . Just for the record, and for of the Air Force. the benefit of occasional readers of these pages, the roll of Heroes who lived to receive their Medals are: Sgt. John bonus States with the deadlines is repeated. A. Pittman, Tallula, Mississippi; Lt. Carl H. Dodd, Kenvir, Twenty States and two Territories have authorized the Kentucky; Sgt. Ernest R. Kouma, Dwight, Nebraska; Capt. payment of a bonus to WW2 vets — one. West Virginia, in- Raymond Harvey, Pasadena, California; Capt. Lewis L. cluded both WWl and WW2 vets in law. . . . Honorarium Millet, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts; M/Sgt. Stanley authorized in Montana, 21st State, by legislation and vote T. Adams, Olathe, Kansas; Corp. Einar H. Ingman, Toma-

of electors, but is held up by court action. . . . No action is hawk, Wisconsin; Sgt. Joseph C. Rodriguez, San Bernardino, pending in the other 27 States and the District of Columbia. California, and M/Sgt. Hubert L. Lee, Leland, Mississippi.

. . . Deadline date has passed in Connecticut, Delaware, Navy Medal of Honor has been awarded to Lt. Thomas Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Penn- Hudner, USN pilot, who survived to receive his decoration sylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and the Territory of from the hands of President Truman. ... Of the 7 Marines, Hawaii. . . . Four States — Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pfc. Stanley R. Christianson, Mindoro, Wisconsin; Pfc. New York and Vermont, and Territory of Alaska — have no Eugene A. Obregon, Los Angeles, California, and Lt. Baldo- deadline for filing applications. mero Lopez, Tampa, Florida, were killed in action; Sgt. Deadlines for applications still open are: Michigan, James E. Johnson, Washington, D. C, is reported missing; June 1, 1953; North Dakota, February 17, 1954; Oregon, and Lt. Henry Alfred Commiskey, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; December 1, 1952; Washington, March 31, 1953, and West Major Reginald R. Myers, Boise, Idaho, and Major Carl R. Virginia, December 1, 1952. Sitter, Pueblo, Colorado, survived. GOLD STAR BUTTONS AVAILABLE: TERM INSURANCE PREMIUM WAIVERS: Gold Star lapel buttons are now available to the next VA warns vets of Korean conflict who at time of dis- of kin of military personnel who died in service in WWl and charge have waivers of premiums on U. S. Government Life the Korean fighting. . . . Distribution under Public Law 121, or National Service Life Term Insurance policies that they August 21, 1951, which amends Act of 80th Congress must resume premium payments within 120 days after authorizing such distinctive buttons for survivors of WW2 discharge Otherwise they will lose their insurance by lapse. servicemen and women. . . . Lapel buttons are furnished PER DIEM FOR EX-POW: without cost to widows, widowers, parents, step-parents and NO U. S. Court of Claims has denied plea of former Govern- foster parents of those who have died. . . . Other family ment official who asked $8,130 in travel allowance for a members may get the buttons for a nominal fee. . . . Emblems

45 period he a prisoner of the Japanese. . . . may be obtained by writing the Adjutants General of the -month when was Herman P. Havenor, budget examiner of Bureau of Budget, Army or Air Force, or for Navy and Marines, to the Navy asked for per diem pay for time spent in Jap prison camp Bureau of Personnel, all Washington 25, D. C. $6 because he had been on travel orders when captured on

MEDALS OF HONOR FOR KOREAN HEROES: Wake Island in 1941. . . . Budget Bureau declared him

Forty-two Medals of Honor had been awarded to heroes eligible; Comptroller General twice disallowed the claim. . . . pointed out that of the Korean conflict as of December 26. . . . Army honored In turning down the claim, the Court

33 in Army and 1 Air Force officer; 25 of whom are dead or Havenor had been paid his regular salary for the period of missing; Navy awarded the nation's highest decoration to confinement.

42 Wliich is your choice — wet or dry ?

WET FLY DRY FLY Quill Gordon Royal Coachman

WET FLY vs. DRY FLY: Fishermen have been argu-

ing this one for years — particularly men who fish for trout or Atlantic salmon.

The dry-fly fisherman claims you get more thrills

when the fly is always in sight so you can see the

fish rise to take it. While the wet-fly partisan

argues that the thrill is greater when the fly remains below the surface, thus adding the ele-

ment of surprise as the line tightens to the strike.

Actually, in high white water, the wet fly is usu-

ally preferable, while the dry fly is at its best in

still water. But, you're the expert — you've tried both and made up your own mind.

YOU'RE THE EXPERT in choosing whiskey, too! You'll find a big difference in whiskies ... in smoothness, mellowness and freedom from harsh- ness. That's why we urge you to make your own taste test between Calvert and any other whiskey.

MAKE THIS 60-SECOND TASTE TEST: Just ask a friend or barman to pour V4 oz. of Calvert into a glass, and the same amount of any other whiskey

into another—without telling you which is which. Compare each one for smoothness, flavor and freedom from bite, burn or sting. Then pick the one that really tastes better to you.

Naturally, we believe you'll choose Calvert, be-

cause it is blended to a taste determined by a "Consumer Jury" of thousands of folks like you.

But if you still prefer another brand, stick with

it. Fair enough? Calyert Challenges Comparison

with any whiskey. . . at any price !

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Suggest that a bank or finance com- his hands a long time until a buyer ample, that you are selling a 1939 sedan. pany is better equipped to handle de- comes along who is willing to pay his The most a car of that age would be ferred payments. He may be honest but price. worth, even in perfect condition, would there is just a chance that he isn't. Also, A little research is necessary before be, say, $300. Obviously, it would be he may pay you part of the amount, you decide what to ask. Don't take the foolish to go out and spend $100 on such take the registration over and drive word of a friend who says they are a car before ofl^ering it for sale. It would away. A day or two later he returns: paying a lot of money for that make of be better to advertise it "As is" and get "You didn't tell me that the car uses car, or that nobody wants that model. rid of it for $200, thus avoiding the a quart of oil every 400 miles. I don't see He doesn't know any more about it nuisance of having it fixed. Anyway, why I should pay you the rest of the than you do. Read the automobile clas- you probably wouldn't get $300 for it money until you allow me for an engine sified ads in your local paper or papers even after laying out $100. A new or job." True, the car might need an en- and note the prices on similar makes fairly new car is different. gine job — or it might not. The car is in and models. Make the rounds of local Obvious defects should, if possible, his name now and you will have a long used car lots and dealers. Find out be put in order before the car is offered drawn out struggle to prove anything what they are asking for your model for sale. If they are not you will not and lawsuits are expensive. The best car. In a short time you will have a only have to come down in price out of rule is the simplest one; full payment pretty clear idea of just what your car all proportion to the cost of repairing or no transfer of title. will bring in your market. This, too, the defect, but there is a good chance Even when the title remains in your will keep you in line with ceiling prices that you may not be able to sell the car name, it would be foolish and dangerous for used cars established by the Office at all. If the defect is relatively minor, to let him use the car except for a of Price Stabilization. on the other hand, and you do not want demonstration in which you accompany If your car is exceptionally clean and to go to the trouble of having repairs him. If he has an accident you will be in nice condition it may be worth a little made, show the prospective buyer sued. As long as the car is in your name more than the average price. Converse- frankly what is wrong with the car and you are responsible for it. ly, if it is in need of a fair amount of offer to allow him for it out of the Even when the buyer has given you work you will have to shave your price price. Base your allowance on an esti- the full amount, you must be careful. to a more reahstic figure. Having your mate from a local, low-priced garage.

If you live in one of the 22 states (such car appraised by a used car dealer is This will have the double value of re- as New York) in which the license very useful. Take what he offers you lieving you of the burden of having it plates cannot be transferred to the new and add to it about 20 percent, his nor- repaired and will reassure the buyer as owner, the customer may ask to bor- mal margin of profit. This will give you to your honesty. He will feel that if you row your plates for a few days until approximately the price that you can point out the defect and offer to make he obtains his own. Don't do it. In these hope to get for your car, although for good on it the chances are you are not states it is illegal for anyone else to drive quick sale you will probably have to hiding other defects. on your plates. He will be prosecuted — come down slightly. After all, the deal- Good appearance is 9/lOths of a used and so will you. er is prepared to keep the car around car sale. Professional used car sellers are The biggest single problem in selling far longer than you are. so well aware of this that there are sev- a used car is putting the right price on A question frequently asked by those eral companies in the country solely en- it. Naturally, the seller wants to get just who wish to sell their car is "Should I gaged in making used-car-appearance as much money for his car as possible. sell my car the way it is or should I have reconditioning kits to transform dull,

At the same time, he knows that he must it fixed up before I try to sell it?" The travel-stained cars into attractive pieces not charge so much that the car will answer depends largely on the age and of merchandise. See that your car is not sell. Nor does he want to have it on condition of the car. Suppose, for ex- washed and polished. Clean the interior as well as the exterior and see to it that the glove compartment and trunk are in presentable condition. A sharp-eyed buyer will form his opinion of the car on the basis of such often overlooked corners. If you are the kind of driver who likes gimcracks and plasters his car with beaver tails and fan dancers, re- move them before you offer the car for sale. The average buyer, perhaps right- ly, assumes that such things are evidence of irresponsibility or at least spottiness and that the car itself has been over- worked or carelessly handled. It is best not to try any of the time- honored tricks to conceal car defects, such as packing a noisy transmission with oatmeal or putting extra heavy oil in the engine to conceal bad rings and bearings. You may get caught and, contrary to popular belief, there is a chance that you may be sued success- fully. A crooked dealer may get away with such practices. He can always say that he bought the car in good faith and that he did not know such condi-

44 • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 tions were present. The individual owner can hardh' make such an answer. After all, he owned the car and it is unlikely that someone broke into his garage and doctored the transmission. Setting back the speedometer is of doubtful value. Few buyers pay any attention to mileage and if they do,

don't believe it anyway. If you have an elastic conscience and you do set back the speedometer, don't make the mis- take that one used car dealer made. He set it back from 80,000 to 35,000 miles, but he forgot to remove the service sta- tion's sticker from the door which stated that the last oil change had been made at 75,000. If \'ou don't want to sell your car through a newspaper ad and at the same time don't want to take as big a loss as

that entailed in turning it in to a deal- er, >'ou can sell your car on consign- ment. This means turning it over to a used car dealer (or gas station opera- tor) who will find a customer willing to meet >'our price. He will charge \"ou a flat amount or a percentage on the sale. There are several objections to this

method. Unless the dealer is making a sufficiently large profit on your car (in w hich case you would probably be as Paul Jones has made well off turning it in) he won't make much effort to sell your car. Also, unless he is conscientious he the pleasant may abuse your car or allow it to be voyage more abused by prospects taking demonstra-

tions. You'll never know. Finally, it is not unknown for dealers with cars on for five generations! consignment to deliberately refuse offers on the car over a long period of time. They then inform the owner that it is impossible to sell his car at that And five generations of experience have

price and make him a low bid on it or produced a whiskey with tlie extra mildness, have an agent do so. extra siiiootiiiiess, e.xtra-rich, mellow flavor you If >'ou must dispose of your car im- usually expect only from mucli higher-priced mediately you can "wholesale" it — sell whiskies. it outright without buying another car But, there's no extra charge for experience. — to a new or used car dealer. You Tliat's why we tiiink you'll agree when you taste won't get a good price. If you must Paul just caii''t buy a bdUr drink! w holesale your car, sell it either to a Jones; used car lot or a new car dealer who consistently displays and advertises used cars. Some new car dealers are not in- terested in used cars and they whole- sale trade-ins to other dealers. Such a dealer will only buy your car if the Paul price is so low that he can make a profit

even though he in turn will sell it at wholesale price. Jones If you don't care for any of these selling methods, you can always put a "For "4 Sale" (or even Sale") card on , , Paul the window. If you do, don't forget to / SINCE \ j include a telephone number. Your car i Jones 1^ 1865 J isn't so desirable that a prospect is going to find you by tracing your license number. A last word of advice. Don't sell your car to a relative. If anything — anything — goes wrong in the next ten years you Frankfort Distillers Corporation, N. Y. C. Blended whiskey. will never hear the end of it. the end 86 proof. 723:% grain neutral spirits. The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • 45 Can You Get Good Care In A Veterans Hospital? (Continued from page 19) tion and medical research. Those who mental care might seem, the National \'A is setting up mental care units in still think that VA medicine moves Tuberculosis Association and the just about every one of its hospitals, so along with its eyes shut, pa> ing no at- American Hospital Association cried that far few er mentally ill veterans need tention to other medical agencies or to for years for TB treatment in local be shut up in jails and padded cells un- outside problems, are six years behind or general hospitals with virtualK no til space can be found for them in some the times. distant mental hospital. They can start By tying in 76 of VA's 154 hospitals treatment immediately, near their with 65 of the nation's accredited medi- homes. cal schools, VA has set up a medical Here the \^A is showing the state and system that is the best and cheapest the THINK/ the communit\ that it is inhumane and world has ever seen in peacetime. It wasteful of money to throw their psy- gives the veteran patient the services chotic cases into the local hoosegow of the nation's outstanding physicians until they can be sent off to the and technicians at our big medical crowded state mental hospitals. The schools. The best medical brains swap states and communities have been slow- their services in return for use of the to follow VA's lead because of the ini- VA's hospitals and clinics as the na- tial money involved, though \"A has tion's biggest single resident-physician proved that over the years it is a mone>'- training system. This swap makes a huge saving step. The idea of local mental saving in taxpa>'er's cash. care all over America is a long-term Making the best of its ability to ease dream of the National Association for our dangerous national doctor shortage, Mental Health. VA hospitals associated with medical Perhaps the best summary of VA's schools are turning out 500 to 700 grad- position of world leadership in the ad- uate medical specialists a year. Of the vancement of care of the tubercular country's 28 top-rated schools of physi- lies in the w ords of the health commis- cal therapy, 22 send all their students to sioner of a major metropolitan cit\'. He VA hospitals for clinical training. Of recently told a VA official: "I sure hope the 25 accredited schools of occupa- you know what you are doing in install- tional therapy, all send students ing ultra-violet-ray germicidal in but two "Mostly about women. What do )oii/" lamps to VA hospitals for part of their train- your TB hospital here, because you are AMERH AN LEGIO.N MAGAZINE ing. VA turns out a full quarter of the forcing us to take the same step." nation's new class of clinical psychia- A VA-developed set of exercises to trists every year. Thirteen percent of all takers — until VA turned the trick. prevent chest deformit>' in TB pa- dietitians who are undergoing training, Now, more than fifty VA general tients who need lung operations has intern in VA hospitals. hospitals treat TB on a sound basis — been translated into many languages, for Today, \^A shows the way in the na- medically, economically and humani- use around the world. tional problems of overcrowded mental tarian-wise. The New York State Hos- As the world leader in treatment of and TB hospitals. It has pioneered suc- pital system, seeing that it can be done, TB, the Veterans Administration cessfully in the tradition-defying prac- is making moves in the same direction. spreads the gospel of its advanced work tices of treating TB and mental patients Others will certainly follow, to the through many regional conferences. in general hospitals. Simple as this meth- benefit of the entire nation in health Most of these meetings are open to all od of avoiding tragic delays in TB and and money. professional people w ho are interested.

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Easy Makes His ^'Cat'' Tread Lightly FIGHT Driving back home on Three Ponds HEART Road yesterday, I was flagged down by Easy Roberts' boy Skeeter. "Take

DISEASE it slow, Mr. Marsh," he advised. "Dad's crossing this road with our state institution was fired because the tractor, just beyond the bend."" conference showed how poor a job he was doing. In another, a hospital which When I got around the curve I saw showed up one year with a bad record has since become one of the best non- why Skeeter stopped me. Easy had VA hospitals in the south. laid two rows of old truck tires across For the blind, V'A runs a program at the road, and was driving his new Hines \^A hospital that was pioneered by the Armed Forces. The blinded vet- "Cat" tractor over them! eran is prepared for life as a sightless but well-nigh independent citizen. He "More trouble this way,'' Easy ex- is trained to get around by himself with- plains, "but it does keep those tank out a dog. The Hines method is being copied by civilian institutions, and their tracks from tearing up the asphalt instructors get their basic training from when I have to cross over to our other VA people. fields. all, the roads belong to Together, the \ A and the Armed After Forces set the pace for the entire nation all of us —and I guess I'd get mad if in care of amputees. Their work—done someone else chewed them up." hand in glove with the National Re- search Council and the university la- From where I sit, Easy is my kind boratories — has completeh' revolution- ized the artificial limb industry. More of citizen. He doesn't just give democ- than 500 appliances were tested in VA's racy lip service. He honestly believes remarkable artificial limb laboratory^ in it's his duty to consider the other New York before \^A came up with its suction-socket leg for above-knee am- fellow's interests. Whether it's the — putees. It quickly became available right to use the public highways or like all other VA prosthetic devices — right to occasional glass to the tens of thousands of Americans the enjoy an who have lost limbs in civilian life. VA of beer, Easy's out to protect his has helped train 300 surgeons and 400 neighbor's "right of way." commercial limb fitters in the team ap- proach for making best use of this new limb. In plastic surgery VA experts have gone so far as to create an artificial face for a man who lost most of one side of his head, yet lived. Thousands who suf- fer similar horrible disfigurements bene- Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundation

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • fit from YA cosmetic developments. specialty, if you please. It is called Paraplegia (paralysis from the waist physical iiiedichie and rehabilitation. down from spine injury) became well- The moderns who learn this specialty FIRST AID i known to the public during and since in VA are redeveloping the art of treat- WW II. Most people think of it as in- ing patients as sick people. Physical ability to use the legs. But the familiar medicine, applied on top of the special- forAQD wa>'s in which VA and the Armed ties that pay attention to the sick parts, is Forces have helped paraplegics to walk one more factor that is shortening the again, drive cars and go to work is not stay of patients in the hospitals and re- nniGEsnoN all of the story. Unseen is the frequent ducing the number of repeat patients. serious impairment of the organs of the The other VA answer to the problem lower body that accompanies many of specialized doctors is its development spine injuries. The modern VA has of the "team concept" of medical spe- faced up to all sorts of complications cialists. This is a model of medical effi-

the neighbors nev'er see in paraplegic ciency. Under the team concept, all the victims. specialists who treat a single patient One of these complications is gall- work as equal teammates and arrive at stones. A VA doctor, Arthur S. Abram- "team conclusions." VA is getting far son, found a paraplegic veteran with better results with the team concept gallstones who was willing to undergo than under the older system of "doctor extremely painful tests. It was discov- and consultants," where a group of ered that the veteran's leg bones were specialists clear their ideas about one shrinking away from idleness. Dr. patient through one man who, admitted-

Abramson guessed that the free calcium ly, is not an expert in all their specialties. set loose from the leg bones was form- The Federal Security Agency, charged ing the gallstones. The patient was re- \\'ith the rehabilitation of ci\ilians, is lieved by getting up and about, no mat- trying to adopt the high standard of ter how clumsily, to exercise the leg treatment, fitting and training that VA bones. gives amputees. As a base it is using the The veteran who submitted to the VA team concept, bringing together the painful tests was Dr. Abramson himself, many different specialists who are whose spine had been shattered by needed to truly rehabilitate an amputee. shrapnel in the ETO. Dr. Abramson The wound, the artificial limb, the emo- has also done remarkable work in re- tional aspect of the patient and his job

SELTZERI . r I I: V fitting victims of heart disease for use- problem call for separate, widely differ- ful living. ent expert attention. Among the exciting VA medical ad- The 60-odd VA mental hygiene clinics ventures have been two of its answers are standard bearers for the team con- to the problem of how to adapt doc- cept, with the psychiatrist, the clinical TASTING tors, who tend to specialize, to the pa- psychologist and the social \vorker han- PLEASANT tient w ho is a whole man. dling emotionally disturbed patients in Specialization in medicine has cost us a team effort. The VA is spreading the some very much needed qualities of the advantages of its effective team idea as

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4g • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 with 43 independent mental Iiygiene ates with the national medical institu- teen days in 1945 to o//e month and clinics. A comparable team approach, tions. That is a remarkable story in itself. twenty days in 1949! At the same time for example, is in action at Union In 1941 the Legion complained that the patients, on the average, were being County Clinic, Passaic, New Jersey. the frequent indifferent treatment of sent home in better shape than ever be- In January, our Legion magazine pub- veterans was the worst curse of the old fore with less likelihood of re-admission lished an article on the hard-of-hearing, VA, and that waste of taxpayers' money for the same complaints. The shorter showing incidentally that partici- went with it. More and better care stay of patients in the VA general hos- pates in all 23 of the most advanced would not only justify the expense, we pitals allowed for the care of 130,000 clinics for the hard-of-hearing. \^A said, but it would empty beds in a hurry more patients in 1949 than the saiiie fa- teamwork with other institutions is and actually save money. This has been cilities could have accommodated four clearly shown by the fact that two of realized beyond our fondest dreams. years earlier! VA had knocked 17 days these clinics are all-VA affairs, two are In 1950, when the VA was giving the off the average stay of long-term men- joint \^A and Armed Forces clinics, best care in the world, it had vastly in- tal patients. The average stay for all four arc located in private institutions, creased its medical activities to give patients was down by nearly a third and fifteen are at universities or medi- that care. Yet in 1950 the cost of all VA even though TB patients were staying cal schools. These clinics give not only iiiedical activities iras Tiiore than 100 longer than ever. TB patients in great the best, but all of the best, care for the million dollars less tha7i the costs under numbers used to leave the hospitals too hard-of-hearing in this country — if not the old 1941 system could have been in early. Now the\' are more willing to the world. 1950, with four and a half times as many stay for complete treatment, since bet- A big question is, "Can we afford veterans and the dollar value cm in half. ter care and a better atmosphere is giv- such excellent care for veterans?" At the same time the VA was giving the ing them more hope of full recovery. Apparently we cannot afford any- taxpayers an enormous "kickback" in So much for the rosy picture. The thing else. The Economy Act of 1933, national medical leadership. whole st()r\' of improved qualit>' and which sought to save money by brutally How is VA able to give infinitely cfficienc>' of VA medical practice since kicking sick veterans out of the hospi- more for considerably less? Part of the 1945 would, in the words of a Washing- tals, threw the patients onto overtaxed answer lies in the following interesting ton newspaperman, "fill a Sears, Roe- community, state and private hospitals figures. buck catalogue." and charities, and led to a popular re- In 1949, VA celebrated a five-year But unfortunately for many veterans vulsion that put an end to the act in a knock-down in the average hospital stay and their families, the fine care that VA year. Meanwhile, VA has shown that of all veteran patients. The average stay now offers cannot necessarily be had by good medicine is far cheaper than poor of all patients (including those who are all those who are eligible for it. medicine, and that limited medicine hospitalized for months or years with Certain evils in the system of provid- practiced in a closed agency is costlier mental or other long-term afflictions) ing this care have for a long time pre- than expanding medicine that cooper- had been cut from tivo months and thir- \cnted full use of VA facilities, even

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52 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 The Truth About the Katyn Forest Massacre (Continued from page 13) The FINEST

Stalin, Molotov and Vyshinsky had lied wanted the International Red Cross to Flights to many diplomatic missions, including send investigators but that organization, our own United States Embassy. Two of which the Soviets were then mem- years after his crime Stalin was still bers, could not, under its charter, act lying; he did not know what had hap- unless both the Germans and the Rus- pened to the 15,000 Polish officers. "I sians invited it to do so — and the Krem- personally have already given all in- lin angrily used its veto. structions that they should be released," The witnesses whom the Germans he told an inquiring diplomat. "I do had flown to Katyn examined the first not know where they are. Why should 982 bodies, of whom 70 percent were $ from NEW YORK ." and WASHINGTON... . identifiable. ^ I detain them? . They agreed that they were The German army, however, had Polish officers, killed by assassination, fought its way north into Russia and and buried three years, in other words THE D occupied Smolensk — and the Katyn prior to the occupation of the area by forest — in August 1941. On April 13th, the Germans. 1943, the Germans announced over the Kept as a very top secret from all radio that they had found mass burial Americans, and the rest of the civilized 0 hom SAN FRANCISCOr graves in the Katyn forest, under small world, was one very important fact: LOS ANGELES, DALLAS... trees; that their exhumations were prov- Among the observers at Katyn were ing all the corpses to be those of Polish two captured U. S. Army officers, pri- THE DC-6 officers, killed in 1940 while prisoners soners of war of the Germans. of the Soviets. During the first few days The Germans planned to dig up the §from DETROIT, CLEVELAND, of grave-opening 155 bodies had been whole Katyn forest in the fall of 1943. PITTSBURGH... identified, from personal effects still in They brought in a group of Polish Daylight or Club Coach Flights^ the officers' clothing, including the soldiers, captured on another front, and body of Polish Major General Smora- established them as a formal Guard of in cooperafion with winski. over the Polish graves. The German Army commander Honor They AMERICAN', DELTA*, CAPITAL' AIRLINES asked that neutrals come through the had located seven mass-graves, opened lines to witness the exhumation. only the fourth when Stalin threw a The Moscow radio immediately went gigantic concentration of men and steel NATIONAL on the air with a barrage of charges against them on this otherwise not very that tJie Poles had been murdered by important front. By September 1943, the nazis, not by Russians. The Krem- Katyn Forest was in Soviet hands again, Airlines lin's propaganda was picked up and permanently behind the Kremlin's iron promoted throughout Europe and the curtain. The A4oscow radio stepped up United States. its charges against the German Army — ITiis can be On April 30, 1943, an internationally now with the graves in Stalin's sole assembled medical group, at the insistent custody. PELTA WORKSHOP invitation of the German army, reached The chronology of the official at- Katyn. It included European scientists tempts in ^Vashington, beginning with of forensic and criminal medicine, Swiss, Harriman's in Moscow, to cover up the Scandinavian, Dutch, Belgian, Italian communist crime, is as important, now and Balkan observers — and members of — if not more so to Americans — as the the Polish Red Cross. The Germans actual Katyn Massacre. The attempt to

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hide this crime from the American that General Collins had considered his people has led into our major present eye-witness and photographic evidence national and international troubles. so important, and so credible, that he Fishermen! W henever a report from the Polish had had \'an Vliet flown from Europe Government in Exile, or any other in- to Washington "with all haste." We telligence agency, reached Washington knew that Van Vliet had arrived at the that incriminated the Soviets the record Pentagon on May 22, 1945, and reported will show that such a report was hastily to Major General Clayton Bisseil, stampeti "Top Secret" and kept out of Deputy Chief of Staff for Military In- the reach, or knowledge, of the Ameri- telligence. can voters. Instead of facts the O.W.I., We heard that \^an Vliet was behind under Elmer Davis, continued to broad- the closed doors of General Bissell's cast only the Kremlin's propaganda. private office a long time, alone w'ith I was appointed in 1945, to Warsaw, the G-2 General. When he reappeared Poland, as United States Ambassador to in the reception office, we learned. Van the Polish Government which had as Vliet was flushed, seemed intensely but Helpful, Colorful 1952 its nucleus a group of Russian trained silently angry. He went as directed by

Polish communists. I sta>'ed there Bisseil with the General's personal se- cS^zJe<^t2ea^\fxif\^ Book through the fraudulent elections of curity stenographer across the corridor

Januar>' 1947. I saw Poland betrayed. I to a smaller office. There Van Vliet had and Fishing Calendar saw brave Poles, men and women, "li- dictated, with his Kat\ n notes in front FEATUR/NG — quidated" by the Kremlin. of him, a long report which the young With mounting wrath over the un- woman typed in his presence. Then he • NKW! Shakespeare Spinning Reel with 11 punished crime of Katyn and other took the document and his photographs revolutionary features! communist atrocities, a number of back to Bissell's office. • NEW! Shakespeare Direct Drive Reels Americans, after I left the Foreign Serv- General Bisseil read the report care- with NYLON GEARS! ice, organized fully, then directed his secretary to • NEW! "Formula 1 2-0-9 Finish" Fly Lines- The American Commit- toughest, smoothest, longest-wearing ever tee for the Investigation of the Katyn stamp it "Top Secret" after having Van developed iMassacre. We wished to collect evi- Vliet initial each page and sign it in his NEW! Fiber Glass Wonderods— Better 4 • dence others have tried to hide, piece presence. He then turned on Major Ways— (See Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory Vliet, a Report). Full length rod, just S7.95. together clues and documentation, which Van handed him curiously • NEW! "Spinning" Questions and Answers others have tried to erase, assemble still- worded official memo which had been — by Henry Shakespeare. living witnesses. We wanted, particu- prepared while Van Vliet was dictating • Joe Godfrey's Famous Fishing Calendar larly, to get a too-long-secret intelli- the report, and ordered the junior offi- shows best days to fish in 1952! gence report which one of the two U. S. cer to sign it. • Casting lessons, tackle suggestions by 4- officers wiio had been at Katyn "You have furnished to the War De- time U. S. Pro. Champion, Ben Hardesty. Army • "Fitting the Tackle to the Man— or Woman" was known to have delivered to the partment," the Bisseil memo said, "a — by Jason Lucas! Pentagon. This was a major effort, and special report covering a certain part of a long battle in Washington. your experience. These have been re- Shortly after he had been liberated corded exactly as dictated by you and as a German prisoner-of-war, on Aiay will be held available for such use as is

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54 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 matter with anyone in or out of that suggested that an American Committee second report on Alay 11th, 1950, had, service without specific approval in for the Investigation of the Katyn Mas- we learned, been again ordered into per-

writing from the War Department. . . . sacre be formed. The Committee was sonal "silence" by the Pentagon and, Your signature on a copy of these in- formed with Epstein as its Executive even more punitively, sent to Korea — structions left with the Assistant Chief Secretary, and subsequently his efforts out of reach of the American Congress. of Staff G-2 indicates that you under- resulted in a Congressional Investigating This 1950 Van Vliet memorandum is stand these instructions." Committee, an action taken by unani- a most interesting document. No mat- This was, indeed, a iiiost unusual mili- mous vote of the House of Representa- ter what pressure was put on him this tary order. Hundreds of vital intelli- tives, September 18, 1951. United States Army officer stood un- gence reports had been given and filed At the instigation of the Committee compromisingly on his 1943 eye-witness in the Pentagon, with never such an in 1949, Congressmen who had many facts. The body of each Polish officer, accompanying order of personal "si- Polish-Americans among their constitu- Van Vliet insisted, had been searched lence." There was nothing in this report ents began asking the State Department very carefully^ examined by scientists, which any enemy could have used and the Pentagon many Katyn ques- identified, and reburied. "We followed against us. By what authority — or be- tions. Like the press of America they our guide right down into each grave," cause of what strange fear— did General received no facts, only evasive double- he wrote, "stepping on bodies that were Bissell, responsible for the collection, talk. On October 6, 1949, Congressman piled like cord wood, face down usu- evaluation, and dissemination of military Dondero of A-lichigan wrote a formal ally, to a depth of about five to seven intelligence, order an army officer into letter to the Pentagon, demanding a bodies, covered with about five feet of

permanent silence because of his infor- copy of the Van Vliet report and the earth. . . . All bodies had a bullet hole mation's "possible political implica- Katyn photographs. The reply — long in the back of the head near the neck tions"? Whom was General Bissell delayed — was first, that the report was with the exit wound of the bullet being serving? "classified" and therefore could not be in the forehead or upper front part of

We learned, in spite of Bissell's "Top given to Congress, and, later, that the the skull. . . . German photographers Secret" stamp and personal silence order report and photographs had been "lost." were present and took both still and to Van Vliet, that the report was un- It was not until September, 1950, that motion pictures of our party while we smearable evidence against not only the the facts of the Van Vliet reports were inspected the graves. Copies of the still Soviets but against the Washington obtained by Congress, and then only pictures were later given us." bureaucrats who had sabotaged the partially. These facts came from a sec- Colonel Van Vliet's conclusions, re- original Katyn facts, devalued the ear- ond report which the Pentagon, under peated in 1950 as he had given them in lier reports. A Regular United States continuing Congressional pressure, had 1945 to Major General Bissell, were: Army officer, of high repute as to his ordered Van Vliet to dictate from "I hated the Germans. I did not want intelligence and integrity — well known memory. Van Vliet, after dictating the to believe them ... I tried every way to many of our most patriotic combat generals — Major Van Vliet was, in 1945, a living witness against the communists whom no pro-communist, in the Pen- UIVCLE WALTER tagon or State Department, could smear or, happily, indoctrinate. Aiany patri- IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT otic officers wanted to get his first- hand evidence before the American people, and the still free world, as quickly as possible. But to honest American journalists and historical researchers there was a continuing iron curtain in Washington; in the Pentagon and the State Depart- ment. The American press took the Soviet story, the Kremlin's propaganda lies against the Germans, or they ob- tained nothing. The O.W.I, and, later, "^^"^ the Voice of America released nothing HAS (T GOT AROMA 9 AND IT PACKS SO NEAT / l^/KN, contradictory to the false evidence of AND HOW! /r RATES A BOW / the communists. The Nuremberg trials, the Yalta and Potsdam conferences came and disap- IT SMOKES SWEET IT CANT BITE! peared into history, with their conse- A BLEND OF CHOICE KENTUCK/ BURLEVS, quences everlastingly with us. EXTRA -AGED TO GUARD AGAINST TONGUE In 1949 Americans BITE. SIR. WALTER. RALEIGH STAVS first learned the facts LIT TO THE LAST PUFF - NEVER. about Katyn in sev- LEAVES A SOGGY HEEL. eral newspaper arti- cles written by Julius Epstein, a Vienna born journalist who had become in- trigued by the case. Epstein presented evidence pointing to it's THE PIPE-BLEND CHAMP JULIUS EPSTEIN the Russians as per- you MUST ALLOW petrators of the genocidal crime and

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • 55 to con\ ince myself that the Germans in the black robes of Catholic priests . . .

had done it. . . . We pursued every hne military Polish chaplains." ^I^ibcin of attack to weaken the German story. He saw the bodies, the bullet holes ... It was only with great reluctance in the skulls, the hands tightly tied be-

that I decided finally that . . . for once hind backs, the Polish identifications, AND OTHER COLD MISERY the Germans were not lying; that the the medical and other evidence that When you take cold—take tabcin' facts were as claimed by the Germans. proved the officers to have been mur- quick! Tabcin is the modern "I believ^e," Vliet I'epeated, in the Spring cold formula of time-tested in- Van "that dered of 1940 when the gredients to relieve the headache, the Russians did it. The rest of the area was under Soviet rather than Ger- the feverish feeling and aches group that visited the site stated to man, control. Before he left Katyn the and pains of a cold. Tabcin also me contains antihistamine to check that they believed that the Russians did Germans had located a total of seven sneezes and sniffles.T-\BClN offers " it mass-graves but had opened only three fnore complete cold relief!

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Vliet signed it. But the State Depart- The Poles through their long history ment, today, claims to have no record have been great friends of America and of ever having received it. to Americans. When they crossed the There are still men in Washington Atlantic they have made patriotic who want to hide Kat> n facts, and their American citizens. Let us not forget that participation in sabotaging them, from two ver>- brave Poles — Kosciuszko and the American people — especially so Pulaski — and many of their countrymen now that we are about to nominate and helped our young nation, against great elect new federal officials. But three odds, to win our War of Independence. very important questions — for Ameri- Let us not forget, either, that the cans — it is hoped, will be answered in hands of our army officers, our military Washington during the Spring of 1952, chaplains, our soldiers— when we found as the result of a Congressional inves- their cold bodies lying in blood on the tigation: communist-overrun Korean soil — were

1. Who, at the very top levels of the found to be tied behind their backs, United States Government, ordered the just as the Polish army officers' hands had iiiding of all intelligence reports un- been tied at Katyn; tied ivith the same favorable to the Soviets, and the dis- kind of tricky knot the coii/u/uiiists semination only of lies and communist used for their Polish captives. Our offi- propaganda? cers, soldiers, and military chaplains 2. Who manipulated the techniques of were shot through the backs of their the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, when the heads — and by Soviet made bullets! Van Vliet, Stewart, and other evidence How many of our men have suffered was available, so that no Soviet crime this fate is not at this time known, or criminal was punished; so that the though official figures place the number crime of Katx n, the greatest single mass of such atrocities at between 6,000 and execution of captives of the entire war, 8,000. was never even mentioned in the tri- How different our present history bunal's verdict? The United States Con- might have been had the facts of Katyn gress had authorized our participation been exposed to Americans and the free in these European trials for the purpose world by our officials in 1943 — before of trying and convicting all war crimi- the Teheran sell-out to Stalin and iMolo- nals. tov; before Yalta and Potsdam and our 3. Who, in the State Department, have other Washington blunders. the end

All's Quiet On The Home Front (Continued from page 21)

Americans at home, most of us feel, this war is not being fought on a far- should be fighting for theirs. Instead, away planet. they seem to think this war is a two- One of the first things to raise the daring Parisian Nightie bit skirmish being fought on Mars or hackles of the returning vet is a daily Vive la France! There's Parlslenne zest ... in Venus. This home-front neglect has reading of the newspapers. "The this thrilling French-style nightie. From bare shoulder to peeping ankle, it's peek-thru black prompted many a bitter remark which Schoolmasters of the Republic," we lace on one side . . . rayon sheer black magic no American should ever feel called soon discovered, very often relegate on the other . . . draped to the hip and sheathed to the hem. Elasticized in back . . . upon to make. The 33-year-old two- .stiff Korean battles to less than a worn with or without shoulder straps. And

. . . the final French touch . . . slit to the war corporal who sat in a deep foxhole quarter-column in the second section. knee . . . oo-la-la! Give her NAUGHTY FRENCHY with me last June in "Shrapnel Alley" We recall that Lieutenant General .she'll LOVE it! north of Yanggu only repeated what James Van Fleet termed the overall 9,^ 1995 had been said, in effect, many times conflict a "dim-out war" after the truce only before. negotiations began. The dim-out was Sues 42 48 {II 95 "I wish to hell a herd of these gooks short lived. Nobody was hiding his light --- Send 7U '?H«H€4f—-\ would blast the berries out of some under a basket at Bloody Ridge, the 0*0[R OH l(tO>T tPPDOlU ' stateside cities with these Punchbowl, high velocity the month-long battle of LINGERIE DE FRANCE. INC., DEPT. D31B 76's. San Diego, maybe, or Kansas City, Heartbreak Ridge, the incessant slug- 36 West 34 St., New York 1. N. Y. Please send me NAUGHTY FRENCHY," french-style or Chicago. Maybe eightballs ging in those the Iron Triangle sector, the nightie at 9 95 If not entirely satisfied, I'll return within 10 days for FULL CASH REFUND. would snap out of their hockey then, savage infighting on Kim II Sung SEND ME SIZE CHECKED- if a few thousand of 'em got racked up Ridge, and the brutal give-and-take at 32 0 34 0 36 38 0 40 $9 95 si2es-$n by rusty fragments!" Larger 95 42 44 46 48 See-Saw Hill and Little Gibraltar. Battle COLORS: Bewitching BLACK or Flame RED. That was not an ill-considered growl reports in the newspapers dimmed out Write 1st and 2nd color choice: 1st color choice 2nd color choice made to the accompaniment of incom- only because editors and the public pre- To save money, I enclose $ You pay postage. Ship C.O.D.. I will pay postage. ing mail, and I am not apologizing for ferred to divert the beam to peculiar NAI^E the corporal. His was a concrete con- doings at Kaesong, on manners and _ viction, genuinely expressed, in the hope morals at the RFC and Internal Revenue ADDRESS „ that such a catastrophe would result in Bureau, on hectic but pleasant Satur- CITY STATE "those eightballs" realizing indeed that day gridiron scraps, or on other news II you don't know ht( siie — send Iter approiimtle heithl and weitht

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HAPPPY HOP-AWAY sites less bloody than the battleline in We know all too well that nobody wins JUMPING Korea. The basket that fell over the a war by limiting himself to the use of terrible glare of combat was dropped only one fist. The homefront limited RABBIT from the U. S., not Korea. itself, true enough, but the sloggers suf- Laughs Are you able to understand the fered because the wheels of America's With Joy As thoughts that pass through our minds war machine, and the minds of many Children when at mid-week we pick up news- homefront leaders, are rusty. Ride Him! papers, almost any newspaper, and see We wore ourselves out puzzling over Only 2-49 that the latest casualty report has re- the U. S. failure to employ the fleet that plus 30c postage or ceived treatment no more dignified than was already in Far Eastern waters in COD plus postal charges More fun and would a filler to the effect that "Texas blockading the China coast. Nor has healthy exercise than is the largest state in the Union?" Can anyone given a logical answer to our we've ever seen in any toy! Kids grab you understand our anger when we see question about why the Air Force and his long ears, jnnip on his back, and that an incon.sequential local gang kill- the air arms of the Navy and Marine Happy hops around the room with them, ing has crowded an important thousand- Corps were not permitted to clobber squealing with joy at every leap. casualty Korean battle off the front page the communist staging areas beyond the BIG— he's over 27 inches tall, 40 inches around and 20 and jammed it into an insignificant Yalu. inches long when fully inflated. STRONG— he's made of scuff-proof 12 gauge Vmvlite plastic, electronically corner 15 or 20 pages back? "We crossed the 38th parallel more sealed. SAFE— he's air-cushioned! Happy has many voices— laughs when he's ridden, cries when you pull This almost deliberate disregard of than once, didn't we?" I've heard GIs his ears, and squeals with happiness when vou hug

' a effort ask. 'violating' him. Kids like to make him talk" to them. Happy is many dying can be interpreted and Alarines "We were decorated in bright colors with a big. silly "Come on in just one way by the war-weary vet- a border, weren't we, if you want to get —let's be friends" smile on his face. A perfect gift for all children from 1 to 10 years old. eran. He sees it as another shaft, sharp- technical? We crossed it to get at the P. J. HIIL CO. Dept. B-53 "3 Brood St. it Cop.vrifrlit 195 1 Nework 2, N. J. ened by the knowledge that was North Koreans. Well, the Chinks have hurled from home. been slugging us for more than a year. Perhaps even more infuriating is the Are we afraid to cross into Manchuria discovery that the blood bank is broke, to get at them? Is somebody yellow, or or nearly so. Red Cross officials tell us just plain nuts?" that they number our own kind among May I add that I too believe that the

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Without hard Method number is upcoming," he noted, "is In Action In Korea flesh-gouging pads or tormenting pressure, here's a Support that has bro\ight joy and com- scrape up tuition money and enter col- (Continued from page 21) fort to thousands — by releasing them from Trusses with springs and straps that bind and lege. Then, they let \ ()u take an exam, rupture Slowly, silently, ju.st as strange objects be- cut. Designed to securely hold a up and if you have Brain One, you pass it and in where it belongs and yet give freedom familiar to one lost on a city street, as of body and genuine comfort. For full infor- and you're automatically exempt from come mation—write today! induction. When you graduate, you can one is oriented to one's surroundings, so the hustle out and grab a defense job, be- strange scenes take the form of everyday liv- ^7fUnvu>c Folding cause they provide a period of grace ing. The place again becomes home. The BANQUET isn't it used to for that. The idea what street one's own street. r-l bit be. Nowada> s, > <)u don't do your Bathe your face in hot water, cold water does his bit for Direct Prices To for Uncle Sugar. He — go out and pick the morning paper up you, if >'ou happen to be standing in the American Legions from the lawn. Read of the hand-to-hand right spot. It's a big yak if you can stay Clubs, Lodges fighting on Heartbreak Ridge. Scan the Hotels x\\c Societies home and let the other guy pound casualty list. Some day, if you last long Service Clubs hills for you. It adds up to that old Civil enough, physically, spiritually, and mental- Schools, Churches War stunt of bu>'ing your way out." ly, some day, please God, you may read WRITE The regulars, the career men, can where there has been a truce .signed in FOR frown right along with the reservists. Manufactured by CATALOG fire, exchange of prisoners. They do just that when they note the Korea, a cea.sc THE nHovnoe. company Then, you will know! 69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX. IOWA dearth of voluntary enlistments. It is no

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"ffffi ('Iran ami .Miilhpionf i aiul on Sensational Sales Kit. Send hose size. uf;s up- feur into iManhattan to requisition some L. Lowell Willttn I^Mlll liolstery in the iKime/- ratcnti'ci WIL-KNIT HOSIERY CO., 3322 Midway, Greenfield, Ohio I^'mIIIIiB-)^ eduipiiient. No shop needed. Duia- ~ prolits well-turned piece of equipment like 1^ S i5s ..Si, clean dealer's gross up to .f2(i ^ yiV a day on J'^.\('H serviceman. These l|-^jij;Hili|u^» Nationally .Ad'.ertiseci selviei's create film, night club and TV stars Ilona ^^^^''"^ repeat eustoiui'is, Ka^l to lealu. (Juii-k- ' Iv estal>lislii-.l, ICasv terms, .' b up NORCRAFT, Inc., Dept. N-AL2, Cintinnoti, 0. Monuments, Markers. Satis- _ _ _ do anything else — unless they told me faction or MONEY BACK. '^^SX. Freight paid. Write for our TEKlw:* to." FREE Catalog and compare prices. Occasionally the Army manages to AfrimiiTi.yT ROCKDALE MONUMENT CO. am BECOME AN EXPERT IWM Dept. 306 JOLIET, ILLINOIS put its boys in the way of a good thing | that sounds not only sharp but dow n- I MAKERS PER HOUR WITHOUT A PRINTING PRESS MLi»u II itiin u $10.(100 « nlaots and C. $4.1)00 to thoroly at liome in right shady. It employs a counterfeiter, jyands of firms need ttiem. We train j for C. F. A'a examinations or ejteci e accounting pos huperv ijiuii frevious experience unnecessary . t-ersonai traininir unoer for one thing — a sergeant named Philip of staff of C. P. A's. placement counsel and lielp. Write for free booli. "Accountancv. the Profession Ttiat Pays." F. Coccio, who goes around the Finance LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. PRINT colorful signs, po=.t. Center in Indianapolis try- A Correspondence Institution Dept. 2361-H, Chicago 5, III. I deliberately paper, show cards-AN VTH NG ' I'nn NO printing press or special equipi with this amazing "approved" new printing s ing to palm off phony $10 bills, cash SOO'^o profit on nearly every job. Easy to 1 -NO EXPERIENCE or art ability nec- war bonds that aren't worth the paper HemaPnntaUe essary. Exceptional opportunity. Com- Diete illustrated detailed plan and color they're printed on, and generally short- SCREEN-PRiNT COMPANY. Dept. 202 changing the student cashiers. He not Busimsnat 1010 So. los Anceles St, lot Ungtiti IS, Calif. MOMiVMAKING OPPORWNITr FOR YOU only does it with the Army's blessings, WITHOUT INVeSTMENT.^ but he's equipped with a personal No experience needed to act as our Local $TAMP COLLECTORS Dealer (or MASTER Work Uniform garments checkbook (Government Issue) to business a prospect Advertis- mW\WW NETHERLAND COtVIMEIVIO- Every concern k L b RATIVE COLLECTION. in. ing embroidered on garments is a big sales U Jul.llee, AOuOr.U. make his double-dealing look all the rif QL clu.lfs easily earn to many " Coronation. U.P.U. and feature You can up University Issues. FREE to approval ap- more authentic. The only thing that thousands of dollars per year We supply all plicants. Also, for details on GiKantic Write FKEE Kitt plan. Scott's Inter- Sales Equipment FREE InciudlnK - ' - national Allium. Valualile • - isirt phony is his pay — real U. S. cur- GIO. MASTER GARMENT CO., DEPT. 202 Ligonier, Ifid. tion, idnges and otln \\ rite tod.n rency. 70-L NASSAU ST. YORK 38, N. Y. RAYMAX NEW The Army's also got a horse trader — CAN PUT YOU IN 17177^ 1 Texas-born — who travels around the A |POSTCARd| BUSINESS! HE-MAN VOICE! country picking up bargains in saddle STRENGTHEN your voice this tested scienfifie Rush Card TODAY for FREE SELLING OUTFIT way. Yes — you may now be able to improve Get in hltrhlv profitable, repeat-order the POWER of your speaking and singinK horses and mules. Does he mind it? The busines.s! Sell arnazlnff line of Air-C voice ... in the prKacy of your own ion Innersole comfort shoes to f rieni roomi Self -training lessons, mostly silent. only gripe he's got is against one of his neighbors. fellow workers. Dresy No music required. sport, work, safety shoes for men, women. Never sold in stores. Make FPFF RnnV Write TODAY for Eupene purchases — a mule named Snowball. rilLC DUUIV Fcuchtlngcr's prcat booklet SIO to $7 5. as much as $2O0 "How to Develop Successful Voice." It's ab- monthly just in spare time. No in- a for solutely FREE! You must state yi.ur ape. Book- "Turned out he wouldn't work past vestment. Send card TODAY Fni':E OIITFITI let mailed postpaid in plain wrapper. sales- SEI.MNG No Consolidated Stioe Box Cl-S: man will call. Send your and age System, name RIGHT five o'clock quitting time. And he Ctiippewa Falls, NOW! Prefect Voice Institute, 210 S. Clin, Wisconsin ton St.. Studio B-83. Chicaeo 6. III. must've read calendars as well as clocks, because no matter what happened, he'd EOPARD '1 was half crazy SATIN-LIXB 095 always take Saturday afternoons off." RICH-TONE" EACH DESIGN from torture and pain Besides the titles listed in the Army's official catalogue, there are a number Auto Seat Covers TERRIFIC VALUE! New. of these unofficial specialties that don't deluxe RICH-TONE ma- until Pazo gave reliefl'' terial looks hke LEOP- ever make the list — possibly because ARD FUR. Kives beauty says Mrs. A. M., Engleivood, N. J. and distinction to your car. Adds new life t^i Itching of simple piles drive mad? 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Ask doctors about it. generally look smart. When he commits ake. model & year; also if front seat is full front ot Suppository form- PLIT coupe front. Try 10 days at our risk! Guaranteed t«. —or tube with perfor- these acts of apparent brashness, he's ilisfy or monev back! RUSH! ated pile pipe for easy application. CONSUMERS MART, Dept. 158A-150 *Pazo Oinlment and Suppositories^ got the protection of the palette and 131 West 33rd St., New York 1, N. Y.

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 * Q\ brushes which he carries around with straight out of "South Pacific." The job him. He's a portrait painter who's com- might be best described as "authorized 'My selling time actually shows me a profit of memorating the mihtary bigwigs in oils castaway." Some months ago the Navy for posterity. set it up by dropping him ashore on the Until just a few months ago, the Pacific isle of Chi-Chi Jima, along with 20««25"HOUR room>' Pentagon also housed an even his w ife and child, to rule the place as more e.xotic GI career. It belonged to military governor. They're on their own with Science's New Midget Miracle, the Master Sergeant Robert T. Eilertson. in this domain — never even see a sign PRESTO Fire Extinguisher Until he retired from the service last of life described in the ofincial releases, Jul>% at the age of 49, Eilertson earned except every so often when a Govern- his zebra's pay in says M. R. Stanley of Montana. by burning paper. That's ment boat puts to deliver their mail Many others "cleaning up"-so can YOU! right. He was the man w ho put the and stocks of supplies. flame to the secret documents that the The musical field has a 1 kind of tire extinguish* number of er. Tiny "Presto" (about ^ Army wanted to get rid of. soft spots for the size of a tIaslillEht ) I He lived the boys in Army uni- does job of bulky extln- I eruishers that cost 4 times „ _ ,t« ui rrv form. Consider the man who plays the as much, and are 8 times ™- **• STANLEY as heavy. Ends fires fast as 2 seconds. Fits in palm of hand. Never corrodes. Guaran- triangle in an Army band — he's got just teed for 20 years! Sells for only $3.98! Show it to civil defense workers, owners one note to hit, and he doesn't have to of homos, cars, boats, farms, etc. and to stores for re-sale — make erood income. <-'. S. Mellous made SI 75 In uist nrst 5 hit it very often. Or that extra-specialist ilays. C. Kama, Sl.ddu a month. Write for FHEE sales Kit. No obilKation. among bandsmen, the tympanist — the IVIERLITE INDUSTRIES, Inc.. Dept. 292. 201 East 16th St.. New York 3. N. Y. kettle IN CANADA: Mopu Co. Ltd.. 371 guy w ho plays the drums. One CjI Science's Dowel St., Montreal I, P.Q. (If you want New Midget w ho has held dow n that spot in the Fort Miracle — a regular Presto to use as a demonstra- "PRESTO" tor, send $2.50. Money back if you wish.) Lee, Ya., band describes the merits of SOCKS DARNED the job this way: "In the first place, you IN 8 SECONDS don't work very often because you NO SEWINGI No FussI — this NF:W ea.sy — wav Just applv hffti w llh hot Iron or can't march with the outfit you can't IlKtilM lamp l>iilh Amazlnit Knit Kahrlr M.n.ls «ith s<-h ^>^.lalK us^lul for tt-ars carry a pair of kettle drums around. In Hi tniii-f-r-. -.kin., ( liiiir jjil Nf*t' kettle ^^y^\K^ Includrs .nir lull Si.lt Knll I)»rn,^iii h1,1b^ drummers around. In the third place, PIASTI-STITCH. INC.. Dept. "B"70 E. 45lh St., N. Y. C. 17 ^W* if you hit the w rong kettle drum, who's ILLUSTRATED COMIC gonna know the difference?" BOOKLETS This particular specialist eventually THC fCfNO MEN lIKf. carried his specialty to an extreme. He ' THE GIRIS LIKE IT TOO ' (VEST POCKET SIZE) became the kettle drum accompanist They are loaded -with rare car- loons. Full of Fun and Humor. for orientation lectures. One day a w eek AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 70 DIFFCRENT booklets sent for he'd stand offstage from the lecture plat- $1 in plain wrapper. No C.O.D. form rolling out thunder, artiller>' fire BULCO, Dept. 169, Box 382-K., G. P.O., N.Y.C. 1 with his wite in town, got up each and other sound effects for training morning like an\ w hite-coUar w orker, films and talks. "The rest of the week," went down to the office, and simple- WALL he recalls, "I'd go down to the post started warming up. Didn't even have pool and swim. I got to be a pretty good to stir the ashes — that w as done for him (LEANER swimmer." automatically by the incinerator. Costly Redecorating . _ - Undoubtedly, some of the cushier Wm TAC^'li'"^ amazing invention. Banishesold- Not that the Arnn- has a monopoly jm^ J!^;"*''^Ss^,stylehousecleaning mess and muss. No ^•s? J runs — no stickr "doOKli" — no red. swollen hands. No spots in the Army got to be that way ' of such rare ., more dangerous stepladders. Literally erases dirt like and pleasant occupations. matfic from Wallpaper. Painted Wails. Ceilintrs. Window w ithout the design or approval of our bhades. Take ordf^ra from/rUnds/ Earn mont-yf Acttiowi Its ow n members traditionall\' look w ith SAMPLES FOR TRIAL ^-fe'j7„Mo top military planners. They were care- send name at once. Harry. Postcard will do. SEND NO MONEY — envy at the snappily dressed, light- jiial ui,iir }mmf. KRI STE E C O., Dept. 1461 , A K RO N 8. OH lO fully cultivated and developed by the traveling men of the Air Force—strang- ho, having been assigned to them, ers to the ground troops' natural habitat men w spotted their more exotic possibilities. EASY TO SELL of sand and mud. And the AF bo> s pretty high standard for this sort of PARTY NAPKINS themselves, are generally quick to admit A MAKE EASY. EXTRA MOhJEV. enterprise was set during the late war. Be first to sell charinlnff, personal Party FREE that they like it better w here they are. Napkins everybody can use! Make 540 or more, weekly, on these PLUS amaz- Take the case of the imaginative Ine variety of EVERYDAY Greeting The Navy, too, isn't exactly under- Cards, Gift Wraps, Gift Items, Station- ery, etc. Get card assortment ON AP- stocked on good deals. young PFC w ho got himself appointed

I PftOVAI. — FREE NAPKIN SAMPLES - Write today Aboard the St. Paul there's official Allied censor of girlie shows in CHAS. C. SCHWER CO., ISB Elm street. Westfleid, Mass. USS an enlisted man — Chief Cornelius M. Palermo, Sicily. Vital to the war effort? MAKE Bowens — w hose daih' "watch" consists It came under the heading of "civilian of baking birthday cakes, all neatly iced morale." LAWN MOWER and lettered with an appropriate in- As a censor, this particular character scription to the celebrating crewman. showed a certain generous tolerance of MONEY The Navy also gives one enlisted man, w hat happened onstage. In a pinch, he ^WITH THK GRINDER! Ben Mitchel Morris, his grub and gear w asn't be> ond going on himself to lead JEnjoy a profitable lawn mower sharpening; business. No previous for singing — occasionally. Morris is a the chorines in a dance routine. Off- experience needed- Place a hand or power stage, official mower on the Universal Grinder. WUhon dramatic tenor assigned to the U. S. he got sanction to wear one set-up you quickly grind Navy Band in Washington. But since civilian clothes and maintain a three- the stationary blade and all of the reel blades to proper most of the outfit's repertoire consists room apartment in one of the finest clearance without removing of marches without words, he's called sections of the city — matter of keeping a single blade from mower, ((b G. Spurlock of Ark. on to perform only at special capital up appearances with the public, you see. writes; "1 have had ^ my Univeretal Grinder festivities. Eventually, he married the leading lady ^^^^f only two months. Live \Yt miles from town. Yet have — _ — . — But no Navy man has much more of of a traveling operetta company, got already made a net profit of S227.00." J.L. Peterman of I*a. writes: "I averaj?ed $100.00 a week in May. and matie an official idyll than one enlisted man himself an overseas discharge, and Sl.OOO.OO spare time this season." Write for FREE folder. ROGERS MANUFACTURING CO.. Dept. A.22, Lindsey. Ohio whose duties read like something settled down to the expatriate life as

02 • The American Legion Magazine • February, 1952 . . co-owner of the troupe. Life of Riley? sengers. And on board the T-160 the all these jobs share in common. It's the Although the Army has long since sergeant is "captain." No bugles, no first thing with which no Gl could survive lost its grip on the tail of this whirl- sergeants, no work details trouble in any spot — the luxury of griping. wind in C]l clothing, there have been Skipper Osman. He's one man whom Go back, for the moment, to that GI others to carr\' on the flamboyant tra- the Army pays, not only to get away sitting in the recruiting booth in Times dition. Some have carved out very quiet, from it all, but to get no farther away Square. He's got the rating c/f master modest but no less attractive little niches than a short crossing plus subway ride sergeant, and no drill calls or bed check for themselves — like one guy on a from the heart of Manhattan. to bind him. He sits behind a desk in a Quartermaster inspection team in Oc- How does a man in uniform land a glass-walled street-level office, and be- cupied Germany. What did he inspect? job like that? Here's the way a per- fore him on any given day pass show Girls. His appetizing task was to go sonnel officer explained it not long ago, girls {)n their way to and from work, cuff: around giving the once-over to models off the "There are thousands of models hustling their slick little hat posing in WAC uniforms coming off jobs to be done, when you get down boxes aroimd to assignments. assembly lines at German garment to it, and somebody's got to do the nice the How does he like it? "Like it!" a re- After all, somebody had to see ones. Now, let's analyze how you'd go shops. cent occupant of the job answered in- that the uniforms were okay for hemline about getting one of them. First of all, dignantly. "How would you like it if length and other vital dimensions. there's luck — you just happen to be on you had to work in Times Stiuare, and This lush sort of life isn't just part hand when something pleasant turns up. you and your wife lived way out on of some dead golden past, either. Right Second, you've got some practical, not Long Island, and you had to ride all that now, for instance, what would you just school, knowledge of some special- way every morning and night hanging think of a job cruising around the un- ized kind of work. Even if it seems onto the subway straps?" troubled waters of New York harbor in remote, you've mentioned it and gotten He stopped, turned slightly in his the GI version of a private yacht? That it put on your service record. Then, swivel chair and nodded toward the may not sound like any Army you've you also know how to type; a good Air Force recruiting at the desk ever heard of, but that routine is simply many unusual jobs start out in an office. man across job, rating, coffee and cakes to Sergeant Lee W. Finally, if I really knew the answer, do the room. Same same Osman of Lemont, Pa. The good ship you think I'd be a personnel officer?" same bright lights surrounding him. T-160 plies a lazy daily course between Whatever the merits of any argument "Now, you take those Air Force

Governors Island and 1" ort Wadsworth, as to just who in the Army has the soft- guys," the sergeant said. "They've got

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The A:merican Legion Magazine • February, 1952 • "\^'hat"s that?" asked the first. "^^'ell," was the reph', "she just can't stand her husband. But, when a person gets married, I guess there's always something." — Dax Bennett

CRUEL, CRUEL WORLD

Here's the lun, in n/oiirnfiil mimbers. I^rting Shots* Life's a phony and a fake, It's a bogy in your slumbers And a nightmare ivhe/i yon ivake.

Realism must remind ns That there ain't chance to climb, RECIPROCITY no For our future is behind us The projid yoznig fatber's filled ivitb joy, Buried in the sands time. but firmly, encircled the sweet oung thing of The doc's as sore as heck; j beside iiim. And the present's harsh and brutal The father has a l)oiii?cinfr boy, The cop stationed on the curb was Like the past. The Facts of Life The doc a bouncing check. watching with baleful eye. Sure enough, Indicate that are futile — Cliff Walters you when the light turned green and the traffic And a zero in the strife. started to mo\'c, that arm sta\cd right WOW! Let us then be down ana doing where it was. Nothing, but with hopeless calm Little Nancy \\ as playing with a group "Hey, there, yon.'" bellowed the law. Wait and face the fate ensuing of very wild ciiiidren when her horrified "Use both hands!" From the final atom bomb. niotiicr called her into tlie house. After a "I can't, sir," beamed the >'oung man. "I — Berton Braley stern lecture on the subject of her wayward have to keep one on the wheel." little pla>niatcs, tiie mother concluded — \'era Stocker REVERSE ENGLISH genth: "Now, tell me dear, where do bad little WEEK-END CRISIS A bouncer in a Bow er\' di\ e kept tossing girls go?" a free-lunch moocher out but he kept stag- The ai'erage gi/y n ho becomes a G.I. Nancy smiled winsomcly. gering back in again. Finally, after this had Is one on lelioni yon can (lel}en(! "Everywhere," she replied. happened about a half dozen times, one of To do his job it ell: come high leuter or hell. — F. G. Kerxan the patrons spoke up and said to the He will carry on right to the end. bouncer: "Know what >'ou're doing But one thing, you can bet, leill bring out BUDGET ITEM wrong? You're putting too much backspin a cold siveat on him." Our budget's all iu tatters — even a man siicli as he: On — LIarold Helfeu I wistfully tvisli it wasn't. The terrible fear that his name leill ajjpear In handling money matters On the roster for Suiulay K.P. GROWING PAINS, DOESN'T IT? My wife acts like it doesn't. — Rov K. Kline — Francis Tullius Our growing daughter's babbling talk. PAGING MR. ANTHONY Her nonsense effervescence, SAFETY FIRST Show why teen-age is but a stage Two women \\ crc gossiping on a stair- Described as addle-essence. Recently on a certain busy Los Angeles way one morning and tiicy were discussing — Ray Romine street corner the westbound traffic was be- the recent marriage of the daughter of one ing held b> the red light. of them. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE The first car in the inside lane was a "Since your girl got married," said the

topless jalop\' of ancient vintage, but its first, "how is she getting along?" Her brt)\\ puckered in \cxation, wee young dri\ er w as in high spirits. This was "Oh, she's getting along fine," was the Joan sought out iicr father. apparently due — at least in part — to the other's reply. "There's only one thing the "Daddy," she inquired, "was mamma a position of his right arm that nonchalantly, matter." real naughty girl when she was my age?" Chuckling, the father shook his head. "I don't think so. Why?" " 'Cause if she wasn't," Joan persisted, "how would she know exactly what ques- tions to ask when she wants to know whether Fve been naught) ?" — AVebb B. Garrison

MUST BE A MISTAKE

Look u'hat I've found — Heavens Above! A glove comparttnent containing a glove! — Jane Rehse

NEUTRALITY

"Ever>'onc in town is talking," remarked the wife, "about the Jones's quarrel. Some are taking her part and sor.i; his." "And," replied her husband, "1 suppose a few eccentric individuals arc minding their own business." — Mrs. L. E. Lockridce

BACK TALK

Of all those ivho talk behind one's back, those in theaters are the most irritating. — Mary Alkus The long august night was HOT-but not as hot as the bitter fighting that raged about Agok, Korea, in the Naktong River area. Sergeant Kouma, serving as tank commander, was covering the withdrawal of infantry units from the front. Discovering that his tank was the only obstacle in the path of an enemy breakthrough, Sergeant Kouma waged a furious

nine-hour battle, running an eight-mile gantlet through enemy lines. He finally witlulrew to friend- ly lines, but not until after iiis ammunition was ex- hausted and he had left 250 enemy dead behind him. Even then, although wounded twice, he attempted to resupply his tank and return to the fighting.

"A withdrawing action is not my idea of how Americans should fight," says Ernest Kouma. "If we nmst figh.t, let's be strong enough to take the offensive. In fact, if we^re strong enough, we may not have to fight at all. Because, nowadays, peace is for the strong.

"So let's build our strength— to keep a strong America at peace. You can help by buying Defense Bonds— as many as you can afford. It's far less pain- ful to build for peace than to destroy in war. And peace is what you're building when you buy Bonds."

M/Sgt. Ernest R Kouma Medal of Honor

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