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make hair dry, unruly . . . scalp parched, Contents for July 1951 nKjdurn day Betsy flaky. But not when you make a daily habit The Ross portrayed on this "WE CAN WIN ON THESE TERMS" of the Vitalis "60-Second Workout." month's cover reflects the thoughts of many BY CLARENCE MANION 9 this mothers Fourth An old-fashioned Fourth of July speech. of July. Wally Rich- ards got the idea for this cover from a trip THE PRISONER (fiction) he had made through BY WILL R. BIRD 11 a flag factory. In- trigued as he was by They had to get rid of the nazi. The question was how. the flag production, he was impressed, too, by RETURN OF THE WAR SWINDLERS the women's faces, and the many pictures BY CLARENCE WOODBURY 14 of loved ones they The vultures are back, getting fat on the misery had near their work of others, benches. WHEN YOU OUTLIVE YOUR JOB POSTMASTER: Please BY NORMAN D. FORD 16 send copies returned to do after under labels Form 3579 What you get your last pay check. to Post Office Box loss, 6, ISRAEL VS. THE SOVIET in your sglp- Indiana. BY VICTOR LASKY 18 No love is lost between the Israelis and the gang 50 seconds' brisk massage with stimulating that runs Russia. The American Legion Vitalis and you feel the difference in your Magozine is the official THE BIGGEST LEAGUE scalp — prevent dryness, rout embarrassing publication of The Ameri- can Legion and is owned BY ROBERT B. PITKIN 20 flaky dandruff. (Vitalis actually kills germs exclusively by The Amerl- Things you probably didn't know about Junior . associated with infectious dandruff!) con Legion. Copyright 1951. Published monthly at 1100 W. Broadway, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO STRIPES? Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for moiling at special rote BY J. ALVIN KUGELMASS 22 of postage provided for in The famous GI newspaper is now playing a new role.

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Performance is the only TRUMAN VS. MacARTHUR all magazines read by the general public, Sam to wake them up before it is too late. basis upon which today's Snead Sir: Legionnaires must surely be divided Elmer M. Isberg on so controversial a matter as the dis- great professional stars Laramie, Wyoming missal of General MacArthur. I am judge a golf ball. That's shocked that the Legion's voice should It is surprising to us, too, that so many why so many play Wil- be raised so unequivocally against the national magazines adopt a head-in-sand President, and while I may be alone, attitude toward the biggest problem of son golf balls . . . why maintain that it is healthy for the man the day. Editors more major tournaments Uoyd serving forty-eight stars to tell the five Mangrum were won with Wilson stars where to get off. A. Eric Bubeck balls in 1950 than with Muhlenberg College all other makes com- Allentown, Pei^nsylvania bined. Follow the stars. MacARTHUR VS. TRUMAN Be good to your game Sir: I have always looked upon The play Wilson. American Legion as the foremost fortress ARE GOATS SINKERS? opposing communism in these United Sir: The story in your May number, States. I therefore am sure that the Pedro the Gambler, by Jim Kjelgaard, is Legion will come to the rescue of the very good but I will say that Mr. Kjel- greatest patriot and soldier this country gaard does not know his goats. We have has ever had, General Douglas Mac- never heard of a goat that could swim. Arthur. The General's record speaks for They go to the bottom in water over their itself. President Truman has gone too far head like a rock. S. C. Rounlree this time. The American people are fed Ashford, Alabama up with Truman and his phony baloney. Ralph A. Packard, Jr. Mr. Roiintree's criticism brought the Bronx, New York City foHowing from Jim Kjelgaard:

The idea for that story came while I was in Okl Mexico in 1950. Standing on the banks of the Sabinas River, I watched a goat herder shoo his whole flock across and none of them sank like Top Notch Block and K-28 Block rocks. Maybe some goats can't swim, but —high compression for long in my opinion they are the ignorant, hitting, low handicap play- unambitious type. ers — thin Cadwell-Geer ANOTHER APPROACH cover. Top Notch Red and K-28 REEKING! Red — high compression, du- Sir: This is the first letter I've written Sir: Your magazine has been coming to rable long distance ball about the Washington mess, the Mac- my home lor some time, and I ask that it extra tough Cadwell-Geer Arthur firing and other matters that make be discontinued at once. I read the May cover. sore as a boil. I idea. me have a better issue, and never have I found a magazine Top Notch sold through Pro So I don't forget, I'm keeping a list of reeking with more hatred, fear of the Reds, Shops only — K-28 at leaiiiiig every public official, from top to bottom, and tarnished brass Fascism (sic). No, I sporting goods stores. had anything to with who do corruption am not a Communist, but just an average and I consider treason. WILSON SPORTING GOODS CO. what From now American citizen who loves good litera- on I'm missing no elections, and I'll have Bronch offices in New York, Son Fran- ture and who abhors your brand of list to remind I'll it cisco and 26 otfier principal cities my me. Also, see to Americanism. Charles W. Huber {A subsidiary of Wilson A Co., fnc.l that I get many others to vote with me. Baltimore, Maryland Name Withheld Louisville. Kentucky NOT 1007; Sir: A crafty bit of political propaganda URGES OTHER REDS MAGAZINES TO EXPOSE was cleverly inserted in an article on in- Sir: As a W W 1 veteran, U. S. Regular come taxes in your March issue. The EQUIPMENT Army, I wish to comment on Where the statement was printed on page 17 and is SPORTS Curtain Falls, in the May issue. It is in- as follows: "Agreeing on the principle ,DAY .N deed strange how often, after someone has that we all have to pay more taxes, and written an article depicting the unspeak- being 100 percent unified on the purpose ." able conditions in countries dominated by for which the money is being spent . . The players shown here are all members the of famous Stalin and his cohorts, that the author This could mean that every Legionnaire Wilson Advisory Staff— retained by Wilson to aid in the development of better equipment for better play and shortly thereafter dies. More articles is 100 percent for underwriting socialism to demonstrate Wilson performance in tournaments, %,olf clinics and exhibitions. about communism should be published in in England, communism in Yugoslavia, a

4 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 In Fed- dictatorship in Spain, and in addition buy- "cancel out" lesser preferences. disabled vet- ing off most of the politicians in most eral service, for every three non- every country in the world. We could in- erans employed there are fifteen clude many other items, such as large disabled veterans and 22 non-veterans. farm payments which make our food bill Editors outrageous, and a few RFC loans to mem- ... In our Post Office a man with a 30% bers of political machines. As one member disability got a job ahead of another with I not 100 of The American Legion, am an 80% disability. Should this be? percent for the way our tax money is (Name withheld by request) being spent by our government. New York State Horace O. Ellsworth Sacramento, California You might as well measure distance by the gallon as measure unemploy- ability by medical disability percentages. A man with a 10% medical disability, with a face scarred by wounds, may find it harder to get and keep a good job than another with a 100% medical disability that is concealed. In the absence of any fair measure of "employment disability" the Federal government, at least, gives disabled vets equal preference over HE TORE TED APART others, rates them among themselves ac- cording to their examination grades. Sir: In your April issue you printed an this is imperfect, any alterna- article entitled Wanted: A Mr. Baseball Though difficulties as by a Mr. Ernie Harwell. You should have tive would create as many your heads examined and Mr. Harwell it might solve. Editors should be cremated. I cannot understand why he would mention Ted Williams as a likely Mr. Baseball and then proceed to tear him apart. The mere mention of his name by Mr. Harwell showed that he considers Ted at least above average. Why then must he tear him down so? It would have been better had he excluded Ted from his article. In modern baseball Ted PRINCE ALBERrS PATENTED' ranks second to none. He is the only ac- GOOD INVESTMENT tive ball player with a lifetime average "NO- BITE" PROCESS MEANS over .350, the only Sir: Many thanks for the picture and cap- active ball player to REAL PIPE COMFORT hit over .400, and the only active ball tion in the May issue on the Booker T. player who can approach the Babe in Washington memorial half dollar. The Yes! Whether you smoke a pipe or greatness in any department. principal objective in our 1951 drive is to fight communism. Congress authorized us J. J. Yeager roll your own... . v»w^ Columbus, Ohio to sell these half-dollars (legal tender) you'll find real smoking at a premium and we will use this money joy in Prince Albert's raised to carry on the fight. These coins KOREAN ROTATION AGAIN choice, rich -tasting to- aren't available at the banks, but only specially treated Sir: I have heard a lot of talk on the bacco, through the Booker T. Washington Birth- to insure against tongue radio about the rotation plan for the fight- place Memorial, Booker Washington bite. Crimp cut — and so ing troops in Korea. I also have heard that Birthplace, Virginia. Your readers de- mild, P. A.'s as big a men here in Japan with over 36 months sirous of obtaining the coin may do so favorite with roU-your- duty will also be rotated. Well, what about owners as with pipe by sending a dollar to this address. us fellows that were wounded in Korea smokers. S. J. Phillips, President and are stationed here in Japan? Many •Process Patented July 30. 19m Booker Washington Birthplace, Virginia of us were sent to Korea straight from R. J. R.ynolds Tobacco Co., WinatoD-Salem. N.C the States and many of us don't have PROTEST MEDAL much combat time. Will we be on rotation too? Name withheld Sir: I want to register vigorous dissent to APO San Francisco the action of the American Legion in con- ferring its Gold Merit Medal on Dictator No. A wound does not mean rotation Franco. True, he opposes communism, but if soldier had only brief time in Korea. he also suppresses freedom of speech, Editors freedom of the press, and freedom of re- ligion; and he gave every possible aid and CIVIL SERVICE PREFERENCE comfort to Hitler and Mussolini in World Sir: I read Sam Stavisky's Does Veterans War II. Clifford P. Morehouse, h Preference Cripple Our Civil Service? in Editor, The Living Church the May issue. He really put the finger New York City > on why we need a stronger— not a weaker Sir: A recent AP dispatch said that Gen- —preference law. However, please tell me eral Franco had been given the National MORE MEN this—what good is preference to non-dis- Commander's Medal of Appreciation. The abled veterans when disabled veterans SMOKE article went on to say that Franco was get absolute preference. It's canceled out, given this award for his "long stand isn't it. J. H. McVeigh against communism." If this be the cri- Chicago terion, similar awards could well be made Unavoidably, top preference to dis- posthumously to Hitler and Mussolini, not abled veterans means that in many in- to mention present day dictator Peron of stances a disabled vet will get a job a Argentina. John J. Jones non-disabled vet wants. But it does not Waynesboro, Georgia THAN ANY OTHER TOBACCO

The American Legion Magazine " July, 1951 • ^ [ditofsOorner

EASY-GOING CONTEST

If you are an active Legionnaire you've certainly tried to sell the organization to other veterans. That, of course, makes you a salesman since you had to present an argument that would overcome a pros- pect's sales resistance. ("I never join or- ganizations." "What has the Legion ever done for me?" "I'm going to join up later on but not right now." "I don't be- lieve in The American Legion." And so on.) Now, what we're interested in are sales talks that have proved most effective in getting veterans to join our organi- zation. We'd like to hear from member getters who will tell us their "trade secrets" so they can be used by other Legionnaires. Just write out your sales talk—the one that has been most effective —and send it to Tlie American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y. We'll pay $50 for any we use. BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES' NEW "ELECTRICAL THINKING MACHINE" AIMS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS LIKE THIS ONE. It's even more cffcctiie than the Bell Laboraforics' famous Elcctricai NO HARMONICA PLAYING AROUND HERE

Gun DkectoT that proved such a factor in the Jast war. . . . The radar equipment locates This is going to be mighty sad news for hostile pJanes, day or night, and feeds continuous information concerning their location lovers of fine music, but Larry Adler ain't into a computer or "eJectricaJ thinking machine.". . . At the same time, data rchting to a-comin' home. Larry, in case you've wind velocity, velocity of the shells, temperatures, etc., are given to the computer. TJie forgotten, is the skinny guy with the iiiac/iiiic then calculates u here a shell should explode and aims the guns, continuously and Eddie Cantor eyes, who toots a mouth- aiit()i?iatit;!ll\ , to bring the planes dou n. organ for a living. Some time back, teamed up with a fellow named Draper, a hoofer, ^ Adler brought suit against Mrs. John T. McCuUough, of Greenwich, Conn., be- cause she questioned the propriety of having them perform there because of New Gun Director Is alleged ties with pro-red outfits. The result was that the McCulloughs were tied up in a lawsuit that cost them almost everything they owned. Public opinion Good News for the Country went against the harmonica blower and the hoofer, and Adler apparently felt it was a good idea to get out of the country. England, and recently the T Now he's in New York Times carried a lengthy article about him which would make your heart Call to Arms. Once again the re- tronics, but from the way it is set up bleed. Seems he's being persecuted, and him. The search and manufacturing of the Bell and equipped to do the job. his agent can't get bookings for Times sadly reports: "While he was away, System are mighty weapons in the Bell Laboratories, The Telephone the newspapers, columnists, radio com- defense of the country. who do the research and develop- mentators and war veterans organiza- accusation More than t\\ eh e hundred projects ment, work hand-in-hand with the tions that had taken up the supported the accuser stepped up for the armed forces were completed Western Electric Company, the Bell and their campaign to such an extent that he in the last war. Many new assign- System's own manufacturing unit. was advised by some of his associates not ments are now being rushed to com- to come home." Excellent advice! Service and Security. For many pletion. This new Fire Control System 3'ears this close, efficient association of is already in production. UNRAVELING A MYSTERY research, development, and manufac- People find it hard to understand how Skilled Teams at Work. The Bell ture has helped to give this country we lost China to the Soviet when only System's ability to serve the armed the best telephone service. It is now six years ago this nation of 400,000,000 was forces comes not only from its unicjue helping to give the nation the world's our staunch ally. If you want a simple The qualifications in the field of elec- best fighting weajjons. explanation of this read Freda Utley's China Story, published by the Henry Regnery Co. It doesn't make pleasant reading to learn how we were sold out BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM by people inside our own government as well as by other furtive characters bent

g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 on handing China to the communists. All That The Name Implies However, you might as well know the score. Some of the people responsible are still doing business at the same old stand. In Performance and Dependability • • • And read what Miss Utley says about the help given the reds hy certain hook re- viewers.

CROSSROADS OF HISTORY For thousands of years that part of the world now officially known as Israel has been a focus of events that have shaped the destiny of mankind. Birthplace of religions and a center of battles, the Holy Land has always been important in world history. Now, again, it is the center of tensions, located as it is between the West and a menacing Russia. You will under- stand this disturbing situation better when you read Israel Vs. the Soviet on page 18. Along with this article we'd like to recommend some extra-curricular reading, a recent booklet entitled What the Jews Really Believe by Rabbi Philip D. Bernstein. Published by Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc., and selling for $1.25, this book is one of the finest contributions we've seen to interfaith understanding.

MIGHTY TOUGH, COMRADES

This is going to be hard to take. Legion- naires, but we won't be seeing any "American" communists at the National

Convention. The reason is, party com- missars have ordered their red robots to boycott Florida, and particularly Miami Beach, because of what they call "white chauvinism." That's Kremlin gobblede- gook meaning that communists are sup- posed to pretend they love Negroes, and if they put on a good enough act some Negroes will be foolish enough to fall for it. (See Why the Negroes Won't Buy Communism in last month's issue.) Any- way, the reds in this country who have made enough money under capitalism to toss it around at luxury resorts, are now forbidden to spend any of their wealth at Miami. However, don't let it spoil your Convention.

A MEDAL FOR ABC "For their courageous stand in resisting BE A CHAMPION DRIVER organization pressure," the American Broadcasting Company recently accepted , . . Go by the records that prove Champions best! a special George Foster Peabody Award. All Legionnaires will be interested in the background of this "honor" bestowed on ABC since it was made clear that the organization they had in mind was The American Legion. Seems that the net- work "refused to be stampeded" into taking action against certain radio per- formers. (See our article How the Reds It's a significant fact that more racing More airlines and truck fleets use Invaded Radio in our December issue.) champions use Spark Plugs Champions, too. This can't Now how come the award? Possibly Champion proves you than all other makes combined. Best in beat them for economy, performance there's a clue in the fact that the presen- open competition means Champions and dependability. It will pay to insist tation was made by Edward Weeks. It are better for every engine! on Champions for your car! just so happens that Weeks is editor of The Atlantic Monthly. It also just so hap- pens that his magazine is the creature of On the strength of Champions' per- the publishing outfit of Little, Brown & formance record in their own cars, Co. It also just so happens that Little, American motorists have made them Brown turns out the books of such people their favorite spark plugs, for more than as Owen Lattimore, Howard Fast, Albert a quarter century! Maltz, etc. (See Why You Buy Books That

Sell Communism in our January issue.) CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY, TOLEDO 1, OHIO It is, for a certainty, a small world. Listen to CHAMPION ROLL CALL . . . Harry Wismer's fast sportscast Friday nights, over ABC network

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"We Can WIN ! on These Terms

HERE IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH

Read it, remember it, deliver it!

By CLARENCE MANION

OT LONG AGO I was driving tunate period of progressive misun- purpose of the American political through a dense fog. Eventu- derstanding the only body in the system. We have not only failed to ally I found myself following country that has shown any sus- teach Americanism, but we have a car whose driver obviously either tained interest in clarifying the sub- permitted the teachers to distort and knew the way or had an unusual ject of Americanism has been The deprave it to the point where old- ability to see clearly. Anyway, the American Legion. fashioned American patriotism is a only thing visible to me was his tail Whether you know it or not, your thing of scorn and derision in our light — and this I could see only when Americanization Program is the only best intellectual and academic circles. I was at dangerously close range. beacon visible through the fog of mis- At this point permit me to read a Then he stopped suddenly and with- understanding. Patriotic Americans, portion of a letter written recently out warning, and the result was searching earnestly for a clear un- by National Commander Cocke, to disastrous to both of us. This experi- derstanding of American institutions, all of our Post Commanders through- ence reveals much about the respon- can only follow closely after your tail out the country. "No Legionnaire sibility of leadership, particularly at light. And they are following it, need be told of the distance we have a time and place in history when which means that your Americani- already traveled along the road to- those who follow you can see only zation program must keep going at ward socialism in the United States. you and nothing else. top speed. If you stop, or veer off in The condition which we now face The American people today are the wrong direction, the result will largely is the result of insidious in- enveloped in an impenetrable fog of be disastrous. filtration of anti-American, actually misunderstanding about the nature How did we get involved in this subversive, doctrines in our schools, and purpose of our American politi- fog? The fact is that we fabricated colleges and universities over a cal institutions. The fog has devel- the fog ourselves. We have spent period of twenty-five years. This is oped and deepened progressively huge sums of money on an educa- a battle for the minds of our children. during the past twenty-five years tional system which has schooled our Inasmuch as educational institutions until today it is absolutely impene- generation in all the arts, sciences are the most important base from trable. and skills except the most important which anti-Americanism thinking Today, as during this whole unfor- one of all, namely, the nature and springs, they should receive primary consideration." There is no question whatever about the complete truth of this letter. As a result of this mis- ABOUT THE AUTHOR guided teaching, more than one en- Clarence Manion, Dean of the College of Law of Notre Dame tire generation has been conditioned version University, delivered a longer of this speech before the to resist any inclination toward National Executive Committee on May 3rd. Following it he Amei-ican patriotism and to apologize received an ovation which lasted several minutes. This remark- for the American system of Constitu- able reaction suggested that all Legionnaires would be inter- tional limitations. The climactic mis- ested in this message which presents in concise form a time- understanding of tested answer to communism. Dean Manion's recent book The American principles Key to Peace is based on the same premise as his talk, and is comes at the most critical hour of recommended to all Americans. our history (Continued on page 48)

9 Master Sergeant Travis Watkins, of Gladewater, Texas— Medal of Honor.

On September 3, 1950, near Yongsan, Korea, Sergeant Watkins was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down. Ordering his squad to pull out and leave him, he stayed behind and died covering their withdrawal. Sergeant Watkins gave his life for freedom. What can you do? This. You can begin today to do your share in defense of the country he

defended far "above and beyond the call of duty" by buying more . . . and

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JOSEPH saw the German grab his wife. When he protested the officer threatened to shoot him.

The German officer was no good, but the

Frenchmen realized justice had to be done.

HERE WAS JULY heat but the air was gusty and little billows rolled along grain tops in the fields outside Hembrie. Jim Bentick tingled with anticipation as he stepped from the train at the village. It was five years since he had been billeted there for three exciting nights, and he was anxious to see if some of the remembered spots had survived the war. Everything seemed new around the railway depot, and it shouted of recent erection. He recalled the old building, and its long gray lichened roof that had a shell rift across which pigeons had to flutter to continue their strut beyond. There was no taxi in sight so he hefted his grip and, walking briskly, soon reached the esta- minet that was the center of Hembrie. Madame sat by the door where Bentick had expected to see her. He addressed her with his fluent French of which he was quite proud. She stared at him blankly as he called her by name, then shrugged. "Many who come say they were here in war days," she sighed, "but I do not pretend to remember faces or names. What is it you wish?"

11 "NO ONE will remember there ever was a prisoner," the dark one said. "I will also do the burying."

(continued) The Prisoner in the food as if she had just eaten a "Isn't that the devil! Really I'm hearty meal and wanted rest more sorry. I came almost entirely to see

"Food, and the big room. Is it than anything else. Bentick ignored him. It's not likely you know it, but empty?" her but he could not refrain from we left a prisoner with him for over- "It is." Madame pointed toward the speaking to madame who sat ponder- night, and the fellow escaped." stairway. "If you have been, you can ously in her big chair. "I heard about it," murmured ma- find it for yourself. Then you can have "Was Hembrie damaged much by dame. The girl entered and handed a dinner of eggs and potatoes." the war?" he asked. her a basin of peas which she wedged "Thank you," said Bentick cheer- "Not too much," said madame. "The in the folds of her large white apron fully. He went up the ancient stairs, school, the depot and some houses." and began shelling industi'iously. two at a time, so that he was puffing "Your mayor was a little man with "The village knew of it." when he stood in the room and saw a black beard. Is he still here?" Bentick soon finished eating. "I again the massive wooden bed in "Certainly." Madame slapped at a think I will go to the funeral," he said. which he had slept three nights dur- fly that bothered her. Madame nodded. She crossed her- ing the last week of July, 1944. "I remember that we gave him self again and said a prayer as he He opened the window, though the cigars," said Bentick. "But I came went out. aroma of the room pleased him. It was mostly to see Joseph Dugas, who had The funeral was over and people as he remembered, the scent of France, a big farm at the crossroads. Is he were on their way back from the a concoction of rose leaves, sandal there?" cemetery as Bentick reached the wood and grenadine. Little pictures Madame crossed herself hastily. crossroads. of several saints still glittered on the "They are burying him now," she The day was getting hot now, and wall. Some medals struck for pilgrim- said tersely. the road was dusty. Everyone moved ages hung from silver chains. "What?" Bentick pushed back his slowly, talking in subdued tones. He went down to his luncheon. A chair. "When did he die?" They were mostly old men and wo- plump girl was placing bread and but- "Two days ago. He was not sick men, dressed in their Sunday best, ter on a table for him. She carried long." the women showing much black satin.

12 ILLUSTRATED BY jeep and I asked Joseph to keep him JOHN McDERMOTT in his root cellar overnight." farm," said Bentick, "and Joseph did "Then you were angiy when you not like him." returned and found he had escaped?"

"How would he?" snapped madame. "Naturally I did not like it. I'd told "Joseph was but newly married and our major about the prisoner and I the Boche kissed the bride each morn- had to do some hard explaining. I still ing. When Joseph protested the Wur- can't understand how he got away." temburger said he'd have him shot." "It must have seemed strange," "No wonder Joseph hated him," said agreed Louis. Bentick. "I guess I'll rest a while." "Joseph acted as if he hated the He went up to his room, kicked off fellow, too?" his shoes and stretched on the soft "Be assured he did," said Louis bed. The pink muslin curtains, tied quickly. "The Wurtemburger was al- with silk ribbon, stirred in tiny flap- ways telling Joseph that he was pings. Noises of the village climbed in stupid. He also kissed Joseph's wife, the window, muted and seductive. He and he newly married. It was not in a dozed, and when he awoke it was manner to make Joseph like him." dark. "Then how did he let the man es- Madame was waiting for him when cape? That I'oot cellar had a door a he went down and his table was ready. dozen men could not break." The maid walked in with a bowl ol "It still has," said Louis. He twisted soup as soon as he sat down. uneasily in his chair as if he did not "Do you recall Louis Dugas, a know what next to say. brother to Joseph?" asked madame. "Did Joseph kill him?" asked Ben- "Louis lived beyond the crossroads. A tick. "You can talk freely for it does man with much hair in his ears." not matter now." Bentick tried to think. "No," he "I think you accused him of it at said. "I don't think I knew him." the time," said Louis. "No, he did not "No matter anyhow," said madame. kill him." "He is here and wants to see you "Did he hide him in another place?" when you have eaten." "He did," admitted Louis, and he The man appeared as Bentick fin- began looking at the floor. ished his meal. He stood and walked "Then," demanded Bentick, "what like a farmer full of hard years, and did happen to the Wurtemburger, he still wore his Sunday black. He finally?" shook hands and bowed with some Louis moistened his lips with his ceremony as nadame introduced him. tongue. "Nothing happened to him," "It seems to me," he said, "that the he said, "he is still a prisoner." hand of God has brought you here at Bentick stared unbelievingly until this time." Louis' long weathered face seemed to

"I'm afraid," said Bentick, "that I flicker under the ceiling light. A sud- don't understand. I just came to have den dread of uncomfortable things to a look around Hembrie, and to talk happen spread over him like a chill. with Joseph." "That's a hell of a thing," he said. "If we can move to the privacy of Louis looked up with desperation All of them smelled strongly of soap madame's parlor it will better," in his gaze. "I came," he said, "to see superimposed on the odors of the be farm. said Louis. He waited until they were if you would take him away." seated then hunched forward in his "Me!" blurted Bentick. "Me? Not No one spoke to Bentick and he chair as if he dreaded what he must on your life." went back to the estaminet. It would say. "You were the officer with "But," (Continued on page 59) be better, he thought, to wait a day the tanks?" before making the rounds of places "That's right," said Bentick. he had known. Madame was still by "We stayed here the door. She looked up at him. three days, waiting for reinforcements. I billeted in this "Is it over so soon?" she asked. was estaminet." "Yes," he nodded. "I was too late." "You the "My legs trouble me," said madame, knew Wurtemburgers had been driven from here "or I would have gone. Joseph was before you came?" not a smart man, but he was a good one." "Yes," said Bentick. "We heard "He did not get on with the Ger- much about them." mans, so he told me?" "You knew one of their officers was "Small wonder," said madame billeted at Joseph's farm?" peevishly. "It was too much. There "I did. We captured the man the were regulations for this and for that. day we left, not twenty kilometers Every day a new one posted to be from here." read. And men billeted with you "And you brought him back to the whether you had accommodation or village?" not." "Yes. We hadn't any ari-angements "The Wurtemburger officer we took for prisoners, and he seemed impor- prisoner was billeted at Joseph's tant, so we brought him here in a off the

Wim IN THE electronics field, profiteer- mm ing dealers have bought up key com- ponents, creating artificial scarcities. The hoarders get fantastic prices. By CLARENCE WOODBURY

This is something you can't laugh off. The thieves described here

are taking your money as they exploit our men who are fighting and dying.

|he vultures are back again. ting on a war footing, the easy-money what you'll discern over America as a After World War II, most of birds have reappeared from all points whole if you care to do a little in- those scoundrels who line of the compass. They are not a pretty vestigating. their pockets with long crowd and they don't smell good. They I know this is true because I have green during periods of national include the profiteer and the hoarder, just completed a personal, one-man emergency disappeared from public the speculator and the five-percenter, survey of gouging in various parts of view. Some of them took up residence the grifter and grafter, the black the country. Without wearing gum- in sunny California or on Florida's marketeer and his gray side-kick. It shoes or attempting to obtain legal golden strand, while others traveled would be nice to pretend they don'+ evidence against anybody, I merely abroad or settled down in penthouses exist at all, but they're here once talked with prominent men in many or luxury hotels to wait for another more and we've got to face it. different fields of industry, and with war. A few of the unluckier ones were You don't have to be a Sherlock some of the top officials responsible retired, against their wishes, in our Holmes to detect this. Every day right for enforcing the Government's eco- better penitentiaries. in our own home towns most of us nomic controls. But they're back again now. Car- see or hear about defense chiselers at The information which I gathered rion always attracts vultures and to- work. But what you are aware of from these sources was not always day, with the nation once moi'e get- close at hand is nothing compared to sensational in itself, but when pieced

14 grave a threat to national security as the reds themselves. If that sounds like a strong statement, remember that wars are fought with dollars as well as guns and ships and planes. Already the American dollar is worth only half as much as it was in 1941. It is in serious danger of slipping further because of the enormous strain being put on our economy by the defense effort. It will surely continue to drop in value if we don't curb the host of profiteers, large and small, who are again on the loose. Let us look first at some of the plain and fancy grabbing which these allies of Stalin are doing in the electronics industry. Electronic equipment has been placed high on the list of critical materials required for defense, but a man who holds an important position in the industry told me production of this vital equipment is being hampered and its price boosted to unreasonable levels by hoarders and speculators. Just before the shooting started in Korea a year ago, he said, an industry trade show indicated there was a glut in many radio and television parts including condensers, tubes, resistors, controls, potentionometers and lead-in cable for TV sets. At another trade show held in August, however, a terrific scarcity had developed in most of these HESE SOLDIERS don't realize it as they advance in Korea, it they are making it possible for crooks to make a killing. items and prices had shot sky high. The scarcity was partially due to Government stock-

RICKS BEING USED BY THE NEW CROP OF FAST-MONEY OPERATORS

PECULATORS have made tires un- FLAGRANT profiteering is going on in CERTAIN plastics are becoming scarce ecessarily scarce. The desired size may the metals industry. Phony contractors and valuable. Dishonest fabricators de- i hard to get, but if a purchaser offers to buy up steel and resell it at a huge mark- liberately waste much of their allotment, ay enough, tires will be forthcoming. up to real contractors desperate for it. selling the scrap at exorbitant prices.

together it forms a shocking picture. During a period in piling and big purchases by legitimate manufacturers in which we have suffered more than 60,000 casualties in anticipation of war orders, my informant said, but only Korea and the average citizen is being pinched by taxes partially. Scores of speculators had snatched up every- and asked to make pei-sonal sacrifices, greedy profiteers thing they could lay hands on for hoarding, and are now have sprung up in every state. They are not yet operating reselling the equipment at enormous profits. on as mammoth a scale as they did during the later years For example, precision resistors which formerly sold of WW II, but there is hardly an industry from buttons for about three cents each are now virtually unobtainable to steel or from hamburgers to Cadillacs that is free of from the wholesalers who formerly handled them, but them. millions of resistors can be had from small jobbers and I am not referring to the legitimate merchant who tries other middlemen at about 35 cents each — a profit of more to build up his inventory to a sufficient extent to stay in than 1,000 percent. business or to the manufacturer who goes to unaccus- But resistors are just one item on which smoothies are tomed lengths to obtain critical materials to fulfill war gleaning thousands in the electronics business. Specula- contracts. According to Government enforcement officials, tion is going on in virtually every other kind of scarce between 95 and 99 percent of all American business men equipment, I was told, and some small operators are get- are honest and patriotic individuals who are doing their ting big fast. utmost to cooperate in the defense program. One hole-in-the-wall assembler in an eastern city re- But a small minority of slick operators are placing hon- cently ordered 35,000 control units of a certain type from est business men at a disadvantage, gumming the wheels a large manufacturing concern in the middlewest. The

I of production machinery, and swindling all of us by their manufacturing firm raised its eyebrows, to say the least, sharp practices. If we were living in normal times, we because the assembler had never ordered more than 200 could possibly afford to tolerate these crooks, but in this of the controls before. But before the order could be filled, critical era when we are trying desperately to arm our- the man called up and tried to increase it to 65,000. Ob- selves against communist aggression, they present as viously he wanted the controls (Continued on page 43)

The American Legion Magazine • luly, 1951 • ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE WITHERS

When You Outlive Your Job

By NORMAN D. FORD

Some people look upon retirement as a

calamity. Others embark on new lives and

have more fun than they had in their younger

days. Here's how they have figured it out.

WILL YOUR retirement be success- ing 65 have been forced into retire- choly days of bore- ful? ment. And this percentage will con- dom which threaten Of course, there's no cure- tinue to grow now that new pension most of us upon re- all for the discontented idleness and schemes are announced almost daily. tii'ement can actually become the most insufficient income that plague so Yet by turning this enforced idle- opportune time of our lives. many people after they retire. But you ness into profit-making time, the mis- How? Simply because at last you can go a long way toward overcoming taken notion that you'll be entering can realize that long-wished-for hobby both simply by planning to retire in the twilight of your years goes right shop, that boat rental, or that five- the right location. out the window. For the long melan- acre farm you've always wanted. Few Far too many men approach retire- of us haven't carried some such dream ment convinced they have one leg al- around in our mind for years. Earlier, ready in the grave. In the majority of you might have hesitated in trying to cases, this is rubbish. Most of us will realize such an ambition because of have to retire at 65 now, not because the fear it might fail and leave you we can't go on performing useful work flat. long after that sixty-fifth birthday, But age 65 brings with it the golden but because Labor and Government opportunity. For then, most of us will say we must stop working at that age. be receiving the small pension that For proof of our ability to continue can take all the risk out of our new as useful and productive citizens long venture. And if 68.2 percent of men after passing 65, let's look back 60 in 1890 could go on working, there's years or so. For in 1890, before retire- no reason on earth why any reason- ment plans were thought of, 68.2 per- ably healthy man can't do the same cent of all men continued to work after today, even while nursing a chronic they had reached 65; now, with our ailment. better health standards, only 45 per- True, recipients of old-age pensions cent do so. stand to lose these pensions during

is, more. The reason of course, that at THERE'S no law that says you have to stay any month they make $50 or present, most of those idle after pass- in the big city. Rural life can be wonderful. But if the business fails, the pension

16 )

is always there; and if the business live in the city, and we're in succeeds, the pension won't be needed. the great majority, would do Best thing for old-age pensioners, well to think of a possible however, is to launch out into an un- move to the country upon insurable occupation such as agricul- retirement. ture, income from which does not dis- For there, where the pace is slow- soon, you may find their visits grow- qualify you from continued pension er, we can give ourselves an even ing less and less frequent — sure, receipt. break in launching into that new oc- they're still good friends, but the com- O.K. Eventually, you'll have to give cupation. Another important point is mon meeting ground will have gone. it up. But for ten or even twenty that there are widespread demands On the other hand, a well chosen years or more, you'll be able to fill for various trades and services in rural move to a new location favored by that gap in life which our pension areas where there is not sufficient retired people can bring you many plans have forced to loom ahead as a business available to warrant a young- new friends, all retired themselves, dismal abyss of idleness and discon- er man launching out. So without all having similar leisure hours, and tent. And when you do finally give it stealing anyone else's livelihood, an all living on similar-sized small in- up, you'll really be in the twilight of older man with a supplementary pen- comes. There's no keeping up with the life, not in the phony sunset dumped sion can often make himself a nice Joneses in a small Florida retirement on us at midnight on our sixty-fifth total income from a business that a neighborhood. birthday. man entirely dependent on it would At the same time, if you choose the Since 1890, the steadily decreasing consider altogether inadequate. right place, you can get up to 20 per- number of men working past age 65 To many men, however, the idea of cent more value from your retirement dollar and that raises a $100 a month income to $120. It can also increase your chances for being able to follow your favorite occupation and thus avoid the melancholy idleness so fatal to retirement. More important still, your move to another part of the coun- try can bring you longer life and better health. But best of all, for people hav- ing an income too small to actually

BRISK wintry winds, together with ice and snow, are a big help if you own a retire on at home, the extra values winter resort, but they can put a crimp in your budget and a liink in your back. they can find in a new place in the sun may even raise their income so that has paralleled the decline of our rural moving from the "old home town" retirement is possible after all. population and the growth of our ur- neighborhood is unthinkable. Why, Without hesitation, therefore, it is ban communities. Sixty years ago, the they say, we've lived here all our lives safe to say that the clue to successful older folk could still make themselves — all our friends are here too, and living after you reach 65 lies largely useful around the farm or village but we'll need them more than ever as we in choice of a retirement location. With in a modern city, elderly people are grow older. Fine! But unless your 3,036,746 square miles of habitable at a decided disadvantage, even if they friends are going to retire on a similar American territory to choose from ex- are self-employed. income to your own at about the same tending all the way from the Hawaiian Yet the quiet rural communities are time, you're going to feel the pinch. Islands across the Pacific coast, the still there. And with the boom in farm For on the average retirement income, Rockies, Great Plains, New England, incomes following the aids to agricul- which is well below 50 percent of a and the Gulf Plain to Puerto Rico and ture, rural America is now as pros- workday paycheck, it's going to be- the Virgin Isles, almost any combina- perous and up-to-date as most of our come impossible to keep up with tion of climate or setting can be yours. modern big cities. So those of us who neighbors who still are working. Very So let's take (Continued on page 51

17 ISRAEL vs. THE SOVIET

Rebuffed by the people of Israel, the Soviet is becoming increasingly

hostile toward all Jews, particularly those living behind the Iron Curtain.

By VICTOR LASKY

THE LOT of Jews in Russia was never a pleasant one. This print TODAY the Russians still persecute Jews. Here several Jews who of Czarist days shows a Jew being assaulted by a mob in Kiev. learned about communism at first hand escape from Eastern Germany.

munist-dominated World HE COMMUNIST Big Lie technique, Federation of Trade ^^M^ DAVID BEN-GURION. Prime Minister of Isr pel, appealed never a pretty thing to watch to Stalin to let Jewish citizens of the U.S.S. R. emigrate. Unions. The government, in operation, reached some new strengthened by a $100,- extremes in ugliness early this year. 000,000 American loan, The victim this time was the tiny state was accused by Russia of of Israel. Despite its size (it is some- manj' in order to prepare "cringing before Wash- what smaller than Massachusetts) and a new slaughter of the ington," and its Foreign its scant population (less than De- Jews." Minister was called a

troit's), Israel is the only functioning What has brought on "malicious babbler" and democracy in the Near East and a this suddenly-stepped-up a "liar" by Moscow. military power to be reckoned with campaign? The answer is Unable to take over in that part of the world. In recent a simple one. For some Israel through its own months, a savage propaganda assault time after the state of fifth columnists, Moscow against Israel has been launched by Israel was founded in was turning on the heat the Soviet Union and its satellites. In 1948, the communists expected — or at from outside. a broadcast that sounded very much least hoped— to conquer it from within. The Soviet Union followed the reminiscent of Goebbels, the Hun- It is now sufficiently clear that they United States in granting recognition garian radio attacked "the interna- will not be able to do this. In the gen- to the new State of Israel in the spring tional Jewish bourgeoisie and the in- eral elections to the Israeli Knesset of 1948. During most of that year, the ternational Jewish speculators who (Parliament) in January, 1949, the Soviets very ostentatiously boasted cooperate with the West German gov- communists got only 3.7 percent of the that they were the best friend of the ernment." At the same time, the com- vote. (Out of 130 Knesset seats, the new republic. Relations with the com- munists had the gall to accuse the communists have three.) In the Muni- munist satellites were also quite Israeli government of acting like the cipal elections of November, 1950, friendly; some of the armament used nazis! They accused Prime Minister they dropped to 2.4 percent. The in the early days of the Arab-Israel David Ben-Gurion of "cooperating Israeli trade unions, meanwhile, were war had come from Czechoslovakia. with the nazi clique of Western Ger- loudly withdrawing from the com- In mid-1948, Russian prestige in Israel

18 RUSSIA'" anti-Jewish overtones. ... In the Soviet Union, almost all Jews have disappeared from leading political, diplomatic, and military positions, and according to reliable reports, men of Jewish origin are banned from cer- tain branches of the armed forces, of the civil service, and of some institu- tions of higher education." With this information under their belts, it was hardly surprising that the more sophisticated Zionists were never too optimistic about establish- ing genuinely friendly relations with Stalin's Russia. It was the intention, or at least the hope, of the Israeli government to steer clear of the cold war, to avoid taking sides. But the Russians, un- IT IS EASY to see why the Soviet is interested in Israel. And the communists fortunately, do not recognize neutrals don't lilte the Israel cooperates with the West. have served notice that they way in the cold war. From the first, there were faint rumblings of dissatisfaction with Israel in the Soviet press. At the end of 1948, when a series of diplo- matic maneuvers suddenly brought the number of nations recognizing the new state up to thirty-five, the Rus- sian newspapers failed even to men- tion the fact. That was an ominous sign. There was another ominous sign at this time. The Soviet regime sudden- ly began stepping up its propaganda against Zionism. A government pamphlet outlining Russia's latest views on Palestine made its appear- ance, and 150,000 copies were quickly distributed in Moscow alone. The pamphlet defined Zionism as a "I'eac- RUBIN was brushed off by FROM ALL OVER the world Jews have poured into tionary, anti-democratic trend of the Romania's Ana Pauker. Israel. This is a familiar scene at the waterfront of Haifa. Jewish bourgeoisie," and said that it "attempts to distract the Jewish toil- ers from the class struggle." Getting was almost as high as that of the magazines, any Jewish schools, any down to business, the pamphlet then United States. Jewish welfare, fraternal, or social or- made the wild charge, "The imperial- But the experienced Zionists at the ganizations; the existence of syna- ists are striving to carve up Palestine head of the Israeh government had no gogues and religious communities into British and American spheres of illusions about this "honeymoon." outside of Moscow is dubious. In the influence." As a solution, it urged that They knew that a whole generation satellite countries, all Jewish political Israel walk into the lion's den by of Russian Zionists had died in Stalin's groups, including the extreme left- signing "a friendship pact with the forced labor camps. They knew that wing Zionists, are prohibited. . . . Re- Soviet Union and the countries of the the communists had always regarded ligious communities are new democracy." Zionism as a peculiarly vicious form still allowed to exist and The breaking point, of bourgeois nationalism, and that it to conduct religious serv- however, came in Febru- was a criminal offense in Russia to ices, if they closely follow ary, 1949, when the advocate a Jewish State. They knew the communist 'peace' United States formally that this was hardly a firm basis on propaganda. But religious announced that it was which to develop friendship with the practices are discouraged making a loan of $100,- Soviet Union. Even worse — in recent by the pressure of the 000,000 to Israel. Shortly years there had been a long series of government-manipulated after that happened, the reports coming out of Russia about a public opinion. Religious Soviet minister to Israel new, government-encouraged anti- thinking is considered was recalled to Moscow. Semitism. To listen to the communists reactionary. The tempo of the anti- trumpeting their claims, one would "Anti-Semitism is still FEW JEWS get far in Zionist crusade was think that the Soviet Union was the officially outlawed in all Russia today . An excep- stepped up still further; greatest champion of minority groups Soviet-dominated coun- *•«» »s Hya Ehrenburg. it was now charged that, in all history. But here is what the tries and open anti-Jew- by accepting the loan, American Jewish Committee reports ish demonstrations or riots are not re- Israel had made herself into an

in its Year Book: ported. . . . But the campaign against American colony. In a judicious at- "In the Soviet Union there are no 'Jewish nationalism' and 'Jewish cos- tempt to be neutral, and perhaps with longer any Jewish newspapers or mopolitanism' has some distinctly tongue in (Continued on page 53)

19 .

THE BIGGEST LEAGUE

LEGION JUNIOR BASEBALL LOOKS AT ITSELF, AFTER 25 YEARS

Bv ROBERT B. PITKIN

I-N 1926, after an earlier trial start in South Dakota, Thomson, Sid Gordon, Willard Marshall, Warren The American Legion put into effect a national teen- Spahn, Marty Marion, Joe Garagiola, Grady Hatton, age baseball program, designed to offer organized, Ken Raffensberger, Phil Cavarretta, Bill Voiselle, Bob well-led baseball competition for boys during non- Dillinger, Ralph Kiner, Bill Werle, Wally Westlake, school months. The new American Legion Junior etc., etc., etc. Baseball program's stated aim was to keep decent Altogether, last year, 270 ex-Juniors decorated youngsters out of mischief and to help boys develop major league rosters and thirty of the fifty men certi- as citizens. fied to play in last October's Yank-Philly World Series Fine aims, these. Question: Would such a program had sprung from Legion Junior play. really achieve such aims? There were, in all organised major and minor league professional baseball, 4,620 one-time Legion Juniors.

It Grew How About The Average Boy? Last year, as usual. Legion Junior Baseball was bigger than ever, and is again this year. As early as Lost in the hoopla of big money, big names and big 1929, 100,000 boys were playing on Legion Post teams figures have been the original aims of the Junior across the country. In 1947, 11,701 teams registered Baseball program. What was the effect on the several with national headquarters. Last year, 1950, an all- million lads who had batted, pitched and fielded on time high of 16,456 boy teams competed in Legion Legion Junior diamonds? The publicists and statisti- baseball. Last Labor Day weekend, 34,775 paying cians did not know. customers viewed the Legion's annual Little World A Verdict Series in Omaha, Nebraska, where survivors of the season's tournaments played to determine the national Only the thousands of Legion coaches, managers, Junior Baseball championship for 1950. Winner, for committeemen and their co-sponsors who worked with the second successive year, Oakland, California. the millions of boys in the cities, milltowns and farm areas knew. This spring a jury of experienced Junior

It Made Ballplayers Baseball men looked back upon a quarter century of Legion Junior Baseball and rendered a verdict. Today, after 25 years. Legion Junior Baseball is an Junior Baseball does the job, they said. acknowledged cradle of major league stars. In 1928, then Baseball Czar Kenesaw Mountain Landis okayed Good and Valuable Citizens major league underwriting of the Legion's big sec- tional and national tournaments, to the tune of $50,000 Coach Charles Beasley, in Richmond, Va., had guarantee-against-loss per year. handled nearly 2,000 boys in twenty years and "never A good investment. Last year, priceless major league knew one to be in trouble." Bob Malcolm, in the small chattels from Legion Junior Baseball included such mining town of Curtisville, Pa., knew 200 boys and lights as Jim Konstanty and Vic Raschi (pitching ex-boys to make the West Deer Township Post team duelists in the 1-0 World Series opener last October) in eighteen years. S".id Malcolm, "They were all kinds Also, , Bob Feller, Ted Williams, Dom of boys, but I never knew any to get in trouble with DiMaggio, Lou Boudreau, Yogi Berra, Hal Newhouser, police or courts. Without exception they are good and Pete Reiser, Curt Simmons, Joe Gordon, Tommy valuable citizens today—engineers, salesmen, teachers, Henrich, Jackie Jensen, Joe Page, Art Houtteman, accountants, a minister—and some pro ballplayers. . . . George Kell, Dizzy Trout, Joe Dobson, Bobby Doerr, In War Two 98 percent qualified for service, from Mel Parnell, Johnny Pesky, Mike Garcia, Jim Hegan, colonel on down." Bob Lemon, Sid Hudson, Mickey Vernon, Lou Brissie, In the border city of Laredo, said Texas Legion Gus Niarhos, Granny Hamner, Richie Ashburn, Roy Junior Baseball Chairman J. E. McClain, the devel- Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Alvin Dark, Bobby opment of eight junior teams ( Continued on page 56) 20 IN THE WORLD £=S§^UN Patrols *^ RcU Back Near Seoul

l500OCriorr«

THE HEADLINES nowadays tell of another war, but otherwise Stripes is pretty much the same as it was during World War H.

COMMUNICATIONS room at Darmstadt, Germany, where mes- What Ever sages are sent and received over a networlt of teletype machines.

Happened to runs smoothly despite road blocks, language difficulties, shifts in the tense international scene, and sometimes a breakdown in its teletype room. This strange adventure in publishing today occupies the most fabulous plant in-the world, complete with swim- STRIPES? ming pool (little one for the kiddies), tennis courts, beau- tiful ex-nazi presses and an editorial policy that must walk a tightrope. For Stripes is the only newspaper, the legend goes, which can start a war. There is some basis to this legend, but more about that later on. No U.S. agency abroad is so distinctly There was of course a Stars and Stripes published in Paris in WW I, from February 1918 to June 1919. The American as this famous GI newspaper, present S&S began operations in Northern Ireland on April 17, 1942, became a daily in London on November 2nd of that year, and has been in business ever since, though still serving Americans overseas. it hasn't appeared on every single day. Specifically, the staff gets New Year's ofT, as well as the Fourth of July and Christmas. There's no paper next day. At one time By J. ALVIN KUGELMASS in late 1944 there were no less than six versions of S&S being published in separate plants in various sections of UT YOUR THUMB on the map of England and your Europe west of the Rhine. small finger far down as Trieste. Then fan out your Stripes, which comes under the heading of a nonappro- remaining fingers across the continent. Within that priated agency, which means that it must stand on its own sprawling span, crossing almost a dozen frontiers and sec- legs and pay its own way, baffles Washington bureaucrats tors and several gigantic mountain ranges, The Stars and who don't quite know how to handle the large profits it Stripes brings to the breakfast table of a calculated 100,000 earns. U. S. agencies just aren't accustomed to an opera- Americans the free news of the world as they help hold tion that brings in money and they're baffled, because down the Westei-n Front in the cold war. there are no forms for such a situation. To the newspaperman familiar with distribution prob- Nimble bookkeeping practices allow for the transfer of lems, this is an incredible daily feat. But to Stars and these profits to the Armed Services Welfare Fund, which Stripes, which received its seasoning under four years of provides athletic equipment for Occupation teams and fire and dilapidated presses, it's a ho-hum business which also supplements budgets for Special Services such as 22 that compai-e well with the prevailing rates in the U. S., and a pretty lush life in terms of servants and plushy homes taken over from the Germans. Current Editor-in-Chief is Lt. Colonel Henry J. Richter, who took over Stripes' complex reins last July. The Colonel came to the European Command from the 14th Regimental Combat Team, Camp Carson, Colo- rado. He served in the Pacific Theater during War II, taking part in the land- ings in New Guinea, Dutch East In- dies, the Philippines and Japan. A na- tive of Wisconsin, he entered the Army in 1940. He served as assistant G3 during the final landings around Tokyo Bay. After the war, he returned to Japan, where he was assistant G3, 8th Army. He then took part in "Ex- ercise Sweetbriar," the combined maneuvers of U. S. and Canadian Forces in the Arctic. Interestingly, those who hold chief editorial jobs are veterans who worked out on wartime Stripes to gain their training. There are several on the staff who haven't been home since they got out of uniform. They know what the GI wants to read, how he wants his features played, and how he wants

THIS COULD be any news room in the United States, but actually it is the desk at Darmstadt. The slot man, looking through proofs, is Jac)i Ellis.

education, libraries and dancing the scene of Nazi Aeronautical Re- troupes from Holland and France. search. These have had their faces It is a nonesuch newspaper if only lifted and the plant is run as a sub- because if you're on the staff you can subpost of the Darmstadt Military Post write a story today, go almost all over which is in turn a subpost of the Western Europe by plane and see your Frankfurt Military Post. byline on Page 1 more than a thou- To the newly arrived newsman, the sand miles away from home base. It's city room is bewildering, for it looks as as if a writer for a New York or though it had been transplanted from Chicago newspaper were to see his almost any hometown paper. There story up in print the next morning are the horseshoe copy desks (where after flying into Mexico, Puerto Rico the headlines are written) , the ringing or Newfoundland or Iceland. There of phones, the crumpled copy-paper on they are, stacked on the newsstands at the floor, the thick pencils, the con- the PX's or other U. S. installations. tainers of coffee, the overhead fluores- The paper today is as American as cent lights, and above all, the fever at the juke box. Tabloid size, it runs deadline. It's enough to bring a lump daily (5 cents) to about 12 pages, and to the throat because it's all so Ameri- Sundays (10 cents) to about three can. There is no U.S. agency abroad GERMAN personnel load papers into trucks. times that much, complete with col- that looks so distinctly American. ored comics and an inserted magazine The paper acts as a training ground his sports handled. And oh yes, what section. for GI's who wish to learn the busi- kind of upholstered girls to run on It is quite something to be able to ness of editing, reporting, writing or Page 3. Also, and very importantly, read Li'l Abner and Dick Tracy in full photography. They're first groomed on the very personalized news from back color while sitting in a Brussels or their military post weeklies, and, on home—what sis, brother, mom and pop Vienna cafe. recommendation from their CO's, are saying and thinking. Stripes, which used to pack up they're given a crack at Stripes. For the latter, Stripes maintains a overnight and leave or retreat with Sometimes a GI will make the full-scale New York bureau headed the troops, is today settled grandly at grade, often he won't. The professional by Sid Gans, who was Stripes Manag- a tiny spot on the map some 18 miles standards are as high as those on a ing Editor in London just before south of Frankfurt, just off one of the big city. Stateside paper. Most of the D-Day. mighty autobahns known so well to editorial staff are former American Sid, who has 10 people on his U. S. troops. Called Griesheim bei newspapermen who are given two- staff handling the teletypes, sifts the Darmstadt, the buildings were once year contracts, fairly solid salaries wire services, (Continued on page 62)

23 WORRIED BY NEWS headlines, are you? Do you feel uncomfort- Here is a report about kids vfho don't get in able when you read, YOUTH GANGS BATTLE WITH SWITCH trouble — the young Americans who are proving KNIVES ON CITY STREET! or JUVENILE CRIME ON INCREASE that they've got what it takes. IN NATION! It's true, they paint a picture of modern America that, if accurate, is disturbing and a cause for downwright By WENDY and EVERETT MARTIN alarm. Such headlines make people wonder, I ARTHUR HASSELBACH, who DAVID VAN HART of Elizabeth, N. J., polishes a SAMUEL F. PRYOR, JR., vice president of Pan perfected the powerful glo-plug model car he made for the Fisher Body Crafts- American Airways, demonstrates fine points I motor, works on a tiny racing car. man's Guild. His 1949 entry won him a $50 prize. of plane control to Boys' Club enthusiasts.

make them say to each other, "Our kids have become irresponsible, law- less, sensation-hungry." And they add, shamefacedly, "Grown-ups have gone soft with easy living in a mechanical age. Pioneer virtues are dead." The trouble with such talk is — it simply isn't true. And it's less true now than it ever was. The age of building, the age of vi- sion, is not dead in America. Most of our youngsters are sound. They are doing constructive things, in a big way. Perhaps never before in our his- tory has a younger generation been marching so steadfastly in a direction that spells national strength, through accomplishment. Let's look at facts that never seem to hit the headlines. Last July 25 to 30, for instance, the Naval Air Station at Dallas, Tex., was closed to plane traffic vmtil dusk. The National Model Airplane Contest had taken over the field. More than 1,000 selected contestants from 48 states were on hand.

When the open stunting contests boy is the youngest ever to win this Authorities close to the scene scoff at ended, an entrant named Dennis Al- event!" such figures. They say that actually ford, from San Diego, California, was Dennis Alford may have seemed un- there are now more than 5,000,000 found to have walked off with national usual because of his age. But his model plane "addicts" in the country. honors. ability to construct model aircraft About 65.7 percent of them are from 14 When his age was announced, a that performed at high speeds did not to 17 years old. On materials neces- murmur ran through the vast crowd make him unique among U. S. boys. sary to their hobby they are spending of spectators. Dennis Alford, it seemed, Only recently, a national magazine something in excess of $150,000,000 a was only eight years old. stated that model aviation involved year. A contest official, Keith Story, ex- 3,000,000 Americans, who spend over Yet, these boys and girls comprise claimed in amazement, "I think this $20,000,000 annually for equipment. only a segment of a youth population that has turned to constructive handi- RONALD MARCHESE and May- THE PLANE, boat and car, powered with high ci'aft hobbies in such increasing num- nard Wachs build sleek racers. speed engines, show the finest craftsmanship. bers that statistics can't keep up with them. They are being hailed by educators, patted on the backs by scientists, and encouraged by for- ward-looking branches of our armed services. Mom and Pop get their share of the credit, too. Viewers-with-alarm, who were ready to concede that Americans had lost their touch, through neglect, in the handi- (Continued on page 39)

25 "We will now see into which branch of service you'll go, soldier." Army Careers

(WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU)

By VIRGIL PARTCH

Reprinted hy permission of the pub- lishers, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., from HERE WE GO AGAIN. Copyright,

1951 hy Virgil Franklin Partch, II.

or perhaps in the tank corps

or a band company

or be a beach-head boy

THE PROFESSORS and THE PRESS

ROBERT HUTCfflNS, some- HENRY R. LUCE paid $200,000 to times called the perpetual boy have Hutchins's profs explain how wonder, sold Luce a big project. they'd put him out of business. By BURTON RASCOE

Set in motion by $215,000, a collection of learned gents performed some

weird rites and came up with something you'll have to read to believe.

WISH YOU would take paper and pencil viewing in this country, particularly in New I and make note of a book I am about to York and other cities of the Eastern sea- discuss and also the name of the author. board, had really done a job on Prejudice The book is Prejudice and the Press. The arid the Press. Under the very noses of their author is Frank Hughes. capitalistic employers on newspapers that Maybe you had also better jot down the have book review sections, on highbrow name and address of the publisher and the monthlies and on literary and "sophisti- price of the book— The Devin-Adair Co., 23 cated" weeklies, they had misrepresented East 26th St., New York 10, N. Y.; price, $6 and condemned the book in the New York net, postpaid. Times, in the Herald Tribune and in the Ordinarily you wouldn't need the name Saturday Review oj Literature; and they of the publisher. If you wanted to read a had succeeded in getting it ignored else- book, you'd just give the title and the name where including the Atlantic Monthly and of the author to a clerk in a bookstore or Harper's. library. But this is a very special case. If Exactly two intelligent and comprehensive you, your favorite bookseller or anybody connected with statements of what the book is about appeared anywhere. your local public library has ever heard of the book be- One was by the late Benjamin Stolberg in the Chicago fore now, you are lucky. It certainly wasn't within the Tribune; the other was by Ralph de Toledano in the fort- calculations of the American Politburo of the Moscow nightly journal, The Freeman. The Messrs. Stolberg and underground and their pro -communist stooges that you Toledano recognized and appraised the book for what it is. should ever know about the book. Prejudice and the Press is not merely a devastating an- I am a writer, resident in New York; I have published alysis of what an idiotic, superficial, biased, statistically a number of books; I have been a critic of literature and false and erroneous "report" a bunch of orey-eyed pro- the drama for various newspapers and magazines over a fessors can get up when they are given $215,000 to do it period of nearly 35 years; I have been an editor of maga- with, but is also an amazingly thorough and minutely zines, book sections and for publishing fu-ms. So, it is in documented disclosure of the backgrounds, the activities, my nature, as well as my profession, to follow the book the doctrines and the methods of a minute minority of reviews. Yet I did not know about the book imtil it had willful men. been out about a year and then only because someone They have their hands on the purse-strings of billion- presented me with a copy and urged me to read it. dollar foundation funds left in sacred trust by the When I looked up the record, I found that the hatchet- beneficiaries of the capitalist system. The aim of these men and book-stranglers, who have infiltrated book re- professors, frankly analyzed, is (Continued on page 49) 28 The IVatioxal Leoioivxaire

sent legislative recommendations to Conferees Reach An Agreement On Selective Congress within four months of date of confirmation — this will be privileged legislation which Congress is required to Service-UMT Law; Training Plan Authorized act upon. No UMT program can be ini- tiated without direct Congressional ap- After long debates covering several requirements of the plan as outlined by proval. weeks, the Senate and House Committee The American Legion were retained. The plans of the Commission must in-

of Conferees reached an agreement on These were: clude : the provisions of S. 1 — the combined (1) A civilian dominated commission (a) A broad outline for the general Selective Service-Universal Military of five men charged with the develop- UMT program, but not the details of Training bill. On June 1 the Senate by ment of policies and standards and gen- training. The latter will be the respon- a voice vote approved the compromise eral supervision of UMT training; (2) sibility of the Secretary of Defense on bill which permits induction of 18%- creation of a National Security Train- the basis of policies and standards year-olds and extends the period of serv- ing Corps concurrently with the ap- adopted by the Commission, (b) Meas- pointment of the commission ice from 21 months to two years. House ; (3) UMT ures for the personal safety, health, wel- approval is expected to follow. appropriations direct to the commission, fare and morals of the National Security The compromise reported by the Com- and (4) induction at the age of 18 for Training corps, (c) Disability and death mittee includes all the features of the UMT. benefits, and other benefits, and the ob- bills passed by the House and Senate, No inductions will be made until fur- ligations, duties, liabilities and respon- with give and take on certain disputed ther legislation by Congress specifically sibilities to be granted or imposed upon authorizes the active operation of the points, such as lowering the draft age members of the National Security to 18 as asked by the Senate, or I8V2 plan. The five members of the National Training Corps. as provided in the House version. Security Training Commission, to be The pay of the trainees is fixed at $30 Major provisions of the measure are: named by the President, is fixed at three per month, with allowances for those Extends the draft law to July 1, 1955, civilians and two active or retired mem- and establishes a National Security bers of the Regular Armed Services. with dependents. UMT deferments will Training Commission to draw up a Uni- The Commission is required to pre- be controlled by policy of the President. versal Military Service program of six months training. The UMT plan re- quires future approval by the Congress before men can be inducted. The legis- Congress Says It's a War in Korea; Veteran lation also clears the way for an Armed Forces goal of 3,500,000 fixed by the Do the Fighting Defense Department, and provides a Rights Granted to Men Who ceiling of 5,000,000 active-duty strength The Congress finally got around to tending certain benefits authorized for for the Armed Forces. recognizing the "police action" in Korea WW2 veterans to apply to veterans of as a full-fledged war — and the the Korean conflict. Who Must Register men who are fighting there entitled to veteran As a i-esult, honorably discharged The compromise bill provides: benefits. The Legion has been fighting veterans of the now are All male citizens between 18 and 26 for this recognition since the war broke entitled to hospitalization, medical care, years are required to register, as now. out, but it took the full force of public domiciliary treatment and burial bene- Classification for induction purposes displeasure to jar Congi-ess into action. fits, and compensation and pension for shall be made immediately after regis- Action came quickly when the case of themselves and dependents. This bill, tration. The draft age is reduced from David R. Arellano, Jr., Tucson, Arizona, rushed through both Houses by Joint 19 years to I8V2 years, but none below broke in the press and radio on the Resolution and passed without a hear- 19 shall be inducted while thei-e are eli- morning of May 10. Arellano, a dis- ing, was signed by President Truman gibles between 19 and 26 at any Local charged veteran of the Korean fighting, on May 11, becoming Public Law 28, Board. suffering from a throat trouble tenta- 82nd Congress. But — the hurriedly en- Physical standards for induction are tively diagnosed as cancer, applied for acted Public Law does not grant full dropped to the level of January, 1945, admission to the Tucson VA Hospital. benefits. It does not extend the benefits and mental standards also are reduced, He was refused treatment by the medi- of the GI Bill of Rights to Korean vets, making about 150,000 now classified as cal directer on the ground that he was for which the Legion contends, neither 4-F available for service. not a war veteran within the meaning does it grant the Social Security wage High school students will be deferred of the law. The of the hospital, credit of $160 per month. These, and until they graduate or reach 20 years. forced to the action by the existing law, other inequities, are matters of un- College students may be deferred until said: "If it (Korea) isn't a war, I'd like finished business about which the Legion they complete their academic year. No to know what the hell it is!" will have more to say. Local Board be may required to defer But, thanks to public pressure, any college student People Are Aroused on the basis of the Korean veterans are recognized as war tests recently given by the The answer came quickly. When the Selective vets. We should hear from the people Service or upon the press front-paged radio blared student's class the story, more often. standing. it into millions of homes — homes from When the Arellano story broke on the Inactive or Volunteer Reservists who which thousands of sons had gone to morning of May 10, one of the first served a year in WW2 may apply for Korea — people from all parts of the telegrams to reach the leaders in Con- release from active service after 17 country responded and Washington be- gress came from National Commander months active duty since June 25, 1950. gan to hear from them. The hue and cry Erie Cocke, Jr. The President is authorized to call Re- that was set up must have been heard "The AP news release, dateline Tuc- servists for 24 months of active duty all the way back to the echoing hills of son, Arizona, regarding Korean veteran until July 1, 1953. Korea. David R. Arellano, Jr., being denied ad- The President sent a note to leaders UMT Plan Gets First Okay mission hospital in Congress — then Congress reacted to VA for treatment of The Universal Military Training sec- with a speed seldom seen even in Wash- cancer highlights need for immediate tion of S. 1 fared very well in the hands ington. In less than two hours — both change of law to make veterans of of the Conferees. The most important Houses passed a Joint Resolution ex- Korean hostilities eligible to hospital-

The American Legion Magazine * July, 1951 • £9 ;

ization on same basis as war veterans," his wire said. Plans Completed for "Operation Comeback"; "The American Legion had a bill, H.R. 9644, introduced in the 81st Con- gress on September 13, 1950, which $7,000 Prize Contest for Handicapped Vets would have given Korean veterans the same status as World War I and II "Four handicapped veterans who man of the President's Committee on veterans for purpose of hospitalization have made a comeback in civilian life Employment of Physically Handicapped and other benefits. On January 29, 1951, will be richer by $1,000 each and in Veterans, Washington, D. C. Senator Martin introduced S. 714 and addition will be guests at the Legion Captain E4die Rickenbacker, World on January 9, 1951, the Chairman of the National Convention in October," said War I ace and President of Eastern Air House introduced National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., Lines, New York City. H. R. 1217, both at the request of The in announcing final plans for a 500- Charles Johnson, of Endicott-Johnson American Legion. These bills would word letter contest for handicapped Co., large employer of handicapped vet- have cured the situation. veterans. erans, Endicott and Johnson City, New "Having just returned from the Ko- "In addition to the four top winners, York. rean theater, I war am personally ac- 16 others will share $3,000 for their Robert McCurdy, Chairman, National quainted with the ordeal our boys are ability to tell of their comeback," the Rehabilitation Commission, The Ameri- going through over there. They are cer- Commander continued. can Legion, Pasadena, California. tainly conducting fighting a and shoot- "Operation Comeback," announced in William Randolph Hearst, Jr., news- ing war and should be entitled to the the June number of this magazine, is paper executive. New York City. status as other veterans. same war In open to all honorably discharged vet- the behalf of The American Legion, I call How Contest Works erans of World Wars I and II, and of upon the United States Congress to im- honorably discharged veterans of the "Operation Comeback" contest ends mediately take action that will assure Korean campaign. The only veterans at midnight on September 1 — letters recognition of the veterans of the excluded are present or former em- postmarked after that date will not be Korean hostilities as war veterans and ployees of the Legion. considered by the judges. not peace-time veterans." Letters of not more than 500 words Contestants will tell "How I Over- Legion The swung into action soon are to be submitted. In these letters the came my Physical Handicap" in their after in the red forces swept down across veteran will give the circumstances of own way a letter of 600 words or less. South Korea. will tell In July of last year Na- incurring the disease, wound or injury They what readjustment they tional Commander Geoi'ge N. Craig, which caused the physical handicap; have made in physical, social, economic sensing the import of the red aggres- method or means through which read- and spiritual comeback from injury, sions, conducted or disease. a telephonic poll of the justment was achieved; occupation prior wound The yardstick em- ployed members of the National Executive to entry into service or incurring the by the judges in determining the Committee and acting under the au- handicap, and occupation now and the winners of the $7,000 in prizes will be: thority 1. given him by that poll caused the degree of utilization of ability in gain- Extent of physical and spiritual introduction of the first "Korean Vets' ful employment. comeback or readjustment. Bill of Rights" which would have given 2. Extent of social or economic come- "Handicap does not mean limbless, it veterans of the present emergency the means handicapped either by amputa- back or readjustment. same status as 2 3. and extent of WWl and veterans tion, by illness or by other reasons," Nature handicap. insofar as 4. hospitalization and other said Commander Cocke. "And one does Effectiveness of presentation in benefits are concerned. This legislation not have to have suffered his disability contestant's statement or letter. was approved and 5. General attributes, legi- mandated at the 32nd in action, nor in the service. He, or she, (neatness, National Convention bility, etc.) of the Legion at might have suffered a handicap after Los Angeles last October. action For the four letters best No was terminating service — if that disability adjudged by taken, and the bill died with the 81st caused a social or economic maladjust- the judges. The American Legion will Congress. prizes of each, plus a ment, it is a disability within the mean- award $1,000 Demonstrating its belief in the justice ing of this contest." fully-paid trip to the National Conven- of recognizing the men engaged in the The National Commander announced tion in Miami, October 15-18, as a guest Korean hostilities as veterans, will be war The the names of the eight judges who will of The American Legion. There American Legion opened its ranks and review the letters submitted. Their de- other cash awards for the next best extended full membership rights at : of the cisions will be final. The judges are: letters Four awards each $400, $200 National Convention held at Los An- Dr. Verne E. Harvey, Medical Direc- $100, and $50. All letters become the geles. Congress acquiesced in this de- tor, Civil Service Commission, Washing- property of the Legion. None will be cision by enacting an amendment to the ton, D. C. returned. Legion's national charter providing for Dr. Edward Scheckman, Fifth Ave- Contestants must give proper iden- the admission of Armed Services per- nue, New York City tifying information as to unit \vith sonnel served who from June 25, 1950, Dr. Howard Rusk, National Director which they served during their respec- to a date to be determined as the closing of Rehabilitation for the Air Force, and tive wars; their present address, and of hostilities. Many veterans of the Ko- head of Bellevue Hospital rehabilitation. any other information that seems per- rean war are already active members New York City. tinent. Each statement or letter sub- of the Legion. in the "Operation Comeback" Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre, for- mitted Renewing supported as to allega- the fight when the 82nd mer Presidential physician, and Chair- contest must be Congress convened in January, 1951, tions made by an affidavit signed by the the Legion also caused a companion bill Commander, Adjutant, Service Officer, to be introduced in the Senate. These or Medical Advisor of a Legion Post in Armed Forces of the United States on two bills had rested unquietly in the the contestant's home community, or or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such pigeonholes of the House and Senate — nearby. The attestation of one such date as shall thereafter be determined the National Legislative Committee had by Presidential proclamation or concur- Legion officer will be sufficient. been unable to get a hearing on either rent resolution of the Congress, shall, Each letter or statement, together measure. The Joint Resolution jammed subject to other provisions of law and with the supporting attestation by a through on May 10, however, took care veterans' regulations, administered by Legion official must be submitted, or of many of the benefits incorporated the Veterans Administration, be en- postmarked, not later than midnight, titled benefits of medical, in the Legion bills. to hospital, September l. Mail all letters to: domiciliary and burial benefits, and they Public Law 28, 82nd Congress, pro- "Operation Comeback," and their dependents shall be entitled vides : The American Legion to compensation or pension provided by "That any person who shall have law for persons who served the period 1608 K Street N.W. served in the active service in the of World War II." Washington 6, D. C.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 BIG CIRCUS RAISES FUND CHILD WELFARE DIVISION forwarded to the Congress of the United States. FOR LEGION WELFARE WORK DRIVES FOR FULL REPORTS Last year, with only about one-third of The American Legion's 17,400 Posts For many years Manhassett (New "Show 'em the record" is the slogan reporting, a record of more than $6,- York) Post No. 304 had maintained its being used by the National Child Wel- 800,000 in Legion aid to children was hospital, rehabilitation and welfare pro- fare Division of The American Legion set. This year all Departments have been gram the hard way — raising funds by in its annual campaign to compile an asked to stage a drive to get as many means of raffles, minstrel shows, variety accurate report of the Legion's total child welfare reports from Posts as pos- shows, and other projects. The Post sold child welfare accomplishments for the sible, with a minimum goal for the na- tickets for everything, said Past Com- year. Every Post has been asked to sub- tion of at least 50 percent reporting. mander Edward G. Eichelberger, until mit a brief statistical report of its child Posts which have not yet sent their re- Manhassett people began to pass with welfare expenditures and work of the ports to their Department Child Wel- averted faces, locked their doors and past 12 months to the Department Child fare Chairmen are urged to send them pulled down the shades. Welfare Chairman. today so that the report to the 1951 Then in the spring of 1950 Legion- Department Chairmen, in turn, for- National Convention will present a true naire Rupert Murray with a ward copies of their i-eports to the Na- came up picture of The American Legion's vast brilliant idea. He knew the circus people tional Child Welfare Division, where a services to children. Copies of the report from John Ringling — consolidated child welfare report for The North on down form may be secured on request from why bring the big circus not to Long American Legion as a whole, together the Department Headquarters or from Island? fish for Why minnows when with the affiliated organizations, is pre- the National Child Welfare Division, there were whales in the bay? Moving pared for submission to the National The American Legion, P.O. Box 1055, a circus to Long Island was a major Convention. A copy of the report is also Indianapolis 6, Indiana. operation and one not to be undertaken lightly — but the hospital and welfare program was also a major operation. 700-POUND BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR NATIONAL COMMANDER It costs money to take an 8-act, two- hour show, complete with cigarettes and other fixings, to the several thousand wounded and sick men in the hospitals. Legionnaire Rupert talked his idea over with Michael J. Madar, another Post member and worked out some of the details before springing it on Man- hassett Post. There were, of course, some apprehensions, some complications, and naturally some midnight table- pounding — but the upshot was that Manhassett Post agreed to carry the ball if the other Posts in Nassau County would join in and help sell the tickets and furnish manpower for parking con- trol details and other necessary arrange- ment groups. Nassau Posts were quick to join in the movement. The objective was Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus - the biggest show on earth — and the show was will- ing to make a stand in the untried terri- tory of Nassau County, Long Island. The Post general fund was in such de- pleted state that it would hardly finance a flea circus, and really important money was needed to get the project going and make first payment to the circus. Chair- man Eugene J. Schuff', General Manager of the circus project, went out to see Levitt and Sons, big Manhassett home- builders — and came away with a check for $12,000, no strings attached. The circus project was in funds and in busi- A birthday cake so big it took a station pounds of salt, 120 pounds of flour, 12 ness as the Manhassett Legion Memorial wagon to move it and 411 kids three ounces of baking powder, 70 dozen of Fund, Inc., with Legionnaire Rupe days to eat it, was "unveiled" at a dual eggs pounds), 8 ounces of flavoring, Murray (84 as its President. testimonial dinner tendered jointly to 50 pounds of assorted fruits, and 32 The circus made its spread on the National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., quarts of milk (64 pounds). In the pic- appointed days, June 9 and 10, at West- and Pennsylvania Department Com- ture above Department Commander Mc- bury, Long Island, -and the net pro- mander Joseph S. McCracken by Black Cracken, (left), National Commander ceeds for the Legion Posts of Nassau Diamond Post No. 395, Kingston, Penn- Cocke and Auxiliare Ellen Lewis, Kings- County ran up to $31,000. Of this take, sylvania. ton, sui-vey the masterpiece of the baker's 70 percent went to Nassau County Posts The 700-pound birthday cake, baked by art. based on the number of tickets they the Blue Ribbon Baking Company, Kings- Commander Cocke requested that the sold 25 percent ; to Manhassett Post, and ton, took 64 hours to bake and fashion. big birthday cake be given to the 411 percent 5 to Legion County headquarters It was surmounted by a small figure in orphans in the Pennsylvania Soldiers' for its welfare fund. Legion uniform, flanked by 30 birthday Orphans School at Scotland, Pennsyl- Repeating in 1951— June 7-9 — with candles — the exact number due the Na- vania. It was taken there, a distance of six performances instead of four in tional Commander. Other statistics: 54 170 miles, in a station wagon by Reuben 1950, the Nassau group expects a bigger inches at the base, the cake was made H. Levy, President of the baking com- return — hence an expanded welfare, of 268 pounds of sugar, 108 pounds of pany, who was designated to make the hospital and rehabilitation program. vegetable shortening and butter, 4 presentation.

The Ameiicon Legion Magazine • July, 1951 * 3^ TOLERANT BROTHERHOOD IS Legion Sends Team to Veteran Hospital to AIM OF NEW JERSEY POST

To encourage understanding and tol- Instruct Korean Amputees in Use of Limbs erance between the different religious groups in the community, two years ago Two WW2 veterans who have made is able to get around with little effort. Sergeant Clendenon Newell Post No. 1, comeback in civilian life after suffer- He dances, walks up and down stairs, a Leonia, New Jersey, established an an- ing double amputation as the result of and in nearly all ways has readjusted nual interfaith luncheon. The third ob- war wounds, are starting out under himself to an almost normal civilian life. servance was held on Sunday, May 6, Legion auspices to demonstrate in a Lonnie Carberry, a brawny Texas vet with complete representation of all veterans that the 7th Division, -v^as practical way to Korean of Armored faiths and congregations. is not impossible. Author- astride a tank near Chartres he readjustment when Instituted by Post Chaplain Carl M. National Executive Com- was hit by a mortar. There, in addition ized by the Glidden, the plan of the brotherhood mittee, the morale building work is a to severe chest and thigh wounds, he meeting is very simple. All Legionnaires continuation of the program begun in lost both arms above the elbows. tour A — and non-Legionnaires — are invited to Charley McGonegal, California, of many hospitals — also instruction by 1944 by attend the religious services of their Walter A. Antoniewicz, vets, the McGonegal Legion team — made him and WWl own churches with their families, and for the of a well man and he was discharged to men WW2. then meet to break bread in common is composed of Herman civilian life in 1946, two years after he The new team brotherhood at the Post auditorium. At PhefFer, of Queens Village, New had been wounded. While still undergo- 30, the last luncheon every church in the left his legs on the ing treatment he married his pre-war York, who both borough participated and had a repre- Italian beachhead at Leghorn, and Lon- sweetheart. Miss Mildred Foutz of sentative on the dais, and there was Texas, cotton hie Carberry, 40, Waco, Farmington, New Mexico, and a son a good representation from nearly every uses double prostheses born a year later. farmer who now was congregation at the tables. All enjoyed, for he left behind at Chartres, Upon release he purchased a quarter arms literally, the fine fellowship intended by cotton land France. section of in the rich Waco the sponsors. rehabilitation program of valley. His spread is being by Under the farmed The principal speaker at the inter- Legion these will a cropper, but after The American men his stint with The faith luncheon was Congressman Harry visit facilities and Government American Legion and his amputee bud- veteran L. Towe, 9th New Jersey District, they will demonstrate dies Korea, he will return hospitals where from to his whose talk was based on the opening the prosthetic devices the Government land and raise his own cotton. words of the Preamble to the Legion's and explain their find has supplied them "I myself able to do just about Constitution: "For God and Counti'y." instruction will be most prac- everything I did I arms," uses. The when had my The meetings at Leonia have been so various demonstrations. In Carberry. tical in the said And he demonstrated by uniformly successful that Chaplain of the team will cigarettes shirt pocket, addition, the members taking from his Glidden has expressed the hope that advise to kind and charac- fishing a book of matches, tearing amputees as out other Legion Posts will take up the limbs best suited to their lighting ter of artificial one out and the "fag." When program and sponsor similar functions. use. finished, he tamped out the live end in Herman Pheffer, in the 34th Division an ashtray. in WW2, has been a member of the Now, the team of Pheffer and Car- Paging Lt. John Donaldson rehabilitation staff of The American berry starts out in a series of hospital If Lt. John Donaldson, 13th Minn., Legion since 1946. For a time he was visits to convince Korean veterans there happens to see this squib, he can recover associated with McGonegal in the initial is hope for a complete readjustment to his telescopic binoculars lost 'in Ger- "operation morale," but for some years civilian life even if one has lost limbs. many in 1945, by writing Captain A. L. he has been stationed in the VA Re- Flay, No. 3, Higher Education Center, gional Office, New York. Hanover, Germany, BAOR 5. Writes He was wounded in April of 1944, but FISH WAITING LEGION Captain Flay: "While serving in Ger- recovered and returned to his unit two FOR many in May, 1945, I found the binocu- months later. Then in July at Leghorn ANGLERS IN MIAMI WATERS lars. I was dismounting them for clean- a shell tore away both legs, one above ing this afternoon and found the name the knee and the other just below. By Legionnaires bound for the 33rd an- 'John Donaldson Lieut. 13th Minn.' means of well fitted prosthetic devices he nual National Convention of the Ameri- can Legion in Miami, October 15-18, marked upon them." will do well to take their fishing tackle. More than 600 varieties of fish inhabit \ YOUNG KOREAN VET SIGNS il the waters in and around the convention i; COLORADO WILL LEAD BIG il city. The world's largest sports fishing ii UP IN SO. CAROLINA POST fleet is based at Miami, but anglers can PARADE AT MIAMI MEET i;

(! Post Adjutant Martin Langer of \> do well in smaller craft or fishing from second consecutive year, I' For the || \\ Eastover (South Carolina) Post No. youngest Legionnaire in the Pal- Il Just as an example of what's in store

I'l at i| metto State offers as average membership recorded and him a can- \\ for conventioning Legionnaires who like 1. 1 Headquarters on May 1 National 1 1 didate for honors as the youngest ]' to "wet a line," Florida law limits the will be in second position, (| in <> || the Legion. daily to fish person. Re- catch 25 per with Mississippi, South Dakota and \\ Legionnaire Kinsey enlisted at the <\ cently a party of five fresh water fisher- ''< in the order 'I age of 15, and at Arizona following 1 was discharged \\ 1 men were fined in a Miami court for 8 outlying Departments <', Fort Benning, Georgia, on May 19. named. The l' \\ taking 308 fish in one hour! will, according to custom of several i] u On the following day he signed up ]'

years and in compliance with ac- |; \\ with his homie town, Eastover, <\ But whether they fish or not. Legion- 1; National Executive Com- J; tion of the 1; Legion Post. This, thinks Depart- <1 naires and their families are bound to mittee, be placed in a block ahead |i 1 ment Adjutant Bullard, also estab- <| enjoy the wonderful Miami vacationland 1 tels, and balmy sunshine — all at reduced pre-season rates.

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along applications for membership of * Elton C. Riddle and Robert S. Mayo, * * * LEGIONITEMS * * WWl and 2 vets, and his co-workers.

. . . John H. Collins Post No. 2-1, Derby, Connecticut, has awarded a Life mem- D. W. Brooks Post No. 63, Swissvale, more than 6,000 pints of whole blood bership card to Past Commander Frank Pennsylvania, is one of the few senior for the Veterans Administration Center M. McLaughlin for 25 years of devoted Posts of the Legion with all its 30 Past in Dayton. service. The card is an unusual one — Commanders living. . . Mrs. H. William unusual in that it signed Miss Christensen, Bradley, Michigan, member was by Margaret McEnerney, Commander, and of Forest Lewis Post No. 266, Wayland, Davenport (Iowa) Post No. 26 col- Mrs. Alice M. Maltby, Adjutant, top Michigan, has five children — three girls lected nearly 10,000 pounds of magazines officers in a predominantly male veteran and two boys — all of whom have at- in a drive to supply reading material for Post. hospitalized Korean veterans. . . . Sharon tended Boys' State or Girls' State : Mrs. Blanche Chrisman, 1941; Donald Chris- Braun, 9-year-old heroine, was awarded tensen, 1943; Mrs. Ethel Pittman, 1944; a medal and citation by William T. Mc- Dubuque (Iowa) Post No. 6 furnished Miss Betty Christensen, 1946, and James Coy Post, Rochester, Minnesota, for a lot of manpower to work against flood pulling a 7-year-old playmate from a Christensen, 1950. . . . Dunalk Squadron conditions when the ol' Mississippi rose No. 38, Sons of The American Legion, deep water-filled hole, saving him from to four feet above the flood stage. Le- Baltimore, Maryland, believes in start- probable drowning. . . . Charles A. Conk- gionnaires manned evacuation details to ing them early. A grandson of Paul lin Post No. 28 and its Auxiliary, Grand help families move from their homes in Dietrich, Past Commander of Dunalk Haven, Michigan, threw a party to help an 80-block area. The Post Service Of- Post, was recently admitted to member- out in the drive for polio funds. Result ficer worked for two weeks as assistant ship when he was just four hours old. Check for $632.58 given to the polio fund. to the Red Cross disaster chairman, and . . . Sharpe General Depot Post No. 632, the Legion home was used as a shelter Lathrop, California, less than six months for displaced persons. The Auxiliary fur- Woodland Hills (California) Post No. old, has organized a Cub Scout Troop, nished over 500 hours of service, super- 826 inaugurated a program to make its a Junior Baseball team, and is sending vising shelters, preparing food, and in home city flag conscious. Boy Scout a lad to Boys' State. The ritual team of other assigned duties. . . . Boy Scouts Troop 118, sponsored by the Post, took Karl Ross Post No. 16, Stockton, assists and Explorers of Troops from Cortez over the flag-sale detail in the residen- in the induction and initiation of new and Mancos, Colorado, completed a two- tial area and in less than one month members. day simulated search for a lost plane in sold 480 flags. Business houses were the rugged mountain country near the nearly ICQ percent supplied — now the Leonard F. Stelfox, Service Officer, famed Mesa Verde National Park. Proj- flag flies in Woodland Hills on all proper General Leonard Wood Post No. 162, ect was under supervision of Marshall occasions from homes and business Hillsdale, New Jersey, has a silver iden- Quackenbush, Department Chairman of buildings. . . , The National Council, Boy tification bracelet with engraving "Dom- the Colorado Legion Boy Scout Com- Scouts of America, has awarded a Cer- enick D'Agostino, Serial No. 31243210" mittee, and Kenny Ross. The mission tificate of Merit to Scout Keith Hawkins, which he will return to the owner. The included troops carrying out the search Newport, New York, for life-saving- bracelet was found at Camp Shanks, under actual conditions and providing prompt action in applying tourniquet to for their own food shelter. Jersey. . . . Paul J. Kolodziej, a and a seriously injured Scout while on camp- New member of Union Beach (New Jersey) ing trip. Scout Hawkins is a member of Post No. 321, does not let the fact that Troop 19, sponsored by West Canada Adjutant John E. Heenan of Noble- he is living in Ankara, Turkey, inter- Valley Post No. 1524 of Newport. , . . Callahan Post No. Troy, York, fere with his Legion interest. In for- 237, New One of the new Legion units is Immi- writes that his Post has 27 of The warding his dues recently, he also sent Sons gration and Naturalization Service Post American Legion drum corps uniforms No. 1789, New York City, with a mem- for sale — green, trimmed with gold — bership composed of eligible veterans in ages 14 to 17, and suitable for any the Immigration and Naturalization ser- GUARD YOUR UBERTY i; junior corps. . . . Activities committee vice in the area. Franklin T. Barnett is of Variety Post No. 313, Cleveland, Ohio, 1 Daniel Webster once said, "God Commander, and has set a goal of 400 1 have initiated a "touch of home" project grants liberty only to those who love members for 1952. I for in service. Copies of the Cleve- |i it and are always willing to guard men i\ and defend it." land News and other local newspapers

I; To speak for liberty, one must are mailed out every day to men in sta- Harold F. Govoni Post No. 387, King- \\ know something of what he speaks. tions all over the country. . . . John ston, Massachusetts, has enlarged its Without knowledge of democracy I' Guess Post No. 425, Rosemead, Cali- Post home to care for an increasing I it operates are without I and how you fornia, sjfonsored a community drive for membership, reports Commander Don i\ defense in attempting to protect our a blood bank, working with the Red Sauer. Dues are automatically paid for \\ heritage of freedom from those who Cross and other active civic groups — all members who are recalled to any \\ would destroy it. slogan for the drive "A pint of blood, 1 Theodore Roosevelt stated, "More branch of the Armed Forces. . . . Millard 1 an hour of time, can be the gift of life F. Wyman, all-'round Legionnaire and than 990 of every 1,000 people in the <> nation have as their first and con- to a man, woman or child." champion membership-getter of Lowe- <\ stant interest their clothing, their McFarlane Post No. 14, Shreveport, \\ mate, their home and children, and Louisiana, has been recalled to the Air Department of Texas has a new kind \\ only few give thought to the struc- Service, stationed at Barksdale Field. of society in of a §2 bill - one bearing the picture of I; ture the which they

Membership score for 1951 ran up to \> live." These few people are wagring National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr.,

1633 Knapp Street, St. 6. bership drive. . . .Rifles to Louis ... In \\ mental phases of the society of your loaned Posts use since 1948, the 18-foot trailer coach \' community: RELIGION, EDUCA- by the Government for use of firing mobile blood bank operated by the 3rd TION, ECONOMICS, and GOVERN- squads can not be sold, National Head- MENT. Ohio Legion District, donated by Trot- ;| quarters warns. If and when the rifles

( \ —Natioind wood Trailers, Inc., has traveled more Americanism Commission have served their purpose they revert to than miles, the Government. 25,000 and has collected 1 rnr. The Ameiican Legion Magazine • July. 1951 • 33 LEONCE LEGENDRE, CHIEF to active military duty in 1942. He held NATL CHAPLAIN RECALLED the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, as exec- WASHINGTON OFFICE, DEAD utive officer of the Military District of TO DUTY WITH AIR FORCE Washington, in charge of the Capital's Leonce R. Le- Major David civilian defense program. His active gendre, 56, Assis- Lefkowitz, Jr., military service terminated in Septem- tant National Ad- National Chaplain ber 1946. jutantofThe of The American Surviving are his widow, Helen American Legion, Legion and Rabbi Murphy Legendre, of 4916 Westway died of a heart at- of the B'nai Zion Drive, Chevy Chase, Maryland, and a tack in Washing- Temple at Shreve- sister and two brothers, all residents of ton, D. C. on May- port, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. is. has been recalled In addition to The Legion, his mem- A two-war vet- to active duty berships included the National Press eran, he had held with the Air Club, the Army-Navy Club, Post-Mor- a series of nation- Force. Initial tem Club and the Military Order of the al American service includes a World Wars. Legion positions 40-day refresher over a period of Major course at the Air 16 years. He was ALL-WOMEN POST SPONSORS David Lefkowitz, Jr. Force Chaplain's Leonce R. Legendre stricken as he left School, Fort Slocum, New York, to his office after SONS OF LEGION SQUADRON which place he was ordered to report completing his day's work. Death oc- on June 11. Joan Stevens Navy Post No. 713, San curred five minutes later in Farragut Tentative orders, on completion of the Francisco, California, — an all-woman Park, one block from the new K Street refresher course, call for a permanent Legion unit of WW2 Navy vets — has American Legion branch headquarters. assignment at Randolph Air Force Base, organized a Squadron of Sons of The Watson B. Miller, American Legion San Antonio, Texas. Major Lefkowitz American Legion composed of members official, was walking across the park will continue his duties as National of WW2 parentage. The oldest of the with him when he was stricken. Chaplain to the expiration of his term Sons is not quite 5 years old, but 14 Funeral services were conducted at at the National Convention at Miami, were enrolled on the charter list. Cali- the Church of the Annunciation with Florida, in October, fornia Detachment Commander Peter burial at Arlington National Cemetery. National Chaplain Lefkowitz was re- Navarra and his ritual team instituted National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., leased from the Air Force in 1946 with the Squadron with the initiation of 8 led American Legion representatives the rank of Major after serving as a of the older members, and another for and an Army unit from nearby Fort Chaplain for three years. His service the Squadron sponsored by San Fran- Myer in according full military honors was in the ETO with the 8th Air Force, cisco Post No. 1. Alan Brajnikoff is Cap- at the graveside. the 136th Station Hospital, and the 9th tain; his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Brajni- A native of Thibodaux, Louisiana, and Air Force. Active in Legion affairs koff, is SAL Chairman. a 30-year member of The American since his return to civilian life as a Another California women's unit, Legion, Legendre was in charge of the member of Lowe-McFarlane Post No. Cleo Davis Post No. 152, sponsors a branch National Headquarters office in Shreveport, Louisiana, he served in Squadron of WWl Sons. 14, Washington since July 1, 1946. He came many official capacities before his elec- Joan Stevens Navy Post has enrolled to the Nation's Capital as Chief of Con- tion as National Chaplain at the Los 140 percent of its membership quota for tact in that office in 1938, following six Angeles Convention last October. 1951, and carries on active Legion pro- years as American Legion National grams, reports Commander Alyce Han- Field Secretary serving southeastern sell. Monthly parties and square dances Howard O'Neill Retires from VA states. For a brief time in 1940 he was are put on at the various hospitals in Department Adjutant of the Louisiana After nearly 30 years of service, most San Francisco as a part of the re-» American Legion. of which as contact representative of habilitation program. Members also put Legendre also was chairman the VA in the New England area, J. from on a Hula Show at hospitals and at Post 1926 to 1932 of the Veterans Adminis- Howard O'Neill, Burlington, Vermont, parties in and around San Francisco. tration claims rating board for the has been retired because of ill health. State of Louisiana. Charter member of Burlington Post No. (July, 1919), Legionnaire O'Neill has A Lieutenant of infantry with 28 R. B. LITTLEFIELD, PAST 2, served in nearly every Post office, as months of service in WWl, he returned NATL VICE COMMANDER, DIES County and District Commander, and was Vermont's Department Commander Raymond B. Littlefield, 56, Lincoln, in 1932-33. An active member of the PLAN YOUR UNIT REUNION Rhode Island, investment banker and Forty and Eight, he was elected Sous long influential in the Legion national Chef de Chemin de Fer at the Prome- FOR MIAMI IN OCTOBER organization, died at Providence on nade Nationale held in 1937. May 25. He had served as Adjutant and Many reunions of veterans of Commander of the Department of Rhode wartime outfits will be staged in Island; as National Vice Commander in Miami during the 1951 National I VETSVP' CAUTIONED TO READ Convention of The American Legion, 1925-26 under National Commander October 15-18. Other units are in- John R. McQuigg, as a member of the GROUP HOSPITAL CONTRACT vited to plan their reunions at that National Executive Committee, and on time. Such reunions in the past have several national committees. Veterans who have service-connected disabilities are cautioned to read proven successful, a good attendance In active business affairs, Legion- being carefully their Blue Cross and other assured by the added attrac- naire Littlefield was President of Little- tions always to be found at an group Hospital insurance contracts field & Co., investment concern at Prov- American Legion National Conven- to determine whether or not treat- tion. idence, and Chairman of the Board of ment of a service-connected disa- Electronics, Inc., Passaic, All inquiries concerning the avail- Facsimile & bility is covered or excluded. Legion ability of meeting space and other New Jersey. Service Officers have reported cases reunion questions should be ad- He is survived by his widow, Mrs. in which veterans were required to dressed to the National Convention Gertrude Rydberg Littlefield; one son, pay for treatment for such disabili- not covered by Reunions Chairman, Henry J. Hal- Raymond B., Jr., East Bridgewater, ties because they were am, 420 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Massachusetts, and one daughter, Mrs. the contract and no prior authori- Florida. zation had been received from VA. Barbara Matthews, Hicksville, Long Island, New York.

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ton, D. C. and in Florida; active Legionnaire, 30th (Old Hickory) Infantry Div. - 5th annual member of Washington Posts and Miami Shores convention, Cleveland, Ohio, July 4-6. Write 30th COMRADES IN DISTRESS Post No. 67. Information needed to establish Div. Inf. Assn., P. O. Box B, Bergen Sta., Jersey claim for widow. Write Waldron E. Leonard, City. N. J. Director, Division of Services to Veterans, 1350 32nd (Red Arrow) Infantry Div. Assn.. (both Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington 4, D. C. WWs) — Annual reunion, Chicago, 111.. Sept. 1-3; Motor Co., SCU 1973, Camp Abbott, Ore., Camp Peary, Va., Area D, August, 1943 — Morrison Hotel. Info from Leo J. Fletcher, Presi- ERTC — Urgently need to locate lat Lt. George Will shipmates who recall incident on drill field dent, Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111. W. Ealey, CO. from May, 1943, to May, 1944. when I sustained back injury while running and 37th (Buckeye) Infantry Div. Assn. — Annual Claim pending. Henry M. Haddox, Route 2, "hitting the deck" please write. Need statement reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 1-3; Gibson Hotel. Columbia, La. to establish service injury. William H. (Red) Write Hdqrs. 37th Div. Vets. Assn.. 1101 Wyan- Marine Barracks, Naval Operating Base, New- Williams, (COM), Collinsville Rd. and 67th St., dotte Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. port, K. I. — Help needed; will any service com- Rt. 3, East St. Louis, 111. 42nd (Rainbow) Div. Vet. Assn. — 33rd annual rade who remembers me at above station January 479th AAA Bn. — Urgently need to hear from reunion, Birmingham, Ala., July 12-14; Hotel to June, 1943, please write; particularly Sgt. medics during 1943. at Portsmouth. Va.. or to Tutwiler. Info from Lindsay L. Cox, Reunion Walter Meyer, believed to be from around NYC. hear from men who can give the names and Secy.. 107 Hermosa Drive, Birmingham, Ala. Christian O. Schnaitman, 108 Byers St., Spring- addresses. Write Frederick Stebbins, Darien, Ga. 69th (Fighting 69th) Infantry Div. Assn. field, Mass. LSM 430 — Will shipmates who know of serious 4th annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 24-26; 320th Field Signal Bn. - Urgently need to hear fall suffered aboard by Fl/c Irving G. Pennini Hollenden Hotel. Info from Banquet Committee, from Shepherd, Captain's orderly at Camp Fre- on or about June, 1945, while off Guam, please 69th Inf. Div. Assn., 135 Broadway. New York 6, mont. Cal., in WWl. Claim pending. James J. write. Statement needed to establish claim. Irving N. Y Mason, 201 West MacArthur St.. Tucson, Ariz. G. Pennini, 143 Pleasant St., Rockland, Mass. 80th (Blue Ridge) Infantry Div. Assn. - 32nd Co. F, 5th Infantry — Need to locate Sgt. Loney 430th Bombardment Sqdrn.. 502nd Bomb. Group annual reunion, Akron, Ohio, Aug. 2-5; Hotel Regan, Sgt. J. T. Potter, Pvts. Magradia and — Need to locate Jesse V. Pimentel, Fish, Cun- Mayflower. Write Harry J. Collette, Resident Hamm and others who were cooks with me. ningham and RoUand, or anyone who can give Secy., 302 Plaza Bldg^ Pittsburgh 2, Pa. Claim pending, eye disability. Paul (Curley) their addresses. Statement needed. James H. 84th (Railsplitter) Infantry Div. — 6th annual Pousson, Route 1, Box 14, Iota, La. Stevenson. Sedan, New Mexico. convention, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 27-29; Statler Co. C. 134th TDRT Bn., 3rd TDRTS, Camp 9th Army Hdqrs. and 2nd Armored Division — Hotel. Info from Natl. Hdqrs., P. O. Box 282. Hood, Texas — Need to contact men who served Will anyone who knew my son, Francis (Frank) Washington 4, D. C. in this outfit in 1943. Disability claim. Jesse E. E. Derby in service, or know of him being hos- 88th (Blue Devils) Infantry Div. Assn. — An- Lopez, 95 Canonicus St., North Tiverton R. I. pitalized in France, please write. Urgent; state- nual reunion, Washington, D. C, Aug. 16-19; Hospital, Deauville, France - Need to contact ments needed to obtain service-connection; vet Shoreham Hotel. Write Hdqrs. 88th Inf. Div. anyone who was in hospital at Deauville, France, now blind and unable to walk; needs VA hospital Assn.. Box 328. Cooper Sta.. New York 3. N. Y. October, 1917, who remembers Newt Rough — care. Mrs. Grace Derby, 6 Thompson Ave., Glenns 91st (Wild West) Infantry Div., (both WWs) he was a patient on crutches. Write Mrs. Helen Falls, N. Y — 33rd annual reunion, Seattle, Wash., Sept. 29; Cannon, 800 Russell, Amarillo Texas. Troop Ship Herald of the Morning—heft San Chamber of Commerce. Write Archie Walker, Co. K, 7th Inf., 3rd Div. - Will Capt. Blake or Francisco for Manila, June 29, 1946. Anyone Secy., Drawer 2219, Seattle 11, Wash. anyone who knows his present address please aboard this ship who remembers a landing barge 92nd (Buffalo) Infantry Div. Vet. Assn. - An- write. Statement needed. Desmond L. Davis, breaking loose 3 days out, killing Corp. Ralph A. nual reunion, Chicago, III., Sept. 6-9; headquarters Route 1, Anderson, Ala. Barton Jr., AF, (buried at sea) and injuring 5745 State St. Info from Jesse L. Carter, National Co. C, 61st Signal Bn. - Will M/Sgt. Antoni, Corp. David Stark, AF, please write David W. Commander, 6223 M: Indiana Ave., Chicago 37, 111. wire platoon chief during Tenn. maneuvers, 1943. (Bill) Stark. 1632 N. Cascade Ave.. Colorado 100th (Century) Infantry Div. — 4th annual re- 44, please contact Harold D. Evans, Morrisville, Springs, Colo. Claim pending. union, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 7-9; Benjamin N. Y. Claim pending. 1564th Engineer Depot Co.—Will anyone who Franklin Hotel. Write Century Assn.. P. O. Box USS Nehenta Bay - Will shipmates please was in this outfit, Fuoka, in 1945, please write. 86, Hartford 1, Conn. write, particularly Chief Photographers Mate Claim pending. Arnold M. Bunnell, 42 Allen St.. 106th Infantry Div. — Reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa.. Lchus, and Photographers Mates Maxwell Dia- Rutland, Vt. July 27-29; William Penn Hotel. Write Bob Mor- mond and John Goodfellow. Need statement to rison, 630 N. Aiken Ave., Pittsburgh 6, Pa. establish claim. Donovan L Griffith, (Pho. M. 2/c) 60th Sea-Bee Bn. — Annual reunion, Richmond, C/o K. M. Fender, Rt. 3, McMinnville, Oregon. Ind., Sept. 1-2; Leland Hotel. Info and reserva- Battery B, 41st Regt. CAC, Fort Monroe, Va., tions from L. C. Martin, 721 N.W. 5th, Richmond. (WWl) - Will anyone in this outfit October and OUTFIT REUNIONS Ind. November, 1918, who remembers me, please write. 315th Trench Mortar Btry., (WWl) - Annual Claim pending. Theodore Halla, Locke Hotel reunion, Bowie, Texas, Nov. 12. All hands write Pierre, S. Dak. Society of the 1st Division— Annual reunion, E. I. Dieschel, P. O. Box 43, Gainesville, Texas. 1st — Bn. Med. Det., 14th Infantry, 71st Inf. Div. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 6-8. Write C. M. USS Pocahontas, (Navy Troop Transport) Urgently — need to hear from men who were Eymer, Box 188, San Diego 7, Cal. Reunion, ship's personnel and war-time passen- with or me know of my injury when I fell from 1st Armored (Old Ironsides) Div. Assn. — 4th gers, 1917-19, in connection with Legion Nati. a truck in Germany. Was Med. Aid man with Co annual reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. :U-Sept. Convention, Miami, Fla., Oct. 15-18. Write M. C. Kenneth E. Watkins, Rt. 2, Mount Vernon, 1-2; Netherlands Plaza Hotel. Contact Leo B. H. Ryan, Director, Enterprise, Fla., or R. Fairley Wash. Connor, Secy.-Ti-eas., 1115 17th St.. N.W.. Wash- Morris, Secy., Box 117, Maxton. N. C. Replacement Depot, Fort Meade. Md. - Will ington 6 D. C. 322nd FA Assn.. (WWl) - 32nd annual re- anyone who witnessed or has knowledge of an 2nd (Indian Head) Div. Assn. — 30th annual union, Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 8. Write L. B. accident to a WAC while alighting from a Public reunion. Philadelphia. Pa.. July 26-28. Info from Fritsch, Secy., P. O. Box 324, Hamilton, Ohio. Relations - jeep in front of the building housing Natl. Hdqrs.. 2nd Div. Assn., llfi N. 3rd St.. 38th QM Co., 38th Inf. Div., (WW2) Annual Special Services and Public Relations, above sta- Camden 2. N. J. reunion, Ludlow, Ky., Aug. 4; CAC Club. Info tion, in May, 1944, please contact t,t. Col. C 3rd (Spearhead) Armored Div. — 4th annual from Paul J. Hefele, Secy., 3439 Duncan Ave.. Allen, W Room 450, U. S. Courthouse, Chicago 111 convention, Columbus, Ohio, July 26-28; Deshler- Cincinnati 8, Ohio. Battery F, 5th FA - Will anyone who served Wallick Hotel. Write Paul W.-Corrigan, Secy.- 112th Amm. Train., 37th Div. Vet. Assn. with Daniel Delly. Reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1-3; Gibson 1913 to 1924 please write John Treas., 80 Federal St., Boston 10, Mass. Sept. biddings. Service Officer, American Legion, 4th (Breakthrough) Armored Div. — 6th annual Hotel. Write C. O. (Kissy) Lister. 701 Ashland McLoud, Okla. Statement Rd.. Mansfield, Ohio. for correction of record. convention, Chicago, 111., July 6-7; Sherman - 164th Depot Brigade, Camp Funston, Kans., Hotel. Info from Albert Rosen, Secy.-Treas., P. O. Cos. E and A, 113th Medical Bn., 38th Div. and Co. B, Evansville, Ind., 18-19. Lawrenci 20th Inf. - Need to hear from men Box 247, Madison Sq. Sta., New York 10, N. Y Reunion, Aug. who served with me above units summer of 1918. 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Div. — Annual C. Wimpelberg, 335 W. Missouri St., Evansvilli glaim, purposes. John B. Tinker. 731 8th St. reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Labor Day week-end. Ind. S.E. — annual Washington, D. C. Info from Frank Mulvaney, Natl. Secy., 1023 S. Military Order of Purple Heart 19th Camp Lee, Va. - Will anyone who served with Farragut Terrace, Philadelphia 43, Pa. national convention. Phoenix, Arizona, August Douglas S. EUi-ngton at Camp Lee in 1945 please 5th (Patton's Ghosts) Armored Div. — Annual 14-18; Westward Ho Hotel. Info from Ned M. contact Joe Warren, Service Officer. American reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 5-7; William Penn Doty, Convention Secy.-Treas., Westward Ho Legion Post 81. Thomaston, Ga. Hotel. Info from Charles Rubel, 885 Middle Rd., Hotel, Phoenix, Ariz. Patrol Gunboat Motorized (PGM 17) — Will Pittsburgh 34, Pa. 749 Tank Bn. — Reunion and basket dinner, shipmates of Gerard Richards, MMlc please 6th (Red Star) Infantry Div. — Annual reunion, Murphy Park Pavilion, New Harmony, Ind., July write, particularly MM2/c Donald Spencer, CMM Milwaukee, Wis., July 26-28; Wisconsin Hotel. 29. Write Jack Keneipp, Poseyville. Ind. Joseph Div., - Lacey, CMM Noonan, Flc Forchee and Write Elroy E. Scholl, 1425 N. 14th St., Mil- Co. H, 319th Infantry. 80th (WWl) Lt. Pittsburgh, ( jg) Menifee. Disability claim pending. Albert waukee 5, Wis. Annual reunion. Kennywood Park, Nadeau, Department Service Officer, The 6th (Super 6th) Armored Div. — Annual re- Pa., July 29. Write W. B. Hayden, Secy.-Tre&s., American Legion, Vet. Administration, Man- union, Columbus. Ohio, Aug. 31-Sept. 1-2; Desh- 44 Academy Ave., Pittsburgh 28, Pa. chester, N. H. ler-Wallick Hotel. Write William E. Rutledge, 904th FA Bn., 79th Inf. Div. — 3rd annual re-» union, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 6-8; Hotel Roosevelt. USS Dane — Shipmates who remember eye Jr., Secy.-Tieas., P. O. Box A, Yadkinville, N. C. trouble of Fl/c Evgene Rothe, 7th (Lucky 7th) Armored Div. — 5th annual Write Al V. Waiksnis, 56 Hazlewood Ave.. please write- Bridgeport Conn. particularly need to hear from Fl/c Robert T convention, Chicago, 111., Aug. 25-26; Sherman 5, ' National Assn. American Balloon Corps Vet- Maxwell, (ex Pittsburgh, Kans.) who bought Hotel. Write Johnnie Walker, Secy., 39 Stillman terans, (WWl) — 20th annual reunion, Omaha. Murine and treated Rothe's eyes. Al Tollefson, Ave. Bergenfield, N. J. Neb.. Oct. 6-10. Contact Theodore E. Nelson, bervice Officer, Oney Johnson-Edward Bles.sman 8th (Pathfinder) Infantry Div. - 4th annual Personnel Adjt.. P. O. Box Post No. 38, American Legion. reunion, Macon, Ga., Aug. 31-Sept. 1; Hotel 234. South Omaha. Appleton, Wis. Nebr. USS Thetis Bay. (CVE 90) - Dempsey. Write B. L. Kersey, Jr., Executive Urgently need to 256th Engineers Combat Bn. — 2nd annual re- hear from shipmates who Secy., 488 1st St., Macon, Ga. know of my sickness union, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 18-19; Hotel Fori during summer of 1943; claim pending. 8th (Iron Snake) Armored Div. — 2nd annual Charles Pitt. Write Robert L. Geist. 2222 E. 68th St., (Chuck) Ainsworth Daniel, L. Etteldorf, convention, Chicago, 111., June 29-July 1; Congress C/o Chicago 49, 111. RFD 3, Waukon. Iowa. Hotel. Info from Daniel M. Garside, Secy., Suite 71st Brigade (formerly 2626th Bri- 1008, 33 N. La Salle St., Chicago 2, III. AAA AAA USS Stewart, (224) -Need to locate Chief 9th Infantry Div. Assn. — 6th annual reunion. gade) — 2nd annual reunion. New York City, Pharmacist s Mate or any shipmates who knew New York City, July 26-28; Hotel Commodore. Aug. 3-5; Hotels Astor or McAlpin. Info and me from June, 1940, through July, 1941. State- Info from Charles O. Tingley, Natl. Secy., P. O. reservations from John (Jeddo) Nero, 2nd St., ments needed for claim for arm injury. Harlan nton. Box Washington 13, D. C. Cem Pa. Hanson, 1192 N. Dale, St. Paul. Minn. 1704, (Victory) Infantry Div. Assn. — 4th an- WAC Veterans Convention — 5th annual con- Co. C. 57th Engineers. 24th Camp Abbott. Oregon nual reunion, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 10-12; Hotel vention, Boston, Mass., Aug. 17-19; registration — Need to hear from men this outfit, fee $12. Write Schnare, St., particularly Tuller. Info from Joseph I. Peyton, Natl. Secy., Agnes 123 Kent Capt. W. J. Neiman, Lt. Myers, (last saw him Brookline, Mass. at Camp Lewis), N. Culver St., Baltimore 29, Md. and Pvts. Harper, Charles Gleck- 25th (Tropic Lightning) Infantry Div. Assn. — 302nd Naval Construction Bn. — 4th annual len. Also, 6th School Co., Atlanta Ord. Depot, reunion, Washington, July 6-8; reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 3-5; Hotel Roose- and 2nd annual D. C, a Capt. Bennett, Fort McPherson hospital, Hotel Statlcr. Info from Assn. Secy., P. O. Box velt. Contact Chairman Earl H. Eaton. 3841 who treated Delco Rd., Pittsburgh 27. Pa., or Secy. Harry me. Ivan Van Note, Saybiook, 111. 101, Arlington 1, Va. W. Major Howard Kelly Livingston — Information 29th (Blue and Gray) Infantry Div., (both Price, Jr.. 135 W. 3rd St., Lewistown. Pa. 376th Heavy Bomb Group Vet. Assn. — 5th an- urgently needed about service this man in WWl, WWs) — 32nd annual reunion. Newark, N. J., reunion. believed to have served in Marines. Pioneer in Oct. 12-14. Contact William E. Guthrie, Court nual Omaha, Nebr., July 26-29; Hotel movie industry, and long in business at Washing- House. HackensBck, N. J. 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The Ameiiccm Legion Magazine • July, 1951 • 35 OAKEY NAMED TO SUCCEED HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION OUTFIT REUNIONS LEGENDRE AT WASHINGTON SPURS INTEREST OF POSTS (Continued from page 35) Castle. Write Wiley Golden, 371 Probasco Ave., Cincinnati 20, Ohio. Jack M. Oakey, Prompted by the laxity in writing Battery A, 8»2nd Field Artillery Bn. - Annual Post and Department histories of The reunion, Chicago, 111., July 14; Morrison Hotel. I Info from Wayne L. Brannon, Secy., 1st American Legion, a Depart- 630 N. group of St. Vandalia, 111. ment Historians got together for a American Railroad Transportation Corps, (both WWs) — National reunion, New York City, Aug. breakfast meeting at the Philadelphia 26-30; Hotel Plymouth. Info from Gerald J. National Convention in 1949, called by Murray, Natl. Adjt., 150 S. Rebecca Ave., Scran- ton. Pa. National Historian Monte C. Sandlin. 312th Bomb Group, (Roarin' 20s) — Reunion, As a result of that meeting a provisional Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 3-5; Hotel Sinton. Write Raymond A. Grebla, RD 5, State Highway 31, organization of the National Associa- Somerville, N. J. tion of American Legion Department 163rd Infantry, (WW2) - Reunion, June 30- July 1st, Chicago, III.; Morrison Hotel. Reserva- Historians was effected. tions direct or contact Gene L. Adams, Secy., Bo.x Two of the most active officers of the 243, McHenry, 111. Co. B, 784th MP Bn. - Reunion, Macon, Ga., Association have died since the Los Aug. 4; Hotel Dempsey. Contact C. D. Burgess, Angeles meeting, resulting in serious Box 743, Anderson, S. C, or John H. Culver- house, Zebulon Rd.. Macon, Ga. Jack M. Oakey denly on May 15. delay in some of the organizational 388th Bomb Group — Reunion, Columbus, Ohio, The appointment work. Department Historian Walter July 6-8; Deshler-Wallick Hotel. Info and reser- vations from Robert L. Pfeiflfer, Chairman, at was announced on May 25 by National Naughton, Vice President, died on hotel address. Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., and Oakey March 7. Miss Shirley Coulson, Denver, 10th Station Hospital — Annual reunion, Water- loo, Iowa, Sept. 14-16. Write Harlan V. Epland, took up his duties in his station new Department Historian of Colorado and 153 Sherman Ave., Waterloo. Iowa. on May 28. Secretary-Treasurer of the Association, 38th Infantry Regt. Assn. — Annual reunion, both WWs, Philadelphia, Pa., July 26-28; Hotel national authority vet- served Known as a on who had as the organizing agent, Adelphia. Write A. H. Zindel, Secy., 558 W. 193rd erans' legislation and rehabilitation passed away on April 18. St.. New York 33, N. Y 71st Construction Battalion — 2nd reunion, St. matters, Assistant National Adjutant for the Organized purpose of coor- Louis, Mo.. Aug. 29-31; New Jefferson Hotel. Oakey was serving his eighth year as dinating Legion history and for mutual Info from H. H. Tarrant, 1036 Adams St., Quincy 111. Director of the Legion's National Field assistance, the Association of Depart- 773ra Tank Destroyer Bn. — Reunion, New Service, stationed at the National Head- ment Historians serves the organiza- Orleans. La., Oct. 10-11. Write Frank G. Spiess, 14 Jackson Barracks, New Orleans 17, La. his tion in quarters at Indianapolis, when pro- a much broader field in stimu- 63 rd Sea-Bee Bn. — 5th annual convention, motion was announced. lating and directing the compilation of Cleveland, Oliio, Labor Day week-end; Carter Contact James, 19415 Nyack St., native Chicagoan, he enlisted for histories of the local units. marked Hotel. A. C. A A Cleveland 10, Ohio. service in WWl immediately after his increase has been noted in the number — Co. E, 145th Inf. (WW2) - Reunion, Ashland Armory, Ashland, Ohio, Aug. 4-5. Write Joseph graduation from college with an A.B. and character — of Post histories entered O. Morehead, 422 S. Lisbon St., Carrollton, Ohio. Degree in June, 1917. He served with in the national Post History Contest 603th Tank Destroyer Bn. — 2nd annual picnic. Lake Lansing Park, Lansing, Mich., Sept. 2. Evacuation Hospital No. 16 in France — since its organization. Info from Albert M. Bachelder, 804 W. Jefferson in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and President McCreary calls attention to St., Grand Lodge, Mich. Operating Bn. Assn. — 2nd annual other campaigns — and was discharged the 1951 Post History Contest with cash 310th Signal reunion, Reading, Pa., Sept. 8; Hotel Abraham as a Master Hospital Sergeant at Camp prizes for the winning contestants. The Lincoln. Write Elwood R. Ruppert, Chairman, Jefferson St., Reading, Pa. Grant, Illinois, on 1919. contest will close 214 August 8, on August 15th, when Anti-Tank Co., 409th Inf., 103rd Div. - Re- Immediately associating himself with all entries must be lodged in the office union at Chicago, 111., in Oct., information from Scheer, Pleasant Hill, Mo. vet- of the Richard The American Legion, the young National Historian. 93rd Sea-Bees — 4th annual reunion, Wash- eran became a charter member of Wil- ington, D. C, Sept. 22-23; Hotel Annapolis. Oneida Place N.W., liam McKinley Post No. 236 in Chicago, Write C. E. Mastin. 509 THE AMERICAN LEGION Washingtor 11, D. C, or George E. Norris, 3532 but on removal to Denver transferred A St., S.E., Washington 19, D. C. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS — annual reunion. his membership to Leyden-Chiles- 273rd FA Bn., (WW2) 4th INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA Joplin, Mo., Aug. 11-12. Write D. E. Higgins, Wickersham Post No. 1, of which he 2821 E. 12th St., Joplin, Mo. APRIL 30, 1951 — has been a member for 25 years. He 588th Signal Depot Co. Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1-3. Info from Dale A. Sweet, 1260 E. served as Commander of his Post; De- ASSETS Springfield, Mo. University, - partment Membership Chairman, 1934- Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .$ 564,993.94 21st Supply Sqdr., 21st Air Depot Group Receivables 883,541.47 Reunion, Dayton, Ohio, July 21-22; Dayton Bilt- 35; Colorado Department Commander, Inventories 513,890.41 more Hotel. Reservations and info from Lee A. 1935-36, and Department Americanism Invested Funds 667,841.00 Jones, 27 E. Bataan Drive, Dayton, Ohio. Permanent Trusts: 113th Engineers Assn., (WWl) — Annual re- Chairman, 1937-38 to name but a few Overseas Graves Decoration union. Forest Park, Noblesville, Ind., Sept. 29- highlights in his long Legion service Trust Fund $ 251,909.45 30. Write Charles M. Beal, Secy., 321 S. Main St., Employees' Retirement Tipton, Ind. record. . — Trust Fund . . 1,222,424.41 1,474,333.86 39th Engineering Sqdrn. Reunion, Richmond, Ind., Aug. 5. Contact G. R. Glass, RR 2, Box Appointed a National Field Secretary Real Estate, less depreciation. . . . 787,625.33 Furniture and Fixtures, 109, Indianapolis, Ind. by National — reunion, Commander Milo J. Warner less depreciation 310,624.43 Co. C, 730th Ry. Bn. 4th annual Hotel Chicagoan. Write in 1941, serving the area composed of Deferred Charges 76,234.55 Chicago, 111., Aug. 24-25; J. H. Smotherman, 1407 S. 15th Ave., Maywood, $5,279.084.99 Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, III. — Utah and Wyoming, he was promoted Military Railway Service Veterans 5th an- LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE nual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 21-22; Hol- to Director of the Service on December AND NET WORTH lenden Hotel. Info from Fred J. Popowich, Dep- 15, 1943, by National Commander War- uty Director General, Station Master's Office, Current Liabilities $ 265,244.05 Pennsylvania Station, New York 1, N. Y ren H. Atherton. Funds restricted as to use 477,011.37 217th Coast Artillery AA, (National Guard) - Deferred Income 1,268,709.39 Reunion, St. Cloud, Minn., Sept. 29-30. Write Permanent Trusts: Bob Molitor, 315th 7th Ave., North, St. Cloud, BABE STEAGALL, TENNESSEE Overseas Graves Decoration Mini?. Trust $ 251,909.45 505th Ordnance Co. HM-TK — 6th annual re- Employees' Retirement union, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 1-2. Write Wilbur LEGION LEADER SUCCUMBS Trust 1.226,767.23 1,478,676.68 J. Reinke, Stop 60, Avon Lake, Ohio. Net Worth: Medical Det., 261st Infantry, 65th Div. - Re- G. W. (Babe) Steagall, widely known Restricted Capital: union, Chicago, 111., June 29-July 1; Palmer House. Write Tom Tiernan, 6250 No. Bell Ave., Tennessee American Legion leader, died Reserve Fund $ 23,464.13 Restricted Fund.. 17,161.86 Chicago 45, 111. recently convention. at his home at Nashville. He Reserve for construction 27th Armored FA Assn.—Annual Cincinnati, Ohio, July 28-29; Netherlands Plaz.T served as Tennessee's Department Wash, office . . . 786,397.65 Com- Hotel. Information from R. W. Bassett, Box 33C, Real Estate . . 80.000.00 907,023.64 mander in 1928-29, and as Department Werk Road, Cincinnati 11, Ohio. Unrestricted Capital: 13th Infantry Regt. Officers' Assn.— Annual re- Adjutant in 1944-45. For some years Surplus 254,369.73 union. Old Point Comfort, Va., July 13-15; Excess of Income over he was a member of the National Re- Chamberlin Hotel. Contact L. S. Sohn, Jr., 815 Expense 4 habilitation Commission, and in his Mortgage Guarantee Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., for long months . 628,050.13 882.419.86 Legion career details. had held many other im- 1,789,443.50 533rd Ord. KM Co. (Tank)—Reunion and pic- portant Department and National Com- $5,279,084.99 nic, Harrisburg, Pa., July 28; headquarters Penn- Harris Hotel. Contact "Big Joe" Schmidt, 1154 mittee posts. Market St., Harrisburg, Pa.

3g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 . . . . : . . . Veterans Newsletter

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

July, 1951

KOREA WAR VETS GETS WARTIME BENEFITS: through. . . .That may only delay payment by getting

After months of delay. Congress received, acted file out of the regular order . . . .Rate of payment upon, passed and sent to the President a Joint varies by type of policy held, length of time in Resolution extending certain wartime benefits force, age of policyholder ... .No simple formula is available - VA uses some separate dividend . . 3,000 to veterans of the war in Korea. . (Now Public rates computed on the conditions of age, amount Law 28, 82nd Congress) . . . All t his was done within of policy, etc.... But for vets under 40 who hold two hours on May 10. . . .Cause: Storm of protest, including strong telegram to leaders in Vet full amount ($10,000) under the term plan, the affairs in Congress from National Commander Erie rate of payment is about 50 cents per month for each $1,000.... All policies, term and permanent plan, Cocke. Jr . over refusal of VA hospital to admit ex-Marine for treatment ... .New law extends in force for three months between their anniversawy dates from 1948 to 1951, will share in the $685,- benefits granted to WW2 vets to provide medical . hospital and domiciliary care, burial benefits, 000,000 refund. compensation and pension benefits at wartime rates Public Law 36j. 82nd Congress, signed by the for "peacetime" vets of the war in Korea and their President on May 18, provides that future dividends may be applied to pay premiums on NSLI dependents . . . . (See more complete article in

National Legionnaire section) . . . .Law does not extend privileges of the GI Bill, Social Security PLANS FOR RELEASE OF RESERVISTS ON ACTIVE DUTY: wage credits, and other benefits grainted to WW2 Department of Defense, through House Subcommit- vets ... .Legion will continue fight to overcome tee on Reserve Affairs, has announced plans for these inequalities and inequities releasing Reservists who have been called back

to active duty. . . .Plans vary in detail due to SERVICEMEN'S INDEMNITY ACT OF 1951: organizational differences in services, but all are New, automatic GI insurance law was signed by designed to secure release within reasonable

the President on April 25 , (Public Law 23, 82nd period of Reservists who served in WW2....This

Congress) , but before final passage Congress applies particularly to men ordered into active softened one feature in line with Legion urging duty from inactive status ... .Speed of release de-

. . . .This is the law that grants present day pends to a great extent on military requirements in servicemen and women automatic and free insur ance Korea and elsewhere and the availability of coverage of $10.000 while in service and for 120 tr a ined repl acements for their relief days there a fter (death gratuity. ) ... .As finally Army plans to start releasing in September en- passed provision was included to permit present listed Reservists who were ordered into active Armed Forces personnel to apply for NSLI term military service as individuals from a non-pay

insurance within 120 days after discharge .... This status in the Inactive and Volunteer Reserves. . . . post-war or post-discharge insurance to be main- As first step, enlisted Reservists in these

tained and paid for by themselves as civilians. . . . classes who were granted a delay and have not yet Privilege of converting such term insurance to a reported for duty will not now be required to serve. permanent plan is not permitted, except to those Cancelling of orders issued to Inactive and Volun- defined by the VA as uninsurable by private insur- teer Reservists does not apply to members of units ance companies because of service -connected of the Active Reserve and National Guard. .. .How- disabilities . . . .Act denies right of WWl and WW2 ever, Army will continue to accept individual En- vets to obtain new insurance under Government Life listed Reservists who volunteer for 21 months.... or National Service Life plans. . . .Also, denies Return of Inactive Enlisted Reservists from Korea reinstatement of term insurance lapsed under a for release will necessarily be correlated with previous term - reinstatements must be made under rot ation of comba t personnel from tha t area^ the current term.... But Act expressly provides Navy will begin releas ing en listed Volunteer that nothing contained in either the Servicemen's Reservists in July who were recalled to active Indemnity Act or Insurance Act of 1951 shall re- duty from a non-pay drill status .... Initially, strict any right under insurance contracts issued about 1,000 of these Reservists will be released on or prior to the date of the laws. . . .Holders of monthly. . . .By October, it is planned, the number USGLI and NSLI eure cautioned to keep premiums paid will be stepped up to 6,000 monthly, about one- and keep their insurance in full force. third of whom will be Organized Reservists.. . . Reserve Officers will generally be required to NSLI SPECIAL DIVIDEND: serve a minimum period of 21 months - program for Checks for second specia l NSLI dividend tq cover release of these Reserve Officers will not go into policies in force between 1948 and 1951 are flow- effect before April, 1952 ... .Determination of ing out of VA at the rate of about 150,000 each when a Reservist is to be released is based on the week. .. .Checks are sent as soon as possible after essentiality of his pa rticul ar skill . whether he anniversary date of policy ... .About one full year was in a drill-pay status when recalled, and will be required to clean up the operation bulk whether or not he is a WW2 vet of payments should be completed on the 8,200,000 A ir Force personnel ordered to extend active duty policies by April, 1952.... The payments are auto- from the Volunteer Reserve will have opportunity matic - no application is required - and, above to elect relief from such duty after 12 months .... all, do not write to ask when your check is coming Reserve Officers of Volunteer Reserve ordered into

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active duty since June 25, 1950, may be required to received and paid jip until March 31. 1953 ....

serve a minimum of 21 months . . . . Records indicate that approximately 35,000 elig- and Organized Reserve airmen ordered to active duty ible WW2 veterans and their dependents have not may obtain release upon completion of 21 months' yet made application, according to I]L C^. Ashenfel-

active service or upon termination fif their enlist- ter . Administrator of Division of Veterans Com- ments, plus the 1-year extension under Public Law pensation . . . .Payment is made at the rate of $10

^24, whichever is earlier . . . .ROTC graduates re- per month for home service and $15 per month for porting for active duty for a 24-month tour will service outside continental limits of U. S be released on its completion, if they so desire. Eligibility requirements: Service between Decem- Marine Corps plans to permit the release from ber 7, 1941, and September 2, 1945; honorable dis- active duty of essentially all of its Reservists charge, or still in service. .. .Must havg been who so desire by June 30, 1952. . . .This will involve State citizen or resident ai least one year preced- some 5,400 Officers and 58,500 enlisted men of the ing entry into service, or immediately preceding Volunteer and Organized Marine Corps Reserve.... December 7, 1941, if in service on that date.... Top priority for release will go to WW2 vets Next-of-kin of servicemen who died in service Second, to non-vets who were serving in the Reserve are eligible in following order: Unremarried widow, prior to the Korean fighting . . . .Third, to those surviving dependent children or dependent parents who voluntarily joined the Reserve for immediate . . . .Applications forms are available from State assignment to extended active duty since the out- Auditor. Division of Veterans Compensation. Olvm- breaJt of the Korean fighting. . . Personnel will be pia , Washington. released in each class on a "first inj^ first out" basis. .. .Non-veteran officers do not share in INDIANA WW2 BONUS PAYMENT SPEEDED UP: above priority classifications, nor do any Second At last session. Indiana State Legislature pro- Lieutenants - these officers will be required to vided for early payment of WWg bonus to three se^ve minimum of 21 months . . . .Qualified enlisted a special classes . . . .These are: (1) Next-of-kin of Reservists may join the regular Marine Corps those who died of service-connected causes while without loss of rank or precedence. on active wartime duty; (2) Service-connected dis- WEST VIRGINIA BONUS TIED UP: abled who are rated with a disability of 10 percent or more, and (3) the 100 percent non-service con- Authorized by the voters at ihe November. 1950. nected disabled. . . Checks for the three classes election, ajid with the passage of a $90,000,000 will start to flow out about July 1. . . .WW2 vets bond issue by the Legislature in West Vir- 1951, not in the three categories^ will await their turn ginia vets of WWl and WW2 still do not have a war- under the original law. . . .It is expected that final service bonus in sight ... .Of ficial Washington, payment will be made in late 1954 or early 1955. . . through Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson, called Deadline for applications expired on April 30. the bonus "inflationary" and asked Governor Okev 1951 . . . .Bonus is being paid from funds raised by a E. Patteson to cancel or postpone sale of the bond special tax. . . .Under original law no payments were issue.... The Governor refused, saying that the to be made until a sufficient fund had accrued to issue had been doubly approved, by the voters and pay all at one time, estimated to be completed the Legislature, and that he had no authority to with the 1954 teix. cancel or postpone. . . .But on May 23, the date set for opening bids for $67,0000,000 in bonds, there THAT GREEN LOOP ON GI SHOULDERS: were no bids .... Investment bankers acting under American soldiers and officers who wear green the Washington protest refused to bid. .. .Applica- on their shoulders are not necessarily Irish - but tion blanks were to be ready by July 1 - with no bet your chips they're fighting men.... The green money in sight, the whole bonus matter will be shoulder loop, now seen frequently, is an honor delayed, at least for a time. reserved for combat commanders only.... It signi- Governor Patteson and other State officials have fies that the wearer is a leader in a fighting unit, under consideration a plan of buying the bonds and tha t he has the responsibility of command .... from the surplus and uninvested money in the Known as the Combat Commander's Identification, the Workmen's Compensation Fund and other public funds two green cloth "sleeves" or bands are worn in the ....However, the money immediately in sight from middle of both uniform shoulder loops to give this source is inadequate to care for the eunount recognition to those shoulders who lead units of required. . . West Virginia Legion Executive Com- ground - combat - forces ... .Both officers and mittee has called upon Governor Patteson to use non-commissioned officers are eligible to wear such uninvested funds as are available and devise the identification, provided they hold command other means to proceed with "Operation Bonus.".... jobs in specified units of the Army's combat Meanwhile, because of the Washington intervention, forces. Mountain State vets will wait for their bonus. MONTANA BONUS WAITS COURT DECISION: OFFICER CANDIDATE FLOPS STAY IN ARMY: Action attacking the constitutionality of the Soldiers who fail office r candidate courses are War service honorarium voted in Montana last must stay in the Army as enl isted men , if they November, is likely to tie up final decision for draft eligible. So says a new regulation effective who enlisted several months. .. .Two actions are before the June 1.... Under old regulations those Supreme Court ... .One, to restrain the authorities to take officer candidate courses, and who failed, from selling the $22,000,000 in bonds, and two, could leave the service. attacking the constitutionality of the initiative FEDERAL AID TO MEDICAL EDUCATION: measure. . . District Judge J. B. McClernan . Butte, upheld validity of the honorarium - which is a To encourage existing medica l schools to provide bonus by another najne - in the first instance, thus for and accept a limited number of medical students paving the way for appeal to the Supreme Court .... above the entrance averages of the past three A complainant brought the second action, claiming years, the Legion's Legislative Commission is the measure is unconstitutional on 14 technical supporting S. 337.... This is the "Emergency Pro- points. .. .Lower court ruled it was legal.... fessional Health Training Act" which, to decrease Supreme Court has final say-so on both actions. the shortage of doctors, provides for Federal aid for medical education. .. .This is an emergency NEW APPROPRIATION FOR WASHINGTON BONUS: measure to run for five years.... The Commission

Under new appropriation act . applications for calls on Legionnaires to write their Senators Washington State WW2 war-service bonus can be asking that the principles of S. 337 be enacted.

38 The Kids Do Big Things on a Small Scale

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officials of General craft arts of our forefathers, have been houses reaching into the four comers of In 1937, however, to broaden its scope. A given a rude jolt. Every sign points the the nation, more than 300,000 boys, from Motors decided added. other way. Oldsters have returned to 8 to 20 years old, develop vocational skills model automobile competition was original com- working with their hands on an unprece- and aptitudes by using club tools and Since the beginning of the have received $320,500 dented scale. machinery for their own projects. Mem- petition, 91 boys by the Larry Eisinger, editor of How to Build bership costs only 254 to $2.00 a year. in college scholarships awarded rec- Guild. total of $741,000 has been shared It, one of several Fawcett publications Members have full use of clubhouse A state winners. covering the hobby and craft fields, re- reation and vocational facilities. by national, regional and war, the Napoleonic fers to these grown-ups as "The Tinker- The Boys' Clubs movement has spread Shortly after the Emphasis ing Public." He declares more Americans until the present dollar value of its physi- coach project was discontinued. it shifted to originality of design em- today are "building it, fixing it, making cal equipment is $68,000,000, and em- was full-time in models of modem automobiles. it run and then changing it" than ever ploys more than 6,000 part- and bodied total in- before in our history. workers. Over 21,000 public-spirited men This year, awards will $65,000, 40 regional Before we return to what one educator and women serve on its bocirds of direc- cluding 686 state awards, scholarships. calls "our fabulous youth," let's note tors, or in auxiliary organizations of local awards and 8 vmiversity Guild pro- briefly what their elders are doing. units. Men like former President Herbert From its earliest days, the leading school- In 1951, according to the magazine Hoover, who is chairman of the board, gram was indorsed by Mechanix Illustrated, a $300,000,000 profits and William Edwin Hill, president, guide men of the nation. Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, and royalties melon will be sliced up its hobby program. In 1947, the National director of research. Northwestern Uni- among American inventors. A substantial Executive Committee of The American versity, declared, "There is little doubt established by the Guild chunk of it will go to home workshop Legion indorsed Boys' Clubs and pledged that procedures hobbyists. aid in establishing new units. are successful in discovering some of the In Rochester, N. Y., the Deputy Com- In addition to the National Model Air- best talent among American boys." missioner of Commerce helps hobbyists plane Contest mentioned earlier, two big A stronger statement was made by J. the FBI. "If make big money, if they're of an inven- annual competitions act as magnets that Edgar Hoover, director of tive turn of mind. He reports that since attract the nation's growing army of every young American," he said, "would 1946 "gadgeteers" from 48 states have hobby fans. One of them, a model car- play his part in some worth-while activ- sent him workable ideas. The city's repu- building competition, is sponsored by ity, such as that offered by the Crafts- tation as a gadget center has boosted its Fisher Body Division of General Motors man's Guild, I firmly believe present annual industrial income by more than Corporation. It is open to contestants from juvenile delinquency would subside con- $3,000,000. 12 to 19 years old. The other, Plymouth siderably." Scale-model railroaders, most of whom International Model Plane Contest, is As was foreseen by the contest plan- are adults connected with railroading, are sponsored by Plymouth Division of ners, inventiveness displayed in Guild spending over $5,000,000 a year on their Chrysler Corporation. It draws boys and competition has been a stark rebuttal to hobby, according to the New York Herald girls 5 to 21 years old. theories of viewers-with-alarm, who were Tribune. They own and operate enough The Fisher Body Contest was started ready to write oft America's native tra- track to reach eight times across the U. S. in 1930, when the Fisher Body Craftsman's dition of skill and ingenuity. One of the nation's big department Guild was founded. Its program was de- A few boys reported they had built stores, R. H. Macy & Co., New York, fea- signed to interest teen age boys in fine their cars in modem workshops equipped tured a hobby show as a promotion stunt craftsmanship. It met with enthusiastic with labor-saving tools. But others con- this year. In the country's most bustling response. A total of more than 2,300,000 fessed they had constructed their entries city, it was a smash hit. In the future, boys has enrolled in the Guild since its on kitchen tables, using their mothers' according to Earl Bridgette, who planned inception. More than 250,000 now enter discarded household utensils for working the innovation, it will be an annual event. the contest annually. implements. It all adds up to a boom in creative At one time, the competition centered One Oregon boy experimented with hobby work. In fact, to meet a rising de- around the construction of a Napoleonic dozens of metals for use as chrome trim mand, more than a thousand retail stores, coach, which was a purely craft project. on his model. Then he found that an alu- that handle nothing but hobby supplies, now can be fovmd in every section of the U.S. Most hobby enthusiasts draw a line be- tween what they call "active" hobbies and "inactive" ones. The latter are pur- suits like stamp, coin, or butterfly collect- ing, so popular 30 years ago. Active hob- bies are those in which things get built, and in which the things may, or may not, function after they are built. This brings us to the younger genera- tion. Youthful hobbyists today want to build things, not collect them. The but- terfly net has been replaced by a set of X-Acto, Burgess, Handee, or Casco hand tools. They may cost as little as 50«( for a single knife. A complete assortment may run to $15, or more. Only in a headline writer's imagination could young America be portrayed as a street-corner hoodlum, a zip gun in one hand, a switch blade in the other. Youth today is too busy with screwdriver and testing kit to play such a role. If they do not own their own hobby "They sure have a funny television set next door— just talking and music tools there are organizations to help them —no screen." out, notable among which is Boys' Clubs ameri(:an legion maoazine of America. Every year, in its 325 club-

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 • 29 minum edging on his mother's kitchen on B-25s and were added to all P-47 peted during August for championship drain board was the most satisfactory, be- Thunderbolts in the command. Sendek prizes. Winners received $7,000 in U. S. cause it took a higher polish. He did not was commissioned a second lieutenant in Savings Bonds and 129 trophies. Compet- reveal his mother's reaction when she the field and was awarded the Legion of ing aircraft ranged from tiny, one-tenth learned of his discovery. Merit. ounce, rubber-powered models for in- The infinite patience of these young Such boys are the backbone of the door competition, to fast jet and gas- craftsmen was illustrated in a technique Craftsman's Guild. They are pioneers in powered models that reached speeds of used by a Missouri winner in finishing his automotive design and trail blazers after- more than 140 miles an hour. The national model. He applied to his completed car ward in new mechanical techniques. For mark is now around 160 mph! 23 coats of lacquer, 7 coats of sealer, 8 them the American frontier is not dead. Viewers-with-alarm should meet some sprayed coats of primer and, finally, 8 It has only moved forward to meet the of the winners. First-place speed champ additional coats of metallic paint. He then challenge of a machine age. was a teen-age girl, Theresa Grish, of St. rubbed down the body and waxed it to Model airplane builders are of the same John, Ind. A high-point man, winner of assure absolute perfection. The job took breed. But they have this quirk in their three first-place trophies, was Fred W. about 400 hours. creative thinking: they want their models Sage, of Independence, Mo. He was six These boys were not sissies who spent to perform. years old. all their time pottering aroiind their The Plymouth International Model American kids have divided model air- mothers' kitchens. A junior regional win- Plane Contest beckons to these young craft building and flying into three cate- ner from Minnesota and Wisconsin also boys and girls. The contest is four years gories: 1. Gliding, or soaring, models, 2. won high school letters in football, bas- old and it involves more than a million Rubber-powered models, and 3. Gas- or jet-powered models. Most enthusiasts progress through all three stages, in the order named. They learned that way, and it's easier on the pocketbook. Power model competitions are divided into free -flight and control- line flight. The former is what the name implies. A plane is flown on its own for a few sec- onds. Its total performance is measured and judged. Control-line flying means a plane's owner controls it from the ground by two wires, which act as controls and tether. The latter method is the nearest thing to piloting a plane that has been devised. That is its great appeal to modem, air- minded yoimgsters. At the National Con- test, young "pilots" skillfully took their planes off from, and landed them on, the deck of a simulated aircraft carrier! Rules for flying competitions are pre- scribed by the Academy of Model Aero- nautics, a division of the National Aero- nautics Association. It represents the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, a world-wide parent organization. Provisions have been made for compe- titions between jet and rocket-powered models. Lately, the glo-plug power plant AMERICAN LEUION MAGAZINE has given a great impetus to model avia- tion. ketball and tennis, while maintaining people annually. That record will of In its simplest terms, a glo-plug is high grades in school work. course be broken. merely a thumb-size spark plug engine, The boys enjoyed other normal activi- It begins on a local level, when Chrys- which is started on current supplied by ties. A Red Wing, Minn., youth, senior ler dealers across the country sponsor battery. As soon as the plug heats up, or regional winner from Minnesota and Wis- regional meets. As many as 100,000 people "glows," ignition commences and the consin, put finishing touches on his car have attended one of these previews of motor operates with battery removed. in his workshop while his "steady date" the main event. Winners there compete These motors, rated up to about one sat beside him, knitting him a sweater. in the International, held in Detroit. horsepower, rvm "without ignition" until What happens to boys who win uni- The Army, Navy and Air Force have they are stopped, or until the fuel, a gaso- versity scholarships in the Fisher Con- cooperated closely in developing the line mixture, is exhausted. test? A recent survey made by the Crafts- competition. A recent communication Credit for perfecting the glo-plug is man's Guild supplied answers to that from the Air Force informed Chrysler, generally given to Arthur Hasselbach, an question. "The not only is A.M. A. official, who conducts the Plym- One winner, Edward N. Sendek, of watching the program of model airplane outh International Contests. Now he Canonsburg, Pa., finished college in time buUding, but is giving it all proper en- heads Consolidated Model Engineering to become a technical sergeant in the couragement." Company, located in the Bronx, New 340th Bombardment Group in short- Civilian authorities agree the armed York City. ly after the invasion of Africa. At the forces have tempered their encourage- Most model plane builders use stock time, B-25s could carry only four 1000- ment with tact and wisdom. They have glo-plug motors, ranging in price from pound bombs, or eight 250-pounders, or never attempted to control the model avi- $4.95 to $15, which develop from 7,500 to twelve 120 -pound fragmentation bombs ation program, as did Italy and Germany. 18,000 rpm's, or about seven times the in their bomb bays. It became necessary As a result, America's young model build- propeller speed of military planes. They to step up the load of fragmentation ers operate on a technical free enterprise are taken apart by their youthful owners, bombs. system. It has produced dazzling results, polished to mirror-like surfaces, and re- Working all one night, Sendek de- whereas the programs in Italy and Ger- assembled to produce higher speeds. signed and built a bomb rack adapter many ended in failure. The same glo -plugs are converted by that increased the fragmentation bomb In the 1950 International, with military their owners to drive model racing cars

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How to Get to MIAMI Where the National Convention will meet Oct. 15th to I8th

BY AUTOMOBILE From New York $28.58 o.w. $ 51.46 r.t. Denver 42.44 76.42 Chicago 29.38 52.90 25.13 45.25 Salt Lake City 49.57 89.24 FROM US Highway #1, which runs from Canadian Los Angeles .... 56.58 101.89 NEW YORK border through Maine, Boston, New York, San Francisco . . 58.13 104.65 CITY Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, (Note: Subject to change) Va.; Raleigh, N. C; Columbia, Ga.; Savannah, Ga.; Jacksonville, Fla., thence by scenic coastal BY RAILROAD highway AlA through St. Augustine; Daytona Beach; Vero Beach; Palm Beach; Fort Lauder- dale to Miami. Approx. mileage 1405 — 3-4 days traveling. Many excellent motels along route. Get United Motor Courts Guide; FHA Guide; Rate—Coach Esso Auto Court Guide, etc. (Courtesy American Express Co.) o.w. r.t. FROM Seaboard Air Line, via Philadel- Alternate and popular route is the more scenic NEW YORK phia, Washington, Baltimore, "Ocean Highway," little shorter, is the a which CITY Richmond, Raleigh, Savannah, same as until reach Newcastle, Del. #1 you Jacksonville. Also Atlantic Coast There you take U. S. 13 to Charles, Va.; Cape Line, both leaving on Perma. take ferry to Norfolk, Va.; thence by US 17 to R.R 35.71 65.81 Jacksonville AIA to Miami. FROM New York Central, connecting FROM US 25, via Dayton, Cinciimati, Lexington, Ky.; DETROIT with Southern and Florida East DETROIT Asheville, N. C; into Augusta, Ga., where you Coast 38.36 68.90 pick up 1 and proceed as above. 1422 miles. US FROM N. Y. Central (The Royal Palm) 4 days easy; 3 days pushing. CHICAGO connecting as above 36.52 65.75 FROM US 41, which comes down from Egg Harbor, FROM St. Louis-San Francisco Line . . . 32.42 58.40 CHICAGO Milwaukee, via Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta ST. LOUIS and picks up US 1. 1313 miles, 3 days. FROM Union Pacific 118.45 SALT LAKE CITY via Denver, from which fare is 96.70 FROM US 61 to Memphis; US 78 to Birmingham, Ala.; ST. LOUIS US 31 to Montgomery, Ala.; US 231 to Tallahas- FROM Union or Southern Pacific 120.75 see, Fla.; US 27 to Miami. 1391 miles. 3-4 days. LOS ANGELES

FROM US 40 to Denver; US 36 to St. Joseph, Mo.; US FROM Union or Southern Pacific. 120.75 SAN FRANCISCO SALT LAKE 71 to Kansas City, Mo.; US 50 east to St. Louis, Notes: All above fares are subject to 15% Fed. CITY then as above. 2844 miles. 7 days. Transportation Tax. FROM US 101 south to San Diego; US 80 east via In all cases there are extra charges for LOS ANGELES Phoenix, Ariz.; El Paso, Texas. US 90 to San reserved seats, $1.00 in most cases. Antonio, Houston, New Orleans. Into Florida In some instances, there are slightly at Pensacola, thence to Tallahassee. US 27 to lower round trip fares within 30 days. Miami. Travel time: 7-8 days.

FROM Either east via US 50 to Salt Lake City, then BY AIRLIIVE SAN FRANCISCO continue as in second box above, or south via US 101 to Los Angeles, then continue as box above. 3633 miles. 8-9 days.

(Prices do not include Tax) BY BUS o.w. r.t. FROM Both National Airlines and East- NEW YORK ern Airlines, night coach flights; CITY 5 hours non-stop flights 53.35 106.70 Both Greyhound Bus Lines and National Trail ways operate good through schedules between FROM (Also serve from Philadelphia, above cities and Miami. Traveling times very WASHINGTON Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston) 87.30 43.65 much the same as above. Rates: (Continued on page 47) 41 (Continued jrom page 40) Active clubs are maintained at Fort Scott, by the Legion in advancing a model air- and speed boats. Competition in both Calif., Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; and plcine program. Then, as people usually fields now is attracting as many adults Chanute Air Force Base, HI. The Military do, tliey made suggestions. as youngsters. Costs are high, and an ex- Academy at West Point has a club. So Irwin Polk, president of Polk's Model pert's knowledge of motors is necessary have ROTC units at Tulane University Craft Hobbies, Inc., New York City, one to keep them in top condition. and Culver Military Academy, Culver, of the country's biggest hobby supply Model racing cars, stock jobs of which Ind. houses, has had long experience with cost from $10.95 to $16, are raced, and The big thing, of course, in the whole young hobbyists. At one time he con- timed electrically, on circular concrete picture of models that "perform" is that ducted classes for the L. Bamberger De- tracks, either fixed to a rail, or at the they can be built from model kits, which partment Store, Newark, N. J., where he end of a cable from 52 to 70 feet long, means they are prefabricated. With simple instructed more than 4,000 boys in hobby which is attached to a center pylon. The plans and a minimum of tools, even with- work. He is now director of the National racers average around 135 mph., once out previous experience, young hobby- Exchange Clubs. considered high speed for a full-size rac- ists can assemble them in from one to 40 Polk hailed The American Legion pro- ing machine. Competition rules are laid hours of working time. Then they are gram, which began back in 1933, with down by the International Racing Car ready to operate. That is the trend today. sponsored competitions for flying and Association. Young America wants craftsmanship. But non-flying model airplanes. The interest But model speed boat racing is still the it also wants performance, the quicker of Legionnaires and Posts increased to young fry's sport. They "drive" their the better. such an extent that in 1948, at the Na- craft through the water at speeds up to Right now, model aviation leads the tional Convention, a resolution was adop- ted making model airplane activities a national program of the organization. Since that time, the Legion has done much to stimulate interest in model fly- ing. But a pressing need today in model aviation has been overlooked, Polk de- clared — that of space in which to build models and suitable hobby fields on which to fly them. In many localities model plane flying has been banned. New York City and Chicago prohibit model aviation, because of its noise. Other cities have made no provisions for model- flying areas. Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco, however, now have "living monu- ment" flying fields for models. Polk cited them as examples of what Legion spon- sorship could accomplish in other com- munities. Would such an addition to The Ameri- can Legion program be worth while? The Army seems to think so. It now has a Pygmy Air Force, which operates out of a torn thumb airport near Dayton, Ohio. There the Army is flying model airplanes. It's not doing it for fun. Known as the Dynamic Model Unit, the idea has developed into one of the most important research projects of the Air Force. Small reproductions of ovu- ex- perimental air fleet, some costing $25,000, are being tested there. Both radio-con- trolled planes and control-line models are flown for faults in design. This helps eliminate loss of lives and money when 72 mph! The boats average about 30 hobby field in popularity. According to real-size planes are constructed. Minia- inches in length, with 9-inch beam and hobby supply dealers, it accounts for ture jets and helicopters get their share 3-inch freeboard. They are tethered on about 65 percent of all hobby activity. of testing. a cable 52 feet long, attached to a Model railroading comes next, with model The miniature airport will soon get a pylon. They compete against time for four racing cars, speedboats, old-time model 15-foot-wide air vent, which will blow a laps, under rules set by the Eastern automobiles and handicrafts following in vertical column of air across the flight Power Boat Association. Model kits for that order. path of models to simulate a violent up- stock speed boats cost about $15, with Never be surprised at the people you draft. It will be the first time observers glo-plug included. meet at a hobby event. Eddie Anderson, have been able to study the effect of It is noteworthy that scale-model rail- Rochester on the Jack Benny radio show, gusts on free-flight, power-driven air- roaders are always regarded as being in is a model plane enthusiast. Radio an- craft. a class by themselves. Make no mistake nouncer Bill Stem is a model racing car Another suggestion was made by Frank about it, they are not "playing with fan. Martin Block of "Make Believe Ball- Zaic, formerly of the 15th Air Force, trains!" Their outfits are extensive, ex- room" fame is a model railroader. With author of Model Glider Design and other pensive and can run into any kind of smudges of grease on their faces, with well-known handbooks on aviation. He money, up to and far beyond four figures. screwdrivers gripped in their hands, they believes communities and sponsoring or- The National Model R. R. Association look just like anybody else. Younger ganizations should not always stress the is the parent outfit for about 285 local hobbyists take them in stride. idea that model plane programs "keep clubs, which are zoned into 12 districts, When we interviewed hobby authori- boys off the street." Such a do-good at- covering 40 states. ties to get the facts for this article, as titude, he claimed, breeds public apathy. Navy personnel favor model racing car soon as they learned it was to appear in He pointed out that boys who build and contests, because in an abridged version The American Legion Magazine they ex- fly model airplanes are not the types who they can be run off on a battleship deck. pressed deep interest. Without exception hang around street corners. And he added But Army men go' for model railroading. they spoke highly of the work being rlonp that the few street-corner loafers, who

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are built up to resemble a "national crime to have seen, do exist. Just who makes flying saucers, ready to be assembled, for wave," are not found in the ranks of boys the flying saucers, where they come from, 39«f. who are making American aviation his- is an interesting subject of speculation, Next time you read a newspaper, skip tory in its elementary stages. but of less interest to us model designers the headlines about "America's Waj^ward The thing to stress, said Frank, is the than the possibilities of the type." Children." Our youngsters are doing all contribution our youngsters are making He then goes on to describe several right. They are the hope of the nation. to the world we live in. In some things, kinds of flying saucers, and how to con- They are earning all the faith we can he insisted they are 'way ahead of us. struct them, using CO2 capsules for jet place in them. Ahead of us? While we are still debat- propulsion. And take a word of advice. If you hear ing about the existence of flying saucers, Meanwhile, a St. Paul, Minn., firm, a commotion in your neighborhood some youngsters have accepted them as real, Atomcraft Products Company, is already day, stay calm. Pay no attention to the functioning aircraft, and are already in the field with a Flying Silver Saucer, shouts of people out in the street. building them and flying them, so reports an "original, precision built flying saucer, Chances are your hobby-minded off- say. measuring four feet in diameter." It will spring, who is one of our "fabulous In a recent issue of Model Airplane attain heights upward of 1,000 feet, will youths," is operating his "can be seen jor News, Roy L. Clough, Jr., addressed his fly day or night, and "can be seen jor miles" flying saucer from your own roof. young readers as follows: miles!" It costs $4.65. More adults, who don't understand such "It seems pretty well established that Another company has brought out a things, are apt to be causing a lot of \m- flying saucers which so meuiy people claim flying saucer kit. It offers two complete necessary excitement! the end

iteturn of the War Swindlers (Continued from page 17) for resale at a profit, or hoarding. He months, polyethylene has been on the allocators that they need more virgin could not possibly use that many in his critical list as a strategic material and its styrene than they actually do to fill their little assembling operation if he lives to price held at 46 cents a pound, but you Government contracts. They then grind be a hundred. can buy tons of it on the black market up the scrap and use it for non-essential Other sharpers in this field are rank at from $1.50 to $2.00 a pound. items, or possibly sell it on the black outsiders who don't know the difference I was shown a letter from one of these market for three times what they paid

between an ohm and a kilowatt, but they racketeers who offered to sell 40,000 for it. have very sharp noses for anything which pounds of polyethylene at $1.65 a pound. Phenolic plastics too, which are not yet smells like an easy buck. In other words, he and his associates in on the critical list but getting scarce, are Not long ago, a large electronics manu- the deal were due to make a profit of providing bonanzas for unpatriotic buck- facturer who has important war orders to $47,600 on the transaction. This man was hunters. One man who describes himself fill found himself in dire need of alumi- SEiid to be just one of at least ten big as a "broker" recently offered 100,000 num tubing of a certain dimension. He chiselers operating in the polyethylene pounds of a phenolic molding compound tried in vain to obtain the tubing from field. Some of them openly advertise the to anyone who would buy it at 45 cents wholesalers and jobbers. There was none material in the newspapers at profiteering a pound. Since the regular price is 20y4 to be had anywhere, but a jobber finally prices and make offers to potential cus- cents, he and his fellow conspirators stood suggested that he call up a certain ac- tomers with circular post cards, letters to make a killing of $24,750 on that one countant. The accountant had no visible and telegrams. deal. connection with either the electronics or Exactly where the racketeers get the Such operators, like those in the elec- aluminum industries, but when the man- polyethylene which they sell is a mystery, tronics industry, often have no address ufacturer contacted him he said yes, he except a bar or restaurant, they keep no could supply him with all the tubing he books, never legally accept title to the wanted — at a mere 250 percent above the WALLY materials they sell, and do business on a regular market price. strictly cash basis. Some of them, I was Such cases, I was informed, are not told, have recently been flashing $1,000 exceptional. Electronics items which have bills in attempts to bribe their way into disappeared from the open market are legitimate plastics materials concerns. available through barber shop and bar- In the metals industries, instances of room transactions to anyone who knows flagrant profiteering are also reported so the lingo of the trade and is willing to often as to appear commonplace. pay through the nose. As this is written, the Senate subcom- In a recent conference in Washington, mittee investigating R.F.C. loans has just spokesmen for the electronics industry charged that Joseph H. Rosenbaum, a told officials of the National Production Washington lawyer, black marketed 2,400 Authority that civilian manufacture of tons of steel. Rosenbaum did this, it is electronics equipment was not interfer- alleged, by buying the steel from a com- ing with military production. That may pany for which he had arranged an R.F.C. be true on a quantitative basis, but if loan and taking title to it in the name of

present profiteering in the field is not (From July, 1935 A.L.M.) a dummy corporation controlled by him- curtailed it will boost the price of every self and E. Merl Young, husband of the civilian radio and television set and add White House stenographer of mink coat substantially to the cost of every war- but it unquestionably comes to them fame. The dummy corporation then resold ship, plane, tank, and other weapon which through leaks in legitimate channels of the metal to a warehouse firm, the Senate contains electronic equipment. trade. Since only two firms produce the committee charges, at a profit of between material, it is obvious that their Criminal skullduggery of a similar na- some of $75,000 and $80,000. customers are turning it over to black construction engineer who is familiar ture is going on, I found, in the plastics A marketeers it, industry. instead of processing but with the building situation in several officials of the two companies have thus states told me the same racket is being Take polyethylene, for example, the far been unable to find out who they are. worked by many other chiselers. A num- new wonder material which is used in Some dishonest fabricators are also ber of self -described "building con- making numerous industrial and house- known to be deliberately wasteful in tractors" who would be sadly stumped if hold articles but has some of its most im- manufacturing articles for the Govern- you asked them to read a blueprint are portant applications right in now the man- ment from styrene plastics. They set up buying up large quantities of steel for ufacture of infantry assault wire, sleeves their injection machinery in such a way mythical construction projects, he said, for recoilless artillery shells, radar equip- that it will produce a great deal of scrap. and resellmg it at a whacking mark-up ment, and other military items. For These chiselers thus make it appear to to real contractors who can't get as much

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steel as they want because of defense war — and by hoarding are making them cars they can from legitimate dealers. allocations. scarce. They operate on a strictly cash basis, pro- Another man with whom I talked said Other hardware items such as tungsten cure license tags by giving fictitious he was invited last fall to ventixre several carbide cutting tools, cadmium anodes, names and addresses to the Motor Vehicle thousand dollars in a speculation on cop- micrometers, and other precision instru- Bureau, and resell the cars from used per pipe. He turned down the offer for ments have already become so hard to car lots at from $2,000 to $2,500 above patriotic reasons but said the less scru- get and, consequently, so valuable that list prices. Some of them ship the cars to pulous individuals who went through organized criminals are breaking into Central and South American countries, with the deal had resold the pipe at a warehouses at night to steal them. There he said, where a new Cadillac will fetch 100 percent profit this spring. has been a rasbr of such robberies recent- from $10,000 to $12,000. Such gouging is undoubtedly making ly, the underwriter said, and the thieves Tires as well as cars are being made already- exorbitant new housing more ex- obviously peddle their loot to black unnecessarily scarce and dear by the pensive than it should be. A contractor marketeers. The ordinary "fence" speculating fraternity. A friend of mine who is completing 20 small homes in a wouldn't touch such stuff because he recently tried to buy a new set of shoes suburban area told me he had been com- couldn't dispose of it. for his car from a small independent pelled to pay profiteers' prices not only Chiselers are also back again in the dealer who shook his head emphatically for reinforcing steel and copper pipe and automobile industry. Production has thus and announced he had absolutely no tires flashing, but for plumbing fixtures, elec- far been able to keep fairly well abreast of the required size. When my friend in- trical appliances, certain hardware items, of consumer demand, but ceiling prices dicated he might be willing to pay a few cuid cement. It was a question of either on new cars plus the 20 percent curtail- dollars over the regular price, however, meeting the buzzards' prices, or having his ment of steel for the industry which went the "little dealer" took him to a ware- whole project brought to a standstill. into effect April 1st have brought back house where he had stored more than Steel and copper are only two of the many of the practices which afflicted the 40,000 tires of every size and description. metals from which grabbers are reaping business in the years right after the war. How many termites of his type are ex- illicit profits. The Government has finally In the Office of Price Stabilization in ploiting the rubber situation? There is no brought tin prices back into line by stag- Washington, I was informed that a con- way of knowing exactly, but there are ing a buyer's strike against greedy foreign siderable number of new car dealers are too many of them. Like profiteers in other suppliers of the metal, and is now taking getting around ceiling prices by making fields they are aiding the red borers- tentative steps to stop gouging in alumi- lower trade-in allowances for used cars from-within who crave to wreck our num. It's high time, for not only bulk than they did a year ago, and some are economy. aluminum but articles made of the metal working the old dodge of making the In the textile and garrnent industries are being hoarded to an outrageous ex- customer buy more accessories than he there is probably less large-scale chisel- tent in many places. wants in order to get a new car. OPS offi- ing than in some others because no acute An insurance underwriter who special- cials said they were not yet officially shortages have developed. One of the na- izes in the industrial field said he could aware of under-the-counter cash trans- tion's biggest buyers of fabrics and ap- take me to warehouses which have be- actions, but I discovered elsewhere that parel explained to me that right after the come crammed since Korea with manu- a good deal of this is going on, especially Korean war started many wholesalers, factured goods made of aluminum, cop- in the sale of certain expensive cars jobbers and retailers started hoarding like per, chrome, stainless steel, and other which are hard to get. mad — woolens, cotton goods, nylons, even critical metals. These include refrigera- A Cadillac dealer in the New York area such items as zippers, fancy buttons, and tors, gas stoves, vacuum cleaners, sewing told me that hardly a week passes that he snaps for women's garments. But since machines, lawnmowers, and other house- is not offered $1,500 or more over the there has been no serious scarcity of these hold articles. A lot of the easy-money ceiling price for a new Caddy. Most of things, the buyer said, no black market boys are gambling on these things be- these offers come from shady used car of any consequence has come into being, coming as scarce as they were in the last dealers, he said, who grab up all the new and some hoarders have been left hold- ing the bag due to changing fashions and the deterioration of fabrics which can- not be stored for long i>eriods. There is evidence, though, that all is not as pure as it might be in this field. OPS officials recently had to take action to make one big concern roll back the price of blankets which had been arbi- trarily boosted from $6.75 to $10.00 each, and that is but one example of fairly widespread up-grading and marking-up —practices which cost consumers millions during the last war. It is known, for instance, that a good many scheming merchants who foresaw the coming of price ceilings made a point of selling a few items to relatives or friends at very high prices during the base periods between December 19th and 25th last year. Then, when the freeze came, they marked all their merchandise up to these false top leveb as Govern- ment regulations permitted them to. This dodge wsis more common in wholesale than retail circles, OPS officers say, but the public is having to pay for it just the same. More headlines probably have been de- voted to profiteering on meat than any other one commodity—and it merits head- "She's been teaching twenty-seven years, she said, and faced innumer- lines. Enforcement officials of the OPS able obstacles, and today, for the first time, she wondered if it all might report that a "substantial portion" of the have been in vain." AMERICAN LEOION MAGAZINE whole meat industry— chiefly wholesalers and processors who do not have slaughter-

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ing facilities— are being charged from 3 to 5 cents a pound above ceilings by chisel- ing slaughterers, packers and whole- salers. 10116 As a result, thousands of independent meat dealers all over the country are being put on the spot. They are com- pelled to do one of three things. They can abide by ceiling prices and lose money, or violate ceilings, or enter the black market. And, of course, if they fol- low either of the last two courses the American housewife and her family take it on the chin. The OPS has ordered all available en-

'Twen'y years? For one lousy decimal point?" AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE forcement manpower to investigate meat profiteering and they need public sup- port in their efforts. One gloomy prophet in the OPS told me that if racketeering in the industry is not checked the price of steak may rise to $3.00 a pound by next Autumn. UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED! The most direct method of gouging in wartime has traditionally been that of Thousands are switching to Armstrong Tires with Rhino-Flex con- overcharging the Government on fat struction. They're unconditionally guaninteed for 18 months against all contracts. This avenue to quick riches road hazards. And they're made by the Armstrong Rubber Company has been blocked at least partially by a producers of better passenger, truck and tractor tires for 38 years. law in passed 1948 which makes all De- There's an Armstrong dealer near you displaying "Tufiy" Armstrong, partment of Defense contracts for more the Rhino. Look him up! Armstrong Rubber Company, West Haven than $100,000 worth of goods a year sub- 16, Conn., Natchez, Miss., Des Moines, Iowa. Export: 20E. 50thSt., N.Y.22. ject to renegotiation. During the last war, when only contracts of over $500,000 were FREE! Valuable, handy combination diary— address book— pocket calendar. renegotiated, the device saved Uncle Sam Beautiful leatherette. Send for yours today. Hurry! Write Dept. A-5, $9,100,000,000. It is hopefully maintained by many that the new law will make it mighty hard to rook the old man. iiiiiiiiiiliiiiiliiiiiiii Yet Government contracts must still offer heavy sugar considering the mad scramble being made to grab them. There are so many eager beavers in Washington these days you can hardly get a hotel room. Five-percenters who sell "influ- ence," or pretend to, have become so thick that the Senate is investigating them. There is no doubt, moreover, that politi- cians in many places are in cahoots with speculators seeking big contracts. In one instance which I heard about ^^-^^ but cannot confirm, a Congressman and mm The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 •

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several well-heeled chiselers are reported is his duty, regardless of his political or to have used an old, established arms economic views, to cooperate with the manufacturing company as a front in Government. obtaining $40,000,000 worth of Govern- Mr. Morgan, 38-year-old Director of ment orders. In another state, a man who Enforcement for OPS, was just as em- was recently indicted by a federal grand phatic on that point. By the time you jury for defrauding the Government read this, Mr. Morgan, who was former through operation of a phony school for Administrative Assistant to J. Edgar ex-GI's is running a large factory which Hoover, will have 4,000 field officers, builds equipment for the Army. Regard- many of them ex-F.B.I. men like him- less of its renegotiation weapon, the Gov- self, on the trail of price gougers all over ernment could be more careful about the the nation. But, he said, public acceptance people to whom it grants contracts. and support of the price control program But the main responsibility for curbing is an absolute must. There are two things, the scoundrels who are endangering the he pointed out, which every honest citizen defense program and threatening lis with can do to crimp profiteers: increased inflation rests with you and me 1. Refuse to pay more than ceiling and all other law-abiding citizens. This prices for any merchandise on the Gov- was impressed upon me in talks which I ernment's restricted list. had with the two men most responsible 2. Immediately report price violations

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46 • The American Legion Magazine • July. 1951 H€»w to Get to MIAMI Advtrtitrmtnt

i.O.M I.M ED FROM P iCE tl

BY AIULIIVE From where I sit

FROM DETROIT National Airlines and Capital, through jSy Joe Marsh an inter-change agreement, operate through planes via Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Washington. (Not available at this moment, but prac- tically same as on page 41)

FROM CHICAGO Delta Airlines, non-stop coach Eastern Airlines 49.80 99.60 Blue Wins This "Hunt" FROM ST. lOUIS Served by Eastern Airlines no coach service— reg. fares 72.20 137.20 Cappy Miller's coon dogs — except for one of them, Old Blue— are about FROM JAIT LAKE CITY United to Denver 27.05 52.75 the finest hounds in the county. Bluets Continental to Kansas City too friendly and easygoing to care and to St. Louis 45.85 87.20 Eastern to Miami 72.20 137.20 very much about hunting. He doesn't Total - no coach 145.10 277.15 act the way we think a good hound-

FROM lOS ANGELES dog should, so we figured he'd never Via American - Delta - National inter- to change, through service via Dallas, Texas amount much. and New Orleans. Coach fares not avail- able now, but will probably be in effect at But a fellow comes around looking convention time 149.85 284.80 for a good dog to photograph for some

FROM SAN FRANCISCO advertising. And the dog he picks is United Airlines and TWA to Los Blue! Says Blue's happy, friendly face Angeles 21.05 41.05 Then as above - total 170.90 325.85 is just the one to attract people's at- tention. So Cappy gets more money FROM SEATTLE United Airlines to for that picture than his other dogs Los Angeles 63.55 123.85 will ever take in hunt prizes. Then as above - total 213.40 408.65 Note: On all of these, there may be special excursion family fares if you take From where I sit, that should teach your wife and 'or children. us not to look down on humans, when they act differently than we do. For instance, maybe you think tea goes best with food. O.K.— but don't size up wrong the man who enjoys a bottle of beer at mealtime.

Like Blue, I guess we're all "differ- ent" in one way or another —but that doesn't mean we don't have our good points, too!

"He has a lot on his mind right now — memorizing the rosters of the major league clubs and so forth."

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We Can Win on These Tetms the American people in unlimited quan- tities within the short space of one brief (Continued from page 9) advertising campaign. We know how to and unless we act quickly it will be the purpose, viz., the protection of the God- sell everything and anything except the sure single means of our complete de- given rights and the God-imposed obli- one thing upon which all else depends, feat and destruction. gations of human beings. In this short, namely, HUMAN FREEDOM; to sell it Consider, for a moment, what the con- simple and unequivocal sentence man is for what it is, namely, as God's gift and tinued strength and vitality of our coun- oriented to his God, his government and therefore the unalienable right of every try now means to the civilized world. If his fellow man according to the Eternal man and woman. we were suddenly swept from the face and Natural Law. This is the most mean- This is the message of the inseparable of the earth the people of every land re- ingful and comprehensive single sentence association of God and Government in the maining would suddenly be trapped by ever written by an uninspired hand. It is American system. It is the story of Gov- a torture and terror so painful and ruth- a complete education in itself. Never- ernment as the servant of God-given less that those who survived it would theless, this is the sentence above all rights rather than Government as the envy those who did not. The fate, of not others, that is either dropped, curtained, master of men and the source of all of merely Americans, but of all men and obscured or otherwise hidden from the man's welfare, as the commimists and women everywhere depends upon the attention of present-day students in the Socialists insist that it is. continued safety and integrity of all that schools and colleges of America. In its For the present struggle is not a battle is implied in the expression, "The United stead the student is given an entirely new between the United States and Russia, States of America." What are the impli- dictionary of political terminology which the Fight is between Americanism and cations of that expression? They have is completely unrelated to this clear, un- communism; between a servant govern- been officially expressed for us in a sim- mistakable and official directive concern- ment that serves God's creative purpose, ple and unmistakable sentence, spoken ing the origin, object and purpose of and a master government that denies with the first breath of the new life of American political institutions. Try it out God's existence. More than one hundred the American Republic, in the American on the next college professor you meet. Declaration of Independence. Here they Ask him if he holds and teaches that are: these truths are self-evident—or that they "We hold these truths to be self-evi- are true at all. The chances are that his dent, that all men are Created equal; that answer will illustrate how far we have they are endowed by their Creator with drifted from the philosophy of the Found- certain unalienable rights; that among ing Fathers. these are life, liberty and the pursuit of It is this simple, single sentence of self- happiness; that to secure these rights. evident truth that The American Legion Governments are instituted among men." must revive and disseminate. In this cam- By these words, for the first and only paign we must call upon our great Ameri- time in 6000 years of recorded human his- can genius for simplication that has en- tory a government was created and simul- abled American Businessmen to sell intri- taneously dedicated to God's Creative cate gadgets, formulas, foods and fads to

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years before the Declaration of Indepen- dence was written, William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania truly said that, "Those men who are not gov- erned by God will be ruled by tyrants." The Founding Fathers remembered this when they wrote the Declaration of In- LEGION dependence. It is up to us to remember it now. When we once more grasp the full truth of what William Penn said and MAGAZINE what the Declaration of Independence officially affirms the foe will be dispelled RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL and America will be safe. For the com- munists know exactly where they are go- ing. There is no confusion in their coun- cils about their God-less materialistic purpose and objectives. Remember we shall either beat them with our Faith in God, or join them in their God-less ma- terialism. Don't let the Professors fool BUY. . you. We can't have it both ways. We can win on the terms laid out by the Found- ing Fathers or lose on the God-less terms dictated by Stalin. If we do not choose to AMERICAN LEGION fight it out on the platform of American self-evident truths we should surrender now and avoid useless bloodshed. We can Wherever you see this insignia displayed in a store window, win, but only if we lift the fog, and at it means that the shop is owned by a member of the American once. Legion who is cooperating in important Legion activities. The American Legion is the one or- When you patronize him, you support the Legion. ganized body of Americans equal to this great and necessary work. Into your ex- perienced hands the great work is now \ BUY THE BEST — BUY AMERICAN LEGION! commended — and may God help you to i do it well. THE END

49 * American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 The Pi'ofessot's and the Pi'ess (Continued from page 28) a Soviet union of all the nations of the Prejudice and the Press was the un- world, ruled ovei' by a Grand Kleagle or foreseen and certainly unwanted outcome "President and Protector of the Peace," of an after-dinner chat over brandy and with absolute power over a world of cigars in the lounge of the University robot slaves. The World Dictator's in- Club in New York one December evening struments of power would be a Grand in 1942, during the course of which the Konklave or Politburo, a Gestapo or "perpetual boy-wonder," Robert E. Hut- "Chamber of Guardians," and a host of chins, then President of the University minor kleagles appointed by the high of Chicago, put the bee on Henry R. Luce, muckety-muck himself. The subordinates, czar of the Tivie-Life-Fortune publishing of course, would be subject to having empire, for $200,000. themselves shot or exiled as "confessed Hutchins that evening said he was wor- deviationists and enemies of the people," ried about the freedom of the press, owing at the whim of the Grand Kleagle. to the "monopolistic control of the media What you will learn from this book — of mass communication" on the part of a not from Hughes himself but from the few powerful newspaper "chains," news- stated aims and published work of this gathering organizations and feature syn- fantastic professoriat — is almost beyond dicates. He said the "monopolists" re- belief. It would be funny and could be flected only "the bias of great wealth" laughed off, ,if Frank Hughes had not and "abused the freedom of the press." shown where, how, and by whom — with They should be held to account, he main- the indisputable records quoted verbatim, tained, by a national supervising agency with names and sources, in a voluminous, and their newspapers suspended or ap- EARN UP TO $200 fascinating and indispensable series of propriated by the government for viola- appendices and notes -~ the principles of tion of that agency's cease-and-desist the founders of our republic, as laid order in instances of "gross violation" of A WEEK EXTRA down in the Constitution, are being un- a "newspaper's responsibility to the na- dermined among our school children and tion and the public." Selling D-Frost-O-Matic On college students; how moral concepts, be- Whether the brandy or Hutchins' per- Drannatic Free Trial Plan lief in prayer, faith in God and the prin- suasiveness was the potent factor that ciples of good conduct of free men in a December night or not. Luce agreed to Man after man tells us how EXCITED he is about making big money with D-Frost-O-Matic, beloved country one flag of Time, Inc., for under are scoffed put up $200,000 money the amazing Patented Automatic defroster for at as "myths as outmoded as the Declara- a "restatement of the philosophical prin- refrigerators. They tell us how DELIGHTED housewives are by the TIME. MONEY, and tion of Independence;" how the idea of ciples of freedom of the press" by a com- FOOD they save with it. And here's why a government "of the people, by the mission appointed by Hutchins and D-Frost-O-Matic's Free Trial Plan makes it so easy to sell: people and for the people," is being rapid- headed by him. Hutchins chipped in 1 . If demonstrates itself! You simply plug it in, leove ly displaced actual by encroachments of $15,000 of the funds of the Encyclopedia it, and the housewife sees for herself what a won- the Government upon the freedom and Britannica, Inc., of which he is a director. derful labor-saving device it is. She won't let you take it out! rights of the individual and of the 48 What they got out of the money, after 2. It's guaranteed two states; and, finally, how these eager- four years of the most farcical kind of "in- ways: to the cus- beaver workers toward a totalitarian vestigation"' by a commission of profes- tomer for at least two years — and — world power are gradually shifting our sors headed by Hutchins, none of whom guaranteed to YOU — it MUST sell end executive, legislative and judicial func- had ever worked inside a news room, was make Profits for you. tions of government from Washington to a jumble of wild exaggerations and er- 3. 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Power to suspend or seize country to the Alger Hisses and William ~ f/ V outstanding value at popular prices top quality, all wool fabrics, every garment individually a publication, if it got into "the wrong Remingtons and the would-be kleagles tailoi ed to measure. hands," could also put of busi- of an international dictatorship, through guaranteed satisfaction, a printed guarantee Luce out of satisfaction goes with every order. Repeat sales for ness in fifteen minutes by the clock, junk ignorance and by default. you are assured by lOO'^f customer satisfaction. tells the WRITE TODAY. Don't delay—begin now to establish the publications of the University of Hughes of grotesque set-up of a profitable, life-long business. Chicago Press and of the Encyclopedia a world dictatorship, with dictator-ap- Britannica their presses, pointed yes-men bearing titles HOMELAND TAILORS, Inc. and take over awesome film laboratories, phonograph recording like those of Amos 'n Andy's Mystic 2502 E. ASHLAND AVENUE it BALTIMORE 3, MD. devices and all other facilities and assets, Knights of the Sea. also cites and Branches in Principal Cities He "for the public good." analyzes the constitution for a world fed- The Luce-Hutchins report was dis- eration as drawn up by a sub-committee LET'S FACE IT missed by Luce publications as "super- of the Luce-Hutchins commission. Top YOU GET»25 ficial"; Mr. Luce told Hughes in an inter- man of this proposed outfit is to be the view that he could not understand the Mostest Unlimited Monarch There Ever FOR SELLING ONLY SO BOXES report and deplored its totalitarian phi- Was on Land or Sea, with power to sus- NEW SI CHRISTMAS CARDSi losophy; the Daily Worker, the New Re- pend the judiciary and the legislature Sell your friends and fellow-work- public and the Atlantic Monthly were "in time of emergency." ers. 21 lor SI and 50 for $1.25 embossed with name on. You make about the only publications that bally- Where have we had that phrase before? up to 50c on each box. Gift Wraps, All-Occasion and other hooed it. Top-man of the outfit is supposed to be fast money-makers. Send for Sell- But, like Truman's firing MacArthur, it elected by representatives of the world ing Plan and samples on approval. Costs Nothing to try. produced an unforeseen, astounding re- people every six years. But once he gets MERIT GREETING CARD CO. sult. It indirectly produced Prejudice and in, he can declare a state of emergency 370 PLANE ST.. Dept. II NEWARK. N. J. the Press, a compendium of the revolu- and re-elect himself every time they tionary and subversive propaganda and want to throw him out; it's in the world activities that have long been rife in aca- constitution. demic and left wing journalistic circles If you think I'm kidding read Prejudice Wake Up read the charter of among us. Here are big-name men in our and the Press. Also great universities who, though few in the United Nations keeping in mind that To More Comfort number, have had powerful backing and Alger Hiss, its first secretary -general, in Andrei Gromyko of the USSR, and the Without Nagging Backache have exercised powerful influence spreading doctrines of a state totalitarian- late John Maynard Keynes, British Marx- Nagging backache, loss of pep and energy, head- aches and dizziness may be due to slowdown of kidney ism leading to a world totalitarianism. ian economist, collaborated in writing it. Doctors say good kidney function is very function. Here, in Frank Hughes' book is a rec- There is nothing funny about any of this. important to good health. When some everyday con- dition, such as stress and strain, causes this im- ord of their numerous and flagrant com- THE END portant function to slow down, many folks suffer nagging backache— feel miserable. 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Eye-width adjustment— four-room homes with a barn and individual eye focus adjust- ment. 370 foot field at 1.000 chicken houses on as much as 100 acres yards (leather case & neck cord). of land. Places in this price range call for $19.50 plus 20 % Fed. Tax (total— $23.40) careful buying but up in the average $5,100 bracket, you can insure finding a t home you can be proud of, many of them 60x 70x —J 30x to 70x FRENCH POCKET MICROSCOPE equal to places costing twice or three Both lower side adjustment and upper tube « a tkm cxtciision to increase power. Exceptionally critical \A Qh times as much in our crowded northern instrument cities. 20x40x60 POCKET MICROSCOPE This model has high 1 t clarity, vei-y " powerful, lower knurled adjustment Unusual tmy in this Rents in the Ozarks reflect the lower I'ower and quality 0g costs of housing, too. In Hot Springs National Park, a cosmopolitan health spa, 41 apartments and 31 houses were adver- tised for rent on November 10, 1950. Thirty-five dollars a month for a 3-room POWER MICROSCOPE furnished apartment or a 4-room unfur- 200 N'cwly importe«l from France. Highly nished one, fifty dollars a month for fur- •ground and polished precision lenses. With 2 directional French Mirror. In box including 5 prepared CI nished 4-room houses or for 5-room un- slides complete ^ QC furnished ones, represent the average rents for suitable retirement housing in this highest priced of Ozark communities. But in much smaller Norwood, Missouri, "Okay, so you fired him — that still for example, 4-room unfurnished apart- doesn't solve our problem!" 1,500 POWER MEDICAL ments begin renting from fifteen dollars This is the finest instrument ft is in every way comparable to domos- a month. tic makes selling for $450.00. Complete with tools, oil for immersion. :i (.bjec- AMKItllAN tives-. LEGION MAGAZINE surveys award top mon- lOx, 40x & lOOx oil i Although my pieces are 5x, Kx. 1 5x Huygenian. X & Y mechanical stage. Abbe 1.2 condfiiser. etary values to the Ozarks, Florida — with In hardwood chest with locJt ^250 00 mates combined with the lesser demand its $5,000 property tax exemption — runs for housing where prosperity has not a very close second. Besides a wide choice caused housing shortages. of all kinds of older properties at almost In Florida and Southern California, for give-away values, there are any amount 80 POWER MICROSCOPE instance, renting basements with costly furnaces, of 3-room furnished apartments Precision, Polished Lenses. fuel, insulation, and heavier construction on a year-around basis for $30-to-$40 a Ideal Instrument for Nature Study. Botany, Mineralogy, are unnecessary. And where labor costs month in most small Florida cities. Even etc. With prepared slide CC 7jC are not out of proportion, the price of in as popular a resort as West Palm Beach, in box complete yW.lw housing naturally falls. Further gains in there are usually 50 or more houses and these warmer parts of the country are apartments being offered for rent on sim- reflected in the fewer and lighter clothes ilar terms. required, lighter and less costly food Food costs vary little, no matter what which can in. supply the fewer calories called part of the country you live Overall GENUINE WOLLENSAK TELESCOPE for, healthier living and lower medical medical expenses have been found a little Adjustable Powers, 15x, 20x. 25x. 30x, 35x. 40x. Fully coated lenses throughout. The finest telescope we (OQ cn costs as a result of being able to avoid higher on the Pacific coast but in all re- can offer. 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Washington St., Chicago 2, Illinois The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 51 the Ozarks, and the Southwest, clothing available for rent on a year 'round basis is everywhere most informal and thus of $35 a month up, while informal clothing rock-bottom clothing expenses can be can be safely worn. Heating costs are anticipated, especially in Florida. Some very low. heating is necessary in the Ozarks, and Even lower living costs can be had in during winter in the Southwest, California the non-tourist towns such as Bisbee, and and northern Florida. But in southern America's longest hours of sunshine can Florida, heating costs frequently run as be enjoyed just as well in a mining town low as $20 a year for an average small as in the resorts. Principal drawback to home in the vicinity of Orlando, to as Arizona is that the southwestern part gets little as $5 at frost-free Key West. too hot on summer afternoons while the Transportation can be a costly factor northeastern part gets too cold in winter. where a car is needed and the income is The best year 'round locations are to be not really sufficient to afford ownership found in those communities lying at fairly of an automobile. While a car is almost high altitudes along the southwestern essential if full enjoyment is to be had edge of the Cordillera. from California's far-flung seashore, Because the Pacific coast and South- mountains, and forests, in Florida, where west are relatively new -settled territories, the natural amenities are fairly evenly they lack the many older homes which

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This purge in the Soviet government JANES ART STUDIOS, Inc. was matched by attacks on Jews in cul- Babylon 75, New York tural fields. The Jewish Theatre came Yes I want to make easy money. Please under attack; it was denounced by the rush FREE Display Book and Catalogue Byelo-Russian Writers Union because its with Two Sample Christmas Box Assort- plays had "praised bourgeois America as 'It's very dear to me. It was the last ments on Approval today. the promised land." Its members were thing called my wife for." described as "rootless cosmopolitans, Name bourgeois nationalists, and formalists who Address AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE had kowtowed before the bourgeois West." The secretary of the Writers Union City State The Ameiican Legion Magazine • July, 1951 • 53 boasted to Stalin that these elements were since the state was founded, and most of garian frontier with the ultimate intention now "successfully liquidated." the other Jewish citizens, who arrived of reaching Israel. A Jewish communist The purge swept on through 1949 and from all over the world, have not been organization in Rumania had set up a 1950. The last two Jewish schools in the there much longer. special frontier guard to keep emigrants U.S.S.R. were closed down. A large group Needless to say, the Soviet Union had bound for Israel from leaving the country; of internationally-known Yiddish writers never allowed any of its own Jewish cit- the guards were reported to be tough, suddenly dropped from sight; among them izens to emigrate to Palestine or Israel. fanatical, and trigger-happy. In the first was a writer who had been sent here by As a matter of fact, no Soviet citizens of two months of 1949, they shot five Jews the Soviet government during World War any kind have been allowed to move to and caught sixty others, including several II to tell American Jews how wonderful other countries. Even the Russian girls women. All received speedy trials in the conditions were for all the minorities in who married American Air Force men People's Courts, and all were sentenced Russia. The leading Yiddish newspaper in during the war were never allowed to to prison terms. the Soviet Union ceased publication, a join their husbands over here; the best Item: In Poland, what one communist Yiddish magazine was banned, and a available evidence is that, despite U. S. paper called a "sobering-up process" was Yiddish publishing house went out of protests, they were not only kept in the directed against those who wanted to business. The only Jewish intellectual of Soviet Union, but were shipped off to leave the country. The campaign had any importance who retained his position forced labor camps. As far as Israel was several typical features of communist was the novelist Ilya Ehrenburg. And concerned, the U.S.S.R. was almost alone rule. First, there were public "confessions" Ehrenburg saved his own skin chiefly by of all the nations in the world in refusing by hundreds of Jews who had applied for being among the loudest in the chorus of to allow its Jewish citizens to emigrate passage to Israel that they had "erred" or attacks on Israel. He publicly insulted the there. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion ap- been "misled by Zionist busybodies," and first Israeli minister at a reception for her pealed to Stalin to relax this restriction, that they now understood they would be in Moscow, and later he sneered at the but without success. better off in the new "people's Poland." Israelis as "poor little capitalists who live Israel had never really expected that Another grim aspect of the government's on a few dollars which the greater capital- the Soviet Jews would be allowed to leave campaign against Zionism was a sudden ." ist Jews in America send them^ . . the U.S.S.R. But the country received a outbreak of a familiar communist tech- General Walter Bedell Smith, one of real shock when it became apparent that nique: children denouncing their parents. our postwar ambassadors to the Soviet the East European satellites were going A letter sent to the paper Ojfgang by a Union, wrote in the New York Times that to imitate Russia on the immigration young Jewish schoolgirl attacks her fa- the offensive against the Jews could be question. ther, who, she says, is trying to force her directly traced to the Soviet attitude to- There are today more than half a mil- to go to Israel. Her father, according to ward the new state of Israel. He com- lion Jews in the East European Soviet the printed letter, is planning to go to mented that the "current offensive, which satellites. There is no doubt that a large Israel "not because he is an idealist, but transcends similar campaigns that have majority of them desire to go to Israel, because he has been taken in by Zionist taken place in the Soviet Union, had deep to escape both their memories of the nazis propaganda." She asks the editor for roots in Russian chauvinism, with its and their present persecution by the com- "advice and support." Another schoolgirl traditional anti-Semitism as well as anti- munists. Until a year or two ago, it was writes to the paper that her father is a foreignism." not difficult to emigrate, though Jews black marketeer and wants the family to However, the communist attack on Is- bound for Israel were always forced by go to Israel, "where he thinks he will be rael was not confined to propaganda de- the satellite governments to leave most of able to live without working." The editor nunciations or to anti-Semitism at home. their property behind them. In 1949 and of the paper, needless to say, promises After Israel began to lose favor with 1950, with anti- Zionist purges reaching the children that "we will give you every Stalin, the Soviet dictator began a cam- hysteria proportions in Eastern Europe, assistance and make it possible for you paign to hit the young republic where it the lid began to come down on emigration. to complete your studies and become hurt most — in the field of immigration. A series of shocking atrocities was re- front-line builders of socialism." In one sense, Israel is much like the ported. Item: When four Israeli representatives United States; both countries have de- Item: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency arrived in Rumania in 1949 under an rived their populations almost entirely reported that two Jewish youths were agreement to facilitate emigration, they from immigration. More than half a mil- shot to death by Jewish communists when were immediately arrested on the ground lion immigrants have come into Israel they tried to cross the Rumanian-Hun- that their papers were not in order. A new delegation was then sent with "their documents in proper order," and they too were arrested — this time without any charges even being filed against them. Shortly before this, bands of strong-arm men in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest had invaded the headquarters of fourteen Zionist organizations in the city and eject- ed all the personnel. After a wave of ar- rests and a ferocious press campaign, the Rumanian Zionist organization went out of business. Meanwhile, the Israeli am- bassador, a noted artist named Reuven Rubin, had had an extremely interesting interview with Ana Pauker, the commun- ist amazon who is the real boss of Ruma- nia. When he called on her, she spoke to him about art for a half hour or so. Final- ly, he said, "These are very interesting matters about which I could talk to you for hours. Madam Minister, but I came to you about other and urgent problems which must be solved." Smiling benignly, Mrs. Pauker asked, "What problems do you refer to?" When the ambassador in- dicated that he wanted to discuss emigra- tion to Israel, she asked, "Oh, is that "Just a minute, sir . . . you're forgetting your bus-fare." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE really an important matter?" She then glanced at her watch and informed him

54 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 that the interview was at an end. From turmoil. Arab communists who came near then on, Israeli representatives in Ruma- provoking a riot in Tel Aviv were rushed nia got nothing but a very elaborate run- by steel-helmeted police units, dispersed around. with shots, and their leaders arrested. The TITANIUM Me Item: The American Jewish Committee communists have tried to make "police protested early this year the deportation brutality" a big issue in Israel, but so far The New WONDER GEM of 20,000 prisoners and inmates of Hun- there is no sign that they are winning garian internment centers to Soviet slave much sympathy in the country. The three of the century • • • • labor camps. A large percentage of the communists in the Knesset have also had

20,000 were Hungarian Jews waiting for some severe limits put on their freedom For the first time in history and as a result of intensive experimentation and researcli on a vitai miiitary iirojecl a chance to emigrate to Israel. to indulge in rabble-rousing. The rule t>riliiant scientists of one of America's laruest coriMirations suddenly hit upon the solution of the aces. The secret <»f Only in recent months has immigration now is that serious offenses — as, for ex- how to crystalize in the laboratory a cem with a refractive Index hisher than and a dispersion factor Ereatcr than a been resumed from Rumania and Hun- ample, when one communist called the DIAMOND was DISCOVERED. The discoverv is TITANIUM RUTILE so widely acclaimed by leadinK reportoriai medi- gary on a very limited scale. Prime Minister a tool of imperialists — ums such as Readers Diirest and The Saturday Evenintr Post. Once the "honeymoon" was over, the are liable to lead to arrest and trial. REFRACTIVE INDEX ABOUT 10% There has also been a general crack- HIGHER THAN DIAMONDS down on Soviet agents in the country. An Compare: Refractive Index of Rutile is between 2.62 and 2.90 as compared to the diamond's 2.42. Dispersion of Rutile army sergeant who stole confidential ma- ranges between 0.155 and 0.203 in comparison to the dia- terial on the Israeli national defense setup mond's 0.025. was court-martialed and sentenced to ten years in prison. The communist agent to whom he transmitted the material got six years. Despite the usual communist howls about "frameups," the government is pre- (Actual Photograph of Our Product) pared to continue exercising a tough line You are living in an ase of miracles. As you know, atoms on any illegal Soviet activities in Israel. are beine split. Actual basic materials are beine re-ar- ran(jred. Fantastic as il may seem to the laymaii, the Eorret of what has formerly been referred to as the DIAMOND is It has to. 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scattered throughout the area. Second, from undertaking any reckless adventures commented sarcastically, "Some are naive from the Turks, who have about 350,000 in the Near East. The Israeli government enough, or pretend to be so, to believe men under arms today, and who could has made it clear that Stalin will have to that while one side arms itself to the mobilize about 2,000,000 trained men al- fight, and fight hard, for any plums he teeth, the other should rely on peace dec- together if a war broke out. And third, wants to pick in that part of the world. larations that accompany such rearma- from Israel. During the Palestinian War, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion announced ment. These declarations . . . lack convic- Israel was able to put six trained divisions recently, to anybody who was interested, tion when they emerge from a forest of in the field — altogether about 90,000 men. that an aggressor would have to consider bayonets. It follows that the other side But since then, the country's population that "in this important corner of the globe must also arm to the fullest." has more than doubled, and it is generally we constitute a force that must be reck- Israel, like most other nations of the believed now that Israel could put at least oned with." world, would have much preferred to 200,000 fighters into combat if it had to. Ben-Gurion's statement made several devote its energies to the jobs of peaceful It is hoped that these three forces, if other things clear too. He said that while reconstruction. If Stalin's legions make properly coordinated and assisted by his government still hoped to avoid in- that impossible, the Israeli will fight on American naval and air power, would be volving itself in war, it was obvious that our side — and they will fight well. strong enough to deter the Soviet Union complete neutrality was impossible. He THE END The Biggest heague in the World

( Continued from page 21 coincided, in six years' time, with a re- phans. These, Mrs. Benton and I have of individual glory." The boy in question duction of 50 percent in recorded cases of tried to give the attention a boy expects weathered that regimen, eventually re- juvenile delinquency. from parents. Smoking and swearing are verted from unpopular to popular and re- Wholesome Manhood discussed. If the boys' parents let them turned to school, which he had left. smoke, they may smoke at the proper They Take Discipline The Legion Junior Baseball coaches re- time. No team member has ever smoked membered their occasional "bad boys" while in uniform." He was no exception. The Legion well. A Western coach told of a 13-year- Ken Barnhart, Legion coach in Mitchell, coaches reported that most boys gladly old who had clumsily knocked down a South Dakota, told of a hard-to-coach accept the firm guidance that goes with woman "and pawed at her" to "prove he youngster who overslept the team bus on Legion Junior Baseball. was a man." Satisfied the boy was no a game day, then got his mother to drive Gus Oxley came out of the Navy in budding pervert, a juvenile court judge him eighty miles—arriving in uniform in 1946 and started a Junior Baseball pro- remanded the youth to the town's Legion the nick of time for what he knew to be gram in , Hazard (Perry County) , Ken- Junior Baseball team, to prove his man- his last chance to stay on the team. It was tucky, under joint Legion-Ford sponsor- hood wholesomely. The youngster be- the first time he had ever made an effort ship. (Ford dealers co-sponsor nearly a came a baseball hero in statewide com- third of Legion Junior teams.) Oxley petition with older boys, now enjoys a found that boys in Perry County were good character and a paying, playing job not shy to accept the discipline along with in the farm system of a major league team. the baseball. The first year Oxley reported Two Legion coaches, one on the Missis- 50 boys playing. The next year, 100. In sippi and one on the Atlantic, came forth 1948 "we reached about 250 boys." In 1949 with case histories of two "youthful bad it was 350 and last year there were 600 eggs" channeled into Junior Baseball by youngsters in Hazard's county-wide sum- police. Each boy, now grown, runs a play- mertime program. ground in his home city. Said Oxley, feelingly: "I can write a book about this great program. It reaches Play It Right Or Quit more boys in the teaching of citizenship But we run no reform school, said than any other program in America today. Junior Baseball men. The boys know they For example, at Hardburly, Ky., the super- will play by the rules of life and base- intendent of mines told me there was ball or get out. There are few true prob- always 'boy trouble.' Kids regularly lem boys, they said. There are problem •broke out all the lights and windows in years for most boys, when their urge to the mine buildings, but since we started follow "manly" leadership into action, Junior Baseball there has not been one excitement and public notice will find single case of such trouble." The boys some way to express itself. If gang lead- have something better to do. ership is all they find, they'll follow that. There is one junior team whose every But the boys would rather follow men. member for the last twenty years has Legion coach E. B. (Chief) Benton, been in prison. These are the Generals, of

Gulf Oil executive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Post 9, Jacksonville, Fla. Every summer exhibited a letter from a former player, the twin coaches of the Generals, Warren now in college, who got off to a bad start and Willie Downing, take the boys to

in high school: "Dear Chief: . . . I'll never Raiford, Fla., to play the Florida State forget what you've done for me, and I'll Prison nine. After each game the boys are never AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE be able to repay you in full. . . . the dinner guests of the prison superin- When I started playing for you I was just tendent, L. F. Chapman. Chapman, presi- a spoiled, highheaded baby. . . . You and to atone for a mistake. Said Barnhart: dent of the American Warden's Associa- Mrs. Chief ". always inspired me. ... At "We let him play and he pitched us to a tion, tells the boys that . . The Ameri- least ." I've improved . . 3-2 victory. I pointed out to him that one can Legion Junior Baseball program is Benton, fifteen years a Junior Baseball who tries to be right gets the breaks. . . . one of the most powerful influences in the coach- manager, explained a few points I really can say he can now take criti- country among the youngest generation of the counselor side of his job: "Conduct cism—for the first time—without feeling now growing into manhood, and I hope it in hotels is always stressed and remarks someone is picking on him." continues indefinitely. Such men as your from hotels and cafes [where his Junior William V. Haskell explained what a coaches, who devote their time to training teams have stopped] have always been hot-tempered youth ran into on Haskell's other folks' children, deserve a great deal complimentary. I always talk to the boys junior team at Presque Isle, Maine. "Pro- of appreciation and recognition." As the about going to college after completing fanity was out, might didn't make right, boys leave the prison gate the prisoners high school. I emphasize respect for proficiency in playing ability replaced call out, "Hurry back." And the boys do parents. Some of the boys have been or- ability with fists, team play came ahead —to play baseball.

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Legion ball is not a piece of national Backbone of Junior Baseball are the masterminding. Legion Posts do or don't thousands of one-team Posts, which pay DON'T TAKE CHANCES OF sponsor Junior teams — as they please. their coach little or nothing, operate on Posts are neither goosed into taking on a shoe-string, and find one or a few co- a team if they are unwilling, nor held sponsors in town, such as the Ford dealer, back from sponsoring a dozen. Several to help pay for uniforms, equipment, play- thousand Posts have no at all. ground costs (if any) and regular season team Yet When Hunting or Fishing! the national average is only slightly less travel expenses. The coach may be an old than one team for each of more than college star now selling insurance on effective relief fos/ from head- 17,000 Legion Posts. Posts also sponsor Street, former pro ballplayer, the Main a rGotache, upset stomach and jumpy hundreds of unofficial, sub-junior and local high school coach, the town recrea- nerves with Bromo-Seltzer. Fol- low the label, avoid excessive use. midget teams that are not counted offi- tion director or any enthusiastic, respon- A product of Emerson Drug Co. BROMO cially at all. sible adult. SELTZER The Grass Roots System Charles (Jake) Miller, Comptroller of the city of Trenton, N. J., coached Tren- Top age for an official junior player is 01^ seventeen. The average age of most teams ton Post 93's junior team (the Schroths) for sixteen years, than his is close to the top age limit. Years ago, won more Holyoke, Mass., organized a "farm sys- share of state championships and three national runner-ups. tem" for its juniors, sponsoring play in the times produced Then city playgrounds for younger boys. The Miller handed the reins over to War Two iHave'SOForyott! Air Force vet Carl Palumbo, "because he Sell only 100 sensational value 21-card $1.00 Hazard, Ky., program includes a county- Christmas Assortments! FRKK Book tells show Gift wide midget baseball program. Until 1948, was so good at handling boys." Palumbo, you how to get big orders easily. Also Wraps, "Hoppie" and other Children's Christmas the junior team sponsored by Bath Post, ex-Junior Baseballer, Wake Forest Col- Br)oks Date and Address Books. Stationery zn<\ '4^ Gifts Over 100 other fast-selling items for all lege grad and Trenton school teacher ('ariis in Maine, numbered the formal nine boys members of the family Name-lmptrtments on BPuroval. Extra Profit Jfonus^ plus substitutes. Now Bath Post budgets S AM PLES. w $1400 annually for a ten-week summer Schroth team that won the Little World PHILLIPS CARD CO., 72 huntst., newton, mass. in 1948. program. It accommodates 225 boys from Series at Indianapolis seven to seventeen, who live in the twin Other youth-minded War Two vets are PORTABLE GARAGE towns of Bath and Woolwich. More than rapidly stepping into the coaching spots 600 local boosters chip in a dollar or more and carrying on. Last year Trenton did each for a program like that. The Bath- not win the New Jersey title. It went to Woolwich coach gets and earns $350 for Englewood Post 78, coached for the first his summer-long job. time by John Winkin, youthful Naval Re- In Bloomington, Illinois last summer, 61 serve lieutenant commander, ex-destroy- junior teams, forming several leagues, er captain and one time associate editor $10.95 I Extra Heavy Gauge) of Sport magazine. played in a five-day-a-week summer- USE IT ANYWHERE! long program. 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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 • ^7 alumnus, one-time International League (formed from boys in Lincoln Central run or putting the ball across the plate and now a newspaper man, public high school). The Catholic team for the third strike has no time for idle coaches the Keys, junior team of Gregg prayed before each game and between mischief. Any form of athletics, organized Post in Reading, Pa. Since the Keys were innings, and won. and operated effectively, provides a organized, 2,500 youngsters have tried out In 1938 the same two teams met again. wholesome outlet for the surge of adoles- and more than 300 have made the team. This time the public school team was also cent energy and imagination. . . . What- This spring Doc Silva named offhand seven observed to pray before games and be- ever can be done to direct the energies major leaguers and seventeen minor tween the innings—and it won. Bowley, of youth along constructive paths is a leaguers who came from the Keys. Said Nebraska state Junior Baseball chairman, contribution to the future — a deposit in Silva: "We are proud of the many young- said: "The Lincoln boys told me they did the account of America's continued great- sters who have gone into professional not think much of praying to win in 1937; ness." ball . . . but we are proudest of the 100 but in 1938 they changed their minds and All over the country this year, Legion percent record of our boys in the game of thought you could pray for anything that Junior Baseball men looked forward to life. Not one of our lads has ever been is good and get results." bigger and better things during the next in the clutches of the law after joining Added Bowley: "The McDevittes con- quarter century. The early years of our team. In War Two, 140 of 150 former tinued to pray in 1939, and won the Na- Junior Baseball were not always easy. players then of military age served in tional Championship." After its start in 1926, Junior Baseball uniform, and 40 percent earned commis- Jerome Brady, manager of the Frank nearly died in 1927. That year there sions. Downer Post team in Monongahela, Pa., was no Little World Series, and the "Lawyers, doctors, engineers, business- recalled the unselfish act of Vic "first annual" series of the previous sea- men, executives and manufacturers have Furiga last summer. Furiga, an outstand- son threatened to be the last. But major graduated from our Jimior Baseball ing all-around athlete with aspirations league backing in 1928, inspired by then ranks. Regardless of race, creed or family for a college football scholarship, turned Legion Americanism Director Dan Sow- politics, whether poor or well-to-do, our down an invitation to play in a much- ers, saved the day. Yet, nationally. Junior youths have pulled together for twenty scouted all-star football game in Pitts- Baseball continued to have trouble feel- years." burgh because it conflicted with the state ing its early way. It remained spotty, Silva joined the growing list of wit- Junior Baseball elimination tournament. waxed and waned in some areas, during nesses who could cite a case of a juven- Said Brady: "Furiga's pitching carried us much of its first fifteen years. As late as ile court judge sending a boy into Junior all the way to the Pennsylvania state 1943, Junior Baseball in Texas had Baseball instead of reform school, with championship." dwindled to just one team. Baseball had, successful result. It happened in fact, disappeared from Texas high years ago Bigger and Better Tomorrow in Reading, and the boy in question was schools. Then, under Legion chairmanship never in trouble again — has a modest As Junior Baseball passed its quarter- of J. E. McClain, Junior ball was reborn and home, family and successful business century mark, youth-conscious FBI Chief has grown and grown in Texas. The Texas today. J. Edgar Hoover spoke up for it in Wash- schools themselves backed up the Legion But in a quarter century of retrospect, ington, D. C. Said Hoover: "A youngster and restored baseball in their own pro- the Junior Baseball coaches recalled rela- concentrating on getting in that winning grams. By 1948 there were 145 Lone Star tively few "bad boys." Jimior ball does its best job "keeping good kids good and making them better, simply by offering NATIONAL JUNIOR BASEBALL TOURNAMENT FOR 1951 them an activity where they can all pull The 1951 Legion Junior Baseball der national rules in each of the together for a wholesome cause." season for boys not over 17 is now states and the District of Columbia, Said the coaches: "Most boys are good under way. Any of about 17,000 and are certified to the National at heart, want to be good, and are good, teams may be one of the four to go Americanism Commission not later unless something or someone steers them into the Little World Series at Briggs than August 14. wrong. We hold our players to account for Stadium, Detroit, Sept. 4, 5, 6, 7 «& 8. Qualifying state teams will be re- their behavior, but we don't give them Sixteen Regional and Sectional duced to twelve quarter-finalists in preachments, we give them baseball. elimination tournaments above the the Regional tournaments, held be- "The worst punishment we can dish state level will provide the four tween August 18 and 23. out is to kick a boy off the team. That finalists. Travel expenses of quali- Regional survivors will go into the that is dire punishment in the boys' eyes fying teams to the twelve Regional Sectional tournaments, played be- proves the value of Jimior Baseball above and four Sectional tournaments and tween August 26 and 29. all else." the Little World Series are guaran- Winners of the Sectional tourna- The coaches' memories were richest, teed by the national program. ments will play off for the World after twenty-five years, with recollections Eligible teams will be those that Junior Championship in the Little of their many "good boys." "Pop" Beasely, have won play-off tournaments un- World Series, (see above.) in Richmond, Va., had seen several of "his lads," such as Granville Hamner, go on The twelve Regional tournaments: up to major league stardom. On a par with Regional 1 (Me., Vt., N. H., Mass.) at Milford, Mass Aug. 18-21 the big-leaguers in Pop's memory were Regional 2 (N. Y., Conn., R. I., N. J. at (unscheduled at press time) such Richmond boys as Jacob Wirt and Regional 3 (W. Va., Md., Del., D. C.) at (unscheduled at press time) John H. Dodd, III. Neither became a pro Regional 4 (Va., Ky., Tenn., N. C.) at Hickory, N. C Aug. 20-23 ballplayer. Both were killed in War Two. Regional 5 (Ala., Ga., S. C, Fla.) at Spartanburg, S. C Aug. 20-23 Dodd stood out as a fine player and Regional 6 (Ark., Miss., La., Tex.) at Baton Rouge, La Aug. 18-21 natural leader, whose influence on the Regional 7 (Ohio, Ind., Mich., 111.) at Bloomington, 111 Aug. 20-23 team was outstanding. Wirt voluntarily Regional 8 (Iowa, Mo., Kan., Okla.) at Altus, Okia Aug. 19-22 gave up his position on Pop's team to an- Regional 9 (N. D., S. D., Minn., Wis.) at Aberdeen, S. D Aug. 18-21 other boy of about equal ability, because Regional 10 (Neb., Wyo., Colo., N. M.) at Albuquerque, N. M Aug. 18-21 Wirt had a chance to play elsewhere and Regional 11 (Wash., Ore., Mont., Idaho) at Lewiston, Idaho Aug. 19-22 the other boy did not. The coaches re- Regional 12 (Cal., Nov., Utah, Ariz.) at Winslow, Ariz Aug. 18-21 member things like that. The four Sectional tournaments for Regional winners: Out of Nebraska came a tale of the Sectional A (Regionals 1, 2, 3) at Griffith Stadium, earnestness of a junior team. In 1937, said Washington, D. C Aug. 27-29 C. O. (Chip) Bowley, a Legion team called Sectional B (Regionals at Sumter, S. Aug. 27-29 the Omaha McDevittes (formed from 4, 5, 6) C ? Sectional C (Regionals at Springfleld, 111 Aug. 26-28 boys in Creighton Prep, a Catholic paro- 7, 8, 9) s Sectional D (Regionals 10, 11, 12) at Hastings, Neb Aug. 26-29 ;> chial school) played for the state cham- pionship against the Lincoln Blues

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He was ugly beyond TO Fir ALL AUTOMOBILES! we." all need and many in this village suffered, "Nonsense," said Bentick violently. but he was worse with Joseph than with Louis bothered him with his peasant per- any other." sistence. "Let your local military look "What did Marie do about it?" after him." "What could she do? She did not want "We cannot," said Louis patiently. "It is anything to happen to Joseph, so she had likely they would want to punish someone to submit to the brute's kissing her." and Marie, Joseph's widow, might be "It's a wonder Joseph didn't kill him the fined." The man rubbed his hard hands. night brought to root cellar," Crioice of full front and Water-proof and Stain we him the ro.ir scat covers or split proof. front scat. Comfortable and Cool. "He was your prisoner." said Bentick. Leopard skin effect on Easy to attach — clastic coloi f ul plastic. ties hold securely. "My prisoner hell!" exploded Bentick. "That would have been too easy." Louis .'t "We didn't have him an hour. I handed looked angry. "He did as I would have him to Joseph, and later I reported him done — kept the man where he could have DOMAR SALES CO. Dept. CF-20 480 Lcxinf^ton Ave. New York 17. N. as having escaped. That report clears me.'" i-evenge. He fed him enough, and occa- "But the report was wrong," said Louis sionally gave him water for washing. Each mildly. "He had not escaped." time the Germans were defeated he took 0^jiZTJi°j,^ 9 BE PREPARED IF "You can't get me mixed up in it," said the daily paper for the officer to read. iSHlre RATIONING comes Bentick. "That's final." When Hitler was finished Joseph got AMAZING Louis sat silent, as if he were miserable drunk and shouted 'Heil Hitler' at the fel- GAME TRY ONE ri enough but unimpressed, and Bentick be- low all the afternoon. Marie came for me. NEEDLE IN YOUR CAR! came uneasy. "Where is the man?" he She was afraid Joseph would kill him." r;-i.'.iiMM.'i:t.r.'ii.'iiHii asked. "But he calmed down?" MANY GANE NEEDLE USERS RE- PORT up to ^3'o more niileat^e. FREE "In ci.sier inid Joseph's stable. In what was the "Yes, quite, but he did not let the pris- r.isier pivk-u|). st;utinu- Economy Manual .-iiK.oilur idliii-4. Auto harness hole." oner go. He had more satisfaction keeping NOW TEST A GANE NEEDLE IN Tell-s YOUR CAR for ten days, tlien com- "Harness hole! What in the devil is the Wurttemberger after pare vour mileage .ind perforin- the fighting had ;in«e. If sali.sliefl. ^eiid SI. 5(1 per '2) .Si that?" noodle ( H cvl . ciir.s take . If product s . ( ended. I think he knew that there were not s.ilistied, tusl return It — fair solutely free onou-ir.' Sinco aulhoritios differ on w ho t r y "A place just above the horses, and many who shared his ideas." its incrils and some users rcjjort Needles > no iinprovenient, TRY BKFOKK under the loft mow. Where spare chains "So nothing was done?" \iyU UUY! (Gane Needle replaces idlinp: adjustment screw In carburetors — easily Installed and old collars are kept. It is very small." In a few minutes) "What could be done? Those who knew WRITE TODAY. ENCLOSE NO MONEY. PAY POSTMAN "How small?" approved, and Joseph declared he would NOTHING. Ju.st send us your name, address, and make NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE RETAIL CORP., Dept. CT "A man can do no more than sit in it." let the fellow rot before he would have 350 W. Washington Blvd. Venice, California "Where did Joseph keep him in win- him out." ter?" "It is a wonder to me," said Bentick, "In that place. There was heat from the "that the German has not gone crazy. 1 YOU MAKE $50.00 | sellinfi boxes horses, and he had blankets." 5ff for 100 finest Robinson Christ- Js Have you seen him lately?" mas Cards. An excellent opportunity for it "Imagine! I did not think Joseph was "No," said Louis. "I have an ailing wife. yourseir. club or orf?anization. Other fast ^ ^ money-makers. Write quick for samples on ^ that sort." She has not been well for months and she 5? approval. "My brother was a good man," said has been so worried about Joseph keeping I ROBINSON CARDS ^ DEPT. A- 12 CLINTON, MASS. Louis with some dignity, "and he did not the prisoner that she made me promise ^ have an easy life. He courted Marie when I would not go near him." she was young but she married another "You had better see the mayor," ad- COATED! FEATHERWEIGHT! man. It hurt Joseph yet he made no fuss. vised Bentick. "I never heard of a worse 16 X 50 He worked on his farm and gave no heed mess." $69.50 to other women. Then Marie's husband "I have told him," said Louis, "and he The ulliiiiale in .1 line binocu- died and after a I;ir. Tremendous power. Feath- decent time Joseph went is very angry. He does not know what to erweight (weijTlis only 31 ouiicesl). Precision inaile In to see her again. Soon they were married, do with the fellow." every iletail. COATED provld- iM". sharper, hrlKhter Imaffes. and the war came." "What about your priest?" Inilividual focus. Objective lens 1-. .">!) MM (2 lnche.5) across! "But what has that to do with the Louis sighed. "Marie to this UNCONDITIONALLY GUARAN- came me TT-;i;d, complete satisfaction or prisoner?" your money refunrtcfl. Prices Include genuine leather carry- afternoon and begged mc not to tell Fa- Inir case and straps. Adil lax. $2,oo deposit required cn C.O,D,'b. Cash onlers proii.Tld. l.'NITF.D BINOCULAR CO., "Much," grunted Louis. "The Wurttem- ther Hcbci t. You can understand what it 904 3 S. WESTERN, Di;PT, AHr-3.)3, CHICAGO 20.

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would mean, when she is having prayers folded his arms dramatically. "It is best," The Legion's BOOK said for Joseph. She is very distressed." he said, "that we know who you are." Louis looked disturbed. He rubbed his Bentick gave them his name. He told hard hands together. "Joseph always at- them he was staying at the estaminet and tended to the prisoner, but she will not." gave them an account of the visit Louis "Do you mean she is not taking him his had made. meals?" Bentick was startled. "Nothing but a loaf of bread in nine Louis shrugged. "She took a large loaf days," he added. and pushed it through the timbers the "Imagine. The man will be crazy." day after Joseph was ill. She had not gone "Good enough, if he is," snorted the near the prisoner again." dark man. "He was a brute to everyone." THE CHINA STORY "What! How long ago was that?" Ben- Desire shrugged. "It is we, not Louis, this matter. mayor By Freda Utley tick was horrified. who have to settle The "Nine days ago," said Louis dully. "It has asked us to think of a plan. But what The sordid tale of how a small group of commies was a large loaf." He reached for his black and neor-commies in our government got us to hat from the floor beside his chair. "I hope repudiate Chiang Kai-shek, opening the door to that by morning you will decide what is the Chinese commies, who are now killing our said. DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND sons in Korea. $3.50 to be done with the prisoner," he "I'll going "Not me," flimg Bentick, be who ought to have a subscription to the RUSSIAN PURGE AND THE EXTRACTION on the train. But I've never heard of a Legion Magazine? If you send $1.50 to- OF CONFESSION worse thing. Go up there yourself and gether with his name and address to — By r. Beck and W. Godin feed the man." The American Legion Magazine "It is but a short walk to my farm," Russia's largest-scale industry is the extortion 580 Fifth Avenue from commies of confession of sins they never said Louis, "and it is going to be another New York 19, New York committed. Here a couple of victims who escaped fine day." He walked out of the parlor, after getting the treatment tell their grimly fas- hat in hand, bowed to madame and said it will bring him a year's subscription. cinating story. $3.50 "Good evening." Then he was gone. Bentick had an impulse to run after A GUIDE TO PROFITABLE INVESTMENT him and shout into his hairy ears that he By Harold B. Cruver would report him to military authorities, a problem. In the morning six of us will A solid, meaty book on how to increase your but checked himself. go to Joseph's*place and see what can be savings by intelligent investment in common "There is always trouble in the world," done." stocks. It discusses the business cycle, correct commented madame. She was not looking "I'm glad to hear it," said Bentick. timing, the rights of the stockholder. Sets down at him as she made the remark. The usual "It would be very good," said the stout twelve basic rules formulated by the author dur- customers were in the estaminet and she man, "if you would come along." ing twenty-five years of practical experience in was keeping a sharp eye on the serving Bentick tried to refuse but could not stocks. $2.00 girl. think of a good enough excuse and then HOV/ TO RUN A SMALL BUSINESS Bentick did not want to sit at a table the three had taken his consent for grant- listen to chatter the By J. K. Lasser and endless about ed and were discussing what should be atom bomb and the Belgian king. His done. Lasser shows you how to achieve effective or- nerves were too much on edge. He could "He must be escorted to the American ganization, clarifies the legal responsibilities of not go to his room so soon. So he went authorities," said Desire. "It was a ter- management, shows how to set up an orderly, out and began walking the poorly-lighted rible thing for Joseph to do." simple system of accounting, and gives you specific, accurate advice on the particulars of streets of the village. "It is the French police who should deal financing, insurance, merchandising and sales- Presently he paused by the shop of with him," argued the stout man. manship. $3.95 Desire Cote, who sold tobacco and candy. "Use him as he would use us if condi- The door was open and one light burned tions were reversed," said the dark man. TO THE HOW GET JOB YOU WANT above a glass showcase in which chocolate They talked around in circles, debating By Lawrertte Terzian wrapped in tinsel was displayed. Bentick hotly, and it was easy for Bentick to see

Tells how to approach a prospective employer,- remembered that Desire had been a they would have no plan whatsoever how to follow through; how to present your per- friendly man in war times, and decided when they went to the farm in the morn- sonal qualifications to best advantage. $1.00 to visit him. Too late, he saw that Desire ing. had company. A stout man sat in a chair, "Everything is craziness," declared the UNIT NEW HISTORIES talking volubly. A small dark-skinned dark man at last. "But give me the au- 33rd Infantry Div. ...$7.50 89th Infantry Div. ...$3.50 man stood in the shadows. Desire was thority and I will solve the problem. No 37th Infontry Div. ...$7.50 94th Infontry Div. ...$5.00 leaning on his counter, a hand propping one will know about it. No one will re- 41sf Infontry Div. ..$10.00 101st Airborne Div. ..$2.50 his long chin. He stood up as Bentick member there ever was a prisoner." 76th Infantry Div. ...$5.00 501st Parothute Regl..$3.75 entered. "Henri was a soldier," explained Desire, 83rd Infantry Div. ...$3.50 504th Parachute Regt..$5.00 "Some chocolate, please," said Bentick, pointing to the dark man. "He wants to Write us for complete free list of available unit placing five francs on the counter. "It is shoot the prisoner." histories of both World War I and II not likely that you remember me?" "Otherwise there will be endless in- "No," said Desire, eyeing him, "but you quiries, and a bad name for Joseph," said Order at the funeral Henri. NOW: Cash or I were today." I C. O. D. AMERICAN "I was here with the tanks in '44," said "We have had enough of killing," said I LEGION BOOK SERVICE I 734 I5th St., N. W., Washington Bentick. "I knew Joseph then." the stout man. I 5, D. C. I

Gentlemen: I "Ah," grunted Desire. "He was a good "I will also do the burying myself," I Please send me the Henri. I books indicated. | man." added I enclose $ Send C.O.D. is foolish talk," reproved Desire. I j "Yes," said Bentick. "I left a prisoner "That here." I I with him, and the fellow escaped." "He must be taken from trial," stout I The stout man rose quickly from his "But have a insisted the did in this village." I I chair, then sat down again. The dark man man, "for what he is de- I I inhaled noisily. "My plan the only good one," the I "Are you sure of it?" asked Desire, his clared Henri. "I will go and see swung about and went out. I I hand wavering above the candy. mayor." He Name (please print) for I | "It was so reported to me," said Bentick, "The Germans had Henri a prisoner said Desire. "I think he is I "and I believed it at the time." three years," Street ! little I I "And now you know differently?" a deranged." City Zone State "If the Wurttemberger is a mental case I | "I do," said Bentick bluntly. I ^^li}_J, The dark man stepped forward and he must go to a German institution," said

gQ • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 the stout man. "He must be their expense." a dutiful widow but hatred flushed her "It is a problem beyond any we have face as she began to talk about the coming had before," said Desire, yawning. "Now of the Wurttemberger to the farm, and the if you gentlemen will excuse me I will way the officer had acted. He had had lock the shop. It is past eleven. We will Joseph's best cows butchered when there meet here at nine in the morning." was plenty of other meat in the village. The STENCIL DUPLI- Bentick went back to his room. He He had made Joseph salute him each time OEM CATOR saves money . . . gets ^ wished he had said he would not go to they mot, which was often. When the bat- results quickly! Hundreds of the farm, and yet he had a strong curiosity man was sick he had made Joseph shine uses for evrry lypp of busin<-s> and oFj^anizalion. We ship thf hard to resist. The night had become cool his shoes. He had fined Joseph three times GEM complete with all supplirs, Guide accurate printing but he tossed restlessly, recalling the for some petty thing about regulations. Board for and 60-page Book of Ideas at tin- Wurttemberger. He had been a blond of- He had kissed Marie each morning when special low price of only $8.50 Our (a S15.00 value) ficer, carrying a sneer on his face, walking Joseph was present. 1st Year with a swagger. He had refused a smoke "I don't think you can comprehend the fR€{ TRiAC OfHK and he would not answer any questions. way my husband suffered," she said. "He Use the GEM FREE al our expense! SEND NO Joseph had yelled his hate at sight of him was treated worse than a dog and it took MONEY. Write and compl. tc GEM outfit will be sent you postpaid. After ten days, send us only and had rubbed his hard hands across the all I could do to keep him sane. I was $8*50 or return the GEM. You must be satisfied! Wurttemberger's face. sure he would kill the Wurttemberger WRITE TODAY. The morning was still and warm. when they brought him here, and then it BOND EQUIPMENT CO. Dept. 21 6633 Enright St. loui« 5, Mo. Bentick ate his breakfast hurriedly and was weeks before I knew he was in the was at Desire's shop before it was open. harness hole." SELL WONDERFUL REGAL CHRISTMAS Henri was standing outside, looking sul- "What did you do about it when you CARDS NOT ORTAINAILE ELSEWHERE len. knew?" asked the mayor. IJcrcS tlie big m()ncy m^kt-f Mar- "How did you get on with the mayor?" "Nothing," shrugged Marie. "What velous Chriittna^ tarJs exclusive with our j,i;cnts 15 sell for i oo AKo 50 for 1.15 asked Bentick. could I do? He had bullied Joseph for IN ON Name handsomely imprinted. 150 other Imixl". with profits ro 100'^; Bonus Frit "Badly," shrugged Henri. "The maycr nearly three years. But I did not want to YOUR s.inipl(.i Kft on approval is — while I ask like the others a chicken at heart." see him and after a began to SPARE REGAL GREETING CARD CO. Desire and the stout man joined them. Joseph to let him go." . TIME.. Dept. Al-7< Ferndale, Michigan They went along the street and met the "What did he say?" mayor with two elderly gentlemen who "He said the Wurttemberger must suffer OLD looked as if they were going to an execu- three years for each year he tormented LEG TROUBLE tion. There were no introductions, and no him, and there were those in the village Easy to use Viscose Application heals many old leg sores caused by leg con- conversation, yet Bentick felt he had been who agreed with him. But now." Marie gestion, varicose veins, swollen legs discussed and accepted by the party. tapped her hand on the table, "I want and injuries or no cost for trial if it tails to show results in 10 days. 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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 • and looked at the mayor. "I want him A sigh of relief ran around the table thick timbers had been cut across by the away from here today," she added. as if it were passed from person to person. continued use of a nail. Slight scratchings "Let us call in our police," suggested The mayor rubbed his hands and mopped induced splinters that could be removed the stout man. his brow. Marie nodded her relief, hurried but the work would be tedious beyond "Where would they take him?" asked to the kitchen and returned with a saw, imagination. Hours and hours, day in and the mayor. "There is no charge against an axe and a crowbar. "You will need day out, over weeks and months. When him." them all," she said. "It is a very strong the final timber had been loosened and "Hand him to the French military," prison." pushed around, the Wurttemberger had urged the dark man. "He is a war crim- The mayor led the way to the stable. squeezed through and dropped to free- inal." He said it would be best to talk with the dom. "I think it better to take him to the prisoner as kindly as possible. He could Bentick led the way around to the side Allied forces in Germany," said Desire. be taken to a barber, be given decent of the stable. Footmarks were fresh in He looked at the two old men and asked clothes and lodged somewhere while the the sun-baked earth. The prisoner had their opinion. One spoke with a rasping proper authorities were consulted. He said not been gone more than a few hours. voice. He said the Wurttemberger had Louis was acting in a most generous Then they saw a fragment of paper pinned been a beast, and should be punished manner. to the wall by a nail worn to pin-size at accordingly. He had committed crimes The stable was an old building with the point. Black grease from a cart axle against French people, and French people solid timbers. A door was opened and had been used as ink for the writing. The should punish him. The other old man fastened back to let in air and sunshine. crude ragged letters read: "Heil Hitler." croaked like a frog. He said it would be Then the party filed inside and Bentick Louis looked at the words, at the gnaw- better to be clear of the fellow. tried to accustom his eyes to the gloom. ed timber, the worn nail and at the dark There was a rapping at the door and He saw horse stalls and brick flooring. opening in the wall. He used a hard hand Marie admitted Louis. He was dressed in Harness was hanging from wooden pegs. to wipe sweat beads from his brow and his Sunday black and he took his seat as Cobwebs were in the corners. There was a slow smile spread over his face. if he had been invited. Then he asked a strong smell of horses and manure. It was contagious. The mayor's wrinkles what decision had been reached. The "This way," said Louis. He went up a began to smooth. Desire and the stout mayor explained that they faced a most few steps that ended before heavy planks man took the paper from the wall and difficult problem and had not agreed on spiked across a low entranceway. began chuckling. The two oldsters looked any course. Desire took a flashlight from his pocket. less solemn. Louis nodded his understanding of the Its beam showed an aperture large enough "We have no problem," said the mayor situation. Then he stood and began to to admit a kettle. He played the light gently. speak. He talked about Joseph, the good inside. The place was empty! "Imagine!" chortled Desire, holding up qualities he had had, and the way he had Each man stared in turn, then looked the nail. "Imagine!" been mistreated by the prisoner. Finally at his neighbor. Louis took the light and "It's some kind of justice, if you can he said that he had felt the matter his shone it on the fastenings. They were all name it," said the stout man. responsibility and so he had come pre- in place. No one spoke. Louis took the Bentick felt queerly elated. He was pared to pay whatever fine might be im- saw and set to work. He shed his coat glad he had stayed over. He watched posed by the authorities for Joseph's and gave it to Desire to hold. Half an hour Louis. The hard hands unclenched as the action. Futhermore, he was ready to go later he pried the last timber free and farmer relaxed. Then he crossed himself before any military tribunal, French or went, crouching, into the recesses of the piously. "God is good!" he said, and he American or German, and stand as harness hole. spoke so fervently the mayor removed Joseph's representative and defender. There was an opening at the rear. Two his hat. THE END

What Ever Miappened to Str•ipes?

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Associated Press, United Press and Inter- Stripes. The brass forbade it and it's re- and Allied personnel. Of these, about 40 national News Service, and then a huge freshing to be able to use it here. are editorial and the rest in production, file goes out, via U. S. Signal Corps in Last fall, 50 former editors and writers distribution and clerical. Washington. of WW II Stripes asked the Defense De- To get first-hand coverage on the Oc- From there most of it, unhappily, goes partment to revamp the paper in order cupation GI's hometown today — Europe through the London bureaus of the wire "to guarantee, in the event of another — Stripes maintains bureaus or bureau services where it is relayed to Stripes — world war, that the military substitute men in Vienna, Trieste, Munich, Bremen, but highly anglicized in the process for for America's free press will meet the Nuremberg and Frankfurt, and sends cor- British consumption. standards at home." respondents all over the map to cover When the news gets to Stripes, it reads The group, which submitted the memo- fast-breaking stories or special features. just like the London Times and must be randum as a kind of petition, said that Daily, perhaps a half million words from heavily edited and rewritten, a chore no despite a "constant struggle" by news- the wire services and the bureaus pour Stateside paper has to cope with. It's just papermen in uniform against interfer- into the teletype room, the like of which too damned British for the American ence from above, from "subordinate even the New York Times cannot boast. palate, both by way of spelling and im- officers, some well meaning, some rank- It is from this vast file that perhaps 50,000 portance. What GI cares about the Mar- conscious, but nearly all unenlightened words are sifted, edited and laid out. The quis of Queensberry and his latest hunt as to sound newspaper practice," a good strenuous effort involved in all of this show? paper was gotten out; but that these takes the form of not only boiling and Managing editor of Stripes today is Ken officers interfered with daily operations separating the phony from the true, but Zumwalt, a former enlisted man. Ken, and news values. presenting it in fast, readable style. who fought through the Bulge and Nor- Among several suggestions, the for- On the surface this may sound routine, mandy, was once state editor of a Cali- mer editors and writers asked for the ap- but when all the typesetters are German fornia daily. He married a French girl and pointment of a general officer who would and don't know any more words of Eng- has settled down to living like an Ameri- be in charge and who had a background lish than they picked up at the bierstubes, can newspaperman — in Germany. as "editor of one of the nation's leading the problem is a major one. Everything It is he who decides makeup and news newspapers." must be blockprinted for the German play. And he sweats out the visits of The beef behind the petition was con- typesetters, as though for children, to in- Inspector Generals and beefs from the cerned mainly with "brassiness," and em- sure accuracy. It does but it's a painful brass. The paper is in the sad circum- phasized the difficulties of turning out a and painstaking process. A general's name stance of having an unlimited number of free paper for troops under such circum- can't be misspelled, you know. Simply publishers. Any brass, in effect, can raise stances as a Presidential campaign. mustn't. hell about a story. And by way of men- The complement on the paper numbers A letdown in accuracy may bring rep- tion, the word "brass" is never used on about 400 indigenous (German, to you) resentations from the East German Gov- g2 • The American Legion Magazine • July. 1951 ernment or from Soviet Russia. Worse, line on its stories. The stories just say Stripes is an American dream, for it more there may be repercussions in Washing- things without telling where they came than breaks even on its own. And this ton, which keeps a vigilant eye, a very from and who said just what. They read despite the fleet of trucks, about 100 of cold eye, on Stripes to insure that the GI like editorials. The U. S. Army paper's them, that rush down the bad roadways is getting his normal fare of customary stories are never that way. of Europe bringing at least one or two U. S. news. Page 1 in the Russian counterpart is editions to every American in Europe. Without the seasoned eye of the news filled almost daily with hymns in praise It is a tribute to the fast-stepping U. S. editors, the high-powered propaganda of the glowing conditions in the East press that news that echoes around the machines used by the East State and many State. Stripes is strictly news all the way world can be relayed daily to the expat- agencies in the Balkans can set in motion through and doesn't even have an edi- riates in uniform, our GI's abroad, as ably a phony story engineered via London that torial page. The GI reader, just as he and succinctly as it would be done from may run in Stripes. The Europeans have would at home, knows from where the Scranton to Sacramento. And this in the story was sent, through what agency, and face of difficulties which would give mul- who said it. tiple ulcers to many a newspaper pub- Daily, Stripes' editions are compared lisher in the States. with what are considered the best papers If this be a paean in praise, it is de- in the States. More often than not, the served. It is an almost holy job, this busi- news play is amazingly paralleled. And ness of keeping the GI informed. Freedom this in the face of maintaining an Amer- of the press for the boys in uniform is ican perspective while living abroad in a perhaps the best reminder of their func- sea of foreigners. The strain and the dis- tion abroad. And it's lonely abroad, too, cipline are terrific. and to get a gander of Miss Strawberry The paper is not permitted under an Festival of 1951 on Page 3 is a heart- Army directive to take advertisements. It warming affair. the end does not even gain the larger part of its revenue from the sale of the paper. The Mr. Kugelmass is a former civilian copy lovely and unprecedented profits are the editor of Stripes in Germany. He spent result of a monopoly held by Stripes on /lis days off in getting togethei material the sale of U. S. magazines and books. on a biography of Louis Braille, the These are sold sometimes for a few cents Frenchman who, blind himself, devised more than they cost in the States and that the system of raised point writing allow- more than pays for transportation costs. ing the blind to read. Published by Julian But as a paper without advertising, Messner, New York, it sells for $2.75.

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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 • gg expansion by imperialism and by popu- lar revolution; it is known as the Party Line. A communist believes in streamlining government by reducing political parties to one. He would likewise cut down the complexity of balloting by 50 percent; on all propositions involving a vote of "Yes" or "No," the "No" would be eliminated. A communist wants peace in all the countries of the world — a piece of this country and a piece of that one. His great ambition is One World — all Stalin's. FAIR WARNING You can tell a communist, but you can't Even more ominous, tell him much. — Richard Armour Than the rumble oj a riot, Is a bunch oj kids, RIPPLED FENDERS Suddenly quiet. damsel and several times he opened his A good driver, John — never over 35, — Harold Helper mouth to speak. But at the sight of so More like him should be alive. much feminine loveliness so boldly dis- But now he's inactive and in some pain; LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER played, he was struck dumb. He made a left turn from the right hand Seven-year-old Nancy's mother was Suddenly the perspiring politician felt lane. — Robert H. Prescott not at the dinner table, so the little girl a stiff jab in the ribs and heard the voice sat in her mother's place. Her brother, of his better half. not liking this arrangement, immediately "Henry!" she hissed. "For Heaven's challenged her position. sake, talk to that hussy or they'll think "So you're the mother tonight," he she's your wife!" — Francis Gerard sneered. "Well, how much is eight times seven?" PRECARIOUS Without a moment's hesitation, Nancy Notv getting his brand new dentures nonchalantly replied, "I'm busy. Ask your He thinks they are just about right; father." — F. G. Kernan But alas, poor man, he ventures To sneeze without biting real tight! TIRE IRONY — Oliver Worden

The only time I have a flat Is when the spare is just like that. HOW TO TELL A COMMUNIST — Warren Taylor A communist is a person who can read the handwriting on the wall — if it is in MARITAL ETIQUETTE Russian. He believes in American free A newly-elected New England con- enterprise, which he takes to mean free- gressman took his rather puritanical wife dom for him to carry out any enterprise to a swank party. His sedate mate sat on that will help to destroy America. his right, and, on his left he was some- A communist is enthusiastic about life what startled to discover, a well-known in Russia, but if you suggest that he go strip-teaser gowned in the most extreme back where he came from, he either ad- decollete. mits he has never been there or breaks The unsophisticated statesman shot out in a cold sweat and clutches you by several surreptitious glances at the fair the knees. He draws a fine line between "'D, C, D, D, A' -Here! What's this 'A' in Sex Education?"

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Whenever one of the higher ranking officers in our Texas camp had a birth- day, the mess sergeant celebrated by hav- ing the cooks prepare something special. On one of these occasions, I was on KP, and the cook informed us to walk lightly. He had a huge shortcake baking in the oven. However, when it came time to test the cake to see if it was ready to take from the oven, all the cooks were busy with other chores so one of them shouted over to us, "One of you guys see if the cake is done." "I'll do it," said one of the privates. "What do I do?" "Just stick a knife into it and see if it comes out clean." No one paid any attention to the private and about ten minutes later a cook shouted, "Did the knife come out clean?" "You bet it did," answered the private. "It came out so clean, I stuck all the other "Come on for a ride, Martha. I just had the batteries recharged and dirty knives into it too." I'm going to open her up!" — Stanley J. Meyer g4 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1951 —

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