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Sir: W. E. Da\ is, w iio m rote the arti- GOT STARS cle "Your Best Buy In Transporta- tion" in the August issue, was really Sir: Thank you for printing m\- let- sw inging wild. His plea to keep Amer- ter about the lost Gold Star and the WHAT HAPPENED? problem of getting a 1 ican dollars in America is admirable. replacement. Sir: What has happened in AVashing- However, until the American auto received a letter from .Mr. Edw ard A. Lingenfelter, tiie ton? Is there a deliberate plan to ruin worker is willing to do a day's work deputy director of this country, to void the Constitution, for a day's pay, I can't afford to sup- Schoharie County Veterans Scr\ice to scrap our old ideals and principles? port his inefficiency. When Detroit Agency, which really got results from Hornell Office, Is it outmoded to love America or be can offer me a dollar's worth of car our and they put my patriotic? Have graft and greed and for a dollar, they'll find nie a quick application through in a hurry for a love of money replaced love of coun- and loyal buyer. new Gold Star. Today I recei\ ed a letter try? Is it old-fashioned to point with Howard D. Walrath from Mr. George Clark of Wa- pride and respect to the Stars and loiva City, Iowa bash, Ind., who offered to give me Stripes? May we speak of the Monroe his Gold Star. This letter is to express Doctrine and nationalism without fear Sir: The fundamental point in "Your my deep appreciation to all of nou. of ridicule, or must wc knuckle down Best Buy in Transportation'' was that Milton H. Lloyd to the internationalists, the One- we should purchase American cars to Alfred, N. Y. Worlders and communist-bred United see our way out of this recession. This Nations? What has become of our appeal is without adequate justification SALUTE national pride as one nation after an- or foundation, and I suggest a com- Sir: Has the hand salute undergone other kidnaps our citizens? Why do plete reversal of thought. The auto- official change or simply deteriorated we permit nine black-robed men to motive unions through their constant through the years since \\'A\'l? override our Constitution to the ciieers wage demands have a powerful lever Watching so often the antics of our of the communists? AVhy do we con- effect upon inflation to the detriment militar>', who seem to be either wiping tinue foreign aid which wrecks our of Americans who do not share in sweat or slapping flies, I can't but \\ on- own economy and buj's nothing but these increased wages. Thus, in the der what lias happened to the hand hatred and contempt? Answer these purchase of an American car at labor- salute. The Officer's Guide gi\ es this questions if you can, and as election inflated prices, the American is penal- procedure: "Raise right iiand sniarth' time approaches let's put all candidates izing himself and his family as he is on record. supporting the severe inflationary-le- until tip of forefinger touches lower R. M. Norrington ver tactics of the automotive unions part of headdress, above and sligiitiy to right of right eye, tiiumb and fing- Pnsaciena, Cculif. and reducing proportionately his own level of income. ers extended and joined, palm to left, Walter F. Evans upper arm horizontal, forearm inclined HEAVENLY MUSINGS Rockville, Md. 45 degrees, hand and wrist straight. To complete the salute, drop arm to Sir: Concerning "Heaven Is My Hob- side in one motion." by" in your August issue, I am one of BAROMETER H. N. Van Tuyl those who find it a lot easier to con- Sir: I want to template heaven than to rid myself of compliment Mrs. P. J. Binghamtov, N. Y. my disagreeable disposition and other Peterson, of Anaconda, iVIont., for her letter about Senator McCarthy. Truer undesirable characteristics that keep TEMPERANCE VIEWPOINT words were never spoken. al- me from being the best of company You can M ays tell when you hit the communists Sir: Your August issue has an item in for my associates in this mortal exist- hard because they scream bloody mur- "Editor's Corner" bearing the caption ence. And if I cannot be a desirable der, and they sure did their share of "Prohibition Again'' to which this person here, why should I hope to be writer takes exception. The figure imposed on my fellow angels through screaming at Senator McCarthy. It's quoted may be true, but what about eternity? the best barometer I kno\\' of, so far the other side of the problem? en- Andrew M. Andersen as those scum go. He N. G. Nyerges tirely omitted to call attention to the Boise, Idaho Los Angeles millions of dollars our citizen taxpay- ers have to pay each year because of

Sir: I am writing to express my ap- NOT INDIFFERENT the destructive influence of alcohol on proval and appreciation, as well as my crime, iiighway killings, broken

enjoyment, of Past National Chaplain Sir: May I react to the suggestion of homes, ruined li\ es, and all manner of

Blackman's "Heaven Is M>' Hobby." W. J. Shea, whose letter in "Sound tragedies which clutter up our courts 1 served four years as Chaplain of the Off^!" for August called for a million of justice, fill our penal institutions, Department of Colorado, and am glad letters to President Eisenhower, Elea- hospitals, and insane asylums. The

to be classed as a Past Department nor Roosevelt and Harry Truman pro- ( Contimied on page 41 >

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GHOULISH SOAIETHIXG special in the way of a smear, done in the worst possible taste, appeared in a recent issue of Esquire magazine, a publication long noted for its assiduous merchandising of gents" furnish- ings and ladies' legs. Taking time out from their usual promotions of Bermuda shorts and hnxnder undcrthings, the editors of Esquire hired one Riciiard H. Rovere to disinter the late Senator .Mc- Carthy and give him a literary going-over. Mr. Rovere obx iously had the proper qualifications for the job, having been an associate editor of the New Masses, a communist periodical, and more recently having done some writing for the Fund for the Republic. Tiie resulting essay on AlcCarthy was reminiscent, in more ways than one, of the kind of putrescence fea- tured by the now defunct Daily M'orker and the utterances of bolsheviks being questioned by congressional investigating committees. Since Esquire bought full-page newspaper advertisements to plug this opus,

we can only assume that it subscribes wholeheartedly to this sort of thing. AX'hich may or may not be strange. Time w as when decent people believed in let- ting the dead rest in peace, regardless of It's handy, low in cost, wonderful! \\ liat thc\' thought of them when tiiey

\\ ere alive. But maybe this sort of decency

is too much to expect of a fellow w ith Rovere's background and a |iubiication w hich hopes to attract readers and ad- • vertising revenue by doing a hatchet job (in a corpse.

It's more than a convenience— an Even the most budget-conscious THAT HITLER-STALIN PACT extension phone in the bedroom. It husband will be pleasantly surprised W E said, Richard H. Rovere w as AS associate editor of Masses, isn't only the thousands of steps it to learn how little an extension costs. an New having held that job in 1938 and 1939. saves. Nor is it just the reassuring Call your Bell Telephone business Permit us to quote from a column head- feeling of security at night. ed "Between Ourselves" which appeared office today, and see how easy it is on the inside front cover of tiiat comie A bedroom phone actually does to have one in your bedroom (or magazine for September 12, 1939: something for a busy girl's morale. "New Masses has had some opportunity kitchen, playroom or den ) It lets her talk relaxed — gives her a of cliecking up on the assertions of the capitalist press that the friends of the refreshing break to lighten the house- P. S. —When you order yours, ask Soviet Union in this country have been hold chores. It's the little touch of about the handy, built-in telephone thrown into confusion and discourage- luxury that makes her day. night light! ment by the Soxict-German pact. Last w eekend, N.M editors North, -Magil, and Rovere spoke to an aggregate of about 2,000 at Camps Unity, Beacon, and Fol- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM lowers of the Trail. All three report tliat the questions asked them reflected an eagerness for detail and simplification g • THE AMERICAN I EGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 rather rlian any qucrulausiicss over the decision made by tlic So\ ict Union. Peo- ple were in fundanienral agreement with the pact, but they did want more honest background on its effects througiiout tiic world." \Ve arc sure that Associate Eilitor Ro- vere was able to straighten out tiie biv- ouacked bolslicviks concerning Joe Stalin's tie-up with Adolf Schickelgrubcr.

CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH so much talk about summit meetings, cultural exclianges, and other aspects of budd>'-buddyism with the Kremlin ites, Americans are rapidly losing sigiit of the kind of people the reds realh' are. Tiiere is an excellent reminder in a statement made b\- William C. Bullitt, who served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1933 to 1936. Describing a dinner in .Moscow, attended by Marshal \'oroshilov and Alarshal Budenny, he reported the follow ing re- marks by V'oroshilov: "/ think the i//ost extraordhniry thi/in u-c [Budenny and Voroshilov] ever did together ivas to capture Kiev ivithout figl.ning." Like many American shooters, the Preston Fosters of TV "If 7.1(7/- happened" I asked. and movie fame, are thorough outdoor folks and do a "If'c'//," said Voroshilov, ''there were whale of a lot of hunting and shooting. They go for the 11,000 Czarist officers with their wives perfect feel and balance, faster, easier action they get and childrci/ in Kiev and they had more with their Ithacas. troops tl.wi we had, and we never could have captured the city by fighting, so Like the Fosters, if you are particular, you too, want a we used propaganda and we told thevi top quality gun for target shooting or trips afield. Ithaca that they would he released and allowed Featherlight Repeaters are //g/it in weight; made of safe to go to their hoDies with their faviilies solid sfeel by ace American gun craftsmen; they are and treated as well as possible by our trouble-free, dependable under all conditions, easy to anny, and they believed us and surren- clean and maintain; with ultra-fast, exclusive boffom ejec- dered." tion, that puts the empties at your feet where they belong, "What did you do then?" I asked. protects your face and arms and the man beside you— no ''Oh," said Voroshilov, "we shot all the loading gate to catch your thumb, and an action that men and boys and we put all the women always stays clean and dry. and girls into brothels for our army." "Do you think that was a very decent Ithaca guns take the rnagnum loads as well as thing to do?" I asked. lightest loads; have beautiful, solid walnut stocks;

"My army needed women," said Voro- famous Ithaca Raybar front sight; left-handed safety if shilov, "and I was concerned with my you order it . . . and many other features. army's health and not with the health An Ithaca Featherlight Repeater is a sound invest- of those women; and it didn't make any ment in many years of hunting and shooting pleasure. difference anyhow, because they were all dead within 3 months." Since 1880 Ithaca has developed a reputation, Just another aspect of that much \-aunt- among hunters and shooters who know, of being tops ed Soviet "coexistence." in quality AND shooting performance . . . this extra value gives you the most gun for your money when you buy an Ithaca.

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still remaining, put-and-take shotgun-

ning is destined to be the only bird shooting left to the sportsman.

Today the patron of a preserve is bound to be a satisfied customer. If he lives close to a city or large town and must travel many miles to find a good wild-bird cover and thus have the expense of transportation in addition to that of overnight lodging and meals, he

it. (Continued on page 43) Rocking " a bird j)uts it to sleep. A nudge of the dog handler s loot awakens 13 They eall it

Sewage and industrial wastes

are more prevalent than ever

in the water Americans drink.

By ROBERT & LEONA RIENOW

WATER THAT you drink today may once have THEquaffed Caesar's thirst." So reads the caption for a cast This open sewer near the Mac Arthur Bridge at St. Louis means iron pipe ad picturing a Roman in war togs with a more contamination for the once lordly Mississippi River. beaker to his lips. What a romantic thought! Yet a couple thousand years of nature's purifying water cycle — evaporation to rain to evaporation — take the curse off the secondhand drink. The pipe company has safely made its point

that water is indestructible. But when the Public Health Service points out that the "water you use may have been flushed down somebody else's bathroom"— perhaps yesterday or the day before — the romantic thought loses its glitter. Of course, in this newly crowded country of ours, we are going to have to accustom ourselves to using rehabilitated water for house- hold as well as for industrial purposes. Crowded people can't be squeamish.

The issue in America now is not how to get enough pure,

"nature cycle" water — it is how to get enough potable water for all of us and our industry. The steadily mounting deluge of pollutants which we are discharging into our

once clean streams, ponds, and lakes is doing more than adding an increasing menace to the public health. In many

places it has become so bad that it is curtailing industry. Unless we clamp down drastically on our present pollution rate, we won't even have enough of this secondhand,

rejuvenated water. Already Wheeling, West Virginia, is

This stream at Canton, North Carolina, is being polluted throwing in its dry sponge on Ohio River water; it just can't by industrial waste, in this case from a large paj>er mill. purify it.

When our tap water becomes so rank that it affects the flavor of our coffee and our beer, then we shall have a home demonstration of the social crime of pollution. Yes, 90,000, 000 Americans depend on rivers and lakes to slake their thirst; so "90,000,000 Americans can be wronged."

Ironically, this is the tenth anniversary of the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 which, presumably, was to be "tried for ten years" before more drastic steps were taken. How do we stack up after ten years'? Here are the facts: We have one-tenth more domestic sewage in our rivers

than ever before. Why? We made a fair try, but it wasn't good enough to keep up with the increased population. Be- fore the Act, 82 percent of our municipal sewage poured untreated into our public waters; now only 58 percent spills into our streams raw. If we went in for Russian statistical methods, these percentages might satisfy us. But the truth

is, we are falling behind. Industry unloaded 81 percent of the wastes into streams Coldwater Creek, not tar Irom St. Louis, is said to be the untreated before the Act; the figure has now come down country's most polluted stream. The white suds are detergents. to 40 percent. Again, that looks fine until you note that the 14 ; Drinking Water!

10,400 outlets. The National Association of Manufacturers tells us that four out of five plants do nothing to their wastes. Industry has increased by 700 percent since 1900. It will double again by 1975. Already the combined industrial and municipal discharge into the streams of America equals the raw sewage of 150,000,000 peo-

ple. It is going to be increasingly difficult for Tin Pan Alley to find a river to get romantic about. Silt. American rivers were once deep, swift, and leaping with game fish. Today they are sluggish and much shallower, clogged not only with wastes but with huge

cargoes of silt which eroded ofT the water-

sheds after the land was stripped of its thick tree and plant robe. Swift-flowing rivers de- contaminate (CoiUiinted on page 47)

The microscope sees a droj) ot water as it ap- j)ears at left. But not all of this matter is harmful.

germs of a thousand kinds including viruses, dysentery, cholera, ty- phus, (some authorities include polio)

also deadly dyes, grits, canning filth, When this tunnel under Pittsburgh is slaughterhouse leavings, the effluvia finished, sewage from 1, -100, 000 people from hospitals and mortuaries and, of will no longer j)onute the Ohio River. smaller percentage represents twice the late, small amounts of radioactive wastes total industrial pollution of a quarter from atomic fission installations. century ago! Altogether we have 22,000 sewage Even good water is filled with life and industrial outlets into our once forms. in We stopped at the filtration clear streams. Of these, 1 1 ,800 drain mu- plant for the City of Albany the other nicipal sewage systems; they serve more day to take a look at a drop of water than 92,000,000 people. Now hold your under the microscope. With a roster of hat (and perhaps your nose) : the wastes 64 kinds of algae and bacteria at our from only 54,500.000 of these people

elbow we tried to take the roil of this have undergone any treatment at all.

teeming liquid. It was like trying to When the Ohio River is low, one identify a friend at the Army-Navy quart out of every gallon of water in

game. But this was the finest water the stream has been belched into it by drawn from a woodland reservoir! a sewer. Go out to the South Platte What are some of the less tasty items River below Denver in the dry season

which are glutting our watercourses, and you will find four-fifths of its con- poisoning our fish and waterfowl, be- tents is effluent from the sewage treat- fouling our sources of drinking water? ment plant. There is raw sewage, rotting vegetable But in our highly industrial nation 60 Nelsonvilie, Ohio, a tonnnuniiy ol 6,250, matter, corrosive chemicals, industrial percent of the waste that burdens our has solved its sewage problem by means oil, dead fish and animal matter, acids, creeks and rivers comes from industry's of this Hocking River treatment j)Iant.

15 What To Do Till The!

You can help yourself and the firemen if yoi Keep the telei)hone number of your fire department near your telephone. A good fire extinguisher and a knowledge of ho\

PHOTOS BY DANNY LEO

A Electrical fires, such as in the TV set sho\vn above, are best fought with a nonconducting agent such as carbon dio.xide, being used here.

Car fires are easily controlled by carbon dioxide, or dry chemical extinguishers.

For fires involving textiles and paper, ,i soda acid txtingiiislier is reconnnendcd.

By IRVING HERSCHBEIN

N OCTOBER 8, 1871, Mrs. O'- Last year more than 1 1,000 persons Leary's now famous cow lost their lives in fires — and the o kicked over a lantern in her greatest percentage of these were barn, and the Great Chicago Fire children. In 1957 for the first time started its three-day march of de- in U.S. history the property loss from struction. When the fire finally burned fire exceeded $1,000,000,000.

itself out, it left behind it $200,000.- Although they represent only a 000 worth of property in ashes, 90,000 small part of the property loss, the homeless, and more than 300 dead. great majority of fires are in the Each year the anniversary of the home and the greatest loss of life most destructive fire in American comes in home fires. For many years

history is marked by Fire Prevention fire departments have been empha-

Week, which this year is October sizing the importance of fire preven- 5-11. tion rather than extinguishment. A Fire is still taking its grim toll. program of Home Inspection Cam- 16 Engines Come

know what to do in case of fire.

to use it are grood fire insurance.

Most fires in the home are caused by careless smoking or misirse of electricity.

guisher is one that has been approved. Fires are generally divided into three classes, and a knowledge of the type of fire will determine the type of extinguisher to use. CLASS A fires are those involving wood, textiles, rubbish, etc. For this type of fire an extinguisher using soda-

acid solution or foam is the best. CLASS B fires are those involving greases, gasoline, oil, and other flam- mable liquids. Dry chemical, carbon dioxide, and foam extinguishers are the best for this type of fire. Don't use water or soda-acid extinguishers; they may extinguisliers, Dry chemical such as spread this type of fire. Protfxall are liest lor home use CLASS C fires are those involving against electrical tires (above) electrical machinery or wiring. Here and kitchen grease fires fright). again the dry chemical or carbon dioxide

extinguisher is the best since it will not conduct electricity. Nearly 85 percent of all home fires start in the kitchen, and it's a good idea to keep an extinguisher in or near this room. Kitchen fires usually involve grease or electricity; so an extinguisher

approved for Class B and C fires is the best. On these pages you can see some of the various kinds of fire extinguishers and the manner in which to use them.

It might be a good idea during Fire Prevention Week to look around your house and see if you're harboring a potential fire.

Even more important is a family drill to make sure that everyone knows what to do in case fire should strike. Here's a handy checklist that may help you save your property— and your life, the end paigns has helped reduce the toll of death DEPARTMENT when you smell smoke and destruction in many communities. or see a fire. You should not attempt to Your local fire department will be fight a fire until you have notified the IN CASE OF FIRE happy to inspect your home and point fire department and given the firemen out common fire hazards to you. Such your exact address. Do you know the location of the inspections are voluntary — the firemen Have one or more good fire extin- fire alarm box nearest your home? will enter your home only with your guishers around the house and know permission and only to point out poten- how to use them. It's a good idea to test Do you know the telephone num- tial sources of fires. them in a safe place to make sure you ber of the fire department? In addition to removing the causes of know how they operate. Some extin- Do you have a plan of escape from fire, the homeowner should know what guishers can be dangerous if used in en- your home in case of fire? to do in case of fire. closed areas because of the gas given oft" The first rule is: CALL THE FIRE by their contents. Be sure your extin- 17 AMAZING

A four-finger ball and the bushing, above, help Campi to com))ensate for a swelling thumb when he bowls.

Lou Campi's bowling style proves

that it sometimes pays to be diiTerent.

By DUANE DECKER

~«\ « OU PROBABLY REMEMBER that (All this, of course, while corny old joke about the mother working full time as a ma- (^j^ watching her son, an Army prison.) vate of recent vintage, marching down Then, in last year's na- Main Street with his Legion Post in a tionally televised East-West Veteran's Day parade. "Lool

'"Everybody's out of step but Johnny!" here without reservation — who left au- son who thinks he can explain it is That museum piece of American diences just plain gasping as he kept Campi himself. Of course, it's obvious chuckles can be dusted off and used coming from behind time and again to anyone who watches him in action these days in reference to a certain 52- with the Big Game, the Big String, the that he can hook a bowling ball down year-old bowler from Dumont, New Crucial Strike. TV bowling history was an alley with the cool precision of a Jersey — Lou Campi by name. Because made by Campi then as he took 14 brain surgeon and the casual boldness nobody, but nobody, in the bowling straight matches from the likes of Ned of a burglar. It's quite plain to see that world is more out of step than Campi. Day, Steve Nagy, Therm Gibson, he can ferret out the splinter-sized strike Nor more successful. Johnny King, Bill Lillard, Ed Lubanski, pocket with his uncanny, yet seemingly In fact, Campi is living proof that Dick Weber, Don Carter, Ed Kawolics, tangled-up. delivery. He does all this there's always hope in bowling, Amer- Dick Hoover, Buzz Fazio. The book- with no known record of having ever ica's leading participant sport, for the maker's odds against any bowler beating brushed the dangerously extended right renegades from form: the misfits, so- off that succession of names in this leg that would serve as a catastrophic called. Campi has utterly confounded blaze-of-glory stretch would have been mental block to just about any other the conformists. No wonder. about the same as they might have been money bowler you can name. Out of the 20,000.000 bowlers who against Don Larsen pitching that per- "I just sort of come around that leg annually spend $250,000,000 in 7,500 fect game in the World Series of 1956. as naturally as the moon comes over the bowling establishments strung through- But beat them off Campi did. It was mountain," Campi says. "And some- out the United States, Campi has what is known in the pro bowling trade how, for me, it smooths out my leverage achieved top national recognition by vi- as head-to-head competition. The win- into a sort of solid line. I think I've got olating the basic tenet of the sport. Al- ner keeps coming back to face a brand- a real advantage doing it that way. Of though he is a right-handed bowler, the new challenger. Broadcasting the course, no other tournament bowler bail always leaves his hand, pin-bound, unprecedented event, TV commentator thinks so, and no other tournament with his right instead of his left foot for- Lou Marks not only ran out of superla- bowler would be caught dead doing it ward. tives but out of gas as well in describing that way. Matter of fact, I wouldn't And what recognition this Amazing Campi's apparently endless series of recommend my style to anyone else. It's

Mister Wrong Foot has achieved! Dur- Frank Merriwell feats. It was as if an just peculiar to me — I'll put it that ing the past five years his prize money elderly, bespectacled left-handed golfer way." ran to $30,000 plus occasional bonuses, from a small public links had emerged Not so peculiar though, not when such as the pair of automobiles handed as winner of the U.S. Open. Campi analyzes how he got that way. to him in addition to his $6,000 prize How does Campi do it? The last per- It all started when he was 10 years money on last year's TV Sweepstakes. Photos by Danny Leo old, living in his native Verona, Italy. 18 MR. WRONG FOOT

These high-speed photographs show how Cam|)i manages to get the ball past his right knee. The ball is down low, below his knee, well behind the loul line. Campi strives for accuracy, not power, in his delivery.

There he started to play hoccie. which nonball type of tennis — is quite similar line. Always, of course, off the wrong he pronounces Verona-fashion: "but- to the ball used for duckpin bowling. foot. chie." The ball used in hoccie — an Ital- "But in hoccie." Campi points out, He has never even tried to bowl any

ian offshoot of bowling, but about as "power is not at ail important. You other way. "Why should I?" he asks.

close to it as badminton is to the can- need, mainly, a sharp eye and the abil- "Playing the All-Star finals in 1955, I ity to place the ball exactly where you struck one of the very rare 300's ever

want it. You are allowed to take only rolled in that competition. After I did

three steps in hoccie, and it is better to it, I asked myself suddenly: 'Who is " finish on your right foot because, like using the wrong foot — they or me?'

I say, the power is not important, just Conceivably, Campi might never

the accuracy. I never even tried tenpin have bowled a match in his life. What

bowling until I was 32 years old. All I touched him off was pure accident. It ever knew was: finish on the right foot." happened one hot afternoon about 20 Campi did make one concession to years ago. the established dogma of the tourna- He'd put in a rugged day wrestling ment bowler — he switched to four steps. with cinder blocks on a masonry job, But where the orthodox bowler goes and decided to stop off at a neighbor- right-ieft-right-left, Campi goes left- hood tavern on the way home. As he right-left-right. Sort of like a piano ordered a cold brew, he couldn't help player crossing his arms and using his but notice the four men pacing the floor right hand for the bass notes, the left with the tense impatience of expectant hand for the melody. As a result, he fathers. Campi knew one of them by wears shoes designed for left-handed sight, and finally this one came over. bowlers. His steps toward the foul line "Our bowling team," he explained to are of average length. From an ap- Campi, "is due for a league match and proach of 15 feet, he winds up. Timing, our fifth man hasn't shown up. We crucially important to all bowlers, must haven't heard from him. We've got to be the absolute quintessence of perfec- get going or forfeit the match. Will you

tion with Campi's approach to bringing fill in?" Because he ends up on his right loot, aboxe, the ball around in a polished arch. He Obviously it never occurred to this Campi has to use left-handed bowler's shoes. lets the ball go half a foot from the foul bowler that (Continued on page 51) 19 Battle over

Two decades ago our schools were

flooded with millions of textbooks plugging

a leftwing "new social order." This is the

story of the man who exposed the plot.

CONDEMNS USE

OF RUGG TEXTS

Prolific Protessor Rugg. the Columbia Teadiers College luminary, who s])oke IN CITY SCHOOLS for the so-called Frontier Thinkers. Parent Group Chairman Says His Books Preach By IRENE CORBALLY KUHN Collectivism, Class War Dr. John Dewey "We agree," he said, "that we are THE MID-THIRTIES, when the de- Use in the New York City schools uncertain as to where we are go- INpression set off all kinds of social- ing, and where we want to go, and of the textbooks written by Prof. istic experiments, the Nation was why we are doing what we do." Harold Rugg of Teachers College. flooded with books that could qualify as Columbia University, was con- best sellers, since millions of copies demned yesterday by Archibald were published and circulated. ctotron<:r>n /'hairman of t.hp Amr>ri- These books were not novels, nor were they snappy sex studies. Onte alerted, iVmerican ])arent,s reacted They were textbooks written by a vigorously to the textbook [nopaganda. prolific professor, Harold Rugg, of Co- lumbia University Teachers College, the spokesman for a new social order he cus" — they're highly resistant to all was peddling. The books were the prin- known antibodies. cipal tools of the plan to change the Author Rugg, early in his career, was traditional capitalism of the United one of a group of teachers calling them- States, through inculcating its youth with selves the "Frontier Thinkers," a name contempt for the established order, in- the professor himself coined for the dividual achievement, and free enter- hucksters of the New Order. They clus- prise. tered around the person and reputation The books played a major part in of Dr. John Dewey, the materialistic weakening the solid foundations of the Columbia University philosopher whose American educational system which theories so perfectly suited them at the we're busy shoring up at last, now that time. the Soviet Sputniks have opened our Dr. Dewey, a shaggy-haired scholar, eyes to the damage. Rugg textbooks are conceived of education as an informal no longer used in our schools, but the process of learning from which all re- The undisciplined "new education" can be ideas they planted are like the hardy straints and disciplines were to disap- dangerous. This teacher, James O'Farrell, germs of the new "golden staphylococ- pear. He rejected the usual methods of was stabbed in the back by a student.

20 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 :

skeptical and remained rather unfavorable toward Soviet life."

This clearheaded maverick is not identified. He let the side down, and must be forever anonymous in Dr. Watson's Books memoirs. Another Frontier Thinker, Theodore Brameld, professor of education at New York University, writing in Frontiers of Democracy (1940) said: "We need a design [in America] where nature's goods at last are consciously, collectively controlled by the majority of our people," A few months earlier Dr. Rugg had called for a design, too, one that "must be comprehensive enough to cross any boundaries, either of states or personally owned properties that interfere with the efficient and human operation of the

social system. The central control to administer it must be created by the people themselves."

And, Dr. Rugg added, "that, it seems to me, is what we must teach." The Frontier Thinkers were able to do this because they were professors of education and, therefore, teachers of teachers. Rugg's book. The Great Technology, which asserted that American democracy was a failure and must be sup- planted by the new social order, was accepted as a basic text for teachers. The book explained the plan. The educational system must be used to "change the climate of opinion" in America. „ But first the educational system had to be changed. And here Dr. Dewey's theories, given the impressive name of "progressive education," became the means to that end. Once their theories were launched, the new educationists were off with a whoop and a holler, spreading the doctrine of "learning by doing." They introduced fads and frolics and improvised as they went. "We agree."" Dr. Dewey once said, "that we are uncertain as to where we are going, and where we want to go, and why Col. Augiistin G. Rudd went into action when he we are doing what we do." saw what was being peddled in Rugg's books. Dr. Dewey may have been uncertain and unknowing, but the men around him knew exactly what they were doing. The Frontier Thinkers left nothing to chance. Even while they were converting professionals and laymen to the "bene- education which had served America so well from the Na- fits" of the "'new education"" they were exhorting the teachers tion's beginning. to power. When Rugg hung the pretentious label of "Frontier Think- Instead of educating the individual, there was something ers"" on this group of pseudosavants, he described them as called "life adjustment'" which was a process of conditioning

. to live in "seldom conservatives . . never followers. On the contrary, the child a new social order the progressives were they lead, even though they may lead mistakenly." erecting. That was the important thing with this group of intellec- Millions of victimized school children were not taught tually arrogant men — to lead, no matter into what mess or how to think. In far too many cases they were not even cul-de-sac. They were all enthusiastic observers of and com- taught to read, to write legibly, or to express themselves with mentators on the "great collectivist experiment" in Soviet any ease or clarity. They grew up without discipline or direc- Russia, not with regard to Russian education but as a way tion, so far as school training went. of life. After several pilgrimages to Russia to view the work- The parents, for the most part, actually didn't realize what ings of that experiment — under proper Russian chaperonage, was happening. Even most of the teachers in those early of course — the more aggressive leaders saw the way to ful- days had no say about the kind of education being inaugu- fill their determination to make America over into the Soviet rated. Many who realized what was happening were forced image. to go along or get out of teaching. Ironically, the swing to Nothing could more graphically sum up their commitment "progressive" or "modern" education was engineered by a to the premise that capitalism must inevitably be replaced by tight little clique of perhaps a dozen men. Teachers College, collectivism than these concluding lines from a report on a in Columbia University, became a holy temple for the visit to Russia, written in 1937, by Dr. Goodwin Watson, cultists. To its campus came budding and graduate teachers professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia. He from all over the country. The doctrinaire books, expounding wrote progressive education as propagated and propounded at "A half dozen who came prepared to find a bad situation Teachers College, written by Dr. Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, had been transferred into warm admirers of the Soviet scene. and their colleagues, were avidly read and widely circulated. None who came with high expectations has been disappointed. Members of this small, influential group were able to en- The sum total would be more than 95% favorably influenced trench themselves, not because of the merits of their ideas by this brief study. We had not always been comfortable but but by applying the same tactics that politicians use to seize

we had been aware of a society directed toward the suste- power and control. Patronage is the word for it. Teachers nance of human values." College supplied people for top jobs, and the Deweyites run-

Only one of the group, according to Dr. Watson, "became ning the show saw to it that (Continued on page 37)

THE .AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • 21 YovRHq

prime target jjif th§ home improvemeu racketeers

The Moral: Know the people

voii do business with.

By RALPH LEE SMITH

Dallas, Texas, three men called INat the home of an 81 -year-old woman and identified themselves as "city inspectors." They examined her roof, and told her that the house could not "pass inspection" unless the gutters Most build- were cleaned out. They offered to do the ers and contractors job, and she agreed. They worked for are reputable businessmen. two hours and presented her with a bill However, the American home has be- These letters are a streamlined ver- for $1,050, which she paid. come a happy hunting ground for a sion of one of the slickest gimmicks ever In Chicago a homeowner received small but highly active group of gyps dreamed up for fooling the public. Bet- some callers who represented themselves who are conducting their activities on ter Business Bureaus call it "the model as furnace repair experts. After looking a multimillion-dollar scale. home scheme." Crooked contractors over his furnace, they announced that it A large number of residents of Co- have used it to sell millions of dollars' was in such poor condition that they lumbia, South Carolina, recently re- worth of home improvements to home- "did not want to be responsible" for do- ceived letters from a building firm which owners who subsequently experienced ing only minor repairs. They stated that read, in part, as follows: complete disappointment and disillusion. the homeowner and his neighbors were "We are expanding our sales territory Although it has a hundred variations, in danger of either carbon monoxide and rather than spend a large amount of the basic scheme is always the same. poisoning or explosion. A new furnace, money to conduct an extensive advertis- The homeowner is told, by mail or by they said, was the only solution, and ing program, we are going to select home the "engineer" (really just a salesman) they quoted a price of $2,364. Fortu- owners in various areas who are anxious who knocks on his door, that the com- nately, the homeowner, although badly to beautify their homes immediately and pany is expanding its operations in ihe frightened, had the presence of mind to have them advertise our product. These community. It needs a good "demon- call in some representatives from the people could then enjoy the savings stration job" that it can show to cus- public utility company from which he which an extensive advertising program tomers. Therefore, would the home- purchased his fuel. These engineers ex- would cost. owner be interested in having a fine amined the furnace and found it in per- "One of our factory engineers will be roofing or siding job done on his house fect condition. in your vicinity very shortly. It will be at a fraction of the regular cost, so the

In New Orleans a homeowner en- his job to select a few homes to explain company can show it to others? gaged a contractor to do some founda- our offer in full without cost or obliga- This offer sometimes includes, in ad-

tion work and renovation on his home. tion on your part . . dition to the "cut price," commissions of The work cost $6,000. He has now been The letter even oft'ered a gift of a set $50 or $100 payable to the homeowner informed by reliable building men that of .silver "worth $39.95" if the home- for every job that the company sells by the entire job will have to be done again. owner would simply permit the compa- using the home as a sample of the firm's The investment in the worthless work rep- ny's "engineer" to explain the proposi- work. The smooth talkers often assure resented the homeowner's life savings. tion. the homeowner that the commissions 22 EXAMPLES OF GYP WORK will easily cover the full cost of the job, The reputable home building indus- and will even bring the homeowner a try, through its individual members and

tidy profit on the whole deal. through its professional associations, has Some of these fellows should be on publicly denounced the model home the stage. One salesman told an aging scheme as a fake, and has urged the

couple that if "the boss likes the way public to stamp it out by refusing to fall

you people talk, and how you are trying for it. to keep up your home, and that you Another kind of skulduggery takes belong to a church and are decent peo- place in the nation's basements. Here ple, he might decide to fix up your certain cynical furnace repairmen charge house." When the boss came, he as- outrageous prices for work that is so

sured the couple that the whole propo- poor that it can, quite literally, kill you.

sition would not cost them a dime. They And when it comes to ingenious tactics, found out the truth too late — they had they play second fiddle to nobody. Good money was paid for this hazard- signed a straight contract for $1,850 for The itinerant furnace repair gyp will ous sloppily made chimney crown. home improvements, with no mention of knock on the homeowner's door — free work or commissions. usually during the day when the man of In other instances "model home" the house is away — and state that he has just finished another repair job nearby.

He says that, while he is in the neighborhood, he will look over the homeowner's furnace without charge. In some instances he uses a different line,

stating that he is a municipal or State inspector. In either case his big objective is to get into the basement. Once there, the gyp and his crew take the furnace completely apart. Then, with the parts strewn all over the floor, they summon the astounded homeowner to the basement and go into their scare act. The boss shakes his head gravely and

This is the porch one Iiomeowner says that the furnace is so defective that found he had bought and paid for. it is a menace to life and limb. He fre-

quently says that "the firepot is cracked," a condition which he says cannot be re-

paired. The family, he claims, is living

Try and get the chea|) items that the swindlers advertise!

tricksters say that they are affiliated with various large and well-known manufacturers in the home improvement field, or that they are being sponsored by cer- The gutter and downspout worked tain well-known family magazines. better before this "repair" job. Someday one of these fellows may knock on your door and brazenly tell you that Once you sign on the dotted

his "model home" offer is being spon- line, you're at the gyp's mercy. sored by The American Legion or by this magazine. If he does, kick him out! with the imminent danger of fire, ex- The truth about all these "model plosion, or asphyxiation from carbon home" propositions can be simply told — monoxide gas. He then offers to sell the there isn't any truth in any of them. homeowner a new furnace. The experiences of thousands of home- If the homeowner hesitates about or- owners show that the so-called reduced dering a new furnace, the racketeer puts

price is actually a high price, and that on his halo and says that he is sorry but no commissions or special financial con- he and his men cannot take the respon- siderations are forthcoming. The com- sibility for reassembling a defective and pany has no intention of using the home dangerous heating plant. If the home-

to demonstrate its work. It is only using owner insists, the boss will require him a clever trick to sell home improve- or her to sign a release, absolving the

Note the drain, installed on the ment jobs. Further, the workmanship is furnace repairmen from all responsibil- theory that water will go uphill. frequently substandard. (Continued on page 52) 23 PRtStNTING BOTH SIDCS Of BIG ISSUES MC/NG THE NATION

THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: SHOULD WE STOP TESTING ATOMIC BOMBS?

(PRO) Nuclear testing has for its (CON) It is inconceivable that we fundamental purpose national secu- would'even consider halting the test- rity. National security was the motive ing of nuclear devices until we know for America's original pursuit of the all that is necessary on the subject. secret of the atom — the fear that a Soviet Russia would obtain an in- potential foe might first possess this credible advantage over us by contin- limitless power to the utter danger of uing such testing while our tests had our country. Our responsibility has been brought to a halt. grown gieater. It is now the security Because of the sentiment which has already been of the free world. aroused to stop our testing program, we have been placed in a dangerous position. We are rushing in- Yes, there is danger from the fallout, just as there complete devices to the testing grounds. is danger from the X-ray and other peaceful mani- We know that during this past summer the Soviets festations of atomic energy. But in all things we have made firing tests of small tactical nuclear weapons to choose the lesser evil — if we cannot choose the which their physicists are now evaluating. We are in greater good. We do not invite further tests — even in the course of making similar tests to obtain the same pursuit of the "clean" bomb — just for the utter joy type of information. of exposing the world to somatic and genetic perils. Who can say whether we will or will not be faced The greater good we seek is substantial disarmament. with nuclear warfare? Until that question is resolved Not a one-sided disarmament. America would not — if ever — we must continue to prepare our defenses divest itself of its nuclear know-how unilaterally. in both limited and total warfare.

We cannot repeal science. We cannot take away Despite our know-how in the larger strategic from foe or friend the advances they have made in nuclear devices, we have much to learn about the atomic knowledge — for peace or for war. We should smaller tactical nuclear weapons. We know that the not surrender to any foe our resources of the atom Soviet Union possesses such warfare capabilities. until we have a genuine testing agreement with a It is vital to our national security that we have monitoring system to assure complete compliance. capabilities greater than theirs! We cannot have one- This is not a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. At Ge- sided disarmament. neva three years ago we proved that, and at Geneva We need the greatest possible know-how in the again this year the sincerity of America will be development, production, and ultimate use of the evident. finest possible equipment, both conventional and nuclear. This should be accomplished as far as pos- I feel that nobody excels me in an earnest desire sible by private enterprise. In addition, every Amer- to achieve substantial disarmament; nobody surpasses ican must be trained in the basic principles of the my ambitions to promote atoms for peace. I abhor all military art and science. — the A B C's of war atom, brush-fire, and conven- Even though we are emphasizing the importance tional war. I for — But am peace only with honor just of developing our defenses against nuclear wai'fare, as I for with am disarmament intelligence. It seems we must always remember that we will never have to me that the reasoning is: Nuclear weapons are a a push-button war. Unfortunately, during war it will deterrent only against other nuclear weapons. We always be necessary for men to fly combat planes, halt the development of nuclear weapons when we sail fighting ships, carry the bayonets, engage in halt testing. With an agreement and a system of guerrilla warfare, and go under enemy fire to carry detection we can a start make by curtailing tests. munitions and food to the combat men of the front We can work from that point to other areas of dis- lines. armament. But we must have genuine guarantees — These United States will remain great if we have otherwise we must still stand guard for the free proper education; strong national defense; a stable, world. We dare not be deceived again. dynamic economy; clean and constructive politics; honor in our international relations; and faith in the principles of our religion.

John O. Pastore (D), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island Edward Martin (R), U.S. Senator Irom Pennsylvania

24 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS

NEWS IN BRIEF FROM THE 40th NATIONAL CONVENTION CHICAGO, ILL, SEPT. 1-4.

The Board of Directors of The American Legion Child Several American Legion affiliated organizations Welfare Foundation approved six grants totaling $32,500. elected new officers. William Luddy of Michigan was The grants went to the American Social Hygiene Asso- named President of The American Legion Press Asso- ciation, Boston Children's Hospital, National Hospital ciation (ALPA). John B. Finucane, NEC man from the for Speech Disorders, Tulane University School of Social Department of Canada, was elected President of the Delinquency Control Institute of the University Work, Foreign and Outlying Departments and Posts of The of Southern California, and Eastern New Mexico Uni- American Legion (FODPAL), and William Mclntyre versity. of New York became President of the Society of Most embarrassing incident of the Convention came Founders of The American Legion. when the Department of Pennsylvania was to be awarded the Hearst Americanism trophy. The trophy, which had been on display in National Hcadcpiartcrs, was stolen the night before. A fonr-foot-high gold-plated figme had been unscrewed from the 40 poiuid marble base and removed from the Morrison Hotel. Two days later National Headquarters received an anonymous phone call from a woman who said that the missing trophy could be found in a parking lot. Police recovered it undamaged.

Post 14, Shreveport, La., threw down the gauntlet to Post 1, Denver. Colo., and Post 1, Omaha," Neb. On the stage of the Convention Hail, Post 14 announced that it would top Denver and Omaha to become the world's biggest post in 1959. Commanders of both Posts accepted the challenge.

Spectators and contestants at the many contests discovered why Chicago is known as the windy city. At the Delegates to the Convention were able to send 30 free Color Guard Contest in Grant Park right on the lake cases of L&M, Oasis and Chesterfield cigarettes to Vet- front, winds which reached 40 miles an hour made life erans Hospitals of their choice by playing a game at the difficult for the competitors. The high winds blew helmets Liggett & Myers booth in Convention Hall. Above, from the heads of color bearers of Post 111, St. Louis, National Commander Moore draws the name of delegate Mo. The color guard from Post 1677, Syracuse, N. Y., had Wally Bortz, Post 40, Springfield, Ore., who M'on five of its two ten flags badly ripped when winds carried them cases of cigarettes for patients in Veterans Hos|)itals. over the spearpoint tops of adjoining staffs, and one of the staffs was broken in half. The next night at the Drum and Bugle Corps finals, the Syracuse corps apj)eared with The 40th National Convention was one of the best a complete set of colors. A seamstress had worked through policed in Legion history. More than 500 Ciiicago police- the night repairing the torn flags and the Corps had a men were speciallv assigned to cover the various activities spare staff to replace the broken one. luider the direction of Police Captains Harry Penzin and John McCarthy of the Chicago Police Post of The Ameri- For the 1 2th year the Seagram Posts of The American can Legion. Aiding them were several hundred Legion Legion awarded four Ford convertibles to holders of Police working under the direction of retired Captain winning tickets which were drawn during the intermission Matt Murphy, a Past National Vice-Commander. of the Drum and Bugle Corps finals. Winners were Emil H. Osiek, Post 312, St. Charles, Mo., who was urinij the course of the present when his name was drawn; Raymond F. Cooke, D Convention there were hundreds of parties, dinners, breakfasts, Post 1086, Chicago, 111.; Frank J. Kurimai, Post 16, luncheons and reunions. They ranged from small informal breakfasts Townshend, Vt.; and Mrs. Doris W. Ritchie, Unit 19, to Laurel, Del. large parties such as the Department of Louisiana party which attracted several thousand to the Blackstone Hotel The premiere of The American Legion's motion pic- to enjoy some southern hospitality. On the Sunday before ture, "We Who Serve" was held on the Sunday preceding the Convention General Hugh Casey and Theodore C. the Convention. The first print of the just completed film Wiehe were hosts to a large gathering at the Palmer was flown to Chicago for the special screening before the House, and on Parade day General Frank Schwengel and National Executive Committee. The film was made in Edward McGinnis entertained a large group who gath- both and 27 10 minute lengths in 16 and 35mm size to ered at the Blackstone Hotel to watch the parade. An- make it usable for television, theatrical and Post and other large crowd attended the Bierstube Party put on club showings. The NEC gave its approval for television by the United Brewers Foundation at the Aragon Ball- showings of the film and for limited internal distribution. room on Wednesday evening.

THE • AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1938 • 25 REPORT FROM CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—40TH NATIONAL CONVENTION BUSINESS MEETING AT 40TH NAT'L CONVENTION

^W^HE business sessions of the 40th eral Veterans Administration hospitals. ponents insisted that the Legion owed J. National Convention of The Ameri- Both resolutions had been before its inliuence in the field of veterans affairs can Legion were conducted on Tuesday, other national conventions in recent to the fact that it has never been a "treas- Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 2-4, years; each was again roundly debated ury raiding" outfit, but has always sought 1958, in Chicago Stadium on West Mad- and defeated by a substantial majority on benefits only for clear and justifiable pur- ison Street, Chicago, Illinois. roll call votes. poses. A total of 3,057 accredited delegates Winning arguments against the chiro- Dan Foley, of Minnesota, jelled the from 58 departments and two outlying practic resolution were those offered by opposition feehng into a few words when posts were on hand to carry on the delegates from the floor that (a) the he told the delegates that if the Legion Legion's business. Legion is not qualified to specify how a asks for a pension for every veteran, re-

National Commander John S. Glea- medical staff should be made up. and gardless of need, then it could no longer son, Jr., of Winnetka. III., presided over (b) if the resolution represents the in- "in good conscience" claim to be the the Convention, which, in its closing terests of chiropractors, it is outside the spokesman for those veterans who are hour, elected 38-year-old Preston J. scope of the purposes of the Legion. in need. Moore, Stillwater, Oklahoma, attorney, After prolonged debate the issue went to succeed Gleason. (Details of election to a roll call and the general pension was of officers on p. 32.) defeated. 2.057 to 4T4. The Convention heard addresses from The Convention then adopted Res.

leading national figures, including: 33 1 , calling for liberalization of the pres- former President Harry S. Truman; U. S. ent veterans pension laws based on need. Representative to the United Nations The resolution asks for (a) an increase Henry Cabot Lodge; Governor of Puerto in the present pension rates, (b) an in- Rico Luis Munoz Marin; Mme. Chiang crease in the income limitations for pen- Kai-Shek, wife of the President of the sion eligibility and (c) an end to the Republic of China; AFL-CIO President disability requirement for pension eligi- George Meany: Administrator of Vet- bility for veterans over 65. if they meet erans Affairs Sumner G. Whittier; the income limitations. American Bar Association President It asked for a basic veterans pension Ross L. Malone; and National Educa- rate of $75. It asked that the 10-year or tion Association President Miss Ruth A. age-65 rate be $90; and that the "care Stout. and attendance" rate be $150. It called for raising the income limita- Business tion for pension eligibility to $1800 (sin- In the business of the Convention, a gle) and $3,000 (dependents.) total of 632 resolutions were considered. Increases for widows and orphans They were screened by hundreds of Chicago Bov and Girl .Scouts nias.secl 150 were also asked. Legionnaires who served on ten special flags on opening day in Chicago Stadium. The same report recommended that Convention committees. these pension improvements, applicable Rejected were 146 of the resolutions; Pensions only for veterans with limited income, 102 were referred to regular commis- The general pension proposition, for and only for veterans who are disabled sions for further study. The remaining all WWl veterans on attaining age 60, if under 65, be made the top legislative 384 were consolidated into 170 resolu- was once again heatedly debated. aim of The American Legion for 1959. tions which the Convention delegates Chief spokesman in favor of the gen- adopted. eral pension was Charles Falkenberg, Other i.ssiies Not many of the adopted resolutions Chicago attorney. Arguments included In other actions the Convention did created new policy. Most of them re- (a) that such a pension would help these things: affirmed or updated existing American business by increasing spending, (b) (a) Urged no softening of America's Legion policy. The resolutions that that if the U. S. can afford foreign aid military posture. caused the most excitement were two it can afford a general pension, (c) that (b) Stressed the need for more job that did not pass. veterans of wars prior to WWl had re- opportunities in America for older peo- They were: (1) a resolution strongly ceived such pensions. ple. supported by Illinois and Indiana Le- The convention Rehabilitation Com- (c) Opposed any curtailment of the gionnaires for a $100 a month pension mittee report, presented by Chmn Rob- existing veterans program of the federal

for every World War I veteran at age ert M. McCurdy (Calif.) asked its re- gov't. 60, and (2) a resolution submitted in jection and the resolution was brought (d) Asked that gov't commission identical form from many states asking to the floor by the Illinois delegation. study veterans affairs in the Philippines. the Legion to demand that chiropractic Many delegates spoke for and against (e) Limited American Legion legisla- treatment be made available in the fed- the general pension from the floor. Op- tive mandates to matters bearing on main

25 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1958 Among the important speakers U. S. Representative to the UN, Henry Governor Luis .Mnnoz Marin of Puerto was tormer President Truman. Cabot Lodge, spoke on opening day. Rico hiuded United States policy.

Other speakers who addressed the Convention were, Bar Association; Miss Rutli \. .Stout, President, left to right, George Meany, President, A. F. of L. National Education Association; and Sumner G. and C. L O.; Ross L. Malone, President, American VVhittier, Administrator of Veterans Affairs.

programs of The American Legion. (m) Conunended FBI and Congres- (t) Urged more community action to (f) Sought establishment of a Vet- sional committees investigating subver- rid newsstands of lewd and pernicious erans Committee in the U. S. Senate. sion. literature. (g) Opposed any weakening of vet- (n) Favored U. S. protection of For- (u) Asked U. S. Armed Forces to erans preference in Civil Service. mosa area. modernize their personnel system.

(h) Requested a 40th anniversary (o) Urged U. S. show more interest ( V ) Sought nationwide federal pro- American Legion commemorative post- in Latin American relations. gram of construction of civil defense age stamp. (p) Opposed any "Summit" meeting shelters. (!) Amended The American Legion outside the framework of the UN. (w) Demanded that armed forces constitution to require Convention dele- (q) Opposed any return to former obey law requiring them to use single gates to be registered. enemies of seized enemy assets of WW2. supply catalog.

(j) Opposed dependence of local (r) Favored use of War Claims Act (x) Supported President's sending school systems of federal funds. funds for scholarships, as in "Smathers troops to Lebanon.

( k ) Deplored trend of Supreme Court Bill." (y) Commeiuled Admiral Hyman G. decisions to assume legislative roles. (s) Favored constitutional amend- Rickover, nuclear submarine developer.

( 1 ) Opposed any weakening of Immi- ment to modify U. S. treaty-making (z) Sought pension improvements for gration and Nationality Act. power. veterans widows and orphans.

Before the Con\ention began, Commissions and Committees The National Finance Commission hears a report on The were at work. Above, a session of the Convention Commission. American Legion film, "We Who Serve" from William Burke.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 19.58 • 27 CONTINUED 40TH NATIONAL CONVENTION CHICAGO, ILLINOIS supporting the dictators in other lands.

While it is necessary to do business Major Addresses When the Soviets say they love with foreign dictators, we should never Chipper as usual, former President peace, said Truman, they mean they permit an appearance of having a "ro- Harry S. Truman took the rostrum on want no opposition to their conquests. mance" with them. Eventually, dictators

Wednesday, Sept. 3. Wearing his blue He scoffed the idea that there is any in all lands will be swept away, and the Legion cap of Post 21, Independence, formula for giving the United States the U. S. must be out of the line of fire when

Mo., Truman cast his entire speech in defense setup it needs on an economy that day comes, he warned. the frame of a Legionnaire discussing budget. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who Legion policy. "What can we in the Legion do?" he brought greetings to the Legion from the He called for the strongest possible asked. As a great, nonpartisan organi- President, announced that the U. S. will U. S. military posture, and stressed the zation, with members working in both seek an international agreement on the need for unity and non-partisanship in great political parties, the Legion should exploration of outer space in the next the creation of a national defense policy. be in the forefront in urging that "noth- meeting of the General Assembly of the We've already tried disarmament to ing should stand in the way of making United Nations. solve the cold war, and it failed, he inti- this great republic safe." Lodge also outlined to the Legion dele-

mated. When WW2 ended, "mama gates the steps that had been taken in " and papa, cried 'bring the boys home,' the United Nations during his years as he said. Furthermore, he told the dele- U. S. Representative to block Soviet ex- gates amid laughter, "Some of you cried, pansion and international troublemak- " 'I wanna go home!' ing. That gave him plenty of headaches, The handling of the Lebanese crisis as President, Truman said. We disarmed in the UN General Assembly, rather than too fast under these pressures, he said, at the "Summit meeting" Khrushchev while Russia consolidated her conti- wanted, worked out well, he said.

(.()\ finor .Stratton extended greetings ol the State of Illinois.

Puerto Rico's Governor, Luis Munoz Marin, told the Legion delegates that there are millions of people in the world who believe the Soviet description of the U. S. as "imperialistic, dollar-mad, etc." Puerto Rico knows from experience that the Soviet charges are wrong, he Chicago's Mayor Daley wel- said. Puerto Ricans understand and be- Illinois De})ariment Commander Ba- comed delegates to his city. damo welcomed The American Legion. lieve in the American way of life. That, he said, is why Puerto Rico voluntarily nental expansion by retaining her war- chose permanent union with the U. S. The moving of U. S. troops into Leb- time military machine. instead of independence; and that is why anon, followed by the General Assem- The Soviets "don't give a damn about over 90% of the 40,000 Puerto Rican bly's action, was a defeat for current So- the difference between Democrats and troops in the Korean war were volun- viet plans for chaos in the Middle East, Republicans," he said, and in dealing teers. Lodge stated. with the Soviet threat we, too, had better However, he said, too often the Sumner Whittier, Administrator of ignore partisan politics. U. S. gives the appearance of strongly Veterans Affairs since last December,

28 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1 95« Whitticr predicted great improvement Ross Malone, President of The Ameri- in the operation of VA hospitals in the can Bar Association, asked the Legion

coming year, as well as a vigorous pro- if it would support the bar association hospital gram of renovation and con- in its drive to bring about court reforms struction. The GI housing program is —especially more separation of courts coming back to life as a result of new from politics. legislation, he said. Whittier went on record as favoring Awards a veterans' pension system operated in Numerous honors and awards were the Veterans Administration. bestowed on the Convention stage, in- George Meany,.Presidentof the A. F. L.- cluding: C.I. O., urged upon the Legion the utter (1) The American Legion Dislin- necessity that it continue its position of Service "elder states- leadership among American civic organi- guished Medal—to zations in the fight against communism. man" Bernard Mannes Baruch. Absent The Soviet Union has completely on doctors" orders, Baruch sent a mes- Past National Cloniniandcr Louis John- taken over the role of the Nazis, said sage of thanks from New York, which son, left, accepted Legion's Distinguished Meany, in an address devoted almost was read by Past Nat'l Cmdr Louis Service Medal on behalt of Bernard M. Baruch, from Commander Gleason.

James Lucas, left, Scripps-Howard corre- s|>ondent, received first annual Fourth John S. Gleason, left, and Al Starshak, right, with James Ringley, Presi- Estate award from The American Legion. dent, 1958 Legion Convention Corporation at a luncheon in his honor.

entirely to a well-reasoned analysis of Johnson (W. Va.). Johnson accepted the ruthless power-hunger of the Soviet the Legion's highest award for Baruch. Union. (2) The first annual Fourth Estate Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, who gave A ward of The American Legion, for ex- the keynote speech to the Convention of cellence in journalism—to Scripps-How- The American Legion Auxiliary, also ard reporter Jim Lucas, famed for his addressed the Legion Convention. Mme. coverage of world hot spots. Chiang warned that the dalliance of In accepting the award, Lucas gave Egypt's Colonel Nasser with the Soviet the Convention his views of the Middle Union may lead to communist rule of East crisis based on his recent coverage the entire Middle East without the So- of events in Lebanon. viet's firing a shot. At the close of the Convention, the National Executive Committee met briefly, reappointed E. A. Blackmore (Wyo.) as National Adjutant; set Oct. 5-7 as the dates for the fall conference IMorton Downey, Convention's official of Department Commanders and Ad- soloist, received official recognition for jutants, and Oct. 8-10 for the fall meet- long service to The American Legion. ing of the National Executive Commit- tee, in Indianapolis. complimented The American Legion for At a post-Convention breakfast in Chi- its role in building America's federal vet- cago, Sept. 5, Legion Department erans program. He also lauded the work officials met with incoming Nat'l of American Legion service officers in Commander Moore. Plans for the 1959 each state, and members of the Ameri- membership campaign were outlined, can Legion Auxiliary, for their work on and Commander Moore announced a na- behalf of disabled veterans. tional program of emphasis on com- In a thoroughly optimistic vein, Whit- munity projects by American Legion tier reviewed at length the present VA posts for 1959. A citation for the "Com- setup, recent legislation in veterans af- Neil H. McEIroy, Secretary of Defense, munity Service Post of the Year" to be fairs, and his own stewardship of his delivered a major policy address at awarded in each department, was an- office since last December. the National Commander's Dinner. nounced.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • 29 THE BIG

This Alabama color guard had an ajjpreciative audience in these members of the younger set.

Just a reminder that next year's National Con- St. The Vincents Cadets of Post 52, Jersey City, N. J., were one vention will be held in Minnesota's Twin Cities. of several Junior Drum & Bugle Corps from that De])artment.

PARADES DON'T COME ANY BIGGER OR BETTER THAN

THOSE STAGED BY THE AMERICAN LEGION, AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST.

Noith Dakota's float stressed patriotism and puklnitude. A snappy outfit was this Pittsbmgh Drum & Bugle Corps.

Caught in the act was this acrobatic drum majorette. Hi- Old Mexico sent this dajiting young lady. Another spectacidar float was this entry irom South Dakota.

Reminiscent of the Grand Army of the Republit da)s was this t<)h)r .Vn amusing musical note was provided guard of the Illinois National Guard dressed in Civil War uniforms. by this jazz band from Wheaton, Minn.

AN estimated million spectators witnessed the parade of 60,000 Legion- naires who marched down Michigan Avenue for more than ten hours on Mon- day. Led by Army, Navy, Air Force and National Guard units, the parade provided a fast-moving stream of colorful floats, marching men, pretty girls, musical units, and comic relief. To see the big show, onlookers lined the sidewalks and filled upstairs windows from the time the parade started at 10 A.M. until it ended at 8:27 P.M. The weather was perfect for marching, with a cool breeze tempering a warm sun.

Another Drum & liugle Corps. The Cavaliers from Post 162, Marion, Ohio.

(CHICAGO'S busy State Street re- J sounded to bells, whistles, cannonad- ing and laughter as the 40 & 8 conducted its 39th Promenade Nationale on Tuesday evening, September 2. Featuring high jinks and not-so-high comedy, the parade was liberally dotted with the traditional loco- motives, as well as bands, comic char- acters, and smock-clad members of the fun-loving organization.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • 31 The new National Commander, Preston J. The National Commander poses with his family. Left to right, his mother Moore, received his red cap from Past Mrs. Leta Moore, older son Preston J. Moore, Jr., the Commander, BroM'n Commander Gleason after the election. Moore, his younger son, and Mrs. Nella Mae Moore, the Commander's wife. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

PRESTON J. MOORE OF OKLAHOMA BECOMES THE LEGION'S 41st NATIONAL COMMANDER.

IN a three way contest for the post of National Commander. Preston J. Moore of Post 129, Still- water, Oklahoma, was elected on the first ballot. Tru- man C. Wold of North Dakota, and Howard Kingdom of Ohio, were also nominated for the Legion's highest office. The final tally gave National Commander Moore 2503 votes, Truman Wold, 525 votes and Howard Kingdom 28 votes. A native of Oklahoma, the 38-year-old National Commander enlisted in the Army in July, 1941. Later he went through Officers Candidate School and was commissioned a second lieutenant. Following his commissioning, Moore served with the 5th Bomb Group. 13th Air Force in the southwest Pacific. In the elections for National Vice-Commander, seven candidates were nominated for the five positions.

The newly elected National Vice-

Commanders and Chaplain, 1. to r., •seated: James Kerrigan, Post 340, Kansas City, Mo., Monsignor John

J. Twiss, Post 95, Quincy, Ma.ss., James C. Bangs, Post 4, Pocatello, Idaho. .Standing are John Collins, Post 301, Connellsville, Penna., Robert Charles Smith, Post 166, Springhill, La., and Cartha D. De- Loach, Post 56, Washington, D. C.

Dr. A. B. Rivers, Okla- Perce F. Braiaigam, Illi- Ray D. Marshall. Pom 73, homa, presented the nois, presented the col- Shamokin, Penn., and Voi- new National Com- ors to retiring National tine 13 is the new Chef de mander with his colors. Commander Gleason. Cheniin de Fer of the 40 & 8.

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, warned that red threat is glowing.

National President Mrs. Charles \V. Gunn Portland, Ore.

Other newly elected Auxiliary officers, 1. to r.; Eastern Div. Vice-Pres.

Mrs. Stanley J. Autenrith, Newport, N. Y.; Southern Div. Vice-Pres. Mrs. J. V. HoUiday, Vicksburg, Miss.; Central Div. Vice-Pres. Mrs. Ledgard B. Hakes, Laurens, la.; Northwestern Div. Vice-Pres. Mrs. Juel Osniundson, Adams, Minn.; Western Div. Vice-Pres. Mrs. Arthur M. Cusick, Austin, Nevada; National Historian, Miss Fern A. Bender, Torrington, Wyo-

ming; National Chaplain, Mrs. Omar J. McMackin, Salem, Illinois.

REPRESENTING almost a million Auxiliares, 1672 delegates and alternates held their sessions at the Morrison Hotel. On the agenda were reports dealing with nearly 20 national program activities, addresses by distinguished guests, plans for the year ahead, and the election and installation of officers. Guests of honor at the Stales Dinner wen- Past National Commander Donald R. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, center, and Chi- Wilson, who s|)oke, questioned incon- nese Ambassador Hollington Tong, shown sistencies in U. S. foreign policy. with National President J. Pat Kelly.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBEH 1958 • 33 Scene at Soldier Field as the ten competing senior Drum & Bugle Corps awaited the judges' verdict.

National Commander Gleason presents troj)hy to As the Caballeros lined up for their concert number. Their winning winning Caballeros of Post this it their third national championship. 199, Hawthorne, N. J. score was 93.78 and made

At Soldier Field winners of six other competitions were Emil H. Osiek, St. Charles, Mo., won one of four Ford introduced and presented with their trophies at the con- cars awarded by the Seagram Posts. Left is National elusion of the Senior Drum & Bugle Corps contest. Adjutant E. A. Blackmore. Right is Arthur Burtnett.

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 .S;u i aim-iit Ciolden Knights, Post i l i^.iiiud < li.nuul()iislii|> Blessed 302, Newark, N. J., ilic jiniiui Dunn ,^ l>ii!;k'

The band of Post 5, Joliet, III., became national cham- The senior color guard of Post 85, pions lor the 11th time in the senior band contest. Ivankakee, III., kept its crown.

The junior color guard ol Post 27, South Mil- The junior band ol Post 278, Warren, Ohio, waukee, Wise, lett, above, won with a 96.15 score. became national champs with an 87.85 score.

With a score of 96.65 this firing squad from Chi- \Vinner of the national chorus contest was cago's Commonwealth Edison Post 115 won top j)Iace. this group from Post 15, Sioux Falls, S. D.

IN MEMORIAM

Honoring wartime buddies who have passed on, a memorial service was held on Sunday afternoon in the auditorium of the Prudential Building, with National Chaplain Rev. Feltham S. James officiat- ing. A capacity audience took part in the service.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 19-58 • 35 1st LT. DE WITT W. ADKINS, Hq. and Hq. Co., 320th ASA Bn., APO 18 A., N. Y., writes: "We have just recently organized our Rod & Gun Club here at Bad Aibling, Germany, and have been recognized as an active member of the Associa- tion of American Rod & Gun Clubs of Eu- rope. However, being as newly organized

as we are, our fund is yet too small to purchase many needed items.

"Our principal problem is our club

house, which is unpleasantly bare—no pic- (Continued from [joge S) tures or trophies whatsoever. If you could assist us in any way to obtain items which of no-sensc law s. (C) Our guns need more EVEN WITH THE persistent reports w ill give a more pleasant atmosphere to protection than proper casing and oil. (O) from Canada of drought conditions lessen- our club house, it would be greatly ap- preciated." Make powerful political friends. ing the number of wildfow 1 that w ill head southward this winter, we have cheering THE ITHACA GUN COMPANY speaks word. It comes from our friend Alex of a development that should be of special Hennessy, managing director of the James interest to Legion Posts. Dealers are re- Bay Goose Club, Moosonee, Ontario. He porting the sale of shotguns to various claims that geese and ducks have been do- Posts to be chanced off for fund drives. A ing exceptionalh- well in Baffin Island fine gun makes a prize that has an appeal (their breeding center farther north), and to virtually all men, and a relatively small that hundreds of thousands of blues and in\estment is required. Long-drawn-out snow geese, plus a liberal sprinkling of drives are not necessary to dispose of Canadas and many species of ducks, will be enough books of chances to make a good feeding near his club soon, filling up beft)re profit w hen a gun is the prize. Sometimes the\' start our way to open the season. If Street, se\ eral guns are offered since the in\ est- you can afford it, \ ou"ll enjoy shooting at DICK FOX, 408 W. Campbell ment is relatively low. the James Bay Goose Club. W'e were there Arlington Heights, 111., one of our longtime has several excel- last > ear and had incredible shooting. A\'rite readers w ho submitted C. H. RAWLINGS, instructor of the Mr. Hennessy at Moosonee for full infor- lent ideas to this corner, has something else Junior Rifle Club of W'oodlaw n Post No. mation. we think is ingenious. W'c would, ^^'ent hunting last year and locked the car with 175, 821 1 S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago 19, inside, along with the 111., warns against "fingerprint" rust on BILL LEWIS, of 824 S. Mag St., Laurel, gun and ammunition into rifles. He says, "Be sure you wipe finger- Miss., w rites: "Never carry your hunting ke> s, and had a heck of a time getting car. says: going prints off \ our rifle with an oil>- rag be- dogs in the trunk of your car even if it's the Friend Fox "When the fol- fore putting it away." \entilated. The exhaust fumes are sucked camping or hunting, I have found the in due to the speed of the car, and they low ing to be a good idea. After parking will reduce the dogs' ability to smell for car I pry off a hubcap and put my car keys cap. some time after they are put afield." in the wheel opening and replace the This way they cannot be lost, and only A MOTION PICTURE about whooping you know where the\' are." cranes is available free from the Depart- retrieve, ment of the Interior. Movie features spec- TO TRAIN HIS DOG Tinker to Schindele, of Tolna, N. Dak., tacular flight .scenes which were photo- George J. along when graphed in slow motion on the birds' win- took his seven-year-old son he went hunting. The boy held Tinker tering grounds in Texas. Brief aerial view s show the cranes passing over the wheat- down while the ducks were coming in. K., fields of the Central States farther north When the bird fell, George said, "O. after and the vast uninhabited area near Great go get it!" The boy and the dog went A PACKET BLIND and folding boat Slave Lake, Canada. This 16-mm., sound the wildfowl. When the boy brought back a oxer him. are now on the market for use b\ duck and color film runs 14 minutes. To book the duck, George made fuss After this was done several times, the dog hunters. \\'ith this equipment the duck it, write United States Fish and W ildlife or goose hunter is entirely self-sufficient Ser\ ice. Department of the Interior, A\'ash- soon caught on and began to beat the boy In short Tinker in the marsh. The packet blind is made ington 25, D. C. to the fallen duck. a time of more than 10.000 pieces of natural raflia learned to retrieve. tied to a strong net especialh" fitted to the aluminum, nonrusting frame. The hunter BRIAN EGLOFF, Box 79a, R.D. 1, Eagle, can shoot over his decoys comfortabh- and Wis., is comfort-conscious: "One of the rctriex e his birds when they fall in deeper best uses of aluminum foil," he says, "is to water; he can also go after cripples. The place it under your sleeping bag; use an blind weighs ten pounds and can be as- extra-wide strip. It keeps you warm and nights." Shan- sembled in fi\ e minutes. It is patented and dry on cold, damp Albert manufactured by The Porta Compan>-, non, 1004 Bevery Drive, Rock Hill, S. C, Inc., 32 Neponset St., Canton, Alass., and has news for the night hunter. "When \ ()U costs $54.50. Malcolm N. Stanley of that are out with the gun at night," he offers, company will supply complete information TO KEEP HIP BOOTS from cracking, "and the fuse burns out in >our car, take the foil from a cigarette pack and rewrap and illustrations upon request. Donald Johnston, of 292 Devon St., and replace the fuse, and >'ou'll ha\ e light." Kearny, N. J., advises: "Take an old inner BAY AT THE MOON, a good hound tube and cut out a piece about one inch — Jack Denton Scott dog picture featuring mountain-lion hunt- wide. Punch a hole on each side of the ing, fox hunting, and coon hunting, is inner tube. Then tie a piece of string about If you have a helpful idea that pertains offered free to any Legion Post which de- 18 inches long into each hole. This piece to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we sires to show it. A 16-mm., color and sound f)f tube can then be slipped over the foot can use it, ^ve'Il revvard you uilli a hunting film, it runs 27 minutes. \\'rite iMPO Prod- of the hip boot, and the boots hung up. or fishing accessory. Address: Outdoor Editor, ucts, Inc., 15 E. 53rd St., New York 22, This will prevent cracking arid leaking The American Lc<^ion Mo'^tnine, 720 Fifth N. v., if you would like to show it. later." Avenue, Nevv Voik 19, New \'ork.

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 BATTLE OVER BOOKS — — ( Coiilhiiiril jioiii l>ii'^i' 21)

the right people got the right jobs in shod over smears and abuse the "mod- early patriots, is active in the .Sons of supervisory positions. ern educationists"" Hung at him. is a the American Revolution and is treas- The te.\tbooi

Rudd, became aware of their distortions in education and its efTect on our chil- through World War 1 and until 1925, of American values. He investigated dren. It is also a record of the 20-year when he was retired as major. (He went and, horrified by what he found, went fight against this education made by back into the Army in World War II into action. That was in the summer of Colonel Rudd, other individuals who and came out a colonel with the Legion

1938. joined him, The American Legion, and of Merit.) He is a past commander of Significantly, he did not go into ac- other groups. the William Bradford Turner Post No. tion half-cocked. He studied the text- Before the war Colonel Rudd was a 265 of The American Legion in his town. books thoroughly and discussed them successful New York businessman liv- In the course of supervising his wi[h other parents, school teachers, and ing with his family in the suburban daughters" school work he noticed in principals. His subsequent actions community of Garden City, Long Is- their assigned textbooks what seemed brought results and showed what one land, and his three daughters were in to be a pattern of disparagement of aroused parent can do. their teens, attending the local high American institutions. There were state- This Paul Revere of education, who school. ments such as these: first sounded the alarm and rode rough- The colonel, a direct descendant of "The United States government is

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States Constitution is merely an instru- at the University of Chicago 1915 to instructed how to interpret historical ment for protecting property." 1920. He became professor of education facts and other material in the textbooks. The colonel questioned his daughters at Teachers College, Columbia, in 1920, "The Rugg plan of school indoctrina- closely, and was shocked to discover and remained there for 31 years; he be- tioQ," Colonel Rudd explained, "is an that history, geography and civics had came professor emeritus in 1951. all-embracing system, with books for disappeared as separate subjects in the The following year, 1952, he was every grade up to the 9th, to mold im- curriculum. The more he looked the named a Fulbright lecturer in Egypt. mature minds along selected lines. In more he realized a whole new set of After that stint he was visiting profes- the Pupil's Workbooks, he poses lead- concepts and doctrines had been boot- sor at the University of Puerto Rico un- ing questions and directs the child's legged into the school curriculum. til 1954. Now 72 years of age, he lives thoughts into the paths he chooses. In The local high school, he found, had in Woodstock, New York, long a Bo- the textbooks, he provides the 'selected' built its omnibus "social science" course hemian colony, a kind of rural Latin material from which the child must around textbooks by Dr. Harold Rugg, Quarter, in the foothills of the Catskills. formulate answers, thus directing the who had loaded them with arguments The Rugg System, prepared by him child's conclusions. supporting statism. This educationist pre- in collaboration with James E. Menden- "A few examples will show the nature sented the view that collectivist doc- hall, was used by the progressives to put of this system in use at the time which

trines were superior to sound American over their ideas. It consisted of 14 text- emphasizes "attitudes" instead of knowl- principles. books, eight for elementary grades and edge. In one of the Pupil's Workbooks,

Colonel Rudd protested the use of six for high school. To supplement the question is asked 'Is the United these books in local schools and ad- these, there were Pupil's Workbooks of States a land of opportunity for all our dressed the Board of Education on the Directed Study, in which questions were people? Why?' This is the answer the

subject. In the fall of 1938 he presented posed for the child to answer. And fi- child should give, according to the a resolution condemning the courses to nally, there were teacher's guides, in Teacher's Guide: 'The United States is his local American Legion Post in Gar- which the teacher was given the required not a land of opportunity for all our

den City; it was passed unanimously. people; for one-fifth of the people do "Up to this time," Colonel Rudd said, not earn any money at all. There are "1 had not realized the extent of the great differences in the standards of liv- penetration of this anti-American prop- ing of the different classes of people.

aganda. As I studied it further, I found The majority do not have any real se- " it was all over the country. Thousands curity." of schools were using Rugg's social sci- Another quotation which angered the ence courses at that time. colonel dealt with pride of country. The

"I realized then that only a national Teacher's Guide made its attitude quite campaign could be effective, that I'd clear in the following quotation: have to enlist the press." "Of the 315 pupils. 88% said that Colonel Rudd went to the New York By Rabbi BERNARD A. MUSSMAN the following statement was true:

Herald Tribune and presented his doc- 'My country is unquestionably the Adas Israel Congregation umented case. That paper broke the best country in the world.' Now the Washington, D. C. story. attitude thus expressed is one that Department Chaplain "Almost immediately letters poured we decidedly do not want to de- of the District of Columbia in on me," Colonel Rudd said, "two velop in our classes." score the first week. Everyone com- A bit more of the same kind of bias Our God and Cod of oiu" fathers, mended my action — parents, teachers, appeared in a quotation from another w e beseech Thy blessings as we pa\' everyone. And they all urged me to go Teacher's Guide by Rugg: further and not be discouraged and in- homage to the Founding Fathers of "Treat the war for independence timidated." this blessed Republic. May we strive essentially as an economic struggle The Herald Tribune article brought to keep these United States of between the ruling classes of Eng- the pained comment from Rugg's pub- land and the Colonies." America forever righteous and just. lishers that this was the first complaint Rudd and Rugg occasionally ap- May ours be a land where none shall they'd had. It was not the last. peared in the same halls during heated Colonel Rudd's efforts, joined to those prey upon or exploit his fellow man, debates, but they never met. of other individuals and groups, showed where bigotry and violence shall not "The publishers of Dr. Rugg's books that there was ample reason for getting be tolerated, where poverty shall be wanted to bring us together," Colonel rid of the Rugg books. First of all, books Rudd said. "I told them I could see no abolished, and all men live amicably were as necessary to the movement to point in our meeting; our differences as brothers. socialize America as was Mein Kampf were too fundamental. It was obvious \^)uchsafe unto us, Lord, w is- to the national socialists of Germany, O from his works, however, that Dr. Rugg or Das Kapital to their Red cousins. dom equal to our strength and cour- was a skillful and prolific writer and Rugg was an able and skillful man age equal to our responsibility to the special pleader. He was also clearly a who worked maker, before behind the scenes forging end that our Nation may lead the reformer, a new-world the tools of his school indoctrination he was an educator. Where his system world in the advancement and ful- plan. was used, children had little opportunity fillment of human welfare. Rugg was the man who did most to to learn the history of any country; cer- supply the literary output necessary to Ma\' all nations become aware of tainly not the value of their great Amer- the progressives. their common unity and all the ican heritage. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on peoples of the world be united in the "The method used in the Rugg text- February 17, 1886, he was graduated books is extremely clever. The approach bonds of brotherhood before Thee, from Dartmouth in 1908 and took his is one of stealth. With gentle language the Father of all. Amen. Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in and a pedagogic smile, the child is led 1915. He was an instructor at J. Milli- through the successive stages of indoc-

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 trination. So subtly is the material pre- port of sound and patriotic public school ministration after receiving his M. A. pared that the average adult can scan education. from West Viriginia University in 1933. it without being aware of its unfortunate In 1939 the proposal won the ap- His analyses revealed the objectives, influence on the youthful mind. Small proval of the National Americanism methods, and philosophy of the new wonder that it gained such a toe-hold," Commission of which James F. O'Neil social order Rugg and Company were Colonel Rudd said. was chairman. Mr. O'Neil referred the determined to foist on America, through Colonel Rudd began to speak out project to Americanism Director H. L. simultaneous, continuous indoctrination against the Rugg philosophy and meth- Chaillaux who began planning for a of public school students at the grass- ods before local boards, chambers of national campaign. roots, in the towns and cities, all over the commerce, civic organizations. "I was The campaign got into full swing in country. a businessman and couldn't take time 1940. Legion National Headquarters The remaining three studies, all well off during the day," he said, "so I had announced the first of a series of hard- written and carefully documented, ex- to do all this at night." hitting articles to appear in The Ameri- posed the true character and intent of The colonel carried the campaign on can Legion Magazine and the dis- the Rugg doctrine and courses. nationally by organizing, in the summer tribution of the just-released booklet At the same time, and unknown to of 1939, a small group which called it- Undermining Our Republic. the Legion, the San Francisco Board of self the Guardians of American Educa- The American Legion's campaign, and Education was making its own analysis tion. Colonel Rudd's persevering personal of Rugg's textbooks. As a result of these Members of the group raised some one, culminated in April 1941 with the investigations, the Rugg books were money themselves, and for the next six announcement by National Headquar- dropped from the San Francisco schools. months worked on a clear, concise state- ters that it was issuing the first of a series But the "modern educationists" them- ment of the involved subject, explaining of three pamphlets discussing Rugg's selves and all their allies for the new the issue in a 45-page booklet titled teachings in the millions of books which social order were not idle. The usual Undermining Our Republic. One hun- he had been marketing over a period of counter-analyses were made by other dred thousand copies were mailed to the years. The series title was "Rugg Philos- professors. The American Committee press, school boards, and key people all ophy Analyzed," and the first pamphlet for Democracy and Intellectual Free- over the United States. The reaction was was devoted to Basic Excerpts from dom had a Committee on Textbooks an instantaneous combination of amaze- "The Great Technology." which sought to whitewash Rugg with ment and indignation. These analyses were the work of an its own analysis of his textbooks by five Meanwhile, Colonel Rudd had sug- educational expert, engaged by The "distinguished scholars" who assailed gested that The American Legion under- American Legion. He was R. Worth the "insidious attacks by the misguided." take the investigation as a public serv- Shumaker, of Buckhannon, West Vir- The pamphlet carried a page soliciting ice. He was on solid ground here, be- ginia, who at that time was superintend- contributions for the work of the com- cause the Legion in its 20-year existence ent of Upshur County ( W.Va.) Schools. mittee and was widely distributed. had amassed an imposing record of sup- He had specialized in public school ad- Nevertheless, hundreds of schools re-

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • ^9 placed the Rugg textbooks with other history professor and longtime critic of seldom-mentioned fact that some of books which did not advocate the new the public schools, charged that "pro- them are not worth what they get now. sociahst America and did not seek to fessional educationists" were covering It also said that the Nation's stupid chil- substitute this propaganda for sound up a failure "to develop intellectual dren get far better care than the bright; teaching. training." that the geniuses of the next decade are "It didn't happen overnight," Colonel The warnings of men like Admiral even now being allowed to drift into Rudd said. "At one time in 1939 and Hyman G. Rickover, Dr. James Killian, mediocrity.

1940 the publisher's catalog listed two and others were listened to at last. It noted that there is no general agree- full pages of Rugg's works. He wrote Now Colonel Rudd's 20-year fight ment on what the schools should teach, teachers guides as well as textbooks, and was crowned with success. There was a and added that a quarter century has their sales were up in the millions." marked increase in the sales of his book, been wasted with squabbling over (As school systems backed away, the Bending the Twig, published in June whether to make a child well adjusted books were withdrawn gradually and the or teach him something. It concluded same -publisher's catalog for 1956 shows with the flat statement that the stand- not one single Rugg title.) ards of education are shockingly low. In 1952, after the war had interrupted Stung by this series of articles and the momentum of the movement. The charges that United States schoolmen American Legion turned its attention to are too much concerned with group ad- the educational scene again, this time to justment, too little with individual ex- support a new generation of aroused cellence, the National Association of parents clamoring for the right to protest Secondary School Principals circularized the neglect of sound education for their its 16,500 members. N.A.S.S.P. Presi- children. dent George E. Shattuck, and Executive The extremists of the new education Secretary Paul E. Elicker urged prin- had recovered the ground lost and, em- cipals to write Time, Incorporated's boldened by their success, were telling president, Roy E. Larson, threatening parents to go home and keep their hands boycott of the magazine. They added a off the schools. Do not, they said to word of caution: "Of course, the force America's mothers and fathers, butt into of your letter will be discounted if you education; that is the business of "pro- indicate that you have been advised to fessional educators." When worried write such a letter." parents asked what was happening to Immediately more than 100 educa- their schools, communities such as Pas- tors and educationists took the advice. adena, California; Englewood, New Jer- Elicker himself wrote expressing amaze- sey; Port Washington, New York, to ment "that you should allow such a dis- just a few, definitely inimitable name became battlegrounds jioiFjug torted presentation, on which the struggle began all over [sic] to American education." again. "Well, the other night at a party I made a Time Incorporated's President Lar-

A bitter controversy ensued between pass at my wife." sen, who is also chairman of the Ad- critics and defenders of the "new edu- visory Board of the Citizens Council for AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE cation." It grew more and more heated Better Schools, board chairman of the as individual cases repeatedly seemed to Fund for the Advancement of Educa- re- support the arguments of the critics and 1957. A foundation regarded it as so tion, and an overseer of Harvard, the results of the phony educational "timely and important" that it purchased plied at once. He politely ignored the methods were becoming too apparent to 20,000 copies for gifts to boards of edu- gross ignorance displayed by Education- be ignored. cation and public libraries. Events ist Elicker in his misuse of the word All at once there seemed to be a gen- proved the accuracy of its solid conclu- "inimitable" for "inimical" and said: eral simultaneous conclusion that the sion: that extreme progressive, experi- "I feel that there was something pre- new education had failed tragically. Chil- mental education had cheated a genera- sumptuous, if not insulting, in spelling dren were coming out of school ignorant tion and a half of American children, out to intelligent educators and mem- and undisciplined. Waves of youthful and had done the country incalculable bers of the N.A.S.S.P. precisely what lawlessness and violence shocked the harm. they should think about Life's article country. Newspapers and magazines published and what to do about it. Would it not About this time the New York Daily studies, analyzing the crisis and calling have been more in the tradition and News conducted a poll on progressive for wide reform. spirit of free inquiry to suggest to them education. To the question, "Do you A few months after Sputnik Life be- that they read the whole series of articles favor progressive let know methods of teaching?" gan its special study of what it called in Life and then you and me 40,143 persons answered "No"; only "the crisis in education" with these what they thought of them?" 348 said "Yes." words: "For years, most critics of Alas, Mr. Larsen has yet to learn that Then the first Sputnik began to circle United States education have suffered the members of the small, arrogant band the earth, and we faced the fact that the curse of Cassandra — always to tell of educationists, determined to rule the Russians could beat us in the scien- the truth, seldom to be listened to or United States education, are rarely tific and technical fields where we had believed. But now the curse has been troubled by such nice considerations of always considered ourselves supreme. lifted. What they were saying is begin- free speech and fair play as move the The scientists had their say, adding ning to be believed. What has long been majority of Americans. their condemnation of our inadequate an ignored national problem, Sputnik But Colonel Rudd, The American educational system to criticism by dis- has made a recognized crisis." Legion, and all embattled parents, lay- tinguished educators, men of letters, and In its first installment of the four-part men, and sound educators, who have courageous teachers who had risked attack, Life made several salient points been smeared and threatened for 20 their careers repeatedly to speak out. covering the overcrowding of schools, years, can show their honorable scars. Arthur Bestor, University of Illinois the underpayment of teachers—and the THE END

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Sir: After four years in the USAF from 1941 to 1945 and as a result of my dad's having been a veteran of WWl, I was very much in favor of joining the Legion. But never was there any invitation when I was in a new-to-me State, Alabama. Then in 1950 a buddy of mine invited me to the Irondalc Post, and I enjoyed it. However, this Post was far from my home, and I said to myself: "I am going to join, but at a Post near my neighborhood."" Then I was called up with the National Guard. On my return I determined to join a Legion Post. Still no invitation and still my procrastination. Then in 1955 I got a letter from General Gorgas Post No.

1 inviting me to join, and I did so. In November 1957 I changed jobs from Alabama to Florida. I am not an active Legionnaire. I never attended a meeting, except that visit to Irondale. Moreover, with other personal business, I do not think I will attend often in the next five years. However, I in- tend to become active after that period. iMcanwhilc I can add some weight by being one more dues-paying member who stands ready to cast his vote behind the Legion. I cannot think of a more critical period of history than this time of communist threat and general American compla- cency. But let me add a finale to this story. One of m>- coworkers saw^ me reading The American Legion Maga-

at I zine noontime and asked me if FRENCH CALENDAR CLOCK. Shows months, days, dates, phases oi moon. Prom the iamuus Old Charter Collection. were a member, ^^'hen I said I was, he said: "Well, let's go to the Mel- Old Charter goes into the cask a superior whiskey. Long, quiet years bourne Post's meeting." The other day of aging mellows it to rare magnificence. These two simple, but vital, when I reminded him, our boss heard me and said: "By George, Ld like to factors are behind the superb flavor that is Old Charter's alone. Long go and become a member." Another a bourbon drinker's premier whiskey, Old Charter's superb quality coworker said: "Yes, Ld like to go, and rare smooth flavor have actually won over many Scotch, Canadian too. I'd like to reinstate my member- and Bonded whiskey drinkers. It has become one of the leading ship." I leave it w ith you, but I'll bet quality whiskies in America. Try it yourself. You'll see xv/iy. there are plenty like myself and these fellows I have spoken of. Bob Johnson Eau GalliCj Fla. OLD CHMTER Kentucky's Finest Bourbon Letters published in Sound Off! do not necessarily represent the policy of The STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY • 7 YEARS OLD • PROOF American Legion. Name withheld i/ re- 86 quested. your letters short. Keep Address: OLD CHARTER DISTILLERY COMPANY . LOUISVIILE, KY. Sound Off, The American Legion Maga- zine. 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • 4J " — —

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WHY PAY MORE for New York has joined the growing nucleus of States making it illegal to discriminate in jobs because of age. Others in the group are Rhode Island, Sunny FLORIDA Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. idea is older fellows employ- Here's your Best Homesite Buy on The to keep employers from barring from Florida's friendly West Coast! Beautiful ment or setting up retirement plans which prematurely put an employee on 80 X 125 ft. lots at FORT MYERS the shelf. GARDENS. Just $10 down ... $20 a month. Total price — $745! This premium A lot of the March of Dimes money hereafter will go for research and care property is located just 4 miles from Fort Myers, right on US Highway 41. in arthritis. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which is shortening its name to National Foundation) feels that polio is pretty well ASPHALT STREETS... GOOD DRAINAGE AND ELEVATION licked; so, among other things, it's tackling the rheumatic diseases. Convenient to churches, hospital, shopping, schools, yacht club marina, golf Notes of the month: course, and Fort Myers Legion Post. No are need to pay for these established facilities THE FAKE MEN IN WHITE you frequently see in TV commercials in the price of your lot! Before you buy going to be banned next year. The real medicos scowled deeply enough to

. . . learn about beautiful FORT MYERS make the telecasters call a halt to make-believe doctors and nurses. GARDENS - "Homesites in the Garden HOUSING PRICES, long on the rise, are flattening out as the result of Showplace of Florida." Write today to FORT MYERS GARDENS, Box 2076A, builders' efforts to stimulate the market. Mortgage money meantime is a Fort Myers, Florida. mite cheaper. — By Edgar A. Grunwald

~~42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 GUARANTEED HUNTING •^—(Continued from p«gf JJ) —~~

actually saves not only time but also fore if he requests it. The operator nets and his dog have a hard day's hunt ahead money by visiting a nearer commercial them in the pen (usually an equal num- of them. Although he still might not find setup. Even at a $6-per-bird fee and a ber of cocks and hens in the case of all his birds, he has an equally good

six-bird minimum, if he can get two bud- pheasants) , then loads them into a crate, chance of getting shots at some extras dies to join him, his share of the bite is sets the crate in the bushy cover of the which may have survived previous hunts. only $12. This certainly isn't exorbitant section of the preserve to be hunted, Any he takes in excess of his quota he

for a day's hunt when the game is guar- opens its door and leaves them to their must pay for, of course. At the end of anteed. own fancies. Quail will be sitting tight the day before he takes his trophies When he doesn't have his own dog to in a covey in some nearby field by the home they are tagged or identified in find and retrieve birds, the preserve is time the hunter and his dog arrive the some way, as are all preserve birds, to practically the only place he gets good next morning, but pheasants and chukar prove they aren't wild ones shot illegally gunning of the upland variety (which will be well spread out over several acres out of season. includes pheasants, chukar, and quail) or more. Some may even have wan- For a hunter who has neither the time

because the operator is able to supply dered into the next county or into an nor the stamina to climb hills and fight one plus its handler, usually at no extra out-of-bounds part of the preserve where thickets all day, there's an even simpler charge except a small tip. Good dogs another party will be hunting, and in compromise. Each bird is placed in cov- are always available at a modern pre- either case these will be "lost." er so dense that it can't fly but must run. serve. Even when those of the operator Since the customer must pay for his When it eventually reaches a place where are busy or out of condition, other pa- birds whether or not he succeeds in bag- it feels it will be safe, it squats. The op- trons answer the call with their own ging all of them, he usually settles for an erator, meanwhile, ties a strip of white canine balls-of-fire, glad of the oppor- alternate method of release called "flight- cloth to a bush where the bird was first tunity to show them off and give them ing." This gives him a greater guarantee released. When the hunter, making his the extra workout to help keep them in that he'll bag the lot and still provides rounds, sees the flag, he directs his dog fettle. hunting as good as any he'll get in the to the spot and it easily picks up the As for the hunting itself, the pre- wild. The birds are carried to the field scent. Should the bird decide to move serve's menu suits every nimrod's taste in a crate and are allowed to f\y away cross-country in the interim, as fre- and physical capacity. The wild-bird die- singly while he watches them and notes quently happens, the customer gets some hard can have it as wild as he wants it. the distant spot at which each apparently wild hunting he didn't bargain for. His birds can be "put-out" the night be- lands. When all have been liberated, he The sportsman who really appreciates

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the preserve setup is he who owns a good to take their sport with as little leg work INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY bird dog and reaUzes it will require more as possible. A number of shooters pool hunting experience than that afforded by their fees and with their retrievers take in SUNNY, TROPICAL, SOUTH the short, regular open season if it is to assigned positions around the base of a keep its bird sense. And "put-and-take" small hill. Then pheasants are released FLORIDA shooting is an even greater boon to the singly from a tower on the top of the owner of a young pointing dog that isn't hill, and each man shoots those that hap- thoroughly "broken,"" one that runs in pen to fly over his stand. After every ACRES to flush its game instead of holding dozen flights a whistle is blown to signal steadily on-point until the gun is ready. a short intermission, to give the retriev- DADE COUNTY By taking advantage of a couple of ers a chance to do the collecting. Any gimmicks that the early operators used birds that are missed are hunted later 10 (MIAMI) to make a bird stay in position indefi- by the more energetic members of the nitely, much to the disillusionment of party. At the conclusion of the shoot, to 00 their prospective customers, he can train assure everyone's getting a fair share UNBELIEVABLE his delinquent pup in field etiquette very at least of the "take," the trophies are FULL PRICE easily. One of these is the so-called distributed evenly, a toss of a coin de- 895 "flushing trap," a box with a spring- ciding who gets the odd ones. MONTHLY loaded cover held in place by a trigger Mallard ducks also are bagged by that can be operated from a distance by pass-shooting on those preserves having

• PRE-PAY AT ANY TIME WITHOUT a tug of a string. The bird is placed in rearing and flighting facilities for them. PENALTY it and it is set in the hunting field. When And because waterfowl have a peculiar • EQUAL TO 32 BIG CITY LOTS — the dog scents the bird, it can't flush it homing tendency, a variation is possible 75' X 135' because of the protection of the trap. that gives the sport an unusually authen- • NO INTEREST • OIL RIGHTS After the trainer has steadied his pupil, tic, wild flavor. The mallards, more than • FREE WARRANTY DEED he pulls the string, the cover snaps open two generations removed from the wild • NO CLOSING COSTS and the bird flies away for the shot. in conformance with regulations of the Here's an investment opportunity offered to every member of the American Legion family! The second training aid, called "rock- Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, In a section of the State of FLORIDA where "The Boom is Bound to Come!" For many ing," is a feat of bird magic that mysti- are trapped in the open preserve pond years, we have been predicting that a shortage of usable land in South Florida was imminent! fies anyone seeing it for the first time. where they have practically raised them- And today the FACTS ARE BEARING OUT OUR PREDICTION! Greater Miami has expanded so It requires no gadgets. One wing of the selves with little attention from the op- rapidly in the past 10 vears (the population live bird is stretched gently to its full erator except feeding. Then they are estimated to double from 1958 to 1968 i that a critical shortage now exists for residential and commercial land in Dade County. (Greater length, the head is tucked beneath it, taken to a distant hill for flighting while Miami). The surge in population and industry has pushed westward to a point where not only and then the wing is folded around the the shooters and their retrievers are sta- the western limits of Dade County, but also the neighboring counties of Collier and Monroe are body. Next its legs are drawn out to their tioned in brush-covered blinds located destined to become a part of this miraculous South Florida development. full length, and with both hands grasp- between the hill and pond. We offer you this opportunity to invest in prop- ing the bird to hold everything in place the ducks are released in threes erty which, in our sincere opinion, will bring When you BIG PROFITS! land is presently This unde- the trainer swings it in a circle a couple or sixes to form small flocks, they circle veloped, but it enjoys hieher elevation than Miami Beach and other famous South many of times to make it dizzy. Finally he lays the hilltop a few times to get a bearing, Florida areas; and has just become available to the limited income buyer in tracts. small it gently in a hole he has kicked under then head for the home pond. The Marshall Field said: "Buying real estate is not only the the field grass. The bird immediately shooting as they streak over the blinds best way. the quickest way. and the safest way. but the only way to be- goes to sleep. It will stay hors de coinhat is just as fast and difficult as it is when come wealthy." for from five minutes to half Invest today, be ready when PROGRESS COMES an hour wild birds come down to look over a TO YOU! To aid in your security and the future depending upon its initial alertness security of your loved ones, mail this coupon and layout of decoys in a natural waterfowl today. upon how hard it has been swung. marsh. The pond, of course, is out-of- Thousands off satisfied clients Member of Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce This gives the dog handler ample time bounds. Those mallards which survive and all Realtor Boards. to work his charge, holding it in check the gamut of guns and reach it safely

K. M. JONES, Real Estate with a rope tied to its collar. When it are "lost." When the shoot is over, only 639 N. W. 102 Street Miami 50, Florida has been steadied, he awakens the bird the crippled birds are retrieved from the Enclosed is $15. Please reserve my 10 Acre with a nudge of his foot and it flushes. pond, and then the total bag and cost Dade Tract. Send contract, map and data. If I am not fully satisfied that this is a BIG profit Usually before rocking the bird, the are shared by the gunners. opportunity after receiving complete details, my money will be refunded at once. trainer brushes it against the low grass Although put-and-take duck shooting Name or bushes for a dozen yards or so from has increased in popularity during re- the spot in order to lay a Address scent trail for cent years, the ringneck pheasant has the dog to follow. It should be men- always been and probably always will be City tioned in passing that in a few excep- the undisputed king of preserve birds. tional cases dogs are too smart to be Its attributes are many. In appearance

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FOLEY SAW FILER scent. is more meat for the table, averaging Here it Leslie Patrick's true My English pointer. Rex. during his three or four pounds with the hen only story — as told by his wife. training showed his disgust slightly smaller. a mal- "I can truthfully say Mr. for manhan- By comparison Patrick made a wonder- dled birds in a most unmistakable lard scales two pounds, the chukar ful investment 10 years manner. about 18 ounces, and the quail four ago with his Foley Saw Filer. He has done so well Pass-shooting, which is the shooting ounces. Make $3 to $6 an hour with his Foley and repair Tht* Foley Saw Fikn sdarp- of flighted birds as they pass overhead, The ringneck's greater avoirdupois is shop, bought a we house, ens liantl, band, cirflllar saws built an addition, bought like new. Start in spare time. is a preserve sport popular among scat- most important in view of the fact that a new car, new shop No e.\perience needed. Time Payments. Send Free tergunners who own retrieving dogs. the majority of operators find they must machines and it's all for Hook "Money Making Facts' Since it requires no actual hunting, it charge the same fee for all game-bird paid for." — no salesman will call. FOIEY MFG. CO., 1039-8 Foley BIdg., Minneapolis 18, Minn. also finds favor among those who prefer species regardless of size because not

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 only do all require the same hunting pending upon the State) of the total during the summer "pecking" months. area on the preserve (which is a factor number of birds he stocks for shooting. Aluminum bird goggles provide an- during a busy season) and the same The purpose of these regulations is, of other method for keeping peace in the amount of handling for release, but the course, to increase the number of wild pen. These are small blinders that are expense and effort involved in raising birds for the general hunting season. held in place by the bird's nostrils and them is about equal. As a matter of fact, But nothing is perfect, and even the prevent it from looking straight ahead chukar and quail are more susceptible pheasant has an idiosyncrasy that turns but don't restrict feeding. to disease and when chicks they must a preserve operator's hair prematurely A third deterrent is a bit which en- be raised in special pens with raised wire gray. He's a cannibal. If he is left to his circles the upper bill through the nos- floors to avoid contact with ground own resources in a crowded pen, flailing trils, preventing the beak from closing. droppings. beaks soon make its inmates look like This gadget soon wears a groove and be- From the hunting angle, the preserve the battered survivors of a cyclone. The comes useless, however. pheasant usually provides more sport, modern breeder realizes the sad-sack But the latest remedy being perfected too. Even the early operators seldom barebacked and tailless birds of former by the Department of Conservation of had trouble making him wild. Of all days were partly responsible for the slow Cornell University promises to be not pen-reared game birds he is the only one growth of commercial shooting and that only the simplest but the most satisfac- that will revert to his natural character he must produce fuU-plumaged birds or tory. It's that by-product of our jangled if given half a chance. But they had a go out of business. age — the happy pill. A tranquilizing problem in making him flush and fly Fortunately, a number of antidotes of drug, probably reserpine will be added hard, and it still exists in some small varying effectiveness have been devel- directly to the commercial pheasant feed. preserves which don't provide him with oped through the years. A diet rich in There's no serious pecking problem sufficiently large pens. He must have oats has helped in some instances. An with the chukar partridge, and this bird enough space to develop wing strength abundance of insects usually keeps the can provide hunting that in many re- and enough headroom to avoid contin- attention of young chicks occupied. But spects is just as sporting, since it holds ual contact with the wire roof. After until recently the surest remedies have well for a pointing dog and seldom battering his skull repeatedly against the been more drastic although endorsed by shows a tendency to run. But it has a top of a pen that's too low, even in his the ASPCA. Debeaking is one. In this character weakness of a different sort bird brain the idea eventually grows that treatment about one-third of the bird's which requires special attention during perhaps flying is for the other birds. upper bill is removed by an electrically rearing. It's apt to become too happy — Then when he's released, instead of heated blade. Since the bill will regener- without the aid of pills. If it has been holding for a pointing dog and taking ate within approximately three weeks, raised in a friendly barnyard atmosphere, to the air when the hunter walks up to the surgery must be repeated twice more it sometimes won't even flush, much less him, he runs, inadvertently using the only tactic enabling him to escape. As every bird shooter knows, a sprinting pheasant can thread his way through a mile of brush with the speed of an antelope. If the dog chases him, he flushes out of range of the gun. Of course even wild pheasants will run when the cover isn't exactly to their liking, or the dog is too uncertain, but they don't do it as with the ONE Shoe Line That Serves habitually as some of their cousins who Everyone from Baby to Pop & Mom! have become too pen-conditioned. Some smart dogs know how to circle and head Outstanding success opportunity. oft' a running bird, but they're hard to Since introducing an amazing new come by. kind of shoe construction, called Besides satisfying the preserve hunter, Spring-Step Cushion, Ortho-Vent en's latest styles. We show you ITEM! the pheasant has an unusual trait that sales have sky-rocketed to an unbe- how to make an eye-opening frequently is advantageous to the pre- lievable, unequalled 1000% and are SPRAY demonstration of over 200 dif- serve operator. Like the duck, this bird still going up! The men who answer ferent styles for all the family SHINE will also back home. pre- this ad quickly will be set up for life come Many that is an order getting wonder. SHINES SHOES AT in one of the biggest money-making TOUCH OF PUSH. serves have a number of small, brush- We give producers (spare or full BUTTON CANl businesses in all selling! For thinking filled open pens near the regular ones time) what has been called "a men we do not have to draw fancy and facing the hunting areas. During the regular portable shoe store" pictures. Facts—sales— tell the story. night the birds within plus their own shoes as a bonus—samples—every earshot which Facts show that men have "struck it help needed to put you on the road to bigger in- have escaped the hunters that day hear rich" with our amazing new kind of come at once. Mail coupon today for huge new the calling of the confined roosters and shoe and a selling plan back of it Selling Outfit now ready! wander back to join them, taking cover that has no equal in the industry today. Ortho-Vent offers the only in these open pens where the operator com- ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO. plete line of shoes for all the family 3089 Brand Road, collects them with a net the following —from baby shoes to men's and wom- Salem, Va. morning. ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO. Unfortunately, he has no way of de- 3069 Brand Road, Salem, Virginia I I want to sell Spring Step Shoes and termining for which hunter they were I THE GREATEST DEMONSTRATION I make BIG MONEY. Rush me the released complete ORTHO-VENT LINE and originally, and he has no alter- I IN THE SHOE BUSINESS PROVES special Salesman's Proposition. native but to use them again for stock- I Spring-Step WORLD'S MOST ing. This gain, however, only partially Name Age. COMFORTABLE SHOE! compensates him for the loss of birds he suffers because of State laws that reg- ^ ' Address ulate preserves. These require that he f^USH COUPON /S/OIA// State. harvest no more than 70-90 percent (de-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • 45 OUTFIT STARTS VOU IN run, and might even walk toward the within 100 miles of large urban areas hunter, which can be a disconcerting ex- have proved to be sound ventures when

lyourown profitable'shoe store' perience. managed efficiently. More and more i business from home! Represent A number of years ago after being frustrated sportsmen are discovering fast growing million dollar firm in

, spare or full time. We give you — "charged" in such a manner by two of them and enjoying thSir advantages, not tFREE-complete Starting Outfit them in an Eastern preserve that ex- the least is , that makes you $217.00 EXTRA was of which the September- each month for just 2 easy or- I perimenting with the species, I tied up through-February open season. ders a day. You feature 195 Already fast-selling dress, spurt, work shoe styles for men and my pointer and collected them by hand, some of these put-and-take specialists, women. Air-cushion shoes, many other special features! Sizes2i/2-15-widthsAAAAto EEEE. Draw on 200,000 pair returning them safely to their pen. With utilizing the latest breeding and releasing stock. Also horsehide jackets. Start now selling to friends, the of the I folks where work. dog out way simply called techniques, have become big businesses you Rush postcard for FREE Outfit I

MASON SHOE, Dept. F-105 . CHIPPEWA FALLS. WIS. them with a few "kip-kips" and they with turnovers of 10,000 or more birds came, probably expecting to be tossed a Now Many Wear handful of feed. Although this was an exceptional case, FALSE TEETH the tendency of the chukar to turn With Little Worry chicken has been a common headache of Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without fear of the operator who has unwittingly han- Insecure false teeth dropping, slipping or dled them as tenderly and as matter-of- wobbling. FASTEETH holds plates firmer and more comfortably. This pleasant powder has factly as his pheasants. Now, however, no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. practically all preserves stocking them Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non- acid). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). realize they must be segregated in large Get FASTEETH at drug counters everywhere. pens and exercised several times each day by chasing and scaring. Today this HERE'S A PROFITABir little import from Asia is getting de- served recognition from shooters as a BUSINESS FRi/r top game bird and an elusive target. And from gourmets, too, because it's unbeat- MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITYT FOR YOU WITHOUT INVESTMENT! able table fare. No experience needed to act as our Local The preserve-bred bobwhite quail also Dealer for MASTERWork Uniform garments. Every business concern a prospect. Adver- tends to become tame when reared in tising embroidered on garments is a big sales feature. Storescan'tcompete. You can easily too sociable surroundings but not to the earn up to many thousands of dollars yearly. Wesopplyall Sales Equipment Write FREE. same degree as the chukar. At least I GEO. MASTER GARMENT CO. C-47 WATER STREET, LIGONIER, INDIANA have never seen one come when called. It is being demanded by an increasing Free Book on Arthritis number of put-and-take patrons, and many preserves that have added chukar And Rheumatism to their pheasant crop as a second bird HOW TO AVOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES "I received a sharp letter from the bank- are beginning to experiment with these Explains why drugs and medicines give only ternporary it seems you're not keeping up with your relief and fail to remove the causes: tells all about a little feathered rockets which, in their .specialized non-surgical, non-medical treatment which deposits." has proven successful since 1919. Write for this 36-page wild state, are the most popular game FREE BOOK today. birds Ball Clinic, Dept. 560, Excelsior Springs, Mo. in many sections of the country. AMKRKAN LEGION MAGAZINE The bobwhite has been termed the per- SEWING SCISSORS fect bird for a dog, and justly so because when pointed it invariably holds until per year. Most of them have been able

flushed. As such it has an undeniable to reduce their fees from $8 per bird Aston i. (ng but truel ^ R send appeal to those preserve shooters who (which they charged initially) to as little We you a BIG 7-inch, extra-sharp pair Sewing Scis- sors FREE even though you get as much of a thrill, if not more, from as $4, especially on quantity orders pay others up to $2.00 for fine ^™ quality Sewing Scissors. This is our way of! seeing good dog work as from bagging which extend for the full season. t^m making new friends. Order NOW but please 2 5c for posUge and handling per pair. mm Limit 2 pairs to family. Wmm the bird. But it is doubtful if commercial Some handle their operations so effi- FREE SCISSORS, De

Nervousness, Tiredness. But another species of quail may fill Hunter Is Entitled To Four Birds!" If you have these troubles, particularly the gap. This is the Japanese Coturnix Mike Pender, operator of a well-run bladder trouble, then your condition may be traced to Glandular Inflammation ... a now being tested for adaptability in 15 preserve at Goldens Bridge, only 50 constitutional disease. Medicines that give miles from buzzing New York City, sent temporary relief will not remove the cause States. It weighs about five ounces, holds of your trouble. Neglect of Glandular In- before a dog even better than the bob- me a distress call last fall. flammation often leads to premature old age and sometimes incurable malignancy. white, if such is possible, and is so easily "Know where I can get more birds? The past few years men from over 1,000 bred that ordinary preserve facilities will I've run out of my 6,000 and here it is communities have been successfully NON- SURGICALLY treated here at Excelsior be able to turn them out by the thou- only December." Springs for Glandular Inflammation. They have found soothing relief and a new out- sands every season. It too seems to show I didn't, and was further distressed look in the future of life. a tendency to tame down, but this is because it meant there'd be no more The Excelsior Medical Clinic, an institution devoted exclusively to the treatment of offset somewhat by the fact that the birds for me to shoot, either. Here was diseases peculiar to older men. has a NEW FREE BOOK that tells how Glandular In- Coturnix does not travel in coveys and proof of put-and-take shooting's double- flammation may be corrected by Proven so is hunted singly. barreled payoff. Take your shotgun and NON-SURGICAL treatments. This FREE BOOK may prove of utmost importance in Commercial preserves with 300 acres a box of 6's to a preserve out your way your life. Write today. EXCELSIOR MEDICAL CLINIC, Dept. B-1140, Excelsior Springs, Mo. or more of owned or leased land located and you'll see what I mean. the end

~~45 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 THEY CALL IT DRINKING WATER! 1 ( Cotilintted fiotn jfnt^t' 'i j~~

themselves by the purifying action of get rid of, industry is alarmed. The and Coney Island . . . The worst offend- sun and air. These siU-choked water Manufacturing Chemists Association is ers are the great aircraft carriers ... I courses cannot begin to handle the over- spending millions yearly on pollution have seen dead ducks by the hundreds load of excreta, offal, bilge, and filth we research. washed up in the seaweed at high water pour into them. But paper mills, slaughterhouses, mark."

Sewage. It is only in the last 200 woolen mills, and all industrial and gov- Moreover, oil sludge dumped into the years that municipal sewer systems have ernmental installations have their pollu- River Rouge at Detroit has been known been constructed. Much of our sewage tion headaches. Our "laughing waters" to destroy thousands of ducks and other is concentrated at a few outlet points; are laughing no longer; they are in their waterfowl. It is a grimy story all round. more of it is inadequately treated. The death throes. We are already paying a big price in need is for new sewage treatment plants Oil Dumping. Not only is our water- water scarcity. We will pay more. Water at 6,600 places. fowl poisoned by our evil inland waters, reclamation is much costlier than waste But these additional facilities are only but many thousands of them succumb treatment at the scource. Our growing the beginning of our needs. We must each year to the oil slick which oil- water scarcity problems are directly re- contend with the projected population burning vessels continually pour out lated to our growing recklessness in figure of 200,000,000 people by 1975, over the waters along our coasts. In waste disposal. most of them urban. Nor should we spite of the law passed in 1924 which Living in the midst of a network of overlook the little towns big enough to forbids jettisoning of oil in coastal areas, open sewers is hazardous enough. But hang their houses on a sewer line but sea captains, barge captains, and even the scientifically guarded border we too small to buy a disposal plant. United States naval commanders defy have set up between sewer water and

Industrial Wastes. If we had enough the law with impunity. They rely on the drinking water is a precarious one. We pride and wanted to spend the money, snide provision in the statute which de- live on the edge of a human or mechan- we could handle municipal sewage. We mands that the Coast Guard patrol jnust ical failure that might bring pestilence know how to treat it. But industrial witness the actual dumping before mak- down upon us. This danger becomes wastes are increasing so fast disposal ing an arrest. more imminent every year. know-how can't keep up with them. A An observer for Auduhon Magazine At the same time, as crowds increase recent Merck index of chemicals lists (January-February 1957) counted, on and leisure time lengthens, spots for 8,000; 2,900 of these did not appear in Long Island, more than "400 oiled gan- recreation — breathers from the crush an edition only 12 years earlier! Since nets, loons, grebes. Bonaparte's gulls, — become more precious. But who dares all chemical and most manufacturing razor-billed auks, dovekies and ducks swim in our rivers any more? Turgid plants have great quantities of wastes to on the beaches between Montauk Point and oil-begrimed, our once scintillating PETERS POWER knocks ^em dov^nV

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • ^-j rivers slink past the dump heaps and cried some. "Interference!" snapped WHEN FALSE TEETH around the back doors of our towns. others. Gone are the canoes, launches, and But the truth is, the financial sup- CAUSE SORE GUMS rowboats. For the hardy who insist on port offered by the Federal Government

You get undreamed of relief in \l I river recreation, speedboats and yachts is little | |y more than an incentive for local seconds! Metiicallv-formulated | /vi \J\ NUM-ZIT Adult Strength has -i^^^p^. V/.\ (no dangling of hands!) are the only communities to pitch in themselves. The already brought blessedd relief to -J/ recourse. community itself must pick up the chit. thousands. Recommeended' by ^jC^ \^\k. dentists everywheie. Pleasant-V\ "T"* ^ Yet what delights we forego at our And the price is high. Roughly, the tasting . . . eases discomifoi t while / A doorstep because of the misuse of our removal of 35 percent of the pollution you break in new false teeth. Works wohders, too. for relief of toothache, neu- waterways! Rather than spend the effect of sewage costs about $35 a per- ralgic pains. Keep it handy for quick first aid. effort retrieve son a year. Raise the removal percent- At all drug counters. money and to them for the joys of boating, fishing, swimming, age to 75, and the price doubles — to ZIT >^c/u/f Strength and picnics, we doggedly pack into the $70 a person a year. Do the best pos- car and buck the traffic for 50 miles or sible job of 90 percent removal and the Another fine Purepac product more as we join the hordes in feverish annual per capita cost zooms to $110. search of a clear lake. We fondly be- Of course, what is paid out to reduce HOME-IMPORT lieve we are saving money; yet it is the pollutant content of sewage is saved BUSINESS WOMEN! hardly economic to pollute the old by the ne.xt user in treating the water Make big profits buying low cost imports swimming hole and then mortgage the supply. It is just that people aie less abroad (see excimples at left) and selling to likely to friends, stores or by mail order. Famous community to build a chlorinated swim- change oil in the car they are |M world trader guidfs you — show3 you how to ii about to trade in. tind thousands of exotic imports for full or ming pool for our children. Scarcely J[ spare time business, how to pocket profits Before in advance on foreign drop shipment coiunumity in the United States has not 1956 we were spending $230,-

plan. Complete details FKKK ! Airmail roaches us overnight. WKITE TODAY! squandered its recreational heritage be- 000,000 a year on abatement works. We r^gHFMELLINGERCO., Dept. P30A cause of a penny-wise sanitation system. spent in the vicinity of $340,000,000 in ^PiS' 1717 Westwood, Los Angeles 24, Calif. Besides the loss of good water, of 1957. Yet the official estimate calls for trout fishing, recreation, and fun — be- an outlay of $500,000,000 a year for the — next ten years if RUPTURED sides the constant menace to health we want to catch up there are other disadvantages to our with the backlog and meet the growing FREE TRUSS SLAVERY BE FROM needs. Surely you want to THROW AWAY sewer-stream network. The shad and of Rupture Wor- TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid mackerel runs that once made our All this is only the stoiy of municipal ries. Then Why put up with wearing a griping, chafing and unsanitary truss. For there is now a Eastern rivers wriggle with life are now sewage. Add the industrial wastes to this new modern Non-Surgical treatment that is de- only a legend. Where once the salmon municipal sewage and what is the price signed to permanently correct rupture. These Non-Surgical treatments are so certain, that a take in a Western valley was $5,000,000 of cleaning up our streams? Say the ex- Lifetime Certificate of Assurance is given. Write today for our New FREE Book that a year, the sewage cut it down to less perts with a sigh: "About $10,000,000,- gives facts that may save you painful, expensive than $1,000,000.^ 000 over ten years." surgery. Tells how non-surgically you may again man- work, live, play, love and enjoy life in the But commercial fishing is only one We will never begin to restore our ner you desire. Write today—Dept. H-1105. — Excelsior Medical Clinic, Excelsior Springs, Mo. industry that has paid the price. Today inland and coastal waters to expe- industrial water is at a premium. Once rience again the healthful activities and How to Become a almost a free commodity, it has become delights of sparkling streams and clean, •GAME WARDEN an important item in production costs. spring-fed lakes — until we arouse pub- •GOVT. HUNTE Communities without supplies of accept- lic opinion. It is true that the water Join foresUY, Wildlife Services! able water obviously cannot attract new scarcity — which will worsen every year Let vour lovt of held and forest guide >ou to rt-..l

succesAl Be a career consen attunisl ' - Protet t re industries. Their development is at a — will jar some smug thinking out of the sources. Arrest violators. Work with wildlife amui scenic surroundings, away from city pressures. En standstill. rut. joy a "way of life" others can't even buy! Good pay. But unless our thinkers and leaders security, prestige. Full time and seasonal opportu nines, men 17 to 45\ Hunting, farming, military ex Under the Pollution Control Act of — service organizations, town and city ixrience valuahle. Prepare now. spare time. HELP

FILLNElOn IN YOUR AREA! All states. If over] 7 « 1948, the Federal Government: (a) officials, editors, and educators — raise FORESTRY & WILDLIFE COURSE, Depi B-6A 1038 S La Brea, Los Angeles 19. Calilorma Works out pollution programs, (b) un- the white flag of clean streams and start derwrites research on industrial waste the parade, we are doomed to spend the treatment, (c) gives technical aid to the rest of our lives in the stench of our DOES GETTING States, industries and regions, (d) offers open sewer network. financial assistance to the States, to in- Some communities have fought UP NIGHTS dustries, and to the interstate bodies, through to victory. When the citizens of MAKE YOU FEEL OLD? (e) helps along the idea of interstate Cumberland, Maryland, were shocked NEW YORK— Special: Thanks to new, scientific cooperation, and (f) disseminates in- by the withdrawal of a large glass com- laboratory formulation, thousands of jnen and women now escape feeling old, tired, irritable and formation. pany's proposal to build in their city depressed from losing sleep and worrying about "Bladder Weakness" — too frequent burning and To date, the Act may be called some- because of the pollution in the Potomac itching urination. Bed Wetting, Getting Up Nights River at their site, they acted — and —or Strong Cloudy Urine, due to common Kidney thing of a failure. It was slow in get- or Bladder Irritations, which often result in sec- ting ofl" the ground. Congress, which last. A $1,500,000 appropriation for a ondary Bachache, Headache and Nervousness In such cases New Improved CYSTEX usually gives had committed itself to a $135,000,000 new sewage treatment plant brought a quick, calming relief by combating irritating germs in acid urine; and by relaxing, analgesic pain re- outlay over a five-year period, had lucrative new payroll to town. lief. Over a billion CYSTEX tablets used—proves safety and success. Get Laboratory Tested and coughed up but $8,400,000 in the first The clogged and poisoned Schuykill Certified CYSTEX at druggist today. See how much four years of the Act, most of it for River of Pennsylvania has been re- better you feel tomorrow. Money back guarantee. research. Only as the tenth disappoint- deemed. The Kansas River has been re- A flBluiiiXA ing anniversary approached, in 1956, lieved of much of its sewage indigestion. ||T did Congress unlatch its purse with a Because of the fine teamwork among HI BECOME AN EXPER TIM | ten-year authorization of $500,000,000 the cities of Athens, Lancaster, Logan, for municipal sewage systems and treat- and Nelsonville. the Hocking River in SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE LESSON Eiecative Accountants and CPAs earn $5,000 to ment facilities. At length a little hard Ohio again runs clean and sweet-smell- end up. Thousands needed. We train vou thoroly at ho for CPA examinations or executive accounting pus — face-lifting rivers experience unnecessary. Personal training under sut cash started to spill on the counter ing. With the of these of CPAs and Expert Accountants. Write for free boi ties in Accounting" and sample lesson. $38,000,000, in fact - and nearly 500 came a soul-lifting of the people on the LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. A Correspondence Institution, Dpt. 10361.H. Chicago 5. ill projects are underway. "A pittance!" banks.

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The cost of operating a treatment BRIEFLY Finland and the Russian Revolution, by plant may run as high as $90 per mii- C. J. Smith, Jr. the untveristv ok ceorcia Hon gallons in a small plant. But this PRESS, $4.50. A study of relations between charge can be cut to $15 per million Finland and its powerful neighbor, from Czarist times to the era of the bolshe\ iks. gallons in a large installation, such as About one of those built by Los Angeles. Unit construction costs are also reduced when many small communities band together How to Raise and Train a Beagle, by Mary BOOKS Alice and Barbaresi. sterl- on disposal. Most important advantage, Ward Sara M. ing PUBLisHiNc, $2.00. All about this popu- of course, is that joint sewage disposal ( Coiitiinicd from page 8) lar breed. Contains pictures and photo- for a densely settled section imposes graphs, many in color. the same standards on all and gives the religious experience of lay men and wom- same protection to all in that area. en of the Protestant, Catiiolic, and Jewish Seattle, Washington, offers an exam- faitlis. ple of sectional cooperation. Greater Alaska — the 49th State — In Pictures, sterl- • • • ing PLBi.isHiNC, $1.00 in paper cover. For Seattle had been spilling 20,000,000 gal- those who want to see what our newest lons of raw sewage and effluent into its Look Out Below! by Lt. Col. Francis L. State looks like. beautiful Lake Washington every day. Sampson. cArnoi ic university press, $3.75. The story of the airborne troopers as seen The lake is — or was — a major recrea- by their Chaplain, Father Sampson. It takes tional attraction, not only for the na- the reader from Parachute School at Fort Ship, tives but for tourists. Abandon b>' Richard Newconib. Bcnning to Europe in \V\V2 and then to henry holt and CO., $3.95. The story of When, therefore, in 1957, the lake Korea. tlie heavy cruiser Indianapolis, torpedoed threatened to be a pestilence rather than • • • by a Japanese submarine w ith a loss of a joy, the aroused citizens pushed an 484 lives. Readers of this magazine are The Day I VVa.s Proudest to be an Ameri- act through the State Legislature, which, credited with ha\ing assisted in the au- can, l)y Donald Robinson. nouBi.EDAY, $3.95. subject to approval by the citizenry at thor's search for information needed ft)r Sixty-nine Americans tell of their experi- the polls, creates a general the book. water "coun- ences. cil." council, This nicknamed "Metro," • • • will not only build great sewage treat- ivish to any Arab Unity, by Dr. Fayez A. Sayegh. If yon order of these books, ment plants for the entire area of 200 send check or /noney order made out to DE\iN-ADAiR, $4.00. A diplomat discusses local councils, but it will coordinate all .inierican Legion Book Service. Address: w hat is happening in the Mideast and the area-wide problems of water supply, The American Legion, I'.O. Box 1055, Ln- that ha\ c background of the troubles there dianapotis 6, hid. Books ivill be sent post- parkways, parks, and the like. The brought tlic world to the brink of w ar. paid. treated effluent will be piped far out into Puget Sound. Sewage and treatment costs for the smaller areas will plummet, as will up- *2 keep. And, best of all, a premium comes WILL YOU SPEND with the purchase — a clean and respect- able Lake Washington.

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I Cotitiitiied from l>age 19) there breathed a man with soul so dead night' bowler," Campi says, "an average cause scoring had been uniformly low. that he'd never done any bowling; it of 199 may not sound too hot. But, ac- But Campi came along and banged out also never occurred to Campi to point tually, there aren't more than 600 bowl- a 230 average, defeating everyone in out that he was just such a soul. ers in the whole country who can the competition with the exception of "Sure," Campi said. When do we maintain an average of 200. This is Buddy Bomar. In the $25,000 sweep- go?" highly pressurized over a stretch of 300 stakes that followed later, he tossed a "As soon as you finish that beer," the All-Star games." 1,361 total for six games, to walk off man told him. There was another time Campi made with top money — the $6,000 and two Campi downed it and left the tavern the All-Star finals, but it's one which automobiles mentioned earlier. with them. It was indicative of his later he'd just as soon forget about. That was Storybookish though all this may cool confidence under championship in 1954. He made them; yet he never sound, he still hadn't hit his peak per- pressure that he went along to bowl the played in them — a very odd story. formance until the East-West TV show first match of his life quite confident It seems that when he'd finished the in which he knocked over 14 straight that he could help them win. final game of the qualifying round and name bowlers as authoritatively as his When the match started, Campi vio- glanced at the telescore, he discovered bowling balls were knocking over the lated the No. 1 rule of bowling eti- that he'd missed out by a few pins. In pins. Just how much more he will have quette, completely unaware that he was a most unhappy frame of mind, he got added to his fame as well as his fortune doing so: he picked up any ball on the out of there in a hurry. He promptly by the time this bowling year ends is rack, using first one player's and then took off for home by plane. During the anybody's guess. But the Campi records another's. One ball was the same as flight, to kill time, he started to pore dis- point to the fact that he has been com- another to him, as long as he could fit consolately over his score sheets. Sud- ing on stronger and stronger during the his thumb inside it. This was about on denly he sat looking as horror-stricken past few years. a social par with a Yankee rookie grab- as he might have if the plane's engines A lot of Campi's power stems direc- bing Mickey Mantle's bat out of the had just conked out. He had come tly from his work as a mason. He has rack on his first trip to the plate. Hank across a ten-pin error in those sheets — been laying those 75-pound cinder Bauer's on his second. Yogi Berra's on more than enough to have qualified him blocks for more years than he cares to his third, and so on. for the finals. Unfortunately for Campi, remember. But the work has given him But, to the delight of his teammates he was well on his journey east, and tremendously strong back and arm and to the consternation of the opposing those finals — many miles due west — muscles. He stands 5 foot 6, stocky and forces, Campi somehow managed to av- had already started by then. rugged all the way. In fact, he looks erage 178 for the three games of his It's one scoring error that Campi too rugged for a grandfather, which he bowling bow. When league play ended won't soon forget. is, four times over. — with Campi & Co. the victors — a It was TV, however, that made Campi's wife, Eva, is ail for his side- bowler of some local reputation at the Campi the special star among stars that line career of bowling. "But how she time, Phil Ellery, challenged him. Ellery he is today; it was TV that made his suffers when I bowl for prize money!" thought it had all been a fluke. name and his wrong-foot technique fa- Campi says. In contrast to his own cool- He sound found out. Campi beat him miliar to a major portion of the nation's ness and confidence in the clutch, Mrs. seven straight games, and this time he bowling millions. His TV career began Campi almost becomes a nervous wreck averaged a tidy 187. In disgust, Ellery with the Championship Bowling Show watching him. proclaimed to one and all present: "If at Paramus, New Jersey, where he cli- "You haven't seen suffering," Campi this guy who never. even rolled before, maxed a 26-week ordeal under fire by says, shaking his head, "until you've who uses any damned ball on the rack, winning his final three matches from watched Eva watching me bowl. Or so who ends up all cockeyed on the wrong three of the very best: Steve Nagy, Joe they tell me. I never could see her going foot — if he still beats me, then I say it's Wilman, Junie McMahon. through it, of course. I'm always too time for me to quit." He turned the next Championship busy at the time."

~~And Ellery did just that shortly after- TV Show (shown last year in hundreds Campi is well set financially these ward. of cities all over the country) into a days, thanks — in good part — to the~~

That one night of bowling did it for truly dramatic spectacle. Real excite- extra money he's made rolling them off Campi. The game had him after that. ment had been lacking in this show be- the wrong foot. He's a great TV fan, but But his was no meteoric rise to prom- inence. On the contrary — he proceeded to bowl earnestly for 14 years without CAN SAVE YOU THOUSANDS achieving any recognition except locally, ON never making a cent from it. He just FLORIDA PROPERTY went on, paying his way to roll with the Attention Legionnaires! THERE ARE 50 IMPORTANT POINTS TO CHECK BE- boys down at the local alleys. FORE YOU INVEST ONE PENNY IN FLORIDA REAL ESTATE. Whether you are It wasn't until 1947 that Campi won planning to buy Florida real estate, or whether you are now paying for property ... be his first national title, and he didn't do sure that you learn the facts necessary for wise investment that alone. At Houston he and Andy The FLORIDA LAND INVESTMENT REPORT brings you these facts every month . . . with specially trained fieldmen travelling the entire State of Florida. check Varipapa teamed up to take the Na- We inspect, development progress, location, elevation, County construction specifications etc. tional Doubles. He duplicated this feat SPECIAL BONUS — Take advantage of our introductory offer. Just $1 gets you our at Houston just last year, incidentally, fact-filled special report "How to Buy Florida Real Estate." Worth $10, this valuable this time with Lindy Faragalli. Playing report can save you thousands! We help you Remove the Risk on investment. alone, he made the All-Star finals in "You are the eyes of the out of State investor", both 1955 and 1956, and he holds a 199 stated one satisfied subscriber. average in All-Star play for more than Mail $1 today for your Big Bonus offer "How to Buy Florida Real Estate." Satisfaction 300 games. or your money back! Send Si to FLORIDA LAND INVESTMENT REPORT, 11601 N. W. 7th Ave., Miami 50, Florida. "To the "occasional' or 'Monday

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POST EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES not of bowling. Wrestling is his specta- came at him. Where is he now? In the tor specialty. He never had a chance for Hall of Fame up at Cooperstown, that's FOR YOU much formal education, but he is a thor- where he is. He got there with one foot For rates, write Combined Classified 529 W Madison. Ctiicago 6 oughly articulate and intelligent con- in the bucket. It came natural to him." SALESMEN—HELP WANTED (AL-Ocl.8) versationalist. While Campi admits he had a fine MAKE EXTRA MONEY—Cash' commissions. Easy-to-sell that as Advertising Book Matches. Union Label. Full or part time. Not Campi fancies himself an night using anybody's and everybody's Powerhouse selling kit free. Superior Match, Dept. J-1158, inventor, 7530 Gj;eenwood, Chicagq^l3. exactly, but in terms of bowl- ball that first time he bowled, he now EXTRA' selling Advertising EARN MONlEY Book Matches. ing he's constaantly trying to work out thinks such a practice is a handicap, and Free sample kit furnished. Matchcorp, Dept. EX-28, Chicago 32, Illinois. brandnew grips for the balls. For ins- one of no mean proportions. If you NEW CAR THIEF Signal: Lightning Seller. Samples sent on trial. Northwest Electnc, 98, MitchelK_South Dakoja^ tance, the one he uses now, is a baby seriously want to improve your game, BUSINESS & MONEY MAKING OPPORTUNITIES of his own making. It's got two holes he'll tell you, and haven't done so al- NEW INDUSTRY NEEDS Men Nowl Over One million small damages in rugs and carpets never repaired — waiting for local on each side. When he begins a game, ready, then get your own ball just as service. We show you how to invisibly repair them and make big money in spare time — up to $25.00 for one hour's work. he shoves a rubber bushing in one of the soon as you can afford it. And your own Homes, offices, stores, insurance companies— prospects unlimited! Ouick, easy to do. No selling. Skeptical? Make us thumb holes. If his thumb swells (no, shoes. shoes are just as important. prove every word. Details Freel Carpeton, 1201 Rosemont, The Dept. K-I5, Chicago 40, 111^ Virginia, this isn't going to be one of There is no question that the three EARN EXTRA CASH I Prepare Advertising Postcards. Lang- dons, Box 41107PX, Los Angeles 41, California. those Rube Goldberg inventions), he things which will make or break your OF INTEREST TO WOMEN moves the bushing to one of the longer game are your stance, your approach, FREE—BIG NEW Wholesale Catalog I Up to 50% savings for nationally-known jewelry, toys, you, family, friends on gifts, holes and. presto! the smaller ball. cer- appliances. Christmas cards, etc. Also make money selling thumb and your delivery of the "A part time 1 Write: Evergreen Studios, Box 846AR, Chicago 42, III. hole becomes a finger hole and a larger tain amount can be told to you," Campi THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS are' being saved on family's most important budget item. Simple, with guaranteed results. thumb hole is now ready to use. Campi says, "but you can absorb just so much Details free. Heritage Thrift Foundation, 1400-C Davis allas Texa Building, D 2, s. finds it practical. this way. You can absorb much more if PATENT ATTORNEYS— INVENTIONS INVENTORS—SEND FOR "Patent Protection for Inventors" Although Campi, like any true champ, you carefully watch and analyze these outlining preliminary steps to take in applying for patent. Vic- will cut the legs out from under you if three factors in the good bowlers you tor J. Evans

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • it is of the utmost importance for you report unfavorable experiences with ap- 3. Do not authorize any contractor or to know the contractor or builder and proved dealers or contractors to the repairman to do any work on your house, the quaHty of his work. References bank or other lending institution from or to have access to your furnace, until should be secured. If the home hasn't which the money is secured. It may not you have completed all necessary pre- been built, you should examine previous always help you to solve your own prob- liminary checking, and are prepared to homes or developments built by the lem, but at least it will become a part proceed on terms that are mutually builder, and talk to persons living in of the file, which can be used in future agreeable. those homes. The quality of the work evaluations of the contractor's eligibility 4. Be sure that all guarantees are in should be determined, and you should for FHA-insured work. writing, and that you thoroughly under- also ask what experience the owners of The long and the short of all this is stand their coverage and their limita- these with the builder that homes have had an FHA-insured loan does not guar- tions. when problems have arisen. antee that you will get the kind or qual- 5. Do not deal with any firm that uses In some cases a slick contractor will ity of work you want. The responsibility the "model home" pitch, or employs form a corporation to build one or more to make the proper selection is still "scare tactics," or uses a trashy piece of homes, or to construct a whole develop- yours. And. of course, you should not merchandise as "bait" in order to switch ment, and then will dissolve the corpora- deal with any contractor who misrepre- you to high-priced merchandise. tion after the work has been completed. sents the facts about the role of FHA as 6. Do not sign anything until you are If your home is defective and unsatis- explained above. ready. Know what you are signing. Sign factory, and if the contractor turns a You should always protect your sig- no papers in blank. Do not sign comple- deaf ear to your pleas, you will find that nature. When it comes to expensive tion notes before the work is done. Con- suing the defunct corporation will do home buying, building, or repair, the old sider retaining an attorney to review the you little or no good. You are stuck. maxim has even greater weight. Your signature on the dotted line whole proposition before you sign. Some crooks will tell you that "the can mean FHA guarantees our work" or "you money in the bank for the gyps. 7. Be cautious when approached by the cleverest tricks of dishon- itinerants who "just happen to be in the don't have to worry—this is all being in- One of spected by FHA." In thousands of cases est home repairmen is to secure the vic- neighborhood," and offer you home repair work at "bargain rates." involving FHA loans, sharp dealers have tim's signature on a so-called completion note, the work begun. tried to prevent people from exercising before has This 8. Keep a sharp eye on prices and proper caution by telling them that innocent-looking piece of paper is some- financing. Be sure you understand just times presented for signature along with "nothing can happen on an FHA job." how much it will actually cost, and how a number of other "routine papers." Ac- You should, therefore, understand just it is to be paid, and when. tually, it certifies that the work has been what the FHA does and does not do At the present time home repair swin- finished. Armed with this slip of paper, when it insures a home repair loan. dles have reached the proportion of a the contractor may walk off the job, To begin with, FHA does not provide national disgrace. Reputable dealers and leaving it undone, at any time that he the actual money. FHA provides insur- contractors lose substantial business to sees some greener pasture. Your signa- ance on your loan, to the bank or lend- the gyps, and the whole community suf- ture on the completion note signifies ing institution that makes the money fers. It's time the whole thing was your with that, agreement the builder brought to a resounding halt. your available to you. This makes it easier for Do as far as you are concerned, he has dis- homeowners to obtain needed credit for share to protect yourself and to stamp charged his obligations. making improvements and repairs. out the gyps! "Contract-hustling" is frequently prac- THE END FHA regulations require that, before ticed by the gyps. They exert every pres- FHA insurance can be granted to a lend- sure to get you signed up. You should ing institution on a loan, that institution never yield to such pressure. Never sign must "approve" the dealer or contractor anything until you have completed all who is going to do the work. The dealer your investigations and are quite sure OUTFIT has to apply for such approval, and the that you are ready to go ahead. Beware lending institution may conduct what- REUNIONS of the salesman or contractor who tells ever investigation it wishes to establish Reunion will be held in inonth indi- you that if you don't sign right away you his general reliability. This application, cated. For particulars, write person whose will never again be able to get the special the results of the investigation, and any address is given. low price or special deal offered. being oflicial form only. reports of experiences that homeowners Notices accepted on Another favorite practice of the crooks For form send stamped, addressed return have had with the dealer are all kept on is to get your signature on papers that envelope to: O. R. Form, American Legion file by the lender. Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, have been left partially blank. After you Y. Notices should he received at least four Now. you should note the following N. have signed, they fill in all kinds of re- months before schedided reiniion. points: strictive conditions, and sometimes enter 1. FHA does not guarantee the work prices far in excess of their oral state- done by the contractor, nor the materials ments. Army that he uses. Any contractor who claims Here are some simple rules for avoid- 80th FA, Btry D (WWl)-(Nov.) George L. Keeper, 215 E. Fourth Ave., Wildwood, N.J. otherwise is simply not telling the truth. ing the home repair gyps: 104th Engrs, Co B (WWl)-(Nov.) George F. Sey- bold .1 17 E. Homestead Ave., CoUingswood 7. N.J. 2. The financial institution itself does 1. Deal with a contractor of known 138(h Inf, Co I (WWl)-(Nov.) A. L. Bardgett. not guarantee the materials or workman- reliability. If at all possible choose one 1240 Arch Terrace. St. Louis 17, Mo. 139th Inf, Co L (WWl)-(Nov.) Elmer M. Holt. ship. It does try to grant approval only whose reputation you know. 619 North A St.. Wellington. Kans. 14Jrd Inf, Co C (WWl)-(Nov.) M. P. Stewart, to dealers who appear to be reputable, 2. If are personally you unfamiliar 1475 Cartwright, Beaumont, Tex. but this is no ironbound guarantee for with the contractor and his work, inves- 724th Transportation Ry Operating Bn (Korea)— (Oct.) R. Rhoads, 501 Essex Road, Norwood. the H. homeowner. You cannot assume that tigate before you proceed. Check with Pa. the lender's investigation has automati- your Better Business Bureau, your cham- cally weeded out every unreliable dealer ber of commerce, and your bank. Secure Navy or inferior workman. It is not a detective the names of a number of people for agency nor the FBI. whom the contractor has worked, and USS Solace (WWl»-(Nov.) Dr. Richard A. Kern, Temple University Hospital, 3401 N. Broad St., 3. It is clearly important for you to take time to visit and talk with them. Philadelphia 40. Pa.

~~54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 THE AMERICAN LEGION~~

~~THE AMERICAN LEGION SHOPPER section is not composed of paid advertising;~~

~~It is an editorial feature, and all products are sold on a moneyback guarantee.~~

A ^oticl \\a\' to start a coin collection is witli tliis Ever try to buy one of these? Hard to find, and The fine craftsmen of Sorrento, Italy, hand-fashion kit \vhich includes an assortment of 10 genuine usually expensive, this U.S. Medical Corps stetho- this lovely set from genuine, lustrous mother-of- coins and bills from 10 different countries. Kit also scope is brand new, ideal for doctors, engineers pearl. Each dainty petal is individually carved and

has booklet on collecting, rei:)roductions of famous and mechanics { check trouble spots in motors, shaped. Beautiful stuff. Necklace, $3.85; bracelet, coins, coin packets, gummed hinges — 50 i^ieces in etc.), educational for kids and adults. Handy in the S2.20; earrings (screw type or pierced), .$1.50; all for SI ppd. Hobbies Unlimited, Bo.x 488, Dept. country. S2.9.5 ppd. (half-regular price). Banner the set $6.95. All ppd. Alpine Imports, Dept. AL, AL-3, Hempstead, N.Y. Supply House, Dept. AL, 49 East 41st, N.Y. 17. 505 Fifth Ave., N.Y. 17.

This handsome ring contains a famous Jarra gem, One way to keep track of all your appointments is Sleek imported scale models of Mercedes-Benz 4'' individually hand cut and hand polished. Gems are with this handy calendar called a "Memo Pal". ( top ) and Ferrari racers are only long, yet go made through a new scientific principle which crys- Calendar has one month to a page, and daily 20 mph on a straightaway. Beautifully detailed, talizes the natural mineral Ilmenite to a gem-like blocks are large enough for most messages. Has cars have micro-sensitive adjustment and differen- hardness and whiteness. Unset Jarra Gems, 1-5 car- space on inside cover for important phone num- tial for precision steering, brake, free-wheeling, ats, $24 a carat (tax incl.) Free booklet. Jarra bers. Measures 8V2"xll". $1 ppd. Commercial crash absorber, etc. $2.95 ppd. each. Prince Enter- Gem Corp., Dept. AM, 489 Fifth Ave., N.Y. 17. Press, Dept. 320, 3521 Butler St., Pittsburgh 1, Pa. prises, Dept. A, 305 Madison Ave., N.Y. 17.

~~Hovi' THE MISSILE YOU CAN FLY!~~

~~AN EXACT 1/20th SCALE MODEL OF U. S. NAVY'S Aerobee-Hi research rocket~~

4 years to develop, $50,000 pro- Rises 1,000 feet at 150 mph, ejects duction tooling parachute for safe return Missile and rocket motor tested at Applauded by scientists & engi- U.S. White Sands Proving Grounds neers as the ansv/er to safe model Rocket motor (pound of thrust rocketry every 2 seconds) classified safe Cope Canaveral in miniature — "propellant device" by I.C.C. Educational, reliable, unique

15,000 man hours of engineering research went into development of this incredible l/20th scale model of the U. S. Navy's Aerobee-Hi missile which will zoom up 1,000 feet (at 150-200 mph), eject a parachute from its soft vinyl nose cone, lower itself safely to earth. It takes 5 minutes to repack chute, install a new motor, and missile is ready for flight again. Solid fuel rocket motor—classified safe by I.C.C.—v/as introduced with missile in a feature article in Mechanix Illustrated Magazine. Easily assembled, kit contains all necessary materials, includes 6 rocket motors and single rail launcher for $9.95 ppd. Scaled, 42" high all-steel launching tower—adjustable over 10° arc for wind correction—in complete kit, $9.95 ppd. Additional motors—6 for $2.95 ppd. Money back guarantee. CKCABOlSr SCIENTII^'IC CO. cis 411-P LINCOLN BUILDING, 60 EAST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK 17

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • 55 DOUBLE Your Appraiser's FEE The Plus All Your Money Back American Legion DIAMOND (enlarged) V. THE AMERICAN LEGION SHOPPER section is not composed of paid advertising; «395. Lady's or Man's Ring

I Carol Brillianf White Diamond Over 5,000 Styles $50. & Up. Unless our diamonds appraise for at least 50% more than the purchase price, we will refund double your cost of appraisal. Full refund within 60 days. Ring mailed for inspection without payment if reference given.

Prccisidn-iriade live-steiim engine will add realistic t AVrite for catalog, Dept. L 10 You don have to go to London to recognize this power to any operating model. Develops strong world-famous hat as a "Bobby's" helmet. Not a l/30th h p. at 1800 r.p.m., has brass boiler, bronze copy, but the real thing bought from the British EMPIRE DIAMOND CORP. fittings, hand-throttle steam whistle, grooved iJuUey police, all are slightly used, have badges and are wheel. Operates oft sate dry fuel, stands 10". Ger- in excellent condition. Cork covered with blue felt, EMPIRE STATE BUILDING NEW YORK 1. N. Y. man-made. $8.95 ppd. Extra fuel, $2. William lined with green oil cloth. S & L. $6.95 ppd. Prince Products, GIANT TOY TRAIN 10 East 81st St., \.Y. 28. Enterprises, 305 Madison, N.Y. 17. IT SMOKES!

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puff its way into the heart of your favorite youngster. Loaded with play— cars take-apart —engine really smokes— cars connect, discon- nect—can carry loads. The engine, tender and this set give haircuts at three cars are painted in gay colors— can With you can good home, For Workshoppers — a new electric paint remover save money at the same time. New hand clipper, serve as a decorative Christmas Card holder that'll strip off paint down to the wood grain imported from West Germany, is made of solingen quickly and safely. A professional tool, it operates or candy "express", loo. Complete five piece steel. Fits comfortably in palm of hand. Complete off AC and DC, has a heating surface that measures train with real smoke device and train whistle with carrying case, genuine barber-shop shears, 3M!"x5'!4". Can be used on flat or curved surfaces.

. . . ploy . . only $1.98 ready to set up and . comb, complete instructions. $3.98 ppd. Standard $12.98 ppd. Meridian Products, Dept. AL, 366 in attractive presentation package. Made of American, Dept. AL-10, 1 Park Ave., N.Y. 16. Madison Ave., New York 17. heavy durable Texas Bristle board ... it will be shipped postpaid and guaranteed or your money back. GRACE NOCERA 2887A Alton Rd., Dept. A, Wickliffe, Ohio ONE "mYllVonI DOLLARS CASH I

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Yours only I Be a deep south millionaire! Have money to burn! We'll send you exactly one million bucks in r-onest to-Koodness authentic type Confederate money — and all you pay is $2.98! You can do everythins with this money but spend it. Amaze and amuse cotton-pickin" your friends. Win bar bets by the PowertuI 7X magnifier is self-illuminating, and ex- an- li;ick — in form barrel! Light your cigars and cigarettes with The horse and buggy days the $10.00 bills! Live it up! It's a million dol)a/-s cellent for stamp and coin collectors, inspecting of harness racing. The more you know about this worth of laughs and fun — all for only $2.98. Vou Ret one million bucks in $10's, $20's, $50's, textiles, doing close work on fishing and hunting sport, the better the chance of winning when bet- $100's etc. denominations — enough to keep your gear, tie-flying, laboratory study, etc. friends laughing and happy for months— This offer Imported; ting. This book covers trotters and pacers, systems is limited. Only 4 million dollars to a customer. ground lens; built-in H", V'/\ 1" gauge. Uses of betting, picking winners' form and rating etc. Our supply of this loot is limited — so rush your order... One Million dollars only $2.98. Four mil- standard batteries. A good buy for $2.95 ppd. Includes charts, summaries. $1 ppd. Globe Pub- lion dollars only $ 10.00. If not delighted keep $100,000 for your trouble and return the rest of Charles Co., 10 East 81st, N.Y. 28. lishing, 830 Broadway, Dept. L-15, N.Y. the money for a full and prompt refund. Send to: BEST VALUES CO.. Dept. IV1427. 403 Market St., Newark, N. J. GIANT KIDDIE PLAYHOUSE COMPLETE$00 5 FOR BIG ENOUGH FOR 2 CHILDREN I ONLY Constructed of durable Dupont flame- $400 resistant waterproof plastic for extra durability, approved by Good House- I keepinp. The cutaway view shows unique one piece constrnc utitizinp extended folding table leffs supporting roof.

~~PLAYHOUSE for Girls - SECRET CLUBHOUSE for Boys~~

from 4 to 14 . What Thrin= and Excitement and Fun for every child- Terrific value at this unbelievably low price. Over 100,000 satisfied customers. Nationally advertised at double our price of $1 00 It's huRe— 3 ft. high, approximately 23 cu ft. interior You don't have to cross the border to get one of with almost 9 sq ft of floor space— folds for easy storage A these 18" blade machetes. War surplus (Army Special! ,* size ret'Iica complete with slopinc roof, imprinted windows, cur- tains, shutters, shmple walls. Large door and windows can be opened or made 'em for use in tropics), you can bush out a Wildwest Frontier closed. Preassembled— sets up in 1 minute— no tools necessary. Rush or- trail, clear a camp site, or fell a good-size tree with Cabin! — Same size as Playhouse. now for immediate shipment. Send Cash, Check or Money Order and ^ der one of 'em. In sturdy green canvas shield with belt Durable Waterproof plaj;tic for- ^ 25c shipping charge on each house. Guaranteed! Sorry, no C. O. D 's. indoor and outdoor play ^ - clip. -$2.95 ppd. Banner Supply House, Dept. AL, each. (Plus 25c postage) !!l![EJ GIANT PLAYHOUSE Sll'Vo"?^3'; 5l^w* 49 East 41st St., N.Y. 17. 5^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 fX4cr %mmH model ONE FOOT HIGH

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it is an editorial feature, and all products are sold on a moneyback guarantee. 1/6 scale of 6 ft. man • Folly articu- lated/ working model • Accurate detail, contour, bone color » 4 year work, $20,000 production tooling • A triumph of model making applauded by Here's an oricinal way to express your feelinss to- By si^ecial arrangement with one of the top flytiers doctors & ward your fa\'orite people! Present them with this in the country, one dozen trout flies are just 88c. teachers 5" gold-plated i^laque, mounted on lop quality wal- W\ are hand-tied and come in lifelike colors. Set of • nut, inscribed with your choice: World's Greatest, 12 is packed in a floating balsawood bo.x with cork Magnificent Wife, Husband, Lover, Golfer, Fishemian. Friend, runner for keeping flies in position. Complete set, conversation Liar, Bowler or you name it. Each, SI. 50 ppd. 88'' ppd. SiDcncer Gifts, Spencer Bldg., Atlantic piece Home Products, 60 East 42nd St., N.Y. 17. City, N.J. NOW $095 ONLY ^

~~Developed after years of work, this precise human skel- eton model is fine for doctors, nurses, students etc.; perfect fun for office, den, desk or cluh. (And what a Rag! -'"ideal" business~~

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Exceptional import buys and quantities of close- out and "distress" merchandise make this sale possible. Toys are all new-worth many times this price—everything below is yours at one low price. Toy Sewing Machine (action model). Toy Guitar (actually plays). Flying Jet Plane (with launcher). Dart Pistol & safe dart. Drawing Set (ruler-piotractor. pencil, compass). 6 piece Plastic Train Set. Toy Xylophone. Western Watch Set (play watch, compass. & badge). Toy Car with action motor. Mechanical Wind- Flying satellite i^ an .lU nu lal sphere \\ ith 4 anten- A pen is always handy when you own this set of 7 up Bus. 100 piece Western. Mystery, and TV nae that travels in its own orbit controlled by a retractable pens with pocket protector. Has 4 blue Cut-out Set, 80 piece Police Set (plastic figures, horses, etc.) or comparable substitutions remote control pistol attachment. An interesting pens, 1 red pen, 1 black pen, 1 green pen, each when this selection rims out. toy for budding scientists and spacemen, it's easy V'ith matching ink. Guaranteed not to leak. Pro- - to you prepaid to direct and the motion is unique as it flies and tector prevents ripped pockets. Complete set. .$1 ALL ITEMS ABOVE shipped for only $2.98. You must be satisfied or ship them hovers in the air. S3. 95 ppd. Ren-Glo, Dept. AL- ppd. 15 refills, $1 ppd. Barclav Distributors, Dept. ail back for exchange or immediate refund. Get IO, 24 West 45th St., N.Y. 36. AL, 86-24 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, N.Y. the toy bargain of the century now... order from: THE PATRICK COMPANY FABULOUS, NEW 734 15th St., N.W., Dept. .\. Washington 5. D. C. 11 -PIECE DRAFTING SET $3.00

5-Ft. Long Balloons h plaUMi in: >^ of h i p h - q u a I i t V -mm Twist Into A ThousandTl Shapes! that comp.ircs with much higher priced GIRAFFES-DACHSHUNDS—S-DACHSHUI Pets of All Kinds dr.Tfting- set.s. You get plain and rins head l)owdivider:s. Made of vit',111 compasses for use fllll rnp 5 "I with ink or pen- Live Latex rUlf T| and cil. Ruling pens #|||| ^1 and all necessary 200 Handling parts. Precision Delight m.ide instruments Kiddles—Grown-Ups, Tool packed in an at- Almost 5 feet long when inflated. Balloons this tractive simulated leather, size usually sell up to 25e each. velvetlinedcasc. If you like cuff links, here's as handsome and rug- Send only SI now. Plus 25^ postage and handling 1 1 pieces, case ged a set as you'll find. Complete with reversible and all. only for 200 in a variety of cay colors! Supply limited S;J.O() plus 30c* screwdriver I for and blade that has a Phillips bit at one end, of this low price, so order several sets NOW for handlins p o s t a e or cuff links 'I and tie . clasp have matching miniature GUARANTEED PROMPT DELIVERY. MONEY BACK c . () . plus screwdrivers (complete to i^lastic handles) set GUARANTEE. FREE Comnlete Instructions. Guaranteed. Order Today! Money Back if not satisfied. against a black oval. Set, S4.95 ppd. Lincoln Prod- BALLOONS UNLIMITED. Dept. B-96-A SCOTT-MITCKELL HOUSE, INC. ucts, AM-411 Lincoln Bids., 17. I., Y. N.Y. P. O. BOX 264, FARMINGDAIE, L N. Dept. 4510, 415 South B-oodway, Yor.!;ers, N.Y. Model Changeover Sale 8 TILT ARBOR The POWER SAW AmeHcart Legion 1958 MODEL BLADE TILTS com^ TABLE ALWAYS THE AMERICAN LEGION SHOPPER section is not composed of paid advertising; REMAINS LEVEL Shown Heavy duty all cast Less iron and steel con- Btode struction. Precision ground cast iron table. Price includes massive cast iron mitre gauge and patented motor drive tliat fits anv motor. Does everything same as saws costing 4 times as much — cross cuts. rips, bevels, mitres, dadoes, cuts compound angles. Adjustable depth ot cut; O" to 2',4". SPECIAL BARGAIN during model changeover. This is an 1958 model. Brand new — sent to you in factory sealed cartons. Sold and guaranteed direct from factory at a fantastic bargain during changeover of assembly lines to 1959 models. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE — Try this famous saw 10 days. If not completely delighted — FOR ANY REASON — return for immediate refund, SEND EXPRESS COLLECT — Send check or M,0. $2.00 deposits on C.O.D.'s. We reserve right to refund money if stock is exhausted. Avoid disap- makes a useful -jift. This fine pointment. Order right now! A good way to dirss up \(iiir iXvn. or any room in Pcjcket .darm watch MACHINE & TOOL COMPANY c.ui be set to go off at any AMERICAN the house, is with a set ot these handsome jHints T-jewel Swiss-made one Royersford 11. Pa. opens to form of 8 early Ameriean automobiles. Prints are aecii- time, rings with a clear tone. Back watch doidile as desk or night-table of rate and colorful, include the 1908 Stanley stand, makes giant inflatable toys hands. Handy Steamer, 1913 Chevrolet. Also available: set of 8 clock. Second sweep, lumnions dial, Prince pre-historic monsters traxelers ett . SI 3.25 ppd. locomotive or fire engine prints. Each set, .$1 ppd. for businessmen, Enterprises, Dept. .\L. 305 Madison, N.Y. 17. GIGANTIC Terry-Elliott. Dept. MP-54.5, 135 East 44th, N.Y. DINOSAURS $100 fO'' • pi., 25, post. up to 4 feet tall Command thtse tun lo«ing pfetiistonc

~~monsters !o your titi) punk Toss them~~

~~in the aif and they always land on their~~

~~feet Made ot molded one piece quality later completely inflatable~~

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~~5g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 GIANT~~

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 • ^3 Ladiess* Clnb needed it for, he said: "Our teacher is Matter of Opinion being transferred and all tiie kids want to The topic is seldojii weatlier; The boisterous bragging was getting mo- give her a little momentum." Tl:ey're gossiping right frofii the start. notonous. Day after day the Wisconsin —Wn.BUR Field It seems that they fust get together J. waitress boasted to the customers of her To take other people apart! parents' 300 acres of rich, level Wisconsin —F. G. Kernan Bureau of the Budget crop land. My sister felt that the girl had bragged enough; so she piped up with, Some folks want to check Government "AVhy that's nothing. My father owns 109 spending, and others want to spend Gov- acres of Kentucky hills, and I bet a dollar ernment checks. that if it was flattened out, there would —Nathan Leo Collier be 1,000 acres of it." -Hazel Whitaker

Bill of Particulars Diet She never married. She never did meet hi uiost American households good food A man who could sweep her off her feet. is plentiful and most us are thick of it. Who was tall and handsome. Who smoked of Herbert a pipe. —Anna Was full of fun, yet the cultured type AVho collected Renoirs and yachting cups, Football Time And adored the opera and Afghan pups. It's Hearing the end of the season And one other reason she's on the shelf: When rooters are su'arming like bees on She's less than living a doll herself. The stadiums, and —Ethel Jacobson The seats in each stand Are something they shiver and freeze on. Daffynition Cheerleaders zvill lecul their last cheer, WOMEN HATERS: Woiiieil. The players tvill soon disappear, -Jack Herbert And the fans will again Get pneumonia, and then Nuts They'll do it all over next year! The intern at the State insane asylum —Berton Braley with this guide hired? He's "What's you rushed to the chief physician and said, lookiug for the cord to his percohitor!" "Doctor, a man outside wants to know if Naturally! we have lost any male patients." "Why?" asked the doctor. It seems that Adam and Eve had got Strictly From lliin^er "Someone ran away with his wife!" around to naming the animals. Among the men who often long for some —Howie Lasseter "I think I'll call that one a hippopotamus," good home cooking are husbantls. said Eve. — \'EsrA M. Kelly "Why?" Adam asked. due .\p|>roaeli "I don't know," shrugged Eve. "I sup-

iMost men don't love what a girl stands for, pose it just looks more like a hippopotamus Light Piirso but -what she falls for. —Cy N. Pease than any of the otiicrs." —Harold Helfer Tliis verse reports on the life economic, The unbalanced budget that's very unconiic, The common condition that's most unfunny -TOO MUCH MONTH AT THE END OF THE MONEY. —Robert G. AVeaver

~~Childish Noises!~~

~~People bragging about their accoiiiplish- iiients: The patter of little feats! —S. S. BlDDLE~~

~~Cirainmar Lesson A husband needs no explanation; It's perfectly lucid to him: The plural of "ivoman" is "ivoiiien," While "women" meatis "more than one whim"! —Lois F. Pasley~~

~~•'Humor"~~

~~Little eight-)'ear-old Tommy came home from school and asked his mother if he could have an advance on his allowance. When his mother inquired as to what he "Now, stop me if you've heard this~~

~~54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • OCTOBER 1958 i LEISURE~~

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