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(1) The roses reach in roses to sweep along fences and surround blooms in partly shady locations in Rev. must you prime, fresh condition ready for planting — your property with living walls of color 5 Bunge's test gardens where practically no or return them within 10 days for full refund. of the year. other rose can survive. little months (As as 3 hours of (2) They must take hold and thrive after sunlight produces ravishing masses of bloom.) : planting — or return them within 3 months for full replacement. So order This is the wonder rose that Rev, Bunge has now without risk. finally perfected and patented after 32 years @ Copr., Lakeland Nurseries Sales GIANT YOUR ONLY CHANCE TO PLANT THESE SUPER-ROSES THIS SPRING! BLOOMS 076 6 6E $1 brings roses CCD. UP TO 5" < LAKtlAHD HURStMlS SAUS ACROSS Dep't. L-359 , Hanover, Penna. 17331 Please ship me the number of top-quality "Scarlet Showers" Everbloomlng Climbers (0 7666E) I have indi- cated below at proper planting time in my area — on your 2-way money back guarantee. This is "SCARLET 1 for $4.95 2 for $8.95 SHOWERS" 3 for $12.95 4 for $15.50 the world's greatest Ship CCD. I enclose $1 deposit and will pay post- everblooming rose man balance plus postage and CCD. fees on delivery. spectacle. We ship Save postage and CCD. - enclose full payment in CHECK HERE cash, check or money order. top-quality, top- UKEUND'S graded 2 year old Name New, big. Ml color field grown plants only. Address GARDEN SUPPLIES STRICTLY LIMITED^ state Zip CATALOG We can make this offer ONLY ONCE THIS SEASON! ^ I The American MAY 1969 Volume 86, Number 5 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office Form 3578. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses with ZIP Code number and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. The American Legion Magazine Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue New York. New York 10019 Publisher , James F. O'Neil Contents 1969 Editor for May Robert B. Pitkin Art Editor Al Marshall Assistant Editors A LOOK AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA John Andreola Mario V. Lubrano BY R. B. PITKIN Associate Editors A preview of the city where the Legion will hold its Roy Miller 51st Annual Convention this August 22 to 28. James S. Swarti Assistant Art Editor Walter H. Boll Production Manager HOW PURE IS OUR FOOD? 10 Art Bretrfieid BY RAYMOND SCHUESSLER Copy Editor Even though more of us are growing fat than thin on American food Grail S. Hanford today, the purity of our food is in question on a wide Circulation Manager variety of fronts. Here's a look at some of them. Dean B. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. Advertising Sales Representatives New York—Chicago DO WE NEED A NEW SYSTEM FOR Hubert Redden Associates, Inc. Ill West 57th Street NOMINATING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES? 16 New York. N.Y. 10019 TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION 212-246-2546 pro: sen. GAYLORD NELSON (D-WIS.) California con: rep. HENRY C. (R-WIS.) SCHADEBERG JE Publishers Represenlive Co. 8380 Melrose Avenue I, Oft Angeles, California 90069 420 Market Street THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO FIRE AND QUAKE—1906 18 San Francisco, California 9-1111 BY THOMAS A. HOGE The American Legion An account of three days in April 1906, when a great American city Publications Commission: James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. (Chairman); was so gutted by quake and fire that it had to start over. Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn. (Vice Chairman } ; Jarnes R. Kelley, Radnor, Pa. (National Commander' s Representative ) • Lang Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.', Charles E. Booth, Huntington, /T. Va. Adolph F. Bremer, THE STORY OF SAMUEL F.B. MORSE ; Winona, Minn.; Clevis Copeland, Little Rock, AND THE TELEGRAPH 24 Ark.; Raymond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Ga. Mylio S. Kraja, BY ROBERT SILVERBERG ; Youngstown, Ohio ; Russell H. Laird, Des A bit of the history of a versatile American genius who Moines, lotva; George D. Levy, Sumter, S.C.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, turned from oil painting to science—to perfect the N.Y.; Morris Meyer, Stnrkville, Miss.; J. H, Morris, Baton Rouge, telegraph 125 years ago this month. La. Harry H. Pittsburgh, ; Schaffer, Pa. ; Stephen F. Steele, Faribault, Minn.: Bradley J. Stephens, Los Altos, Calif. ; George B. Stover, Jonestown, Pa.; Wayne L. Talbert, Gl BILL Delphi, Ind.; J. Cornelius Tromp, Manhattan, SOME AUTHORS TODAY 33 III.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville, Ala.; E. Meade Wilson. Mulberry, Fla.; Edward Mr- Eight members of the original Legion team that drafted Sweeney, New York, N.Y. (Consultant) the WW2 Gl Bill of Rights met in Washington The American Legion Magazine ii published on March 14 to fill in some of the history. monthly at 1100 West Broadway. LouiBville. Ky. 40201 by The American Legion, Copyright 1969 by The American Legion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single copy, 20 cents ; yearly subscription, |2.00. Order nonmember subscriptions from the Cir- Departments culation Department of The American Legion. P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. Editorial and advertising offices: 720 5th Are EDITOR'S CORNER 2 LIFE IN THE OUTDOORS 48 New York. N.Y. 10019. Wholly owned hv LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 4 PERSONAL 54 The American Legion, with National Head- quarters at Indianapolis. Ind. NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 46206. William 34 LEGION SHOPPER 59 C. Doyle, National Commander. DATELINE WASHINGTON 44 PARTING SHOTS 60 NONMEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS Send name and address, including ZIP num- Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons ber, with $2 check or money order to: submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed stamped envelope is included. Circulation Dept., P. 0. Box 1954. Indian- This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material! apolis. Ind. 46206. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1969 1 THE REMARKS OF REP. BRAY To maintain law and order. PRESENT a "guest editorial" this WE This is one of the eternal truths of our month in the form of a speech given EDITOR'S American Republic, and it was cited in in the House of Representatives on March President Thomas Jefferson's eighth an- 4 by the Honorable William G. Bray, of CORNER nual message to Congress when he said: Indiana, to note the 50th Anniversary of "Love of liberty, obedience to law, and The American Legion. It follows: support of the public authorities, a sure Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, March 15-17, guaranty of permanence of our republic." 1969, will mark the golden anniversary had smashed themselves to bits against of the founding of the American Legion. McAlexander's 38th Infantry Regiment. To foster and perpetuate a 100 percent Americanism. On those dates, 50 years ago, in Paris, Soissons lay gloomy and gray under the last few weeks the winter.