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Paying an Income Tax? By Paul D. Green 9 This article can mean $$$ to you

How to Sol\e Labor Disputes Bv Jud»;c John C. Knox 10 The fudge presents the in.se lor compulsory arbitration

Speed Queens of the Gulf Stream By S. Kip Farrington, Jr. 12 The fightin'est fish of all is the blue martin

Jake Lands the Big One (fiction ) By Hal Burdick 14 A flic/.- oj the wrist, ami Droopy Pants got justice

Peace Is a Job for All of Us By Paul H. Griffith 16 Notional Com wander

Slick Tricks of the Commies By Karl Baarslag 19 How Legionnaires can outsmart Red trouble-makers

The Legion's Morale Teams By Richard Seelye Jones 22 A practical mid heart-warming article about rehabilitation

Look to the Rookies By Oscar Fraley 24 Major League [dans shape up as tour new managers take over

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Evicted from her home in Portland, Maine, a young British war bride, Irene Cody Heatley, commented: "I suppose it really doesn't make much difference as long as you have to lose your home in some way. But at least when we were blitzed in London we weren't worried about it in ad- vance." By Harold Heifer.

THOSE CRITICAL VETS WILLIAM WYLER, top Hollywood di- rector and ex-lieutenant colonel in the AAF, learned one lesson in service: don't let a GI or vet catch you in a mistake on military detail, no matter how slight. So when assigned to Samuel Goldwyn's ma- jor film drama of returning veterans, "The Best Years of Our Lives," he took special pains to insure accuracy. For instance, the script at first specified that Dana Andrews' decorations as an 8th Air Force captain-bombardier should include a British DFC. A recheck dis- closed it was unlikely he should have such an award, so it was eliminated. Andrews' uniform was actually tailored at Hobson's in London, much patronized by Army fly- ers during the war. Even the serial num- ber on his B-4 bag (9-727090) was authen- tic; it belonged to a bombardier on the Memphis Belle. In the film Fredric March plays a Ser- geant of the 25th Infantry Division, so it was fitting for him to have the Bronze Star. Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon, Victory Ribbon, combat infantryman's badge, and, on the right breast, the Distinguished Unit Badge. But it took a special phone call to Wash- ington to find the proper position for his Philippine Liberation Ribbon. Then there is the war-weary B-17E on which they hitch a ride to their home town. In some dialogue Andrews describes it as a plane that shuttle-bombed between Italy and Russia. It took three weeks' research to determine that it should therefore be of the 416th Bomb. Sq., 99th Bomb. Gp., 5th Bomb, wing, 15th Air Force. More digging disclosed that the proper tail markings would be a diamond with a "Y" and the Roman numeral IV beneath.

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"... HIS SKIS GET loving care, but his hair gets only neglect! It's Plan for Labor Peace so dull and lifeless... must be next to impossible to comb... full of JUDGE JOHN C. KNOX (How To Solve loose dandruff, too. How Dry Scalp spoils a man's appearance! Labor Disputes, page 10) says he was It's time I told him about 'Vaseline' Hair Tonic!" "born and raised within easy distance of Pittsburgh and became early acquainted with strikes, and their accompanying Strife, bloodshed and disorder."— He then thought—as he does now "that the so- cial and economic loss resulting from these disturbances was something that could and easily might be avoided, if men only would think and act justly, and govern them- selves with a sense of propriety and reason- ableness."

Judge Knox was first appointed a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York in 1918 and is now the Senior Judge of the country's largest and busiest Federal Court. He has pre- sided at many notable trials, among them those of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty; Joseph W. Harriman, Presi- dent of the Harriman National Bank; Samuel Insull, the utility magnate; and Louis Lepke and Jacob Gurragh, the labor racketeers. His plan for the settle- ment of labor disputes through the courts as presented in his article is well worth studying.

Story Narrator TO OUR way of thinking, Hal Burdick, who wrote Jake Lands The Big One, page 14, looks like a story teller. This is most unusual, since just about every other YOU'D NEVER KNOW this was the same man—now that he's using professional story teller we've ever met

'Vaseline' ! ... Hair Tonic A few drops a day can help you, too to check looked like a weatherbeaten adventurer,

loose dandruff and itchy scalp . . . make hair natural-looking, easy to a bookkeeper, or a bum, with an occasional comb. 'Vaseline' Hair Tonic contains no alcohol or other drying cowboy (all decked out in a broad-rimmed boots) thrown ingredients. Works wonders also with massage before every shampoo. Stetson and a pair of cowboy in to break the monotony. It's double care . . . both scalp and hair . . . and more economical But Mr. Burdick (see cut) looks just than other hair tonics, too. about the way we used to expect story tellers to look, and on investigation it develops that he is even more literally a Vaseline HAIRTONIC Story teller than the other fiction writers

Legion Magazine Used by more men today than any other hair tonic 4 The American whose stories we have published in the past. For Hal Burdick, as most folks in the San Francisco area already know, has Dependable long been associated with a radio program known as the Night Editor, on which he has narrated more than 525 short stories in the past 12 years.

Sports By-Lines riSCAR FRALEY (Look To The Rookies, " page 24) is the United Press' sports columnist, whose daily stint on sports low- down is syndicated to all UP papers. Fraley works in New York, a fact with which few New York sports enthusiasts are familiar and about which even fewer so much as give a whit. For in New York City, which probably has twice as many sports writers to the square mile as any other place in the country, tlje big names in the sports writing profession are those which appear regularly on the pages of the city's leading newspapers, and Oscar Fraley seldom so much as gets his by-line in local print. But when newsmen gather in Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis or Los Angeles, Fraley is usually called to the mike to say a few words to his myriad of followers while the big NY names sit back and blink. Which is one of the reasons we thought Fraley would be the best man to tell our readers just what is in prospect on the baseball front this year.

See This Picture VTOW and then we read a book, see a ^ * play or go to a movie which is so good we embark on a crusade to persuade everyone we know to do likewise. The latest to set us off is the motion picture "The Best Years of Our Lives." It's a top picture by any standard, but for veterans it's a must. A lot of Legionnaires are going to see their own problems portrayed in this The reason is movie, but better yet it should give non- why Champion veterans a graphic picture of what the America's favorite spark plug problems are. We understand that many is because of better performance theater managers plan to cooperate with and greater dependability. Proof the Legion by showing the Legion's short, "No Help Wanted," in conjunction with of this is in the continuing use of "The Best Years of Our Lives." In any Champions by those who seek and case, don't miss it. D. S. win championship events. A cur-

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February, 1947 5 DEMAND DEPENDABLE CHAMPIONS FOR YOUR CAR ! !

Hying hard to facilitate matters, but there are many gross inefficiencies. G. R. Hill False Teeth Seagoville, Texas THE CASE FOR LABOR VVeor*!* Sir: I had seriously contemplated sending a "crying towel" to Roger W. Carter whose letter was printed in your November issue. can* After blasting the labor movement, particu- You larly Lewis, Whitney and Johnson, and al-n some pro-labor Congressmen, Carter called for the preservation of the "right of collective bargaining." Then in the same breath he

T.'u's is your page, so sound off with your gasped: "Collective bargaining, that is, not pjf gripes, your brickbats and bouquets. collective "Venture racketeering." Is it fair that the Alt letters should be signed but your name entire labor movement should be criticized won't be used if you say so. and even condemned because a few individuals

'Breath have used it for the furtherance of their own PHONEY INVESTIGATIONS malicious and evil gains and have been brought

Sir: I read Fred Benlz' letter in the October to justice by the testimony of good labor men?

issue and I certainly think he's got something We must not forget that, if we take that atti- there. Why do they have these investigating tude, we must also condemn all industry be-

committees if they don't follow up with any cause they too have had in their ranks such prosecution after it's over? There's alwavs people as the Garssons, the Nickels and even a lot of hullabaloo and then it quiets down a man named Whitney. Let us also remember and nothing more is done. I agree with Bent/. that we hear of and read of only those unions

—give a few of the war criminals on this which go on strike, but not of those which sel- side of the pond the same treatment they have dom have labor troubles, this latter figure for given the Germans and Japs. A.F.L. unions reaching over 99 percent. Yes, II. J. Russell Mr. Carter, less than one percent of all the 11 ion. New York A.F. of L. unions went on strike in 194"). Thomas C. Arnold DANGEROUS THINKING Milwaukee Sir: all agree that war profiteers arc the We The Legion believes in collective bargaining lowest form of animal life. But when Fred and the only element it Quarrels with is within W. Benlz in the October Sound Off implies Avoid Denture Breath that "/ess than one percent" Mr. Arnold men- profiteering is of "natu- that war a monopoly tions. See How To Solve Labor Dispute-, citizens" is carrying his thinking this Safe, Sure Way ralized he page 10. into dangerous channels. Such use of the BREATH is a serious social Denture term "naturalized citizens" is obviously an NOTCHES FOR GAME problem. It may make your close of Amer- presence distasteful to friends or family, attempt to cast a slur on the millions Sir: Archibald Rutledge in his article Bucks and give you away to others who might ican citizens of foreign birth and foreign I Have Known in your November issue, guess wear false teeth. You never you antecedents who make up the whole ol must be a great hunter. "Barely catching the can't "brush off" denture breath! America. glint of horns, I fired blindly," he say9 Brushing dental plates with tooth pastes, Barney Needleman describing deer hunting episode. powders or soap may scratch delicate plate a He also material, 60 times softer than natural teeth. Chicago says he has 207 bucks to his credit. How many Food and film collect in these unseen fellow-hunters are included in that count? causing offensive denture scratches— JOBS FOR WWI VETS Those two lines ruined the whole story for me. breath! Sir: I am a veteran of the First World War, I thought I was just a fair hunter. I've never With Polident there's no brushing, so disabled, and am no longer wanted by in- even shot a deer, though I've tried, but no fear of denture breath. More dentists now recommend Polident than any other den- dustry as a worker. There are thousands of I'm at least a notch higher than Archie, ture cleanser. Costs less than If* a day. us in the same category. Why does not the 'cause I would probably have 208 if I fired at drug stores. 30^ and 60f5 Government give us jobs or prepare us for blindly.

a program of employment? If this does not Veter \ .n Play Safe — Soak Dentures work we si Id at least be given adequate Sharon. Pennsylvania compensation on which to live. in Polident Daily Andrew J. Beaul AN EX-PEON SPEAKS Soak plate or bridge in ^0 BRUSW/^ Hattiesburg, Mississippi Sir: Captain Abington's letter in \our October Polident fifteen min- issue had me raving for awhile. This character utes or longer, rinse, HANDLING may have been a good guy and in that case and it's ready to use. HAPHAZARD A daily Polident bath Sir: This is not a gripe but a plea for belter I don't blame him for wanting people to know gets into corners brush- handling of National Service Life Insurance. that he is a good egg, but to try to kid the ing never seems to I wanted to keep mine, but dropped it. Thou- "stay at home American" about the "average reach, keeps dentures sands of others will do the same because of officer" is a bit asinine. I was a peon myself clean, bright , odor-free incompetency in the handling of veterans' and have served many an officer (from lieu- insurance. If private insurance companies tenants to a couple of generals) their break-

were to handle their business and deal with fast in bed and it didn't happen occasionally, P0UDCI1T their patrons in such a haphazard manner but often. Naturally, being a peon, it was they would not last si\ months. I realize the either serve 'em or do time in the brig. I also

USE DAILY TO KEEP PLATES, head- of the V\ have a big job and the) are did -i.me time in a regimental band and I have BRIDGES ..ODOR-FREE CLEAN. The American Legion Magazine seen guys do as much as thirty days in the brig for playing one sour note. This same bandmaster marched a whole band to the brig in Virginia and had them locked up for ten days because they happened to swing his favorite classic. Another case happened in com- bat where a captain forced a private to dig him a foxhole while he hid out in a bomb shelter. The private was killed a few minutes later obeying the order. On that same campaign another officer sent a corporal to the front lines from bivouac to salvage mess gear because he forgot to address him as "Sir." He lost both legs and an eye. Here's to the officer who was a good Joe. I knew one once and we loved him. To the ninety-day wonders (soda jerks, bellhops, etc.) I give my sympathy. They will never live it down. Norton Farracut Indianapolis

OILMAN SPARE THEM FISH Sir: There is much talk about the Legion sponsoring this drive and that. How about the Legion doing something about the pollu- tion of our streams by the big oil and timber used Help spread the companies. This is a crying shame. There word! to be plenty of fish in the streams around here before oil came in, but now it is a joke to go fishing. Enlistments open for service Mason Gibbs Flat Fork, Kentucky in the Far East with famous THEY WRITE ON IMPULSES Sir: In several of your recent issues I was Army divisions impressed by the cartoons entitled IMPulses by Ponce de Leon, which seem to convey a Some of the most famous divisions in the U. S. Army new type of deep humor. I hope there will be Ground Forces are now on peacetime duty in Japan and more of these in subsequent issues. Korea. They include such great outfits as the 1st Cavalry, Frederick F. Cicalo 6th Infantry, 7th Infantry, 11th Airborne, 24th Infantry and Bridgeport 25th Infantry Divisions.

For the first time in history, young men who measure Sir: The IMPulses cartoon on page 36 of your up to Regular Army standards can now, by enlisting for November issue was one of the funniest jobs 3 years, choose their division and overseas theater! we've seen in a long time. We were pretty It's a great chance for picked young men, after initial much impressed by the originality of the idea training in the U. S., to visit the beauty spots of the Orient and the style of cartooning, and wondered if and do constructive, interesting work in guarding the peace. you are planning to have this as a regular Excellent living conditions, plenty of recreational and feature. We're waiting for the next one. sports facilities and high pay make this a particularly Thomas M. Plonk, Jr. attractive opportunity for qualified men. Arthur E. Earley Overseas pay— higher than in the U. S. — starts at J. Ben Rouzie, Jr. 20% a for Private, advance- Chapel Hill, North Carolina $90 month a with every chance of ment. In addition he has food, clothing, quarters, medical and dental care and many other benefits. Few civilian jobs Sir: I really must put in my bit of praise for can match this one for net income. it for the recent cartoon IMPulses. Terrific! As an None can match travel, adventure ex-WAC I've. had on more than one occasion and education. the impulse to do as portrayed by our un- Your organization, co-operating in the enlistment of a named GI hero in the cartoon. Mere power to fine new Regular Army, has here a golden opportunity to this Ponce de Leon character. Him—I like. interest the right type of soldier. Bernice Skolnik Baltimore URGE THE FINEST YOUNG MEN A GOOD JOB FOR YOU YOU KNOW TO ENLIST NOW Sir: I'm a service man now stationed in U. S. Army Philadelphia and after seeing your cartoon AT THEIR NEAREST CHOOSE THIS IMPulses I couldn't help wanting to congratu- FINE PROFESSION NOW! U.S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION late you. I have seen thousands of cartoons but none as clever as these. YOUR REGULAR ARMY SERVES THE NATION AND MANKIND IN WAR AND PEACE Cpl. John P. McCann Philadelphia There mill be more IMPulses

February, 1947 7 on a real

Those who are waiting for new telephone service can be assured that we are doing our best to get it to them.

We're adding telephones at the rate of 300,000 a month. That's good. But the job isn't done until we've furnished service to every one who wants it and there isn't a single person on the waiting list.

Getting materials and switchboards and erecting new buildings are our toughest jobs.

It takes more than money and know-how.

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Only an estimated 10 percent

of non-commissioned men and 1945 canceled all taxes for service in- most cases. Any other questions you come of enlisted men. may have on the subject will be gladly women discharged from ser- A member of the armed forces is clas- answered by your local tax collector. vice during 1946 will have to sified as any person in the Army, Navy, His address and phone number can be

remember March 1 5th. This will Marine Corps, Army or Navy Nurse found in the local telephone book under Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and U. S. Government, Collector of Internal tell you if you owe Uncle Sam Geodetic Survey or the U. S. Public Revenue. Tax officers throughout the money or have a refund due Health Service, and the female branches country are bending over backwards to

thereof. It does not, however, include help vets. In many of the busier metro- Some ten to twelve million ex-service- members of the Army Specialists Corps, politan offices special agents have been men and women who were released from civilian employees of the military assigned to handle veterans' tax prob- the armed forces in 1946 will have to branches mentioned above or members lems alone. deal with the income tax collector next of the Merchant Marine. If you were a non-commissioned man month, many for the first time. But the A non-commissioned or enlisted man or woman for part of the year, a civilian outlook is cheerful for most of them, or woman is anyone who served under for the rest, the following summary because it is estimated that more than the grade of Second Lieutenant in the should answer most of your questions: 90 percent of former non-commissioned Army, or under non-commissioned War- YOU PAY NO TAX ON servicemen and women will have no rant Officer in the Navy, Coast Guard (1) Your service pay, including extra taxes to pay. In fact, a healthy percent- or Marines. pay for overseas service, flying

age will even have refunds coming to We 11 attempt to disperse whatever time and longevity; them for overwithheld taxes on civilian doubts these twelve million men and (2) Your mustering-out pay; pay, or because they may have paid taxes women may have regarding their tax (3) Benefits accruing from the G.I. on service income for 1941, 1942, 1943 status with the following presentation Bill of Rights, such as the $20 a and 1944 before the Revenue Act of of essential facts which may account for week {Continued on page 44)

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 — HOW TO SOLVE LABOR PROBLEMS

By JUDGE JOHN €. KNOX

Senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York

Labor relations in the United States quently fail to bring justice to any of require settlement of labor disputes have developed so unsatisfactorily in the groups affected is plain to everyone. when arbitration has failed" was pro- recent years that labor itself, as well as But this is due less to any inherent posed as well. This, as experience has management and the public, has begun difficulties than to the fact that under taught us, is essential, for arbitration in to see the imperative necessity for a our present system disputes between the field of labor is not new, and it has change. Groups of every kind are more labor and management that are incap- frequently failed. As a matter of fact, and more expressing their opinions, and able of solution over the conference other methods as well have been tried almost no one defends conditions as table are not settled peaceably in courts and have failed, as is illustrated by an they are. All but a handful of extremists of law, as all others are. Instead, they experiment initiated in 1920 in the State see plainly that legislation of some kind degenerate into strikes, which are noth- of Kansas, when a Court of Industrial is both necessary and inevitable, and it ing more than trials of strength—mod- Relations was created. is especially encouraging that so influen- ern counterparts of the uncivilized, The law that brought this institution tial and patriotic an organization as the medieval "trial by battle." Results of a into existence named those employments

American Legion should have adopted kind are attained, it is true, but these and industries that were held to be sub- at its national convention in San Fran- results are rarely more than temporary, ject to supervision "for the purpose of cisco last October a resolution calling except as they have created the wide- preserving the public peace, and pre- for Congressional action in this field. spread prejudice and distrust that form venting industrial strikes," and the Every thoughtful person realizes that the only portion of the labor problem Special Court was authorized to make it will not be a simple task properly that is really difficult of solution. such changes "as are necessary . . . and completely to solve our labor prob- It is on this account that we are faced in the matters of working and living lem. But much ignorant comment has with the necessity of changing our meth- conditions, hours of labor, rules and given many people the impression that ods. It is essential for us to develop practices and a reasonable minimum such difficulties as are inherent in rela- orderly procedures that will make rea- wage or standard of wages," which, tions between employes and employers sonably certain the attainment of essen- however, were to be "just and reason- are almost insuperable. It is plain to me, tial justice for everyone involved able." however, after having presided in court labor, management, and the public. And Not long after this court was estab- for twenty-eight years and having heard in doing so we must bring about the lished the employes of the Wolf Packing an endless series of cases that represent elimination of that hurtful atmosphere Company filed a petition for an increase almost every possible kind of human of animosity which, for the first time in wages. After a hearing, the court relationship, that that of employe and in our history, has gone so far toward granted the increase, but the company employer is far less complex than any creating an un-American class con- refused to comply, and the matter ulti- number of others the problems of which sciousness that cannot fail to conflict mately reached the U. S. Supreme we have long since learned to solve with our basic concepts which have Court. satisfactorily. In fact, once our labor always rested, and must continue to rest, Whereupon it was held that the act problem is reduced to its basic elements, on equality under the law. that established the Industrial Court, it resolves itself into the very simplest of It was apparently with these ideas in in so far as it permitted fixing wages formulas: The need for justice to labor, mind that the labor resolution of The in the packing plant, was unconstitu- for justice to management, and for jus- American Legion was adopted, and it is tional, being "in conflict with the lice to the public. interesting to note that though arbi- Fourteenth Amendment," and depriving

That methods now in use all too fre- tration was proposed, "legislation to the operator of the packing plant of

CAN ANYONE PREFER THE IRRATIONAL METHODS OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS TO THE ORDERLY AND IMPARTIAL METHODS OF OUR COURTS OF LAW?

10 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 moment it appears that stricter control

is about to come into fashion, and on that account the American Legion's San Francisco labor resolution may play an important part in future development.

It is to be most devoutly hoped that hurried and patchwork labor legislation, of which we have had far more than enough in recent years, will now give way to more thoughtful and more fully rounded proposals. And, in our attempts

to solve this problem, it seems vital to me that we, as a people, should decide the matter primarily in our own great interest, and only secondarily in the interest of capital, labor, or any other

lesser group. It is only in that way that we are likely to correct a situation that

has within it potential dangers so

gigantic as to threaten, if they are not eliminated, not merely the future of what we have always known as "the Ameri-

can idea," but also of America itself.

It is an odd fact that though we, in America, have developed a system of law

and justice that is unsurpassed in all the world for impartiality and fairness, we have, at the same time, carefully kept the most important of the affairs of labor from coming under the control

of this system. I can only imagine that

it was with some vague idea that labor would thereby profit that we have per- mitted this strange situation to arise.

But whatever the reason, it is now abundantly clear that our present meth- ods of handling labor problems too property both and liberty of contract with some delay, to reflect the attitude often result in marked partiality and "without process law." due of of the people. And the people are almost great unfairness. In fact, when strikes This decision, which was handed as prone to develop "styles" in their result, as they too often do, justice is only years down 23 ago, seems, in view legal concepts as in their clothes. At the never assured {Continued on page 34) of more recent developments, to be almost archaic. What court would hold today that a statute compelling an em- ployer to pay a minimum wage was an that petition abridgement of his liberty, or that it BE IT RESOLVED The American Legion Congress to enact legislation to require settlement of lahor disputes when deprived him improperly of either prop- arbitration has failed, and to restore to the American people the erty or the liberty of contract? Minimum kind of government our comrades died to preserve; and be it wages, maximum hours, time and a half further for overtime, and many other require- RESOLVED that such legislation first require unions and man- ments are all a part of established law agement to arbitrate their differences and second, require unions today. For the fact is that the law is to operate under charters requiring public statement of all in- far less static than many folk imagine. come, salaries and expenditures; and be it further It may be that Finley Peter Dunne's RESOLVED that unions and management be required by law to "Mr. Dooley" was overly cynical when be held fully responsible, legally and financially, for all contracts they are parties.— Francisco he said that "Th' Supreme Coort fol- to which Resolution adopted at San National Convention of The American Legion, October 4, 1946. lows th' diction returns," but it is per- fectly plain that that august body tends, with some accuracy, though perhaps

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 • 11 SPEED QUEENS OF THE BY S. KIP FARRINGTON, JR.

Illustration by W. Goady Lawrence

The Blue water along the western edge family. In those same months a few of But the fish that has given me my of the Gulf Stream that runs northward the lightning fast Allison tuna are also biggest moments in those waters is the so close to the Florida shore, from Stuart picked up on the same grounds off Flor- blue marlin. You are lucky to hook one to Key West, provides wonderful angling ida's metropolis, whose skyline always at all, for the blue marlin boasts the for the beautiful Atlantic sailfish, this presents an interesting contrast to the hardest mouth of all the bill fish, mak- country's best known and most widely white sandy beaches and the palm trees ing it doubly difficult to drive the hook publicized citizen of the deep. It is there of the shore line. home; and it make the fastest initial the year around, as are the wahoo, the In closer to the shore are the reefs run of any fish I have ever seen, al- lovely dolphin, jackrabbit of the oceans where barracuda, big amberjack, group- though the Pacific black marlin is just of the world, the gamey kingfish, the ers, snappers and many other species about as fast. The blue marlin follows bonitas, and in February and March the make their home, and each gives the his flashy run up with three or four white marlin, smallest member of that angler his own brand of thrill. more of the same kind, and he jumps

12 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 a hooked marlin tires, or is hooked deep was in the boat in fifty-two minutes. A in the gills or the stomach the sharks typical three way fight; a surface race,

usually try to gang up on him, and it aerial zooms, deep sounding.

is up to the angler and his boatman to A couple of days later I had another work fast to do all in their power to get fast strike alongside a south bound the prize aboard. And in the Gulf Stream tanker, and the fish never was in the sharks are ever present to worry the water the first five minutes, flying over marlin fisherman who has his game the surface under the tanker's stern for hooked. the entire lime. The ship's crew had a Three excursions stand out in my grandstand seat for one of the most memory of Florida blue marlin fishing. amazing shows I have ever seen any

I won't tell about the ones I didn't hook, fish produce. I got him up to the boat though there were a few. There were in short order and for the next four

more that I hooked that got away after minutes he almost took me sidewise out doing an opening hundred yards in of the chair with the most terrific head- what seemed a good deal better than ten shaking, as he died of convulsions, hav- seconds. ing been hooked in the stomach so that

But I will tell you, and I am not ex- he was bleeding to death. He also aggerating, that on these three mem- weighed 426 pounds, oddly enough.

orable excursions I lost four fish that The following morning I came out of I had on my line, for from six minutes Bimini harbor mouth and had just come to one hour and forty-eight minutes; to the edge of the stream when the man and that each one of these great marlin fishing with me hooked a beautiful blue most conservatively weighed 800 pounds marlin. He had been fishing both rods

or more. How do I know they would and as I was about to pull the other line

have gone that big? Well, after you have out of the outrigger and take it in my seen as many big blue marlin as I have, friend lost his fish. So luckily for me

behind your bait and in the air, not to I did not have to take the other bait out. mention the ones that my guides have This was the mating season and lots of viewed (and after having looked at some times the fish traveled in pairs. The bait of the big ones that have been caught was well under water and the boat

commercially) I think you would also stopped, and believe it or not, my mack-

tend to under-estimate their weight. I erel was pulled out of the outrigger. find that all of us who see a lot of big Nobody on board saw the fish that

fish are always low on them. grabbed it, but they all told me it was

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"What were your most thrilling moments STREAM fishing in Florida waters?" we asked this authority on big game fish. Here's his answer all over the surface of the Gulf Stream with a dazzling exhibition of grey- hounding, tail-walking and somersault-

ing. When this is all over he is still able In these three trips I took six fish. just one more damn shark. However,

to sound to a depth of 500 feet when The first, who weighed 426 pounds, we I had had experience enough to play

you are doing your utmost to stop him. first saw in a school of dolphin knock- him for a marlin and I threw off the

His piscatorial acrobatics place him ing them around as if they were chips drag and gave the fish a good deal of

in a class by himself. I have counted of wood and picking up the ones that slack before striking it.

one fish make 44 jumps clean out of he wanted. This marlin was a hot, hun- As I had not been fishing, my hands

the water in a single battle. gry fish and grabbed the bait on the were covered with coconut oil that I

Actually I do not think the blue mar- run. I had no difficulty hooking him, had been putting on my back for sun

lin fears anything that swims. He can after which he charged around the sur- protection, and I can still feel the line-

run away from any shark or number face like a torpedo boat for about burn I received when the slipper butt

of sharks, and I even believe he can twenty minutes, then jumped all over turned and the reel went over on my

fight off the ferocious mako, which is the ocean for an equal length of time, wrist. Within two minutes I knew in- the only shark worth catching. But when fought deep for ten minutes more and stinctively that (Continued on page 39)

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 • 13 Gcnny McGreal was out on the back Jake's delight gurgled in his washing she saw porch doing a when throat as he saw the hooks reach old Jake Miller coming out of the brush out for the folds of Droopy's pants at the far end of the yard. He was carry- ing something that from a distance one to condemn a fellow being so readily . he'll like the bass you're going after in looked about the size and shape of a As he came up to the foot of the steps the Pond. Only, you shouldn't do it. cane. Only Genny knew it wasn't a cane he asked: "How's Fred this mornin'?" You'll get into trouble." and it worried her a little. It was a fish- "About the same. Going fishing?" Jake let a comforting cloud of smoke ing rod, unjointed and tucked into a Jake looked down at his empty hands. pour from his nostrils. cloth carrying bag. "Whatever gave you that idea?" "Genny, you fret too much. Anyhows,

The woodshed hid Jake for a moment "Y'needn't pretend, you old fraud. I who said I left those quail here? Or if and when he came back into view, his saw you coming out of the brush. You any bass show up mysterious-like, 'twas hands were empty. He called out left it back of the woodshed."' me done it? Enjoy the gifts that life

" 'Mornin', Gen'vieve," and came along Jake slid into a comfortable position sees fit to shower down on you and don't the path toward her, his saddle-leather on the porch. The girl sat down on the ask too many questions." face, stippled with a two-day growth of top step beside him. "You're going fish- Genny's smile was warm enough, but beard, friendly as the sunshine. ing for bass, over in Rush Creek Pond." her head wagged an emphatic negative. Genny wiped the soapy water from His look was one of righteous amaze- "Supposin' you run into Ranee her hands and arms and went over to ment. "What kinda talk is that, Genny? Hooper?" the top of the steps to wait for him. You know, well's I do, it's agin' the Jake made a face as though someone Next to Fred, her husband, Jake Mil- law to fish in Rush Creek Pond. Town- had slipped a spoonful of cascara-bark ler was her favorite person. And it ship ordinance." tea into his mouth. In all Rush Creek w asn't all the prejudice of her knowing "Yes. Also, it's against state law to he had only one real enemy, Droopy that Jake once came as close as the four shoot quail this time of year. But yes- Pants Hooper. Named Ransome by his dollar marriage license fee to being her terday morning I found three, all nicely parents, but from small boy days he father. She knew there wasn't a kindlier dressed, in the porch cooler there." had been known as Droopy Pants to man in the township, nor one quicker "Y'did?" He pulled papers and to- Jake Miller, the natural consequence of to spend his carefully hoarded energy bacco from the pocket of his faded cot- a hind-side ballooning to Ransome's where it would do the most good. Some ton shirt, began fashioning himself a trousers, dating from the first pair he of Rush Creek's sterner patrons of hard cigarette. "Well," he nodded solemnly, ever wore; a sartorial sag that stayed work might look on him as a shiftless, "quail's a mighty tasty dish for a fella with him as he grew up, emphasized by good-for-nothing, who never was known laid up flat with a busted hip. How'd a squattiness of posture. to do a day's labor and took a lazy Fred like 'em?" As a boy, Jake always had an outlet man's pride in it, but Genny wasn't "He loved them—every bite. Just as for his feelings towards Droopy in nose

14 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1 947 —

BY HAL BURDICK LANDS THE'BAsONE

punching. In manhood, that joy was Germy whisked a lock of hair back denied him. Ranee was township con- into place. Droopy Pants Hooper stable and he would have enjoyed noth- "Just being ornery. He gets out here was out to catch Jake ing so much as a chance to drag Jake from town every few days. Makes a great into justice court on a charge of attack- to-do he's anxious about Fred, wants to Miller, but he himself ing an officer or to catch Jake poach- be neighborly. But before he leaves he got caught in the end ing, which, up to now, he never had always mentions the two hundred dol- been able to do. lars we still owe on the second-hand A frown squeezed the friendly sparkle tractor Fred bought from him. And how Illustration out of Jake's eyes as he asked: "What'n he hopes Fred'll be well enough to get

by time'd you want to mention him for, back to work before it comes due."

EARL BLOSSOM Genny? This was a fine mornin' up to "Which is a downright lie, 'course then." him bein' in position to repossess the "He was by here about half hour ago." tractor and be {Continued on page 29) "'Droopy Pants was here? What'd he want?"

The American legion Magazine • February, 1947 15 PEACE IS A JOB FOR ALL OF IS

BY PAUL H. GRIFFITH

National Commander, The American Legion

IN the midst of war the men who The United States stands today as do the fighting are not always aware one great power which can approach that Victory does not immediately world problems without greed for bring Peace. Having achieved the territory or desire to control the lives victory, the fighting men quite prop- of other peoples, and also without erly expect the peace to be made on fear. As a nation we ask only peace the basis of the causes for which they with justice. Our freedom from na- fought. Failure of statesmanship tional avarice and from national tim- among allied and associated nations idness exists because we are free men to achieve this result is disappointing and women, conducting our national and disillusioning. It does not, how- life under a constitution protecting ever, suffice for the men who served that liberty and enabling us to be under arms merely to complain bit- strong and to use our strength unself- terly about limitations of statecraft. ishly. Clearly, then, we must main- As Chief Justice Vinson was quoted tain our free way of life at all costs in a recent article in this magazine, and against all attacks, sustain our strength against all counsels of weak- He is better ivho lights a candle ness surrender, use Than he 'who curses the darkness. and and our whole force aggressively to lead less happy Remembering how sincerely The peoples on the way to peace. peace American Legion strove for I suggest that every American Le- after the First World War, and hav- gion Post and every American Le- ing observed how world diplomacy gion member keep this task of leader- finally failed despite the idealism of ship toward the peace of the world the Nations, League of the Briand- foremost in mind. Study it, discuss it, Stresemann agreements, the and Kel- debate it. Bring to your district, de- logg-Briand Pact, we of the now partment and national conventions greater Legion approach the road to the conclusions of your study. This peace with the same devotion and task is too vital to America and to the convictions which belonged to the world to be left to chance. The Le- earlier generations. We have the gion cannot be satisfied to have only benefit of past experience, and the the judgment of national leaders, added power of numbers. We shall however able and sincere, on the basic resist any temptation to curse the problem of our time. Our program, present darkness beclouding negotia- our effort, our whole progress along tions of the allied victors and befog- the hard road to peace must be the re- ging the early efforts of the United sult of effective decision by millions Nations. We shall, because we must, of men and women, informed, en- light a candle and make of it a torch lightened, and intent upon success. to show a troubled world the way of It is not enough to say that we sup- free people determined to make and port our President, our Congress and maintain a lasting peace. our statesmen. It behooves America At its 1946 convention in San to prove our case for the mainte- Francisco the Legion adopted a res- nance of liberty and justice for all olution about the foreign policy of peoples, in order that peoples may the United States. That much we Drawing by Steven R. Kidd live at peace. Those who bore arms have as a guide in our present think- for the victory must bear their share ing. We have said that this nation now possess, and carry on without of responsibility to insure the proper must take a positive stand, keep it fear or favor, without subservience fruits of victory. Our full part of this above the level of domestic partisan- or appeasement, on the line of justice task The American Legion cannot ship, support it with the strength we and right for all men and all nations. and must not shirk.

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SLICK TRICKS OF THE COMMIES BY Few organizations, notably unions, motivated only by a deep concern for bother to warn their members against KARL BAARSLAG their union's welfare. These highly even the most common Communist tricks skilled interrogators, who seemed to fol- and swindles. Such a head-in-sand atti- low each other in regular batting order, tude is dangerous. It has wrecked more unions. However, let me repeat that this apparently wanted to make sure that than one union. Communism attacks like calls for a united front against the com- their unsalaried officers were sufficiently a cancer. Detected early and eliminated, mies. No Legionnaire by himself is going vigilant, aggressive and constantly "on

it causes little harm. Allowed to grow, to get very far in the rough-and-tumble the job." The general trend of their end- it affects the vitals of the organization battle to eliminate the fanatical Party less, fine-point questions was not offen-

in such a way that its removal is a criti- members. And even by working together, sive or overly critical. cal and sometimes fatal operation. Legionnaires will find the job no cinch. It was instantly plain to me that the Legionnaires are in a unique position You'll be up against some tough and badly harried official did not have the to clean up these cancerous growths, and unethical opposition. slightest suspicion that something was do it effectively. No individual by him- To give an example, some years ago being put over on him, meeting after self can cope with the well organized I happened to attend a meeting of a meeting, by a well-organized "Fraction" and highly disciplined commies, but a union in which I had been active fifteen of trained Communist wreckers. His powerful organization can. How? By years before. Most of the members were courteous and detailed explanations be-

careful schooling at Post meetings as to newcomers to me as I had been away trayed the pathetic fact that he assumed Communist methods, and by an appli- at sea all those years. The routine meet- that his tormentors were simply asking cation of this knowledge by Legion- ing, which had nothing urgent or im- legitimate, honest, and sincere questions. naires. portant to consider, dragged on for Neither he nor the non-Communist mem- Many Legionnaires, for example, are hours because of an endless barrage of bers realized that this typical Commu- members of unions. By working together prosecuting attorney type of questioning nist tactic of interminable, insinuating

they can out-maneuver any Communist to which the president was subjected by questioning was used in all Communist- attempts to take over and dominate these a small group of members apparently infested organizations to break down

The American legion Magazine • February, 1947 • 19 human patience in the same manner that falling drops of water in the Chinese water torture finally drive the victim into insanity. Exasperated union and suspect of being reds and radicals, cer- informed, old American Federation of other officials finally "blow up"' and re- tainly have the union's best interests at Labor man knew absolutely nothing sign or refuse to run again for office in heart as their vigilant attendance at about Communist labor union trickery. urbanizations whose members are so un- every meeting demonstrates. Needless to He had never been taught how to spot grateful and suspicious. This clears the add, Communists tolerate no such criti- or identify slick-working Stalinists "bor- road for Communist office-seekers. cism in unions under their control. ing from within." In fact, he was not

The real, secret purpose of this "Chi- I turned to a former president of even sure that these persistent interro- nese water torture" tactic is twofold. the local, an old friend of mine, and re- gators were Communists but felt they

First, it gradually undermines and in- marked, "Well, I see you have a nice might be "just a bunch of radical trou- sidiously destroys confidence in all non- Commy 'Fraction' here and they are blemakers and soreheads."

Communist officials. Uncritical members really working the 'Diamond' in fine The "Fraction" is a rigidly organized, subconsciously draw the inescapable but fashion right under your president's secret caucus which meets before every false conclusion that perhaps their offi- nose. union and other meeting to plot every cers are not as alert and aggressive as The former union official looked at action at the meeting down to the minu- they might be. They certainly sound me in blank astonishment and asked: test detail. A "trade union expert" from apologetic and are always making alibis "What do you mean by 'Commy Frac- the Communist Party hands down the and excuses. Secondly, these "militants" tion' and the 'Diamond'?" "Line" and latest instructions. Speakers, and "progressives," whom some people I was amazed to learn that this well- interrogators, hecklers, introducers and

20 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 Communists into dropping the contro-

versy and deciding that "discretion is the better part of valor." Let us assume, however, that there are other militant anti-Communists further back in the hall. As they take the floor an entirely new set of "Fraction" goons spring to their feet and effectively seal off these new troublemakers in the same vituperative, threatening manner used to squelch the first-mentioned anti-Com- munist. These men make the same erro- neous conclusion as to the strength of the Communists present when they find themselves apparently surrounded by angry, gesticulating comrades and they, too, are probably happy to drop the one-sided, thankless argument. If each person present at such meetings were as fanatical and disciplined as the "Frac- tion" and knew that he had a strong, well-oiled machine behind him for sup- port and protection, such Communist

tactics would obviously be useless. It is, sure with such slender forces is solved however, a well-known fact that 90 per- ihrough use of the "Diamond" seating cent of any attendance at general meet- scheme, a little known but most effective ings never takes an active part in the Communist device. The drawing illus- proceedings. The Communists therefore

trates visually just how it works. only have to worry about the trouble- An anti-Communist member of the some 10 percent or less who have the union arises to denounce the Commu- intelligence, skill, and courage to spot nists or one of their pet projects. Or he and fight Communists. In our drawing criticizes the Soviet Union. Instantly some 18 or 20 Communists effectively the "Fraction" members, surrounding control all opposition in a meeting of him (picture, page 19) are on their feet, several hundred.

angrily and loudly denouncing him as The "Diamond" is equally effective in a "red-baiter," "fascist," "labor split- disrupting and breaking up meetings ter," "imperialist war-monger," or which the Communists consider dam- whatever slur seems most effective. If aging to them or offensive to Russia.

the chairman is a Communist stooge or Watch for the "Diamond" at meetings, a weak character, the Moscow wolfpack particularly union meetings known to seconders of resolutions, and ihe hissing will collectively torpedo the lone "red- be Communist-infiltrated. Jot down the and booing squad are all carefully in- baiter" without further ado. However, names of all speakers who week after structed and rehearsed for their roles. if the chairman is a non-Communist week support each other on strictly Nothing foreseeable is left to chance. who rigidly enforces Robert's Rules of "Party line" issues. You will soon have

The "Fraction," under the single leader- Order, they will continue to attack in a list of most of the "Fraction." But do ship of the "Fraction Secretary," moves relays until the anti-communist is effec- not hope to trap the "Fraction" secre- into meetings as a highly trained, tively silenced. Most people unfamiliar tary—he is too smart and too impor- smooth-working parliamentary machine. with this Communist tactic make the tant to show his hand. A well-led Communist "Fraction" in ac- erroneous but understandable deduction tion suggests a pack of snarling sheep- that with so many obvious Communists Parliamentary Chicanery dogs harrying, splitting, and driving seated right around him, the same per- Filibustering and endlessly delaying where they will a great flock of thou- centage carried out in the rest of the adjournment for hours beyond the usual sands of milling, helpless bewildered hall means that 30 to 50 percent of those time, is another tell-tale Communist sheep. present are CP. line supporters. Out- trick. Long-winded harangues about As the Communists in any union or rageous open heckling and whispered some frightening bogeyman like "fas- other meeting seldom exceed 7 or 8 per- threats of a good beating at the hands cism," the "rising danger of imperialistic cent of those present, the problem of of Communist goons after the meeting, war," "labor spies," etc., etc., or endless exerting maximum parliamentary pres- generally serves to discourage such anti- points of order {Continued on page 42)

The American Legion Magazine February, 1947 21 The Leoion's Morale Teams

BY RICHARD SEELYE JONES

Charley McGonegal gives a lesson in eat- About 25,000 Americans lost hands or morale builders and evangelists of re- ing with artificial appliances at McClos- key General Hospital, Temple, Texas feet, or arms or legs, in the second habilitation made up the Legion teams World War. All but a few of them are which toured the army and navy hos-

now discharged from the army or navy, pitals from mid-1943 to mid-1946 show- are still busy, although not as teams, on are fitted with artificial extremities ing the amputees how and why a man training and employment tasks and the which are known to the trade as pros- can do just as well with synthetic limbs improvements in prosthetic appliances.

thetic appliances, and are starting to as with those originally provided by Their first and basic task was morale

make their way in the world on the nature. Mac is Charles Craig McGonegal, building. A little insight into their prob-

strength of their courage and their "abil- who lost both hands on February 3, lem may be gathered from two excerpts ities," which are more important than 1918, with Co. B, 18th Infantry, First from the hundreds of reports by Mc-

their "disabilities." Their reconversion Division, near Seicheprey, and Pearl is Gonegal, as follows: from hospital beds to happy and useful Mac's wife and mother of their two "Private Y. Bilateral arms. Backward careers includes surgery and medicine, boys, one of whom fought in World War type, resentful of wounds. Refused to go

mechanical limbs, training and employ- II. Walter A. Antoniewicz and Herman out in public. Dislikes to try anything

ment. It also includes the knowledge Pheffer are Brooklyn boys from two new. Pearl talked to his wife. Got him that handicaps can be overcome and world wars, each of whom in his turn out for a walk. Got him to assist me

the decision to overcome them. This lat- lost both legs in battle, in 1918 and with some ambulatory cases. Got him

ter factor is the key to their recovery, 1944. Tony teamed up with Mac in interested. Anticipate complete success

and is called morale. Most of the 25,000 I'M! and Herman in 1945-46 on their with this case." owe something of their new outlook to repeated tours of the country, and Pearl "Lieutenant Z. Bilateral arms. May The American Legion and to four indi- went along to talk with the women require amputations one or both feet. viduals known as Mac and Pearl and folks, the wives, mothers, sisters and Got him appliances, although stumps Tony and Herman. All except Pearl are sweethearts of the amputation cases. are not quite healed. Learned to light amputation cases themselves. The Legion teams had something to own cigarettes, practiced penmanship.

This quartette of showmen, educators, do with all phases of rehabilitation and Immediately became typical independent

22 * The American Legion Magazine • February, 1 9-17 convalescent. Great patience. No matter the flyer an article by Major Alexander swered truthfully, "but I am not trou-

what further surgery, I have no fear of de Seversky, fighter pilot, inventor, bled with corns or bunions." results in this case." manufacturer of airplanes, who has said, "How can a guy like me ever have a McGonegal is not a phony optimist. "I owe my career to having lost a leg." girl, or get married," another bed When he says he has no fear for the Tony and Herman are optimists, too, patient asked Tony? outcome of an amputee's eventual re- and sometimes add a touch of comedy "Ever see my pin-up girls," replied turn to a complete, useful career in life, to their morale work. Antoniewicz, and pulled up a pants leg

he means it. He proved the formula in "Don't your stumps hurt," a bilateral to exhibit the bathing beauties he had

his own case and has seen it proved in leg amputee asked Herman? pasted on his artificial limbs? It was an many others. "Sometimes a little," Herman an- act of Tony's, {Continued on page 49) "What is your business," he asked a hospital patient? "I used to be an aviator," replied the legless casualty, in a tone indicating that everything was now in the past. "Used to be, hell!" said Mac. "You are an aviator." McGonegal himself has flown, solo, for many hours, using his iron claws for fingers. He could show

Four individuals-—Mac, Pearl, Tony and Herman—have been proving to 25,000 amputees that their abilities are far greater than their disabilities

Mac, at Eeft, sees what makes Tony run Herman is a double leg amputee of WW2

The American Legion Magazine • February, 1947 • 23 LOOK BUCKY HARRIS, N ANKEES least two years before ma- / jor league baseball climbs back to its pre-war level.

In the interim last year's champions and heroes will continue to hold sway, and 1947 and 1948 will be pretty much like 1946. Those four new man-

agers tell the story. Base-

ball is looking ahead to the day, two years hence, when young men of the post-war world will rule the dia- mond, and until they do the pre-war veterans will continue to write the same book they wrote last year. A look at the new mana- gerial choices will show

what I mean. Affected in baseball's greatest managerial turn- oxer are the New York

Yankees and the St. Louis Browns, of the American League, and the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pi- rates of the National League. Without exception the new men chosen to guide the clubs are espe- cially skilled in the han- dling of youngsters just out of the minors.

W': .it lines the future hold for big league baseball, who will be the top teams this year and next, what will be the brand of ball fans will see during next few seasons and who will be the diamond heroes? Hot stove leagues I II soft there are pondering these questions today are any general

while the ball players are keeping their trends in baseball, the tipofl has already Illustration eyes on the scales and looking forward been made by the four major league by to spritig training and the signing of clubs which signed new managers last WILLARD MULLIN new contracts. fall- -and the word i- that il will be at

24 * The American Legion AAagazine • February, 1°a'7 TO THE ROOKIES! These new pilots will be expected to BY that he can direct youngsters and they'll do the best with what is on hand during go all out for him. We won't win this the 1947 season, a year in which the OSCAR FRALEY year, or probably even in 1948, but veterans again must carry the load. But watch us after that." the established performers decided the McKechnies forte was handling The Reds need just about everything, outcome of the last World Series and pitchers but the Deacon of late wasn't but particularly power. They'll get a bit

the odds are that the well-stocked Car- too handy with kids. Johnny is, and the of outfield help in two rookies from

dinals and Red Sox will be up there Reds know it. Neun does, too, and is their Columbia, S. C, farm. One is Ted again at the finish. lianking on them. Kluszewski, 22-year-old left-hander who The youngsters simply aren't ready. The minors were strangled during in his first year of pro ball was near The kids from the minors who always the war years and young players were the top of the Sally League in hitting. have altered the balance of power need not developed. They started back last The former University of Indiana ath- another season of seasoning. But they season and another year will make them lete is 6:02 and weighs 205 pounds. are coming, those new faces. ready for a major league call. Neun, Much, too, is expected of his running

So the plans are not for the season one of those who believe baseball is two mate, Frank Baumholtz, a stocky 175- ahead. The winning strategy and the big years away from its pre-war level, knows pounder who was a Sally League pitch- blueprints are for 1948—and even 1949 he can't work a miracle with the second ers' problem. —when the rush from the minors gets division Reds this year but intends to see Two others who may provide some under way. they get their share of the newcomers. help are first baseman Les Goldstein, That raises the managerial problem brought up near the end of the season, and brings to the fore the men who and pitcher Earl Harrist, 24-year-old have shown repeatedly that they are right hander who authored two no-hit- able hands when it comes to dealing ters with Syracuse. with youngsters. The four new appoint- Of course it won't be enough to make ees have displayed this talent in the the Reds a contender. minors and on the playing field—a fac- And the St. Louis Browns, bothered ulty which under current conditions is last season by dissension, put the finger expected to pay great premiums in the AND ALL ARE EXPEI on another fellow who can work well future. with youngsters—Harold (Muddy) Ruel. Take Johnny Neun of the Cincinnati AT DEVELOPING Muddy, fifty-year-old assistant to Com- Reds, a chunky, soft-spoken man of 46 missioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler, was who succeeded Deacon Bill McKechnie. drafted for the job, and like Neun, will Johnny showed his ability to polish the be a first-year major league pilot. kids as a winning minor league man- Soft-spoken, quiet, poised and mod- ager in the Yankee chain. He was great est, Ruel succeeded Luke Sewell, who with the youngsters and for him they "You'll see a half dozen or more also had difficulty with youngsters from produced. youngsters making the grade this year, time to time. Muddy played with the A former first baseman for the Detroit but not eight or ten threatening on each Yankees, Red Sox, Washington Senators Tigers and Boston Braves, Neun filtered club as in the old days," Neun ex- and Detroit Tigers and was known most into the Yankee system in 1932 and suc- plained. "The combination of youth with widely heretofore as the great Walter cessively piloted four of the New York age made for great teams. So overall, Johnson's favorite catcher. farm teams to minor league pennants. baseball won't reach its pre-war stand- He has, however, the psychology and He turned the trick with Akron of the ard this coming season because the kids demeanor to bring out the best in the Middle Atlantic League, Norfolk of the won't be ready." kids, a point he proved repeatedly as a Piedmont League, Newark of the Inter- Florid-faced Warren Giles, Cincin- Chicago White Sox coach. national League and Kansas City of the nati's astute general manager who sur- Ruel always is striving in his quiet American Association. They took him prised the baseball world by picking the way to drive home a point. He used up to the Yanks as a coach in 1944 and virtually unknown Neun, is solidly be- interviewing newspapermen to tell made him acting manager last season hind his freshman manager. rookie pitchers that they could master after Bill Dickey resigned. That was "We are banking on Johnny and the big league hitters as they did down in only a temporary setup and Johnny way he handles the kids," Giles ex- Shreveport, simply to bolster their con- knew it, so he leaped at the Cincinnati plained. "That's why we picked him, fidence. It even reached the point once offer. because he proved to us in the minors where he had {Continued on. page 26)

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LOOK TO THE ROOKIES {Continued from page 25) • a player's barber selling the performer on a new batting stance. That the Ruel solicitude and persistence does not wear down a player after repeated applications is bound up in what may be termed roughly a "flattery technique." To Ruel each player is better than his record shows. He stirs the vanity and makes his subject desire, rather than reject, the con- stant interminable suggestions and re- proofs. THE colorful character whose superb By pledging $1200, and giving the His talents will get a tremendous work- cunning this true tale publicizes jeweler one hundred for the loan of it, out with the Browns, another club which was the typical man-about-town. The Harry hired the diamond for a few needs an almost complete overhauling. town in this case was Bayonne, N. J., days. He then went to Jeweler Wigord. Muddy has but one fellow coming up who but it could be any town since Harry across the way, had the paste removed probably will stay, although there are the Slick has prototypes everywhere. from his ring and the real diamond several other possibilities. Harry was handsome and dapper, set. and had achieved fame as the prize Harry's pals, knowing how he had The prime candidate is pitcher Fred ballroom dancer of the state. He was been taken in, impatiently awaited his Sanford, a 200-pounder who moved up never known to work yet he never reappearance at Gregory's that night. from Toledo late in the season to hurl went hungry. He possessed a curb- To their astonishment he bounded into several nice games before the curtain came stone wit and an all-around knowledge the place in high spirits. He kept flour- down. He won two and lost one in his of the interesting things in life. He ishing the ring, boasting of the bar- trial, one of which was a 1 to 0 five-hitter was a three-card-monte guy and could gain, and said that if there was any against the Yankees. mark all the face cards by shuffling other gent present who had another Possibilities are first baseman Jerry the deck once. Yet he never found $1200 ring to sell for six hundred, he Witte, most valuable player in the Ameri- himself in trouble with the law. knew a purchaser. A group called him can Association, and his Toledo team- After one of the many Benny Leon- aside and tried to drum it into his mate, catcher Lester Moss. Witte, hit ard-Johnny Dundee fights, about fif- skull that the diamond was paste and who teen years ago, the Bayonne crowd that he had been swindled. Harry, 46 homers with Toledo, came up late and returned to town and gathered at throughout their feverish attempts to failed against major league hurling. Moss, Gregory's Restaurant, an all-night dive convince him, merely grinned like the who hit well in his debut, has a fine arm

popular with the gutter and yeggmen Cheshire Cat. and a good temperament but is built small at the time, but long since closed. In Bets were offered that the ring did for a major league receiver. prominent and contain real Harry said their company was a not a diamond. The Brownie management believes that flashy sportsman from out of town, so he'd just as lief double his dough. Muddy will bring out the best in them bedecked with jewelry that he looked Two men bet $300 and two bet $75. and the other youngsters coming along by like an explosion in a diamond mine. All wagers were taken by Harry, who 1948. But somehow all the precious stones of throughout the bickering exhibited an The Pittsburgh Arabia couldn't efface the coarse and expression of bland larceny, beautiful Pirates have the same unpleasant impression the fellow con- to behold. idea about William Jennings (Billy) veyed. A stakeholder was chosen and the Herman, a personality player who long During the course of the evening, money placed in his hand. Then the has worked smoothly with the kids as a the fellow reached into his vest pocket whole gang, as if on a glorious lark, key player with the Chicago Cubs, Brook- and brought forth one particularly gi- trekked uptown to the town's best jew- lyn Dodgers and Boston Braves. He suc- that played over the eler. applied all the tests gantic diamond This expert ceeds Fordham Frankie Frisch, a nice guy place like a headlight. Harry, who was and then flabbergasted the gang witli but frightening to an awkward rookie. sitting off in a corner, wistfully eye- the startling announcement that the Bill, too, is a freshman pilot in the ing the stranger all evening, was now stone was a flawless diamond and major leagues. He was mentioned once be- mesmerized. He got up and slowly ap- worth, without the setting. $1200. fore as a managerial possibility, proached the table just as he heard Pocketing his $750 winnings, Harry during the days the sport offer to part with the stone quietly left the store. when he was a star with the Cubs for $600. Harry, at the time, had an His next stop was at the jewelry and the team was split by dissension. Her- overpowering yen for Tiffany ice. shop where he had rented the genuine man missed the boat, however, and was What's more, he was well heeled at the diamond. He returned the stone and time since his mother had passed away got back his $1200. Then, replacing that month leaving him a bale of the paste diamond in the ring, he re- dough. Two thousand bucks to be ex- turned to Gregory's. The original own- act. After a little bartering, the own- er of the ring, apprised of the bet's ership of the prized article changed outcome, was waiting for him. Corner- hands for the stipulated sum. As ing Harry, he told him the whole thing Harry the Slick left the chowry, su- was just a joke and now he'd like to |pic-m-(1 tittering struck his ear. He have his ring back. But Harry was said nothing. stubborn, and refused to be convinced The next day he called upon Cohen, that the owner knew it was genuine a jeweler around the corner, from when he had sold it. Only when the whom he learned that the diamond sport offered to pay $800 for his ring was (iaste, and the gold ring wortli but did Harry part with the ring. $26. Harry didn't betray his feelings. An hour later, so the story goes, the He merely asked for. and examined sportsman was seen emerging from a some real diamonds, and found one jewelry store livid with rage. Harry, 'Alright, so your socks won't fall down closely resembling the phoney in the however, had left Bayonne. By anymore—now let's see you stand up!" ring. Buster Rothman.

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bartered off to Brooklyn as a "clubhouse lawyer," a malcontent. It was a bum rap. So now it seems like poetic justice that Herman, who succeeded Frisch as key- hf>- stone ace of the National League, should replace Fordham Frankie as Pirate manager. The thick-set, 37-year-old from New Al- bany, Indiana, appeared to be a good choice for the Buccaneers. During the Branch Rickey "youth movement" in Brooklyn, Herman was one of the few veterans who could get into the lineup and work smoothly with the kids. They liked him, admired him—and listened to him. Herman's will be one of the toughest jobs in the majors with his hopes neces- sarily tied up in the future instead of the present. To get him as manager the Pirates gave up Bob Elliott and catcher Hank Camelli. In the return trade they got, with Herman, an in-and-out hurler named Elmer Singleton and veteran infielder Bill (Whitey) Weitelmann. By trades, the Bucs will attempt to stay in the 1947 picture, as evidenced when they obtained 33-year-old Ernie Bonham. Kreml Hair Tonic stands for modern, a fork-ball pitcher, from the Yanks, and 40-year-old Art Herring from Brooklyn. natural-looking hair grooming. Keeps

They also may get some rather dubious hair in perfect order from morn till help from Lefty Lee Howard and 26-year- night with a rich, attractive lustre old Jim Walsh, a right-hander from Al- bany of the Eastern League. yet never looks or feels greasy. Kreml "It's going to be a rough road," Her- actually helps 'condition' the hair in man admits. "We need plenty of every- thing. But with the ball club pulling to- that it leaves it feeling so much softer gether we may surprise quite a few people. — easier to manage. Use it daily for a The solution is: plenty of work by all hands." cleaner scalp—for better-groomed hair. Stanley (Bucky) Harris, new manager of the New York Yankees, admits he has a "lot of work" ahead to threaten the Red Sox supremacy. The shortage in the House That Ruth Built is to uncover a first base- KREML man and pitchers. ^^o^mwj^ A product o/R. B. Semler, Inc. f& Guaranteed-'—A by *V Harris, the one-time "Boy Wonder," was Keens flair Better-Groomed Without Looking Greasy — iffl V Good Housekeepingeeping J. only 28 when he first became a pilot and ,»^SX Relieves Itching of Dry Scalp — Removes Dandruff Flakes Idj led Washington to the 1924 world's cham- Listen to "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" every 'Monday February, 1947 27 night coast-to-coast on ABC network. See local newspaper for time. . —

pionship. Returning from the minors, he THE ARCHITECT nurses an idea that he might pull another — THE veteran -a mental case—fumbled "first" if the rookies are ready. nervously with his hat. His eyes, staring Bucky names six of the old Yankees as from a pale, tense face, roved about the IN key men. They are Joe DiMaggio, Charley room as the doctor talked, pausing at in- Keller. Tommy Henrich, Phil Rizzutto, tervals briefly to scan the doctor's face DIFFERENT Snuffy Stirnweiss and Aaron Robinson. He and answer his questions, and continue TWO will try to keep Henrich in the outfield their roving over the room. "What do you do?" the doctor asked but may put him at first if one of four STYLES gently. newcomers pull through. They are Frank "Sir?" The patient's eyes hesitated on Colman, up by way of Pittsburgh; young the doctor's face and a startled look shot Al Clark of Newark; Phillips, re- Jack into them. Paratroopers . . . ex-paratroopers . . . cently service, or Cliff sportsmen!!! Here are your boots. For duty, returned from "What is your profession?" the doctor for dress, or for hunting, fishing, hiking and Mapes, drafted from Baltimore. tried again. all kinds of outdoor use. The famous soft, comfortable and very rugged boots worn only Larry Berres, 21-year-old Newark catch- "Why—er—I—I'm an architect," the by paratroopers during the war are now er, may strengthen the catching. He's a patient replied falteringly. "I—I design available in two styles . . . one military, the other, civilian . . . both similar in con- potential Yankee of the old order, a long buildings." struction, design and high quality standards. ball blaster against whom the Interna- "Do you?" The doctor smiled affably. "Oh, yes!" the patient assured him reso- tiona] League used a defensive shift a la Paratroop Jump Boots lutely, his eyes and face now glowing Ted Williams, Bobby Brown, 22-year-old proudly. The same boots worn by Paratroopers during Newark third baseman who was second war. Comes in tan elk finish. Not government "That's very nice." said the doctor, pre- surplus stock. among the league's hitters, also is ready. tending belief. "Now tell me some of the The Yanks will take 28 pitchers to buildings you have designed. Have you de- spring training, an indication of their real signed any in this city?" problem. Four young right handers "Oh, yes!" The veteran was still firm counted upon heavily are Frank Shea, one and smiling. of the best in the west at Oakland; Vic "Name one." the doctor encouraged Raschi from Newark, who won two com- gently. "I'd like to look at it." er— His ing up late last season; Karl Drews, New- "Well—ah— " face clouded and his voice trembled. For a moment, ark farmhand, and Carl de Rose, an panic seized him. Then his face brightened again American Association All Star at Kansas and he exclaimed, "Why, I designed this City. building here!" No matter how rosy they try to paint the "You did?" Caught unaware, the doctor picture, most of the clubs simply are mark- could not conceal the surprise in his voice. ing time. There will be many a trade in an "Why—yes." The veteran was taken effort to add strength for the coming pen- aback a little by the tone of the doctor's nant race, as evidenced by the opening words, but he insisted doggedly, "My name swap in which the Yankees sent infielder should be on the cornerstone!" Hesitating, Joe Gordon to Cleveland for pitcher Allie he asked, "Isn't it still there?" Reynolds. That set the pace for the trades "I don't know," the doctor declared. which followed. "Let's go see." And to humor his patient, he added: "If it's not, we'll do something But the David Harums of baseball won't about it!" be able to swap enough of the veterans to Together, they took the elevator down to upset the balance of power. They expect the ground floor and walked around the the again in 1947 same leaders —but watch building to the cornerstone. out for the upheaval when the youngsters Inscribed in the stone was the name of stack the deck of the future. the patient! By E. LeRoy Baker.

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JAKE LANDS THE BIG ONE Hooper getting the best of all of us." shucks, prob'ly wouldn't catch any more Jake didn't start fishing the minute he fish with one. {Continued from page 15) got to the Pond. He sat with his back Across the pond, just under the right ahead all the money you'n Fred have put against a tree, staring across the water side of that lily pad there ought to be a into it." trying to think of some way to save the bass waiting for him. Hundred feet by his The girl's outthrust chin trembled a tractor for the kids and get the better of eye. Could walk around the head of the little. Droopy at the same time. He sat there pond and get closer but that would put 'Til bet as a boy he stuck pins in flies." gnawing at the idea like a beaver at a tree him out in the open and if Genny was right "As a boy, Genny, Droopy Pants Hooper trunk. Two hundred wasn't such a terrific about Droopy nosing around this morning was just as ornery as he is now, 'cept age sum. But for a man whose jeans' pockets just as well not to be in too plain sight. has added some refinements. Dang bust it never had held more than a couple of Besides, a cast that distance was nothing. all." Jake ground the cigarette under his dollars in small change it was like a mil- He could hit a dime at half again as far. heel, "if Fred wanted to buy a tractor and lion. But he could think of no solution and He sighted along the rod like a rifle get into the pole logging business, why'd at the end of a half hour he gave up. barrel, swung it upward, brought it down he have to get mixed up with that thieving He fitted the rod together, threaded the with a quick, sure wrist motion, watching pack-rat?" line through the guides, attached a plug. the plug as it shuttled over the water, drawing the line in a thin spider web "We'd have gotten along—all right, if Wasn't much of an outfit, Kind of a spare Fred hadn't been hurt. Now " the hands parts affair, like himself. Always wanted strand across the sunshine—thumbing the in her lap made a gesture of despair. She to own a fine rod and reel, some day. But reel to keep the line from paying out too was silent for a moment. "Sorry, Jake, fast—waiting for the split-second decision didn't mean to unload it on you." that would tell him when to apply the "Reckon you know how much I wish pressure to the reel and stop the plug in its you could do just that, honey. Unload that flight at the right instant. He felt a tingling debt onto me. Nothing I'd like better than delight, as he always did. when it hit the to cram that two hundred down Droopy's water at the exact spot he had figured to neck until his Adam's apple popped lik>- hit. He shifted the rod to his left hand, a cork coming out of a jug. But a sizable giving the bait time to run de p. sum like that, well— Maybe he wasn't much good for any- "It isn't your worry." When she stood up thing else—like figuring a way to help she was smiling again. "And it isn't your Genny and Fred—but by jing. when it worry to poach bass out of Rush Creek came to putting a plug exactly where he Pond so Fred can have something 'special- wanted it ly nice for supper. We don't want Ranee "Nice cast. Jake!"

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The voice behind him was an icicle run CASUALTY NEW MIDGET ELECTRIC through the warmth of the summer morn- Lieutenant Brown was lucky. In ing. He jerked his head toward the sound. 1943 his plane had been crippled on RETAILS A pudgy figure stepped out from behind ONLY a run over Bremen. He bailed out a tree and waddled toward him. the seat and landed on English soil, walking 95 ot the pants bobbing along baggy tweed through a mine field without mishap. behind him like a duck's tail. And the Following this he brought a shot-up Mr smile that lighted the face was one of cold, bomber back from Norway after his calculated joy. first pilot had been severely injured.

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Droopy's words were sputtering like firecrackers through Jake's bewilderment. Two hundred and fifty dollars for beating AUTOHAT other fellows at bait casting! And Gen and Fred with a two hundred dollar debt to be paid!

SOMEWHERE in all this confusion was the answer he was looking for. He shook his head to clear it. He had to know more about this and from reliable sources. "Look Droopy, I'm goin' to reel in, like you say. If there's a bass on the plug, I'm guilty. If the hooks are clean, I ain't goin' to court 'til you get L warrant, which Judge Carey will never give you on the evidence, bein' a bait castin' man himself." The constable's triumph twisted into a scowl of disappointment. There was truth in what old Jake said. Still, the odds were with him. The pond was known to be so full of bass they practically jumped out of the water at a passing fisherman.

His squinty eyes watched the dripping 'He puf in a slug! He put in a slug!" line wind evenly on the reel. Foot after foot, until at last the plug popped out of the water and swung free, only a strand or "Hi there, Jake. What do you think of two of weed dangling from the hooks. that for a bait casting outfit?" "There y'are, Droopy. No fish! Jake moved toward him, slowly. "It's "I'm still not rightly sure about this." beautiful, Curt. Plumb beautiful." the constable said stubbornly. "Not until "Ought t be. Set me back better'n forty I've talked to the judge, which I aim to do dollars. Split bamboo rod. Best reel to be as soon as I can get to his office." had. Just got here from the city this morn- Jake hid his rod in the brush and took a. ing. I couldn't wait to get it rigged and short cut through the woods to the village. in my hands." If Droopy had told the truth, which could "Could I touch it. Curt?" The instant you apply Fitch's or couldn't be, Jake Miller was beginning "Sure. Heft it once." No Brush, the special "skin condi- to see the answer to that two hundred dol- Jake ran his fingers along the varnished lar question. Curt Humber. owner of the surface as a lover of horseflesh might tioner" ingredient goes to work. grain and feed store, was his man. Curt stroke the satiny neck of a thoroughbred. This prepares even the most sensi- was what they called a sportsman. Curt He touched the reel lightly as a connois- could tell him what he wanted to know. seur would a rare vase. tive face for a close, easy shave There was no one in the front of Curt's "Yes sir," Curt beamed, "that's a real even in cold or hard water. Fitch's place. Jake headed for the back store- fishing outfit, old timer." right next to your room. In the doorway he pulled up short. Jake placed the rod in its owner's hands, No Brush gets Curt was standing in the center of the tenderly. He had more important business skin . . . holds whiskers UP until room, in his hands— on his mind, right now. the razor mows 'em down! Leaves "Great Glory Susannah!" Jake breathed "What's this I hear about a bait castin' the words prayerfully. contest at the State Fair. Curt?" your face feeling soft, frosty-cool

for hours. Whether your beard is Crown Without a Kingdom tough, wiry or light, you'll en- "POR the second time in less than a hun- the royal vault of the castle in Budapest joy solid comfort shaving once A red years, a jewelled crown, symbolic and taken to Vienna for "safekeeping." of an historic kingdom was missing. Re- Until its removal by force, two palace you have switched to Fitch. cently it was found and taken to American guards stood watch over it day ana night. headquarters at Frankfurt-am-Main to The guards were relieved every two hours. For free sample of await final disposition. The fate of Hungary One had to keep his gaze fixed constantly a FREE SAMPLE! Fitch's No Brush may well lie in the balance of it. on it during his entire vigil and, according because Shaving Cream, write to Dept. A-2, The F. W. Like the British Mace, the Crown of St. to legend, no guard could stand the ard- Fitch Company, Des Moines 4, lo*a. Stephen has unusual legal aspects. Just as uous strain for more than five years after in British Parliamentary Law the mace which he was retired and pensioned. must be present at all meetings of Par- liament otherwise the meeting is illegal, When the crown was removed by the so, too, under Hungarian law, the crown Nazis, Hungary was plunged into the NO BRUSH is the physical symbol representing the depths of despair. Magyars believed that constitutional power exercised in the union they would never see it again and there- of king and nation. Therefore Hungarians fore, they declared, there never would be a SHAVING CREAM declare that their country cannot be ruled king again in Hungary. legally unless the crown is in the country. But now the Crown of St. Stephen h.°s ua BRUSH It was on a cold blustery March night in been found, thanks to the Americans. And 1944 when at Hitler's orders the crown of the Magyars wait—and hope. By Errvlc St. Stephen was removed from its niche in C. Schurmachcr

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Lifetime Band in beauti- going to one. if that's snorted. over in ful warm gold or silver- '"Well, there's be ering you," Jake "He's

white color! . . . Light, what you mean." Judge Carey's office, trying to get a war- strong, tempered! Beau- "Is it true you gotta pay ten dollars to rant to put me in jail for fishing in the tifies your watch and 1 ' protects its life. get into it? pond." "Yep. Ten for the accuracy event—ten The two men went out the front of the for the distance event. Two hundred and laughing. Jake stood 'Any man from the South store, talking and Pacific will tell you, "It's the fifty dollar first prize in each." there looking down at Curt's new rod. His only Band that would stand up." "And there's rules about the kind of an bright hope was fading, fast. Even if he

C. W. HICKOK of SAN FRANCISCO outfit you have to use?" had the ten dollars, they'd never let him 915 Shrove Bldg. San Francisco, Cal. "Well—yes," Curt nodded. "There's into the tournament with his ramshackle certain requirements. Thinking of enter- outfit. And if they did, he'd be so ashamed

ing, Jake?" of his old clothes among all those . city Jake pulled at one ear lobe. "I dunno. sportsmen he wouldn't be able to hit the Like to. Aint too flush. Seems like there's side of a barn. Add to all that the bus fare a sight of expenses connected with it. and a hotel room for a night or two and Still—I got good use for a couple of hun- the answer was no. Any way he looked at dred. Mebbe— it, the prize money that could do so much The door to the storeroom opened again for Genny and Fred and give him the and Harry Shepherd, who ran the garage everlasting satisfaction of turning a smart in the building next to the feed store, came trick on Droopy Hooper was a fruit that in. Jake answered his greeting with a nod, hung too high for his reach. HANDSOME INSIGNIA RINGS his eyes straying back to the thing of He picked up the rod, reverently. He beauty Curt had placed on the counter, as always had dreamed of owning one like Exact copies of Shoulder-Patches in Colors! it alley Your outfit's Insignia shown In official COLORS! Thousands Harry said quietly: "If you can get away that. Like to take out in the where of Overseas Veterans wear these "Buddy" Insignia Rings Curt, got something over better at it. Curt and prefer them to discharge buttons. Every ring hand* for a minute, I he could get a look quality. now available for Army, crafted of finest Rings in the basement of place I'd like to wouldn't mind. Anyway, by now he and A.A.F, Navy and Marine Units. Over 1000 different designs my available. Money back at once if ring does not satisfy you. show you." Harry were over in the garage basement, SOLID STERLING C£ I0K NATURALCOft SILVER RING *0 • GOLD RING *«#U "Y'mean—Martinek?" busy with the jug. Price includes ALL taxes and delivery. No C.O.D. hum. Jake'll watch the store for carried it lovingly out the back door For ring size send string loop that fits finger. "Um He Sk you 'til you get back." where he could see it in the full LANDSEAIRE SERVICE t!T\ —out Representatives Wanted "How about it, Jake? Only be gone a light of day, and caress it, and feel the few minutes. Anybody comes in you can life in the spring of its perfectly tapered tell 'em to wait. Give you two bits." length. "Go ahead," Jake agreed. "All the pay He swished the tip through the air once I need is a chance to stand here and feast or twice. He examined the reel and tried

my eyes on that new rod." the wind of it. Of course, he shouldn't do

Shepherd moved closer, nudged Jake it, but Curt had rigged a plug on the line

- Trin with his elbow. and it would be fun to try just one cast.

) Quick children's hair trim. neat. fr< "While you're about it, kinda keep an That little mound of dust, just this side cut looking all the timet 1 tapers, thins out uneven htii like ordinary comb. Safe. Si eye peeled for Ranee Hooper. If you see of the light well around the basement No experience required. Fine for le^s. underai Sells like wild! SAMPLES FOR AGENTS him around, come over to the basement window in the garage building. Fifty feet? *end nam© at once. A penny po«tal wiUdo. SEND NO M"NKY, Ju"t your name. KRIbTtE CO-, 1457Bar St., AKRON. OHu window in the alley and call to us. This is Nearer sixty. Be funny if he missed and mighty private business I got with Curt. sent the lure down the light well and Wouldn't want Ranee snooping on us." through the window, into the room where BAR-BELLS The two men exchanged winks. Jake the two men by now would be toasting one DUMB-BELLS knew what they were talking about. Joe another in Joe Martinek's plum brandy. Martinek been the garage with a Scare 'em half to death. Jake grinned at PARAMOUNT ADJUSTABLE had by of his plum brandy. Premium goods the idea. 'Course he wouldn't miss. Not Factory $df^95 jug in a local option town. Also grist for the him. And just for once to make a cast with Prices T a rod that a living thing in his hands. WRITE FOR FREE ILLUSTRATED CATALOG AND PRICE LIST constable's mill, if he caught the boys was He sighted along the slender bamboo Independent Iron Works with it. 2416-40 E 23rd STREET DEPT. 20 "Don't worry 'bout Droopy Pants both- surface, his hand tightening on the grip, LOS ANCELES 11. CALIFORNIA 32 The American Legion Magazine !

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wrist flexible as a steel spring. The rod bore down on the spool. The line snubbed and the hooks sank into something more raised a little, stopped there. Jake's eyes taut, the plug started to fall away. Jake solid than the abundance of pants' seat. shifted from the dust mound to the wall of waited, not breathing. The wrist flicked Droopy was caught, sure as a bass. the garage building. A bulky shadow was back, the motion sped along the line to '•You. Jake Miller. You!" creeping along it. Now, it fell out into the the plug. It flipped upward with a quick, '"Well Droopy, imagine meeting you opening between the two buildings, impertinent jerk and Jake's delight gur- here in the alley." pushed forward along the ground by the gled in his throat as he saw the hooks Droopy's anguish rose in a cross be- crouching figure that followed it. reach out for folds of Droopy's pants. tween the scream of a cougar and the Jake felt his toes curl up inside his A little tearing sound came to him as he bellow of a wounded elephant. shoes. Droopy! He'd gotten wind of Mar- pulled back on the rod. Droopy heard it, '"Get those hooks out of my leg. They're tinek's visit to town and acting on suspi- too, and felt the pull of the line. He diggin' in to the bone. Get 'em out, I say." cion was sneaking down between the two straightened, whirling toward Jake. The "Stand still while I reel in and come up buildings to the light well from which he'd motion tightened the line around his leg to you." be able to see and hear what was going on "Criminal assault," the constable howled. in the basement. If he caught the boys with "Assault with a deadly weapon. You just that jug of plum brandy— wait. Jake Miller. You'll pay for this!" Droopy's back was to him. Jake con- "How was I to see you sneaking down sidered running through the store, out the between those buildin's? Hold steady, you front way and around to Harry's garage, chump." but knew he'd never make it in time. Or he could call to the boys and warn them, T\ROOPY'S answer was a louder wail as *-* but Droopy would be at the window before Jake worked his way toward him, he could make them hear. Then, two tilings twitching the line now and then to keep the swam into his vision: The billowy sag of hooks set, calling a greeting to Curt and the constable's pants and the reflection of Harry as they came bounding up the out- sunlight on the varnished length of the side basement stairway, blinking in amaze- .new rod, with the minnow-shaped plug ment at the strange sight that greeted and its stout hooks dangling from the them.

end of it. Now dirt's voice rose above the con- He didh't even stop to sight this time. fusion. "Hey. that's my new rod! Look out, The rod whipped back, then forward. The Ranee, take it easy. Don't yank on that plug darted through the sunshine. Droopy line. The tip! You'll break it. Look out, was bending over the light well to look man!" "The coffee cold, dear?'* through the window when Jake's thumb The warning came too late. There was

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." plintering of thin bamboo and the tip in jail to boot. On the other hand . . LABOR PROBLEMS lung limply at the end of the rod. "I know, Curt. A man's first fine fishing (Continued from page 11) "Oh, you blitherin' idiot!" Jake's voice rod is like his first wife. Seems at the time ose in a mournful cry. "Look what you neither can be replaced. But, by and large, to anyone, and frequently the very power lid." I've observed they can be, with satisfac- of government itself is threatened. "What I did! What I did!" With the tion. Jake saved our necks for us and to There is, strangely enough, an unreason- line slackened Droopy was squirming and show our appreciation, I'm proposing you ing idea in the minds of many folk that twisting to remove the hooks from his per- make him a present of that rod, for which the squabbles of labor and management ,on and pants. "What you did, you crim- he can get a new tip, and I'll stand the are theirs alone, and that no other portion nal. Ripping my clothes, tearing my flesh, cost of buying you a new one. Yes sir, and of the nation is involved. In certain in- interfering with an officer of the law in the consider my half of the deal mighty stances that may be true. But when, as has performance of his duty! Wait'll Judge cheap." happened far too often of late, trifling if Carey hears of this. You'll go to prison, Curt's face brightened a little. "Maybe handfuls of employes take it upon them- It's I have anything to say about it." you got something there, Harry. a selves to paralyze the activities of huge His voice skyrocketed to a burst of darn sight better bargain than we'd have communities, or threaten to interfere with apoplectic sputtering as he headed for the gotten from Ranee and Judge Carey." He vital activities of the nation as a whole, street at a shuffling trot, the seat of his laid the rod in Jake's hands. "There y'are, it becomes necessary to point out that the

pants fanning him to greater speed. Jake. She's yours. Rod, reel, line and welfare of the public, when that is involved, Jake raised his eyes from the broken rod carrying case." should invariably take precedence over the tr the sorrowful face of Curt Humber. desires of any other group whatever. "Doggone it, Curt! I'm sorry's I can JAKE looked at him goggle-eyed. A year or so ago some 3,500 tugboatmen touching it. Just Strange boiled out of his throat. lie. Hadn't no business sounds of New York City called a strike and in- brought it outside to get a better look at "What's more," Curt went on, "after the terfered most inexcusably with the welfare it. Then, Droopy came along and—well way you flipped that plug into Ranee the — of city, even threatening it with a short- 'fore I realized what I was doing Hooper's backsides, I'm willing to go a age of fuel in mid-winter. Furthermore, know. farther. I'll for all expenses, "Sure, Jake," Curt mourned. "I step back you after creating much havoc, the strike was of that out- including togs, enter the Only, well I was mighty proud some new to cast- called off and the differences between the fit. First fine rod I ever owned." ing tournament at the State Fair, on a union and the employers were settled in into Curt's storeroom where fifty-fifty basis." "Let's all go conference. More recently a strike of the talk this over," Harry Shepherd "Curt!" jumped from Jake's we can The name city's truckmen—a larger group, of course, quietly. about this, like fly. said "I got some ideas mouth a trout hitting a May but still a trifling number compared with too." "Y' y'mean it? Both events? Accuracy — the city's millions—similarly interfered leaned against the counter, head distance?" Jake and with the city's welfare, even sharply lim- down, ashamed to face Curt. '"Right. consider it darn good And a iting the amount of food that could be bet." brought to the markets. then." Harry's voice had the con- "Hippty-zing! that's cinch two "VJOW Why a In Pittsburgh, too, a strike of 3.200 viction of authority, "let's look at the hundred and fifty for each of us. Harry, employes of the city's power plants crip- facts. need to beat about the bush with y'hear? I'm going to the tournament!" No pled that community and interfered with Jake. He knew what we were doing down Old Jake didn't try to finish the sen- the activities of 1,500.000 people for twen- in my basement. He saw Ranee sneaking tence. He knew it wouldn't be any use. ty-seven days. The mayor tried to end the up where he could hear and see us. He knew The boys wouldn't understand. It would be walkout, but was helpless. A local court that could be mighty bad for us. So, he all mixed up with Fred McGreal's broken issued an injunction, and when the union's acted according to his own best judgment." hip and a tractor and the good news he president snapped his fingers at it, sen- "That's true enough, Harry," Curt agreed had to tell Genny as fast as he could get tenced him to a year in prison for con- solemnly. "No denying that if Ranee had out there. News that would make her eyes tempt. But within twenty-four hours, and caught us we'd be facing Judge Carey pop out of her head like Droopy's Adam's in an astonishing display of weakness right now to the tune of a hundred dollar apple would pop when they crammed that forced upon the court by the inadequacy fine, apiece, and like as not, thirty days two hundred down his throat! of our present laws, the injunction was withdrawn and the union president was released. For the better part of a month homes, hospitals, and business establish- ments were lit by candles and lanterns. Transportation was cut to a minimum. Eighty thousand people were thrown out of work. The cost to the community can never be determined, and the union, which was itself internally divided, ultimately accepted arbitration which the power com- pany had offered before the strike was called. Any search of the records will show the

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A final reckoning out at the cost of blood and tears for the lieve in their ability to dispense even- shows that of a total of $136,648 settlement of differences?" and The In- handed justice were such cases to be passed out for personal checks, there ternational Teamster, the official maga- brought before them. The pressure under was a loss of only $711—.005 per- zine of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, re- cent. The "Y" cashed 5971 checks which these courts operate, however, and cently made the statement that "strikes totaling $83,156, with a loss of $466, the number of cases that they must hear, have become a national menace. . . . They while the Kiwanis Club cashed 2905 not infrequently result in delays, thereby must be curtailed or the nation will sink totaling $55,942, with a loss of $245. into chaos and organized labor will sometimes interfering with justice itself. Not even the membership of the On this account I am inclined to think two groups were aware of the service. perish." that Congress would be wiser were it to Only a few directors knew of it, "to authorize an entirely distinct Federal La- keep the sharpies away," explained AM UCH care should be taken in the prep- bor Court with power to evoke, hear, and H. Gordon Henges, director of the aration of the legislation that would be Kiwanis project. By Al Weisnuin determine all labor disputes having to do required before such a court as I propose with interstate commerce. could be set up. We should have learned who hold a similar point of view, fail to by now that legislation that is hurriedly T'HERE are some, I realize, who object to realize that it is not the judges or the and punitively written is apt to create *• any such idea because they say it would courts that labor need fear. The decisions more problems than it corrects. And if interfere with labor's right to strike. But of judges are subject to review, and we are really to solve the problems that error is there is much shallow thinking about this wherever established the higher face us in the field of labor relations, we matter. No one can contend. that a strike, courts have no hesitation in reversing the must approach the subject with a desire opinions of the lower. in itself, is a desirable thing. It may be Danger, consequent- to understand and a determination to serve ly, lie lies, justifiable, just as' war may be, but even does not here. It instead, in the best and greatest interest of our land. public that is true only when the proper ends it opinion which, if the interests' of Can anyone seriously suggest that the hopes to attain cannot be reached by less the public and the nation continue to be interests of any minority group should be objectionable means. Furthermore, labor, flouted, will most certainly rise in right- given more protection than the interests at present, is itself the sole judge as to eous wrath and demand labor legislation of the public and the nation? Or can any that will restrain whether it has sufficient cause to call a and punish labor gener- thoughtful person prefer the irrational ally, the strike. But it must be obvious that no one and not merely labor's extreme methods of strikes and lockouts to should have the sole right to judge his minorities. And if that is permitted to thoughtful and impartial methods of our actions if they may result in injury to happen, labor may be seriously set back, courts of law? others. not merely by the loss' of excessive priv- Labor legislation of some kind is cer- ileges to it statute books Thus there is far more to this so-called which has no real right, but tain to be placed on the "right" to strike than appears on the sur- also by the loss of important and legiti- sometime in the reasonably near future. rights it to in can labor better further face. And it should be made clear that the mate that has taken years And what way interests, proposal I make would not eliminate the attain. its own or more greatly improve right. There would simply be no reason its standing in the eyes of the American to call a strike, for the Labor Court would AM ANY unions and union members are en- public, than by agreeing to make itself ever be ready to hear and impartially to tirely conscious of this. "Why should answerable for its actions before impar- decide any reasonable complaint. And be- not labor controversies be submitted to tial courts' of law, as all other American cause such complaints as were decided a tribunal of expert judges, a Labor Court individuals and groups already do? would be decided purely on their merits, and not because one side or the other was economically the more powerful, justice to everyone involved—would be much more likely to prevail. And these decisions would not be mere invitations to further struggle, for they would have all the force of law, and would be enforceable as such.

TJERE and there, so extreme has preju- dice become, one sees clear signs that officers and members of certain unions ac- tually distrust the judges and the courts of our land. Recently a letter to the New York Times from an attorney representing a number of unions made the statement that "judges have lost caste with labor." And, citing the Pittsburgh strike as "a classic recent example," he went on to say that "the use of the injunction and con- tempt proceedings to break strikes has hardly endeared judges to labor." This person, of course, and those few — — — ——

and they turned him down as one of the boys. GET SET FOR Several seasons later, when he had won every tennis title in the South American nation and had been decorated by the government for in- A CHAMPION ternational victories, those same members were only too happy to invite him to join the club BASEBALL SEASON free. By Bob Deindorfer. Is the Beanpole Here to Stay? Introduce these books to THE problem of the walking skyscraper continues to disturb basketball coaches. your post team Bruce Drake of Oklahoma says, "Fifty fel- lows who happen to be over six feet nine inches tall control the college game played by over a million boys." Drake agrees with Nat Holman, of the New York's City College, who wants to see the big Fur-Lined Skis hoys earn their baskets. Holman suggests cir- cumventing some of the giants' advantage by IF you know liow to wax your skis properly widening the free throw lane to 12 feet in- you can walk straight up almost any snow- stead of the present six, and prohibiting a covered slope without doing an exhausting player within 21 feet of the end of the fore- herring-bone, then zip right down again when- court to hold the ball more than three seconds. ever you're ready. Proper waxing will prevent AH coaches seeking to restrict the skyscrapers backslipping on the way up, but by merely say, "Get that big guy out from under the rubbing the skis back and forth a couple of basket." times after you reach the summit you're all Dolph Stanley, coach of Beloit, who has set for a fast-sliding run down. Only trouble himself started a six foot eleven inch center, is there are only a few rare, leather-skinned says the baskets ought to be hung from the old experts who are able to sniff the air, clench ceiling, eight or ten feet in bounds, with no a handful of snow, and know immediately backboard, just a rim hanging in front of the which wax and how much of it to use for shooter. perfect results. Phog Allen, of the University of Kansas, Give your team a "Big-League Brush- Skiers who never have any luck with wax did some experimenting. He raised the baskets Up" in fundamental baseball — by two often use a sealskin. It is a piece of seal fur to twelve feet-—-two feet higher than the regu- of the greatest teachers in the game. cut to fit the bottom of each ski, and is lation ten feet—and he discovered what will hair-lips pointing back- Easy to learn "The Offensive Game" strapped on with the probably be the case with all rules that hamper from Ethan Allen, "The Defensive ward. You walk straight up hill with this the big men: the little men were hampered Game" from Lew Fonseca (aided by device on your skis, and the slightest backslip just as much, or more. Phog says the big boys Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, other is arrested because the snow rubs I he fur the liked the 12-foot basket even better, there was major league stars). See that every wrong way. Downhill runs with sealskin on arc more space under the goals for them and the member of your post team gets these entirely satisfactory for cross-country skiing, little guys didn't tangle up in their legs so much. authentic coaching manuals. And get a but not quite fast enough for high speed runs. In the long run it may become clear that we head start toward a champion season! For the latter you remove the sealskins at the must accept the tall boys as part of the game. summit and tote them on the downgrade. By Carrol C. Hall By Ken Littlefield

"Wheaties are tops with me," soys Bob Feller, Grab Your Reel and Flap Your Wings Famous Strikeout Cham- AMERICAN hunters and fishers are sprouting pion. "Those good whole wings. Instead of spending several days wheat flakes have a flavor reaching some back country lake or hunting that really counts. That's ground the sportsman can board his plane and why you'll find Wheaties annihilate distance like nobody's business. on my breakfast table One Detroit business man flies by plane to an isolated unfished lake in the North Canadian nearly every morning." wilderness, lands it on the water with its pon- toon runners, and hooks hungry trout by the dozen. Sometimes he fishes from the plane and FREE sample COPY sometimes from a rubber boat. An Ozark has his lake accessible Athletic Officers! Mail coupon below Mountain man made for sample copies of baseball manuals. to more sportmen by building a landing strip Directions for obtaining additional so they can fly in from hundreds of miles. books are included with your intro- Three big airlines are planning "hunters' ductory copies. specials" to the pheasant and goose shooting grounds of South Dakota. In this new air age thousands of unfished "Breakfast lakes and streams in isolated sections of the continent are now accessible, Caribou of of Canada's unspoiled wilderness, game and fishing grounds of Canada, Mexico and Guatamala 5J Champions are only a few hours away. And you won't use up half your vacation period going and WITH MILK AND FRUIT coming. By Ross L. Ilolman •'Wheaties" and "Breakfast of Champions" arc registered trade marks of General Mills, Inc. Qualified But Not Eligible

i MAIL THIS COUPON HIS father was only the caretaker at the ex- clusive tennis club in Ecuador, but Fran- General Mills, Inc., Dept. 395 cisco (Pancho) Segura wanted to become a 623 Marquette Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. member more than anything else in the world. Please send me I'RIili sample copies of Wheaties two baseball books. Me shagged balls as the members played, and "He claims he's not very last on his when they had finished feet, coach, but I thought he might Name_ improved his own game for the day. be useful" Post But the members couldn't figure how the Address-. caretaker's son fitted into their membership,

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SPEED QUEENS (Continued from page 13) the fish on the line was not a shark. After a short run a gorgeous marlin came to the surface shaking his head, with the blood From where I sit pouring out of his mouth. The crew laughingly shouted that the fish was gill- racked and the fisherman wrist-racked. After ten minutes of hard fighting (I 6u Joe Marsh worked hard to beat the sharks who were sure to arrive in short order on account of the bleeding fish), I had the marlin alongside the boat and the guide took the leader, but the fish broke loose and made a long hard run. However, I got him back in about five minutes more and we had him tied up in fifteen minutes. He weighed 505 pounds even, and I was back on the Are Returning dock with a prize twenty-five minutes after having left it. This fish probably lost 30 to 40 pounds of blood as well as the con- Veterans "Different"? tents of his stomach. Emptying the stomach is a trick the bill fish do when hooked deep. Fish that swallow the hook or get it During the war you heard a lot about in the gills or in the eye usually are taken how hard it was going to be return- very quickly but you hook very few in for those places. There is more likelihood of a ing veterans to get adjusted to civilian big fish swallowing the bait when it is life . . . how they'd be "different" or drifting from a boat that is not under way, as happened in this case. feel strange. A few days later I went out and hooked a nice fish in the wake of the boat after Well, plenty of them have returned missing him off the outrigger. This one to our town, and a finer, steadier vifis very active and a peach of a fish to fight. He took out about 1200 feet of line, bunch you couldn't ask for. Most of then doubled back and was jumping within them are back at the same jobs . . . thirty feet of the boat with the 900 feet of line off my reel. He jumped over thirty going with the same nice home-town times by actual count and when we brought girls (getting married, some of them, him alongside he charged the boat and ran

setting . . . his bill five inches through the wooden and up families) renewing planking and dented the tin of the icebox. the same old friendships. I still have the bill, all covered with wood dust. I came very near losing this one as Even their amusements are the same. he got ahead of the boat and we had to run over the line to prevent him from Nothing much more exciting than fishing down at Seward's Creek or

pitching horseshoes . . . enjoying an outdoor barbecue with friendly whole- some beer and pleasant talk.

If they've changed at all it's in the

direction of maturity and tolerance . . tolerance for everything except dic- tators, and those who would destroy our democratic principles of live and

let live. And from where I sit, that's another reason to be proud of them.

"Yes— as you were, soldier— just for remembrance!"

February, 1947 39 Copyright, 19^6, United States Brewers Foundation —

EISENHOWER COURTESY, CHURCHILL CURIOSITY WHEN Winston Churchill and Gen- During the same tour the Williams- eral Eisenhower, followed by a burg authorities stationed their love- large crowd, visited the restored liest hostesses at strategic points in colonial buildings in Williamsburg, the historic buildings. One sweet Va. last spring, one of the guides young thing, stiff and proper in an noted that whenever the distinguished eighteenth century costume, was post- and party was ready to leave a building, ed at the head of the stairs in the Complete EQUIPMENT General Eisenhower suddenly became Governor's Palace. When Churchill Custom Built interested in some aspect of the ex- came in, he stopped to admire the We build bars and equipment to your indi- hibit. By the time he got out, the girl's pretty, blushing face, and trim vidual design and requirements and ship crowd had closed in around the for- figure. Just before leaving, he stopped anywhere in U. S. High quality, long lived equipment has brought us national reputa- mer British Prime Minister. It wasn't by again for another look. With his tion with customers in every state. Now is until near the end of the tour that black cigar almost touching the girl's time to install new bars and fixtures. Im- proved atmosphere brings increased trade the guide caught on to the famous dress, Churchill asked her in a loud and profits. soldier's trick. He was hanging back stage whisper: "You alive?" Custom built fixtures of wood or stainless so that Churchill, the visitor the steel for every purpose . . . for bars, taverns, and "Yes," the hostess answered feebly.

stores all . . restaurants, of types . are made elder statesman, could receive the ap- "Good," said Churchill as he turned in our spacious plant covering 1 square city block. You're invited to visit our plause of the large crowd, without and left the building. By R. M, plant or write for free 64-page catalog. any competition from Ike Eisenhower. Dobie We have completely equipped many of your club rooms with bars, tables, booths and stools. A. J. STEPHENS & CO., 2IH E. 14th St., Konsas City 1, Mo. making a complete circle arcund it. He fish, and in spite of the great thrill I get weighed 400 even and was boated in out of fighting them, it always gives me a ORDER BOTH™ 1.00 twenty-one minutes, foul hooked squarely feeling of sadness to watch them die. Max in the angle of the jaw on the outside, Fleischmann hit the nail on the head when INK PAD and excellent 3- LINE RUBBER which gave him an extra advantage. he said they reminded him of an electric STAMP with complete name and address, or other wording- having no more than 70 The following year on my next trip light bulb slowly burning out. This fish characters. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Re- mit with order—no C. O. D.'b Please. fishing with Capt. Bill Hatch of Miami, made it five in a row that weighed 400 or LONG STAMP CO. senior Atlantic guide, I hung one weighing better. Yes, it was quite a streak and I felt 11304 Chandler Blvd. P. O. Box 7 34 -North Hollywood, Calif* 406 pounds in twenty-four minutes. He pretty good about it except when I thought jumped twenty-three times, was hooked of the four "Boscoes" that were over twice JOY! QUICK RELIEF FROM OH in the jaw and came completely out of the as big that had got away. MUSCULAR ACHES water when he took the bait. The following year I went down for DUE TO FATIGUE AND EXPOSURE All blue marlin are magnificent in their only four days and on the second day RUB ON EN _AR_CO color variation. The colors fade out when raised a nice fish that crossed the wake of INSTANTLY BEGINS ITS 4-FOLD WORK the fish is boated; a remarkable sight to the bait with his dorsal fin erect, his back OF HELPING SOOTHE MUSCULAR ACHES see. This fish was a particularly beautiful awash, and the upper lobe of his caudal CAUTION: USE ONLY AS DIRECTED one, and his bill also took on a vivid hue fin or tail straight in the air. He looked as he passed away. It is the only marlin like a submarine surfacing. He swam up,

I have ever seen that showed any color in grabbed the bait and kept right on coming his rough, black bill, either alive or dead. towards the boat which made him doubly NEXT MONTH Why this phenomenon took place I could hard to hook. The guide instantly gunned not venture to say, but Mrs. Farrington, the boat ahead full speed but when the Your March issue of The Ameri- Hugo Rutherfurd, Hatch, and his mate line came out of the outrigger I struck a can Legion Magazine will be Jimmy Rogers all witnessed it. slack line, and had to sit down in the filled with articles, stories and Much as I want to catch these wonderful chair and take out the slack, a delay that special features you won't want to miss. Among these you will want to read:

THE NMU-PAID IN FULL How the National Maritime Union is trying to secure for its well-paid wartime merchant seamen members GI Bill benefits earned the hard way by service men. YOUR CHANCES IN TRUCKING Thousands of veterans are inter- ested in trucking as a career. It's a good field but it has pitfalls which are pointed out in this informative article.

WHY I JOINED THE LEGION Twenty Legionnaires from all over the country were picked at random and asked why they had joined the organization. Their answers make interesting reading. PRIZE CATCH A short story about a fish that never should have been caught, and the kind of sportsmanship that brought him in.

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seemed hours long. Then I struck a tight line and hit the fish four or five times. The marlin made a good run of around 1400 feet without showing himself. I got him back within 150 feet of the boat and then the unexpected happened. If I thought that the second fish I described did some headshaking, I wish you had been fast to this fellow. It was indescribable. All I could do was check the savage thrashing by holding the line against the grip and then instantly letting it go, at the same time having, of course, nothing but the lightest of drags on the reel. If such head- wagging continues the line may easily break and possibly the rod if you are not prepared to ease off. I am frank to admit that if I had not had the experience with that other headshaker I would never have caught this one. The next five minutes were as tough as any I had ever put in with any fish up to that time. Since then I have had several sWordfish that were worse. When this mar- 'What are you kickin' aboui? Where else could lin finally came out, he did a few long, you get a hundred smackers for five leaping grayhounds, sounded, came out minutes' work?" again and we saw that he had become tailed up. That is, the leader had become rough water, which is usually best for sail- wrapped around his tail. It only happens fish on the Florida side and marlin on the for a BRIGHTER occasionally, but when it does if you can Bahamian side of the Gulf Stream. LONGER-LASTING keep him on the surface you will almost If you're looking for thrills go after •Reg U. S. Pol. Off always get your fish unless the sharks those blue marlin and don't get discouraged get there first. If they get down on you, if you lose a few. The breaks will come loomeitssstiM God help you, for your marlin is helpless your way. You can divide your fishing up Product o! KNOMARK MfC CO iNC BROOKLYN N. Y I to fight off the sharks. They didn't and among three or four people. While was On sale at the marlin was ours. This fish weighed catching the fish described above, Mrs. Shoe Stores. Shoe Departments Shoe Repair Shops only 378 pounds and my streak had been Farrington, Sherman Pratt, Ben Crownin- broken. The average for the six blue mar- shield and Hugo Rutherfurd, all good lin was 422 pounds and I will put that fishermen whom I was lucky to have with run against any blue marlin for any place me, caught eleven other blue marlin, and that has so far been fished. Rutherfurd had a pair which weighed 508

The day I caught that fish we raised and 568 respectively. If you ever cross the six of them before two o'clock, hooked Gulf Stream to fish these grounds, I sin- four and caught two in what is called cerely hope you match that pair. Get These VITAMINS energy any time, HOW TO TELL A JAP FOR extra IN EVERY BAR eat this vitamin-rich choco- DURING the Luzon Campaign many The Filipino said louder, "Him A 4000 I. U. latetYat melts in your mouth. B, 1 Mg. Filipinos Jap spies disguised as Jap." Get Vita-Sert. B. 2Mg. slipped behind our lines to detect our The man began to run. C 30 Mg. D 4001. U. strength and disposition. Dressed in The Filipino screamed at the top of These quantities are 100* floppy straw hats and ragged short his voice, "Him Jap." ot minimum adult daily requirements as set by impossible to tell I ordered the fleeing man to halt. pants it was almost U. S. Government them from the Filipinos. He ran faster. — COMMENDED One day in February. 1945, my "Fire!" I ordered. If the fellow PARENTS 3, platoon was assigned the job of guard- wasn't a spy he wouldn't be running. MAGAZINE M< . Good Housekeeping Icohsumeb .? ing a road block. It was frequented Two of my men fired and he fell AT ALL COUNTERS \»J^^^2^^M by many Filipinos who traded souve- with two 30-caliber slugs in his back. nirs to my men for cigarettes and When we reached him he was dead. C-Rations. We pulled his ragged shirt off and One of the Filipinos walked up to found Jap dog tags around his neck. me and pointed to a man sitting under We also found a pencil and a map a tree apparently taking a nap. "Lieu- with our road block plotted on it in tenant," he said softly, "him Jap." It his pocket. Had he reached the Jap was hard to believe because he looked lines they would have blown our road FOR CB7Y just like all the other Filipinos in that block to kingdom-come with artillery AND COUNTY vicinity. fire. ffi//oHa/fy/&owttrffaftufacfurer I asked the Filipino how he could Build up a business of your own with Nationally When he saw us looking at him the tell the dead man was a Jap when he Advertised Products bearing Underwriters' label. man rose slowly and started walking dressed and walked and looked just Sell to schools, factories, service stations, ware- houses, hotels, restaurants, public Institutions, away. The Filipino said again in a like a Filipino. The Filipino an- truck and bus companies, grain elevators, house low voice. "Him Jap." swered. "Him no smell like us." By trailers, autos, farms, homes, etc. Capable man can earn real money. Established In 1916. Write The man began to jog. Josh M. Drake, Jr. letter toUb details, age, experience, etc THE FYR-FYTER CO.. Dept. 9-26 Dayton 1, Ohio February, 1947 41 — .

SLICK TRICKS OF THE COMMIES (Continued from page 21) and other forms of parliamentary hair-split- ting, are used to wear down and exhaust the patience of the bulk of the non-Com- munists present to a point where they drift out in numbers because of the late hour, hunger, boredom, or other engagements. "Hot" Communist resolutions and tricky maneuvers are then quickly brought out by trusted non-Party dupes and steam-rollered through with a minimum of parliamentary palaver. Note that Communists seldom in- troduce their own tell-tale resolutions, since this would reveal their identities—commy stooges and simpleton dupes are invariably used as cover-ups. Many unions and other organizations and their supporters. Or labor unionists munist versus anti-Communist fight always have been badly surprised to learn the seeking ways and means of ridding their be wary of a second set of "anti' can- next day that the meeting of the night be- union of the Communist incubus are badly didates or any other maneuver to split the fore, which had apparently dwindled to a surprised to find their most secret plans anti-Communist vote. handful of diehards and wrangling radicals and conversations in the hands of the In critical situations where it appears at a late hour, had passed some very awk- Stalinists. The answer to both of these certain that the "Fraction" faces utter de- ward or dangerous resolutions in the name apparent mysteries is the little known but feat, the tactic of the Phony Opposition of the entire organization. Unwary of- highly effective technique of the Phony enables the Communists to salvage some- ficials might find themselves facing formal Opposition. This Phony Opposition is com- thing from the debacle and even make a trials or investigations on phony plausible posed of all undetected Party members few gains. The Phony Opposition comes "charges." Or the union's funds, welfare, and such dependable camp followers who out openly in support of the majority but security, or good name may have been have not been compromised by consistently its role is strictly one of treacherous sabo- dangerously compromised by an inoppor- supporting the Party "line." tage and espionage. Its speakers indulge tune strike, direct or sympathetic, or some In Communist-controlled unions where in silly, illogical, and non-union tactics and other far-reaching action on which 90 per- a rising opposition becomes threatening, speeches in order to embarrass and weaken cent of the members had no chance to ex- outstanding leaders of the secret Phony the position of the true opposition. They press their disapproval. The obvious an- Opposition will run for office against the will even attack the Communists—not as swer to this Communist tactic is for the Communist incumbents, thus neatly split- Communists and a menace to the union. majority to force through an adjournment ting the anti-Communist vote and assuring Oh no! —but merely on the grounds that vote before a single member is allowed to the re-election of the Communist slate. they are "ill-advised" or wrong on this leave the meeting. Sometimes the revolt is strong enough to particular issue. Green and unwary anti- sweep these Communist stalking horses Communists naturally welcome their newly The Phony Opposition into office; the deluded membership then found allies with open arms little realizing Anti-Communists are sometimes heartened congratulating themselves on their "vic- they have thrown open their defenses to a by the apparent miracle of a split in the tory" of having thrown out the Com- Trojan Horse full of armed Communist heretofore solid ranks of the Communists munists. In any straight, out-and-out Com- spies. Secret anti-Communists reveal their identities and plans for cleaning up the Communists. FLAMETHROWERS FOR FARMERS The Phony Opposition protects the Com- munists from ever being isolated or driven veteran Price C. Mc- the "bugs" from his machine, Mc- BECAUSE out of any organization. A secret battalion Lemore, of Montgomery, Ala- Lemore was called to active duty as has been left behind in the very heart of bama, saw the flamethrower as a a captain and assigned to the Air the enemy's weapon to fight weeds and boll Corps. However, he had interested camp. The bitterly-acquired weevils, as well as to scorch out a several agricultural experiment sta- knowledge that it is almost impossible to pillbox, the last gap in the mechani- tions and others in his invention and form any broad anti-Communist front cal production of cotton has now they continued to test it while he was without attracting a slick gang of CP. been bridged. in service. Results were remarkable. spies and saboteurs posing as "anti-Com- The flame cultivator killed weeds munists" has discouraged more than one McLemore, a reserve officer in the without cotton damaging the sturdy labor unionist into abandoning the struggle infantry, attached to the Tank Corps, stalks, at a cost to of that re- % % against such accomplished conspirators learned about the modern flame- quired for hand hoeing. It was also and experts in low cunning, deceit, and thrower when it first came into use found that the machine shook large treachery. by the Italian Army in preparation numbers of weevils off the plants into for the invasion of Ethiopia. Much the flames. Now in production by the Lack of space alone prevents the inclu- impressed with it. he wondered if it New Holland Machine Company, sion of a number of other interesting Com- could not be turned against weeds, farm equipment manufacturers, it munist tricks. Watch for the shopworn, old most irritating aggressors against has also proved successful with sugar "It is no accident" gag used to "amalga- cotton growers like himself. Once, cane, corn, soy beans, orchards and mate" opponents with some utterly un- after a sleepless night, he tested his other crops. By reducing the cost of popular cause or person. Joe Zilch who theory that the fibrous cotton stalk cotton production, this war-born in- gets up to question some particularly raw would withstand the heat necessary vention is expected to play an im- Communist swindling in his union is most to kill weeds. As a "flamethrower" portant part in the coming economic effectively squelched by: "It is no accident he used a blowtorch. advancement of the South. By W that Brother Zilch starts red-baiting some In 1940, while still eliminating T. Tucker. <>f this union's most devoted and hard-

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working members just at this time when the Wall Street atom bomb warmongers HOW I STEPPED info a are pounding their tom-toms of hate against Big Pay HOTEL JOB! our ally Russia." Keeping the pot of dis- content merrily bubbling by initiating an Don B. Ulmer Becomes Hotel Man- ager Substantial Increases in endle's string of phony beefs is another With Salary Although He Knew Nothing common tactic known as "Raising the Is- About Hotel Work sue." As Communists attend the same

"Immediately after I received my schools, soak up the same Party literature, Lewis diploma, I gave up my job solemnly mouth the same Party gib- and in an office and accepted a position obtained for berish, they in time unwittingly betray me by the Lewis Placement Service at a famous themselves by their own peculiar argot and resort hotel. At the end of the season I was ap-

pointed Manager of another hotel. I characteristic terminology. An experienced Later came to this hotel. Each time that I made a change anti-Communist can easily draw up a long meant an increase in salary. I give credit to the list of cliches and pet words infallibly re- Lewis Course." vealing the dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist. HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN "Manufacturing martyrs" by framing Thousands of Lewis-trained men and women win- ning success and a sound, substantial future the some poor dupe in a labor skirmish and in colorful hotel, club and institutional field. They are then collecting thousands of dollars for making good as Managers, Assistant Managers, Stewards, Hostesses, Executive Housekeepers and "legal defense" is another trusted old in 55 other types of well-paid positions. Not only commy trick which serves to embarrass has this fascinating business been breaking records, but authorities agree the greatest travel boom in his- and discredit the police and authorities, tory is now under way. The demand for trained men and women, therefore, will be greater than ever. for other besides bringing in money needed Previous experience proved unnecessary in this purposes. Scaring off oppositionists and business where you are not dropped because you are over 40. Good grade school education, plus getting rid of troublesome candidates run- Lewis Training, qualifies you at home, in spare time. Write your name and address in ning against Party members by anony- the margin and mail this ad TODAY for Free Book which tells mously telephoned threats of physical vio- how you are registered free of extra cost in Lewis National Placement Service. lence at 2 A.M. is also veiy effective. The serpentine scheming in rigging booby traps |" VETERANS: This course appro ved tor Veterans' Training | and landmines for unsuspecting opponents "She says she got my message up in the hills and that she's mine!" in order to "expose them as phonies" and Lewis Hotel Training School SUCCESSFUL YEAR drive them out of the labor movement, Room LB-47S5 Washington 7, D. C 31 obviously cannot be described in a few comfort of religion, public esteem and words. A book could be written on Com- good conscience which a socially useful CR0SMAN5^RIFLES munist publicity techniques whereby ob- life confers, Communists find a most south- scure and unknown Party nonentities are ing unguent in the delusion that they are "puffed up" into "World famous, beloved the elite of the future, the sure inheritors AVAI LABLE labor leaders" or "great progressives." of absolute power over man and property. America's favorite compressed air rifles for indoor or outdoor shooting are back again! Available Don't fall for the Communist hokum Communist arrogance and colossal self- in .22 Cal. Single Shot and Magazine Loading types. At that they are ubiquitous and invincible. righteousness are nothing but opiates in- your dealer— or order direct. Ask for Crosman SUPER- PELLS too — the better ammunition for all compressed air tended to deaden all doubts and to still Hitler peddled the same line for years. rifles: .177 Cal.— $2.25 per M; .22 CaL— $2.50 per M. This is merely Communist self-hypnosis any twinges of conscience and self-respect. INC. ROCHESTER H. Y. and serves the double purpose of frighten- Individuals cannot hope to lick ma- CROSMAN ARMS CO., 7, ing their enemies and bolstering their own chines, especially such a craftily led and morale. A former leading Communist in unscrupulous machine as the Communist reading over these articles pointed out Party, USA. However, in unions and organi- that without this myth of invincibility it zations where the anti-Communists banded would be most difficult to recruit new mem- together in a united front and used ordi- bers and to maintain morale among sea- nary intelligence, energy, and persistence soned Communists. One has to swallow a the comrades were quickly liquidated. Re- great deal to be a Communist to say noth- member — Communists fear only three ing of the public and social liabilities that things: positive and unshakable identifica- Party membership entails. Deprived of the tion, ruthless exposure, and total isolation. Easy fo Piafe CHROMIUM GOLD, SiLVER, NICKEL, COPPER

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"DESIDES these refunds, former non-com- " missioned ratings may discover that they have additional refunds for taxes they may have paid on active-service income for the years 1941, 1942, 1943' and 1944. The Revenue Act of 1945 wiped out all tax obligations on the active-service pay for any non-commissioned individual for those years. Yet quite a few of the men in the higher non-commissioned ratings actually paid income taxes on service pay for those exempt years, or paid interest on taxes they figured they owed for those years and postponed paying. If you're one of them, write to your collector's office im- " "All right, all right! Stop screaming 'Room Service!' mediately and request a refund. The $1500 special exemption for officers

44 ' The American Legion Magazine • February, 1 947 Show Me the Way— EX-WAC Mickey Young spent the past summer in Mexico with the idea of improving her Spanish. One of the first words she added to her vocabulary was "excusado" which Mickey took to mean "excuse me." On the crowded trolley when she bumped into fellow passengers she would murmur, "Excusado, senor, ex- cusado." Immediately the aisle would be cleared for her passage. On the street the senoras would react to her "Excusado, por favor," by excitedly whispering something in her ear. Men seemed to be confused by her courtesy and often would back away shyly to give her complicated directions. Dur- ing her last week in Mexico Mickey learned why her "excusado" brought such strange results. "Excusado" is the Spanish word for toilet! —By Howard Rene Stephenson

began with 1943. There has been no change in this since '43. For 1941 and 1942 all service pay for officers was taxable. f\N THE other hand, if you had a job ^ before you went in, and owed income taxes on that salary, you still owe those taxes to the Government if you have not already paid them. Many inductees took advantage of the moratorium priv- ileges on taxes clue and postponed pay- ment until they completed their service career. Those back taxes become due six months after you returned to the United States for discharge or three months after the official declaration of war's end, which has not yet been officially proclaimed by the President, whichever is earlier. The government allows you to spread payment of these back taxes over 3 years, upon written application, beginning about six months after your actual discharge and

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continuing for 12 equal installments every * * « WEIIANS WITH IDEAS 3 months thereafter. This privilege of spreading payment of postponed taxes over three years is parti- Amphibious Business at Marietta. This will be increased to ten cularly welcome to higher ranking officers houses daily when materials are available. who may have postponed paying their veteran of amphibious opera- VfANY a Every worker is a stockholder. Depart- peacetime possi- taxes on service income. In some cases tions marked the ment bosses are directors. Everyone calls invasion craft in his book of of majors, colonels and general officers, bilities of everyone else by his first name, and the post-war plans. Most forgot about it, but these postponed taxes run into thousands company is off to the housing races. By idea was to of dollars. Chester Bintliff didn't. His David Markstein adapt the sea-train idea to inland water- Families of servicemen killed in action ways transportations, using loaded auto Team have no responsibility whatever for taxes the Song trailers in place of railroad cars, and due on pre-service or service income. LCT in place of big ships. "T|URING the war two Army sergeants -L' the It's conceivable that many men who Enlisting his brother, David, in the plan, met in Calcutta when assigned to entered service owing taxes on civilian Chester Bintliff on his discharge formed Entertainment Production Unit there. Their pay, are out of service but are still unable Gulf-Canal Lines, Inc., of Houston, Texas. names, Bill H. Post, of Gueda Springs, to pay even on such lenient terms because Their company is the first to receive Inter- Kansas, and Rieman B. Postel, of Santa state Commerce Commission approval for Barbara, California, caused a mutual GI of disabilities which prevent restoration invasion barge use in handling freight friend to suggest that they ought to be- of income. In cases of unusual hardship, shipments. come partners. you may appeal to the local collector, Then, last September they met again, Service began with four LCT's and two who is given a wide discretion in de- for navi- this time in Hollywood, where Post was LSM's. The former were designed termining the status of such cases. bayous, streams and trying to get some music published and gation over the inland The minute you were absorbed back canals stretching from Mobile to Corpus Postel was looking for a job in the studios. into the civilian life-stream, your current Christi. The LSM's ply deep water Gulf They decided to pool their resources and tax obligations became due and payable routes from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. go into partnership. They rented office exactly as with all other civilians, despite "We made a few changes in their de- space, redecorated it and opened a song sign," Chester Bintliff explained, '"which publishing enterprise. The overseas sug- your back tax status. Now, if you have make them better for our purpose. The gestion had become a reality. tested the pointers mentioned in Par. 7 LCT's were lengthened to an overall length Post attends to all musical matters while in the opening of this article, and find that of 215 feet, with 32-foot beam so that each Postel is the business manager. Daily they you have taxable income, the next step trailers, and the LSM's were canvass radio studios, band leaders, singers can carry 15 naturally is to compute the actual tax. likewise changed for more efficient freight and musicians, plugging their tunes. At operation. The service uses 100 trucks the end of their first month in business "I F your private income is less than $5,000 trailers. The shipper loads his freight in their first popular number, "The Bengal and came only from employers, and not the trailers, we pick them up, transport A-ssam," was introduced coast-to-coast, and from miscellaneous sources like tips, stock them over water to the consignee, deliver another number "The Hill of Henri- gains, inheritances, or gambling profits, to him for unloading. Our barges and Chapelle," a memorial ballad about the LCT's can land anywhere, with or without U.S. cemetery in Belgium, is soon to be just fill out the back of your Witholding regular harbor facilities. The only problem recorded. Receipt Statement (W-2) handed you by we have is to find a convenient beach." your employer and mail it in to the collector. —By David Markstein Flying Hunters He will automatically allow you an addi- THE Shade family—Carson, Earl, Pat, tional deduction of 10% of your private Meredith, Audrey and Autumn, income, plus your family exemptions and Home Builders Cana- dian homestead-born brothers and sisters, compute the tax for you. At this point, of the biggest all-veteran business wartime flyers radar ONE and operators—or- he determines if your tax is less than organizations in the country is doing ganized Yukon Hunting, began flying something tangible about the housing wealthy sportsmen between Los Angeles problem—turning out eight houses every and Lake Teslin, Alaska, for two weeks' day. The company is U. S. Homes,* Inc., of shooting. Marietta, Ga., whose 196 employes and The first three parties flew back with a stockholders are all veterans. They make total of 26 caribou, 32 moose, 29 grizzlies, prefabricated houses, complete even to 30 mountain sheep, six timber wolves and prefabricated dog houses. countless cases of frozen salmon and trout. The idea was Jim Bishop's, ex-lieutenant Now Yukon Hunting is a going concern, colonel, who felt that GI's who had worked employing 15 Indian guides and cooks, together in wartime should be able to maintaining three camps in Alaskan wilds, work together as effectively in peacetime. successful beyond expectations. On his return to this country from France With chartered Douglas DC3 airlines he got in touch with another vet, Frank the brothers fly the hunters, run camps, Stone, and they decided to enter the hous- dress game; the sisters manage details, act ing field. The two then went to Royal as stewardesses. Sportsmen speed to moose Barry Wills, noted Boston architect, and grounds in 15 hours, bang away for a got from him a basic housing design. fortnight, returning with heads, horns, Financing was the next step. Atlanta antlers as memorable trophies. banks turned down their request for Idea developed while Carson and Earl $175,000 so Bishop called a mass meeting flew cargo between Great Falls, Mont., of ex-service men from all Georgia. Eight and Fairbanks in 1943. Meredith in Eu- hundred responded and met at Marietta. rope, Pat in Africa, and the girls, in the A hundred of these invested a thousand Pacific, joined in enthusiastically. dollars apiece, and the treasury was in- With a booth at the Sportsmen's Show creased by RFC loans and investments of in Los Angeles they signed up their first other vet-workers. airliner lode of big-game hunters. "Longer At the present time, U. S. Homes, Inc., hours and harder work than the Army." is turning out eight knocked-down houses they declare, "but fun, with a future." daily in a section of the Bell Aircraft plant —By Howard Kcglcy

46 * The American legion Magazine February, 1947 — 1 //MPULSES By Ponce De Leon VETS!

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T LOST an arm and was hit in twenty- mains of what had once been a fairly nice think it's hard to change a tire with one A two places during the war. After hang- looking masculine body. One day an idea hand he should stick one hand in his ing for months between life and death in a struck me. There was a pool where I used pocket and try it sometime. hospital on Leyte, I finally arrived in the to swim as a boy, the owner of which I Old Reed, who had started mending

States. I spent several months in stateside shall call Mr. Reed. fence nearby, saw us and came over to hospitals before I was well enough to go We drove up in Mr. Reed's yard last help. Upon jacking the wheel up we found home. My wife stayed in an apartment in July Fourth. It was a typical western the spare down also. Reed cranked up his the town near the army hospital in order Oklahoma farm with its unpainted house, old Model-A Ford and we took the tire to be near me. There in that army town rusty farm implements parked around the to a service station five miles away. On the we paid double for an apartment, food and barn and several dogs sniffing at our car way back he asked about several of the taxi service. wheels. Mr. Reed came out, a ragged, boys in our gang that used to swim there. I finally became disillusioned because homely man with a wrinkled, sunburned After the tire was on the car I handed of the heartless way the public held their face and a prominent Adam's apple. He Reed a five-dollar bill for his service, but last hand out to take our small savings and hadn't changed much during the ten he drew back from it as if it were a snake. army pay. They took all our '"blood years except for looking a little older and "Son," he said, "I don't want your signs longer harder hours money" and it didn't bother them at all. showing of and money. You don't owe me anything. I am Instead of being grateful, they dug us for of work. Old Reed knew us and offered a only grateful to have a chance to do a little every penny the OPA would allow and hand that was gnarled and calloused. The something for a boy who has given so sometimes more. In order to have my wife wife and I shook hands. I asked if we much for me and my country. I'm an old stay near me while convalescing we spent could swim and offered to pay. He smiled man who wasn't able to fight, but I like to if him to all the money we had saved, and which and asked we paid swim when feel that I helped you boys by raising meat was to have been our new start in life we were kids. He told us we were welcome and grain to help feed you while you liked. after the war. to swim any time we fought. I want you to come out here and We returned home and no one seemed We drove down the sandy road to his bring as many friends as you like just as to care about giving a one-armed veteran pool, and swam in the cool water, laughing often as you want. You can fish, picnic or world, a job. Everyone was too busy making a and forgetting the money-grabbing swim. Use the place as if it were your own." living to stop and give us a boost. I had a which then seemed far away from us. It His prominent Adam's apple bobbled wife and baby to support, but nobody was my first try at swimming since my arm up and down two or three times and his seemed to care whether we lived or died. had been blown off, and to my surprise I voice trembled. Two big tears ran down It was then I decided that money was what could swim almost as well as ever. his wrinkled, tired face as he smiled and made the old mare go. Friendship didn't We dressed, drank from the cool spring added, "And if any of you want some seem to mean anything. I vowed to make just as we had as kids, and climbed the watermelons, peaches or apples, you just hill to the car. Old Reed was sitting under money by fair means or foul as it seemed walk right over after them ; don't get down to be the only way to give my wife and a tree near the car with a nice spring- in the sand and crawl after them." cooled watermelon, asked us to join child a decent chance in life. Nothing else and On the way home my wife and I were grown good mattered. him. Old Reed had always silent. At last she said. "Do you know melons. used to swipe them as kids. As So I changed from the crusader who We what I'm thinking?" I answered, "I think volunteered in the army after Pearl Har- we sat eating, Reed told me he used to sit you are thinking that there are a few good watch through the sandy bor to a hard-hearted, selfish man. It was and us crawl people left in this old world after alL" fields to swipe his watermelons. said dog eat dog. I didn't like anyone but my He —By Josh M. Drake, Jr. family and didn't care who knew it. I he had gotten more fun out of watching us mixed in politics and made enough to get than we had out of swiping them. This HE AIN'T NO GENTLEMAN by on, trusting no one and always on surprised me because as a boy I had guard. thought him an old grouch. HAVING nothing better to do I was sit- Summer came along and even though When we finished with the melon we ting on top of the Casablanca Ceme- my wife and I liked to swim we hesitated thanked Reed and rose to go only to find tery wall late one afternoon in the early about going to a public pool, as I didn't a flat tire on our car. This made me feel fall of '43 watching the ebb and flow of care for the public seeing the scarred re- rather badly because if the reader doesn't traffic on the road below. A private of an ordnance outfit ambled along and sat down beside me. Presently, a jeep went whiz- zing by, driven by a lieutenant. "There goes that $$%&*$ soanso," my companion remarked bitterly. "He might be a officer but he ain't a gentleman." "How come?" I asked. "Well, I'll tell you 'how come.' Last week a order come out that we wasn't to have no liquor in our tents. The first ser- geant come over to my tent, which is right across from the Orderly Room, and told me he heard I had a quart of good ol' American whiskey in my locker. " T give you my word of honor,' I told him. 'that there ain't no intoxicatin' drinks in my locker.' The sergeant's a gentle- man. He said, okay, and went back to the Orderly Room. But in about a minute here comes that lieutenant. T give you my word of honor, Sir,' I said. But he didn't want my word of honor. He wanted my quart of good ol' American whiskey. And, what's more, he found it. And, furthermore, I "Shall we till them?" think he drunk it. He ain't no gentleman." —By Edward A. Lawrence

48 * The American tegion Magazine • February, 1947 .

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THE LEGION'S MORALE TEAMS enough to have appliances fitted to their MANY NEVER stumps. For years Antoniewicz has been (Continued from page 23) a master plumber in Brooklyn, and a base- SUSPECT CAUSE serving to break the ice on the ever re- ball fan of "dem bums." In 1944 he took curring subject of love and matrimony to the road with Mac and Pearl, to show OF BACKACHES for the "'crippled." Pearl McGonegal could new amputees of a new war that legless- This Old Treatment Often give the girls the answer on that one. In ness need not condemn a man to help- Brings Happy Relief Many sufferers relieve nagging backache quickly, substance it is, "If you love the guy, marry lessness. They proved that prosthetic limbs once theydiscoverthatthereal cause of their trouble him. I did." Pearl and Mac have a quarter are good for walking, driving, dancing, may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking the century of happy married life as proof that running, climbing ladders and as a display excess acids and waste out of the blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints a day. it is the right answer. space for pin-up girls. When disorder of kidney function permits poison- The tours of the Legion amputee teams McGonegal wanted a World War II ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep grew around McGonegal, who in 1943 was veteran to take Tony's place when the lat- and energy, getting up nigrhts, swelling, puffiness the headaches dizziness. Frequent or raising blooded horses on his ranch at ter 's agreed term of touring was over. At under eyes, and scanty passages with smarting and burning some- Sunol, California, and acting as Assistant England General Hospital in Atlantic City times shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Department Adjutant of the Legion. His he met a lad who was furnishing morale on Don't wait ! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, visits to the first amputation cases re- his own account without exactly knowing a stimulant diuretic, used successfully by millions for over 50 years. Doan's give happy relief and will turned from overseas were just one fel- it. PFC Herman Pheffer, 34th Division, had help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poison- ous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. low's idea of looking around to see if his been wounded at Anzio, had returned to experience would be helpful. It was. The his outfit to join the fighting in front of EXTRA California Legion proposed that he be sent Leghorn, and had lost both legs on July MAKE MONEY around to all amputation centers and try 15, 1944, when a shell killed eight and to deliver, wholesale, the great morale wounded seven Yanks. In the hospital on Everyday Greeting Cards building medicine which he had effectively the boardwalk he and S/Sgt. Bill Mc- Easy way to make extra cash showing friends and administered in single doses to the first Dermott, who had parted with his legs on neighbors glorious new Wallace Brown Everyday Greeting Cards! Up to 50c profit for yon on $1 All- cases he met. July 22, 1944, near Cherbourg, were the Occasion Ass't of lfi lar"e, gorgeous Cards for Birth- days, Get- Well, Baby-Birth, Friendship, Sympathy, The Legion made Charley a field sec- life of the place. They scooted around in Anniversary. Still bigger earnings with 9 more fast- selling, big profit assort'ts including Gift Wrapping, retary and sent him on the road. Pearl wheel chairs, joked, organized parties Easter, Personal Notes, Floral Stationery. Name-im- printed Stationery. Earn extra money — full or spare went along to help. After a few hospital and helped the bed patients with personal time. Samples on approval. Wallace Brown, Inc.* 22S Fifth Ave., Dept. L- 142, New York lO, N.Y. visits they proposed that a bilateral leg attentions. When Herman had mastered MAIL amputee be added to the tour. Four out his prosthetic legs he L-142 joined Mac on the THIS of five World War II amputations were road and Tony went back to Brooklyn. COUPON lower limbs, a result partly attributable The Army and Navy medical services FOR SAMPLES . STATE to the damnable land mines used with welcomed the Legion teams. America had -J fiendish effectiveness by the enemy. Char- fine orthopedic surgeons, all of them con- caused by travel motion, ley got in touch with Antoniewicz, whom siderably overworked. We had good hos- relieved with he first met in Base Hospital 9 at Cha- pitals, all of them crowded. The Legion teaureux in 1918. On that occasion Tony tourists could and did make th'ngs easier had just been brought in on a stretcher, for the doctors, nurses, appliance makers Used successfully over a third ol a century and the armless McGonegal had stopped and therapists. They gave lectures to the on LAND an d SEA... to chat by his cot. Tony looked Mac over. hospital staffs, mass demonstrations which "Well, kid," he observed, "if you can were really first class entertainment to get along without fins I reckon I can get the patients, and bedside advice, guidance —RADIO— along without pins." Thereafter McGonegal and inspiration to the individual amputees. Technician and Radio Service Courses pushed Tony's wheel chair to the dining The usual hospital visit was about two FM and TELEVISION room, and Tony cut Mac's food and fed weeks, which was never long enough, but American Radio Institute him. That was before they were well the teams promised to come again, and did 101 West 63rd St., New York 23, N. Y. Approved Under Gl Bill of Righti Licensed New York Stole February, 1947 49 by so. Visiting Bushnell General Hospital in agement in the early weeks and months Utah in the spring of 1944, they talked to of slow recovery, needed the example of 175 amputees recently returned from over- Mac and Herman to show them how the seas. In January, 1945, the team was hack handicaps of disability could fade into the at Bushnell, which then had 690 amputa- past, and a new future of accomplishment tion cases. It found the staff working ex- by ability could open up ahead. cellently, with special aids to the doctors The Legion amputee teams traveled by and nurses such as James R. Farrar, bi- plane, by rail, by bus or by some friendly lateral arms, who had been discharged auto. The boys' climbed in and out of from service and was working as a civilian upper berths, argued for hotel rooms and instructor in the use of prostheses, and got around. For a year the Legion Field Joe Miller, bi-lateral legs, who was work- Service paid the bills, for a year the Amer- USE OUR ing in the orthopedic shop and as an in- ican Legion Auxiliary picked up the CAPITAL structor. Time and again the Legion team checks, and finally the Legion Rehabilita- NO SALES EXPERIENCE NEEDED was able to find amputees' ready to take tion Division took over. When the hospital their places as morale and instruction visits were not using every minute, the The biggest opportunity ever, to quickly establish a money- making, lifetime business, now awaits you as a McNess aides, prosthetic shop workers, and work- teams visited training and employment Dealer. Sell things farmers need and Serve same use up. ers for welfare agencies. McGonegal's centers, and factories. To groups of manu- families year alter year. Pleasant work- -no bosses—easy to do. We supply capital to work on. Also provide offers- one-man job grew to a nationwide pro- facturing executives and foremen they advertising--premiums and trade eecrets that bring sales. gram of amputees teaching and helping demonstrated the use of machinery by First to apply get best trading areas. Don't wait -- write us today for McNess proposition. Tell us county and slate you other amputees. armless and legless men working skill- want to serve. Ask for free McNess Book. 7 Not every man who lost extremeties in fully with artificial hands and feet. Mac THE McNESS CO.. 339 Adam. St., Freeport. Ill the war needed morale building. There still recalls October 9, 1945, at the Nice was George Wilson at McCloskey General Ball Bearing Co. plant, where he assembled do you WORRY? Hospital who was asked how he lost his a small roller bearing for an I.B.M. cal- Why worry and suffer legs. "I didn't lose my legs," he replied. culator. A factory official had said it could any longer if we can help you? Try a Brooks Pat- "I traded them for a clear conscience." not be done by a man without hands. ented Air Cushion. This There was Sgt. Lonnie Carberry, bilateral The Legion team's story on employment marvelous appliance for arms above the elbows, who was shifted is not "hire the disabled." It is "hire the most forms of reducible I rupture is GUARAN- from Temple, Texas', to Walter Reed at capable." Mac and Herman undertook to TEED to bring YOU heavenly comfort and Washington and then to Pasadena Reg- prove by their own demonstrations the Security day and night — ional, California, trying various appliances capacities of amputees for many kinds of —at worK and at play—o_ it costs you NOTH- ING! Thousands happy. Light, neat- fitting. No and mastering them so well that he was work. They explained patiently to em- hard pads or springs. For men, women, and chil- dren. Durable, cheap. Sent on trial to prove it. chosen a "guinea pig" to try out the new ployers why the amputee is safer than any Not sold in stores. Beware imitations. of Write and better equipment being made at other employee, more accurate, painstak- for Free Book on Rupture, no- risk trial order plan, and proof of results. All Correspondence Northrup Aircraft. There was Marine Sgt. ing and reliable. When he learns a job Confidential. Lakemills, Wisconsin, the way, he doesn't forget. him- Brooks Company, 303-C State St.,Marshall.Mictt. Ted Jones of two hard Mac arms and one leg lost at Guadalcanal, self when he got back to Grand Forks, who got nationwide attention when Mrs. N. D., in 1919, found his family just too ^Scratching Roosevelt turned the bright light of pub- ready and willing to do things for him. Relieve Itch in aJiffy licity on him. Ted is back home, doing He used to get up at night, turn on the Sufferers from the torturing itch all right in the insurance business, mar- bathroom light, and practice dressing and caused by eczema, pimples, scales, ried and has a son. There were also plenty shaving when there was nobody around to scabies, athlete's foot, "factory" itch, and other itch troubles, are praising of fellows who needed a lot of encour- help. He wanted to be a complete person cooling, liquid D.D.D. Prescription. This time-proved medication—devel- oped by Dr. D.D.Dennis—pos: tively rel ieves that cruel, burning itch. Greaseless and stainless. Soothes and Comforts even the most intense itching in a jiffy. A 35c trial bottle proves its merits or your money back. Ask your druggist today for D. D. D. Prescription.

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*Sanforized- residual shrinkage less than 1 % by himself, not just half a person. He velopments see an unlimited field for im- REEVES BROS., INC. succeeded. Since then McGonegal has provement ahead with wear-proof and fool- 54 Worth St., New York 13.N.V. come a long way, and the straight-think- proof prostheses capable of speeding and ing, plain-speaking North Dakota farm easing the training which was pretty slow boy who was knocked almost out of this and hard for the earlier amputation cases. world the first day he went into action in They see the civilian amputees, who out- France in 1918. has been the central fig- number the military cases many times For Home Appliance, Auto and r i General Farm Equipment Repairs $23**® ure in a growing scheme of rehabilitation over, benefiting equally by each advance. IMMEDIATE DELIVERIES Com ,ete on Iron, Steel, & other P for World War II amputees. The team of Mac and Herman is now Works metals — does work you'd expect from . a 'larger, costlier machine; portable, easily 1 stories have been written about divided, McGonegal working for the Legion from ' Many carried : operates any properly wired

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. re-.nlv to operate h h« I rod.-, c;ible, etc. publications. Two motion pictures have the Army and Navy hospitals and are omplete wn met , instructions, SAVE TIME AND MONEY-IM votir own welding- n^t a few repair jobs will pav for this machine. A PRACTICAL AND PROFITABLE been built around him, "Meet McGonegal,'" civilians again. Prosthetic improvements, machine tool for any workshop. Make m..n<-v doing repair work for others. Write today for full particulars and 1 0-day FREE Trial OfTer. a Signal Corps film, and "No Help training and employment are the big, con- DYNAMIC WELDER CO. S&gOHsZR Wanted," a Legion film. An amputee has tinuing jobs. The road ahead for the arm- Ur III TINY POCKET SIZE neither time nor need for modesty. He less and legless is not easy. Work, patience, NEW RADIO! has to get over the idea that people are confidence and courage will always be Slips in your pocket or purse! Wt. only M lb. Complete ready looking at him. Mac got past that stage needed. The Legion amputee teams of to play as shown with self con- tained phone for personal use. years ago. Nevertheless he has a kind of 1943-46 did their bit to foster developing Beautiful black silver plastic case. No tubes, batteries or elec~ modesty concealed behind the front of a in the 25.000 cases the kind of stuff it trie plug-in required. Usually rehabilitation. takes receives local broadcasts with- "showman" and preacher of to make a whole man out of one out outside aerial wires. He thinks the great progress in prosthetic with a few parts missing. GUARANTEED TO WORK when connected and used according appliances, for example, is the achievement to instructions. Can he used in homes, hotels, cabins, in bed after hours, etc. of Dr. John J. Loutzenheiser of San Fran- dash, money order, check) and pay Send Only $1 postman $2.99 plus delivery fee on ar- cisco, erstwhile Lt. Col., Medical Corps, rival or send $3,119 for postpaid delivery. Ideal gift for children, or adults alike! Get your Pa-Kette radio now and Chief Orthopedic Surgeon at Ft. for real enjoyment. (Foreign ordern $j.00. t". S. cash with order.t PaKette Electric Co., Dept. AL-2, Kearney, Nebraska Douglas. It was Col. Loutzenheiser, says Mac, who got the idea that the mechanical advances in airplane construction might new CHEAP OIL BURNER FOR HEATING AND COOKING STOVES FURNACES be turned to account in building better arms and legs, and interested John K. NO MORE SHOVELING COAL Northrup in the project which has been OR ASHES. A New Fuelizer Starter Vaporizing System turns fostered by the National Research Coun- t Cheap 130 Flash Furnace Oil. Dis- ^ ti!late, Kerosene etc. into Oil Gas cil, originally financed by the American heat without clogging up. LIFETIME GUAR- ANTEE against defects. $1.0O Bonus Otter Legion Auxiliary, and carried on by for Testing. We will let you try it in your own stove or furnace for one month. Get yours for introducing. Big Northrup Aircraft. Profits QUICK. Be first. Send in your norne TODAY. NORTHWEST CO., 570 B, 5th, Mitchell, So. Dakota As a result of this work, new types of MFG. arms and hands, legs and feet are being made. Steel wire supplants old rawhide SHORTHAND in cables. Wrists and elbows are more flexi- ble, rotate farther and easier, and don't Weeks at Home catch or stick. Mac and Lonnie Carberry Famous Speedwritinc system. No signs or symbols; uses ABC's. Easy to learn; easy and others who are working on these de- to write and transcribe. Fast preparation for a job. Surprisingly low cost. lUO.OOO Uught by mail. Used in leading offices and Civil Service. Write for free booklet. February, 1947 51 SPEED WRITING, Dept. 9202-7. 55 W. 42 St.. N. Y. 18 ; — —

ben mit ranten und stampen, und mein Unter-kommandurs vas ge-snorten und fumen. Der Groupen-Kommandur bin ge- HflHGr m writen der groupen-order und preparen mit muchen maken-hasten. Suddener iss ge-comen der Amerikan- ischers mit boomen and zingen und grosser roughen-stuffen mit tankers und zoomers. Der Amerikanischers bin up-shooten der groupen und raus mit der Faderland! I'm Too Smart For 'Em old nondepreciable aside for a few minutes. Mein gunsers vas firen. Mein howitzers DON'T worry about me. I've got this Now we come to "Assets fully depre- und riflers vas up-broughten. Der stukas little old income tax business all fig- ciated in use at end of year". Urn! Assets vas uppen. Der Panzers—Ach! Der Group- ured out. Other people can go nuts trying fully depreciated. Something wrong there, en-Kommandur vas ge-caughten mit der to compile their returns, but not me. No yep, something wrong. Those little old Panzers downen! By Dave Morrah. siree. It's simple. I don't listen to all the assets can't very well be fully depreciated office experts with tips on how to save a and still be in use at the end of the year. few bucks here and a few bucks there. Ha! Catch question. Smart bunch of boys I don't buy any simplified book of in- they've got down there in Washington. structions. I don't hire any lawyers. Nope. Thought they had me that time. Ha! All I do is follow instructions. That's all. Thought they tripped me up, but I'm too Just follow those little old instructions on smart for 'em. Yep, too smart for 'em. Ha! that little old government form and sit Too smart for 'em, too smart for 'em, too back and wait for that little old refund smart for 'em . . . check. By David Stick To show how easy it is, let's take the section (or loss from business on "Profit ) Identification or profession". The first heading is "Cost you think of better names for them of goods sold". Now read the instructions: CAN than Harried Truman . . . Bob Hoke "To be used where inventories are an . . . Joke Benny . . . Burp Lahr . . . Funny income-determining factor. Enter the letters Brice . . . Moutha Raye . . . Mae Waist 'C or 'C or M' on lines 2 and 8 if in- . . . Dorothy Contour . . . Moody Vallee? ventories are valued at either cost, or cost —By Buster Rothman or market, whichever is lower." Let's see now. Cost, or cost or market. That ought to be easy. Cost, or cost or market. Well, Defeat Accounted For it so happens that I didn't buy any goods A STARTLING statement by Heinrich this year anyway, so I'll just skip over Rausvonhaus Von und Zu Schnitzel, that little old section. former German Field Marshal, has ex- Down further there's a section with a lot plained the crushing defeat suffered by of boxes and little lines drawn in the boxes. Germany in the Battle of Bad Neusehoff. See it there, right under "Explanation of Allied military experts long had been deduction for depreciation claimed in puzzled by the surprising lack of resistance schedules B and C". First you put down by the Nazis in this important engagement. the "Kind of Property". Now, that's simple German forces at Bad Neusehoff were isn't it? Then comes "Date acquired". See under the overall command of Field Mar- Ode To The Ominous Omnibus how simple it is. Just as easy as pie. shal Rausvonhaus whose statement, made Pray tell, why is it ever thus? While I waiting for a Next is "Cost or other basis (do not in- in an exclusive interview, follows: am bus clude land or other nondepreciable prop- Dot vas ein stormisch dawnen mit grosser Long moments pass with none in sight erty)". Let's see now. Nondepreciable. vind ge-blowen. Der Amerikanischer Then one appears—just when I light. Better get out the little old dictionary. feelerouten-snoopers bin ge-raisen der Robert R. Brogden Nondepreciable. Nondepreciable. Doesn't roofen mit grenaders und flamenspitters. seem to be listed. Well, we'll just put little Mein Groupen-Kommandur bin out-gaib- For the Record THE private waited patiently at the post hospital for the doctor's report—which wasn't long in coming. "Look!" gasped the soldier. "Whatever's wrong with me, gimme it straight! No long scientific names!" "All right, private," said the doctor. "You're just lazy!" "Thank you, sir. Now could I have the scientific name? I've got to report it to my Sarge." By Tom Gootee.

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Calendar Counsel girl who weds in chilly Jan. A Must show some warmth to get her man This does not mean that girls in Jul. Improve their luck by keeping cul. S. Omar Barker

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