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THE AMERICAN

SEE PAGE 16 MAGAZINE LET'S TELL OUR SERVICE STORY

By National Commander JOHN S. GLEASON Jr.

SEE PAGE 24 ?o\i)ev for War or Peace M if Im gla.d they BREWED IN THE GREAT TRADITION still brew a. beer like this! "^;//r

ONLY IN MILWAUKEE 0^ Miller Brewing Co.. Milw., Wis. STARTS PURCHASE OF YOUR OWN 'A AT FLORIDA SHORES IN THE CITY OF EDGEWATER NEW SMYRNA BEACH 2.6 Ml • More than 60 miles of streets already built • Police and fire Protection

• Scliools, Churches, Shopping right in City • Garbage Collection • Homes Built and Occupied • Model Homes and Builders • Building Restrictions • Park ond Pier on Intracoastal Waterway • Free Shuffleboard Courts • Lovely Lakes on Properly • $5,000 Homestead Exemption • Free TITLE INSURANCE • NO STATE INCOME TAX • NO CLOSING COSTS • MORE THAN 6,000SATISFIED PURCHASERS CITY LOTS... CITY CONVEN- IENCES. ..All lots at Beautiful Florida Shores are in the incorpo- rated limits of the City of Edge- water ... located right on U.S. Highway No. 1, less than 3 miles South of the City of New Smyrna Beach, and only 18 miles south of World Famous Daytona Beach. To-

day . . . Florida Shores residents are enjoying wonderful year-round living complete with police and fire protection, and all other municipal services of the City of Edgewater. INVESTMENT ... The population in this section of Florida continues JOB OPPORTUNITIES . . . Nearly 100

to climb at amazing rates. . . . New people in the Florida Shores area now Smyrna Beach has tripled its popu- commute along LJ.S. Highway No. 1 to the

lation since 1940 . . . and residen- GUIDED MISSILES BASE. New industry is tial growth in this area must come being induced to locate in New Smyrna at Florida Shores. At today's low Florida Shares Management has Beach . . . and of course the building prices, lots at Florida Shores repre- donated a spacious area at Florida trade continues to expand in this part of sent on INVESTMENT with excellent Shares for a future AMERICAN the State. chances of future gain. LEGION Post. Nearly 3,000 fam- LOT SIZES— PRICES—TERMS ... All lots

PERFECT FOR RETIREMENT . . . ilies now own property here, at FLORIDA SHORES are the some size, When you look for your retirement including Veterans of WW 1, WW 2 40 X 125 feet. The minimum homesite pur- homesite in Florida, you must con- and Korea. Formal donation cere- chase is two lots, but you can buy 3 or

sider location . . . the most impor- monies are now being completed. even 4 for more spacious living. All lots tant factor for retirement. At Florida are the some low, low price, just $545 Shores you ARE IN A CITY ... and each. Down payment is $10 for each lot close to churches, shopping, schools you buy . . . monthly payments are just and a brand new hospital. There 60-DAY MONEY BACK $10 for each lot you buy. BUT IT TAKES GUARANTEE are two wonderful ocean beaches JUST $5 PER LOT TO RESERVE YOUR nearby, and the free Florida Shores Every penny of your money PROPERTY TODAY! will be immediately refunded fishing and boating pier is right on if you ore not 100% solisfied

the picturesque Indian River . . . with this premium property. NOTICE OF PRICE INCREASE for considered the best fishing area In This refund is good 60 Effective April doys offer you send your Res- the state. The soil at Florida 15, 1958 the price of Shores ervation Coupon. No risk! is all lots at Florida Shores will be raised extremely fertile . . . grow any- You gel on excellent homesite $50 each. Thus the new price will be at FLORIDA SHORES. Don't, thing you wish. . . . IT'S THE PER- delay! ACT TODAY! FECT SPOT FOR HAPPY, ACTIVE $595 per lot. Reserve your land today AND CONTENTED RETIREMENT! and save $100 on a two lot purchase. FLORIDA SHORES REFERENCES • New Smyrna Beach Chamber of Commerce I • Bank of New Smyrna Beach FLORIDA SHORES, New Smyrna Beach 30, Florida

• Better Business Division, Miami-Dade Please assign to my name the number of lots I have checked below, and for which Chamber of Commerce t enclose a deposit of $5 for each tot. Please send me zoning chart showing clearly I • Dun & Bradstreet, Miami, Florida the location of my lots, subject to my approval, exchange, or refund of deposil. Minimum Maximum 160' I I 2 lots ot $545 3 lots at $545 40' 40' 40' 4 lots of $545 l40''40''40''40 Deposit $10 Deposit $1 5 Deposil$20 2 Houses Full price $1090 Full price $1635 Full price $2) 80 Permissible | I PAST COMMANDER STATES: D '1 have watched Florida Shores grow from the first day NAME I the engineers moved on the property. Today I am pleased (.Please print name (or names] exactly as it should appear on contract) to state that with its miles of wide beautiful streets, and

ADDRESS . its many recreational facilities, Florid3 Shores is becoming I the leading location for retirement, vacation and year- CITY STATE round living. I am looking forward to meeting many MINIMUM BUILDING PLOT IS 2 LOTS. ALL LOTS PRICE, $545. I Legionnaires as they take up residence at Florida Shores. SAME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE AFTER MAILING THIS COUPON C. C. Schaeffer. Past Commander L60-0AY American Legion Post 17 H mH jHIt HI IHI niiiii nm HH Bl HH Hil I Vol. 64, No. 4; April 1958

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Legionaires . . more spin fishermen than any other because it is, LEGION without qualification, the finest available — .1 at any price. MAGAZINE Cover by Richard Beattie Contents for April 1958

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Garcia tackle is responsible for more pure fish- CHECKMATE! by Col. Boris T. Pash 14 ing pleasure — because it gives you so much HOW THE SOVIETS TRIED TO TAKE OVER A CHURCH. more to enjoy. It carries the name recognized everywhere as The Best in fishing tackle. Whether you fish fresh or salt water—spinning "LET'S TELL OUR SERVICE STORY" by John S. Gleason, Jr 16 or baitcasting, Garcia makes the tackle best THE NATIONAL COMMANDER OUTLINES A PROGRAM. suited for your particular needs — see them all at your dealer. Garcia Mitchell, Abu-Matic, Ambassadeur FIRST SERGEANT DUTCH, USMC by H. B. Stowers 18 reels; Gold Bond rods; Abu reflex and other EVEN IN A PRISON CAMP THIS MARINE WASN'T INTIMIDATED. lures; Platyl monofilament and Ambassadeur lines. Write today for your copy of the new Garcia Fish- IN Frank RizzattI 22 ing Tackle Annual. 84 pages packed with fascinat- SOMETHING NEW SOUND by ing full-color illustrations and containing helpful SOON YOU'LL BE LISTENING TO STEREO PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. and enjoyable tips, articles and stories for all fishermen—beginners and veterans alike—only 25c. POWER FOR WAR AND PEACE by James N. Sites 24 THE IMPORTANCE OF ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIVING.

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EDITOR'S C O R I N E R

CIVIL LIBERTIES FOR ALL THE ENTIRE Nation was recently shocked to learn of a series of mur- ders, rapes, and assorted assaults on New York City school children perpetrated by teen-aged goons who are required by law to attend school, at least until they are eligible for unemployment relief. Not long ago public attention was focused on the problem by a grand jury, and once the lid was off, long-delayed action got principals She helps people find the products and services they want. Mrs. Vonna Shelton, telephone representative under way. Long-harassed and teachers turned in the names of more in Minneapolis, Minn., checks the advertisements business men have placed in the classified directory. than 600 chronic trouble-makers, and the PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANSEL ADAMS young thugs were immediately thrown out of the classes they had been keeping in a turmoil. This telephone girl This was doubtless good news to de- cent children and their troubled parents,

hut it didn't sit well with the American is a big lielp to businesses Ci\il Liberties Union. The bleeding hearts of the ACLU took time out from their campaigns in defense of obscene literature and people with communist her golf. When you think of a telephone and takes lessons to improve leanings and hastened to the aid of the woman you probably think of the Like so many folks in the telephone recn-aged gunmen and knife-fighters who operator. there are other had been tossed out of the schools. As the But many company, Mrs. Shelton has made a lot ACLU saw it, this action was a grave women at the telephone company who of her the job. friends—on own, and on miscarriage of justice because the courts do interesting and important jobs for ' had not ruled on the cases of the 600 I don't know of any other work," you. And they, too, have the "Voice >'oung thugs. Presumably the ACLU will she says, "that would bring me so close with a Smile." not be happy till their cases have been to all customers my neighbors. Our properly adjudicated in every court in For example, Vonna Lou Shelton get to think of us as their personal the land. Meanwhile, we assume that the

handles a very necessary service in the representatives. I like that a lot." ACLU will want the midget mobsters to keep use their garrison belts, zip guns, business man's world. She is one of and switchblade knives, and other toys fan- many women throughout the country cied by the "cool" element that infests who help different concerns plan and New York's blackboard jungles. place their advertising in telephone directory Yellow Pages. NEED MONEY? Friendliness, good judgment, and ARI'ADF.R lias sent us a clipping on follow-through have won for Mrs. the subject of modern art which Shelton the confidence of business \"ou may find interesting. It seems that an men who appreciate quick, competent Englishman named William Green has been quite successful with this medium, service and painstaking efficiency. and is getting $200 apiece for canvases Vonna Lou's life is filled with made as follows: "Spread a clean can\as on the floor, people. Among her principal ofF-the- job interests are her husband and Sunday School class. She's a program She has a loyal following in the "younger set."

/ »i r h chairman of a missionary society. Mrs. Shelton has a way with the children of the M a c 19^^ u'e pre- Sparks many a fund-raising cam- neighborhood which inspires a faithful attend- sented this paign. Goes to college to study piano ance at her class in Sunday School. cover, to slioxv men at ivork in the Krem- YEtlOW PAGES BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM lin . .

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puiir oil a mixture of paint and printer's ink, then shuffle over it to spread the color and finally give it pattern by criss-

crossing over it w ith a bicycle. After it's finished, soak the canvas in kerosene and

sprinkle it with sand to give it texture." This method is recommended for people who don't own artistic chimpan- zees who can do masterpieces of modern art with a brush and a dollar's worth of dime-store paints. Since kerosene is used

in the A\'illie Green method, the thing is flammable. However, if you whip up a modern painting, try to resist the impulse

to touch a match to it. There are a lot of people who are anxious to pay good money for this sort of thing. And who knows, you too might have your daubings displayed some day in the Museum of Modern Art! It has happened to things that certainly are worse than anything >'ou arc likely to produce.

HAPPY HAWAII A RECENT New York Thiies news story out of Hawaii reminded us of an article published in T/.ic A^nericaii Legion Magazine in October 1956. Titled This man is a "Security Risk" "Revolution in the Sun!" it told "How- Harry Bridges and his commie associates Age, 29. Married. Two children. High school education. have fastened a death-grip on the Ha- Active in local lodge, church, veterans' organization. waiian Islands." Describing how Bridges' goons of the I.L.W.U. wander at will Employed by large manufacturing concern. Earns $82 a week. through the halls of the Legislature of Hawaii, the author wondered at the pow - Sounds like an Average Joe. And he sure to be hurt. For an Average Joe er w ielded by Harry and his red pals. is. Too average! He's got a job. It can't exjiect to compete with trained Bringing all this to mind, the news pays fairly well. He's satisfied. men when the chips are down. story in question told how U.S. Attorne\- Louis B. Blissard had protested the nam- But here's the catch. With the right A man like this would do well to ing of an identified communist, one of kind of training, this young man start a planned program of self-im- Bridges' officials, to the Board of Directors could be stepping into better jobs. provement. In his spare time. In a of the Hawaii Red Cross. This fellow-, one He could be making $7-8000 a year. field related to his interests and abil- Newton Miyagi, has been identified as a He could be cashing in on those ities. Right NOW! communist by the Territorial Commission spare-time hours he now wastes. on Subversive Activities, and last year he One good way to start— a way refused to testify before the Senate In- As it stands now, he's stuck in his proved by hundreds of thousands of ternal Security Subcommittee when it job. Can't seem to make any head- once-Average Joes who are making was investigating reds in the Islands. way. 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Trophies. cards, like tobacco it- In the dear, dead days before radio, self, originated in this TV, talking movies, comics, and other Highly prized were pictures country. Cigarettes have latter-day recreations, poor boys were ot glamor girls such as this. been traced to Brazil, limited in their choice of hobbies. where about 1750 they Stamps and coins were too expensive and too hard to were known as papelitos. They became acquire. Besides, they still carried a slight taint of being popular in France around 1844 thanks sissy around the turn of the century. Shells, buttons, but- largely to Emperor Louis Napoleon who US fi»W terflies, and suchlike were for girls and women — not gave the innovation respectability by smok- PmvMi for boys. ing cigarettes himself. There was no solid, comforting treasure in all the From France and Austria cigarettes world like a bulging pocketful of cigarette cards show- spread to the Levant and became very pop- ing John L. Sullivan, Jake Kilrain, James Jeffries, Stan- ular with Turks, Greeks, and Armenians. ley Ketchel, Battling Nelson, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathew- British officers returning home from the son, and a hundred other heroes of that era. Life could Crimean War in 1857 popularized them be hard and drab in those days — the cards spelled roin England. From Britain they hopped mance, adventure, and color. Rare indeed was the boy (Continued on page 47)

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13 Checkmate i

HOW THE SOVIETS TRIED TO TAKE OVER THE JAPANESE

ORTHODOX CHURCH, USING "DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS."

By COL. BORIS T. PASH, ing up the steps of the political AUS (Ret.) apparatus. He always tried to appear friendly regardless of what he or his henchmen were plotting. He walked up to the group and greeted each of us with a smile and a comment in his very limited English. As he shook hands THERE IS GENERAL Dercvyanko with me, he said, more to the group than to heading toward us," I said to the me. "Ah, my good friend Colonel Pash has Belgian representative. "I can tell again checkmated me." Then he added in an that he has something on his mind. overfriendly voice, "Of course, you under- I was standing with some foreign rep- stand, I'm speaking of the game of chess." His resentatives at a reception at the Nether- expression and tone implied that only in chess lands Legation in Tokyo. The reception could I checkmate him. Everyone turned to was a usual one, but the day was signifi- me, waiting for my answer. My constant cant. It was Thursday, January 9, 1947. clashes with Derevyanko were well known in As Derevyanko reached our group, the Tokyo. Many of my friends had told me that stern expression on his face changed to since my arrival in Japan to take over as chief Maj.Gen. Paul J. Mueller, who a friendly smile. helj)ed Col. Pash foil the plot. of the Foreign Liaison Section in GHQ, the Lieutenant General Kuzma Derev- Soviet Mission's freewheeling tactics had been yanko was the Soviet member of the Allied Council to Japan. drastically curtailed. Officially, the Soviet Government had no mission in Japan My reply was not long in coming and, while directed at but was represented by Derevyanko who maintained a staff — Derevyanko, was made to the group as a concluding state- and what a staff! At its peak, the staff numbered about 450. ment to what Derevyanko had said. "I can assure you, gentle- Just what was the true identity of his staff personnel, we men, that the other times are in line of duty." When Derev- could only guess. yanko's face turned red and his lips moved rapidly before Derevyanko was a large man and very jovial by nature, but they showed any signs of a covering smile, I knew he realized he was shrewd and always scheming. He was a product of the that another "friendly game" was lost by him. Bolshevik Revolution and had reached his position by advanc- The Soviet group was unceasingly engaged in activities de- 14

I signed to break down the authority of General introduce advisers from Moscow or in which MacArthur, to infiltrate U. S. agencies, to they replace uncooperative native staffs with spread propaganda, to carry on subversive ac- native personnel trained in Moscow or by tivities, to gather intelhgence information, or Moscow agents. to embarrass the United States in any way. To Because of my lifelong knowledge of the

do this, it was necessary for the Soviet ma- Russian language and the Russians, I usually chine to maintain agents in Japan and to have dealt directly with Derevyanko or with his im- a base from which these agents could operate. mediate assistants. Thus we got to know their We found that the pattern in Japan was no needs, and through contacts with some of the

different from what it was in other countries. Soviet personnel it was possible for us to learn The Soviets have two methods to accomplish more about Soviet objectives and the methods

this job. One is to station extremely large num- used in accomplishing them. bers of people, most of whom are agents, at I also had a very fine opportunity to become embassies, missions, and other representations. personally acquainted with Derevyanko and to The other is to utilize an organization or sup- study him closely. We both enjoyed playing port a cause through which they can either chess. At our first encounter in chess we played

three games, and I won all three. The entire diplomatic group learned of this the next day. After that Derevyanko would not let a chance go by without challenging me. These contacts gave me added opportunities to study the personal characteristics of Derevyanko. Having experienced previous Soviet

attempts to pull a fast one, I was not sur- Lt. Gen. Deievyanko, prised when Derevyanko wrote me a let- the ciaftv head red. ter containing a new twist. It was a request for an entry permit for two bishops from Moscow and a secretary (male); Some of the key staff their mission supposedly was "to assist members at the Soviet (Continued on page 42) Embassy in Tokyo. 15 Let s Tell

By JOHN S. GLEASON Jr.

NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION

IMPORTANT STEPS TO A GOOD POST SERVICE PROGRAM

Systematic interviews of all local veteran families. A A permanent card file of local veterans and basic facts about them.

BESOLUTiON 594 of the 1957 national convention of The Service to local veterans, their widows and orphans is the American Legion cautioned our posts not to "neglect" greatest community service any post can render.

. the needs of local veterans and their families. It stated Yet in many localities it appears that no more than a frac- that the veterans service program of each post demands the tion of the veterans seek out our post service officers when constant attention of the post commander and the full mem- they need their help. It doesn't occur to them. Sometimes bership of the post. it doesn't occur to our own members—even our own officers. Why the need of a resolution, passed by our own dele- Last summer, a founder and past commander of an eastern gates, applying the word "neglect" to our post rehabilitation American Legion post dropped government life insurance work, and charging the entire post with responsibilities that that was worth a large sum to him, because he could no longer

are often delegated solely to the post service officer? pay the premiums. He did this without talking it over with Certainly every post has appointed a service officer in ful- his post service officer.

fillment of its pledge to assist its members, as well as all other Luckily, a service officer discovered what he had done, by veterans and their families. mere chance. With just one day's grace left to save the policy

In naming a service officer, each post creates the most vital it was restored, premium payments were stopped, and the link in a nationwide network of American Legion services veteran began getting monthly payments from his insurance. to America's veterans. The service officer knew that this member's particular cir- You as a post member, and the veteran down the street, cumstances entitled him to start drawing benefits from his have the entire national rehabilitation service of The Ameri- insurance. But the veteran did not, and the Veterans Admin- can Legion at your command through your post service istration did not tell him so when he mistakenly decided to officer. cancel his policy. Through him you provide your community with the most The adjutant of a midwestern post struggled with the unique service that The American Legion has to offer. problem of a close relative who had been discharged from 16 Our Service Story"

It hurts your post to underplay its most important program.

nager Coiibidine, who was drivin-,' the corrii: squad car, turned in front of the Elect (Continued on Page 6 Col. 7) there later .scope LegionWarnsVets Th serve Stam onPensionForms L o n ringt Local veterans were reminded tricit yesterday by J. F. Roe, Com- with mander of American Legion Post Light 52, that those who get pension Mane income forms from the VA this town month should file them promptly propo in order to protect their rights Given Commander Roe stated that Cla; regulations require the VA to of the suspend payments if the forms pany, are not properly filled out and he wi returned. office Post service officer Dick Doe propo will assist any veterans or wid- donat ows who need help with the The forms, Commander Roe stated. propo Doe may be reached between suitat 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. weekdays at serve ilk

A An aggressive post service committee to keep the program at a peak. Local publicity from your post about vets' benefits. A

service in a mentally ill condition. Only after two years did If we are not reaching the public with our most important he mention it to a Legion service officer—who immediately program we need look no further for the answer to many got Veterans Administration care for the relative through other problems with which our posts sometimes struggle, such Legion channels that stretched across half the continent. as membership. A west coast Legionnaire recently wrote across the country Any community whose citizens aren't conditioned to think to a national American Legion office to ask if he might be of their Legion post when they need its help is a community

entitled to a veteran's pension. He need only have asked his that is not Legion-conscious; and that's poor soil for a post post service officer. to grow and prosper in. Similarly, hundreds of Legionnaires write each year to In any such town, the most immediate problem of the distant offices for badly needed information or advice that entire post, which the commander should bring forcefully

they can get in their own posts. Usually, they only write home to the whole membership, is to expand its veterans' when their particular problems have bothered them for a service program. To do this two major aims must be met. long time. First, the post must take the necessary steps to see that its There must be a remarkable defect in the pattern of the pledge of service to veterans and their families is impressed veterans service program of many of our posts when our upon everyone in town.

members, even the officers and past officers of our posts, Second, it must be ready with an enlarged service program don't call on our service officers when they need them. to meet the added calls on the post for help that such a cam- This defect is even more forcefully impressed upon us by paign will attract. the much larger number of non-Legionnaire veterans and Since many posts do have such programs, while many their families who—when in need of help—don't seem to know others do not, how can every member recognize whether or

where to look for it, or even that it exists. not his own post's program fills the bill? PHOTOS BY DANNY LEO Robert M. McCurdy, of Call- (Continued on page 45) 17 USMC

EVEN THE TOUGHEST LEATHERNECKS OF THE ''OLD MARINE CORPS"

RECOGNIZED THE HARD-BITTEN SERGEANT AS A MASTER.

By H. B. STOWERS 1st Sgt. Frank Miller, USMC

WAS A STAFF NONCOM with three hashmarks, and con- from a light Nordic pink to an outraged scarlet. His white- I sidered myself to be pretty salty when I first met Dutch. hot blue eyes, framed in a network of seagoing wrinkles, Of course I had heard of him; the Corps was only about would snap and sparkle like lights from the Aurora Borealis. half the size of the New York Police Department at that time, A bulbous, knoblike nose, crisscrossed with startling veins and the word got around. In the eyes of Dutch, though, I and scars, would change from a beery rose to an unbeliev- was only a "boot," and he minced no words in informing able purple. An underslung, bulldog chin, followed up with me about the height of my niche on the post totem pole when waves of minor chins, would quiver, jut forth, and trigger I reported to him at the American Legation Guard, Tientsin, off barrages so salty that even the longest-dead first sergeant China, on a cold, blustery November day in 1940. probably stirred in admiration from his grave. Victims of The burly first sergeant had 28 years of service, not count- direct hits from such barrages never forgot their intensity — ing the hitch he did in the Prussian Army before he came to nor their effectiveness. The words, per se, were hard to un- the United States and made his way as unerringly as a hom- derstand, but the messages were as distinct as ten-foot letters ing pigeon to the U. S. Marine Corps. projected on a huge screen. Dutch was a huge barrel of a man, close to 240 pounds, Company commanders loved Dutch, for once he took over bald as an onion. And when he became enraged, as he did as first sergeant of a company, the company commander's many times each day, his bald pate would quickly change troubles became negligible. A man with problems seldom got 18 further than the first sergeant. He ran a taut ship, but even recting the culprit to "volunteer" ten dollars of his pay to that trenchant nautical phrase is inadequate for describing be placed in savings on the "books." In those days the the manner in which Dutch performed his duties. He was Marine Corps encouraged men to save money by deposit-

everywhere, at ail hours, prowling like a restless, lost soul; ing it on the pay records, to draw four percent interest, outraged from his position in the professional stratosphere at and to be withdrawn only at the expiration of the marine's the inept stupidity and errant behavior of the new generations enlistment. Many of the slower to learn found themselves of marines. Bathed in a burning zeal, no doubt dictated by with sizable savings, all "saved" through Dutch's method the ghosts of departed great marines ever perched on his burly of punishment for minor infractions of discipline and shoulders, he accepted those dictates with a fervor matched conduct. only by a missionary who goes forth alone and unarmed Always in a crowd, but in a manner always alone, the into a tribe of savage headhunters. old campaigner was probably unaware of the growing First Sergeant Dutch started each day before four tension during the fall of 1941. The international situa- o'clock, and rarely slept before midnight. Cooks go- tion was grave, as one could tell by listening to the radio ing on watch were generally the first to get a for- commentators or reading the newspapers. Thus, on the ward thrust, an infusion of energy, and to en- morning that Japan started the United States into the great counter the vitriolic tongue of the energetic war, Dutch started the day by thoroughly chewing out top kick, especially if they were as much Corporal Joe Galewski, cook on watch, for drowsily open- as one minute late in opening the galley ing the galley two minutes late. After he thoroughly and commencing breakfast for the awakened the sleepy cook with a brisk verbal lashing, the ever-hungry troops. On cold, stormy nights Dutch would volunteer assistance to the officer of the day and the sergeant of the guard, though never bothering to inform those officials. He knew that miserable, half-frozen sentries were often prone to seek out a sheltered cove and ride out the storm more comfortably than on the charted course. Often during such nights on the "dead man's watch," half of the garrison would be awakened by the roars of the first sergeant as he berated a lax sentry. Though few of the men realized the fact, the punishment meted out by Dutch never hurt a man's service record nor resulted in confine- ment on bread and water in the post brig. His punishment was strictly limited to "tongue lash- ings" or at the most, di- S

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McOERMOTT old warrior thought that at such a cold, snow-banked, predawn hour, at least one of the sentries would be caulk- ing off. He was bulldozing through the snow in search of such a malefactor when, through the swirling snow in the dim predawn light, he noted hundreds of Japanese soldiers perched on the 50-foot Tartar Wall surrounding the Lega- tion Compound. At the time Pearl Harbor was being bombed into flam- ing shambles, Dutch scampered grimly up the wall ramp and confronted the Japanese soldiers. He strode angrily up and down the rows of Nipponese, gesticulating, threat- ening, cursing, and demanding that they leave their un- authorized position forthwith. For the first time in his long career Dutch was ignored. Finally, livid with rage, and snorting, "Der Old Man vill hear about dis right now," he descended the ramp and headed for the commanding officer's quarters. The commanding officer had already heard, and a mus- ter was being called as Dutch stormed up to the office. We manned our battle stations. 50 against the entire North China Expeditionary Force which numbered more than a quarter of a million well-armed troops, and waited for the show to get on the road. Only the commanding officer knew that there would be no show; one shot would doom the women, children, and State Department personnel the marines were there to guard. None of us had ever heard of a marine surrendering without firing a shot, but \Ve saw Old (.l(>i\ haulctl down and the Japanese Hag laiscd that is what we did. We wept as (Continued on page 54)

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with our North Atlantic allies?

(PRO) Should we share atomic in- (CON) I do not believe it wise for the formation with our North Atlantic United States to share all atomic se- allies? crets with our allies.

I say "yes."

Past experience has shown that shar-

It was, I think, Dr. Edward Teller ing has meant giving away. Loose who made up an atomic alphabet, a security measures on the part of other portion of which went something like nations have allowed secrets to leak this: to the Soviets and have erased years 'S is for Secret. You can keep it forever. of leadership built up by expenditure of vast amounts 'If the other fellow is not sufficiently clever." of our money and the work of our dedicated scientists. It is tragic that priceless knowledge gained through overwork which killed Dr. Fermi, after he had in eff^ect The Russians have certainly shown themselves to revolutionized the concept of energy through the atom- be sufficiently clever. U. S. secrecy does not keep the ic pile, should have been passed on to communism Russians from finding out the secret. What it does is through Dr. Fuchs and lax British security measures. force our friends to make a considerable effort, which costs money and uses scarce scientific personnel, to find out for themselves. Also, the word "ally" today has lost much of its meaning. Unstable governments in other countries destroy the firmness of pacts which make them our Now, we — by which I mean NATO as a whole — do allies. France, whose governments have risen and not have so much money and so many scientists that then been cut down by the scythe of instability, can we can afford this kind of wasteful duplication. We surely not be considered a fit recipient for scientific have got to pool our scientific resources just as we knowledge that we have spent billions to secure. Who have already pooled our military resources. What is knows what day the communists themselves might often overlooked by opponents of this kind of arrange- take over the government of France, and even in a ment is that the United States stands to gain a great brief interval unravel the cloak of secrecy which must deal from the work of European scientists. protect our atomic know-how?

It is ridiculous to refuse to tell our friends what The tendency of our allies to depend on us finan- our potential enemies obviously know already, and cially means that we are in reality now paying for much atomic information is in this category. their atomic research projects. Britain recently discovered heavy water secrets which may open the door to harnessing hydrogen, most plentiful of the So far as nuclear weapons themselves are concerned, elements. Yet, almost the next day the Chancellor of the more they are refined and adapted to tactical use, the Exchequer announced they would again ask to the more unrealistic it becomes to try to distinguish postpone $134,400,000 in payments due us. between nuclear and conventional weapons.

The tendency of our allies to veer toward neutral- Nuclear weapons are becoming conventional, and ism, to promote economic bargaining with commu- so-called "conventional" weapons are becoming obso- mism, and to show genuine distaste for maintenance lete. American troops have nuclear weapons. We of their shares of mutual military preparedness, in should not ask European troops to fight, and perhaps my mind makes them poor risks for information die, alongside the Americans if the Europeans are that may preserve the future existence of our deprived of the same weapons. Nation.

Theodore F. Green (D), U. S. Senator from Rhode Island Henry C. Dworshak (R), U.S. Senator Irom Idaho THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 • 21 By FRANK RIZZATTI

FEW YEARS AGO the country was swept by a craze for three- a dimensional pictures, thanks largely to a number of spectacular movies, notably the Cinerama films. For a time theaters were jammed with spec- tacled spectators enjoying the novelty of various Hollywood stereo films, and then interest waned abruptly. However, the craze caused a lot of people to take up stereo picture-making and the "two- eyed" cameras that mark the stereo amateurs are a common sight today. Now we are on the verge of a similar development in the field of sound. Thanks again to the motion pictures, omething OTiW a which have been conditioning the public to stereophonic or three-dimensional sound, there is a new craze in the mak-

ing which is likely to reach into every American home within a very few years.

This prediction is fairly safe because so

many homes are ready for it, with basic equipment in the way of high-fidelity sound apparatus. Add to this basic equipment a few accessories, and you will be able to hear recordings (already in pro- There is a new craze in the — duction) which provide "the most real- making istic sounds ever," with both your ears functioning normally. based on stereo phonograph records In other words, you will be able to

hear an orchestra just as it sounds to the listener in a concert hall, or an oper- which provide amazing realism. atic company as it sounds at the Metro- politan. Haven't we been doing this all along, in listening to present-day records being played on good hi-fi equipment?

Not at all, since nearly all reproduced sound comes. More subtly, it permits us music (even that from radio or TV) to visualize, mentally, the correct rela- comes to us through a single transmis- tionship in space between the various sion path or channel, monaurally, as if elements of complex sounds, such as intended for only one ear. Our second those emitted by a full symphony or- ear, although listening, serves only to chestra. amplify the sound a little, since it hears Working on this principle, movie essentially the same thing heard by the sound technicians have provided real- other. istic stereophonic sound to go with the

We do not always hear the same thing big screens now in use, and it is this with both ears, just as we do not see same principle that is being employed exactly the same thing with both eyes. to provide stereophonic sound for home Our left eye sees a little more around enjoyment. to the left of an object while the right At this point, a clear distinction is eye sees a little more around to the right. necessary between two words that you The two images are superimposed by the will hear mentioned frequently in this brain and this gives us binocular or new world of sound. One is "binaural" stereo vision, so that we see things "in and the other is "stereophonic." They Some stations broadcast the same the round." are often used interchangeably, not al- program on AM and FM, and you Our two ears do not function exactly ways correctly, even by engineers. Our can get a stereo effect by listening with as do our two eyes, but the reasons for hearing is truly binaural. More or less separate .\iM and FiVI receiving sets. having a pair of ears are pretty much common agreement decrees that bin- the same. Each ear picks up a slightly aural sound reproduction is that which originally by the left or right micro- different pattern of sound from that is picked up by two microphones, trans- phone, as the case may be. The micro- picked up by the other. The difference mitted through separate channels, arriv- phones are usually spaced a distance between the two patterns enables us to ing finally through headphones, so that equal to the distance between our own determine the direction from which the each ear hears only the sound picked up ears. 22 \^ lEFT SPEAKER

This method offers the closest approx- imation to "live" hearing. Stereophonic sound differs from bin-

aural in two major respects. There is a good deal more flexibility with regard

to mike placement, and the sound is finally reproduced through suitably placed loudspeakers. The effects of the two systems are not the same, but the conveniences of stereophonic sound

make it far more attractive. The advent and increasing popularity of reasonably priced home tape recorders has been the most stimulating factor, during the past year or two, toward exciting the recording industry's interest in stereo reproduction. Practically all of the record companies have been recording with stereo apparatus for some time, and nearly all have issued stereophonic tapes of major works. These have been immensely popular with audiophiles but have generally been considered too ex- eproducer selling for $1830. pensive for large-scale acceptance by

the public, because the cost is usually

two or three times greater than it would be for the same music offered monaurally on LP discs. Tape has many inherent advantages,

however, and experts feel that it will continue in favor where the ultimate in

reproduction is required. Among other

things, tape is generally considered to be quieter, capable of higher fidelity

through greater frequency range, and it has less distortion. It also offers longer life since many playings have no ap- Heart of the stylus preciable effect on it. On the other hand, cartridge, shown at top ol page. Coils on frame are at 45° merchandising experts feel that tape is angle to vertical axis of groove. not quite convenient enough in its handling qualities to interest a really large

segment of the public. It is only fair to point out, however, that large portions of the same public have been buying, and presumably using, roll-film movie cameras for a long time. These are certainly not any easier, if as easy, to load and manipulate than a tape recorder. Audio Fidelity was first to Although fair-quality home-type tape offer discs using Westrex system. (Continued on page 53) 23 This aluminum tail section of a Redstone missile could not have been made without tremendous power resources.

You can see electricity at work in this flash butt %velding machine. It is welding titanium at 3200 degrees F. for use in jet aircraft.

By JAMES N. SITES packets of current. Battlewagons, as floating powerhouses. ARTIME FIGHTING MEN may As Washington defense planners are have thought they were shoot- all too well aware, without fabulous ing enemy troops when they amounts of electricity to power the let loose a barrage of bullets and shells. sprawling industrial complex behind our

But as much as anything they were out Armed Forces, we might still be using to electrocute the enemy. blowguns and bows and arrows. Navies For the explanation behind this seem- could sail off to war on rafts and dug- ing fantasy, you have to go all the way out canoes. And as for the Air Force- back to homefront industries, and to the well, there just wouldn't be any! giant role that electric power plays in All this may add up to an extreme role producing military equipment. This picture. But it is certainly doubtful that is so basic, in fact, that guns can readily military equipment would now be much

be pictured as ripping out charges of different from Napoleon's day if the electricity. Missiles, as bolts of lightning. world since had not gone electrical in Atomic bombs, as superconcentrated a big way.

This electric furnace is used jnimarily Electricity has sparked more than to make stainless and other alloy steels. radical changes in defense, of course. AND Peace

Electrified Iioiiics make iin)dei ii housekeeping a pleasure. INDEX 1926

Without abundant power, America's much to the advancement of the human

factories could turn out only a fraction race, or is so directly indicative of the of the diverse and wonderful products status of a civilization, as man's use of that go into our high standards of living. mechanical power." A raft of appliances lightens the house- And electricity is the essential driving wife's work, makes the modern home force behind productive machinery. In

as comfortable as a castle. Electricity all nations industry rests firmly on an puts the streamlining into office pro- electrical foundation — and nowhere cedures, the gleam into our stores, and more so than here in the United States. the sparkle into our cities. Surprisingly, this force which gives This indispensable spark of modern each worker the muscles of a Hercules

life is put into perspective by Frederick has seen use for only a little more than Stueck, vice chairman of the U. S. Fed- a century. In 1831 the first rnechanical eral Power Commission, who declares: dynamo was demonstrated by Michael "No single factor has contributed so Faraday. And just 75 years ago Thomas Edison started up the nation's first central power station at Pearl Street in New York City. Some fantastic growth has been chalked up by electric utilities since that time. Use soared as the electric power grid spread out over the country and reached into practically every home, store, and factory. From 75 kilowatt- hours in 1900, power use per person zoomed to 4,000 kilowatt-hours today. This plant owned by In- In the past 40 years alone population diana-Ken tuck) Electric has increased by 70 percent, but power Corj). supj)Iies power for consumption has boomed at 20 times the Atomic Energ\ C^om- this rate. mission's plant at Ports- Nor is the end to this phenomenal month. Ohio, shown at right. expansion anywhere in sight. In fact we all are shifting increasingly toward (Continued on page 49) 25 AMERICA'S MOST UNUSUAL War Trophy

The loser in a little-known naval battle of

World War II is now beached on Chicago's lakefront.

THE BEGINNING: The V-505 was commissioned on August 26, 1941, at Hamburg, Germany. ^

By IRVING HERSCHBEIN

iTTiNG HIGH AND DRY OH the lakefront J^J* behind Chicago's Museum of Science

and Industry is the former German submarine U-505. The loser of one of the most dramatic naval engagements of World War

II, it is now one of the most popular ex- hibits at this world-famous museum.

The U-boat is also a unique memorial ". dedicated . . to the memory of the Amer- ican seamen who went down to unmarked ocean graves helping to win victory at sea." The series of events which brought the submarine ashore in Chicago 12 years after (Continued on page 40)

When the sub's engines were stopped she A fightei plane .•,\\ee}>s b\ oxei licad as tlie escort carn'ei GuntlaUandl settled low in the water in to the the moves low abandoned and sinking U-505. Meanwiiile and the boarding j)arty destroyer escorts pitlted up the submarine's crew trom the water. I bought she was about to sink under them.

After completing temporary salvage measures, the task On June 26, 1954, the U-y05 began the last leg of her trij) to group, with the sub in tow, began a 1,700-mile voyage the permanent berth at the Museum of Science and Industry. to Bermuda to preserve the secret of the capture. 26 ...... ,

TAX DEDUCTION FOR LEGION OFFICIALS CITED: The leading veterans organizations, including "Newsletter" is getting many requests to cite The American Legion, testified on their fund- the specific ruling which permits unpaid officials raising activities at the hear ings .. .But probably of the American Legion to deduct from taxable the most interest was stirred up by NAVEC (National income as charitable contributions their Ass'n of Veterans' Employment Counselors) .. .That legitimate travel expenses when officially group is most familiar as a mailer of unsolicited representing the Legion -- to the extent not ball-point pens, claiming that profits go to compensated by the Legion. support a nationwide organization engaged in

"Newsletter" is advised that the citation is: finding jobs for disabled veterans. . .Both the IRS: Rev. Rul. 57-527. 7-15-57. President's Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped and the national American Legion have * * * * disavowed any connection between NAVEC and WHAT TO DO WITH FOUND DISCHARGES: themselves, as a result of numerous queries to both If you find the military discharge of someone the President's Committee and the Legion. is be congratulated on . . The to unknown to you, what should you do with it? . House Committee That question has been asked more than once of its invesigtation, and when its hearings are "Newsletter," by those who realize that a lost published they should be widely publicized. discharge may be very important to the lose r of it

Answer : The various branches of the Armed Fo rces w ill r eceive found d ischarges and attempt to HOW DUAL COMPENSATION LAWS AFFECT re turn them to the owners . . .They may be sent to RETIRED MILITARY PERSONNEL TODAY: whichever of the following addresses that is Challenges and appeals of the "dual appropriate, with a covering letter saying: "The compensation" laws that restrict gov't employment enclosed discharge has been found and is forwarded of those who get military retirement pay have left to your department for disposition." many who are concerned with this question in doubt Army -- Send to: The Adjutant General, of the current situation ... (Dual compensation Department of the Army, Washington 25, D.C. laws restrict what a person who gets retirement pay Navy -- Send to: The Chief of Naval Personnel, from the government can earn by actively working

Department of the Navy, Arlington Annex, Arlington, for the government in a new capacity. ) Virginia Air Force -- Send to: Director of Military The American Legion Economic Commission has Personnel, Department of the Air Force, Washington advised "Newsletter" that the current situation is 25, D.C. as follows; assuming in each case that the Marine Corps -- Send to: Director of individual is drawing military retirement pay: -- Personnel, Headquarters U .S . Marine Corps, 1. Retired enlisted man no limitation on Washington 25, D.C. his earnings in government employment.

2. Re serve o ffic er , retired as a reservist, * * * * who maintains a reserve status -- no limitation. INVESTIGATING THOSE WHO RAISE FUNDS 3. Retired office r of the regula r se rvic e IN THE NAME OF AMERICA'S VETERANS: whose retirement is for disability incurred in The House Committee on Veterans Affairs of the combat or by an instrumentality of war in line of U.S. Congress has been conducting current hearings duty -- no limitation. on various groups which solicit money from the 4. Regular of fic er retired for reasons of public for the reason or pretense that it will be injuries or incapacity incurred in line of duty

used to assist needy veterans . other than in combat or by an instrumentality of Untold millions have been raised from the war -- combined income limitation of 8.10,000 total general public in the name of veterans since WW2. military retirement pay and annual earnings in

. . . Some has gone 100% to the cause for which it gov't employment.

was raised. . .Some has been used partially for the 5 . Retire d r egula r officer or wa rran t officer benefit of worthy war veterans while the balance not retired for disability -- cannot hold a federal -- often large sums -- has merely paid huge fund- job if combined income exceeds $2,500. (Some ra ising costs sometimes at fancy salaries or exceptions, including Presidential appointments.)

commissions . . . and there have been thousands of rackets which have used none --or only a token -- of the funds raised for the benefit of veterans... 5TH FIELD ARTILLERY ASKS FORMER Probably the rackets and semi -rackets have raised MEMBERS TO PROVIDE HISTORICAL DATA: most of the money, as they tend to use more pressure The 5th Field Artillery seeks to enlarge its and, not being sincerely interested in an.ything historical files .. .Specif ically it wants but the buck, have made the most extravagant information and/or photos of former officers claims sergeant majors or first sergeants, for any

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • Al'RIL l'J58 • 27 ...... s . . .

period from 1900 to the present .. .Former members MISCELLANEOUS FACTS ON VETERANS BENEFITS who may have such data, about themselves or others, SOME OF WHICH MAY APPLY TO YOU: and wish to help, should write: M/ Sgt Philip J. A. Here, briefly stated, are nine points related

MacDonald: Svc. Btry. 1st FA Bn (Rkt / How) : 5th to veterans benefits and rights, some of which may

Artillery : Fort Rilev. Kans affect you:

* * * * 1 . A state veterans bonus does not count as COLLECTORS OF MILITARY INSIGNIA income that disqualifies veterans from receiving HAVE THEIR OWN SOCIETY; PUBLICATIONS: pension Persons interested in collecting, or 2 . Paid-up service life insurance policies accumulating information on, military insignia and continue to share in dividends, matured polices military heraldry, may be glad to know that there do not. is an American Society of Military Insignia Collectors ... Society publishes an informative 3. Veterans entitled to VA medical care cannot quarterly magazine for its members, called "The go to a private doctor and have him bill the VA, Trading Post", catalogs all known distinctive without VA approval. . .But emergency private care military insignia. . .For more details, write: Lt for service-connected affliction may, under some

. . ry, Col Be a trice M Dare . Secret a American Society circumstances, be paid for by VA if it is notified of Military Insignia Collectors^ 707 Fifth promptly (usually within 72 hours.)

Ave . . Spokane 4 . Washington

* * * 4. Many veterans who are clearly entitled to various benefits are walking the streets in

VETS PREFERENCE IN GOV'T JOB RETENTION ignorance of them. . .Latest to come to DURING LAYOFF UPHELD BY APPEALS COURT: "Newsletter's" attention is a WWl vet who was cut When a gov't agency has to reduce its staff, off of 10% service-connected compensation in the veterans cannot be bumped ahead of non-veterans in Economy Act of 1933 . . .He thought that was that, not their own categories the U.S. Court of Appeals of knowing the Economy Act had been whipped in 1934. . the District of Columbia has ruled, in a 2-1 A Legionnaire friend has just steered him to a decision. . .That action was the first court test of Legion service officer, and his clear right to the job-retention rights of veterans under the compensation and medical care has been restored. Veterans Preference Act with his disability now 60^. However, the dissenting judge -- E. Barrett Prettyman -- urged the non-veterans involved in the 5. Many cases are again cropping up in which a veteran dies without changing the beneficiary of case to appeal it to the Supreme Court. . .His dissenting opinion stated that it was his service life insurance as he would unconstitutional for the Congress to specify what unquestionably have wanted to change it. . .If your individuals the executive branch of the government beneficiary of record isn't the one you now want it

to be you should change it now. . .Even those in the may employ. . .And he interpreted the job-retention , aspects of the Veterans Preference Act as a best of hea lth are still being massacred by specification of individuals to be employed. automobiles, tornadoes, short circuits, desperadoes, etc., without enough warning to

The U.S. Constitution does not empower the execute a change of beneficiary. . .VA must pay the Congress to press individuals upon the executive stated beneficiary, even if it is a person no branch, but specifies that Congress may direct, by longer closely connected with you. law, the procedures of gov't employment. 6. All holders of service life insurance can When it comes to hiring gov't employees, the save money by paying their premiums annually Civil Service law employs the "rule of three". . .It instead of at shorter intervals. requires agencies to hire one of the top three candidates on the register for any particular job. 7. WWl vets whose income is now reduced should ...This avoids the constitutional question that be aware of the basic qualifications for a a law requiring the employment of the top one on the veteran ' Part III pension . . .Ask your service register would raise -- as it gives agencies a officer to apply for one if (a) you have some small choice degree of disability and (b) you are no longer

^ ^ ^ ^(i working or are only able to do minimal work, and (c) your present income is under (if you are BLIZZARD $2700 SLOWS SOME VA supporting a wife or minor child) or $1400 if you INSURANCE CORRESPONDENCE: are not supporting a wife or minor child. . .Your The VA had 1.3 million veterans' insurance chances of qualifying will be pretty good. . .Some records loaded in trucks in Washington in February may not make it, depending on VA's estimate of their when blizzard with combined snowfall, high wind a present employability and low temperatures seldom seen in the east crippled transportation along the eastern seaboard 8. Youn g veterans may also qualify for pensions for a week .. .Result : A quick shift of the under the same conditions, except their Washington VA insurance records to the Philadelphia disabilities must be much more severe. VA office in a consolidation-of -records operation bogged down. . .Which may explain why some veterans 9. Veterans eligible for compensation who are temporarily getting slow answers on insurance could also qualify for pension may choose either. . . correspondence with either the Washington or Pension rate of $66.15 a month is more than rate for

Philadelphia offices. . .Such a delay triggers a 30% compensation ... Pension for those over 65, or 10 chain reaction slowdown that may last for some time, years on rolls, is $78.75, or more than for 40% due to an accumulation of backlog. compensation

2g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 .

NEWS o/n-^-mertcan Legion and Veterans' Affairs

younger groups account for the higher Group Insurance for Members amount of insurance they can get for a flat $12 a year. Okayed by Nat'l Legion Body Low Cost Low cost is a feature of all group in-

Something new was authorized to be through age 34, and decreasing amounts surance, and the Legion plan is no ex- added to the privileges of membership of insurance for the same low annual ception. The cost is well below that of in The American Legion, at a special rate as they get older. individual term insurance — common meeting of the National Executive Com- This permits the most insurance for form of low-cost family insurance. mittee, in Washington, D. C, on Feb- members with growing families and re- For example, for the 30 years from ruary 22. duced insurance in later years as their age 30 to 59, individual rates for term On that date a plan to make group children grow up. The amount of insur- insurance offered by the same company life insurance available to members of ance could be kept at $4,000 for all would make the same protection cost The American Legion was approved. members only by charging substantially $132.45 more than under the Legion The insurance would be at a flat rate higher rates or increasing the annual group plan. (Actually, indi\idual term of $12.00 a year (except in New York rate steeply with age. insurance is not offered in amounts less and Puerto Rico, where local law re- Favorable experience after the plan than $5,000 by Occidental.) quires a payment of $16.00 for the first has been in operation might permit The comparative figures are: policy year). broader benefits in the future. Mean- Legion group plan, total cost for the

The amount of insurance would range while, the plan allows the following in- 30 years . . . $360.00. from $4,000 at age 34, or younger, to surance for $12 a year under the basic Same coverage at individual term in- lesser amounts with increased age, as group policy: surance rates, total cost for the 30 vears

detailed below. Age through 34 $4,000 . . . $492.45.

The plan is voluntary with each mem- Age 3.5 through 44 2,2.50 The insuring of a large number of ber of The American Legion. Age 45 through 54 1,100 people under a single group policy cuts When the National Executive Com- Age 55 through 59 600 administrative costs, and is one of the mittee okayed the plan, National Com- Age 60 through 64 400 chief factors in lowering the cost of in- mander John S. Gleason, Jr., ordered it Age 65 through 69 250 surance to members of special groups. to be put into effect as soon as possible, Age 70 Insurance terminates. Total cost for Legion members under so that group insurance would be avail- Fewer deaths each year among the (Continued on next page) able to Legion members this Spring.

It was estimated that it would take about a month for administrative ma- Questions and Answers About Group chinery to be set up to provide applications and handle queries of interested Life Insurance for Legion Members Legionnaires. The insuror, whose plan was ap- Here are some fundamental questions Thus, if you apply in April, you will American for insurance from through proved by the NEC, is the Occidental and answers regarding The pay May Life Insurance Company of California, Legion group life insurance plan. December. That would be $8.00 with (ex- eighth largest group life insurer in the 1. Q. Does every member of The your application for eight months country. American Legion have to apply for this cept in New York and Puerto Rico where it for at The U. S. Life Insurance Co. of N. Y. insurance? would be $10.72 eight months a month for the first year) is the insuror for members in New York A. No. It is an insurance oppor- $1.34 and Puerto Rico. tunity that is offered to members only, 4. Q. I understand that while this The basic group policy approved by as an extra advantage of membership insurance is more liberal than individual the National Executive Committee ap- which you may apply for or not as you policies, some people will only be ac- plies to all Legionnaires, except perma- wish. cepted if 75 per cent of the members nent residents of Texas, Ohio, New York, 2. Q. When do I make payments? of their posts are insured. If I am in this Puerto Rico, and North Carolina. Simi- A. The first payment with your class, what happens if 75 per cent of my lar plans, with variations in provisions application. Thereafter, by December post are not signed up at the time that and amounts required by local law, 31 each year, for the following year. I apply? were approved for members in those 3. Q. The first insurance year ends A. Your application and payment departments. December 31, and if I apply in April, will be held for a reasonable period is the percentage The group insurance plan is to be that is not a full year. Do I pay a full while a check made on written in the State of Missouri. The year's payment with my application in of your post that is insured. Then you basic plan is described below: that case? will either be insured, or your payment A. No, for the first year, figure will be refunded. How Much Insurance? your payments at $1.00 a month be- 5. Q. Suppose that it is much later To keep the yearly payment low for ginning with the month following the before 7.5 per cent of my post are in- all age groups, the basic group policy date of your application. ($1.34 a sured under this plan, can I re-apply? allows $4,000 of insurance for members month in New York and Puerto Rico.) (Continued on next page)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 • 29 INSURANCE APPROVED are due by December 31 each year for 17. Q. Is an individual's insurance (Continued) the following year. Do I have a 30-day contestable by the company at a later the basic plan is remarkably low. A grace period for payment after that date? date? Korea veteran who insures himself at A. No. A. A member's insurance is not age 29 and outlives the pohcy by reach- 9. Q. If I am late in making a pay- contestable after it has been in force ing his 70th birthday would have spent ment, what happens? two years during his lifetime. $492.00 for insurance protection over A. You would not be insured after 18. Q. Within that limit, on what 41 years. Older Legionnaires would pay December 31, and you would have to basis would insurance be contestable? proportionately less in total cost over send in a new application. You could A. If the member's application fewer years. be insured again if you were still insur- misinformed the company. Who's Insurable? able under the terms of the plan. 19. Q. Can the company call off the Many persons who have difficulty 10. Q. Is this insurance convertible whole group policy in the future? qualifying for personal life insurance to a permanent insurance plan? A. Only if the number of in- except at especially high premium rates A. No. sured members is less than 5,000. are insurable under conditions offered 11. Q. If I become insured, can I 20. Q. When and where can I get by group plans. drop out of the Legion and keep the an application form and descriptive lit- Legionnaires who wish to apply will insurance? erature? answer three questions and, where any A. No. This is insurance for a A. About the time this magazine answer is adverse, will be asked to make special group—members of The Ameri- is in the mail they will be available at a brief explanation. can Legion. No insurance is effective in Insurance Plan, American Legion Nat'l They will state: any year in which you are not a paid-up Hq., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, In-

(1) . If they are working actively; member of The American Legion for diana, and shipped in bulk to posts.

(2) . If they've been hospitalized in that year. Later, by a mailing to all members. the last year; and 12. Q. You say that the basic group 21. Q. To whom do I apply for insur-

(3) . If they had a serious illness in policy does not apply in Texas, Ohio, ance and make payments? the last five years. New York, Puerto Rico, or North Caro- A. Directly to Insurance Plan, Legionnaires who are good insurance lina, because of state laws. Do these American Legion Nat'l Hq., P. O. Box risks, based on answers to these ques- questions and answers apply to those 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana. tions, are naturally insurable without states? 22. Q. If I become insured will I get further information. A. Only approximately. Special a certificate of insurance? Many who are impaired risks for in- contracts have to be written for these A. Yes. dividual policies will, if they are work- states and Puerto Rico and such condi- VETERANS SERVICES: ing or are normally employable, be in- tions as affect members will be publi- surable if 75 per cent of the members of cized separately in those Departments. No Ball Game their own American Legion posts are 13. Q. Many group insurance policies Says a letter on the desk: "Please insured under the plan. become ineffective if you are called into publish something to the point on (a) Insurance under this group plan could active duty with the Armed Forces, even Is the federal veterans program bigger not be obtained for members who are in peacetime. Will that be true with this than can be justified? (b) Are Legion- unable to work because of their health. plan? naires just being selfish 'professional Unique A. No. You may carry the insur- veterans' when they keep supporting

The opportunity for low-cost group ance and be protected by it while on that program, and (c) Are people turn- insurance is relatively scarce among peacetime duty with the Armed Forces. ing against our disabled veterans or is non-professional organizations. It is far There is a war-exclusion clause, so you it just a few zealots who say these more common among employee groups. would not be covered for a death occur- things?" The size and stature of The American ring in military sei"vice in wartime. Such a letter deserves some facts. Legion has made such a policy available 14. Q. Suppose I become insured, Looking west, let us note that the to its members. Approval of the plan by then drop the insurance a few years Dodgers won't play a double header in the National Executive Committee fol- later, and still later want to become in- the Los Angeles Coliseum on July 4. lowed a close study of the subject by sured again? The Coliseum will have a fireworks special Legion committees over several A. You would apply as a new show that day. It will net about $100,- years, and by National Commander applicant, and could be insured again 000 for the Los Angeles County Council Gleason this year. if you met the conditions for a new ap- of American Legion posts. plicant. In a year, Los Angeles Legionnaires

15. Q. I understand that this is an- will spend the whole sum in that one QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS nual insurance. That means that the county. It will go for social services to (C.ontiniiecl) Company could change the premium needy and disabled veterans and their A. Yes. rate in some future year, couldn't it? families that are not provided by the 6. Q. If I am not accepted at all, A. At the end of any insinance federal veterans program. what happens to my first payment? year the premium could be revised up- The citizens of Los Angeles have al- A. Those who are not insurable ward or downward, based on experience ways backed the project to the hilt. under any circumstances will have their with this particular plan. Looking east, some day soon you payments returned with that decision. 16. Q. Is that apt to happen? may have a chance to drop out to the 7. Q. If I am accepted, but later be- A. The actuaries believe the U.S. VA hospital in Lyons, New Jersey come too disabled to work, can I keep present rate is sound. If experience re- to watch construction of a new amphi- the insurance? quires a re-adjustment, it would not be theater that will help in the readjust-

A. So long as you renew it each apt to fluctuate very far from the basic ment of mentally ill veteran patients. year on time. $12.00 individual payment in either di- The amphitheater will cost about 8. Q. Once I am insured, payments rection. $120,000, and the gov't will own it.

3Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 Another tax raid by selfisli veterans? erans since 1942, b\' unselfish clfort. other post members regularly visit VA Not exactly. New Jersey Legionnaires That would be Isaac Gimbel Mem- hospitals and give voluntary service. and Aiixiliares have pledged the entire orial Post 1206, made up of about 150 "That's the kind of experience that cost out of their own pockets. war veteran employees of Gimbel's New keeps you working and giving for our It would seem that veterans services York department store which, on March country's disabled veterans. call for a lot more than the federal gov- 4, held its I7th annual Celebrities Ball "Ed Sullivan of TV fame helps make ernment provides, and that Legionnaires in New York's Sheraton Astor Hotel. our Celebrities Ball the success it is. He are not only supporting the basic federal "I get a laugh from this 'professional always acts as Master of Ceremonies and program but are most unselfishly supple- veteran' talk," says Aaron Lief, Gimbel bring us top performers. menting the federal program through employee who organized the post in "We've given the money away to the their own efforts. 1938. Lief, a WWl vet, works in Gim- Bronx, Brooklyn, Northport and Mont- It would also seem that the public bel's men's clothing department. rose Veterans Hospitals in New York supports them when asked to do so. "We raise more than $20,000 a year State; the East Orange Veterans Hospi-

One small Legion post in New York from our Celebrities Ball and give it all tal in New Jersey; the St. Albans Naval

City has recently made it almost an even away," he says. "Our post treasury is al- Hospital; the Bronx County Legion

$3()0,000 that it has raised and given ways broke. I spend much of my free Hospital committee; the New York State away to assist disabled and needy vet- time in the Bronx VA hospital, and American Legion Rehabilitation pro-

HOW ONE POST CELEBRATED THE AMERICAN LEGION'S BIRTHDAY

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

1. Proclamation. 2. Joint meeting. 3. Tcen-agc dance.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY

4. Amateur play cout party.

March 15-17 was The American Legion's birthday, an- 3. Wednesday afternoon. A teen-age dance is held at the niversary of the 1919 Paris caucus. Posts all over the country post clubhouse. celebrated the event, and Post 214 Upper Darby, Pa., put on 4. Wednesday evening. The Upper Darby Players — ama- an observance that made its whole township Legion con- teur theater group — stage a two-act play at the post. scious. Photos show last year's events, which were repeated 5. Thursday. Post plays host to Sea Scouts for a birthday this year. party of their own.

1. Monday. The Upper Darby Board of Commissioners 6. Friday. Post is jammed with guests at Old Timers' proclaims American Legion Birthday Week in the township. Night party. 2. Tuesday. Post holds a joint meeting and buffet supper As befits a birthday party, all who attended the week's with its own Auxiliary and neighboring Women's Post 892; events came as guests of the post, which chalked the cost up

with a speaker from the FBI and a 406c8 initiation. to what it describes as tops in community public relations.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 • 3^ .

VETERANS SERVICES (Coti tinned) good people for that to happen, he says. THE gram which gives free service and coun- "Mr. Joseph L. Eckhouse, Executive sel to any veterans who asks; the Head of Gimbel's New York depart- NATIONAL American Legion camp for convalescent ment store, and his executives boost veterans at Tupper Lake, N. Y.; and the our post operation to the hilt," he COMMANDER Ladies Auxiliary of the U. S. Merchant adds, "and Gimbel's suppliers back up Marine Hospital on Staten Island." our veterans program by loading our SAID: Lief doubts that the thinking public Celebrities Ball printed program with will ever forget the needs of war vet- their ads. So I doubt that our veterans erans or dismiss their war sacrifices as a in the hospitals are going to be forgot- Quotes from messages and addresses financial nuisance. There are too many ten, in spite of all you hear." of Nat'l Commander John S. Gleason, Jr. Service Officers Get Lowdown On "There exists today an imperative need for an informed, courageous, artic- Controversies In Veterans Affairs ulate voice to bespeak the concerns, the

confidence and the convictions of our Veterans Administration officials and matters affecting veterans that are ad- ." people . . Atlantic City, December. members of Congress met face to face ministered by their agencies. with American Legion service olRcers 2. Hearings of the House Veterans "It's time somebody questioned a from all over the country during the last Affairs Committee, attended by an au- (school) system which by implication week in February. More than 500 serv- dience of more than 400 service officers, tolerates lawlessness, disrespect for au- ice officers converged on Washington, at which Nat'l Cmdr John S. Gleason,

thority, and moral and spiritual flabbi- D.C. for the 1958 edition of The Ameri- Jr. and Nat'l Rehabilitation Chmn

it . ness because discourages . . disci- can Legion's annual Rehabilitation Con- Robert M. McCurdy testified on cur- ." plinary measures . . New York, Janu- ference, Feb. 25, 26, 27 and 28. rent issues of veterans affairs, and the ary. Major issues aired by the service Congressional committee members re- officers and top Legion officials, were: sponded. "In the face of current rumors of ri- 3. Legion's 1. The prospect of drastic cuts in vet- Meetings of the Nat'l Re- valry and dispute within the Pentagon, I erans benefits this year, in line with habilitation E.xecutive Committee, chair- believe the people would say: 'For Budget Bureau and Bradley Commis- manned by McCurdy. Heaven's sake, gentlemen, let's stop act- sion ideas, as widely rumored. 4. Meetings of the Legion's Medical ing like children and get on with the Advisory Board, chairmanned by Dr. .'" 2. The shrinking of VA medical care job . . Denver, January. Edward Overholser, head of St. Eliza- by budget crackdowns in the face of a beth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. waiting list of 20,000 patients. "The (public) must not be shielded 5. Meetings of the Legion's Insurance 3. The making of Veterans Adminis- from reality. . . . Those who must make Advisory Board, chairmanned by Past tration policy by the Bureau of the the . . . decisions that will determine our Nat'l Cmdr Milo Warner, of Ohio. Budget. destiny must understand that we know 6. Meetings of the Legion's Nat'l Field ." 4. Growing unemployment and its the truth and are not afraid . . Los Service representatives, under Field

Angeles, January. effect on war veterans. Service Director Nicholas Lynch, Jr. 5. The adverse efi^ect on the war- 7. Meetings of the Legion's Depart- "When material benefits become the disabled of the VA's current review of ment Service Officers Ass'n.

symbol of our society . . . we must won- compensation awards made in the past. 8. Meetings of the Legion's Nat'l Eco- der if they have weakened our ability to 6. The stranghng of the GI home nomic Commission, headed by Chmn ." suffer, to sacrifice, to survive . . Chi- loan program by unrealistic provisions. Stanley Huffman of Nebraska. cago, January. 9. The annual American Legion Re- 7. The need for imi^rovement of vet- habilitation dinner on Feb. 27. erans' and widows' VA pensions. "The American Legion will back you 8. A host of questions regarding the completely if, in your judgement, our House Hearings treatment of veterans and their claims security demands that we forego a tax "No member of this Congress is en- in VA hospitals and administrative cut, forget about a balanced budget and tertaining any legislation -to cut back offices, as officers on the ." seen by service veterans benefits by one dime," said raise the debt ceiling . . To the Con- spot. gress, Wasliington, D.C., January. House vets affairs chairman Rep. Olin E. Teague, of Texas. Teague made the Events statement in response to Nat'l Cmdr "When the Soviet Communist Party To tackle these problems, whose an- Gleason's and Rehab chmn McCurdy's siezed power in Russia it had fewer swers conceivably affect every war vet- testimony, on Feb. 25, that the nation's members than the Communist Party in eran in the country, the week-long ." veterans were deeply disturbed at con- the United States ten years ago . . American Legion program in the na- tinuing rumors that the President would Chicago, February. tion's capital offered a full calendar of seek wholesale cutbacks in veterans' events. They included: compensation and pensions. "If the 2nd session of the 85th Con- 1. Four days of panels in which top Most of the members of Teague's gress did nothing more than adopt the officials of the Veterans Administration; committee concurred that for this year Cordiner plan (to revise the pay system the Labor Department; the Social Se- at least the rumored cutbacks would not of the Armed Forces), it would have curity Administration; the U. S. Civil get to first base in Congress. made a substantial contribution to our Service and the U. S. Department of ." Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, Mass., nation's security . . Presque Isle, Me., Agriculture offered themselves for ques- January. tioning by the Legion service officers on (Continued on page 34)

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SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED WHISKEY. 86 PROOF. 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. POSTS IN ACTION SERVICE OFFICERS St. Louis are among those areas, Gleason (Continued from page 32) Items from our 1 7,000-odd posts. Those of noted. most general interest and tvidest geographiccd Especially criticized was the sched- spread are selected, with apologies for the ranking minority' member, also urged hundreds others that so kindly uled closing of more than 1,000 of are reported Cmdr Gleason to press hard for im- VA to the editors. tuberculosis beds as a result of the provements in the nation's veterans pro- President's budget message for the next gram which the Legion seeks, although Action — Sputnik I was barely in space other members were non-committal on fiscal year. when Post 26, Mountain Home, Idaho, It takes so long to close down the the chances of such legislation in 1958. sponsored an annual $500 science schol- Gleason and McCurdy had asked beds that the Veterans Administration, arship for a graduate of Mountain Cmdr Home anticipating the new budget, expects to specifically for pension improvements; High School. start closing them down by the first of the reopening of NSLI insurance to like mind. Post Allegan, Of 89, Mich, April, even though the reduced budget WW2 and Korean veterans for a short gave its junior and senior high schools has not yet been approved. Meanwhile period; and resuscitation of the Gl home training aids in math, science and avia- the incidence loan program. of tuberculosis among tion to help interest youngsters in those veterans is increasing again, it was re- House Committee members told the fields. ported. Legion spokesmen that they too were Both Nat l Cmdr Gleason and Mc- "deeply concerned " with the roadblocks Utilize Craze — Capitalizing on sports Curdy were extremely critical of the thrown in the path of the \'eterans car craze. Y. Post 521, Montgomery, N. leaking of rumors that the President Administration by the Budget Bureau, sponsored sports car races, netted funds would ask Congress to curtail veterans' especially as it involves back from which was given Stewart Air the cutting $900 monetary benefits in line with the Brad- of hospital budget items and delays of Force Base to equip a youth activities ley Commission and Budget Bureau hospital construction center and remodeling there. thinking. Nothing had yet come of these for which appropriations had already reports, cir- which had been ( 1 ) widely Leg Art — Post 11, Lancaster, Ohio, let been made. culated in the press as coming from un- members sign their names on a hollow Concern over patients on the VA identified sources within the Adminis- model of a leg. Fee, a dollar or more. waiting list for whom there are no beds tration, and (2) hinted at in past mes- Result: $323.40 for March of Dimes. in operation, and over new VA hospital- sages of both the President and the Di- bed closings due to the proposed 1958- rector of Budget. 59 budget, was mutually the Surplus Members of Post Cornell, expressed by — 353, Said Gleason to the House Commit- the Legionnaires and the Wis., offered four times as much blood Congressmen. tee: "The manner of handling these as was needed for comrade Harry Sel- Review Harmful recommendations has not been forth- lers when he underwent major surgery. There was mutual agreement between right ... it would seem that the group the Legion and the House Committee most concerned should not have been Perseverance — Tiny Post 54, White- again over two specific aspects of the kept in doubt," nor should the Veterans water, Kans., very short of assets, finally cuiTent Veterans Administration review Administration, he added. provided itself with a home and its of awards to the war-disabled. McCurdy assailed the persistent ru- town with its only center. community The review has resulted in the reduc- mors as a "cold war on veterans" which By holding of fund-raising How? dozens tion of compensation to several thou- he described as highly damaging to the projects over many years, then putting sand veterans, and the elimination of morale of the country's disabled veterans up most of the building hand, often by service-connection entirely for many and veterans' widows. at night. others. Unemployment

Basis of the review is "clear and un- Highlight of the week's events was For God and Country - Post 673, Hunt- mistakable error" by the VA in making the annual Rehabilitation Dinner in the ley, 111., gave $500 to each of the three some compensation awards in the past. Statler Hotel's huge Presidential Room. churches in Huntley. The Legion leaders and the Congress- In a major address to the dinner, Cmdr men agreed that in some of these cases Gleason reviewed the matters outlined Ask First - Post 32, Baltimore, Md., awards had been cut or cut out on the above and went on to stress the gravity asked patients at Veterans Hospitals in basis of opinion rather than a showing to the nation's veterans of the growing Baltimore, Perry Point and Fort Howard of error. unemployment in the country. what gift to the hospital they'd Hke It was further noted that the- atmos- Cmdr Gleason, looking fit and minus

most. Unanimous answer: TV sets. So phere of the review is affecting the atti- his wheel-chair and cane following iiis the post gave two TV sets to each of tude of VA rating boards in making release from a second hospitalization the three hospitals. their current decisions on veterans' for phlebitis on Feb. 4, said: claims. Apparently to avoid a reversal "Tonight there are nearly one million Timely — Post 385, Kingston, Pa., of their present work by another review veterans in desperate need of jobs." brought in Army, Navy and Air Force in the future, some of the boards are no Joblessness, he said, is a more demoral- experts to talk on missile programs at longer giving veterans the benefit of a izing ordeal than battle. It makes a vet- three successive Post meetings. Result: doubt as stipulated by law. eran helpless and injures his family and 100 more people wanted in than the hall The closing of existing VA hospital loved ones. would hold. beds, and the lack of initiative by the Legionnaires as individuals, and Le- Administration in meeting needs in gion posts "must try to find jobs wher- Unique—An active Legion post without areas where VA bed shortages are ex- ever possible for unemployed veterans youth or child welfare programs? Yes. tremely critical, came in for sharp criti- in our communities," he said. Post 62, Youngstown, Ariz., has neither cism throughout the week-long meet- We must "intensify the interest and but aids the aged well. Youngstown, ings. effort of government agencies and civic

organizations lick . built for retired folks over 50, lacks Florida, southern California, south- to unemployment. . . youth, schools. ern Texas, New York, New Orleans and (Continued on page 36)

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 YOU CAN BE AN IMPORTANT MAN WITH A GUARANTEED FUTURE. ..IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE

More than just a technician, the Air Force specialist is a man of

responsibility and importance. He is the one the Air Force depends on

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you, too, can have this satisfaction and assurance— in the U.S. Air Force. See your Air Force Recruiter, or mail the coupon. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE AIRMAN

• • • PASTE ON POST CARD AND MAIL TO: • • Today and Prior Service Information, Dept. AL-3321 • • Box 7608, Washington 4, D. C. • Tomorrow • • Please send me more information on the Air Force Prior Service Program. • • you're better off • Nam p. • • in the • Addre.RR Age • • • U.S. AIR FORCE City Znyip Fitntp • • • BRIEFLY NOTED SERVICE OFFICERS Set-back came when Phil Collins, (Continued page from 34) President and Chmn of the Board of the Buying a gift for a Legionnaire? The If this isn't enough, then we must trig- Convention Corporation, died suddenly Legion's nat'l Emblem Division mail ger into action the full resources of the in February. Collins, long a hard worker order catalog for 1958 is loaded with government to end the mounting despair in Legion harness in Illinois, was an ex- gifts bearing the Legion emblem. If your of joblessness." cellent choice for the job. The Conven- post lacks catalog, write Emblem Divi- If it is "necessary to create work, then tion Corporation will maintain him in sion, American Legion Nat'l Hq., P.O. this must be done. If it is done, it must his convention offices posthumously. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. • not only provide work, but be of lasting Collins' duties will be carried out by benefit to the nation as well." If the Executive Vice President Harold A. New Jersey's 4th annual American government would proceed with the Cummins, Past Dep't Cmdr of Illinois, Legion College, offering advanced study needed VA hospital construction, that backstopped by Vice Chairman James of the Legion, its workings and pro- would be one useful source of employ- P. Ringley, and Vice President Perce grams, set for May 16-18 at Fort Dix, ment in the building trades, he noted. Brautigam, Past Nat'l Executive Com- N.J. • Kraabel Honored mitteeman. Other officials of the Convention Cor- Honorable discharge (or copy of it) Part of the Rehabilitation Dinner pro- poration, which has opened offices at 8 lost by Marion O'Steen of Florida on a gram was reserved for a surprise testi- South Dearborn St., Chicago, are: Gen- New Jersey highway has been found monial to T. O. Kraabel, of North Da- eral Counsel and Ass't Sect'y, Albert and sent to Adj't General, Dep't of the kota, the American Legion's second J. Jantorni; Treasurer, Maynard K. Hill- Army, Washington 25, D.C., where he Nat'l Rehabilitation Director who re- strom; Ass't Treasurer Albin V. Gustaf- can write for it. tired from that office this winter. • Past Nat'l Cmdr Lynn Stambaugh, son. Nat'l the Convention Recent surveys indicate there are of North Dakota, summoned Kraabel to Hq hotel during 6,000 tubercular war veterans and the head table and presented him with will be the Palmer House. Auxiliary hotel will the Conrad Hilton. 25,000 war veteran mental patients be- a huge engraved sterling silver service Nat'l Hq be ing treated in non-VA hospitals. Few of purchased by contributions from his COMING EVENTS: them lack eligibility for VA care. Many many friends in and out of The Ameri- Plan now for these dates: are in state institutions with non-veteran can Legion. Armed Forces Day: Military estab- waiting lists. North Dakota Adjutant Jack Williams lishments hold open house for visitors. • then advised Kraabel that his friends May 10-18. Members of Alonzo Cudworth Post had over subscribed the purchase of the Memorial Day: May 30. Poppy sales. 23, Milwaukee, Wis., proud that Wis- gift by a considerable amount and Decoration of graves of deceased vet- consin Dep't Cmdr William Haese is handed him a check for $3000. J. erans. Big turnout for marching to cem- the 4th member of the post to head the When he had overcome his surprise, eteries. Wisconsin Legion, regret that we identi- Kraabel managed to say that he was Flag Day: June 14. Everybody dis- fied him as a member of Post 32 in our "overwhelmed"—and added that veter- play the flag. Collect old, worn flags for December issue — and so do we. ans' service was a way of life, and, ceremonial disposal this day. • though he was retired, he'd stay with it. Nat'l Cmdr Gleason asks all posts to 1958 CONVENTION: LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: "undertake whatever local action is fea- The citation of an individual Legion- sible to support the fund drive of the Readying for Rush naire to life membership in his Post is a Crusade for Freedom." Funds support The biggest demand for hotel rooms testimonial by those who know him best Radio Free Europe broadcasts beamed in the history of American Legion nat'l that he has served The American Le- behind the iron curtain. conventions looms likely for this year's gion well. • convention in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, opines Below are listed some of the previous- An instructive play called "Which Miss Edith Shutters, nat'l Convention ly unpublished life memberships that Way Out?", dealing with the emotional Co-ordinator and chief worrier about have been reported to the editors. They problems of teen-agers, has been written hotel reservations. are arranged by States. Coulman (1951) and Phil KaU (1958), Post by the Nat'l Ass'n for Mental Health Convention-goers should request their Fred 1. San Francisco, Calif. under a grant from The American Le- housing early, through their Dep't Ad- J. F. Ahern (1949). Post 29, Martinez, Calif. L. Robert J. Moore (both gion Child Welfare Foundation. Script Henry Ewald and jutants, Miss Shutters advises, "and don't 1957) Post 49, Santa Barbara, Calif. available for production. Write: Child forget the $3 registration fee," she adds. E. Rav Horton (1957). Post 274. Areata, Calif. W. Lewis Miller (1958), Post 531, Los Angeles, Welfare, American Legion Nat'l Hq., Only one nat'l convention has been Calif. P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. M. D. Melchi and William J. Murray and Louis held away from the seacoasts since G. Mullings and Frank E. Owenby (all 1957), • WW2, and with the 1958 gathering set Post 113, Alamosa. Colo. Leslie I. Keller and Leigh J. Piilyer (both 1957), Four $1500 scholarships will be given for the midwest's biggest city, the con- Post 34. Milford, Conn. Edward J. Rivers by the Legion Dep't of Illinois in an Umberto Righetti (1949) and centration of Legionnaires in Chicago (1951) and Richard E. Stanton (1955), Post 36, essay contest among pupils who have threatens to be in the old-time tradition. Windsor Locks, Conn. William C. Moore (1957). Post 1, Paris, France. won American Legion School Medal Following advance meetings of com- Andrew Perrier (1957), Post 47, Chicago, 111. Randall P. Dunn (1956), Post 169, Eldorado, Awards or honorable mention certifi- mittees and commissions, the Conven- III. cates. tion will tee off with the big parade on Richard E. Moberly (1957), Post 359, Chicago, ^ III. Labor Day, Sept. 1, in a multi-million Stanley Thompson (1954) and William J. Halli- April 27-Mav 3 is nat'l Mental Health Post 941, Chicago, 111. population city that hasn't seen the big gan. Sr. (1957), Week. Stanley Lobodzinski and Joseph Nowak and 0 American Legion spectacle in seventeen Alex Pawlowski and Joseph Rakow.ski, Sr. (all 1956), Post 78, East Chicago, Ind. 245 corporations invited schoolkids to years. Stanley Olszewski (1955) and Ben Smolensk! (1956) and Edward Losiniecki (1957), Post 451. their plants to see science at work on Convention planning, which got up Michigan City. Ind Feb. 11. It was the birthday of the late steam in February after a tragic set- John N. Specht (1957), Post 230, Cherokee, inventor, Thomas Alva Edison. back, is shaping up fast. {Continued on page 38)

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Please send a 1958 Emblem Catalog Current Membership No.. Enclosed is check or money order for Total $ LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Div., resigned to join the State of (Continued pom page 36) COMRADES Maine's Dep't of Economic Develop- Iowa. IN DISTRESS ment. Paul G. Grinapp (1957), Post 311. Hopkinton, Died: Iowa. Space does not permit notices to contact J. Nelson Tribby (1956) and Michael F. Bonadio persons for assist in STEWART W. HELLMAN, JudgC AdvO- (1957), Post 27, Baltimore, Md. any purpose except to George A. Markland (1957), Post 139, Baltimore, establishing a claim for a veteran or his de- cate of the Dep't of Texas; of a heart Md. pendents. Statement to that effect should attack; in Fort James IVIallanaphy and Thomas Tempesta (both Worth. accompany notice. 195X), Post 17, Brighton, Mass. DR. ROBERT B. HARKNESS, Past Dep't William L. Hallett, Sr. (1943) and John S. Mara Send notices to: Comrades in Distress, (1947) and Dewey D. Stone (1951). Post 35, Brock- The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Cmdr of Michigan (1922-23); in Phil- ton, Mass. Avenue, New York 19, New York. adelphia, Pa. Daniel W. L. Keefe (1957), Post 74, Farming- ham, Mass. J. DEAN SPENCER, longtime chmn of Orrin Cleary and Patrick Corbett and Henry Army Dumas and Joseph Greenwood (all 1957), Post the Connecticut Boys state; in Boston, Fort Snelling, Minn. (WW2)-At about 10:30 p.m., 123, Ware. Mass. Mass. James Kerr (1954) and Alfred M. Gulden (1955), on Mar. 14, 1942. I was severely injured when Post 160, Adams, Mass. I fell while running tor the "dummy" streetcar CHARLES R. HOWE, Past Dcp't Cmdr Claude M. Casteel (1953), Post 216, Milford, line. Now need to locate the two officers who Mich. picked me up and assisted me. Write me, of Idaho (1947-48); suddenly; in Al- Thomas St. Albert J. LaMore, 26. W. Grant St., Min- Charles (1957). Post 227, East Jor- hambra, Calif. dan. Mich. neapolis, Minn. Claim pending. Al Traxler (1958), Post 108, Le Center, Minn. MRS. VERNA GRIMM, longtime (1923- Hugo Goss (1958), Post 300, St. Louis, Mo. Navy librarian of The American Legion; Henry H. Dudley (1957), Post 1, Omaha, Nebr. Bainbridge, Md., Hospital Corps School— My hip 57) Casimir Zacek (1956), Post 70, West Point, Nebr. was injured when I fell in Sept. 1944 while following a heart attack; in Munster, James List (1950) and Leonard C. Waldenberger attending this school. Now need to locate (1956) and Charles D. Emigh (1957), Post 91. anyone who remembers this incident. Write Ind. Wharton. N. J. me, (former S 2c) Alfred D. Audet, Sr., 6 M'. COLLINS president of W. Sidney Duguid (1958). Post 293, Warren Leslie Ave., West Barrington, R. I. PHILIP (111.), Township, N. J. PC-593 (1942-44) - I served aboard this ship as a the 1958 American Legion Convention William F. Byrnes and Hubert J. Dorsey and gunner's mate and gun captain. When I was George Holliday (all 1954), Post 9, New York. serving as a gun captain during an attack on Corporation and one of the nation's top N. Y. a submarine, a hang-fire occurred on one of e.xecutives; in Chicago. Melvin Smith (1957), Post 47, Valatie. N. Y. the racks. While I was getting rid of the insurance John L. Nash (1956) and William McDowell charge, I fell with it and injured my back. COL. GEORGE COLBY PARSONS, who at- (1957) . Post 189, Norwich, N. Y. Three of the five officers aboard, as well as Ferris Hagadorn (1957), Post 248, Middleburgh, the majority of the crew, saw this incident tended the Paris Caucus; in St. Peters- N. Y. happen. Now need to locate someone who re- Fla. Hugh McLean and Ralph Rockefeller (both members it. Write me, David Rosnick, 32 burg, 1957), Post 346, Germantown, N. Y. Staub Road, Trucksville, Pa. DWiGHT H. GREEN, member of The George Marz (1950) and Thomas Darling and USS Denver (WWl)-While shoveling coal during Lawrence McSherry and Solomon Wolff (all 1951), a trip to South America. I suffered a back American Legion Distinguished Guests Post 543, Brooklyn, N. Y. injury. Now need to locate anyone who served and former Governor of Ill- George Enos (1953) and John M. Watson (1955) with me in 1918-19, especially: Chief Water Committee, and Robert B. Frazier, Sr. (1956) and B. Earl Tender "Andy" Anderson; Chief Water Tend- inois. Phelps (1957), Post 655, Cuba, N. Y. er "Smoky" Fawcett; and Ralph "Ginger" Frank S. Forster and Mark M. Calak (both Jacobs, Log Room Yeoman. Write me, T. L. 1957), Post 665, Buffalo, N. Y. Roach, 4620 Central \\e.. St. Petersburg, Fla. George Trapani (1956) and James Wiseman (1957), Post 951, Ozone Park, N. Y. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: OUTFIT John D. Cameron and William P. Henry (both 1957), Post 1148, Sunmount, N. Y. LESTER R. BENSTON, longtime direc- George Rebhan (1947), Post 1226, New York, REUNIONS N. Y. tor of rehabilitation for the Dep't of Send notices to: Outfit Reunions, The ..Olive A. Warren (1958), Post 1487, Uniondale. Illinois, will retire June L N. Y. American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave- Peter J. Hubert (1957), Post 2, East Pittsburgh. WILBUR WALKER, Ass't Nat'l Sgt. at nue, New York 19, New York. Pa. Arms for the 39th Legion Nat'l Reunion will be held in month indicated. C. A. Barrett and E. A. Balmer and E. W. Mar- Conven- For particidars, write person whose address shall and Tice Ryan, (all 1953), Post 5, Pittsburgh, tion, appointed administrative ass't to Pa. is given. J. Herbert Kennedy and Elmer Kross, Sr. and Governor Almond of Virginia. Harry R. Molter and Joseph A. Tritschler (all Army WILLIAM s. CAMPBELL, Idaho's rep- 1957), Post 19, New Brighton, Pa. 4th Div— (Aug.) George Mclntyre, 330 Common- John H. Moody (1952) and Frank H. Davies resentative on The American Legion Re- wealth Ave., Trenton 9, N. i. (1953) and Oscar N. Tingley (1954) and J. Hugh 6th Engrs (WWl) - (Aug.) Eric A. Scott, Elrico McNeill (1955), Post 27, Harrisburg, Pa. habilitation Commission, named the Gardens, R.D. 5, Fort Wayne, Ind. Roy Schlaseman and Herman T. 21st Engrs, Co D & 2nd Bn-(June) George Hecker, Thomas and Outstanding Young Man of 1957 by the Rev. Emil W. Weber and Sol Weiss (all 1950). Jr., 307 Susquehanna Ave., Lansdale, Pa. Post 67, Pottsville, Pa. Boise, Idaho, Junior Chamber of Com- 2l!.f Engrs, Light Ry (WWl)-(Sept.) J. H. Brooks, John G. Dempsey and Joseph Silkowski (both 1217 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. 1948) and William C. Becker and Dr. I. D. Fen- merce. 30th Div - (July) Maj. Saul Solow, 42 Parkway ton (both 1950), Post Drive, Hicksville, N. Y. 74, Mahanoy City, Pa. PETER E. PAPPAS, Dcp't Historiau of Edward W. Miller and Ambrose S. Plummer and 30th Inf (WWl)-(Apr.) John C. Cattus, 190 River- Walter T. Shaffer (all 1957), Post 329. Elizabeth- Massachusetts, appointed a military aide side Drive, New York, N. Y. town. Pa. 34th Engrs (WWl)-(Aug.-Sept.) George Remple. Andrew T. F. Nowak (1950) and William E. Hill on the staff of Governor Furcolo of 2523 N. Main St., Dayton 5, Ohio. 56th-603rd (1954) . Post 333, Philadelphia, Pa. Massachusetts. Engrs (WWl)-(June) Louis Nechler, Clyde E. Rankin, Sr. (1947) and George Keller Mechanicsvilie, Iowa. 61st Engrs (1957) and Dennis M. Swank (1958), Post 366, J. JOSEPH NUGENT, member of Post (WWlt-(Oct.) Lee Brannen, 413 Lind- Philadelphia. Pa sey St., Holiidaysburg, Pa. Patsy Longo and Leroy Miller and William 35, Providence, R.I., is the new Attorney 62nd Sig Bn, Co C-(Aug.) William L. Hancks, Phelps and Leroy Rossar and Robert E. Smith General of Rhode Island. 2245 31st St., Rock Island, III. (all 1955), Post 675, Scranton, Pa. 70th Tanis Bn - (July) Richard N. Wagman, 222 John W. Buggy (1957), Post 832, Philadelphia, SAM MASSELL, JR., member of Post 1, Springdale Ave., York, Pa. Pa. 80th Div-(Aug.) R. L. Stultz, 155 N. Main St., Atlanta, Ga., named Atlanta's Outstand- Alexander Winning (1951) and Dr. John W. Harrisonburg, Va. 88th Div-(Aug.) John Black, Box Finley- Burkett and Arthur Pounder (both 1956) and An- ing Young Man of the Year for 1957 by P.O. 175, thony Pintar (1957), Post 862. Moon Run, Pa. ville. Pa. 91.st Div-(Sept.) B. K. Powell, Bldg., Warren G. Moore (1953). Post 12, Tyler, Tex. the Atlanta Junior Chamber of Com- 1024 Vance Seattle. Wash. Wilmer L. O'Flaherty (1957), Post 38, Rich- merce. mond. Va. 94th AAA AW Bn (SP)-(June) Glenn R. Hawley. Box 431, Davenport, Wash. August T. FRANK CALCACNi, Dcp't Amciican- Cooper (1956) and Frank A. Love J. 94th Div-(Julv) Paul R. O'Brien, 1744 Oakmont (1957), Post 6. Stevens Point, Wis. ism Chmn of Rhode Island, elected to Road, South Euclid 21, Ohio. Albert F. Cumings and John A. Meyer (both 102nd Div-(Julv) Earl F. Hooper, P.O. Box 452, 1956), Post 33, Neenah, Wis. receive the brotherhood award of the Port Washington, N. Y. Post Commanders or Adjutants are Nat'l Conference of Christians and Jews I03rd Inf-(May) George R. Caswell, 20 Crosby St., Augusta. Maine. asked to report life membership awards in Cranston, R.I. He was also chosen 105th Inf. Co G (WW2)-(May) Phil Di Leo, 11 Francis Terrace, Glen Cove, N. Y. to "Life Memberships," The American chmn of the Cit\' of Cranston's Industrial I2Sth Inf-(Juiy) Col. Bob McCall, c/o Postmaster. Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave., New Development Commission. Owosso, Mich. 13Ist AAA Gun Bn-(June) Melvin Wilson, Central York 19, N. Y. Date of award is re- JACK HA\EY, member of the staff of City, Pa. 140th Inf, Co F (WWl)-(Sept.) Enos L. Trusdell, quested in all cases. The American Legion Public Relations 4544 Terrace St., Kansas City, Mo. 3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 .

143rd Inf-(Aug.-Sepl.) Aicliie H. McDiiyal, 4028 715th SAW Co and 5«3rd SAW Bn, Co O- Devereaux St., Philadelphia 49. Pa. Homan Ave., Waco, Tex. (July) Charles Swoboda. 2927 A Wyoming, St. 60th Seabees-(Aug.) Mrs. William Mcll/cr, R.D. 163rd Inf— (June) Gene L. Adams, 310 Grand Ave., Louis 18, Mo. 2. Lincoln Park. Alliance. Ohio. McHenry, 111. 630th AAA Bn-(July) W. F. Carter, Jr., 4 Edison UOth Seabees—(Aug. -Sept.) James F. Groome, 210 217th CA (AA), Btry C (WW2)-(June) Herman N. St., Tiffin, Ohio. Bradford Ave., Downinglown, Pa. Anderson, 416 Lincoln Ave. E., Alexandria, 630th TD Bn, Recon Co-(June) William J. Brock, SACO (U. S. Naval Group China)-( Aug.) Gus Minn. Rear 202 Bruce St., McKees Rocks, Pa. Bruggemann, 159 Highview St., Mamaroneck, 301st Supply Train (WWl)-(May) Leroy F. Mer- 636th TD Bn. Recon Co-(Aug.) Howard Wag- N. Y. ritt. 38 Winthrop St., Brockton 48, Mass. goner, Papillion, Nebr. Submarine Vets-(Sept.) P. A. Bogert, 2437 N. 302nd Inf, Co L—(June) Raymond Full

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the end of World War II began in Ham- had been designed to scuttle the ship. boat operations and the secret of a new burg, Germany. There in June 1940 the While Motor Machinist's Mate First type of torpedo being used on German keel of the U-505 was laid. A little more Class Zenon B. Lukosius found and subs. than a year and a half later the sub secured the cover of the strainer, Lieu- To preserve the value of the heroic joined the "wolfpacks" which were sink- tenant David and the other men were capture, the sub's crew was interned in ing shipping at a rate which threatened picking up the code book and other Bermuda for the duration of the war, to bring defeat to the Allies. documents and passing them up to be and the crews of the U.S. ships were The war ended for the U-505, how- placed in their whaleboat in case the sworn to secrecy. Because the Germans ever, on June 4, 1944, off the west coast sub should sink under them. Then a assumed the sub had been sunk — not of Africa when a command rang out search began for booby traps. captured — they did not change their which had not been heard aboard a U.S. The engines were shut down, but code. This allowed the Allies the oppor- man-of-war since 1815. The order — when the sub settled dangerously low tunity to eavesdrop on their operations "Away all boarding parties" — was the in the water they were hastily re-set to for the duration of the war. climax of the brief but violent engage- run at top speed. It became obvious that Not until the war had ended was the ment between a U.S. Navy task group if the U-505 were to be kept afloat she story of the capture told. Then the under the command of then Captain U-505 went on a tour of Eastern sea- Daniel V. Gallery and the U-505. ports to call attention to a war bond

At 1 1 :09 a.m. Task Group 22.3, con- subscription drive. Later she was sent sisting of the escort carrier Guadalcanal to the Navy yard at Portsmouth, N.H., and five destroyer escorts (Pillshiiry, to await her end. Pope, Flaherty, Chatelain, and Jenks), Father John Gallery, of Chicago, was proceeding toward the Canary Is- brother of the U-505's captor, now a lands, a known U-boat rendezvous area. Rear Admiral, came up with the sug- Although the primary mission of gestion that the U-505 be saved from the "hunter-killer" groups such as this one fate of becoming scrap iron and instead was to seek out and destroy enemy sub- be made into a memorial to the Nation's marines. Captain Gallery had, from the seamen. The job of bringing the sub to early days of the war, considered the its final home in Chicago proved to be idea of capturing a U-boat intact. A almost as monumental a task as its cap- close study of German submarine tac- ture. tics led him to a daring but carefully It took an Act of Congress to secure worked-out plan which the group he the title, the enthusiastic cooperation of commanded was to execute at the first several hundred Chicago individuals and opportunity. businesses to raise the more than $250,- On the bright Sunday morning when 000 needed to move the sub, and a the Chatelain reported a sonar contact, month-long, 3,000-mile towing operation the long-awaited chance to capture a through the St. Lawrence Seaway and submarine was at hand. As the Chatelain Great Lakes. "You'd better go before he conies to the commenced her attack, the carrier And finally, on June 26, 1954, the total, sonny!" launched two fighter planes. The fighters AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE last stage of the voyage began — an 800- spotted the submerged U-boat and fired foot trip overland from Lake Michigan their machineguns into the water to would have to be towed. The Pillshury to Chicago's Museum of Science and mark its position. came alongside only to have her thin Industry.

The destroyer escort's depth charges side cut open by the sub's hydroplane. The job of moving the 1 , 000-ton ves- hit their target, and the planes reported A second boarding party — this one sel, which is 252 feet long and three that they could see oil slicks and the from the Guadalcanal under the com- stories high, was directed by Seth M. submarine beginning to surface. mand of Commander Earl Trosino — Gooder, a retired Chicago engineer who As the submarine came to the surface, came aboard and completed temporary had nearly 40 years' experience in mov- the Chatelain. together with the Pills- salvage measures. The carrier took the ing buildings. Gooder volunteered to bury, Jenks, and two fighter planes, be- sub in tow, and as she moved ahead the help in the final phase of getting the sub gan the first phase of Captain Gallery's sub rose sluggishly from the water. to its last berth. scheme. Instead of attacking with armor- Meanwhile the other destroyer escorts The use of a floating drydock was ob- piercing shells and bombs, the attacking picked up the crew of the submarine tained, and a 325-foot channel was dug force fired light weapons intended only who were floating in the water nearby. to accommodate it. The sub was floated to keep the U-boat crew from manning Orders from the Navy Department into the drydock and onto a cradle con- its deck guns. The captain of the sub, directed the task group to take the sub- structed for it. Then the floating dock believing his ship to be sinking, had sur- marine to Bermuda, 1,700 miles away. was raised to bring it level with the track faced to let the crew escape. As the hail Proceeding at reduced speed because of waiting for it on shore. Once ashore, it of gunfire swept the sub's deck, the crew the towing operation, and with fuel was pulled slowly by a winch. Finally, jumped overboard into the sea. running low, the group began its voyage. on the night of September 3, the sub

The Pillsbury's boarding party of eight Three days later it was met by a fleet reached its last major hurdle. men under the command of Lieutenant tug which took over the towing, and a More than 15,000 people assembled Albert L. David climbed aboard the still tanker which supplied badly needed fuel. to watch as the sub was pulled slowly moving sub. When they went down the The prize which Task Group 22.3 across Chicago's famous Outer Drive — hatch from the conning tower, they brought into Port Royal Bay, Bermuda, the boulevard extending along the Lake found an abandoned but sinking vessel. on June 19 was one of the most valued Michigan shore front. The ticklish oper- Water was gushing into the hold through of the war. It gave the Allies the radio ation, which had taken many weeks of an opened 8-inch sea strainer which code used by the Germans in their U- calculations, was completed by 4:15

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 a.m. on the morning of September 4. Visitors have included former Ger- Recently the first commanding officer, The submarine was slowly swung man submarine sailors who have found Captain Axel Loewe, visited his former sideways into position over its perma- the restoration so accurate that they command and spent two and a half days nent foundations and then lowered into going through the ship. the three concrete cradles which now SUB WARFARE A description of the U-505 as a liv- hold it. Readers interested in a more de- ing memorial is an apt one. The labor of On September 25, 1954, the U-505 tailed story of the operations of the love in restoring the ship has been so was formally dedicated as a memorial German U-boat fleet in World War complete that the two powerful diesel to the 55,000 Americans who had II will find it in Rear Admiral Daniel engines which powered the sub origi- perished at sea in two World Wars. V. Gallery's book Tu-e/ity Millioii nally are in operating condition and once Toils Under The Sea (Regnery, Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey deliv- each week arc run up to keep them in $5.00). ered the dedication address. Rear Ad- good working order. Based on captured German rec- miral Daniel V. Gallery introduced the The unique memorial has attracted ords and our own intelligence re- of the original boarding party internationally people in- members ports, Admiral Gallery's book de- some famous who participated in the capture, and paid scribes the desperate battle for the cluding Prince Louis Ferdinand, oldest tribute to the 3,000 men in the task Atlantic Ocean waged by the wolf- grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm; Prime force who had also shared in the opera- packs and particularly the part played Minister Nehru of India; and former tion. by the U-505. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Since that time more than 2,000,000 A newly released, dramatic motion Legionnaires will have an opportunity picture—K7»z Silent, Run Deep— tells visitors have gone through the ship. to see the U-505 when they attend the the story of the U. S. Navy's sub- Members of the museum staff have National Convention in Chicago next marine operations in the Pacific worked for more than three and a half September. Fleet Admiral William Hal- Ocean in AVorld War II. Starring years to restore the submarine to its Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, the sey's remarks at the dedication serve as original condition. The chief demonstra- United Artists film is based on Com- a fitting reason for them to visit the tor of the exhibit, Dick Freitag, is a mander Edward L. Beach's best-sell- exhibit: former Electrician's Mate Second Class ing book of the same title. "The U-505 will always serve as a re- in the U.S. Navy. In World War II he minder of a godless way of life that puts served in our own submarine service have gone to their old positions and might over right and makes its citizens aboard the U.S.S. Bliiehack. He and said, '"This is where I worked." slaves of the state. As a permanent ex- other members of the museum staff have Correspondence with former com- hibit at the Museum it will always re- almost completely restored the U-505. manding officers of the U-505 now living mind the world that Americans pray for They have been assisted by former Ger- in Germany and technical advice from peace and hate to fight, but we believe man submarine men who now live in the the German Navy and our own sub- in our way of life and are willing and Chicago area and by the West German marine personnel have insured that capable of defending ourselves against

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in the spiritual rehabilitation of the (In recent years the only cleric of Rus- that it was difHcult to refuse the kind Japanese Orthodox Church and to aid sian background was the head of the offer of Moscow. Again we will have a

in its organization and administration." church. Archbishop Sergi, who had died bishop to train and ordain our priests What could be more commendable? under alleged mysterious circumstances and, above all, we shall have financial However, two questions came to my a short time before the U. S. Army en- support which we need badly."

mind: ( 1) What is the Japanese Ortho- tered Japan.) The services and the I told these men that many changes dox Church? (2) What is behind Mos- chanting of the choir were in Japanese. had taken place in the world of Eastern cow's interest? I contacted two members of the Orthodoxy. They were very interested I had attended services in the St. Nich- Church Consistory (administrative and very impressed. olas Cathedral in Tokyo. It was a very body). One, who had attended a theo- The Japanese had no way of knowing large and beautiful edifice in the Byzan- logical seminary in Moscow in 1914. that although religion was persecuted in tine style, constructed in the early 1930's. spoke Russian; the other spoke English. the U.S.S.R., the Soviet Government, The churchgoers were either Japanese We carried on a trilingual conversation. through the Patriarch of Moscow, was

nationals or Russian emigres who fled '"Our church is in pretty bad shape," making every effort to bring into the fold Russia in the I920's after the commu- said the first Japanese. "We lost our the Orthodox churches outside Russia.

nists seized power. A few members of bishop, the church is without funds, and I knew this because it was my good for- the occupation forces also attended. we need guidance and support in getting tune to assist my father, the late Metro- To answer the first question, my of- back on our feet." politan Theophilus, then the head of the fice conducted a study of the Japanese The other added, "Mr. X, a well-to-do Russian Orthodox Church of America, Orthodox Church with the following re- Russian businessman, told us that the in his successful effort to defeat similar sults: Moscow Patriarch heard of our plight Soviet moves in the Western Hemisphere.

The church was established in the and is ready to send a bishop from Mos- The picture became clear to me. The latter half of the 18th century by Rus- cow to head our church and to assist us Soviet group, realizing the tremendous sian missionaries who came to Japan financially. We prepared a petition to advantages the control of the church

through Siberia, Kamchatka, and the the Patriarch asking his assistance, and would give it, had contacted the church

Kuriie Islands. With the advent of Bol- gave it to Mr. X who told us he could officials, through Russian emigres who shevism in Russia, the church severed get it to the Patriarch." were supporting Soviet interests. The its tie with Moscow. These people did not know that Mr. Soviets certainly had no intention of as- In 1946 there were 200 Orthodox re- X was a leading local Soviet agent whose sisting the Japanese Orthodox Church. ligious communities with a membership primary mission was to infiltrate and What then was Moscow's interest? of more than 40,000 scattered through- undermine the Russian community. The communist plan was simple and out Japan. All the clergy were Japanese. The first man added, "You can see sinister. Moscow wanted to gain control

of the church and use it as a cover for operations in Japan. The two bishops — fas^ Casfs-Qifte/l: as o F/as^ no doubt trained by or at best subservient to the Communist Party, if not actual pUSH- BUTTON Afap/C members — accompanied by a "secretary" who was an MVD agent, would take over the Japanses Orthodox Church. Later, those Japanese priests who fell in line would retain their parishes, while those who opposed Moscow's schemes would be dismissed. Future candidates for the clergy would be sent to Moscow to "study." Later Russian priests would arrive to "administer to the spiritual needs" of the parishioners of Russian descent and to provide "guidance" for them. Thus, about 200 well-trained Mos- cow agents could be placed in parishes. What a readymade network for Mos- cow! pUSH- BUTTON In subsequent meetings with the

church officials I described in detail the w6nderCast status of the church in America, Mos- cow's efforts to gain control, and the visits to New York by the Moscow dele- Just a push of the button... s w-i-s-h of the rod... PRESTO gation (which, much like the one pro- — You're Push Button Fishing! Now everyone can make long, easy casts — like magic — of live bait, light or heavy posed for Japan, consisted of a bishop New Heavy Duty No. 1777 with approx.lOO hues . . .with never a discouraging backlash. Veteran fisher- and a "secretary"). 1 also told them of yds., lOlb.lme $23.95 men will appreciate Shakespeare's precision construction Moscow's failure in America. This en- and outstanding engineering features. Machined gears, non- couraged the Japanese. They asked if I reverse crank and instantly adjustable fish-saver drag, help thought Metropolitan Theophilus would you catch more fish, have more fun. give them the needed assistance, and I No. 1775, factory filled, approx. 100 yds. 6 lb. line . . 819.95 No. 1776 Deluxe FREE! SEND FOR 5 NEW FISHING BOOKLETS assured them that he would. witt) approx.lOO yds., "You see, my friends," I told them, 6 lb. line $22.50 SHAKESPEARE CO., KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN "it is only logical that the American Orthodox Church should help the Jap-

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 anese Orthodox Church just as other Orthodox Church and urging that favor- teeming with Japanese, Russians, and churches of America are assisting their able reaction from Metropolitan The- Americans who had come to participate sister churches of Japan, and just as the ophilus be obtained. in the celebration. A large number of American people represented by the Oc- Not long thereafter the news that U. S. Army men attended. The bishop cupation Forces are assisting Japan and Bishop Benjamin of Pittsburgh had been arrived amid the great rejoicing of the the Japanese people in rebuilding the selected for assignment to Japan was re- parishioners and was escorted into the nation." ceived with great joy by the Japanese cathedral by the dignitaries of the As a result of our discussion, the Jap- Orthodox Church. Bishop Benjamin ar- church. He conducted his first service in anese realized that by associating with rived on January 6, 1947. The entire the splendor and dignity of the Orthdox Moscow they would give up their inde- Orthodox community was in a festive ritual, supported by a well-trained choir pendence. mood and was busily making extensive which sang in Japanese some of the One Sunday in the fall of 1946 repre- preparations to greet him when he offi- beautiful church melodies by Rachma- sentatives of all the parishes met and re- ciated for the first time on January 7. ninoff, Archangelsky, Bartniansky, and solved to ask Metropolitan Theophilus Just prior to the bishop's arrival. Gen- others. The festive occasion passed with- for the needed assistance. An appeal was eral Mueller told me that information out incident and thus the Japanese prepared to the Metropolitan and was received in headquarters indicated possi- Orthodox Church was re-established,

forwarded by mail. However, a copy of ble disturbances during the services. It free from control by Moscow. the request was furnished me and was was reported that the pro-Soviet element On January 9 I informed Derevyanko in turn forwarded by me to my father, might even attempt physical violence. that General MacArthur was very ap-

with a full explanation of the situation General Mueller asked me if I thought preciative of his interest in the Japanese and with an insistent request that he be I needed any help. I assured the general Orthodox Church. However, since, at

prepared to act favorably in order to that I was confident I could control the the request of the Japanese, a bishop

prevent the Soviets from getting this situation as long as 1 had his approval to had already arrived from the United very important foothold in Japan. take necessary measures. The general States, there was no apparent need to The Soviets had been making per- told me to go ahead. consider further the Soviet request. sistent attempts in this direction. I was One of my first moves was to ask the In describing the events to my father, as persistent in my determination to pre- chaplains of the First Cavalry Division particularly the arrival of the bishop and vent this. and other units stationed in and around the first service in the Tokyo Cathedral, My father needed no persuasion to Tokyo that the Orthodox personnel and appreciating his fine sense of humor, convince him of the grave situation and among our troops be informed of the I concluded my letter by saying: "I do of the need for immediate action. He ceremonies and encouraged to attend. not recall when I have felt more elated was well aware of Moscow's methods. At noon on January 7 the cathedral than I did on the day Bishop Benjamin

He replied, saying: "... A bishop will bells proclaimed a day of joy for the arrived, as I entered the portals of the be sent upon receipt of official approval Japanese Orthodox community. The St. House of God with a prayer in my heart from the State Department. If no quali- Nicholas Cathedral and its gardens were and a blackjack in my pocket." the end fied volunteer will be found immediately,

I shall come myself and remain until a bishop will be selected." Having been assured of Metropolitan Theophilus' support, the Japanese Church submitted a request to GHQ. At this point I was sure that all difficulties were over and only formal action re- mained. The request was submitted through my chief with a recommendation that it be approved. Much to my dismay, the chief not only disapproved but criticized me for meddling in "nonmilitary" matters. It was obvious that he did not see the picture. None of my arguments helped. I then decided to discuss the situation with Max Bishop of the Diplo- by Barnaby Conrad matic Section of GHQ. This young man MY CLOSEST SHAVE Bullfighter and Author had given considerable thought to the "My closest shave was in Mexico when I was 18," says international situation and was very Barnaby Conrad, author of the be.st selling books Matador realistic in evaluating our position in re- and Gates of Fear. "I went to a bullfight, thought it looked lation to the Soviets. was quick to He easy, and jumped into the ring with a fighting bull. It appreciate the situation. Finally, and charged . . . and if it hadn't been for the quick work of the primarily through Max Bishop's efforts, professionals, I'd have been a goner. Later I went to Spain the developments were brought the to and really studied the dangerous art, but I never had a attention of the chief of staff, General " closer call than when I thought 'la fiesta brava' was easy ! Paul Mueller, who called me in and asked for a complete report. For YOUR Close Shaves, try new Colgate Instant Shave. It's the quickest, easiest Once General Mueller was fully way ever. Your razor glides as smoothly as a matador's cape. Shaves your whiskers, aware of the situation, the matter was saves your skin. A great shave buy for the tough-beard brought to the attention of General guy! MacArthur for a decision. General Mac- Arthur immediately dispatched a com- Colgate Instant Shave munication to the State Department, listen lo the exciting Colgate Sportsreel with Bill Stern, Mutual submitting the request of the Japanese network weekday mornings. Check your paper for time and station.

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Not intended for navigating the Queen Mary, they nonetheless will enable the average amateur skipper to get from port to port easily. Charts for all major areas of the U. S. (except the west coast, which will be added in a few months) are revised and published annually. Specify where you live when asking. In the same vein, Texaco has descriptive bulletins which tell about water, weather, and land conditions in the various regions (they're called Water- ways Bulletins) • Trip service: You can get the company to map out a route for you when you want to go on a cruise — much the same as if you were taking a trip by car. Tell them (1) the draft of your boat, (2) its overhead clearance, and (3) where you want to go. In addition, you get a kit containing boating tips, instructions, etc. 5 YEAR OLD • Mail service: If somebody wants to write you while you're afloat, you can tell them to address their letters to specified Texaco "mailports" where COLORADO you can pick up the messages. Texaco has a list in a brochure called Texaco Mailports. BLUE $ ea« • Special literature: Cruising with Safety is an 84-page, spiral-bound,

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44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 LET'S TELL OUR SERVICE STORY " (ConHiiiiid jroiii fxige 17) CUSHIONED COMFORT fornia, who is our national Rehabilita- Legion help. The veteran (and there are tion Commission chairman, suggests a thousands like him) who is about to checi<.-list against which each member make the mistake of trying to process can measure the service program of his his own claim with the Veterans Admin- in EVERY SIZE IMAGINABLE own post. Here are the tried and true istration doesn't publish it in the local characteristics of post service programs newspaper where the service officer can 5 to 18 that woric well. Each reader can com- read it. AAA to EEEE pare it with what his own post does. Neither do the veterans who are about

1 . The post appoints a competent to make bad decisions regarding their service officer. veterans' insurance, their GI loans, civil 2. The post has several assistant serv- service rights, educational entitlements KN4PP ice officers, some of whom are special- or other rights. ists in different aspects of veterans bene- Neither do many others, veterans and fits. widows, who are in need of benefits to

3. The post has surveyed all local which they are entitled, but don't know veterans and their families, preferably anything about their entitlement. SHOES by systematic personal interviews. All They all have to be conditioned to veterans and their families have been seek out the service officer by a post personally invited to call on the post program that is designed to reach them. for help and advice in matters relating 2. Assistant service officers. When the to veterans affairs. The post maintains post's service is sold to the whole com- a permanent card file of their names and munity, assistant service officers may be addresses, with basic facts about their needed simply to help meet the increased veteran status. calls that may be made upon the post. 4. The post has a continuing local At least one assistant is a necessity to The exact size you need — the styles you want! publicity program in the field of veterans stand in for the regular service officer Yours from Knapp at low, Factory-Direct Prices. benefits. whenever he is unavailable, or if his 18,526 individual sizes — Over 180 smart styles 5. Veterans benefits and the post's services should be lost to the post. The in Dress, Casual and Service Shoes for Men and service program are frequently dis- post cannot risk being unprepared to Women. Superb Quality . . . Complete Factory- Fitting Service. And — because they're Aerotreds, live up to a reputation that it must cussed at post meetings. with Knapp's patented Air Cushioned 6. The post has a permanent service establish or that reputation will quickly Construction, you ktioiv they're comfortable! committee, which recommends, initiates disappear. WRITE FOR FREE STYLE FOLDER assistant service offi- and carries out policies that keep the Another kind of and name of your local Knapp Shoe Counselor service progr;*m at an aggressive peak. cer is also very much needed today. The or check Yellow Pages of your phone book. Bob McCurdy's check-list certainly regular service officer has clear channels KNAPP BROS. SHOE MFG. CORP. covers the ground. With local variations, for handling veterans claims through DEPT. 94B, BROCKTON, MASS. service staff. But much it is precisely what every post owes it- your state Legion Name self its of the service your post should render and community. Address Let's look at each point closely. veterans is in the form of advice on spe- more City State

1 . The service officer. Certainly every cialized problems. post recognizes the for a With a little study of VA insurance, need compe- EVERYONE'S A WINNER with this tent man in this position, and the need a post member who is an insurance agent can furnish expert knowledge which the to give him full support. However, it has Real MACHINE been widely observed that many posts service officer could call upon to help a begin and end their service program with veteran with an insurance problem. the appointment of the service officer. Likewise a banker, with respect to GI BANK But every post that does so limits its loans; a mortician with respect to burial Play at home — and save at the same a doctor with respect time! Here's a novel- work in its most important field to what rights of veterans; ty Slot Machine that takes voLir money ten one man can do. It has no hope of real- to medical rights; a plant manager or cents at a time — AND KKKPS IT rOI^ YOU. flhne. pull izing its full potential. personnel man with respect to veterans In.seit a

spins just like . In the absence of a strong program employment; a teacher with respect to orks hank, finisli. Order today. The exciting. clng ba by veterans their avlng .and playing with this the entire post to backstop him, many educational rights of and Wonderful Gift. Mall your order today. MEDFORD PRODUCTS, Dept. AL.4, Box 39. Bethpage, N. Y. a dedicated volunteer service officer children, and so on. If you ore the talented outhor all veterans. This renders his services by hunting for 3. A survey of local of an unpublished manuscript, FREE! gain the recognition people to serve. is a fundamental essential of the service let us help Inside you deserve. We will publish He will check death notices and call program of each post. your BOOK— v^e will edit, design, advertise and upon widows. Each year thousands of It is the only way that every single Story print, promote, sell it I Good royalties. veterans' widows get benefits veteran family in the post's community on needed Write lor FREE copy of they didn't know existed because of such can, with certainty, be reached by the Publishing How To Publish Your Book COMET PRESS BOOKS. Dept. AL-4 detective work by post service officers post; the only sure way the post can Your Book 200 Varick St.. H. Y. 14 working alone. have a record of the local people whom The same service officer will check it is pledged to serve. 8E hospital admissions and welfare rolls The advantages of personally contact- PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE. BIG. ILLUS- and discover ill or destitute veterans ing the whole veteran community to TRATED CATALOG NOW! (Graduates rvpurt making substantial incomes. Start and run your own business quickly. of all ages, whose trials are offer it the post's services Men, women eased by Legion help. must be so learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property Managrenient, Appraising. Loans, Mortgages, and iHOVlf He misses many. The field is too big, obvious, from the point of view of both related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- rooms in loading cities. Diploma awarded. and he is too few. Further, he has fewer the post and the local veterans, as to Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. Approved for World War II and Korean Veterans clues for tracking down others who need need no further explanation. WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAU E'=^-'ATE lEst. ly.iOj 2020A Grand Avenue Kansas City, Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGA21NR • APRIL 1958 • 45 In heavily populated areas, such sur- I am able to report that the national see that it operates at peak performance. veys should be planned by the Legion American Legion is at present working These responsibilities, which go far be- county organization, since no one post out a type of news release on veterans yond what any service officer is able to serves the whole area. Each post exe- aflfairs suitable for release by individual do in his limited time, cannot be carried cutes its survey in an area agreed upon posts. One department of The American out unless they are made the mission of at the county level. Legion and a selected group of posts an aggressive committee. Surveys of this kind will bring to light have volunteered to be the guinea pigs innumerable veterans and their families to give these releases a tryout. When we When, in Resolution 594 of our 1957 to whom the post can be of immediate work the bugs out of them, we may be convention, our delegates warned against benefit. A recent search in one state for able to offer each department regular "neglect" of veterans' needs by our posts needy dependents of veterans who were news stories about veterans affairs for they were not implying that any post de- entitled to help of which they were ig- their posts to release locally under their liberately ignores veterans needs. They norant resulted in establishment of own names. were observing that too many posts are claims for nearly 3.000 of them. 5. Discussion of veterans affairs at failing, without meaning to, to reach the Needless to say, when a post conducts post meetings and in post bulletins. This veterans who need Legion counsel and such a survey, it reflects greatly to the is a must for every post commander to assistance. advantage of the post in its local repu- initiate, in view of the mounting evidence When our delegates stated that reach- tation as a worthy and unselfish organi- that many of our own members don't ing these veterans is the responsibility of zation, and in its growth and prosperity. fully realize what their service program the commander and the full membership 4. Local publicity on veterans benefits. may mean to them. of each post they were saying that our

Continuing local publicity by the post Unless veterans service is impressed job in this field is too big to be left in its in the field of veterans benefits is a pub- on the minds of our members there entirety to the service officer. lic service in itself. In addition it keeps seems little hope that we will ever truly We cannot afford to centralize vet- the post's service program and its expert- reach the public consciousness with our erans rehabilitation in our national and ness in its field before the public. rehabilitation program. state offices. The whole purpose of the

Newspaper stories emanating from 6. A post service committee in addi- program is to give direct help to individ- your post advising local veterans and tion to its service officers. Nearly all of uals who need it. The post is the most their families of important veterans our posts that have developed veterans important cog in the whole machinery, benefits, changes in the laws and regula- service as an outstanding community because it is the only part of our struc- tions, deadlines, etc., are practically a program have used an active standing ture that can keep in touch with indi- necessity if the worth and meaning of service committee as the instrument of viduals. Our posts are where our veter- the local American Legion is not to be that success. ans live. hidden under a bushel. Wherever it is understood that there .Sometimes I think that our posts are Newspaper editors usually want such is much more to a post veterans service much loo modest in their own estimate stories, because they appeal to the in- program than appointing a service offi- of their importance, especially with re- terests of a broad section of their reader cer, the need for such a committee be- spect to national programs. Nearly all audiences. comes obvious. of our national programs would be Many newspaper editors now buy vet- It takes manpower, organization and myths, were they not post programs. In erans news from syndicated news serv- initiative to do the job right. The service rehabilitation this would be especially ices, but would prefer to get it from a committee should be charged by the true. local source if it is accurate and read- commander to see that the post has a We have great national wisdom and able. well-rounded service program, and to elfectiveness in veterans affairs. But the entire source of this national competence

springs from knowledge that is gleaned by post service programs which are in touch with individual veterans and their families. What the posts learn about the needs and problems of veterans up and down America's Main Streets—because they

are in touch with them— is passed up, through county and state delegates and committees, to our national conventions and committees. The creation of the Veterans Administration, the GI Bill of Rights, practically the entire structure of veteran law today, stands on the firm foundation of knowledge about the problems of veterans that was learned at the community level. Unless we maintain close contact with veterans at the community level we will not only miss more and more opportunities to give the service we have dedicated ourselves to give; but we will also shut ourselves off from the basic knowledge and experience that we need to remain the effective champion of Ameri- ca's disabled and destitute veterans, and the widows and orphans of our fallen comrades. the end

4^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 "

SMOKE PICTURES Shrinks Hemorrhoids -(Cotiliiiiifd jroin l>fige !>)- New Way Without Surgery back across the Atlantic to America undeniable distracting effect they had Science Finds Healing Substance That Civil War. But it on small boys, and they usually con- about the time of the Relieves Pain — Shrinks Hemorrhoids was almost 40 years before they found fiscated and destroyed them on sight. For the fir.st time science has fouiul a healing favor in this country. Most cigarette card collectors regard new substance with the astonisliing ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve A journalist writing from New York the Kinney Tobacco Company's mili- pain — without surgery. in 1854 reported the following discov- tary series which accompanied Sweet In case after case, while gently relieving pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took Caporals as outstanding in artistic merit, ery in ill-disguised sarcasm: place. "Some ladies of this refined and interest, and general appeal. These little Most amazing of all — results were so thorough that sufferers made astonishing fashion-forming metropiis are ap- gems of Americana, which first appeared statements like "Piles have ceased to be a ing the silly ways of some pseudo- in 1888, were color representations of problem ! The secret is a healing accomplished foreigners in smoking military uniforms from all over the new substance ( Bio-Dyne* ) — discovery of a world-famous Tobacco through a weaker and world. There were 694 cards in this set, research institute. more feminine article which has the largest ever issued. Most other sets This substance is now available in sup- pository or ointment form under the name delicately were limited to 50 or 100 cards. been most denominated Preparation H* Ask for it at all drug count- " a 'cigarette.' Some 250 of this classic series showed ers—money back guarantee. *Reg. u. s. Pat of The italics were the author's. American military uniforms from the By 1869 the total U.S. annual produc- Revolutionary War to militia outfits of U.S. STAMPS biirj tion of the suspect smokes of foreign U. S. 1943 Bl-Colorfd FLiu <»' t Occupied N.^tions ( as 1 1 1 iistr.il eil ; Alrm.ills. Commemoratlves. Ue!-- origin was less than 2,()00.t)()()— all hand- ular Issues, in tlils included ; tell collection of 25 selected, all made. By 1885 when cigarette-making lillTerent. genuine U. S. Stamps. PLUS VALUABLE U. S. ST). 00 f TAMP. EvL-rythini,'

for loc to cover mailing expen c s . Approvals in- machines came into use, more than eluded. ACT AT ONCE. 1,000,000,000 or about 20 ci-^arettes ner Box 338, Dept. 28 WiLLETT CO. :;rMown HeiRhts. N. Y. capita were being smoked in the U.S. each year. Taxes almost killed cigarettes SEALS in the 1870's Even as late as 1900 less Faster J than 4 percent of the total tobacco crop MARTINS FLAGS went into cigarettes. , DISPLAYS FOR I ORGANIZATIONS- The origin of the first cigarette cards TOWNS-SCHOOLS-FAIRS Prompt shipment. Ask for our is obscure and still a matter of research. HELP CRIPPLED CHILDREN colorful WHOLESALE Catalog No. 58-A The earliest cards appear to go back to MARTIN'S FLAG CO., FORT DODGE. 1880. The handmade smokes were IOWA flimsy so packed in paper packages; 1886. Some of the latter were every bit some manufacturers reinforced the as gaudy as anything seen in more mili- WHEN FALSE TEETH wrappers with cardboard. Some long- tary-minded Europe of that day. This genius hit on the idea of print- forgotten set was so carefully researched and me- CAUSE SORE GUMS ing pictures of actresses on one side of ticulously accurate that it is still used You get undreamed of relief in \l 11 VJ these cardboard inserts. It was a million- seconds! Medically-formulated /II as the final authority in re-creating old ^ y\ ) NUM-ZIT Adult Strength has W-^^^H-ii- dollar inspiration, and probably made — uniforms for books, movies, the stage, alread.v brousht blessed relief to .^^^^ the cigarette industry. Competitors were thousands. Recommended by etc. dentists everywhere. Pleasant- ^ V ^\ forced to follow suit, and all of them There are no known complete sets, tasting . . . eases discomfort while / ^ .you break in new false teeth. went in heavily for the girly theme. but several collections lack only a dozen Works wonders, too. for relief of toothache, neu- Some of the more scantily dressed or so cards of being complete. The ralgic pains. Keep it handy for quick first aid. At all drufi counters. gals on a particularly daring set of these rarer cards of this set bring from $5 to cards caused bluenoser Anthony Com- $10 or even more from collectors. ZIT ^dult Strength stock, the watchdog of the famous The rarest of the old cigarette cards, Another fine Purepac product 'Watch and Ward Society," to hurry to one of which might bring you as much Washington to get a law passed against as $50 or $75, depicts the famous such double corruption of innocent Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Honus youth. Wagner. This was used in a Sweet People 60 to 80 In general, however, most of these old Caporal set, and was the cause of some MAIL THIS AD TODAY... cards were in good taste and highly ar- controversy. Honus was violently op- tistic in design. Indian chiefs, ballplay- posed to smoking in any form; he con- , . . and let us tell you how you ers, prizefighters, game birds of Ameri- sidered it harmful for athletes. He re- can still apply for a $1,000 life ca, and "Fish from American waters" fused all offers to use his picture on cig- insurance policy to help take were among the earliest sets. By 1892 arette cards. Somehow Sweet Caporals care of final expenses without there .were several hundred beautiful inadvertently included him anyway. burdening your family. sets in existence. Some cigarette com- Wagner promptly threatened legal ac- Yo u handle the entire panies, hoping to win favor for their tion, and the cards were hastily with- transaction by mail with OLD products, even put out small albums for drawn. A few got out, but only four AMERICAN of KANSAS the sets. known copies have survived to this day. CITY. No obligation. No one Hundreds of thousands of dollars By 1910 the cigarette cards were al- will call on you! were spent on research and artwork to most infinite in variety. They ranged make the cards more attractive and au- from Arctic explorers and animals from Tear out this ad and mail it thentic. Since these cards carried con- Aesop's Fables to Shakespearean char- today with your name, address siderable descriptive matter on their re- acters and yachting colors. The most and year of birth to Old verse sides, their educational value was popular, however, were the prizefighters American Insurance Co., not inconsiderable. Teachers, however, and baseball stars of that day. Close 1 West 9th, Dept. L457M, seemed to hate the little cards and the rivals were the "Indian Life in the 60's" Kansas Citv, Mo.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 • 47 and several cowboy sets. It has been Congress by Carl Sandburg. The largest 12 can still be bought at Bray auction claimed that one of these cowboy series and finest collection ever assembled — sales for as little as $4 or $5 for a com- packed with Hassans inspired some of more than 42,000 cards — is the life's plete set of 50. Nineteenth century and the colorful costumes used in the Broad- work of Mr. Jefferson Burdick, of Syra- rare cards fetch higher prices. way hit Oklahoma! cuse, N. Y. Mr. Burdick donated this Not even experts like Bray or Bur- In 1912 another radical innovation set, worth many thousands of dollars, dick know how many sets were issued was tried out in cigarette marketing. In- to the Metropolitan Mueum of Art in in the 19th century because most of the stead of cards, the packages contained 1947. It may be seen in the Print Room older cigarette companies left no rec- small silk flags, flannel rugs, and leather upon request. Mr. Burdick has also com- ords. The records of the American To- cards. These "silkies," as they were piled the only known catalog of this bacco Company were, unfortunately, called, carried pictures of foreign rulers, little-known hobby. lost in a fire. Gone with the years, too,

famous actresses. American Indian It is estimated that there are less than are the names of the artists who designed chiefs, flags of all countries, etc. They 500 cigarette card collectors in the these wonderful bits of Americana.

were designed to be made into cushion United States (compared with possibly I am afraid that unsentimental house- covers, fancy sofa spreads, and other 1,000,000 or more stamp collectors). wives eternally throwing out "old junk" forms of feminine handicraft. The cig- England has at least 50,000 cigarette were probably responsible for the de- arette companies were baiting their sales card collectors and even boasts of a very struction of most of these old cards. hooks for the ladies as a vast potential snooty Cartophilic Society which num- Then too as boys grew into men and new market. bers among its select membership many moved into homes of their own they By 1917 when America entered World socially prominent people and a few of were probably too ashamed to bring

War I, millions of Americans were the nobility. with them the little treasures of their smoking cigarettes: so cigarette com- Not even the experts in this country boyhood days. panies dropped the cards and silkies as can explain why the cigarette card hob- To boys of today, spoiled by color no longer needed to promote sales. Be- by died out so suddenly and completely TV, radios in every room, hi-fi phono- tween 1886 and 1916 the smoking habits in the land of its birth. There are no big graphs, and wide-angle movies, and of a nation had been changed, largely dealers in this hobby and no sizable comics by the hundredweight, the cig- because of the now long-forgotten cig- slocks of cards for sale anywhere. A Mr. arette cards of 1910 would probably ap- arette card. Men had switched from Charles Bray, of East Bangor, Pa., has pear to be pretty insipid and "corny." pipes and cigars to cigarettes, and the conducted auction sales by mail of cards But to an older generation of a more ladies had joined the menfolk as smokers. he has been receiving from other col- innocent and unsophisticated age these Although billions of these little cards lectors since 1942. British buyers quite colorful little pasteboards represented were distributed during the 30 years of often bid far higher prices for these rare high adventure and pure golden treasure. their heyday, surprisingly few of them old cards than Americans: consequently And they definitely were a part of the survive today even in museums or li- many of them have gone to England America of another day just as much braries. A very fine collection once thereby depleting the small floating sup- as the cigarstore Indian, cigarband ash- owned by Mr. B. K. Edwards, of Cali- ply still further. trays, and dime novels. fornia, was donated to the Library of Some of the commoner sets of 1910- THE END

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4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • Al IL 1958 —

POWER FOR WAR AND PEACE (Coiithiiied jrom page 25)- EAT ANYTHING

"electrical living," and industry more pansion they see ahead. Yet all heartily WITH FALSE TEETH and more mechanizes and automates concur that demand will go on boom- EASY TO operations. This calls for voracious use ing. And it is significant that most long- USE STRIPS of power. An electricity growth curve term projections of the past have proven looks like an airplane swinging up into themselves on the low side as the years

a steep loop. It is double that of the gen- unfold. eral economy, is even greater than those Few, for instance, could have fore- Trouble with loose plates that slip, rock or cause of many so-called growth industries. seen a near-doubling of power use over sore gums Try Brimms Plasti-Liner. One application makes plates fit snugly without powder, paste A look at home use of electricity roughly each decade this century. Few or cushions. Brimms Plasti-Liner adheres permanently to your plate; ends the bother of temporary shows how utility expansion is induced. in the late 1940's, moreover, could have applications. With plates held firmly by Plasti- The average residence takes about 3,000 foreseen the outsized boost Korea was Lifier.YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING! Simply lay soft strip of Plasti-Liner on troublesome upper or lower. kilowatt-hours annually for lighting, to give economic (and electric) expan- Bite and it molds perfectly. Easy to use. tasteless, odorless, harmless to you and your plates. Remov- television and radio, cooking, cleaning, sion in the 1950"s. able as d irected. Money-back guarantee. At your drug counter. SI. 50 relinerforone plate; S2. 50, two plates. ironing, water heating and pumping, Forward planning is also made diffi- Special Offer! Free 3 5«' packageof Tri-Dent Brush- and home heating and cooling. This load cult by the need to allow for yet-to-be- less Denture Cleaner. Send only lOtf for postage and handling. Offer expires May 31, 1958. Plasti-Liner, is five times that of 25 years ago, is even Inc., Dept.,VZ,1075 Main St., Buffalo 9, N. Y. double that of just 10 years ago. The BRIMMS PLASTI-LINER Edison Electric Institute estimates it will THE PERMANENT DENTURE RELINER double again by 1965. These figures, it should be noted, deal Gypsy Bait Oil only with averages. A single all-electric home devours 20,000 kilowatt-hours a year! Pronounced spread of electric MAKES FISH BITE "c^osT home heating and air conditioning will Mysterious aroma of Gypsy Fish Bait Oil Compound makes smell make consumption of current skyrocket. feeding fish wild through thousands of smell organs covering A list of the typical annual electricity their bodies. One potent drop on demands of various household appli- artificial or live bait draws in fresh or salt water whether you still fish ances tells why. with pole, cast, spin or troll. Really works. Only S1.98 (3 for In one year an electric clock will use S-4.98). Cash orders postpaid. If about 17 kilowatt-hours; an automatic C.O.D. postage extra. Draws fish to your bait or money back. washing machine, 48; a radio, 97; a TV FREE. Handy large water resistant pouch with every bottle. Order from: set, 297; a refrigerator, 353. On the WALLING KEITH CHEMICALS, Inc. other hand, a window air-conditioning Dept. 68-D Birmingham 1, Alabama unit will eat up 1,000 kilowatt-hours; an electric range, 1.200; a water heater, 3,500; and a heat pump, a whopping OWN a BUSINESS! "Now, now, dear, let's not butt into their 15,600. {Kilowatts, incidentally, are a Earn $8,750.00 Your First Year! family affairs." Start part time if you like. We locally train you, measure of electric generating capacity; " AMEIUCAN LEGION MAGAZINE furnish everythinjr to clean & mothproof rugs, upholstery oT? Iin'otion by world-wide process. kilowatt-hours, a measure of amounts Quickly established. No shop needed. Just 2 averajfe jobs a day bring $8,750 net profit in of electricity generated or used. ) built equipment, which Donald S. Ken- year. Employothers multiply prof\t^. You get Nat'l Advertising, Parents' Seal. 25 other Nearly 50 million American homes nedy, president of both the Edison Elec- reglr. services. Easv terms. Send for free booklets. Duraclean Co.. 8-194 Duraclean BIdg., Oeerfield. III. now take one-fourth of total electricity tric Institute and the Oklahoma Gas and sales— against one-half by industry. But Electric Company, calls "phantom" ap- ALWAYS BUY LEGION ADVERTISED BRANDS the former make up the fastest growing pliances. Equipment makers are coming of Magazine demand segment. A Federal Power out with about three new appliances Your purchase American legion advertised brands results in full value received, Commission study states that "with ris- each two years. Consumption of elec- cuts down on buying mistakes, and assures us ing population and a resultant growth tricity can thus be thrown into wholly of their continued advertising appropriations. in the number of homes, together with different growth trends by demand for increasing use per customer, the resi- gadgets as yet unborn. The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine dential classification is expected to be- Another big category of customers for come still more significant, and may at the utilities are the six million commer- some time in the distant future even cial businesses, which take about one- overtake the industrial class." sixth of electricity sales. Demand here, MAGIC MAIL PLAN Forecasting future electricity de- too, is moving upward all the time as im- that comes with this Littfe Machine mands is an essential part of the utility proved lighting, office machinery, tem- CAN MAKE YOU '522 AN HOUR business. for perature control systems, Plans new generation and and other Write today for free facts about the newest and most fascinating of all home operated bu.^i- distribution facilities must be hardened equipment gets more and wider use. new nesses. For the first time, a simplified machine three years or more in advance of com- Annual load per commercial customer brings the fabulous profits of I'lastic Sealing and Plastic Lam- inating within the reach of the pletion if customer needs are to be met. is about five times that for a residence, small operator. Anyone can Government agencies, the utilities them- and the Federal Power Commission be- learn to operate it with a few minutes practice. Then—with selves, and electric equipment manu- lieves this will double over the next 20 our MAGIC MAIL PLAN—can ^'|t mail orders pouring in daily facturers thus go in for a good deal of years. v\ith cash in every envelope. No Canvassing or Selling crystal-ball gazing. Population trends, Industrial use of electricity is in many Fill orders at home in spare time availability of natural resources and ways the most interesting segment of all. to start. Then expand to full time business. We even supply fuels, production, employment, and pur- According to the Edison Electric Insti- Th« machine is turn- circulars to bring back cash Ing out a job that will and orders. Hush name for all chasing power all enter the equations. tute, no single worker can produce in a bring operator S2. 58, the facts you need to start. A by mail. Material cost postcard will do. No charge, As might be expected, the prognosti- day by sheer muscle power the energy only 11c. WARNER ELECTRIC CO. cators seldom agree on what kind of ex- represented by even one kilowatt-hour 1512 Jarvis. Dept. L-8-D, Chicago 26, Illinois

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 • 49 ot electricity. In a full year the average manufacture. Nevertheless, since indus- cies made in utility operations and "pro- worker expends only about 67 kilowatt- try uses large amounts of energy, power motion" rates which cost customers less hours of muscular energy. costs can be a large factor. They are per unit as volume of use increases. Yet electricity use per worker in man- therefore analyzed closely by manage- The average monthly home bill for ufacturing now exceeds 19,000 kilowatt- ment in selecting plant locations. this wonderworking servant runs to just hours annually. This modern genie thus The truly amazing thing about elec- $6.50. And it would be even less but for allows one worker to apply on his job tricity is that, despite modest rate in- those ever-present taxes. The privately an energy equivalent to 279 men! creases over the years, the average rev- owned systems have to give over to gov- Industry is building up a big head of enue utilities get from their sales has ernment nearly one dollar out of each steam behind the drive to use still more declined steadily while prices of almost four they take in. Public power groups, electricity in production operations. Ris- everything else have gone up and up which produce a little more than one- ing labor costs provide the spur. Ma- and up. Edison Electric Institute Presi- fifth of our electricity, pay little or noth- chinery and automated processes and dent Kennedy observes that the cost of ing in taxes. They are thereby able to plenty of kilowatts make it possible for living has risen 2'/2 times over the past charge lower rates for their particular fewer men to turn out more products. 40 years, whereas average residential customers. Far from posing threats of throwing revenue per kilowatt-hour has dropped "The government has found no new men out of work, however, such a meth- to one-third the 1916 level. This happy way to make electricity. It simply sells od of raising worker productivity is result stems from both marked efficien- its power at less than true cost," observes considered essential to long-run boosts Edwin Vennard, vice president of Edi- in living standards. We already have a son Electric Institute. relative shortage of productive workers The issue of whether public or pri- in the population. From the mid-1960's vate organizations should provide basic on, population will grow at both ends of power supply is one of the hottest in the age scale but will shrink in the mid- national affairs. This continues to be so dle. The shortening work week will com- regardless of how well the private utili- pound the problem, making it all the ties service their 80 percent of U. S. cus- more urgent to raise output per man- tomers, or how much they protest that hour. government agencies closely regulate A striking fact that stands out in any their rates and operations anyway. By Rev. ROBERT J. SHERRY power survey is that less than 1 percent Public power has carved a special Gregory's Seminary of all utility customers — the industrial Rector, St. niche in hydroelectric development, and Cincinnati, Ohio group — takes more than half the total about half of government-produced elec- Department Chaplain of Ohio electricity output. An even sharper look tricity comes from falling water. Yet discloses that some 10 percent of plant O Almighty and Eternal God, our there is a limit to U. S. hydroelectric re- customers, in turn, account for nearly sources. Federal Power Commission heavenly Father, teach us to realize 90 percent of all industrial consump- Vice Chairman Stueck points out we that the true idea of American de- tion. have now developed 26 million kilowatts proposition The Federal Power Commission mocracy is found in the of hydroelectric generating capacity — found out during the Second World War that all men are created equal. which is roughly one-fifth of all present that most factories take fairly light loads Show us clearly, we pray Thee, capacity. Facilities for another 20 mil- — less than 100 kilowatts. big construction or Only the that the soundest answer to totali- lion kilowatts are under ones required loads topping 20,000 kw. authorized, and a final 67 million are tarian tyranny is a living faith in an The biggest steel mill, for example, may technically feasible of development. But Almighty Creator, Who has en- need 200,000 kw.; the biggest aluminum these latter would be much more costly. refining plant, 400,000 kw.; and the big- dowed all human beings with rights Since we are developing our best gest uranium diffusion (atomic) works, that no human authorit\- can destroy. water sites first, Mr. Stueck warns, "fu- 2,000,000 kw. Give us the grace, O Lord, to see ture development of hydroelectric power Atomic plants like those at Oak Ridge, will be progressively more difficult." that the only true and secure basis Tenn., now chew up a tenth of elec- If the nation cannot hope to get the of our precious liberties—freedom of tricity production. Vast extra charges electricity it needs in the future from freedom of press, freedom of are also needed to refine and manufac- speech, water resources, where will it come ture the high-quality materials used in assembly, freedom of religion — lies from? these facilities. It has been argued, per- not in the will of any majority, nor This question is of the utmost im- haps correctly, that far more electricity portance because of indications of al- in the whim of any dictator, but in goes into making refined uranium than most unbelievable needs for power in the universal, practical acceptance of can ever be gotten out of this exotic fuel the years ahead. Federal officials do not the Fatherhood of and the in atomic powerplants. Military officials God believe power demands will go on dou- in particular contend, however, that brotherhood of man. bling indefinitely every decade, as they such a cost is worthwhile to obtain a Lead us on to learn, before it is too have been. Still, Electrical World, the highly concentrated publication, foresees electricity and transportable late, the lesson of history, both an- industry form of energy— not to mention atomic output of 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours in cient and modern, that where Th\' bombs. 1970. This would be three times that of sovereign rights are disregarded, "As important as electric power is to 1955 and double that expected in 1960. rights industry, however, it represents for the there human are thrown on The Federal Power Commission itself most part a small portion of the total the scrap heap. recently prepared an estimate of power cost of production," a Federal Power Help us to walk always in the needs in the year 2,000. and set require- Commission study reveals. The Com- ments then at one billion kilowatts of ways of Thy commandments and in mission notes that the cost of electricity generating capacity. In effect, for every loy'al, patriotic service to our coun- to industry in one recent year covered generating unit or central station on the by the study represented only 2 percent try. Amen. landscape today, we would have to have of the total cost of the value added by seven by the turn of the century.

50 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 The fuel for these mammoth plants install the enormous new capacity com- will be furnished primarily by coal and ing up will place the utilities under se- BORROW BY MAIL! the atom. Right now, natural gas pro- vere strain. So far, they have been able vides the energy for some 17 percent ot to meet America's needs with a healthy '100 to *600 %2&'

electricity production: and oil, nearly 7 reserve capacity to spare. The reason Pay your bills, enjoy peace of min

1 Vi times present costs. people, generates 41 percent of the SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE LESSON Nonetheless, if we not want a dis- world's electricity. The nation has more do Executive Aci untants and CPAs irn $6,000 to $10,000 a year and up. Thoufi ds needed. Wetrain 1 tlioroly at home in spare time proportionate number of people "to power capacity than the next seven for CPA ex:ini counting positions. Previtius inK under supervision of staff spend their lives digging coal," as Mr. countries combined. te fiT free bouit. "Opportuni- LASALLE Extension University, Dearborn St. Stueck puts it, we must look to other The U. S. total is also four times that 417 So. A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 4361 H, Chicago 5, III. energy sources. It is probable that the of second-place Russia. In the past five power of the sun, wind, and tides will years our private utilities alone have in- A TEXAS OIL COMPANY be harnessed in large amounts one day. stalled as much new capacity as is in Wants a Over And atomic energy will assuredly meet service in all of Russia. President Ken- Man 45 a large part of future requirements, per- nedy of the Edison Electric Institute pre- WE NEED a good man at once and v/e are willing to pay top earnings. We prefer someone be-

haps as much as half the total by the dicts that the utilities will duplicate this tween 45 and 65 . . . who can make short auto

trips . . . and can call on small town industrial year 2,000. feat in the coming five years. and rural property owners. A vast range of atomic research and That we are scarcely aware of the WO/7T/-# ^12,500.00 development projects is well underway, contribution of electricity to daily work Our top men in otiier parts of the country draw exceptional earnings from $12,500 to $18,000 in a and the first full-scale atomic power- and homelife is probably the finest testa- year. This opening is worth just as much to the right man. We pay earnings in advance. Write a plant for civilian use is now in being of all to the kind of job the utili- ment confidential letter to C. V. Swallow, President, at Shippingport, Pa. (See "1957— Year ties are doing behind the scenes. Only Box 789, Fort Worth 1, Texas. of the Atom" in the April 1957 issue when lines are cut and power fails in a PUT YOU IN A A \ZZ 1 CAN of The American Legion Magazine.) storm or other emergency, are we jarred A[P0SKAR0J FINE BUSINESS! -l These projects all point toward eventual awake to the real value of this primary Rush Card TODAY for FREE OUTFIT! widespread utilization of the atom for force. Get into hiiihly profitable, repeat-order shoe business! Sell new line of Air-Cushion comfort shoes, power generation. Otherwise, we nonchalantly go on to friends, nei^rhbors, folks at work! Over 210^ dress, sport, work, safety shoe styles tor Among the experts, there is no doubt flipping switches— and lights flicker and men. women. Never sold by stores. Jijst2ea^v orders a day— in spare time— bring you $217 extra that this will It )nnst. whir. in- incomeamonth! No inveBtment. Ru^hnitmeand happen. And both motors magically The power arlHre'f; TODAY for FREE SELLINC OUTFIT MASON SHOE, Dept. 993,ChippewaFalls, Wis. ^^i government and private industry intend dustry is confident that we can continue

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/ perfect cutting .saws with machine accuracy of Foley Auto- fmatlc Saw Filer. No canvassing — steady year round CASH busl- ^ noss. Free booklet — "MONEY MAKING FACTS" — shows how "Wliat kind ot luiiiter uoiild forget the caidsr" to start. No salesman will call. .Send postcard today. A^IKItlCAN' I.KCIOX MACAZrXK FOLEY MFG. CO. • 439-8 Foley BIdg. • Minneapolis 18, Minn. THE AMERICAN LEGION 1V1AGAZINE • APRIL 1958 51 OUTDOORSMEN WILL WANT to carry one of the High Standard Manufacturing Corporation's new handguns. W'e like the all-steel Sport King, a 10-shot, .22 long rifle autoloader which retails for $46.50. It's a great field gun for knocking off those poi- sonous snakes that you might run across, and is a dandy item to have around camp. And target men will like the Hi Standard Supermatic Trophy, which is available with 6?4, 8- and 10-inch interchangeable CLUB barrels. A superbly hand-finished gun with checkered walnut grips, gold trigger, and (Continued from page 8) gold safety button, it sells for $110 and is one of the best-balanced handguns we have fishing calendar. SALT WATER ANGLERS find a lot with a wallct-sized pocket ever seen. Write Jack Kennard at High illustrating and to interest them about reels in the 36 Besides a colorful job of page Standard Mfg. Corp. for illustrated folder all these color catalogue out Fishing describing the firm's tackle for put by Penn describing these guns. Address: 1817 Dix- types of fishing, the booklets give Tackle iMfg., Co. of 3028 Hunting Park different w ell Ave., Hamdcn, Conn. authoritative information on what type of Avenue, Philadelphia 32, Pcnna. Plenr\- of under different suggestions on trolling, bottom fishing, bay tackle might best be used ANYBODY CONTEMPLATING fishing in Experts such as fishing, surf fishing, care of reels, rigs and angling circumstances. south Florida ought to secure a copy of knots. AA'ritc to world champion caster Ben Hardestj', and John H. Egly at the ad- Russ Smilcy's fishing map of I\liami and renowned fly fisher- dress abo\ c for your free copy. "Gadabout" Gaddis, the Florida Keys. It's also useful for boat- helped author them. Any angler- man, have ing enthusiasts because it shows reefs, flats, reader of this column can obtain copies of lighthouses, channels, buoys,- and water the booklets and the Joe Godfrey pocket depths. The map illustrates 43 of south Shakespeare fishing calendar by writing the Florida's most popular game fish, where Company at Kalamazoo, Mich. they are found, and how to rig for them. Our experience has been that the best E. Sumner, iMo., is an ROBERT SHARP, time to catch fish in Florida is the spring and astute chap who has his mind on water and summer. Send $1 to Russ Smilc>", 213 out- boats during these spring days. "On NE. Second Ave., JXIiami, Fla., for your board motors using shear pins which do copy of this fine fishing and boating map. not have a place provided to carry spares," THE B. F. GOODRICH CO., of Water- he says, "remove the rubber grip from the N. BEZOLD, i\lcKittrick, Mo., town, .Mass., announces a new white water STEVEN steering handle and store the extra shear offers: keep loose hooks and sinkers wader suitable for stream or surf fishing. "To in cloth pin inside. AVrap the pin paper or from being lost and spread all through It features high-cut rubberized fabric pants my inside. tiic handle before putting Replace tackle box I keep them in crushproof ciga- w hicli will fit well up under the armpits. and you're set." rette boxes. are also handy you (Comes in three outseam lengths.) The They when Goodrich white water waders have new want to pack along a favorite fly or plug. HARRY WILLS, 515 W. Cook St., Bed- aren't bulky they slip easily into crepe sole and heel with cleared outsoles They and ford, \"a., is a fast man with a dollar. "For your pocket." \\ hicli give greater foot comfort and trac- fishermen who catch that big one and want tion on slippery rocks. Available every- its exact length, I suggest that they use a where at about $40. dollar bill as a measurer. It's exactly 6li If >ou want more information on the inches long." B. F. Goodrich line of fishing boots, write to Paul Swaflield at the B. F. Goodricli Co., AX'atertow n 72, Mass., and ask for the illustrated folder which describes all tj'pcs of boots and waders.

THE LYMAN CLINKER-BUILT boats ONE OF THE handsomest rifles you are made for outboard and inboard motors likel\- to find in tiic field, on the range, or make an interesting line for the prospective in a collector's gunrack is the new iModel mariner to investigate. Outboard models 725 made by Remington. A lightweight, come in 13-ft., 15-ft., 16!^-ft., and 18-ft. MARCUS C. KRUGER, R.D. 3, Amster- bolt-action, center-fire rifle, the /Model 725 sizes. Priced from $330 to $1,180 without dam, N. v., has come up with a good one: will be available in 30-06, tlic all-new 280 accessories. The inboard line starts with "Fisliermen I know have been using the Remington, and the 270 AA'inchestcr cali- an 18-ft. boat which comes equipped with naval survival vests (obtainable at army and bers. It features a new all-purpose Monte a Gray 60-hp. motor and is priced at $2,595 navy stores) since the\- first appeared on Carlo stock and a common sight line de- without accessories, and includes 19-ft. the surplus markets. They are the handiest signed for instant use witli either iron or models with 60-hp. and 109-hp. engines at vests ever conceived, and it almost seems telescopic sights. $2,715 and $2,995 respectively. Among other that the Navy had fisliermen in mind when Its pistol grip has been shaped to assure inboard models are four 2 3 -ft. boats, the it created them. Cost as low as $2.50." more uniform trigger squeeze; it has a most powerful of which has a 165-hp. mo- hinged magazine floor plate, with fast, posi- tor; it costs $4,175. All prices without acces- HAVE YOU SEEN the Ruger "single- tive action inside the trigger guard; and it sories and f.o.b. Sandusky, Ohio. Beautiful, six" rcvoh cr made by Sturm, Ruger & Co., comes with a new open type rear sight seaworthy boats. Write to Lyman Boat of Southport, Conn.? It fires six shots, .22 with windage adjustment as well as a step \\'orks. Inc., Sandusky, Ohio, for illustrated caliber long rifle, long or short, high veloc- adiustable ramp for elevation changes. folder and more information. ity or regular. Length of barrel, 5',:"; wt., A large thumb safety, on the right side — Jack Denton Scott 35 oz. Over-all length lOVs". Fixed rear of the receiver, is fast, positive and quiet. sight, partridge style front sight, frontier An unusual feature of the safety is a neu- st>-le grips are genuine hard rubber. Finish tral position wiiich permits the bolt to be If you have a helpful idea that pertains is polished all over and blued. Price $63.25. drawn back while the gun remains on safe. to liunting or fishing, send it along. If we Write to Ed Nolan at Sturm, Ruger & Co., Highly finished American walnut stock can use it, kc'II reward you with a hunting Southport, Conn, for illustrated folder and fore-end, with forearm and pistol grip or fishing accessory. Address: Outdoor Editor, showing complete line of revolvers and finely checkered, definitch' put the 725 in The American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth automatics. the deluxe class. Price $134.95. Avenue, New York 19, New York.

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No salesman will call. Write I Our 27th year! trailing around while you shave, thanks to ( Continued frotn page 8) Sprayberry Radio-Television a handy gadget called the Shaver Cord I Academy of ^^flP^^t I Dept. 119-FlS12Jarvis -*- ' j Ave., Chlcaso26,lll.^^«' offered Sales, 5818 Sher- Mail lesBon big book. Reel being by L/T I FKEE Sample and ^^WTT^^X pocket-sized adding machine which is A It holds bournc Drive, Los Angeles 56. Name __...„„„. MH^V both fast and accurate is being offered for I five feet of cord in an attractive plastic Address only S3.98 by Harrison Home Products . case which is plugged into an electric out- I Corp., 8 Kingsland Ave., Harrison, N.J. Town Stale.. .. as cord as you I let. You withdraw much j Aleasuring a mere six inches in length, need, and it automatically retracts into the all-metal Arithma in its plastic case the hich can be left in the outlet. The case w LET US FRAME YOUR MEDALS! takes up no more pocket room than a comb. price is $2.49. PRESERVE THEM & DECORATE F.\cn so, it can add or subtract up to • YOUR HOME, DEN OR OFFICE 1,000,000, and never makes an error. De- Johnson & Johnson, of New Brunswick, An lielrloom In the future, your dec- signed for salesmen, students, housewives, N. is introducing Band-Aid Sheer Ad- orations will enhance your home J., now when mounted on black velvet it is in Western businessmen, etc., made hesive Bandages w hich do a disappearing In our custom-made, double shadow- box, Klass front frame. A dramatic, Germany. act tile minute they're applied. The new exciting showpiece. Reasonably priced. Medals also secured. Send • bandages have an exclusive sheer backing, for FREE brochure today. VETERANS that serves MED.\L FRAMING SERVICE. Dept. L, ±\ two-in-one garden tool crosshatchcd in a neutral flesh tint, which 370 Seventh Ave., N. V. 1. N. V. as a trimmer and edgcr has been announced blcTuls perfectly with any skin tone. A by the Black & Decker Mfg. Co., Tow son, package containing strips, patches, and spots electric that Md. Powered by an motor sells for 59c. provides 25,000 cutting strokes a minute, BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY the Trimmer 'n' Edger can be used as a An inexpensive baseball tiu^ow er w hich Surely you w.int to THROW AWAY posi- trimmer with the blade in horizontal automaticalh- throws a 2-inch sponge rub- TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rupture Wor- wearing griping, tion. \\'lien the blade is s\\ ung and locked ries. Theti Why put up with a baseball 20 feet is available from Med- ber chafing and unsanitary truss. For there is iiow a position, it makes a clearly de- in vertical ford Products, 12 Dorothea St., Plainview, new modern Non-Surgical treatment that is de- fined price is $39.50 at hardware signed to permanently correct rupture. These edge. The Called the Suburban Pitch-Hitter, it N. Y. Non-Surgical treatments are so certain, that a gardening stores. and operates by remote control, can throw Lifetime Certificate of Assurance is given. • Write today for our New FREE Book that either high or low balls, and sells for $2.98 gives facts that may save you painful, expensive You can now have a deluxe entertain- postpaid. surgery. Tells how non-surgically you may again ment center with a new music system be- work, live, play, love and enjoy life in the man- constitutes an desire. 'There is no obliffation. ing made b)^ the Thomas Organ Co., Mention of products in no way ner you endorsement oj them, since in most cases they Excelsior Hernia Clinic, Dept. 7205, Excelsior Spgs., Mo. Sepulvcda, Calif. This unit is an organ with are described as represented by manufacturers.

New Table Top invention Puts You In . .

SOMETHING NEW IN SOUND PROFITABLE RUBBER (Continued from page 2J) STAMP BUSINESS recorders are available at reasonable tric Company were among the first to Home Operators now make $9.40 AN HOUR in busi-

prices, it must be mentioned that only a demonstrate the possibilities about a ness once monopolized by . a few big companies few late models are capable of playing quarter of a century ago, and the "art" Special rubber stamps bring high stereo tapes. Moreover, none of the was advanced a few years ago when prices — coat only pennies to make on new, low-cost table top machine. popularly priced machines are capable Cook and Livingston made available Take 27 cents worth of material, make perfect stamps, the kind busi- each. Make of recording stereophonically. You can twin-track records and playing equip- nesses and offices now buy by the dozen at Jl.ijO up to $9.40 an hour. Start in spare time in your own home. record and play back monaurally, but ment. A disadvantage of the system was Run machine on kitchen table using ordinary electrical outlet. Make any kind of stamp. We'll send you free mforma- you must purchase your stereo tapes that only about half the normal playing tion without obligation about this established, highly profitable business, now open to individuals for the first time. post card to pre-recorded. Also, it is necessary to time in music could be recorded because For free information send name today on a Rubber Stamp Div.,1S12 Jarvis Ave., Dept.R-8-D,Chlcaeo 26, III. bear in mind that the second channel two tracks were necessary, and nothing

requires its own amplifier and separate much came of it. speaker. These items usually add more What, then, is so new about the new- Worry of than a modest amount to the cost of the est record? First of all, there are really equipment. Pre-recorded tapes have been two new records, one English and one FALSE TEETH made with equipment that experts refer American. Both, however, are similar in Slipping or Irritating? to as "stacked head" and "staggered that they provide the necessary "infor- Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth dropping or wobbling wlien you eat, head." These terms refer to the relative mation" for the tracks within a slipping, two talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH position of the identical section of music single groove. They are designed to be on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and secu- on the respective tracks. Current prac- played with special pickup cartridges rity by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline tice is to use "stacked systems; so head" having only a single stylus. This may (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at drug counters if you contemplate purchasing, insist on sound simple, but actually it is highly everywhere. this type. complex. The single stylus pickup must Getting back to the phonograph rec- transmit to the left hand speaker only ords, you may wonder how the tech- what is intended for the left and vice INVENTORS nicians ever managed to provide for versa for the right. There must be two If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find out how to protect It. We are registered Patent At- both left and right ears. It wasn't easy distinct and separate signals, one for torneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect Your Invention," and an "Invention Record" to lick this problem, and experts have each channel — all contained in a nar- form. No oblltratton. They are yours for the asking. worked on it for years. The American row record groove. McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON Re:jlstered Patent Attorneys Bell Elec- British Laboratories and the Western The system, demonstrated in 14e-D Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 1958 • 53 the late fall by London Records, uses The same principle has been applied pickup arms, turntables, amplifiers, and the bottom of the groove, hill and dale to the new discs. They come in the same speakers, are the same as those in use fashion, for one track, and the sides, size, they turn at the same speed, and now. Some manufacturers, in an effort laterally as in conventional records, for they can be played monaurally with to integrate equipment, have already the other track. present-day equipment. In other words, offered such items as two-channel ampli- The American system, demonstrated you can play them just as you play your fiers and twin speakers mounted in one at the same time by Westrex, a sub- present discs. Of course, to get the full enclosure. One manufacturer has even sidiary of Western Electric, uses a 90° benefit you will have to have at least a offered a stereophonic wing chair with V-shaped groove with the two signals new pickup cartridge, and an extra am- a loudspeaker in each of the wings! impressed on both sides. Although this plifier and speaker. The words "at least" Interest in stereo has not been wholly

is a far more complicated system to are inserted because it is fairly certain confined to tape or records. For some understand, it has certain advantages. that a lot of the poorer equipment in years Radio Station WQXR in New

And by the time you read this, it will existence today will be inadequate. Your York has been offering stereo broadcasts, probably have been adopted as the in- present records? No need to throw them using its FM and AM transmitters to dustry standard. One company. Audio away, because they'll play just as well carry the required twin signals. The sta- Fidelity Records, a maker who special- with the new pickup as they do now. tion reports a gratifying response on the izes in ultrafine records, has already is- Is all of the needed equipment present- part of the New York public, with listen- sued the first commercial stereo record ly availahle? At the moment you can ers using separate FM and AM radios using the Westrex system. London Rec- order a special pickup from the Fair- to get the effect.

ords has signified that it is perfectly child Recording Equipment Co. only if It is estimated that $400,000,000 was willing to abide by the decision of the you are a member of the industry. spent on records in 1957, a figure about rest of the industry. Pickering & Co., Inc., has already dem- 30 percent greater than that of the pre- IVhat are the other special character- onstrated its model and has signified that ceding year. Will the new product have

istics of these new records and how will it will be on the market as soon as the any adverse effect on record sales? Al- they affect you? You have no doubt record industry officially chooses the most certainly not, thanks to the fea-

heard of the word "compatibility" as system which is to be the standard. Both ture of compatibility. And in all likeli- applied to color and black and white of these makers manufacture only the hood present-day records will continue

television. You may remember that the highest quality equipment, and it is es- to be made for some time. However, first color TV programs could not be timated that the new pickups will cost we'll venture to predict that you'll be comfortably viewed on black and white about the same as their current best mighty glad Mother Nature had the sets, and the majority of the electronics monaural types, about $60. happy inspiration to provide you with industry held out for a "compatible" Undoubtedly, other makers, notably two good ears when you hear your first system. They insisted that the pictures General Electric, will supply pickup stereo record in your own home, and we should be capable of being viewed either cartridges soon, and at more popular further predict that the day will come in color or black and white. prices. The other items needed, such as sooner than you think. the end

FIRST SERGEANT DUTCH USMC (Continued from page 19)

we watched the American flag come set an example for the younger element. ment. He accepted it as his due, and down and the Japanese flag go up in its We organized ourselves into small would stalk about inside the barbed place. groups, and set up our own disciplinary wire enclosure, his head high and should- Many books have been written about coi^mittees for dealing with the weak. ers back, for all the world as if he were life in prisoner of war stockades. The Even so, a few of them simply gave up the commandant of the camp. When he ones I have read were true accounts, and died. Others became so discouraged caught a Japanese sentry in some act but still most people refuse to believe they simply walked out during dark, contrary to usual sentry regulations, that human beings are capable of such stormy nights and grabbed the high- such as sneaking a smoke while on post, inhumanity. Our captors were brutal voltage barbed wire surrounding our Dutch would let out a roar and stalk and harsh, our food was worse than the stockade. Not one man, though, was toward the sentry as if he were going to swill we feed to hogs, and we were guilty of defection to the enemy. We go right through the fence after him. worked like slaves in the Middle Ages. hated them with all our hearts. The startled sentry would invariably

Many prisoners suffered from the win- Dutch hated the Japanese with a pas- leap to attention as if a hornet had stung ter cold, especially those captured on sion unequaled by any of us. Through him, and start goosestepping ludicrously

Wake Island with only tropical cloth- it all, as the days crawled by like para- away. ing. The Japanese, overlooking not a lytic turtles, he was ever good for our One Japanese all of us feared that single cunning trick, allowed the North morale. We feared for his life, for there our doughty first sergeant would cross China marines to keep their winter cloth- was probably never in history a more was Ishihara, the "Beast of the East," ing, hoping to create jealousy and Gis- recalcitrant prisoner of war. He roared as we called him. (He is doing life at sension between the two groups. They insults at our captors, refused contemp- hard labor as a result of a war crimes overlooked the fact that the brotherhood tuously to obey any of their orders, and sentence. ) It happened one day. Ishihara of marines is unbelievably close, thus actually had the Japanese afraid of him. strutted past Dutch, and did not receive their scheme only resulted in a general Perhaps the fact that Orientals have a a salute. He was the camp interpreter, sharing of the wealth. deep-seated superstitious fear of the men- but spoke very poor English. "Why you When men are confronted suddenly tally unbalanced person was a factor. no give me the salution?" he screamed. with the stark fact that there are four We would, when Dutch was looking the Dutch made the interpreter dance out of basic needs of mankind — food, heat, other way, make signs to the Japanese range of an expertly directed stream of shelter, and clothing — and realize they that he was touched in the head — crazy. tobacco juice. The Jap went insane at are only partially receiving those basic At any rate, he was avoided by the Nip- that. He yanked his sword from its scab- requirements, they are prone to shed ponese. bard, and flung it back threateningly. the thin veneer of civilization with which Dutch did not think there was any- That act triggered Dutch off, and he mankind is coated. Older heads had to thing unusual about this deferential treat- never made a better performance as he

54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL 195S POST EXCHANGE advanced on the interpreter like an avenging tank. His gravelly, parade- OPPORTUNITIES ground voice bellowed like an enraged FOR YOU For rales, write Combined water buffalo as he threatened to make Classifled 529 W Madison, Chicago 6 a necktie out of the sword, then make SALESMEN WANTED (AL-A8) the Jap eat the sword, scabbard and all. MAKE EXTRA MONEY—Cash commissions. Easy-to-sell Advertising Book Matches. Union Label. Full or part time. Ishihara backed water, and finally turned off!" Powerhouse selling kit free. Superior Match, Dept. J-458. 7530 Greenwood, Chicag o 13. tail and strode away, desperately trying It AIIMT SELLIN' — just servicing! Stores make money for you every open hour. Tremendously successful. Free Book ( Continued j roin paii to retain a semblence of face, as Dutch tells all. Write, Q. P. Harris, Novo, Inc., 1166 Milwaukee, Chicago 22, Il linois. stood, hands on his hips, and continued PERSONAL & MISCELLANEOUS his insulting tirade. I'orccs Treaty, was assured to our WRITERS: BOOK MANUSCRIPTS invited for publication on our cooperative plan. Greenwich Book Publishers (Atten: Forty-five months after we were cap- Armed Forces, under the doctrine that Mr._Henderson), 489 Fifth Avenue. N.Y., N.Y. tured, survivors. "The Constitution follows the flag." DRESSES 18c (USED). Blouses 39c, "Men's Shirts 99c. Free Dutch was among the Catalogue. Ace, 196-PE4 DeGraw, B rookl n 31, New York. The shocking sentence of four years' y Much of his old fire had burned out; he LOANS BY MAIL labor imposed on this airman by a BORROW $50 TO $500. Employed men and women over 25, was an old man. He had lost more than eligible. Confidential co-signers of em- assault- — no — no inquiries Japanese court, on charges of ployers or friends. Up to 2 years to repay —monthly payments. a hundred pounds, and his skin hung in ing a Japanese cab dri\ cr during a dis- Supervised by State of Nebraska. Loan application sent free in plain envelope. Give occupation. American Loan Plan, City folds about his jowls. But old hound-dog pute over a 62-ccnt fare, showed no National Bank, Dept. AC-4, Omaha, Nebraska. fire, INVENTIONS the blue eyes could still flash and consideration of the fact that it was INVENTIONS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY for manufacturers. his tremendous voice had lost none of its liis first offense and that he and a For additional information write Kessler Corporation, 274, Fremont, Ohio. volume. was well past the retire- fellow airman involved made substan- He HELP WANTED ment mark, and most of his contempo- tial compensation of 20,000 yen to the EARN EXTRA MONEY selling Advertising Book Matches. cab driver whose injuries admittedly Free sample kit furnished. Matchcorp, Dept. EX-22, Chicago raries were either dead or retired. A 32, Illinois. were minor. new breed had taken over, and new, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES REPAIRING at Home. Free Sample Lesson. Bcatiice J. Brown LEARN WATCH unheard of methods of training were Chicago School, 2328-A4 Milwaukee. Chicago 47. Brnttlcboro, Vt. being used. The hard-bitten old professional campaigners were replaced with smart, competent young men, skilled in YOUTH PROGRAM the use of electric accounting machines Sir; American Legion members are and efficient administrative procedures. known for their ability to face up to Men had become numbers, and when a situation— regardless of how tough the first sergeant wanted a plumber or a its nature. I strongly urge American carpenter, he consulted his electric ma- Legion Posts across this great Country chine and out came a card on a man. to evaluate their programs and prepare to meet today's challenging situations. A private's pay was now equal to the Juvenile delinquency or parental irre- pay Dutch had received as a stafl" non- sponsibility is rampant. We as veterans commissioned officer, and many young and citizens instilled with civic re- privates automobiles owned and wore sponsibility can do a great deal to zoot suits on liberty. counteract this grave problem l)y Dutch could not change things back, effective leadership and positive action. and it worried him. Finally he retired. At our next American Legion meeting let's She's always satisfied most The whole post turned out for his re- appoint an active committee to seek the names of those young tirement parade. Many of us had huge with a BRAND that's people in our communities who have lumps in our throats and tears in our already established themselves as a for itself! eyes as the command rolled out over the made NAME "problems." Let's assign one member parade ground from a I portable ampli- of our Post to each boy. We can "I. MADE IT ... and make sure that the best fier (I'd hesitate to try to say what schedule a father and son type of pro- materials and workman- Dutch thought of this piece of new gram or night out to a sports event. ship go into any product equipment), "Person to be retired, front Our fellowship can be just the pre- with my name on it. Natu- rally, people blame me if and center, march!" scription for wayward youth. We my product is unsatisfac- have so much to gain little A large brewery company needed a for so tory, and they stop buying effort. Let's act! it. I can't risk turning out guard captain, an experienced, mature anything that may be only jorclan A. Colicn " man, preferably a retired marine. Dutch 'second-best.' Port Orchard, Wnsh. got the job. It was said that the brewery "I SOLD IT . . . recom- because the guard detachment had become lax, gone mended it name it has made for itself to pot, BIG IDEA and needed a good vigorous man MONEY tells me it's one of the best, to square it most up-to-date products away. Sir: Why can't we have a national lot- in its field. In fact, a good I don't know what those brewery tery with tickets to sell at Si.00 per brand name is the best guards did when they heard that Dutch ticket and to be operated through post guarantee my customers can have when they buy. And offices only? Put out 60,000,000 tickets was taking over, but I know I what for me, too ... I know per month at a dollar a ticket. It would would have done. First, my uniform they'll buy it again." would cost $2,000,000 per month to handle have been cleaned and pressed; "I BOUGHT IT . . . be- the situation, and give 12,500,000 for next, my shoes would have glittered with cause it's an advertised prizes. This would net the Govern- brand I can trust complete- polish. My hair would have been freshly ment S55,500,000 per mouth or $666,- ly. I just won't risk my and closely family's welfare on some cut. and there would not 000,000 per year. product I don't know any- have been a spot of dust on pistol. my Olaf C. Hansen thing about—even when Either that, or I would have reported to Cirrhhnd, Calif. they say it's 'just as good.' I feel safer, somehow, when the brewery personnel office and re- 1 stick to a brand I know I signed unless I had been determined to can depend on." Letters published in Sound Off! do not guard that brewery as if my life de- necessarily represent the policy of The Better t>uy by BRAND NAME American Legion. Name withheld if re- pended upon it. quested. Keep your letters short. Address: the famous makers' names you trust! THE END Sound Off, The American Legion Maga- BRAND NAMES WEEK zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19. N.Y. April 13-20th AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • APRIL l')5H • 55 .

Note on a Restaurant Tableoloth on the shoulder and said, "Pardon me, but "Tell me, professor," said His Honor, there's something trickling dow n your leg "how can you tell when a person is insane?" All things come to those who ivait, to the ground." "One begins," replied the professor, "by Either sooner or later . . "Gad," muttered the drunk, "I hope it's asking any question well within the scope All things come, at any rate. blood." of any normal person. For instance—Cap- Except perhaps the waiter. — Howie Lasseter tain Cook made three trips around the — Hal CiiADwicK world and met death on one of them. On which of these trips did he die?" Off Again. Oone Again, On Again "Couldn't you ask me some other ques- Life's gone slightly flat on tion?" responded the Mayor. "I'm not very

OF INTERNAL KIVINUE The Isle of Manhattan well up on explorations." INCOME TAX And Erooklynites^ faces are wan, — F. G. Kernan And there is good reason —Though baseball's in season Qniek To Learn The Giants and Dodgers are gone! On Ebbet's Field — quiet Children are very smart these days: At six Where once was the riot they knoiu all the questions; at sixteen they Of frantic fans backing Deni Bums; know all the answers. While no Giant booster — Vesta M. Kelly Can howl as he useter But sits home and twiddles his thmnbs. Gone Yesterday, Hair Today! Gone, gone are the Dodgers and Giarits, The toupee wearer, it is plain. once lodgers Is living under an assumed mane! In Gotha?ii — so let's drop a tear. S. S. BiDDLE —Then whoop as L.A. and gay Frisco fails say ^'The Dodgers and Giants are HERE!" Too Far To Streteh — Howard Winley The older one gets, the harder it is to

make e?ids meet . . . fingers and toes W^e Move It Around especially. "Give him the 'Disallowed' stamp and he's With the approach of interplanetary — George Hart like a little kid." travel it behooves lis to get ready with an explanation for the man from Mars on how Papa's Payola we maintain our economy by digging gold Wise Words Father, shed those wedding blues out of the groinitl, smelting it into bars and A lucky man you are, A woman stands a better chance of catch- then burying it in the ground again at Fort lost daughter ing a man if she keeps her trap closed. Knox. — Harold Coffin You haven't a You've gained a bathroom and a car. — Marvin J. Brockett — Frances I. Craig IVot Well Infornieil Whal'll It He? The famous psjchiatrist had just com- Daffynition A barber surveyed the slick hair of the pleted a lecture at the town hall when he young man who had just seated himself in was approached by none other than the CHILDREN: Unreasonable facsimiles. his chair. Then he asked: "Do you want it Mayor himself. — Jack Herbert cut or should I just change the oil?" — Harold Helper

The Traiiquilixer

7"/jn I/ill is giiaranleed lo ttuike yon Irtnujuil

Quicker than atiytliing you ever drauk u'ill. Though you are quaking like the Oueen of Sheha, You'll soon be as languid as a tired amoeba.

In fact, its kindly action is so calnii)ig, It's almost as effective as embalming. — Donald Eastman

Lesser of Two Evils

The lonely inebriate staggered slowly dow n the avenue with a pint of wine safely iiiddcn away in his pants pocket. On the way across the busy street, he stumbled into a passing car and was grazed slightly. He was thrown back against the curbing, but he soon recovered. Managing to rise to his wobbly height, he started on his way again. A bystander was the first to notice something was amiss. He tapped the drunk "Some zoo! Nothing but horses, running like crazy."

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A M E R I C A N LEGION M A G A Z I N E RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Attention L^egionnaires!

More than 22,000 Legionnaire owned retail stores from eoast to eoast are now proudly displaying the emhleni of The American Legion IVIagazine Retail Advisory (]oimeil shown aho>e in full size and color. The stores displaying this emhiem are i>wn«'d and operated by fellow-Legionnaires who deserve your supp«>rt. So look for this emhiem when you're out to shop and spend your shopping dollars with confidence at the sign of honest and friendiv ser> ice. Arizona wheat farmer Tom Howell takes a Camel break during harvest. "You get more flavor in Camels," he says. ' The best tobacco makes the best smoke." The Camel blend of costly tobaccos has never been equalled for rich flavor and easygoing mildness. Today more people smoke Camels than any other brand. How about you?

Have a real cigarette-^ .

Reynolds Tnljatco Co., Wiiistori-Salem. N. C. have a CAMEL