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CONTENTS FOR MARCH, 1952

A QUIET STREET IN WASHINGTON (fiction) 11 BY DON TRACY

It was o strange place for a Congressman's daughter.

WHY YOU HAVE TROUBLE MAKING ENDS MEET 13 BY DONALD R. WILSON

50 seconds' brisk massage with stimulating For the full story be- The National Commander describes the danger of inflation. hind this month's Vitalis and you feel the difference in your cover, we suggest that scalp — prevent dryness, rout embarrassing you turn to the Edi- HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS BUYING 14 flaky dandruff. tor's Corner on page 6. BY AL STUMP

POSTMASTER: Please The story of a championship Junior Baseball team. send copies returned under labels Form 3579 to Post Office Box THE STRANGE CASE OF THE I.P.R 16 105S, Indianapolis 6. BY FREDA UTLEY •/he cfr'/fer&ica in your Indiana. The inside story of the Institute of Pacific Relations. The Americon Legion Magazine is the official publication of The Ameri- can Legion and is owned THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO MONEY-MAKING 18 exclusively by The Ameri- BY LESTER DAVID can Legion. Copyright 1951. Published monthly How big business creates opportunities for the little guy. at 1100 W. Broadway. Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in HOW TO SELECT YOUR FISHING TACKLE 20 Section 1 1 03, Act ol Oct. BY ARTHUR CARHART 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 1925. Price single copy, 5, Equipment that will help get the big fellows. 15 cents; yearly subscrip- tion, $1.50. Entered as second class matter June

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POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY, HELL! peratures than that. Zero degrees Centi- grade is the freezing point of water. Sir: The accusation of Republican Party Alan Schwartz politics at the Miami Convention by Alfred C. Edwards is more off than sound. Person-

ally I am of and from the Deep South. My Sir: From my training as an enlisted weath- 46° people are Democrats by heredity. With er forecaster I think — C. would be this background, let me say: If the Miami about —50.8° F. Dick Duke Conv ention w as Republican in flavor, long Denver, Colorado live the Republic! Opposition to socialistic Sir: Better tell reader House to recheck trends, to governmental w aste, and to a soft his physics lesson and not confuse zero appeasement policy toward degrees Centigrade with Absolute zero. does not mean opposition to the Demo- Absolute zero, which scientists have come cratic Party. Any person with eyes to see, close to, is approximately 273 degrees below ears to hear, and mind to understand must PLEASURES IN zero Centigrade, or 459 Degrees below zero know that there are principles and issues Fahrenheit. William P. Kinter bigger than any party interest. Legionnaires Home, Pa. might well say: "Political expediency, hell, PRINCE ALBERT'S PATENTED* for a man who has fought in two World Mr. House's letter produced enough re- a sponse to prove that The American Legion "NO-BITE" PROCESS INSURES Wars and in Police Action, or in one World War, or in one Police Action. We Magazine would be an excellent advertising REAL PIPE COMFORT are Legionnaires. We are Americans. We medium for manufacturers of thermometers, are citizens. We are parts- men. To hell home freezers, refrigerators, frozen foods and with political expediency." other products associated with low tempera- If you smoke a pipe or roll your own. tures. Editors Moses E. Howell you'll find more Albuquerque, New Mexico smoking enjoyment NO WHITEHOUSE FAN in Prince Albert's Sir: I don't really believe Arch Whitehouse choice, rich - tasting tobacco, specially knows w hat aerial warfare is. He sounds treated to insure like a comic strip fiend. against tongue bite! Jack Fleming More pipe smokers Ex-Air Force WWII and men who roll Livingston, Montana their own buy crimp cut, milder smoking FAHRENHEIT, CENTIGRADE, ABSOLUTE P. A. than any other tobacco! Sir: Mr. John House should check his facts

Patented July 31). 1907 before sounding off in reference to the weather described in The Myth of the Mighty Red Army. Forty-six below zero Centigrade is real cold but not quite so cold as he thinks. TRIBUTE TO PUERTO RICAN GIS (Miss) Katherine A. Quealy Oswego, New York Sir: Many things have been written in our m magazine concerning different units fight- Sir: In John House's letter in the January ing in Korea. How about something in issue he states that scientists have only been regard to the "Hard Fighting 65th Inf." a able to approach zero Ccntrigrade under Puerto Rican Regiment of the U. S. Army? elaborate lab conditions. It so happens that Here arc some of the comments by differ- zero Centigrade is 32° Fahrenheit, w hich I ent reporters and high brass at the front: believe scientists have reached. Mr. House In religious services they look like angels; seems to have confused the Centigrade in front of the commies they look like thermometer with the Absolute thermom- K. J. Reynolds Tob. C. demons. eter. Leon Slawecki Winston-Salem. N. C They run out of ammo but they continue Philadelphia fighting even with their bare hands. . . . MORE MEN SMOKE Sir: It might well have been zero Centi- They don't like to wait. They like to go grade outside Mr. House's house at Frank- on into their positions and kill as many fort, Michigan, when he wrote his letter commies as their minutes in Korea.

since zero on the Centigrade scale is merely In Puerto Rico we say: We are proud of freezing. Clint E. Smith our soldiers. Angel C. Cuevas-Garcia PRINCE ALBERT I. os Cruces, New Mexico Catana, Puerto Rico Sir: If Mr. House has lived in Michigan for T There are about 10,000 Puerto Rican THAN ANY OTHER TOBACCO long he has encountered much lower tem- troops now lighting in Korea. The Island

A • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 has an area of 3,000 square miles. On this with these communistic influences, it would have a source basis Puerto Rico is the country with the seem that we do or should DONT LET largest number of soldiers (per square mile somewhere that can prevent the purchase of territory) in Korea. We can all be proud or leasing of such films. AOOEO QUARTS* of these fellow Americans. Editors Jim Burke, TEMC c/o APO, San Francisco VICK YOUR VOCJKEX.. TOLLS BELL

Sir: So Charles A. Bell of Hollywood Post 626, California, thinks that Acheson is a 'Sound your, great American. Well, it's the first time that

I have ever heard of one who refuses to turn his back on a convicted traitor (Alger SWITCH TO Hiss) called a great American while crit- IN ENGLAND TOO! icizing two true Americans, General Mac- both of Sir: I was very interested in your article Arthur and Senator Joe McCarthy, in defense of this on red professors in colleges. I am at school whom suffered wounds offense that I here in England and I have a communist country and whose only master teaching me economics. He was a know of is that they both love the U. S. A. communist candidate for Parliament in the better than the U. S. S. R. or any other foreign country. 1950 General Election. I agree with your *9fOR OH writer that communist teachers should be Perhaps the papers Bell reads did not deported and not allowed to remain in the carry the story of John S. Service being service on country. This teacher I mentioned insists dismissed from the government York that the South invaded the North in Korea Senator McCarthy's charges. In New (Mir and iokes about being deported to the Isle the scumunist rag is called the Daily of Man in the event of another w ar. He Worker. What do they call it out there, also sports a Stalin-type moustache and Charley, and are you only slightly crimson wears a gold signet ring with a hammer or did you fall for the works? Myron Cohen and sickle on it. I think that it is disgusting and stupid for such people, who openly Forest Hills, N. Y. support the enemy in Korea, to be allowed to preach their foreign creed in either this THE REVEREND WRITES US AGAIN country or the U. S. A. Sir: Your articles on books, movies, na- B. Syrett J. tional politics, etc., arc constantly filled North Harrovj, with hearsay, indirection, and partisan pol- Middlesex, England itics. Rev. Ward McCabe Harrisonburg, Va. ADD WAS ALL FOR JOINING DONORS OIL Sir: After my discharge from the Army I LESS paid little attention to the Legion untiL a Sir: We sure enjoyed your excellent article neighbor gave copies BETWEEN me two of your Crisis in Blood. I know it will help educate magazine. After reading them I was all for a lot of people. I have joined our Red Cross joining. I like the way you fight the com- blood bank in our city. Moritz Kahn CHANGES mies. aniens A thousand to your magazine Peoria, III. and may God bless this land we love. Solomon D. Bersherse Sir: Because of the article Crisis in Blood Sedro Woolley, Wash. I went to the Red Cross here in Fort Wayne and donated a pint of blood. E. Amann WHY WASHINGTON? Grand Rapids, Mich. Sir: The article Did the Movies Really

Clean House in the December issue is some- EMPLOYMENT thing to open the eyes of a serviceman for OFFICE the reason that an extremely large percent- age of the films mentioned, notably Day The Earth Stood Still, are being leased and shown to the members of our Armed Forces. As I viewed that picture at our Base Movie Theatre, it struck me that TOO OLD AT AGE 35 something was entirely wrong in showing Pennzoil is refined from the most Sir: One thing that I abhor very much is the alleged space ship as landing in Wash- stable crude oil known — 100% Penn- the discrimination of those over 35 when ington, D. C, carrying a warning to the sylvania. And it has a tough film that seeking employment. This is un-American President of the and indicat- resists sludge, varnish and carbon to and unfair to those who went into military ing that Americans were the aggressors in keep engines clean and smooth run- the service and have grown older during less oil. the conflicts now raging. I thought, at the ning. Use Switch now! war years. It's a proven fact that those who time, it would have been more truthful and are past 35 are more reliable, dependable realistic if the producer, Julian Blaustein, and stable than those much younger. What had shown this ship landing in Red Square are these persons going to do when they in Moscow, carrying his warning to Uncle are turned down simply because of their Joe Stalin, where the real aggression stems age? I can speak from experience because from. Practically all these films, producers, I have been denied jobs on account of my writers, featured stars that are mentioned in age. Elmo Menetre the article by B. Matthews, have been J. Geary, Oklahoma shown and will be shown eventually to our sen icemen, and while we may not be able T If this keeps up employers will be insisting to control privately owned motion picture on men under 16, preferably with a college PENNZOIL MOTOR OIL & LUBRICANTS AT BETTER DEALERS COAST TO palaces or chain movie houses, affiliated degree and several years' experience. Editors COAST

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TAKE ANOTHER LOOK Now and then we hear from individuals and organizations working to promote bet- ter relations between America's various races, creeds and colors. They often suggest ideas for articles and editorials to help achieve this end. We believe this month's cover tells the story better than any article could, at least for veterans. What fellow who has ever worn his country's uniform hasn't learned the wisdom of looking for other qualities in a man than the color of his skin, the creed he professes or the name he bears? Maybe we'd all be better off if we paid less attention to the ways in which people differ in race, color and creed so we could concentrate on working together as PURINA DOGCHOW Americans. THEY AREN'T COMMUNISTS, BUT... This country has an awful lot of curious A recent national survey by an kibble. And Purina Dog Chow is people. They trot up and down the country independent research organization the one nationally sold big-name uttering profundities from lecture plat- showed that kennel operators and dog food that gives you the bene- forms. They're always popping up before breeders are about equally divided fits of both types in one blended television cameras and radio mikes. They in their preference for meal or combination. are constantly grinding out books, and when they aren't hacking away at their own volumes they review the books of others. They hold down key jobs in gov- ernment, where they can influence policy, and they pontificate before awed freshmen in our universities. They aren't communists, to be sure. But they do have a message: Our economic system is outmoded. Our Constitution is obsolete. We have the Char- ter of the United Nations, so what else do we need? There must be more government controls, more government planning, and for everyone security from cradle to grave. KIBBLED BISCUIT... Rates high in MEAL... In this nutritious base are The British Labor Party had the right idea. are uncouth, palatability with dogs. They like its found some 24 vital nutritional ele- The Russians unfortunately can learn much from them, to the crunchy texture and bake-oven fla- ments needed for normal growth, but we end that before long we shall have a new vor. Where meal is being mixed maintenance, and reproduction. social order where the individual works for with kibble, the broken biscuits tend Meal also solves the problem of the State and the State feeds him, houses to help keep the mixture from pack- him and does his planning and thinking puppy feeding. It's a good carrier ing in the feeding pans and help to for him. for any broths you may care to add keep it from sticking to the roof of Only slightly exaggerated, that is the sort a dog's mouth. for variety. of tripe being peddled by many cosmic thinkers. They don't present it quite so BIG ADVANTAGES BIG ADVANTAGES baldly, but if you question them closely you a mat- 1, High palatability. 1. Complete nutrition. can usually uncover the pattern. As ter of fact, the next time you hear one of 2. Doesn't pack and stick to pans. 2* Good for pups. these global hucksters sounding off, why not throw some questions at him?

See your local Purina Dealer for Dog Chow and dog THE FLAG AND THE SWORD management literature, Purina dog training books, Which reminds us of a talk we had re- etc. Look for the Store with the famous Red-and- cently with a man who knows a lot about White Checkerboard Sign. the kind of people discussed in the fore- going item. RALSTON PURINA COMPANY He asked if we had ever seen a bullfight

St. Louis 2, Missouri and we told him we had. "Then you know how the torero used a red flag to goad the bull and hold its at- tention."

§ • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 We said that was how we recalled it. "That red flag," he continued, "virtually hypnotized the bull. But that wasn't what Belanger 99... 1951 s'Winningest "Car killed him. Concealed in the flag was a sword, and it was that which the torero drove into the animal's brain. "The moral, of course, is not to give all Used Champions Exclusively! our attention to the red flag of commu- nism. Close to it is a sword that can be far more dangerous."

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Please pardon us for being so calm, but we refuse to become excited over the raised by a certain playwright. It seems that lie bad a play going on televi- sion and he nominated for the stellar role an actor with a record of commie front affiliations. The advertising agency didn't think such a fellow would get much good will for the sponsor so it told the play- wright nothing doing. That made the fel- low wroth and he sounded off indignantly about blacklists, etc., etc. Immediately the bleeding hearts swung into action. Screams of rage rose from the editorial columns of certain publications. It was shameful, dastardly, and a foul blow at civil liberties, art and the drayma. Even Life editorialized that it was time for "a Murrell Belanger with his and general amnesty." Belanger Special his pit crew of outstanding race car technicians. Anyway, it got a lot of publicity for the playwright. And that's what makes us sus- picious. By a strange coincidence he had a play about to open on Broadway, and playwrights have been known to rig up "When Lee Wcdlard won the 1951 Owner of 1951's "winningest" car, stunts to get their names and the names of Indianapolis 500 mile race at the record Mr. Murrell Belanger. their plays into print. As Variety would speed 126.244 M.P.H. average, it put it, it helps the BO. (That means "box- of office" in this case.) Lending weight to was the first time the race had been run this theory, we understand that the play- under four hours. That's a terrific test wright didn't call the reporters to the TV of car, engine, tires, brakes and spark studio but to the theater where his latest creation was in rehearsal. plugs. After Wallard's injury, Tony As we say, we're cynical about the Bettenhausen took over, winning eight whole thing. So much so that the play- of the remaining races. This brought wright gets no free plug here. However, LeeWallard, all the free space the playwright got didn't the total for the Belanger Special to winnerofthe 195 1 Indianapolis Race at help his play much. It closed after a few nine wins out of fifteen AAA Cham- the record hreakiug speed days' run. of 126. 244m. p. h. average. pionship eve/its—a record for any one FOR THE RECORD car in one season. Tony, my head me- chanic and myself really know the mean- The last time we had occasion to talk about phonograph records, it was in con- ing of that word dependability and in nection with a record club whose officers my book, it's a synonym for Champion had records of another sort. It gives us Spark Plugs. They're built to live up greater pleasure, now, to talk about another sort of record concern, the Rcxford to their name and they do." Record Corp., 1440 Broadway, New York- Murrell Belanger City. This company has gone into produc- Tony Bettenhausen, CHAMPION 1951 AAA Champion tion with a line of staunchly pro-American Race Driver, with eight discs for children, based on the lives of wins out of fifteen cham- pionship events. people who made this country great — in- ventors, Presidents, pioneers, heroes, etc. We know that other record manufacturers have patriotic records and we applaud them. Rcxford, however, gives patriotism top priority. FOLLOW THE EXPERTS

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8 • The American Legion Magazine • March. 1952 his could happen only in America

each year, has refineries, oil storage The Texas Company has gone it tanks, distributing plants, research alone in the oil business — asking no laboratories and all the other com- favors — standing on its own feet — plex facilities needed to serve cus- competing for its share of the busi- tomers in every state of the Union ness by developing and marketing and throughout the world. good fuels and lubricants — seeking

This company also has today over no security except that which it owners — investors whose could earn. A 50th Birthday Message 100,000 faith and dollars helped it to rise to Other companies have gone it alone from The Texas Company its opportunities. in other industries. And we — and

Such things could happen only in they — and America have grown FIFTY years ago a tiny company America —because only America together, beyond anything the world started in Beaumont, Texas, was ever seen. gives men the freedom to make them has where oil had just been discovered. happen. It is not by accident that America This company started with one tract This is a land where men have been builds 83% of the world's automo- of land which might contain oil, one free to run risks and reap the biles — generates 42% of the world's storage tank, one short stretch of rewards their courage and judgment horsepower — and produces 51% of pipe line, one pile of bricks for deserve. the world's oil. building a refinery — a little money It has been a land where men have That is why America, over the past and a lot of hope. been free to invent or invest — to fifty years, has been known as "the On its golden anniversary, this pioneer or produce — to the limit of land of opportunity." ability and their vision of what company has 9,700,000 acres of pro- their That is also why, in a world which ducing or potential oil land in the could be done. lives today in the shadow of conflict

United States, owns or operates It has been a land of independence and in an atmosphere of economic more than 7,000 miles of pipe lines, of thought and action — in which the uncertainty, America shines as an drills close to a thousand new wells best man was allowed to win. island of hope for all to see. ALL OVER AMERICA _ SMOKERS ARE CHANGING TO CHESTERFIELD

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am working out of Fort Myer, pull- on to me when I am a defenseless mite." transferred to the 307th because, as far

ing Washington town patrol duty, If he was a defenseless mite when as 1 can find out, we don't want to lie I and I get as my partner this Sean they named him, he sure has got over M.P.'s. I always said that if a recruit

Pedersen. S-e-a-n, pronounced Shawn, it in a big way. I am no midget but came right out and said he was bucking and the name is as Irish as County Cork Sean tops me by a good two inches for an M.P. battalion, it would be ten and Pedersen looks about as much like and his shoulders live up to the rest six and even that he would rind himself an Irishman as smorgasbord looks like of him; in fact, he is the biggest guy in the infantry or tanks, the way the Mulligan stew. in the 307th M.P.'s, where both of us Army works. "My 's father was Sean Mul- have been shanghaied. Still, the 307th is a good outfit, as loy," he explains w hen I ask him how Pedersen is an ex-infantryman. I am M.P. outfits go. We have good bar- come the Sean, "and they slap the name an ex-tank man. Both of us have been racks, good chow and even the officers

11 (continued) Pedersens are friends and neighbors of his back home and they all think he is a great guy and, sir, if it is not too much A QUIET STREET in WASHINGTON trouble will he kindly get the under- signed the hell back to the infantry as ain't bad, for officers. But we are still I am going to write my Congressman, soon as possible. The second reminds M.P.'s and while some guys may get W. P. Shannon." W. P. Shannon of the first one and says a out of wearing a brassard and "A good idea," I agree. "The day that while he knows the Congressman throwing their weight around, lousing room is at the end of the hall but you must be a very busy guy indeed, still, up some poor slob's three-day pass, that will probably have to stand in line to with his influence, it will take only a guy ain't Pfc. O'Brien, J. J. get at a desk, seeing half the company couple of minutes to have the top brass Neither is Pedersen that way. When is out there writing to their Congress- issue the necessary orders getting Sean he is invalided out of Korea with a men, trying to get out of the M.P.'s." O. (for Olaf) Pedersen back to his old couple of mortar wounds that knock "They haven't got Congressmen like outfit. The third letter wants to know him out for awhile and when he comes W. P. Shannon," Sean Pedersen says, when W. P. Shannon is going to answer out of the hospital, he tries so hard to firmly. "W. P. Shannon is a big shot the other two. The fourth asks just get back to his old infantry outfit that here in Washington." what is going on, is W P. Shannon the Army thinks something is wrong "We have one guy his uncle is a giving Sean O. Pedersen the run- and they shove him into the 307th to Senator," I tell Sean, "and when he around? The fifth calls Congressman prove something or other. lands here he says he is out in a couple W. P. Shannon a two-headed crumb "I have ducked, outrun and of hours on orders from the White who only got elected because he has tangled with A4.P.'s ever since House. That is seven months ago and more dough to buy votes than the other

I got into this man's army," he right now he is downstairs, pulling K. P." guy and the people back home are go- cries to me, the first day he "Nevertheless," Sean says, "I intend ing to hear about this outrage and just dumps his barracks bags in B- to write W. P. Shannon and get myself wait till next election and W. P. Shan- Company's squad room. "I am back to my old outfit." non will be back in his brickyard where known as the scourge of mili- He writes, all right. He shows me the he belongs instead of big-shotting it tary courtesy and discipline. letters. The first one is very respectful, around Washington. And they make me an M.P. reminding W. P. Shannon that all the (Continued on page 47)

"I think you were both drunk," cried the Colonel, "and I intend to make an example of you." WHY YOU HAVE TROUBLE

MAKING ENDS MEET

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT OUR PHONY PROSPERITY, AND THE DANGER IT PRESENTS TO EVERY ONE OF US AND TO THE NATION AS WELL

By DONALD R. WILSON NATIONAL COMMANDER. THE AMERICAN LEGION

Agkeat many people, particularly on inflation. They have been living with than prewar. And that was just the be- veterans, find it hard to understand it for almost six years now — ever since ginning. There was an enormous pent-

why it is that, with all this pros- Joe was discharged from the army, mar- up inflation that government price con- perity they hear about, they themselves ried Jane and set up a family. It's there trols had held back temporarily. W ith find it so hard to get along. Obviously waiting for them in the morning. (The the end of the old OPA in 1946 that there is a lot of money floating around, alarm clock by the bed costs $3.05; it's inflation cut loose. and in most cases a person gets a fatter about the same quality as one that used That's when Joe and Jane started pay check than he ever got before. The to cost $1.25.) It sticks with them riding the merry-go-round. Year by trouble is, he usually ends up worse off through the day (milk for the baby 23^ year, Joe got raises. And year by year, than he was when his income was a quart now, round steak $1.20 a lb. the rise of prices ate them up. When the smaller. instead of 40fl ). It's still there at bed- first baby was born, in the w inter of

The word for it of course is infla- time ($20 for a good blanket, double- 194K, the Thompsons' savings account

tion. In some ways inflation is pleasant. bed size, instead of the $10 you used sank quietly out of sight among the It's nice to have a wallet stuffed with to pay). doctors' bills, and they have never been money, even when that money is worth All in all, Joe and Jane have learned able to get another one going. The sec- only a fraction of its pre-war value. In- more about inflation than all the statis- ond baby, born in 1950, when prices deed, some of our politicians consider ticians who add up strings of figures and had steadied down temporarily, was less the phony prosperity induced by "con- come out with neat index numbers of a load on the budget. Joe figures that trolled inflation" an excellent thing showing the rise of prices from one date with the extra $600 tax deduction he is from a vote -getting angle. to another. The Thompsons still don't almost breaking even on the baby.

The big question is, can inflation be know just why prices have to go up. In 195 1, Joe made $75 a week - $3,900 controlled? There arc some who think And they've never been able to figure for the year. He and Jane figure that it is already getting out of hand in this out for certain whether they are better on that basis they were just about where country and who say we are headed or worse off now than they were five they were rive or six years ago, as far for serious trouble. Elder statesman years ago. But they are beginning to as money goes. ("And, oh boy, how ir Bernard M. Baruch has repeatedly suspect that somewhere, somehow, they goes," says Joe.) It's hard to tell, be- warned us of this danger, but his warn- have been buncoed. And, of course, cause the children make a difference. ings have been shrugged off by our they are right. But with almost half again as much policy-makers. However, there's even Joe and Jane were married in October, money coming in, there still wasn't any- more involved than economic collapse. 1946. As far as they could see, it was thing in the budget for extras. For years Stalin and his brain-trust have a good time to get married. Business At the start of 1952, Joe got another predicted the collapse of the American was booming; jobs weren't hard to find; raise — $5 a w eek, $260 a year. It will way of life, and unchecked inflation and the going level of wages looked too make a real difference — if it doesn't get could well make this prediction come good to be true. Before the war, Joe sw allow ed up in higher prices the way true. thought $25 a week was fair pay for a all the other raises did. And so what There isn't as big a gap as you might youngster. But in 1946, less than a year Joe and Jane want to know now is: think between the Kremlin's hopes and after he came out of the Army, he had How much of that $260 is theirs to keep, is just your own personal situation. This is a a job that he liked, and it was paying and how much stage-money? case where the collective actions of him $55 a week. If you work over the figures a while, America's Joes and Janes could lead to In a way, it was too good to be true. you can give Joe and Jane an answer. what the Marxist calls "the inevitable While Joe was in the Army, things had And the answer will apply to a lot of downfall of capitalism." been happening to prices. The cost of other people too. For Joe, with his $75 Joe and Jane Thompson are experts living was already 40 percent higher (Continued on page 55)

13 Fred Clampett (right) thought he was sponsoring some local "sand- lotters." He learned about Legion baseball when his boys came out

on top of more than 1 6,000 teams.

Far from the sandlots, the Los Angeles team won national Junior title in Detroit. Here Catcher Lachemann nips off Cincinnati run.

an insurance broker, Charles H. As Wilson of Los Angeles has been Fred Clampett the jackpot when he i dealing in risks for 15 years. But in July of 1950, Wilson needed none of became the reluctant angel for a bankrupt ball team. his professional training to recognize that he and his fellow Legionnaires of Crenshaw Post 715 were treading on hazardous ground. By al stump "Junior baseball deficit-$l 100," read a report on Past Commander Wilson's desk. "Cash on hand - $50." lation than any other in America, it was squad recruited by Ben Lefebvre from The broker put in a phone call to one of the West's smallest metropolitan Dorsey and Loyola High Schools won Coach Ben Lefcbvre, a stocky, energetic Legion units. The Post was founded in 30 out of 33 games and took the Dis- Frenchman who works as a playground 1948 with a membership of 60. Not able trict 23 championship. director for the city of Los Angeles. to hire a regular meeting hall, Crenshaw Then the till ran dry. The auto "Unless we get a sponsor to take care of met — and still does — in a restaurant, agency withdrew its support for budg- what we owe, we'll have to fold up the where executive reports vied with a etary reasons, leaving Wilson and team," Wilson told him. "Have you jangling jukebox. The present member- Lefebvre to stare a crisis in the eye. any prospects at all?" ship is only 65. Through most of the 1950 season, Cren- "Not a one." Lefebvre was glum. Yet because of such live-wires as shaw Post's 16 players couldn't call their "I've talked to more than 50 business Charley Wilson, acting as team busi- shoelaces their own. They played in men and they've all turned us down. ness manager, and Dr. Vern Mantle, uniforms secured on credit and in caps Seems that everybody is sponsoring a first vice-commander, Crenshaw from donated by Bill Krietz, an ex-com- bowling team or a television show — or the beginning plunged into the Legion's mander of Inglewood Post 188. Legion- worrying about taxes." national Junior Baseball program. In the naires dug up what gas, oil, meal and The situation at Crenshaw Post two 1948-49 seasons, a local Ford agency umpire-fee money they could. Mean- years ago centered around the fact that acted as sponsor up to $700. Post mem- while, Lefebvre knocked on doors of in a city swollen with more new popu- bers raised another $300. The scrappy merchants throughout Los Angeles,

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possibilities. But we're about broke. Will you help us?" The polite answer was that Clampett's firm wasn't interested in underwriting E any part of a baseball team. Wilson and Lefebvre were about to borrow on their personal cars when a West Pico sporting-goods dealer w as found who was willing to go "on the cuff" for $1100 worth of uniforms, balls, bats and shoes. Encouraged, the Cren- shaw "orphans" began to up their league. In order, they defeated Hunt- ington Park, Fairfax and North Holly- wood for the district and area titles. i, 1 Next they met Fullerton Post for the southern California championship. In the ninth inning, Crenshaw trailed, 4-3, and seemed licked, but Capt. Billy Con- solo tied the score with spectacular steals of second, third and home plate. In the 11th inning, Consolo (now rated a $100,000 bonus prospect by big-league

From broke to the big time in a year is the history of the current World Junior Baseball scouts) hit a game-clinching home run. champions (above), who represent tiny Crenshaw Legion Post in Los Angeles, Calif. Crenshaw7 now7 was in a peculiar po- sition. It had a berth in the California Department finals — but no commercial backer. At an emergency Post meeting, It shows much basic work yet to be Wilson reminded members that they done at the all-important sponsor level. owed $1100, that more than 50 mer- "At Detroit, everybody assumed that chants had refused help. "What do we we were a solid, well-financed team," do — quit or continue to strain our Wilson says now. "The truth is that in credit?" he put it to them. one of the richest, most sports-conscious There was not a man who would of cities, we have found lack of interest vote for quitting. Treasurer Harold Van in Legion ball appalling." Oat, since deceased, said that he knew This has happened elsewhere. Ac- Fred Clampett and thought that another cording to Lt. Com. Larry French, appeal should be tried. Several days former Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn later, Van Oat had the first good news Dodgers pitcher, now southern Cali- in months. "Clampett will assume the fornia chairman of Legion baseball, expense accrued thus far," he reported. there is a vast need for help over and It was understood that in the following above what Posts can supply. "With '51 season, Crenshaw's team would carry travel and equipment costs going up, Clampett's name along w ith the Post's many smaller Posts can't handle the insignia. load," states French. "Certainly, with- None of the players, nor Wilson or out an 'angel' who appeared in the nick Lefebvre, had met the busy automobile The boys hoist Coach Benny LeFebvre aloft of time, Crenshaw never would have to celebrate Little World Series victory. magnate when they went to the state gone all the way last season. The best tourney. And they had no word from young team I've ever seen would have him, w hen, in tw o 12-8 and 18-8 - getting one refusal after another. When just faded out." ings by Capt. Bill F.rwin Post of Oak- Charley Wilson phoned him in July, Post 715's rescuer is Fred W. Clam- land, they were eliminated. the coach had this suggestion: pett, a Los Angeles sportsman and "Charley, let's refinance our cars and wealthy Plymouth-DeSoto dealer. "We didn't mind losing to the Bill Erwins," says Ben Lefebvre. "After all, keep the kids going a while longer." Greying, reserved, in his fifties, Clam- they were defending national champs. It is a surprising fact that American pett is a self-made millionaire w hose in- kids felt that their spon- Legion baseball's top team — the outfit terest runs to golf, yachting and trotting But the badly sor wasn't out there pulling for them." that last September won the national horses at Santa Anita. He was far from championship over an original field of a baseball fan — before the 1951 season. That ended the season, except for the 16,300 teams at the Detroit "Little In fact, he resisted early efforts to draw big Anaheim Post invitational tourna- World Series" — was near a point of him into the program. ment. This is a California fixture which collapse only 15 months earlier. How Fred Clampett emerged as one each year draws 64 top schoolboy nines The story behind Crenshaw Post's of the Legion's strongest fans in the from all over the state. Post members rise from insolvency to fame is impor- Pacific West is, as he, himself, puts it, and Crenshaw players chipped in to tant for several reasons. While hardly "quite an eye-opener." meet travel costs to Anaheim. There typical of Junior Baseball, it disproves It was during the 1950 pinch that Wil- they salvaged much self-respect by w in- the theory that the country is all but son and Lefebvre first paid a call on ning six straight games and the title. 100 per cent sold on w hat the Legion Clampett. The busy agency head, who Their prize was an all-expense, weekend knows to be a vital promotion, involving is said to sell more cars than any dealer trip to famed Catalina Island. a million teen-agers '5 annually. It warns in California, was not available. His When the spring of 1 rolled around, against any complacent "coasting" on general manager listened to their plea: Lefebvre had an idea that lightning past compliments paid Junior Baseball. "We think we've got a team with great ( Continued on page 42

15 IN THE DRAMA OF OUR FAR EASTERN DISASTER THESE PEOPLE HAD PROMINENT ROLES

Henry Frederick Lauchlin Joseph Wallace Vanderbilt Field Currie Barnes Dean Acheson

THE STRANGE CASE OF THE J pR

Under investigation, various people connected with the Institute of Pacific Relations deny communist affiliations. The only other explanation of what went on is that the

"experts" whose advice was sought and followed by our State Department, authors, editors, educators and others were either not quite bright or very careless.

By FREDA UTLEY

The senate Internal Security Com- ger Hiss was only one of several com- former members of a conspiracy who mittee investigating the Institute of munists holding important positions in have certain knowledge of the iden- Pacific Relations has in the past year Government. Sworn witnesses have tity of the conspirators. The witnesses produced more evidence concerning the identified as communists, or as mem- who have testified as to the communist communist conspiracy in America than bers of a Soviet ring, such affiliations of many leading I.P.R. staff any other public or private inquiry. No men as the late , or executive board members, trustees one need any longer wonder why the Under Secretary of the Treasury and and writers, include Louis Budenz, communists were so successful in hoax- author of the Morgenthau Plan for , Elizabeth Bent- ing the public and perverting United ; Sol Adler, the Treasury rep- ley, Hede Massing, Dr. Karl Wittfoegel States policy to Moscow's advantage. resentative in China; Owen Lattimore of Columbia and Washington State It is now evident that they were able who was head of the Far Eastern Divi- Universities, and Alexander Barmine, to get their hands on the levers w hich sion of the Office of War Information; the former Red Army general who now control information, mould public opin- Uuichlin ( 'uiiic, who was Administra- works for the Voice of America. Every ion, and influence policy, thanks to the tive Assistant to President Roosevelt, one of them has demonstrated his or host of gullible "scholars," "experts," and his assistant, Michael Greenberg, her genuine repudiation of commu- writers, radio commentators and gov- who succeeded Owen Lattimore as nism. Most of them have proved the ernment officials, who were too unin- editor of the I.P.R. publication, Pacific reliability of their evidence. Neverthe- formed, or too careless, to understand Affairs, in 1941. less, Gerard Swope, the benevolent oc- that they were serving Stalin and be- These are only some of the most togenarian who is now titular head of traying America. One has only to read prominent names. More than forty the American I.P.R., blindly defends the testimony of the w itnesses who have other persons as closely associated w ith it by saying that no trust can be placed appeared before the McCarran Com- the I.P.R. as those mentioned above, in the w ord of an ex-communist. This mittee, and study the documents it has have been designated as having been attitude, which is, unfortunately, wide- placed in the record, to understand w hy communist party members, or mem- spread is of great help to the commu- the communists were able to exert an bers of a Soviet espionage ring, or nists. For, as Senator McCarran has influence far out of proportion to their as sympathizers who could be relied said: "If the communists can succeed number. upon to follow the communist party in discrediting all former communists

It is a fact too often ignored that it line in their writings and other ac- in the public mind, they protect them- is quality, or height rather than breadth, tivities. The witnesses are, of necessity, selves and wreak vengeance on those which counts. We now know that Al- all ex-communists, since it is only the who have turned against the conspiracy.

16 Communists and Soviet agents used the Institute to get key government jobs.

Prolific writers, working under the aus- pices of the I.P.R., plugged the party line.

EDWARD C. CARTER AT THE McCARRAN HEARINGS The traditional absent-minded professor had nothing on Carter,

I. P. R. boss, when he was questioned. However, documents seized in Carter's barn at Lee, Mass., helped to jog his memory.

Its 1945 report said the I.P.R. got out more than a million books and pamphlets.

a $90,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Lattimore wrote: "I think you are pretty cagey in turn- ing over so much of the China section of the enquiry to Asiaticus, Han Seng and Chi. They will bring out the ab- solutely essential radical aspects, but can be depended upon to do it with the right touch. "For the general purpose of this in- quiry it seems to me that the good scor- ing position for the I.P.R. differs with different countries. For China my and at the same time set up a deterrent communist design and made a vehicle hunch is that it will pay tc keep behind against any communists breaking with for attempted control and conditioning the official Chinese communist position the party." of American thinking, and American — far enough not to be covered by the We are not, in any case, dependent policy with regard to the Far East. It same label — but enough ahead of the solely on the evidence of former com- was also used for espionage purposes Chinese liberals to be noticeable. munist witnesses. The A4cCarran Com- to collect and channel information of "For , on the other hand, hang mittee's research staff has produced interest, or value to the Russian com- back so as not to be inconveniently documents* which amply corroborate munists." ahead of the Japanese liberals who can- the charge that the I.P.R., in Senator Take, for instance, the letter written not keep up, whereas the Chinese lib- McCarrans words, "was taken over by on July 10, 1938, by Owen Lattimore erals can. For the USSR back their (at that time editor of the I.P.R. quar- international policy in general, but without giving them or anybody else *Some of which were seized front the I.P.R. terly. Pacific Affairs), to Edward C. subservience." files stored in Edward C. Carter's barn at Carter, on the subject of a "research an impression of Lee, Massachusetts. project" which was being financed by (Continued on page 51)

17 THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO MONEY-MAKING

When corporations develop new marvels they usually

welcome people with ideas for making money with them.

This black stuff is ilmenite. From it comes the wonder metal, titanium. Out of this jet-black ore we get the most brilliant white, used in paints, etc. This Bakelite polystyrene made it possible for Finn H. Magnus to build a million- dollar harmonica business.

Albert W. Becker built a thriving enter- prise making and selling Scotchlite discs. By LESTER DAVID

N Newark, n. j., a tall, blond giant named Finn H. Magnus new metals, plastics, yarns, chemicals and a bewildering I has tootled a million-dollar tune out of a harmonica and variety of undreamed-of wonders. That's where these alert about 30 assorted musical instruments for children. businessmen made their moves — they stepped in quickly, In Hartford, Conn., Albert W. Becker is saving people's latched onto a bit of laboratory magic that caught their lives and, incidentally, earning a living by making and sell- eye and converted it into everything from a solid little ing a unique type of reflective disc. Attached to clothing, cash producer to a gold mine. it immediately flashes a warning to oncoming automobiles. The whole point is that there are plenty of other new Magnus makes a fortune, Becker makes a good livelihood. substances around for which you can find commercial In between are literally thousands of other Americans who adaptations. have established secure businesses. Take, for example, the story of Finn Magnus, who built Every one of them had a common formula for success. a multi-million-dollar business in six years because he found

This is how they did it: an ingenious new use for Bakelite polystyrene, a plastic Hundreds of new scientific discoveries, they knew, make material put out by the Bakelite Company of New York. their commercial debuts each year as the laboratory Merlins An idea began buzzing in Magnus' mind that harmonicas step up their alchemy. Each of these marvels spells oppor- could be manufactured much more simply than theretofore, so tunity with a capital $. eliminating all the hand operations which made them They knew, for example, that Company X, after spend- expensive to produce. Why, he conjectured, couldn't some- ing many years and more millions, perfects a new substance one, namely Magnus, make them out of plastic in just a which has tremendous money-making possibilities. Now few operations? despite what you thought, Company X rarely if ever makes He queried plastics engineers and music experts, who the finished product. There are many hundreds of Com- told him bluntly that it would be impossible to get the pany Xs throughout the country, all busy creating fabulous necessary close tolerances with anything but metal. Maybe

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At the left is sand. Combined with other substances it makes silicones. No one

knows all it can do. One use is in car polish.

Anothertr metal with cV future is zirconium. Re-Vi cently zcirconium was found H ilwF to be highly effective against poison ivy.

Bentonite has many uses. It helps in oil pro- duction and it goes into fudge sun- daes. Think of other uses and

it is possible to make a fort une.

so, he thought, but he kept look- ing nonetheless for a plastic which could make a musical sound, looking until he came across this stuff called polysty- rene. He invented plastic reeds, dies for casting them and machines for assembling them. For several

years it was trial and error, sweat and headache, but one bright morning he leaned back and be- Chlorophyll makes the grass green. It also makes the air fre gan playing a happy solo on the and clean, so it's used in deodorizers. Any other suggestion world's first all-plastic harmonica. It was a symphony of dollars for Finn Magnus. Because the new instruments began selling like mad and still are. He didn't stop with mouth organs, Becker studied Scotchlite and its uses. At night, it was however. In the last six years the Magnus Harmonica Cor- warning motorists of people and obstacles on roads ahead; poration of Newark has put out more than 25,000,000 har- it was standing on 24-hour duty carrying advertising mes- monicas, flutes, accordions, toy electric organs and nearly sages up and down the highways; it was carrying warning 30 other instruments, all having one thing in common — the legends such as "danger, explosives" or "caution, school bus." musical tones come from plastic reeds which are attached Scotchlite was big and widely used, Becker thought. to plastic reed plates. Both reeds and plates are cast in one Wasn't there a business idea in it for him? There was. He operation and are always in tune from the time the)' come made small discs about three inches in diameter, attached out of the mold. a clip and began marketing them in stores and by mail His latest product is a set of miniature bagpipes, simpli- order. The discs can be clipped to your clothes on a dark fied versions of the old Scottish instrument which anyone night, attached to a dog, child, blind man's cane — to any- can learn to skirl in a half hour. And those wha hae wi' thing which can and should be illuminated as protection Wallace bled would turn over in their graves, because these against onrushing cars. Becker's Automotive Safety Device bagpipes are made of plastic! Co. in Hartford markets the disc for 39 cents. Magnus was keen enough to perceive that science is mak- What other things are around and how are people taking ing gold in the laboratories — for him and whoever else is advantage of them? Well, take something called reinforced smart enough to recognize it. plastic and take the Beetle Boat Co. of Bedford, Mass. Now look at Albert W. Becker. He was intrigued by a Reinforced plastics are made by combining plastics' raw fabulous something called "Scotchlite" reflective sheeting, stuffs with various reinforced agents such as fibrous glass, developed by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing cotton, hemp, rayon, sisal and paper. The result is some- Co. of St. Paul, Minn. This sheeting consists of millions thing pretty darned miraculous, lighter than aluminum and of tiny glass beads coated onto a reflective backing of plastic yet, weight for weight, stronger than steel. They resist cor- or fabric. With the beads serving as lenses, the material rosion, rust, chemicals, solvents, weather, salt water, exhaust directs a brilliant, glarelcss reflection back to the source the fumes and rot. moment it is hit by a light. ( Continued on page 44

19 1. America's contribution lo fishing is the "multiplying reel." Here the 2. Increasingly popular, spinning or free-line casting such bait casting rod is shown at the point where the back-cast is checked. that shown here was imported to this country from Engla

How to select tackle to FIT YOUR FISHING

Here's some advice on rods and reels that should make fishing a little easier for you.

By ARTHUR H. CARHART

ach year at least 20,000,000 citizens, but how off base their rigs were for fly- There probably are more cane-pole E young and old, male and female, casting. bait fishermen than any other angler pitch flies, plugs, spoons, worms and That incident capped everything in group, but what we know as the bait dough-balls into the lakes and streams mixed-up tackle, but I've seen a lot of casters certainly come second. This is

One of the visitors pulled out some A second division, trolling, which is of the handle produces one turn of the filmy trout flies, and said, "The fellow dragging line and lure back of a slow- spool. The old single-action, which ac- in the store said trout are taking these. moving boat, calls for a fairly stiff, me- tually dates back to early Egyptian fish- Arc they all right?" dium-short rod, stout line, and a stand- ing, wouldn't turn fast enough to let The flies were good, but I had no- ard multiplying reel. We can go on line unroll directly from it as the lure ticed their five-foot bait-casting rods from here to the three other divisions was cast, so George did what most bass and multiplying reels, just the thing for of fishing with their more exacting fishermen of the time did: he looped bass but as unfitted for trout fishing with tackle requirements, for in these divi- extra line over his left hand and let it flics as a shotgun for collecting butter- sions good selection of equipment bears pay out through rod guides as he

flics. 1 told them they could use their strongly on how much pleasure and pitched his lure. He must have had a rods and reels for bait-fishing for trout, success you have. lot of terrific snarls that fouled up his 20 )

Three types of spinning reels. The line pays out freely from stationary spools avoiding the snarls and tangles caused by "over-runs."

3. Fly casting utilizes the weight of the line for the cast. Note how the line loops ahead in the forward cast.

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The old bamboo rod is still being used, but rods made of glass and tubular steel Your selection of lures depends on the fish are becoming more and you're after and the water you're fishing. These more popular. They have are just a few of the lures and plugs available. less tendency to break.

reels for years wouldn't have can get all sorts of arguments from rod remained in business unless owners on which is best. A lot of such his product was pretty good. preference rests on which type they Test a reel by merely giv- have been using. It's more important to ing the handles a gentle flip, have the rod "feel right" as you hold it

to see how readily it will start in your hand and flip it, than to go at spinning. The important thing your selection on a specifications basis. is not to have too much in- There are weights that can be solidly ertia and friction to overcome attached to the tip to give you the effect right at the beginning of the of an average lure, so when you whip case rather than long-spinning the rod a little, you sense the way it will of the spool. flex and its shooting power. The first rod of record An all-around good length is 5 Vi feet. specifically made for bait cast- There are three general types of "ac- ing was put together by Fred tion" or flexibility, light, medium and Divine of Utica, New York heavy — or pliant, medium flexible and

in 1885. It was built for J. M. stiff might be better designations. The Clark of Chicago, was 6 54 feet medium action will be the most service- long and made of lancewood. able in the bulk of fishing you'll do. That was the beginning of Make two other checks. Look at the casting rods, now made of fittings — the guides, tip and handle. The bamboo cane, solid steel, tu- difference between a cheaply-made rod bular steel, solid plastic-im- and one in which the maker has taken pregnated glass fiber and hol- some pride shows up in the quality of low rods of this same modern the fittings. For example, the guides on material. Mix up all these the better-made rod will be of hard, materials of which rods are smooth metal alloy which will not cut made, with a wide spread of even if your line has a little sandy grit

lengths and degrees of flexi- on it. The other check is to fit on a reel

bility and you have a good with line on it, have someone hold the loosely-held line below the lower rod chance of being bewildered when you end of about ten feet of line beyond the guide. face the rod rack in a sporting goods tip, and bend the rod as it would arch Somewhere between 1800 and 1810, store. when you're playing a good fish. The

George built himself a reel that had a The six-strip bamboo rod still is the line, even when the rod is well curved, free-spinning spool, geared so each turn favorite of many anglers who choose to should not lie against the body of the of the handle would produce four turns accept the hazard of breaking their rod, rod between guides. of the spool. It was the first "multiply- unless they do a neat job of playing the Above all, try the "feel" of the rod. ing reel" of record. With line paying catch when a really heavy fish gets on. If it seems to settle into your grip as directly from the easy-turning spool, For average rough-and-tumble fishing though it were built for you — a feel of George could shoot the frogs used for and for the beginner, steel or glass in a liveness, power and the right flexibility bait far beyond anybody else's. solid "rapier blade" or tubular is a better — that's a good bet for you. You want a As in any case, a good policy in se- selection. These may not have quite as rod that will have the life and power lecting your casting reel is to pick one delicate action, may be an ounce heavier to pitch the lure that is reeled in to near made by a well-established maker. The than bamboo, but they are plenty good. the tip, to the spot you want to hit,

manufacturer who has been putting out Glass or steel, solid or tubular — you ( Continued on page 41

21 LARGE ECONOMY B

The moral of this tale is that by

getting more you spend less — a nice

trick indeed in these times.

By BERTON BRALEY

10 yds. 1 foot wide $3.92; cents for a pound package, at an average. Saving per dollar 53? Bicarbonate of Sodium, at the cut- (Since adhesive tears rate pharmacy is 17? for four ounces. straight, the wider kind There's no chemical difference — but is convenient for use in This nail polish remover isn't packaged as prettily the price difference at the grocery saves

nor is it perfumed, but it costs much, much less. any width you choose). you 85? on the dollar. As to the grocery Next, we'll look at another product, items, let's not make a widely used by women. It's in the lux- advertising copywriters are cor- table, let's just say — because I've The ury class, but a necessity if milady tints rect — it does save money to buy checked and know it's so — that the her nails, and she generally does. tooth paste or powder, pills, laxa- Giant Size of soap flakes saves 12 you 1 refer to nail-polish remover. tives, soapflakes almost everything cents on your shopping dollar; and buying What's it made of? Acetone. that comes in boxes or bottles — in the five pounds of dog food instead of one Big, Giant or Mammoth containers. pound saves you 30 cents per dollar How much of your shopping dollar spent; purchasing a ten-pound sack of does the "Large Economy Size" save flour instead of a two-pound package you? In the drugstore, up to 57 cents saves you 20 cents per dollar; floor wax of your dollar on some items, and a 25- bought by the gallon instead of the pint cent average on most of the things that saves you 30 cents on the dollar, a large go into your medicine chest. can of tomato juice saves 15 cents per In the grocery — chain or independent dollar on the cost of a small can, and — as much as 30 cents of your shopping getting salad oil by the gallon instead dollar on a number of things, and about of by the pint saves at least 20 cents per a 20-cent average on the packaged foods dollar. and household items you purchase. Next time you go shopping at the Let's "make a little list." pharmacy or the grocery check up on First, some drug store examples*: my examples, and check a few of your

— 1 Aspirin 12 tablets 12c ; 200 tablets 87?; own. You'll find my general percentages Saving per dollar 57? are pretty correct, and while 20 or 25 4i/ Tooth powder — 2 oz. 39?; 10 oz. 79?; percent savings on individual items may Saving per dollar 9? not seem important, applied to your Antihistamine— 12 tablets 39?; 36 tablets regular budget it's important money. 98?; Saving per dollar 16? But this piece is chiefly about savings 2i/ 4i/ Shaving Cream— 2 oz. 33?; 2 oz. 49?; that ARE savings — how to buy a num- Savmg per dollar 18? ber of things for a quarter, a tenth and Laxative — 2 oz. bottle 33?; 10 oz. bottle in some cases a fifteenth of what you

1.21; Saving per dollar 27? now spend. Nor do I mean "I can get

Absorbent Cotton— 1/2 oz. 12?; 4 oz. 55?; it for you wholesale," either. Saving per dollar 54? You don't have to be a dealer, or have Face Lotion— 2»4 oz. 25?; 13.5 oz. 98?; an "in" with a jobber to get these new Saving per dollar 20? low prices. All you need is a little

Shampoo — iy2 oz. 40?; 10 oz. 79?; Sav- knowledge of what certain things are ing per dollar 11? made of, and what those constituents Adhesive tape — (5 yds. 1 inch wide) cost in quantity. 35?; (10 yds. 2 inches wide) 95?; Sav- Let's start off with a common and ing per dollar 32? universally-used household item. If you do any home painting you'll save up to 'Plus or minus fractional amount. Baking soda, at the grocery, costs 10 60< on the dollar by buying paint in gallons.

22 The bigger they come the harder it is to pass up the value they represent.

Now let's take the lacquer-thinner Eros in the thinner and thus have scent the pound can won't dry up on you if you buy in a paint store. as well as sense in her polish remover. you keep the cover on right. And even What's it made of? Acetone. And lacquer-thinner is a good spot- if it should dry up through your care- The same stuff and it'll take off nail remover, too. A genuine household need. lessness, pour some lacquer thinner in polish with the same celerity as what There's another acetone-impregnated the can, let it stand for 24 hours (cover you buy in a pretty little bottle at the product on which you can make the tight, of course) and it'll be usable again. drug store for 15 cents an ounce. Large Economy Size pay off with a For the amount that costs you a dol-

Which would be $2.40 a pint. large percentage. lar at the 35 ^ rate you pay 61 ^ at the You can buy a pint of lacquer-thinner It's a brand of wood putty that almost cheaper rate. Worthwhile? at the paint store for 30 cents. every putterer uses. While we're on the subject of ace-

Of course it isn't as artistic a bottle, In quarter-pound cans it retails for tone, here's a still fatter Large Economy-

and it isn't perfumed, but it costs i/g as 35 cents. Size proposition.

much. In pound cans it retails for 85 cents. I use a lot of a quick-drying trans-

And if your wife HAS to have it Oh, but you don't use much of it and parent cement that is sold everywhere perfumed, she can put a drop or two the pound can might dry up on you? — and wonderful stuff it is, too, though of her Me Close or Date with You use more than you think — and hard to get off your hands if you get it on them — and you will. ILLUSTRATED BY WHITNEY O ARROW, JR. What makes it quick drying is the solvent — acetone. For years I've been buying that ce-

ment in iy4 ounce tubes at 30 cents each. One of those tubes would do quite a few small cementing jobs, but to glue a chair or wobbly table or put a large patch on something meant two or three

tubes. 1 inquired around about getting the stuff by the pint or quart — so's to have plenty for any job and to save money.

And I learned of a retail store where they sold this cement for $1.50 a quart. A quart is 32 ounces. In the tubes my quart of cement would cost me $5.40— 3.6 times what 1 pay in the Large Economy Size. In this case it isn't only the same chemical material, it's the same cement.

28 i A gallon of ordinary white gasoline will The same thing under a different name can ( Continued on page fill your cigarette lighter for many moons. cost you a lot more or, conversely, less. 23 Legion Rod and Gun Club

By JACK DENTON SCOTT

IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR Page. Ideas, suggestions, interesting items should be sent directly on to the American CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAY OFF WITH SHELLS, CARTRIDGES, LINES OR LURES. Legion Magazine, Rod and Gun Page, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. If we The American Legion Marksmanship Pro- bies. This can be dangerous and may result use your ideas, we'll forward the shells or gram is rapidly swinging into stride. in death to yourself, if you are bitten, or More the hooks; if we don't find your ideas us- than 100 additional rifle and gun clubs have imminent danger to other people and do- able, we're afraid that we won't be able been formed in the past few months. With mestic animals. If you are bitten, wash the to acknowledge your letters. But we wel- the total at well over 2,000, the Legion wound immediately with a strong soap and come your participation and your sugges- Marksmanship Program is becoming the water. Then quickly see a doctor or go to tions. Perhaps the following item will jolt of its If nearest health If possible most important kind in America. your department. a letter out of you. any of you are interested in forming either try to capture the animal that bit you — Junior or Senior rifle teams or clubs, just alive. If you can't get the animal alive, take drop a note to your American Legion Maga- great care that the head isn't injured. An line and helpful bulletins and brochures examination of the brain by a competent will be sent by return mail. veterinarian will determine whether the animal in question had rabies or was mere- How do you feel about the buck law? ly a bold one. In any event, don't take Some states decree that their hunters may chances with animals that are overly bold shoot only bucks, never does. Recently, and aggressive. Take it for granted that studies have been made in some states prov- they are mad and full of rabies and steer ing that states without buck laws (in other Can a sick cat start an ingenious new clear of them. words states which permit the shooting of industry? It sure can. of Otto Luther New both sexes, male and female) are doing Preston, Connecticut, permitted his three- better with their deer populations. year-old daughter to select a kitten from a Maine for example has never had a buck litter of nine. She picked the smallest one law. Over 35,000 deer have been bagged a large sore its neck. with running on The in that state in the past three years. And Luthers took the kitten home, had their Two encouraging facts: Maine is a state half the size of Missouri. vet a hot fly the neck remove maggot from Pennsylvania hatched and released over Maine authorities say that in the years gone of the tiny puss, and then Luther decided 200,000 pheasants for its hunters in 1951. by a 200-pound deer was a freak — rarely that the little character needed a warm The state of Wyoming, although it has ever was bagged. Last year over 800 deer and secluded place to sleep. Within twenty- plenty of natural fish in its streams, planted were shot that went over 200 pounds and that four hours he had created something through its fish hatcheries releasing system 50 went over the 300 pound mark. New- has the entire dog and cat industry on its 3'/ over 2 million trout in 1951. Hampshire even tops Maine. This tiny ears. Radiant heating for animals. The first state, one-sixth the size of , has of its kind, Otto Luther's Kozy Kat, radiant permitted the killing of any sex of deer heated house for pets, has everything — for over 300 years. Its deer herds seem to plastic-covered padded floor, double floor be in tiptop shape and the — hunters return construction and many other unique fea- home with more venison than do their Don't waste or throw away that deer hide tures. Luther is now swinging into motion shooting brethren in neighboring Vermont. this season or next. Stretch the skin out, on Kozy Pup, a radiant heated house for New Hampshire authorities have worked fleshy side up and rub in about two pounds thing is taking hold like crazy. dogs. The out comparative kill charts, and come up of good strong salt. If the skin is wet it it all came about because of a sick And with these facts: The deer kill in New should be dried in a shady, well-ventilated kitten. Hampshire has been 1.1 to the square mile, place. If dried in the sun or before a fire, while Vermont's has been 0.6. What does the skin will dry quickly in some spots, this prove? One faction claims that the slowly in others. In the end it will become pointless concentration on killing bucks brittle and worthless. The American is destroying many states' deer herds, while Museum of Natural History publishes a Ever been attacked by a woodchuck? Bit- another believes that killing of does, the little booklet entitled, "Tan Your Own ten by a squirrel? Chased by a skunk? mothers, does a great deal more harm. No Hide." You can get this booklet for only fooling! These three are supposed to be Maine and New Hampshire seem to have 10f by writing Miss Pollack, American the timid of animals, but with- their own ideas. What do you think? among most Museum of Natural History, Central Park in the last six months reports have arrived West and 79th Street, New York, N. Y. telling where a man was attacked by a woodchuck and severely bitten. One hunter IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS OR QUES- had a squirrel run boldly up his leg and TIONS CONNECTED WITH THE OUT- bite him on the thigh. A motorist reported DOORS: hunting, fishing, 'dogs, etc., don't that a skunk had attacked his slowly mov- hesitate to send them on to THE OUT- ing car and levied great assault on his left If you can use a box of shells for your DOOR EDITOR, AMERICAN LEGION front tire. favorite rifle, pistol or shotgun, or a card MAGAZINE. We will do our best to help. When things like this happen, you can of good fish hooks, then you'll want to Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed en- almost be certain that the animal has ra- participate in your Legion Rod and Gun velope for reply.

24 • The American Legion Magazine • March. 1952 Veterans MARCH, 1952

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

dividend on deposit at interest, with the aggregate to be Beginning in March, 1952, the VA will start payment of included in the calculation of cash value at time of lapse or a regular annual dividend to holders of National Service termination . . . This plan is simply to build a reserve to

Life Insurance policies . . . Two dividends have been paid, insure against lapse ... (2) Any policy holder may request both special, to bring the refund down to the beginning of VA in writing to apply his 1952 dividend as an advance

1951 . . . This regular dividend of $200,000,000 is payable to payment on premiums falling due after the 1952 anniversary policy holders whose policies were in force under premium- date of his policy. paying conditions for three months or longer between the Just to keep the record straight . . . The 1952 is the first

1951 and 1952 anniversary dates of their policies ... It is annual dividend . . . Two former distributions of surplus were estimated that 5,000,000 vets holding nearly 6,000,000 special dividends . . . The first special dividend (1948) covered policies are entitled to share in the melon-cutting, and holders an 8-year span ... It amounted to $2,800,000,000 and was will receive checks averaging about $60, according to payable to nearly 16,000,000 vets who held some 20,000,000

unofficial estimates. polcies . . . The second special dividend (1951) covered a

Under Public Law 36, 82nd Congress policy holders ... It all , 3-year span has not been completed, but when pay- who wish to receive their dividend in cash must so notify ments have been made the total will amount to $685,000,000

VA . . . This is important . . . Policy holders who do not ask paid to 6,000,000 vets who held some 7,200,000 policies. for cash payment will not receive a check . . . Instead, the dividend will be used by VA to pay premiums becoming due after the dividend is payable if the holder fails to pay the Insurance and death claims activities formerly handled premiums . . . The payments will be speeded up by decen- by six separate VA District Offices in the western area have

tralization of check-issuing agencies . . . NSLI holders who been consolidated into two such offices located at Fort

are not in active military service and who apply for payment Snelling, Minnesota, and Denver, Colorado . . . The offices at in cash will be paid by the VA District Offices to which Seattle, Washington, and Chicago, Illinois, have been con- these policy holders pay their premiums. solidated with the Fort Snelling District Office . . . Denver VA is mailing a special form to all eligible policy holders receives by transfer the similar activities from Oakland,

which they may use to request cash payment, if that is their California, and St. Louis, Missouri . . . Employees at Seattle, desire . . . However, any type of written request for cash Oakland, Chicago and St. Louis will be given preference

payment will be accepted — but in all cases, when writing, for employment in the consolidated offices . . . But in a vets are cautioned to give their full name and address and consolidation of district Offices in the eastern area last year,

their insurance numbers so that their accounts may be at Philadelphia, it was found that only about 30 percent

identified easily and quickly . . . Where an insured vet has no of the personnel were willing to move. insurance in force, any 1952 dividend becoming payable The consolidated offices at Fort Snelling will serve on a lapsed or expired policy will be paid in cash, with or veterans of 12 States: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, without an application. Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,

If the policy is being carried under a waiver of premium North Dakota and South Dakota . . . The Denver office will (for persons in active military service since April 25, 1951) have 11 States in its jurisdiction: Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, no dividend is payable, since the policy earned no dividends California, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas,

by reason of its waiver status . . . But, for those in military Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas ... It is claimed that service who continued to pay their premiums, payment in savings in administrative costs will be effected by the con- cash will be made from the VA Central Office, Washington, solidation ... It is further claimed that practically all of the

D. C. . . . Service personnel should make their applications business of the District Offices is carried on by mail, and to the Central Offices — non-service vets write the VA for that reason the consolidated offices at Fort Snelling and District Office to which they pay their premiums. Denver will continue to be as convenient to veterans Although Public Law 36 requires only that the policy as the corner mailbox. holders who wish to receive their dividend in cash must notify VA, the NSLI Act of 1940, as amended, provides policy officially declared that it is a war in holders with two other options : ( 1 ) On permanent plan North Dakota has policies only (ordinary life, 20-pay life, 30-pay life and Korea, no matter what the Federal Government calls the Christenson endowment policies) request may be made to place the 1952 fighting there. . . . Attorney General Elmo 25 NEWSLETTER (continued) made the decision in ruling that veterans of more than 30 figure includes the 154,456 soldiers who had completed an days' service since the beginning of the Korean campaign educational course during the first nine months of the year. are eligible for loans under a State law enacted during

WW2. . . . The Attorney General based his ruling on the JUNIOR BASEBALLERS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES: fact that American Armed Forces are engaged in open Two hundred and seventy-one former American Legion warfare with the forces of North Korea and China. Junior Baseball players appeared in major league games, or served in the Armed Forces on leave from a major league HOUSE ACTS TO EASE PROOF OF PSYCHOSIS: club, during the 1951 season. . . . The American League Sub-Committee of the House Veterans' Affairs Com- held its lead with a greater number of Legion alumni, unanimously approved a bill to it easier mittee has make boosting their total to 157. . . . National League had 114 for develop an active psychosis after discharge vets who former Legion sandlotters. . . . California continued as the to prove it was service-connected. . . . Measure would biggest producer of Legion talent. ... 58 former Junior extend presumptive period for two years after discharge, Baseball players from the Golden State graced the rosters instead of one year, as now administered. . . . Legion asked of the majors. . . . Cleveland Indians led the talent parade 3-year period service-connect the for presumptive to with a use of 26 Junior Baseball graduates. . . . Closely mental ailment. followed by the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers,

each of which had a total of 24. . . . Pittsburgh was high CHANGE OF COURSES FOR GI BILL TRAINEES: in the National League with a total of 20. The million and a half GI Bill veteran-trainees are again reminded of rules and regulations they must follow in FIRST ARMY RESERVE MEDALS AWARDED: case they want to change their courses. . . . These rulings Two Generals and two Sergeants were the first to be apply to veterans who started their training before the awarded the Armed Forces Reserve Medal. . . . Presenta- cut-off date, July 25, 1951, and have remained in training tion was made by Army Secretary Frank Pace, Jr., to since. . . . Chief fact to be remembered is that vets taking Major General Julius Ochs Adler, commander of the 77th post-cut-off-date training may change their courses only Division; Major General Jim Dan Hill, commander of the while they actually are in training or during a necessary 32nd Division; M/Sergeant Lewis Kefauver, Takoma temporary interruption — but then only for reasons satis- Park, Maryland, 340th AAA Battalion, and Sergeant factory to VA. . . . VA authorities will not approve a course George F. Tucker, Washington, D. C, ORC veteran just change for a veteran who merely has changed his mind back from Korea. . . . The medal is awarded for "honor- about what he wants to study. . . . Satisfactory reasons able and satisfactory service" to men who have served at for change are these: least 10 years as members of a reserve component. . . . (1) When a vet is not making satisfactory progress in Medals are not yet ready for general distribution. . . . his present course, and the failure is not due to miscon- When a supply is available, they may be obtained upon duct, neglect or lack of application. . . . (2) When the application of the individual through his unit commander course to which he wants to change is more in keeping with or the Adjutant General. his aptitudes, previous experience or other pertinent facts.

. . . When the new course is a normal progression from (3) DIVIDEND TO BE PAID ON USGLI POLICIES: his current course, and will help him reach his educational Payment to USGLI permanent type policy holders of a or vocational objective. . . . The answer to the question dividend amounting to $16,000,000 will be made by VA in most often asked is: VA will not permit a change of course 1952. ... As in the past, the dividend will be paid soon merely for the convenience of the veteran with respect to after the anniversary date of the policy, and will be auto- his job, commuting distance from the school or training matic—no application is necessary; check will be sent as a establishment, or the place where he wants to live.

matter of course. . . . More than 400,000 policy holders

107,000 VALOR MEDALS WON IN KOREA: will share in the distribution. . . . All of whom have policies

on the permanent plan. . . . Term policies will not share U. S. soldiers, Army only, won 107,699 awards for in the dividend payment. heroism or outstanding service during the first 18 months of the Korean fighting. ... As of January 15, the record stood at 40 Medals of Honor; 441 Distinguished Service VA SURVEY NEARING COMPLETION: Crosses; 6,400 Silver Stars; 28,000 Bronze Star Medals; A complete management survey of the VA undertaken 249 Soldier's Medals; 50 Distinguished Service Medals; early in 1951 by Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a management

834 Legion of Merit; 480 Distinguished Flying Crosses; engineering firm of Chicago, is nearing completion. . . . 4,226 Air Medals; 4,233 Commendation Ribbons, and Nine lengthy reports covering every phase of VA activity

62,168 Purple Heart Medals for wounds received in action are expected to be completed by mid-April. . . . Survey against the enemy or as a direct result of enemy action. was undertaken for the purpose of determining whether changes in the organization and operational procedures NO EDUCATIONAL "VACUUM" IN ARMY: are necessary to provide the best possible services at the

Proof that service in the Army does not inject an educa- lowest possible cost. . . . Legion rehabilitation experts were tional "vacuum" in the lives of young men is found in the consulted during the progress of the survey, and on-the- latest report of the Troop Information and Education ground investigations were conducted by this independent

Division. . . . This shows that a total of 243,265 soldiers concern in the Central Office at Washington as well as in were enrolled or had been tested in some type of educa- District and Regional Offices, Centers, Hospitals and Field

tional class during the third quarter of 1951. . . . This Stations.

26 Which is your choice — spinning or bait casting ?

SPINNING BAIT CASTING

SPINNING vs. BAIT CASTING: Thousands of Ameri- can anglers have been won over by the European art of thread line spinning.

The spinning reel enables even a novice to cast farther, with never a backlash. And the adjustable friction clutch enables him to play larger fish with lighter tackle.

However, dyed-in-the-wool bait casters claim their sport requires more skill. And they offer to take on the spinning fans any time for an exhibit of prowess.

There's a lot to be said on both sides, but you're the expert. You pay your money and take your choice!

YOU'RE THE EXPERT in choosing whiskey, too! There's a big difference in whiskies in smoothness, mellowness and freedom from harshness. That's the reason we invite you to compare Calvert with any other whiskey — regardless of price or type.

MAKE THIS 60-SECOND TASTE TEST: Just ask a friend or barman to pour V* oz. of Calvert into a glass, and the same amount of any other whiskey into another— without telling you which is which. Taste each one for smoothness, flavor and freedom from bite, burn or sting. Then pick the one that really tastes better to you.

We feel sure that you'll choose Calvert Reserve, be- cause its taste has been established by a "Consumer Jury" of thousands of folks like you.

However, if you still prefer another brand, then stick

with it. Fair enough? Calvert Challenges Comparison

with any whiskey. . . at any price !

CALVERT RESERVE BLENDED WHISKEY-86.8 PROOF-65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., —

Get The Large Economy Size ^—————— (Continued from page 23) ———— Now let's look at another volatile in yearly expenditure. However, I was this statement and allege that a brush chemical. curious about Large Economy amounts kept in kerosene will affect the subse- Lighter-fluid. of flints. quent paint job unfavorably. I've not

It's made of a high distillate of petro- I found a man who sold them for a found it so and I do a lot of painting. leum. dollar an ounce. But of course 1 shake out the brush

At the tobacco counter you pay 25 An ounce didn't look like much — but before I dip it in paint again. cents for a four-ounce can. it meant 240 flints. Since there's a close relation between Which would be $7.00 a gallon. A little arithmetic will show you that house painting and housing here's a You can beat that price — and how! at 15 cents for six, an ounce would cost small building economy I can suggest.

For 1 can state without fear of serious $6.00. If your lumber dealer stuns you with contradiction, (because I've tested it) You don't get the neat little cardboard the price of a storm window — and the that ordinary white gasoline works just container that goes with the six pack- price will stun you — I know where you as well in a lighter as this $7.00 a gallon aged flints—but you can keep filling the can get the materials for an efficient fluid. container up with your dollar-an-ounce storm window — install-it-yourself-any-

It's a bit smokier, but not enough to supply after you've used the six-for-15

1/23 as much as the fancier fluid. painting, as I do, you'll learn to save something grand. Now here are some other economies

that I have found practical, though they have nothing to do with Large Econ- omy Sizes. They involve substitutions and imitations. Plastic leather for genuine leather, as an example.

I don't care what your upholsterer may tell you about the virtues of real leather, the best grade of plastic leather looks as good, wears longer, doesn't chip, crumble or crack, as leather does,

is harder to stain and easier to clean, and costs about a quarter as much. In my library are four or five sets of leather-bound (originally) books, and a couple of sets bound in imitation leather. The genuine leather books have no leather left, it's all crumbled away. The imitation leather sets are as intact

and new-looking as when I got them fifteen years ago. Composition soles for leather soles are another example. It's my experience that the composition stuff protects your feet from winter-chilled and summer- baked pavement better than leather, and lasts twice as long. There isn't much "For Gawdsake . . . ain't anybody going to outbid my wife?" price differential—the economy is in the AMERICAN I.EOION MAGAZINE durability. If I weren't too lazy to do extensive

research I could probably give a score

True, it doesn't come in a tidy little up to 60 cents on the dollar by buying of other examples of tremendous savings tin with a neat spout on it, and you paint in gallons instead of pints. But through quantity buying of various wouldn't want to keep a gallon can on you've probably found that out. staples and luxuries, but the items I've your desk or table. But you can put You may not have found out, how- mentioned give you an idea. four ounces in a bottle (cost at most a ever, that for removing the paint you I could also have gone into the sav- dime) and it'll be just about as handy. spill (while it's still wet), and for clean- ings you can effect by buying a whole The rest of the gallon you can use for ing your brushes after painting, and for hog or a side of beef and putting it away refills or cleaning. Of course you'll do keeping them soft and clean until the in a freezing locker, but most people for these pur- your cleaning outdoors, and keep the next time you need them— haven't got such a locker and aren't gallon of gas outside your house or poses you may not have found out that conveniently located near one that's apartment, for safety, though it's legal kerosene is just as good as turpentine for rent. to keep a gallon (no more) in the house. (it is) and it costs you 17 cents a gallon, So, all I'm doing is suggesting, from Consider another essential for most as against 40 cents a quart for turps. my own experience, that there are a lot lighters — the flints. Usual price 15 cents Matter of fact, kerosene is better of things that are just as good as other for six. than turpentine for a paint-brush bath, things that cost Being a pipe smoker I wear out a lot because it doesn't evaporate so rapidly. more. of flints, though it doesn't mean much Painters shake their heads at me for You take it from there. the end

2g • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 The National Legionnaire UMT BILL DEPENDS UPON PUBLIC SUPPORT IN THE NEXTFEWWEEKS By DONALD R. WILSON National Commander, The American Legion

Within a few weeks (probably not Affairs Committee; William L. Clayton, Nor does Congress fear criticism in has later than the middle week in March) former assistant Secretary of State; the press. One by one, as history Congress will decide what action it will Karl T. Compton, ex-president of Mas- made true the predictions of UMT's take on a carefully prepared bill to sachusetts Institute of Technology and earliest sponsors, the country's impor- create Universal Military Training chairman of the President's 1948 UMT tant newspapers have swing to support (UMT). committee; Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, of UMT. Eai-ly in January the conser- There is considerable danger that — War II Commander of the U. S. Seventh vative New York Times espoused UMT in response to pressure from small Fleet, and General Raymond S. McLain, in a lengthy editorial, in which it broke groups — action on this important legis- Controller General of the Army. down, point by point, broad assertions lation may be put off without ever com- While this commission drew up a against UMT that had been adopted in ing to a yes or no vote, as it always has thoughtful bill, The American Legion a resolution of the Association of been put off in the past. has introduced another, embodying American Colleges. The bill would provide six months of nearly all of the Commission's provi- Unjustified Fears basic military training, much of it in sions but adding even stronger guaran- technical specialties, to nearly every tees that UMT would be under civilian It is not likely that more than a few young man at the age of 18, or on com- control. Congressmen would be intimidated by pletion of high school. Exceptions would However, straws in the wind suggest the oceans of mail against UMT which include those not mentally or physically that the combined recommendations of they get from organized pacifists. Your qualified. the NST Commission and the Legion representatives know how small a frac- After six months training, trainees tion of the population all this mail rep- would go into any of various active re- resents and they know that the pacifist serve elements, and remain on active DO STRONG DEMOCRACIES objections make no sense when the reserve status for choice is UMT or huge standing forces. 7% years. DISCOURAGE AGGRESSION? The UMT training program would What makes UMT a political hotfoot be separate from the standing armed "One determinant in Hitler's de- is the large minority of perhaps 10 to forces, and it would be under the super- cision to attack Poland [start of 25 percent of the adult population (far vision of a civilian controlled commis- WW2] had been the Foreign Min- too important to antagonize in a nation sion. ister's rigid insistence upon the un- where a swing of two or three percent willingness of the Western Powers A Stable Alert will decide an election) who know too to strike back. ..." - Paul Seabury, little about UMT to judge it -and who The practical effect of the bill would Political Science Quarterly, Decem- the alarms of the small, organized be to establish, eventually, a constant ber, 1951, p 545. echo anti-UMT groups more out of caution trained reserve of 5% million men of military age, whom we could maintain than knowledge. ready for quick military call at a cost may be by-passed again. Some political An example of the sincere opposition far less than that of keeping huge opportunists are making much of the is the so-called mothers' lobby. It is not standing forces on hand at all times. It fact that President Truman failed to really a lobby, but a considerable num- would, in fact, provide us with a meas- mention UMT in his State of the Union ber of mothers of young men whose well- ure of quick security which we may not message to Congress on January 9. Con- meaning protests are caused by a mis- be able to afford under the present gress, they say, can take the President's taken belief that UMT is a program to scheme. It would also bring fairness and oversight as a hint that UMT is so hot send their sons to war — or put them in stability back to our preparedness pro- that every legislator had better look out the armed forces at the very least. Ac- gram, displacing in large measure the for himself, rather than the national se- tually the present mobilization program disruptive effects of the present draft curity. The fact is that on eight sepa- does exactly that, and UMT could sub- and the calling up of War II veterans rate occasions the President has spoken stantially reduce it. who are now established in the economy, up for UMT — most recently in his mes- UMT proposes to train every mother's in society, in homefront obligations, and sage to the last National Convention of son for six months without putting him family responsibilities — who have al- The American Legion. Nevertheless, in the armed forces, and then send him ready fought one war" and are rapidly while a considerable number of Senators home as a member of the reserves. approaching over-age. and Representatives have gone clearly It would not increase the liability to The danger that UMT may be pigeon- on record for UMT, many others fear to military service of any mother's son, holed in Congress again lies in the effect express themselves. since with few exceptions every mentally of a host of objections to UMT that Why do some still look upon UMT as and physically qualified young man have spread doubts about it in enough a subject so hot politically that action would be required to take UMT train- quarters to make many of our repre- in the next few weeks may put it in ing. sentatives prefer not to go on record mothballs again, unless Congress gets It would reduce the number of young for or against the bill. positive assurance from the public that men who would have to be in the stand- The bill itself is the result of the care- the issue had better be faced, and faced ing armed forces at any one time by ful study of the National Security now? creating a huge reserve corps that Training Commission, to which Con- Congress has no fear of the majority would meet many of the contingencies gress and the President gave the job, of Americans who want UMT .(Gallup for which we are now drafting men; last year, of drawing up a wise and Polls, for instance, have shown a clear workable UMT program. Commission majority in favor of UMT for six con- contingencies that will require even members include James W. Wadsworth, secutive years during which UMT has larger standing forces if we don't get ex-chairman of the House Military been repeatedly shelved.) UMT. (Continued on next page) The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 29 If war comes unavoidably, UMT will cross-section of their own generation — give every mother's son a better chance DO NEED UMT? as in public school. They will under- of survival in battle, because he will WE take a busy program under extensive have been trained in a calm, orderly ". supervision and discipline. . . If the opponents of UMT knew fashion in peacetime, instead of in the the facts [about the global military The bulk of today's younger gener- urgent haste of war. situation that cannot be disclosed for ation of adults was in the armed forces If war comes unavoidably, it will security reasons] a great deal of op- for from one to six years in War II, and cushion him against the mental and position would vanish into thin air. nobody has come forth with a shred of ." . . — Senator Wayne Morse, mem- nervous shock that has wrecked the lives evidence that those who were decently ber Armed Services Committee, V. S. of thousands of young Americans who raised to age 18 at home are now any Senate, January 16, 1952. cracked up when thrown cold into our the worse, morally, for their long period previous wars. ~~ of military service. Colleges and busi- Finally, if nearly every mother's son ness houses, on the contrary, found the The bigger the standing armed force in America is a trained reservist as he War II GI's to be responsible beyond — we will need, the more acute and perma- would be under — foreign aggres- their years. UMT nent will the present educational dis- Said the New York Times: "Given sors will be far less anxious to start the ruption become. major war that would spare no mother's proper leadership the UMT program UMT offers the only chance to keep son. can materially help to build a sense of a military alert with the least disrup- The mothers who know what national unity, of loyalty, of devotion UMT tion of education. At age 18, or on com- means to them and their sons are to duty and of appreciation of moral pletion of high school, each young man the most active supporters of values. If young men at the age of 18 among will get six months of basic training in this country. The of the cannot be trusted for six months away UMT women and will then be available to start col- veterans organizations' auxiliaries — from home under the most carefully lege as a freshman with far less fear of who have studied themselves in- controlled conditions, then our homes, UMT interruption. Undoubtedly, UMT expe- stead of taking the accusations of organ- our churches and our schools have failed rience will also attract to the standing ized opposition at face value — are per- in their own duty during the previous forces those young men who find that ." haps more enthusiastic eighteen years. . . about UMT than they have a natural liking for military any other group of people in America. service — and thus relieve from involun- Cheapest Preparedness tary draft many of those with other End Educational Turmoil Yet another false charge against plans. Still another example of sincere but UMT has misled a sizable minority into Basic military training today in- misinformed people, whose doubts make opposition to it. That is that UMT cludes considerable technical training, Congress hesitate, are those teachers — would be so expensive it would bank- highly condensed. Under UMT 'the col- chiefly on the college level — who accept rupt us. Today we face years — some say lege freshman at nineteen will be more without study the charge that UMT will as many as twenty — of military alert, mature, far more disciplined in his disrupt college education. For them- when the security of the nation and the study habits, more advanced in techni- selves these teachers feel inwardly that world will depend on our actual strength cal training, and he will already have there will be fewer college students if and on our appearance of strength. . had experience in doing a serious job UMT goes through, and thus fewer What is most apt to bankrupt us is away from home. Furthermore UMT teachers' jobs. For the nation, they fear continued maintenance, in the present provides that trainees be given compe- that if we have fewer college students fantastically expensive way, of huge tent aptitude and interest tests. Those we will have too few of the college- standing forces. If for no other reason, who graduate from UMT to college will trained technicians and leaders that the we need UMT at the earliest possible be far clearer in their interests and country will need in the future. Here moment because it is the only plan in abilities than is the average college again, UMT is the answer to their fears. sight that we can afford. freshman of today. Under our present system of calling In high gear, UMT training would first about up a huge standing armed force in a Moral Safeguards cost 4 billions the year and haphazard way, young men are being 2 billions a year thereafter. "Stagger- The GI's of War II were the best gen- snatched out of schools and colleges at ing," say UMT's organized opponents. eration of American college students in is the cost all age levels and kept in service for What is more staggering history. UMT will not mature its train- present 60 long periods of time. Many high school of not having UMT. Of our ees as much as the GI's were matured, dollar defense budget, about 12^ graduates are fearful of starting col- billion but it will make a step in the same di- million lege — or any serious career — because billions goes to maintain 3% rection. Those college leaders who have arms. Those million men they don't know will men under SV2 when they be (their made a genuine study of UMT are for all practical purposes our full drafted. The colleges have come in for number is surprisingly small) clearly strength, trained and in train- widespread criticism because they have military see that it would be a cure instead of a ing. gained draft-exemption for better stu- cause of the educational turmoil of our It costs about $3,500 a year to main- dents while other youth of the same age long-range national military alert. One tain a man under arms. It costs only are being called to arms. Meanwhile, of the authors of the present UMT bill $434 a year to maintain an active re- an unwholesome aspect of fear has made is, in fact, Karl T. Compton, former servist and keep him from getting rusty. itself apparent in the current crop of president of the Massachusetts Insti- UMT would send its six-months train- college freshmen as each struggles to tute of Technology. ees into active reserve units for 7% be the one who is not drafted out of col- Still another spectre that some see in years at the rate of about 800,000 men lege. No matter how hard they study, UMT is that six months "in the army" a year. (The Defense Department could the colleges will continue to lose the 18-year- will "corrupt the morals" of start more slowly in the transition same number of students to the draft. olds. period of the first two years). Even- Even though there is little reason to tually UMT would establish a self-re- believe this could happen, extensive INJURE YOUTH? WOULD UMT safeguards have been written into the ^ UMT bill to make it a constructive, well- ". . . If they have been given proper PEOPLE UMT? guided training program. While the DO THE WANT training at home . . . they will be armed forces will define and administer ". majority able to take care of themselves. (If . . In my judgment, the not) it is time they got away from the training, UMT will be under con- of the people of the United States their homes and learn to stand on trol and inspection of a civilian com- wholeheartedly favor . . . universal their own two feet. ..." — Senator mission. Trainees will not be "in the military training. ..." — Senator Wayne Morse, V. S. Senate, January army" and their training will be in Richard B. Russell, V. S. Senate, 1952. 16, 1952. separate institutions under special January 16, staffs. Trainees will associate with a

3Q * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1932 again today in terms of time) every man should know how to shoot straight UMT? INJURE CAN WE AFFORD before the stockade is stormed. WOULD UMT "We must make our defense with- Every one of the thirteen original EDUCATION ? in our economic system." — Senator colonies had compulsory military train-

". . . it is highly probable that the Homer Ferguson, in support of UMT, ing, and the charge that UMT is un- educational process can be enhanced, V. S. Senate, January 16, 1952. "It American is not the truth. a rather than harmed, by six months costs about $450 a year to support Still another vague fear that is often reservist; to keep a of universal service." — New York civilian $4,000 expressed as a positive fact by many, man in the standing army." — New Times, January 12, 1952. including Professor Myers, is that York World Telegram and Sun, Jan- UMT "militarize" America and drill uary 12, 1952. would our youth in a "military habit of vide. Chief of these are the ability to thought" that would "wreck our liber- meet an attack with utmost speed, and plenishing, trained, active reserve of ties and uproot democracy." to have adequate Civil Defense man- 5.8 million men under the age of 26. If these dangers exist in America, power in the event of unavoidable war. These 5.8 million active UMT reservists they are most dangerous in the large Few leaders today have any illusions could be maintained for slightly more standing armed force that is our only about our Civil Defense shell. Seven than one eighth the price of keeping as alternative to UMT. years of warning have produced no many men under arms. It is true that every democracy that competent corps of men to rise to the To keep 5.8 million men under arms has grown to rely on a large profes- disasters to American cities that bomb- for 20 years would cost us, at present sional army has lost its democracy. ing or parachute invasion could bring prices, 400 billion dollars for the single In ancient Athens and in modern overnight. Civil Defense is made up of item of maintaining the men! Switzerland, and in all democracies that far more chiefs than Indians. It is The total cost of maintaining the were hard-pressed to protect themselves, doubtful that many of today's untrained same number of active UMT reservists, the arm and the sword of freedom have younger men have any idea how to or- including the cost of the training pro- always been trained civilians. Athens ganize against a home-front emergency, gram, would be 90 Ms billions in 20 years. crumbled when it switched to profes- or how to respond to any sort of alert. If our choice were one or the other, sional soldiery. Thus the more we call UMT would give them the discipline, UMT would save us $309,660,000,000 in up standing forces, and the less we rely the sense of organization and many of 20 years of full-capacity operation! It on UMT, the greater the claimed threat the technical skills without which Civil would serve increasingly well at even to our liberties. UMT trainees can re- Defense could collapse in ten minutes less the cost (29 billions less) during turn to free society and build themselves in any stricken area. the first eight years before its reserve a stake in it after six months, and they Action elements would reach capacity. can go to college and learn as much Now about democracy as the colleges are Nobody needs a diagram to know that More for Less willing to teach them. But the standing if all-out mobilization is needed in a Nobody knows that we must go as forces will be subject to 100% "military hurry, as it will certainly be if a major high as 5.8 million in the standing thinking" for years, and to a growing war should come again, our dependence forces. Nobody knows that 20 years is dependence on a military existence. on oceans and foreign allies cannot the period of mammoth alert that we again be relied on to give us time. Our Safeguarding Liberties face. And nobody pretends that UMT nation may live or die, if War III comes, will be . a complete substitute for the Here it is worth pointing out that our according to its foresightedness in hav- standing forces we have now and will forces of War I and War II never de- ing a ready reserve of trained man- need in the future. veloped the so-called "military mind" power. Nevertheless, a huge, ready reserve though they were in service for far How can citizens give Congress the will permit us great reduction in the more than six months. Indeed, in few required courage to exercise the proper standing forces. As the New York Times countries has a military dictatorship foresightedness in the few weeks left ". said, UMT will: . . be a substitute begun at the bottom. In general, mili- before UMT may be by-passed again? for a permanent standing army of gi- tary dictatorships grow out of political Every Legionnaire can play two gantic dimensions and long terms of dictatorships. Their power springs from constructive parts. First, he can inform service." elite corps of regulars, created by po- his representatives in Washington that for litical dictators, in nations without And every million men that UMT any his support of UMT is strong and posi- can displace from the need for stand- armed or trained citizenry. Any man tive, and that he would not be.intjifferent ing forces, the saving in maintaining who honestly fears a trend toward mili- to another failure to face this important trained manpower would be in the tary dictatorship in America today question. The majority who want UMT neighborhood of $3,066,000,000 a year! should welcome a civilian-controlled must show they are as insistent that the At the same time UMT would provide UMT with open arms. issue be faced as a small minority is to training for every military eligible, One thing is plain. Whatever objec- have the question shelved again. while at much higher cost Selective tions are raised to UMT apply with even Second, because much of the opposi- Service would only train those actually more force to the only alternative we tion to UMT is sincere but misinformed, called to arms. face today — bigger and bigger perma- the minority who oppose UMT can be The economic facts are that UMT will nent forces. greatly reduced and the majority who buy far more security for far less cost. We are beginning to approach a favor it can be greatly increased by But still the objections breaking point come. UMT where the burden of more public education. Each Legionnaire would be "un-American" according standing forces can bring far dis- to worse can use every means at his disposal to some. Thus an article profes- aster is predicted by NYU than anything that give more people a clearer understand- sor Alonzo F. Myers that was reprinted for UMT. The New York Herald- ing of what UMT is, and what our in the Congressional Record on Janu- Tribune, another convert to UMT, urged choice is. ary 14 protested that UMT would be on January 11 that: "UMT must be a "corruption ... of American tradi- adopted not because we like it, but be- Membership Getter tions." Professor Myers, who is in cause we need it." The editors added Champ charge of teacher training at NYU, that: ". . . the price of not having Commander Bill Williamson, Scotland should profit by consultation with the UMT . . . may be measured not in dol- Post No. 50, Laurinburg, North Caro- history professors. America was fath- lars, but in disaster." lina, has won laurels for membership- ered by a compulsorily trained civilian Not only is UMT a better answer getting — he signed up 327 of the Post's militia. It is in the clearest American than our only other choice, but it will 332 members. In so doing he made a top tradition that when the enemy is no clearly buy us guarantees against dis- record early in the year by bringing in farther away than the woods (as he is aster that no standing forces can pro- more than the Post's quota of 165.

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 31 CHILD WELFARE EXECUTIVE Legion Membership Has Big Lead Over 1951; GROUP TO MEET APRIL 17 Special Prize Offered for Birthday Effort The National Child Welfare Commis- sion's executive section will meet at Na- With 46 of the Departments of The which are ahead of their 1951 enroll- tional Headquarters in Indianapolis on American Legion well ahead of their ment on March 15-17; hold some kind April 17-19, Dr. A. H. Wittman, Phila- 1951 enrollment on January 31, the 1952 of a birthday observance, and also trans- delphia, National Chairman, has an- membership continues its victory march mit additional membership cards to their nounced. The April meeting will review toward the three million mark. On Janu- Department Headquarters. Posts certify progress, made to date in carrying out ary 31st the enrolled membership for birthday activities to the Department the 15-point anti-narcotics program 1952 was 1,951,200 -a gain of 87,842 Headquarters, which in turn will advise adopted by the 33rd National Conven- over the same date in 1951. the Membership and Post Activities tion at Miami last October, as well as The increase has been noted week by Committee of the number of pictures other aspects of the national child wel- week — fluctuating somewhat because of needed for presentation to qualifying fare program. holidays or weather conditions — but has Posts. Recommendations and reports made maintained an average increase of well by the five Area Child Welfare Confer- over 100,000. ences will also be referred to the April Three Departments, North Dakota, meeting. Conferences are to be held in Mexico and the Philippine Islands, have MONTANA BONUS FORMS TO Little Rock, Arkansas, March 6-8, and exceeded the quota set for them by the in Portland, Maine, March 14-15. Pre- BE READY ABOUT APRIL 1 National Organization, and are well on vious conferences were held in Charles- the way to new records. The Department Latest news from the Montana ton, West Virginia; Des Moines, Iowa, of North Dakota, with Department bonus front says that technicality in and Las Vegas, Nevada. Commander Truman C. Wold and De- the matter of bonds remains to be settled courts; application forms partment Adjutant Jack Williams as the by will be ready about the first of Post Comes to the Rescue sparkplugs, was the first continental April, and that payments will start Department to reach its quota with a When George Ing, American of Chi- if and when the bonds are disposed — nese ancestry, came back from WW1 he percentage of 100.78 on January 30 of. Deadline for filing applications established a laundry in Brooklyn, New that means just 19,927 members signed under the present law is December active in the up. This accomplishment entitles North 31, 1952, but it is believed the time York, and became very Dakota to award of the General Henri will be extended because of the long affairs of J. W. Person Post No. 14, now Gouraud Trophy — the fifth successive delay in getting the program under serving as a member of the Post Execu- year old-timer Jack Williams has car- way. tive Committee and Club House Com- Bonus is for veterans only. ried away this coveted trophy. WW2 mittee. Recently, when his landlord de- Rates, $10 per month for home serv- cided to take over the rooms used for his ice; per month for overseas serv- Housing Preference Deadline $15 laundry, Legionnaire Ing was evicted ice between December 7, 1941, and National Adjutant Henry H. Dudley and could not find another convenient lo- September 2, 1945. No limitation on has sent out a warning that March 30 post-war residence. No maximum cation. But J. W. Person Post had the is the deadline for membership cards payment fixed, could go as high as answer — members turned out, moved which will determine choice of housing $675. Out of State veterans get their Ing and his equipment into the Legion at the National Convention. This change application forms by writing Ad- building and set him up in business made by the National Executive Com- justed Compensation Division, Arm- again. This, says Past Commander Ed- ory Building, Helena, mittee, he. points out, from March 15 to Montana. ward E. Fuchs, is a practical example March 30 was effected in order to per- of our devotion to mutual helpfulness. mit Posts and Departments to receive proper credit for all memberships that are received during the annual Legion Birthday drives in mid-March. All cards NewYork City Named for National Convention mailed and postmarked on or before March 30 will be counted and credited to the Departments for housing preference. In 1952; Big Meet to be Staged August 24-28 This is important, National Adjutant Dudley thinks, for the reason that it has The 34th Na- Organization of the Convention Cor- become the custom of Legion Posts tional Convention poration for local handling of the 1952 throughout the country to step up mem- of The American convention has not been completed. The bership activities during the Legion Legion will be Corporation will be headed by James V. birthday observances, March 15-17. This held in New York Demarest, Department Commander of year will prove no exception; with the City, August 24- New York, as President. enrollment running around 100,000 28. The place and National Commander Wilson has an- ahead of last year membership workers dates were an- nounced the appointment of W. Walter in Posts and Departments are going all- nounced by Na- Neeley, Clarksburg, West Virginia, as out not only to maintain the lead but to tional Command- National Convention Director who will increase it. Membership workers are er Donald R. Wil- act for the national organization of the determined to regain the numerical loss son during the Legion. Director Neeley has been act- of last year, and to return the Legion course of his ad- ing as aide to Commander Wilson since to 3,000,000. dress to the Wo- his election at Miami last October, and To stimulate the Post signers-uppers W. Walter Neeley mens' Patriotic thus has a wide acquaintance through- Convention Director and also to stimulate the birthday ob- Conference at out the entire organization. servances, a special birthday award is Washington on January 25. Born at Big Lake, Arkansas, the new offered to Posts — a 4-color picture of This will be the third time the big Director is a graduate of the high school Independence Hall, 18x15 inches, done Legion conclave has convened in New at McGeehee, in that State, and the by Walter Haskell Hinton. The picture York - the first in 1937, when the" University of Arkansas, class of 1935. of this great symbol of our American Legion struck an all-time high in con- A company commander in the South- freedoms will add greatly to the patri- vention attendance, and again in 1947. west Pacific in WW2, he located at otic atmosphere of any Post home. Plans are already under way for the Clarksburg after the end of WW2 where The Independence Hall picture, says meeting next August, and arrangements he established himself in business and C. M. Wilson, Director of Membership are being made to care for the largest became an active member of Roy E. and Post Activities, will go to all Posts attendance since the close of WW2. Parrish Post No. 13.

32 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 Hoover Commission Member Warns Senate Against Widespread Misrepresentation of Hoover Report

"Willful or Careless" Propaganda Misleads Civic Groups And upon publishing such estimates as that and making claims that are wholly un- Public, Says McClellan; Distortions Endanger Public Interest; justified." Promises That "Cannot Be Substantiated by Facts" Held at Fault The widespread circulation of infor- mation designed to create an impression that a few simple laws could streamline Attempts to force into law the many complish the purpose for which it was the operation of government is "entirely recommendations of the Hoover Com- intended and may not be in the public erroneous," Senator McClellan said. mission without proper study by Con- interest." "Those responsible are manifestly un- gress received a set-back on January 21. Senator McClellan told the Senate: ". fair to the Congress and the public." On that date a U. S. Senator who was . . the Congress must consider the The full text of Senator .McClellan's also a member of the Hoover Commis- point of view of those who are opposed remarks appears on page 308 of the sion warned the Senate against being to the proposals. . . . Practically every Congressional Record for January 21, misled by sweeping claims about the step that has been taken in connection 1952. merits of the Hoover proposals. with. . . . Hoover Commission recom- The Hoover Commission, he inti- The former Hoover Commission mem- mendations (that are still up for con- mated, was an instrument created by ber is Senator John L. McClellan, senior sideration) . . . has met with opposition Congress to assist it, to Senator from Arkansas and chairman from some source." Congress, he and was not take over the law-making duties of the of the Senate's own Committee to advise warned, must not be pressured out of national legislatuie. it on the Hoover recommendations. "considering the merits of views sub- "As a former member of the Hoover Senator McClellan warned his col- mitted in opposition." Commission," said Senator McClellan, leagues against erroneous impressions He blamed the unsound attitude of "I know that it was the . . . intention in favor of the Hoover report that have reputable organizations on a too-trust- that Congress should submit (the been "either willfully or carelessly cre- ing acceptance by them of stories about Hoover recommendations) to the closest ated by the circulation of information huge savings which the Hoover propos- analysis, to the most thorough deliber- by some representatives of groups who als could bring about. Speaking as ." ations. . . profess to speak for the Hoover Com- Chairman of the Senate Committee on Senator McClellan's warnings are mission, as well as by some newspapers, Expenditures in the Executive Depart- ." long overdue. columnists and commentators. . . ment, Senator McClellan criticized what These unofficial spokesmen either "ig- he called "grossly exaggerated estimates Blocked Proper Study

nore the facts or completely misrepre- as to savings which the . . . Hoover . . . From the moment the Hoover report sent them," said Senator McClellan, "in reports would effectuate." was submitted outside pressure was order to influence or inspire well-inten- "Some of these estimates," he said, brought to bear to insist that Congress tioned organizations and citizens to "have run as high as 5V& billion dollars. adopt into law the entire report exactly bring pressure on Congress to act on ... if all the Hoover , . . recommenda- as outlined by the Hoover Commission. the Hoover Commission bills hastily and tions were enacted into law." ." The effect of this organized pressure without proper consideration. . . "Any such estimates . . . are mislead- was to say: "Congress has the job of ing," the Senator continued, "and can- Good Citizens Deceived passing these laws, but it has no busi- not be substantiated by facts." ness studying them except with a view The Citizens Committee for the "It is unfortunate," he added, "that to accepting them as is." Hoover Report, an unofficial body head- some members of the press still insist ed by Dr. Robert L. Johnson of Temple That is the crux of Senator McClel- University in Philadelphia, has widely lan's criticism: that, and the obstacles promoted the activities described by to calm study imposed on Congress by WATCH YOUR INSURANCE the pressure groups. Senator McClellan Senator McClellan. | jj was correct in his further criticism that Well-intentioned organizations which f An important message about GI s

'! pressure was brought to bear from per- have been "influenced or inspired" by * insurance . . . with particular ref- erence to manent, reputable organizations be- the Citizens Committee include such \ term insurance. You know, !] that's the kind cause they, and the press their members reputable followers as the U. S. Cham- s most World War Two |j i veterans took out while in the armed read, were fed with rosy, wishful "pub- ber of Commerce, the U. S. Junior Jj forces. ji Chamber of Commerce and, to lesser 7 It's term insurance because lic information" about the Hoover Re- y it runs only for a limited time i! degree, as many as 27 other organiza- ... port which "cannot be substantiated by ? usually five years. That's its term. i\ tions of national stature. facts." * Now, it to keep going, you either !| Senator McClellan warned that at- This is an important fact for Legion- s have to renew *it, or change it to Jj tempts of these groups to reorganize naires to remember in debating the dan- 1 one of the permanent plans . . . and J the entire administration of the Federal J gers of the Hoover report in the area of 2 you have to do that before it ex- \< Government on a wave of optimistic ? pires. Once you let a term policy >'< veterans affairs with their fellow citi-

propaganda could be against the public * run out without doing something i| zens. It means that allowances must be

s it . . . of it. interest, and could backfire dangerously about that's the end !| made for the sincerity of some of the * You can't ever get it back again. Of J accepted in good — since they could serve no purpose ex- J opposition, which has

i course, keeping it or dropping it . . . cept to interfere with thoughtful study Jj faith the misleading material which i that's entirely up to you. But don't of the recommendations. Ji Senator McClellan described. There is ? let yourself get caught, just because ii Speaking from his own experience on even some evidence of pressure to pre- Ji you forgot all about it. Study your ij the Hoover Commission and in Con- vent careful analysis of some of the 1 1 own insurance needs, then make ij recommendations from getting gress, Senator McClellan told the Senate ij your own decision. Hoover

". . . before the public. that: Sharp differences of opinion 'I And if you feel you'd like more Jj

ji existed even among the members of the !j insurance information, it's good to Thus, an article by an independent this: You can get complete Hoover Commission itself, and those dif- Jj know j! writer, analyzing weaknesses of one of and accurate information at any ij ferences have since developed strong op- J' the Hoover recommendations, appeared

i office. See your American Legion Jj J VA position from many sources which must in this magazine. The writer reported be fully explored and evaluated to avoid that shortly after his article appeared passing legislation which may not ac- (Continued on page 36) The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 33 MRS. JULIA WHEELOCK DEAD; AN OPEN LETTER HOUSE COMMITTEE TURNS PAST COMMANDER OF ITALY February 10, 1952 DOWN VET PENSION BILLS

Mrs. Julia Wheelock, World War 1 To all Legionnaires and members The Veterans' Affairs Committee of veteran and long active in the affairs of of their families: the House of Representatives, on Janu- the Legion, died at the home of her sis- My dear friends: ary 30, tabled two veteran pension bills ter, Miss Harriet Woodruff, at Newark, I take this opportunity to personally on the plea of economy. One was a Le- New Jersey, on January 28. Stricken in urge each one of you to participate in gion-supported measure (H. R. 5899) 1941, she had been an invalid for more The American Legion's Puzzle Contest which sought to place widows and chil- than ten years. appearing in the current issue of The dren of WW2 and Korean vets on the Mrs. Wheelock became interested in American Legion Magazine. Non-Legion- same basis as is now provided for wid- the plight of disabled war veterans very naires are eligible as well, and I respect- ows and children of WW1 vets who died soon after the end of the first World fully suggest that you interest them as of nonservice-connected disabilities. War, and in the early years was one of well in the Contest by making a copy of The action of the Committee in effect the strongest supporters of a hospital the magazine available to them. Extra also tables H. R. 5894, an identical bill. and compensation system to care for copies of the magazine (15 cents each) The Committee also turned thumbs those in need. Working in the ranks of and the Puzzle may be secured by con- down on a bill (H. R. 4947) for a $72 a The American Legion, she was instru- tacting James F. Barton, American month old age pension. The refusal of mental in organizing the Department of Legion Headquarters, Publications Di- the Committee to send the old age pen- Italy, where she resided for some years, vision, Indianapolis, Indiana. sion bill to the floor of the House for and served as Commander of that De- Although I am ineligible, as are all action, killed that measure. The bill partment from 1927 to 1931. During that National officers and employees of The for widows and orphans was tabled, and same period and until 1946 she repre- American Legion, to win any of the may be brought up for later considera- sented the Legion of Italy as a member prizes totaling $30,000, I have tried the tion. of the National Executive Committee— contest. It is fun. You have a chance to At the same session the Veterans' a long tenure of 19 years. win one of the awards, including the top Affairs Committee approved two Le- Testifying to her enduring devotion prize of $10,000. In addition, YOU can gion-supported bills: H. R. 5891, to to sick and disabled veterans, she left join with me in sending along your en- grant a two-year presumption for psy- her considerable estate in trust to con- try fee, the proceeds from which will be chosis, and H. R. 5893, to earmark an- tinue her work. The will, made several used to enrich the funds for our welfare other $125,000,000 to the VA to make years ago, provides for a trust fund for and service programs. YOU may submit direct housing loans to veterans. her sister, Miss Woodruff, and a part to as many as 27 different solutions to the trustees "for investing and re-investing Puzzle on the basis of three versions for Honors for Legion Founder for the benefit of disabled war veterans, $1.00 -or a total of 27 for $9.00. to be administered in conjunction with I have returned my entry fee with a Two Department of Washington the activities of The American Legion blank Puzzle. Won't you please join me, Legion Posts - Seattle Post No. 1, Seat- as near as possible." The principal of but please work out your Puzzles, using tle, and Alfred William Leach Post No. the trust to Miss Woodruff passes to care and deliberation? Besides having 3, Olympia — turned out in early Janu- the disabled veterans fund on her death. fun, you can help us help a veteran; and ary to do honor to Supreme Court Jus- Trustees named in the will are Past YOU may win one of those fine prizes. tice Walter B. Beale, who had just National Commander Edward E. Spaf- With all good wishes. retired after serving 24 years on the ford, who died some years ago; Past Yours for the Legion, Supreme Court bench. An active mem- National Commander Hanford Mac- DONALD R. WILSON ber of the Paris Caucus in March, 1919, Nider, Mason City, Iowa; Charles Mills, National Commander Justice Beale became a charter member Miami, Florida, and Norman L. Marks, of Elmer J. Noble Post No. 1 (now New York City. Legion Medal for Carlsen Seattle Post No. 1) on his return to the Funeral services were held on Mon- homeland. When the Olympia Post The Robert L. Hague Merchaat Ma- day, January 28, at Newark, New Jer- planned to honor Justice Beale, members rine Industries Post, Port of New York, sey, and interment was made in Mount of his original Legion unit made the has awarded a Legion Hero Medal to Pleasant Cemetery, near that city. 65-mile trek in winter weather to join Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen for his in. Legionnaire Beale was presented a bravery and seamanship in staying with gold Life Membership card by the Olym- his ship, the Flying Enterprise. Cita- pia Post, in which he now holds mem- NEW BOOKLET TELLS ALL tions were also awarded to the masters bership. Eight of the nine Washington and crews of the rescue ships. Though ABOUT JUNIOR BASEBALL Supreme Court Justices were present at the Flying Enterprise finally lost, Cap- the meeting, the ninth wired regrets Getting ready for the greatest sand- tain Carlsen's heroic one-man fight to from California. lot season in the 26 years of its sponsor- save his ship attracted world attention ship of Junior Baseball, The American and brought him many honors from sev- Legion and its local Posts are using the eral countries. Ritual Team Organized winter to organize new teams months Carson City (Michigan) Post No. 380 and enlarge the general program. has organized and fully equipped a new 1952 American Legion Junior AIDE ij A PAUL LACKEY NAMED Legion ritual team of 22 members Baseball Guide has been issued from to ii TO NATIONAL COMMANDER pledged operate as a group for serv- National Headquarters and is being dis- j ice to the Post and community in as- tributed to Departments and Posts. This ]i Paul Lackey, Indianapolis, who ]> semblies and ceremonies of a public year the title is "Play American Legion i| served as aide to National Com- s nature. The Post has been called upon Junior Baseball." In snappy new for- will accompany the Commander in ? ]i his travels over the country. Lackey ? necessary. The new booklet has 42 pages and 50 < I succeeds W. Walter Neeley, Clarks- illustrations. Nine devoted to \ pages are '', burg, West Yirginia, who has been X Junior Baseball rules, and it is jam- Life Membership Awarded !; promoted to National Convention Z packed with information about Junior \\ Director, and whose time will be Z Campbell County Post No. 42, Gillette, Baseball and how to run a team and £ given to preparing for the 34th Na- > Wyoming, honored Dr. E. S. Werntz, Past tourney. The Guide is sparked by a fore- s tional Convention in New York City, > Commander, by awarding him a Life word by National Commander Donald I August 24-28. Membership for distinguished service R. Wilson. over long years.

34 • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 .

J. Gallagher, Secy., 402 Wood St., Burlington. N. J. OUTFIT REUNIONS 726th Railway Operating Bn.—4th annual re- COMRADES IN DISTRESS union, St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 19-21; Claridge Hotel. Info from Bob Marker, 1632 N. Main St., De- catur, 111. Railway 1st (Red One) Infantry Div.-34th annual re- 732nd Operating Bn.—Reunion Troop E, Horse Cavalry, Fort Riley, 1945— planned, Chicago, 111., April 26-27; union, Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 5-7; Ambassador Congress Need to hear from McMaster, Cpl. Cook, Cpl. Hotel. Info and reservations from Hotel. Write William A. Kromm, Box 1529, John Danos, Schmidt, Sgt. Rodriquez, Lt. Bush for assistance 7548 S. Halsted St.. Chicago, 111. Philadelphia 5, Pa. in establishing claim. James H. Ross, 711 North Div.— reunion, Co. K, 8th Infantry, 4th Div., (WW2)-Re- 2nd (Indian Head) Infantry 31st Madison St., Muncie, Ind. union at Philadelphia, July 4-5. Write San Antonio, Texas, July 24-26. Contact Robert Adam E. Gieves, France, Hospital, (WW1), and Co. H, Hertel. Box 481, Daisytown, Pa. C. Barr, National President, 116 N. 3rd St., 34th Engineers— Need to locate Capt. G. A. Field- Co. B, 142nd Infantry, 36th Div. (Also 1st Camden 2. N. J. ing, medico, who treated me during 9 months in Div.— an- Okla. Inf., WW1)—Annual reunion, Chandler, 2nd (Hell on Wheels) Armored 2nd hospital for leg injury received in railroad crane 1952. Contact Okla.. June 7-8. Write Bill Brown, Secy., P.O. nual reunion. New York City, May, accident early 1918. Help required to establish Wheels, 252, Box 7, Chandler, Okla. H. J. Levy, Secy., Hell on APO claim for loss of left leg. Louis Starbecker, 12 S. Y. 14th Engineers Vet. Assn.— Reunion and din- Mamaroneck, N. Andover Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. 4th (Ivy) Infantry Div. Assn.— Reunion, New ner. Boston, Mass., March 22; Hotel Lenox. Res- U. S. Navy, 224J, U.N.I. Co. 1, X216-Will ship- 7-9; Hotel Statler. Write Joseph ervations from Commander Harold C. Chase, 9 York City. Aug. mates on this cargo ship, April to October, 1945, 2179 Washington Ave., New York 57. Greenwood Ave., Hyde Park 36, Mass., or Michael Summa, please write. Statements needed for compensa- 4th (Breakthrough) Armored Div. Assn.— 6th J. Berine, 5 Benson St., Brighton 35, Mass. tion claim. Alvin Gasser, (Cook 1st Class) Elgin, reunion. New York City, June 19-21; 390th AAA AW SP Bn. (WW2)-5th annual annual Illinois. Hotel Statler. Address 4th Armored Div. Assn., reunion, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 14-16. Info from USS Marine Lynx— Will men aboard this ship P.O. Box 247, Madison Square Sta., New York Charles E. Skinner, Gen. Chairman, 4416 N. on maiden voyage, Nov. 1946, Vancouver to Far 10, N. Y. Ashland Ave., Chicago 40, 111. East, please write. Statements needed. Duane 6th (Red Star) Infantry Div. Assn.— Reunion, Co. C, 746th Railway Operating Bn.— Reunion, Newhart, 2015 East Bay Drive, Olympia, Wash. Chicago, 111.. July 31-Aug. 2. Write Kenneth C. Hot Springs, Ark.. June 26-28; Majestic Hotel. H. S. Co., 487th Engineers—Urgently need to Barr, Washington St., Chicago, 111. Info from Elton M. Taylor. Chairman, 1105 Pop- 77 W. par- 8th (Thundering Herd) Armored Div. Assn. lar St.. Pine Bluff, Ark. contact men who served with me in 1944, —3rd annual reunion. New York City, July 4-6; 119th FA Vet. Assn.—Reunion, Lansing, Mich., ticularly overseas. Statements needed. Bill Law- Hotel Astor. Write Henry Rothenberg, Natl. April 20. Write Herbert Lundberg, Secy., 133 E. rence, Pindall, Ark. Co. F, 116th Infantry— Will who re- Pres., Suite 1008. 33 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. Barnes, Lansing 10, Mich. anyone in 10th (Tiger) Armored Div. et. Assn.— 10th an- Battery F, 63rd Art. (CAC), WWl-33rd an- members Paul S. Powell being hospitalized niversary reunion. New York City, Aug. 30-Sept. nual reunion, Tacoma, Wash., March 22; Win- 1942-43 for jaundice while stationed in England, I. Info from J. Edwin Grace, Secy., 172 Larch throp Hotel. Write Ten Van Fossen, Bank of please write. Need statements to complete claim. Rd.. Cambridge 38, Mass. California, Tacoma 1, or Jim Copeland, 1112 So. Mrs. Lola Powell, Colchester, 111. 12th (Hellcat) Armored Div. Assn.— 6th an- 23rd, Tacoma 3, Wash. Co. M, 8th Infantry— Need to hear from men nual reunion, Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 22-24; 52nd NCB (Seabees) —Reunion, New Orleans, who returned from Philippines in Aug. 1917, Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Write William W. Hawkins, La., Aug. 1-3; Jung Hotel. For details write J. J. or men of 3rd Co., 164th DB at Camp Funston, Exec. Secy., 1086 Geneva Ave., Columbus 8, Ohio. (Dutch) Haeuser, Secy., 1922 Alvar St., New Sept. 1917, to Aug. 1918. Also men of Hdqrs. 28th () Infantry Div. (Both WWs) Orleans, La. Det., Camp Pike, Ark., Jan. to June 1919. Claim —Reunion, State College, Pa.. July 2-6. For reser- 601st Ord. Bn.— Reunion, Waterloo, Iowa, pending. Neri James Dakan, 1804 E. 83rd Terr., vations write Mrs. Jean Grove. Secy. Housing March 29-30. Info from Dick Street, 404 Com- Kansas City 5, Mo. Committee, 312 Ridge Ave., State College, Pa., or mercial Bldg., Waterloo, Iowa. MG Co., 305th Infantry, (WWl)-Will anyone Bill Stine, Adjutant Post 24, American Legion, 155th Infantry Regt., 31st (Dixie) Div.-Re- who remembers me please write. Need statements Box 474, State College, Pa. union planned in May. Write John K. Garty, 1913 to complete claim. Jeff D. Weatherford, Rt. 2, 30th (Old Hickory) Infantry Div. Assn.-6th Wynnewood Rd., Philadelphia 31. Pa. Mena, Ark. annual reunion. New York City, July 1-3. Write Co. B, 9th Armored Inf. Bn.—Reunion, Green- R. & M. Co., 4th Signal Bn. *Operation Moun- John P. Carbin, Exec. Secy., P.O. Box B, Bergen ville, S. C, July 26-27. Write A. C. (Ted) tain Goat, Korea— Will anyone kno>"\ng Albert Sta., Jersey City, N. J. Campbell, 701 Bornie St., Greenville, S. C. C. Cole, who injured his knee in this operation, 75th Infantry Div. Vet. Assn.—Reunion, Chi- USS Essex— Reunion, New York City, July 5. please write; especially Capt. Robert Hensley, Lt. write 13 St., cago, 111., Aug. 15-17. LaSalle Hotel. Info from For details John Giganti. Mott Charles S. Moody, SFC James B. Rhody. Ad- Frank A. Hlavacek, Secy.. Room 302, 809 W. White Plains, N. Y. dress J. P. Beveridge, Veterans Service Officer, S. Engineers re- Madison St., Chicago 7, 111. 4th U. (WWl)-32nd annual Room 20, Dickey Bldg., North Platte, Neb. 80th (Blue Ridge) Infantry Div. Vet. Assn. union, Portland, Oregon, March 8; Multnomah Co. F, 103rd Infantry—Need statements to —Reunion, York. Pa., July 31-Aug. 3; Yorktowne Hotel. Info from W. B. Nagel, 115 City Hall, complete claim; will Capt. Ray Brown, (Louis- Portland. Oregon. Hotel. Info from Luther W. Smith, Chairman, ville, Ky. ), Pvt. Harry Mourer, (Reading, Pa.) York, Pa., or Harry F. Collette, Res. Secy., 302 13th FA Obsn. Bn.—Reunion, New York City, or anyone who remembers me please write. Cle- 31. Info from Gibb, 1350 Ogden Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. May Wallace tus J. Haberstroh, 557 Union St., Columbia, Pa. 82nd (All American) Airborne Div.— 6th annual Ave.. New York 52, N. Y. 29th Navy Construction Bn., (Seabees)—Will 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group—2nd reunion. Chicago, 111., July 4-6; Hotel Sherman. Dr. Kelly, probably now in Minnesota, please reunion, October 10-12, Contact Chester W. Novak, Secy.. 6619 S. Stewart biennial Cincinnati, Ohio, write, or anyone who remembers eye injury suf- Write Harold Walters, 1105 South Main Ave., Chicago 21. 111. 1952. J. fered in August, 1943, at base in Northern Ire- 83rd St., Middletown, Ohio. (Thunderbolt) Infantry Div. Assn.— An- land. Cullen L. Wood, RFD 2, Milledgeville, Ga. dance at nual reunion, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21-23; Desh- 186th FA Assn., (WW2) -1st annual U. S. Coast Guard, Alameda Training Base Flatlands Post. Nostrand Ier-Wallick Hotel. Write R. Catalano, Secy-Treas., The American Legion, —Will anyone who remembers me at this base, Ave., Brooklyn, Contact John 1435 Clark St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. N. Y., April 26. Sept. to Nov., 1942, please write. Need help for J. Kelly, 191 East St.. Brooklyn 26, N. Y. 89th (Middle West) Infantry Div., (California 31st claim. John Charles Coffey, Jr., Brentwood Vet 4th Base Postoffice— 1st annual reunion. Chi- Sector)—Dinner, Santa Ana, Cal., Apr. 9; Coffee Hospital. Bldg. 257-A1, Los Angeles 25, Cal. cago, 111., 27-29. Info Bernard N. Shop, 609 N. Main St.; 34th annual sailing an- June from 47th Infantry, 9th Div.— Need to locate Lt. Bailey. 189 Pine St., Hamburg, N. Y. niversary dinner, Los Angeles, May 24; Taix Col. Chafin, Regtl. Exec. Officer, and Major 221 Restaurant, E. Commercial. Info from Joe Rogers, Regtl. Surgeon, in North Africa and Woods, Sta., T. Adjutant, P.O. Box 7844, Devalle Sicily campaigns to obtain statements in case Los Angeles 15. Cal. of Buck Jacobs. Others who knew of his injury 102nd (Ozark) Infantry Div.— Reunion, De- THE AMERICAN LEGION please write A. H. Gerrans, Service Officer, P.O. troit, Mich., July 25-27; Fort Shelby Hotel. Write Box 461, Kinston, N. C. Reade S. Pierce, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Chairman, 220 S. Thayer St., G, 349th Infantry, 88th Div.-Urgently Ann Arbor. Mich. Co. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA need statements for claim; will men who re- CASU 38-Reunion, Nashville, Tenn.. March DECEMBER 31, 1951 member me with outfit in Italy in 1944 please 21-23. Contact L. M. Steele. 427 E. Ferguson, write, particularly Lt. Frederick Cummings, pla- Tyler, Texas, or Granville Peets, 104<32 Occidental ASSETS toon leader. Warren W. Herston, Rt. 1, Killen, Ave.. Seattle 88. Wash. Cash on hand and on deposit $ 835,093.86 Iceland—All hands, reunion at Philadelphia, Alabama. Receivables 190,020.22 Retraining Command, USMC, Peary, Pa., March 28-30; Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Info Camp Inventories 473,622.34 1944-45; Battery E, from Dave Zinkoff, Chairman, 5211 Girard Ave., Va., 1945-46; NAD, Oahu, Invested Funds 469,482.11 Bn., 10th Marines, 1942-44—Will anyone who Philadelphia 31, Pa. 2nd USS Leviathan Vet. Assn., (WWl)-Annual Permanent Trusts: remembers me and knew of my back trouble Overseas Graves Decoration write, particularly Lt. Nelson, Battery E. reunion dinner, all hands. New York City, April please Trust 255,977.43 for claim. 26; Dunhalls Restaurant, 40th St. and Broadway. Fund $ Statements needed Kenneth G. Ebey, Reservations from R. L. Hedlander, Box 22, Employees' Retirement Rt. 4, Box 239-A. McHenry, 111. Greenwich. Conn. Trust Fund 1,231,731.37 1,487,708.80 743rd Med. Bn., .and 919th Engineers—Will Airfield Chemical Warfare Service Vet. Assn.—Reunion Real Estate, less depreciation... 917,230.13 Capt. Kelley, Base Surgeon, at Weis- Chas. Lindgren, dinner all CWS vets., New York City, April 17. Furniture and Fixtures, less baden, Germany; and Sgt. A. Contact George W. Nichols, Secy-Treas., RFD depreciation 309,088.84 Sgt. John A. Monroe and Pvt. Francis Wallace, 4, Box 425A, Kingston, N. Y., also for info on Deferred Charges 50,857.16 919th Engineers, please write. Statements needed. regional meets. Gordon J. Pendley, New Boston, Texas. $4,723.103.46 Battery C, 217th CA (AA), (Btry B, 494th 1st Armored Division— Need information on AAA Bn.)—7th annual reunion, Alexandria, Pvt. Robert H. Brooks who was killed near Fort Minn., June 14. Info from Lyle B. Anderson, LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE Stotsenburg, Philippines, on December 8, 1941. 424 3rd St., Sauk Center. Minn. Write Robert A. Dennison, Jr., Robert H. Brooks 5th and 6th Field Signal Bus., (WW1) -Re- AND NET WORTH Post No. 165, The American Legion, 340 Bloom Current Liabilities $ 229,203.44 union, Leavenworth, Kans., July 4-6; National St., Baltimore 17, Md. restricted as to 116,676.40 Hotel. Write Charles G. Bowen. 8420 Northcote Funds use USS Santee (CVE29) -Urgently need to locate Ave., Munster, Indiana. Deferred Income 1,982,508.69 Dr. J. W. Budd and Dr. D. L. Gamble who 335th Infantry, (WWl)-Reunion, Kearney, Permanent Trusts: treated me aboard ship in 1945. Statements Neb., Sept. 13-14. Write C. W. Hill, Box 495, Overseas Graves Decoration needed. Conrad J. B. Hardy, (Lt. jg.), 70« West Kearney, Neb. Trust $ 255,977.43 29th St., Pine Bluff, Ark. 1896th Engineer Aviation Bn.—Reunion, Cin- Employees' Retirement 749th Bombardment Sqdrn., England—Will cinnati, Ohio, April 25-27, 1952. Write Lester A. Trust 1,237,038.99 1 ,493,016.42 Major John B. Roberts, Capt. Richard Crowe Sealey, 14 High St., Natick, Mass. Net Worth: and Capt. L. R. Barber please write. Statements 555th (Red Devil) Bomb Squadron (M)-4th Restricted Capital: needed for claim. Manuel Madeiros, (Cpl.), 106 I. annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, May 30-June 1. Reserve Fund . . . 23,464.13 Park Holm, Newport, R. Battery A, 586th Will anyone who re- All personnel. Info from Charles W. Duncil, Restricted Fund . . 17,939.98 AAA— Secy-Treas., Peacock Park, Fairmont, W. Va. Reserve for construction members me at Camp Bowie, Texas, in Novem- ber, please write. Statements needed. Virgil USS ESTES—3rd annual reunion, Washington, Wash, office . . . 780,294.40 1944, Gauthier, Pascoag. R. I. D. C, April 11-13. Details from Andrew T. Fer- Real Estate . . . 80,000.00 901.698.51 M. Box 634, Co., Sandy Hook, N. J.-Urgently guson, Jr., 2450 Montrose St., Philadelphia 46. $4,723.103.46 2nd CAC, served with in 1918; 258th Engineer (C) Bn.—Annual reunion, Pitta, need to contact men who me burgh, Pa., March 21-23. Full details from Philip (Continued on page 36) The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 35 WARNS AGAINST REPORT ly red tape and bog down claim pro- cedure. (Continued from page 33) MISSING IN KOREA It has always been hard to believe he received, from a high official of the that sincere citizens should attempt to leading Hoover report pressure group, block calm examination of these dan- This is a new column set apart for a copy of a printed broadside attacking gerous possibilities, and Senator Mc- printing requests for information about him, and with it a personal note saying: Clellan has made it clear that responsi- service personnel lost or missing in the "This should teach you a well-needed ble citizens have done so only because Korean conflict. Its use will be strictly lesson." they have been misinformed by sources limited to that area and to those lost or Senator McClellan is the Senate's they had every right to believe. missing as a result of military action. leading specialist in the broad field cov- The limitation of space will not permit ered by the Hoover report (manage- KOREAN WAR DEAD RETURNED expansion to include inquiries for other ment of Government agencies). He is a "missing persons," or for the purpose of former member of the Hoover Commis- THROUGH PORT OF NEW YORK renewing social contacts with old service is a leading proponent of realis- comrades. sion. He Up until January 30, a total of 8,601 administration tic improvements in the war dead from the Korean theatre had Co. A, 38th Infantry. 2nd Div.-Will comradej of our government. of Pfc. Harold E. Beard, missing in action at been returned to the homeland through Hoensong, Feb. 12, 1951, please write his mother. Certainly his warnings will give the Port of New York. In every instance Mrs. Harold E. Beard. Sr.. 205 Ruth Ave., Han- pause to the more thoughtful members over, Pa. Legion honors were rendered by the Co. A, 7th Cavalry Regt., 1st Cavalry Div.- American organiza- of many legitimate New York County Graves Registration Will men who know anything about Pfc. Peter tions that have been too trustingly mis- E. Peterson II, reported missing in action since Committee. Each ship has been met by Nov. 6, please write his mother. Mrs. Florence that is opposite to led into a position Chairman William H. Mclntyre, Past Peterson, 6406 La Mirada Ave., Hollywood 38, sound lawmaking practices. Cal. Commander of Metropolitan Post No. Co. B, 38th Infantry, 2nd Div.-Will anyone American Legion, an opponent of The 385, and members of the Committee who knows anything about Pfc. Lawrence A. record of several of the Hoover pro- Smith please write his wife. He was reported under his direction. missing in action May 18, 1951, and killed in ac- affect veterans, endorses the posals that In addition to arranging for and par- tion. May 17, 1951; last seen near town of Pan- careful study that Senator McClellan megi-ri. Mrs. Doris E. Smith, 323 Buchanan ticipating in the services on the arrival Ave.. Kalamazoo, Mich. urges, and offers views that are worthy Div. of the bodies, the Committee is called Co. L, 23rd Infantry, (1st Platoon), 2nd of the most serious study. Pfc. Raymond Reed, reported missing and pre- upon to assist relatives who are present, sumably captured. Any information about him would be in the highest tradition of It and help out in the details of transpor- will be appreciated by his mother. Mrs. H. Reed, true citizenship if attempts to block 56 Fairfax St.. Winona, Minn. tation. Chairman Mclntyre sends a let- Hdqrs. Co., 3rd Bn.. 23rd Infantry— Parents of such study were to cease, so that the ter to the next of kin of the service dead Pvt. Norman L. Rash would like to hear from public interest could profit from a de- service comrades who know of the circumstances when the body reaches port, proffering of his death, reported killed at Hangye, South weighing of the opinions of those cent the assistance ef the New York County Korea, May 18, 1951. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Rask, who are specialists in many different Route 3. Vermillion. S. Dak. Organization. He also gives the name Co. K. 34th Infantry— Parents of Pfc. Richard areas covered by the Hoover report. 19, and location of the nearest Legion Post T. Reese, reported missing in action Aug. 1950, also unofficially reported killed, desire to Corruption Invited to the place of final burial, and, if neces- hear from service comrades about incidents lead- sary, arranges for Post participation ing to his disappearance. Also, would like to obtain picture of their son in uniform, or with calls atten- The Legion, for instance, in the final rites. unit;—some comrade may have snapped such a tion to dangers in the Hoover proposal The return of World War II dead shot. Mr. and Mrs. William Reese, 723 Madison Service, which Ave., Lima, Ohio. for revamping the Civil program has been completed. In his final Co. D, 21st Infantry. 24th Div.-Will anyone has already passed the Senate. This bill, report for the Committee, Chairman who knew Pfc. Amos Scott, reported missing in action since July 1950, or know the circum- offers the widest 5, among other things, Mclntyre stated that the 78 ships stances of his capture, please write his parents. latitude to separate departments and into the Port of New York car- Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Scott, Rose Hill. Va. brought Battery B, 57th FA, 7th Div. - Will service the govern- even smaller divisions of ried approximately 124,000 war dead. comrades please write anything they may know ment to hire and fire government em- Chairman, he personally met every about my son, Pfc. Kenneth R. White, reported As missing in action at Hageru-ri, North Korea, pretty much as they please. ployes ship, and participated in the services on Dec. 6, 1950. Roy White, P.O. Box 327, Warren, The language of the Hoover Civil arrival. Illinois. Service bill says that this would be a fine improvement. COMRADES IN DISTRESS people 1 Legion believes that the ! The JAYCEES HONOR WILSON AS (Continued from page 35) of the United States are entitled to require help to service-connect claim. Leonard facts, instead of promises, to show that ONE OF 10 TOP YOUNG MEN Le Ackley, P.O. Box 101, Oneida, N. Y. Meniere's Disease— Would like to hear from the bill would not actually invite the National Commander Donald R. others who are afflicted with this disease, for government jobs worst spoils system in Wilson of The American Legion, purpose of comparing notes on diagnoses and to assist in getting service-connection on claim in our history. It weakens Federal con- States was selected by the United now pending. Arvel Lawrence, 301 S. Elm St., trol of Government jobs to a point not Junior Chamber of Commerce as Sapulpa, Okla. unlike the conditions that held in the one of the ten outstanding young 824th Signal Fixed Repair Service-Need to locate or secure addresses of the following men, corrupt 1880s, in a new age when cor- men of America in 1951. Commander this outfit, Lt. O'Brien, Lt. Jenkins, Pvt. Michael nine others (or Mike) Cade or Cady. Send information to ruption is still with us and when bil- Wilson, along with the Forrest E. Everhart, Ofncer-in-Charge, Veterans so honored, was awarded his cita- lions of dollars more are available for Administration, 411 Center St., Ironton, Ohio. a banquet held at Dayton, patronage and favoritism. tion at 3rd Corps Signal Bn.—Need to contact Corps- Ohio, on January 19. man Semione. who treated my arm on Guadal- The Hoover Civil Service bill also canal. He will remember me as motor transport The ten young men, all under 35 dispatcher, L. F. Coon, Box 96, Keosau- claims that it would improve USMC, contains years of age, were selected for the qua, Iowa. veterans preference in government jobs. annual Jaycee designation by a dis- Quartermaster Corps, Fort Totten, N. Y., (WW1)—Urgently need to locate men who served Legion offers for study the view board of judges whose The tinguished with Ward Collier and know of his marriage to that, inasmuch as the bill permits agen- members were all over 35. Emily Perrson in December, 1918, please write. ignore the conditions on which Commander Wilson was cited for Particularly need to locate Tom Harlan and Joe cies to Busch, formerly Roxbury, Widow need proof leadership in veterans' Pa. enforcement of veterans preference "outstanding of marriage to substantiate pension claim. Write affairs and in his chosen profession Mrs. Ward Collier, 732 W. American St., Free- rests, it would entirely destroy veterans > of law." Singled out for special men- port. 111. preference as fact of enforceable law. 23rd Bn., Ft. Warren, Wyo. and Ft. Mason; a J preparing a QM tion was his work in 1st Replacement Depot, Ft. Ord. Cal., and Cana- others ? Legion specialists and many memorandum on "legal aspects of stel, Africa—Need statements for claim, particu- larly Chester Zezula. Stanfield, Dale Klone, Ed have also warned that the several \ public safety regulations and con- Riemer, Lt. Robert Snyder, Capt. Montgomery Hoover proposals to break up the Vet- 2 trol measures affecting the handling and others who served with me. Cleo C. Corley. transportation of ammonium Jr., 1526 Williams St., Denver. Colo. erans Administration are apt to do far \ and nitrate" following the ammonium C 5-2, FARTC, Fort Bragg. N. C.-Need to more harm than good, to cost far more, i hear from Maxie Felter, Ford, King, Johnson, nitrate explosions at Texas City, Louis, Gregory, Rogers, Evans, to result in worse service to veterans, \ Kriz. Harri, Texas. Little, Ledino, Wilson, Kruntz, Felton, Lewis, to require more paper work and more i and others who knew me. Statements needed. government employes, manufacture cost- J Fred L. Foster, Route 2, Buford, Ga.

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23 It is wiser to dismiss than to rely on it. City -Zone State- 27 Discontented workers often tend to be 29 A wise man will tread slowly on finding that his reputation has American Legion Post No. unaccountably 31 The severing State—abb rev. 1 j excited ' c 32 Women appear more easily than men by E P K t o °un 34 In contact with. m n p A 38 A prisoner sometimes has to work hard for his - H K A 39 scoundrel often turns a woman's head with — of lies. A p i M H T m K t c "a " i 1 DOWN c M C u i u Handy for a true barbecue. c "c "y KA "R S F 0 A o l\ T Li Concerning. A "r "p A The more sophisticated a man, the more he is about woman's R M Wm D HIHi WB r M fickleness. 13 D I P 1 l\ L L u Unless you are jittery, a should not frighten you, even on a dark, dreary night. "e L s L fl fl After marriage, women often discover that their husbands are not Id as as they seemed. S m 1 N O E Nl T Young career girls are apt to dislike men who strive to be to A E D N fl with them. B 9 Exist. V T O "o K S fl A 34 10 A woman who - a man into marrying her often regrets it. "R M 12 We are apt to be irritated by people who find our amusing. uua B A 14 The fact that it is an often intends to mislead us as to its true value. M R D N S E P 16 Make ill. 7 19 A true gentleman is apt to prefer a young lady for a wife. E P R E 's s H 20 Sometimes it may take daring and courage to break a . i • R A o 25 Today, more than ever, a university is cautious with its . 10 26 Gourmets highly seasoned food to insure good eating. H T R 1 M E B H 27 Tie jumbled. ii 13 14

28 A town in France taken by the Germans in 1914 and retaken by the E A E D 1 u French in 1918. "R S E S A "s K "Y M L 29 the people. fl 10 30 Often has deceptive innocent appearance. R m A "B m '> A 33 Obiter dictum—abbrev. 31 13 1 R L L U R 35 Border state—abbrev. m M O 36 Born in San Francisco. E L S N 11 'N 30 to A E D N B B fl How Common Sense Solved These Sample Clues N V T O "o K S A M u 3d "R Carefully study the reasoning applied in answering these sample questions. By o B M applying the same type of sound logic, your common sense can help you obtain A R D N S B E P a prize-winning solution to the contest puzzle. Don't rush your first Impulse may — j i 4 be wrong—think out all possible answers to each question before deciding on E P R E s fl H the one correct answer. If doubts remain send in additional sets of solutions. t R A O THE CLUE: THE CLUE: H T R i M E fl ii When he has been unduly harsh, a sensi- A school-boy who makes the most E A E D 'l U

tive, thoughtful person usually soon . of his usually is ac- R S E S A "s K "Y M L claimed by his fellow students, B 10 PUZZLE SPACES: R B A 'B B "P A PUZZLE SPACES: 31 13 1 R L L U M O R R E E N T • 14 E L S B L B N 17 Let's see how common sense reasoning can be S 1 N o E T used to solve this clue. The obvious choice here is The word BRAIN seems to be correct on first between REPENTS and RELENTS. to A E D N fl REPENT signifies a mental action of regret inspection. But stop to consider, and you B J 31 u taken after an act has occurred. To RELENT, realize there is another possible solution— "N V T O o K A on the other hand, is to relax severity by some LI BRAWN. If you will recall who received Jo immediate positive action. Since the words the greatest acclaim from fellow schoolmates "O 'R M usually soon in the clue imply that the action J —the captain of the algebra team or the cap- 31 has already taken place, it's now too late to A R D N S E P tain of the football team—you will understand B RELENT and the only course left for a sen- sitive, thoughlul, nerson is regret and repen- why BRAWN is the one, logical, common tence. The logical, common sense answer sense answer. The letter "W" should be CUT ALONG DOTTED LINE therefore must be REPENT. placed in the blank space. .

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with the power in the bowed rod doing rods are practically without wrappings back and above in a smooth-turning most of the work, with only wrist- except those that hold the guides. So loop, and pack in enough power from power and some forearm motion needed the number of wrappings is no sign to- the pull of the line weight as it loops to do the job. day that the rod is high class. back to shoot the line into the forward The lines used on the bait-casting rig Fly rods range in length from cob- cast. Action, its liveness and where it are also an American development. The webby little 6-footers that weigh less occurs "in the rod" are the important expert may prefer the soft-braided silk than 3 ounces, to those more than 10 considerations. line, but for average fishing hard-braided feet long used for fly-fishing in eastern Action is the thing to look for after silk or its equivalent in longer-wearing salmon waters and for the steelhead type you've checked the make of the rod, its nylon, will fit in with the average out- of big rainbow trout on the west coast. fittings and how it feels just held in fit. A line with 18-pound test is a good your hand. A former test of action was all-around size. Drying silk line after to hold the butt of the rod tight on

use is a "must," and although nylon will some flat surface, like a store counter, stand up against rot, you'll get better and flip the end of the rod to see how service from it if you give it usual care. long it would vibrate. That may show When you get into fly fishing, fitting something, but a better way is to hold of your tackle assembly to the type of the rod and whip it. You get the feel of fishing to be done becomes even more it and see the liveness of the bowing, by exacting. Any fishing rod has two major moderately swishing it back and forth, fly, bait or spinning functions. One is horizontally or above your shoulder. to supply the power packed into it in The single-action reel, the one which the "back cast" before you push it into usually has the handle attached to the the forward motion to throw out the spool plate, one turn of the spool to one lure, and the other is bending as it takes revolution of the handle, is the old up shock and drag caused by the fight- standard for fly fishing. It is strictly a ing fish. convenience for storing line that is not The essential difference between the out and in action as a cast is made or shorter, stiffer bait rod and the longer, a fish played. Two points should be slimmer fly rod, lies in what "springs" checked in selecting one of these reels:

the rod to put the bow-power in it, as a relatively narrow spool isn't so likely you cast. In bait casting, the relatively to let line snarl around it, and the handle heavy lure is close to the tip of the rod, should be smooth-curved from base to and that weight, as you sweep the rod rounded outer end so line will slip off ". . . give it a squeeze . . . and the fine back over your shoulder, pulls the rod mist-like spray covers the entire under- if it flops over the handle. ." into an arc before you start your for- arm area . . The purist will insist that the single- ward cast — like kids pitch cull apples AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE action reel is the only type to use in or potatoes with a limber stick. In bait fly fishing, but the automatic, which casting, the weight of the hire makes the will take up excess line by spring ten- power-bend in the rod. 9i/ sion within the barrel by merely press- The 9 or 2 foot trout rod was fairly In fly casting you don't throw the standard some years ago, but there has ing the trigger with your finger, is a affair. a fly; there's no weight in those delicate been a recent trend toward 8 and 8'/£ mighty handy You can play lures to put any power-pull into the rod. footers. One reason may be that the fish with the rod held in your right use left for "stripping" line What you actually cast in fishing is the average trout taken is not so large as hand, your heavier, enameled line, which carries formerly, but a better explanation is you bring in, and the automatic, with out the little fly as the cast is forward. that today rod makers, working with a little trigger pressure will take up that That means you must have enough line, better design and methods, have put all loose line so you'll not get tangled. You of sufficient weight, out beyond the tip the whip, action and stamina in the can get surplus line into reel-storage on of the rod to supply the pull on the shorter rods that was found in longer an automatic, faster than the one-turn- back-cast so the rod will be bent to de- ones of the past. twist of a single-action reel, no matter liver its bow-power into the forward If you are fishing larger waters, for how fast you turn it. pitch. heavier fish, the longer, heavier rod fits You should "balance" your weight of Very good fly rods of tubular steel those needs, but just on the average, if fly-casting line with the action of the and glass are on the market, and they you want one rod that will meet most rod. Remember that there must be are long jumps ahead of any rods of conditions and fight average-size fish, the enough weight in the fine beyond the tip to "spring" the rod, but not too earlier days. But nobody has quite 8 1/2 footer is a good, all-around rod. matched the "feel" and performance of While you can take pride in a rod cost- much weight there. An over-heavy line the modern bamboo fly rod. One most ing from $50 up, a well-selected rod, for your rod will make the action slug- recent improvement in the bamboo rod made by a reliable concern, in the me- gish; a line without enough weight will has been practically welding the strips dium price range will come very close not develop the full bow-power of the together with heat-treated plastic glue to delivering all you can get out of more rod. Most manufacturers indicate the that is waterproof. Formerly animal costly rods. If you don't soak all your size of enameled line best suited to the glue was used, and if the protective rod money in one, you may have action of their rods, but if this isn't varnish chipped off, moisture got into enough to move into the two-rod class, available, see if your dealer can advise the glue joints and they came apart. One and a good suggestion for the second which size of line to use. of the reasons why the quality of older one is a 71/2 footer for smaller-stream Bait casting lines are rated on the rods was judged by the number of fishing. basis of how many pounds of weight wrappings lay in the assurance these What you want from a rod is ability they will hold without breaking when wrappings gave that the rod strips to the line beyond the tip from the such weight is dropped a given number would hold together. Now the very best water when you begin a cast, throw it of inches. It's a "material failure" test.

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • Fly lines are rated on their diameter, weight of your tackle have to be modi- that go into mesh as reel handles are for that is an indication of weight of fied in relation to the size and power of turned, and rotate the spool on the line itself rather than tensile strength. the fish to be taken. retrieve.

The size of line, that is, the caliper, is The final division of fishing, and The line used is a mono-filament ny- indicated by letters of the alphabet; a tackle for it, is what we have come to lon; like a continuous nylon leader. line marked "A" with a caliper of .060 know as "spinning." That name comes Braided lines can be used, but the of an inch is heavier than a "B" line, from the English, who used this type of smooth, pliant, continuous nylon is the while "H" and "I" are about the smallest outfit for handling small spinner lures, real ticket for this reel. of practical use, "I" having a caliper of too heavy for a trout rod and not heavy The spinning rod more nearly resem- about .022 of an inch. enough for the casting outfit. bles the fly-casting type than the bait The "tapered" fly line certainly is Spinning stands somewhat between rod. It usually is near to 7 feet in length, easier casting and it has the advantage bait casting and fly fishing. The weight and there is a stiffer, snappier action to of the outer end being of less diameter of lures is not so heavy as the plugs, handle the lures with their somewhat and not so easily seen by fish. It costs spoons and spinner-type lures of the greater weight than flies. So far, prac- more than the "level" enameled line. A bait-casting group, not so light as flies tically all of the rods for this fishing are typical tapered line is "HDH"—meaning and the smaller streamer lures. The the standard six-strip bamboo. the ends are the diameter represented whole tackle assembly is designed to These are the tackle rigs fitted for by "H" which is the lesser thickness, put out lures that will not spring a bait- each of the types of fish to be taken in and these ends taper up to the heavier casting rod, and would overload the fresh-water sport angling, and built to "D" size which supplies the weight in trout rod. handle the lures used in each division. line to bow the rod. The "level" line is The basic element in this sort of sport With the rod, reel and line assembly the same diameter throughout. fishing is the reel. The spool is station- that goes together in each case, the fields Beginners and those who fish only ary as the cast is made. The line pays spread on into a bewildering array of occasionally may be well served with a off by unwinding over the smooth spool lures and all the refinements and further level line of suitable weight but after edge, just as you would pull thread off details of which tackle is best for which you acquire some skill in fly tackle a spool held in one hand, and the thread type of fish, in certain types of waters handling, the tapered fine will give more pulled out over the other spool end. —and the advice, discussion and argu- satisfaction. It just does a better job of Other names, perhaps more appropriate ment that can be whipped up is genu- laying the little fly where you want it than "spinning," that have been applied inely endless. without the heavier line tipping off the to this rig, are "slip-spool," and "free- If you drive up to the kitchen door fish that the whole business is a confi- line" fishing. of our mountain place some day, as the dence game. There is no spool inertia and only boys from Kansas did, we'll go into this Fly fishing is predominantly associated slight friction to overcome as lines shoot a lot more in detail. But this should help with trout, grayling, Atlantic out from this reel. Since there is salmon no in getting headed into having the right and steelheads. But those who like to twirling spool it will not "over-run" tackle rig and the first steps in learning use this type of tackle and pass up all at the end of the cast as a multiplying how to handle it, so when you hit fish- the other angling that can be enjoyed reel may do, and as a result there is no ing water the whole outfit will be al- in this division, deny themselves a lot of snarling of line in a backlash. The line most a part of you, and you can slam fun. Bass, blue-gills, crappies, and even is retrieved by one of two methods; by sometimes wall-eyes, yes, even northern a "finger" that hooks over the line above into fishing with all attention directed to pike, can be taken with rigs that fall in the reel and winds line back on the sta- getting a good catch. I hope you do! the fly-casting group. The strength and tionary spool, or by gear arrangements THE END

He Didn't Know What He Was Buying (Continued from page IS) might strike. Winning the national Goldberg, Jewish, Buzz Schulte, Ger- for the southern California crown. But championship is, by the sheer odds man, and Carl Maggio, Italian, were he did briefly meet the boys and shake against any one team, one of the tough- other regulars. hands while publicity pictures were est tasks in all baseball. Still, Lefebvre, The Crenshaw team's caliber quickly taken in his agency showroom on an ex-football and diamond pro, was shown as it raced through its local Figueroa Street just before the state couldn't spot a lineup weakness. His league with only one defeat and crushed tournament at Sacramento. team was anchored around two 16- Compton in the district play-off with "Sorry I haven't seen you play," he year-olds: pitcher Frank Layana, the 30 runs in two games. Yet the Post was apologized. "But I've just been too

6-foot- 1, 190-pound son of a Basque worried. No further word had come busy." mechanic, who threw like a young Bob from Clampett and various attempts to At Sacramento, the Crenshaw party- Feller; and Billy Consolo, "player of the see him failed. It seemed clear that the was cheered to find that Clampett had year" at third base in Los Angeles high auto tycoon had merely "taken a flier" arranged the best hotel accommodations school competition. The 180-pound to help out some youngsters, but with and taxi transportation to Edmonds Consolo is the son of Joseph and Laura no real personal interest in Legion base- Field. But the team was dealt a stagger- Consolo, who came to America from ball. "I tried to see Mr. Clampett nine ing blow when Sacramento Post 61 won Sicily. times without luck," reviews Lefebvre. the first game of the state play-off, 5-2. "Just like the DiMaggio family," "We felt that since it was his money, That put them a single game from grinned Billy. "Maybe that's a lucky he should know what we had accom- elimination. Ben Lefebvre, who had omen, coach." plished and what a swell bunch of boys been told by Clampett to take the boys Otherwise, the team represented he was backing." on a sight-seeing trip of San Francisco many lands, many faiths. Slim, blond When Crenshaw beat Latin-American at his expense, wasn't surprised by the second-baseman Joe Maguire is of Irish Post for the 4th Area championship, the players' reaction. When he entered the stock. George Anderson, shortstop, has sponsor still was absent. He remained locker room after their defeat, they Swedish blood. Catcher Bill Lachemann, a background figure while the team chorused, "No trip to Frisco! We're iron man of the team, who caught every made headlines in Los Angeles by stop- staying here for a workout." game through the season, is Swiss. Mel ping San Diego in two straight games Next morning, for three hours, Cren-

42 * The American Legion Magazine • March. 1952 shaw went through a thorough fielding Hastings provided two easy wins for shaw's rugged Bill Lachemann, a and batting drill. They were ready for Crenshaw — then a near-disaster. In the stocky, genial type known as "Fat Sacramento in the second game. Spot- first two Section D games, Post 715 shut Man" by his teammates, slammed a the northern a seventh- out Omaha, 10-0, and Billings, Montana, single to right field. Don Kenway then inning, 9-7 lead, they won, 10-9, when 6-0. That gave the boys the remarkable hammered a 345-foot double off the Consolo tripled with the bases loaded. record of three consecutive shutouts in left-field wall. Slow-footed Lachemann The third and decisive game was a national elimination play — counting the was replaced for a pinch-runner. Up 3-2 thriller in which Frank Layana's final 11-0 waxing of Tucson at Winslow came first baseman Jerry Siegert in five-hit pitching was the difference. —against 27 runs scored themselves. But one of the most crucial situations any Fred Clampett's emergence as a "hep" fighting Omaha came back in the final teen-age athlete can face. Jerry had been sponsor dates from that victory. He contest that went 1 3 frantic, crowd- in a deep slump, Jiitless in the past seven complimented each player personally. rousing innings. Crenshaw needed an- games. When he reached a three-ball, He arranged to put Charley Wilson and other dramatic base-theft by the speedy two-strike count the pressure was so Ben Lefebvre on flOO-a-week salaries Consolo and doubles by Joe Maguire intense that Ben Lefebvre couldn't bear while they were away from their Los and outfielder Don Kenway to win out to look.

Angeles jobs and on the road in the in the 13th, 3-2. "Then 1 heard a wild yell and our weeks ahead. He guaranteed all expense "I was sure then that they would be dugout went crazy," says Ben. "Jerry above what the national Legion pro- champions at Detroit," says Ben Lefe- had socked one off the first baseman's gram and sponsoring local Posts expend bvre. "We had a sick ball club, due to glove into right field. It gave us the on a traveling department champion- some bad drinking water encountered game, 1-0." ship club. "Will $500 a week cover your earlier. Yet in the pinch, they got the White Plains, N. Y., sparked by Jack incidentals?" he asked Wilson. Wilson runs we needed." Yvars, brother of the New York happily agreed that it would—and more. A gesture the boys haven't forgotten Giants' Sal Yvars, handed Crenshaw its Crenshaw's next test came August came from the manager of the defeated first defeat since the California finals 18-22 at Winslow, Arizona in the Re- Billings Post entry. Coming to Cren- in the third contest. Yvars pitched a gion 12, four-state tournament. The first shaw's dugout, he presented half a neat 3-1 victory. And professional game broke all Legion records for dozen shiny new Louisville Slugger scouts cast longing glances at Grover longevity. A combined dust storm that bats to his team's conquerors. "My Jones, husky Negro catcher for White several times halted the game, plus gang wanted you to have these," he Plains, who scored two of the runs. Crenshaw's booming bats, resulted in a said. "We hope they bring you luck." Jones later was named "player of the four-hour, 30-minute, 27-7 marathon Before the team reached Detroit for year" in Legion baseball. defeat of Tucson's Morgan McDermott the national finals, it was treated to Back home, an aroused Fred Clam- Post. Next Crenshaw cut down Farm- further Fred Clampett generosities. In pett wired: "YOU CAN STILL DO ington, Utah, 7-2, on Paul (Buzz) Arizona, chartered buses took players IT!" But to do it meant beating the Schulte's nifty five-hit pitching. Blank- to the Painted Desert and to the site same White Plains bunch in the cham- ing Tucson, 11-0 in a third game gave of a famed meteor crash. At Omaha, pionship game. Ben Lefebvre had to Crenshaw the Region championship cup they were whisked to Boys Town for make no bed-check that night. Every — presented by Governor Howard Pyle luncheon. At Detroit, President Clar- Crenshaw player was asleep by 10:30. of Arizona. ence Bleicher of the Chrysler Corpor- There was a grim attitude as the teams That night Charley Wilson phoned ation explained that Clampett had com- took the field before a scant 5000 fans Fred Clampett in Los Angeles. "Well, missioned him their "official host," and at Briggs Stadium. we're now one of the 12 best Legion rolled out the plush carpet. The team With Frank Layana overworked, teams in the country," he reported. toured the Chrysler plant and enjoyed Crenshaw had to rely on Buzz Schulte "How do you arrive at that?" asked a dinner with company executives. to do the pitching. Buzz, a quiet type, Clampett. Wilson and Lefebvre found that a is student body president and a straight As Wilson explained, he became sedan fresh off the assembly line was — "A" student at Loyola High in Los aware that the millionaire had no idea at their disposal while in the Motor Angeles. He returned to the dugout that his team was involved in a program City. Each player was provided with after the first inning with a shocked that spreads coast to coast and border "tip" and pocket money by the sponsor. look. Grover Jones had homered with to border. Wilson told him that of more It was quite a rise in fortunes for a two men on base for a 3-0 White Plains than 16,000 teams that started the sea- team which a season before didn't lead.

son, only a dozen remained to fight it know where its baseballs were coming "Don't worry," cracked cocky Billy out in the sectional and national elimi- from. Consolo. "We'll get those runs back nations ahead. Clampett was astonished As far as attendance was concerned, and some more." — and impressed. the 1951 National Championship at big- Crenshaw did, with a four-run up- "I didn't know it was that big," he league Briggs Stadium, home of the De- rising in their half of the first inning. confessed. "From now on, I'd like a troit Tigers, was disappointing. But the And went on to score seven more times wired report on every game you play. class of play was as good as any yet in six innings for an 11-7 triumph. Buzz And let me know if you need anything." seen in 25 years of the Little World Schulte was Crenshaw's particular hero. Few Legion teams have been better Series. Crenshaw Post drew Jackson- Not only did he pitch with courage, backed than Crenshaw through the final ville, Florida's De Saussure Post in its but tripled home two runs at bat. weeks of 1951. At Clampett's agencies, first game. Only 700 fans saw Frank They had made the grade. Sixteen more than 300 workers "got the fever" Layana pitch an eight-hitter, strike out Los Angeles youths who had walked 10 and single the most precarious tightrope in many and listened for radio flashes of game home two runs of a de- cisive 8-4 victory. Legion seasons were World Junior results at Hastings, Nebraska and De- Game No. 2 was a heartstopper all champions. They had shown Fred troit. As Clampett now says, "I found the way. For nine innings Cincinnati's Clampett that he had invested more out that something pretty wonderful Robert E. Bentley Post and Crenshaw wisely than he knew. was going on. Everybody in Los Ange- played tight 0-0 baseball. Bentley Post "What I did actually didn't amount les, it seemed, was rooting for our kids has had two national championship to much, but the returns are tremend- to win. Before it was over, 1 had the teams — in 1944 and 1947 — and this one ous," Clampett said recently. Business

biggest kick I've had in 30 years." almost made it three. In the 9th, Cren- associates say they never saw him more

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 43 pleased than when, at a welcome ban- ting problem. When the team reached "orphans" throughout the last season. quet for the team, Paul Helms, of the home, more than 500 fans greeted them, Fred Clampett's discovery of Legion Helms Athletic Foundation, awarded including members of the Los Angeles baseball's worth is best shown by the Clampett a plaque with the inscrip- city council. Fred Clampett arranged first full-scale television motion picture tion: "Friend of Youth — There is No a welcoming tour that ran for weeks. yet made of an American Legion team. Finer Epitaph." Seats of honor were given all hands at Financed by Clampett under the title The returns to the Crenshaw players the Hollywood Stars ball park, the Los "Thrill of a Lifetime," it recreates are as pleasing to report. At least four Angeles Rams-New York Yank pro Crenshaw Post's victory at Detroit. of them are regarded as sure-fire re- football game, the Ice Follies and Hol- Plans are being completed to distribute cipients of a big-league bonus when lywood Legion Post fights. Some 600 the film to TV stations all over the they finish high school and can sign turned out for a banquet at which country. It is considerably more than professional contracts. Seven others, Clampett presented an electric razor to advertising promotion by an automo- says Ben Lefebvre, plan to attend col- each player. He also added attractive bile dealer. lege on baseball scholarships. traveling jackets for the team's trip to You have only to look at the greying Lt. Com. Larry French believes that the World Series in October, which is business man shown standing in the the widespread publicity given the the American Legion's annual gift to Crenshaw dugout — shouting encour- colorful Crenshaw team in California its national champions. Altogether the agement to his team — to know that. will act to aid the general sponsor-get- sponsor spent $2500 on the onetime THE END

The Scientific Approach To Money Making (Continued from page 19)

Do you see any commercial possibil- water repellent, have remarkable in- Manufacturing division of the National ity in all this? Uncounted others did. sulating faculties, among other things. Lead Company in Niagara Falls, N. Y., One was the Beetle Boat Co. It found Silicone rubber, just as one example, has used zirconium carbonate as a base that reinforced plastics can be used in remains elastic in the temperature ex- for an ointment which does wonders the construction of small boats, which tremes between 60 below and 575 above against poison ivy itch. can be mass-produced all in one piece. zero. The Metal Hydrides Co. of , The boats are inexpensive — barnacles Any ideas? Mass., is now making industrial-size won't form on them and they don't re- Plenty of people have already gone sparking flints of a zirconium-lead al- quire caulking. As a matter of fact, a to town on silicones. A packet of tis- loy. half dozen companies are already in sues for cleaning eye glasses, called Hundreds of firms are using zir- the field, among them the Winner Sight Savers, has been on the market conium products in every branch of

.Manufacturing Co. of Trenton, N. J.; for quite a while. It utilizes silicones. the ceramic industry — tile, terra cotta, Cape Cod Ship Building Co. of Ware- Already, silicone water-repellent com- white ware, art pottery, sanitary ware, ham, Mass.; Wizard Manufacturing Co. pounds are being whomped up, smart dinner ware. of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Garform manufacturers having jumped into the There's money in the little white Industries of Wagner, Okla. An experi- field. And one outfit has even marketed genius called zirconium. Can you find mental storm boat, molded for the a hunk of silicone rubber as a toy — it a use for it? Army Corps of Engineers by the Win- can be stretched like a rubber band, yet Have a close look at bentonite, a clay ner firm, recently underwent a torture broken when tugged sharply; it can be which has been around for a good test at Fort Belvoir, Va. As a climax, rolled into a ball and bounced; it can many decades but has only recently the boat was zoomed out of the water be molded like clay and yet droops by come into its own as scientists lift the and onto a rocky beach at 30 miles an itself into a heap like a tired dray horse. lid off its potentialities. hour. It came through undaunted and Then there's another bright prodigy Every time you polish off a hot fudge unharmed. called zirconium, a little genius of a sundae you partake of some bentonite. Reinforced plastics are now either on metal which has flashed upon the mar- Don't be afraid — it's good for you, and an experimental or actual-use basis by ket and is cutting all sorts of fancy even better for the sundae. Bentonite, the armed forces as crash helmets, am- capers. Its qualifications: exceptional you see, has a unique quality of bulk-

munition boxes, aircraft ducts, small resistance to tarnishing and corrosion; ing up anything with which it is mixed. boats, pontoons, skiis, arctic shelters, spark-producing even when wet, not Take plain old chocolate syrup, add body armor, tote boxes, mapping paper, to mention that it will not deteriorate bentonite, heat and you get gobs of shoe shanks, domes for shielding radar in warm or moist air; can be alloyed gooey hot fudge. and other electronic equipment, land- with other metals to create a substance Want some ideas on what to do with ing mats, cafeteria trays and countless combining lightness with powerful ten- bentonite? other things. sile strength; has infinite possibilities in Mix it with oil and you have a grease What's in it for you? If you can think every branch of the ceramic industry. better than most others.

of something, the Society of the Plas- What's in zirconium for the manu- Mix it with removing chemicals and tics Industry, 295 Madison Ave., New facturer? Rings, knives, jewelry, forks you have a superior paint remover, with York, will tell you the names of the and spoons of pure zirconium are near a consistency like soft putty. firms which make the raw material. and they are bound to be immensely Can you think of a commercial use Take, now, a brand new group of popular because of their non-tarnishing for a semi-solid, viscous ink? Bentonite

synthetic products known as silicones, qualities. Surgeons want the metal for will create it. some of which are already in use, others bone screws and plates and engineers Can you think of any liquid which still in the laboratory stage. They are want it to make equipment which can be made more useful commercially

nothing short of incredible. These would resist acids. More, the aircraft in a thicker form? Bentonite will do it. products, resulting from research by industry is developing airfield landing Ever hear of titanium dioxide? Re- such giant corporations as General mats of a magnesium, zinc, silver and search and development in the sub- Electric, Dow Corning and Union zirconium alloy. stance was pioneered by the National Carbide and Carbon, consist of rubber, Big things are already coming from Lead Co. of New York. While seeking oils, resins, greases — which resist heat zirconium, not only as a metal but in to improve its qualities as a pigment, and cold, last practically forever, are other forms. The Titanium Alloy scientists discovered that when pure

44 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 oxide, finely powdered, is fed through an oxyacetylene flame, it collects in a solid, carrot-shaped "boule" which is black at first, but turns to faint yellow under careful heating. The stuff which results, called titania or rutile, looks and acts remarkably like a diamond, due to its index of refrac- tion, or its ability to bend light rays. a This is the property which makes stone glitter. A diamond's index is high, 2.42, but rutile's is higher still, 2.62 to 2.90, although a diamond is harder. Got any ideas on what to do with a synthetic diamond, other than trying to palm it off on your girl friend as the genuine article? Many have and are al- ready selling synthetic diamonds, rubies and star sapphires all over the country It's Slim's and doing right fine, all because they saw a business gem glittering in one of science's newest laboratory creations. For An "Honest" Meal Then there's titanium. It was discov- ered more than 150 years ago but its tremendous properties have been known only for the past few years. Lots Most people thought Slim Benson of of people are going to make lots would probably go broke when he first money out of titanium — Dr. Julian Glasser, research metallurgist at the started his system of letting customers Armour Research Foundation of the figure out their own checks over at his Illinois Institute of Technology is just big diner on the highway. Here's how one of the experts who believe it may take its place among the other tonnage he does it: metals within the next five years. Lead- ing metallurgists and industrial experts Slim trusts his customers to pay for will in many ways superior believe it be as much as they eat —you simply tell to anything now available. It is light, Sally, his cashier, the amount of your strong and corrosion-resistant. It can be welded easily, forged, hot worked and total bill. It works, too. Take the other extruded and its resistance to electricity day when Buck Harris told Sally his is high. Readily surface hardened, it will alloy to some extent with every bill was 35f£. known metal. At high temperature Now I was right there with Buck ranges, it is the best performing light metal known. and I knew all he had was coffee and Titanium is already used extensively pie which comes to a quarter. "How in jet aircraft where metals perform- ing well under high temperatures are come thirty-five cents?" I asked Buck. vital. Clyde Williams, director of the ''Had an extra cup of java the other Battelle Memorial Institute, the nation's largest independent research organiza- day, Joe, and forgot all about it — 'til the tion, predicts a much wider use in now," he says. aircraft industry. Mr. Williams, one of the top authorities on titanium, points From where I sit, most people are out that in the air a pound of weight basically honest —and that goes for saved is worth about $25 and, on an equal strength basis, titanium is lighter their opinions, too, even though they steel. The sav- than either aluminum or may be different than our own. I like ing in replacing a jet compressor in a a glass of beer with my dinner; you jet engine with one made of titanium,

for example, would be about $5,000. may prefer something else . . . but we Next to the air industry, great sav- all ought to be allowed to "figure it ings are indicated for motor transport. Every unnecessary pound for a trailer out" ourselves. costs from 40 to 50 cents and a trailer made of titanium would weigh only a little more than half of one made of steel. Titanium also has a future in the petroleum, chemical, paper-making and food-processing industries, not to men- tion on ships, where corrosion costs a fabulous sum each year. Copyright, 1952, United States Brewers Foundation The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 45 You'd think, wouldn't you, that the foods we know today will remain in a hearing aid to his car, presses a but- atomic energy is something locked fast good condition and show no change in ton and a voice calls out a series of in the vaults of Oak Ridge or the minds flavor if they are heat-sealed in trans- numbers. When he hears a particular of a handful of scientists. Yet many parent, flexible wrappers and submitted number, he stops the car, makes a phone persons are now actually in the atomic to the gamma rays of atomic piles. Big call. Then he rushes to an emergency energy business — or some phase of it companies are now experimenting ex- case.

— and profiting handsomely! The little gadget is actually a tiny Boris and Alexander Pregel, for in- radio receiver and the doctor is a client stance, run the Canadian Radium and of Aircall, a radio paging service. When Uranium Corp., with offices in New the patient's home called the doctor's York. Producing refined radium, radium office, his nurse phoned the xYircall products and uranium, they arc one headquarters, where the doctor's code of four such companies in the world. number was put on a sound film and The firm is constantly coming up with broadcast every 22 seconds. W'hen the new radium products, one of which is client hears his number, that's his cue called radon ointment, the only know n to call his office. Aircall has about 250 remedy for burns produced by radio- subscribers who pay a $10 monthly fee. activity. It also makes a variety of lu- They include business executives, law- minous compounds, most of them used yers, physicians, private detectives, extensively by the armed forces. As radio producers, even plumbing com- just one example, there is a plastic tub- panies. ing coated with radioactive material Yes, new wonders are coming off the which engineers who clear enemy mine scientific assembly lines all the time and fields drop in their wake as they pro- each represents a new business and a ceed. It enables infantrymen who fol- new opportunity for wealth for some- low to find a glowing path of safety bod}'. The Minnesota Mining and Man- through mined areas. ufacturing Co. has just developed a One outfit recently came out with process expected to offer the chemical radiation lampshades, which are sheet world 150,000 new compounds in the metal devices to be set up outdoors in a form of fluoro-chemicals, many with target area to determine the position of special properties that will make them an atomic bomb explosion. Heat radia- "I don't believe in nagging at a man. particularly valuable industrially. The tion from the blast will scorch the paint You can accomplish so much more by green magic in plants, chlorophyll, has hitting him with something." on the inside, showing the direction from been found to speed the healing of which the radiation came. The Nuclear AMERICAN LECION MAGAZINE wounds in addition to eliminating odors. Products Co. of Costa Mesa, Calif., is Synthetic yarns are revolutionizing the marketing a new photographic tool textile industry. called Static (Master, which employs a For centuries, alchemists of old polonium strip to remove static, dust tensively with atom-treated foods — is sought the elusive philosopher's stone and lint from slides and negatives. there a clue here on how you can get which could turn baser metals into gold. Dr. Bernard E. Proctor of the Mas- in on the ground floor? Remember that The old boys failed but the scientists sachusetts Institute of Technology told the boys who did the spadew ork in the of today have finally turned the trick. the Institute of Food Technologists re- frozen foods industry are sitting mighty They're making gold in them thai- cently that atom-treated foods can be pretty today! labs. Plenty of smart chaps have brought preserved up to five years without re- A doctor is driving along the street; buckets to scoop some up. And there's frigeration. He said that 60 percent of at intervals he puts a gadget resembling lots more left! the end

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4g • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 A Quiet Street In Washington —_— (Continued from page 12) —^ "That Shannon," Sean grits. "I'd like to get my hands on that guy for about three seconds. He is a jerk, he always was a jerk and his family is a collection of jerks." "You know this guy and his family personally?" I ask. "Sure," Sean says. "They live a couple of miles from our place. All terrible. Except maybe one." Once he got the idea that W. P. Shan- non ain't coming to the rescue and once he gets it through his head he is in the 307th until the Army makes an- other one of its dizzy double-takes, he settles down to some good soldiering.

It ain't long before he is sergeant. I'd been in the Army for a long time and

I'm still Pfc, mostly because I can't stand prosperity. Every time I get a couple of stripes I go out and celebrate and next day I am back where I started again.

Like I said, I am Sean's partner on Washington town patrol which ain't too bad duty if you don't take it too Telephone people are prepared to meet the challenge of storm and disaster. Their serious. I mean some hot-shots go experience in emergencies is particularly valuable in time of National Defense. around looking for trouble and usually find it and wind up flat on their back on a Ninth Street sidewalk, but the smart guy picks the quiet streets to patrol, the streets with no bars or dance SOLDIERS OF THE STORM halls, and it is a rare thing to have to w rite out a delinquency report or cart anybody off to the cell block. The smart guy also manages to be just out Wherever there's storm or fire of hearing of any hassle that starts up. or flood or disaster of any kind, Peace, it's wonderful. you'll find telephone people right "Look, Sean," I said when we start off oh our first tour, "you're senior on the job to get things back to partner but maybe I can show you a normal. They are able to do this couple of angles. I've got one of the because the entire Bell Svstem is neatest, quietest streets to patrol you trained and organized to take care ever saw. Here, there ain't been a loud word spoke since Garfield is President of emergencies. The skill, loyalty and experience of tele- and there is a lunchroom where the phone people are the priceless assets of Mobile telephone equipment proprietor hands out coffee and sand- the Bell System. wiches because I think he is running a and standby power generators are game upstairs and he don't want no in times like these. Bell Tele- rcadv. Supplies and equipment trouble with the cops, even the M.P.'s." phone Companies throughout "The O.D.," Sean says, sort of doubt- are kept available in Western the country have special plans to fully, "might come tooling up in his Electric warehouses in strategic jeep, checking the beat we're maintain service if supposed spots throughout the country. protect and to patrol." some sudden defense situation Wherever the job is too big for "I know every officer that pulls should arise. O.D.," I tell him, "and 1 know how they one telephone company, other operate. When Lieutenant Young, that's companies are quick to send their Whatever the need, it is reas- O.D. tonight, comes around we'll be people to help. suring to know that a well-trained smartly pacing our beat in a military — manner." This ability to meet emergencies armv of Bell telephone workers "Lead on, O'Brien," Sean grins. "I am and restore service, so essential 650,000 strong — is equipped and in your hands." in peace, is even more important ready to act quickly and effectively. So we cut up a couple of back alleys to the quietest street in Washington,

D. C, and take over our patrol. It is a balmy night in BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM I* May and it is very nice, with the lawns smelling wet and

The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 47 fresh and the trees hanging low over service I have never learned to love Relax and enjoy listening that's the sidewalk and all in all life is not because they have mathematical wizards too bad. in that bunch that can figure down to "Is this all we do?" Pedersen asks, the last second every bit of bad time after awhile. "Shouldn't we be break- you pull in th guardhouse and take it

ing up riots or something? 1 am getting out of your pa . bored, just walking around like this." This lieutenant picks up his cap and "We're protecting the peace and gets his necktie straight. We salute and quiet of the Capital of the United he returns the salute, looking like he

States," I remind him. "We have every- wishes he was a million miles away

thing under control. There's no trouble from where he is. Then he braces his anywhere Pedersen and O'Brien are shoulders and gets very military. prowling." "All a mistake," he tells Pedersen.

"Yeah," Scan says, "except there "The young lady and I were just — er seems to be a little bit of trouble up — fooling around." ahead." "Fooling around, he calls it!" the Now, I'd been walking that street girl yells. "This — this Pentagon Romeo CaaOx^ high fidelity for a long time and the worst trouble tried to kiss me!" I'd ever run into before was a sailor "And a very good idea," Sean Peder- AMPLIFIER who was trying to pull the pavement up sen says, nodding. over him for a blanket. But I looked I, personally, wish to get out of there

and there was trouble up ahead. fast. This guy is an officer, if only in Keep vour seat for amazingly selective There was this girl and this guy and Finance, and we are about four blocks control of broadcast, telecast, or re- corded sound with the Bell 2145! Its from a distance and with both of them off our beat and it is getting time for small, signal-type remote control unit, shaded by the trees from the street Lieutenant Young, the O.D., to ride console or table mounted by your easy it looks like this is slapping patrolling along in a chair, lets you switch to and from phono lamp guy past and watch us (all types of domestic and foreign this girl about the face and head. We military manner. records) and AM-FM radio (or TV), run up and see the guy is an officer, a "Just a mistake, eh, sir?" I ask. "In also adjust tone and volume. The master amplifier, tucked out of sight, connects First John, and he is not slugging this that case we'll be getting along." to built-in or custom music system, girl; he is using his hands to protect "Waaaaait a minute!" the girl yelps. phono, radio, or TV set. Assures clear, natural reception. Modestly priced. himself from the punches the dame is "I demand you arrest this man!"

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splutters. "I escorting Miss Shan- manner than the O.D.'s jeep comes MAKE was H0W fO non to where her car was parked, down around the corner. We snap him a sa- the street there, from a party and she lute, he returns it, and the jeep keeps —and I—" He evidently remembers the on going with the lieutenant probably wife and kids because he stops talking, telling himself it is a relief to have a gargles a couple of times and skitters couple of men like Pedersen and away. O'Brien that he can depend on.

"Now as we were saying—" Scan be- I am still shaking hands with myself gins. for being such a good luck boy the "Oh, you big chump!" the lady snaps. next morning in barracks when the

"You've certainly done it now. Lieu- charge of quarters brings trouble. tenant Biggies—" "Pedersen and O'Brien," he says. "Forget Lieutenant Biggies," Sean "Front and center. The captain wants says. "Let's get back to our little chat. to see you guys."

And speaking of fathers, is yours any I know the words, 1 know the tone

better?" of voice, I know what's coming. I ought "Better?" she asks. Her voice sounds to; I'd been through it enough times.

like it ain't dropping its left any. I look across the aisle at Sean.

"Why, I thought he'd hurt his hand "That some gal of yours," I tell him, so he couldn't write any letters," Sean "has blown the whistle and now we are explains, "and probably lost his voice headed for the coal pile." so he couldn't dictate any answers to He looks funny, like he is having

the couple of dozen letters I wrote him." trouble believing that even a girl who "It wasn't a couple of dozen," she has busted him in the nose would turn Murine can be the answer— comes back at him. "There were only him in like this. just two drops in each eye. five." "I knew she had a temper," he mut- Quick as a , Murine brings "Oh," my partner growls, "so you ters, "but I didn't think — I didn't cool delight to tired, over- — know all about it, huh? Old Brickyard dream worked eyes. Its seven tested Shannon has on," I tell captain ingredients soothe and been bragging about how "Come him. "The he's been pushing that big dumb Swede is no man to keep waiting." cleanse as gently as a tear Pedersen around, office, At any time, Murine makes huh?" We go down to the captain's wasn't like in. your eyes feel good! "It that at all. He—" get the top soldier's nod to go The "He didn't answer 'em!" Pedersen Old Man shuffles some papers around yells. "Too much of a big shot to an- and then looks at us. swer an enlisted man's letter, an enlisted "I don't know what you've got your- MURINE man who's been a neighbor of his. If self and Pedersen into now, O'Brien," it was that little lieutenant that wrote he says, "but it must be good — very for your eyes him, I'll bet he'd break his neck an- good. The Colonel wants to see both of swering it. Yeah, he'd probably trot his you on the double, and I'm going with Gabardine TRENCHCOAT own fat neck over to the Pentagon to you."

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about her father. Furthermore, Peder- sen, the complaint states that you ad- dressed the lieutenant as—uh—Junior." "Yes, sir," says Sean. "Furthermore," the Colonel rumbles on, "there was no Cutler Avenue, Northwest, included in your patrol beat. What were you doing on Cutler Ave- nue at 2100, Sergeant?" "That was my fault, sir," I break in. "All my fault."

Me, I'm a Pfc. and I'll never get any higher, I guess. The guardhouse is nothing new to me; I'll probably be serving out bad time when we have them space ships you read about in comic books. But Sean is a sergeant and a good Joe and there is no reason he should get fouled up on account of this red-headed snitch and her Finance lieutenant. "I see," the Colonel says in a voice that says he don't see. "You were the one who called Congressman W. P. Shannon's daughter a squirt. You were the one who told her she had a voice like a fire siren. You were the one who made the remarks about her father and called the lieutenant Junior. From your record, O'Brien, it should have been you but the complaint names Sergeant Pedersen." "I mean about the Cutler Avenue

deal, sir," I explain. "I told Sergeant Pedersen — "Never mind, Johnny," Sean breaks in. "The whole thing is my foul-up, sir. O'Brien didn't have anything to do with it."

"This Damon and Pythias act is very

touching," the Colonel rumbles, "but I doubt that the Provost Marshal's office

is going to break down and cry over it.

I think you were both drunk and I in- tend to make an example of you." While he's saying this, he's slamming

the top of his desk with his fist, mak- ing things jump up and down. "Captain," he tells our Old Man, "put

these two under arrest in quarters till

1 find out just what Headquarters wants me to do with this. By the way they talked on the phone, I think it will be to save you Use it for This husky, versatile tool drives many attachments a firing squad. Congressman WOOD BORING! Shannon time, money and muscle in hundreds of home and farm jobs! is a big wheel up on The Hill and to You haven't handled a really versa- Quality - Built by World • Famous have a couple of men insult his my tile tool until you've tried the B&D Black & Decker for long years of daughter and — oh, take them away!" Utility Sander-Polisher! It comes usefulness. Extra-powerful motor for The captain hustles us out of there complete with sanding discs, lambs- high-speed work from AC or DC out- wool bonnet, " drill chuck, cans of lets. Housing is strong, light die-cast and back to barracks. Halfway there, h auto polish and wax. It drives many aluminum. Instant-release trigger- he opens his mouth for the first time. other inexpensive, easy-to-change switch. Balanced design means com- "Pedersen," he says, in a hurt voice, attachments for grinding, sharpen- fortable handling for one- or two- your "if you had to goof off in all directions ing, buffing, burnishing and clean- handed use. Try it today at or implement like that, why, oh why did you have ing. And it weighs only 3! 2 lbs., hardware, electrical easy for the whole family to use! dealer's or department store. to pick out Congressman W. P. Shan- DECKER Mfg. Co. Dept. H3L, Towson 4, Maryland non's one and only child?" The BtACK & "She's got five brothers and three sisters," Sean says. "Begging the cap- tain's pardon." "Huh — how do you know?" the cap- PORTABLE tain asks. UtiutY electric "I grew up with the whole tribe of TOOLS them, sir," says Sean. Use it 3s a DRILL PRESS! Va"-W DRILLS SANDER-POLISHERS ACCESSORIES The American Legion Magazine • March. 1952 • 51 - - " ! I

The captain stops dead and stares up at Pedersen. "You mean you know the young lady?" he asks. Sean nods. "Well, in FREE!11^ mm # that case, it was just a couple of old friends meeting, eh? A lot of kidding NEW BOOK around and nothing serious. Say, if that's true, maybe things won't go so it-you check it -a We have tough with you. We can explain to the Colonel that this was all just a lot of Western fooling around between old hometown pals and nothing was meant seriously." "I," says Sean, real grim, "meant

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about Kitty. I guess I've been nuts about Sean finally gets himself able to talk.

her ever since I was old enough to look "You can say that again," he tells her. around and take notice. We went to- "What's the idea of blowing the whistle gether pretty steady in school. Oh, of on us? What did I say to you except course we were always having fights a couple of homely truths?" A GREAT 22 CAL. and breaking up but we always got "Sergeant Pedersen — " the Colonel back together again. The last fight we begins again, but the girl cuts him off. AUTOMATIC "/ had was just before I went in the Army. blew the whistle on you!" she yells. FOR ONLY She wrote me once. Said she was ready "Sean Pedersen, you don't think / made to forgive me if I'd apologize for what- the complaint! It was that little worm ever it was that started that last fight. of a lieutenant who tried to kiss me —

And I never did. I'm glad I didn't now. the one you rescued me from!" Model 1 51 — If Kitty Shannon would snitch, turn us "Miss Shannon " the Colonel starts, 22 cal.

in, just to crawl, I'm glad I but it ain't that poor guy's day to finish 1 5-shot "auto" make me 1 5-shot magoiine out what kind she is." anything he begins, not with the Shan- Straight line feed found Amazing — Open sights .... "Maybe " I starts, but Sean shakes non dame in the room. quality and Monte Carlo stock his head. "When your captain told the Colonel dependability. "No maybe's," he says. "I'm going to that we'd been practically engaged all A masterpiece SEND FOR of gunsmithing! get in some sack time." our lives," she says, "and the Colonel FREE Which sounds like as good an idea called daddy and I answered the phone CATALOG YOUR MOSSBERG and listened in, sort of, 1 knew right as any, before the top soldier realizes DEALER WANTS TO he's got two men he can use on the pail •($32.95 West of Rockies) SHOW YOU THIS ONE and mop squad. But it seems like I ain't WAIXY Compare it with the finest! no more than shut my eyes before the No sales Prevent Forest Fires C.Q. is shaking me. Seems we are going of focf Carelessness can destroy back to the Colonel's office. timber, game, property and out "Boy," I tell Sean, "they certainly human lives. Snuff matches and smokes care- didn't waste any time on this one, did fully. Quench fire embers they?" thoroughly. "Sooner or later, what's the differ- ence?" he shrugs. The captain don't say anything while he's taking us to the Colonel. Neither

of us say anything either—that is, until

the three us into St. John St., New Haven 5, Conn. of walk the Colonel's away it was that lieutenant who caused 29903 office. Then Sean gives out with a all the trouble. So I told daddy what squawk. Standing right by the Colonel's had happened and he got hold of who- desk is the cause of all this, Miss Kath- ever it is you're supposed to see and Free for Asthma erine M. Shannon, and beside her is a then we came right straight here and suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke large, red-faced character I peg as Miss If you now you stand there and accuse me of and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult Shannon's papa, Congressman P. because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to W. — oh, you big dumb Swede. I don't once to the Frontier Asthma Company for Shannon himself. send at know why I love you so much!" a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA for temporary symp- "Sergeant Pedersen — " the Colonel MEDICINE, a preparation I am standing at Attention all this tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. begins, but that is all the further he gets. No matter where you live or whether you have time and my neck aches but I don't re- faith in any medicine under the sun, send today The girl breaks across the office like a lax; right then I wouldn't break Atten- for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. recruit getting out of the gas chamber tion to watch Betty Grable walk by Frontier Asthma Co. 643-J Frontier Bldg. 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. and she throws herself at Sean from five because O'Brien, J. J., is taking no feet away and grabs him around the chances of making the Colonel stop neck. SHORTHAND in smiling at this time. "Oh Sean, darling!" she hollers. "This Congressman W. P. Shannon steps in ML Weeks at Home is simply awful! That terrible little in- now with a large hand poked out in F;iiikiu< Speedwriting Shorthand sy^i'-m. significant worm of a Lieutenant Big- ^|B^B No symbols; no machines; uses ABC's. Sean's direction and a large grin on his Easy to learn; easy to write and transcribe. Low cost. business and Civil Service. gies! He ought to be drummed out of 1 HO taught by mail. For puss. Also typing. 20th year. Write for FREE booklet to: the Army or have his shoulder straps "Sean, m'boy!" he says. "It's a great cut off with a sword or whatever it is pleasure to see you. I've been reading

they do to them. Oh Sean, did they 42nd St., N. Y. 18 about you — the medal and all — but I Dept. 9203-7, 55 W. @- throw you in jail? Oh darling, tell me didn't know you were stationed in that you're all right!" Washington until this happened. Why LEOPARD 095 Sean Olaf Pedersen looks like he has didn't you look me up, Sean? We'd each just been told he is getting General have been proud to have you out for Eisenhower's job. He backs away, the dinner, or something." Auto Seat Covers girl still dangling from his TERRIFIC VALUE! New, neck, and Pedersen makes a noise like he'd been deluxe RICH-TONE ma- terial looks like LEOP- he looks at the Colonel and then at the kicked in the stomach. Miss Shannon ARD FUR, gives beauty and distinction to your large character I have spotted as P. car. Adds new life to W. lets go of his neck and drops back to old. worn interiors. Pro- Shannon tects new ear upholstery because he looks like a big shot her own feet, looking like a kid that's linst wear, dust, grime, stains, grease, t weather. Tough, durable, resists crack- For ALL Congressman ought to look, and then ;! Hands. »nie tailored appearance. done something she knows she's going ALL years, ALL makes and models. NO pins! No at the captain tacks! No sewing! Ingenious SNAP-TITE feature. Just SNAP and then at the Colonel to be walloped for, but hopes not. on or off in a JIFFY! Best of all: they're only 2.9S fo> again. front <»r rear seat. "Why — didn't I — look — you — up? SPECIAL! Pair for front and rear, only 4.95. Send no — money. Pay price plus postage on delivery or send check "Oh, Sean," the or money order for free delivery and SAVE! Mention cat- red-headed girl keeps Sean says. make, model & year; also if front seat is full front 01 SPLIT coupe front. Try 10 days at our risk! Guaranteed V- yipping. "To think I was to blame for "Yes, why not? As good friends as satisfy or money bark! RUSH! 158C-150 all this!" CONSUMERS MART, Dept. we've always been and the Colonel says 131 West 33rd St., New York 1, N. Y.

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you've been stationed here for some sneak out to Fort Myer here and watch Experience Needed To No time and not a word out of you to us," you when you drilled and — oh, Sean, PRINT YOUR OWN Congressman W. P. Shannon says. I've got to have you near me!" "What was the matter? I hope it wasn't She is back around Sean's neck again POST CARDS the silly tiff you had with [Catherine and this time he's got everything straight and he's holding her almost as The GEM STENCIL DUPLI- that kept you away." CATOR saves money . . . gets "Look," says Sean. "Look. The let- tight as she's holding him and I'm still results quickly! Hundred* of uses for every type of business ^ ters." at Attention and not minding it a bit. and organization. We ship the "Letters?" asks Congressman P. This is something I can tell during bull GEM complete with all supplies, W. Guide Board for accurate printing Shannon. "What letters?" sessions that nobody can top; a love and 60-page Book of Ideas at the special low price of only $6.50 Sean starts to talk and then he looks scene going on right in front of the at Miss Shannon who is very busy at Colonel's desk with the Colonel and the this time, looking at an interesting pic- captain and Congressman W. P. Shan-

Use the GEM FREE at our e\p. ture of the staff of the 307th, taken in non all looking like they are watching MONEY. Write and complete G a tender movie. sent you postpaid. Afi**r ten da 1942, at A. P. Hill. $8.50 or return the GEM. You the phone when The Colonel is the first one to get WRITE TODAY. "So you answered BOND EQUIPMENT CO. back to Fort Myer. 6633 Enright • Sf lo> "Ah-hmph," he coughs, and Sean and Miss Shannon break. "Under the cir-

cumstances, Congressman, I feel sure that the charges against Sergeant Peder- SHIBW3 GLADIOLUS REGULAR iOOOO VALUE sen will be dropped. You say that Lieu- anniversary offer $1.00 50th tenant Biggies has agreed to withdraw to one inch across "Not Bulblets." Guaranteed i Size H " -to bloom this summer. 10 or more varieties in this his charges ; ''mixture. Send 25c in coin for this V Bi H "Yes," W. P. Shannon nods. "When . $ 1 .OO Value, and we will include Big E Ir V f I Bulh. Plant & Seed Catalog. my daughter reminded him of certain Dept. 24 CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN Rocktord, ILL. — er — possibilities, he was most coop- erative."

"There is, of course, the matter of AUTO SEAT COVERS Sergeant Pedersen being off his assigned patrol beat," the Colonel goes on, "but it may be excusable in view of the fact .5 toinpVoo/^|COUPE that it his first patrol and he Greaseproof j^y- H front was may ^ have been misdirected by his partner. ,n" "MIRACLE PLASTIC We'll look into that later." in 5 LUSTROUS COLORS ^ I am waiting for my pal, Sean Olaf RED • BLUE • GREEN • GRA V • MAROON Add instant class to vour car! Snap-on action holds 'em Pedersen, to jump in with a cry that with damp t. B ht Color fast. No fade! No shrink' Wash cloth. SEND NO MONEY! Order TODAY at our risk' no no it is all his fault but the big bum Olive year and make ol car. li-door 4 -door, or coupe, and '•Is it cheaper it / furnish the string? color preference. l'av postman plus postage Or send is so wrapped up in Miss Katherine Cash. Check or Money Order and We Fay Postage! Keep AMERICAN MO'. ION MAc.A/INI: lOdays— return for full refund ol pur- Shannon that he don't even hear the chase- price il not fully satisfied, but VhURRY — they'll sill like hot cakes. J Colonel, I guess. He barely manages to jr. - . *°\:..»51 the Colonel called," Sean says, real slow, salute when we leave the office and out- or, YOUNG PRODUCTS CO. "and you sort of listened in and that side, he goes wandering down toward Dept. 174, 2605 Elmhur$t, Detroit 6. Mich.^" means — the baseball grandstand with the girl, "Oh, Katherine's been my secretary leaving the captain, the Congressman Many Causes of for some time now," W. P. Shannon ex- and me standing there, staring. Chronic Ailments plains. "Good at the iob, too." "Ah — General Clayborn is waiting "And she opens your mail," Sean for me over at the Officers Club, Cap- says, nodding. tain," says W. P. Shannon. "I wonder FREE BOOK On Colon Troubles And Constipation "Well, yes," said W. P. Shannon. if you'd be good enough to come along

Many facts about colon disorders, headaches, consti- "You see I get so much I couldn't pos- in my car and direct me." pation, nervousness or stomach, liver anil bladder — sibly "A pleasure, sir," says the Old Alan. conditions are explained in a new 40-page FREE BOOK. Write today. Thornton & Minor Hospital, "And she read the five letters I sent He is stepping into the big sedan when Suite 387, 911 E. Linwood, Kansas City 3, Mo. you," Pedersen busts in, "and she saw he looks back at me over his shoulder. that you never got them. She tore them "This once, O'Brien," he says, "you up. She burned them. She got rid of were lucky — awfully lucky. But watch WANTED them somehow just to get back at me your step." MAN WITH CAR for whatever she thinks it was I did "Yes sir," I tell him, saluting. when we had that last fight." I feel good. Sean is out of his jam and Miss Shannon comes around like she's he has got his girl, or at least until the No Time Like been snapped with a wet towel. next fight. I am not headed for the Now to Get In McNess Business $$£k } "It wasn't that at all," she cries. "It Little Red Schoolhouse or even any It's no trick to make was—oh, the first letter said you wanted extra duty, this time. I intend to be good money when you use your car as a McNess "Store to go back to the front and you'd done awful careful, like the captain says. I on Wheels." Farmers buy everything I McNess because they can from Men IseYour enough and I knew daddy would try will never go back to Cutler Avenue McNess Products are tops in quality, represent extra values. Attractive busi- CAR to do whatever you wanted because he with the little lunchroom where the ness-getting prizes and premiums; also deals to customers make money-saving to Raise thinks so much of you and I w anted proprietor hands out coffee and sand- selling McNess daily necessities a snap. We Supply Capital — Start Now! Your you here — here in Washington, near wiches. Never. There's no better work anywhere. Pays I PAY me, and I — and 1 just didn't give the I have got another quiet little street well, permanent, need no experience to I start, and we supply capital to help you letters 1 suppose it was that about. it is a get started quick. You begin making money first day. to daddy and nobody knows And Write at once for McNess Dealer Book. It's FREE. awful but — oh Sean, I couldn't bear to cinch I never take Sean Olaf Pedersen Tolls all — no obligation. (1) THE McNESS CO., 168 Adams St., Freeport, have you go back and here I could there. the end

54 • The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 Why You Have Trouble Making Ends Meet (Continued from page 13) a week, isn't far from being the aver- when corn is expensive, meat is too. figure is certain to be wrong. But most age U. S. wage earner. And Jane, trying About 13 percent of the Thompsons' economists expect the cost of living to to run the house and bring up two chil- money goes into clothing. It's likely to go up something like 5 percent in the dren on that income isn't far from be an unlucky number in 1952 because coming year. The rise won't come in a being the typical U. S. housewife. clothing prices are due to go up. The perfectly straight line, of course. There The Thompsons, in fact, are the kind apparel industry had a moderate slump will be times when prices stay on an of family that the Bureau of Labor Sta- last year, and that held prices down. even keel, and even times when thej tistics has in mind each month when it Now, it's ready to catch up. slip back. But at the moment, 5 percent cooks up its Consumers Price Index "for Another 20 percent of what Joe looks like a fair guess. goods and services usually bought by brings home goes for rent, fuel, and So there goes about $175 for the 1 moderate-income families' —the famous house-furnishings. All of these prices Thompsons. And there goes Joe's raise. cost of living index. If you can tell the are on the way up. Maybe the Thomp- By the time he has paid higher taxes Thompsons what is going to happen to sons can have their house for another ($80) and higher prices ($175), he has the prices that make up the cost of liv- year at the same rent. But they will $5 left out of his $260 bump. ing index, you can tell them just what pay more to heat it. And they will pay That's the answer to the Thompsons' is going to happen to that $260 raise. more for furniture and appliances. question: How much of our raise do we The answer that you come up with The remaining one-third of Joe's in- get to keep? It's a simple enough answer, isn't going to make Joe and Jane feel come goes for what the statisticians call even though it has a bitter taste. any better. Because as things look now, "miscellaneous." But there's nothing So long as Joe and Jane don't run into that $260 is going to go down the drain miscellaneous about it to the Thomp- any emergencies they can manage to get just as all the other raises have. sons; it soaks up money like a sponge. by. Unfortunately, though, most Joes In the first place, there's the govern- It includes Joe's daily bus fare, the gas and Janes have to face the possibility ment's tax bite. It will take $80 of the for the family car, the doctor's bill when of accidents, sickness and death. In to- raise. Last year, Joe paid $326 in federal one of the children is sick, razor blades, day's economic spiral such occurrences income taxes. This year, the gentleman cigarettes, the telephone bill. Just now are catastrophic to the average family. with the whiskers wants $405 — partly all of these things are going up. In fact, Joe Thompson may be the provident because Joe's income is bigger, partly the biggest rise of all is likely to sneak type who carries insurance, but today he because tax rates have gone up. up under that innocent label "miscel- learns that the protection isn't as great That leaves $180 — a shade better than laneous." as he had expected. This isn't the fault a 5 percent hike in the take-home the Add it all up and make a guess. You of the insurance companies or the Vet- Thompsons have to pay their bills, can't be sure of course, and any specific erans Administration. The dollars they keep the house going, buy food, and have fun on. What's going to happen to that? About one-third of the Thompsons' UIVCLE WALTER budget is earmarked for food. That's typical of their income bracket. IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT What happens to food costs will de- pend a lot on the weather this spring and summer. If the rains come just at the right time and stop at the right time — if it's hot enough in some places and cool enough in others — then the crops will be good, and food prices won't go up much. But even if the weather is perfect, you can't expect prices to go down enough to make a real difference. The farmers have spe- cial government price protection. If a crop of one of the basic commodities, such as wheat or corn, is so big that it CUT TO PACK IDEALLY! starts to break the price, the government will take part of it off the farmer's hands IT (with Joe and Jane footing the bill in IT SMOKES SWEET CANT BITE! taxes). And so farm prices are pretty SIR WALTER RALEIGH S BLEND OF CHOICE much a one-way street — going up. KENTUCKY BURLEYS IS EXTRA-AGED TO Joe and Jane already have had one GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. STAYS piece of rotten luck that they don't even LIT TO THE LAST PUFF. AND NEVER know about. In the fall of 1951, the frost LEAVES A SOGGY HEEL IN YOUR PIPE. came early in Iowa. It nipped the corn crop before it was quite ready, and so a good part of the corn was "soft," which means it wouldn't keep through the winter. As a result, we are short of corn now and will be until the new crop comes in next fall. Maybe Jane and Joe don't like corn, but that early frost in joy youvE oreamed of Iowa was hard luck for them just the _ you'll AOREE! same. It takes corn to make meat. And The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • 55 pay on claims today are just a lot less And then there's the whole knotty MEN! WOMEN! valuable than the dollars Joe paid in question of higher wages. The labor only a short time ago. unions are taking advantage of the gen- New Car given If Joe and Jane want to know why eral prosperity to drive hard for more things have to be this way, the explana- pay. It's a natural thing to do when Bonus! < as tion gets more complicated. prices are going up. But there's no ques- ORDERS for The big reason — the one that TAKE ED under- tion about it: Higher wages do feed Xationally Advertised lies everything else — is the U. S. defense TWO NEW CARS inflation. program. This year, the . . • and as much as government is At this writing it looks as though the NYLONS $ 1 20.00 in one week spending lyfine something like $50-55 billion on United Steel Workers will be getting GUARANTEED NINE MONTHS th the Sensational Guarantee creat- VVilknit hosier; line, its military establishment. That means a substantial hike. And that will prob- f New Chevrolet as a ing a tremendous demand for jpen to EVERYONE, it is Wilknit Nylons! If they run, ame for facts FREE. paying wages and buying materials ably set a pattern that other unions will wear out or even snapr f i'om any just as civilian employers do, but a cause whatever ... wit Inn NINE MONTHS . . .depending on on be following all this year. And that quantity . . . they are replaced FREE OF CHARGE. No won- scale that no civilian manufacturer ever der it's easy to quickly build up fine, steady, year-'round in- means two things: ( 1 ) It will cost more come. EarainKS start immediately. Look at these exceptional Shearer Mrs. dreamed of. The arms — the tanks and all figures— Ralph made $67.11 . first week — Paul to produce the things that Joe wants Estes, $42.92 — Mrs. Ivey Gentry. $43.37. Doris Jensen in ad- planes — dition to making as much as $17.00 in a single day, earned two and ships that are produced for to buy, and (2) When Joe tries to cars as EXTRA BONUSES. Learn how you can make money the in your full or spare time without a bit of previous experience. government obviously aren't avail- spend his $260 raise, other workers will able for civilians to buy. But workers SEND NO MONEY . . . Just Hose Size be spending theirs too. In other words, When you send for Selling Outfit. I also send your choice of are paid for working on them. Thus, in Nylons or Socks for your personal use. Don't lose a minute. higher costs and higher demand—w hich on a postal card for full money-making Rush name facts economist's language, income is being on Sensational Sates Kit. Send hose size. L. Lowell Wilkin, automatically spells higher prices. WIL-KNIT HOSIERY CO., 3323 Mirfwoy, Greenfield, Ohio generated without producing goods to In a situation like this you can't ex- spend that income on. pect government price control to keep That's the nub of the thing. But it the cost of living on a dead level. The isn't the whole story. There are a lot most that price controls can do is rule of things that help magnify the basic out the worst kind of profiteering. If the inflationary effect of the munitions controllers try to hold prices rigid when bow Huge demand waiting for nr Big profits. Gives velvety, tuxi program. toys, signs, displays, figurines, auto dash-boards - costs are going up, they simply dry up hundreds of other items. Full sterling lot. cotnplel step-bv-step instructions yours lo examine without 1 Government spending on other things the flow of goods. risk. Details and sample FREE. Coast, Dtj.l 1-3.1004 ' South Los Angeles Street Lo? Anpetei 15. California. is one of them. The big military pro- What it comes down to is that Joe gram was piled OVER A MILLION PATTERNS on top of a federal and all the rest of us have been playing WE MATCH budget that was already bloated. And an elaborate game of make-believe — and PANTS -COATS-SLACKS - SKIRTS nobody really tried to cut down non- playing it on ourselves. 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from Wallpaper. Painted Wall, , IVtlinic. Window The hitch is that to do that, a lot of litically this is not a popular course, so Take orders from friends! Earn money! Actnowl people would have to sacrifice a lot of nothing is likely to be done during this SAMPLES FOR TRIAL tu^f/L^niZ send name at once. Hurry. Postcard will do. SEND MO MONEY — juat your name. KRISTEE Dept. 8. pet ideas and projects. election year. But whoever is in office CO.. 1461, AKRON OHIO We would have to cut out nonessen- next year has to face the issue. There tial federal spending. We would have can be no further sidestepping, the end Chronic Ailments Are Constant Threat!

Explains Facts The Strange Case of the I. P. R. FREE BOOK — (Continued from page 17)

Could one have clearer proof that looked upon this institute as an un- the I.P.R. was secretly following the biased, wholly scientific institution en- communist party line? gaged in research. . . . This letter] | The evidence is even more conclusive shows that behind the front the Insti- when one learns that Lattimore cer- tute of Pacific Relations was nothing Stomach and Gastro-intestinal ailments often lead to spastic and ulcerated conditions of ter- tainly, and Carter probably, knew that less than a propaganda organization minal tract that may undermine health. New Chi (Dr. Chao Ting-chi), was a mem- supporting a line ... in this case a com- 171-page FREE BOOK gives latest medical ber of the communist party. For Dr. munist line." facts. Write today. McCleary Clinic and Hospi- tal, C-366 Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. Wittfoegel has testified that in 1935 in Confronted in an open hearing by China he and Owen Lattimore had both this document proving that the I.P.R. wondered, prior to paying a visit to was covertly administering the drug of • • • Chi's father "how Papa Chi would take communist propaganda in doses nicely CTIinV AT UDMP Legally trained men win higher posi- his son's communist adventures." It calculated according to the estimated OlUUT nl nUlTlL tions and bigger success in business and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. must also have been known to any Far absorption capacity of the recipients, ™ More Ability: More Prestige: More Money t ? S"lt%. y™ p ' Deirree of LL.B. We fu Eastern expert worthy of the name that Edward C. Carter, who was Secretary text aterial. .-lii.tii 14 Law Libr; ban ost, " Get our valuable 48-page "La r Tra' ig for Leadership' Asiaticus was the pen name of Heinz General of the I.P.R. from 1933 to 1946, and "Evidence" books FREE. Send NOW. LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY, 4 1 7 South Dearborn Street Aloeller, a German communist who hemmed and hawed, pleaded that the A Correspondence Institution. Depl. 3361L, Chicago S, III. contributed regularly to Imprecor, the Institute was only trying to get "all organ of the Communist International. tints of view," and in general repre- MAKE Asked to comment on this letter from sented himself as an amiable and trust- Lattimore to Carter, Professor Cole- ing ignoramus with a memory like a LAWN MOWER grove of Northwestern University, sieve. If he was not the "cagiest" of in- MONEY who was formerly an associate of the dividuals who wittingly or unwittingly WITH THE GRINDER Enjoy a profitable lawnl^JJl I.P.R., testified: betrayed their country, this retired mower sharpening business. No previous "'A "This seems to me to be one of the "educator," as he now describes him- experience needed. Place a hand or power Grinder. With< most intellectually mower on the Universal dishonest academic self, must be awarded the palm for in- one set-up you quickly grind^, documents that I have ever seen." It is, competence, ignorance or carelessness. the stationary blade and all of the reel blades to proper he | added, a complete negation of what Presented with evidence that the clearance without removing i single blade from mower. the I.P.R. said to professors and teach- I.P.R. had assisted the communists in a G. Spurlock of Ark. ers all ". writes: "I have had over the country: . . it is fraud- their campaign to discredit Chiang Kai- my Universal Grinder

ulent. . . months. Live . Thousands of university shek's government and to represent the only two 1 to miles from town. Yet have _ professors and hundreds of thousands Chinese communists as liberal "agrarian already made a net profit of $227.00." 3.1. Peterman of Pa writes: "1 averaged $100.00 a week in May, and made of spare time this season." Write for FREE folder. students all over the country . . . reformers," Mr. Carter simply asserted $1,000.00 ROGERS MANUFACTURING CO., Dept. A-32, Lindsey, Ohio The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • §J that he could not be expected to know against a charge of perjury by remem- w hat the communist line was, since he bering nothing until he had had his never read communist publications. As memory "refreshed" by finding out FISH BAIT Robert Morris, the special counsel of what the Committee already knew? the McCarran Committee, pertinently Perish the thought! Let us take Mr. GUARANTEED TO CATCH FISH remarked, it should surely have been Carter at his own valuation. We shall FASTER THAN LIVE BAIT OR the duty of the head of a research in- then only be appalled that a man who, RETURN IN 10 DAYS AND stitute to be cognizant of communist to judge from his ignorance and the GET YOUR MONEY BACK policy. Indeed, the most frightening shortness of his memory, must have T ft. of magic worm-like bait. fact revealed by the McCarran Com- found it extremely difficult to pass a * Squeeze out of tube like tooth paste. Secret ingredient attracts mittee hearings is the abysmal ignor- college entrance examination, could fish faster than live bait. Keeps ance, or carelessness, of the men and have been regarded as an "eminent au- indefinitely, won't freeze or melt, stays on hook in running stream w omen who were regarded by the Ad- thority" on the Far East fitted to head long cast. Used with success by thousands ministration and the public as "experts," an institute to which the Rockefeller of fishermen on all whose services were sought by Govern- and Carnegie Foundations and many types of fish. Ab- solutely harm- ment agencies, individuals JUST SQUEEZE whose advice was so- business corporations and less. No mess FROM TUBE or bother. licited by the State Department, and were contributing millions, which they AND APPLY Carry in tackle whose recommendation was usually had no idea were being used to spread TO HOOK. box or pocket. sufficient to obtain a job for anyone in Soviet propaganda. How dumb can you the most sensitive and important gov- get? Apparently there is no limit, if one ernment agencies. is to judge from such testimony. Hence the ease with which commu- It is, of course, possible that Mr. nists and Soviet agents infiltrated the Carter, and some other witnesses w ho O.W.I., the O.S.S., the Treasury De- have appeared before the McCarran ILLINOIS MERCHANDISE MART Dept. 7331 partment, the Foreign Economic Ad- Committee to defend the I.P.R. and its 1227 LOYOLA AVE. CHICAGO 26, ILLINOIS ministration and U.N.R.R.A., to men- associates in the State Department, were tion only those agencies where most of being "fools for Stalin's sake." It is at Earn 500 CASH the communists and Soviet agents rec- least conceivable that iMr. Carter him- plus 24 wood card ommended by the I.P.R. got jobs dur- self was not quite so innocent as he tables, plus 48 double ing the war. Air. Carter admittedly represents himself to have been when, decks of cards for your tried to secure a in sent telegrams to Legion Post! No risk. commission in Army early 1944, he Nothing to pay. For Intelligence for Frederick Vanderbilt Washington to introduce his "good

details v/ r i t e F. W. Field in 1942, although in his own friend," the Tass correspondent, Vladi- MATHERS, Dept. A.L., AAt. Ephraim, N. J. words lie knew that Field was "play- mir Rogov, to and Lauchlin ing the communist line" after Field had Currie. Indeed, Mr. Carter, after having resigned the secretaryship of the five times denied before the Committee RUPTURE-EASER American Council in 1940 to head the that he knew that Rogov had just writ- communist "American Peace Mobiliza- ten an article published both in Mos- tion" front. cow and in the New York Daily Mr. Carter found it difficult to laugh Worker announcing the new party off a letter he had w ritten on October line of all-out opposition to Chiang Kai- No 31, Fitting 1938, recommending Earl Brow der shek (and might be presumed to have Required to the Canadian Club of Montreal as come to America to clarify the new A stroiit'. form-fitting washable support. Back lac- a "100-percent American" speaker w ho line to Moscow's adherents), suddenly ins adjustable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather would give them "a really important had his "memory refreshed" by seeing bands. Unexcelled for comfort. Also used as after operation support. For men, women and children. statement on the Roosevelt Adminis- Hiss's reply, saying that it might not Mail orders give measure around the lowest part of the abdomen and state right or left side or tration either from the point of view be advisable for him to contact Rogov, double. We Prepay Postage Except on t'.O.D.'s. PIPER BRACE CO. of its internal or its foreign policy." in view of the article in question. Testi- 311 Wyandotte. Dept. AL-32. Kansas City 6, Mo. The best he could manage was to say fying on July 26, 1951, Mr. Carter it was just "frolic and banter" on his made the following curious remark: "I ILLUSTRATED COMIC part. now recall it and compliment Hiss for BOOKLETS Unlike his close and valued colleague, thinking that it w as not appropriate to THE KIND MEN LIKE! Frederick this THE GIRLS LIKE IT TOO ! ! Vanderbilt Field, the bland run after a fellow who had written (VEST POCKET SIZE) Mr. Carter saw need to take ref- of article." Unfortunately neither They are loaded with rare car- no kind toons. Full of Fun and Humor. uge behind the Fifth Amendment Mr. Morris, nor any Senator present 20 DIFFERENT booklets sent for $1 in plain wrapper. No C.O.D. when called as a witness. He simply at the hearing, thought of asking Mr. BULCO, Dept. 193, Box 382-K., G.P.O., N.Y.C. 1 substituted his "forgctcry" for his Carter w hether he was complimenting memory. It is truly astonishing how Mr. Hiss on his adroitness as a Soviet many things Mr. Carter "cannot re- agent, or demonstrating his. Carter's, Made member," or has "no recollection of." belief in Hiss's innocence in spite of 1 made about S900 $900 last year with my True that he usually found his memory his conviction. Foley equipment, sharpening 950 saws "refreshed" after being permitted to When questioned concerning the in my spare time." IN SPARE TIME Leo H. Mix see the documents in the hands of the communists Chen Han-seng and Dr. Committee. But how could anyone Chi, the long-term I.P.R. employees Make up to $3 or $4 an Ho Willi a Foley Automatic Suw imagine that this smiling, white-haired who are today members of the Chinese Filer you can file hand, band and circular saws so they cut gentleman, w hose appearance and de- communist government in Pciping, Mr. smoother and faster and brine you repeat cash business. "I Set work from 20 ami 30 miles meanor resemble those of an Elder of Carter simply called upon his invalu- away"— C. H. Smith. No can- vassing— no experience needed. the Church, and whose word was ac- able "forgctcry." Asked whether he FREE BOOK 1 'MONEY MAKING FACTS" shows cepted as sufficient guarantee of the knew that Chen Han-seng used a pen how to start at home In .spare time will, small In. loyalty in the negative. vestment. Write tortfl qualifications and of the many name, he answered alcsma Mil 11. FOLEY MFG. CO. people he recommended for Govern- Confronted with a letter he had him- 339-2 Foley Bldi;. Minneapolis . 18 ment service, was ensuring himself self written in 1940 to V. E. Motylev

58 * The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 in Moscow informing him that this she shouldn't touch the Institute of Pa- Chinese I.P.R. staff member was using cific Relations "with a ten-foot pole" the pen name of Raymond D. Brooke, because "it was as red as a rose." Golos Mr. Carter simply replied, "I had for- felt, she said, that "from the point of MAKE A gotten it." However, on one occasion view of good undercover work, they COLD FRIEND OF cold the former l.P.R. Executive Secretary were far too bungling and too much , When you take

-take tabcin quick I showed himself possessed of a some- in the open," and that "associating with [Tabcin is the modern what too inventive memory. For he the I.P.R. might get us in trouble." I cold formula of time- tested ingredients to and 75c stated in evidence that David Dubinsky, The following are some of the names 45c feverish ) relieve the headache, the who had originally refused to contrib- of I.P.R. staff members, trustees, mem- feeling and aches and pains of a jcold. Tabcin also contains antihista- ute to Russian War Relief because bers of its executive board, advisers and "mine to check sneezes and sniffles. its contributors to its publications, identi- Harriet Moore of the I.P.R. was | Tabcin offers more complete cold Secretary, had subsequently been con- fied as communists, or as Soviet espion- (relief than the antihistamine alone. Miles Laboratories, Inc., Elkhart, Ind. vinced that he had confused her with age agents, or as persons considered ALL DRUG STORES in the BRIGHT RED package another person of the same name who "reliable" exponents of the communist was "ten years older and six inches party line by and/or shorter." Mr. Dubinsky categorically Run the Best"Shoe Store denied this in a letter to the McCarran Business'inTown!

Committee counsel in which the head I'll put a "Shoe Store Business" right in your hands. You don't in- of the I.L.G.W.U. asserted that he had vest a cent — make profits from $10 JiA^^jua**^ v to as much as $2<»(> monthly ^ x $75, ////tit » \* in spare time. No store overhead. ' ' \ had concrete evidence that the I.P.R. Exclusive comfort features build quick profits and repeat business. Sell amazing line of Atr-Cushion comfort shoes Harriet /Moore "was definitely tied up to friends, neighbors, fellow workers. Dress, sport, work, safety shoes for men, women. Send postcard today for FREE SALES OUTFIT! CONSOLIDATED SHOE SYSTEM, with communist activities." Notified Box Ci-54. Chippewa Falls, Wise. subsequently by Mr. Carter that Miss Moore had resigned her post, the INVENTORS I.L.G.W.U. contributed a large sum If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find to Russian War Relief, only to learn out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect

* * later "that Mr. Carter, although com- Your Invention, ' and an "Invention Record' form. No obligation. They are yours for the asking. plying technically . . . with his promise McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON placed Miss Moore in another equally Registered Patent Attorneys 1467 Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. important position in Russian War Relief." SP.IT7 PISTOL INVENTION ! This 1942 I.L.G.W.U. report also $298 stated: — Complete w Simplified "On the board of directors of Rus- 50 bullets percussion action sian Relief Inc. there is a group of at "Georgie is getting ready to leave now, •rmits low cost shooting Not on air or pellet gun — but o least five — Edward C. Carter, Harriet father — he's just checking up on his small bore pistol ! Light 14mg loose change." powder charge drives .12 caliber Moore, Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, Vilhjal- lead bullets at high velocity. Gun AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE has only 4 moving ports. 5 inch barrel. Heavy duty. Free mur Stefansson and Colonel Raymond pamphlet on expert pistol shooting, indoor-outdoor tor- get ranqes Ammunition at stores. Limited quantity Spotz Robins — who have proven their sym- pistols. Sold direct. Adults only. State age. Send $2 98 to LUNDE ARMS CORP.. Box Z354.. San Gabriel, Calif. pathy with the Stalin regime in a net- by Louis Budenz, Professor Karl Witt- work of propaganda organizations foegel, Whittaker Chambers, Hede where they worked closely and har- Massing and General Alexander Bar- FALSE TEETH moniously with outright communists in mine: KLUTCH holds them tighter furthering some particular aim of the Harriet Moore, who was acting sec- KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion; holds dental plates so much firmer and snugger that one can eat communist party. Cooperation with the retary of the I.P.R. in the middle for- and talk with greater comfort and security; in many cases almost as well as with natural teeth. Klutch communists, especially in the defense ties, and previously or subsequently lessens the constant fear of a dropping, rocking, of chafing plate. 25c and 50c at druggists. ... If your the , and during the chairman of its Nominating Committee, druggist hasn't it, don't waste money on substi- tutes, but send us 10c and we will mail you a period of the Stalin-Hitler pact, may a member of its Executive Committee generous trial box. CO., Box be taken as the highest mark of reli- and one of its Board of Trustees. KLUTCH 5252-C, ELMIRA, N. Y. ability. These five above-named di- Gunther Stein, I.P.R. correspondent rectors of Russian War Relief Inc. have in Chungking during the war, identified never at any time hesitated to cooper- as a member of the "Sorge" spy ring by ate with known communists. Further- General Willoughby; expelled from MONEYMAKING OPPORTUNITY FOR Y0O more they have never engaged in any France on a charge of espionage, fol- WITHOUT INVESTMENTS No experience needed to acf as our Local activity, such as aid to Britain before lowing his detention there on November Dealer for MASTER Work Uniform garments. June 22, 1941." 14, 1950; a former German who be- Every business concern a prospect Advertis- ing embroidered on garments is a big sales Since the first four of the above five came a British citizen and represented feature You can easily earn up to many thousands of dollars per year. We supply all directors of Russian War Relief, Inc. Britain at I.P.R. conferences. Sales Equipment FREE Write were prominent I.P.R. staff members or Frederick Vavderbilt Field, who con- CEO. MASTER GARMENT CO., DEPT. 203 ligonier, Ind. associates, it should never have been tinued to be a trustee of the I.P.R. for very difficult to see the communist wolf many years after he was known to be beneath the liberal sheep skin worn a communist, and while he was regular- with intent to deceive the innocent ly contributing articles to the Daily businessmen who contributed to its sup- Worker. Recommended by Philip Jes- port, and the Government officials who sup of the State Department as a rep- hearkened to its counsels. resentative of the American Council of GOOD I WAYS Elizabeth Bentley stated in her testi- the I.P.R. to its international confer- GOOD. . . by itself! mony before the McCarran Committee ences, after Field's affilia- communist GOOD. . as a mixer that she was warned by Jacob Golos, tions were well known. According to with other tobaccos! her Russian boss in the Soviet espionage Miss Bentley, Field was the American fry Rum & Maple apparatus for which she worked, that "Soviet Commissar for the Far East"

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The Cleanest, Coolest Shaves of Your Life! who passed down to the I.P.R. the com- thanks to the recommendation of the Brand-New, Precision-Made A.C. munist party line which he received I.P.R.; Chi was an employee of the ELECTRIC RAZOR from . His deputy was: Comintern in Moscow as early as 1929 Mildred Price, who besides working according to the testimony of Dr. Karl Only for the I.P.R. was executive secretary Wittfoegel, who met him in this ca- $495 of the more or less openly proclaimed pacity in Germany. On February 10, communist "China Aid Council." She 1950, Mr. Holland of the I.P.R. referred was a sister of Walter Lippman's sec- to Dr. Chi as likely to "prove to be one GUARANTEED! retary who produced valuable informa- of our more influential friends in TRY IT— without risking U— tion for the Soviet espionage ring run China." for 30 DAYS ON YOUR OWN BEARD! by Miss Bentley. According to Miss Lauchlin Currie, originally "a full- Say "goodbye and good riddance" to old-fashioned shaving Bentley's testimony Mildred Price fledged member of the Silvermaster methods! Start shaving the STERLING ELECTRIC way and enjoy the cleanest, coolest, smoothest, most- sometimes complained that "Fred Field group" but later put "in direct contact comfortable shaves of your life. Toughest whiskers come had not shown up to have conferences with a Soviet agent." According to Miss off clean as a whistle . . . and FAST! The STERLING mows 'em down like magic! Yes, here's every advantage and that they did not know how to Bentley's testimony "Lauchlin Currie of electric shaving at an Incredible low price . . . only $4.95 complete. You'll save the entire low cost In a few months In blades and shaving cream you don't buy! Not apply the party line in the Far East; was not, as far as we knew at that time, a toy, not a gadget. Far from It! Precision-made. Looks, that handles, performs like razors costing 3, 4 and 5 times they needed instructions, and a member of the communist party, but

more! Look at these "expensive razor" features . . would I go to Browder and complain." he very close to various • 4 precision shaving heads! • Automatic safety guide-bar. was members • Hollow-ground cutting blades' • Powerful 60 cycle motor. ]anies S. Allen, a contributor to I.P.R. of the Silvermaster group. . . . was • Blades honed in special * Cutting blades chrome plated He diamond-honing compound! for lifetime service. publications and known to be a com- willing to bail them out when they • AND MORE! Handsome white plastic case, 6 IL extension cord, sell-starting, sell-sharpening, sell-lubricating all lor the munist. were in trouble, they being Incredible low {4.95 price ... and DOUBLY GUARANTEED! when were YOU DONT RISK A PENNY TO TRY IT! Frank Coe, from whom Elizabeth fired for disloyalty, or when they Make us prove It! Send for the Sterling today. When It arrives use It on your own beard for 30 days. If you don't Bentley collected communist party aues needed help to get a job. Besides that agree that the Sterling Is the shaving value of all time, return It for an Immediate, no-questlons-asked refund. while he worked in the Treasury De- he was passing on information to us. . . . If you keep It, you're protected for ONE YEAR by our written guarantee against mechanical defect. Rush your partment, and w ho was a delegate of Alost of it was Far Eastern. There was order. Quantities limited. Send only $1.00. Pay postman $3.95 plus 70c postage on delivery. Or send $4.95 with the American Council of the I.P.R. to the time when he relayed the informa- order and we ship postage paid! LADIES— NOTE: the Sterling shaves underarms, legs smooth and fast. You'U its international conferences. tion that the Soviet code was about to love It I MODERN MERCHANDISE CO. Joe Barnes, who according to Miss be broken." 100 W. Madison St., Dept. 542, Chicago 2, III. Bentley "could be worked with and Harry Dexter White, who, accord- would take communist directives." Also ing to Miss Bentley's testimony, was OWN a Business identified as a communist by Alexander particularly valuable to the Soviets be-

< 'lean ami Mothproof rugs and up- Barmine who was told in Moscow that cause he persuaded Morgenthau to ar- holstery "in the home." Patented equipment. No shop needed. Dura- Barnes and Owen Lattimore were So- range exchanges of information with clean dealer's gross profits up to $20 a day on EACH serviceman. These viet military intelligence agents; by the Navy and six or seven other Gov- Nationally Advertised services create repeat customers. Easy to learn. Quick- Louis Budenz and Hede Massing; and ernment agencies, thus enabling White ly established. Easy terms. Send to- day tor FREE Booklet — Full details. by Professor Karl YVittfoegel who to pass on to Miss Bentley secret in- DURACLEAN 2-193 D Ufa dean Bldg., Deer field. III. testified that Barnes and Frederick Field formation from many Government de- had "built up the student movement in partments. Miss Bentley further testi- BUY DIRECT- SAVE Harvard w hich was under communist fied: "I couldn't tell you that he had Immediate Delivery-All Items influence." actually been a member of the party, UP TO 85% DISCOUNT Israel Epstein, who, Jacob Golos told but to all intents and purposes he was Portable LIGHT PLANT Miss its PUSH BUTTON START Bentley, "had been a member of because he followed discipline." 600 to 700 wftttB 110-120 v. — HQ eye. A.C. the Russian secret police for Miss Bentley also stated that Harry Powered by a sturdy dependable, easy start- many 1 ing, air cooled 1 4 hp. gaa engine. No wiring necessary, just plug in and operate. Plenty years in China." Epstein's 1947 book. Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie of current for any oil burner, freezer, brooder, pump, emergency lights, etc. which Unfinished Revolution in China, was were "our best avenues for placing require up to 700 watts. Ideal for Civil De- fense. Fire Depta; trailers & camps. Com- (Item 24) plete with Voltmeter and built-in winding to warmly praised by Owen Lattimore in people in strategic positions" in govern- charge 6 v. auto batteries Wt.SGlbs. Fully guaranteed. Be prepared if war or storm knocks tl ca out power lines. Reg. $'_'7f..00 value |1«W.5U the New York Times and promoted bv ment because "they had an immense We are World's largest direct lac lory distributors ol light plants All sizes op to 6000 watts. You can pay more-but you can' t buy better/ the I.P.R. amount of influence and knew people EXTENSION CORD Sol Adler, U. S. Treasury representa- and their word would be accepted (Item 16) 40 ft. heavy duty, made of spe- cially insulated No. 14 2-conductor wire. tive in identified Miss someone." So tough that you can drive over it and China, by Bent- when they recommended yet flexible and easy to handle. Resists oil. grease or water. Extends electricity up to ley as a member of the Gregory Silver- The Soviet agents mentioned by Miss 400 ft. without voltage drop. Use indoors or oat. Complete with heavy rubber plug and outlet. Wt. 2H lbs. Usually $4.60 — Specia master spy ring. Bentley as having been placed in Gov- 40 ft. 2-40 $1.99: Comb: ft. and 1-20 ft. (total 100 ft.) . . . S4.95 100 foot length (one piece) $4.85 Lawrence K. Rosinger, who was ernment positions via the I.P.R. in- 32 pc. SOCKET SET (Item 59) Highest quality guar, non- supported by a Rockefeller Foundation cluded Duncan Chapin Lee who was breakable sockets made by Husky. Beautiful, matched chrome alloy, grant while preparing and editing the "close to General Donovan" in the absolutely the best. Complete range of 21 sockets from \ in . thru 7 A16in. in H in. drive and 7/16 in. thru 1951 I.P.R. sponsored book called The O.S.S. while paying his communist 1-1/16 in. in « in. drive; 2 exten- tions, reversible in. ratchet, State of Asia. Called in by the State party dues to her; and Michael Green- adaptor bit. slide head, all angle coupling, 2 end wrenches Sin speeder handle and sturdy metal tool box. Department as a consultant. Attended berg, a Britisher who became an as- For professional mechanics who want the best. *-lU«*3C1C QC Wt. 14 lbs. Easily worth $41.50. While they last ...... Send 10c for Big Surplus Catalog. Free with order the State Department October 1949 sistant to Lauchlin Currie at the White All items brand new-Prices f.o.b. Chicago area Money back guarantee. Send check or M. O. conference where, according to the House. It is reported that Greenberg

Master Mechanic Co., Dept. 31A, Burlington, Wis. sworn testimony of Professor Cole- is now selling neckties in London. grove, he and Owen Lattimore of Johns Louis Budenz, while confirming Miss Free Hopkins University, advocated the im- Bentley's testimony and that of others mediate recognition of the Chinese with regard to many of the above roster Catalog communist government, and "favored of names, added some more. According Just off the press! his Fully illustrated. 96 the communist line rather than the good to testimony Owen Lattimore was pages, showing special fishing tackle, foot- interests of America." appointed as early as 1937 by the Politi- wear, clothing and forty-eight other leather Dr. Chao Tmg-chi, proposed Chinese cal Bureau of the American Communist and canvas specialties delegate "initiate supervise of our own manufacture. communist to the United Na- Party to or the matter L. L. Bean, Inc. tions; appointed in 1942 as General of having writers and authors and people 29 Main St. Freeport Maine Secretary of the American-British- in public opinion" propagate the line Mfrs. Fishing and Chinese currency stabilization Fund, that the Chinese communists were dem- ' Camping Specialties gO * The American Legion Magazine • March. 1952 ocrats and agrarian reformers. This was millions by schools, government agen- done, said Budenz, because unlike Field, cies, business concerns and our Armed SUCCESSFUL... Lattimore's connections with the com- Forces. Don't let deafness rob munist party were not known and he At this point it is necessary briefly you of success and was "supposed to have quite an influ- to examine the far-reaching influence happiness! Do as thousands have done ence in the publishing world." Budenz of the Institute of Pacific Relations. In —see your nearest also testified that T. A. Bisson was its report on the years 1941 to 1943 it appointed in 1943 to launch the all- claimed that its libraries were "exclu- MAICO out propaganda attack on Chiang Kai- sively used by officials from a dozen HEARING shek inaugurated by Moscow that year, [government] departments"; that its CONSULTANT which he did in the I.P.R. publication. staff members "gave freely of their

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(3) Land of the Soviets, which justi- Amazing Invention fied and praised Stalin's blood purges "/ Have Earned an Average of of the thirties, represented the Russian Defros ts Refrigerators communist dictatorship as a "democ- racy" in which "the people" own and 2 run the land and factories and "the tI5-9»"H0UR Pays Salesmen Up To worker is at the top of the social scale." with Science's New Midget Miracle, $210.00 a Week/ Henry Wallace's pamphlet called the PRESTO Fire Extinguisher No wonder our salesmen are get- (4) tins so rich and happy, with 29,000,000 eager prospects for Our Job in the Pacific, written for him the sensational Patented D-Frost- O-Matic that defrosts refrigerators by Owen Lattimore's wife, which de- Wydallis, FA-cry Night without much fuss or Says William F. Ohio bother. Saves electricity, wear on refrigerator, food and work. scribed Soviet Asia as "a great area of Many Others "Cleaning Up" You, too, should make up to $2 lO.OO a week on our FREE freedom." —So Can YOU! TRIAL plan that clinches up to 4 orders out of 5. paying you up to 57. OO each. While disseminating this thinly dis- AMAZING new kind of few hours In an evening fire extinguisher. Tiny Start Spare Time. Yes, lust a W. F Wydallis should pay you up to $18.00 PROFITI Just plug In guised "Presto" (about size of a D-Frost-O-Matic — women communist propaganda to the extinguishers flashlight ! I docs job of bulky won't let you take it out. Armed Forces, the universities, the that cost 4 times as much, are 8 times as Profits Guaranteed. No heavy. Ends tires fast as 2 seconds. Fits in risk — if you don't find tills Never corrodes. Guaranteed the most fascinating, best schools and the public, the I.P.R. con- palm of hand. paying business you ever for 20 years! Sells for only $3.98! owners heard of we'll refund every tinued to publish a quarterly magazine Show it to civil defense workers; cent you paid for your of homes, cars, boats, farms, etc., and to initial order. Rush name and address called Pacific Affairs, sponsored by its stores for re-sale — make good income. II. on postcard TODAY for J Ken- reports $20 a dav. C. Kama, $1,000 generous FREE TRIAL plan. "international" secretariat, and a bi- a month. Write for FREE Sales Kit. No ob- ligation. MERLITE INDUSTRIES, Inc.. monthly. Far Eastern Survey, under the Dept. 293. 201 East 16th St., New York 3, N. Y. IN CANADA: Mopa Co.. Ltd.. 371 Science's DSMffO aegis of its American Council. Dowd St.. Montreal 1. P. Q. (If you want These New Midget demonstrator, Miracle — a regular Presto to use as a publications generally reflected the ••PRESTO" send $2.50. Money back if you wish.)

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ran Committee, there is an article by MrniiUTiUT Joe Barnes published in the Atlantic EAT ANYTHING Monthly in January 1937 and called "The American Dream." It is an out- WITH FALSE TEETH Executive Accountants and C. P. A 's earn $4,000 to $10,000 a yei standing exhibit of the Comintern's ; of firms , We train you thoroly at ho time for C. P. A's < ns or executive accounting positic If you have trouble with plates that

. Personal (rainini,' nihIit super* i- Previous experience rv success after it adopted its "Trojan sore — try of staff of C. P. A'i nt counsel and help. Write for 1 siip, rock and cause gums book, "Accountancy, the Horse" strategy for the capture of the Brimnis Plasti - Liner. One applica- LASALLE Extension University. 417 So. Dearborn St tion makes plates fit snugly without A Correspondence Institution Dept. 336 1 H. Chicago 5, III. citadels of the "capitalist world," by ponder or paste, because Brimms Plasti-Liner hardens permanently to instructing its adherents to pose as your plate. Itrelines and refits loose powder or paste can do. Even on liberals or progressive radicals. For Mr. plates in a way no old rubber plates you get good results six months Sim- DO YOU SUFFER Barnes in this article represented the to a year or longer. YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING ! ply lay soft strip of Plasti-Liner on troublesome American communists as the party of upper or lower. Bite and it molds perfectly. Easy odorless, harmless to you and your RHEUMATISM? the "sons and daughters of the Ameri- to use, tasteless, ARTHRITIS? NEURITIS? SCIATICA? plates. Removable as directed. Money back if not can Revolution," and as "spiritual in- completely satisfied. SEND NO MONEY. Order a $ 1 .25 send for FREE BOOK package to reline one plate. Pay your postman when fathers." send money now and save C. O. p. - which reveals why drugs and heritors of the founding He he delivers. Or charges. Sample of plate cleaner FREE. Also avail- ...edicines give only temporary relief also eulogized Earl Browder's "zeal for at leading drug stores. PIASTI-LINER COMPANY, and fail to remove causes; explains a specialized able Buffalo 1 N. Y., Dept. 28-E. non-surgical, non-medical treatment which has American democracy," and compared 1, proven successful for 33 years. Write today. him to Daniel Webster; and he hailed PLASTI-LINER BALL CLINIC. Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. BRIMMS the "mass desertions" of American in- THE PERMANENT DENTURE RELINER

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tellectuals from the "standards of a Mr. Jessup included Alger Hiss, Harry dial unity of action" in an endeavor to business society" to seek "freedom and Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, Owen carry out "the policy of the Com- security" by emulating Soviet Russia Lattimore, John Carter Vincent, and mander in Chief of the United States with its "promise of abundance" and Joseph Barnes. and the Senate." Wallace testified that its "rising standard of living." Henry Wallace, for whatever he may he had permitted a writer for the com- The trustees, executives, and staff of be, cannot be ignored since he had a munist Daily Worker called Andrew the I.P.R. were not exaggerating the name well worth exploiting by the So- T. Steiger to write the book called importance and influence of this "re- viet propagandists in the I.P.R. His testi- Soviet Asia Mission which was pub- search" institute when they appealed mony before the McCarran Committee lished under his name, because Mr. for donations or subscriptions to the was both funny and infinitely sad, since Steiger had been "raised in the Luther- wealthy foundations and corporations it is hardly a cause for mirth that a an Church" and because "he seemed which supported it. As late as October former Vice President of the United to be a man of deep religious convic-

1949, when the I.P.R. 's analysis of the States let himself be used as a vcntrilo- tions" who felt that the book he was nature and aims of the Chinese commu- going to write under Wallace's name nists had already been proved utterly DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND would "further the friendly relation- who ought to have a subscription to the wrong, the State Department saw fit to ship between the United States and Legion Magazine? If you send $1.50 to- call a conference of experts to advise it Russia." gether with his name and address to — on its China policy which included such Perhaps Mr. Wallace in his danger- The American Legion Magazine I.P.R. supporters of the Chinese ous dumbness affords the main clue to com- Circulation Department influence exerted by the munists as Owen Lattimore and Law- 700 North Pennsylvania the disastrous rence Rosinger, while failing to extend Indianapolis, Indiana communists on American policy. an invitation to all but a tiny minority it will bring him a year's subscription. Reading the record of the McCarran of the authorities on the Far East who Committee hearings, one no longer were opposed to the recognition of Red quist's dummy by communist sympa- wonders why the United States pursued China and its admission to the United thizers. Henry Wallace not only ad- a self-defeating China policy which led Nations. The transcript of the proceed- mitted in a public hearing that he had inevitably to the futile war in Korea ings of this now famous State Depart- not written the books which appeared which has already cost us more than ment conference was kept secret until under his name, he actually excused 100,000 casualties. One is instead aston- Harold Stassen, testifying before the himself from responsibility for the con- ished that the Republic was not long Senate Foreign Relations Committee tents of his writings on the ground that since delivered over to its enemies by against the confirmation of Philip Jes- he had only contributed a small portion Stalin's powerful Fifth Column in sup as delegate to the United Nations, of them himself. And he further at- America. God grant that the American presented his own private record of the tempted to justify himself by the argu- people will awaken in time to the men- proceedings. According to official tran- ment that in lending his name to K ing ace which the Senate Committee under script as read out by Mr. Stassen at his propaganda about the he Senator Pat McCarran's able and hon- second appearance before the McCarran was merely achieving "a cherished cor- est chairmanship is revealing, the end Committee, Philip Jessup, presiding over this State Department conference, sug- gested "taking up the recognition of VETERAN'S SCHOOL AND the communist government in China." And General Fortier, in his testimony HI! I FOE DIRECTORY PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE BIG, ILLUSTRATED CATALOG NOW! No obligation. Graduates report making before the McCarran Committee, stated up to $1000 monthly. Start and run your own business iicjiiiiiiiiiinc: quickly. Men, women of all ages, learn easily. Course covers that Jessup had told him on a visit to Sales. Property Management, Appraising, Loans, Mortgages, hundreci; of related subjects. 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Write now lor Illustrated Become A Hotel Executive? t ii ^.JF Book—FREE. nition of communist China" and that it The College of Swedish Massage Dept. 2 7 5C, 41 E.Pearson, Chicago 11 The success of Lewis Gradu- was therefore "inconceivable" that he ates proves you can qualify for fascinating hotel and club field could have made the remark attributed or essential defense housing Lenin ud. My and cafeteria positions. Oppor- LEARN position to him by Stassen. first tunities everywhere for both s us M t of a line Nnv young and mature. Previous shall Whom we believe? In order to MEAT CUTTING York hotel." experience proved unnecessary. F. Duval — at home. decide we must at least take Train in spare time cognizance through actual practice. Profit- Nationwide Placement Service of the fact that Mr. Jessup had no able Meat Cutting, Meat Mer- FREE of extra charge. 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I ) 32-paee NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING booknook rr.ttFREE O Sirs: Rush without charge. 1 fying before the McCarran Committee. e |)ook wl(h Hst of v g Government jobs; O how to qualify for one. Dept. A-23 Toledo 4, Ohio Mail Coupon (2) Tell me The names of Today. / Name • • • • those recommended by SURE. ' Address Age? The American Legion Magazine • March, 1952 • g3 about it, too, so she didn't tell me a thing about it. Wasn't that thoughtful of her?" "In fact," he added, "I never would have known about it if I hadn't found the fel- low hiding in her closet the other night." — Hugh Thomas

Parting Shots BLUE PLATE BLUES Carrots-and-peas! Carrots-and-peas! Why is that mixture a table-dote fixture? Ain't there no vegetables other than these? GIFT OF THE GODS Restaurant-keepers, French, Greek,

Will power is a wondrous gift; Viennese, Heroes it wakes of fools and clowns, Chinese, Armenian, Yankee, Burmese, Charts life's rough seas for those adrift, From mountains of Greenland to tropical And holds up strapless evening gowns.' keys, — Avery Giles As the skirmish began, one of this group Have a heart, please, ran forward to join the fighting, bolo in Can't you. serve nuttin' with beef, pork or mutton. ALMOST PERFECT hand. About ten minutes later we saw him Chicken or liver or fish from the seas, A father read over a list of five questions again. He was wearing Japanese shoes, coat But constant, conglomerate carrots-and- which his small son was called upon to and hat and was carrying a Japanese rifle, peas? answer in school that day. ammunition and grenades. Now a fully Dully, diurnally "Did you miss any of the five?" asked equipped guerrilla, he watched his former Ever, eternally the father. fellow recruits approach. As they came Carrots-and-peas — carrots-and-peas! "Yes," replied the boy, "I missed the first within earshot we heard him yell in Eng- — Berton Br a ley two and the last three." — P. K. Thomjan lish. "Hey, you damn civilians, keep out of BET HE DIDN'T REDUCING the way! Do you want to get yourselves A man was relating to friends the story killed?" —Hugh Bryce Brooks of his near-drowning while he was on his Reducing is a simple art — summer vacation. There's really nothing to it, "As I was going down for the third When tempted by attractive food — YELLOW LIGHT time," he said impressively, "a hundred Eschew it! Remember, when you lake the wheel, pictures of my past life raced before my — I aye Givens Watson This hit of common sense: mind." A tree will hit an automobile. "Is that so?" interrupted a listener. "Now, But just in self-defense. CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN that's veiy interesting. Tell me, you didn't — Ruth T. Stamper happen to notice lending you that During the late stages of the Battle of me hundred dollars back in the spring of 1938, Luzon, a squad from our reconnaissance SECRET SERVICEMAN did you?" — Dan Bennett platoon volunteered to join a company of Igorot guerrillas on a combat patrol. Our Two big businessmen eating lunch to- THEY BURN ME UP job was to use our radio to call for artillery gether got to talking about how thoughtful support when it was needed. and considerate their respective wives were. (Especially at Midnight) As we moved out we noticed a small "As you know," one of them bragged, I'd find my neighbors more attractive group of breech-clouted civilians following "my wife annually ranks in the first ten of If they were not so radio-active. along. A guerrilla regular explained that the Best Dressed Women in the United — M. M. Parrish they were recruits, called "bolo men" after States. Well, here lately she has been aw- the wicked-looking knives they carried. As fully worried for fear someone would steal CITY BOY soon as arms and uniforms were available some of her expensive clothes. She even The visitor to the dude ranch decided these men would be inducted. went so far as to hire a man to guard them to go horse-back riding. Shortly after, snipers opened up. for her! But she didn't want to worry enemy me "Do you prefer an English saddle or a Western saddle?" asked the cowboy at- tendant. "What's the difference?" asked the ten- derfoot. "Well," explained the cowboy, "the Western saddle has a horn."

"I don't think I'll need the horn," said the Easterner. "I won't be riding in any traffic." — F. G. Kernan

HIT AND RUN

As I move down the aisle without tunning and guile. All my skill as a driver is tested. Bumper to bumper, past pusher and thumper, The traffic is rough and congested. When I sit at the wheel of an automobile, It is easy to drive or to park it. But I can't seem to learn how to twist or to turn The cart in the new Super-Market. — Harry Lazarus

LIFE PAYMENT

Alimony is a matter of wife and debt. — Marjorie L. Abrahams :

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