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THE AMERICAN SEE PAGE 20... IS OUR CONSTITUTION DOOMED ?

MAGAZINE You can stop the trend toward a socialistic United States MBER 1952

The Constitution of the United States and the Deelaration of Independence in the Library of Congress ". . . We moved out on the porch and

hashed the ball game over . . .Jim still said he

should have bunted . . . Sally said he

was right to swing at it . . . then we all allowed the game was history

. . . that it was time to bring out the Schlitz." 9 Schlitz is the beer that looks, acts, and tastes the way most Americans like beer. Sprightly stand-up character, that comes from Schlitz know-how in handling the sensitive ingredients of beer. That clean taste — that matchless flavor — that subtle tang that comes from just the kiss of the hops. No wonder more people prefer {and buy) Schlitz than any other beer.

If you like beer you'll love Schlitz

On TV every week enjoy the popular Schlitz " Playhouse of Stars".

See your newspaper for time and station.

The beer that made Milwaukee famous 1924 CHRYSLER— the first Chrysler — was a sensation when it was introduced. Its new, high compression (for those days) engine produced 70 horsepower and guaranteed a top speed of 75 miles an hour. CARS RUN THEIR RESTON THE REST GASOLINE

Over two thousand makes of cars have been built in 1929 RUXTON claimed to be Amer- the U. S. in the past sixty years. Only twenty are ica's first front-wheel-drive car. Only five feet high, it was distinc- left. These are the ones that answered motorists' de- tive when the "long, low silhou- mands for greater reliability, comfort and perform- ette"wasmorea phrasethan a fact. ance. Car buyers always seem to want a more powerful car than the one they are trading in. Today, you can get the power you want from modern high compression engines and "Ethyl" gasoline. 1931 MARMON was modestly an- "Ethyl" gasoline is high octane gasoline. It helps nounced at a price "under $5,000." engines their The big 16-cylinder aluminum en- modern develop top power and economy. gine developed 200 horsepower. That's why millions of motorists stop at the pump It was really something to drive. with the familiar yellow-and-black "Ethyl" emblem. They've proved to themselves there is a powerful difference between gasoline and "Ethyl" gasoline.

1937 BANTAM was designed to sell ETHYL for around $400. The car was only CORPORATION a little over six feet long, weighed New York 17, New York 1,200 pounds, and was powered by Ethyl Antiknock Ltd., in Canada a twenty-horsepower engine.

1952 CHRYSLER features the spectacular 180-horsepower FirePower engine. This engine is designed to "develop full compression, full combustion and full work from every drop of fuel." . ,

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

VOL. 53 No. 3

CONTENTS FOIt SEPTEMBER, lf>52

THE HARD GUY (fiction) 11 BY CHARLES SHEA The story of a man who was looking for trouble.

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The American Legion Magazine is the official IS OUR CONSTITUTION DOOMED? 20 publication of The Ameri- BY WILLIAM LaVARRE can Legion and is owned exclusively by The Ameri- The attack is on property rights. can Legion. Copyright 1952 by The American Legion. Published month- COUNTRY FAIR 22 ly al 1 100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Acceptance Photographs of a great American institution. for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in

Section 1 103, Act of Oct. CLAP HANDS! 24 3, 1917, authorized Jan. BY BERTON BRALEY 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- Very often applause doesn't just happen. tion, $1.50. Entered as second class matter June 30, 1 948. at the Post THAT'S NOT FAT, THAT'S MUSCLE 26 Office at Louisville, Ky., under the Act of March BY COL. GEORGE REINH ARDT 1879. Non-member sub- 3, An army needs more than front-line fighters. scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Depart- ment of The American Legion Magazine, P. O. Til i\ NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE 29-36 Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. EXECUTIVE AND Features ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Indianapolis 6, Indiana SOUND OFF! 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB ... 28 EDITORIAL AND

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URGENTLY NEEDED: A NAME article on Alfred Kohlbcrg. He has long deserved appreciation from true Americans Sir: I have been corresponding with lead- interested in America and her welfare and ers of industry, publishers, Congressmen dignity. I happened to be a listener to the and others regarding the use of the term lies put out through the Institute of Pacific "handicapped" as it is used in connection Relations in its sessions at Mills College with millions of workers with some defi- through the years. The much maligned ciency but with the ability and experience, Chiang Kai-shek towers far above such or aptitude, to perform competitive work weasels as Owen Lattimore, Hiss and all in all fields of endeavor. Alost of them their ilk. Matilda Davis agree that the term "handicapped" is psy- Oakland, Calif. chologically negative and a handicap to the

job seeker. It is felt that if a better term is CAN'T IT BOTH found, it would be of immeasurable help HAVE WAYS to the Legion's rinding suitable program of Sir: In the July issue is a story on Alfred jobs for workers with some impairment or Kohlberg and his running fight with the deficiency. Maybe your readers can help. revolutionary left in the State Department. Maurice O'Connor Next to it is a story on free or almost free Oak Park, III. vacations in the National Forests. You

T Here is a great challenge for all of you can't have it both ways. If the Russophile with a facility to coin names. Can you think communists in State are enemies of the of a greater reward than the knowledge people, so are the strcngth-through-joy so- that the right word can help a lot of worthy cialists in Agriculture. You get nothing people to a better future? The Editors free from government. It can give out only what it has previously taken directly by taxation or indirectly by inflation. Robert P. Campbell Detroit

VOTE FOR SATAN

Sir: If Mrs. R.E.G., whose letter was published in July, thinks that this administration is above criticism then she must be a complete fool, or a person who would vote for Satan if he ran on the party ticket. IN THE CLUTCHES Mrs. N. Bostwick Visalia, Calif. Sir: How does the so-called "free Ameri- can citizen" get released from the clutches CLUTTERED NATIONAL PARKS of the military? Having previously served three years and being assured of not being Sir: I am still burning over your article on

recalled except in case of an all-out war, I, National Parks vacations in the July issue. with thousands of others, was recalled to I went home to Oregon on my vacation a active duty in September 1950 from the couple of years ago and found the state so Inactive Reserve. Being one of the few cluttered with Texans, Brooklynitcs and

luck)' ones, I was released from active duty other Easterners that I could hardly find in July 1951. But are we free yet? Oh no! standing room in some of the places you By another Act of Congress all the reserves describe. This is largely due to the irre- are frozen for another year and the un- sponsible publicity given the West by lucky ones still on active duty have no magazines of wide circulation. If and when It** f MIDGET TREES! hope of getting out for from 12 to 24 I transfer out of this hell-hole I want to to the beautiful «T HOME!- SPARE TIME! - NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! months. But are we at war? Oh no! The go back unspoiled place I It s New! Amazing' FULL GROWN U.S. isn't at war, but American boys are left five years ago. living dwarf trees — only 12 INCHES (Name withheld) HIGH! Elm. orance, oak. cypress—any dying and losing eyes, kind! All BLOOM and even BEAR arms, etc., every Eagle Pass, Texas FRUIT. Perfect, healthy specimens, but miniature! Make costly home dec day. What is it— Far East Maneuvers? orations and beautiful expensive cen terpieces Isold for over S1.500 each' John B. Egan ai TWO MOVIE LISTS Ifs easy! Fun! A. new fascinating tistic HOBBY — a new fabulous Island Pond, Vt. BUSINESS' Real seed and sensational new growing secret plan details. BOTH Sir: I suggest that the National American- FREE! ism Commission compile two lists and send CONGRATULATIONS TO KUHN copies to every Legion Post. The first list Sir: Congratulations to you and Irene Cor- should contain the names of offensive mo- NATIONAL NURSERY GARDENS, Dept. AL9 8463 S. Van Ness • inglewood 4, Calif. bally Kuhn for her well written and factual tion pictures and the pinks and reds who

4 • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 had anything to do with them. The second ONE VOTE names of pictures f list should contain the Sir: I was pleased to see the National Com- which really portray our American way mander's article on the importance of of life, and those which expose the degra- registering and voting in all elections. As a dation of communism, fascism, nazism and former elected official of Montclair I can the other isms of fear and hate. That list testify as to the necessity of even one vote. too should name those actors and other During my campaign in May 1948 there contributors who are good Americans and were eleven candidates to fill five offices. who have made a real effort to destroy and The total vote cast was 13,104, about 60 expose these insidious isms. A "BITE" or snack percent of the registration. Of that number John H. P. Cilley, III after a dance, movie, one of my opponents received 6285 and I Newton, N. C. or during a TV received the same. The tie was resolved, show is always fun! according to the laws of the State of New about Jersey, by the drawing of our names by lot by a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Please again urge your readers to vote. One vote does count. "BITE" in tobacco is John H. Halpin never any fun! Prince "Bite' Albert is specially Montclair, N. ]. treated to insure against tongue bite! Gl MAKES GOOD

Sir: I am sure that your readers will be happy and most interested to learn of the success that the Purple Heart Ex-Navy WELCOME TO CHURCH veteran, Steve Mitchell is making in mov- Sir: In reply to William R. Sullivan, who ing pictures. The anti-communist film, said he felt ill at ease in strange churches. Walk East On Beacon is the important

I have visited many churches, Protestant vehicle in which veteran Steve Mitchell and Catholic, and I have never felt ill at makes his initial debut in the role of the ease or not welcome. People that go to Russian spy-kidnapper. He had previously church to worship their Heavenly Father appeared on many major television pro- and not to visit the people usually feel grams following training in New York's welcome. Helen Houghton leading Theatre schools under the GI Bill. Webster Grove, Mo. At seventeen, Steve ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He saw Sir: I sorry that Air. Sullivan has been am action in practically every major naval en- made ill at ease in any church. I can guar- gagement in the Pacific. Steve still carries antee him cordial treatment here in Etna. around in his thighs some pieces of a \Yc Catholic, Protestant have and Mormon Kamikaze that exploded nearby during the churches here, and he will be made wel- Iwo Jima landings. I feel certain that come in any one or all of them. American Legion veterans will wish every Rupert E. Lee Wixom success to their former buddy-in-arms who Etna, Calif. will make them as proud of him as we his Sir: It might be suggested that Mr. Sullivan friends are. Hal Jacques get on The American Legion band wagon New Hyde Park, N. Y. and get to the church of his choice more often, and do something within and for the organization. Hugh M. Reynolds Springfield, Mass. Pleasure's In NO BLOODMOBILE

Sir: Every day I see or hear people say, ihereb more "Give blood, give blood." How can we of ROMAN BAGPIPERS the smaller towns give blood if the Blood- mobile unit never comes? It has been to Sir: As a point of information to all the iobaccoin other towns no larger than ours several Scots and Irish who wrote about bagpipes times. Lots of us young mothers with small recently, let me point out that Italians of children would gladly give blood if only the southern section also use them. In fact, every tin given a chance. Mrs. R. S. Romans introduced the use of bagpipes to Brodhead, Wise. both Scots and Irish more than 2000 years THE NATIONAL ago. R. A. Inierti JOY SMOKE Glen Cove, N. Y. ARMY VS. CIVILIANS

Sir: I can recall the time when one good SCORE: WE WIN • Once you've tried P. A., you'll never first sergeant and a company commander Sir: Speaking of news suppression, what want to smoke any other tobacco! Crimp could run their cut and mild. Prince Albert is treated organization w ithout any about the aerial dog-fights over Korea assistance with the patented* "No-Bite" process to from the civilian population. every day? According to the papers, the assure you of greater smoking comfort! Now it appears that they are hiring every LT nited Nations are always winning, out- Whether you smoke a pipe or roll your civilian in the U.S. to run the army for us. side of one instance when the reds were own, you'll enjoy every puff of P. A.! Why? What has happened to the WAC? supposed to have shot down five of our •Process patented July 30. 1907 I thought they were organized to help the planes to their four. Yet I've seen other male soldiers receive more training, etc. reports where we have lost over three MORE MEN SMOKE Are officers, we GIs and WACs so dumb times as many planes as the communists. that we have to hire every civilian to help, As Lawrence H. Boling, of Flushing, N. Y., aid and assist us? No wonder our taxes are said, "This must be an election year." so high- (Name withheld) Darrell Bennett Prince Albert

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From where I sit 6y Joe Marsh BUDDY BUDDY STUFF On June 25th Oxford University handed the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law to our Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. In his speech of presentation to our Yank at Oxford, the public orator of As a the university, T. F. Higham, said: "Unum hoc scio, hunc virum in tempori- bus difficilimis at plurimum videntem in- veniri et omni negotio parem et amicis Matter of Fact . . amicum." Translated:

"This alone I know, that in most difficult Out of all the newspaper and maga- times our guest has proved himself a man of great vision, equal to any task, a true zine columns I read, the ones that I friend of his friends.'" Italics ours. enjoy most are those that pack in a The public orator must have read Dean's famous remark: whole lot of facts unrelated facts, — "I will not turn my back on Alger Hiss." but each one an interesting bit of in- THE RED DEAN'S GERMS formation in itself. The notorious Red Dean, Rev. Hewlett These columns go something like Johnson, of England, is at it again. Back from a trip to Red China, he is mouthing this: "Did you know that humpback another of Stalin's Big Lies, this one accus- whales are addicted to snoring? That ing United States forces of germ warfare. For years the Red Dean has been a highly bees have been bred with red, brown, articulate propagandist for communism, and recently Herbert Philbrick, former and buff-color eyes? FBI plant in the party, told in a New York article how in 1948 the "Did you know that lead can be Herald Tribune reds in this country coordinated their ac- converted to gold — at a cost of tivities with those of the Dean. Which brings to mind that in 1948 the 555- $1,000,000 an ounce? That a Red Dean announced that he was coming it was pound fat girl went on a diet once and to the United States, and since obvious that lie w as up to no good the then lost 401 pounds in 12 months? That National Commander of our organization protested to our State Department. The chrysanthemum has been developed a protest was summarily brushed aside since, that smells exactly like a violet?" of course, only the powers-that-be in State were competent to deal with such matters. From where I sit, maybe I'm a kind Besides there was an election coming up. of "Johnny-one-note." My own col- GET IT RIGHT umns always seem to revolve around We are greatly impressed by the cur- one idea — a plea for us to make sure rent advertising slogan of the Neil) York Times, "Get the News and Get It Right." we respect the other fellow's rights— Now we'd like to present a sample. In the like the right to vote for your own Times of May 23rd, their Hollywood man, Thomas M. Pry or, reported: choice or the right to enjoy a glass of "Mr. Johnston arranged the conference beer now and then. I may not be in follow ing the publication in the Legion's magazine of several articles attacking the style, but I believe my one fact is movie industry for continuing to employ worth repeating— and remembering! suspected or alleged Communists and calling upon Legion posts ro picket any films in which suspected persons were involved." What Mr. Pryor was talking about was a meeting of movie executives and American Legion representatives to discuss the problem of communism in the industry. Mr. Pryor, incidentally, disapproved of this sort of thing. Copyright, 1952, United States Brewers Foundation But we're still trying to find those "sev- g • The American Legion Magazine • September. 1952 eral articles" he mentions. This magazine published one article, entitled Did the Movies Really Clean House!'' and it appeared in December 1951. No other movie article was published in this magazine between that date and June 1949. Further, this magazine lias never suggested that Legion- naires should picket any motion pictures.

It is not surprising that the misstatement didn't end w ith the Times. In The New Republic for June 16th, Phil Kcrby stated: "The meeting was arranged by Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, after the Legion magazine had published a scries of articles accusing the studios of continuing to employ Communists or suspected Communists. The magazine, much to the consternation of industry leaders, advocated the picketing of all films in which suspected persons were involved." That other great "liberal" journal, The Nation, chimed in on June 28th w ith the following w ritten by one "X'': "The American Legion for some time has had a proscribed list which feeds the hungry maw of The American Legion Magazine whenever that publication feels the need for more red meat in its diet."

UP AT CAMBRIDGE

The junior journalists of Harvard are at

it again. This time they've come up with a special "Academic Freedom" issue of the Crimson in which they pull out all the stops against those who dislike having communists and pro-commies in the teaching profession. The Legion, of course, comes in for special attention for having opposed some of the darlings of the Crimsonitcs,

but that is all right with us. One of these days the Harv ard boys are likely to find themselves in uniform fighting against people of the stripe they are now so ar- dently defending.

NEW NAME FOR YOU Prest o lite hi It's almost as if the commies had a Vice President in Charge of Name-Calling. Let an individual or an organization strike out

at them and it isn't long before a name is coined to ridicule the person or group. Then all the lefties in the country pick up the refrain, the nasty word starts appearing in quarters usually considered respectable, and soon the public falls for the act. Now* it's no secret that the commies and The American Legion don't see eye to eye on many matters—approximately 100% to be exact. So it's obvious that they had to have a name for us, a real scorcher too.

Recently they came up with it, and it's starting to make the customary rounds. But we're disappointed. In view of their past efforts, they show a deplorable lack of inspiration in the epithet they're now tossing around — super-patriots. They seem to have got things more twisted than usual. Possibly the reds are off/a ffmess reading the wrong schedule for their self- S mrIN NORMAL CAR 0USE MM gW proclaimed world conquest, but Americans

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1902 / 1 19 ard Guy

Joe hated everything about the post office

job, decided to do something about it.

By CHARLES SHEA

He knew how people looked at him as he dragged his bad leg

walked up High Street slowly. nursemaid to the U. S. Mai Joe He didn't want to go into the grimy Registered mail, at that—the great white building at the corner of ulcer maker. The pro's are scared Church. He hated the building, the stiff of "red mail." They believe people in it and that corny motto the stories about the G-Alen. But carved on the outside about the car- G-Men don't bother me one way riers and the swift completion of their or the other. appointed rounds. The building was only half a block The post office, he thought; what a away now and Joe wanted desperately joke. Joe Collins, the pride of veterans' to stay out in the warming spring sun- hospitals from coast to coast, playing shine. The trees that had managed to When he straightened, he saw the girl looking at his twisted left hand with the two fingers missing. He jerked his hand out of sight.

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evade the sprawling path of progress in downtown Hartford were Of the fifteen outgoing sacks, sparkling with the tender greenness of had missed four numbers. new leaves. Hope, thought Joe; that's what they said in school. Springtime brings hope Joe was halfway up the eight steps to all living things. Call a room at the when a whistle announced to the world

"Y" iii a strange town living, and I've that the lunch hour was over. He hadn't still got about as much hope as a crap quite made it. shooter going for Little Joe. Carney'll probably raise hell, he When he came to the government thought. But he knew that Carney building, he said to himself: O.K., hero. wouldn't. Carney would overlook it. These are stairs. Remember all the Just like everybody else had been over- hours in physical therapy, now, and looking his faults since he started in let's go. the registry over a week ago. He started up the stairs. Joe pushed open the door of the Good foot, drag. Good foot, drag. building and headed down the terraz- Good foot, drag; you're doin' great. zoed hall. Behind him dust particles )

floated in the shafts of sunlight that "Three, F, seven, nine, six." This is chuckled to himself as he thought of came through the tall windows at the living? wondered Joe. Stuffed in this the old hospital stand-by: She's my type south end of the corridor to give the decaying post office with a doddery old —female. scene a cathedral-like air. guy and young Kingsley who's already "Ed, anything for Grieg Small Tool?"

Just like in church, thought Joe, as starting to grow a postman's pouch, "Two so far. Wait'll I go through he passed the door marked Superinten- thanks to the little woman's cooking. the rest of these." Kingsley thumbed dent of Mails. Then he chuckled when And both these jokers try to be polite. through the few remaining letters he he remembered that the Superintendent Why don't they hurry up and start ask- was holding. "That's all of it, Joe." of Mails was called Monk Dolan. The ing the questions? They generally do "Thanks." Joe took the letters from Iron Monk, they call him, he mused. after three days or three beers. These the other clerk and started for the But even The Monk wouldn't say any- guys must be deader than they look. window. thing to me for being late. I'm a dis- "—check. That does it, Joe." Kingsley "Hey, Joe." abled veteran. Twenty-seven operations initialed the manifold bill and then "Yeah?" Ed's voice stopped him. in six years. I've got one leg and part stamped it with the hand postmark. "Is it that little black-haired chick?" of a hand missing to prove I'm heaven- Joe realized he'd been daydreaming. "That's right." Joe felt his jaw tight- protected. You see, boss, you gotta feel Better watch that skylarking, he told en. What's the matter with these sorry for me. You gotta give me the himself. Make a mistake on the right crumbs, can't they leave anything snap jobs. red letter and it could mean more free alone? He waited for a comment from Nobody going along the cool first- lodging, courtesy of the government. Kingsley but none came. floor corridor paid any attention to And this time there'd be no ward boys Back at the window Joe said, "Two Joe's awkward stride. But just as he was to serve breakfast in bed. for Grieg today." He put the letters about to go through the door labeled "You watch the window. I'll put these on the counter and reached for the

"Registry Section— Keep Out," a little up." Ed started for the case where the yellow receipt slips under it with his girl tugged at her mother's skirt and letters were sorted to their proper des- good hand. When he straightened, he pointed at him. tinations. saw the girl looking at his twisted left Joe had heard it before. The kid was "I'll sort 'em, Ed." Joe knew that the hand with the two fingers missing. He probably saying, "Look how funny the junior clerk was expected to do the jerked the hand out of sight. man walks, Mommy." They didn't tell heavy work. The girl was noticeably embarrassed. you about "the little things" at the hos- "That's all right, Joe. Take it easy." "My brother was in service," she said pital, did they, hero? he asked himself. Ed went around the case. almost apologetically. "Glad you made it, son." Carney, Joe sat down on the high stool by the Joe was copying the registered num- white-haired after nineteen years in the barred window that opened onto the bers from the letters onto the receipt. postal service, greeted him. corridor where the public could call for "Congratulations." "Sorry I'm late, Mr. Carney." their mail. He could hear the letters Ed "Oh." She said it like the wind had "That's all right. A couple of minutes was sorting thud lightly as they hit the been knocked out of her. won't hurt. You and Kingsley check in back of the case. "Sign here, please." that 12:37 sack from Windsor." Take it easy, hero, he thought. Well, While she scribbled her name on the

"O.K." You were right again, hero, anyhow, this is better than listening to X's line, Joe made a quick appraisal. Joe told himself. You ought to tell his gaff about that kid of his. And it's Hers was that olive-skinned beauty that fortunes. better than the questions. Maybe I ought he'd always thought of as being mys- At the other end of the cage, as they to volunteer a little information. Let's terious. If she hadn't worn the bright called the wired-in registry section, Joe see: Joseph R. Collins. Born: Collins- yellow wisp of a kerchief at her throat, found Ed Kingsley waiting. vHle, Conn. Grew up: Okinawa Island, she would have almost blended into the I hope this jerk doesn't start on home Pacific Ocean. Age: twenty-six. Ado- dusk of the corridor. life and the little woman, Joe thought. lescence: Well, there was a frowsy "Here you are." The girl laid the "Hi, Joe. Ready for that 12:37?" blonde in L.A. You can call that adole— pencil on the counter.

"Let's get it." "Excuse me. May I have the mail for Joe said nothing. Kingsley unlocked a sack of mail. Grieg Small Tool, please?" The girl looked directly at him and "Well, here they are." He dumped the Joe hadn't noticed the black-haired said, "You should try smilifig some time. mail onto the table, then picked up the girl in front of the window until ( Continued on page 42 manifold bill that had fluttered to the she spoke. floor. "You call the pieces. I'll check "Huh? Oh, yeah. Just a second." the bill," he said to Joe. He started around to the front of "Right. Ready? Four, eight, three, the case where Ed was working. seven." That's for me, he thought. If I

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There are $8 million in Sixty million dollars is still due 600,000 WW II Offices like those of the Veterans Admin- Dept., WW I Liberty Bonds still vets on the first NSLI insurance dividend. Some istration (above) and the Treasury uncashed, still cashable. of it is unclaimed, some is in undelivered checks. stand ready to pay off claims that are valid.

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failed to step up and collect what's coming to them. The total awaiting claimants in the Federal and State treasuries covers income tax refunds, matured government bonds, war bonuses, compensation and pensions, GI insurance dividends, and the like. A sizeable chunk of the unclaimed money is coming to veterans. But veterans aren't the only ones who seem to hate money. Nearly 1,509,000 Americans who should know better have tax refunds coming which have misfired for one reason or another, without further word from the 1,500,- 000. Only recently, after a five-year lapse, a tax refund check for $3,000 caught up with a forgetful taxpayer who failed to get his check in the mail, for lack of proper address, and left the dough languishing in a Treasury vault. The income tax refund checks — the last annual batch averages $60 — date back to 1943. At that time, the income tax base was broadening to bring in millions of new taxpayers. Withholding taxes, with automatic deduction from pay envelopes, were put into effect. After the war, tens of thousands of Americans settled down in new com- munities, severing ties with their old home towns, even to the extent of failing to leave a forwarding address with a neighbor or local post office. This neglect is the chief reason why Uncle Not until 1950 did Uncle find George Sotak, Bataan p.o.w., to pay him $1242. Sam's checks become undeliverable, according to postal officials. Most often this neglect stems from sheer forgetful- By SAM STAVISKY ness; but it's not unusual for individuals to "take it on the lam" deliberately, without hint of future address, in order The federal and State governments Elliott had given any VA office a to escape a creditor, a dominating wife, have more than half a billion dollars change of address. Sometimes a veteran a woman scorned, or simply an un- that the right people can have just by will fail to give his new address to the happy past. proving they are the right people. VA insurance division but will give it Undelivered income tax refund Back in January, 1949, the United to the claims division. But Elliott's cen- checks are considered "eternal debts" States Treasury mailed a check for $538 tral file shed no new light on his whereby the government. If you have reason to a man whom we will call Sawyer abouts. VA took the next step to locate to believe you have a refund coming to McN. Elliott, of 111-B Quagmire St., the "missing" vet by circulating a letter you — on a tax return you filed in re- Milwaukee, Wis., covering the first spe- to VA offices all over the country, ask- cent years—claim the refund by writ- cial dividend due Elliott, a World War ing if they knew where Elliott might ing to the Internal Revenue Collector II veteran, on his GI life insurance. be reached. No luck, no Elliott. in the district in which you made the The postman, on delivering the check Elliott, unaware that Uncle Sam was overpayment. If the debt to you is an to the address, discovered that Elliott vainly trying to drop $538 into his lap, old one write directly to Internal Rev- didn't live there any more, but had may have forgotten all about his GI enue Bureau, Washington, D.C., giving moved "somewhere in the Southwest" insurance dividend. Shortly after filing any pertinent information which might a few months before. The mailman then his claim for the insurance dividend, he be helpful in expediting your claim. checked to determine whether or not may have heard of a good job down at Uncle Sam will give you every as- Elliott had left a forwarding address at Las Vegas, Nevada, and never having sistance in obtaining your refund check, the post office. Elliott had not. So the been particularly happy with his Mil- but he wants to be sure that the check postal service returned the undelivered waukee job — which he'd taken right you ask for belongs to you. check to the U.S. Treasury. after the war — may have taken off for Ever since the 13 Colonies broke At Treasury, the returned check was the Southwest willy-nilly. Anyway, he away from England and established a placed in a special file of undelivered neglected to notify either VA or the free, independent nation, the United checks. Treasury also notified Veterans post office of his new address. As a re- States has been borrowing money to Administration, which had authorized sult, Uncle Sam today is still holding pay its expenses. This money has been the payment, that the veteran could not Elliott's check for $538 until he comes borrowed through the issuance of be presented with his insurance divi- around to collect. stocks, bonds, certificates, notes and dend for the lack of a proper address. His uncollected money is just a tidbit other securities. As a rule, as soon as VA then checked its Central Index, in the huge chowder-pot of green stuff these securities mature — that is, stop

in Washington, to see if the "missing" Uncle Sam is holding for folks who've bearing interest ( Continued on page 55

15 A symptom of the violence and rampant nationalism in the Moslem Stirred by rabble-rousers, with communists not far in the backgrounc world is this Tunisian demonstration against the French this year. saboteurs have been active. This Tunisian train wreck is an example The Explosive MIDDLE EAST

Another lesson in how to lose friends and alienate peoples. By ALFRED M. LILIENTHAL

IDDLE EAST FALLS TO REDS, NOT A SHOT ly, the Russian strategy would call for a philanthropic and educational field. FIRED AS ISRAEL AND ARAB WORLD GO further penetration through Egypt Only with Russian expansion has this BEHIND IRON CURTAIN. westward into North Africa. The en- country come to appreciate the import- This is tomorrow's headline. velopment of Europe would then be- ance of Arab Land. Oil, previously re- While the politicos have been en- come inevitable. garded as a mere commercial resource, gaging in useless fulminations as to The Kremlin long has had an interest has emerged as the number one strategic whom to blame for the Far East debacle in this part of the world. In November, commodity without which no modern and the State Department has been 1940, Foreign Affairs Minister Molotov war can be conducted. This region con- happily watching the British stew in the proposed to the German Ambassador tains the largest oil bank in the world, Middle East caldron, Uncle Joe has in Moscow that an agreement be holding some 50 to 60 percent of the been preparing to walk off with this reached between the nazi and red gov- estimated crude oil reserves of the vital area. Eocated at the juncture of ernments whereby the USSR would be world. Today in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Europe, Asia and Africa, the Middle assigned the sphere of influence "South Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrein and in Egypt, East has been the historic crossroads of Batum and Baku in the general di- some 1.9 million barrels of oil are pro- for invading armies and now commands rection of the Persian Gulf, as the cen- duced daily. The small Egyptian pro- the vital air routes of the world's air- ter of the aspirations of the Soviet duction of 50,000 barrels should be in- ways. Union." creased under the exploiting genius of The region lies south of the Russian At the end of World War II the the enterprising Texan, Glenn Mc- Empire which has successfully ex- Soviets renewed their old claim for a Carthy. Russian production of oil in panded eastward into China, but has direct share in the control of the Turk- her own and satellite countries does not been stopped for the moment in the ish Straits: It was rebuffed by the great exceed 919,000 barrels per day, w hich west of Germany. Ancient Persia, ruled powers. The year 1946 saw the failure explains why Middle East oil is so by the Shah, is the soft outer belly. A of the red coup, attempted with the as- desperately needed by the Soviet. It is thrust southward over the border to sistance of the Iranian Tudeh Party in this oil upon which western Europe Azerbaijan, northwesterly province of Azerbaijan. The circumstances sur- has been more and more relying in its Iran, or down the Caspian Sea to Tehe- rounding this incident have been the march toward recovery and rearma- ran and the conquest of the wealthy oil subject of a recent White House con- ment. Less and less have our allies ob- lands would be begun. The fall of the troversy. tained their requirements from the west- Middle East would outflank our posi- In contrast, U. S. area interest has ern hemisphere. In 1938 Western tion in Greece and Turkey. Undoubted- been confined to the private missionary, Europe imported 25 percent of its oil

16 The poverty of the Middle East gives communism its opportunity.

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One reason for Russia's interest in the Middle East is oil. Western Europe gets most of its supplies here. from the Middle East. By 1948 this fig- while commie agents have been every- common anti-foreigner feeling. Serious ure had reached 62 and in 1950 85 per- where thoroughly sowing their seed. At riots resulting in the loss of many lives cent. It is estimated that in 1953 it will stake is not only the strategic position, have broken out in Tunisia and Moroc- draw 97 percent of its requirements the oil and teeming millions of the Mid- co. Under the pressure from the gov- from the Arab world. dle East, but the people and resources ernment in Paris, the Bey of Tunis re- of North Africa. placed Mohammed Chenik with Sala- Two hundred million Moslems are The nationalist germ has spread west- heddine Baccouche, a pro-French being wooed by Russia, and persistent ward from Egypt into Tunisia, Algeria Premier. More bloodshed ensued. A efforts are beginning to pay off. A wave and Morocco. Hatred of the French and growingly united Islam world re- of violence and rampant nationalism other foreigners pervades North Africa. sponded to the call from the Kasbah. has already engulfed the entire Moslem Disunited among themselves, the Ber- The nationally-minded Arabs have world. A virtual holy war has been de- bers, the Bedouins and Arabs in Moroc- recently begun to develop a political clared against the West, and all the co are being welded together by the (Continued on page 40)

17 HUNTING BOB JENKINSON Vtar

Four experts express some

Ray Trullinger, New York World-Telegram & Sun hunting and fishing expert, aims the Wkm new Remington slide action model 760. Raymond R. Camp, Outdoor Editor, New York Times, in the field with his handy model 336 Marlin lever action. "THE SLIDE ACTION RIFLE" By RAY TRULLINGER "THE HANDY LEVER ACTION"

a deer hunter is blessed with normal intelli- By RAYMOND R. CAMP Ifgence, and some are, he learns the hard way and profits by experience. Until the day arrives when the "all-around" rifle He makes mistakes, but tries not to pull the is an actuality, and not a figment of some ballis- same boner twice. He knows the odds against tician's imagination, there will be a definite need him are about five to one, and gives consider- for rifles of certain actions and calibers for certain able thought to reducing them by any legiti- kinds of shooting. Meanwhile, thousands of big game mate means. Eventually he gets hep to the fact hunters who push their way through the dense covers that a practical rifle for the country he hunts of the eastern coastal states will continue to carry has an all-important bearing on his ultimate the light, lever action rifle and carbine. And they success afield. will be able to back up their choice with arguments All of which will explain why my favorite that will not be disputed by any experienced shooter rifle for deer hunting in typical whitetail coun- or woodsman. try is Remington's .35 caliber Model 141 slide- The lever action rifle is not an all-purpose arm. action, with the possibility that the same com- There is no argument on that score. For long range pany's newer /Model 760 might supplant the

shooting, or for game that is brought down more older weapon in my affections this fall. I also readily with a fast, heavy bullet, the bolt action rifle like the 30-06 and 300 Savage calibers. has no peer. The very structure of the lever action That choice will be difficult if not impossible

rules it out when it comes to handling the big bore, to fault when the following facts are consid-

high velocity loads, for it was not designed for such ered: cartridges. But for the whitetail and black bear With few exceptions, shots at whitetails sel- hunter who does almost all of his shooting at ranges dom exceed 60-yard range and often are closer under 100 yards, and wants a light, handy rifle for in the East. It's an axiom that you don't look climbing the ridges and pushing through the thickets for the animals over on the next ridge — you of the eastern covers, the lever action rifle with a watch for them almost underfoot. In many

20-inch barrel fits the arm to the task. instances the chance presented is a surprise A simpler, more fool-proof, and safer action was shot, and frequently the target is walking, hop- never designed, whether the shooter happens to be ping along or high-tailing at full throttle. a south-paw or a right-hander. A novice may be a It's often necessary to slam a bullet through bit slow in learning to operate a bolt action with partly screening brush or other small growth, speed, and unless he is (Continued on page 50) and the bullet had (Continued on page 52) RIFLE SHOULD I BUY ?

opinions which will help you choose a shootin' iron.

Colonel Townsend Whelen, famed expert rifleman, prefers the bolt action, scope mounted F.N. Mauser, made in Belgium. Bud Jackson, Director Field Ac- tivity, National Wildlife Fed- eration, with his autoloader. "BOLT ACTION RIFLES" "I LIKE THE AUTOLOADER" By COL. TOWNSEND WHELEN

By BUD JACKSON During my early active service, starting in 1902, I was shooting almost annually on Having shot autoloaders for years, I'm convinced Army and international rifle teams, and also that the modern autoloading action is the hunting whenever 1 could get a leave. In addition most effective action extant. It notably dis- I was undertaking tests of almost all types and

charges its prime function which is to kill cleanly, calibers of rifles. Until about 1928 I never found efficiently, quickly, at reasonably long ranges. any except specialized target arms that would Surprisingly, some people still deprecate the compare favorably in accuracy and reliability to autoloader, classifying its use as reprehensible. No our Krag and Springfield bolt action service lawful sporting weapon in history has been so rifles. Since my retirement in 1936 I have been

maligned. Examples, from my files, of quotes re- essentially a wilderness hunter, and when I could flecting upon the integrity of autoloaders and not get into the wilds I have been a varmint and their users, include these: target shooter, and my testing has continued ". . . justifiably barred in Canada as unsports- to date. manlike." A rifle is essentially a w eapon \\ ith which to "It shoots too fast." kill one's enemies and food at a distance, and "Autoloaders simply don't shoot as 'hard' as the longer the distance at w hich it will surely other actions." hit and kill, the greater its efficiency. Therefore "The autoloader affords too many shots, firing accuracy coupled with flat trajectory is para- so swiftly that killing chances are increased. mount. In the West, where much of my big Low game stocks can't permit such deadly ef- game hunting has been done, shots must fre- ficiency." quently be taken at long range due to inability "Users (of autoloaders) tend to spray the to stalk closer. Woodchuck shooting in the East woods." also calls for many long shots and the target is

"This dangerous gun is responsible for most small. Many of my kills in both forms of shoot- accidents." ing have been at over 300 yards. The experi- "I don't trust a weapon which continues firing ence of all our master riflemen has been that ... as long as you hold the trigger." only with certain bolt action rifles can such shots "I can fire lever or bolt actions as fast as auto- be made consistently. loading ones." A bolt action does not of itself insure any "Deliberate shooting's (Continued on page 53), particular merit. There (Continued on page 54) ^ 7

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. Nothing shall ruin the country if the people themselves will un- dertake its safety, and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands — but their own. Daniel Webster

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Take away a man's property and make him dependent on an

all-powerful state, and you have the socialists' "brave new world."

By WILLIAM LaVARRE

The question is often asked today whether England's in more real danger than in all the preceding years of our march into socialism can be reversed. Not being English- national existence. The Constitution, under w hich our an- men, we are hardly competent to answer this riddle cestors lived with great freedoms and liberties—and security

across the Atlantic. But being Americans, there is one ques- —did not protect itself; our ancestors vigilantly protected it. tion we should be able to answer, and one question which, Have we, as citizens who inherited the world's greatest before we get led any further into an economic and political republic and the moral assets of an adamant integrity at maelstrom, we had better answer. home and abroad, protected our Constitution as vigilantly September 17, 1952, is the 165th anniversary of the sign- as our ancestors protected it? We have not! ing of the Constitution of the United States of America. An unusual opportunity to observe intimately the enemies There has never been a year, during its long era of individual of our Constitutional philosophies who are among us rather rights, freedoms and liberties under our republic, that our than across the distant seas makes me ask frequently, these Constitution has not been threatened. But during the last days, not whether socialism in Britain can be reversed but 20 years of iconoclastic ideologies, and imported radicalism, w hether radical socialism, disguised as liberalism, can be the Constitution of the people of the United States has been prevented in the United States. Can American citizens stem the subversive tide of not just socialistic jargon but socialistic action which has already Government seizure of the steel industry voided was when worn away much of the rock-bottom base upon which our the Supreme Court ruled that the move was unconstitutional. republic has securely existed— no matter w hat went on overseas in the rest of the historically insecure world? Can we set up firm roadblocks in the face of the fanatic neosocialists who, with foreign doctrines, have so widely infiltrated not only our federal government but the legislatures and executive offices of so many of our states? Can socialism in America be reversed?

If 1 were as pessimistic an American as many of the men

with whom I have recently discussed this question (at their

request always off the record) 1, too, would seriously doubt

it. More industrialists today than the average citizen realizes

have secret fears that the wave of our future is super-socialism rather than democracy; many of them are trying to compromise tor their own economic preservation, without thought of w hat their compromise will cost their children and their grandchildren. Many other men high in strategic federal and state offices are so persistently optimistic in their belief that their secret blueprint for a super-state in America )

The German Weimar Republic's constitution was suspended Freedom of the press would mean nothing if presses, such 250 times in 13 years. Finally Hitler persuaded Von Hinden- as these of C. T. Dearing Co., where The American Legion burg to suspend it once more, and so ended the Republic. Magazine is printed, could be seized by Presidential order.

can be produced, out of our emergencies, during their life- nomic places. The alien contamination is spreading; our time, that those of us who continue to fight them and their once-healthy national body can no longer absorb it; there tricks are, in their eyes, fools rather than patriots. are many more occasions than patriots like to witness when The Constitution of the United States may not have a we, as a nation, seem even to ourselves to have little healthy very much longer life, except on paper. We have become stamina left in us. Can we cut out this current cancer in our very complacent as a nation, with little of the personal wrath political and economic life before it becomes finally malig- or righteous fury of our elders or ancestors. We have al- nant and deadly. lowed a federal bureaucracy to encroach so much on our We can do it only by using the one antidote against can- personal and state rights and sovereignty that the Constitu- cerous socialism which is left to us. We can clean our nation tion, as a legal document and national credo, no longer may of this socialistic disease by using our Constitution, as our be counted upon to protect or support us always. There was ancestors used it ... to protect our property. a day when the Constitution, its complete reverence by all We must use the historical fact that the heart of our our people and its cumulative reaffirmation literally by our Constitution, upon which all our rights and liberties are Supreme Court, always protected our individual and state based, is the right to honestly earned, or inherited, property. rights, freedoms and liberties; when the Constitution always We have inherited the right to private property, free of protected private property-; when the Constitution had no confiscation by the state. We have the right to be beach-

Trojan Horse enemies within our nation. combers, hoboes, sharecroppers, ( Continued on page 46 That day is certainly past— and to a far greater extent than most of our citizens have realized. We have had a virus of creeping socialism spreading wider and wider through our republic. We have become diseased in many political and eco-

Sidney Beatrice Webb Webb

England can thank these proponents of Fabian Social- ism for much of its present trouble. Despite their failure in Britain, they have ardent disciples here.

It is often said that we follow England by twenty years. A Is this British socialist scene to be duplicated here? .

A great American institution started in colonial days by Ben Franklin is the

ankind has been showing its handicraft at fairs Mfor thousands of years. In Europe fairs have been held for centuries, usually where trade routes brought buyers and sellers together. But predomi- in the United States fairs have always been almost nantly agricultural, the first having been held Benjamin two centuries ago in Philadelphia when "to Franklin persuaded his friend Elkanah Watson show Americans how to farm." Today, hundreds of shows fairs are held yearly, ranging from small county which to huge agricultural and industrial exhibitions offer for- attract hundreds of thousands of people and case, tunes in awards of various kinds. In almost every enter- the city has moved in to contribute exhibits and tainment, but essentially the county fair is the farmer's show that it always has been.

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be found at fairs. On th< The best of all that nature provides can meat and wear better clothes because of fairs. nature You eat better display showing how women improve on competing raisers. top shelves is a This judging is a high spot in the life of the

standard attraction for fair-goers. The idea is to a Nowadays thrill drivers provide a Here one of the judges carefully studies Oklahoma State Fair. much punishment cars and drivers can take. This is th. squash which may win a coveted ribbon. show how Fair, I resist the drama of a horse-pulling contest such as this at the Union Maine?

Every fair features trotters and pacers, and the New Sky-high excitement Judging is just minutes off, so these boys are readying York State Fair at Syracuse goes all out on this. comes from fireworks. their sleek Guernseys for the watchful eyes of judges.

at the Kansas State Fair, the "Hurry, hurry, hurry," is the cry as the To city folks an exhibit such as this signifies To many is a major sport. familiar girlie shows are ballyhooed. good eats. To the farmer it means better incomes. horseshoe pitching contest Clap Hands!

How they build up pressure to promote a personality, an idea or a product.

By BERTON BRALEY

— ; y friend, the press agent one of the few old-timers M who don't call themselves Public Relations Counselors — was talking shop. "You don't have to fly in a stratosphere plane or get in an air-lock to breathe pressurized air," he said. "You live in it. You inhale it with your cigarette smoke, it's blown at you by soap-boxers — and soap opera announcers — and sub- tly wafted at you by public relationists and pressurizers of every nature, kind and ilk. We live in a pressurized age — and nobody gets anywhere without it. With it you can make almost anybody with something on the ball into a ball of fire.

"Most people wonder just what peculiar magic there is about performers like Frank Sinatra, Frankie Lane and Johnny Ray, that causes teen-age girls to squeal, scream and swoon, but most people know that such antics help to put the performers in the big money. "Well, I can tell you what that 'peculiar magic' was in the case of Paul Ash, the pianist, because I was of the one At a radio broadcast when the man holds up the applause magicians — one of Paul Ash's press agents back in 1923 — sign the audience is expected to pound its palms plenty. who invented the bobby-sox riot technique. "When Ash was to appear at the McVicker Theater in

Chicago I hired a corps of bobby-sox leaders — maybe catch hysteria easily — and we had a real mob-scene that twenty-five or thirty — to start the shrieking and fainting. made the front pages and the radio. Once they got going, this staged frenzy spread — teen-agers "Supplementing that demonstration, we issued hundreds of passes on condition that the recipients write fan letters to and about Ash, who was a fairly hot stunt pianist. "But this fan-letter thing, like bobby-sox enthusiasm, is contagious, and inside of a week five thousand genuine letters poured in. Of course Ash had what it takes to hop up

the kids — you can't sell a star without it — but the original

furor didn't just happen, it was manufactured. "Incidentally, this Paul Ash ballyhoo was so successful that a new theater, the Oriental, was built for Ash in Chicago, and a tremendous campaign of press agentry carried the vogue of this pianist to a transcontinental smash." If all press agents could be persuaded to this sort of frank-

confession, it is likely that we'd learn how synthetic applause and fabricated glamour have helped to make many a crooner whose throbbing tonsils might never, otherwise, have caused any large scale vibrations in teen-age bosoms. There's nothing new about manufactured plaudits, nor

is pressurized publicity applied only to the moaners of popular ballads and the sobbers of torch songs and little clouds that cry.

The claque is as old as opera and. in Europe, has always been regarded as a respectable institution, almost as essential to the performances as the orchestra, On the continent the claque isn't just a bunch of heavy-

handed applauders subsidized by the singers — it is also a trained group that knows how not to applaud in the middle Experienced legislators know how to appraise mail, of an aria and how to spark the audience's enthusiasm by and if identical letters show up they smell a rat. what sounds like spontaneous applause at the proper time. 24 People wonder what magic causes teen-agers to go for a performer, but they know it means stardom.

Though, unlike the European opera, New York's Metro- chiefly because radio executives very quickly learned to politan Opera never officially admitted that there was a sense the difference between actual and synthetic fan mail. claque — there was one, which reached its biggest propor- In other fields pressure affects the entertainers and the tions in 1927, when the Sunday World Magazine described audience. For example, there is something very like a claque it as consisting of some 300 free-loaders for whom the singers — perhaps clique is more accurate — among leftist-minded bought standing room upstairs and down (and if the singers book critics who boost the pinko books and damn or ignore were wise, added a couple of bucks apiece for each claquer). the authors who stand straight For this the claquers delivered directed noise in the proper or lean right. places. Because the Met claque wasn't official, and the Met That's negative pressure, had no control over it, the claquers had been known to hiss of course, but positive and boo the singers who didn't come across. Is there a claque at the Met today? No regular, organized hand-pressure group; but opera critics tell me that if a singer wants to be sure that applause has a good, efficient self-starter, he or she can hire palm-pounders at so much per, and European singers, accustomed to a claque, frequently do. So, if at the opera you note a group of standees who erupt into somewhat unified enthusiasm at certain individual performances, it's a safe bet they're claquers.

Also, 1 have it on the authority of a man who has been in the concert business for forty years, that there's a claque at the Philharmonic broadcasts which sees to it that old

Maestro Toscanini's conducting is accompanied, at the proper time, by determinedly tumultuous applause, whether the old Maestro is really sending or not. And there have been — and are — claques at concerts, in theaters, and in movie houses with vaudeville on the side. Usually these are amateurs — friends of the performers who pay for their passes with applause, and — in the case of the ' World institution called the claque. movie houses — iron-handed ushers who can augment a pat- ter of applause to something seemingly solid. At radio broadcasts, as you probably know, the studio cal knocks that may make the difference between an author audience is a claque — but definitely. If you're there you getting a public and being ignored. applaud when the applause sign is held up before you, and Public relations in the business and social world are usu- you're expected to pound your palms plenty. ally a little less synthetic than the ballyhoo in show business, While on the subject of radio, there were, many years but they are forces that shape your life, nevertheless. ago, outfits that would deliver fan mail for a new performer For example — if you're playing that double-decker game. at so much per hundred letters. It isn't done any more, Canasta, or its triple-deck variant, (Continued on page 49) 25 Comparisons of United States Army organization with that of the communist bloc frequently stress as an alleged weakness the number of personnel in our combat units who fire no weapons, either individual or crew-

served. There is little realization that selected soldiers, even combat soldiers, might be more valuable to their unit performing duties other than firing. Battlefields have long ceased to be massed duels where every soldier sees and engages the enemy who shoot directly at him. All varieties of fire power, including small arms, must be coordinated by men who consequently cannot themselves fire weapons. Nor are weapons' effects the only requirement for winning modern battles. Fire and movement comprise the commander's twin tools with which to fashion victory. Complicated staffs and equipment are essential to keep armies mobile, especially during combat. Ob- viously battlefield coordinators can be trained for a secondary role with some weapon if the emergency arises, or the need for their primary duty ceases temporarily. But, as the designation indi- cates, their primary duty is the more important contribution to combat effectiveness. Cooks and kitchen police are a good THAT'S NOT FAT example. American armies have not always possessed company messes. Cus- tom long prescribed that each man cook for himself and regarded the situation In Uncle Sam's Army, men behind men as favorable if he were not also required to forage for his own rations. Freeing the individual from subsisting behind the guns increase efficiency of combat units. himself is not pampering the soldier.

Quite the contrary, it is based upon a tesred belief that unit messes usually produce a more effective fighting team. COLONEL, U. S. ARMY With all personnel trained for combat, the company commander can decide when hot stew in a mess kit is less im- fewer deaths from disease than combat services as excessive, in measuring over- portant than adding rifles to the unit fatalities. The same war reported the all combat effectiveness? fire power. At that point GI Joe highest proportion of battle wounded Further delving into facts would dis- munches K-rations and cooks squint recovering from their wounds. Other close similar conditions attending most, down the barrels of M-l's. armies may hold human life in such low if not all, the American Army's alleged The manpower allocated to disease regard that they deem it cheaper to fat on its manpower frame. Amusingly prevention and care of the wounded in pour streams of replacements into uni- enough, one point is never raised by American military forces is likewise form to take the places of men lost by even the most ardent critic: soldiers many times greater than in Soviet arm- lack of medical care. The American acting as servants to officers. On that ies. Here again the situation has not al- code demands every possible protection score our Army is leaner than any. ways been as it is today. The Civil War for the lives and health of our soldiers. Soviet forces are fatter than the minions had its volunteer Florence Nightingales, When in the French and Indian War of Kaiser Bill fifty years ago. but there were no regular nurses or of 1759 Rogers' Rangers began their A limited number of personal services hospital attendants. The Army surgeon, forced march to punish the Indian vil- is accorded officers on field duty, on adept at crude amputations, was, with lages on the St. Lawrence, Major the basis of requiring their undistracted his bag of instruments, the bulk of that Rogers carried on his person the expe- attention upon their command (or staff) day's "medical corps." Aid men in front dition's entire stock of medicine and responsibilities. Properly understood, line infantry units were unthought of. surgical instruments. Any Ranger too such "orderly" assignments are accepted Thirty years later in the Spanish- crippled to keep up with the column by all in the spirit of their origin. American War typhoid fever raged in was left propped against a tree, rifle Prior to the invasion of Normandy the expeditionary forces and training across his knees, to meet his fate alone one American colonel told his sergeant camps where inoculation, other than in the wilderness. The casualty rate for major to locate a non-commissioned smallpox, and other preventive medi- that successful foray was forbidding officer and four privates, volunteers, for cine were unknown. World War II was even in terms of modern warfare. Can orderly duty for him and his staff of the first conflict in our history to record we, then, charge off prevailing medical some 20 officers. "These men are not

26 servants, sergeant. I intend to place upon them the responsibility for the officers' field kits so that when headquarters has to move, and move fast, every officer will give his full effort to his job, knowing his personal possessions will arrive, if he does. Any soldier who thinks my staff ought to be looking after themselves instead of our regiment should put in for transfer. It would be dangerous to fight under such a worthless staff." The records show that, from Nor- mandy to the Elbe, no replacement in the original volunteer detail was ever made, except for one orderly killed in action.

What, then, is a reasonable basis for criticism of the Army's organization and use of manpower to support the combat units in the combat areas? It can be said that a lot of it comes from a misunderstanding of a theoretical method of measurement of manpower within the Army itself known as the "division slice." That name does not in any way explain itself, but reduced to a definition readily understandable by any person not familiar with Army terminology, the "division slice" means simply the number of non-combat, or non-firing, personnel needed to keep a THAT'S MUSCLE combat division in the field. This includes medical, transport, and service troops of all kinds, but does not include the combat division personnel. The system was devised and first used in World War II, and proved to be a fairly accurate means of determining the support of men, materiel and services required for a combat division in an overseas theater. The system gave a ready answer to the need of support for each additional division dispatched to the theater.

But since World War II, the intensive research into electronics and com- puting machines has made this so-called "slice" system obsolete. However, some Cooks and kitchen police are also trained publicity given it has attracted com- riflemen for combat duty when need comes. ment and criticism because of the dis- parity shown between the manpower of a U.S. combat division and the very large number of service troops serving the division. These figures posed questions for which the American public- had no ready answer. Why must there be three, four, or occasionally five men behind the "man

The American code demands every possible Communication service is not "fat," it is behind the gun" in the United States protection of health of our fighting men. top essential, but men can also use guns. Army when other nations allegedly put a much larger percentage of their man- Machines that reduce cost in lives are cheap, but must have men to run them. deemed power into the front fines? Does not American industry ORDNANCE SPECIALISTS rightly boast a labor productivity, per capita, greater than that of any nation? Since we get more steel, more coal, more automobiles per 1,000 workers, why don't we get more fighting power from a like number of troops? (Continued on page 60) 27 IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR New item: SN1F — a bottle of pheasant scent that can be sprinkled on a common CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAY OFF WITH HUNTING AND FISHING ACCESSORIES. pigeon to make him smell like the real thing for dog training. Available at most September is the month the poets call preserve for you the sport you love. Co- sporting goods stores. "colorful" and the time when all the world operate with your friend, the game Bird season opens next month. And ex- seems to take a walk in the woods. It is warden." cellent game preserves are now operating also the month of forest fires and careless- "the hunter's best friend — Best friend in most states. They work on a five to six ness. It seems that people use this month the hunter has is the property owner. month season and offer strong flying pheas- to take an outdoor fling. They throw cig- Good hunters are careful and consider- ants and quail seven days a week for the arettes into dry brush, drop lighted matches ate of the property on which they hunt." hunter who wants to work his dog and from moving automobiles and in general "join a gun club — are exercise his gun oftener than the public forget that Nature should be treated with There thousands of active clubs in the U.S.A. with excel- shooting grounds allow. Drop a line to the respect. Don't let yourself be tabbed in lent facilities for Conservation Departments in state capi- that category. enjoyable shooting. The the nicest folks in town are members. tals for up-to-date information on shooting Albert Swanson of St. Paul, Minnesota, Ask about our local club." preserves nearest you. felt so strongly about this that he sat down y at his typewriter and tapped this out: Johnny Crooks of Odessa, Texas, thinks "It is a sad but true that great number of that fall is the time to think about camp the people who use the outdoors appar- stoves — hot coffee and comfort in the it ently do not take any pride in keeping woods. Here fresh from his pen is his in- clean. vention: has to highway "One but drive along any "This is an idea for a camp stove to use to find boxes of rubbish dumped along the w ith a wood fire. I got a piece of 14 -inch Recently we've been asked what the roadside along with cans and bottles and steel plate, 18x26 inches. Drilled a 14 -inch American Legion Marksmanship Program many other things that people wish to get hole in the center of each end so that I is doing to educate people other than those rid of in a lazy way. could handle the plate with a hook when directly associated with the Legion. "In the lake country often will be found it was hot. On two sides I tapped the edges Over 300,000 high school juniors partici- the insides of fish that heads and some w ith a hammer to give me a little ridge, pate in the American Legion Boys' State fisherman was too lazy to bury or burn. then ground, or rather filed off the rough Deer hunters frequently the thing. program, now activated in all 48 states. do same edges. The plate is mounted on top of four Twenty-two percent of all Boy Scout troops "It seems that a person's own sense of steel rods, about 18 inches long so they can in the United States are sponsored by the decency should tell him that there is a right be driven into the ground about eight or Legion. Phases of gun handling are an in- and a wrong way to dispose of such rub- ten inches. The corner where the two bish and not to use the roadside and the tegral portion of both these activities. This ridged edges come together is set a trifle is only part of what the Legion is doing for woods as a dumping ground." lower than the other three, allowing the the young hunter in helping to keep our grease to drip oft into a jar or can, to be woods safe and hunting accidents down. used later in frying the fish or game. For further information you may write di- p*£* * rectly to George Sweeney, National Director, American Legion Marksmanship Program, 1598 Olympian Circle, S.W., Atlanta, (). F. .Mossberg & Sons. Inc., manufac- Georgia. turers of sporting firearms and accessories,

is trying r<> do something constructive about Commenting on the article Varmint the problem. They are supplying sporting Hunting in the June issue of The American ''The ideal part of the thing is that 1 can goods stores, gun clubs, sportsmen's asso- Legion Magazine, James W. Wylie, Corn- begin to cook as soon as 1 light the fire. ciations and any other interested groups wall, New York, further advises: 1 he coffee pot can be put on immediately with 11x14 free posters equipped with "Get yourself a dog whistle (about the and get heated up in a hurry, without hav- easels and hanging devices. To date they've size of a pencil stub; one that squeals like ing to wait for the fire to die down a little. distributed the following four posters in a scared field mouse), and go after your The pots and pans stay clean. I can cook a quantity. We think that they arc well woodchucks the usual way with plenty of whole meal at one time. Eggs, hotcakes, worth reproducing: concealment, but keep your rirle at the bacon and so forth can be cooked directly shoulder and ready while you toot your "PREVENl FOREST FIRES ! Carelessness can on the plate. And it is simple to keep clean dog whistle. Believe it or not, that sharp destroy timber, game, property and hu- on top. Just wipe off with the dish rag toot will make the chuck sit straight up to man lives. Snuff out matches and smokes when it has cooled a little." find out what's doing. Saves endless waiting completely. Quench fire embers care- and gives you a stationary target you can't If you have problems or questions connected fully. Experienced hunters: Please cau- " hunting, etc., miss This might seem like a tardy item with the outdoors: fishing, dogs, tion novices." don't hesitate to send them on to The Outdoor for September. But it's a smart one and Editor, American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth "HKR FRIEND, rHE GAME WARDEN — 1 he well worth pasting in your hat for the next Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. We will do our best to help. Please enclose a stamped, self- game laws conserve wild life in order to chuck season. addressed envelope for reply.

2g * The American Legion Magazine • September. 1952 The National Legionnaire

of children of veterans in the country Children of Korea Veterans Starts will be considerably higher than pre- Aid to viously anticipated and that the peak will not be reached until some time New Cycle; Program Planned to Meet Needs during the 1960's. This means a growing child welfare years A new cycle of American Legion ser- the Forty and Eight together with the responsibility for another 10 to 15 vice to veterans and their dependents is National Child Welfare Division, but for the American Legion's hardworking foreshadowed in announcement by the within a matter of just a few days the child welfare volunteers. National Child Welfare Commission full amount was raised and the surgery that during the second quarter of 1952 performed. temporary financial help had been given As is true in all other aspects of the KOREA EMERGENCY VETS MAY to 16 children of veterans of the Korean Legion's child welfare program, most APPLY FOR MUSTER-OUT PAY conflict. of the aid now being given to families Thus, while children of World War of returning veterans comes from local The Defense Department has an- II are becoming more numerous each Posts and Auxiliary Units. The Nation- nounced that discharged Korean war year, the Legion's child welfare is also al Division is only called in when local veterans and others who left the Armed expanding to meet the problems of a funds are exhausted or can't carry the Service since the Korean fighting began whole new group of children. whole load. may apply for the mustering-out pay So far most of the new group award- While 16 children do not seem to be provided in the Korean GI Bill. (See ed help by the National Child Welfare a large number, it must be recalled that Newsletter, page 37.) The Department Division have been children of men who for these 16 aided by the National Di- will not print and distribute application were disabled at time of discharge. Help vision there are probably 1,600 others forms, but has approved a form for use of one, two or three months has been who were aided during the same three- by men and women of all branches of given on the recommendation of Post month period by local Posts and Aux- the Armed Forces. Child Welfare Chairmen or Service Of- iliary Units. For in recent years only These forms are being printed or ficers to tide these families over until about one case out of each 100 aided mimeographed locally to conform in size action could be completed on claims. locally by the Legion has ever been re- and wording to Defense Department re- A Texas veteran was discharged late ferred to the National Child Welfare quirements. Eligible veterans will find a in April, 1952, after a year's naval Division for further assistance. supply in the hands of Legion Service duty. Even though his condition at time Extension of the Legion's nationwide Officers and other organizations. of discharge was listed as "Very Poor," child welfare program to children of The mustering-out pay is provided for no action was taken to file a claim for Korean veterans involves much more in the Korean GI Bill, and ranges from either compensation or pension. than giving temporary help to a limited $100 for less than 90 days service, to number of distressed families. Already, $300 for more than 90 days, part of Local Posts Fill Gap through American Legion legislative ef- which was served overseas. Men sep- Within a few weeks, the veteran was fort, Congress has extended Social Se- arated from the services after the law in a VA hospital, leaving his wife and curity coverage to include military ser- became effective on July 16 will be paid two pre-school children without any vice during the present conflict. $100 on discharge, and if more is due source of support. The local Post of Before the fighting in Korea started, by reason of length of service, the bal- The American Legion and its Auxiliary the National Child Welfare Commission ance will be paid in $100 monthly in- Unit gave some emergency help. The had estimated that it would have its stallments up to a total of $300. Men Texas Department of the Auxiliary, peak load of veterans' children in about separated before the law was passed which maintains an emergency aid pro- 1958 or 1959. With the expansion of will be paid in lump sum after their gram, forwarded the young mother a the military force since then, it has applications have been approved. check for $40, and in June, when an become evident that the peak number AH veterans below the grade of Major application for further help was sent in the Army, Air Force and Marine to the National Child Welfare Division, Corps, or Lieutenant Commander in the a check for $80 was sent to help keep VA ASKS STATES TO SET Navy, who were honorably discharged this family going. after June 26, 1950, are eligible. Women It was the same in Puerto Rico where UP GI APPROVAL GROUPS members of the services are also eligible. the father of four youngsters Discharged veterans are required to had to Carl R. Gray, Jr., VA Administra- be hospitalized submit with their applications the orig- for a serious heart con- tor, has called upon the Governors Separation from the dition soon after discharge as an in- of all States to set up machinery inal Report of fantry corporal. Here again, the vet- as soon as possible for approving Armed Forces, which will be returned eran's physical condition was described schools and business establishments after the application has been processed. at discharge as "Not Good," but four to train veterans under the Korean If this form (DD Form 214) has been GI Bill of Rights. He has asked for months later action was still pending lost, the veteran should apply to the on his claim. "early receipt" of lists of the State military service in which he served for approving agencies so that VA can Combined help from relatives, issuance of a duplicate. the start processing the applications very local Legion veterans of each Post and the National soon after the law goes into effect on Addresses to which Child Welfare Division is helping to August 20. service should apply are: keep this family from dire want until Under the Korean GI Bill, schools Army-Finance Center, U. S. Army, his claim can be established or his and training establishments must ob- St. Louis 20, Missouri. Attention: MOP health restored to such an extent that tain State certification before they Branch. he will again be able to work. may offer training to veterans. The Navy-Field Branch, U. S. Navy, GI Bill contained a similar In Kansas a young veteran, just get- WW2 Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Cleve- requirement, and it is possible that ting started again after a year's duty, land 14, Ohio. many, if not most States, will use was suddenly faced Air Force Finance Center, with the tragic ne- the same agencies to pass upon the Air Force— cessity of raising more than $1,200 to schools and training centers. How- Denver, Colorado. provide an immediate brain operation ever, even though given clearance Marine Corps— Commandant of the s for his institu- Washington young son. Here, it took the for WW2 vet training, the Marine Corps (CDD) , 25, s combined efforts of the family, the Kan- s tions must be re-inspected and certi- D. C. s sas Department of the Legion and Aux- fied for Korean GI training. Coast Guard-Coast Guard Headquar- iliary, the Kansas Grande Voiture of L ters, Washington 25, D. C. The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 • 29 paid near the end of the program to the late Oliver Aas, Minneapolis banker, who before his untimely death from a heart ailment, served as Chairman of the Heart Fund Committee which raised the major portion of the funds for the project. Dr. Thomas, under Legion mandate, is devoting himself principally to a study of the causes, cures and prevention of rheumatic fever and its attend- ant heart involvements as these effect children.

WHEELCHAIR VET WRITES FICTION FOR LEGION MAG.

"Hard Guy," a piece of exciting fiction printed on page 11 of this number of the magazine, is the work of Charles Shea, Hartford, Connecticut, an ar- thritic wheelchair veteran. He has been in and out of hospitals in various sections of the country since his return from WW2 Navy service aboard de- stroyers in the Pacific — The American Legion Magazine is pleased to present readers. Minnesota got the word "Mission Accomplished" and marked the close of a great his story to our When he sent us the story for a read- Legion project at a victory dinner at St. Paul on the evening of July 15. It was there ing he was a patient in the Connecticut that Department Commander Carl Espeseth handed a check for $35,000 to Dr. J. L. Veterans' and Hospital at Rocky Morrill, President of the University of Minnesota, as the final payment on a $500,000 Home Hill, which is headed by Colonel Ray- fund for professorship in heart research pledged six years ago at the Department F. Gates, a Past National Vice Convention. In the picture above, left to right, are Dr. Lewis Thomas, Legion Heart mond of the Legion. Research Professor at the University of Minnesota; Dr. J. L. Morrill, President; Commander years Mr. Shea has Department Commander Carl Espeseth, and Mrs. Bert Count, Department President For the last four part in the Hospitalized Veterans of the Auxiliary. taken Writing Project, a non-profit, completely volunteer effort whose National Chairman is Mrs. Elizabeth Fontaine Minnesota Legion Raises Half Million Dollar of New York City. Under the auspices of the HVWP he has written a number Fund for Heart Research; Celebrates Victory of stories, one of which, The Miracle, won first prize in the mystery story By FRANK MAYER Minnesota's great State University, one section of the HVWP's fourth annual Public Relations Director of the finest institutions of learning in contest in 1950, and was published in the world. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in Victory is often much more sweet for Auxiliary that year. having been long delayed. Legion Posts and Units took up the torch. They lighted the way with The seventh annual National Writ- To those who have fought long and Veterans efforts and programs of all kinds, sorts ing Contest for Hospitalized hard in the conflict, who have stormed and natures. first the came will be inaugurated early in 1953. For the heights only to have been thrown At money rolling in but then came the inevitable details, disabled veterans should write back and discouraged, who felt the aches period doubts were raised if the the HVWP national offices, 919 No. and pains as they plodded forward, the when goal were ever to be accomplished. But Michigan Ave., Chicago 11, Illinois, or feeling once inside the citadel is full, at it was. Mrs. Fontaine, National Chairman, complete and infinitely gratifying. the Empire State Building, New York This was so for more than 1,000 At the Victory Dinner, the final check City Minnesota Legionnaires and Auxiliary for $35,000 toward the sum pledged was 1. turned over to President J. L. Morrill members who sat down to dinner during LEGION OPERATES the recent Department Convention at St. of the University by Department Com- MARYLAND mander Carl Espeseth. In the meantime, Paul to write finis to a campaign which LODGE FOR GI TRANSIENTS started six years before. sufficient funds had been raised for the - It was an all-out drive for $500,000 pi ofessorship to get under way and a The Maryland American Legion is for a suitable memorial for the men and report on its progress so far was made operating a servicemen's lounge and women of the State who went forth to by the Legion's Research Professor, Dr. dormitory at Baltimore, where mem- obtain a fight in World Wars I and II. They Lewis Thomas. bers of the Armed Forces can wanted no thing of metal or stone to Also on the speaking program was night's lodging for a nominal charge of stand dumb and mute in some out-of- National Commander Don Wilson who 50 cents. the-way park, in cold features immut- reminded his listeners that although the The project is being financed through able against the elements. Minnesota Memorial was in the interest a $1,000 appropriation made by the De- Their thought was for the living. of life, it was essential to the life of the partment Executive Committee. This Those who went forth to fight our coun- Republic and its peoples that national Committee took action after it was dis- try's battles fought that the Democracy security also be given the devotion it closed that many transient servicemen and is citizens might live, might thrive merited. He warned, with deep gravity, were forced to sleep in bus and railroad and flourish to add new dignity and ac- of the serious problems confronting the terminals because of lack of rooms. complishments to the nation's scroll. country today. Department Adjutant Daniel H. de- So it was a professorship—the Minne- Department President, Mrs. Bert M. Burkhardt has offered to make full sota American Legion Memorial Heart Count spoke for the Auxiliary and mas- tails of this project available upon re- Research Professorship—which was de- ter of ceremonies was Major General quest to all other Department heads cided upon. This would be established at Ellard A. Walsh. Silent tribute was which might be interested.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 HOSPITAL GROUP DISCUSSES American Education Week, November 9-15, To CARE OF DISABLED VETERANS

Policies of The American Legion and Stress Theme of "Children in Today's World" the American Hospital Association re- specting Federal medical care and treat- Plans are well advanced for the 32nd Another suggestion is to arrange ment of veterans were discussed at a annual observance of American Educa- with local theaters for the showing of meeting of the two organizations held tion week, to be held November 9-15. a two-minute trailer which is available in Chicago, July 20. The theme for discussion selected by from the National Education Associa- Rear Admiral D. G. Sutton, spokes- the sponsors is "Children in Today's tion. Newspapers and radio stations man for the American Hospital Asso- World," with a different topic set apart will be pleased to aid in promoting the ciation Committee on Veterans Rela- for each day. observance if newsworthy features and tions, in outlining the position of the The program for the week, based on releases are furnished. American Hospital Association, said the the theme subject, is: No set pattern is fixed for putting organization has agreed the Federal Sunday, 9th — Their Churches. the local observance into effect, other government should care for the service- Monday, 10th Their Homes. than in general outline. But it is char- — connected, for cases pending determina- Tuesday, 11th — Their Heritage. acterized by two broad programs of tion of service-connection, and for non- Wednesday, 12th — Their Schools. action: school visitation and in educa- service connected cases including the Thursday, 13th - Their Country. tional interpretation. The National Ed- tuberculous, the mentally ill, and the Friday, 14th — Their Opportunities. ucation Association estimates that in chronic more than 90 days cases, where 15th — Their Future. past observances more than ten million Saturday, the veteran cannot reasonably afford American Education Week, one of people visit the schools during the to pay for such care. the Legion's long-continuing programs, "Open House" event to get a first-hand The American Hospital Association is observed annually during the week look at regular classroom instruction representative, while seeking re-exam- in November which includes Armistice and student activities. ination of present policies governing Day. It is sponsored by The American hospitalization of non-service connected Legion, under direction of the Ameri- STAPLES, cases, were in general agreement with canism Division, the National Educa- HECTOR MAINE the analysis that shows the area of dis- tion Association, the National Congress IS LEGION LEADER, DEAD cussion regarding such policies is lim- of Parents and Teachers, and the U. S. ited to less than eight percent of the Office of Education. The first three Hector Staples, hospital patient days of care provided organizations have nearly ten million Past National Vice for all non-service connected cases. members, while the U. S. Office of Ed- Commander of The National Rehabilitation Commission ucation may be said to represent all American Legion, Chairman E. V. (Pat) Cliff, Ortonville, schools and colleges. The American Col- died suddenly at Minnesota, with other Commission and lege Public Relations Association urges his home at Rock- staff members, represented The Ameri- college participation. land, Maine, on can Legion. The American Hospital As- July 1, just after Stimulates Public Interest the adjournment of sociation was represented by members the Maine Depart- of its Committee on Veterans Relations, The purpose of this observance is to with Dr. A. T. Branton, Chattanooga, stimulate public interest in schools, ment Convention. our Tennessee, as Chairman. looking both to the welfare of the chil- His death closes a Representatives of the two organiza- dren under instruction and the best in- long and distin- tions have agreed to continue study of terest of our highly developed system guished record of service to the Le- the questions raised at this session in of public schools. It is a time when the Hector Staples gion, his future meetings. spotlight is turned on public education and to State. and its unique and invaluable contribu- home At the time of his death he was serving the national organization tion to American life. The history, aims, RIFLES AGAIN AVAILABLE achievements, needs and problems of as Eastern Area Director of the Na- tional our schools and colleges pass in review. Education of Orphans of Veter- FOR POST FIRING SQUADS The observance calls for visitations to ans Committee. the schools by parents and others, get- He was elected National Vice- Com- Legion Posts and other recognized vet- ting acquainted with the teachers and mander for the 1943-44 term, serving eran groups can now get Springfield with the system, and by this means with National Commander Warren H. rifles and ammunition for firing squads render helpful aid in strengthening the Atherton. He was Department Com- and other ceremonial use. This, accord- public schools to better carry out their mander of Maine in 1937-38, and ing to an announcement by the Defense mighty responsibilities. through the years had served as a mem- Department, is the first time since the ber The fullest participation in the ob- of the National Publicity Commis- Korean war began that the arms and servance by Legion Posts and individ- sion, the Veterans Employment Com- blank ammunition could be spared. mittee, Veterans Preference ual Legionnaires is urged by Allen B. Committee, Posts may obtain up to 10 rifles on Willand, Director of the Americanism Resolutions Assignment Committee, and request to the Chief of Ordnance, Army, Division. He also asks that Posts start the National Economic Liaison Com- Washington 25, D. C. A charge of $1 per mittee. now to organize their forces for Ameri- rifle is made to cover cost of packing and can Education Week as a community handling. and school betterment program. Gives Money for Milk Fund Blank .30-caliber ammunition must It is suggested that steps to take in During the past school year as an im- be ordered from either the Commanding organization is to contact the local P-T portant item in its widespread child Officer, Seneca Ordnance Depot, Romu- A. President, school officials, teachers welfare program, David A. Solari Post lus, N. Y., or the Letterkenny Ordnance and other groups to co-operate in set- No. 151, Pittsburg, California, gave Depot, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. A ting up a joint community program; $1,026 to the public and parochial charge is made for handling of 50 cents secure the interest and co-operation of schools of its home city to be used for for a full box or 75 cents for a broken churches, service clubs and social or- free milk for underprivileged children. lot, and the shipment will be sent with ganizations, and to arrange for school The fund applied to children in the pri- transportation charges collect. visitations, furnish speakers on the mary, intermediate and elementary It is aso provided that Posts ordering various topics, and particularly to take schools. The Post, says Commander rifles must enclose a certificate, Request the lead in arranging for an Armistice James L. Patterson, is the second larg- for Donation of Ordnance Equipment, Day program. On that day the discus- est in District 9, and first in child wel- which is obtainable from their Depart- sion topic is "Their Heritage." fare in the district. ment Headquarters of the Legion.

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 • gj ;

"COUNT ON ME FOR 53" Texan Named Boy President at 7th Annual IS NEW MEMBER SLOGAN

With 1952 enrollment of Legion mem- Boys' Nation; Lads from 45 States Attended bership maintaining a healthy excess over the same date last year, the mem- Taking where the U. S. Congress its to Washington's major historical up bership workers are making ready for left off, the American Legion's 7th an- shrines, including the White House, an aggressive campaign to start the nual Boys' Nation, a practical training Mount Vernon, the Arlington National 1953 year. course in the workings of the Federal Cemetery, Lincoln and Jefferson Me- "Count on Me for '53" is the slogan Government, was held in Washington morials, and the Naval Academy at for the coming year, and it is also the the week of July 25-31. The young citi- Annapolis. title of an attractive, fully illustrated zens headquartered on the campus In addition to meeting and question- were membership booklet now available for of Maryland University at nearby Col- ing two top-flight Washington corre- all Posts through their Department lege Park, Maryland, and the group spondents, Bryson Rash and Yates Mc- Headquarters. Initial shipments have was of 88 lads 45 States, Daniel, at the Boys' Nation press-radio composed from been made by the National Membership representing the cream of the crop of luncheon, many of the young citizens and Post Activities Division to the De- more than youths who partici- themselves were featured on nation- 20,000 partments, to which orders and requests pated wide television radio shows. in 1952 Boys' States conducted and should be made. by Legion Departments. Samples of the new "Count on Me The election of a President, with in- Madam Commander of News Post for '53" membership worker's sales terest heightened by the political party kits have also been sent to Department conventions held in July, was the high Detroit (Michigan) News Post No. Adjutants. This kit, available without point of the annual meeting. Howard 519 will be skippered the next term by charge to eight times the number of Norton, 17, Fort Worth, Texas, - a 6- Madam Commander Mary E. Robert- Posts in each Department, is unique in footer with a long drawl and 10-gallon son, who, according to Past Commander a that in addition to reasons for joining hat — elected President a Fed- Sydney Elliott, Jr., won her way up was as The American Legion and a number of eralist over Kerry Freeman, National- through the ranks. WW2 vet in the easy ways to "see 'em, sell 'em and sign ist, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. President Nor- Army Nurse Corps with long-time Pa- 'em," it contains six application blanks ton, who plans to enter the ministry, cific service as a Lieutenant, Miss Rob- in convenient form. For Posts wishing clinched his victory a stirring elev- ertson has been active in the Legion since by to swell their membership these booklets enth hour speech on patriotism and her return to civil life. She put in two and kits will prove invaluable. racial and religious understanding. years as Post Adjutant, and last term Vice Presidential honors went to his as Senior Vice Commander. The Post's running mate on the Federalist ticket, membership of 170 is made up of em- SOUTH CAROLINA LEGION Craig Swoboda, 17, Norfolk, Nebraska, ployees of the Detroit News. who defeated Nationalist Zane Berge- HISTORY JUST OFF PRESS son, Cornish, Utah. Fresh from the press is a history of The boy citizens spent six action- PAST NATIONAL CHAPLAIN The American Legion of South Caro- packed days touring the nation's cap- HALLORAN, TRENTON, DEAD lina, entitled "The First Thirty Years." ital, learning the operations of their It is the work of Robert T. Fairey of Federal Government actual practice, Reverend Father by Columbia, a Past Department Adjutant, and by meeting top Cabinet officials. Frederick J. Hal- under a Committee chairmanned by They were addressed by Attorney Gen- loran, 64, Past Na- Irvin F. Belser. The book of 323 pages, eral James McGranery, Secretary of tional Chaplain of illustrated and fully indexed, reviews Defense Robert Lovett; General Omar The American Le- in detail the solid accomplishments of Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs gion, passed away the Legion in the Palmetto State from of Staff; General Lawton Collins, Army at his home at its organization in 1919 to 1949, and Chief of Staff; Senators Harvey Cain Trenton, New Jer- also includes section covering the his- of Washington, Wayne Morse of sey, on July 9, fol- Ore- tory of the American Legion Auxiliary gon and by National Commander Don- lowing a heart at- and the Forty and Eight. It should have ald R. Wilson. tack. A native of a place in every Legion library—and of Under the personal direction of Allen Holyoke, Massa- course South Carolina Legionnaires will B. Willand, Director of the Legion's chusetts, he had need it. The First Thirty Years is on National Americanism Commission, the served as a priest sale ($3.50) at the American Legion program of the week also for more than 40 featured vis- Fr. F. J. Halloran Department Headquarters, Hampton years, and had and Henderson Streets, Columbia, South been pastor of the Sacred Heart Cath- Carolina. JOBLESS PAY TO KOREAN olic Church at Trenton for 18 years. Previously he had served in parishes in ' VETS STARTS IN OCTOBER Milltown, Long Branch, Freehold, South Amboy, New Brunswick and Mays The Secretary of Labor DISABLED WW1 VET GETS has an- Landing. nounced that the payment of un- $21,965 IN BACK USGLI employment compensation under Father Halloran rendered many years of valuable service to the Veterans Readjustment Assist- The American Carl A. Sutter, 56, Tupper Lake, ance Act of 1952 (see Newsletter, Legion. He served as Department Chap- New York, a WW1 veteran, has fin- page 37) will begin about inid-Oc- lain of New Jersey from 1933 to 1941 ally won a 32-year battle to con- tober. State employment security and as National Chaplain, 1941-42. vince the Government that he was agencies will make the payments to From 1937 until 1939 and again from totally disabled in service. As a veterans and assume responsibility 1941 through 1947 he was a member of result he has received the largest for State and local administration the National Child Welfare Advisory retroactive insurance benefit pay- of the program. Claims of veterans ment ever made by the Veterans Committee, in addition to serving on will be filed at their local offices of Administration. He gets $21,965 in the National Rehabilitation the State employment service, and Board in back benefits, plus $57.50 monthly should not be filed before the pro- 1937-38. for life. During his 10 months ser- gram of payment begins. But in Funeral services were held on July vice in France in 1918 he was gassed the meantime, if unemployed they 14 at the Sacred Heart Church at and was hospitalized. He contracted should contact the local offices for Trenton. Past National Commander tuberculosis during his service pe- information about job opportunities. James F. O'Neil represented National riod. Commander Wilson at the final rites.

32 • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 FRANK BRIGHAM, FLORIDA PLAN OF EDUCATION WEEK parent, a high school student, and the superintendent of schools. Each one dis- LEGION COMMANDER, DEAD PROGRAM BY LEGION POST cussed a phase of the educational program as it applied to his specific com- Frank E. Brigham, Florence Villa, Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of munity. The programs were publicized Florida, died suddenly at Madison, Flo- Legion Posts throughout the country through the local schools and newspa- rida, on Monday evening, August 4, are beginning to plan for the 32nd ob- pers in each community—and each one while driving to his home from the sex*vance of American Education Week, drew an interested local audience. Florida Department Convention at Tal- November 9-15. As an aid to planning, lassee where, on August 2, he had been J. Murray Lee, Chairman of the Educa- Passes elected Department Commander for the tion Committee of Maynard Price Post Kenneth Huggins On 1952-53 term. Death came to him almost No. 52, Pullman, Washington, offers an Kenneth G. Huggins, 39, Assistant without warning; he felt ill and stopped outline of a successful program in 1951. National Americanism Director, died at at a doctor's office in Madison, but The Committee sponsored a series of his home at Greenville, .South Carolina, passed on before any aid could be given. five radio programs over the facilities on July 5. He had served at the Legion Long a distinguished leader in his of KWSC, each put on by the public National Headquarters at Indianapolis home Department and in the national schools of a separate community, in- from November, 1946, until March of organization, Commander Brigham was cluding Tekoa, Rosalia, Colfax, Palouse this year when ill health forced him to serving as Chairman of the National and Pullman. The programs consisted relinquish his work. A WW2 combat Convention Commission at the time of of musical numbers by school groups, veteran of the ETO, he was a member his death, and had given much time and and brief talks by the local Legion Post of Greenville Post No. 3. He is sur- energy to the work of arranging for the Commander, a school board member, a vived by his wife, Mrs. Mae Huggins. New York National Convention. He served as Department Vice Commander WARNER GIVES TOWN HALL TO WOODLAND HILLS POST in 1927-28; as Department Defense Chairman in 1949-50, and as Depart- ment Judge Advocate in 1951-52. In the national organization he was a member of the National Distinguished Guest Committee, 1942; National WW2 Liai- son Committee, 1943-45, and member of the National Convention Commission since 1946, serving the past year as its Chairman. Active also in the Forty and Eight, he served in 1942-43 as one of the Sous Chef de Chemin de Fer. Funeral services were held at Winter Haven, Florida, on Thursday, August 7.

20th Infantry to Celebrate Elaborate preparations are being made to celebrate the 20th Infantry Regiment's Organization Day at its present station, Fort Ord, California, on September 21. Lieutenant Colonel Maurice G. Holden, Commanding Officer of this distinguished unit of the 6th Division in WW2, has issued an invita- ton to all old 20th veterans and to the friends and relatives of the 3,000 members of the Regiment to attend.

Maine Plaques Restricted Correction—In the August number announcement was made that the Navy Department had on hand 894 bronze plaques made from metal from the U.S.S. Maine for distribution before Woodland Hills (California) Post No. 826 has a fine new home — a Town Hall — January 1, 1953. Announcement said the gift of Harry M. Warner, motion picture industry and community leader. these plaques were available to "persons Impressive ceremonies, attended by a distinguished assemblage of Southern Cali- or Posts;" Navy Department—after fornia civic and religious leaders, film stars and representatives of the Armed Forces flood of orders came in — advises that and veterans organization, marked the formal dedication on Sunday, July 27. Posts are eligible to purchase ($5 to Mr. Warner, in his address, made a plea for a relentless fight against the forces which pay packing costs), but that the only seek to destroy the nation, and cited The American Legion as one of the greatest persons eligible are "veterans or heirs forces for good in the world today. In the picture above, left to right, are John of men who served aboard the Maine." DeHennis, Commander of the Woodland Hills Post, who accepted the building on behalf of the Legion and the community; Captain Raymond Harvey, Korean War hero who won the Medal of Honor, who led the pledge of allegiance to the flag, and Post Aids Stricken Family Mr. Warner. A member of Davis-Kerber Post No. A bronze plaque, unveiled at the dedicatory ceremonies, reads: "Because the high 635 was recently struck by lightning ideals and purposes expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution of The American and killed instantly, leaving a wife and Legion are consonant with the spirit of America's founding forefathers whose two small children. The Post was quick courage, wisdom and sacrifice made our nation great, this building and grounds have to come to the relief of the family—and been donated to the Woodland Hills Post 826 of The American Legion, Department as a novel means of fund-raising for a of California, in memory of my father, Benjamin Warner, and my son, Lewis, in worthy purpose put on a public fish fry grateful appreciation of what the United States of America has meant to myself which brought in a substantial sum. and my family. Harry M. Warner. 1952." The American Legion Magazine • September. 1952 • 33 for 19 consecutive years. The Reading * Keys, under the expert coaching of * * * LEGIONITEMS * * Melvin (Doc) Silva since 1930, has won six State Championship contests, and has supplied 73 graduates to organized record for some- organize Abey-Barry-Lindboe Post No. Here's an attendance baseball, including such stars as Domi- Stick- 985, and he became its Commander in one to beat. Legionnaire George nic Dallessandro, Whitey Kurowski, Vic- Sol- 1928. Now, in 1952, his 27-year-old ney, now Commander of Unknown tor Wertz, George Eyrich, Jesse Levan dier Post No. 1124, Bronx, New York WW2 Marine veteran son, John L. Ken- and Dick Gernert. . . . Shaw-Martin- City, not missed a single regular nedy, was installed as Commander of has Beaupre Post No. 12, Franklin, New he became a the same Post. meeting of his Post since Hampshire, held its first public cere- meetings per - * member in 1940. At two * * mony for the destruction of unservice- month, that adds up to 288 consecutive William C. O'Reilley, Adjutant of able flags on the night of July 3. The meetings. . . . Miss Martha Berry, An- Gregg Post No. 12, Reading, Pennsylva- event aroused so much interest that it derson, Missouri, sponsored by Hobbs- nia, thinks his Post holds the record for will be continued as an annual event, Anderson Post No. 91, Monett, won top continuous co-sponsorship of a Legion says Commander Basil Broadhurst. . . . honors in the third annual Missouri Junior Baseball team. He cites the rec- State Baton Twirling Contest over 109 ord of Charles R. Golden, Reading Ford competitors. Girls from eight States dealer, as co-sponsor of the team, with Massapequa (New York) Post No. competed in the open contest. . . . De- an average contribution of $800 per year 1066 has announced plans for building Land (Florida) Post No. 6 and the 40 a $70,000 clubhouse to be completed and 8 Voitures of DeLand and Orlando early in 1953. With 159 members, the went all-out on June 14 when Under SIGNS MEMBERS IN SPITE Post has been awarded the Nassau Secretary of the Navy Francis P. County 40 and 8 Membership Trophy Whitehair and top flight officers of the OF PHYSICAL HANDICAP — it was the first Post in the county to Navy and Marine Corps visited the area reach its quota and made the largest to study the possibility of reopening increase over 1951 membership. . . . the DeLand Air Base for Navy and Continuing the "safe and sane" July Marine Corps use. Legion and affiliated 4th celebration, two neighboring Legion groups have given strong support to the units in Rhode Island, Auburn Post No. project. * 20, and Narragansett Post No. 13, Cranston, joined to put on the annual June Van Meter Post No. 190, Clinton, "Night Before the Fourth" observance Iowa, presented a check for $881.69 to in Cranston Stadium, attended by some little Miss Linda Stumbaugh, who was 10,000 people. An entertainment pro- the victim of a savage attack by an un- gram was put on, followed by a profes- known assailant. The fund was raised at sional fireworks display. . . . Winfield a benefit dance. Presentation was made (Kansas) Post No. 10 bolstered its Ed- by Commander Carl J. Jessen. . . Erected ucational Fund by operating a fireworks by Tualatin Valley Post No. 93, The stand just before July 4th which netted American Legion, and Tigard Post No. $600. The Educational Fund is used to 3957, VFW, a tall flagpole was dedicated send high school lads to the Sunflower in Crescent Grove Cemetery, Tigard, Boys' State for practical training in Oregon, commemorating the 100th year government and citizenship, and also to of the cemetery. Dedicatory address was make local citizenship awards. delivered by Vice Admiral Thomas L. Gatch; color guard was furnished by the U. S. Marine Corps from Swan Island. West Rutland (Vermont) Post No. 87,

. . . E. W. McNeil, member of Blakely- with a four year average of 29 members, Stevens Post No. 109, Montezuma, Iowa, had 258 members on its rolls on July 1, has been elected President of the Iowa largely due to the efforts of Post Com- State Bar Association. He is a Pacific mander John H. Phalen. The Post has combat vet of WW2. . . . An All-America also acquired a new home. . . . Hugh rose garden dedicated to the Korean Askew, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a Past War heroes of Detroit, Michigan, has Burton Little, Crystal Springs, Missis- Department Commander of that State been presented to the city by All-Amer- sippi, who is Commander of the 15th and two-war veteran, has been appointed ica Rose Selections. Mississippi District, signed up 126 mem- Assistant Commissioner of the Federal * * * * bers for 1951 to set an aggressive ex- Housing Administration. He will be con- ample for his Post membership workers. cerned with the direction and admin- Readville (Massachusetts) Post No. He had to get around a lot to do it, and istrative operations of 137 field offices of

458 observed July 4th by holding a Field he had to do it the hard way — because the Federal Housing program. . . . H. L. Day for the youngsters in its area, with his only locomotion is by wheelchair. ("Pep") Plummer, Past Department ice cream, popcorn, lollipops and bal- Commander Little joined Hilton Cot- Commander of Wisconsin and for sev- loons for all. The event was held on the tingham Post No. 41 at Crystal Springs eral years Assistant National Adjutant Camp grounds in Readville and had 550 in 1945, immediately after his return at National Headquarters, has been children guests and 175 adults, starting from the hospital, and immediately be- named Chairman of the Wisconsin State at 10 A.M. with a program of athletic came interested in Legion work. He Highway Commission, with offices in

and other contests. Prizes were given to signed up 26 members in 1945; 60 in 1946 Madison. . . . Robert Wolfson, 16-year- all contest winners, with consolation when he was Post Chaplain; 78 in 1947, old student at Lincoln High School, was

prizes to the runners-up. . . . John D. but only 45 in 1948 because he was out declared winner of the "Why I Love Mathis Post No. 2, Americus, Georgia, of circulation a good part of the time. America" essay contest sponsored by paid honor to Legionnaire George Sa- He scored up 75 in 1951 while serving Los Angeles (California) City Hall Post liba, its champion membership-getter. as Post Adjutant, and the same year No. 387. Second prize went to Jean Loo, In each of the last eight years, begin- was elected Commander of the 15th Dis- and third to Angelica Lopez. Presenta- ning with 1944-45, Legionnaire Saliba trict. He revived an old Post, organized tion of awards was made by Commander

has signed more than 100 members per a new one, and finished his first year A. P. Rausenberger . . . Past Department

year for the Post. . . . Back in 1925, with 11 Posts, 5 exceeding their 1951, and Commander Lester G. Block has been Frank M. Kennedy, Rochester, New 5 lacking but a few members of making awarded a Gold Life Membership Card York, joined with WW1 comrades to the mark. by Trenton (New Jersey) Post No. 93. 34 * Tl19 American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 213th Bakery Co.— Reunion, Round Top, Greene Co., N. Y. Sept. 19-21; Riedlbauer's Ravine OUTFIT REUNIONS House. Information from Fred Schoeler, Round Top, New York. COMRADES IN DISTRESS 107th Evacuation Hospital Assn. — 6th annual reunion, Boston, Mass., Sept. 19-21; Hotel Ken- 27th (New York) Div. Assn., (both WWs) — more. Write Giles A. Loughrea, Jr., 169 Church 7th Ordnance (MM), Glcndale, Cal. — Need to 32nd annual reunion, Troy, N. Y., Sept. 26-27; St., Watertown 72, Mass. locate Capt. R. W. Graver, Lt. Moore, Sgt. Eve- Info from Col. John J. Purcell, Chairman, City Co. A, 5th Neb. Inf., and Co. A, 134 th Inf. — land, Pvt. Critchlow, Pvt. Snowdall and Pvt. Hall, Troy, N. Y. Reunion, Seward, Neb., Sept. 21. All old timers Dold; statements in reference to injury I re- 45th (Thunderbird) Inf. Div. Assn.— Reunion, invited. Info from Montie E. Lum, Court House, ceived in service. Charles E. Wagner, 102 No. New York City, Oct. 10-12; Hotel New Yorker. McCook. Neb. 21st St., Ashland. Nebraska. Details from Robert J. McGee, 31 Madison Ave., 316th Inf. Assn. —33rd annual reunion, Lan- 165th Prov. MP Det., (Port Custer, Italy and New York City. caster, Pa., Sept. 26-28; Hotel Brunswick. Write North Africa) - Will Sgt. Orville Dopps, Pfc. 87th (Acorn) Inf. Div. Assn. — Reunion, New Raymond A. Cullen, Secy., P. O. Box 1303, Valdar C. Bloodworth or others in detachment York City, Sept. 12-13; Hotel New Yorker. Info Philadelphia 5, Pa. please write; need statements. Alex (Kubb) from 87th Div. Headquarters, 29 Broadway, New 252nd FA Bn.— Reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. Kulbiski, 1407 2nd Ave., Dodge City, Kans. York, N. Y. 4. Contact Les Johnson, 154 Estberg Ave., 49th Pursuit Sqdrn., 14th Pursuit Grp., later 91st Inf. Div. Assn.— 34th annual reunion, San Waukesha. Wis. 83rd Fighter Sqdrn, 78th Fighter Grp. - Need Francisco, Cal., Sept. 26-28; Veteran Memorial 148th Field Hospital, 37th Div. - 32nd annual statements for men with me in school at Glen- Bldg. Details from Headquarters, Room 128, reunion, Bowling Green, Ohio, Oct. 5. Info from dale, Cal., when I injured my left knee. V. T. Veterans Memorial Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. O. N. Grover, Bowling Green, Ohio. Nefzger, 901 Irving St., Denver 4, Colo. 43rd (Winged Victory) Inf. Div., (WW2) — Co. E, 126th Inf., 32nd Div., (WW2) - Annual 3rd Balloon Co., Ross Field, Arcadia, Cal. — Annual reunion, Fairlee, Vermont, Sept. 13-14; reunion, Big Rapids, Mich., Oct. 11. Write Will anyone who served with Ray J. Kastning, Lake Morey Inn. Contact Alexander J. Smith, He nry Brissette, R2, Stan wood, M ich. above station, please write; particularly Clarence Adjt. Gen's. Office, Montpelier, Vt. 119th Engineers, (WW1) - Annual reunion. E. War, Frederick F. Faber, Raymond Walters, 90th (Tough 'Ombres) Div. Assn., Midwest — Council Bluffs, Iowa, Oct. 4-5; Hotel Chieftain. Richard A. Thomas, Walter A. Best. Harry C. Reunion, Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 27; Nicollet Contact E. W. Rockwell, 1815 Ave. E, Council Snelling, James A. McDonald, Maxwell S. Rob- Hotel. Write Harold C. Heggerness, Pres., Box Bluffs, Iowa. erts, and George F. Parriss. Address George W. 962, Minneapolis, Minn. 561st Ord. HM Co., (TK)-5th annual reunion, Wright, Jr., County Service Officer, 348 1st Natl. 91st Div. Assn. of Oregon, (both WWs) — Albany, N. Y., Oct. 10-12; Hotel Ten Eyck. Bank Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. Reunion, Portland, Ore., Sept. 27; New Heath- Details from Edgar W. Moorby, 40 Spruce St., Co. C, 131st Engineers; Station Hospital, Camp man Hotel. Info from M. D. Geller, 4217 N. E. Oneonta, N. Y. Shelby, Miss. — Need to locate Sgt. Charles A. Davis St., Portland 15, Ore. North Sea Mine Force Assn., New York Chap- Martin, Med. Det., in 1942, probably from Winns- 100th (Century) Inf. Div.-5th annual reunion. ter — 11th annual reunion, New York City Oct. boro, La. Will anyone who knows his present New York City, Sept. 6-7; Commodore Hotel. 17-18; Hotel New Yorker. Contact William C. address please write; need statements. Elvin Contact Albert L. Bisaccia, Secy., Box 86, Hart- Meister, P. O. Box 66, Sunnyside Sta., Long Carl Brown, 2500 Jessamine St., Baton Rouge 7, ford 1, Conn. Island City 4, N. Y. La. 16th Armored Div. — 1st reunion. New York 830th Engineers Avn Bn., (Flying Eight Ball) USS Guam — Will any shipmate serving with City, Aug. 29-31; Beekman Tower Hotel. Contact - Reunion, Chicago, 111., Oct. 18-19; Hotel Sher- me in March, 1945, in waters around Okinawa John McCreary, Secy.-Treas., at hotel or 316 man. Write Thomas G. Youngblood, 68 May- who remembers my head injury, please write. 43rd St., Union City, N. J. alien St. Wilkes-Barre. Pa. Anthony A. Senerchia, 17 Rhodes St., West 352nd Bomb Sqdrn., 301st Bomb Group-2nd USS Fowler, (DE 222) - Reunion, all hands, Warwick, R. I. annual reunion, Chicago, 111., Sept. 26-28; Hotel Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 25. Details from John E. HHth AA Bn. -Will M/Sgt. Paul Thompson Sherman. Contact Peter P. Martyniak, 4 Swain Stetler, 7 W. 2nd St., Pottstown, Pa. and Al Geanini, both of California, please write; Place, Arlington 74, Mass Co. M, 168th Inf., 34th Div., (WW2) -Re- need statements to support claim. John L. Co. D, 134th Inf., 34th Div., (WWl)-35th union, Red Oak, Iowa, Oct. 25. Write Vernon Mason, 200 Magnolia Ave., Clarksburg, W. Va. anniversary reunion. Auburn, Neb., Sept. 14, Mainquist. 900 Washington Ave., Red Oak Iowa. Battery E, 318th FA (WW1) - Urgently need Write Oscar Flau, Auburn, Neb. 309th FA Assn., 78th Div., (both WWs) - to hear from men who served with Corp. Jay H. 572nd AAA AW Bn.—7th annual reunion, Read- Annual reunion, Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 8; Wil- Trainer during flu epidemic in France, 1918; ing, Pa., Oct. 10-11; Abraham Lincoln Hotel. liam W. Doud Post Memorial Home, 898 Buffalo his illness in hay barn and later hospitalization. Information from James S. Moffat, President, Rd. Info and reservations from Monroe A. Statements needed. Jay H. Trainer, Rte 2, Box P.O. Box 241, Scranton. Pa. Blumenstiel, Secy., 66 Mayflower Drive. Roches- 208, Dundee. Miss. Co. 6, 1st Air Service Mechanics Regt., (WW1) ter 18, N. Y. LST 332 — Need to hear from shipmates on —Annual reunion and dinner New York City, 518th MP Bn. — Reunion and dinner dance. board in Feb., 1945, when I suffered a broken Oct. 18; Hotel Piccadilly. Details from Edwin New York City, Oct. 18; Henry Hudson Hotel. wrist when a scaffold gave way; hospitalized at Lord, 11 Otis St., Everett 49, Mass. Details from Edward W. Krupinski, 253 E. Jer- Field Hospital. Plymouth, England. Need state- 8th (Pathfinder) Infantry Div.—Reunion, New sey St., Elizabeth, N. J. ment. Please write. William H. Bassett, Jr., Box York City, Oct. 2-4; Hotel New Yorker. In- 6th AA Battery, (WW1) - Reunion, Poplar 627, Coleman, Texas. formation from Harry L. Picard, 215 East 73rd Bluff, Mo.. Sept. 20-21; Dunn Hotel. Info from 56th Regt., CAC — Will anyone who knows St., New York 21, N. Y. Leonard Leemon, Chairman, 512 S. Park Ave., present address of former Lt. Lewis, ( home 7th Regiment New York Post, The American Marissa, 111. town, St. Paul, Minn.) please write; statement Legion—34th annual dinner and reunion, New Battery A, 130th FA, 35th Div.. (WW1) - for claim needed. Frank W. Parrish, 7502 Ca- York City, Sept. 29; at Regimental Armory, Reunion, Topeka, Kans., Sept. 28. Write Art mellia Ave., North Hollywood, Cal. 643 Park Ave. Details from Joseph Robins, Henry, Secy., Box 293, Topeka, Kans. General Hospital, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Commander, at Armory address. (WW1) — Need to locate nurse named Sha or 2nd Bn., 129th Inf., (WW2)-4th annual re- Shea (home state New York; probably Lake Placid area) in hospital in December, 1918; union, Joliet, 111., October 4; Cantigny Post No. also a White. Statements needed. Write 367, VFW. Write W. E. Mau, 714 South St., Captain Lockport, 111. THE AMERICAN LEGION C. F. Smoldt, Rte 1. Box 180, Foreston. Minn. Schick General Hospital, Clinton, Iowa — Will 139th FA, 38th Div., (WWl)-27th annual re- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS present address of Capt. union. Ft. Wayne, Ind., Oct. 4-5; Hotel Van Or- anyone who knows INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Corps, treated at man. Details from Floyd Enos, 1928 S. Harrison Ralph Johnson, Med. who me St., Ft. Wayne, Ind., or Dr. Harry H. Nagle, JUNE 30, 1952 Schick in 1945, please write. Believed to be from 4117 E. Washington, Indianapolis, Ind. Pennsylvania. Arne O. Kari, Tamarack, Minn. ASSETS Station Hospital, — 3040th Co., 142nd OBAM Bn.-3rd annual re- 137th Guadalcanal Need to locate Capt. Leonard, Capt. Donaway, Major union, Chicago, 111., Oct. 4-5. Write G. Gerald Cash on hand and on deposit ...$ 664, 421.95 Manwell, Major St. Cyr, Lt. Ann Connors, or Holmes, Sycamore, III., for details. Receivables 219 292.33 other officers or enlisted men at this station. 2nd General Hospital, (Army)—Reunion, New Inventories 913.00 516, Statements needed for claim. Roy M. Huey, 114 York City, Oct. 11; Woodstock Hotel. Write Invested Funds 459, 482.11 Brawley St., Chester. S. C. Michael Vicidomino, 79 Douglas St., Brooklyn, Permanent Trusts: Co. G, 22nd Regt., 4th Inf. Div. - Need state- Overseas Graves Decoration ments from service comrades to establish claim; 156th General Hospital— Annual reunion, Chi- Trust Fund 254,234.18 $ will men who served with me in April and May, cago, 111., Oct. 11; Brevoort Hotel. Details from Employees' Retirement 1945, please write. Also men who served with Harriet Dexheimer, U. S. Public Health Service Trust Fund 1.258.740.23 974.41 1,512, me in Co. C, 70th Tank Bn., Fort Knox, in Hospital, Detroit 15, Mich., or Paul J. Schmidt, Real Estate 968, 972.65 1947-48. Dale K. Adams, Rte 2, Detroit, Texas. 6616 S. Wood St., Chicago 36, 111. Furniture and Fixtures, less Training Bn., 184th GH and 684th Complementary Unit-5th Co. A, 63rd Infantry Camp depreciation 297, 065.70 Fannin, Texas— Present address of Capt. Harvey, annual reunion, Boston, Mass., Oct. 11-12; Uni- Deferred Charges 99, 723.98 CO between August and December, 1944, and versity Club. Write Harry W. Pratt. Secy., 83 Johnson wanted in connection with claim Buckingham Rd., North Andover, Mass. $4,738, 846.13 Sgt. of Allan D. Auman. Write R. N. Arvidson, 127th Sea Bee Bn.-Oth annual reunion, Chi- Adjt., Jos. A. Gates Post No. 78, Kenyon. Minn. cago, 111., Oct. 11-12; Midland Hotel. Contact LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE - Floyd M. White, 1818 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, Hqrs. 542nd FA Bn., 42nd Inf. Div. Will AND NET WORTH anyone who knew me in service in Austria, 322nd Field Signal Bn.-Joint spring of 1945, please write; statements wanted. reunion North- Current Liabilities 274,238.31 ern and Southern California $ Charles E. Grever, 206 Younglove Ave., Santa Associations, Fresno, Funds restricted as to Cal., Nov. use 130,617.45 Cruz, Cal. 8. For particulars write Earl Steinau, Deferred Income 218 Ashton Ave., 1,020,921.56 Supply Co., 5th Mass. Inf., NG—Need to locate San Francisco, or Dave Levin- Overseas Graves Decoration eon, Broadway Arcade Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. medical officers and others who know of my Co. B, 4142nd Trust $ 254,234.18 chest condition while at Camp Greene, Charlotte, QM Ser. Bn. - 3rd annual re- Employees' Retirement union. Cleveland, O., Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Info N. C, Nov. and Dec. 1917. Ralph R. Benjamin, from Trust 1,258.740.23 1,512,974.41 Harold W. Hale, 1420 W. 67th St.. Cleveland 2, 40 Harrison St., Quincy 69, Mass. Ohio. Net Worth: Co. A. 127th Engineer Bn., 11th Airborne Div. USS Mount Vernon Assn., (Queen of the Restricted Capital: — Urgently need to hear from service comrades, Transport Service, WWl)-34th annual reunion, Reserve Fund .. 23,464.13 particularly those who know of my injury on Boston, Mass., Sept. 6; Monaco Room, Hotel Restricted Fund 17,939.98 Leyte. Statements needed to establish claim. Lenox. Contact Lawrence A. Sands, Shipwriter, Reserve for construction Hildreth E. (Bill) Nearon, 1422 North McCann 18 Symmes St., West Medford 55, Mass., or Wash. Office. . 64,253.8* St., Kokomo, Ind. Earle M. Marston, Paymaster, 28 Vane St., No. Real Estate 968,972.65 Gustaffson, Curtis T.—Will anyone who knows Quincy 71, Mass. 1,074,630.60 present address of this veteran please write Battery C, 559th AAA - 2nd reunion, Virginia Unrestricted Capital: Sam S. Williams, Veterans' Service Officer, P. O. Beach, Va., Sept. 6; American Legion Hall. Info Excess of Income over Expense Box 401, Troy. Ala. and reservations from R. Roland Hippie, 600 6 months . .. . 725.463.80 1,800.094.40 USS Maban— Will Assistant Surgeon Agnew or Main St., Reisterstown, Md. any member of the 1919 crew please write, es- 4th Cavalry $4,738,846.13 Assn. — Reunion. Minneapolis, pecially Knott, Peal, Allbright, Deacon, Swin- Minn., Sept. 19-20; Nicollet Hotel. Write M. J. dell, Ericson, Mulliom. Help needed. Leon Bris- Loberg, Annandale. Minn. bois, 37 Harbor St., Salem, Mass. The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 • 35 Seattle Post Builds International Goodwill MISSING IN KOREA

Co. A, litth Inf., 24th Div.— Will greatly appre- Through Fraternal Visit to Canadian Legion ciate hearing from anyone who may have information about 1st Lt. Frank M. Walker, missing near Wol-li, S. Korea, since Feb. 4, 1951. Please By ADDIS GUTMANN write Mrs. Frank M. Walker, 7321 South Yale, Chairman, 26th Goodwill Caravan Chicago. 21, 111. ISRAEL BROADSWORD, GAR Co. C, 5th RCT - Pfc. Carl Barnes, missing since April sister will appreciate any One of the rich heritages of Seattle 25, 1951; VETERAN, DEAD, AGED 105 word about him. Mrs. Albert Hock, Jr., 125 N. (Washington) Post No. 1 is its annual Nicholas St., Saint Clair, Pa. I, - Goodwill Pilgrimages to Canada. On Co. 31st Inf. Regt., 7th Div. Sister of Israel Aaron M/Sgt. Edmund W. Neilson, missing at Chosen these trips the American Legionnaires Broadsword, 105, Reservoir Dec. 3, 1950, requests information about join with our comrades of the Canadian him. Please write Mrs. William A. Rock, who took up arms A-10 Gillmore Village, Utica, N. Y. Legion in impressive celebrations of at the age of 14 to Co. C, 21st Inf. Regt., 24th Div.-Parents and sister of Cpl. George Thamel, missing since April national amity and goodwill. fight in the Union 26, 1951, are eagerly seeking information about The 26th annual observance, begin- Army in the Civil him; service comrades please write. Address particularly out- Phyllis Thamel, 51 Arlington St., Worcester 4, ning on June 21, was War, died at Spo- Mass. standing, and the visit to Chilliwack, kane, Washington, Co. K, 9th Infantry — Will anyone who knows anything about our son, Pfc. Roy K. Bellamy, Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs, July 25. on He was missing since Feb. 12, 1951, please write; we British Columbia, was one long to be 105 years old. have no word as to his status. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth remembered. The formalities, color, the Bellamy, 609 Long St., Ashland, Ky. A resident of Co. F, 35th Inf. Regt. — Will service comrades bit of "old country" customs are .so Samuels, Idaho, of my son, Cpl. Joseph Kisela, missing since inviting that several Nov. 27, 1950, near Unsong, tell me anything pleasant and since 1929, he was they may know about him. Write Mrs. Vera Seattle Post members have taken every hospitalized at the Kisela, 542 Troutwine St., Centralia, Pa. Sth Engineers, 1st Cav. Div. — Information is such trip since the pilgrimages were Israel Broadsword Spokane Veterans sought about Pfc. Richard D. Coker, missing inaugurated over a quarter of a cen- Administration since Nov. 2, 1950. Please write. Oleta Kelley, 903 Bond St., tury ago. Monett, Pa. Hospital for diseases of old age. The Co. K, 5th Cav. Regt., 1st Cav. Div. - Service The caravan of 17 cars left Seattle old veteran was a native of Putnam comrades are urgently requested to tell me anything they may know about son, Sgt. William on the morning of June 21, led by the my County, Ohio, but served the Union H. Bellinger; reported killed in action Feb. 28, State Highway Patrol, and made no cause in the 51st Missouri Volunteer 1951; no other information received. At Christ- mas season printed picture of stop for 108 miles when the caravan newspapers group Infantry. war prisoners, one of whom greatly resembled crossed the border into Canada. The His death leaves only three living- our Bill. Write, please. Mrs. Edna R. Bellinger, Canadian welcoming committee had ar- 1935 North Center St., Terre Haute, Ind. veterans of the Grand Army of the H/S Co., 2nd Engineers Combat Bn. - Will ranged that all custom formalities be Republic. They are James A. Hard, 111, anyone who knew Cpl. Billy J. LaRoue, missing dispensed with, and the Royal Canadian since Nov. 30, 1950, near Sonchu, North Korea, Rochester, New York; William A. Ma- please write. His name was mentioned on a Mounted Police took over as the official gee, 105, Van Nuys, California, and Chinese broadcast as a prisoner, but have had no other word. escort. Write his mother, Mrs. W. J. Albert Woolson, 105, Duluth, Minne- Dorsey, 3108 Grinnell St., Lubbock, Texas. At Chilliwack the caravan was wel- sota. At the last survey made -in June Co. C, 21st Inf. Regt., 24th Div. -The parents comed by Brigadier John Rockingham, of Cpl. Grady L. Freeman, missing since April of this year, there were eight survivors 26, 1951 at Muk-kol, will greatly appreciate hear- Director of Training of the Canadian of the Confederate States Army. ing from service comrades who know anything Army, and, flanked by the color guards about him, or from parents of boys who were with this Company. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Freeman, of Seattle Post and Chilliwack Branch Rte. 3, Box 109, Sylvania, Ga. Co. D, 38th Inf. Regt. — Am anxious to hear No. 4, Canadian Legion, Commander- 24-YEAR-OLD VET IS WW2 from anyone who knows about my husband, Sgt. elect Al Keppler placed a wreath on the ALABAMA DEPT. COMMANDER John H. Holman, missing Feb. 12, 1951, near Chilliwack War Memorial. Hoengsong (Massacre Valley). Please write. Mrs. John Holman, 803 Iglehart Ave., St. Paul 4, A reception followed at the Canadian Alabama believes it has elected the Minn. Legion Hall, when Mayor Allen Porae- Co. C, Sth Cav. Reg., 1st Cav. Div.-Mother of youngest Department Commander ever Pvt. Gerald F. Sinz would like to hear from roy of Seattle delivered a short address, to serve the Legion in that capacity. service comrades who were with him when he followed by an exchange of greetings was killed near Wagwam, Aug. 17, 1950. Please He is John E. Drinkard, 24 years of write. Mrs. George Sinz, Eau Galle, Wis. by President Dave Sammuson of the age, of Falkville, who was elected at Co. L, 38th Reg., 2nd Inf. Div.-Will be thank- Canadian Legion and Commander-elect ful for any news about my brother, Cpl. Charles the Department Convention in July — E. Jarrell, missing since Feb. 13, 1951; believe Al Keppler of Seattle Post. The cere- just before he reached his 25th birth- he was in Massacre Valley battle. Write Mrs. monies were repeated at Agassiz, and Arthur Akers, Maben, W. Va. day. Co. B, 38th Inf., 2nd Inf. Div. - Pfc. Furman the caravan moved on to Harrison Hot Though young in years, Commander Keeley was reported missing in July, 1950; will Springs where at the popular Harrison anyone who knows anything about him please Drinkard has rolled up a long record, write his mother. Mrs. Ellen Keeley, RFD 4, Hot Springs Hotel the international both in service to the colors and The Pottstown, Pa. banquet was held on Saturday night, Co. G, 23rd Inf., 2nd Inf. Div.-Will appreciate American Legion. He enlisted in the any information about my brother, SFC Fran- June 21. ceszek J. Kv.Uk, reported seriously wounded U. S. Navy on May 4, 1945, at the age The final event of the two-day pro- Sept. 1, 1950; later declared missing. Write of 17, served in the Mariannas until his Stanley Kulik, 658 South Bridge St., Holyoke, gram was a colorful "drum head" discharge on July 30, 1946. He became Mass. church service on Sunday morning con- a member of Falkville Post No. 121 on ducted Colonel D. Taylor, padre for Publicity by a of September 3, 1945 — one day after he Wins Award the Canadian Army. became eligible by reason of the sur- Prospect Park (New Jersey) Memor- The Seattle Legionnaires started on render of the Japanese and the end of ial Post No. 240 has been awarded the the return trip Sunday evening, all de- hostilities — while at home on leave from Fithian Award for its efforts during lighted with the goodwill pilgrimage the Navy. the past year. It is presented each year and with the color and pageantry tra- He served as Post Finance Officer in to the New Jersey Post receiving the ditional to Canada and to England. 1946- 47, and as Post Commander in best local publicity through its own ef- Plans are already being laid for the 1947-48 when he increased the member- forts—and has become an almost auto- 27th pilgrimage observed to be some ship from 51 to 208. Again as Com- matic award to the Prospect Park unit. time next year. mander in 1948-49 he boosted the mem- This is the 9th year that the Post has bership to 255. During the same year won the award since 1938, and 8 times Antwerp Post to Greet Pilgrims he served as Vice Commander of the it was given second place. The publicity Antwerp Post No. 1 in Belgium has 2nd District. While District Command- is handled by Past Commander Charles arranged an official reception for er in 1949-50 the membership attained A. Lenge, who, in addition to other Legionnaires participating in the Legion an all-time high. Legion activities, has carried on the pilgrimage to Europe following the Na- He is married and the father of a publicity and public relations work for tional Convention in New York City. girl, aged 4. 18 years. gg • The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 :

Veterans ^(g^gJlg^sp SEPTEMBER, 1952

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO TOD

KOREAN GI BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT: Loan provisions: In general, the loan guaranty sections " The "Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952, are similar to those of the WW2 GI Bill. . . . The amount signed by President Truman on July 16 when it became is the same. . . . Home loans may be guaranteed up to 60

Public Law 550, 82nd Congress, is popularly known as the percent of loan, not to exceed $7,500. . . . Other real estate Korean GI Bill. ... Its provisions, however, are not limited loans may be guaranteed up to 50 percent with a $4,000 to actual service in the Korean area, but to all Armed Forces top. . . . Business loans up to 50 percent, with a ceiling of personnel in service from and after June 27, 1950, to a date $2,000 as to guarantee. . . . VA is authorized to make direct yet to be fixed as the termination of hostilities or the end loans in designated non-metropolitan areas where private

of the "police action" emergency. . . . Five major benefits financing at legal rate of 4 percent is not available. are granted under this law which are designed to assist Unemployment Compensation: Payment of $26 a

veterans in the return to civil life. . . . The compromise week up to a total of 26 weeks is provided. . . . Administered measure as passed by both houses of Congress was outlined by State agencies through the U. S. Department of Labor. in the National Legionnaire section (page 29) for August. . . . Payments are tied in with mustering-out-pay provisions;

. . . Briefly, as signed by the President, Public Law 550 vets who receive $100 at discharge cannot draw unemploy- provides ment compensation for 30 days; $200, 60 days, and $300, Education and Training: Vets are allowed one and 90 days. one-half days of training for each day of service after Muster-Out Pay: Applicable to all who have been in June 27, 1950—regardless of where the service was performed service since June 27, 1950, and have an honorable discharge,

—up to a maximum of 36 months. . . . Training may be muster-out pay in the following order is provided for all taken in school, college, on-the-job or on-the-farm, so ranks up to and including that of Captain, Army, Air Force long as the school or training establishment has been ap- and Marines, or Lieutenant (senior grade) in the Navy: $100 proved by an appropriate State Approving Agency. . . . for those who spent less than 60 days in service, paid at dis- Students and trainees will be paid fixed sums for subsistence charge; $200 for those with active duty of more than 60 days and tuition—VA will not pay tuition charges direct to schools but not outside the U. S. or Alaska, $100 paid at discharge as was the provision of WW2 GI Bill. . . . Rates for vets and $100 paid a month later; and $300 for those with more in full time training in schools and colleges are $110 a than 60 days active duty, part of which was served overseas. month, without dependents; $135 with one dependent, and . . . These vets will receive $200 at discharge and $100 a month

$160 if more than one dependent. . . . Those in training later. . . . Service personnel discharged before the new law

less than full time will receive lower monthly rates. . . . became effective must apply to their branch of the service

Top monthly allowances for on-the-job trainees are for the benefit within two years from July 16, 1952. . . . $70 without dependents; $85 with one dependent, and $105 Mustering-out program and payment, as in the case of WW2 with more than one dependent. . . . The maximums for vets, will be administered by the Armed Forces and the

on-farm trainees are $95, $110 and $130, respectively. . . . Treasury Department, and not by VA. Law specifies that on-job and on-farm rates be reduced job-Finding Assistance: This service is extended on the at four-month intervals, as the training progresses and the same basis as for WW2 vets. . . . The help includes job- veteran's own earnings increase. . . . Vets taking institutional counseling and employment placement services of the on-farm training must devote full time to the program. . . . Veterans Employment Service, a part of the U. S. Employ-

There is no ceiling on earnings while training. . . . But ment Service. . . . Vets are reminded that three of the five should a veteran's training allowance plus his earnings as benefits—unemployment compensation, mustering-out pay, a trainee exceed $310 a month, regardless of dependency and job-hunting aid—are not administered by VA.

4f status, VA will reduce the allowance accordingly. . . . $ $ $ Monthly allowances will be paid after each month of train- VET PREFERENCE FOR KOREAN VETS: ing is completed. . . . Before VA can pay the law requires Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 was extended to cover certification from both the veteran and his school or train- veterans coming out of the present emergency when Presi- ing establishment that he was enrolled in and pursued his dent Truman signed a bill (H.R. 7721) which became Public course during that period. . . . effective 16, Though July Law 536, 82nd Congress. . . . Vet preference expired, for new when signed, no training allowance will be paid for any vets, on April 28 when the Japanese peace treaty took effect. period prior to August 20. . . . training Education and must . . . New law grants 5-point preference for Government jobs be started by August 20, 1954, or two years after release to non-disabled veterans; 10 points to vets disabled as a

from active . . duty, whichever comes later. . No training result of military service, and 10 points to certain widows may be given beyond seven years after discharge or seven and mothers of men who died while on active duty or as a years after the end of the current emergency. result of service-connected injury or illness.

37 CLAIMS FOR LOSS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY: by the Commission. ... It is almost a certainty that the Legion will re-open the fight for a program in the Military Personnel Claims Act of 1945 was rewritten UMT next Congress— a program which is considered so essential and passed by the expiring Congress extending time for to the future security of the nation. filing claims. . . . New law allows claims for such losses to

3|G 3|t 3|C 3|C be filed within two years after they occur. . . . Old claims not now allowable because of expiration of deadline of OREGON AND WEST VIRGINIA STATE BONUS: partment of Veteran Affairs Salem, reports 1945 Act may be filed within one year after new law becomes Oregon De , the old of vets after making application . moved . . story who effective. . . . Eligible claimants are service personnel.

failed to notify the of their address. . . . Survivors and defense employee civilians are excluded. . . . and Department new Supervisor H. C. Saalfield says that despite efforts to . . Bonus New law limits claims to $2,500. . Losses above that amount will require individual Congressional action. locate the missing vets and deliver checks, some 700 un-

j|C JfC 3|E 9|t claimed checks are being held. . . . Deadline for filing appli-

COMBAT PAY FOR KOREAN SERVICE MEN: cation for the Oregon bonus is December 1, 1952. A rider tacked on to the Defense Department Appropria- In West Virginia, State Veterans Director T. H. (Pat) tion Bill in the closing hours of Congress, and signed by the McGovran reports that more than 188.000 claims for WWl President, grants $45 per month combat pay to combat and WW2 vets totalling nearly $53,000,000 were processed personnel in the Korean hostilities. . . . Law is retroactive and paid during the first six months of "Operation Bonus".

and the pay will be due to every person who served in a . . . West Virginia is the only State to pay a gratuity to vets combat unit on front line duty for six days or more during of both WWs at the same time. ... Of 231,000 applications

any month since May 31, 1950. . . . But combat men who received, 188,796 claims had been paid in the period from have been discharged may have some time to wait for the January to the end of June. . . . Director McGovran reported

checks to come in. . . . Obstacles are interpretation of the that checks totaling $2,169,170 had been sent to 20,574 law, preparation of forms for those who have been dis- living WWl vets, and that 2,544 survivors of WWl vets

charged, and method of payment. . . . Generally speaking, were paid $280,235. ... At the same time the claims of this combat pay will go to members of Infantry Regiments 161,257 WW2 vets were processed and paid, amounting to

of the Army and Marine Corps, combat medics of the Army $49,298,305, and 4,421 survivors were paid $1,196,762.50. . . . and Navy, Artillery, Armored and other support units, Veterans of both WWs who live outside the State are eligible, Naval vessels engaged in shore bombardments, and forward but no payments are made to survivors who are not residents

observers working with units of battalion size or smaller. . . . of the Mountain State. . . . The deadline for filing is

Port battalions, combat Engineers and similar units which December 1, 1952. . . . Application forms available from

came under hostile fire, will also qualify. . . . Some 200,000 Department of Veteran Affairs, Charleston, West Virginia.

combat veterans have been returned to civil life. * * * * * * * * REPAIR CARDS FOR WHEEL-CHAIR VETS: POW CLAIMS FOR FORCED LABOR: Service card s ystem authorizing emergency repairs to War Claims Commission has cleared the decks for wheel-chairs up to $15 have been issued by VA to some

of claims under Public 303. . . . action and payment Law 20,000 seriously disabled vets who suffer from service- This law provides pay at the rate of $1.50 a day for prisoners connected disabilities. . . . This is an extension of the system of war, WW2, who were subjected to forced labor and granted earlier to vets who wear prosthetic arms, legs, braces

inhuman treatment by our former enemies. . . . Commis- and hearing aids, and to blind vets who use recording sion will mail claims forms direct to all persons who filed machines, typewriters, etc. . . . Long waits for VA approval claims under Public Law 896, 80th Congress, which granted are eliminated; the vet presents his card at a commercial $1 a day for sub-standard subsistence and has set up ma- repair shop and gets prompt service.

chinery for prompt processing of claims. . . . Payments are * * * * made from enemy alien funds impounded by our Govern- EDUCATION ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN: ment, and not from U. S. Treasury funds. . . . The War Teachers College, Columbia University, has announced Claims Commission is aware that many eligible claimants a special deferred payment plan for veterans of the Korean who received the subsistence pay award have moved and war and other vets entitled to educational benefits under probably left no forwarding address, thus will not receive

the new GI Bill. . . . Any vet with entitlement under the the claim form sent to the old address. . . . To care for law may enroll for full-time program, or for more than this situation, as well as for ex-POWs who did not apply half of such a program and have up to two-thirds of his for the first benefit, claim forms for both the POW and sur-

tuition fee deferred, without interest charge. . . . Repayment vivors will be made available through VA offices, American can be made at the rate of $20 or more a month, starting Legion Service Officers, State agencies. Red Cross and

six months after the veteran completes his studies. . . . Thus, other recognized veteran-aid groups. if the year's tuition is $600, the vet pays $200 and the * * * * UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING: balance in instalments. . . . He may pay off the required one- third while he is studying. The Legion's years-long campaign for a Universal * * * * Military Service law failed of enactment in the 82nd Con- gress, but the National Security Training Commission VA CONTACT OFFICES KEPT OPEN: appointed by the President under Public Law 51 was kept Despite severe budget cuts. VA will manage to keep its

alive. ... A small appropriation of $37,500 was made for 313 contact offices operating. . . . This will require expert will the current fiscal year. . . . While this does not in any way financial fence-walking, and probably lead to a deficiency

indicate Congressional approval of a UMT program, it appropriation to complete the fiscal year. . . . Contact offices keeps the door open for further study and recommendations are usually staffed by one contact officer.

38 with WILLIAM TALMAN • CHARLES McGRAW • MARGARET SHERIDAN

* AN EDMUND GRAINGER PRODUCTION TAY GARNETT • MILTON "kRIMS & WILLIAM WISTER HAINES • EDMUNDGRAINGER The Explosive Middle East

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sa\ \ \ ami to recognize the truth of the in equally explosive North Africa. Within Israel there is a legally operat- adage, "In unity there is strength." The Behind all this trouble and encour- ing communist party which has only a big factor in their defeat by Israel was aging the unrest are the communist handful of members in the Knesset. their inability to stand together. Collec- agent provocateurs, ready to take ad- However, the leftist Mapam laborites, tive security has been strengthened vantage of each windfall to further the third largest political party within through the Arab League. The old bestir the people. The communist Israel, favors orientation with the Krem- Hasshemite-Saadite feud is being healed, activities in the Arab world operate lin. Two members in resigning in Feb- as evidenced by the cordial visit of principally through the Nationalist ruary stated that "there is practically Tallal, the new Jordanian King, to movement. The Fashas and wealthy no field in which Mapam acts indepen- Ruyadh, the Saudi-Arabian capital of landowners certainly do not want com- dently without the overt or covert Ibn Saud, the ancient enemy of his late munism. What little of communist doc- partnership of the communists." father, Abdullah. Young Tallal has trine is understood by the uneducated An additional factor assisting the shown himself to be far more Fan-Arab fellahein is repugnant to the teachings communists in Israel has been the re- conscious than his father and extremely of the Koran with its emphasis on the turn by the Israeli government to the independent of the family ties with the worth of the individual. Nevertheless, Russian government of the property British, who have exerted a steadying the bitter hatred of the Western powers holdings of the Russian Orthodox

T influence on that countr\ 's affairs. has been whipped to such a frenzy that Church. In Czarist times it was the Rus- With their Asian neighbors they have- many enter the communist ranks by the sian pilgrims who constituted by far built an Arab-Asian bloc of 15 nations back door as fellow travelers rather the greatest number of visitors to the which during the past two years has than by the front door as understanding Holy Land, and these properties are become an important factor, both with- proponents of communism. far- flung and valuable. New personnel in and without the United Nations. The Soviet Union has been sending was sent in to take over running of Aspiring to achieve the position of a an increasing number of agents to assist these properties. third neutral force, these countries, by in their operations. In December it was Nationalism, a Western product of their votes and abstentions, have weak- reported by the press that "Russian the late 17th century, is a very new ened the position of the West in its diplomats, technicians, and civilian em- phenomenon in Asia and Africa. Only continuing battle against Soviet Russia. ployees have been streaming into the comparatively recently have Egyptians Moslem Pakistan represents this Middle East." In a period of 40 days, a referred to themselves as Egyptians group in the United Nations Security check of Rome's Ciampiano Airport, the rather than Mohammedans. The various Council, and moved to place the Tuni- main terminal between Europe and the nationalist parties and movements ideal- sian case against France on the agenda Middle East, showed that more than ly conceal the subtle communist maneu- of the Council. The United States was 68 Russians, most of them carrying dip- verings. In the uprisings theyr carry on caught on the horns of the dilemma. lomatic passports, were officially known their tasks unobserved, save when a Should it maintain its traditional posi- to have passed through. Many of them placard appears: "Up with the Soviet tion of aiding colonists to achieve inde- arrived from Frague in communist Union," right next to one reading: pendence, or stand by its traditional Czechoslo\ akia. "Down with Britain and the West." ally, France? We made the grave blun- The actual strength of the communist The powerful Istiqual Party in Moroc- der of abstaining and failed to vote af- party is unknown. In all Middle East co which is now aligned with the Arab firmatively to permit the question to be countries, save in Israel, the party has League contains many wealthy intel- aired by the U.N. This, to indulge in been banned, but has been acting lectuals, easy prey for the smart com- an understatement, did not raise Ameri- through underground cells and by in- munist agent. can prestige in the Middle East and filtrating the nationalist movements. Lebanon, which contains the majority' of the intellectuals among the Arab refugees, has had the greatest amount of red activity. According to American i missionary workers, the Medical School at the American University at Beirut has "the hottest cell in the Middle East."' As elsewhere in the region, the Leba- nese reds are using a nationalist front and reviving the committees of national liberation which functioned toward the end of World War II. Last fall the Soviet Union brought heavy pressure on Egypt and Israel against joining the Middle East Defense Command, proposed by the three Big Powers and Turkey. Egypt, undoubted- ly because she was in the throes of her dispute with Britain over the Suez Canal Zone and the Sudan, turned down the Western proposal. Ben (iiirion in a note sent the Soviet Union on December 8th answered the question of Israel's atti- tude toward the new Command by as- suring the Kremlin that she w ould not join any aggressive pact aimed against the USSR.

4Q • The American Legion Magazine • September. 1952 The Russians were quick to take ad- the region as a whole, for equal treat- France, 3V£ million to the United King- vantage of the Iranian oil nationaliza- ment of the Arab states and of Israel. dom and 10 million persons to the tion crisis. While action has been pend- Our mistake has been not so much what United States. ing before both the International Court we have done for Israel but that we A good many of these refugees are of Justice and the UN Security Coun- have done it at the expense of the Arab Christians. In fact, three out of every population of cii, the Kremlin has quietly and secretly countries. Only a neutral U.S. can as- five of the total Christian been carrying on talks with Premier sure the impregnability of the Middle Palestine have been displaced. Quite Mossadegh. If these negotiations are East against communism. This means naturally in this moment of trouble, consummated, much of the oil confis- being primarily neither pro-Arab, nor many of these sought sanctuary in cated from Britain will wind up behind pro-Israel, but pro-American.' Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, the the Iron Curtain. In the light of this "With these courageous words the oldest Christian community in the serious threat, it is no wonder that UN President ended the great foreign policy world and the only one in the region. Secretary-General Trygve Lie has debate of 1952. According to Senator As in the California gold rush days, a strenuously warned the West to reach Tom Connally of Texas, who presided small town mushroomed into a city some sort of compromise with Iran. over the joint hearings, the sole objec- overnight. Where there had been under tive of their efforts was to decide upon 15,000, there were now 50,000. This was Even at this late hour something a definite policy and then have the quite a change from the tiny habitation drastic can be done to prevent still an- State Department stick to it undeviat- under Roman rule which had been laid other large land mass from going the to waste in 132 A.D., and was little way of China. The ideological war in more than a wilderness in 315 A.D. the Far East was won long before the In no time the native civic populace Chinese communist military strength has so paupered itself caring for its made itself felt. The propagandist's po- stricken brethren that it is almost im- etry garlanded the invader's path there. possible to discern the difference in So long as our enemies can point out status between a displaced person in that the U.S. is not interested in the Bethlehem and a native. Housing as welfare of the Moslem peoples and con- well as food is scarce in Bethlehem. It tinues to show favoritism in its area ac- is ironic indeed that the name of the tivities, the distrust and suspicion that town was derived from the Hebrew, it has aroused will not be checked and meaning "house of bread." the red tide will march on. If commu- Dorothy Thompson, the journalist, nism captures the Arab world, it will who visited this beleaguered city, re- carry with it Israel, too. That new lates a story of how communist agents country could never survive as a "dem- are taking advantage of these condi- ocratic" island in a "red" sea. Enlight- tions. This is what they are saying to ened self interest, therefore, on the part the people of Bethlehem: "Well, a fine "Now please don't spoil it by telling anyone of all concerned, Christians and Jews Christian community you belong to! you had to push open the door for me." alike, dictates a new U.S. look toward Here you are living in the birthplace of AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE the Middle East. This is how a news- your Saviour, and the great Christian caster might relate the change: world does not do a thing about you! "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. ingly. Your commentator will be back We are supposed to be atheists, but ." I am speaking to you from the nation's tomorrow . . where are your Christian brethren?" capital. The curtain has just descended Fantasy? Unhappily yes, but it con- What luxuriant ground for the Krem- on a drama unparalleled in Washington tains more than a grain of realism. lin! history: A Congressional investigation The first constructive step calls for It is not necessary for the communists with a purpose, a realizable objective, immediate attention to the unsolved to foment class struggle or preach eco- and a White House witness. The Senate refugee problem. Nearly one million nomic reforms here. All they have to

Foreign Relations and the House For- Arabs have joined the ranks of the do is trade on the existing hunger, desti- eign Affairs Committees closed their world's refugees. The homeless, hungry, tution, illiteracy and substandard of

joint hearing into the conduct of U.S. and ill peoples, victims of the Holy living, which has been still lowered by foreign policy in the Middle East by Land War of 1948—some displaced the miseries of the refugees. In this re- calling the President himself. I will let from their homes and others totally im- gion of despair they are having a field you hear the President giving the crux poverished—are barely existing. Follow- day, making great capital of the con- of his statement: '1 must admit that ing the establishment of Israel in 1948, tinued failure of the free world to alle- Middle East strategy heretofore has not armed conflict broke out between the viate the plight of the displaced persons been determined by considering the new nation and the neighboring Arab Three separate United Nations pro- prime objective of stopping the on- states. Most Arabs living in that part grams, the first of which started in 1949, rush of communism, but by weighing of Palestine which was incorporated have done nothing beyond keeping the Zionist against Arab claims. The Ad- within Israel either fled in wild panic or refugees alive. These Arabs have, if ministration is determined to cease were driven from their homes. What- anything, lost ground in their quest for making a domestic political football out ever the exact cause of their displace- homes and trades. The latest United of this area, and we hope that the ment, the fact remains that 76 percent Nations resolution has veered a course other party will join us in achieving of the total Arab population of what from repatriation of refugees to reinte- bipartisan agreement on the course to once was the British mandate arc refu- gration of the homeless in the Middle be followed. This was the goal striven gees. The largest numbers are in the Eastern states where they are now lo- for by the late Secretary of Defense, Gaza strip of Egypt, in Jordan, Leba- cated. But while the diplomats resolve, James V. Forrestal. non and Syria. these people have no homes. Life in " 'Sound foreign policy can only be The population increases in the Mid- mass camps, besides being no lasting so- reached in accordance with the national dle East countries stemming from this lution, conveniently exposes them to interest. The critical situation of the refugee influx would be comparable to the "happy talk" of the communists.

Middle East calls for consideration of an addition of 3 million persons to Only recently has the American press

The American Legion Magazine • September. 1952 given any space to their problem. Their The United Nations Palestine Con- Soviets favored to take in the crops. former reluctance may have been due ciliation Commission after three years No one would suffer from this new to their belief that their readers would has confessed to abysmal failure toward equal treatment. Israel cannot be too not be interested in this story; or per- bringing peace. Secretary-General happy at being surrounded by a ring haps they wished to avoid becoming Trygve Lie expressed the view of all of refugee misery. She would like it mixed up in what they regarded as a competent observers when he said: even less if this encirclement should "sticky" humanitarian question to which "First you must solve the Arab refugee become communist, and the new state there were attached embarrassing po- problem." It is up to the United States should be surrounded by the Soviet litical connotations. What has appeared to see that the UN performance jibes Union. For some time now there have in print with few exceptions depicted with its promises to the refugees by been reliable reports from behind the all Arabs as tools of the Grand Mufti granting homes to the homeless at once. Iron Curtain of the persecution of Jews. of Jerusalem or as desert marauders The soundest approach to this com- This treatment has spread from Russia who would be of no use to us in any plex situation is for the American to the satellite countries. In some places war with Russia. The Mufti, incidental- people to show the Arab people that these persecuted Jews have been ac- ly, popular whipping boy, has become we really want them on our team, in cused of "cosmopolitanism," while in truly a figment of the imagination of the manner we have always demon- others it is "Trotsky-Zionism." What- sensational press agents. Many of those strated toward Israel. Point IV and ever the reason, they are being dealt who worked for the Nazis in 1941 and military aid will accomplish little un- with harshly.

1942 are now in the pay of the com- less suspicion of our motives is over- Zionist assent to a new appraisal of munists. The Mufti at any rate now come. Millions have been spent yearly the Middle East would constitute the seems to be out of the picture in his by the State Department's Voice of most successful rebuttal to wide criti- new exile in Pakistan. America program. This much criticized cism growing out of intense nationalis- In the minds of romantic westerners operation could yield dividends by ac- tic activity, which Albert Einstein re- this part of the world has meant pyra- quainting the Moslem people in their cently declared must be curbed, "if only mids, camels, the Sphinx, the Nile and own languages of our interest in them. to permit a friendly and fruitful co- perhaps oil; but never Arab refugees. The story of China is relevant here. existence with the Arabs, in the interest Since the growing menace of Russia, The Soviet Union won its Far East vic- of all." the truth is beginning to percolate tory not because the Chinese people United States command of the con- through. In a speech before business came to believe in communism, but be- fidence of both sides is essential to the executives at a luncheon at the Adver- cause they were sold a bill of goods restoration of peace in the Holy Land. tising Club in New York in April, against the Chiang government and In the continued state of near-war be- Eleanor Roosevelt told of her visit to against the West and had to wind up in tween the two armed factions, the com- the Arab refugee camps and of finding the camp of someone who displayed munists alone thrive. The right ap- conditions "beyond description." The some interest in them. This is a parallel proach can yet win the peoples of the former First Lady stressed the need for situation to what is taking place in the Middle East to join with us to provide solving the problem, which she pointed Arab world today. Revolts against the a bastion against the Kremlin. out was being "further compounded West are the best plowing for spring Only then will there be no Mecca for and confused by the Soviet Union." planting in Middle East soil, with the communism! the end Hard Guy (Continued from pate* 13)

You'd probably be handsome, really." "Let's see, that was in the Pacific." Section of the Hartford Post Office Before he could answer she turned "Most of them were." seemed to be doing business as usual. and started walking away. Joe watched "Yeah, that's right. I was in Germany, Kingsley was calling the numbers from her go and strained to see the seam Where 'd you get hit?" the mail that had arrived on the 12:37 of her nylons where it curved over her The technique never varies, thought delivery. calf. Free advice isn't worth much, he Joe: It's a beautiful day. Was that your "Four, eight, three, two, seven." told himself. But if it came from some- son who got hit with the truck? "I "Four, eight, three, two, seven — one like that you'd listen all day. And caught a grenade on Okinawa." check," Joe answered. This routine night, too, he added. "That's rough. I got a cousin who's never changes, he thought. "Nice, huh?" Ed Kingsley had fin- still got some shrapnel in his back. He "F-R, three, seven, one." ished sorting the mail and was sitting was hit on D-Day. Spent ten months "F-R, three, seven, one - check." with his chair propped up against the in the hospital." These guys are so damn careful you'd back of the case. That makes us blood brothers, think the whole world would come to ." "Yeah." Joe stamped the slips the thought Joe. "I spent a little time . , an end if they missed one of these num- girl had signed, then turned toward Ed. "Kingsley!" Carney was calling from bers. "We can't all be lucky," Kingsley the far end of the cage. "Let's go with "Six, seven, one, H," called Kingsley. philosophized. "I figure that a guy like that three forty-five dispatch." "Six, seven, one, H — check." Gov- me could be worse off, though." "Yes, sir!" ernment Bingo, thought Joe. Miss a Never know how well off you are "I'll go," Joe volunteered. number and you win an all-expense trip until you've got somebody else to feel "You take it easy," Ed said, then up a river. Miss a wrong number and sorry for, eh. Sunshine? Joe thought. added, "If the guy from Colt's comes things would really pop, especially in

Then he said, "You got it made." there's a sack for him beside the case. this town. Delay a report or two for

"When I was in service 1 used to Right next to the Aetna Insurance one of those insurance companies and wonder about having a wife and family. stuff."

Thought it was only for old people. "O.K." The guy from Colt's, thought "C'mon, Joe. You all right?" Ed had Say, what outfit was you with?" Joe. Hartford, the land of insurance called a number twice and Joe hadn't

Here it comes, thought Joe. Why do and the home of the Colt. And from heard him. they always talk like morons when deep within him a voice added: Don't "Huh? Oh, yeah. Guess 1 was day- they're getting confidential? He said. forget Grieg Small Tool, hero. dreaming. Let's have that one again." " "Sixth Marine Division Three days later, Friday, the Registry "Four, one, three, one, two,"

42 * The American Legion Magazine • September. 19S2 — "Four, one, rhree, one, two check."' lovelier than usual on this spring after- six, one, oh." Those postal inspectors At least that would be one way of get- noon. This was another one they didn't are supposed to be pretty sharp boys, ting out of this grind. tell you about in the hospital. A normal he thought. With the Hartford post-

"S, two, six, oh." guy would . . . mark and my signature on the bill they "S, two, six, oh — check." You can't "Flere you are." The girl smiled and shouldn't have too much trouble locat- quit this job, hero, he told himself. You waited. ing me. hung around the farm for six months "Something else?" Of the fifteen outgoing sacks, Joe after you got out of the hospital. What "No. I was just thinking that you re- had "missed" four numbers. He signed do you want to do — eat off the old sembled my brother quite a bit." the bill and then stamped it with the man forever? "The serviceman?" he asked. hand postmark. He thought of all the "Seven, one, seven, three, five."' "That's right. He was a good-looking historical movies he'd seen, where a Kingsley said. guy. We're all proud of him." monarch had put his seal on people's "Seven, one, seven, rhree, five — "Oh, a hero," said Joe. He saw the death warrants the same way. check." You can't quit, hero. They girl's face stiffen. Her brown eyes wid- Carney removed his reading glasses drummed that into you in the Corps. ened in shocked surprise. and looked like he wanted to start a And in the hospitals, too. You can't "He was killed on Heartbreak Ridge," conversation. "That's fine, Joe. Thanks quit. But what happens if they fire you, she said. Then she turned and walked a lot," he said. thought Joe. rapidly away. "It's all part of the job." Joe pivoted "Eight, three, two, oh." You're a real beaut, you are, Joe told on his good leg and limped away. "Eight, three, two, oh — check. That's himself. So you don't want any friends. Carney shook his head. "Beats me," got it." Go ahead, be a hard guy, hero. he said to the picture of George Wash- "Good, Joe. You watch the window, "W'hat's the matter — she say no?" ington looking down from the wall. I'll sort." Kingsley took the wire basket Kingsley noticed the lifeless look on full of mail and went around the case. Joe's face. A week later fog rolled up from the ." Joe sat by the barred window think- "Now look . . Connecticut to join with the steady rain ing. Failure to expedite the mail, tam- "Joe!" Carney was beckoning to him in harassing the traffic along High pering with the mails - they could nail from the other end of the cage. Street. me for anything. I might even do time. "Give me a hand with these outgoing A spring shower, and I got to take a The thought made something inside sacks," the boss said when Joe came up crumby cab five blocks, thought Joe. him purr like an old cat before a winter to him. He banged the cab door closed and fire. There was a certain dangerous "Right." He was seething because of started up the steps of the drab, rain- glamour connected with criminals that his blunder with Grieg Small Tool. soaked post office. had a vicarious appeal for Joe. Why, I "I'll call the sack numbers. You write Pain, intensified by the wet weather, up might even . . . the manifold bills." stabbed through his stump as he eased "Any mail for Grieg Small Too]?" "Ready." his weight onto it at each step. The husky voice sent Joe's heart beat- "S, four, oh, three." The chant started This can't last much longer, he ing double time. Since that clash last again. thought. Those G-Men ought to be Tuesday, things with Grieg Small Tool "S, four, oh, three," Joe repeated. He catching up with me soon. Wonder had been strictly business. hesitated, then wrote, "F, four, two, what they'll do?

"I'll see." Joe walked toward the oh," on the bill. He wondered if Judas The thought kept bothering him. front of the case. He hoped he wasn't had felt the same way when he picked That thought and the coolness the girl limping too much. Then he thought: up the silver. from Grieg Small Tool had shown since Forget it, chum; you got about as much "Eight one, oh six," Carney droned. he'd pulled the boner a week ago. His chance there as the bad boys in a cow- "Eight, one, oh six." Joe wrote, "Eight, apology didn't seem to have eased mat- boy picture. "Grieg Small Tool," he said to Ed. "One is all," Ed replied. Then he 7 raised an eyebrow and said. "W hy don't you work your points there, Joe?" Joe felt the anger rising inside him. Should he tell this guy to go fry ice? "Y'eah," he answered. He hoped he sounded deadly. Work your points, hero. You'd be one terrific Romeo, he thought. "One." Back at the window Joe put down the letter. When he reached under the counter for the receipts, he made sure his bad hand was out of sight

"I'm glad it's Friday," said the girl while she waited for Joe to work the registered numbers.

"Yeah." Now, I suppose we hear all about the junior prom, thought Joe. "Sou always so pleasant-" asked the girl. "Only when I'm happy." Joe pushed the slip toward her. She picked up the pencil and Joe wondered if she w as purposely looking ters and he wondered if she'd be glad "Now look, you phonied up a bunch istry, of all places. Why not par—" when he was no longer at the call win- of numbers. You didn't steal anything. "Now, listen!" Dolan waited, waited dow. You didn't make any money. All you for the echo to die, then began. "We Inside the cage he hung his raincoat did was cause a lot of delay in gettin' put you in the registry because we on a wall hook. By the time he'd made some red sacks delivered. What I'm thought you could take the grind. Any it up the front stairs, the coat was trying to find out is: What did it get flathead can throw parcel post. But it dripping. you?" Dolan was visibly straining to takes somebody whose brain is in gear "Morning." Carney looked carefully hold his temper in check. to work the registry. When we saw at him through the horn-rims, as if he "Maybe I wanted to see what would your civil service exam, we thought you ." were seeing him for the first time. happen." were the guy for the job . .

"Hi. I suppose the program's the same "Carney told me you were a little on Monk Dolan's voice grew dim to Joe. for today?" Joe wondered why he was the moody side." Dolan paused, unde- Inside he was numb. He couldn't think. getting the queer look. cided. Then he tried a different tack. Thinking would come later. Now, he "Not quite. Mr. Dolan wants to see "If you've got troubles, why take them could only feel, like an animal who'd you in his office, Joe." out on us? These days everybody's got been badly wounded, then suddenly Joe was momentarily stunned. The troubles." soothed. For a moment he wondered at world stopped dead for an instant; then "Troubles? Yeah, I've got troubles, this strange numbness; then he knew. it began to whirl again and he could lots of 'em. But they're my business. The bitterness was gone out of him. It think. Just like that, he thought. The And if these guys 'd learn to keep their had been flayed out of him by Dolan's Superintendent of Mails would like to nose out, they'd be better off." He searing tongue lashing. It had been a address Joseph R. Collins. shouted the final words. On the verge toe-to-toe battle; no odds asked, no "All right," said Joe. of complete rage, Joe was fighting to handicap allowed. It was like coming "Would you like me to go down control his pentup anger. back from enemy action. Joe was numb there with you?" Monk Dolan banged a beefy fist on and exhausted but he knew he could "No, thanks." Joe started for the door the desk top and skyrocketed from his take it. He knew that the numbness to the hallway. chair. "Listen!" he bellowed. "You're would be replaced by a feeling of self-

gettin' paid to do a job and do it right!" assurance. The air in the long corridor was Tight-lipped, Joe lurched to his feet. "—so it's up to you, Collins. The job heavy with dampness. As Joe shuffled He felt his wrath burst within him. A is still yours if you want to give it an- along toward the main office he had a desperate urge to heave Dolan through other whack." Monk Dolan brought giddy feeling of release. Monk Dolan the glass partition seized him. But he his sermon to an end and waited. couldn't do much except fire him. The could only scream an answer. "A job? Joe got up slowly. He paused as if to Iron Monk, thought Joe; a hard man to You call this a job? Playing baby sitter balance himself, then said, "Thank you, cross. Joe had heard how he slugged a to a bunch of crumby mail sacks?" sir. I'd like to stay." mailman who'd given him some back "You wanna be postmaster the first "Fine." Dolan stood up. Joe noticed talk a couple of years ago. Too bad day?" Red faced, Dolan leaned across that he seemed a little weary. "If you you can't slug me, Buster. All you can the desk toward him. give these guys half a chance you'll find do with me is toss me out like an old "I don't want to" be postmaster! I they're a pretty good bunch. Don't let shoe. Well, let's resign from the postal don't want any part of this scrimy post them kid you too much and you'll make service, he thought, as he knocked on office." a lot of friends." the superintendent's door. "We didn't kidnap you! You applied "I'll try. Thank you." They shook "Come in." The voice from the other for the job." hands firmly and Joe left. side of the door was muffled. "I didn't apply for the registry. Why Joe opened the door. A man in vest didn't you put me out on the floor with When the sun had appeared just after and shirt sleeves was sitting behind a the other clerks? Or even in parcel twelve, the pain in Joe's stump faded desk. The man had lost just enough hair post? No, not me. I'm special. Put me into a dull, forgotten hurt. He was so it looked as if his head were shorn in the registry where I won't get hurt." perched on the high stool at the call like a monk's. It was out. Immediately after he'd said window, while Ed Kingsley put up the "I'm Joe Collins." Joe looked around it, he felt like he'd set down a heavy 12:37 mail. Give 'em a chance, he the office. It was a small cubicle sepa- pack after a hard haul. thought. That's what the man with the rated by a glass partition from another "So that's it." Dolan, who'd been monastery haircut said. He might be office which was empty. tensed like a panther ready to spring, right. Life is a gamble, like it says in the "I'm Dolan. Sit down, Collins." The relaxed. "So the veteran feels sorry for books. So, you'll take a chance. And if

the raffle is . , man motioned to a chair. himself. A little touchy, eh?" fixed in favor of . When Joe was seated, Dolan picked "You'd be touchy, too, if everybody "Anything for Grieg Small Tool?" up some papers. Joe could see they were in the world was trying to bottle-feed "I was just thinking about you." Joe's manifold bills. His manifold bills. you." reply was completely unrehearsed. Monk Dolan looked at the bills, then "Bottle-feed you, eh?" Dolan sat "Well, that's a switch." The girl at Joe. In a rasping voice he asked, down and rocked back in the swivel seemed to be looking for something in "Well, what about it?" chair. "Simmer down a little, boy, and his eyes.

"What?" maybe 1 can talk some sense into you." "Something wrong?" "You know what. These bills. They've Joe was breathing heavily. His right "Somethi— ? Oh, yes. Yes, there is. It's got your signature and more wrong hand was a clenched fist. that hurt look. It's gone. What hap- numbers on 'em than the telephone "Sit down," Dolan commanded. pened—did you win the sweepstakes?" company gets in a month." Dolan was Joe sat down. "No, but if I use the right toothpaste, clipping off his words and spitting them "Get this straight." Dolan's voice was I might win the girl." out like nails. as impersonal as a cement mixer. "No- "Think so?" The girl raised one eye- "I guess they're my mistakes." body was out to give you any breaks. brow slightly and smiled. "Mistakes hell! These are on pur- Nobody was trying to be nosy. And "I really do," said Joe and for the first pose." nobody was feeling sorry for you." time in what seemed like a short eternity

"Have it your way.'" "Then why'd you pur me in the reg- he returned somebody's smile, the f.nd

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would have dared seize and confiscate millions of dollars of property owned by United States citizens if its politi- cians had not been assured, in advance, by Washington officials, that their theft would be permitted by our own socialist planners? On this 1952 anniversary of the sign- ing of the Constitution of our republic, the businessman had better keep on his desk a copy of this still-living document, as well as a slide rule for measuring the part of his property he can still They wrote retain. In God we trust, but in the vigi- lant unity of our millions of property owners there may be our only future Constitutional strength. We had better begin, again, preach- an ad about him ing the Constitutional value of property, and property rights, and sell the philos- ophy of property to our children better than the socialists are selling their glori- fication of a welfare siiper-state. when he retired Long interested in the selection of young college graduates for careers in U. S. industry, particularly young men and women to fill responsible jobs in our once world-wide foreign commerce, I can note as of June 1952, much warning handwriting on our republic's wall. Thousands of graduates used to compete with each other in order to get contract jobs in American corporations with world-scattered offices and factories. Today's graduates are less interested in jobs in privately-owned corporations. Most of them want jobs in government corporations or agencies. The fact that they do not have their minds trained on opportunities for earning and accumulating property, but only on holding government job prestige, priorities and federal expense allowances while overseas, is evidence enough of what the last twenty years of socialistic educational indoctrination has done to our potential businessmen, industrialists, and to our immediate national future. Socialism preaches that the safe jobs are with the state rather than private enterprise. We have already been led into an era of federal, DENIS HARTNETT WAS "MR. TELEPHONE" rather than private, corporations—tax- financed corporations engaging in in- TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE TOWN dustry and commerce throughout the 48 states and overseas in competition There was many a word of praise The story of Deny Hartnett il- with our personal opportunities for and affection for Denis Hartnett lustrates the local character of the creating personal property. when he retired in Homer, N. Y. telephone business. Just how much further we Americans In fact, a local businessman For the telephone company isn't can drift into the seizure of our Consti- walked into the newspaper office something far away but right on the tutional property rights, through execu-

and said he'd like to run an ad main street . . . managed and op- tive orders of the White House, about him. "Good idea." they said. erated by home-town people. through competitive federal corpora- "Everybody knows Deny." tions, through confiscatory taxation, Their spirit of service makes until we are past the point of no return, The advertisement is reproduced them good neighbors and good

I do not know. But I do not want to above — a tribute to forty-five years citizens as well as good telephone look backward, someday, and find that of faithful service. men and women. the point of no return is behind me.

There is still a rock-like national Gi- Nearly 97% of all Bell Telephone calls are local . . braltar we can anchor to, if we want to BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM —the Constitution.

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"As England goes, so goes the United ership of the instruments and means of ." States," has often been an historical I need 500 Men production . . To Wear and Show axiom. Twenty years or so later we Article 10 states that "The personal have often experienced events Britain property Made-to- right of citizens in their in- C1IITC has preceded us into but not out of. come and savings from work, in their Measure i#U! I J Socialism, born of the same Marx and dwelling houses and subsidiary home Lenin as communism but disguised for enterprises, in articles of domestic Pay No Money— English tastes by Laski and Webb, has economy and use and articles of per- Send No Money already wrecked the once great Britain. sonal use and convenience, as well as My values in made-to-measure su its Do we really want to follow England the right of citizens to inherit prop- are so sensational, thousandsof men order when they see the actual gar- into a Union of Super-Socialist States? erty, is protected by law." ments. I make it easy for you to get Unionized labor in a socialist United 1 1 1 your own suit to wear and show — Article states that "In all courts and to MAKE MONEY IN FULL States will surely follow British labor of the USSR cases are heard in public OR SPARE TIME! My Plan is Amazing! Just take a few orders at into propertyless pauperism and state unless otherwise provided for by law." money-saving prices— that's my low regimentation—and doles. all — and get your own personal Article 112 states that "Judges are suit, and make money fast taking We have a great Constitution and a independent and subject only to the orders. You need no experience. You need no money nowor any time. J ust great republic if, as Benjamin Franklin law." rush your name and address now warned, we can keep it. secret for complete facts and BIG SAM- Our so- Article 128 states that "The inviola- PLE KIT containing 150 ACTUAL woolen samples. It's FREE! Send bility of the homes of citizens and pri- and address TODAY ! your name W ALLY vacy of correspondence are protected GIBSON, Inc., Dept. K405 W. Z. by law." 500 S. Throop Street, Chicago 7, III. Wckd Coive me qot The joker for the Russian people in So ma^' Surnme** vjukj 'p»rvi

to your friends and fellow workers, ing super-state! 21 for $1 and 50 for $1.25, with Under our Constitution, Congress, name on. You make up to 50c on each box. Send for Selling Plan elected by the citizens, makes all laws. cialists, chipping away our Constitu- and samples on approval. Costs If the day comes when a President, or nothing to try. Organizations and tional property rights, think we cannot church groups raise money in this a Presidential Secretariat, issues laws, keep it. In the next four or eight years easy way. WRITE NOW. either as statutes or disguised as legally these subversive men sec within their enforceable "Executive Orders," then we MERIT CARD CO. grasp not a government by Constitu- will have a Constitution no better than 370 Plane St., Dept. 57, Newark, N. J. tion, or Congress, but a government by that of the Russians. would our their own astutely devised and expanded What Constitutional of the press be "Was a nervous wreck Presidential Secretariat. freedom worth to us, for instance, if a President Russia has long had a "President" of from agonizing pain could seize a publisher's presses and its Presidium of the Supreme Soviet— other property. Without property there until I found Pazo!" as it has long had a glibly worded So- could be free publication— no says Mrs. A. W., San Antonio, Texas viet Constitution—but Stalin's secret, no free Speed amazing relief from miseries of seldom publicized, Presidium Secretariat press, no real "freedom of the press." simple piles, with soothing Pazo*! Acts Without Constitutional property rights to relieve pain, itching instantly — soothes is today the real ruler of the Russian that cannot be abrogated there can be inflamed tissues — lubricates dry, hard- people. On this 165th anniversary of ened parts— helps prevent cracking, sore- no other Constitutional rights or liber- ness— reduce swelling. You get real com- our Constitution we still have the per- ties. But more voices in our land are forting help. Don't suffer needless torture sonal strength, in our republic, to make from simple piles. Get Pazo for fast, won- selling are sure none of Stalin's deceits are injected anti-property doctrines than derful relief. Ask your doctor about it. speaking honestly of the real base for Suppository form — also tubes with per- into our Constitutional rights. The forated pile pipe for easy application. Soviet Constitution, which can be human liberties which private property, *Pazo Ointment and Suppositories (R) private enterprise, gives us. cir- changed at any time by Stalin's Secre- More SPECIAL SALE ! disguised "liberals" tariat, contains 146 articles purporting cuitous Marxians, as Gabardine or Tropical or "progressives" or "forw ard-looking" to establish and maintain a "republic." DRESS TROUSERS into pauperism, But nowhere in the voluminous docu- statesmen, are selling us Slight Factory Imperfect under a federal autocracy, than most ment is there a single inviolate right, to SAVE MORE THAN HALF! Americans have seemed to realize. ale good :>(> days only! One any Russian, to own, manage, or inherit Sli>, only 84.95! Two pairs, onlv SU.75 property. The Constitution of the United leather belt wan 2 pairs, tree of extra cost.) Any 2 colors, States, differing from the Soviet Con- sizes. Imperfections very slight, Article 4 of the Soviet Constitution do not affect wear. Rayon anil acetate gabardine or ravon trop- states: "The economic foundation of stitution, is so small in print that we icals. Resists wrinkles, holds press, Rives amazing service. can slip it into our everyday pocket. It Dressy after hours of wear. ZU>- the USSR is the socialist system of ny pockets ith its is .lKht llr rk Br »-n. Gray, economy and the socialist ownership of w protection of property our WAIST: 2« to 42. lose it SEND NO MONEY .Send name the instruments and means of produc- only passport to freedom. If we ,slZ - If gabardine or tropical. 1 or 2 pairs all of will propertyless captives (bell free of extra cost with 2 pairs.) tion, firmly established as a result of the us be Pay postman price plus small C. o.l>. nr send price plus 25c postage, save liquidation of the capitalist system of of a socialist slave-state. Hack Guaranteed. LINCOLN TAILORS Dept. AM-9 Lincoln, Nebr. economy, the abolition of private own- Is our Constitution doomed?

• The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 That is up to us; as we permit our property to be seized or taxed away from us by a federal bureaucracy, as we see our property rights die, so we will see, in our time, the death of our great Constitution. Can socialism in America be reversed?

I hope so! We are a great nation because we have had 165 years of liberty to create personal property; we are the only republic in the world where citizens have been able to build and preserve property through so many historic generations. Are we to rob our descendants of this great asset, and right—and national liberty? the end Clap Hands!

(Continued from page 25 I

Samba — it's "on account of" the card manufacturers wanted to sell two or three decks of cards where only one was sold before. And their press agent sold you the game with feature stuff, pictures and newsworthy stories in the newspapers and magazines; via radio and television and through clubs, lodges, card players' associations, and the publicizing powers of the card pontiffs, who saw a chance for bigger and better book royalties that Canasta would add to those of their bridge manuals; and that's how come you play Canasta. Sure, it's a game with popular appeal — you can't sell any games, goods or ideas widely unless they have that in- nate quality — but it was pressure that made Canasta popular. Recently there was a fight, by an anti-vivisectionist group, against the ,S New York Legislature's Hatch-Metcalf ,? TULED — bill a bill providing that stray dogs whdohdry that had been impounded and were to be destroyed, could instead be turned over to attested research organizations to be used in animal experimentation, with proper provisions against cruelty. The anti-vivisectionists sent out broadsides asking dog owners if they wanted their pets snatched into labora- tories and generally stressed an emo- tional appeal to dog-lovers. This pressure brought about some hasty protests by town councils, a flood of letters from many kind-hearted citizens; and caused considerable commo- tion in some humane-society offices, but it also awakened sleeping dogs that bite, for this pressure alerted some twenty- five important medical, civic, labor, church and business organizations to defend the bill. Whether the Hatch-Metcalf bill would have passed if this second pres- 4^ sure group hadn't pressed so hard is difficult to say, but the counter pressure made it law in swift fashion. In making a cause look like something it isn't, in presenting facts in a false 94.4 PROOF • 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N. J. light, or basing agitation on "facts" that

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ain't so, the communists are particularly and fury of many forms of political WANTED! expert. With this technique, and mas- pressure is the common sense of experi- MEN querading in the guise of dozens of high- enced legislators, state and national. $15-$20 in Few Hours Make sounding fronts, they frequently get When a flock of identical letters are Spare Time-up to $2 102? a liberal-minded people innocently to aid printed or mimeographed the legislators Week FULL TIME — with Amazing their propaganda. may pay attention — D-FROST-O-MATIC! some to them es- In the case of the Teachers' Union, in pecially if they are sponsored by some Millions of housewives want this sensational new Automatic Refrig- the New York Public Schools, that legitimate organization — but when the erator Defroster! No more messy in D-FROST-O- method got a lot of sincere liberals ex- missives are worded exactly alike, but ™ft hand defrosting! Just plug MATIC and refrigerator is defrosted auto- cited about free speech and personal in different leave handwriting, the coinci- matical! it every night! Sales easy, sure when you D-FROST-O-MATIC on FREE TRIAL— housewives liberty— until a committee of the New dence is obviously' not just coincidental. won't let you take it out! Saves money, food, time, work! Big profits for you — up to $210.00 a week full York State Legislature made a thorough Town and county officials, and many time—$15 to $20 in just a few spare hours! Start spare easily! investigation. local civic and social organizations, may time and build big, prosperous business . . . quickly, Rush Name Today for Profit Details The 400-page report of that 1940-to- fall for synthesized agitation, SELLY Of but the and FREE TRIAL PLAN! California 1942 probe by the committee is packed legislators have become sensitized to in- prospects waiting! started in his More than 29,000,000 spare time Rush your name and address today. We'll full of incontrovertible evidence that dications of phony public sentiment, sure-profit and now sells airmail exciting facts, proof and obligation. Write today. 1500 D-Frost- Free Trial plan. No this so-called labor organization was and hardened against its impact. O-Matics a D-FROST-O-MATIC, Dept.M-10 month communist-organized and directed, and Their experience gives a line 173 W. Madison Street, Chicago 2, III. them on in its every move followed invariably how much mail normally to expect the party line. from their constituents on almost any RUPTURE-EASER It is interesting—and terrifying—read- measure under consideration, and when, Piper Brace Product) ing, for it shows how this union, openly suddenly, torrents of very similar tele- or furtively, was used to indoctrinate grams, and floods of nearly identical the teachers and their pupils with Mos- post cards and letters come pouring into

Double. ..4. 95 cow's policies and propaganda. If you their offices, they smell a water rat and ight or left no want proof of how a red herring be- know it's all wet. Fltt,n Side$095w « comes a red shark, send to Albany for Particularly when a pressure group, *£ ~ Required in its A strong, fornT- fitting washable support. Back lac- that committee report. over-zealous enthusiasm, pours ing adjustable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg also strap. Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather You will learn from that com- several hundred such letters into the bands. Unexcelled for comfort. Also used as after operation support. For men, women and children. mittee's hearings how the fronters legislator's mail, all postmarked from a measure around lowest part Mail orders give the battle letter of the abdomen and state right or left side or shouted the cry of freedom loud- drop that serves less than half double. We Prepay Postage Except on C.O.D.'s. PIPER BRACE CO. er, and screamed more shrilly about the that much population.

81 1 Wyandotte, Dept. AL-92, Kansas City 6, Mo. invasion of civic rights as the committee That isn't very bright, and it hasn't

bared more and more of their plots and happened often, but it has happened. stratagems. Whether the methods of unsocial or And all the while the communist wit- subversive pressure groups are subtle or nesses were steadily and baldly lying stupid, the average citizen can protect on the witness stand, much of the "lib- himself from "undue influence" by the eral" press was joining in that same simple old Missouri technique of wait- clamor about free speech — and falling ing to be shown. for the smears and the slanders that the For though you live in a pressurized Way RightAway! fronters were spreading against the in- world, and can't avoid it, you can avoid vestigators. having the false fronters push you Now It's EASY to learn ANY INSTRUMENT—even If you don't know a single note BOW. No boring exercises. You play de- However, so thorough was the com- around, and the fact-twisters squeeze llirlifliil i.l.'.rs ItK.IIT AW A Y— fr-.m very first lesson! Properly— bv note. Simple as A-B-O. You make amazing progress—at home. mittee's work, and so monumental its you into their mold, and the ballyhoo In spare time, without teacher. Only few cents 850.000 STUDENTS! per lesson. pile of evidence, that today no respon- boys pump you full of excitement by FREE BOOK E?„S5Si£5?. ^S^i them. No obligation: no salesman will call sible non-communist organ of opinion planned applause and faked furor. upon you. U.S. School of Music. Studio B469 Port Washington. N. Y. questions the facts about the Teachers' As it says at the grade crossing, Union. "Stop Look and Listen" rnn Another protection against the sound and you won't get run over. the end. I BECOME AN EXP ERT What Hunting Rifle Should I Buy?

AC• earn $4.""" $li>."00 a yf Accountants and C. P. A's to Thousands of firms need them. We train you thoroty at home in spare time for C. P. A's examinations or executive accounting positions. Previous experience iinncrcs.iirv 1\t^in;iI t ruining iitnier su[ier\ ision "The Handy Lever Action" of staff of C. P. A's. Placement counsel and help. Write for free book. "Accountancy, the Profession That Pays." (Continued from page 18) LASALLE Extension University. 417 So. Dearborn St. accustomed to a slide-action shotgun means it can be carried in the woods A Correspondence Institution Dept. 9361 H, Chicago 5, III. this action may slow down his reaction, under one arm, across the arms, or but "jacking" a lever seems to be nat- swung easily in one hand, and be ^Tftotvtec Folding ural to even the greenest tyro, and after "floated" naturally to the shoulder a little practice he can get off five from any of these carrying positions. aimed shots in rapid succession. How- If you have any doubt of this, line up Direct Prices And ever, I am not inclined to argue in favor all four of the assorted actions now Discounts To of the rifle merely on the basis of its used and compare them for ease of American Legion rapid-fire qualities, for in most instances carrying and balance. Clubs, Lodges Hotels the man who needs a lot of fire power Three reputable arms companies now Societies Service Clubs should never be allowed in the woods. turn out lever action rifles and carbines, Schools, Churches If there is any rifle more perfectly, and all three offer models in a compar- WRITE and by that I mean naturally or easily, able price range: Marlin, Savage, and FOR balanced than the lever action carbine Winchester. Each has special features Manufactured by CATALOG I have never handled it. It is neither that attract individual shooters, but the "Wewioe- COMPANY 69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX. IOWA stock-heavy nor muzzle heavy, which many are guided in their selection not

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by these special features but by the calibers offered by one particular maker. The Marlin, which is available in several grades in both rifle and carbine, comes in the popular .30/30 caliber, as well as in .32 Special and .35 calibers. All three are adequate for any eastern big game, and the .35 is increasing in popularity. The Savage, designed to withstand greater breech pressures comes in .250 (.250/3000) and .300 calibers. The .300 is an excellent cartridge, available in a

1 50 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2670 foot seconds, and a 180 grain bullet with a muzzle velocity of 2370 foot seconds. In my opinion the .250 is a better varmint load than a big game load, although some use it for both. The Winchester also offers one lever

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So much for the purely "vital" statis- shoe value . . . bar none. tics. As any practical hunter knows, muzzle velocity is not everything, and the value of a game load depends upon several factors, among which are trajectory, and remaining velocity at the more extreme ranges. The lever action rifle or carbine, in the final analysis, is Some styles slightly higher not a long range arm. But for the hunter who will do his hunting in heavy cover, where almost all of his shots will be at by PETERS e\ is-h'ne+ive shoes for men short or medium range, the lever action has many advantages not equalled by And see the new City-Club Shoes with YOU'LL WANT THIS WALLET . . . the other types, at least in this writer's the luxury-Tred feature — Prices to really surprise and mystify your friends with magic trans- opinion. The man who is going to tramp slightly higher. fer of bills. Practical, attrac- the woods all day, push through dense tive too. Send 50c in coin to Peters Shoe Company, Division of International thickets and scramble through blow- Dept. 4, P.O. Box 5738, Peters Shoe Company, St. Louis 3, Mo. Shoe Company, Chicago, 111. The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 • 51 —

downs, who must be alert every second, The man with the heavy rifle is inclined in vain display. It is safe to say that and ready to react w ithout hesitation, to carry it "slung," but it is a puny man more than 90 percent of the guides, at soon recognizes the value of a light, indeed who cannot carry the carbine least in the East, carry lever action rifles.

handy rifle. There is quite a difference, all day at the "ready." The big woods This, despite the fact that many of them in the weariness factor alone, between guide is a practical individual, inter- have been given rifles of other types by a 6-pound carbine, and a 9-pound rifle. ested in comfort and utility rather than "sports" they guided. the end 'The Slide Action Rifle" (Continued from page 18) better not be the type easily deflected A deer rifle should be in the hunter's My rifle's weight isn't objectionable, or "blown up" by such obstructions. A hands at all times, which means a com- only about 7% pounds, loaded. Its re- rifle capable of delivering a heavy, fortable carrying balance is important. liability has been tested by five seasons medium-velocity bullet that will plow Furthermore, the weapon must be safe, of hard hunting in several states and in through brush, land with smashing im- reliable, of moderate weight, a "fast Canada, during which time the w capon pact, penetrate deeply and open up a handler" and the type of gun usually never has malfunctioned. And no deer big hole, is indicated. described as a "natural pointer." And of the six hit by the 200-grain bullet it The hunter should have follow-up last but not least, it must have good ac- handles best, ever has traveled more shots at split-second command, for the curacy, although not necessarily the than 50 yards before dropping for keeps. rather simple reason that in whitetail tack-driving kind demanded in chuck The weapon isn't a crippler, that .35 hunting the surprise element is ever- rifles. caliber slug gets results. present, and surprise shots are a bit like Does my choice meet all previously No rifle I've ever used "comes up" an unexpected poke in the snoot. They mentioned requirements? In this book faster or is closer to being the "natural often catch the hunter at a disadvantage, it does, and with something to spare. pointer" so coveted by experienced and a poorly aimed first shot is the re- The weapon passes that comfortable w hitetail hunters. In competent hands sult. Armed with a fast-handling re- carrying test with flying colors. Its bal- the weapon can be handled with the repeater, the hunter has an excellent ance is right where it should be, namely, speed and dexterity of a 20-gauge skeet chance of mending his bobble with a where barrel and receiver are con- or bird gun. well placed shot once he recovers from nected. Safe? There is no hammer spur Accuracy? Well, ours will group his "Gee-whiz, there he goes!" aston- to slip from beneath a cold-numbed within the 9 and 10-ring of a 100-yard ishment. And if he can keep his rifle thumb, no half-cock trouble possibili- small bore target, at 100 yards, shooting sights on the running deer while eject- ties; in short, the accidental discharge from a rest. Which is a lot closer than ing the empty and chambering a fresh menace is all but eliminated. The rifle the average hunter can hold, and con- round with a flick of his forearm, he fires only by trigger pressure with the siderably more accuracy than is needed has added advantage. safetv off. to put meat in the family skillet.

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After all, there are approximately 24 inches of vulnerable area between a In that argument at the I9~ hole . . buck's spine and brisket. Land a .35 caliber bullet from my steel and wood sweetie anywhere in that area and you're all set to drive home with a deer festooning your car fender. the end Calvert speak for ifeelf "I Like The Autoloader" (Continued from page 19) impossible when you need only touch the trigger to fire again."

"The gun is both heavy .and . . . un- gainly." "Its weight negates the autoloader." "What an ugly thing!" These are from magazine articles, newspaper columns, personal conversation or correspondence. The case for the autoloader can best be stated by taking them apart. The criticisms fall into three rough groups, dealing with sporting qualities, firepower and utility, and weight and appearance.

Be it said initially that inanimate ob- jects practice neither discrimination nor its lack, these being attributes of gunners not of guns. The gunner is responsible for poor sportsmanship, spraying the woods, carelessness. Three of the comments, incidentally, are demon- strably untrue. Ballistics tests indicate little difference between impact pressures of various actions of comparable calibers using comparable cartridges. Again, there's no apparent dispropor- tion in the number of autoloaders involved in gun accidents. Finally, autoloaders don't continue firing as long as their triggers are depressed. Anyone alleging that knows little of the action. WHICH GOLF BALL is better? That lively, thin-skinned baby . . . Personally^, I'm grateful for rather than contemptuous of the autoloader's or that toughie that can really take it? Better try 'em both! speed. The levering of a new cartridge Which whiskey is better? Which is smoother, mellower, free and the relocation of the target are two

from bite, burn or sting? The best to decide is to compare . . separate actions each requiring time. way The autoloader sharply reduces the to make the Calvert taste test. time between shots requiring only that Compare Calvert with any other whiskey on the market. Just gunner find target. The chap who claims the action is no faster than others take 31-oz. samples of each . . . then sniff, taste and finally choose can't speak for me. 1 doubt he can fire the one that really tastes better. other actions as swiftly as the autoload- Calvert's finer taste will speak for itself! ing action; it defies reason that he can perform two actions as quickly as one. The allegation of deadly efficiency to the autoloader and the fear of its effect on game populations is unduly pessimis- ..anJ you'll tic. I'll accept the greater efficiency Compare. claim. Like most gunners, I like to know the game I crack down upon will be there while I put an edge on my skin- switeh id ning knife. The more shots I get, the divert greater that possibility, the less chance of a wounded beast escaping. To me, FREE WHISKEY TASTE TEST KIT! Contains two special glass jiggers, complete instruc- that is efficiency personified. tions and "Whiskey Expert" cards. Write Calvert, Room 1321 AL, 405 Lexington What is wrong with a desire for a Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. (Offer not good where local regulations forbid.) high firepower in sporting weapons? If it is wrong, we should hunt our griz- CALVERT RESERVE BLENDED WHISKEY-86.8 PROOF — 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. zlies with .22's. The comparison seems CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., NEW YORK CITY

The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 • 53 ridiculous but it's valid, and high Briefly summarized, here's the case

power is desirable. for the autoloader: WANTED Comments dealing with beauty and MAN WITH CAR weight leave me wondering what breed 1. Ease of operation gives more of man we're developing. An adult too shots in shorter time, increasing weak to carry the autoloader doesn't firepower. No Time Like belong in the woods. The gun's no Now to Get In 2. Its slightly greater weight is, if McNess Business* featherweight but I notice match rifles anything, an advantage. It's no trick to make invariably are heavy and I'm told they good money when you 3. It'll shoot as accurately as you use your car as a McNess "Store hold true because of it. Moderate weight on Wheels." Farmers buy everything UseYour can hold and hit with impact they can from McNess Men because ; is an advantage. McNess Products are tops in quality, CAR equal to other w eapons, all else represent extra values. Attractive busi- Finally, this business of beauty. Some ness-getting prizes and premiums; also to Raise being equal. money-saving deals to customers make men like their women plump, some like selling McNess daily necessities a snap. Your We Supply Capital— Start Now! 'em skinny. Preferences in guns prob- 4. It is neither sporting nor un- There's no better work anywhere. PAY Pays its well, ixrmanent, need no experience to ably are equally personal. Actually, sporting, that resting with start, and we supply capital to help you pretty is as — with guns or bearer. get started quick. You begin making money first day. pretty does Write at once for McNess Dealer Book. It's FREE. THE END Tells all —no obligation. (1) women. THE McNESS CO., 185 Adams St., Freeport, III. "Bolt Action Rifles" Free Fall (Continued from page 19)

Catalog are good, mediocre and poor bolt ac- deer's shoulder) at 200 yards in between Just off the Press Fully illustrated, tion rifles. But our largest rifle fac- twelve and fifteen seconds, the time 108 pages, showing late as Hunting Footwear, tories and possibly a hundred of our limit being twenty seconds. As Clothing, and fifty- custom rifle makers can build a bolt (March 30, 1952 I placed five shots in five other leather and canvas special- action rifle that with suitable ammuni- 2.38 inches at 100 yards in a time limit ties of our own of 20 seconds, shooting prone with a manufacture for campers and hunt- .280 caliber F.N. Mauser bolt action ers. WALLV rifle. L. L Bean, Inc. 112 Main St. In either war or sport a rifle is sub- Freeport, Maine jected to dust, dirt, rain, snow, sweaty hands, and for either use it must be kept in serviceable condition at all MAKE $5 PER HOUR A PRINTING PRESS WITHOUT times. The mechanism of a bolt action rifle can be completely dismounted in a *£ VOIUTIONARY few seconds, part cleaned and NEW SCRUM MilHOD each PRINT colorful signs, poster?, b/inners, fabrics, wa oiled, and the bore cleaned from the paper, show cards-ANYTH JNG* Print on any surfac NO printing press or special equipment breach, all with the fingers alone. Lever with this amazing "approved" new printing secret " (From October, 1940 A.L.M.) 300% profit on nearly every job. Easy to and pump actions require screwdrivers -NO EXPERIENCE or art ab.tity nee essary. Exceptional opportunity. Com and drift-pins of various sizes and per- Dlete illustrated detailed plan and colo ful s.imple FREE — Write: tion will consistently average 2 1/L>-inch haps half an hour. SCREEN PRINT COMPANY, Dept. 209 1010 So loi Ungelft St., los Angeles IS, Calif. groups at 200 yards, proportion- and 1 shot my first deer, alone and un- ately at other distances. A factory or a aided, in 1892. To date I have shot 113 custom maker would go broke trying to head of American game, including R U P T R E build lexer, pump or automatic rifles moose, elk, caribou, sheep, goat, and that would similarly average under 8 grizzly, taking 133 shots to bring them RELIEF. ..OR YOUR MONEY BACK inches. This is our manufacturing ex- to bag. Six animals have been missed, Simple, easy to wear truss fifty perience of over years. When the and eight, I am sorry to say, escaped made by old surgical house. his rifle You risk nothing. Write for shooter does part correctly, a wounded. Since 1910 all of my big free booklet. Don't delay. is not sure for killing hits at big game game, with the exception of one deer, at a distance longer that at WEB TRUSS CO. Dept. AL 9 Hagerstown, Maryland than which have been shot with bolt action rifles. it will consistently make 8-inch groups. Of the animals missed, only two were So much for the paramount quality of with bolt action rifles. accuracy. In the deer forests of the East, where 'How to Thus lever, pump and automatic rifles there is no grueling test of the wilder- are all short range rifles. Some Become a game ness, where almost all the shots are at hunters advocating them stress rapidity short ranges, a good lever or pump ac- Mail Order of fire. They can be functioned faster tion rifle for an adequate cartridge is Millionaire " than any bolt action, but rapidity of fire entirely satisfactory and as suitable as is of no value unless accompanied by any bolt action, provided: that the rifle Read the inside facts about hits. Training experience in the Infantry is fitted with efficient sights, and that hundreds of " little fellows" who and Marine Corps has shown that with the hunter himself has sighted it in to are running Mail Order busi- SENT a little attention nesses from their homes—many FREE! to rapid fire exercises strike center at 150 yards with the am- making $20,000 and more ev- anyone can develop speed in function- munition lie will use. And in this con- ery year! Learn how small in- £H£k£IijC| ing our bolt actions so that succeeding nection I would like to emphasize one vestments ($16.80 in one case!) have mushroomed into profits of thousands. shots can be delivered as quickly as the very important point. Were it not for This incredible reprint from Median ix Illustrated will equilibrium disturbed by recoil has been the open rear sight, seen on almost all I"' s.-nt absolutely free, along with details showing regained. Shooting Infantry how you can quickly master the secrets of getting or- on Army quantity produced factory rifles, we ders and money in your daily mail, in a business that's Rifle Teams in the old days it was would have no deer left in America all yours. Hush your name today. A postcard will do. common practice to place six shots in today. North c,ark street Thn I IA/ CIIDl/rV 7070 I lie L. II. dUltVCI Dept. 189, Chicago 26, III. the prone figure (about the size of a THE END

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$500,000,000 — Come and Get It! ———— (Continued from page 15)

— they are turned into the Treasury and redeemed for cash. Over the years, well over $400,000,- 000 of these securities have matured without heing turned back to Treasury. First security issued by the fledgling Congress was $30,000,000 in 6 percent stock, dated August 4, 1790. The stock stopped bearing interest 120 years ago, but there's still $28,000 outstanding — never cashed in. It's still redeemable. Smallest ancient Federal debt — out of a current total U.S. debt of $260,000,- 000,000-is $32.52. It's unlikely that this stock, if still extant, will ever be cashed in. It's worth more as a collector's item. Only $100 of Uncle Sam's 6 percent stock of 1798 has not been redeemed. Look! Another man switched to Kentucky Club— When last spotted, this security, framed, was hanging over an official desk at the the thoroughbred of pipe tobaccos Norfolk Navy Yard. One of the largest pre-World War I issues of government securities was authorized by Congress in 1877. There's still $348,000-worth DO IT TODAY! SWITCH TO around, redeemable in cash. Folks who were around during the T first World War will well remember the Liberty Bond drives. These bonds matured long ago, yet there are some $8,000,000 in Liberty Bonds still out- KENTUCKY CLUB standing. They can be turned in for Notice how much better your pipe tastes — how cash at any time. much fresher your mouth feels when you switch to Biggest sum of unclaimed money in- Kentucky Club. Semi for free catalog showing fine volves the so-familiar Defense or Sav- pipes and how to get them at big savings. Mail ings bonds. Uncle Sam initiated the sav- Pouch Tobacco Co., Wheeling, West Va. Dept. 69 ings bond system of spreading the government's securities debt among individual citizens instead of concentrating it all in the banks, There's BIG in back in 1935. But it MAKE MONEY with MONEY wasn't until just before World War II UNIFORMS and Work broke out that the Defense bonds — as Bostonian SHIRTS Take orders for famous line finest quality Clothes that ADVERTISE! they were then known — began to get a dress and sport shirts. Also women's man- tailored blouses. All styles, fabrics, colors, Every business and businessman is swinging wide sale. sizes. Low Prices. No experience needed. over to employee uniforms and work clothes, CDCC Big, beautiful Sales Kit withactu- embroidered with company name, trademark, field is new. Prospects Today, the unclaimed morfey for De- I If CC al fabric samples. Send no money, sales message, etc. The but rush name now! Bostonian Mfg. Co., are everywhere: garages, • •• OBLON •* service stations, factories, — , Boston fense bonds which have matured and 89 Bf ckford St. , Dept.S-31 30, Mass. and hun- Available Soon! coaldealers, dairies— dreds more. Profits are huge. TOPPSwill be .first therefore no longer bear interest — made You take orders by the dozen with uniforms and gross! One man made over Low In ,,f Dopont'g miracle on a single sale! You ORLON! They pro- $800.00 amounts to more than $138,000,000. Cost . the business everytime be- prof- «et 30 DAYS ATOUR RISK! mise fantastic cause you offer latest, finest its! Get details now These are the Defense bonds issued be- fabrics. Big selling kit Fr< New Advertising Machine TOPPS, Dept. 509, Rochester, Indian fore May 19, 1941. Bonds issued since Prints and Illustrates that date — in the popular Series E — SELL AIR CUSHION SHOES Gov't Post Cards have become self-renewable after reach- Build a permanent "repeal" business of Send name—learn your own without one penny of investment< John Neil Air-Cushion Shoes ing their 10-year maturity date, and JJjULLjM if* all types of Sell «2i Direct from famous New England factory. business are boosting sales continue to Firestone Foamex cushions — complete draw interest. with Postcard Advertising. line of men's dress, work, safely shoes! We'll also send FREE illustrated DuPont Neoprene nan-marking soles. Between 500,000 and 600,000 WW II book of money-making ideas for your Women's and children's shoes. Fast deliv- business—complete, unique advertis eries from our mammoth stock deportment. veterans have to collect that first yet ing plans—and 30-day Trial Offer Write for FREE catalog and complete

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Accessories of these has lost bonds about $126 in hardware, appliance or depart- listed above, plus 7 high-speed interest by lying idle for seven years. ment store. Write for free book, bits, 4 wood augers, countersink! "Handy Tips for Handy Men," There is no Federal bonus for II WW to: The Black & Decker Mfg. veterans. However, 21 states and 2 ter- Co.. Dept. H9L, Towson 4, Md. ritories voted bonus payments for their Jlarov 1 PORTA 1 ELECTRIC WW II servicemen. DRILLS • SANDER-POLISHERS • SAWS UtiutY W'W TOOlS The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 57 The application deadline for 12 of the while on duty with the Armed Forces state bonuses has already expired, with during wartime could be entitled to the Can A Man My Age thousands of eligible veterans failing to monthly payment of compensation for BECOME A HOTEL EXECUTIVE? cash in their hard-won chips, despite the his disability. 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1923 is eligible for a pension on reach- "Hopalong ing the age of 65. again, however, Once Cassidy's" it must be emphasized that the eligible Very Own Horse pensioner must lay claim to this right — it does not come to him automatically. "TOPPER" Also, former government workers Neighs As Kids who put in less than five years' Federal service can collect in cash the amount Ride Him of money deducted from their pay en- Kiddie Size I to 3 yrs. Old $]98 velopes for the civil service retirement 22" Tall For large dogf'"°*J^?^S^P'^<1 postageage fund. To get this money back, the ex- 28" x 36 0 plus 30c posT Co£JJ^>° government must ap- Child'slild's Size tO/IQ employees of the $^9p PAID £o

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The American Legion Magazine • September, 1952 • ^Cj countries, literally went underground fense Bonds, Panama Canal Bonds of during the Nazi and Japanese onslaughts 1906, to name a few — can be replaced of WW II. Many of these have been or cashed in even if they have been de- recovered from caves, trees, cemeteries, stroyed, lost or stolen. and other hiding places. Other securi- Owners of the lost United States se- GOOD I WAVS ties are still hidden in countries which curities — or their heirs — have a valid have since fallen under against GOOD... by itself! the Iron Curtain. claim the government, and can

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Wt. 14 lbs. Easily worth $41.50. While they last . . . • . $16.95 Big Factory Catalog lOc. Free with order. All items brand new— hind each combat division becomes no Forces than it is in industry. Prices f.o.b. Chicwo Area. Money back guarantee. Send check or M. O. less than Could wars fought machines Master Mechanic Co., Dept. 95A, Burlington, Wis. 43,000 service troops when be with figured on a base equal with ours. In alone, Americans would pay the price, World War II when we had 89 divi- however high. Any expenditure for ma- sions for slightly more than seven mil- chinery that reduces the human cost of START A BUYING SERVICE lion men the War Department used a combat is rightly deemed cheap. But at home, spare time. Get big-name mer- chandise for clients (and yourself) at up to 40% 75,000 per division estimate. those machines must have operators, and more below the regular list price. Make fat combat commissions. FolJts eagerly huv through you to get sizeable discounts. Send postcard for details. Divisional size is but one facet of the repair-men, and spare parts if they are AMERICAN BUYERS' SERVICE problem. Equally relevant is the mis- to be of real assistance to the "firing 631-AL Linden Ave., Buffalo 16, N. Y. sion a nation assigns its army. No line." family makes the same preparation for As we examine the composition of

a picnic in its own garden that it does so-called support units in the field army, for a weekend automobile trip. Russian we will find combat organizations which armies are designed to wage war in their effectively add to divisions' combat own country, or on adjacent land areas, power. We will also discover Russian whereas American Armed Forces must divisions performing non-combatant traverse thousands of miles across oceans duties that, in our Army, we relegate to before they reach the scene of combat. service troops (Quartermaster, Trans- What, one wonders, would be the com- portation, Ordnance and the like). LEGION parative division slice of behind-the-line In World War II the desperately service troops of Russian armies en- shorthanded British accepted a division MAGAZINE gaged in a transoceanic campaign and slice fully 30 percent higher than our American forces organized for conti- own. Studying the dispersion of British RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL nental defense? forces throughout the world, propor- Nor can we ignore the differences in tionately greater even than ours, the national concepts of waging war; of na- statistics are to be expected. Divisions tional resources to support war. The were scarce indeed in the hard fighting United States was prodigal in the ex- force that drove the Japs out of Burma. LEGIONNAIRE RETAILERS treme with the lives of its soldiers in the There the so-called division slice was Civil War. probably at an all time high Join the American Legion Had that conflict been the but, even scene of continuous hostilities normal then, there was no shortage of combat Magazine Retail Advisory to modern war, rather than of occa- elements. Veterans of that bitter cam- Council and display this dis- sional battles widely separated by long paign would rightly resent any imputa- periods tinctive membership emblem. of inaction, the struggle could tion that non-fighters comprised the never have lasted four years. Losses in- bulk of their personnel. curred by divisions and regiments in a Had we not, in 1949, retitled the Lo- score of Civil War battles were unbe- gistical Division a "Logistical LEGIONNAIRE CUSTOMERS Com- lievably great, compared to those of mand" the several such organizations Trade with confidence and even the most heavily engaged equiva- now in Korea would be added to the lent units in World War II. numbers of combat divisions charged buy with pride when you see r We should look upon military man- to the Eighth Army. W e could then this emblem. You are sup- power today with the same perspective compute an appreciably lower average porting a fellow Legionnaire. that we have long applied to industrial service troop strength per division ("di- labor. Manpower is the most costly vision slice") in that theater of opera- form of accomplishing work in Ameri- tions than is now recorded. Vet we ca, exactly reversing the situation in would not have altered the Eighth

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Army's combat power one iota nor changed its troop list by as much as a A MODERN single soldier! t M*Jl*H Another observation confirms the READY-CUT HOME error of comparing armies simply by numbers of divisions. We maintain a relatively small number of powerful Shipped Direct divisions at full righting strength by from Our furnishing them a constant stream of Mill replacements. The Chinese inflate their list of divisions by creating new organizations to replace those depleted in battle. Thorough, competent investigation can analyze the relative fat or muscle

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helmetcd infantrymen sat down on a rocky hill-top outside Algiers, droopy-eyed, and angry at being stirred from their sleeping Parting bags so early on the only morning they had to sleep. The chaplain realized that unless something was done to take the frowns from Shots their faces, the men would not enjoy the service. foot w here it belongs," "Well, put your "How man}' of you are really glad you she snapped. came to Easter service this morning?" he "Don't tempt me, woman," he said, "don't asked, not pausing for a reply. ''Well, 1 tempt me!" — E. M. Foit want everyone who is really and truly glad PARTY LINE to be here to say, 'Amen'." With an en- APPRAISAL couraging gesture, he said, "All right now, 7 have a phone, it looks so nice, everybody!" / will tell you I never would abuse it. The men resounded with a thunderous Man to man, Each mouth I promptly pay the bill, "A — men! Slie'd look more spic Some day I'll get to use it! Dead silence fell over the group, and — Johnny Keunck If she had less span. reigned for about thirty full seconds. Then — Robert H. Prescott the chaplain said: A BIG HELP "You're the biggest bunch of liars I've YOUNG LOGIC "I want to buy that book in the window ever seen in one place." called Hon- to Captivate Men" said the A small boy returned home from school With one thunderous voice, the men little girl to the assistant. one day and, having heard something about roared hilariously. The man looked dubiously at the child. the Darwinian theory, asked his father When they settled down, the service pro- "That's not the sort of book for you," what the term meant. He was greatly ceeded in a warm and friendly atmosphere of good fellow ship. he said. "What do you w ant it for?" shocked to learn that some people believed that the ancestors of — Delmar Dyerson, "I want to give it to my Daddy for a monkeys were man. Jr. birthday present." "But that's silly," he said, after thinking "But surely there are hundreds of books about it for several minutes. Finally his face NO TIME TO RHYME he would rather have?" lit up with the discovery of a conclusive A poet called too early "No, I know he'd like that one. You see, argument against the theory. Is oft inclined to curse: he's a policeman." "Don't you see, Daddy," he said, "that _ Morris Past It makes him feel quite surly some day we will be ancestors, and we're To go from bed to verse! not monkeys." _ Dan Bennett TO A CERTAIN CORRESPONDENT — S. Omar Barker You're worse than the laggard who writes SURE WAY NOT TO MAKE A HIT me but rarely. EVOLUTION

I sometimes regret that I know you. Baseball is one activity in which there is He couldn't help it . . . The Dove of letters so I barely no future for the young man who strikes You answer my fast that Peace has now become a little cuckoo! written, when, darn it, I owe you! out for hiu/self. _ t. Have J. McInerney — Henry A. Courtney — Richard Armour AT EASE! WHO KNOWS? FIGHTIN WORDS Lt. Gen. (then Ala") . Gen.) Lucian K. A drunk fell out of a sixth story window The moving van had just had a collision Truscott, commanding the Third Infantry and landed in the street w ithout any ap- with a w oman driver and they were both Division in French North Africa, decided parent harm. trying to talk to the officer at the same time during an intensive training campaign to A crowd gathered around him and a cop when she stepped on the van driver's foot. turn out all troops in a formation for Easter rushed up and said, "What happened?" "Would you mind getting off my foot," services. "I don't know," said the drunk, rising he barked. At 9:30 a.m. Easter Day, 1943, 5,000 steel- and brushing himself off, "I just got here myself." _ \\ RS r q. Abrahams

COMING OUT PARTY

The peach is oat on the beach, she's cute, As the shapeliness nature brought her Is mostly out of her bathing suit And wholly out of the water. — Berton Braley

MAN'S BEST FRIEND

During a class discussion on taxes, the teacher asked Bobby to give her an example of an indirect tax. "The dog tax," he replied.

"Why is that an indirect tax?" queried the teacher. "Because," answered Bobby, "the dog doesn't pay it." _ y G Kernan

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Upon receiving a complaint about the issue of bread, an officer snapped, "If Napo- leon had had that bread in Russia, he would have eaten it with the greatest of pleasure."

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Fordomatic. Overdrive, radio and white side wall tires optional at extra cost. Equipment accessories and trim subject to change without notice. -HOLDER OF THE SILVER Meet PETE PETROPOULOS STAR, BRONZE STAR AND THE PURPLE HEART. MEMBER OF THE VFW AND THE AMERICAN LEGION.

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