The American Legion Magazine Is the Official Publtcotion of the American Legion and Is

— .

If you like beer

Ifou'll Love Schlitz

No harsh bitterness . . Just the kiss of the hops

This dry and mellow beer . . . tliis beer

ot matchless flavor ... is the world's largest seller.

Year after year more bottles and cans of Schlitz are bought millions more— than of any other beer. This popularity

is the result of the most conclusive taste test in beer history.

0^ rv KVKRV W KKK—The p(i|)ii!ar "schlitz PLAVHOISE OF STARS." See your newsjiaper tor time and station.

Si-lilit/ Hr<-wiii{: (;i»rii|tanv, in (jiiarl liotllcb, 12- Schlitz is available Milw.iuk.'.-. W ,s. oiitice bottles and ('aiis, and the 7-oiin<'e Hr.->..Ti.- ,,l Mil«.,iik,.e. Wis. aii.l Br.MiLlvn, N. Y. Ixiltle. Atsd in 21-Pak and liatidy 6-Pak cartons ol cans and one-way " bottles firstin Sale^ i that ici|Liire no deposit.

The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous / —

Read the fine print of your comprehensive policy. It will cover fire and storm and theft and

loss at sea . . . but nary a word about something else that can really raise hob with your car and your pocketbook.

The danger we're talking about is "knock"

the hammering inside your engine that is caused by gasohne that burns unevenly. It's tough on pistons, bearings, wrist pins and other vital parts.

However, you can buy full protection at any

"Ethyl" gasoline pump. "Ethyl" gasohne is high

octane gasohne — it burns smoothly and evenly in high compression engines. And, of course, it gives you more power.

ETHYL CORPORATION . New York 17, N. Y.

Ethyl Antiknock Ltd., in Canada

I. ETHYL"

Protect your engine—get more power with 'WTWYlH gasoline S

Vol. 55 No. 5. November Outdates Messy Oils 1953 THE AMERICAN -I.I «.I0\ V"7 LEGION New Vitalis MAGAZINE pp»<7. Grooming Agent Cover by MEL PHILLIPS is Greaseless Contents for November, 1953

GEORGE'S PRIVATE GEESE (fiction) by Craft Dewey 11 THE GUIDE KNEW THAT THE MAN FROM KOREA DESERVED THE BEST.

CARIBBEAN CANCER by J. B. Matthews 12 COMMUNISM HAS MADE GUATEMALA ITS LATIN AMERICAN CENTER.

THEN & NOW by Angela Calomiris 14

BATTLEGROUNDS OF WW I. AS THEY WERE AND AS THEY ARE.

BIG BUCKS AREN'T KNUCKLEHEADS by Ray Trullinger 18 TROPHY DEER ARE SMARTER THAN MOST HUNTERS.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT STROKES by Tom Mahoney 20 A HOPEFUL LOOK AT AMERICA'S THIRD WORST KILLER.

CAPITALISM VS. COMMUNISM by Ruth Alexander 22 THE FACTS BLAST COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA.

HOW TO ENJOY A FIGHT AT HOME by Gene Ward 24 MOST TV FIGHT FANS MISS THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.

THE LEGION IN PICTURES 26 THE CAMERA TAKES A LOOK-SEE AT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON.

NEWS OF THE LEGION 33 Features

SOUND OFF! 4 PRODUCTS PARADE . . 8 NEWSLETTER 31

EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. .28 PARTING SHOTS . . . 64

Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included.

The American Legion Magazine is the official publtcotion of The American Legion and is

owned exclusively by The American Legion, Copyrighl 1 953 by The Amertcon Legion. Pub- Keep Your Hair Neat lished monthly at 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky, Acceptance for moiling at special role of postage provided for In Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, 1925. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered as second class matter June 30, 1948, at the Post Office ot Louisville, Ky., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Non-member subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The American Legion Magazine, All Day this New P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING WESTERN OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES 580 Fifth Avenue 333 North Michigan Avenue Greaseless Way! Indianapolis 6, Indiana New York 36, N. Y. Chicago 1, Illinois POSTMASTER: Please send copies returned under labels Form 3579 to Post Office Box 105S, Indianapolis 6, Indiana.

No animal, mineral or vegetable oil

in new Vitalis. It keeps your hair neat Arthur J. Connell, No/ionol Commonder Indianapolis with V-7, new greaseless grooming dis- John Steiie, McLeans- E. Booth, Huntington, tin, Texas; Russell Lor- boro, Illinois, Chairman W. Va.; Rolond Cocre- combe, Molta, Mont.; covery. Never a gummy film or "oil- of the Legion Publica- ham, Baton Rouge, La.: George D. Levy, Sumter, Clovis Copeland, Little S. C; Dr. Charles R. slick" look! tions Commission; Don W. Emmett, Oakdale, Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa; California, and Earl L. Dague, Downingtown, William P. Roan, Larks- Prevents Hair Dryness Meyer, Alliance, Ne- Pa.; Josephus Daniels, ville, Penna.; Emmett braska, Vice-Chairmen. Jr., Raleigh, N. C; Safay, Jacksonville, What's more, Vitalis gives you special Members of the Com- Dove H. Fleischer, St. Flo.; D. L. Sears, To- mission: Lang Arm- Louis, Mo.; Earl Hitch- ledo. Ohiu; Harold A. protection from annoying dryness. strong, Spokane, Wash.; cock, Glens Foils, N. Y; Shindler, Mewburgh, George D, Baron, Herschiel L. Hunt, Aus- Ind.; Edgar G. Vaughan, New laboratory findings that show Bethany, Conn.; Charles St. Paul, Minn. even excessively dried-out hair gets Mana^in^ Editor Advcitiiin-^ Director Puhluher Boyd B. Stutter Fred L. Maguire its back normal moisture content faster James F. O'Neil .1^/ Edito, E.,slvrn Adr- -Uer. New York. N. Y. Al Marshall WilliamM.DeVilalis with Vitalis than with any other lead- /! d'/ r.t Puhlisher A.u^LlJtc lidltnjf Wc^ti-rn Adr. M . ing hair tonic. Try new Vitalis! Frank Lisiecki Robert B. Pitkin H. J. Prussing, Jr. Editor Irving Herschbein Dctuut Ady. Kcp. JosepVi C. Keeley Schipper-Webb Assoc. Advisory Ediinr James F. Barton lt; ,r Cm./ Adv. Rep. NEW, FINER Alexander Gardiner Indianapolis. Ind. Eschen & Roe Co.

Please notify the Circulation Department. Publications Division, P. O. Box 1055. Indianapolis, Indiana, if you have changed your addre5<=, using notice form 22 VITALIS which you may secure from your Postmaster. Be sure to cut off the address label on your Magazine and paste it in the space provided. Always give your latest membership card number and both your new and your old address, and notify your local Hair Tonic with V-7 Post or the Adjutant of your Post. Product oj Biislul-Myers 2 • TME AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE NOVEMBER. 1953 Ifit your throat enjoy

l^em /s no 3u6st/fafBJorFAlimiL

— i/)ejtnest qua//ft/ monet/ con buy

Copr. 1953, American Cigarette and Ciprar Co.. I: SAVE OIL! SOUIHl

THE IITTIES PAY volunteered and served for eighteen months in War L volunteered and tw >'ears wc have read in Sir: For enty ser\ cd as a non-com for three years in the papers, this and tiiat in regard to W ar II, iMr. Lasky has just pro\ ed that the Bigs: The Big Four, the Big Three, 1 am a pinko, a subversi\ e, and lots of Big, some lesser Mr. Big, Mrs. and otlier things. Probabl)' orders will ha\ ing Bigs. The world wide Bigs are come down from above for my Legion banquet to a big time rushing from membership to be cancelled. Lasky banquet, patting each other on the points to iMcCarth\-, Pegler, Fulton back, medals pinned on chest, etc., Lewis, Jr., Budenz, (ieorge Rac^y read of the etc., etc. Seldom do we Jordan, Cliambers, Bentle>", etc., as is in is Littles. iMr. Little a sweat. He [latriotic Americans whose writings pa>'ing through the nose for all of should be heeded. And I'm agin them this, and how! It lias alxjut got iiim all. If 1 had sold the U.S. out to rhe down; witli taxes, tlie mortgage on Japs I could now be making big dough tlie liouse, pa\'ments on the car, food 7'/. w riting books and c' Am rican Le- the little and and clotiies for woman gion Magazine would call me a great get this sure of the little Littles, he iust ain't patriot. Too late now though. Radar's an>'tiiing. like an answer to He would gone w a>' past me. tile S64 question: if the Bigs are as big Earl W. Tate as touted, w hy are we in such a hell Yucca, Arizona of a mess? E. Pendleton Turner LIKED "CHAPLAIN" Washington, D. C.

Sir: I lia\ e just read, and re-read, John mim \Vesley Noble's, The Chaplahi of Up- THE AMERICAN LEGION READER chuck in j-our August issue. 1 consider Sir: In \ our issue you announced June it to be one of the most forceful short tlie long-promised book containing stories I have ever read — and one of fine articles, man\- anti-communist the best. Judging solely b\- this one plus t)ther material. Tentative title. story, I am of the Arm opinion that Aiiiericm Reader. The Legion Can Mr. Noble is destined to make a mark see why that was — tentative — likely for liimself in the so-called "literary it didn't seem too good a one to tlie world." LONG because it folks considering it. 'Tain't easy to AValter D. Perry lasts long — saves you added name the critter, especially not know- Morgan, Utah ing what's in it, but maybe something quarts between oil changes like this — The Alert Citizen, Truth

This 100% Pennsylvania motor oil & Freedom, Today^s Citizen, Citizen- ship Man/ml — for the American fam- with iHE"Jou^kji&n stands up under ily, with picture of a typical American

intense . . . heat resists the forma- family on the cover and witli an tion of oil-wasting engine deposits. American flag in evidence, and ma> be Your engine stays cleaner, smoother a small Legion cap in the corner, or photo of a sailor or service ma]i so running . . - uses /ess o//.' close obserxation will show someone TWISTS LION'S TAIL Pennzoil gives all engines an extra in the family must ha\ e been in Korea. Sir: If rhe Red (Chinese force their margin of safely. There's a correct Luther F. Meyer way into the United Nations they can grade and type of Pennzoil for h'ort M'ayne, Ind. YOUR car and service conditions. thank tlie British for running interference for tiiem. In return the British It's going to be The Americau Legion are hopeful of carr> ing on a profitable Reader, it's going to have more than trade with their red friends. Appar- 500 pages, and the cover will bear the your entK', our diplomats are no matcii for Sound Z Legion emblem. Edilois the gentlemen from 10 Downing St., so this looks like one for the American

people to think about. I see more and AGIN THEM ALL more British goods being offered for Sir: I have just been reading How to sale in this countr\' — shoes, clothing, Understand Coiirnriinisvi by \'ictor automot)iles, etc. So long as the British

Lasky in the .\ugust issue, .\lthougii I {Continued on page 42)

VJriters must give name and iiddress. Name unthheld if re- PENNZOIL® MOTOR OIL AND LUBRICANTS quested. So many letters are being received it is not possible to i)romise answers. Keep your le'ters short. Address: Sound Off, AT BETTER DEALERS . . . COAST TO COAST The American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave., New York 36, N. Y.

4 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 fSS im DOLL MllEJn Wmk SHE S£££PS SHE CR/ES SHE S/TS

Look at these features usually found only on dolls up to $12.95 i

WASHABLE FROM HEAD TO TOE

Bathe her like a real baby — her

entire body is genuine Latex. SHE MAKES FACES Pinch her chubby pink cheeks and see her pout, or pucker up for a kiss! Her exquisitely modeled unbreakable vinyl

head is perfect in every detail. MYSTIC SKIN

' w Her entire body is Mystic Skin filled with miracle foam satin-soft rubber.

SILK EMBROIDERED DRESS

She is dressed up in a custom wardrobe. Glamorous, sheer party dress is covered with expensive, shimmering real silk cut-work embroidery! She is America's most beautifully dressed baby doll. EXTRA LONG MAGIC BRAIDS Her amazing Saran hair, guaranteed not to come out, can actually be shampooed and set.

Baby Blue Eyes is cuddly and life-like — the ultimate in doll realism. She is 20 inches tall. Her rosy cheeks, cute open mouth and real lashes over big, beautiful blue eyes that open and close are a little girl's dream. Her arms, legs and head are moveable so she can sit up and assume life-like poses. Her head turns—she coos happily, like a real baby, when you hold her tight. Your favorite little girl will love caring for this cuddly baby —she is so adorable in her dream dress.

Easy to Niresk Industries, Inc., Dept. WB-I

Set Hair 4757 Ravenswood Ave., Chicago 40, ill. any Style -vi^^^^-^^* Rush amazing "Baby Blue Eyes" doll. Vanity Set, Curlers and Hair Style Booklet at $5.95 plus C.O.D. postage. Full purchase price refunded if not 100% satisfied.

Name. (please print)

Address .

City . Zone. .State. Send C.O.D. plus postage n Heart-shaped gold finish locket necklace to fit doll or little girl, 50c extra.

FATAL FASCINATION

r?TV"7"HY is it tiiat so many weil- Tt educated people fall for communism? " This question, which apparently puzzles

many Americans, is often follow ed by the comment: "There must be sometiiing to com-

munism if it attracts such people." Actually communism does have an appeal to a certain t>'pe of intellect because

it deals with human relationships in a \\ ay that stresses the "scientific." The world today contains about two- billion people, each one a problem to himself and to the other 1,999,999,999. This makes for a certain amount of friction,

even chaos, and the result is a state of

affairs that is exasperating to some men- cahes Yello-Bole talities. Why can't we have a society in which people can be made to react like imported hrtar chains of molecules or chemicals in a test tube? Communism, \\ ith its "dialec- far faster than tical materialism," promises just that. The approach would be highly scien- any pipe at any price! tific. As in animal husbandry, breeding would be controlled so that the State would have the best stock for its purposes. The sick and tiie troublesome, especially' those afflicted with individual- ity, would be segregated from orderly communistic society — as we see them segregated today in Siberian labor camps. The yellow in Yello-Bole is real There would be an orderly pattern to honey — and honey cakes faster! existence because the politicians who run the State would tolerate no ideas or action This great Yello-Bole exclusive contrary to what they think best. builds up that vital cake from Missing from this Great Plan of the communists and their followers, however, the first puff . . . holds the cake are two significant factors — God, and fast to fine imijorted briar. One the fact that man differs from other ani- pipeful — and you're smoking cool mals because God has gi\ en man a soul. and sweet. No break-in. No tongue Realistic communists recognize the danger from those two sources and act ac- sting! Treat yourself to a honey- cordingly. Our so-called brilliant people, lined Yello-Bole today! It's the in their wisdom, consider them unim- pipe that takes the cake! portant, mere superstitions which can be educated out of "the common man."

There is one other thing the>- over- Yello-Bole is the PROOF? look — the fact that man w ants freedom. world's largest selling pipe — BY FAR! OMELET-FANCIERS CURIOUSLY, many of the people who have a hankering for the scien- tifically precise /Marxian world are as kind and gentle as you can imagine. The \ery thought of physical violence is ab- horrent to them. .At the same time, they are unmoved by the slaughter and bru- talities of the communists as they enforce their "dialectical materialism." Ask a confirmed Marxist w and you ^250 get the answer:

• • g THE AMI KK \\ I bGION MAGAZINE NOVEMBER, 1953 —

"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." ^The finest automobile engine It is unfortunate that these egg-heads can't spend a few montlis or \ears in Siberian prison camps to learn tlie simple fact that eggs and human beings are dif- in the world is no better than ferent in many respects. its weakest spark plug!" CONCERNING LOUIS JOHNSON FORMER National Commanders of l iie American Legion have a wa>'

of turning up where important news is well kno wn, free-lance automo- being made, a fact which is illustrate).! by a reference to Louis Johnson in a tive journalist whose test reports of American and European recent issue of Coronet Alagazh/c. In an article Hoiv Ifc Almost Missed the cars appear regularly in Mechanix Illustrated magazine. H-Bo'iiih, our former National Com-

mander is given much of the credit for forcing the development of this potent weapon. Opposing him was "a league of "I've been around automobiles for a frightened men" which included scien- long time and have road-tested prac ti- tists and government officials. Lewis L. cally every make and model of hack Strauss, who felt that this counrr>'s tic- giant family-size buckets to high-per- fense required the H-Bonib, w as a minor- ity of one in the Atomic Energy Com- formance sports cars—put together on mission w hen Louis Johnson, then Secre- these shores or across the pond. You tary of Defense, joined forces with ni. h learn a lot about any engine when you A\'ith his aid, Strauss was able to over- check its everyday performance, and come the opposition of "the frightened men." then see how much punishment it can It can also be revealed that our Louis, take without coming unglued. There's when Secretary of Defense, made another one thing you discover very quickly great contribution. Probably the most the finest engine in the world is no glorious page of history written by American arms in Korea was the Inchon better than its weakest spark plug. landing. So daring was General Alac- "Spark plugs look small and un- Arthur's plan that it ran into opposition may from other "frightened men." And there important but, brother, if you want again it was Secretary Johnson's inter- that mill of yours to unleash all its cession which forced the issue. horses, make sure you have the best spark plugs money can buy. That's FALSE PROF-ETTES where Champions take over the spot- THEY'RE still teaching Keynesian light. I've had Champions go on de- economics, we hear, but it must be- livering the mail in car tests that would come increasingly tough on the profes- have other spark plugs wasting more •sors who push this line. Even if they don't understand w hat's going on in the w orld, compression than the Silver Cornet some of their independent-minded stu- Band of Prunewhip, Missouri. Further- dents must be asking embarrassing qucs- more, I ' ve watched Champion-equipped ti«)ns. For instance, the\- must be asking why it is that the promised land of the cars cream everything in sight in most Kcyncsians, England, is virtually bank- of the world's great speed, endurance rupt and w ould long since have collapsed and reliability runs—from the Indian- if billions from free enterprise America apolis "500" the great hadn't propped her up. Certainly there to 24-hour Le- must be questions as to why Western Mans. Germany made such an amazing come- back after it turned thumbs down on "So take a tip from your Uncle Tom, economic collectivism and went to work and get set for winter driving by put- on a non-Keynesian basis. We can also ting dependable Champion Spark Plugs think of some questions concerning car. They're France which might give socialist-minded in your your best assur- professors a hard time, especially if the ance of positive starting and worry -free students ask for comparisons with Bel- motoring when, 'the north wind doth gium, which is now doing well under free blow shall have snow'." enterprise. and we There's no den> ing that some of the CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY, TOLEDO 1, OHIO professors are pretty glib, and many of the freshmen and sophomores they con- AMERICA'S FAVORITE front are ill-equipped to separate fact from fiction. But we'll bet that as the brighter students mature and see what is happening outside the ivy-covered walls they force some of tlieir professors to CHAMPIOH start looking for answers that aren't there. Certainly some of our mail from under- gradnatcs causes us to think so. SPARK PLUGS

I HE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. I95.i give your hair Products Parade that JUST-

A sampling of Hems wliich are in i>rocess of clevelopmcnt or are coming un the market. Mention of products in no way constittites an endorsement of them, COMBED since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers.

TIME TO WIND man's hose. This dousing, of course, causes the cigarette to go out. This combination All sorts ol amazing iinpi ovciiicnts are ash tray, safety device and convcrsatioa being built into watcbes these clays, but piece is called the Squirt Ash Tray, and Hamilton-Illinois has come u\> with one is being offered for S2.00 postpaid by that deserves special mention. Incorporated the Wonder Bar Shop, P.O. Box 425, Tren- in their new automatic seH-winding watch, ton, N. J. is a feature called Signamatic, a window in the watch dial, which tells how many hours

it will continue to run when it is not worn. ICE CRACKER The watch with this added attraction is If you've e\er knocketl vourself out try- made ol stainless steel, is shockprooi, anti- ing to make crushed ice out of ite cubes, magnetic, and waterproof, and has 17 jewels. the Pruett Novelty Works, I'.O. 1><>\ 286, It has endjossed numerals and markers, lu- Covina, Calif., has just what you neetl. This minous hands and dots. ^Vith a leather is a plastic container which you Idl with strap it retails for $(i5, widi a flexible band water and freeze. AVhen you want crushed $(>9.95, ta\ included. ice you whack the side of the container with a mallet which comes with it, and presto! you have crushed ice. \Vhat makes the gadget unusual is its ribbed construction which scores the ice while it freezes, causing

it to break readily. The Pruett Ice Con- tainer and Cracker holds Ihc ecpiivalent of 12 ice cubes and the price is a dollar postpaid.

NO STRAIN, NO DANGER

The troublesome and sometimes d;iiiger-

oiis job of liangint; storm \\ indow s is simplified with a recently patented tievice

wliicli makes it possil)lc to (uit up storm w indow s from inside the house. Called the Eas-All Storm ^^'ind()u• Alounting Support,

it is a triangular metal frame wliich you put out tiirough the w in (low opening, rest- MULTI-PURPOSE PATCHER ing its legs on the w indow ledge. The A highly versatile product w hich seals, — storm window is slid out the window, Because of Viratol *a repairs, waterproofs and insulates, supported b\' u|)cur\ed arms of the sup- mends, special compound t'ouncl has been announced by Woodhill Chemical 6i///vin 'Vaseline" Cream port, and then moved back to engage the Co., I3VI r. 33rd St.. Cleveland. Called Hair Tonic—hair slays hooks. The support is then pulled back Seal Patcii, it is a plastic fabric that dries in place, looks and feels into the house and mo\ cd to the next with natural all long. to metal hardness after being saturated day window. The manufacturer is Pre-Tested a special solvent. According to the manu- Try it loday—see if your Products Co., 17 Guilford A\e., iJaltimore, facturer, it adheres to metal, rubber, wood, friends don't notice Md., and the price is S14.95 I'.O.I!. Balti- etc., and can be the dilfcrcnce in your more. rile, plastic, fabric, glass, appearance. 'Vaseline' used for such things as repairing rustcd- HairTonic con- Cream out holes in auto fenders, gutters and rain- tains Triple-A Lanolin, WHAT'll THEY THINK OF NEXT? spouts; for patching awnings, galosiies, too . . . and it's homog- All sorts of scientific principles are em- boats, etc. To use, you cut is much fabric enized for easy tlow. plo\ cd in a new kind of ash tray which as you need from the roll, di:> it in the not onl)' holds butts bur puts them out. solvent for a few seconds and then apply

^Vhen a cigarette is placed in a groove op- it to the thing you arc repairing. If you

posite a miniature fireman, and is allowed w ant extra thickness you use more layers, to burn down beyond the inner edge of w hich bond together. Tiie 'orice of a kit

the bowl, a thermal release mechanism containing 12S sciuare inches .-)f fabric and Vaseline causes water to be ejected from the fire- four ounces of solvent is 3'- -98. TRADE M ARK CREAM HAIR TONIC When tvriting to mamijacturers concerning items described I'.ire kindly VASELINE is the registered trade mark piention that you read abotit them in The Ameiican Legtor Magazine of the Chesebrougli Mfg. Company, Cons'd

• THE AMERICAN I EGION MAC.AZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 !

Two 1,000-gallon stills and other equipment, estimated by Alcohol Tax Unit officers to cost at least $100,000 to build and install, were seized in a Kensington, Pa., furniture plant. Elaborate and expensive installations like this are indicative of the huge profit to be made in illegal distilling.

When Federal agents and local police raided a farm at Walpole, near Boston, Mass., in February, The East was the first target of the bootleg 1953, they destroyed this illegal still, which they estimated cost the Government $10,000 in lost syndicates, but today the racket is sweeping taxes every week it operated at capacity. Nine 700-gallon capacity mash vats also were found. across the country. Distilling equipment above Officials said the still probably had operated for two years. was seized in Detroit in July, 1953.

AT TODAY'S $10.50 A GALLON LIQUOR TAX...

Bootlegging is Again a National Problem

A $6 tax will combat it . . . and give you enforcement is next to impossible. There is only one fool-proof way to beat legal beverages at fair prices the bootlegger: Take his customers away by bringing legal licjitor prices down to average- The makers and merchants of legally distilled fulness. They have encouraged the ever- income levels. spirits are asking that the Federal excise tax growing production of a filthy product that A maximum $6 tax will remove most of be adjusted from the present S10.50 per gal- in a single shocking instance put 41 Georgia the rich profit from illegal distilling . . . will lon to a maximum rate of $6. Even at $6, the people in coffins and over 200 in hospitals. make big operations like those pictured Federal tax alone still represent would ap- Today, thousands of Americans are risk- above too costly a risk. proximately one-third of the average retail ing their health by drinking bootleg whiskey. - A maximum $6 tax will recover some of price of bottle of whiskey. a Priced out of the legal liquor market by the the tax millions now being stolen from Fed- In 1944, when the Federal rate jumped prohibitive Federal tax, they are fair game eral, state and local treasuries ... a loss that from S6 to $9 a gallon, organized crime began for the bootlegger and his vicious product. has been conservatively calculated at over half to move in; since November, 1951, with a billion dollars a year. a Federal enforcement staffs are under- $10.50 a gallon "tax advantage", bootleg- manned. Yet last year they seized 10,685 A maximum $6 tax will give you good ging in metropolitan areas has begun to rival legal outlaw stills; state and local authorities beverages at fair prices. Prohibition's worst. captured over 10,000 more. So long as a These benefits are not The 1944 and 1951 increases, supposedly fantastic profit remains in each bottle of wishful thinking. They are "temporary", have long outlived their use- tax-cheating bootleg whiskey, effective law based on the record. PER TAX FACTS. When you pay around $4.27* for a "fifth" of your favorite whiskey from a licensed retailer, you actually pay about SI. 89 for the whiskey itself, about $2.38 more in Federal, state and local taxes. In spite of general cost increases since 1942, the average distillery price of whiskey, less taxes, has not increased. Today it's the tax that hurts

*The average national retail price.

PUBLISHED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST BY

LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES, INC. 155 E. 44th ST., NEW YORK 17, N. Y., IN BEHALF OF THE PRODUCERS AND MERCHANTS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Oil helps him keep us healthy...

What makes a doctor? Long years of learning, a deft pair of hands,

eyes that see beneath the surface, a mind that must make life-or-death

decisions in a clock's tick. Working hours: 24 a day. Responsibility: unlimited.

Petroleum, so useful in so many fields, is helping the doctor, too.

A lot of his "magic" aids — such as antiseptics, drugs, sedatives, dressings —

are produced from this vital resource. Through continuous research

and superior petroleum products. The Texas Company has

long served our country's medical profession TEmCOx4 The Texas Company y^\r )

PltlViUl

Nothing was too good for this veteran, and

the old guide had an appropriate treasure.

By craft oewey

WAS the first time old George had seen geese Round-Pond Club, he frequently found himself ITin the field in four years. They flew now, six expending what he considered to be "extra ef- of them, rising above the dark line of trees at fort." This afternoon had been a good example. the edge of the corn. Their wings were a pattern It was Friday and the policy of the club was to of symmetry in the November sky. rest the ducks on Thursdays and Fridays. Gener- The old darky cut his motor. He sat back in ally on these days when there was no shooting the little boat and watched them fly. He sat quite the guides took holidays. But old George had motionless, his big, gnarled hands gripping the looked at it altogether differently. A sense of gunwales tightly. professional pride had driven him out on the He had come upon them quite suddenly. The lake soon after lunch. He had run his boat from high wind had forced him in close to the shore one end to the other. He had pushed through the and he had jumped them as he turned the point flooded timberiands around the edges and had where the cornfield began and ran along the observed carefully where the ducks were milling water's edge for a quarter of a mile. and concentrating. Tonight, when the members The music of their gabbling came down to him drew straws to see who would guide them in the on the wind. Of all the sounds on the lake, this morning, he wanted to be sure he could tell his was the one he never tired of hearing. party not to worry. He would know where they The old fellow had scouted the area well were. Moreover, it always meant a boost to his this afternoon. In his double role as care- already stalwart reputation and perhaps an extra taker and most-sought-after guide at the ( Conthmed on page 43

V git up and git you a said George softly.

^/ 4 t/tu' ii Diverted by what is happening in Europe and Asia, few Americans

reahze that the communists have taken o>er Guatemahi and are

using it as tlieir Latin American beachhead.

ALABAMA \ )

By J. B. MATTHEWS

THE PENETRATION of Latin Aiiicrica by into a unified part\' under the lead- ico as a center from which to infiltrate comimmists threatens the security of ership of his rival, Jose A4anucl existing labor organizations and to cre- the Western Hemisphere. Not far Fortuny. ate new ones throughout the Western from our own southern border, the en- • Prominent Latin American com- Hemisphere. emy has the equivalent of a mihtary munists openly visit the Soviet In recent years, Guatemala has been beachhead and a base for propaganda, Union and international communist the headquarters of communist agitators espionage, and sabotage against tlie conferences. A4any communist lead- in the Caribbean. The governments of Americas. ers, for example, attended the Inter- Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, and Nic-

Guatemala is two hours b\' air from national Peace Conference at Peking aragua have all sent Cniatcmalan am- the Panama Canal and less than three in 1952. bassadors home a-running during the hours from Texas. It has airports built Latin America has alTordeii past five >'cars because of their commu- by the United States during the war asylum to convicted top United nist intrigues. Last year, President Osorio w hich are now in the hands of a com- States communist leaders who of El Salvador blamed Guatemalan munist-dominated government, a gov- communists for the plot to (overthrow ernment which declares anti-commu- his government which resulted in a nism to be subversive, which confiscates thirty-day siege; and last Januar>' the the propcrt\- of United States investors, El Salvadoran national police announced and which uses government funds for the\' had prevented the assassination of anti-United States propaganda parallel- the foreign relations minister b\' "a

ing Radio i\ Ioscow. group of international gangsters."

In Panama itself, some of the men \\ ho Bolivian Indian farmers supporting turn the valves and physically control the communist agitation for land reform the Canal are among the remnants of last February engaged in a terrorist cam- the United Public Workers of America, paign against farmers unwilling to join one of the unions expelled from the a farmers' syndicate. C.I.O. in 1950 on charges of communist Carlos Peiia 13otto, a Brazilian anti- domination. There is no doubt that communist, reported last January that communist activity in Panama was the communists had an 18,000-man largeh' responsible for the defeat of guerilla army in the jungles of south the U.S.-Panama defense bases agree- central Brazil. Later, Dominican Presi- ment in December 1947. dent Rafael Leonidas Trujillo charged The communist success in Latin that communist shock troops were be- America cannot be laughed ofT as an- ing trained in Guatemala to foment rev- other "revolution." [Revolutions arc al- olutions in the Caribbean area. most as common as elections among Vincente Lombardo For obvious strategic reasons, the Toledano, the Kremlin's some of our Southern neighbors. ] The communist conspirators have concen- top man in Latin America. communism of Latin America is a part trated their nmst intensive eflForts in of the Kremlin-directed conspiracy Central America and the Caribbean against the free world, particularly the jumped bail in 1949. Gus Hall, U.S. area, although they are active, to a United States. Communist Party secretar>% was greater or lesser degree, in every coun- The ties with the international com- captured in Alexico and returned to try south of the Rio Grande, including munist apparatus arc unmistakable: the United States in 1951. Accord- Argentina. The recent rebellion in Cuba In many Caribbean c(juntries the ing to reliable reports, two other in which more than one hundred per- Communist Part>- functions in the United States communist leaders sons were killed, had communist origins, open with red flags flying, and the convicted at the same time, Henry according to President Fulgcncio Batista hammer and sickle and the pictures Winston and Gilbert Green, are in an exclusive interview with a repre- of Soviet leaders emblazoned on hiding at a Guatemalan government sentative of this magazine. posters and leaflets. power plant deep in the jungle near Guatemala today provides a blueprint # The hand of Moscow can be Quezaltenango. of what the communists hope to achieve seen in the management of commu- Although today the communist con- eventually in every Latin American nist parties. In Guatemala, for exam- spiracy flourishes most successfully and country. The government is riddled

ple, when two communists emerged openly in Guatemala, it is not confined with communists in key positions. Only as leaders of two different groups, to any one country. In fact, the com- eight out of fifty-six members of the one, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, took munists in various Latin American coun- 1953 Congress are anti-communist. It a trip to the Soviet Union. Upon his tries help each other without regard to was the only legislative body this side return the two groups were merged national boundaries. For many years, of the Iron Curtain to pay silent tribute ILLUSTRATED BY LOWELL HESS Vicente Lombardo Toledano used Mex- ( Continued on page 41 13 ^Vllat outfit is this? If you can identify this unit landing in France in 1917, let's hear from you.

11:00 A.M. on November 11, 1918, the guns which had been thundering ATover France for more than four years were silenced. Now thirty-five years later the doughboy of WVVl can still see, despite the intervening years and another war, the remains of his trenches and dugouts and the beautifully kept cemeteries which are the last bivouac of thousands of his buddies. Another generation has grow n up since the "war to end war" and to them Chateau- Thierry, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonnc are names spoken oc- casionally by those who fought there. For those who never knew, as well as those who were there, we present this brief pictorial review of the AEF in France. To match the pictures of the campaigns of 1918 which were drawn from the files, photographer Angela Calomiris returned to the scene this year. The photographs were matched as accurately as terrain and historical records would allow. The battlefields, the scars and the people who remember the bitter struggle will eventually disappear. Even now the devastation is being softened by new growth, but the courage and fighting ability of this great American Army abroad will remain as a page in the history' of our time. To Small streams, woods and swampy areas, inter- remind us all of their sacrifice here is France — then and now. sj)ersed with towns like Pannes, shown here, ALL 19S3 PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS made up the area of the St. Mihiel salient. ^

On May 28, 1918, the 1st Division, AEF captured Cantigny, victory. The Cantigny operation was the end of one phase of and despite strong counterattacks by German trt)ops, held fast. the German Army's attem|)t to destroy the British forces hold- It was this battle which demonstrated the abilities of the ing the northern sector and to push on to Paris. The monmnent yf American Army to the Allied forces and gave them hope for marks the first major batilcfiold of Aim-rican troops in France. The pontoon bridges are gone but the river and most of the houses which was lent to the French Army by General Pershing, took up remain. Checked in the north, the German Army launched an- its position near here on fune 1, directly across the main roiue other attack farther south. Its ol)jective was Paris. In a drive to Paris. Here the Germans were stopped. Five days later the which carried them 30 miles they came to Chateau-Thierry where 2nd Division, which included a brigade of Marines, launched a units of the 3rd Division met them on May 31. The 2nd Division, counterattack at Belleau Wood, and eventually took the position.

St.-Baussant was captured early on the first day of the St. Mihiel Prior to this, American luiits had served with the French and offensive by the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. Here elements of the British forces to stem the German advance. When the enemy 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, are moving up on the second offensives ended. General Pershing insisted upon the creation of day. The reduction of the St. Mihiel salient was the first major an inde|)endent American Army and its assignment to an im- o|)eration conducted by the newly organized American 1st Army. portant sector. By war's end the 2nd Army was in action.

ITHE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVESH

1918 VERDUN

The salient which extended 16 miles into the Allied lines had been developed by the Germans for four years. As long as it existed no major Allied offensive toward Sedan or along the Meuse-Argonne could succeed. Reduction of the salient in less than two weeks bolstered the morale of the Allies and proved that no German position was impregnable.

The 14-inch gun firing near Verdun was part of the great barrage which preceded the Meusc- Argonne offensive. Manned by Navy crews, four of these guns saw action and they were the only American-made cannon which fired in France

during World War 1. The Meuse-Argonne offensive, which was to end the war began on Septem- ber 26, 1918. Its primary objective was the cutting of the Metz-Sedan railroad. The massing of men and equipment for the operation has become a classic example of staff work and logistics, continued on next page 1918 FLEURY

continued

THEN & NOW 35 YEARS LATER

Along the front lines some of which remained nearly stationary for more than four years, the devastation was so complete as to be un- rejiairable. In the St. Mihiel sector, Flemy was one of the horrible examples of what modern warfare is. By 1916 the town was obliterated and today only this marker, right, remains as a reminder of a once- hap|>y and ]>eaceful town. The foundation on which the monument is placed is made from stones and other materials of the village. The dugouts cut into the hillside served as a Divisional Headquarters.

1918 VAUX

Vaux was one of ilie points of deepest penetration by the German blocking their way to Paris they issued orders that as much dam- Army in its 1918 spring offensive. The attacks and counterattacks age as possible be inflicted on them. Belleau \V'oods. Chateau- in this area marked some ol the fiercest fighting of the war. When Thierry and other battlefields are commemorated by tlie Aisne- the German commanders realized that .\merican troops were Marne Memorial located between Vaux and Chateau-Thierry.

Metz, which had been lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian war Metz had served as an additional protection for the vital city. of 1870, was one of the key cities together with Sedan in the supply With the St. Mihiel salient reduced, the 1st Army launched its and movement of the German Army. Near IMetz the secondary attack north of Verdun to cut the Metz-Sedan railroad, divide the German defense lines converged forming a deep, heavily fortified German Armies and force their retreat from Northern France area. The St. Mihiel salient jutting into the Allied lines west of and Belgium. In 47 days thev acfomplished their objective. 1918 EXERMONT

The peacelul chiinh in Exerinoiit be- lies the savage fighting which took place there early in October, 1918. Taken and retaken, Exermont was one Cunel today is a peaceful town with few reminders of the of several key positions of the German war. In October of 1918, however, it was the scene of bitter defense. The Meuse-Argonne offensive fighting by the 80th, 3rd, and 5th Divisions. The town was was held uj) serveral days until the Isi captured several times but not held because German forces Division carried the town, October 4. dominated the terrain from the woods behind the town. In the immediate area are the \\ ell-rcmembered battlefields of Madeleine Farm, Romagne, Cote Dame iMarie and others. The fighting in the Cunel-Romagne sector is described in official records as among the most severe and 1918 BUZANCY sustained in all history. The Germans recognized the importance of the American offensive in an order issued to the troops which said, "The fate of a large portion of the Western Front, perhaps of our nation, depends on the firm holding of the Verdun Front." The pressure on the German troops in the Aleuse-Argonne forced their high command to divert divisions from other sectors. By September 29th they realized that destruction of their armies was imminent and urged the Government to make an offer of peace to the Allies immediateh-. Overtures were made by October 6.

By November 1, the Allied Armies had forced the Ger- man forces to begin a \\ ithdrawal all along the front to avoid complete defeat. On November 7th

the I Corps reached the heights overlooking Sedan and cut the railroad which had been the objective of the Meuse-Argonnc offensive. The importance of Sedan to the Germans was show n in their use of reserves to stop the American advance in this sector, despite the fact that the entire front was aflame and needed support. With Sedan under Allied domination, the end of the war in 1918 was assured. The houses in Buzancy still lia\e st.iis lioiii rifle and machine- gun fire which riddled the town in early November, 1918. Finally captured on November 2, Buzancy was the crossroads From the ruins of Montfaucon over which supi)lies for the 80th and 77th Divisions had to rises the imposing Meuse- pass. The German artillery shelled the town almost continuous- Argonne Memorial commemorat- ly for days, effectively slowing up the advance along this front. ing the great offensive of the American 1st Army and the 17 French forces which earlier had served on this battlefront. Bi^ Bucks ^trent

The buck tliat lives long enough

to grow big cinders is likely to be a lot

smarter than the men who lumt him.

Chased out of his lodgings, the big fellow had sneaked back.

are present in favorable whitetail country within the area of one square mile. "Favorable" whitetail country, incidentally, doesn't necessarily mean real wilderness regions, but more often marginal farmland and woodlots. VVhitetails, like woodchucks, have long since learned that lush living is to be found near human habitations. If it were possible to make an accurate check it's likely FIVE or six-ye;u"-f)ld buck deer, in rlie full prime of the same distribution quota would hold for Columbian A horned and physical maturity, is one of the finest game blacktails in the Coast Range. The big Tillamook burn trophies on this or any other continent. And it matters region in northwestern Oregon, from which hove some ter- not whether the animal is a mule deer from Colorado's high rific blacktail specimens in recent years, is such a place. countr>% or one of those veteran skulkers of Maine's cedar Buck mule deer perhaps are more scattered on their natural swamps, the w hitetail. range, on the average, but that disadvantage to the hunter An>' hunter lucky or skillful enough to drop such an is offset by the fact that mule deer inhabit more open country animal has little reason to look enviously at more spectacular than their smaller relatives, and are more easily seen. game heads brought back from Alaska or Africa. It's an What, then, makes the shooting of a trophy buck such an established fact that time, money and the services of a good infrequent and chancy thing? "white hunter" arc all that are needed to assure success on First, big bucks aren't knuckleheads. Any buck which has an African safari. And it isn't exactly a secret that first-trip survived four or five seasons in heavily hunted localities — city sports seldom come out of Alaska or the Yukon without and what area isn't heavily hunted these days? — is certain to the trophies the_\- sought. But there still are many thousands have learned a lot about man and how to avoid danger. of perennial deer hunters in this country who have yet to When such antlercd smarties are shot, it's either because shoot a respectable buck. they were out-maneuvered by a veteran hand, or fell victim The bo>'s roll home w ith legal deer in the tens of thou- to some luck\' character who happened by pure chance to sands, but those old 250-pound smashers with massive 10 l)c in the right place at the right time. and 12-point racks arc conspicuously few on car fenders. Another factor is that the hunter is pitting his inferior Perhaps no more than one in 20 successful hunters returns physical equipment against an animal blessed with excellent with a really good buck. And with the odds about five to eyesight and unsurpassed senses of smell and hearing. one against the average hunter coming home with any kind Furthermore, the huntsman is operating over the deer's of legal deer, it isn't difficult to understand why those big home grounds, with which the animal is far more familiar fellow s are spread around so thinly. than its human pursuer. Nor does the hunter always operate It's a mistake- to assume their comparative scarcity on intelhgently, due to inexperience or lack of knowledge of camp game racks reflects their scarcity in the woods. Big the terrain. So actually the odds favor the deer except in the bucks arc around in good deer country — plenty of them. gun and brain departments, and in some instances it isn't It would be no exaggeration to say that four such animals unlikely the animal enjoys a slight edge in gray matter.

18 By RAY TRULLINGER

and promptly take off before a safe retreat

is barred. Hunters shouldn't kid themselves about a deer's beezer being "blunted. " The number of ways in which a deer hunter can blow a fine opportunity are many and varied. In

fact, it can be said that a hunter's progress from tyro to experienced hand is studded with boners of one kind or another. One of the most common bloopers is to assume that things are as the\' seem. Mental delusions of that kind keep a lot of deer meat out of home freezers and many a decorative rack from above fireplaces.

Several >'ears ago I muffed an excellent chance to kill a whopping buck because of an unusual chain of circumstances, fuzzy reasoning and a disposition to take Last spring this writer was vastly amused by some "ex- things for granted. pert" deer-hunting advice, v\ hich appeared in a hunting That little corned)' of errors began \\ hen I parted com- annual, wherein the author low-rated a deer's inteUigence, pany with two companions on a hardwood ridge to take eyesight and sense of smell. "Take advantage of its blunted up an inconspicuous position where tw o deer trails crossed sense of smell and don't waste too much time worrying between a bedding and feeding ground. about the direction of the wind," he advised. He attributed "We'll make a turn around the top of the ridge," one of the deer's "blunted" smeller to the fact the animals now my pals remarked, "and will be back to join you again in live in close proximit\' to man. That keen-nosed hunting an hour. Keep your eyes peeled. We might stir up some- dogs have been living with man for centuries without in thing." any way suffering impairment of their scenting ability ap- I sat down against a partly concealing jack fir as my vom- parenth' never entered the gentleman's head. panions faded off, and took stock of m\ ambush. I couldn't The matter of a deer's eyesight and intelligence was settled see far behind me, but my position commanded a fine view to this writer's entire satisfaction in the long ago past, but of the downhill slope, and of the tw o converging deer trails. three seasons ago on the side of a brushy, windswept ridge Over on my right about 40 yards away 1 noticed a flat, in Maine, I was witness to clinching proof. Two of us were brushy little bench. It seemed like t+ie sort of place a buck working along the slope when my companion stopped sud- would pick for a hangout, and I was tempted to w alk over denly and murmured, "Look at that big illegitimate stand- for a check. But things had quieted down since my coming over there." panions' departure, and I was reluctant to make an\' further

Now in still-hunting whitetails one does not usually scan disturbance. The woods were (Continued on pir.tjt' distant terrain, but watches immediate surroundings. For that reason I at first failed to see the animal, standing broad- side to us on a flat perhaps 500 yards away. Despite that distance, and the fact we w ere wearing in- On the ground, a doe conspicuous clothing and \\ ere heavily screened by brush, breathing her last. with no more than our heads showing, that deer had already spotted us — perhaps even before my companion had seen the animal. Furthermore, it \\ as plain the buck knew he'd been seen, and realized there u as trouble afoot.

The deer was at least 200 x ards beyond the effective range of the "brush" rifles both of us were carrying, so we just stood motionless and awaited his next move. It wasn't long in coming. He took off on the run. In the opposite direction. Poor eyesight? Low intelligence? In the same country there's a long, wooded point which projects out into a four-mile-long lake. It's a favorite feeding ground for deer, and a good spot to shoot one provided three or four hunters can reach the point's base by water and intercept the animals' retreat to the mainland. That strategy is effective only when the wind is blowing directly on the point from the lake, or on still, calm days. But even when the wind is favorable, our careful approach in a canoe from the opposite side of the lake, one quarter of a mile away, frequently is detected. Not because the animals see or even hear us, but because they whiff the human invasion from afar WWAai yowM sh€^tMl€i know abowMi

They are tragic bii( someiliiiig can be done aboni (liem.

VERVBODY KNOWS that our increased By TOM MAHONEY longevity has greatly increased heart disease and cancer. Less ^\ ell kno^\n is the fact that ^\ hat doctors term cerebrovascular accidents, or apoplexy, and which >'ou and 1 call "strokes," have increased in the same way. Strokes have advanced from seventh to third place among the natural causes of death and are now behind onh' heart disease and cancer. The longer > ou live past age 40, the greater seem to be your Another way to ])revcnt a stioke chances of having a stroke. Roughly is to kee[) )our ^veight down. 10 persons in 100 who die now, or more than 140,000 a year in the United States, KWING GALLOWAY are killed by .strokes. At least four times this number suffer non-fatal strokes. Tliere are A\arning signs and a Stroke often hits dramatically among checkup will probably reveal them. the famous. Sir Winston Churchill recently recovered from a mild one. The cause an attitude of hopelessness and long roll includes Franklin D. Roose- despair pervaded our thinking, instead velt, Gen. Jonathan Al. AVainw right, of a positive approach, utilizing all of Josef Stalin, Nikolai Lenin, Woodrow the tools we now have available to com- Wilson, Nat Goodwin and Blanche bat this challenge." Bates, of the stage; Harriet Alonroe, the To appreciate these "tools," most of poet, Albert Spalding, the great violin- them de\'clopments of recent >'ears, let ist. us review the relationship of the blood It should be emphasized that a stroke and the brain and the mechanism of does not necessaril>- mean the end of a stroke. career. Eighteen centuries ago, Galen, Ox>'gen, minerals, hormones and the physician of ancient Greece, wrote: other vital materials are conveyed to "1 have seen a badly wounded brain all parts of the body by the blood. The heal." Louis Pasteur, the great French arteries which carry the blood are large

LW IN'. <, \l I (»\\ \Y scientist who fathered microbiology, at the heart and lungs but become lived 27 > ears more and did his greatest smaller and smaller. They end finally in Relax. Bv avoiding over exertion you work after suffering a stroke at 46. Sir the microscopic capillaries which con- can check the basic cause ol strokes. Joshua Reynolds produced a hundred nect the smallest arteries w ith the small- canvases after a stroke at 59. Cieorge est veins to start the return c>'cle of the Greek-derived medical names for some Frederick Handel composed his immor- blood. This circulatory system extends of the resulting conditions sound poetic tal "Alessiah" and lived for many years into the head and is marked at the base but mean something graver w hen you after a .stroke. Hundreds of stroke pa- of the brain by an unusual circle of or yours experience them. There is t nts have been rehabilitated in \'eter- arteries called "the circle of AVillis," aphasia, the inability to speak; agnosia, ans Administration Hospitals. after Thomas Willis, a 17th century the failure to recognize objects or

Despite the note and number of its English anatomist. sounds; apraxia, tiie inabilit\- to perform \ ictims, stroke has received less atten- Blood goes to all hemispheres of the meaningful muscular actions. As the tion than man>' less serious maladies brain through arteries branching from nerves cross over in leaving the head, that affect fewer persons. No pretty this circle. It equalizes circulation of injury in the left side of the brain will girls beg money from us for casualties the blood in the brain and, in the event affect the right side of tlic body and of stroke. No great foundations or asso- of destruction of one artery, offers the vice versa. ciations are concerned specifically with possibility of the blood and its oxygen The strokes which deal these blows it. reaching the area via the branches and are similar in symptoms. A patient may "Cerebrovascular accidents constitute capillaries of another artery. Brain cells complain, as did President Roosevelt, one of the most tragic and important completely cut off from oxygen, live of a "terrific headache." He may then problems in medicine," said Dr. Irving only a few minutes. Once killed, they lapse suddenly or slow ly into a coma S. Wright, American Heart Association cannot grow back. with his face flushed and his breathing leader, in announcing a national con- When this happens to the cells of a irregular. When diagno.sed. however, ference on the subject for next January. brain center, the limb, sense or body strokes fall into three classifications.

"This problem \\; been sadly neglected function controlled by the center is These are the cerebral ciuhoUs})i, w hich by the medical profession, largely bc- partially or completely paralyzed. The accounts for 5 percent of the strokes; 20 blood and prevent formation of clots. These drugs include heparin, dicumarol and tromexan. Administration of one of these usually prevents formation of additional emboli after one has been detected. STROKES More recently, the Armour Laboratories has been conducting clinical investigative work to determine the usefulness of enzymes to digest blood clots in the arteries and veins. If this can be accomplished, it may be a long step in the management of strokes. The more common cerebral thrombosis is more complex. Something at the spot causes a clot or thrombus to form in a brain artery or blood vessel. In many cases the something is atherosclerosis, a form of hardening of the arteries in which fatty substances thicken the lining

until the flow of blood is stopped. Sometimes the artery seems to be closed by a nervous spasm. Autopsy of 100 victims of fatal strokes reported in 1951 revealed no mechanical blockage of arteries in 60 cases. Sometimes, after a few hours, the spasm seems to relax or the brain manages to establish some circulation around the obstruction, perhaps in the way that varicose veins reappear in the legs after existing veins havt, been intentionally blocked. When this happens, a large part of the impaired brain abilities returns and much of the paralysis disappears as the blood again begins to carry

oxygen to the cells starving for it. In an effort to speed up this happy phenomenon, which may occur in both cerebral thrombosis and cerebral embolism, much thought has been given to relaxing the spasms through interrupting appropriate nerves, either by surgery or anesthetics, and also at- tempting to dilate or open the blood vessels in the brain by injecting certain drugs into the blood stream. One drug thus used is papaverine. On the nerve front, controversy rages about the procedure called the stellate ganglion block. In your neck on each side of the backbone are the stellate gan-

«6E HEART AHACKS glia, two star-shaped nerve centers about the size of a «0 dime. These centers are the nerve controls of the cerebral arteries. If one or both of these centers are anesthe- 70 CANCER tized in the case of cerebral thrombosis or embolism, STROKES 60 i 4- proponents of the idea assert, the arteries will relax SO and dilate. The anesthetic, usually procaine hydrochloride, is injected by hypodermic needle into the stellate ganglia. The danger increases witJi age. Strokes are third among killers. An error of half an inch can put the anesthetic into the spinal column and kill the patient. In some cases, stroke THEIR STROKES HAD FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES sufferers have improved in as little as ten minutes. They have regained consciousness, become able to speak, or to speak more clearly and to move limp arms and legs. This treatment originated in France where Drs. Rene Leriche and R. Fontaine in 1936 reported the dramatic rehabilitation of two women helpless after suffering cerebral embolisms. Others then tried the idea on apoplexy patients at the University of Glasgow but found

no value in it. In 1943, however, Drs. Wilford A. Risteen and P. P. Volpitto of the University of Georgia re- Louis Pastern- Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill ported benefits in half a dozen cases. In He kept on working. Death came quickly. Now recovering. 1948, Drs. N. C. Gilbert and Geza dc Takats reported improvement in 19 of the cerebral thro7iibosis, ^\h\ch accounts and be carried through arteries to the 25 cases at St. Luke's Hospital in for 40 to 60 per cent, and the cerebral brain where it blocks a blood vessel. Chicago. hemorrhage, credited with responsibil- Embolus is from the Greek \\ ord mean- In 1950, Drs. Paul W. Searle and Wil- ity in 30 to 50 per cent of the cases. All ing "a plug." When strokes occur in liam K. Nowell rep(3rted greater im- are serious but for each type there are young persons, a cerebral embolism usu- provement and fewer deaths in a series developments which make them much ally is responsible. of stroke patients treated with stellate less hopeless than formerly. Once lodged in the brain, little can ganglion block at Millard Fillmore Hos- Simplest to understand is the cerebral be done about an embolus but a whole pital, Buffalo, N. Y., than in a series that

embolism. After surgery and under series of "anticoagulant" drugs, now did not receive it. Favorable reports also some other conditions, a blood clot or administered routinely when emboli are came from Drs. Howard Naffziger and embolus may break away in the body like to appear, slow coagulation of the (Continued on page 60} 21 A STUDY IN CONTRASTS

Because few Americans really uiiderstfiiid (he system

that has made this country great, they often fall for

the propaganda of those whose aim is to destroy it.

By ruth ALEXANDER the sole basis of human rights. It implied that each man is the best judge of his economic Dr. Ruth Alexander is a professional economist, with three own interest and even if he degrees from Northwestern University where she also re- be a poor judge he is hkely to be as good ceived Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Her a judge as another man who calls him- syndicated column is read by millions and she is nationally known as a lecturer. self the state. If the average citizen is not a model citizen neither is the average politician a Daniel come to judg- HI, PL Ki'OSK of com- itv ot its decay. AH subsequent writers ment. iniuiist revolution and statcgists recognize this as the goal A constitutional republic stands or is destruction of of communism. They have addressed falls with capitalism because the mo- capitalism. The political counterpart of thcmseh'es to the workers, an economic ment free enterprise is abolished all capitalism is a constitutional republic, to the voters, group, rather than a poht- other freedoms automatically disappear. such as ours, or a constitutional mon- ical group. Freedoms of thought, of speech, of as- as as foi enjoyed in- archy such w nicrly by The means of attaining this end sembh' are inconceivable whenever the Britain. clude, otiier things, Great among overthrow sovereign political power and the deter- order eas\-going, of force In to arouse our the estabUshed government by mination of wages and price reside in good-natured people to the dangers of and violence. The loss of free political the same body of men— the state. No emphasis has laid on institutions results in of communism, been abandonment man would dare to talk or to assemble its threat to our political institutions. capitalism and vice versa. To illustrate. against the state w hen that bod>- is the Professional communists who openly Nazi Germany threw out the Weimar sole employer. political the Republic. Capitalism lost in the advocate sabotage make got But Americans like to speak up with front page and often land in jail, ^^^c shuffle and national socialism took its what is on their mind. Since the contin- recognize them as enemies. Amateur place. Russia destro>'ed capitalism. The uance of capitalism is the onl\' way this communists who surreptitiously advo- newly acquired political freedoms of cate economic sabotage make the edi- the Kcrcnsky regime passed away, and This is the classic concept of capitalism, torial page and often land in high places. communism took its place. liig liusiness as exemplified by ^Vall St. We mistake them for humanitarians. The inescapable historic conclusion EWING GALLOWAY ' We resent ha\ ing our political system is that capitalism is the only possible Kiiii, ,11 II. kicked around. But we don't seem to basis for a constitutional republic. To- mind having our economic system gether they move with the rigid inter- kicked around. dependence of the two blades of a pair We have become reluctantl)' aware of scissors. Useless eacii without the of the implications of tiie comnumist other. slogan (jf ix\olution — "the end justifies Like the pro\ e]bial chicken and the the means." But few of tis seem to real- egg, it is hard to tell which came first- ize that the end is the abolition of capi- capitalism or the Constitution. Capital- talism. All other actions are secondary. ism was the prevailing economic system They are means to this end. Karl iMar.x, under which the Constitution was wnx.- who founded "scientific socialism," tcn. The Constituri(Mi recognized the w hich passes for communism today, de- privac>' of the economic lives of our voted his life to a dissection of capital- citizens. It provided safeguards against ism and historic "proof" of the inevitabil- state encroachment on property rights—

22 right can be preserved we must no long- are affiliated. The terms communism dustrial and scientific experiment. They er take it for granted. Capitalism must and socialism arc interchangeable. The might better be called seed capital for survive. Our civil liberties depend on its goal of both is destruction of capitalism. they are the sole basis of einploywg survival. In the minds of our enemies, They differ only in the methods of capital, on which jobs for workers de-

capitalism is what the shooting is all achieving this goal. pend. about, throughout the world. To defend The correct definition of (private) It costs on an average of $7000 \\ orth ourselves we must know ourselves and capitalism is the voluntary exchange of of capital stocks of goods invested in

know our enemies. What is this thing goods and services on a competitive ba- tools to employ one worker in industry, called capitalism? How does it differ sis. The word capital was used originalh' and $3000 to employ a worker in serv- from communism? Can capitalism sur- as an adjective, applied to those stocks ices. The progressive accumulation of vive in a world increasingly prostrate of capital goods which had been volun- surplus capital invested in tools and before the persuasive communist prom- tarily saved up for future use. Capital- equipment is the only guarantor of job ise of equality of poverty? ism is a surplus economy as opposed to security and relatively uninterrupted Of course in speaking of capitalism the scarcity economy of commimism. employment. The term "full" employ- I mean private capitalism. State capital- It believes that the greatest goods for ment is a misnomer under freedom and

ism is socialism raised to the nth degree. the number at the lowest price can be is possible only under total dictatorship. It was designated as "communism" by obtained only by maximum production. There is no other means by which statute at the Second Conference of the This, in turn, can be reached only when wages can be raised and the general Third International in July 1920. This incentive to personal gain by personal material welfare increased than by in- does not signify that communism has labor and savings is unhampered by re- creased investment of seed capital de- been attained in Russia or elsewhere. pressive regulation and excessive taxa- voted to the production of new and The U.S.S.R. is socialism, run by the tion. better goods, ready and eager to satisfy communist party, with which all com- The function of capital stocks of insatiable human wants. munist parties throughout the world goods is to feed, clothe and lodge those For this reason, capitalism rewards the people, who have accumulated them by accumulation of surplus wealth, be it

. . . but everyone who owns a car, a home, hard work and self denial, at an ever pennies or dollars. But it recognizes that or anything else is a personal capitalist. higher scale of living. The wealth of the no matter how hard people work, or H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS nation depends on these people, the how diligently they save, they will not capitalists, who have voluntarily re- arrive at the same scale of living. Nature, stricted their present consumption of not capitalism, has endowed us with capital goods on behalf of future pro- enormous differences in judgment, sta- duction. bility, resourcefulness, sobriet\' and

Capitalism is dynamic whert the thrift. Nature, not capitalism, has di-

amount of capital goods is sufficient to vided us into the advance guard, the allow for experimental production and rear guard and the stragglers. The func-

scientific innovation. Capitalism be- tion of a constitutional republic is to see comes static when stocks of capital to it that the rear guard and the strag- goods get so low they approach the glers have every opportunity to catch minimum necessary for subsistence up with the advance guard on their ow n. needs. But it does not punish the advance Sometimes these stocks of capital guard for the failure of others. It re- goods are called risk capital because of wards the advance guard for that imag- the risk inevitably connected with in- (Conthmed on page 51) 23 How to enjoy afflCiillT at HOME

New York Daily News boxing writer and member, New York Boxi^ig Writers Association.

An expert tells what to look for

when you want to score a fight.

HIS ALREADY beleaguered and blood- just didn't pick up the knockout ied boxing scribe, who runs the punches. But Walcott got hit, good, gauntlet of TV fans with every fight as subsequently was shown in the he covers, ought to have his head ex- three-D movies which had a trio of amined for saying "yes" to the editors cameras surveying the action." of The Aiiiericiin Legion Magazine. The man ought to know. Florio has "Tell our readers how to watch and been Walcott's trainer for seven years how to score a prize fight . . . explain and was in his corner that night. At the the differences in rules and how they same time, Dan recalled that very few WATCH FOR THESE ON TV apply in the various States and munici- TV fans actually caught the short left palities . . . and," ye editors neglected hook which Walcott used to knock to add, "run for the nearest air-raid Ezzard Charles loose from his crown in shelter." Pittsburgh. The camera angle again was In the good, old hare-knuckle days, wrong. unfettered by complicated rules of ring He urges the fans, "Pretend you are behavior and intricate methods of scor- a cornerman for your favorite. Figure ing, two guys fought until one was out what you would say to him if you done. Even as recently as 1945—before were his second and he came back to television began to nurture the now mil- you for advice at the end of each round. lions of full-blown armchair experts and I've had fellows with the best of inten- saloon Socrates'—the ringside tions who have been watch- 1. Up on his toes he's still dangerous. journalist plied his trade in ing fights for 20 years come 2. Widespread flat feet indicate fatigu comparative peace. up to me and talk about a But today's boxing report- fight. After a few sentences I er, and his official confreres, realized they knew from missed action is not the fault of the the referees and judges, lit- nothing." viewer but of TV, which does not re- erally work with millions Florio recalls several flaws produce faithfully the various moves. looking over their shoulders. in Louis's style that were He makes these points: to see, Some of the best referees there for everybody ( 1 ) A good boxer often appears to be have pulled boners in the ring but even the Bomber's own getting hit when actually he is slipping and our most prominent Svengalis overlooked them punches. judges have, at times, ap- Even New York's until Max Schmeling came (2) Blocked punches, particularly peared to be a way out of boxing czar. Bob along to exploit the weak- those caught on the elbows and fore- Christenberry, has line in their scoring. And yet, nesses. By running movies arms, often look like solid blows. been confused by night after night, Gus and over and over again of Jack (3) A good short-puncher, like Mar- the complex rules. Ciussic Fan, from in front of Dempsey's battles. Gene ciano, often docs not receive full credit their TV^ screen, set themselves up as Tunney plotted all the proper moves to on TV for his effectiveness. duly appointed officials just as though out-box and out-maneuver the superior (4) Welts and bruises and blood, the they were on the scene and seasoned slugger. result of damaging punches, rarely are experts in all nuances of the fistic art. Specifically, Florio suggests that the visible on TV and, being valued guide- And so, a little advice should go a fight fan keep check of a boxer's feet. posts in any scoring system, their ab- long way toward increasing spectator "Watch, and when he starts to spread sence detracts from the video spectator's enjoyment and understanding. Famous 'em farther apart than usual, he's getting full appreciation of the action. Trainer Dan Florio, who averages five tired and may be ripe for the kill. An- Dumb Dan Morgan, the Bernard fights a week either as a cornerman or other sure sign of fatigue is to see a Baruch of boxing, who in his time man- a TV fan, says that the video-viewer man suddenly come down off his toes aged four world's champions (Frank rakes in only about nine of every 25 and start to move flat-footed." Mantell, Al McCoy, Jack Brittain, and punches throw n. He wasn't in the least Eddie Joseph, another big tiiue ref, Battling Levinsky), has several handy surprised at the reaction to Rocky feels that at least 95 percent of the TV household hints for the eager-to-im- Alarciano's quick kayo of Jersey Joe audience doesn't know what to look prove-himself fan. Walcott. for, mainly because they are not box- "First off," says Dan, "don't pick your He points out, "No wonder the fans ing fans of long standing. At the same winner in advance if you want to come thought it a phony. The TV camera time, Eddie claims that much of the out with a fair verdict. 24 )

Corbctt would have been rlic winner in an early round. For in the fistic year 1953 the referee would have halted the fra\ seven rounds earlier w hen Corbett had his rival so bruised and battered that Fitz- simmons voluntarily kneeled, head bowed, while his blood drained into a crimson pool. The referee of today who lets a figlu get too one-sided without calling a hair

is in hot water of unprecedented warmth and volume. Witness Jimmy Carter's Boston "massacre" of Tomnn' Collins last Spring which raised a storm of indignation along the T\^ network when Referee Tommy Rawson let the

THE WINNER AND LOSER

TV cameras don't always show hard clouts like this one Gavilan stopped.

No wonder he's confused. Joey Giardello was given the decision in the ring. Later Commissioner Christenberry, in an unprece- 3. Most TV fans miss this. The right 4. All boxing codes give points for dented move, overrided the judges, gave the is being slipped and the left caught. aggressiveness. A clever defensive win to Billy Graham. The New York State Neither should count on the score card. fighter looks bad on television. Supreme Court finally decided for Giardello.

"Next, try and vvatcli the fight with crown to Luis Firpo in that

this in mind, that the man w ho is lead- controversial clout-fest in New

ing and landing is forcing the fight." York's Polo Grounds 30-years Clothes may not make the man, but ago for (1) failing to return to styles very definitely^ make the boxer the ring within the prescribed in this TV age. If you'll excuse the para- time-limit which, today, would dox, it's not smart to be clever any more have been tolled from the second in the ring. Alorgan, Florio, Trainer he went through the ropes and

Charley Goldman and other experts ( 2 ) for blasting a right to Firpo's point this out. head while tiie Argentine giant And so the tendency is to manufac- still had one knee on the canvas. ture fighters all in the same blood-and- Under modern-day rules, the thunder mold which, if the trend con- Alanassa Mauler would have tinues, ultimately will bring about a beaten Gene Tunney in their rather dreadful uniformity. long-count clash and regained But uniformity of rules and regula- his throne in Chicago, in 1927, tions and scoring methods is something because Referee Jack Barry Rex Layne and Archie Moore were the prin- else again and, it says here, are greatly could not have started his count cipals in another rhubarb. The television fans didn't like to be desired, particularly if simplified. over again but would have been the officials decision.

The complexities in the rules and the forced to pick it up from the confusion of scoring systems that have knockdown timekeeper. Today that Hub Irishman absorb ten knockdowns. grown up in the U. S. would bring particular regulation is in effect every- Yet the Dempsey-Willard fight saw some strange twists into the course of w here. Jess down seven times in the first round. heavyweight boxing history, for in- You can dig all tiie way back into Primo Camera went to the deck a dozen stance, had modern methods of con- the musty reports of the 1897 strife be- times at the fists of Max Baer in 19.H ducting and scoring a bout been in tween Gentleman Jim Corbctt and before Referee Arthur Donovan stopped effect in the (quote) good, old days, Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons at Carson City, it in the 11th. (unquote.) Nevada. Instead of Fitz emerging the What w ith the development of the Jack Dempsey would have lost his victor by a 14th round kayo, however, {Conthiitcd Oil IhTv^c SI 25 )

THE LEGION IN PICTURES

siDi.iJGii I of world's biggest (?) picnic is pie-eater Earl DenibinsUi (above.) Head counters were cross- eyed too, at mere size of Lodi (Cal. Post 22's community picnic this year. F.stimated picnickers, 40,000. Starting in 1922 (attendance 2,000), Lodi Post's party grew to a giant yearly headline event in San Joaquin Coun-

t\'. At first. Post rented grove, added $35,000 impro\'cmcnts over years. In 1939, when picnic had become a social fixture of northern California, owner \V. G. Alicke gave grove to AViiEN A Gl OVERSEAS sends to Legion Washington office request number and countv'. message for broadcast to his family. Legion relays request within 5 hours to proper radio station in GI's hometown area. Progiam is ajitly called Hometoivn, U.S.A., as map of 215 cooperating radio stations (above) shows. 26 LEGION-TRAINED JAPANESE become fuU-fledgetl Americans as McCarran Act ends 164 years of racial discrimination.

MOMENT IN HISTORY. Sccn abovc is the end of A 164 years of racial discrimination in U.S. citizenship. Big event happened in Seabrook, N.J. schoolhouse June 29, as Judge David L. Horuvitz made U.S. citizens of 127 people, all but one born in Japan. Their naturalization was made possible under the little-understood. Legion-backed Mc- Carran-Walter Act of 1952. That act wiped off the books the Nationality Act of 1789 (which denied naturalization to anybody except "free whites.") Exceptions to the 1789 law had admitted Negroes to citizenship (after Civil War); North and South American "non-whites" (1940); Chinese (1943), and East Indians (1945.) But the old law held for all others, chiefly Japanese, Koreans and Southeast Asians, until the 1952 McCarran Act ended all bars to U.S. citizenship based on race, color, nationality or servitude. All 126 Japanese-Americans above were trained for naturalization in a series of Americanism classes (right) held weekly since Dec, 1952 by Shoe- maker Post & Unit 95, American Legion in nearby Bridgeton, N.J. — under Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Brauer. Many of the new citizens were relocated from the West Coast during WW2. All work for Seabrook Farms, world's largest grow-its-own food-freezing plant. Some have lived in U.S. over 50 years. Oldest couple are Mr. & Mrs. Moyo Wakayima (he 78, here 52 years; she 62, here 42 years.) Three women are Gold Star Alothers whose U.S.-born sons (citizens by birth) died in America's defense. A4any others had sons in 442nd Combat Team. Gold Star Mothers are Riyf) Mukai BARBARA BRAUER ^VITH NEW CITIZEN. She and husband Herbert (here 39 years), Musaye Fujiki (here 35 years) Brauer prepped gioup for citizenship in six monilis of t\cekly classes and Mume Minakata (here 38 years.) — a continuing Americanism project of N.J. Legion Post X: Unit ?>r). 27 Recently Harold Steinke, district game" By JACK DENTON SCOTT The Marlin Firearms Company, New manager of Osiikosli, Wisconsin, made a Haven, Connecticut, announce a new and study of the automobile as a predator of revolutionary type of rifle barrel which wildlife. He was disturbed by what he Island Sound all their lives. Last year I they call the ".Micro-Groove." Based on found. Below is a chart taken from a few went shooting with them, and came back results of intensive firing tests in competi- rural counties only. The result is shocking, with my limit of blacks in record time. tion with other rifles having conventional as Air. Stcinke's findings are only a tiny The Dolans took myself and companion, barrels, Marlin reports an improvement of sample. Do \'ou try to avoid small animals put us on a sea wall within clear view of about 20% in accuracy. This new barrel on the road? Read the figures below—and New Haven and Yale University, told us will first be available in the Alarlin 89-C watch your driving! to get set for some fast shooting. 1 didn't semi-automatic, clip-fed rifle, handling .22

believe it. They left in their boat the long rifle cartridges only. As soon as pro- Observed Six-Year Highway Kill WILD DUCK; in ten minutes the blacks duction facilities are expanded other Marlin Miles Driven— 153,089 started coming in. They could see us stuck .22"s will be equipped with the new Micro- Species Total up on the sea wall—but it didn't matter. Groove barrel. Rabbits 1,271 They came in. The Dolans didn't use any Squirrels 430 black magic. They just knew the eating Deer 6 habits of the birds. It seems that there are Cats 294 thousands of mussels clinging to the sea Dogs 36 wall where we sat. When the tide is right, Skunk 82 the blacks come in to feed. And they don't Muskrats 123 seem to care if an entire anti-aircraft bat- Alink 18 tery is there to greet them. Weasel 13 Opossum 40 THE OLD THE NEW And providing you are lucky during the Raccoon 24 Barrel with six Band with six- siiooting months ahead, George H. Soule, Badger 4 grooves, teen grooves. coach of high school athletics in Geraldine, Woodchuck 4 Montana, has two suggestions that may Pig 2 improve the taste of your game. "If you The unique design of the new barrel is Hungarian partridge 10 are cooking liver from wild meat like deer, illustrated above. The left-hand drawing Pheasant 228 antelope or elk," he recommends, "pour represents a conventional barrel with six Ruffed grouse 8 boiling water over the liver in a pan and deep grooves. As every veteran knows, a Quail 12 wait until it turns a little white. Pour off bullet is spun out of a rifle by the weapon's Duck 3 the water, add butter and fry as you would lands, which project above the grooves. Coot 2 ordinary^ beef or calf liver and there will Marlin's new Micro-Groove barrel, shown Crows 23 be no wild taste at all. on the right, has sixteen relatively shallow Chickens 149 "If you want to take that extra gamey grooves. This, the Marlin people say, means Song Birds 580 flavor out of bear, deer, even hare or rab- that a bullet propelled through this barrel Total 3,362 bit, sprinkle the meat a couple of hours at high speed gets gripped more securely before cooking with ginger. With a nice by the sixteen lands giving it greater stabi- Along about this time the sport that piece of bear meat you won't be able to tell lization in its course. The engravings on separates the men from the hoys is under it from beef steak. Try it." Thanks, the bullet and the consequent distortion in way: duck shooting. If you've never George, we will. But pity the poor bear shape caused by the sixteen lands are con- crouched in a duck blind with the rain from now on. siderably less than those caused b\- the six beating in your face and watched a flock lands that are found in conventional rifle of mallards, blacks or broadbills come barrels. stooling into your decoys, then you've Olin Industries have really done it this Wc don't want to confuse you or trip ne\ er lived. time. In tWw-revised Western Avivniuition ourselves by going further into the tech- The Fish and A\'ildlife Scr\ ice in Wash- Handbook, they have put between covers nical points of this new- rifle barrel but if ington and Ducks Unlimited tell us that 1 36 pages of information vital to every >du want more information write to Roger there were big duck hatches this spring, shooter in America — amateur or profes- Kenna, President, The Marlin Firearms Co., that there should be tremendous flocks sional. Here at last is up-to-thc-moment New Ha\'en, Connecticut. making their way south just about the information on shotgun shells, rifles, hand- time you read this. gun cartridges, a comprehensive treatment

Ever since 1 first pulled on knee breech- of bullet types and ballistics, with discus- If yon have an unusual idea that pertains es, I've been told that the smartest and the sions of such subjects as Effect of Barrel to liunting or fishing; one that is helpful to hardest to bag of the duck clan is the Length on Velocity. iellow readers of this column, send it along.

black duck. I had never bagged many black This is a book that can easily be trans- II we can use it, we'll reward you with a

ducks— that is until I met the Dolan broth- lated into bigger bags for ) ou this season. hunting or fishing accessory. Address: OUT- ers of (iuilford, Connecticut. Frank and Run, don't walk to your nearest sporting DOOR EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The Joe Dolan have been fishing and ducking goods' dealer and get your free copy, or American Lei^ioii Mns;nzine, 580 Fifth Ave- along tlie (.'onnccricut coast of Long write to Olin Industries, East Alton, Illinois. nue, New York 30, New York.

2g • THIL AMI UK AN I EGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 The NEW way to enjoy SPORTS

Movies, Plays, Television

CLOSE-UP VIEWS WITHOUT FATIGUE SAVE *8o° DIRECT FROM THE IMPORTER-TO-YOU

IMPORTED FROM '"GERMANY

SPEKTOSCOPES — Germany's revolutionary binocular- TRY AT OUR RISK NO OBLIGATION! spectacles —are the Christmas gift par exce//ence for men, Increase your television women and children! They give viewing thrills and added enjoyment by getting a ENJOY SPEKTOSCOPES FOR 5 DAYS - you MUST be magnified view. No need enjoyment in almost all your activities — whether you're delighted, otherwise your 1.98 will be refunded quickly, to set buy a new with watching sports, movies, TV, plays, concerts or using them with no questions asked! Try them, lest them, compare larger screen! to belter your hunting, travel, nature and scenic enjoy- them with other optical instruments costing many times

ment. Wear them like ordinary eyeglasses . . . hour after already . . thousands their low price . you'll find out as — hour . . . without fatigue. Featherweight, only 1 oz. have; SPEKTOSCOPES ARE THE OPTICAL BARGAIN OF you hardly FEEL you're wearing them. INDIVIDUAL EYE THE CENTURY! Sorry, but limited supply forces us to FOCUSING for clear, sharp Images, from close-up or far place a limit of 2 per customer. Send check, cash or m.o. away. SPEKTOSCOPES have a greater range than many promptly to avoid the Christmas mailing jam. CCDs sent expensive opera and field glasses and give a larger plus COD fees. Use the convenient coupon below! Send field of view than some selling for times many morel it NOW to; Take them along when you travel — whether by cor, plane, train or boat. They never lire your arms as do opera and INTERNATIONAL BINOCULAR CO. field glasses. Durable and attractive looking, SPEKTO- 53 to 59 East 25th St., Dept. 158-M-90 New York 10, N. Y. SCOPES' sparkling ebony color and precision-finish provide a Christmas gift for your friends and relatives that Get a ringside seat for no RUSH THIS COUPON! extra cost at the bouts! looks like a MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE remembrance! Watch intricate football plays, basketball, racing!

INTERNATIONAL BINOCULAR CO., Dept. 158-M-90

53 to 59 East 25th St., New York 10, N. Y. MADE IN WESTERN GERMANY RUSH SPEKTOSCOPES at 1.98 each (LIMIT-?)

SPEKTOSCOPES are mode by highly-trained op- on special 5-Day Trial. You are to refund my 1.98 if

tical craftsmen in Western Germany — they take I am not fully satisfied.

an Old World pride in their work and SHOW It in the fine, precision-finish of their product. The Payment enclosed. Send post free. favorable rate of exchange and Germany's need .Send COD plus fees.

for dollars mokes it possible for us — as exclusive distributors of SPEKTOSCOPES in the U. S. - to NAME offer this article at a greatly reduced price. It is Watch ALL the action! the first time this type of optical instrument has REALLY see the tricky ADDRESS than reverses, intricate line ever been sold here for less $10.00! play! It's like having a seat on the bench! CITY ZONE STATE. 1 9 1 1 — EARLE OVINCTON, pilot ol early air mail run. gets mail Irom Postmaster General Hitchcock

before 10 mile tlif,'lit. Heller planes, fuels, lubricants later niaili- i!f|t.-ii(lable air-mail service possible.

1927 — CHARLES LINDBERGH — (arrow) stands by as the Spirit of St. Louis is fueled for its historic flight from New York to Paris. Over 450 gallons of gasoline were poiireil by band into the plane's tanks.

pLuereJ WILBUR WRIGHT i- liere sboun earr\iiLg gasoline ic |.l.ine l,)r one of man's earbe-i lli"hls. Girl is believed to be Harriet Ouimby. Ameriea s hrsl woman pilot. Continuous oil re-eai i h for 50 years makes tin- dillerenee between the gasoline in Wilbur Wright's 5 gallon can and the special jet fuel-- and avialioii gasolines in the tanks of today's [ilanes. They brought you the Age of Flight because

One example — in the early 30's

the experts said it was impossible 1940—"SCRAMBLE"— KAF pilots race to Sj.il- fncs to repel attack. British call American-produced to produce low-cost 100 octane avi- 100 octane gasoline, which Germans didn't have in

They Were Free ation gasoline. But competing U. S. I iiililv. iiiaru'iti of vieiorv in Hallle of Hrilain. oil companies, stubbornly invested millions learning how — long before To Try a market for the product existed. When World War II came, oilmen were ready. 100 octane gasoline, The Impossible w'hich the Germans never had in quantity, was one vital kev to vic-

111 1903 the "experts" said it was tory because it gave Allied planes impossible for a powered heavier- vastlv greater speed and range. ihan-air machine to fly. But the Because tliey were free to try Wright Brothers weren't discour- the impossible again and again, aged by the experts. Free to put en- oilmen, like the men of aviation, ergy and money into a challenge to have served you and the nation well the impossible, they flew at Kitty in the 50 years since Kitty Hawk. Hawk— opened up the Age of Flight They will continue to search out — and created new jobs and oppor- new horizons for you so long as this timilies for tnillions. great American freedom exists. This same freedom— under a system where the opportunity for re- Oil Industry Information Committee wards exists—has also been a major American Petroleum Institute 1953 — OFF KOREA — carrier jets being refueled at sea. Even though new jets gulp fuel 8 times faster reason for the constant progress 50 West 50th St.,NewYork 20, N.Y. than World War II planes, U.S. oilmen are keeping Attention Post Adjutant t Write for details about U. S. oilmen have made. jrcc movies and interesting speakers on Oil Industry. ahead of record demands for these special fuels. -

PART III PENSIONS, NON-SERVICE CONNECTEDt VA rating board finds that they are met, the rate of payment

As war veterans — particularly those of WWl — nudge is $63 per month until the veteran reaches the age of 65, up toward the 65-year age bracket, more and more of them or has been on the Part III pension rolls for ten consecutive are concerned about the security which a general pension years, when it is automatically increased to $75. law based on age and service would give them. . . . Though Applications for Part III pensions (for non-service many bills have been introduced, the Congress has given connected disabilities) are made on VA Form 8-526, avail- very slight consideration to a general pension law which able from your Service Officer or from any VA Regional

all . . . would include veterans who reach a given age. The Office. . . . Legion Service Officers will advise and assist in trend of thinking at Washington is against a measure in the the preparation of claims. tradition of the general pension laws enacted for the veterans of the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, SERVICE RETIREMENT PAT UNDER NEW LAW:

Civil . . War, Indian Wars and Spanish-American War. . Important to former members of the Armed Forces But there is a provision on the statute books, administered (including Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey and is based disability, age, by the VA, which on employability, Public Health Service) is Public Law 239, 83rd Congress, — and income in which age is taken into consideration as a which permits retired personnel, who so elect, to leave a factor of disability — which is available to eligible veterans portion of their retired pay to their families — widow, (un- of both World Wars and the Korean War, at any age, whose remarried), children until 18 or married, or widow with disabilities from non-service-connected causes make them children under 18. . . . Until enactment of PL 239 retired unemployable, or whose earning power, because of dis- pay ceased with the death of the retired person. . . . Under ability, has decreased to a point below a minimum living new law retired person may choose for his survivor an standard. . . . The age factor is particularly applicable to ' annuity equal to «, Vi or Vz of his reduced retired pay. . . . WWl veterans. Then his retired pay is reduced by an "actuarial equivalent The general provisions and conditions of this benefit based on the retired member's age and the age of his are misunderstood by many vets. . . . To rehabilitation beneficiary." ... If beneficiary dies first, full retired pay workers it is known as Part III Pensions, but among most

would be restored without further reduction. . . . Active vets it is known as "total permanent pension" with the duty person must elect his option before completion of consequent misunderstanding that a vet with non-service- 18 years' service, or if more than 18 years in service he connected disability must be almost or completely bed-ridden must elect within 180 days from November 1, 1953, the in order to receive the benefit. . . . Too many eligible vets.

effective date of the Act. . . . Persons already retired must Service Officers tell the Newsletter, are misled by the loose

elect within 180 days after November 1. . . . This is pro- interpretation of "total and permanent disability."

tection for survivors. . . . Example: Serviceman retires at Briefly, to qualify for an award of a Part III pension 55, his wife is 50, retired pay $3,000 annually. Figured out a veteran must meet conditions under three separate on actuarial basis, retired pay would be reduced $456; requirements — and he must meet all three. . . . They are: retiree would draw $2,544 per year. ... At his death his disability (under which age is considered), employability, widow would draw Vi of this reduced pay, or $1,272 per and income. . . . For example, up to the age of 55 a vet

year so long as eligible (remarriage.) . . . Important pro- must be rated by VA at 70 percent disabled, with one vision is that annuities payable under this Act shall be in disability accounting for 40 percent. ... At 55, he must be addition to any pensions or other payments to which bene- rated 60 percent disabled, with one disability accounting ficiary maynow or hereafter be entitled under other provi- for 30 percent. ... At 60, he must be rated 50 percent dis- sions of law, and shall not be considered income under any abled, with one disability accounting for 30 percent. . . . law administered by the VA. But at the age of 65 the disability requirement is dropped to 10 percent. REORGANIZATION Rating of disability is, of course, based on VA findings, IN VA SET-UP: Tightening the lines in and not on the findings of a private doctor. . . . Employ- reorganization of the wide-spread ability is not judged by any fixed standard, and must be VA operation, new Administrator Harvey W. Higley has

. . . determined individually in each case. . . . But in all cases announced the team forming the high command. Ralph some consideration is given to employability in the vet's H. Stone, Columbus, Ohio, was named Deputy Administrator

usual vocation. . . . Income ceilings are fixed by law. . . . for Veteran Benefits; Charles Gordon Beck, in various key

Part III pensions are not payable if the vet, unmarried and positions with VA since 1919, was named Deputy Adminis- without dependent children, has an income of more than trator for Insurance, and Admiral Joel T. Boone, already on

;t>l,400 per year. . . . Or, if married or with dependent chil- a permanent basis, will continue as Medical Director. . . . places dren, he has an income above $2,700 per year. . . . These This action on a permanent basis the heads of the three conditions must be met by the applicant. ... If the three operating divisions forming the hard core of the new

31 VA organization Vv'hich deal directly with the individual vets ton, Alabama, (North Carolina. South Carolina, Georgia, in benefits, insurance, hospitalization and domiciliary care. Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi.) ... In administration sections, Henry W. Longfellow, also Commanding Officer, Red River Arsenal, Texarkana, a vet in VA service dating back to 1919, was appointed Texas, (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arkansas and Assistant Administrator for Administration: Edward E. Louisiana.) Odom, whose service dates from 1920. was confirmed as Commanding Officer, Savanna Ordnance Depot, General Counsel, and Frank W. Kelsey, another of the Savanna, Illinois, (Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, class of 1919, was named Controller. Iowa, Missouri and Indiana.) Commanding Officer, Pueblo Ordnance Depot, Pueblo, Colorado, (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, ILLINOIS CLOSES BOOKS ON WW2 BONUS: Wyoming, Colorado.) Winding u p its work with the clearance of all claims Commanding Officer, Sierra Ordnance Depot, Herlong, presented, the Service Recognitions Board of the State of California, (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Illinois has closed the books on its WW2 bonus operation. Arizona, Nevada, California.) . . . Last of the checks went out in May after Legislature ^ ^ ^ acted to terminate the benefit. . . . Board began its work in 1946 in receiving, processing and paying claims of Sucker ARMY ISSUES PAMPHLET ON RETIREMENT:

State WW2 vets. . . . When it shut up shop, payment for all Department of the Army has put out a pamphlet chuck-

categories, vets and survivors, amounted to $323,553,774.78. full of information about retirement benefits for old files...... A total of 951.053 claims were received, of which all but Titled "Information for Retired Army Personnel," (DA

31,798 were approved and paid. . . . All records of the Pamphlet 21-56), it lists rights and obligations of retired

Recognition Board have been transferred to the State personnel, tells what is available in the way of benefits to Archives for permanent storage. retirees and their families under the retirement law and

under VA-administered laws. ... It is free for the asking.

. . . the General, Department of the Army, PHILIPPINE MEDALS NOT NOW AVAILABLE: Write Adjutant Washington 25, D. C, citing the number and title of the U. S. servicemen who earned the three Phili ppine service pamphlet. medals — or any one of them. Defense, Liberation and :^ j-i Independence — still have a wait ahead of them for the MINNESOTA WW2 BONUS DEADLINE EXTENDED: pendant medal to accompany the ribbon issued them. . . . Though designs have been approved. Philippine authorities Laggard Minnesota WW2 vets who have not applied

say that distribution of medals will not be made at any for their State bonus have been given another chance. . . . time soon. Act of Legislature extended the deadline for filing claims

until Decem.ber 31, 1953. . . . Also provided that remarried CHRISTMAS PARCELS FOR OVERSEAS MEN: widows of WW2 vets who have not yet filed for bonus be removed from high preference and placed at bottom. . . . Defense Department has warned that Christmas parcels Survivor preference sequence now reads survivinj spouse, for overseas servicemen must be mailed by November 15. children, mother, father, person standing in loco parentis, . . . Boxes addressed to any Army Postoffice (APO) or Fleet

brothers, sisters and remarried widow. . . . Also provided Postoffice (FPO) must not exceed 70 pounds in weight or that any person who served 5 years on continuous active duty

100 inches in length and girth combined. . . . Air parcel prior to December 7, 1941, and who died of service-connected post must not exceed two pounds in weight or 30 inches in causes up to and including September 2, 1945, is deemed a

length and girth combined. . . . Mail your packages early. "veteran" and his beneficiary Is entitled to receive payment.

. . . Remarried widows of professional soldiers fall into this RIFLES AND AMMO FOR LEGION POSTS: category. Available supply of rifles for donation to Legion Posts

has been exhausted. . . . Department of Army asks that MICHIGAN EXTENDS BONUS DEADLINE:

Posts hold their requests until announcement is made Michigan Legislature authorized extension to June 1, through newspapers and vet publications that a new supply 1956, date for acceptance of claims for WW2 bonus from

is available. . . . Blank ammunition, .30 calibre, for use at any eligible Michigan WW2 vet who has not made claim and funerals and other ceremonial occasions be can had by , who comes under one of two classifications. . . Vet must

Posts on order by the Commander or Adjutant. . . . Ammu- be a member of the Armed Forces, or is hospitalized in any nit on is free, but a handling charge of 50 cents is made for military, VA, or State hospital. a full container, which contains 750 or 1,250 rounds, de- * ^: -i: * pending on type. ... 75 cents for less than one full container, K-VETS TROOPING OFF TO SCHOOL: and 15 cents for each additional package of full or partial Of the more than 2,000,000 veterans of the Korean War outer container. . . . Shipment sent with transportation it is estimated that 200,000 entered school, colleges and

charges collect. . . . Forward requests to:

training centers at the beginning of the school year. . . . Commanding Officer, Seneca Ordnance Depot, Romulus, Education and training is provided by the K-vet GI Bill, N. Y. (New England States, New York and New Jersey.) the original GI Bill, or both. Commanding Officer, Letterkenny Ordnance Depot, Chambersburg, Pa., (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware.) DISCHARGE REVIEW FOR SURVIVORS: Commanding Officer, Blue Grass Ordnance Depot, Next-of-kin or legal representatives of a deceased veteran Richmond. Kentucky, (Ohio and Kentucky.) have until June 22 1959, or 15 years after discharge, which-

Commanding Officer, Anniston Ordnance Depot, Annis- ever is later, to appiy for a review of the discharge.

32 NEWS "f^^ LEGION

and Veterans' Affairs

NOVEMBER 1953

Connell Asks Posts, Members official opening of the 1954 membership year, the Michigan Dep't had 4.653 Do Membership Job Nov. 11-26 memberships registered for 1954. It was an early-bird mark unequalled in other years, put Michigan 30 days ahead of The Legion's newly elected Nat'l papers. The urged a two- Commander same date last year. On Sept. 15, Michi- Cmdr. - Arthur Connell of Middle- fold local publicity drive to pub- J- (1) gan Dep't HQ could report only 70 posts town, Conn. — in a special message to licize the aims programs of the and not ready to do business for the new all posts and members on Sept. 23 asked Legion and to publicize the fact (2) year. Figme at same time a year before that the bulk of 1954's membership that the Legion welcomes eligible vet- had been 200. Dep't HQ attributed drive be conducted in an intensive No- erans into the organization; that their trend to statewide upsurge in efficient vember elfort between Armistice aims Day membership gives strength to the post operation. (Nov. 11) and Thanksgiving Day. and programs to which nearly 3 million Connell ruged posts to clean up the other veterans now subscribe. Problem job during tliat period so that they could Connell asked Legionnaires to make Michigan's new efficiency would be efficiently turn to other programs with- sure, as never before, that all eligible worth a study. Big annual membership out continued attention to membership \eterans be asked to join the Legion problem always has been slowness in during the Nov. 11-26 period; that larger membership teams than ever work, door-to-door, to make sure that

no \ eterans remain outside of the Legion for \\'ant of being asked. The national membership theme for 1954, he announced, was "Knock on Every Door for '54." The Commander concluded his appeal for a concentrated 15-day wrap-up ot membership for '54 by advising all post officials that there is available, from Nat'l HQ, membersliip promotional, publicity and sales material, and detailed membership drive literature keyed to the 1954 campaign. In Miami Beach, Fla., Cleveland In- dian slugger & WW2 vet Al Rosen (a former Legion Junior Baseballer) joined Post 85. "Nobody ever asked me to join before," he told Post Cmdr. Sobelson. "I'm glad you did. I'x e heard much of the great work of the Legion and am Nat'l Cmdr. Connell... Ask them all proud to be a member." Rosen & Legion card . . . Never asked over a prolonged period, and thus have Good Start renewals, spread out from one year's a good year in other programs. Meanwhile, scattered reports of posts end to next by members who have every He urged individual members to that have already signed up more mem- intention of renewing. Legionnaires al- make it a point to renew for 1954 dur- bers for '54 than in '53 continued to ways have been individualists, and or- ing the Nov. 11-26 period on their own come in, though 4he '54 year officially ganization holds no club over them. initiative, as an additional assist to effi- begins Nov. 11. The Dep't of North But individualistic slowness of re- cient post operation. Dakota, always a membership leader, newals has hurt posts. It (a) requires Connell suggested that Legion offi- has again set Nov. 11 as the date for more effort to be turned toward mem- cials ask mayors, city managers, state complete sign-up of all old members for bership than is good for Legion, (b) di- governors to name Nov. 11-26 as Ameri- the new year. Bunnell Post ( Colo. ) was verts energies away from positive pro- can Legion Weeks. (In New York City, over the top for '54 by mid-August, and grams, (c) unnecessarily and often Mayor Vincent Impellitteri named the 27 Colorado posts had turned in initial wastefully tends to make collection month of Sept. 9-Oct. 9 as American blocks of '54 cards by then. Messick agencies of posts. Yet, without means or Legion Month.) Post 273 (Va.) turnecl in '54 member- desire for coercion, effective way to per- By making an intensive, official drive, ship in excess of '53 on August 20. suade all members to renew in early fall Connell pointed out, posts could create Michigan smashed all records by mid- under their own steam, for Good of membership news for their local news- September. Then, 7 weeks before the Legion, has ne\'er been evoKed.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1953 • 33 other Montana town when the to^vn ran VA Aim: "Non-Service'' Care out of funds. Another Montana post is restoring an old Army fort for a town recreation center. Other Montana re- on Financial Priority Basis ports included:

( a ) 53 posts helping in drives of nat'l On Sept. 29, VA approved a new ( 1 ) Total value of real and personal health and charity foundations; (b) 23 regulation that sought to put most vets' property. posts helping provide local recreational medical care for non-service disabilities (2) Amount of outstanding indebted- facilities for children; (c) 36 posts con- on a financial priority basis. But by the ness on his home. ducting citizenship classes for the for- 2nd week on October, the Budget Bu- (3) Average monthly liabilities, in- eign-bom; (d) 30 posts giving awards reau had not given needed blessing to cluding mortgage payments, personal to outstanding high school seniors; (e) the regulation. At issue was a require- expenses, expenses for dependents. 31 posts conducting Safety First and ment that most applicants for non-serv- (4) Current amount of ready assets Traffic Safety campaigns; (f) 47 post ice connected care make a detailed pri- in cash, bank deposits and savings homes available for meetings of other vate financial statement. bonds. civic groups; (g) 25 posts holding high VA Chief Harvey Higley approved (5) Monthly income. school oratorical contests; (h) Wide- the change, which would be an amend- (6) Amount of federal income tax spread donation of needed equipment ment to VA regulation 6047. It would for preceding year. to Montana hospitals; (i) 36 posts spon- not become effective until published in ( 7 ) Name of tax collectors' office. soring Boy Scout troops. the Federal Register, and Budget Bu- The priority of hospital admission Reports of community service from reau approval was needed first. would relate the veteran's financial state- elsewhere included this sampling: Three classes of applicants would not factors, including ment to other cost the ]> Post 18, Mena, Ark., put on drive to be asked to sign the financial statement. type of disability and the probable get merchants to display flag on proper They are ( 1 ) Veterans applying for length of treatment required. days. In one day and night, post mem- treatment of a disability that is rated bers using compressed air drills installed as service-connected by the VA, (2) COMMUNITY SERVICE: 45 flagpole sockets in concrete sidewalks Persons admitted to VA hospitals in an —donated this service to every purchaser emergency, and Veterans who were (3) No Fooling of flag and pole. separated from service for disabilities ]> Post 10, Clark Field, Philippines, gave incurred in line of duty, as well as vet- Legion posts did not take lightly the garden seeds to schools in several Luzon erans who are drawing service-con- word that the nat'l organization wanted barrios; seeds to be planted and raised nected disability compensation, who 1953-54 to be the Legion's biggest year by aggie students, produce to go to apply for treatment of a condition that yet in the field of community service. needy families. is not rated service-connected. Reports of increased activity flood- were ]> Post 360, Huntington, N. Y., began Until now veterans applying for care ing this magazine's desk at presstime. move to have 10 Commandments hung for non-sei-vice disabilities have been Dep't of Montana released a run- in every Suffolk County schoolroom. of recent in asked to sign a simple statement to the down community services ]> Post 15, Sioux Falls, S. D., collected effect that they could not aftord to pa\' that state. One post completely rebuilt enough household furnishings for 10 for private care. They would still sign the burned out farmhouse of a widow. houses, gave them to Monahan Post in this statement. In addition, the new Another harvested the crops of a farmer Sioux City, Iowa (60 miles south) for financial statement would require the injured in an accident. A Legion post distribution there to victims of a severe veteran to give: finished putting in street lights in an- summer flood. In At The Kill? Meanwhile, an especially important opportunity for community service by posts emerged from the current news. March of Dimes had something special for the next year, wovdd need all the

help it could get in a '54 fund campaign that would not be routine. Never before had a giant health foundation been within smelling distance of the end of its trail. But March- of Dimes faced '54 with a fine chance to put an end to polio for all time. A promising vaccine against all 3 types of polio virus was so far advanced that the polio foundation was readying to give it a whop- per of a test. If the vaccine stood the test, good bye polio. The test, unparalleled in all history, would call for vaccinating hundreds of thousands of American children in the chief polio age group this winter and Temporary UN cemetery in Pusan, Korea. All identified U.S. dead will be shipped spring, results to be within home lor final bmial. American Battle Monuments Commission plans |)crmancnf known a (cmeiery and memorial in Korea lor all unidentified dead, with markers lor all year. If successful, the vaccine would— men permanently missing in action. Permanent U.S. graves and markers ma) he -1,000. unlike gamma globulin—give long-term

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 .

immunity to infantile paralysis viruses. ^EW HOOVER COMMISSION But March of Dimes' bill in the Year of the Big Test would hit $75 million, or nearly half again as much as it had ever before raised in one }ear. Legion posts, looking for a standout community service, could elect to put extra weight behind March of Dimes in '54. Backing up polio's \'ear of decision. Legion Nat'l Conxention in St. Louis (August) rcsoKed tliat support for Mitchell lirowncll March of Dimes in '54 is a nationally sanctioned Legion activity. Seldom does nat'l organization officially Ijless an out-

side fund-raising acti\ it\ Grateful for exception to Nat'l Legion

policy in its crucial > ear, March of Dimes on Sept. 17, announced it would award special certificates to those Legion posts that significantK support its '54 fund campaign. The March of IDimes special awards set no special task for Legionnaires. Help sought was active post support in those services most needed from each post, as worked out with each local March of Dimes Committee. New Eyes for 100,000 Another exciting community service project in the public health field ap- Holifield Kennedy McClellan Flemming peared on Sept. 3. In Bronx County, N. Y., The American Legion, the Lions ization of the Executive Branch of the also Chmn 1st Hoover Commission; Club and the Bronx County Medical Government) scheduled an organizing Honorary Chmn Citizens Committee for Societ\' formed a 3-wa>- "sight restora- meeting Sept. 29 in the go\'t General the Hoover Report. tion" team. Team aim: to restore eye- Accomiting Offices on G St., in Wash- i> James A. Farley, 65, Democrat; N. Y.; sight to tens of thousands of New York ington. It named Frank Brassor, of the ex-Chmn Democratic Nat'l Committee; City's blind. Joint statement said that Civil Service Commission staff, as exec- former Postmaster Gen'l; not on 1st 100,000 of the blind in that cit\ could utive director. Hoover Commission; a director. Citizens

regain their eyesight with six months of Its scope is officially broadened. The Committee for the Hoover Report. the most ad\anced modern treatment. 1st Hoover Commission was asked to ]) Herbert Brownell, Jr., 49, Republican; Actual program could take man\' \ ears, recommend to Congress changes for im- N. Y.; lawyer and politician; now U. S. as most such cases need transplanted pro\ cd management in federal agencies, Att'y Gen'l; former Chmn Republican eye-parts from donors who leave eyes bureaus and departments. The new com- Nat'l Committee; not on 1st Hoover to blind on their death. mission is asked to do the same, but is Commission.

To do job, Medical Society would also asked to recommend changes in ]t Arthur Sherwood Flemming, 48, no donate medical skills and ser\ices, the bureau functions and in basic policies. public party affiliation; Ohio; President Lions would handle administrative and Commission's powers are limited to Ohio Wesleyan Univ.; ex-member U. S. financial problems, while 10,000 Bronx making recommendations to Congress. Civil Service Commission; now Director

Legionnaires and Auxiliares would get It is to make its final report in May, Office of Defense Mobilization; a mem- pledges from citizens to leave their eyes 1955, then cease to exist. ber 1st Hoover Commission. to the blind at death. On Sept. 24, the old, miofficial Citi- ]> Rober G. Storey, 59, Democrat; Texas; zens Committee for the Hoo\'er Report corporation lawyer, corporation official WASHINGTON: came back to life, rededicated itself to and educator; Dean Southern Univ., New Hoover lobby for remains of first Hoover Report Dallas; member Legion Nat'l Exec. Group and whatever report the new Hoo\'er Committee 1920-21; not a member 1st Recalling the damaging recommen- Commission makes. Hoover Commission.

dations in the area of veterans affairs Six members of the new Hoover Com- ]> Solomon Gady Hollister, 62, no public made by the first Hoover Commission mission were connected with the old party affiliation; N. Y.; civil engineer; (1947-49), Legionnaires have directed one. Five were members. A 6th (banker expert on structural materials; Dean of more & more queries to nat'l Legion Sidney Mitchell) was the non-member Engineering, Cornell Univ.; not a mem- offices, asking to be kept posted on the executive director of the 1st Hoover ber 1st Hoover Commis.sion.

make-up and activities of the brand new Commission. Five members of the new ]> Homer Ferguson, 64, Republican; Hoover Commission. The new commis- Commission are Democrats, five Repub- Mich.; U. S. Senator since 1943; co- sion was authorized by Public Law 108. licans, and two do not wear a party sponsor of bill creating new Hoover last July 10. All members have now label in public. Commission; not a member 1st Hoover been appointed. The 12 members are: Commission.

The new 12-man group (whose offi- j> Herbert Clark Hoover (chmn), 79, ]> John L. McClellan, 57, Democrat; cial name is The Commission on Organ- Republican; Gal.; ex-President of U. S.; Ark.; lawyer; U. S. Senator; in Congress

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1953 • 35 15 years; a member 1st Hoover Com- magazine. Name writers like Kelland, mission. Schulberg, Kieran, Woolcott, Zolotow,

]i Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 65, Demo- Sherwood, Terhune, Kjelgaard, Fred- crat Mass. (now Fla.); financier; former erick Hazlitt Brennan, Grantland Rice, Ambassador to Britain; a member 1st James Norman Hall, Othman, Tarking- Hoover Commission. ton, Zane Grey leaped out at Lasky.

1> Sidney Alexander Mitchell, 58, Re- Leaders in American life told their publican; N. Y.; banker; executive di- stories: Gen. MacArthur, Eddie Ricken- rect(jr 1st Hoover Commission; present backer, Wm. Green, Orville Wright, climn Citizens Committee for the Adm. Byrd, Dr. Fosdick, Billy Rose, Hoover Report. Lou Little, Jim Farley and others.

]> Clarence Brown, 50, Republican; There were standout articles, many Ohio; publisher; member U. S. House in constant reprint demand: John Reese's of Representatives; co-sponsor of bill $2 Ulcer Cure, Virgil Partch's screaming creating new Hoover Commission; a Army reminiscences, Barnaby Conrad's memljer 1st Hoover Commission. bullfight yarns, Fairfax Downey's humor,

]> Chet Holifield, 49, Democrat; Cal.; Larry Siegel's zany tales. Heinlein was member U. S. House of Representatives; there with his space stories. Dr. J. B. long-time Chmn Los Angeles County Rice, with the most entertaining health Central Democratic Committee; not a articles ever written. There was the member 1st Hoover Commission. greatest collection of behind the scenes Early reports indicate Commission views of American communism in ac- will take on a staff divided into task tion in existence, by Gene Lyons, Irene forces again. Of these, two are of prime Kuhn, George Sokolsky, Louis Budenz, interest to veterans — one to study Civil Vic Riesel, Jan Valtin, Karl Baarslag, Service and one to study the gov't medi- Lasky himself (co-author of Seeds of Nat'l Cmdr Connell and Xmas item cal service. Vets' medical care and vet- Treason) and many others. There was time between April 15 and Nov. 15 erans preference in gov't service are in- Rabbi Fineberg's revelation of the story next year. Hotel Ass'n offers to put volved. Next Commission meeting is behind the Rosenberg furor. couple up in finest hotels. Restaurant Nov. 16. Last month Lasky finished his job. Ass'n offers to feed couple. Servicemen's He skimmed the cream off the top, put Center will provide transportation from BOOKS: it together in an American treasury that Miami air or rail terminals to Miami will stack with the best bedside readers An American Treasury Beach. They hope POW's local vet or- to be had. On Nov. 11, Legion families ganizations may want to help out with X'ictor Lasky found that a year wasn't and the public will have the result in fare to Miami. Those interested may get much time, and 512 pages weren't too time to add it to their Xmas gift list. further details by writing to Maurice much space for the job. Hawthorn Books will release TJie Ameri- Klein, 420 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, It was a year ago that Hawthorn can Legion Reader on Armistice Day. Florida. Books commissioned Lasky to edit a 512 The huge tome, with 69 outstanding Many posts report "have done" to page anthology of the best articles and short pieces tailored to every taste, will nat'l request they share in or organize stories from The American Legion go on general sale at $4.95. Magazine. hometown welcomes for returned Korea BRIEFLY NOTED: POWs. Latest reports include big wel- At first, his job seemed easy. But as comes in Cambridge, Md., Howland, Lasky thumbed the 71 bound volumes ]t City of Miami Beach, Fla., has made Me., Marhn, Texas. of American Legion Magazine issues, blanket ofter to give every returned ]> The South Carolina Dep't Cmdrs of his 512 pages got smaller & smaller. In Korea POW a free vacation (with wife) the 3 largest veterans organizations are 35 years an astonishing array of Ameri- in Miami Beach, with all basic expenses all members of Sumter Post 15, Ameri- ca's top names and top writers had con- paid except for transportation from can Legion. They are: Legion Dep't tributed important or highly entertain- home to Miami and back. Vacation is Martin K. Rosefield, Dep't ing articles and stories to the Legion's offered up to Nov. 15 this year, or any Cmdr VFW Cmdr Rob't O. Purdy, III and DAV Dep't Cmdr Clifiord O. Wood, a double amputee.

]> A complete sound-recording of pro- ceedings of the 1953 Nat'l Convention in St. Louis was made by United Re- cording Artists, 220 5th Ave., N. Y. 1, N. Y. Persons interested in phono records from the transcription should write the company at abov e address.

]> Peru Post 1, in Lima, Peru, has applied for permanent charter. Post, in- spired by visit to Lima of Nat'l Cmdr Warren Atherton in 1944, has had successful nine years under temporary charter. office are President Eisenhower tried new Legion cap (Abilene, Kan. Post .'59) and got '54 ]) Man & wife teams in Legion Banghart are menibersliip card, Oct. 5, as Nat'l Cnidr Connell (right) knocked on White House on rise. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Texas; door. They reviewed Legion nat'l mandates for '54, and Ike said he shoots 84 in golf. Cmdr and Adj't of Post 560, Mr.

36 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 & Mrs. Frank Van Buren are each post —Annual fall meeting of American ass't Nat'l Americanism Director, named cmdrs in Chicago—he of Post 541, she Legion National Executive Committee. principal of Mims (Fla.) elementary

of Tarns Post; Dr. & Mrs. R. D. Rasmus- Other events: school . . . Bruce D. Knoblock elected

sen are Cmdr and Pres. of Post and ]i Area "E" (Western) Child Welfare Adj't, Dep't of Mexico . . . Past Nat'l Unit 41, Demopolis, Ala. Conference, Multnomah Hotel, Port- Cmdr Hanford MacNider (Iowa), re-

]> Other family combinations in Legion land, Ore., Nov. 5—Nov. 7. (By resolu- covered from stroke and back at work

office are up too. In 1937 Dr. M. K. tion of 1953 Nat'l Convention all area . . . Jack L. Spore, former Adj't, Dep't Uijshaw and Clyde Brooks headed, re- conferences after Jan. 1, 1954 will be of Wis., named confidential ass't to VA

spectively, Post 1 and Voiture 247 in combined conferences, to include Child chief Har\'ey Higley . . . Milton Reed, Jackson, Miss. Now their two sons, both Welfare, Rehab, Membership and any resigned as Ass't Adj't Dep't of Louisi-

juniors, fill the identical offices. Paul other programs planning an area con- ana . . . Edward C. Holden, Past Cmdr Harmes, L. Post, N. Y., named a new Cmdr of Post 67, Puyal- ference. ) Rob't Hague

lup. Wash., is son of Carter Harmes, ]) National Armistice Day Program, Nov. Rear Admiral, USNR who commanded post in 1933. More & 11, at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery, will Died: Aug.-At St. Albans, W. Va., more reports are in hand of sons follow- again be under direction of American Francis Witeeler Turner, Past Dep't ing fathers in Legion office. At Nat'l Legion. Extensive program, directed by Cmdr, W. Va. (1937-38). ... At

Convention in August, Mary Margaret Owen C. Holleian, Chmn Legion Nat'l Omaha, /. Francis McDermott, Past

Fenlon placed name of Lawrence Fen- Armistice Day Committee, will include: Dep't Cmdr, Neb. . . . Sept.—At San Ion (111.) in nomination as candidate for (1) Laving of wreath on tomb of Un- Antonio, Tex., Sept. 2, Gen. Jonathan Nat'l Cmdr. Old timers said no woman known Soldiers by a representative of Wainivriglit, hero of Conegidor ... At had made a nomination speech at a Nat'l President Eisenhower at 11:01 a.m., Humboldt, Tenn., Mrs. Nancy Shumate, Convention before—and it was certain following taps and a minute of silence, age 108, oldest member American no daughter had nominated her father (2) Memorial addresses by Nat'l Cmdr Legion Auxiliary. ... At Tripler Hospi-

for Nat'l Cmdr before. Arthur J. Connell and Army Sec. Rob't tal, Hawaii, Adna G. Clarke, Past Dep't Stevens and (3) Offerings by Midship- Cmdr, Hawaii. ... At Salt Lake City, COMING EVENTS: man Choir, U. S. Naval Academy and Ferris R. Tlwmassen, Nat'l Exec. Com-

Three important nat'l Legion events music by U. S. Army Band. mitteeman from Utah (1951-53). . . . were set for dates after forms for this At Sedalia, Mo., Peter T. O'Brien, Past PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: issue closed. Accounts in next issue. The Dep't Cmdr, Mo. (1931-32). ... At three events: Jobs, honors, activities: Past Nat'l Cmdr Yountville, Cal., Col. Nelson M. Holder- (1) Oct. 10, at Middletown, Conn.- Warren Atherton (Cal.), abroad in man, Commandant, Veterans Home of Calif At New York, George d'Utassy, Homecoming of Nat'l Cmdr Arthur J. Sept., studying Swiss defense system for Connell. President's Nat'l Security Training Com- l^ublisher, re-established American

(2) Oct. 12 & 13, at Indianapolis, mission . . . R. Worth Shumaker, former Legion Weekly in 1920. Ind.—Annual Nat'l Conference of De- partment Commanders and Adjutants. (3) Oct. 15-17, at Indianapolis, Ind.

THE AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

AUGUST 31, 1953 ASSETS

Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .$ 235,731.67 Receivables 287,399.43 Inventories 353,885.61 Invested Funds 857,805.28 Permanent Trusts: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund $ 255,909.64 Employees' Retirement

Trust Fund . . . 1.269,369.90 1.525,279.54 Real Estate 973,972.65 Furniture and Fixtures, less depreciation 265,997.91 Deferred Charges 78.652.48 IN EVERY 10 $4,578,724.57

LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE of Wynn's to your AND NET WORTH Tw/r'just add a pint crankcase every 1000 miles. Result—better than Current Liabilities $ 311,372.29 a free mile of driving in every 10. (Actual driv- Funds restricted as to use 80,415.03 200,000 miles show an Deferred Income 834,545.13 ing tests covering over Permanent Trusts: average miles-per-gallon increase of 11.6% Overseas Graves Decoration after adding Wynn's.) Trust $ 255,909.64 Employees' Retirement Trust 1,269,369.90 1,525,279.54 Wynn's Trictxon-'Proofs your Net Worth: engine—it doesn't change your oil. It's an amaz- I WYNN'S FRICTION-PROOFING* Restricted Capital: ing chemical compound that is carried by your Reserve Fund 23,852.30 points, actually -penetrat- motor oil to friction I Restricted Fund. . 17,939.98 1. Increases Engine Life Reserve for construction ing and smoothing the microscopic sawteeth I Wash. Office... 44,699.18 mileage. that cause wear, reduce power and Start Wear Real Estate 973,972.65 2. Cuts up Reserve for Rehabili- P. S. For complete Friction-Proofing (besides tation 317,941.07 adding Wynn's to crankcase every 1000 miles) 3. Costs less than a hair-cut Reserve for Child add a can of Wynn's Ring & Valve Additive to Welfare . 20.627.54 gas tank regularly . . . tell your service- 1,399,032.72 your Unrestricted Capital: man to put Wynn's Bearing & Gear Additive in *The name for Wynn's exclusive Excess of Income over transmission and differential every 5000 miles. power-adding maintenance junction.

Expense . . 428.079.86 1.827.112.58 Service Stations, Garages, New Car Dealers .$4,578,724.57 At WYNN OIL COMPANY • AZUSA, CALIFORNIA THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1953 • 37 . —

VA Paying $64 Million Extra Dividend on War I Insurance

A 64 million dollar special dividend value of the policy as term premiums) (averaging $168 per policy) on USGLI and (3) New permanent policies issued (War I) life insurance, was announced during the 5-year period prior to Jan.

by VA on Oct. 15, with checks going 1, 1953. out on or about that date. The amount of individual payments Dividend began going in a single of the special dividend, said VA, was mailing to holders of permanent Wat I based on 4 factors. They were: gov't policies that were more than five (1) The plan of insurance, (2) Age years old last New Years Day. There of the insured when policy was issued, are about 380,000 such policies. (3) Length of time pohcy has been in Payment of the special dividend, said force, and (4) The amount of the policy. VA, was in addition to the regular 1953 Because of individvial variations in dividend (totalling $23 million) distrib- these factors, VA told this magazine, ". uted this year on permanent plan . . checks received by different policy- USGLI policy anniversary dates. holders will vary in amount according Emphasizing that the special rebate to variations in any of the 4 factors on ." went to most established permanent which the amount is based. . . plan policyholders, VA pointed out that The special dividend was paid, said three main groups of policies did not a VA spokesman, "... because the trend earn the special dividend. They were: of mortality and disability experience (1) 5-year term policies, (2) Policies under USGLI has made possible the re- in force under extended insurance (on lease of some of the [pennanent plan]

which premium payments have pre- reserves that were being maintained. . . . TRACTION maturely ceased and the insurance is The same trend has been observed in YOU CAN maintained as term insurance using cash commercial insurance."

TRUST HOLLYWOOD: platoon. He is, as in real life, the poor, unstable devil who is closer to Section 8 Be sure on snow and A Skunk and A Rose than the rest. Over in the skunk department is an ice with Weed V-Bar Not long ago many Hollywood pro- independent production that Columbia Tire Chains ... It may ducers said. "We'd just love to make released (while someone was asleep?) good, genuinely American pix, but you last summer. This civet is called The save a life . . just can't do it. They come out silly." Glass Wall. It has phony message and is • Whenever you drive on ice or Two movie releases of recent months punk entertainment. snow, you'll have better, safer bear on that subject—one a skunk, one Some call Glass Wall a bit of commie traction with WEED AMERICAN a rose. art. However, plot suggests it is just V-Bar Reinforced Tire Chains. MGM's Take the High Ground is a soft-boiled egg-headery. Pic shows refu- WEED V-Bar Tire Chains — good American film and a good film. Pic gee from Europe arriving hopefully in the finest ever made — are more develops from simple theme of one in- U. S. only to learn through bitter ex- effective than any bare tire fantry platoon going through basic at perience, concocted by script writer out treads. Their V-Bars —with 288 Ft. Bliss, Texas, and from the problems of no known facts, that America is land of Sgt. Ryan (Richard Widmark) that hounds, persecutes refugees. or more steel gripping points who has to turn his nondescript "young In last scene, chased by U. S. police are slanted left and right for people" into U. S. infantrymen in 16 goons, refugee finds shelter in glass- balanced traction . . . for surer, weeks. walled UN bldg. in N. Y., where U. S. shorter, straighter stops. Pic has everything that entertainment hounds can't touch him. In empty room, WEED V-Bar Chains ore made inten- seekers wish—top-flight laughs, thrills, he makes impassioned plea for human S. at tionally better . . . Safer on snow and ice conflict, character, love, music, acting & rights. U. audiences ha\ e sneered direction. It will be box office success, pic. It could knife U. S. in back when • American Chain ACCO and is fine example of material lying shown, as it is now being shown, in & Cable Company, Inc., around America for producers who like Europe. However, a London review re- Bridgeport, Conn. In to make dough and be American too. ceived gives it a raking. Canada : Dominion Chain Studio personally Of these two pics, the un-American Company, Ltd., Niagara head Dore Schary Falls, Ont. produced Take the High Ground, went one came out sillv. far to get away from phony Hollywood stereotypes that have made "good SORRY WEEPVy-BA^ American" pix silly in past. For instance, The caption under the jjicture of the the inevitable bird in platoon who asks: Kiltie Drum and Bugle Corps, page 34, TIRE CHAINS "What's it all about?" in tense, self-pity- October issue was in error. The corps is ing tones is not the brainiest man in the from Racine, Wisconsin.

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 COMRADES IN DISTRESS

90th Division Field Hospitals: Mobile Field Lab- orator.v; Base Hospital 55 (France) Nov-Dec 1918, Jan 1919— Need to hear from buddies who knew of my dysentery and abdominal disturbances. Had duty with above mobile lab. and field hospitals 357,358,359. Lab staff included Capt. Grones, Lt. Robertson and 16 others. Was hospitalized in Base Hospital 55. Pending claim depends on statements of men who recall me. Write Ellis W. Cookson, 256 North Topeka, Wichita 2. Kansas. Fort Oslethorpe, Ga., 15th Bn. Co. E (Aug 4, 1918)— Need to hear from men who recall incident of men knocked out from overdosage of medicine on above date. Especially Cpt. Kent. Lt. Soures and Company Cmdr. Geo. B. Galloway. Claim pending. Write Horace C. Ho!>an, Acworth, Ga. 106 Infantry DIv., 806 Ord. L. M. Co., (Fort Jack- son, S. Car.) Oct. 1943— Need to hear from men who were with me when I was seriously burned on right hand and arm by gasoline tto Oratiam, star stove. Claim pending. I was a cook, Sgt. T/4. Major Clemons was our unit doctor at time. quarterback of the Write James M. Williams, 2618 West Clover- Cleveland Browns, in dale, Owensboro, Kv. the past seven seasons Ft. Francis E. Warren, Wvo., 3rd Q.M.T.R., Co. has completed 1057 H. (July 7, 1942)-Need to hear from Dr. A. passes out of 1943 C. Felburn who treated me for a hand injury attempts., 137 of his at .3rd Dispensary, and from any others who passes were for touch- knew of my hand injury. Statement needed downs and his total lo establish service connection. Write Henr.v yardage for passing J. Fletcher, 223 S.W. 4th St., Oklahoma City. is 17,049. Okla. (The above notice appeared in Sept.. with Fletcher's address inadvertently mis- slated. If comrades have written and mail was returned, please write again to address above. Editors) 741 AA Gunner Bn., Co. C (Milne Bay, New Guinea) 1943-44— Would anyone who knew me and knew of my shoulder and stomach condition please write. Need statement for disability claim. Zebulon P. Ferry, Jr., care of Veterans Service OHicer, Lillington. N. C. 49th Field Artillery Bn., Survey Section (WW2)- A year ago Lloyd D. Johnson, formerly of Laurel, Neb., passed away following sudden headaches and a brain operation. .Tohnson had told wife he'd been struck on head in action and saved by helmet, but gave no details before his death. Widow s claim now depends on ascertaining head blow in action. Anybody who can verify Johnson being knocked down in action (though he continued hghting at the time) please write Mrs. Lloyd D. Johnson, Route 2, Boone, Iowa. Johnson known to have seen action in AlevUians (May-Aug '43); Mar- shall Islands (Jan-Feb '44); Philippines (Oct '44-Feb '45); Ryukyus (April-June '45) and perhaps elsewhere. 854th Ordnance H.M.A. Co. APO 4915, NY, WW2 —Will anyone who served with this outfit and remembers Sgt. Donald C. Collins please write. Statements needed for claims purposes. Write Veterans Service Officer, P.O. Box 208, Bucyrus, Ohio. 1304 Eng'r Construction Bn., Co. B, Lido Road (Burma), 1944-45—Will anyone who knew Richard B. Roth ("the artist") please write. Statement needed to establish service-connection. Write Abe Roth. Jetlersonville. N. Y. 7lh Armored Div., 48th Armored Inf. Bn., Co. C ETO, 1944-45— Need to hear from buddies. Claim pending. Especially want to contact Lt. Lemon. S/Sgt. Hoppy. T/5 McCarthy, PFC Gonzales. PFC Tate and others in same mor- tar squad. Write Henry A. Vrazel, Route 2, Jarrell, Texas. Camp Kearns, Utah, Oct-Noy. 1944—Need statements from comrades who attended gas range, and can testify to demonstrations of mustard and phosgene gases. Claim for service-connection of lung condition depends on statements. Write Michael F. LaMantia, 1551 Methyl St., Pittsburgh 16, Pa. 29th Div., 116th Inf., 1st Bn. C Co., Bomb Dis- posal Demolition Team. (St. Lo, France) July, 1944— Need statement from men who recall injury to Robert P. Daly while outfit was pulled back at St. Lo, or recall his hospitalization at a base hospital in England. Recalls a Capt. Hawkes, and crew of plane dubbed "Patches." If these or others will write, claim may be established. Write Mrs. Robert P. Daly, 6\2'/2 S. Victory Blvd.. Burbank, Cal. Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., Station Hospital, Sept-Nov '43:— Need to hear from Dr. Ward John White, Jerry Marchese, Louis Biaggio, Wm. Fustine, Gemellaro. Wills and any other men who were in hospital with me at above time. Claim pending. Write Joseph A. Gheri, 35 Baxter Place. Pittsburgh 21, Pa. wesamr fm IN NORMAL CAR USEU 398th Inf. Regt., Co. B & 15th Inf. Regt., Co. I, 1945-46— Need to hear from men who served with me to help establish claim for stomach !" condition. Write Fred E. Eggers, 225 2nd St., ...LASTS LONGER, TOO S.W., Hickory. N. C. Fort Meade, Md., 1st Reg't., 2nd Bn., Co. B, Re- Prest-O-Lite Battery Company, Inc., Toledo 1, Ohio placement Depot ^1, March, 1945—Will Lt. Clarence Amshoff. 1st Sgt. Gerald Hanna or Cap't Barker please contact me. Statements needed for claim for back injury on March SEE YOUR PREST-O-LITE DEALER FOR FREE PRO FOOTBALL SCHEDULES THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZI.NE • NOVEMBER. 1953 • 39 30, 1945. Write former Cpl. LorenA VIessnian, Airbase 470 (England); 4th Strategic Air Depot, having information concerning him please Woodburn, Indiana, c/o Lef^ion Post 377. 1945— Urgently need to contact Sgt. Gohike, write Mrs. Arnold Terry, Rt. 2, Marengo. I4Sth Infantry, HO Co., 2nd Army Maneuvers who accidentally struck ine on head with an Ohio. (Wisconsin) An;;. 1940—Will anyone who iron bar while we were both working on an 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Reg't, Co. D-My son. PFC served with .lames F. Rronnint; please con- airplane wing. Injury now causing increasing Joseph N. DeHaan was reported to have died tact rne. It is my only hope tor information disability, and Gohike is only man who can of intestinal tuberculosis in Camp 2. North pertaining to his present condition. Claim state service-connected origin to help estab- Korea, Feb. 19. 1952. Will any buddies who pendinji. Write Mrs. J. F. Browning. 19.33 W. lish claim. Please write Howard W. Phelps, were with him when he died please write his .'i4th St., Cleveland 2. Ohio. Strandburg. S. D. mother: Mrs. G. DeHaan. Rt. 5. Red Lake 34tli Div., 133 Infantry, Co. D (Italy) WW2- Falls, Minn. Anxious to contact anyone who was with me 2nd Div., 23rd Inf. Reg't, Co. C-Our son. Robert or near ". me when my pack mule and I fell Navy and Marines Raess. known as "Monk was reported miss- down the mountain, or any others who knew ing in action Sept. 1. 1950. vicinity of Nank- of my resultant injury. Disabled from fall and tong River. Was in Co. H. 9th Inf. Reg't be- need statements to establish service-connec- USS Indianapolis—Comrades who know of Joseph fore going overseas. Anyone with any information. Write William T. Harper, 1636 Mansfield E. Dronet being in water for many hours be- tion about him please write Mr. & Mrs. John fore being rescued when Indianapolis St., Port Huron, Mich. USS Raess. Rt. 3, Dodgeville, Wis. '45 I40tli and 125tli General Army Hospital (England) was sunk in July of please write. Claim 24th Inf. Div., 63rd Field Artillery Bn.-Our son. pending. Write Joseph E. Dronet. PO Box 559, WW2-Ur(jcnt 1 contact Cap't Gill and Cap'l 2nd Lt. Raymond E. Pearson, reported miss- Cameron. La. Bugdon who treated me shortly after being ing in action July 14, 1950 near Kongju. Korea Guard, S.S. John Will wounded in left shoulder and lungs, and Armed Henry— shipmates while commanding battalion ammo train. Will who were aboard this vessel in 1943. blinded in combat Wounded at Vire, France, under anyone who has any information about him command of Lt. John S. Hager, on trip to transferred to England. Need statements for please write Mr. & Mrs. Ray Pearson, Rt. 1. London via English Channel, please write to claim. Write Lnther R. Horner, Rte. 1, Box Crawfordsville. Ind. help with claim. Write Stanley B. Kushel, 165. Monticcllo. Fla. 7th Cav. Reg't Co. B—My nephew. William John 2451 N. 5th St., Harrisburg, Pa. 6Sth Medical Bn. and 52nd Medical Bn., (Camp Mills, reported missing in action, Nov. 1. 1951 Marine Corps, aboard U.S.S. Honolulu at Leyte Barkley, Texas) Feb-May 1943— Need to hear at Sagong, Korea. Anyone who was with him landing, Oct. 20, Will those from men who served with me and knew of 1944— who know or knows what happened to him please write of injury to Bonnie B. Briley write Mrs. Hazel my back injury and arms hurting. Also would his uncle, Clyde B. Westfall. Sr.. 30 Kensing- Melteberger, Veterans Service Sect'y. Box like to contact Cpl. Jack T. Home. Claim PO ton Ave., Jersey City. N. J. 1115, Alliance, Neb. pending. Write Charlie A. Brady, Rte. 38th Field Artiller.v Bn., B Bat.-My son. PFC 1. Sth Tryon. N. C. Marine Div., 26th Marines, H & S Co. (Iwo William P. Friley, was reported missing in Jima)— Need to locate anyone who knew of 50 Co. T.C. R.R. Engineers (WWl)-Need to con- action in Korea. Nov. 30, 1950. Will anyone head injury to S/Sgt. J. Crowley at tact Walter L. Lydia or any other men who Edward who knows what happened to him please write Iwo Jima. Claim pending. Write Mrs. Edward knew of my injury in a speeder wreck at his father: Charles E. Friley. 1716 Chester J. Crowley, Bassin's Dock in July 1919. Claim pending. 25 Constitution St., Providence 7, Road. Pomeroy. Ohio. R. I. Write Ulysses S. Plum, Rte. I, Tunnelton. 439 Eng'r Const. Bn., Co. B-My son. PFC Jim H. Lejeune, W. Va. Camp N. C. July 25, 1952— My brother. Jackson was reported missing in action, July Raul Colon Lazoa, was reported dead in an Fort Dix, N. J., April, 1947, 44th Training Bn., 28, 1952 in Korea. Will any of his buddies accident at Camp Lejune on above date. Will Co. B—Would like to hear from any men who who know what happened to him please write anyone who knows circumstances please write served with Harold S. Johnson, to help his mother: Mrs. Minncola Jackson. Gen. De- us Miss Delia Colon, Box Mayaguez, Puerto with a claim pending. Write Frederick 392, livery. Trinity, Texas. M. Rico. Browning. Dep't Service Officer. American 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Reg't-Anxiously await word LI. of Wisconsin, Naval Radio Service School Legion. 100 Fountain St.. Providence 3. R. I. from my son, Corp. George Torres, reported (1943-44)-Would like to contact the doctor Camp Livingston, La., .Station Hospital and Hos- missing in action Dec. 2, 1950 near Kunu-ri. or doctors who treated me for sinusitis, or pital Motor Pool (1944)-Would like to con- North Korea. Will anyone who knows any- anyone remembering my case. Claim pending. tact the MP who was with me in an ambulance thing about him please write his mother: Mrs. Write Robert C. McCain, 28 Cotter St., San wreck outside camp in 1944. Also anyone in Adella Torres. PO Box 304. Deming. New Francisco 12. Calif. motor pool who recalls wreck. Claim pending. Mexico. U.S,S. Macaw (WW2) at Freemanlle, and sinking Need statements. Write ex-Cpl. Earl Q. Stin- 2nd Div., 23rd Inf. Reg't, Co. K-Would appre- of—Will anyone who recalls explosion of high- son, PO Box 416, Kentwood, La. ciate very much hearing from anybody who pressure tank injuring John E. Leigh (MMl/c) Camp Roberts, Calif., S.C.U. #1928, HQ Det. knew Corp. James S. Arnientrout and the de- or his hospitalization at U. S. Submarine Base. Range Section (WW2)-Need to contact tent- tails of his disappearance. Reported missing Freemantle. Australia— or who recalls the mates and other comrades who recall the in action May 18, 1951, near Hangye. Not on sinking of the Macaw, please write. Particu- beginnings of my arthritis in service. Now POW list. No word since then. Please write larly Chief Mach. L. W. Lightner and Lt. (jg) disabled and claim pending. Man I worked Mrs. Ethel L. Armentrout, Whitmer, W. Va. L. L. Harrison. Need help to establish service- with named Hague, and others, should re- 18th Fighter Bomber Wing, 67th Fighter Bomber connection. Write Mrs. John E. Leigh, So. member. Write Arthur S. Childers, Jr., 182 Sqdn.— Will anyone having any information Fontana Ave.. Tucson 2. Ariz. Vineyard Road. N.W., Albuquerque, N. M. on 1st Lt. George Patton, last seen approxi- Camp Lejeune, N. C, 2nd Marine Div., 2nd Motor 36th Div. Medical Detachment (Camp Claiborne. mately ten miles south of Pyongyang. North 'Transport Bn., Co. D, 1951— Will anyone who La.) WW2-Need to locate Thomas N. Clay- Korea on June 13. 1952. please write to A/lc knows of foot injury to Hubert Miller—par- ton who served with above outfit in 1941. Donald R. Smith. AF 23028952. 740th Air- ticularly Lt. Hall who treated injury— please Statement needed for claim. Write Herman craft Control and Warning Squadron. Ells- write to help establish claim. Write Joseph R. Gaillard, Ripley. Miss. worth AF Base, Rapid City, S. D. E. Dronet. Service OflTicer. PO Box 559. 3rd Div., 151h Infantry Reg't. Co. 24lh Inf. Div., 24th Rec.-Parents and wife of 1st A (WW2)-My Cameron. La. son Pvt. Arthur J. Harvey was wounded in Lt. George W. Kristanoff, taken prisoner in Com. Fair Photo Group 2; Photo Recon. Squad Italy May 25. 1945 and died in an Army hos- July. 1950, anxious to hear from his buddies. 5 (Guam) 1945— Need to contact men who pital the following day. No further information Latest report was that he had made an es- knew me on Guam in 1945. and corpsman who ever received. Will comrades who knew him cape from North Korea prison camp. Please treated my jungle rot then. Please write and circumstances of his injury and death write: Edward F. Loughrea. Veterans Service Leonard P. Leberg, Pittsville. Wis. please write his mother. Claim pending. Please Olficer. Court House. Grand Rapids. Minne- U.S.S. Coral Sea (1950)-Would like to hear from write Mrs. Lillie Harvey. P.O. Box Ruth. sota. 51. Cmdr. Heggy. Slim Beyer or other shipmates N. C. 32nd Inf. Reg't, Co. G-My son. Corp. Jack Rich- who remember my fall from ladder on board 3368 Signal Service Bat., Hawaii, 194S-Would ardson, reported missing in action Nov. 7. ship in Mediterranean in July 1950. State- like to contact former Lt. Roger D. Blank, or 1952. Will anyone who knows anything about ments needed for claim. Write Herbert (Stub) any others who knew of my back injury. him please write his mother: Mrs. Griffin Settel, 239 Prospect St.. Owego, N. Y. Claim pending. Please write: John W. Kilroy, Richardson, 109 Dodge Street. Kannapolis. U.S.S. Tattnall, APD 19 (WW2)-Need to contact 2226 Cranston St., Cranston, R. L N. C. the following men who were aboard at time 969th (Pecos, Texas) Sept. 1944-Need to 2ud Div., 2nd Eng'r Combat Bn., Co. A-No word OMC of decommissioning at pier 63, Seattle: Charles contact any men who remember eye from or about our son. Corp. Robert E. Car- my ac- Pyle. PhM 2/c; "Rock" Reynolds of N. C: cident, to support claim. Especially George penter, since missing in action Dec. 1, 1950 at Ken Westberg of Long Island. N. Y,; E. P. Freeland and Wm. Kirkland (both Jackson- road block south of Kunu-ri. North Korea. Dore of Buffalo, N. Y.; W. P. Walsh of ville. Fla.); O'Dell Jones and Frank Allen Will appreciate any word about him or cir- Revere, Mass.; Wiazek of Trenton. N. J. Need (both Tampa, Fla.): T. C. Johnson and Roger cumstances of his disappearance. Write: Mr. statement to help establish claim for back Timas (Amarrillo, Tex.) Write Charles J. Hor- & Mrs. Frank L. Carpenter, 1605 South Jack- injury to E. A. Mantey. Write Amos M. Kelly, ton. Drawer B, No. 598. Stormville. son. Enid. Okla. N. Y. Service Officer, Legion Post 73. Maupin. Ore. 24th Replacement Co. (?)-My son. Fred B. Sayre, 'Verba Buena Island (Goat Island) US Naval was reported missing in action when his com- Training Station To rectify error in (WWD— pany's position was overrun near Uhyon-ri. my hospital record I need to locate the April 27, 1951. Am not sure what company WAC Pharmacists Mate 1/c who ran the main bar- he was with, as he was missing shortly after racks sick bay in the fall of 1918. Will any- being in the above replacement company in WAC, Boiling Field, D. C, 1943-4S-Urgent I one who can recall his name or who knows Japan. Can anyone tell me anything about contact comrades with me when I was Sgt. anyone who might know him please write: him? Please write: Mrs. Ruth Sayre, Hills- Mandy, director of Boiling Feld Service Club. Bill Gianella, Rt. 1, Box 409, Niles. Calif. boro, N. D. Statements needed for claim. Write Mrs. Mary 7lh Div.. 32nd Inf. Reg't, Co. B-My son, Corp. Mandy Osier. 730 Alta Vista Drive, Sierra was killed at Seoul, Madrc, California. Robert F. Shambaugh, Korea, Sept. 22. 1950. Would like to hear Air from anyone who was with him. Please write: Mrs. Arthur Shambaugh. Bloomery Star Army Air Corps, Basic Training, Biloxi, Miss., MISSING Route, Winchester. Va. July 1944— Need to hear from men who re- Inf. Reg't, son, member me seriously injuring my head on a 2nd Div., 38th Co. A-My PFC truck while working with them loading and Louis Brodur, reported killed near Taenson, IN KOREA 1951. of burial, no per- 21. No record unloading. They knew me as Pop Cowles. I Aug. appreciate was a basic training instructor. Claim pending. sonal effects returned. Will greatly hearing from anyone who knew him. Please Write Claude R. Cowles, Company 2, VA 1st Cavalry Div., Sth Cavalry Reg't, Co. K-My Brodur. 1733 Polk St., Center, Martinsburg. W. Va. brother. Corp. Leiand F. Blakeslee was re- write his father: Frank Calif. Air crash. Las Vegas, Nev., and 93rd Tech. School ported missing in action Nov. 2. 1950 near San Francisco 9, Sqdn.— Will anyone vsho knew the late Mark the Yalu River. Will greatly appreciate any 241h Div., 19th Inf. Reg't, Co. A-Will appreciate F. Moye (Sgt. Gunner) and knew of his mul- word about him or the circumstances of his word from anyone who knew my son, PFC tiple injuries when he crash-landed on a train- disappearance. Please write Mrs. Wm. J. John Kenneth Riffle, and who can give me ing (light at Las Vegas please contact his Mead, Main St., Richburg. N. Y. any details of the action, Jan. I. 1951, when widow. Statement needed lor widow's claim. 24th Inf. Reg't, Medical Corps-My son. Paul E. he was reported missing—or from parents of Write Mrs. Margaret J. Moye. 177 So. Main Terry, reported missing in action July. 1950. boys missing at same time. Please write: Mrs. Riffle, Homer, Ohio. . St., Windsor. Vt. Last seen near Taejon, Korea. Will anyone Sylvia Box 87,

• THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 )

31st Inf. Rcg'l, Co. M— Anxious to hear from anyone who can tell me about my husband, Fred R. Cornell, missing since Nov. 28. 1950 Time to to in Korea. Please write Mrs. Juanita Cornell, SWITCH 616 E. North, Anaheim. Calif. 5Ch Inf. Reg't, R.C.T., Co. B-My son, Pvt. An- thony Mattiicci, missing in action in Punch Bowl area June 20. 1952. Buddies with knowledge of what happened to him please write something Paris Mattucci, 230 E. 67th BETTER? his mother: Mrs. St., N. Y. 21, N. Y. 381h Field Artillery Bn., Bat. A-Will anyone with details of what happened to PFC Stanley F. Peterson please write his mother. Became a POW, Nov. 30, 1950 and one letter was rec'd from POW Camp. Was later said to have died in POW camp. Please write: Mrs. Agnes Peterson, Rt. 9-4. Waretown, N. J., or Milton D. .Sewell, Service Officer. American Legion Post 232, Barnegat, N.J. 2nd Inf. Div., 2nd Ens'rs, Bn. C, H&S Co.-My son, Sgt. Richard H. Stewart, reported captured Nov. 30, 1950 and heard from once since. Would appreciate any word from buddies who may know what happened to him. Write: Mrs. Ray Stewart, 227 W. 116th Place, Los Angeles 61, Calif. 24th Inf. Div., 23rd Inf. Reg't-I will appreciate any information regarding my son, Ralph Merrill Jr., reported missing in action in Korea Julv 5, 1950. Write: Mrs. Lula G. Mer- rill, Meredith, N. H. 7th Div., 32nd Inf., Co. A-My nephew, Pvt. Thomas J. Turner, missing in action near Chosen Reservoir since Dec. 2, 1950. Will any comrades who knew anything about him please write. Would especially like to get in touch with Lt. Johns of my nephew's company. Write: Miss Ada King, Rt. 1, Box 300, Jasper, Ala.

OUTFIT REUNIONS

29th Div. (Blue & Grey)-Dept. of N. Y. reunion and convention. New York City, Nov. 14; Hotel George Washington. Details from Chair- man Harold P. O'Hora, 520 East 20th St., New York 9, N. Y. 45th Inf. Div.— 8th annual reunion, Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 6-8; Registration Chrmn., Ray- mond S. McLain, Jr., 101 First National Bldg., Oklahoma City, Okla. 77th Div. (WWl & WW2)-Annual dance and reunion. New York City, Nov. 7; Hotel Roose- velt. Info from George W. Allen, Chrmn. c/o 77th Div. clubhouse 28 E. 39th St., New York 16, N. Y. 81st Div. (Wildcat)—National reunion, Raleiizh, choosing whiskey, we're FREE WHISKEY TASTE TEST KIT! N. C, Nov. 21-22; Hotel Sir Walter. Write WHEN Wildcat Vets Assn. Inc., 1325 Wilson Ave., all in the same boat. The only Contains 2 glass jiggers, instructions Chicago 40, 111. and "Whiskey E.xpert" cards. Write 82nd Div. (WWl and WW2 Airhorne)-66th semi- reason for switching brands is to Calvert, 1321 AL, annual reunion and dinner, Macon, Ga., Nov. find somctliing better. And the only Room 405 Lexing- Dempsey Hotel. Contact James F. Brown, 8; ton Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. Jr., Sec, P. O. Box 216, Macon, Ga. way to find somctliing better is to 90th Div.—35th annual reunion, Dallas, Texas, ( Offer not good where local regula- Nov. 13-15; Jefferson Hotel. Write Ernest make your own taste test. L. tions forbid. Tuft, Pres. 90th Div. Assoc., 1114 Commerce Street, Dallas, Tex. No matter what brand you've 81t)th Sig. Serv. Bn.— Reunion, New York City, Oct. 31; Astor Hotel. Info from Larry Pike, been using, it will pay you to com- 1470 Parkchester Rd., Apt. 1-B, New York 62. N. Y. pare it with Calvert. S2nd Pioneer Inf., (AEF)— 34th annual reunion. York City, Nov. 7; Hotel Governor New Just snifF Ji-ounce samples of Cal- Clinton. Write Thomas E. Sinton, 2257 Uni- versity Ave., New Y'ork 68, N. Y. vert and your present whiskey to 322nd FTeld Signal Bn.— 35th anniversary reunion, north Calif, sector San Francisco, Cal., Nov. compare aroma. Taste each one crit- 7; New Tivoli Restaurant, 1438 Grant Ave. De- ically to judge smoothness and free- tails from J. Merkelbach 505 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, Calif. Southern Calif, sector dom from bite. Choose the whiskey reunion Los Angeles, Nov. 14; Write Dave Levenson, 542 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, that really tastes better to you. Calif, for details. 2nd A. A. Batt. (WWl)-35th annual M. G. Armi- Why not see if it isn't time for stice Day reunion. New York City. Nov. 8. Contact Hank Hanford, 230 Riverside Drive, you to switch to something better — New York, N. Y. Co. C, 311th Inf. 78th Div. (WWD-Annual re- a better lohiskeij like Calvert! union, Elizabeth, N. J., Nov. 10; Elks Club. Write Edward Leahy, 289 No. Broad St.. Elizabeth, N. J. 158th Field Hosp. (WWI)-35th annual reunion, San Jose. Calif., Nov. 14; Details from Sec. George Conrad Baker, 1937 Park Ave., San Jose 26, Calif. Compare.. 0 and you II 356th Inf. Regt. (WWl)-34th annual reunion, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 14; Pickwick Hotel. Reservations from Mr. Inghram D. Hook, Federal Reserve Bank Building, Kansas City, Mo. F.vac. Hosp. Unit 37—35th annual reunion, Chi- switch "to cago, 111., Nov. 21; Bismarck Hotel. Contact Calvert Max A. Goldstein, Corres. Sec'y Exac. Hosp. #37, Rm. 1665, 120 S. LaSalle St., Chicago 8, 111. Btry. E, 51st Regt. CAC (WWl)-Reunion, Hills- CALVERT RESERVE BLENDED WHISKEY- 86.8 PROOF- 65% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. boro, N. C. Nov. 26; Colonial Inn. Write CALVERT DISTILLERS CORP., NEW YORK CITY Willie Steele, Rt. 3, Hillsboro, N. C. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 195J • 4J {CoiitiiiiiL'd fru/// pii:j,e -il hand. Most discouraging is tiie capit- want the red Chinese as customers, ulation of the Administration itself to why don't they peddle their w ares to collectivist influence as seen in: The them instead of to us? Thc>' niigiit Korean truce favoring the commu- have to, if Americans onl\- realized nists, opposition to the Bricker amend- how little help tlic British go\ ernment ment, legislation to admit more immi- has been giving us. grants to the U.S., veiled opposition Paul V. Gallagher to Senator McCarthy's fight against Atlanta, Ga. communists, softness towards public power, advocacy of more expanded "social security" — SOCIALISAl of the SUGGESTION type which is disintegrating Britain. Stanley F. Morse Sir: The matter of sending T/.ic Amer- }V adnialaxu Island, S. C. ican Legion Magazine to the European

libraries is often brought up. iMay I offer a suggestion? I suggest that you ECONOMY obtain the addresses of all the Ameri- can libraries in Europe and print them Sir: I commend The A-nierican Legion regularly in tiie magazine with the re- Magazine in looking after the vets, but quest that the members send their when is The American Legion going magazines over there when they are to look after the vets in the service, finished with them. I send all of mine the career men? Economy is the Con-

to Stuttgart after reading them. gressional passw ord now , and so mem-

Frank Heidel bers of the Armed Serv ices feel it first, Hai fishiirg, Fa. little pay cuts here and there. Can the Armed Services get by on an enlisted complement made up entirely of "short Come winter you will have to buy some RECIPE FOR RUSSKYS term or one-hitch enlisted men" or sort of anti-freeze for your car, or else inductees, or appointees? The back- you won't "run." Anti-freeze is expen- Sir: In his recent article on Soviet bone t)f the enlisted structure of per- "hate" movies, sive. If your radiator or any part of William A. Ulman sonnel is comprised mainly of career mentions that apparently there was personnel, and to keep career men in your cooling system is leaking, you will only one bottle of American whiskey it is necessary to compensate us finan- quickly lose your expensive anti-freeze. (Old Sunnybrook) in all Russia since cially to support our families. Put a can of Bowes Stop Leak in your it appears in film after film, being Name Withheld radiator today and make sure that you appreciativcl)' consumed by red actors. San Francisco Possibly it is because will have ''''smoother motoring^' this they have been so long denied such products of free winter. enterprise as Old Sunnybrook and WARN, WARN AND RE-WARN Stop Leak will not clog your Bowes other fine beverages from the distil-

radiator. It's Sure . . . Safe . . . and leries of capitalism that the once Sir: Congratulations on your editorial Permanent. cheerful and peaceful people of Russia The Big Sellout which appeared in are now so hatefully truculent. Who tlic July edition of >our magazine. YOUR CAR DESERVES can imagine even the most virulent of Why woulil anyone be so foolish as communists to accept the proposals allies to THE WINTER SAFETY OF remaining long out of stcf) of our with mankind if he were exposed daih recognize red China and thus allow BOWES and in the proper surroundings to the her to be seated in the U.N.? Aly gov- julep concocted with fine bourbon ernment teacher warned us against RADIATOR CHEMICALS and Kentucky mint grow n on the this away back in i\lay. Don't the shady side of the house? American people know how danger- Alynii Shilliii!' ous that would be? Let's not be dupes National Distillers Products and accept the communist propaganda. Corporation Keep up the good work! W arn, warn New York City and re-warn us against the "propaganda peddlers." Mildred Uaker DANGER FROM SOCIALISM Middleto-ivn, Ohio

Sir: If Russia sliould collapse tomor- RADIATOR KLEN-ZUR — Removes rust, row, the U.S. still would be in deadly HAPPY MEDIUM scale, lime, oil, grease, contains no harmful danger from suicidal socialism. The acid . . . gets cooling system clean as new. reason is that the poison of socialism, Sir: Obvit)usly Riciiard ^^'ynn, Assist- RADIATOR RUST-ROUT— Prevents trou- both /Marxian and Fabian, systemati- ant Professor of Education at Colum- ble-making rust accumulation in cooling cally spread over America since 1905, bia's Teachers College, feels that the has penetrated principles listed in Air. Conniff's article system . . . also lubricates water pimip. and corroded [iracti- calh- every phase of our national life. The TC Story are the best possible DRIVE IN WHERE YOU Educational and religious institutions, ones e.g. agnosticism, anti-dogmatic labor unions, the government itself, in the extreme, frieiullv to every new SEE THIS EMBLEM and e\en businessmen, ha\e been in- idea, for he fails to admit that there doctrinated with the false philosophy might possibly be a happy medium of Marxian socialism which has thou- between these extremes and the ones BOJOLES sands of fanatical adv ocates in key |)osi- he assiniies i\Ir. Conniff was advocat- tions. Since 1933 Congress has enacted ing. I am not a progressive education into law over one third of the 1928 witch hunter, but I feel Mr. Wynn's Communist Party USA program, and letter docs not do the school justice un-.'\merican socialistic legislation con- any more tiian did Mr. Conniff's arti- trols much of the lives of U.S. citizens. cle. % The increasing grip of ruinous social- L. Holland Barton BOWES "SEAL FAST" CORP., INDIANAPOLIS 7. IND. ism on America is evident on every Annapolis, Aid. BOWES PACIFIC CORP., RIVERSIDE, CAl. 42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • N ;mber, 1953 GEORGE'S PRIVATE GEESE (Coiiliiiiitd fioin page 11)

tip when his hunter came in first w ith The sky now blazed with the red The boat nosed into the landing just the hmit. that only November can bring to the below the clubhouse. Stepping to the The sight of gccse had been unex- Mississippi sunset. Across the lake a bank, George looked up to see a familiar pected. As a rule they didn't come into long string of mallards worked lazily figure shufile from the shadows of a big Round-Pond any more. In the old along the tree-tops. Roosting time. And s>'camore close by. "Young Bill" John- daj's a scattered few w ould drop in, but later than he had thought. The mem- son, another colored paddler, ambled rice fields and a new state refuge fur- bers w ould be getting down from Mem- forward w ith a broad grin. He was a ther up the ri\-er had begun to attract phis and wondering about him. loose, gangling sort of youth for whom them now. He pulled the cord on the motor. George had little use. "Young Bill" was He found himself considering the He hoped that tonight he would draw- most often found sleeping somewhere presence of this flock very carefully. Mr. \A'iltshire, the law yer, or Air. Tom, w henever Cicorge or an\ one else needed He had hunted the Delta country ever the banker from Clarksdalc. Both were him. Whenever he had a little money,

since he could remember and w as as , good hunters and "real sportsmen." The w hich wasn't often, lie might be found familiar with the ways and habits of term "real sportsmen" carried a ver\ on his knees in tlic midst of tine small migratory birds as an>' man could be. special significance with George. No floating dice game the guides managed He knew that geese, if left unmolested, one was included in that hallowed to keep running during the off-hours of often visit the same field for da>'s. Since group w ho was averse to generous tip- tiie season. His usefulness was rather there had been no sign of them before, ping. There were a few borderline cases limited except when it came to calling he reasoned that he had run across this in Round-Pond Club, and some who ducks and getting his parties plenty of bunch on their first day here. There seemed to remain forever outside the shooting. At tliis "Young Bill" Johnson was a possibility that after feeding and circle. Mr. Tom and Air. \\'iltshirc, w as practicalh' w ithout a peer. Conse- resting peacefulh- in the submerged however, were young and never failed qiienth', his tips ran leather iiigh and the corn all day they would be back the to qualify. The\- occupied firm posi- competition between him and (Jcorge first thing in the morning. i\ hunter tions in the warmest cockles of the old ran more than fairly keen. might be able to get in one or two shots darky's heart. They would go big for "\'()ung Bill" had his own s> stem for before the duck hunting all over the a shot at a goose. procuring information on the duck area frightened them ofi^. The thought of drawing Dr. Ransom, population before the big Saturday A group of teal w histled in over his the surgeon from Memphis, chilled the morning shoot. head and whiffled daintily into the A\armth of his reflections. Often in idle He stood there with a combination flooded corn fifty yards from where he moments he had amused himself won- watermelon and jack-o-Iantern grin on sat in the boat. That should make it even dering how Dr. Ransom could have his face. better. so much moncN' and be so risht with it. "Mistah Diclc lookin' fi>r \'ou.

HAT "BATTLEGROUND" WAS TO THE SHOOTING WAR... "TAKE THE HIGH GROUND!" IS TO THE TRAINING CAMP

M-G-M PRESENTS IN VIVID REALISTIC COLOR BY ANSCO

KARL ELAINE

STARRING WIDMARKMALDENCarpeSrTawnSIEWARI

Story and Screen Play by MlLLARD KAUFMAN • Directed by Richard Brooks • Produced by DORE SCHARY An M-G-M Picture

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. • 43 George. W ants to l

Without a further glance, George "Where did \ ou sa>' he was from?"

strolled past the j oungcr man. He w ent asked Wiltshire. straight to the clubhouse. "Chicago. His father's a friend of Dick Wiltshire leaned in tiie door, mine. Seems the kid has been sort of let smiling. down and nervous since he got home. "The whole club is here, George. Dr. His Dad wants me to work w ith him a

Ransom brought a guest." little w hile and see if I can help him.

"I didn't know y'all had guests on Nice bo\'. I sure hope he gets his limit Saturday morning, Mr. Dick." He knew in the morning. A thing like that could the by-laws of the club as well as any do him a w orld of good." member. George put down his load of wood "Well, this is a sort of special one, and walked out to the porch. The George. He's a young soldier. Just back young man was standing there w ith a from Korea. We took a vote and none cigarette, looking across the lake. of us wanted to keep him from coming. This was no new story, the old guide He's never been hunting before." thought as he w ent to the other end of The old guide went inside. He shook the porch for more firewood. From be- hands with the members, all familiar neath lowered eyebrows he began an faces. To a man they gathered around intent and burning study of this quiet to say hello to him. man. He watched him stare across the He wondered which would be his calm water to where the willow and hunter. To their queries about the ducks oak trees stood motionless against the he answered he was sure they would sunset. No, this w as no new thing. get some shooting. He kept his secret It was not hard to recall what tiie about the geese. lake had meant to him years ago w hen

Then Dr. Ransom called someone he had come home from World W ar 1 across the room. "Sergeant," he said, under similar circumstances. He knew, "come here and meet George. He's the too, how some of the men inside by the most important man around here." fire, younger than he was, had felt when George laughed w ith the rest good they had returned to it only a few- naturedly. He shook hands with the years before. And now the first man young man, looking into eyes that from Korea. Inchon and Pusan! He should have been brighter in so young wondered if it had been an\ thing like a face. There was, however, a look of Belleau ^^'ood and rlie forests along the deep respect there that touched the old Marnc River. paddler. Apparently the men had al- An idea now began to push gently at ready talked of him to the soldier, and the back of George's versatile mind. At

44 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 first it was an idea w hich seemed re- pugnant. It brought w ith it a vision of his "tip" rising on the wings of six beautiful geese — geese which flew off unscathed into the winter sky while a young soldier, who had never been hunting before, w as shooting and shooting in vain. Still, the thought compelled him. He knew what he must do. "Mister Sergeant," he said, "you think you'll be able to hit them ducks?"

"I don't know, George. I don't know- too much about a shotgun." "Mister Sergeant, come here a minute." The soldier w alked across the porch. The dark\- kept his voice low so that the people inside could not hear. That night the sergeant from Chicago drew George's number out of the hat, and the members of Round-Pond were happ\' for him. "He'll get his shots," said Dick Wilt- shire, who had hunted often with George. Dick Wiltshire had drawn "Young Bill" but George was trying hard not to think of that. The next morning looked good for ducks. A light breeze swept across the face of the lake. Stars still twinkled in a clear sky as the hunters mingled bois- teroush' around the boat dock. The soldier climbed into (Jeorge s little flat-bottom boat and found a place to sit down among a multitude of wooden decoys. The old darky put one rubber-booted foot into the water and shoved ofl^. As the boat cleared the bank "Young Bill's" voice carried through the dark- ''Here's an Attractive ness. "Mistah Dick and me will be the first ones back, George. We'll have some Booklet for Your ducks for you to pick when you git in." George grinned and didn't answer. He started the motor and soon they Telephone Numbers" were down in the lower end of the lake where the line of timber broke suddenly into the cornfield. He cut his switch, drifting silently into the bank. We've just printed a new booklet for listing It was early. George knew the gee.se your personal telephone numbers. wouldn't be in for a while. If they came, they'd drift in from the river a little You'll find you save time on Long Distance after daylight, right over the trees at calls when you give the operator the number the edge of the field. They'd probably you want. This booklet helps you keep the swing over the corn several times be- numbers handy. fore chosing a lighting spct. But they'd surely come in against the v/i:id, and There's a copy for you at the nearest Bell George made arrangements accorclngly. office. He had an old goose call in his pocket, telephone and he had the idea that if he could Save Time . . . Call l>y Number. Use the book- get in the center of the field and give let to write down the numbers you already know. them just one hail as they came in, they'd have a chance. Too much calling If there's a new number you don't have — or an v/ould ruin it. He had no goose decoys. old one you've forgotten — be sure to add it to the The best he could hope for was to at- list when the operator gives it to you. tract their attention and pray they would swing down close enough for a sho'. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Several mallards volplaned toward THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • 45 "

them, their wings throttled back, look- water thirty yards aw ay. A clean right ing for a place to drop in for breakfast. and left! The .soldier tensed. The sergeant was beside himself. "Not yet. Mister Sergeant. W e'll get Jumping up and down, he leaped from those boys later. Don't want to mess the ridge and splashed after the bird in

it up for the geese. They'll be in short- the field, whooping and hollering. George watched him, grinning. rhe\' tied the boat and laid camou- The soldier had a good morning's

flaging cornstalks in it. Then the\' shoot. Shortly after the excitement of

footed it to the center of the field, their the geese the mallards began coming in gum-boots calf-deep in water all the hungrily. He missed two shots all morn- way. ing. B\' nine o'clock he had both limits. will win About the middle of the held tlie George's little number "fi\e" boat his warm approval ground rose in a small ridge that cleared the w ater. On this George discovered a small hollow which w hen cleaned out \v as large enough for them to lie in and w ait. By placing several scrubs of brush in front of them and ptishing a few cornstalks into the ground around them he added to the hide's effectiveness. The old guide was satisfied with tiie arrangement. If the\' kept down they would be hard to see from the sk\'. He

hoped they woidd come before it got nvE him the hunting togs that are worn and recommended by the much lighter. country's leading sportsmen. Styles "Now Mister Sergeant," he said,

and colors for every hunting need reaching into his old hunting coat, ' take in water-shedding duck, wool or the->e number four shells. You'll have a light-weight Montana and Aero cloth. Will wear for years. hard time killing geese with that duck load v ou're using. When the\' conies in

Style F hat-iap good here, don't \ ()u raise \ <)ur head up 'til

in sun, wind, rain i tells >()u. Then lay that barrel right or brush. in front of the goose's head and come

on up with it. I don't want to have to • Your local sports dealer will help you w alk far to pick him up." choose in the price-range you want to pay. The sergeant laughed. George noted w ith pleasure a quick sparkle in his e\'e. "Weil, Stitkiiey — lu>u docs it feel to be the The waiting suddenly over, George second man ever to reach tlie top of Mount first saw and then heard the geese com- Everest?" ing. AMERICAN I.KCIOX MAGAZINK "Dow n, suh!" Over the tree tops they came, a fine was the first back to the clubhouse dock. flock of about ten. The leader was look- By noon the other hunters had strag- everyone does a$ well, but E. O. Lockin. knot ing close. , His head swung side to it his own, reports. . from gled in. Generally speaking, had been , started a business of side as he gabbled softly to his com- a good morning's shoot all around. But I've for 12 months averaged panions. only the sergeant had geese. The old paddler bleated one time on The members stood around in great the call and with hardly a visible motion reverence \\ hile he told his stor\' again »800","h.T.V-" of his hand dropped it into his pocket. and again. most o/ ii dmarprp/H tor nfl The bunch sailed in on stiffening Dr. Ransom found George around wings! back of the clubhouse picking ducks. Many men have discovered how to be # A hundred, ninety, eighty yards! "George," he said, "that was a fine independent, to be free of bosses and lay- offs. L. A. Eagles grossed more than $200 "Ready, Mister Sergeant?" thing." week. Others report gross up to his first George's voice was soft. His eyes "What's that. Dr. Ransom?" $12,000 per year. How much you make depends largely on you. You need no were riveted on the geese, his face mo- "Hell, I saw you slip that number fi\ e special skill, no large inve.stment. tionless. The sergeant's nose was so in the boy's hand w hen w e w ere draw- No shop necessary. Our electric rug WASHER cleans rugs, carpets right on floor close to the mud he could smell it. ing for paddlcrs. That's the first time any show their natural color and . . . helps to "Now git up and git you a goose," geese have been taken here in four beauty. So efficient and safe, u£ed^ largest hotels and railroads spoke George, still softly. years. You knew they w ere here. You You take no risk. The soldier rose to a pictine he w as also knew that if you'd taken me or one Machines fully guaranteed. never to forget. The birds v\ ere in per- of the bo>'s you would have gotten a Write for full infor- fect position. He fired into the closest good tip." mation including how fell his to make big profits in and it with a suddenness that awed With that Dr. Ransom iiaulcd out VOUR OWN business. - him. wallet. "Young Bill" who was sitting MAIL COUrON TODAY FOR fRII lOOK "Get another!" cried George. nearby and enjoying the whole per- Von Schradcr Mfp. Co., 2155 "R" PI. Racine. Wis. The geese were past them now and formance, nearly dropped the duck he Without obliRalion. send your FREE booklet contain- picking. something Dr. ing information about your ki.ectric ruc washer and beating for the heights with furied was This was profitable businesfl. how I start mynwn permanent . can frenzy. The soldier swung above a Ransom just didn't do. He was .seeing climbing shape and fired. The second history made. Addreti- great Canada pitched into the shallow The doctor handed George a twenty- City 4^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 dollar bill. He muttered something Advert igement

about "the finest thing I ever saw," turned around and strode off. "Young Bill" studied the motionless features of George as the latter non- chalantly reached for another duck and From where I sit began plucking away. "You know," said "Young Bill," scratching his head, "I kind of think you ^yJoe Marsh had it figgered like that all the time." George laughed. He laid the head of the duck on the persimmon block in front of him and lopped it off with one long stroke of an old hatchet. "Whoever told you you could fig- ger?" he asked. the end

CARIBBEAN CANCER PTA Gets Stung (Coulinued from page IJ)

to Joseph Stalin for one minute after his death last Alarch. by a "Bee"

This is how it happened in Guatemala: The communists gained their first foothold in Guatemala following the The local PTA is feeling sheepish overthrow of the Dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944 by a mixed group of idealists, today. Seems they complained the leftists, young military officers, and just youngsters weren't learning enough. plain revolutionaries. A junta, composed Said they couldn't even spell. So the of two young army captains, Jacobo Arbenz y Guzman and Francisco Arana, kids challenged them to a spelling bee. and a civilian, Jorge Toriello, took over "/ the government. The communists played was captain of the PTA'ers,'* a minor but noisy role in the revolu- ^'Doc" Brown told me. ''Both teams tionary movement. the first just One of the first acts of the junta, to made round fine. But on the surprise of everybody, was to hold the second round Speedy Taylor went free elections. The revolutionary parties down on 'efficiency.' Then his boy joined to elect as president Juan Jose Arcvalo, a school teacher who, after Chip, who happened to be next on the years in exile in Argentina, returned to school team, rattled it right off. From Guatemala preaching a vague political and economic doctrine which he called then on it was murder!'' "spiritual socialism."

Whether or not Arevalo is a member So now "Doc" says that the whole of the Communist Party — and that is PTA is thinking of signing up for still in some dispute — he certainly is night school! the spiritual father of the conmiunist movement in Guatemala. of his One From where I sit, it always pays first acts on taking office was to invite Vicente Lombardo Toledano of Mexico, to look and think before you leap to head of the communist-dominated Con- conclusions. Take those folks who federation of Latin American Workers and spearhead of the communist move- would deny me a temperate glass of ment in Latin America, to come to beer without a moment's thought. They Guatemala and organize the workers. wouldn't want to interfere with Lombardo did so, along strictly com- me munist lines, very quickly and efficiently. their personal preferences for, say a As a result, the leaders of the commu- glass buttermilk. It's a good idea nist-dominated unions soon obtained of seats in the councils of the major politi- to think twice before you "spell out'^ cal parties. This was Arevalo's major rules for your neighbor. contribution to the communist cause. Control of organized labor has been the basic source of strength of the communist movement in Guatemala from the beginning, and it remains so today. It is this voting strength that enables the communist leaders to make the deals with non-communist politicians so necessary to carry out their program. Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • 47 Conditions Tovvard tiic end of Arevalos si.\-> ear real hope, chieri>' because of his Army term in 1950 [Guatemalan presidents b\' background and his personal wealth. He law cannot succeed themselves J two is regarded e\ en now as being motivated candidates emerged to succeed him: by political expediency rather than hav- Colonel Arbenz, who was then iMinister ing an\' real sympathy for communist as it grooms! of Defense, and Colonel Arana, Chief ideology. of Staff of the Army, both members of No one can deny, however, that Ar- the junta that overthrew Ubico. Are- benz has done much for the communists. valo, the communists, and other extreme Under his regime, communist strength leftist elements threw their supptjrt to has increased steadily. Arbenz. Arana, however, not onl\' had The four principal vehicles through the support of the Army and conserva- which communists are functioning in tive elements but also enjoyed consider- Guatemala are:

able personal popularitx- among the peo- 1 ) the Labor Union Federation ple of Guatemala. which they control completely; A few months before the election 2) the Agrarian Reform Law^ of Arana received a report from Arbenz June 17, 1952, passed under the CONTAINS LANOLIN! Rei ieves "shampoo- dry" hair aiul dry scalp! Keeps your hair of a cache of arms near Lake Amatitlan, encouragement of Arbenz; in place. ..Uisirous and well-groomed, ail day! about thirty-five miles from Cniatcmala .1 ) tlie government-owned and con- City. Arana decided to investigate pcr- trolled publicity outlets; and Fitch Rose Hair Dressing now gives this sonalh', and he ,so advised Arbenz. On 4) the (kiatemalan foreign office. amazing double-action care for your hair: the road to Amatitlan, his car was am- The x\grarian Reform Law of June 1. FITCH keeps wild, dry hair sleekly bushed and Arana was murdered two 17, 1952, was drafted by the communist, groomed all day! by men with submachine guns. His chauf- Gutierrez, and pushed through by Ar- 2. FITCH conditions dry scalp as you feur escaped, the com- groom your hair. Contains lanolin. however, and made his benz as a result of a deal with w a\' back to in "agrarian reform" 20,000,000 bottles sold every year. Get Guatemala Cit>- where he munists. As China, Fitch Rose Hair Dressing at toilet-goods named as the two machine gunners, is one of the communist goals. As late

counters everywhere. Oaptain Alfonso Martinez and a mem- as last July, Jose Ahinuel Fortun\ , the ber of the Caribbean Legion, Francisco Guatemalan communist leader, w riting Morazan. in a Cominform new spaper published in FITCH Jl!^pP^ The murder of Arana left Arbenz Bucharest, demanded a broadening of vutualh unopposed; and he won the the Agrarian Reform Law. He also ROSE HAIR DRESSING election. One of his first acts on assum- called for throwing "American monop- ing the presidency was to appoint Mar- olists" out of Guatemala. He referred and BRILLIANTINE tinez as his secretary. Martinez has since not only to the United Fruit Company been elevated to the important post of but to the International Railways of Also Famous Fi(ch Hair Oil— 10^ chief of the Agrarian Department, and Central America and the I-'.lectric Com- BUY DIRECT FROM is regarded as the number-tw o man in pany of Guatemala. The Empresa Elec- IMPORTER AND SAVE! the government with growing aspira- trica Power Company was seized by the tions of becoming Number One. Mora- government a few days later. genuine imported zan, the other alleged assassin, is serving Under the present "limited" Agrarian as Arbenz' personal bodyguard. Reform Law, 225,000 aci'es of land candid-type - ^^^^^ Despite the scandal surrounding Ar- owned by the United Fruit Company camera benz" alleged participation in the assas- have been expropriated. Although the miniature sination of Arana, many conservative company protested that 80 per cent of Guatemalans viewed his election with its land was in use, and, therefore, not

* miniscus lens

* universal focus similar comeros sell- * instant & time ing as high os $12.95! model C-16 YOURS ... the greatest value with pigskin ever offered in a fine im- case ported candid-type minia- end 2 rolls of film

ture camera ! EASY TO OPERATE. Con- ceal in pocket or palm of hand -get candid shots of your family and friends. SPECIAL OFFER gives you genuine imported LENZ C-16 plus a handsome pigskin Takes 10 exposures carrying case and fitted box — postage-stamp -all at an unbelievably low print. Enlarges to as price ! much as 8"x 10". SEND NO MONEY. Mail coupon today. Deal directly with importer and you save I

LENZ CAMERA IMPORTERS 259 So. Broadway Los Angeles 12, Calif. Dept. Al Dear Sirs:

Pleose send me the LENZ Minio ture Camera. I ogree "You might be interested to know that you came within 17 .seconds

to postman orrival postage. I poy on $4.95 plus f not ol being marked AVVOL, iMidligan!" complefely sotisfied, 1 will retur 1 within 10 doys lor AMKIUCAN I.ECION MAG.\ZINE a full refund.

Nome . Address • AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 City -State- 4g THE subject to seizure, all but 75,000 acres of United Fruit Company's holdings were expropriated. Last June, the Agrarian Department reported that during the first year "110 government-o\\ ned farms were distrib- uted to landless workers, 49 farms were set up as cooperatives for 8,000 persons and 61 farms totaling 430,000 acres were divided among 9,000 workers." Of the 300,000 acres of private land expropriated, approximately 75 per cent formerly belonged to the United Fruit Company. What had become of the Company's 11,000 workers, no one seemed to know. The question of the legality of the agrarian reform program went to the Guatemalan Supreme Court last spring. When the Court ruled to halt the program until charges of illegality were studied b>' the lower courts, the communist-dominated congress dismissed the Supreme Court judges who had tried to suspend the Land Reform Law. Anti- communists demonstrated in front of the national palace in Guatemala City in support of the dismissed judges, and Guatemalan troops fired upon the crowd, killing one person and arresting many more for "disorderly conduct."

In Guatemala it is unpatriotic and "subversive" to be anti-communist! Distilled The most effective propaganda outlets the communists have in Guatemala LondonDryFJ are the government-owned newspaper ' and radio station. Under the manage- GlH ment of an avowed communist. Radio OISTILl[D£.BOnUDINIH£USABY Station TGWA makes free time avail- THE DISTIILERS COMPANY IIMITED able to the Communist Party, communist-front organizations, and labor mm%mma unions for propaganda purposes, particularly to indulge in hate campaigns against United States and U. S. investors in Guatemala. In its own newscasts and "educational" programs, the station follows the party line just as faithfully as does Octiibre, the official party newspaper. With equal fidelity the same policy is followed by Diario de Centra America, the government-owned daily newspaper. Its subservience to international

communism is incredible. During the Korean War, the paper carried an alleged confession of a United States Air Force pilot who claimed he personally participated in bacteriological warfare over North Korea. This one comes straight from the Kremlin's propaganda kit!

The Guatemalan Foreign Office is in communist hands and utilizes its world- wide diplomatic network, especially the BECAUSE OF LIQUEUR QUALITY and HIGH PROOF (94.4) Guatemalan Embassy in Paris, to carry out Soviet espionage. Several Guate- DRINKS NEVER TASTE THIN WITH GORDON'S GIN malan ambassadors have been declared persona non grata because of their radi- cal activities. LINDEN, N. J. 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD., The communist influence in the Guat- emalan Foreign Office is clearly demon- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEAfBER. 1953 • 49 strated in the actions of the Guatemalan munist collaborators is the lack of un- delegation to the United Nations. Fre- derstanding among all classes — even discoverX quently and in connection with crucial among the very rich — in Central issues, Guatemala will cast her vote in America as to what communism is, f9»/Ci/tAioiieft/n the United Nations on the side of the | what its real objectives in Latin Amer- Soviet bloc and against the United States. ica are, and of the extent to which their A dramatic example occurred in a local communists are controlled by the large plenary session on January 26, Kremlin for the sole benefit of the 1952. The Soviet Union introduced a Soviet Union. No sincere nationalist, resolution calling for the abolition of however much he might hate the United the United Nations' Conciliation Com- States, would knowingly collaborate mission for Palestine. Only Iraq and \\ ith the communists if he realized the Israel abstained from voting, and, ex- incompatibility of the fundamental cept for Guatemala, all the nations out- dogmas and policies of international side of the Soviet bloc followed the lead communism with his own aspirations. Few politicos, no matter how venal, would enter into deals with the communists if they were aware that disrup- Blow t^edam* Vlcfra. uiha(e oP tion of their economies and political a deck-K\onoe fof pitcher's !'. and social chaos are the goals of the ^aHooec^ A p«raa,ise >~_^rrr 1> communists. Perhaps the most hopeful recent de-

velopment is the anti-communist stand of the Organization of Central Ameri- STYLE can States from which Guatemala 154 Cu^Juxuted withdrew this spring. It provides a SIZES 5 to 14 greath' needed rallying point for all WIDTHS AA to EE anti-communists in that area, however Knapp Shoes — the choice of millions! diverse their attitudes on other subjects. You can rely on Knapp's Complete Within Guatemala the communists Factory-Fitting Service! 14,483 individual are not quite invulnerable. To all ap- sizes in 148 smart styles in Dress and parent purposes they control Arbenz, Service Shoes... for Men and Women. You but he is said to be getting restive. Nor get top quality and real Cushioned Comfort do the\' own Captain Alfonso Martinez, — original Cushioned Comfort in your size perhaps the coming strongman of Guat- at low, economical Factory -Direct Prices! emala. He is a burly, affable young FOLDER WRITE FOR FREE COLORFUL (From September. 1934 A.L.M.) Army officer whose slow mannerisms and name of your /ocaf Knapp Shoe Counselor are said to conceal a shrewd intelligence. KNAPP BROS. SHOE MFG. CORP. of the United States and Great Britain He graduated first in his class from the DEPT. 67-A BROCKTON, MASS. to reject the Soviet resolution. Guate- Military Academy. He is regarded as NAME I mala alone voted with the five out-and- courageous, completely ruthless — his ADDRESS I part in CITY..._ STATE I out communist nations, the USSR, alleged the Arana murder alone Byelorussia, Poland, the Ukraine, and indicates this — and as motivated solely Czechoslovakia. b>' the desire for personal gain. Both his The communists are firmh' en- friends and his enemies agree that he trenched in Guatemala and are proceed- would turn against the communists in ing to wreck foreign-owned firms, to a moment if he thought it would be to bleed the country's economy, to infil- his advantage to do so. His political Before you ctioose, be sure to GET THE FACTS about Schult mobile trate into neighboring republics, and ambition may lead to trouble between homes. Write or wire Dept. 5011 SCHULT TRAILERS to propagandize endlessly against the him and his old friend, Arbenz. SCHULT CORP.. Elkhart. IND. United States. What can be done about There is in Guatemala a strong, it? though looseh' organized, anti-commu- To date, United States diplomacy has nist sentiment. This is particularh' true not been very effective. Neither the in Guatemala City where communist "talk tough and act soft" policy nor candidates for the congress were de- the "wait and see" policy has paid off. feated.

What is needed is an organized effort Although anti-communist in senti- in the Caribbean to fight the commu- ment, the merchants of CJuatemala City nist conspirac\', to disclose the falsity have been timid since 1950 w hen their of anti-United States propaganda, and demonstrations were punished b>' the to demonstrate how prosperous these Government. Fines up to $2000 were countries could be under wise capitalist levied on five hundred businesses, and leadership. Ironically, the policies of the local Chamber of Commerce was U. S. investors in Latin America have banned as a subversive organization. been very liberal in recent years; the Since then the most vigorous opposition to Guatemala's communists has FAGORY TO YOU ^79.95 communist success in smearing them is SirPERSHOP offers you a precision-bulIt a result of the resentment at unwise come from the poor but courageous complete power tool workshop. 100%. ball bearing. RUGGKT). Accurate. Big capa- policies of earlier years and the failure and religious market \\ omen of Guate- cltv. 15 ack (Tuarantee. Mail postcard for FREE cata- to publicize more recent improvements. mala City. They and the students still log. Buy on easy pay plan. The basic reason for the success of are unafraid to march in protest. 1253 Yates Avenue POWER TOOLS, INC. VERTICAL Beloit, Wisconsin DRILL PRESS the communists in obtaining non-com- THE END

50 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1953 !

COMMUNISM vs. CAPITALISM (Contitiiied from {xige 2}) ination, inventiveness, initiative, stabil- ity, sobriety and thrift on which surplus wealth and general material welfare depend. Anything which lowers the accumulation of surplus wealth, to be used in providing jobs for our people, lowers our standard of living. Take taxes, for instance. Excessive taxation automati- calh' reduces our reserve for new and better tools for further employment at higher wages. Excessive taxation can convert our normal d\ namic capitalism into a static capitalism and reduce us to that minimum subsistence that is the answer to the communist's prayer and the signal for red revolution. Of course the owners of tools must receive a return to compensate them for their hard work and self denial. But since this is addition to their o\\ n wages, their total income is more than those who have not accumulated surplus cap- ..JTHACA Featherlight REPEATER! ital. That is where class cleavage rears its ugly head. Economic class is set against economic class for political pur- 1. FEATHERLIGHT! poses. 2. PROOFTESTED FOR SAFETY ! Capitalism is said to "create" inequal-

ities. But inequalities are an integral 3. SAFE BOTTOM EJECTION ! ! ! part of all animate life. Capitalism is Lbs. in 20 Gauge blamed for unequal distribution of the Only 5% Only 6 Lbs. in 16 Gauge national product. But human nature is Lbs. in 12 Gauge the culprit. Nor does human nature Only 6V2 change under communism. It is merely repressed by fear and violence. The Send 10c for big SIHO. 1880 Greeks had a word for it. They said: booklet on shoofing "If the persons be not equal, the shares ITHACA GUN CO., Inc tips and FEATHERLIGHT will not be equal. And this is the cause information of disputes and accusations when per- BOX29, ITHACA, N. Y. sons who are not equal receive shares that are equal." If two men would lift AMMUNITION LIST a weight, naturally the man who has Containing the most complete listing of cartridges accumulated a lever has an advantage ...Obsolete, modern, foreign, domestic, sporting, over the individual who has only his military, rifle and pistol types. Shofshells, smoke-

rifle clips . . A LOCK STITCH LIKE SEWING MACHINE hands. less and black powder and . [iuSifpi SEWS For all heavy duty hand sewing: — leather, canvas, VARIETY ANYWHERE ' rugs, gloves, boots. 6hoes. Sews perfect lock stUch. Capitalism is said to have "created" LARGEST Complete directions. Includes extra needles and US loaded bobbin. Price Sl.UO pobtpaid. poverty. On the contrar\-, capitalism PHILIP J. MEDICUS CO. • NETCRAFT CO. BOX 8 TOLEDO 13, OHIO 1 8 Fletcher St., Dept. L9 N. Y. 38, N. Y. created wealth. Thus it threw the poverty it inherited from previous systems

into bold relief. Nor is it true that all capitalists are rich. There arc penny capitalists as well as dollar capitalists. • AUTHENTICALLY DRESSED IN COLOR • DETAIL IN MINIATURE There are personal capitalists w ho ow n TRUE-TO-LIFE • ALL DOLLS STAND ON PEDESTALS their home, their car, their radio and • MADE OF DURABLE SCULPTURED PLASTIC home appliances, just as there are in- NEWEST SENSATION-DOLLS OF OUR WORLD- dustrial capitalists who own their fac- a favorite with youngsters of all ages, parents, tories. It is that are teachers and collectors of dolls! Each ex- not the poor poorer ESKIMO rORTUGAl INDIAN $IAM EARLT AMERICAN quisite doll represents a country and is au- under capitalism. It is that the rich are thentically costumed in color with true-to-life richer. detail and charm in finely sculptured plastic. and backs and sides of In the brief span of 177 years, capital- The facial expressions dolls have the same natural-looking detail. ism has been responsible for our growth Each doll stands on its own pedestal with from some three million poor colonials name on back of pedestal. Popular for gift- giving-they're fun to collect and trade. Each to some 160 millions of the most pro- doll shipped mounted on 4-color picture story ITAlt SCOTUND EGYPT FRANCE COW CIRl ductive and powerful people on earth. card. SEND NO MONEY. (C.O.D. you pay postage. Remit with order, we pay postage.) Capitalism alone defeated political tyranny. Despotism has always come from above, and below. Capitalism created the middle class, the wedge against his- NOVELTY MART, 59 E. 8th St., Dept. 217 New York 3, N. Y. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • toric oppressions by upper and lower ism and whose political counterpart is classes. a constitutional republic. Communism

It is also charged that capitalism penal- is an economic system whose counter-

izes the unfit. Of course it does! But part is collectivism and whose political

communism penalizes the fit. W'e itiust counterpart is dictatorship. make our choice. We cannot live half- All organized society, whether vol- capitalist half-communist an\' more untary or compulsory, is at the mercy than we can live half-free half-slave. of a relativeh- small group of men, Capitalism means freedom fro/ii the whom w e call the state. Whatever the state. Communism means freedom for state produces it must get from the PIPE MIXTURE the state, to do wath us as it w ills. Cap- people, the real producers. Whatever it

GOOD . . .by itself italism means free iz/ev. Communism gives away it first must take away from GOOD ... OS a mixer with other tobaccos means free government, unlimited by the people. \Miencver the state assumes Send Postcard To RUM and MAPLE TOBACCO CORP. constitutional checks and balances. responsibilit>' for support of some of Dcpt- 26 W. 23rd Street, New York City 10 IS It is further charged that capitalism the people it becomes an instrument of

exploits the workers. Of course it does! tyranny over all the people. It has ac- But who exploits whom? 0\\ ners and cess to no magic source of wealth un- 1 inanagemcnt do not exploit the ^\•orkers touched by human hands. Nor is it an as such. Owners, management, and la- impersonal mechanical device—but only PAYS BIG/J bor — the whole kit and kaboodle en- a group of men. New World Trade Boom Offers Big Profit Opportunity gaged in production — are exploited by In a capitalist republic these men are to Men and Women. Learn how to import thousands of the customer. He is ruthless in his search recognized as sharing the frailties com- products at low foreign prices for more and better goods mon to universal human nature. Their for buyers in your locality at and services high U.S. prices-operate a world-' ^ at lower prices. Aren't we all? powers and their terms of office arc wide mail-order Import-Export business l vour home. HERE'S PROOF... an import from overseas SENT In addition to its unprecedented abil- limited. In the slave society of com- AT OUR COST. Mail 25c (com) and we'll rush you this $2 ity comprising state Melson Automatic cigarette lighter. This bargain will convince to create economic w ealth and to munism the men the you of tremendous World Trade profits. START WITHOUT destroy political tyrann>-, are considered supermen whose unlim- CAPITAL or previous experience. Training includes shipment capitalism is to you of many sample imports from 'round the world. Save characterized by voluntar\ relation- ited powers and unlimited terms of of- on personal purchases of Clothes. Tools. Gems, Watches. Cameras, etc. GRASP THIS OPPORTUNITY TODAY. Send for ships. Under capitalism the owners con- fice are maintained by terror. your lighter and full details showing how to learn World is in organized Trade secrets to put you on road to your own Profitable Home trol accumulation of tools and the Government necessary Business. Opportunity world travel. You can get details alone workers control choice of jobs. Under societ>'. But it is a necessary evil, having FREE, but if you get the lighter you have an actual demon* stration of Import Values. Either way, WRITE NOW! communism the state controls both. the sole power to u.se violence against

MELIINGER CO., Dept. 30R , 1717 Westwood. lx>s Anfjelea 24. Calif. Tools are owned by the state and jobs the citizens. In a constitutional republic,

are assigned by the state. The state is government is restricted to doing for DO YOU SUFFER the sole producer, the sole distributor, the people what they cannot do for

the sole employer. But the state is not themselves. It coins mone\', maintains RHEUMATISM? the creator. That is the unforgivable armed forces, establishes treaties, directs ARTHRITIS? NEURITIS? SCIATICA? sin of communism. foreign diplomacy, etc. It does not en- Send for FREE BOOK croach on the private economic rights which reveals why drugs and Communism rests on monopoly. It is edicines give only temporary relief total monopoly of the total lives of the of its citizens. and fail to remove causes; explains a specialized non-surgical, non-medical treatment which has people. Capitalism rests on competition. These rights arc threefold — the right proven successful for 33 years. Write today. Competition is often called "cruel" be- to earn, to spend, and to save at the in- BALL CLINtC. Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs. Mo. cause it rewards success and punishes dividual's discretion. Whenever the

failure. Rather it is just, and justice is state controls one or more of these rights, capitalism is on the way out and PUM P WATER fiJ^r/ interpreted as cruelt\' by those who seek an alibi for their own failure. Com- socialism is on the way in. DRAIN WASH TUBS. CELLARS. CISTERNS' IRRICATE-FILL TANKS-DRAW WELL WATER. petition means that a man makes his In a free competitive econoin)' the Pumps 2800 GPH 420 GPH al 75' High of 1600 living GPH from 25' well Slutdy. Ruslprool Alloy Metal Six by giving to his fellow man a exchange ut goods and services takes Blade Impeller Uses any 1/8 to 1/2 H P, Motor Will QQC product that is better and place the two interested par- not leav or clog Fits any garden hose Immediate 11 |^ cheaper than between Money Back Guarantee Send Check. MO. or CO D ^'u s his competitor. His fellow man is both ties, bu> ers and sellers. Each can take it MANUFACTURING CO. MOORE judge SWEDISBORO «n NEW J E • S E Y and jury of his worth as ex- or leave it. There is no coercion, no pressed in his product. Ever\- capitalist, cracking down, no hard feelings. Under Helps You Overcome large or small, faces a continuous pleb- the planned economy of communism

iscite of customers. Every sale is a vote the state steps in and arbitrarily deter- FALSE TEETH for or against him. He is completely at mines tlic price, or condition of the the mercy of his — Looseness and Worry fellow man the cus- bargain, b>' coercion, cracking down, tomer. He is not at the mercy of the hard feelings. From its decision there No longer be annoyed or feel ill-at-ease be- state, beyond adherence to fair trade is no appeal. cause of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH, an improved alkaline (non-acid) powder, practices. Private economic rights arc further de- sprinkled firmer on your plates holds them so Competition is a technique of pro- stroyed b>' excessive taxation for politi- they feel more comfortable. Soothing and cooling to gums made sore by excessive acid duction that released human energy to cal purposes. Whenever taxation ex- mouth. Avoid embarrassment caused by loose the uttermost for the first time in his- ceeds the amount needed for legitimate plates. Get FASTEETH today at any drug store. tory. Capitalism is the New Order. It operations of government, it becomes means personal reward for personal an instrument for redistribution of the WRITE fO» CAIilOG labor. Communism is the Old Order. It wealth. It takes away from those who ^rosman means reversion to the dark days of create and gives to those who only^ tribal man w hen all were responsible consume. No new goods and services 0 PISTOL for Cbndtmag for each and benefactor and beneficiary are created in the process and soon in- ^'f^^^ barrel, .22 cat., high- Av^OOS were equally enslaved. flation rears its ugly head as the spread *'^^r . powered air pistol for in- Capitalism is an economic system between the supply of goods and the At dealer* everywhere door-outdoor target shooting^ CROSMAN ARMS CO., Dept. 54^ Fairport, N. Y. whose social counterpart is individual- supply of money increases. In an infla-

52 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 tionary economy human misery is for tive. It was absolute state-ism. It was sale. The price is a vote. direct rule of the people with no limits A by-product of inflationary policies on the powers of the state. is willful devaluation of the people's Rome, not Greece, gave us our con- money. It is the quickest method of de- cept of free government. Our United stroying private economic rights. Con- States was founded as a constitutional trol of our money is control of us. Hard republic in which the people rule, not money — meaning money that is made directly, but through their chosen rep-

of hard metal such as gold and is in- resentatives. These representatives were trinsically valuable — is the hallmark of commissioned to deal primarily, if not freedom. Freedom and gold have par- exclusively, with political affairs. In re- alleled each other throughout history. cent years they have increasingly en- Whenev'er the state forces the people croached on economic affairs and our to accept a worthless medium of ex- form of government has increasingly change, such as paper, whose sole worth approached that of our ideological ene- is the imprint or 'fiat' of the state, the mies. A bloodless revolution has taken people arc deprived of their basic eco- place and w e have already made certain nomic right — the right to gold. qualitative changes in our society that RICHARDSON mobile homes Richardson offers you more living spoce for your Communist encroachment on the threaten automatically to achieve the dollar, along with all Ihe furnishings and utilities found in the finest of homes. capitalism it is dedicated to destroy, goal of our enemies, i.e., to destroy cap- When you buy a Richardson, it is a COMPLETE gains momentum by price controls, by italism, the source of all our freedoms. livable, mobile home — nothing more for you to buy. confiscatory taxation and by soft It is high time to put the locomotive Write today for the name and address of the Richardson dealer nearest you, also for literature money. It attains its full stature of dom- of revolution into reverse for capitalism on all Richardson models. "Remember, there's a ination — "totalitarianism" — when the must survive. Capitalism makes sense. Richardson Model for every size family and pockelbook." citizen is subjected to physical punish- It rewards success and punishes fail- ment for refusing to submit to violation ure. It penalizes the unfit — the lazy, the of his economic rights expressly guaran- intemperate, the inexpert—the man who teed by the Constitution. says he can do anything means he can Herein lies the difference between a do nothing. Communism rewards fail- democracy and a republic. The cause of ure and punishes success. It penalizes At the difference is economic. The effect the fit — the industrious, the thrifty, the Last! PHONE-SECRETARY

lor your home < .t- ojTlcc. tiio') is political. The communists call their expert — the man who can do some one Why Grope for Paper. Pencil. states "People's Democracies" and thing superlatively. Capitalism creates Phone Index, etc. whin Iwiinicu.^ r> in 1 PHONE-SECRETARY has tveriiiliUw uou many of our people call the United maximum wealth thus steadily reducing mill (or pliiirii/Hi. rinht at iiovr phone. SAVES TIME • SPACE • MONEY! States a democracy. Somebody is wrong poverty. Communism diffuses minimum Mai/ ijati Jar itsdf in a few tmnuliit. Ccintiiin.s; 1) Autciiiialif Index; and that somebody is us. wealth thus spreading poverty thin. 2) Memo Pad: 'M Chained I'eniil: 4) Dialer: .'>) Perpetual t'alenihirs We confuse the terms democracy Capitalism aims at equality of wealth. (4,'-) UC to 2099 AD). Religious Hnll- days till 1975; 6) Counts nionthlv is and republic because we tend to iden- Communism equality of poverty. Phone Calls! Hooks on phone . . or resls on desk. Ebony or ivory. tify them with our major political par- Under capitalism the workers are ex- FREE-Gold Monogram (State Initial). ties. Democratic Party does not neces- ploited by the customer, who is ruthless WORTH JUST $Q95 "X-mas cifi" Yourself & Friends! SEND Oppd. 10 DAY FREE TRIAL sarily mean a democracy and Repub- in his search for more and better goods _}B.OO Moniti hneh Guarantee LEAVITT MFG. CO., AL, 208 E. 25 St., N. Y. 10, N. Y. lican Party does not necessarily mean at lower prices. Under communism the a republic. The original Greek model workers are exploited by the state in of democracy was the collec- with its Spartan keeping policy of permanent • • • CTIinV AT UflMF Lesally trained men win higher posi- OlUUf nl nUlflL tions and bigger success in business and public life. Greater opportunities now thanever before. Prestige: More Money More Ability: More I byS"l,t'v.step. Vol farnisifarnisli all _ 1 train at home dorinif spare time. DeKreeDeio-ee of LL.B,LL.B. We text material, includinK 14-volume Law Library. Low cost, easy terms. Get oor valuable 48-page ** Law Training for Leadership and •Evidenc..-' b.K.ks FREE. Send NOW. ^ . LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITV.4 J 7 South Dearborn Street A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 1 1361-L, Chic.ijio 5, III.

PORTABLE LIGHT PLANT PUSH BUTTON START

' $143.50

io^;';v!'.ro-,1,pm $199.50

I In 25.1)00 .ralI..-ll'rH». MASTER SNOW BLOW pJeued

I plow

1 rotary mower

It's a rotary tiller

Sickle Bar Mower . . 542.50 Lawn Mower Hitch $ 4.50 Freight prepaid to >»( arean. Kanu pavmfiit plan tiraitalAf. "How have you been?" " Send 10c for Bik Fuctory CafftloK. Frpp with order. Prices o. check or O. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE f. b. faotorv. M lev buck Kuaranlee. Send M MASTER MECHANIC MFG., CO., Dept. 460, Burlington, Wis. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • 53 ,

revolution. In the political sphere, Cap- It does not lay claim to the absurdities ^ italism regards the state as the servant of a communist Utopia. It says honestly ' The of the people. Communism regards the to its citizens — EASIEST people as the servants of the state. "We give you a fighting chance. In a constitutional republic the peo- That is all anyone has. Shoulder your tool ple can have ivhoDi they want. Under share of the burden we all must bear you can Capitalism the people can have what to support the fragile institution of lib- use! / they want. The powerful weapon of erty. Freedom is not a pledge of care patronage is in the hands of the people, and coddling. It means the right to sink not the politicians. As voters they can or swim on your own. Each is set on his reward or punish. As customers they feet and given leave to run. But he must can reward or punish. That is why capi- take upon himself responsibility for the talism must survive. It keeps the eco- race he runs. Depend upon it, lovers of BEimzOiiuilC nomic and political patronage in the that race will be swift and sure and hands of the citizens. A capitalist repub- lovers of freedom will be FREE." TORCH lic is genuinely a people's government. THE END

Solders in a jiffy, burns paint,

I antiques furniture—lets you BIG BUCKS AREN'T KNUCKLEHEADS Torch complete do hundreds of jobs yourself ( Continued from page 19) ^"'^ money. HMIY $A 95 extremely dry, and beech leaves noisy dryly, that he'd often heard about hunt- UNLT O* Instant lighting, lightweight, ot your hardwore compact. Disposable cylin- underfoot. So I didn't move from my ers who mistook men for deer, but that siore. Replocement der contains fuel enough for position. That was mistake No. 1. I it was the first time in his experience cylinder. .. .$1.95 months of normal use. should have checked that brushy bench. that a deer had been mistaken for a man. Over a half-hour of silent watchful- Alost mental lapses in the deer woods FREE BOOKLET SHOWS YOU HOW ness passed. Then along came a fox. The are funny, perhaps not at the time but TO USE TORCH FOR MANY JOBS animal was a welcome diversion and I most certainh' in retrospect. /Mostly Send for booklet today. Write: watched the little varmint with inter- they're funn>- because they're so embar- OTTO BERNZ COMPANY, Inc. est until it disappeared from sight. Thep rassing. One such incident convulsed 286 Lyell Avenue • Rochester 6, New York suddenly, a red squirrel scolded from this writer on the occasion of an eastern somewhere behind me on the ridge. Oregon mule deer hunt, although I

Now when a squirrel sounds off it's didn't laugh at the time.

smart to redouble your vigilance. It I was hunting in the Blue Mountains INTRODUCTORY SPECIAL could be the little tattletale is only curs- with a cattleman, a grand host and com- Bargain way to try thij great ing another squirrel or a prowling hunt- panion. W'e'U call him Jake, although

made-for-men deodorant I Send er. 154 in coin for regular 29i size On the other hand, it might be the that doesn't happen to be his name.

—month's supply I big buck you're so anxious to get. Jake was below me on a slope, per- MENNEN,BOX1196 .NEWARK, N.J. But instead of turning around and haps 100 yards away, when the ka- getting set for a quick shot to the rear, thump! ka-thump! of running deer was I glanced at my watch, noted the hour heard, and it was plain the animals were STOPS ^-O&G-y WINDSHIELD was almost up, and said to myself, "The coming my way along a trail. The rap- NEW Chemical Milt boys are coming back." That fallacious ping of a buck's horns on the branches Amazing Discovery! Autoista assumption was boner No. 2. of dead evergreen growth, which cov- wiUlovtT new FOG- STOP Windshield Cleaner. Simply glide over windshield When the squirrel I ered mountainside in patches, cneniirally-treated Mitt — at once \:^\wd,i. sparkles chirred again the big crystalclear. Blurry mist, frost, sleet, snow disappear liko mai^'ir. Stop^ fogging. Sellshkewildl glanced over my shoulder and caught a was plainly audible. But the trail forked iple offer sent im- _--Jiately to all who flicker of movement behind screening just below me, and the deer ran past on /ill do. SEND NO MONEY-;«s« Dtpt. 1470, AKRON 8. OHIO brush some distance away. It looked my upper side, almost completely in- like a man walking. No doubt about it visible because of the dead evergreens. SHERIDAN ''KNOCABOUT" PISTOL now — it was one or the other of my All I caught was an occasional flicker of ItuK'jTorl. accurate, sin- friends. fast gle-shot utility pistol Then came the shocking sur- movement. It was clo.se, but no for all ,22 cal. rIm-fire amm-inltion. Safe, com- prise. Behind a narrow opening between cigar. I saw no horns, although horns pact, flat deslgTi. Ideal for tackle box, duffle two birches passed a really terrific buck. unquestionably were there. But also baff. or casual use. Re- able tip-up ac-tlon. He was in full sight for two ticks of a there was a doe or two, and I wasn't Lit SHERIDAN PRODUCTS INC clock, and then vanished behind some anxious to clip the wrong animal. Dept. 393-L Racine, W low evergreens. The big chance had Soon Jake came toiling up to my level. come and gone. Old Buster, chased out "Didn't I spook a big buck right past of EAT ANYTHING his hangout by our intrusion of an you?" he queried. I replied that he most hour before, had sneaked home, un- certainly had done just that. WITH FALSE TEETH aware that deadly danger was lurking "Then why in hell didn't you shoot?" a few yards away. I explained the situation but Jake was If you have trouble with plates that slip, rock and cause sore gums -try The question then was what to do. far from satisfied. He really told me ofl^ Brimms Plasti-Lincr. One application makes plates fit snugly wilboiit Obviously there was no chance of and ended up by .saying that he'd hunted powder or paste, because Brimms sneaking across 40 yards of dry beech those mountains for a lifetime and had Plasti-Liner liardens permanently to refits loose plates in a your plate. It relines and leaves without detection. I could only never shot ;i doe in mistake for a buck. way no powder or paste can do. Even on old rubber plates you get sood results six months to a hope that the deer would move into Then we separated again, with Jake year or longer. YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING ! Simply lay sight of its taking the uphill side. l?ter soft strip of Plasti-Liner on troublesome upper or own accord, or that the Five minutes lower. Bite and it molds perfectly. Easy to use, taste- animal would be herded my way. his rifle cracked sharply just above me. less, odorless, harmless to you and your plates. Re- movable as directed. Plate cleaner included. Money Neither happened. One of my pals "You get him?" 1 hollered. back if not completely satisfied. If not available at spooked out the buck, but he didn't see "Darn right," he answ cred. your drug store, send S 1 .25 for reliner for 1 plate. "Come on PLASTI-IINER INC., Buffalo 11, New York—Dept. 28-1 tile old bruiser and neither did I. up and help mc dress the critter out. BRIMMS PLASTI-LINER When I related \vh;\t had happened, He's a big one." THE PERMANENT DENTURE RELINER one of my friends commented, rather He waited until I joined him, then the

54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 . ——

two of us walked over to the downed Don't let a deer, where Jake suffered the embar- premature MmHIGH-AimlOW! rassment of his hunting career. On the 91 You don'r need a third ii ground was a fat doe, breathing her last!

hand with a Delta , He'd actually seen a buck all right. Reddylite. Hang it up. \ SPARE TIRE | But what had happened was this: Jake Set it down. Aim ^**^ l- ^ the 800-ft. beam was in a bad position for a shot when make you look old! anywhere ! Uses he first spotted the animal, and decided 6-volt battery. Many a hard-working man develops a "pot" and to move a couple of steps. In changing See your dealer. looks old before his time. Not because he's truly fat or because of middle age. The reason is his back Yours, less position he'd taken his eyes off the deer — 5050 and stomach muscles are constantly strained and battery for O briefly to watch where he was stepping, tired and no longer support him properly. If that's and during that interval the buck moved your trouble, you can . . . 360° Swivel out of sight and the doe bobbed up. Look trimmer instantly! Bracer Supporter Belt is the answer. Not a girdle or L E C T R I C the situation particularly What made abdominal belt, Bracer is a man's garment. Supports REDor/itslA N T E K N amusing was that a high state game offi- back and stomach muscles firmly, healthfully. Helps pull your stomach back to its natural position. Lets cial was a member of our hunting party, you stand straighter, taller. And helps you . .

and a strict "bucks only" law was in Feel better, too! PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG, ILLUS- force. I kept Jake's secret and the doe Bracer takes the strain off overworked muscles, helps TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report you work better, feel less tired. Bracer is made of niakinu- substantial incomes. Start and run your /book/I was quietly transferred to the rancher's Tube-weave leg straps can't own business quickly. Men, women of all ages, cool, elastic cotton. curl learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property or bind. Attached or detachable pouch models ManatJenient, AppraisinK, Loans. Mortgrafifes. and meathouse in the still night. htow with convenient fly front. $3-95 and up at drug, related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- each rooiTls in leading: cities. Diploma awarded. When hunting blacktails or white- men's wear, surgical supply stores. Get your Bracer Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. .Apr>ro\ed for World War II and Korean Veterans tails, it is important to remember that FREE BOOKLET For add,t,onal WEAVER OF REAL (Est. io.'!6i SCHOOL ESTATE facts, write today for free book- Suite 300 Law BIdg. Dept. AL Kansas City, Mo. both varieties are notorious skulkers, let, "What a Man Needs to Feel Better, Look Better," Bauer & GOOD-BY COLD FEET! and that no mature buck of either spe- Black, 309 W. lackson Blvd., Chicago 6, III., Dept. AL-11 Alen Our of Doors.' Wear the cies is disposed to step out into the open ® SHEARLING BOOT during daylight hours if he can get (Waterproof Uppers) Bracer Lightweight utility boot keeps where he wants to go by sneaking SUPPORTER BELT feet warm. Smart, dressy through brush or concealing evergreens. it's a shoe, not an overshoe. Made by Bauer & Blacfc 100 1 shearling lined Division of The Kendall Co; brown oil-tanned uppers, However, that rule doesn't always skid-proof sole used by U.S. Navy on carner.s. Money apply during the rutting season, when Back ROOSEVELT CHURCHILL Mac ARTHUR! CHUKKER $14.95 the lovesick, pugnacious animals often 8" BOOT $16.95 Guarantee Postpaid. For C.O.D.s add 50c, send $3.00 deposit forget what mama and past experiences 561 STAMPS ORDER BY SHOE SIZE 4 picture them \ 28 J. C. MENCH SHOE CO. have taught them. Which explains why Just 144 Field Street, Dept. L, Brockton, Mass. ROOSEVELT Memorials trophy hunters, who are more inter- from 9 different coun-

tries ; the new issue ested in horns than meat, take to the of QUEEN ELIZABETH; Mak» Montf at Hem* woods after a couple of hard autumn 1952 CHURCHILL set; AODBtSSINC ENVELOPES first UNITED NATIONS

frosts have ; 's FOR ADVERTISERS prodded the bucks to sexual issue DaVinci MONA LISA in color. Us* Typ«writ*r or Longhand activity. At that time the critters do Many other album en-

. . Full or Spar* like the . Good foolish things and get into jams. richments — Tim* Earnings. Satisfaction f-'^'R- HIS FAVORITE HOBBY Guarant**d. Mail $1 for Instruction Manual. An example of this weakness came in tEfpziG «lEd Indonesian set of Gen. MocARTHUR — are included in STERLINC.Dept.AL, Great 1, N. Y. Neck the last hour of daylight on the last day these 561 DIFFERENT stamps. Offered at $1.00 (worth far more) to introduce our approval service. Money of the season three years ago, when it refunded if you are not more than pleased. seemed the clock was running out on an PRICES! Elmont Stamp Co., Dep. 28, 960 6th Av., N. Y. 1 NEW LOWER unsuccessful hunt. I'd seen plenty of

deer, but nothing I wanted to shot. c^mmemcS'eatinff On the way down a ridge, headed back to a canoe which would take me FOLDING CHAIRS back to camp, I spotted two does feeding slowly up a brushy little gully. They OUTLAST ALL OTHERS were slightly below me and to one Unequaled for strength, side, and right there I decided I was in comfort, safety, convenience a nice spot to shoot a buck, given the OVER 10 MILLION IN USE break which had eluded me for ten Write today for complete facts! da>'s. So I sat down and waited as the AMERICAN SEATING COMPANY, DEPT. 179 does fed away. 901 Broadway N. W., Grand Rapids 2, Michigan A few minutes later the flash of moving horns caught my attention and HAIRVAC along came a buck on the does' trail, Instrument Keeps sniffing here and there like a hound as New Massage he moved along. It was so easy there Hair, Scalp Clean and Healthy wasn't anything to it. He went down in Removes embarm.ssin^ dii-t and dandniff . . . promotes hair health with electrical inassane. Vibrating rubber fingers a heap when the .35 cracked. loosen, vacuum suction removes, harmful scalp wastes. Soothing, enjoyable rotary massage—3000 pulsations per Examination show ed him to be a 10- minute—tones up scalp, stimulates circulation, distributes vital natural oils, makes scalp tingle for hours. VISKON pointer of around 200-pound weight, or patented dispo.sable filter—easily inserted and removed

traps dirt and dandi-uJT . . . inmiediate visible proof of rather he had been a 10-pointer before IlairVac.'s effectiveness. USE HAIRVAC DAILY to keep

hair handsome, glossy, better looking . . . scalp clean, the old battler broke off both brow healthy, invigorated. points fighting. Furthermore Hand-size, easy to use, convenient at home or away. he was Wonderful with a wave; no resetting ever necessary. No covered with hoof and horn scars, water, soap, oil —nothing to dull the natural beauty of and your hair. Already in use in thousands of homes. UL- rather obviously had been fighting and approved AC only. Complete with 100 filters, only $14.95, postpaid. Order by mail today—check, money tirder or C.O.D. Immediate delivery. Guaranteed, SIOUX FALLS SURPLUS STORE, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. loving all over the country because of course. H. C. Paulk THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NO'VEMBER, 1953 • CC 304-int Kansas^f Ave.a Dept.r. . H-32u 10 Topeka,t Kansas —

there wasn't enough fat on him to fry TURN YOUR ENERGY an egg. He must have been quite a deer INTO BIG MONEY in early October. There is really no most effective MAKE ALL method of shooting a prize buck. Some APPLIANCES Direct Prices and blunder into trouble on drives, but it AUTOMATIC WITH Discounts To doesn't happen too often. Old bucks NEW HOLIDAY TIMER American Legion ()pm>rtunitv for .imhl- know all about drives, and how to get Hotels tlo S250- Clubs, Lodges vlth naz- through drivers or around them. Usu- that and off auto- Societies Service Clubs Defrosts ee ready In I'akes folks every home. ally such gang hunts turn up does, fawns / iSchools. Churches e. f.K-tory FREE Training in Master Salesmanship and small "meat" bucks, but few old We sliow vou wavs to cash In on unlimited mai Ket- over WRITE FOR 20O.nr)(l.00n potential sales. Profits up to S8.40 on each. stagers. trouble looms. Grandpa Manufactured B/ CATALOG Start spare tline — you 'U soon want to be making this kind When of money full time. takes off on his own. There's nothing Learn all about this Guaranteed product made by famous - Re- THE THotWOe. COMPANY ?rritor chivalrous about him. He's looking out No st obliga 69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX. IOWA for No. 1, first, last and always.

The combination drive and still hunt Products • 217 N. Third Ave. EHD FOOT miSERV Ufll I irV works on occasion. Ordinarily that's nULLLI Company • Maywood. Illinois a silent operation, with watchers posted POSITIVELY NOT FOAM RUBBER HilDS NO BREAKING IN irregularly, and with one or perhaps ,mf| Housework two hunters assigned the chore of zig-

zagging through likely cover. Noise is Easy Without avoided b>' all participants for two main reasons: First, because the strategy is Nagging Bacltache not so much to drive the animals in any particular direction, but only to get Nagging: backache, loss of pep anti energy, head- Relieves painful arches, sore heels, corns, aches and dizziness may be due to slowdown of kidney them moving. Secondly, when silence collous, pain in metatarsal. Money back function. Doctors say good kidney functii>n is very guarantee. Send size — man or woman. important to good health. Wiien some everyday con- is observed it's much more difficult for ll.OO ppd. 608 Delsea Drive dition, such as stress and strain, causes this im- the deer to pinpoint lurking danger. portant function to slow down, many folks suffer TOWN MFG. CO. Rio Grande, N. J. nagging backache— feel miserable. Minor bladder And the silent drivers have as good a NO HARD METAL OR LEATHER irritations due to cold or wrong diet may cause getting up nights or frequent passages. chance for a shot as the posted watchers, Don't neglect your kidneys if these conditions and perhaps better. bother you. Try Doan's Pills—a mild diuretic. Used [inn successfully by millions for over 50 years. It's amaz- A skilled still hunter, working on BECOME AN EXPERT ing how many times Doan's give happy relief from these discomforts— help the 15 miles of kidney tubes newly-fallen snow, perhaps has the best and filters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills todayl chance of all. in this riter's Exccntive Accountantsuumand C. P. A $4,000 to JIO.OOO a year, And w opin- Thousands of firms need them. We t ain you thoroly at home in spara m that's time for C. P. A*s examinations or iiecutive accoontintf poaitions. ion the only satisfying way to Previous experience unnecessary. Pe sonal trainina under supervision WORLD S MOST AMAZING BARGAIN CATALOG of staff of C. P. A's. Placement co tnt.el and help." Write for freo hunt deer. The other methods are fun, book. "Accountancv, the Prof- That Pays LASALLE Extension University. 417 So. Dearborn St on but they don't afford the satisfaction SAVE^85% SURPLUS of A Correspondence Institution Dept. 11361-H, Chicago 5, III. gl9 54 EDITION -OVER 300 PAGES successful individual effort. 60 POWER TELESCOPE $3.98 Packed with SENSATIONAL However, one of the most successful VARIABLE EYEPIECE 20X - 40X - 60X - BRASS BOUND VALUES in WAR SURPLUS, NEW> telescopes In on* MCTORY CLOSE-OUTS and deer hunters of my acquaintance, a ^K" • tn.icnlficatlons. 20 powt-i GENERAL MERCHANDISE! tra-hrlRht Images with 4t) and 60 pow for extra long ranpre. Guaran Fully Illustrated. Thousands of comic book bibliophile, has reduced the to brlntr dl.stant objects, people, items in Hand & Power Tools, sports events, ships,

moon, stars, etc, , , sport to an exact science. , rful Outdoor & Sporting Equif>< 60 times as , Mostpow rln-;** i ^T lor anywhere ment. Hardware, Photo Sup- the money. 5 Sections. plies, Foam Rubber, Industrial His method is one of complete sim- lone. Coiit.Tlns 4 polished lenses. Also used Tools, Atrcroft Parts, Metols, ground and plicity. His wife puts up a bountiful as a powerful compound microscope. Dlrec- Plostics, Gadgets, Hydroulic i Included. Mass production enables us to offer $3.98 complete. Money Supplies & many, many more. lunch this Instrument at amazInK price ot on the eve of the hunt, including Back Guarantee. We pay oostau-e. Get yours NOW. Horlforil, Dept. L* 9 Your Copy Todayl We'll retu a quart vacuum bottle of black coffee, Criterion Co., 331 Churth St., Conn., it on your first order of $1.00 or more. liberally spiked with a dollop of Old LEARN 2263 E. Vernon Ave., Rm. 1 PALLEYsuppLY CO. Los Angeles 58, California Busthead. Then our pal repairs to the MEAT CUTTING village newsstand and buys a dollar's Train quicklv In 8 short weeks at To- worth of 10-cent comic books. Icil" for ,1 hrlKht future Willi security ''Was a nervous wreck In the vital meat hu.slness. BlK pay, full-time johs - HAVE A PliOFITABLE Next morning, an hour before day- MARKET OF YOUR OWN! Pay after trraduatlon. Diploma Riven. Job help. from agonizing pain Thousands of successful q-r^iduates. break, he's on his way to a likely area Our 28th year! Send now for l.lu. new lllu>trated FREE catalog. No ol.lljratlon. C.I. Ai>t.rr>ved. in the woods, where he picks a spot that NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING until I found Pazo!" Dept. A-37. Toledo 4. Ohio says Mrs. A. W., San Antonio, Texas affords protection from cutting wind Speed amazing rehcf from miseries ot and w hizzing metal. There he lays out Learn here the TRUTH about simple piles, with soothing Pazo*! Acts to relieve pain, itching inslantly— soothes lunch, beverage, rifle, comic books and inflamed tissues — lubricates dry, hard- cigarettes; wraps up in a laprobe if it's ened parts— helps prevent cracking, sore- PSORIASIS cold, and settles ness—reduce swelling. You get real com- down to a quiet day. forting help. Don't suffer needless torture More active hunters cross and recross IS IT A SKIN DISEASE from simple piles. Get Pazo for fast, wonderful relief. Ask your doctor about it. his view during the day, but he heeds : OR INTERNAL? Suppository form also tubes with per- — them not except to note if they're push- forated pile pipe for easy application. Many medical men now agree that Psoriasis ia *Pazo Ointment and Suf>f}osttOTies@ ing an\ thing his way worth shooting. caused by certain internal disorders which, when treated internally by harmless glandular substances, Eventually, of course, a luckless deer can be cleared up amazingly .. .so amazingly that clinical results this wonder treatment com- appears, and that's the ballgame. One show OWN FiXIT SHOP pletely successful in an astonishing number of lesions long standing start saw filing shop—either spare shot and he's through for the season. cases; with even stubborn of or lull time— in your basement or alleviated to an almost unbelievable degree. Called Harare. No selling. Hardware stores So far there is no record that it ever LIPAN, this new treatment is so different that it3 net saws for on coniniission you name is registered in the U. S. Patent Office. Guar- basis. Steady year round business. took him more than three outdoor ses- No experience neeessao. Complete anteed absolutely harmless, over 8,000,000 LIPAN itistrueti(wis furnislied. Easy pa v- sions with Tarzan and Flash Gordon to units have been sold to date. Ask your druggist for nients. $100 starts vou. VliV.K LIPAN or write direct for free booklet. Or send honkli't — ]\H>XKV MAKIXC lay in his winter's supply of meat, for month's supply (180 taV)lets) enclosing check F.XCTS- tell oblit;ation. No will <-iili. salesman or money order for $8.50. SPIRT & COMPANY, FOLEY MFG. • 1139-3 Foley BIdg. * Minneapolis 16. THE END CO. Minn. Dept. B-11, Waterbury, Conn. 56 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 )

TO ENJOY A FIGHT AT HOME HOW SUSIE WALKERS SIS DOLL ((.tniliiittetl from pa^e 25)- With Long, Silky, Wasliable SARAN Hair • She Wolks—Sits— the situation, protective cup, the "no foul" rule is And, to further snafu Stonds generally recognized in most States and there are so many approaches to the • Turns Head As She Walks Max Schmeling would not have been problem and so many differences of • She Cries—She Sleeps able to win the title from Jack Sharkey. opinion as to how a fight should be • Completely Washable • Unbreakable And so, over tiie years the rules have scored that in the second edition of the Construction undergone drastic changes, some for the Archie Moore-Joe Maxim light heavy- • Guaranteed Walking better and some for the worse. But now, weight championship last Summer in Mechanism • BIG—20" TALL it took the officials two- under the far-seeing eye of the TV Ogden, Utah, iUS\E DOES how it camera, the transformation toward uni- and-a-half days just to decide EVERYTHING Nationally Advertised formity has been speeded up. If, as \\ as to be decided. At $9.95 it way Alark Twain had it, a difference of The TV sponsor wanted one SENSATIONAL $5.95 opinion makes horse racing, consider while the International Boxing Club, VALUE-ONLY it plus 50c shipping or it boxing. In recent promoters of the bout, wanted an- what has made of CCD. plus postage other. The State of Utah wisely did nf)t months a "rhubarb" has been the rule So Lifelike you'll think she's a real j;irl walking with her little rather than the exception in headlined press its own referee-only, round-by- mother. Susie Walker is beautifully formed, even to the small details of finger nails, dimples and creases in her chubby arms and the bouts, and the high-water mark in this round system, well remembering legs. She assumes and wfll hold (no flopping) all lifelike positions. 20" bitter dispute which followed Rex Susie can he washed, dressed and undressed in standard doll deluge of petulance came when New- costumes. Her hair can be washed and combed; her pigtails braided York's Boxing Commissioner Bob Layne's conquest of Ezzard Charles in and set in any fashion desired. Nothing can go wrong with het working parts and she is molded of the new shockproof plastic that in Christenberry, reversed the verdict of that teritory. That was the one which assures years and years of loving play. Susie Walker is the answer the third man. Jack Dempsey, called lo every girl's pra)ers. Commended by Parents Magazine. Satisfac- his own duly appointed officials and tion Unconditionally Guaranteed! gave Billy Graham the victory over seven of the ten rounds even and SUSIE WALKER IS ALSO AVAILAIiLE IN THE LARGEST SIZE awarded the victory to Layne, two to MADE— 2 i" TALL. Nalioujlly adt irlhei} ,il $]^.'J'). Our price— Joey Giardello. S8.95 plus 50c shipping ox CO.D. plus postage.

It was only temporar\'. Tw

duster . . . both a-froth plete accord on 11 of the 15 frames. In reached before, and several times. But vrfith ruffles. Washes this was to be a new and concentrated three other rounds the vote was 2-1 for and dries in minutes. effort. Abe Greene, New Jersey boxing one fighter and only in the final round head, was appointed chairman of the did the officials disagree on all three $5.98 NBA committee which, through the scoi-ecards. \ Duster Coat $8.98 summer, sought to devise a scoring sys- It was wonderful— as far as it went. Gown & Duster Set tem w hich would meet with the ap- But it didn't go much beyond the con- $13.98

proval of all commissions within the fines of the arena in Ogden. For all Colors: White, Light Blue, domain. Finally approved b>' tlie along the coaxial cable the fans bla/ed NBA Buttercup at the official decision. verdict NBA it's scheduled to take effect Janu- The from Sizes: 32 to 40 izes: 42 to 48 ary 1st. Still to be seen, however, is how the TV fans—"A4axim was robbed!" ''^^ -$2.00 extra many states adopt the new code which New York still is the capital of box- follows prett\- closely the Minnesota ing, at least video-wise, and thus the Ten-Straight system. scoring system used in the Empire State

Christenberry 's legal fiasco also is the most w idei\- know n. It is a com- Satisfaction Guaranteed! pointed up the fact that the public's bination of round-by-round tabulation If not satisfied, return in 10 dayi and , , together with the Eagan four-point will enjoyment of fisticuffing might well be your money be refunded. , 'X enhanced by a little knowledge or scoring system installed by Eddie Eagan, - /Jv- FENWAY FASHIONS, Dept. 562 know-how; a clarification of scoring former New York Boxing Commissioner. 303 Fifth Ave., N. Y. 16, N. Y. Please send me the items systems backed up b>' some hf)uschoId This point plan, however, is brought I have checked: hints for interpreting the antics depicted up onh' in case of a deadlock on an offi- n Gown at $5.98 Duster Coat at $8.98 on the video screen. cial's round-by-round tab. Thus, if a Gown & Duster Set $13.98 42-48-$2.00 To begin with, the video addicts see New York fight ends in a draw on Size (Sizes extra) ^ 1st Color Choice official his 2nd Color ( 1 ) only w hat the camera shows them, rounds, the votes card for Choice Amount enclosed plus ?5f to which, being a straight-ahead, no-depth- the fighter w ith the greater number of cover postage and handling.

Send CO.D. I will pay post- pcrception stationary eye, all too often points. man price plus postal and portrays only a small part of the action Except for the fact that other sys- CO.D. fees. and (2) only what the fans themselves tems emplo\' the use of more points, NAME ADDRESS want to see, meaning -i victory for the the Eagan scoring blueprint, and its CITY STATE . gladiator of their choice. ( Continued on page 59

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • 57 MAKE THIS AN American Ccg'm ^ ^ ^ CHRISTMAS ^ ^ ^

LN949—Parker "21" Special. OcTANlUM point, ink-flow con- Carlton — Hamilton 17 jewels. trol, concealed filler, slip-on L975-10— lO-K natural gold. Design L979— Heavy-weight, beautifully en- Natural gold-filled case. 18-K metal cap. Black, blue, green, on side in hard enamel. Black onyx graved and enameled Legion blue cir- gold numerals and dots on ster- maroon. Gift boxed. Pen, $5.00. top. Smart, exclusive. $22.20 cle surrounding emblem. Outstanding ling silver dial. With expansion Pencil, $3.75. Set complete $8.75 value. 10-K gold. $27.00 band and Legion emblem. $66.50

L919—Swank Tie Bar to match L918 and LN945. $2.34

LN945 — Swank Cuff Link set, to L918 — Swank gold-filled Tic New Official Legion Shirt. Best quality match L919 and L918. $3.00 Chain. Bright polished, natural broadcloth, perfectly styled, color- gold. Center plate opens to ac- fast. Embroidered collar insignia. Re- commodate picture. $2.34 movable, heavily gold-plated Legion buttons enameled in colors. All sizes 13Vi to 18; all standard sleeve lengths.

White . . . $4.00 Blue . . . $4.25 IT J jS Legion Blue or Legion Gold Ties, with emblem attached as shown. $L00each 1 LN992 — Surf. Elgin DeLuxe Shockmaster. 17 jewels, adjusted. DuraPower mainspring. Shock and water resistant case. 10-K natural gold-filled case. Styled dial with sweep second hand. band and Legion L224— Sterlinc Silver Currency With expansion — Zippo — Famous windproof emblem. $65.50 Clip. 1 cgion emblem. Good L962 streamlined lighter. Lifetime guaran- weight, well made and of best LN665— "Director" Billfold—Smooth Satin chrome finish. $4.27 quauiy. Gift box. $1.80 tee. cowhide, black only. Nylon stitching, all "Director" features, including se- L718— "Protector" billfold. Hidden- cret currency pocket, duplicate key All Prices Include stitching, removable eight-card pass pockets, permanent registration, slid- case with tab closure. Hidden bill coming card pockets. Turned edged, Federal Excise Tax partment. Black, brown, wine and branded leather. Embossed Legion two-toned lamb. $4.74 emblem in gold. $6.00

MEMBERSHIP Aid Legion Programs ^ Buy From National Emblem Sales i8M INSIGNIA National Emblem Sales, American Legion, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana Reg- Midget ulation Enclosed is remittance for $ . Ship C.O.D. for $ 10 Karat Gold with full-cut Please rush delivery of the following: iim53 three-point diamond $17.70 $18.48

14 Karat Gold with full-cut three-point diamond 18.60 20.40

10 Karat Gold 2.70 3.48

14 Karat Gold 3.60 5.40 Name

Membership insignia available with silver- Street - disabled veterans, also with pin-back center for City State brooch, at no additional charge. Current Membership Card Serial Number 1

i Continued fro/// page 51) with the winner of a round credited loser propor- operational features, is considered more with ten points and the 10-9, 10-8, etc. It is used or less basic for judging fights. Here is tionately less— how it works, from the Riiles and Regu- in /Minnesota, Massachusetts, Rhode Is- lations of Boxing, Page 33 of the New land, Maine, Oregon, Texas, New York State manual: Mexico, Louisiana, and Washington, D. C, Coral Gables and Miami. Point . . in each round, tlie officials must observe: penalties are applied under this system, Do-it yourself "(1) clean hitting; (2) effective ag- three being subtracted for a low blow POWER or other major foul; one point for each TOOLS gressiveness; (3) defense and (4) ring generalship. At the conclusion of a minor infraction. round, each official must score each George Barton, who heads up the contestant's performance on these four Minnesota boxing body as well as the has instituted several innovations items, and if the boxer is just slightly NBA, superior to his opponent one point must which, ultimately, may meet with uni- be scored and the score of zero posted versal acceptance. An old-time boxer ." and referee, and a nationally known for his opponent . . boxing reporter, Barton's ideas pack a "If clearly superior, two points; if overwhelmingly the winner of the punch in the legislative arenas. One of them calls for the use of three referees, round, three points; and a completely one-sided round, with one or more each officiating two fights on a six-bout card knockdowns, four points." and judging four. All are former boxers with years of Some States and municipalities sub- refereeing experience and, naturalh', scribe to round-by-round tabulation are not handicapped by what Barton only, with no points, notably New terms "rabbit cars" as are so man\- lay- Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, and men judges, who often are swaj cd by Cleveland, and A'lontreal and Miami the crowd. Beach. AVisconsin uses the Eagan 0-4 - California applies the Australian 1 1 plan but with no round-by-round. In point system as do Nevada, Colorado, Jersey, the referee is the sole arbiter, and Washington. An even round is although Abe Greene, who is state as SVz-to-SV2. A close round, with a win- well as the NBA commissioner, recently ner, is 6-5 and so on up to a spread of persuaded the State Legislature to 8-3, the widest margin allowed. amend the boxing laws enabling him to Confusing fistic matters for the tele- use judges if he so desires. viewer even further is the local option Montreal uses three judges with the system of scoring in Florida and Ohio. referee not casting a vote. So does Cin- As previously noted, Toledo uses the ""0^ cinnati. New York has been contem- .22 RIFLE Illinois Ten-Point Split and Cleveland CARBINE STYLE plating this procedure of giving the al- {Brand New) the round-by-round. But Cincinnati and 34 inches long ready- overworked ref a relief. 4lbs..3oz. ^ _ _ _ Connecticut operate on a Five-Point- EXCLUSIVE WITH UNITED! Illinois has the Ten-Point Split or From GERMANY, home of some of the Must st>'le under whicli tlie winner gets world's finest huntinf;- and military guns, Breakdown s\'stem, with a draw round come theyepuperb rifles. Factory was founded five points and the loser 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0. in 1865inThurin(rin, Germany's great arsenal and scoring at five points to each boxer and home of the famous Mau.=;erGun Works. Today, the But there is uniformit>' on some plant has been moved to the American Zone and these graduating upward according to the rifles are made to riprid UNITED requirements. Bears the fa- major points of ring etiquette. Three mous UNITED "Seal of Quality" BECAUSE this feather- superiority demonstrated. A slight edge weight model is rugged in every detail. One screw take down knockdowns and out, except in cham- assembly. Shoots Longs, Shorts and Long Rifle (regular and is 6-4 and the margin never goes above high powered). Has automatic ejector with self adjusting pionships, now is used almost every- sporting rear sight and blade front sight. Sturdy Beech stock, 8-2 on the theory that a 9-1 round barrel has SIX lands. Blued thruout. CHROME plated smooth (except in Alass. Calif.) working bolt action. Amazing accu- where and 10-Day NO-RISK Trial racy at 100 yard range. would be stopped hy the referee any- Ammunition U>.- Im) Ki il;>v-.. Ifnotfully is available while the mandatory eight count on anywhere and replace- I fur full way. Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Okla- ment parts can easily be had if ever fund! Remit $14.95. Rifie knockdow ns, also waived for title bouts, needed. Low cost skilled labor makes shipped express. Trans- portation collect. D. possible this amazing CO. 's homa and Toledo use this method. bargain price. require ?2. 00 deposit. Mail is universally accepted. The NBA States Supply limited as vet. so act quick! Orders Onlv. None sold Although the Illinois Commission's UNITED ARMS CO.. United BIdg. to minors. STATE AGE. (and there are 41 of them) hold that a 9043 South Western Avenue. Dept. HOB- 178 Ctiicago 20, »!. script writer is somewhat verbose, more fight ending between rounds, with one here, too, the rules advise the ref and boxer unable to answer the bell for the GABARDINE judges to base their scoring on ( ) clean I next round, automatically becomes a hitting aggressiveness. Il- and (2) But knockout in the round coming up. TRENCHCOAT linois ranks sportsmanship next in im- But in New York the knockout re- REAL OFFICER'S TYPE! portance, deducts With Militarv sli'fve — points for lack of verts to the round just completed, un- N'OT KA(iL.\X, but si-t- same. bell lias jn shoiildeis, stoniipiece. less the sounds. This led to some shoulder straps, yoke Item No. 6 in this particular set of lovely disputes. lining, 2 his slash pockets, l)i-lt all aroimd. Wcatlior-sealed l).v IlnineK- instructions is a good one. It states that Still, we would be the last to knock uole. Sizes 34-4G. Regulars, Siiorts & Longs "points shall be deducted when a con- the value of controversy as a means of testant persistently delays the action by keeping the pot boiling. The "long GENUINE clinching, holding and lack of aggres- count;" Roy Riegels' wrong-way Rose I4»l:i:i:gfi\ siveness." The public wants action and Bowl run; Fred Merkle's failure to THE JACKET THAT in this era when the vast majority of ASSURES LONG WEAR touch second base . . . and thousands of (rcg. SIS) Kasha lined, knitted w,Tlstband» every fight audience is unseen but heard, "incidents" have inflamed the en- collar and cuffs. 2 slash pockets, other zipper breast pocket. Water repel- the lent. Navy & Brown. Sizes 34-48. demand for the same is stated in no thusiasm of sports fans over the years Pav pos SEND NO MONEY pins 9Sc t'Ol> uncertain terms. and like incidents will continue to do charges or send check or money order plus 35c Dostase. Print name, address, size. 10 Day Money The third of the major scoring meth- so, we hope, for a long time to come. Back Guarantee. Exchanseable after Xmas. Dept. A-2 ods in vogue is the Ten-Straight system. THE END Strago Mfg. Co., 211 7th Ave., N. Y. 1 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • 59 )

AMMUNITION WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT STROKES OVERHANG for a fraction of If your friends get hangovers, ( Coiiliniied from page 21 regular cost advise them not to drink. If they won't take your advice, Jolin Adams of San Francisco, also from give them OVERHANG, our Urs. Edw in Amyes and Se>^mour Perr>' new remedy with medically of Los Angeles, the latter concluding: proven ingredients, made especially for hangovers. Swell "Stellate ganglion block is the most gift for your poker buddies, acute effective treatment yet found for that friend with the convivial cerebral blood clots." wife or anyone who may have Nevertheless. man>' remain uncon- too gay a holiday season. 8 tablets. One in a Reload a whole carton for the cost of a glass of water will make a guy feel human vinced. Three AIa>o Clinic men, Drs. few rouncJs of factory ammunition. Shot- again. Packaged for laughs as well as relief. gun shells, rifle and pistol cartridges can Clark H. Millikan. John S. Lundy and All for a buck ($1.00) postpaid. No C.O.D.s be reloaded safely and easily with an Lucian A. Smith, rcccntlx' questioned CARTER'S LABORATORIES, INC., Dept. A, inexpensive set of famous IDEAL Reload- 2724 Darby Ave., S.E., Grand Rapids, Mich. the treatment in the Joiinml of the ing Tools. Send for free literature. A'liiericaii Medical Association. "Re- THE LYMAN GUN SIGHT CORP. sults of this treatment have not been i\ FOLDING CHAIRS 730 West St., Middlefield, Conn. better tiian those obtained in a group of patients not receiving stellate gan- O FOLDING BANQUET TABLES Safe-Lock glion block," the\- reported and pre- WRITE FOR CATALOGUE AND LOW DIRECT PRICES I * sented .Mayo stati.stics in support. The Gun Rack authoritative medical annual. Current J.R REDINCTON&CO. DEPT. 197 SCRAMTON 2, PA. Displays Your Therapy 19)3, recommends the block J Guns~~Protc'cts onl\' w hilc the thrombosis Your Family or embolism . . I is actual! >• faking place. Was THE GUNS Nearly AND AMMUNITION Itch . . . Itch Crazy ARE Very first use of soothing cooling, liquid D.D.D. LOCKED IN DO YOU HAVE A FRIZND Prescription positively relieves raw red itch-- caused Lv. e^'zenu, rri,-.iics, scalp irritation, chaf-

- Those hanflsonn.- siani.\- i^un i ,i. h -.alcly lock your guns In Avho ought to ha\c a subscription to the ing — oiiier Itch tii)Ui3ics. Grcaseless, stainless. the desirable di^iplay po.sitiun. Tlit' large drawer in the 4 and 6 gun racks locks up ammunition, hunting knife, pis- Legion Magazine? H you send $1.50 to- 43«! trial bottle must satisfy or money back. tol, cleaning gear, etc. One key unlocks drawer and guns. Guns can not fall or be taken out. Children, friends can gether with his name and address to — Ask your druggist for D.O. D. PRESCRIPTION. not tamper with tl:em. The only one of its kind. Holds all antique or modern guns, with or without scopes. Finely hand crafted in satin smooth honey-tone knotty pine or a The American Legion Magazine lovely mahogany linish. Circulation 4 — Gun Lock Rack — 24"x28" (Illustrated) $19. 9S Department 40 ACRE 6 — Gun Lock Rack — i!4 "x40" (like above) 29,95 GOVERNMENT — Gun Lock Rack- 24 "xii l " (no drawer) 12.95 700 North Pennsylvania Single Gun Lock Rack — 71/2" x 31/2" (no drawer) $6.95 OIL LEASES-$100 We pay postage on Single Gun Rack only Indianapolis 6, Indiana All other items Exp. CharRes Collect. You do no drilling, pay no taxes, may realize a No C.O.D's — Money Bac'( Guarantee it will bring him a year's subscription. king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write YIELD HOUSE Dept. FC]1-3 No. Conwey N. H- or call for free mop and literature. *50o« American Oil Scouts, Dept. L, 7321 Beverly Blvd. by Xmas Los Angeh<; 3 ., Calif. Wibster 7296 **There is even some optimism about nOO»» a Year! the third form of stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, long considered the most with ptiipetual Date &. Amount Bank. 25c a day automatically hopeless. In this mishap, an artery keeps Calendar up-to-date. Also or totals amount saved. Forces you blood vessel actually ruptures in the to save a quarter every day, or calendar won't move. Guaranteed brain. Affected most often is the middle mechanism and key. Use year after year. Start saving right cerebral arter\- and its branches, no- away. Order several. Reg. $3.50. Now only $1.98 ppd. Send order tabl>- the lenticulo-striate, "the artery ~ to LEECRAFT. Dept. AL. 300 Alhariy Ave., Brroklyn 13, N. Y. of cerebral hcnuHrhage." ^\'hy. it is

sometimes hard to sa\', but it is often because both the blood FREE FOR ASTHMA pressure is high and the artery is w eak or impaired. If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke In and gasp for breath, if restful sleei) is difiicult any case, the damage is double. FALSE The o.\- TEETH because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to in the send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for ygen spilled blood does not go KLUTCH holds them tighter a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA where it is needed. The brain imme- MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion; holds dental tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. diateh about the break is mechanicalh" plates so much firmer and snugger that one can eat No matter where you live or whether you have and talk with greater comfort and security: in many cases almost as well as with natural teeth. faith in any medicine under the sun, send today damaged, sometimes as if it had been Klutch lessens the constant fear of a droppins. rocking, for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. hit by a bullet, and other parts may be chafing plate. 35c and 60c at druggists. ... If your Frontier Asthma Co. 41-W Frontier Bldg. druggist hasn't it, don't waste money on substi- 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. hurt b> pressure. At times, a vein else- tutes, but send us 10c and we will mail you a generous trial box. w here in the bod\ is PULL HAIR opened to relieve KLUTCH CO., Box 5352.K, ELMIRA, N. Y. fiiis ami leeches were used DON'T FROM NOSE for this as reccnrlv as the case of Josef Stalin. Af- come swiftly. This is unusual. You con cause serious Infccllon by Just turn end. Surplus hoir \\'hile pulling hoir from nose Ordinary aneurysms (blood vessel sacs), ily, gently. scissors ore olso cJongcrous ond \ arying in size from a pea to a plum, improcticable No better way to ^1 Mode from fine surgicol World's most thrilling hobby - profitable home remove hair from nose ond ears itecl. Also in gold plofe, $4 20, ma\- form in tiie brain at any age and business. Sin^^k- Orchid plaitt n)a\ multiply than with KLIPETTE Smooth fed- To« Incl. break devastatingly inio many - f;uh as \aluahlr as llu- first. gentle sofe, efficient. Rounded under stress, most I Successful home grower shows you how! Raise

points cati't cut or prick ski l;;»>ri4cous CiittU'N as, (_ mbidiums. Guaronleed lo Satisfy «r Money Bath hemorrhages are small. There > Kpidi-n- may be drunis. un li\ inj;-roorn table. Bin-prt»(it only a slow leakage of orders eonu- from friends. nei^;hl)<»rs. llori:>ts. etc. -also Mail MOLLIS CO. 1133 Broodway, New York 10, N. Y. Dept. P-i blood dammed Orders. Illustrated secrets of the experts in simple "shfiw-how"

Enclosed \; $1 00 for KLIPETTE. If I om not entirety solisfied. I may returr* tl lan^uaK*' AND blooming-size Orchid plant sent at NO RISK. In- by an embolism or thrombosis. Only a within 10 doys for refund. cludes plan for startini; your own Iiome business. FREE-full few tiny arteries and capillaries may detHils-SEND NO MONEY. Write today. TROPICAL FLOWERLAND. Dept. 14-11. 4022 Wilshire Iilvd.» Lo3 Angeles 5, Calif. 50 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1953 w

Iiiivc broken down. Damage nia\- not \ ein into a artery to reroute blood in SHOPMASTER'S IN. be enough to cause the patient to lose the brain has been reported by Drs. sensittionul new power tool consciousness or to ha\c the niishap Charles F. McKhann and Claude S. 20 recognized as a stroke. Beck of Western Reserve University. The last is unfortunate. The patient This involved connecting a blocked may spend money in vain adjoining vein, the lower JIG on psycho- artery to an SAW analysis and other therapy for relief of end of which had been tied off, and v'TH Self-Contained the personalit\' changes resulting from using it ro revive a portion of the brain. the strokes. His family may also de- All of these are very serious operations. Motor mand that he "snap out of it" and per- What can you do to avoid a stroke? form tasks that should not be required Vou can, first of all, have a thorough of anybody \\ ho has had a stroke. annual physical examination, perhaps But doctors are much better equipped on your birthday, that w ill include your now to determine exactly^ what has blood vessels, your blood pressure and happened in the brain. Blood in the your heart action. Strokes do not come spinal fluid differentiates a hemorrhage entirely without warning signs. The plUQ from a thrombosis. A form of X-ray ex- principal of these is high blood pres- JU^ amination called angiography' reveals sure. itin^ Exclusive Combination more. In this a dye is injected into the Approximately one out of ex ery four Mitre Gauge and Rip carotid artery. A quickly made X-ray individuals w ith blood pressure of 200 Fence (at extra cost) makes precision work easy. Has a stroke, picture then shows the l)lood system of or over eventually may have full-rotating armature AC

motor . . . 45° table tilt . . . the brain. The wonderful electro-en- reports Dr. Harry J. Johnson, medical built-in blower . . . exclusive cephalograph, which records electrical director of the Life Extension Ex- 39" Master-View controls. Write for free catalog. impulses of the brain, and new radio- aminers, an organization of doctors SHOPMASTER, INC. three million isotopes with an affinity for brain w hich has made nearly Room23E, 1214S.3rd St., tumors also help to a proper diagnosis. health examinations, many of them of Minneapolis, Minnesota Some clots resulting from cerebral executives for the companies employing hemorrhage may be removed by sur- them. Early detection of high blood START A BUYING SERVICE gery, (jreat advances have been made pressure, w ith the oppf)rtunity to reduce off *-i home, spare time. Get big-name mer- cti.in

WEB TRUSS CO. Dept. AL-1 1 Hagerstown, Maryla.id

I'll Send You This Handsome SAMPLE CASE -FREE

and Show You How to Make Up to $15.00 in a Day Mail coupon lor this FreeToilorini! pleCase packed with 1.50 bcau- tul, bisr-value suit and oi'ercoat ibncs. Take orders from friends.' ' , othe

Because coats brinj?s more orders, we make it easy - you to get your own clothes without Ic cost. No - -Jice is needed. SATISFACTION (iOARANTEED, SKND NO MONEY. Just fill out and mail coupon - today! STONE-FIELD CORP.. 532 South Throop Street DEPT.C-70S - CHICAGO 7. ILLINOIS

STONE-FIELD CORP.. Dept. C-70S ' 532 S. Throop St., Chicago 7, III. I

Dear Sir: I WANT A MADE-TO-MEASURE SUIT TO WEAR 1 AND SHOW, without pavine Ic for il. Rush details and Sample ' Kit of actual fabrics. ABSOLUTELY FREE. I

AGE.

"Vou won't belie\ c this, boss, but I was jioinsi; to asK for a raise anyway." AMERICAN' LEGION MAGAZINt: CITY STATE -

THE AMERICAN LEGION M.\GAZIj\E • NOVEMBER. • — !

and four of these five symptoms, said EVERY BUSINESS, EVERYWHERE MPORTED FROM GUATEMALA Uses BOOK MATCHES the Indianapohs doctors, could be ex- pected to die from cerebral hemorrhage big dally ssions. Be a \\ ithin ten months to fiv e years. t laclory representative ol The causes of high blood pressure re- the world's largest exclusive UNION main in dispute but doctors have come LABEL Book Match manu- up with several methods of control- laciurer. Pros- ling it that have proved successful pects everywhere Feature Glamour Hillbillies, Guls. in appropriate cases. These include: NAIURAI COIOR AOJUSTABlf SIRAPS scenics and doaens ol other styles— Regular Double Books — Jumbo Books — neatly 100 1. Avoidance of overweight and strain IMPORTED COWHIDE SHOULDER BAGS color combinations. New. bigger porlloho ...... o-$||65-- makes this laslesi selling line a real prolii of all kinds; 2. Various diets such as the '---'$i|75 maker lor you. Write TODAY (or lull details rice diet of Dr. Walter Kempner of 9: - Order Today.' Duke University; 3. Surgery, the sever- ^'^^lAc \ 5oW By Mail Only $2 00 DEPOS.T ON C. O 0 S • ing of nerves which constrict the ar- cA^o] teries; 4. Drugs, some of which at least BROPAR BUBBLING WITH EXCITEMENT! 100 PHOTO STAMPS Earrings as gay and gala as New GLOSSY PHOTOS aa Year's Eve. Wee Christmas balls dangle 'bout your head. Earring IN STAMP SIZE ^l* your guests too! Glistening bright Made Irdin any photo, stianshul ui in red. green, gold. aqua. mrative; peitorated and jaimnied like .sta.nps. Ideal for letters, invi- pair; two pair $1.00 $1.75 r;iiions, announcements, greeting Tax Inc. — Postpaid — No C.O.D.'s ,,x (aids, pets or business use. Send Dept.F.I* 21-20 33rd Ave.. .^1 tor 100 stamps (or 50 double WORLD IDEAS Long Island City 6. N. Y. si/ei with photo which is safely returned. Free samples. Actual size Gift House Co., Box 464, Gt. Neck^N.Y. Professional "SCRATCH ERASER" RADIO & TV NOISES Makes Furniture INSTANTLY Scratches Disappear STOP NEW ELECTRONIC DESIGN —IN ONE STROKE.' l"Bell-Tronic" line filter eliminates noisy interference! Banish scratches, faded spots! caused by all motor appliances, autos, oil Just rub with MAGIC SCRATCH Iburners, etc. Simply plug radio or TV cord into BlJ ERASER — scratcties vanish in- Ifiller and filler into wall socket. $ m ppd stantly! Restores beauty to ^3 light, [Enjoy "Bell Clear" reception. I VW dark woods Manufactured by Try days. Money back guarantee. \e* Damar. Only $1.00 delivered. Full INo C.O.D. 5 money-bacic guarantee. Tube Wholesalers Box 364-AL 1 Rockville Center, N. YT Same type us«d by MRS. DAMAR STOP FALLING HAIR Dealers, Movers, etc. 43S Damar BIdg., Newark 5, N. J.

Explained In Free Literature WHY DON'T YOU WRITE? Anyone desiring booklet on heir growth ond scalp Writing .short stories, articles on current events, business, trouble may obtain free copy by writing hohljies, human interest stories, travel, sports, local, church and club activities, etc.. will enable you to earn e.\tra money. In your own home, on ymu' cmn time, he New LANOLE SCALP CLINIC York Copy Desk Method teaches you how to write the way new.spaper men learn— by writing. Our uniiiue "Writing 12820 Hickory Detroit 5, Michigon Aptitude Test" tells whether you po.ssess the fundamental qualities essential to sticcessful writing. You'll enjoy this "He said he wa.s .sorry he had to let nie go te.st. Write for it. without cost or obligation. NEWSPAPER INSTITUTE OF AMERICA but to tell you that they're puttiug on a SUITE S773-T, ONE PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK 16. N. V. couple more cleaning women Monday." INVENTORS AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINf; If you Ijelleve that you nave an Invention, you slioulil find temporarih' rcla.x the Ijlood vessels. out how to protect It. We are reclstered Patent Attorneys. AMERICAN Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect Researchers are hopeful of develop- Your Invention." and an "Invention Record" form. No obligation. Tliey are yours for tlie asking. ing a drug that will control high blood McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON pressure with the sureness that insulin rjeglstereO Patent Attorneys controls diabetes. the 146-X Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. One of most promising is hexamethonium chloride. EE YOUR OWN BOSS... While it may cause constipation and IN YOUR OWN BUSINESS various side effects, this drug may be HIGH profit, LOW investment "SUZIE" Snack Bars. Big $$ maker. taken orally as well as injected. Comjilt.te 6 ft. stainless steel unit . . . Just plug In. LOCATIONS: Markets, drug .stores and all public Of 58 patients, all except 11 re- I laces are HOT SPOTS. "SUZIE" Snack Bars feature IMijjular "Oranfie Suzle" and "Pineapple Sue" frosty drinks (no bottles) and "Suzle Pups'' — Coast-to-Coast sponded favorably to hexamethonium. favorites. Complete illustrated selling plan FREE! LEGIONNAIRE RETAILERS • Secure your future — Write today for details. Dr. John H. Aloyer and others of Bay- ORANGE "SUZIE" Co., Inc., Dept. AL, 1I2J So. LaClcnega Blvd.. l^os AnKeles 35. Calif. lor University reported in 1953. "Cere- Join the American Legion brovascular disease and heart di.sease Magazine Retail Advisory seem to be particularly benefited by a RUPTUREEASER reduction in blood pressure with hexa- Council and display this dis- U.S. Pat. Off. (A Piper Brace Product) methonium," said their paper. A simi- tinctive membership emblem. lar drug, hydralazine, remarkably de-

rived from a rocket fuel, also is attract- Doubl«...4.95 ing attention. LEGIONNAIRE CUSTOMERS ef» No Besides calling a doctor, what should

\\ somebody has a stroke in Roqulrsd you do hen Trade with confidence and your home or office? A hospital is the A strong, form-fitting washable support. Bark lac- buy with pride when you see inR adjustable. Snaps up la front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat t,'roin pad. No steel or leather place for anybody who has just suffered bands. Unexcelled for couifort. Also nseit as after this emblem. You are sup- operation support. For nun, women and children. a stroke but, if medical help is near, Mail orders give measure around the lowest part it of the abdomen and state right or left side or you had better wait for before at- porting a fellow Legionnaire. double. We pr..niv posta^^e Kxrept on CO.D.'b. tempting to move the patient. While PIPER BRACE CO. waiting, you can raise his head 8 11 Wyandotte. Dept. AL-l 13. Kansas City S, Mo. and

^2 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER. 1953 .

shoulder t)n a pillow. This w ill prc\ cnt Ky., after an average treatment of six mucous clogging the air passages and weeks, 135 were discharged to return MEN WAKTED8 may reduce the pressure in the brain. home. Although paralyzed, 71 improved ^ Make $15-$20 in Few Hours Do not attempt to rouse the patient. to the extent that they could walk im- ^ SpareTime-upto$210??a Protect him from chill and keep people assisted, 39 were able to walk with a Week FULL TIME — with Amazing with colds away from him. Oxygen cane. Upon returning home, 12 were D-FROST-O-MATIC! ; tents, intravenous feeding and all the able to work full time, 23 were able to . i Millions of housewives want this do sensational new Automatic Refriir- oflier ser\ ices that ma\' be required by do light or part-time jobs, 54 could erator Def'i'oster! No more messy an unconscious patient can best be per- odd jobs and v\ere almost independent Ijaii.l defrosting! Just jilug in D-FROST-O- MATIC and refrigerator is defrosted auto- formed in a hospital. Antibiotics, which of an>' care, 21 could walk but were mat i rally every night! Sales easy . sure when you leave D-FROST-O-MATlC on FREE TRIAL — housewives others, 17 were limited defeat infections that formerly killed dependent on won't let you take it out! Saves money, food. time, ror you — to $210.00 a week full many stroke patients, can best be ad- to the w heel chair, 8 were bed patients work ! Big profits up time—$15 to $20 in just a few spare hours! Start spare

. easily! . quicliiy, ministered there. (5 of whom could perform such self- time and builil bic. pfospurous husinuss . Rush Name Today for Profit Details There w ill be ample opportunit\' for care duties as combing their hair and SELLY of California and FREE TRIAL PLAN! prospects waiting! the patient's family to show its de\ otion feeding themselves) and 3 were wholly started in his More than 29,000.000 spare time Itush your name anil address today. We'll sure-profit in the often long period of rehabilita- dependent. A4anv of these patients were and now sells airmail exciting facts, proof and 1500 D-Frost- Free Trial plan. No obligation. Write today. tion that follows. The most unpromis- not onh' able to live but were able to 0-Matics a D-FROST-O-MATIC, Dept. H-10 month! ing patients sometimes come through. earn a living, thanks to modern team 173 W. Madison Street, Chicago 2, III. Ur. Wingatc AI. Johnson of \\'ake rehabilitative methods. Forest College recorded a 45->'ear-old An important clenient is the patient's ACCORDIONS stroke patient so helpless that he had own courage and desire to regain his DISCOUNTS to be fed by tube for 10 days but who skills. It is humiliating for a man to have f recovered, except for a slight limp and to learn to speak again, to have to teach UP TO 50^O FOR was active until his death from pneu- his left hand to do what his right did, VETERANS monia at 91. to have to learn to tie his shoes, to have Great advances have been made in to spend hours shifting marbles from DIRECT from / Sff, f Importer to You!^~^2i!lj the treatment and retraining of stroke one bowl to another. He needs all of SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, or you, patients by institutions like The Insti- the encouragement that his friends and monty back' NOW you can save up to 50% by direct purchase from America's leading tute of Physical Aledicine and Rehabi- family can give him. They should em- distributor of famous genuine ITALIAN ACCORDIONS Tli ADK-INS AfXHl'l ED litation headed by Dr. Howard A. Rusk phasize w hat he can do, not what he Send for FREE Illustrated Catalog! at the New York University-Bellevue cannot. ACCORDION MANUFACTURERS & WHOLESALERS OUTLET Medical Center, New York's (joldwater When Louis Pasteur, the French 2003 West Chicago Ave. Dept. t.glH Chicago 22, III. Alemorial Hospital and The Veterans scientist already mentioned, was strick- Administration. Carrying out the largest en with a cerebral thrombosis, his con- 00 Whoiesaie^i post medical service in the world, the \ et- dition seemed so hopeless, that con- Kruger Pistols erans Administrati(jn is also treating the struction was stopped on a laboratory largest number of stroke \ ictinis. Special that the government was building for exercises, water and electric devices are liim. Pasteur noticed and declined .12 CALIBER employed to restore function to limbs rapidly. His friends appealed to Em- SINGLE SHOT and teach undamaged brain centers to peror Napoleon III who ordered con- Crafted after famous German Luger design. take over the tasks from those that ha\ e struction resumed. Pasteur then began Not on air or CO^ gun. This is a small bore gun that actually been injured. to recover and in the new laboratory shoots 12 caliber lead bullets fired by

I4mq powder charge. Beautiful gun . Of 165 such patients at the \'everans conquered rabies and half a dozen idealfor target shooting. 4" steel barrel. Administration hospital, Louisville, otlicr diseases. the end Overall length 8-?^". This amazingly low price is due to small bore gun design, direct factory-to-you soles. Ammunition at stores. Comes with 50 bullets. Your money back if not satisfied. Limited quantity. Adults only. Send $3.00 to KRUGER CORP., Kruger Building Box a? ,Alhambra, Calil

Earn ^SOOCash plus 24 wood cord tables, plus 48 doubie decks of cards for your

Legion Post I No risk. Nothing to pay. For details write F. W. MATHERS, Dept. A.L., Mt. Ephraim, N. J.

Borrow '50 to '600 BY MAI L Confidential Loan Service Need I ey ! No etif 9 you BY MAIL, {ftO.UU to$t;uo.uo this etisv, quiL-k. confidential way. Ho endorsers needed. tJmpltiyed men and wu uf Kood churacter eliKible. Solve you: problems quickly and in complete privacy with a loan made by mail. Employer, relatives and friends will not know you're applyinv for u loan. No Endorsers Convenient monthly payments. Rush coupon — Kivina occupation - for Application Blank sent REPAY FREE in plain envelope. There's no oblitrution. ON EASY STATE FINANCE CO.. 323 Securities Bldg. TERMS Dept. H. 1 1 7 OMAHA 2, NEBRASKA Quick! Easy! PRIVATE ! STATE FINANCE CO., Dept. M l 17 323 Securities Bide-. Omaha 2, Nebraska I Please rusli FKEE Application Blank. NAME i I ADDRESS I

CITY STA^E I I AUrERICAN LEGION Occupation Age MAGAZINE Noali! I | ^^m»«nf vou want to borrow t

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 • To Cain Is To Losw "It's extremely difficult to be well Womefi should remember dressed," said one of them. "It seems that every time I That jfs true that when, put on a clean shirt, there are some buttons They don't watch their figures, missing. What do you think I Neither will the -me/i. ought to do?" "\ Jack Herbert ou should do one of two things," replied the other. "Either get married or get divorced." Dan Bennett Powor Of WoaUli Some people have the idea they are %vorth Lips Serve Us a lot of money just because they have it. HdwiE Lasseteu Germs in a kiss? A parade of 'em! But only a coward frets; To prove that we ain't afraid of 'em The .lones' Fanlt Let's! A woman appearing in court blamed Berton Braley with bitterness iicr financial troubles on her neighbors. Aquatic Mathematics "1 don't understand," said the judge per- Two fellows in Mississippi were recount- plexedly. "What ha\ e > t>ur neighbors got ing feats of physical \\ to do with it?" prowess. One, by ay "Well," explained the woman, "tliey're of proving his strength, said he was ac- always doing something we can't afford." customed to sw im across the Mississippi Harold Helper three times before breakfast every morning. "\^'cll," said the other, "that may be all The kid tried it once more. You could right, but it do seem to me that your see his lips stretched tight across his teeth. clothes would be on the wrong side o' th' " You could tell he was burning up inside. river all th' time! He took a good run. He plunged the Mont Hurst bayonet through the dummy with such force, he almost ripped it from the moor- Supply Scieiic*' ing ropes. The Sargc swaggered up to him, hands Insect collectors list 600,000 species, most on his hips. "Now that wasn't so very diffi- of ifhicli ate collected ou ivindsliields. cult, was it?" he said patronizingly. Shannon Fife "Naw!" the kid said, looking him straight in the eye. "It was just like you said, Sarge. Stymied All I had to do was make belicx c that there dummy was you!" They tell of a screen star who was Edward G. Classen unable to obtain a divorce. She couldn't prove to the judge that she was married. .Mrs. Patricia PR.\rr Beware

man who horses around a lot usually A Ain't It The Truth? ends lip a groom. Morris Bender It's often very hard to tell The real thing from the phony, Sometimes what's labeled "Food for Necessary Needle Thought" As the cross-country flight started, two Turns out to be baloney! "Vou are iiuliiied to spend strangers sitting together started to talk. F. G. Kern.\n money loolislilv!"

Pli'nty Soar New non-stop records Of plane ami jtilot I fi)id iiiiinipressiiie And merely smile at.

For, sxvatler in hand, I hai'e sl>ent the night Wailing in r'ain Foi a jl\ to light. Ric.hL'^Ki) Armour

Just IJke The Sarge Said

The Sarge had been riding the |)ants off this skinny little buck pri\ ate from Brook- lyn, out on the drill field in the blazing sun.

I hc kid jLisi couldn't get the "hang" of the bas'onet thrust into the dumm> . There

\\ as no kick to his jab, and e\ en w e rookies had to admit he lookeil pretts' l>ad out there. "Get in there and jab! He ain't gonna bite you!" The Sarge's bellow roared across the drill field. "Make believe he's yer worse 'Vou need nerves of steel around here — never know damn enenu ! \'ou hate his guts! He ain't

no friend of \ <)urs! Jab the hell out'a him!" when she'll burst in with a .screeth." 64 tub AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER, 1953 Its time to rollup your sleeve.. SMOKERS BY THE THOUSANDS >(^CHANGING TO CHESTERFIELD fhe OJ\fiy':/gareffe everto ff/Veyou...

PROOF of LOW NICOTINE HIGHEST QUALITY

The country's six leading cigarette brands were analyzed — chemically — and Chesterfield was found low in nicotine — highest in quality.

A PROVEN RECORD with smokers

Again and again, over a full year and a half a group of Chesterfield smokers have been given thorough medical examinations. ..the doctor's reports are a matter of record, "No adverse effects to the nose, throat and sinuses from smoking Chesterfields." A responsible independent research laboratory supervises this continuing program.

CHE^ERFIELD

NOW-TAX-FREE CHESTERFIELDS

. . . are available in 10 carton units for hospitalized veterans

in U. S. Government Hospitals and Armed Forces in Korea . .. REGULAR SIZE — only $7.86 for each 10 cartons you order. KING-SIZE — only $8.48 for each 10 cartons you order.

For convenient order blanks write to Chesterfield, Box 21, New York, New York.