The American Legion Magazine [Volume 75, No. 1 (July 1963)]

THE AMERICAN 20c • JULY 1 963 ECilOIV MAGAZINE SEE PAGE 16 SEE PAGE 12 SEE PAGE 18 The Great How to catch KOREA 1NFMIEN1JI THE PLAGUE BIG fish "FORGOTTEN WAR" SEE PAGE 22 FLORIDA'S VOLUNTEER July 4th —Independence Day THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 3rd grade, and Barbara Penner, 5th grade, Students in Philadelphia's Masterman School study a six-foot-high gionnaires. Wade Bishop, the 187th anniversary of the framed copy of the Declaration of Independence, which is one of are the youngsters reading the text as approaches. Photo by Angela Calomiris. 500 given to schools and other public edifices by Pennsylvania Le- Declaration, this July 4, The American July 1963 Volume 75, Number 1 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, N Indianapolis 6. Ind. The American Legion Magazine is Magazine published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., by The American Legion. Copyright 1963 Contents for July 1963 by The American Legion. Second- class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single copy, 20 cents; yearly subscription, $2.00. Nonmember JULY 4 - INDEPENDENCE DAY OPPOSITE subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. A four-color July 4th feature. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: WHAT WE MUST DO 10 Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box BY NATIONAL COMMANDER JAMES E. POWERS 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind., using Post Office Form 3578. Attach old Reforms in veterans laws, like all other address label and give old and new addresses and current membership legislation, require a lot of spadework card number. Also be sure to notify by a lot of people. your Post Adjutant. THEY DEPEND ON YOU 11 The American Legion Executive and A PHOTO FEATURE Administrative Offices Could you drink a glass of milk without Indianapolis 6, Indiana James E. Powers, National Com- the use of your hands? mander. The American Legion, In- dianapolis 6, Ind. KOREA - AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN WAR 12 BY EDWARD The American Legion Publications HYMOFF Commission: A tribute to the men who fought in Korea, Edward McSweeney, Armonk, N.Y. (Chairman); Dr. Charles R. on the 10th Anniversary of the cease-fire, Logan, Keokuk, Iowa (Vice Chair- with a message from General MacArthur. man); Lang Armstrong. Spokane. Wash.: Charles E. Booth, Hunting- THE GREAT PLAGUE OF 1918 ton, W. Va.; John Cicero. Swoyer- 16 ville. Pa.: Roland Cocreham, Baton BY CLARENCE WOODBURY Rouge. La.; E. J. Cooper, Holly- wood. Fla.; Clovis Copeland. Mor- The Spanish influenza epidemic in the last rilton. Ark.; Paul B. Dague, Down- days ranks inglon. Pa.; Dan W. Emmett, Oak- of WWI with the great dale. Calif.; Raymond Fields, Guy- plagues of antiquity. mon, Okla.; Chris Hernandez, Sa- vannah, Ga.: Herschicl L. Hunt. El TO CATCH BIG FISH Campo, Tex.; George D. Levy, HOW 18 Sumter. S.C.: Frank C. Love, Syra- BY VLAD EVANOFF cuse, N.Y. ; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Nebr.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, So many of the really big fish are Miss.; Robert Mitchler, Oswego, III.; Harold A. Shindlcr, Lafayette, caught by the same that it people Ind.; William F. Taylor, Greens- can't all be luck. What do they know? burg, Ky.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn.; Robert H. Wilder, OUR CHANGING JOB PROBLEMS 20 Dadeville, Ala. BY ALAN E. ADAMS The American Legion Magazine How the record of the U.S. Labor Department Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue mirrors the problems of breadwinners. New York 19, New York Publisher, James F. O'Neil FLORIDA LEGIONNAIRES SERVE WITH TROOPERS 22 Editor BY JOSEPH J. STEINMETZ and R. B. PITKIN Robert B. Pitkin Four photo pages of the Florida Legion's Art Editor Al Marshall volunteer arm of the State Highway Patrol, Associate Editors seen in action at the Sebring auto races. John Andreola Roy Miller THE BIG ISSUE - PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS ON THE QUESTION: James S. Swartz Editorial Production Manager "DOES THE U.S. NEED A DOMESTIC PEACE CORPS?'' 26 Ralph Peluso Copy Editor pro: REP. CARLTON R. SICKLES (D-MD.) Grail S. Hanford con: REP. SAMUEL L. DEVINE (R-OHIO) Contributing Editor PLAYING NO-TRUMP CONTRACTS 30 Pete Martin Circulation Manager BY WILLIAM S. ROOT Dean B. Nelson First of four articles for Legion bridge Indianapolis, Ind. players on how to play the cards when the Advertising Director bidding has ended. Robert P. Redden Midwestern Adv. Mgr. Departments Ray A. Jones 35 East Wacker Drive EDITOR'S CORNER Chicago 1, Illinois 2 NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 33 Publisher's Representatives DATELINE WASHINGTON 4 PERSONAL West Coast BOOKS Arden E. Roney & Assoc. 6 ROD & GUN CLUB 48 Los Angeles & San Francisco, Calif. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 8 LEGION SHOPPER Northwest The Harlowe VETERANS NEWSLETTER 31 PARTING SHOTS Co. Seattle 1, Wash. Manuscripts, Southeast artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed The Dawson Co. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material! Miami, Fla. & Atlanta, Ga. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1963 ) . SBRODIE'S WAR DRAWINGS him the court of last resort concerning d hymoff's opening article on the ser- the rules of any card game. vice and sacrifice and deeds of the Americans who fought in Korea speaks GREAT PLAGUE for itself in this 10th anniversary month DTHE he terrible influenza epidemic in the of the Korean cease-fire. Howard Brodie's EDITOR'S fall of 1918 competes, in our recollec- drawings that go w ith the third and fourth tions of 1918, with the last great offensive, pages of the article CORNER overseas, in WWI. So we have forgotten don't explain them- its magnitude — even that it was the larg- selves. Brodie w as a est single cause of death in our WWI front-line artist in there is not enough desire in the right armed forces. We have forgotten that two w ars — as a ser- places to make even the most reasonable ten million Americans were sick and a geant artist for Yank amends for the failure to give a day's half million died here; or that it wiped on Guadalcanal and notice when vets insurance was closed out out 12 million in India alone. On page in Europe in WWII, a decade ago. 16, Clarence Woodbury tells of the only and as a civilian art- As National Commander Powers points true, modern pandemic plague. ist-correspondent out on page 10, we have a day-in, day-out for Colliers in job, all year, every year, to create that BWHY IS ANYONE FOOLED? Korea. His sketches desire by massive grass-roots communica- n may 23, The American Jewish are the real thing, tions with our representatives in the League Against Communism awarded Brodle done on the spot. A legislature. "George E. Sokolsky A4emorial Awards" collection of his war drawings has recently to four distinguished Americans who have been published by the National Press, Palo LARGE & BEAUTIFUL never been fooled a bit by what the late, Alto, Calif., under the title "Howard was at the Legion's Washington Con- brilliant Air. Dt Sokolsky called "the aggres- Brodie War Drawings — World War II, ference in (March that Pennsylvania sive political warfare" and the "subtle in- Korea." The 51 plates comprising 62 Department Commander Louis J. Greco tellectual warfare" of the communists. draw ings on 11" by 15" pages make up a (who is a schoolteacher in Wyoming, Pa.) Here are some quotes from the four re- handsome $10 volume of combat art. told us that the Carnation Milk Co. had cipients of the Sokolsky Memorial awards: 500 very large, very His Eminence, Francis Cardinal Spell- NO MONEY? beautiful prints of man, Archbishop of New York, Military fjix pace 10, National Commander Powers the Declaration Vicar to the Armed Forces: "I condemn points out that if the Legion's legis- of Independence atheistic communism as an American in lative program for veterans welfare is to which it made avail- defense of my country, for while Com- be carried out, there is a huge grassroots able to the Pennsyl- munism is an enemy of Catholicism, it is job to done to create a favorable cli- be v a n i a American also a challenge to all men who believe in mate of opinion for our bills. Legion. The state America and in God . Earlier this year, after a talk with Pres- Legion organization "Two or three times in history there ident Kennedy, Rep. Olin E. Teague, offered them to any has been a peace that drenched the world House Veterans Affairs Chairman, told Pennsylvania Amer- in fear and held the fate of men relentless the press that no major veterans bills ican Legion Posts in its grip. And today like a chilling mist Louis J. Greco would be likely to pass because of budg- that would ( 1 there hangs over the democratic nations etary considerations. frame them, and (2 give them to some- the menace of a 'Pax Sovietica' which .. .is Now, on our desk, is a letter from Airs. one who would post them in a public being imposed upon Europe, with the goal '' Daniel Bugbee, of Vallejo, Calif., con- place. We tracked down one of the 500. of the dictators, One World — theirs!'1 trasting the S100 a month granted Cuban Mid City Post in Philadelphia had framed Former Ambassador to Cuba Earl E. T. refugees in the U.S., with the inadequacy it and given it to Philadelphia's Masterman Smith, who said what follows in ip58: of the $78.75 vets pension paid old, blind School at 1 7th and Spring Garden Streets, "If I have a jury of 12 unbiased people Wilmer Summerville, who died in Geor- which is a special (and remarkable ) pub- ...I can convince all the members of the gia recently after living some 60 days in lic demonstration school with an enthusi- jury within 24 hours that the Castro move- jail for want of better shelter and care.

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