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July. 1942 Vol. 33. No. 1

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The Message Center appropriate way to do honor to the Flag CONTENTS than through printing the enclosed in- spirational poem The Flag Goes By, com- great admiration of her nine- COVER DESIGN THE posed by Henry Holcomb Bennett (1863- By Harold Anderson year-old son for General Douglas 1924.) Permission to use this grand poem MacArthur, and the boy's desire to own has graciously been granted by Miss A MESSAGE TO THE FOLKS the painting which was used on the cover BACK HOME 1 Martha T. Bennett of Chillicothe, Ohio, of the May number of this magazine By John Cassel sister of Mr. Bennett and owner of the prompted Mrs. Esther Sheffer of York, copyright. WHAT DO YOU MEAN TO THE Pennsylvania, to write the prize-winning FLAG? 5 slogan: "MacArthur Is Giving His All Hats off! Bv James T. Mancan

. . . Are You?" The board of judges Along the street there comes awarded the original oil painting by Jes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, JACK TAR. TAKE A BOW 6 By Albert Richard Wetjen Schlaikjer to Mrs. Sheffer. Her young A flash of color beneath the sky: Illustrations by Jerome Rozcu son has had his desire gratified; the Hats off! The flag is passing by mother contributed an inspiring, patriotic A MATTER OF LOYALTIES 8 title to a distinguished painting which, By Arthur Leo Zagat Blue and crimson and white it shines, Illustrations by Charles La Salle is being in the form of a large poster, Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. displayed all over the country. Hats off THESE TOO SHALL RISE AGAIN 10 Mrs. Sheffer's prize-winning slogan The colors before us fly By Hudson Havvley was the 1664th of approximately 10,000 But more than the flag is passing by: Illustration by Williatn Hcaslip received ; the judges knew her entry only Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and by number. The name of the winner was CRASH GO THE BOTTLENECKS 12 great. By Lynn U. Stambaugh, not known until after the selection had Fought to make and to save the State: National Commander thanks dis- been made. Our are due the Weary marches and sinking ships; tinguished judges of the competition, A. Cheers of victory on dying lips; UP AND OUT IN A HURRY 14 L. Cole, General Manager of Reader's By Willia.m L. White Digest Association, Inc.; Arthur Moore, Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong land's swift in- COMICS TO WAR 16 Vice President of Hearst Magazines, Inc., THE GO By John Plimsoll crease ; and J. A. Welch, Vice President of Equal justice, right and law. Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Stately honor and reverend awe; IT S YOUR PROPAGANDA WAR 18 Mrs. Sheffer is the wife of Legionnaire By Fred Smith Cartoons by Mel Phillips Frank E. Sheffer, a member of the York Sign of a nation, great and strong police force and a long-time member of To ward her people from foreign wrong: LET'S TRAIN THEM 20 York Post. He served in the Navy dur- By John C. Redincton and Pride and glory and honor, all ing the World War. The Sheffers are the — Paul Brown Live in the colors to stand or fall parents of four sturdy children, two sons 22 and two daughters and Mrs. Sheffer's A. E. F. FLASHBACK Hats off By Wallcren time is devoted largely to her family. Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; EDITORIAL: Not a Short War 23 HAIL Old Glory on our cover And loyal hearts are beating high; WE Hats off this month, in honor of the i66th RETURN TO GETTYSBURG 24 The flag is Independence Day of the United States passing by By Richard Barnitz Illustration by Herbert M. Stoops of America. We can think of no more The Editors THE KANSAS WAY 26 By Frederick C. Painton Illustrations by Will Graven if wish to have the * ^ y^""' convenience you maga- sent to another address will be found on page 59. IiyiPORTANT* zine BIG BROTHERS OF ORADELL 28 By Boyd B. Stutler

The American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion and is owned GET OUT AND .GEE UNDER 32 exclusively bv The American Legion, Copyright 1942 by The American Legion. Entered as second class By John Noll matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, III., under the act ol March 3, 1879. Lynn U. Stam- J. baugh, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Publications Commission; Vilas H. Whaley, Racine, Wis. Vice Chairman. Members of Commission: Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; THE JUNIOR OLYMPICS IDEA 35 Raymond Fields, Guthrie, Okla.; Salem, Ore.; Harry C. Jackson, New Britain, Conn,; Jerry Owen, Theo- By Oliver B. Huston dore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Robert W. Colflesh, Des Moines, la.; Dr. William F. Murphy, Pales- tine, Tex.; Lawrence Hager, Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y.; Elmer Nelson, Milford, Mass.; William E. Fischelis, Philadelphia, Pa.: Claude S. Ramsey, Raleigh N. C; Glenn H. Campbell, BURSTS AND DUDS 36 Cleveland, O.; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Neb. Director of Publications, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Editor, Alexander Gardiner; Director of Advertisirig, Thomas O. Woolf: Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler: Art Director, Edward M. Stevenson: CONSOLATION ANGLING 37 Associate Editor, John J. Noll. By Harry Botsford Names of characters in our fiction and semi-fiction articles that deal tvitK types are fictitiotts. Use of Illustrated Fuller the name of any berson living or dead is pure coincidence. by Arthur D. The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —

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From Harold Anderson's cover design for this issue

WARBOMDS JAMES T. MANGAN

FREEDOM! To feel the balm of privacy; to choose made it so. Its design is surely the most beautiful in the

your own dwelling, your own friends ; to appear on the world, but some artist could, perhaps, create a new flag street and then go into your own church; to utter even more beautiful in appearance. For it isn't the design opinions; to win just recompense for industry, ability and alone that gives Old Glory its beauty. Rather, it's the his- for taking risks; to will wealth to your children; to be tory of our patriots, those pure and true Americans who comfortable, clean and protected from disease. Freedom put that design into valorous deeds and who, loving free- boundless, brilliant and immortal freedom—that's what dom more than self-advantage, had the faith and energy your Flag, untouched by suspicion or prejudice, means to to outlast the enemy. you and to all Americans. INlen made the Flag, your Flag, and men like you must But what do YOU mean to the flag? You have sucked keep it. In your country's hour of peril, arise! As a rock of its strength and drunk of its inspiration. But are you against the foe, as a furnace of living zeal, as an apostle adding anything personal, singular and special to the glory of triumph through sacrifice! of Old Glory? Could your Flag exist without you and still Let your actions and your spirit in themselves be a beau- mean everything it means today? Has your presence on tiful Star Spangled Banner identical in color, design and American earth, your life in American hfe, added even virtue with the Flag of your Country. Let your life be infinitesimally to the lustre of that banner in the sky? everything your Flag is—and be forever proud that it The Flag is grand and great because men, American men, represents a man and not a mite! JULY, 1942 5 ; !

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Illustrations by Jerome Rozen

fighting services, and from the looks of things no one will ever have to. When we get a chance we're doing a swell job along all lines, and this article is only to put in a pipe for the merchant navy. I

have a drizzly, dark night insist on calling it that, as it deserves it. Youand a blacked-out bulk shoul- ALBERT The lugs there in the engine room and dering through an ugly cross- the fo'c's'le, on the bridge and in the sea. And then you have a sud- radio shack, are in the war too. And, boy, den spurt of flame, the vicious hammer RICHARD are they in! Every naval man, every of an explosion, and a ship turning over, soldier based abroad, should remember or sliding fast into the water. Never a and keep in mind what he owes to the chance! She had look-outs on the bridge, WETJEN lads who keep the ships floating. The on the fo'c's'le-head, probably in the cargo ships ! The tankers 1 The transports crow's-nest too. But not being a warship just tough the sub happened to spot her. This is the vital supply line and don't she had no sound-detectors aboard to There's nothing to be detracted from any of us ever forget it! The boys in give her warning, and if she had she'd the glamor of destroyers smashing dungarees and coveralls, crawling out of be too slow to duck. She was probably through at thirty-five or forty knots to one torpedoing to take a chance at the an old-nine-knot tub faithfully taking a crack a tough job; you can't take it away next, are what keep the old flag flying. cargo of onions, canned goods or lumber from the cruisers cracking around at They wouldn't want to be called heroes. down to some army base in the tropics; thirty knots to blast a few enemy bases They're not. They're just Americans or maybe a fast tanker with oil for the and you can't argue about the big battle- doing a tough job and they're the lads fleet. If she was the last, Go d help all wagons moving in to blow anything out who are doing it and will carry on. hands! They died in the blazing oil or the water. And no one, not even the Maybe the Navy Department should set they never knew what hit them. Prob- Japs, questions the Marines after Wake aside a particular medal or cross for ably there wasn't even a gun aboard to and Guam. The men who man these ships them, even if they don't need it. But fight back if the chance had come. She are O.K. No one has ever questioned it might be a gesture to show we appre- was just one of the merchant navy, the courage or ability of either the ciate sheer bravery. These men don't go doing a K.P. job as usual. And it was British or the American seamen in the out time after time just for fun or even

Three times three and a tiger to those gallant fellows of the merchant navy who get the food, equipment and munitions to our armed forces and those of our allies, across seas infested with submarines. Let us not forget the grand job they're doing!

The AMERICAN LEGION MaiaSiu lor a bonus. As one guy said to me, world are the hazards, by and large, as the hold or a split steam pipe in the "Listen, fella, I'm signing again because tough as in the merchant navy. In times engineroom, and maybe someone going I just don't like the Japs!" He'd been of peace your sailor has to reckon on nuts with a knife after a spree in Buenos shelled twice and torpedoed once and hurricanes, collisions, reefs, fire, leaking, Aires or Port Said. It was and remains a he'd spent five days in an open boat (remember the Vestris?) a sea coming hard life and makes hard men. Whatever without water, and if you can lick that aboard and washing him over, or a boom- you may think, socially, of the merchant- spirit you can have America. fall busting and busting his head also; man today, you'd better thank God Probably in no other profession in the not to speak of such items as a fall into (Continued on page 42)

Crawling out of one torpedoing to take a chance on the next, these fellows are really tough hombres

JULY, 1942 7 Illustrations by CHARLES LaSALLE A lUATTER OF

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AS OTTO HIMMELSMANN put young lady she iss al- /% the last sparkling bottle of ready, und like last / % fresh-made magnesia into the week only it seems icebox in the backroom of his you were for her nip- drugstore, the clock in the display win- ples buying." dow out front struck eleven. A smile of The woman thrust contentment crossed the round moon of an empty prescription Otto's face. Right on the dot of time, bottle across the his morning tasks were finished. counter. "Look, Mr. Upstairs, in the kitchen of the two- Himmelsmann. Could story-and basement wooden building on you—I want a copy of the edge of the Bronx, Gretchen would this prescription." Her have just finished her own morning tasks eyes evaded his. and be preparing Mittagsessen. Carl, their "A copy?" Otto was small son, called it lunch, but eighteen puzzled. "Don't tell

years in this America had still not taught me you're from the Otto to forget all the old words, or the old neighborhood old customs of his native land. moving." Eighteen years ago Gretchen had been "No." Workworn fingers slim, golden-haired, Otto himself slender, fumbled nervously at the edge without the paunch across which he of her threadbare coat. "Bill could scarcely button his long, tan lab- —we—well, the way things oratory coat. Eighteen years ago they are. Bill thinks we ought to—to take our But they say—Oh! Please let's not talk had had only their hopes and their will trade to the chain store around on Water about it. Please let me have the copy to work. Now they owned the pharmacy Street." and— free and clear, and the house, and their "The way things are?" Otto tugged at "The copy you shall have, but first neighbors were friends more than cus- a wing of his walrus mustache to hide his you will tell me what they are saying, tomers lips' sudden quiver. "What things?" He my old neighbors, that has sent you to The bell on the street door tinkled. was very careful to keep his voice steady, ask for it." ." Otto ran a fat-cushioned palm over the his china blue eyes blank. "What are you "Well. . Mrs. Jameson picked up flaxen bristle that covered his round pate, talking about?" the bottle and put it down again. "They went through the green curtain that "Well, with Bill just promoted to say it's funny you bought— this house hung in the doorway at the end of the foreman of the night shift at Atlas and right behind the Atlas prescription counter. you bein' a Na— a German— "Um Gottes Willen! When this house

Mrs. Jameson came . toward him "I will poison you, hem?" he broke in, I have bought the Atlas Company sew- through the cool dimness, between white- heavy with sarcasm. "Because your man ing machines was making." painted, heavy-framed showcases and a foreman is und makes parts for ma- "Yeah, But they say the Army had well-stocked shelves. "Good morning," chine guns, you are afraid I will poison plarts even then for what it should do Otto greeted her, waiting behind the sales you and him und your kinder that I have in case—Oh, I think it's crazy myself, counter at the rear. "Your daughter from babies helped you to bring up." but there are all the stories you read Mary," he recalled, "I saw pass by. A "Of course not, Mr. Himmelsmann. about Fifth Columnists living in France and Belgium and everywhere, years and years— write "Enough ! Wait while the copy I for you." Otto stalked through the green curtain proudly enough, but once in the backroom he had to hold on to the counter and breathe deep before the sick feeling in his stomach got better. Then he lifted down the huge book in which the pre- scriptions were pasted and turned to the page on w^hich he'd put Mrs. Jameson's, five years ago. "Copy," he wrote in his angular script. "Number 127635. March sixth, ." 1936. . . March sixth. The date on the paper Otto Himmelsmann took from a long, box when Mrs. Jameson "Tell me, Herr Himmelsmann. You narrow green on page have relatives in the old country?" (Continued 52)

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On our own Independence Day we Americans send Tributes by HUDSON HAWLEY greetings to the nations of Europe temporarily un> der the tyrant's heel. Be of good cheer, gallant NORiVAY men and women, comrades of ours in the battle for Ye, who love tvith fond devotion human freedom. The long night is passing, the first JSorway's mountain domes. faint glimpses of the dawn appear in the sky. You Rising storm-lashed o'er the ocean. too shall again be free. Herewith we salute you. Take heart I Across the narrow North Sea, many of us are not so far away from your homeland. We know you well, sturdy sons of CZECHOSLOVAKIA the Vikings, many of whose kinfolk came to our land over the Lpt sweet hope in us awaken years, and whose intrepid merchant navy, despite Quishng and That the times will be restoring his minions, is still silently, stubbornly serving on all the seven dory to our hills forsaken— seas ! We keep well informed of your troubles and your triumphs the merciless executions of your bravest, the indomitable resistance Yes, gallant sons and daughters of Czechoslovakia, first victims of your pastors and teachers, the refusal of your stalwart youth to of Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich ! We know well of your un- be modeled after the pagan pattern of the insolent invader ; and ceasing resistance to the bemonocled and bespurred "overlords," we beg you to hold as worthy "sons of dear Norway, proud of the sabotage at Skoda and Brno, of your patriots' continually O and ancient kingdom" harassing the enemy's communications, of your active, not passive, opposition to him in "golden Prague." With you we mourn your present-day martyrs; we know of your 400-year-old struggle DENMARK for freedomj we remember earlier martyrs who like Jan Huss King Christian stood, by lofty mast. walked singing into the flames. And we know that, as sure as In smoke and mist- dawn follows night, there will once again stand a great democratic Yes, sons and daughters of Denmark, whose fair, orderly and statesman of your own choosing, like the beloved patriarch peaceful country was stolen from you by the most flagrant of Masaryk or his disciple and follower, Benes, waving down at you breaches of friendship, solemnly sworn to you by the Austrian- from the balcony of Hrad<;any castle, on the day of liberation 1 born bandit, you shall sing that grand old song again ! One of the cleanliest and most prosperous of the northern nations, whose POLAND sons and daughters have ever given of their brains and skill, on Poland's not yet dead in slavery. coming here, to this their new homeland, we know well of your She once more shall reign valiant attitude in face of the arrogant swine in gray-green uniform, of the services your exiled kinsmen have given our common Yes, men and women of Poland ! Over five million of your sturdy, strong, stubborn race are already among us Americans, cause. The day is not far off when the pillage of your charming either in service uniform or doing the back-breaking work of grazing lands, the stifling of your magnificent capital, Copenhagen, turning out more planes, and tanks and ships, to wipe out for all will be ended, and when all that you honest, straight-thinking time the bestial brutaUty that smote your fair cities and towns Northern folk have given the world as examples in management, civic will and farms in that ghastly autumn of 1939. We know of your in agrarian science, in betterment, again be shared by secret newspapers and radio sets; of the strange all men of good will. "Path of the Dane to fame and might; dark, underground way !" that German munitions trains so often go skyward instead of rolUng wave eastward; of the vahant help that escaped Poles abroad are furnishing the Allies on land, on sea and in the air. We know of NETHERLANDS the conqueror's planned systematic rape of the flower of your Who boasts of true Hollandish blood. womanhood, and of all he has visited on you in repression, in Whose heart abhors the wrong. spiritual privation, in hunger and disease. But be of good cheer; May join our goodly brotherhood ... a ghostly, gallant company, our own adopted Pulaski and Kos- Our President called you for all time "the indomitable Dutch" ciuszko among them, look down on your anguish, and sing with us: you, our allies in the Far East, the South Atlantic, and over-

! sailors a vast empire What she lost, her children's bravery Atlantic Merchants and who have welded Soon will free again! around the world, whose shores first gave welcome to our Pilgrim 10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ! !

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Picture by WILLIAM HEASLIP Ardennes to the Channel coast, from Liege, Dinant, and Namur, to Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges. Once again shall twice-sacked Louvain, martyr university of the world, arise in renewed scholastic Fathers—of a race that has given to our own nation so many splendor; and from the belfry of Malines to the memorial tower sturdy adopted sons in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and of Ypres the carillons shall trill out a new Te Deum of victory shall the prison of St. Gilles be the dungeon of patriots, Delaware, for three centuries ! We know how you are standing up No more to the crass goose-steppers; we remember with anger their merci- nor shall the crackle of the firing squad be heard at dawn . . . less bombing of already surrendered Rotterdam and, farther back Allele! ; in history, we recall your years-long resistance to Philip II and the execrable Alva. Yes, laughter once again shall ring out over FRANCE your spotless streets and stately old squares. Your pastors shall Arise, ye sons of La Patrie, once again preach the Word of God as they feel it, without Nazi The day of glory has arrived ... spies, pencil poised in hand, taking notes to denounce them ; and From the cold but ever lovely north of France, from the home- your admirable craftsmen will no longer be deported into Germany land of the Maid of Domremy, where sleep the thousands of our as slave laborers. But above all we thank you for your "Heil comrades of the last war, to the blue-skied coasts of the Mediter- Rembrandt !" in honor of your immortal painter, in response to ranean, the revolt has for months been rumbling, as it has in the ubiquitous "Heil Hitler!" in honor of the demented paper- rugged Normandy and Brittany, lands of "strong heads and stout hanger. Yes, the country of William the Silent shall surely one day hearts"—in spite of the insensate butchery of the Nazi executioners, triumph over that of Adolf the Prattler. the famishing of once-smiling babies, the organized spoliation of a great toiling, thinking, thrifty, soil-loving people whom two million of us came to know and understand. In the unforgettable Our Father in Heaven, Whose powerful hand makes states, lines of Le Chant die Depart, we sing with you: or lays them low Tremble, enemies of France, Protect Thy Luxembourger land from foreign foe or woe Kings drunk with blood and with pride. Hail to you, our friends and allies of the Grand Duchy of The sovereign people advances: Tyrants, descend into your coffins! Luxembourg ! Many of us veterans of the first American Ex- peditionary Forces, as you know, have fond memories of your Yes, courage, comrades of France ! Even all the way into rocky hospitality, of your fine, simple home-life, of your smiling towns inland Auvergne. That province's last disgrace was to have pro- and villages "that looked almost like America." We visited you duced a Laval. We remember it as the birthplace of Lafayette . . . on our way to do a certain policing job in Germany, in late 1918 A century and a half before the men who cringed in \'ichy. there and 1919. Should our sons and nephews and cousins pass your were the men who fought and won at Valmy. "Their nourishment

again, . way on a similar mission, please remember—ours is an was glory, they marched without bread and without shoes . . Army of Freedom. but ever sought the glorious route which led them to immortality." The Regiment of Sambre-et-Meuse is still on the march BELGIUtA After the centuries of slavery. YUGOSLAVIA The Belgian, emerging from his tomb ... Serbians rise, your manhood find.

Cast your banners to the wind . . . La Brabanqonne, mighty hymn of Van Campenhout, is your

eternal promise that you shall arise again, our Belgian allies ! The All hail. General Draga Mihailovitch, and your unbeatable

Grande Place of Brussels, that exquisite enclosure of the finest patriot army of the hills and mountain passes ! Serbs of the ever- of the architecture of the Middle Ages, shall again resound with fighting fiber, who have for over a year so amply proved that a rollicking song and be gay with flowers, as a free bourgmeistre blitz can never be final when the populace is determined to fight and his echevins once again proceed in triumph to your resplendent back, tooth and nail ! Robin Hood of the Balkans, and all your

old Hotel de Ville. Rosy-cheeked children shall once again romp gallant men, we salute you ! Despite the greed, rapine and whole- in the Bois de la Cambre; the halls of your grandiose Palais de sale slaughter of your countrymen by the blond brutes of .^dolf Justice, towering over your ever-buoyant capital, shall again hear and the swarthy spawn of Benito, you have led them such a invoked "the law anci liberty;" and so shall it be from the (Continued on page 56)

JULY, 1942 II LYNN U. STAMBAUGH NATIONAL COMMANDER THE AMERICAN LEGION

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we're winning is the very many things NOW, not Prelude to Victory — tomorrow. for the United Nations Acquisition of some of these things was under way in the field before Pearl Harbor, but since

the Sneak of the Seventh, all things have changed. Quanti- is grim, grimmer than you and They 're SAMI have ever seen him. When he bombers gets this way, his face mirrors his mood. The crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, brought there, perhaps, by a never-wholly-absent and excellent sense of humor, have sort of flattened themselves out. What's left of them seems to emphasize the steely glint that has replaced the laughter, the freedom, the good will that normally sparkle from his blue orbs. Like twin, lowering clouds his bushy, unkempt eyebrows are drawn downward and together across the bridge of his nose until the mid-forehead furrow between them as well as the wrinkles in his brow are deeper than ever. Sam's innate and never-ending gener- The PT boats, tough on subs, osity has always been expressed by his are being produced in quantity rather large mouth, the corners of which were generally tipped upward in a sort of "life is swell" expression. The comers are down now, way down, and the deeply etched lines about his lips enhance his appearance of stern determination. His abundant gray hair is disarrayed from frequent rumplings by his long, sinewy, gnarled fingers, and his caricaturish white beard seems to bristle. Yes, our Uncle Sam is grim with a cold, deadly

grimness that bodes ill for somebody. As Sam sits at his desk cluttered with reports, orders, citations, and sheafs of papers containing long lists of names, he gazes pensively at a huge map of the United States that covers one entire wall The huge tank makes an egg- of his office. The map is heavily peppered shell out of a husky army truck with little colored pins. Each pin represents one phase of progress in the chore ties, amounts, and numbers that once Sam has undertaken—a chore so fan- appeared stupendous are Lilliputian to- tastic in its magnitude yet so realistic in day. They're now so astronomically in- its necessity as to dwarf anything this clined as to be almost frightening. But world has ever seen. To help insure the despite their mammoth proportions Sam, continuation of our way of life, Sam with reports before him of the first six proposes to put millions of men under months of progress, doesn't seem too arms in all near and far corners of this dissatisfied as he scans the sheet which vast globe—Iceland, Australia, England, gives the status of shipbuilding, one of Alaska, Libya, Panama, Madagascar, the most important, for without boats, Honolulu, and, eventually, Japan and Germany. To do this Sam must make Destroyers on the prowl to ferret and have so very, very much of so very, out the U-boats menacing shipping —2

boats every 12 months. Then, in early

1 941, the program was stepped up to 400 a year, a move which resulted in the birth of the Liberty ship, more boats, and still more designed for boats to transport men and minimum cost, rapidity of construction, what they need, those ten- and simplictiy of operation. tacles of territorism will Seven more new shipyards with 51 creep ever closer. ways sprang up almost overnight. The first Liberty From 1922 to 1937 but ship, displacing 14,100 tons, two ocean-going cargo ves- like all her sister ships, eased her 441- foot length sels, other than tankers, were down the greased skids on produced in American ship- September 27, 1941. Last January Sam issued yards. Late in '37 Sam's a directive to his Maritime Com- Maritime Commission began mission to increase ship production to 1 million deadweight tons later, in- a 1 0-year shipbuilding pro- — he gram with an immediate an- creased this to 18 million tons to be completed by the end of 1943, the most These anti-aircraft guns along stupendous ship construction schedule the coast speak with authority ever conceived. The answer? Today, instead of the 10 shipyards of 1937, with 46 ways capable of producing such ships, Sam owns 60 yards with more than 300 ways in which, day and night, three- quarters of a million people cut, shape, rivet, and weld steel to produce the 2300 Liberty carriers of liberty-insuring car- goes. Each month thousands of apprentice shipbuilders receive training in new skills at these yards; an estimated million more industrial artisans in over 500 manufacturing plants scattered in 32 States produce materials and parts. On May 2 2d last. National Maritime Day, The rubber boat, to hit, gets tiized stuff has what it takes hard thirty cargo vessels of all types went them across rivers effectively down to the waters in nineteen shipyards ^ located on all coasts and the Great Lakes and inaugurated a two-ships-a-day pro-

duction rate. This is part of Sam.s answer to the loss of 154 United Na- tions merchant ships from December 7th

to early May. The rest of the answer is that the two-a-day rate will be stepped up by this fall to three-a-day. Of course, the final and most con- clusive part of Sam's ultimately em- phatic answer to Axis sinkings of merchant and other ships belonging to him and to his allies lies in the belligerent portion of Sam's shipbuilding program that phase that includes warships of all It in really record time Liberty ships are being fitted kinds—battlewagons, aircraft carriers, out fast all over the U. S. cruisers, destroyers, submarines, MTB boats, tenders, minesweepers, and all the nual goal of 50 ships. Although by rest of the component parts fighting January, 1941 there were 18 yards with of a Pearl 70 ways capable of producing big ocean- navy. As of Harbor Day, Sam had going vessels, America's role as arsenal 17 battleships, with four more of the for the embattled democracies and Sam's giant 35,000-ton units like the North own plans for a bigger and better Navy Carolina launched and well along in con- had filled these yards to overflowing. struction. Other battleships, on the ways, are being rushed Meanwhile, the original goal of 50 ships to completion. per year had been doubled, then re- Eventually, Sam will have 32 big bat- doubled, to become 200 mighty cargo tlewagons roaming the seven seas. He will have, when his present warship building program is completed, 18 air- The aircraft carrier with its covey craft carriers, close to 100 cruisers, over - of planes is a must in fighting Japs (Cojit hilled on page 4j)

JULY, 1942 13 — — —

....^ ..^y,^, JL bubbles above him establish the fact that the sailor hasn't surfaced. I could write better "TT THOUGHT At left, close-up of the all impor- I about submarines if I took the tant Momsen Lung I escape test myself," I said. The medical officer glanced

quickly and curiously up at me. The valve at the bottom to let out excess air, sleeve of his navy blue tunic was heavy and a smaller valve through which the with the gold braid of his high rank, bellows is blown up with oxygen. Other which didn't keep him from being a gadgets inside absorb the carbon dioxide plump, friendly little doctor. I liked him. we breathe out. "You've got to be nervously well- The officer in charge also wore swim- balanced," he warned. "A while back we ming trunks. There were no gold stripes had a Harvard man" on them or around his Momsen lung, "You did?" I asked. (I happen to be and he was distinguished only by his a Harvard man.) "What about him?" voice of command. He was using this The doctor grinned. "The pressure had now: only got to twenty pounds when he be- "Here are some things to remember gan screaming, 'Let me out of here!" You not only today, but if you're ever flooded see, we have to build up almost forty- down and have to come out through an five pounds of air pressure in that cham- escape hatch. This whole test is a replica ber before we've equalized it with the of what you'd have to do then. First, pressure of the hundred feet of water in remember to keep breathing into the that tank over your head. The more we lung when you get in the water. When build up the pressure, the hotter it gets WILLIAM L. you get into the lock, the pressure will shoots up to 120 degrees in a few min- rise to three times what it was outside. utes. Finally we open the escape lock, WHITE That means that a chest-full of high and then you crawl up a line through pressure air would expand to three times the hundred feet of water to the tank's its original size by the time you reached surface. Sure you want to tr>'? We've a in diameter and loo feet high which the surface. If you got scared and came lot of stuff you could read, instead." towers above America's biggest subma- to the surface fast with your nose and I said I was sure. rine base. We were naked except for mouth clamped shut in panic, your lungs ' Which was how I happened to be trunks, and each of us had a Momsen would swell up like an over-inflated inner standing next morning with twenty teen- lung hung around his neck. A Momsen tube and bust, forcing air into your age sailors before a water-tight door is a rubber bellows which looks like two blood vessels. This would kill you. which opened into the air chamber be- brief cases vulcanized together. There is "So keep your head, breathe easy, and neath the cylindrical water tank i8 feet a tube and mouthpiece at the top, a come up the line slow—like it was a slow

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — motion movie. About every ten feet than hell. bon dioxide or some other gas may be there's a marker on the line. Stop at each "Above all, keep your head. When you building up pretty fast. It oughtn't to and take five full breaths before you go start up, you'll notice the air bubbles take you long to get the hatch open on. coming up past you, because they're fifteen minutes at the outside. And if "But here's something else to remem- lighter than you are. If it was a real you can't get it open in fifteen minutes, ber if you ever get flooded down in a escape and maybe you had to make it well," here the officer grinned, "then the submarine. You can make an escape without a line or a lung, these bubbles chances are you've got to stay down without a lung, provided you don't hold might give you the illusion you were there anyway." your breath. Of course you must never sinking. Ninety-nine times out of a hun- Here all the kids grinned back. I let it all out, or you would lose buoyancy dred this will be only an illusion, and gathered that if you couldn't grin back and sink. Just keep enough of it in your you'll come up all right. at this point, maybe you'd better stay chest to keep you rising. Let a little of "And remember that because the pres- out of submarines and go some place else it out every few feet, and you'll be all sure a hundred feet down is three times —possibly to Harvard. what it is at the surface, a chestful at "All right now, you can get in." And that pressure will last you six or seven the officer opened a small door in the The instructor prepares to open minutes—maybe more. So steel wall. the door into the escape tank don't get panicky. Of One by one we stepped down into a course in an actual escape square steel chamber, flooded with clear, you may not be able to tepid water up to the calves of our legs. increase the air pressure Its only furnishing was what appeared slowly before you open the to be an inverted ship's smokestack, a hatch as we do here. All little wider than a man's shoulders, quick pressure rise can do which came down from the middle of is hurt like hell and bust the low ceiling to within three feet of an eardrum, which should the steel floor. It was the replica of a heal over in two or three submarine's escape hatch.

weeks. We knew that above it, and separated "If you get flooded from us only by a hatch, towered a down, grab your Momsen huge column of water, as high as a ten- lungs, open whatever story building, as thick as the water tank escape hatch or torpedo which serves a small city. Through this, tube there is and get out when the pressure had been equalized of there, because the car- and the hatch opened, we should pres-

One of the latest of Uncle Sam's submarines, the U.S.S. Haddock. At left, filling the Momsen

ently follow a line to the surface. The steel door, water-and-air-tight, clanged shut behind us. "And now they're going to give it to us," said the instructor, who had followed us in. His last words were almost drowned by the loud hiss of compressed air. At first nothing happened. Then we noticed that the room was becoming warmer. Then there was a quick little pain in our ears. Over the hiss the in- (Continued on page jS)

lULY, 1942 15 Cotnin'

SUPERMAN

work so well that soon the morale department of the Army had Fisher in con- arm}' career would make The Palooka was the first. That was stant confab, and now, when the Army HISeven a four-star general rather in 1939, when Joe's comic strip creator, wants some information given to the green with envy. Ham Fisher, saw the war cominf. Even boys, they're as likely as not to ring up President Roosevelt is one before the draft law started rolling the Palooka's pop to pass the word along. of his admirers and followers. Archibald boys in, Joe joined up. In order to get For instance, in December of 1939, MacLeish calls him one of the most his background perfect, Fisher went out Fisher took a second tour of the Army powerful anti-Nazi forces in the country. on a tour of the army camps, equipped camps to see how the draftees were Goebbeb grits his teeth when he thinks with a special introductory letter from doing. What he found in the way of of him. Half a dozen Legion Departments the Under Secretary of War. Then, as grumbling, grousing and general low have voted him their pride and joy. the green rookies began to pour into the morale distressed him and when he re-

And it's all in their minds. Army by the thousands, Joe Palooka was turned to Washington, he told the morale For the lad who won these plaudits, on hand to help them along. And that's chief about it. They agreed on one main America's most popular buck private, is no joke. trouble: the boys were pariahs because Joe Palooka—a pen and ink rookie in So well informed was Fisher on the of their uniforms. No matter what their Uncle Sam's comic strip army. Army's problems and the men's troubles background was before the draft, girls But one-man brigade though he is, that Joe became a sort of best friend to wouldn't dance with them now—and Joe's not alone on the funnies front. many of the lost recruits. He did his mothers wouldn't speak to them. Obvi-

Superman is catching spies, Terry and ously, the boys needed a build-up. his gang are fighting the Japs, Daddy Well, they got it. In short order Mom Warbucks is on a secret mission, Tarzan Palooka was reading Joe's unhappy let- is a special sort of Commando, and 7 ters out loud to her 27 million followers. Skeezix fights on the production front. And Ann Howe, Joe's sweetheart, was Zam, bam, zowie—the comics have gone dancing with the local draftees. Mom to war! JOHN suggested that all mothers write to their boys often, and while their own soldiers *Especially drawn by Joe's creator. were away, take some of the local lads Ham Fisher, for this magazine. PLIMSOLL 16 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Masazim — ylease ONE SIDE, GASOLINE ALLEY

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and they have one cartoonist who will cause Palooka referred to a Nazi as a shuttle around the active fronts to do home to dinner. That her motherly ad- "Hun." Fisher just threw the letter away cartoons right on the scene of battle. vice was read, re-read and acted upon —he knows what happens to editors who Usually rampant in a more fantastic was the thank-you notes proved by lift his script. The London Evening world. Superman is another who is now scrawled from to Mom, Joe, and Ann Standard knows that, too. In 1940, what doing war work. And therein lies a tale. dozens of camps. with shipping worries and paper shortages For as the roughest, toughest Amer- More recently, the was worried Army in England, the Evening Standard regret- ican of them all—and just as patriotic fact and file of about the that the rank fully decided to cancel Palooka. A week as any—Superman had to get into the soldiers didn't seem to realize that the later they were sending Fisher frantic war. The difficulty was that he was too Officers Training Schools were for their cables, and wading through a deluge of good. In a special script for Liberty benefit. A buzz long distance to Fisher irate mail from their subscribers. Palooka Magazine, some time before Pearl Harbor, and Joe went all out in a four-column returned. the indestructible one had already wiped script telling them all about it. Joe actually does double military duty, out the German army in a couple of A liberal, democratic, two-fisted ex- for he not only fights but he entertains. days. Obviously, such a terror—and his prize fighter, Palooka is also a great one With the Stars and Stripes in Ireland he's creators, Siegel and Shuster, both admit for the minority groups. One of his pals a must, and only the fact that the step- that Superman even frightens them some- is a Negro, Smoky, and not long ago by son of that famous First World War times—would have ended the war not special request, Joe was shown shaking paper, named Yatik, wants to develop its later than December 9th. hands with a Japanese-American named own Wallgren keeps Palooka out of it. However, since even a dreamy-eyed Togo, just to prove that all Japs in the Incidentally, the most likely candidate cartoonist dare not tamper so thoroughly

U. S. A. weren't spies. for the Wallgren boots is, at this date, with history. Superman was really on the Right now Joe is a Commando, in 29-year-old Robert Borgstedt, one-time spot after December 7th. He couldn't France, lost in occupied territory and feature editor of the Saturday Evening let his readers down — they have a doing sabotage. Ann Howe, his girl, is Post and a private in Fort Meade, Mar>'- thorough faith that he can do anything somewhere on the war front driving an land. His pet character, a big-hearted, he sets his mind to. But on the other ambulance. bungling selectee, looks like a natural hand, should he enlist, he might easily Fisher says he chose the European successor to Hoosegow Herman, though have to weaken his incredible grip, half- front for Joe because he thought it was a rookie named "Hey You!" is also in close his X-ray eyes and lose his bullet- the more essential one, and parenthetical- the running. proof skin, rather than become a laugh- ly, it's one of his pet peeves that some Yatik is a great believer in cartoons, ingstock of the wrong sort. of his editors will allow almost anything and not only do they have the usual The week after Pearl Harbor was thus to be said about the Japs, but will omit strip, but —they also use small cuts with an extra bad one for idea man Jerry his script if he refers to the Nazis in too continuity "A Day in the Life of Pri- Siegel. Then he had his brain w-ave. Soon strong language. Recently, one of his vate So-and-so" is usually the title. They after, Superman tried to enlist. Inadver- editors sent him a scorching letter be- also fill up odd spaces with gag cartoons, {CorJiniied on page 48)

JULY, 1942 17 Cartoons by MEL PHILLIPS iTS YOUR^ WWJ%R TOO

FRED SMITH

They babble the stories that Goebbels wants spread

taken in" is reminiscent of the quiet French confidence in the all-too-vul- nerable Maginot Line. The fact is, we

propaganda front is one upon peasing editors are popular, that appease- are being taken in. THEwhich the Axis powers, to date, ment Senators and Congressmen are re- Let's check back and remember that have had very little opposition. nominated, and appeasing business men Herr Goebbels' philosophy consists of Day after day we lose battles on are listened to with interest; he wants us finding the weak and corruptible spots this front. They are not noted in any to dislike and distrust one another—and in enemy armor and taking advantage communiques, but they are as serious as race prejudice is mounting much faster of them. lost battles on the production front or than ever; he wants us to be confused No doubt he discovered that one of on the firing line. and discouraged—and we are certainly the weaknesses in our "thinking" armor One reason the United States is losing confused, and too many of us are dis- lay in the capacity of American citizens these battles is because Dr. Goebbels, the couraged. to hold intense differences of opinion. No shrewd, crippled, partially insane little Some people say these are the results doubt he had noticed how bitter our Axis propagandist, knows more about of purely internal problems, that Axis Presidential campaigns could be—how our natures than we ourselves know. This propaganda has nothing to do with it. feehng can rise to boiling point, and put is shown by the fact that we are believ- But it is safe to assume that all proga- the American people temporarily .at log- ing many of the things that Hitler wants ganda which in the end serves Hitler, is gerheads. us to believe. Axis-encouraged if not actually Axis- "What a wonderful way," he may have For example, he wants us to dislike inspired. So let's be on the safe side and said to himself, "to tear America apart the British—and United States interest come to the conclusion that either Axis if I can only find some good issues for and trust in Britain, according to recent or domestic propaganda that will help Americans to argue about." surveys, is decreasing steadily. He wants lose the war must be stopped, or rendered Next step : make up a list of the things us to appease the Axis, and appeasement ineffective. Americans personally disagree about sentiment is sufficiently strong that ap- A simple declaration that "we won't be when they argue with each other—things A PLAN FOR OPERATIONS IN YOUR OWN HOME TOWN i8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine !

that could become really national prob- the Jewish people and their sympathizers up to the American people themselves to lems if they were made the subjects of in the United States took up arms to remedy this situation. It is up to them national argument, instead of individual protect their good name, the Hitler to organize in such a way as to defeat argument. Then Goebbels could simply propaganda had its effect. The domestic Axis propaganda. Only they can resolve feed and nurture the things we argue sympathizers began so ardently to defend confusion among themselves. Only they about, until we argue them into being big their side of the case that another side can catch Axis propaganda rumors while problems; then there would be bitter soon developed. The Jewish question be- they are still on the march—long before personal attacks, bitter political debates, came a nationally argued "problem." It they grow strong enough for central of- and bitter editorials in newspapers. Soon was drawn to the attention of everyone fices in Washington to realize that they we would have organized ourselves into everywhere. It was enunciated over and exist—by which time the Axis will have a nation of heroes and villains—the over again by people on both sides of dropped them and started along other heroes being all the people who agree the fence, just as the Axis intended. lines. with us on any particular subject, and This is the standard Axis strategy to And the members of The American the villains all those that disagree with produce national disruption and create Legion, strategically situated throughout us. And under such an arrangement, it is bewilderment and confusion. It happened the country, can well afford to take the

quite obvious that all our heroes would, (and is happening) with isolationism vs. leadership in organizing that front. in some arguments, be villains; and once interventionism; a negotiated peace vs. There are two things that they can a villain, his hero status would suffer. fighting and sacrificing through to a final do immediately: They can set up "Anti- Hence, the end result would be to have victory; capital vs. labor; the compe- Confusion Committees" and "Propa- an entire nation of villains and partial tence vs. the incompetence of our leader- ganda Policemen" to resolve confusion villains—and then what would be the use ship; the effectiveness vs. the ineffective- among American citizens, and to head off of fighting a war to save tliat kind of ness of the armed forces. Axis (or harmful domestic) rumors and nation But if it is true that this is the way loose talk. To do these two things well If you were a fiendishly sly, slightly Goebbels is working on the propaganda would be to undermine the Goebbels plan psychopathic propagandist, how would front, it becomes obvious that all our for the U. S. A, you create such a result as this? You counter-propaganda—our feeble effort to If individual citizens could sit down would probably do three things: convince the American public that the and discuss their doubts intelligently 1. You would isolate one of the argu- side the Axis takes is "wrong"—only with people in whom they have confi- ments, dramatize it so that it would be serves to highlight the problem and ac- dence, the scourge of national confusion called to the attention of anybody in centuate the argument. It only indicates would start to disappear overnight. And the nation. that we are fighting off symptoms like that is precisely what should be done, 2. Through your agents and sym- mad, while the disease progresses. and could be done through the device of pathizers, you would supply highly What is the solution? Is it to improve committees set up along the lines of emotional arguments on one, and some- propaganda-war leadership in Washing- workers' grievance committees in the times both sides of the case, and ton? No, that won't solve the problem: larger manufacturing establishments. 3. You would keep the subject alive The Axis will always find ways to isolate These grievance committees help over- by keeping people talking about it, and citizens from their leaders. We have been tired, overworked, overworried workers keeping them confused. so long looking for (and often finding) to keep an intelligent outlook; they give This is what is known as Hitler's ulterior motives that we cannot now de- workers an opportunity to find out why divide-and-rule strategy. As a most out- cide, against the Axis "rumor factory," certain things that they think should be standing single example of this policy, that any leader anywhere is completely done, are not always done. And the re- let's look into the background of anti- on the level. sults of honestly-operated grievance com-

Semitism, which has risen sharply during Perhaps, in this "people's war," it is mittees have been startling. the course of the war. Such committees, set up on a com- Why? munity basis and staffed by clergymen Hitler's first act was to of all faiths, doctors, and experienced isolate the Jews. His personnel people from industry, might orders were to degrade well be organized by Legion Posts. them, place them in The details of their operation could ghettos, take away their be left pretty much to the initiative of money, chase many of {Continued on page 48) them out of the country, do anything that would show them as a race apart. In this country there has always been a mild sort of Semitic discussion, because the Jews are a minority just as the Irish, or the Swedes, or the Chinese, or the Italians, or any other "national'' group for that matter, are a minority. There will always be people who dis-

like other minorities than ^. their own and will air their dislikes in private conversation. But they had not become a national problem because there never were enough people sufficiently interested to argue the case. However, as soon as the Jews were Innocent victims of propagan- isolated as "a problem," and as soon as da to destroy our confidence

JULY, 1942 19 lETlS TRAIIM THEM

Legionnaires Redingfon and Brown, working independently in Connecticut and on Long Island in New York State, have proved up to the hilt the value of basic military training in their home communities of men and boys who are eventually going into the armed forces

United States Army, which THEwill grow into a force of four and one-half million before 1943, may have to total three times that

number before this war is won for the United Nations. All the signs visible at the present time point to a long, hard war, and the General Staff of the Army has shown

that it does not look for anything else. The easy optimism of those Americans who know nothing of war and who therefore place their faith in newspaper headlines is not borne out by the facts of the case. Wishful thinking will not get us back the bases we must re-occupy be-

fore we can throttle the Japanese, and it will not solve the problem of the sinking of our merchant shipping by U-boats. The valiant fighting of the Russians along a tremendously long battlefront from the Arctic to the Black Sea, the heroic defense of the Chinese, and the stalemate in Libya as these lines are written, will not break the back of the Axis. Nothing will do that but a smashing offensive that will drive either Germany or Japan out of the war. As in 191 7 the last great reservoir of democratic manpower lies in this country, and the democratic process we call

the draft is and will be engaged in raising enemy sends against him is a job that the force which in the final phase of the takes at least a year's training; in some

fighting will with our allies smash through cases where special technical skill is re- to victory. quired it's an 18-month job. JOHN C. To train a raw recruit and make him Training of the man of draft age right capable of coping with whatever the in his own community, before the Army REDINGTON and PAUL BROWN

calls him, and under the auspices of Legionnaires, can shorten that period by three or four months. We know that, because we have seen it done, and have done it ourselves. Throughout the States of Connec-

Captain Redington at the head of the 'Wilton training unit

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ticut, New York and New Jersey many the Hudson River had a group of nearly Almost every man of these companies hundreds of volunteer pre-training groups two hundred men under arms within a who has since gone into the Army or the have for two years been struggling, few weeks of the fall of France in 1940 Navy has shown ability to advance and has done excellent work. Many men through the various grades. Many of from that group are in the Army and them are sergeants, some are in officers' are now non-coms and officers. training schools, and not a few of them Wilton, Connecticut, got under way have won commissions. The Westport with a training group ranging in age unit last spring showed that even in these from 18 to 65 promptly during the sum- times men who have had a good basic training can give a good account of themselves, as did their sires of Revolutionary War days. In a simulated invasion of their town by way of Long Island Sound the Westport lads, with the help of civilian patrol airplanes, spotted the enemy and were able to beat them off. Many of us who have had experience in the training of volunteer units know that in the absence of a compulsory feature of attendance at drills the one way to speedy success in a national train-

ing plan is the recognized opportunity for advancement and better pay to trainees after induction. If the United States Army will provide a comprehensive certificate to trainees which will accompany them to induction centers; a certificate notarized by their instructors and giving full de- Legionnaire Governor Hurley of tails of number of hours of pre-training, Connecticut, Brigadier General excellence of character and leadership Harry L. Twaddle, U.S.A., and qualities, and statement of capabilities, Thomas H. Beck, President of we know that this will provide the in- Crowell-Collier Publishing Com- centive to a very large enrollment. To pany, at the review of the four add that this way of presenting well- Connecticut training units. At left, trained men to the Army would take a the Westport company passes a heavy load off its shoulders is putting it mildly. This is Revolutionary War statue on its fact already recognized way to the beach to repel "invaders" by high staff officers. But more than all this, the program is

thoroughly American in the way that it mer of 1940 and the nearby towns of will level all groups to the common cause Westport, Fairfield and Stamford started and provide the channels of service for

a similar program a few months later. all. The results of this training have been The American Legion has, in our be- notable. Legionnaire Governor Robert A. lief, a great opportunity for service in Hurley and Brig. Gen. Harry L. Twaddle, fostering and prosecuting this program then Assistant Chief of Staff in Charge of and may possibly set the stage for the Operations and Training, reviewed and permanent plan of universal military

inspected the four groups on October training it is advocating. 19 th of last year and gave high praise to the excellence of the training and th'^ BACK in 1917 Major A. L. Boyce, against appalling apathy, to fit their military precision of the troops. General U.S.A., proved conclusively, right citizens for whatever form of military Twaddle, who had been especially as- on Governors Island and in the city of service may be necessary. signed to this inspection by General {Continued on page 50) The town of Spring Valley, New York George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, is a notable instance. This small town a United States Army, made a full and few miles back from the west bank of favorable report of his findings. A group of "Boyce's Tigers" in 1917. Paul Brown was one of them

JULY, 1942 AcKNOWLECGEMENTS, AND''~-nWNKS FOR MEAIORY," A W TTT AQU'RAOIZ. Aa7"a7 r .^T-XT A.Ls. rLAonuALi\.^ ^o-wy a. c.-bacon,a'i--&aton t^oug^, l^. —— ^/ WALL(?REN.

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Masaziiu NOT A SHORT WAR EDITORIAL

WHEN General George tralia and Japan lost to the Axis, we have to be certain that we're C. Marshall, Chief of with the Germans strong enough to not too soon with too little. Staff, United States throw immense numbers of troops We who smell the battle from afar Army, told the graduating class of and mechanized equipment against off, for whom the official commu- the Military Academy at West Point the Russians while they continue to niques, the newspaper headlines and a few weeks ago that the American hold the entire continent of Europe radio talks form the basis of judg- Army would number 4,500,000 men in thrall, while sinkings of our mer- ment, must trust the men of our by the end of this year rather than chant vessels mount in the Western Army and Navy to dispose the ele- 3,600,000, as planned a few months Atlantic, it is mere wishful thinking ments of our striking forces in the ago, he gave most effective answer to seek to find a hopeful similarity very best way that can be devised.

to those who talk about the war be- between the pattern of early summer They go along on the theory that it ing over a few months from now. of 1942 and that of the fall of 1918. is better to have too much strength General Marshall told the men We've got tens of thousands of than to fall just a bit short: They who by this time are serving as sec- men in Australia, in Northern Ireland were all in active service in the sum- ond lieutenants in the Army that and in other sectors which can be- mer and fall of 1918, when Pershing American troops "are landing in come springboards for offensive ac- promised the British and the French England and they will land in tion, and in spite of the U-boats the that we would have 100 American

France," which is sufficient answer flood of equipment to our own forces Divisions on the Western Front in to those of our countrymen who and those of our allies is constantly 1919, and they know of Pershing's think that an air offensive by Amer- increasing. But we've got to take and great disappointment that the Ger- ican and British forces based on hold ground now held by the enemy, mans' plea for an armistice was not Britain will win the war fairly com- and we've got to smash his armies met with a demand for unconditional fortably for us of the Allied Nations. so that they will sue for peace. surrender. That's the way the war Let the bombings of Germany will end this time, with a display of continue and let them be stepped up 24th National Convention force that will first paralyze, then in intensity. But don't count on their The American Legion pulverize, all opposition. It's got to winning the war all by themselves. Kansas City, Mo. be that way. Sept. 19-21 He would be mentally stagnant General Marshall was the genius

who argued that air power is not the behind the remarkable troop concen- decisive factor in this war. Neither Sometime this year, possibly by the tration which flowered into the de- The American Legion, nor any group time you read these lines, fighting will cisive Meuse-Argonne Offensive of ex-service be in progress in virtually every sea the fall of men, so far as we know, of 1918. Admiral Ernest J. and at least the fringes of every has ever argued otherwise. But air on King, Chief of Naval Operations, is a operations, we submit, must be linked sizable body of land on this reeling wise, tough veteran of fighting that this with other striking power if ground globe. Our plans in greatest runs back to Spanish War days and is to be taken and held. The ground struggle in history envisage not only includes distinguished service in this forces advancing under an umbrella a strong defense at every point the war. He's a leader the Navy swears

of air power to take positions is the enemy may attack but the probing by. With Marshall and King at the modern pattern of offensive warfare, by our forces for his weakest spot, head of our armed services the aver- and without doubt the conferences at which one of these days we'll age citizen may be certain that the

in London of army and navy chiefs blaze forth with an all-out offensive best intelligence available is being of the allied nations has dealt with of our own. The submarine toll in employed in the disposition of our the dovetailing of operations by the the Western Atlantic has doubtless men and our equipment.

various elements of sea, air and land been a factor in the delay in our But it isn't going to be a short war.

units. striking on the European continent: It's going to be long and bloody, bar- With all our bases between Aus- To paraphrase a familiar saying. ring a miracle.

C^Tof ^oJ and (Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes r To uphoId and defend the Constitution of the United States of America: to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War,- to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation: to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity

the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devoiion to mutual helpfulness. — Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion JULY, 23 old men will tell you this THEstory in Gettysburg today, but few will tell you much; the stories will differ and are brief. Strange things happened here seventy-nine years ago but none stranger than the things that happened to Henry Wentz. There are lots of stories, good ones too, and just as true—but they must wait. You might not believe some of them, for fiction has no part in these stories. "This war in Europe? Why you should have been here in The Dia- mond. . . ," and a Blue veteran, a hundred-year-old, come last April, discarded the new war overseas with a wave of his cane. He was indicating that new wars come but Gettysburg goes on forever. It does, for each year nearly seven hundred thousand tour- ists visit this field, to find that here romantic warfare ended and an era came to its close. Henry Wentz went away from his home in Gettysburg in 1852, down into Virginia to make carriages. Nine years later war came and he was in the Confederate army. Word of this got back to his home. Time passed and the sectional differences turned into bitter hatreds; his former friends hinted that he had better not come back. His old father rarely spoke of this son; when he spoke at all it was to declare that if ever he returned he would kill him. In the third summer of the war Henry Wentz came back. He turned his guns on the people he knew, although he hated like poison to do this. Do it he must—he was a ist sergeant of artillery. Worst of all, he had to loose those guns on the Pennsylvania reserves, with men from Gettysburg,

and right from the yard of his home them in a few years and that it was to gaged in speculation. Something was be- while his father crouched inside the color their lives. ing decided: let the generals worry, that house. was their business. Meanwhile the Gray They made carriages in Gettysburg for SERGEANT Henry Wentz knew these soldiers enjoyed the luxury of coffee and three decades before the war, barouches roads well. He looked at the debris exchanged gossip with the townspeople. and coaches and surreys, selling them to on the fields as he rode in with misgiv- Before noon there were signs of activity the people down South. And while this ings. When the batteries halted on Sem- and to his consternation Wentz heard was good business for the town it was inary Ridge, he rode off a piece to the orders that were sending Hood with his bad business for some of the families in right and looked toward the Round Tops. Texans and the bearded Lafayette Mc- the town : the Wentzes and the Gulps, the He was reassured, for there the fields Laws around to form the right of the Hoffmans and some others—but these are were rippling seas of rye and wheat. He Confederate line. The artillery reserve other stories, as has been said once be- looked at his old home, the log house that was to accompany these Divisions; they foire. Families on plantations in Virginia stood across the lane from Joe Sherfy's were headed for a point facing the Round and South Carolina and all the other peach orchard. Tops. Wentz rode along the line, speak- States down that way did not dream that There was no sound of battle now. ing to battery commanders and pointing this town up North, where the carriages Troopers cooked over fires by the road- out his family's farm. Would they, he came from, would be known too well to side, played cards, wrote letters and en- asked, keep that log house in mind if

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne lllusfrafions by Herbert M. Stoops

sergeant at his elbow. "Send a detail to hitch the horse to that spring wagon, see they leave at once," and bowing to the women, he was gone. Susie and her mother made some piles of bedding and clothes, snatched up small belongings; the farmer never moved from his chair. Now the soldiers were at the gate with the old roan mare. They came and carried out the things they were told to, then the women climbed atop the load. "Hurry, Pop," commanded his wife, but the man only walked to the gate. There was hurried, futile family argument. "You drive out back of the Round Tops and keep going," ordered the farmer. "I ain't leaving the stock," and he ended argument by putting the reins in Susie's hands and slapping the horse's rump. The wagon bumped along the lane and Mr. Wentz turned to the soldiers in the yard, "No goddam rebels gets them Jerseys," and he stumped to the barn to look after his cows. Mother and daughter met Confederate skirmishers far out the lane, but the men spoke politely and made no attempt to detain them; instead, an officer rode as escort for a mile until they reached quieter fields, then turned, saluted and galloped back. The sun began its journey from the zenith while the clock on the mantel ticked on slowly. Three hours passed and the old man moved in and out of the house, stubbornly refusing commands to leave. He was concerned about the cows, all fine milkers and worth a lot of money; why hadn't he driven them away? He took pails to the barn, then returned with them, foaming with the warm sweet milk. The soldiers drank this eagerly. Bodies of troops moved everywhere They pulled the fence apart, spun he looked; this was the tip of Sickles' the horses about, and unlimbered {Continued on page j8) the pieces

RICHARD The girl paused at the low window, dropped to her knees and peeped beneath the half-drawn blind out toward the BARNITZ barn. There a group of handsome boys gathered, strange and unlike the boys there was action near it? They looked at hereabouts. Scraps of conversation drifted the house there a mile away and readily up to the window ; their talk was strange, assented. They would do what they could. too. They were New York troops. And they saw a thread of white wood- "John," shrilled Mrs. Wentz from the smoke drifting from the chimney. porch, "let them cows and the horse be, Mrs. Wentz was putting dinner on the they're safe as anywheres in the barn; kitchen table, pausing occasionally to come eat." The three now sat at table, look out the back door. Soldiers were all bowed their heads, and the farmer asked about now and she felt safer for their grace: "0 Lord, for what we are about being there; they wore Blue. Susie, to receive make us duly thankful, sanc- eighteen, eyes bright with excitement, tify this meat, bless this house and pro- ." thought of her brother as she helped her tect. . . The door opened without mother. She cut slices from a huge round ceremony and a young captain said. loaf of home-baked bread, holding it "You've got to go quick, it won't be under her left arm. Then she ran upstairs safe here long." ," to pretty herself ; she slipped into a corn- "Ach, the dinner. . . and the older flower blue gingham and peered into the woman pushed back her chair. The officer small, wavy looking-glass, found it satis- smiled at Susie and removed his forage And there was his factory and patted her yellow hair. cap. "It"s orders. Miss." He turned to the father, sound asleep

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"I'm going into the Navy as lus+rated by soon as I'm eighteen," he offered Will Graven

Schmidt's "The Corporate State in Ac- tion;" Francesco Nitti's "Bolshevism, Fascism and Democracy;" "Bryson's this boy was a yellow "Which Way America." There were NOW,haired lad of sixteen, with many others referred to, books on ruddy clear skin and level European history and economic growth blue eyes; and he was going FREDERICK that bespoke a carefully arranged pro- to be six feet tall when he got done with gram of intelligent reading. his growing. He sat next to me on the This boy was talking about the Amer- streamliner from Kansas City to Topeka. C. PAINTON ican way of life, not with flag-waving Around us sat a number of olive-drab and drum-beating, but rationally weigh- soldiers, going home on leave; and this Mind you, at this juncture, I was ing its effect on his own future. He lad fell to talking about them and the merely amusing myself, passing the long could even be critical of certain defects, war. I listened curiously because I minutes of a train ride. as he called them, of democratic gov- wanted to discover what the 'teen-age The boy said thoughtfully, "Well, the ernment, referring once to "our inelastic youngsters thought about the present American idea of democracy is that the constitution that is difficult to change to world convulsion. government exists only to benefit the meet new conditions and needs.'' "I'm going into the Navy as soon as individual. Now, the isms—Fascism, "But the main thing," he concluded, I'm eighteen,"' he said. Nazism, Communism—they believe the "is that the isms believe they should "Don't you think the war will be over individual exists only for the state. In control everything you and / do, and the by then?" other words, under those isms I'm noth- whole American government is based on

"Maybe. But don't bet on it. I've been ing to the state. In America I'm every- the idea of interfering with what you studying history, and it shows that when thing to the state." and / do as little as is necessary." you have a war between ideas instead of I leaned back weakly, my jaw on my "Where did you pick up all these peoples it lasts a long time." chest. Where did kids not dry behind ideas?" I managed to ask. Agreeably surprised I said, "What the ears, learn to talk like that? Or was "In high school. It's a course in Amer- would you be fighting for, if the war is I encountering a child genius? Cer- icanism we take along with American still going on?" tainly, I knew personally plenty of history, civics and study of the consti- "I'm going to fight for the American adults who shaved twice a day who tution. We get a half-unit credit on our idea of government—democracy." didn't understand more clearly. For the final standings for passing it." "Democracy is a loose word generally. next ten minutes I sat in wonderment He paused; then added, "I believe The What do you mean by it?" while he spoke about such books as C. T. American Legion made it a regular

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine course of study. There's something in "And why not?" demanded Ber- the syllabus about the Legion, anyway." ridge. "You and I grew up in a world The moment I arrived in Topel' to "I read an article the other day by have practical Americanism included as a fellow named Henry Pringle about a course of study in Kansas's 718 high the battle between the young and the schools. After twenty years of effort the old. We have an old-age problem, 111,953 high school boys and girls were weary, tired, indigent old people who learning with their heads as well as their can't work, yet must be supported. hearts what American democracy really In some States—I won't name them is. —the money to take care of the old "And we're not stopping there," Com- has caused a cut in the budgets for mander Berridge explained. "This fall education. This is sacrificing the the grammar schools—starting in the youth of the nation to take care of third grade—will also have a course in those who can only look back. Mind Americanism. Not so advanced as this you, I don't say the old shouldn't be one, but one that will show why men taken care of. They must be. But not have fought for the liberties out- at the expense of the youth who must lined in the bill of rights. The course be prepared to take this country over of study for each grade is now being the rough humps that are ahead." prepared." "That's why we started Girl's Click Cowger gave me a copy of State," grinned Cowger. "You'll hear the Americanism syllabus used in talk that it began in Nebraska, but the high schools. It is a remarkable don't you listen to those monkeys. document, carefully prepared after That's how the safety Three years ago we started a Girl's a year's hard work, to teach American- literature was distributed State on the basis that women having ism by cold hard facts, by comparing the vote should know what they've got, how to use it, and what was paid, in the effect of various theories of govern- ought to have a copy of this syllabus in history, for them to have it." ment on the individual who is governed. the hands of its Americanism chair- More than 85 separate books are listed man," I said. "We had 247 girls at the last one," as collateral and supplementary reading, "That's easy," said Berridge, "all Click added, "and 446 boys at the Boy's liberties detailing the history of the they've got to do is write to me or State." finally achieved, and what has happened Click, here, and we'll see they get the "To show you," said Berridge, "what to these liberties in Europe. The broad- syllabus and also a report on how it's it's done, the National Forensic League the approach is attested mindedness of doing—which is excellent." used to choose the two senators from by the people who wrote the syllabus: "After they read this account in the Kansas to its National Student Congress Professor R. W. Hart, M. A. Callahan, Magazine you'll have to deliver on that and Tournament from the colleges and Kansas high-school supervisor; Dr. promise," I grinned. universities. This year they picked one MacFarlane, Kansas State David L. We fell to talking, then, about the each from our Girl's and Boy's State.'' Teachers College of Emporia; Dr. C. B. Kansas youth movement generally, and Click went on to point out that Althaus of the University of Kansas at I learned that the Kansas Department Kansas had taken the initiative nation-

Lawrence; Reverend Anthony Reilman, is deeply concerned with its quarter of ally to create a Junior Statesmen's Club, principal, Maur Hill High School of a million youngsters. composed of the graduates of the Boy's Atchison; Miss Jane Townsend, prin- States in the thirty-eight States. cipal, Girard High School, Girard. "Those boys are the new voters," There is no attempt in the course to Click argued, "and joining Junior teach blind adherence to Americanism. Statesmen is the one way to In the outline of "special objectives" (Continued on page 50) are listed, "to develop a constructive, critical attitude toward existing defects in the democratic system of government;" "to develop an understanding of other philosophies of government which present a challenge to democracy." The Kansas State Board of Educa- tion weighed it thoroughly before, including it in the four year curriculum.

"Those kids really learn what it's all about," Berridge said; then added, grin- ning, "Remember back in 191 7 when we youngsters put on the uniform? We heard a lot about making the world safe for democracy, but did we really and honestly know what that slogan meant?" "Mostly we enlisted," said Cowger, "because there was a war—and we were excited at the adventure of it." "Every Department in the Legion The course in Americanism will start in the third grade

JULY, 1942 27 A basic rifle course sponsored by Stanley Hardman Post of Trinidad, Colo. Millions of rounds of ammunition can be saved by such schools, says Coach Bill Samuel

OF OrADELL

JUST after the war broke in the Gwynne T. Lewis, Commander of Kinder- many who had to leave business matters spring of 191 7 a group of men, all kamack Post of Oradell, the annual Post unfinished when the sterner business of too old for active duty, got them- dinner was given in honor of the seven war called them from home. selves together at Oradell, New surviving members and of the four who When Johnny came marching home Jersey. They wanted to serve in the best have passed on. The survivors are: Asa- the Big Brothers did not consider their way they could. The upshot of the meet- hel Chapin, Heber Ware, Fred Moeller, task at an end. They continued the pro- ing was that the men resolved themselves Upsom M. Van Varick, Alex Milliken, gram of aiding those who needed help into a committee of big brothers—the James Brownlow and J. W. Bellis. The and, at the same time, started a move- Big Brothers of Oradell. ones who have passed on are: John Van ment to memorialize the Oradell men who Dedicated to serving the interests of Buskirk, Harry Dusel, Edwin P. Veldran had risen to the defense of our country. the men at the front in every possible and John G. Demarest. way, this group devoted itself whole- Beginning with the earliest of the °(So(ofioni"s(-5" i^ii^ii Comy^ up and heartedly, without stint, in supplying the groups of men sent to camps in 1917, S'lHiVia iVl ujitf; US f&r -fVls fesi- time, effort and funds to carry out the the Big Brothers gave each man a here I }^ self-appointed mission. The first duty of going-away kit containing a testa- bock the Big Brothers was to care for the men ment, toilet articles and other com- from the home community; a list of the forts. A letter was written to each service men was compiled, changed from man every month while in service, time to time as new men entered the giving the hometown news and service and as the older men were trans- transmitting personal messages. To ferred from post to post. Through the the families left behind, the Big war and for more than twenty years Brothers offered advice and assist- after, the Big Brothers served the Ora- ance. The knowledge that this help dell service men. Last October, writes was available boosted the morale of

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Me >Aui), Ve'S Vqitia -fo wake down to the third generation. the visitors—though large enough to care "It is our hope," writes Com- for its normal 200 membership. Ai'-KUeciy " doolie s^i>5- of our \xpei^se«)S' mander Lewis, "that the example A building program was begun in Sep- of the unselfish service of our tember and in March of this year the original Big Brothers of Oradell completely remodeled home, with ample given as a guide to our Big lounge rooms, card and reading rooms, Brothers Committee will inspire grill, kitchens, and rest rooms, was re- other Posts to organize similar opened. The club is located in the down- committees dedicated to the wel- town area and is easily accessible to fare of the service men of their members and visitors. The Post, says own communities. This is not a Historian Alvin C. Schwalm, celebrated thing to do during the emergency the reopening with a big dinner to which alone but a work for the years, a number of guests were invited.

after the pattern laid down by With the building program behind it, A bronze tablet, bearing the names of the our own Big Brothers. We are following the Post plans a broader program of men, was procured and placed at the in the footsteps of the men who served us." community and national defense service. entrance of the Oradell public school on

July 4, 1 91 9. Later, when a new school building was erected, the tablet was removed to the new location and given a place of honor. Under the guidance of the Big Brothers a public memorial was erected on a piece of property in the heart of the town. In the center of the memorial a native stone, placed there by the group after a long search to find a suitable one, bears a memorial bronze tablet. The small park was dedicated on May, 30, 1922, and each year since that event. Commander Lewis says, Kinder- kamack Post has held its Memorial Day services there. Last summer, when the threat of im- minent involvement in the second World War sent hundreds of thousands of our young men into training camps, the Big Brothers became even more active, but this time under the direction of the men Madison County, New York, Posts pooled their funds who had been served by the original Big to buy an iron lung. Below, Adams-Jackson Post of Brothers twenty-five years ago. Came Paragould, Arkansas, signboards its bond sale campaign the attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of a state of war with Ger- many, Japan and Italy, the reorganized Big Brother group took up the work of caring for the men of the services and for their families in the same manner that the elder Big Brothers did. Commander Lewis named George D. Glatz and C. W. Desmond, charter members of Kinderkamack Post and both Past Commanders, to head the Big Brother Committee and the program was reorganized as a Post project. Following the plan of the elder Big Brothers, going- away kits have again been made for presentation to each man; an oilskin wallet made by members of the Kinder- kamack Auxiliary Unit, containing a tes- tament, note book, pencil and a dozen post cards. A complete record is being compiled for each man and an up-to-date mailing address system has been per- Remodeled Home Scraps Auto Plates fected. The monthly letter has been sup- plemented by a subscription to the New PINE GROVE, Pennsylvania, is the THE Vermont Legion has been very Jersey Times, the hometown newspaper, first town north of Indiantown Gap, active in gathering scrap metal, and a regular feature of which is news of the the permanent training camp of the in many sections paid particular atten- men in the uniformed services. Pennsylvania National Guard which is tion to the collection of discarded auto- The Big Brother Committee, a Legion now being used as a training center for mobile license plates. Governor William activity, took up just where the Big various units of the new Army. When the H. Wills added his mite to the pile when,

Brothers left off and will continue its camp began to expand last fall and with at Montpelier, he turned in his old No. i services when the men come back to the the influx of Legionnaires and young plate. A few days later, when at Ben- home community after the termination soldiers from the camp, Pine Grove Post nington, he was escorted to the scrap of the present war, thus carrying the idea found its home too small to accommodate barrels by Legionnaire Chester J. Bron-

JULY, 1942 29 Scads of Commanders

MASSILLON (Ohio) Post has a Drum and Bugle Corps nationally known for its fine parade performances, and that is true of many other corps. The public sees the musical organizations

on parade or at concerts; there is little conception of what it takes to keep a top-notch outfit going year after year. That would be a story in any man's language, if it could be told. "The corpsmen of Massillon Post are not fair-weather Legionnaires out for a good time," writes Homer M. Johns, President of the outfit, "but they are Pine Grove (Pennsylvania) Post has a brand new Legionnaires and know the Legion pro- home, rebuilt from old one, to meet the wartime gram. They work at it along with and demands of visitors from neighboring army camp in addition to their drum-corps activities. As proof of that state- son, Chainnan of the Legion County dred dollars in the treasury. So, I'm ftined ment I send a picture of ten tew Cewte fi>" Salvage Committee, Fred C. Martin. Col- It was proposed that, as a members of the corps, all (brt^eHiKv^ -to lector of Internal Revenue and Post- community service project, but one of whom wear the -jusf master Ward Lyons, to deposit his No. 2 the Post buy an iron lung Cap -Hils badge of a Past Commander. CMCe. eh'.'? Wei/. plates. for St. Elizabeth's Hos- The other one is at present The youngsters in the picture are vol- pital. The hospital authori- a Post Commander. Two unteers in the scrap campaign. Chairman ties were consulted; an other Past Commander Bronson said that the Victory Club, com- iron lung w-ould be grate- members of the corps were posed of school youngsters at Benning- fully received, of course, not present when the picture ton, brought in 800 plates as its con- but there was greater need was taken. tribution to the defense needs. for other equipment. The "Massillon Corps has had Hospital Equipment Com- nearly eighteen years of mittee, Legion service. It More Hospital Help E. J. Wade, 0. R. has never Od\jm. and Drs. G. E. been rated as an American Legion of Madison Halyama and Phillips, Legion National Champion, THE Posts County, J. H. New York, clubbed together, pooled recommended that the and is conscious of its limi- their funds and bought a sorely-needed Medical Association be tations in that direction. For iron lung for county use. The complete asked to designate the almost ten years it battled outfit, says Legionnaire Dexter H. Teed items for which there was a most press- for the Department championship and of Lloyd V. Evans Post, cost $1,200, and ing need. The Association reported that since 1933 it has emerged Department has been made available to all who are the hospital had no up-to-date fracture winner five times. Since 1933 the corps in need of such treatment. The Madison table and was badly in need of an operat- has won its way into the American County Posts are: Munnsville Post; ing table. Legion National finals six times: Miami, Owen Woodford Post, De Ruyter; Blane Tri-City Post, when this report was New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bos- Baker Post, Earlville; Lloyd V. Evans received, decided to purchase both tables, ton, and Milwaukee." Post, Hamilton; Oneida Post; Cazenovia even though the cost of something more Reading from left to right, the Past Post; Charles Miller Post, Canistota, and than $2,000 ran well above the sum al- Commanders in the picture are: Bryan Mead Post at Morrisville. lotted for the purchase of equipment. It Wallick, Commander Beach City Post;

'Tn the early summer of 1941 at a was managed, howe\ er, by means of a Fall Past Commanders J. Edward Johns, meeting of the Executive Board of Tri- Festival and the funds were ready when Massillon Post; Herman Frank, Dover City Post, Granite City, Illinois," writes the pieces of equipment arrived. Formal Post; Cliff Belknap, Delroy Post; P. A. Legionnaire John L. Tempo. "It was dis- presentation to the hospital was made Kuhn, Massillon Post; Albert Mick, covered that there were several hun- by Chester Breckenridge, for the Post. Malverne Post; Walter Carrico, Dover Post; T. W. Brown, Massillon Post; Dan Roush, North Canton Post, and E. H. Pickens, Carrolton Post. The two who were not present are William E. Bowser and Lieutenant Colonel R. R. Bush, both Past Commanders of Mas- sillon Post.

A Clean Ticket

CLEANLINESS is not only its own reward, but when it is of excep-

tional character it gets an award in Minnesota. So, the Minnesota Depart- ment of Health has awarded a special merit certificate to the club house of David Wisted Post of Duluth. This spe-

cial certificate is given only to those who maintain standards of neatness and Governor William H. Wills of Vermont placed his Num- cleanliness above the requirements of law ber 2 auto plates in the Bennington Legion's scrap barrel —scored on a dozen or more items.

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David Wisted Post, largest in the De- partment of Minnesota, won national recognition several years ago by origi- nating the Duluth Hall of Fame; an award being made each year to that citizen who, in the opinion of a board of judges, has contributed most to the civic and community welfare.

Blood Bank THURSTON COUNTY, Washington —in which is located Olympia, the capital of the State—was assured at least twenty transfusion units for a community dry-blood bank as the result of a tag sale put on by Alfred Williams Leach Post, according to Past Com- mander Jess Leverich. The tag sale had the hearty approval of the county med- Tri-City Post of Granite City, Illinois, is another ical society, the Red Cross, Washington member of the hospital-helpers club — gave two State Patrol and other organizations, operating tables to its local hospital and by Mayor J. T. Trullinger, of Olympia, who issued a proclamation exhausted by 2:30 p.m.— the next time School for Flyers urging the citizens to contribute freely. we'll double the number!" "With the thought that possibly other THROUGH the services of Argo- Posts may wish to follow through with Anti-Axis Scrap Summit Post of Argo, Illinois, similar plans, I submit the plan followed writes Adjutant Cecil Anderson, twenty- by the Child Welfare Committee of THROW it into the scrap, Mr. one flyers have already been made Alfred William Leach Post," writes Past Mayor. It is not helping us any available for government service either Commander (also Postmas- here!" as instructors or pilots. The Posts ter) Leverich. "We had That was the request of school, held in cooperation with the seven thousand tags printed members of Freeman C. Trustees of the Argo School District, a complete set of window Allen Post of Rochester, began on January 5, 1942, with forty- show cards was made up and New York, made in ref- three competitive and seven non-com- every drug store in this city erence to an Italian-cap- petitive students. The classwork con- of 14,000 population put in tured Austrian World sisted of twenty-four hours each of window displays; speakers, War cannon which has meteorology and navigation, and eight- headed by Past Commander for years stood on a een hours each of civil air regulations Frank Whitmarsh, Chair- pedestal in Washington and general service of aircraft. Ralph man, spoke to civic and serv- Square in the heart of the Jack, E. Hellmera and E. Kearns were ice clubs and to the schools. city. Just to lend weight the instructors. At the final examinations Radio Station KGY gave to their enthusiastic anti- on March 6th, nineteen competitive stu- liberally of time and men- Axis idea. Legionnaires dents successfully passed. tion, and, of course, we had marched from their meet- The Government through C. A. A. the support of the Red ing and attempted to gives ten scholarships to students in this Cross and other bodies push the cannon to the competitive non-college-phase civilian whose relief work gave first- ground to make it an pilot training who complete the course hand knowledge of the necessity for easy prey for salvage crews. But the and pass the examinations. These schol- having the dry-blood plasma banks. ever-watchful police halted the proceed- arships cost $325 each and cover thirty- •"Graded school pupils and the mem- ings before the detail was completed. five to forty-five hours of flying. For bers of the Auxiliary put on such a cam- Washington Square has a statue of Lin- each privately-sponsored student, the paign on tag day that the supply was coln, but no Washington. {Continued on page 60) 2^1

Who said riding outfits had it soft? Men of Motor Truck Company 534 repair a Dodge of '17 vintage, MOTORIZATION and mechan- while a Quad awaits treatment, ization. There, basically, is near Abainville, France the slogan of modern armies. From jeeps to reconnaissance and combat and supply trucks, from Incidentally, we lifted that extract tanks to tractors to big bombers—every- from the R. U. 307, M. T. C. Bulletin, thing appears to be motorized or mech- which was presented to our library away anized. If it weren't for accounts of the back in 1921. heroic land fighting in Bataan and Cor- tente lacked in preparedness it had to This department was inspired to do regidor, and of the Louisiana and Caro- make up for in speed. this bit of research by the photograph lina maneuvers, we old vets shouldn't be The motor truck and the automobile which appears at the top of this page, criticized if we came to the conclusion played a bigger part in winning the an official Signal Corps shot that was that that old song of 1917-1919, whose war than any other one factor outside brought into our Orderly Room by Peter of combatant troops. Paris would have chorus ended "And it's not the hike on A. Campbell, member of Advertising fallen in the first months of the war, the hard turnpike, that wipes away your Men's Post of the Legion, whose busi- had not General Gallieni, military gov- smile, Nor the socks of sister's that raise ness address is 207 East 43d Street, New ernor of Paris, thrown every available the blooming blisters. the last long All the picture bore was this It's motor vehicle to the front loaded with York City. mile," is as not what she used to be as troops, and so checked in time the caption: "Two mechanics of Motor the Old Gray Mare. oncoming Germans. Again, before Paris, Truck Company 534 at Abainville (near But with all, we're certain that there four years later, motor Gondrecourt), France, returned the is still plenty of hoofing to do and, what transportation pairing a 191 7 Dodge 'show with our sciatica, we don't begrudge the tide by rushing troops into case' and a Quad, or the Chateau-Thierry sector present doughboys for the motorization F. W. D., back from motor on the Marne. they're enjoying. convoy work. Wonder if The first unit of American Motors had their places, too. in our either of above men are motor transportation landed particular World War even though they now in the Legion?" in France in May, 191 7. Be- hadn't advanced to the present stage of tween that time and the As we weren't at our all-out excellence. We take the liberty of close of the war, the Motor desk when Comrade Camp- quoting extracts from an article that Transport Corps was organ- bell dropped this contri- appeared in the Steering Wheel, 1918- ized and equipped with bution, we had to follow thousand .1919: more than seventy up and finally got this re-

vehicles of all kinds. . . . port : Speed, rapidity won the war for the This in spite of the fact that "As the old Motor Trans- Allies. Speed, rapidity would not have when war was declared there port. A. E. F., song went, been possible had it not been for the was practically no organized serv- motor transportation of the different motor transportation in the 'Mother take in your .\rmies of the Entente. What the En- United States Armv. ice flag, your son's in the 32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 7 —

To whom does this in some piece of mail in that watch pendant, particular .sack, or it may have dropped from a mail been accidentally dropped into sack in Juneau, the sack by someone in the Alaska, belong? Who Seattle Post Office. He are the two officers promptly gave me the pendant

whose pictures are and I have had it for these in the pendant? past two years, intending to mail it to you. "Lavenik was a member of

S. 0. S. ; he's S. 0. L., but what the hell, Company C, 14th U. S. In- is he having a wonderful rest ; he's look- fantry', during our ing bad, he's looking ill, etc. etc' war, having joined "Well, the picture I left for your the outfit at Fort Then and Now columns shows Motor William H. Seward Truck Company 534 near Gondrecourt, (now Chilkoot France. All was not riding and driving, Barracks), Alaska. as emergency repairs had to be made off His regiment was the road in sub-zero weather to make transferred to possible getting the trucks through with Camp Grant, Illi- supplies and ammuni- nois, and then to tion. Camp Dodge, "How well we all Iowa, just before remember the old 191 the Armistice was Dodge 'show case,' signed. Lavenik, and the F. W. D. after discharge, re- truck, which two items turned to his home are shown being re- here in Juneau. paired by Hickson and "We shall both be very happy if the 'Don't -call-me- Dizzy' Bradford Post of owner can be identified so the pendant Meyers. Those motor the Legion here may be returned." cars were but two of in Juneau and Now for a few deductions which the 216 varieties used holder of a 20- might help in the search: The crossed for transportation in year membership rifles on the collar of each officer indi- World War 1. The card, turned over cate, of course, infantry. We conducted vastly improved ve- to me the en- a sort of eye-test among our fellow- hicles of the present closed watch pen- workers in an effort to identify the Motor Transport were dant on each side numerals on the infantry insignia of the made possible from the experiences of which appears a picture of an officer officer without a cap, and the consensus gained in the earlier World War. I'd like of the United States Army during World seems to be that it is "164." That would to hear from the old gang and from War I. be logical, as the 164th Infantry Regi- those ex-M. T. C. drivers who no doubt "Comrade Lavenik is Senior Post ment was a part of the 41st Division, have re-upped for the present conflict Office Clerk of Juneau and while empty- composed of National Guard troops of and are having interesting experiences ing a sack of mail which had arrived Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana probably, this time, on our home soil." here from Seattle, Washington, the and Wyoming—the far Northwest, from pendant dropped out. It may have been which the mail sack came. Further, there ALTHOUGH regretfully -^A. we have to admit defeat in our efforts to find the owner of the tricky collar- ornament photo locket which we showed in these columns in the January issue, nothing daunted, we are out to help some lucky veteran or his relatives to recover an equally interesting memento of service in our World War. At the same time we'll be helping our friend. Adjutant Tom Petrick of the Depart- ment of Alaska of the Legion and Comrade La- venik. The watch pendant, of which we reproduce both the obverse and reverse, came to us with this letter from J. T. (Tom) Petrick, whose address is Box 2509, Juneau, Alaska: "About two years ago, Martin A. Lavenik, charter Them was the happy days! Saturday inspection of Com- member of Alford John pany G, 7th Infantry, at Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1917

JULY, 1942 33 — — appears to be enough December, 1916, until Gladys, Doris and Hilda, ranging from simi arity in these May, 1 91 7, when the 23 years of age down to 10. Was I sur- men's features that 7th Infantry moved to prised when the policeman himself they may be brothers Gettysburg, Pennsyl- showed up later! Yes, it was Officer though we doubt the vania, where it became Ealy's home. That family made Christ- conclusion of one of the nucleus of the 60th mas, 191 7, very happy for me. our staff that they are and 6ist Regiments of "On February 27, 191 8, I sailed for two photographs of the Infantry. I was trans- France with the ist Camp Devens Over- same man. ferred to Company G of seas Replacement group. For seven Adjutant Petrick, the 60th as a PFC in months I was a sergeant bayonet in-

Lavenik and this de- June, 191 7, and made a structor of the ist Infantry Training partment will eagerly corporal shortly there- Regiment, and I'd like to hear from await letters, one of after. While there, my Sergeant Perry Thornton, who served which, at least, may be brother Owen E. Hink- with me at Pontlevoy. Then, after the from the owner of the son, then 2d class elec- Armistice, I was on special duty at the pendant. The pendant trician in the Navy, came sales canteen of the Q. M. C. in Revigny, is not the same size as to visit me. He belongs France, and after my return to the shown in the photo- now to my Legion Post States was supply sergeant of the pro- stats. here in South Bend. vost guard at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in

"In October, 191 7, about 200 1919. THE Company Clerk is actually from N. C. O.'s were sent to Camp Devens, "While at Camp Dix, I traveled 500 Missouri, but he certainly was Massachusetts, to form the base of 28 miles to visit a girl who had promised "shown" when he questioned a couple companies of the 151st Depot Brigade to wait for me. When I arrived, I of romantic episodes related in a letter where I became sergeant of the 6th learned she was away on her honey- from a contributor about to be intro- Company on November 11, 191 7. moon ! I was somewhat disconcerted duced. First, however, let us take a look "You want unusual experiences? Well, when a younger sister said that she at the picture of one of those famous going back to Fort Bliss, I remember outdoor Saturday inspections, the align- I awakened one morning at the sound ment of which, anyone will admit, hardly of the bugle, swung my feet out onto conforms with regulations. The picture the floor of the tent and faced a buddy came from Legionnaire Otto H. Hink- in the next bunk. There was a five-foot son of 517 Rush Street, South Bend, rattlesnake coiled up on the foot of his Indiana, and without further ado, here bunk within arm's length of me. We is his letter of transmittal: rolled the rattler up in the blanket and "The enclosed picture shows an in- carried him to a wire cage where we spection which was stood by Company already had a collection of snakes, G, 7th Infantry, while we were stationed lizards and horned toads! at Fort Bliss, Texas, in February, 191 7, "While at Camp Devens, I went to a couple of months before our country Lowell, Massachusetts, in November, got into the war. I recall my squad was 1 91 7, for my first visit there. I stopped known as "H" Squad as it was com- a policeman and asked him where I posed of Corporal Henry and Privates might meet a nice girl. He sent me to Henderson, Hanvy, Haines, Hickey, 435 Wilder Street, which I found, and Harvey, Hinkson and Harold. was invited to stay for dinner—it was a would not have run out on me like that. "I was a private at Fort Bliss from Sunday. There were four girls—Pearl, When I asked if she would like to take her sister's place, she said, 'I was hoping you would ask me,' and two months later we were married. The new Mrs. Hinkson became a favorite around Camp Dix. [When this column questioned these romantic stories, Comrade Hinkson came across with names, places and dates, and a newspaper clipping to confirm the accounts. The Company Clerk.l "There were four of us Hinkson brothers in service in the other World War—Owen E., ist class electrician, U. S. S. Delaware; Carl E., 3d class electrician. Great Lakes Naval Training Station; Thomas A., Seaman, Merchant

Marine, and myself. Thomas A., Jr., is in the Army now, and my son, Eugene H., is now 19 years old and ready to go. "I hope that Thornton and other old buddies will write to me. They will remember me as 'Jack' Hinkson."

PERHAPS we vets are too old to par- ticipate actively, but we haven't lost our interest in the national sport of baseball. These warm, sunshiny days are causing some of the old outfit players {Continued on page 62)

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Under Legion auspices these youngsters learn the lesson of "How did Hitler, Mussolini and Hiro- co-ordinating mind and muscle hito prepare? It isn't that we must con- cede them a point to justify their position or their attitude, but they reached OLIVER B. beginning the membership was dubious their curreiit physical strength on a proof the program, and 't probably would gressive program of conditioning. It took HUSTON not have been successfully launched had years and years. Now we've got to catch not Dean Ralph Leighton of the School up with them and every day we waste of Physical Education at the University adds another day to the length of the To show the way the wind is blowing I of Oregon given his hearty endorsement war." Quoted from an interview with quote from the alumni edition of the to the plan. Dean Leighton moreover saw Charles Davis, Physical Fitness Director Yale News of a few months ago: "The an opportunity for giving his physical of the Ninth Corps Area, appearing in biggest change in the university's athletic education majors ome good laboratory the Oregofi Sunday Journal of April ii, program is in the inauguration of required training in the Y .ndling of athletic meets, 1942. physical training of at least three hours and accordingly, with these two indi- per week for all undergraduates. The pro- viduals providing the nomentum, the WITH such a large percentage gram supplements, not supplants, the first American Legion Junior Olympics of men of military age existing intercollegiate and intra-mural came into being in April, 1940. being found physically de- schedules." For the record it should be stated that

ficient, the stark necessity It has taken the war, it seems, to jolt originally there was another very im- of taking all feasible steps for the bodily us into an athletics-for-all program, for portant reason to justify this program, improvement of American youth is in colleges and secondary schools all over namely, that there had encroached into brought vividly to the fore. No matter the country this type of training is now the schools and colleges of our country how much we despise Hitler and the in effect. too much teaching of subversive move- Japanese, the fact remains that their The Legion Post at Eugene, Oregon, ments and pacifism without the proper youth programs, which embrace compul- had that' same idea away back in 1940, stress on patriotism. Comrade Taylor saw sory physical training and simple living and Legionnaire Herschel R. Taylor was an opportunity for the Legion to contact from early childhood on, produce a far the man responsible for setting up the more of the live youth of the country greater percentage of fit young men than program that has now become Depart- on the athletic fields, and, while thus is to be found in our country. Our col- ment-wide and which it is hoped will rubbing shoulders with them, attempt to leges and secondary schools, in a belated spread over the nation. Taylor reasoned lead them in the paths of right thinking. effort to meet this discouraging situation, that if Legion Junior Baseball could be Much good was accomplished in this di- have likewise decreed that all male stu- of so much benefit to over a half a mil- rection in 1940 and 1941, but with the dents take part in the sturdier kinds of lion of the flower of American youth, coming of the war, these dangers have physical activities in order to insure the there was no good reason why other forms been fairly well swept away and silenced. development and condition required of of athletics could not be profitably em- However, the war has caused the matter men worth their salt in the military serv- ployed in the same manner. The more he of physical fitness to assume a far more ice and to make up for the lack of mus- mulled over the thought, the more he important role than when the games were cular conditioning which our youth should became convinced it was feasible, and first conceived. have had "before the horse was stolen." accordingly, put it up to the Post. In the (Cofitinued on page 41)

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CHUCK WILSON, who had just been his lady neighbors was quite upset when, called into service after years at on receiving the monthly statement from National Headquarters as Assistant Di- the grocer, she found an entry: "i torn rector of Americanism, put on his uni- cat, 15 cents." But she was mollified form and wandered down town. A group when the grocer explained that it was gathered with him at the familiar old just his abbreviation for tomato catsup. "liar's table" to give some advice about military affairs and particularly as to the OW it can be told," says Private manner of conducting himself as an of- Hubert A. Elliott of the U. S. ficer and a gentleman. Sage advice was Army, "but a member of the military also tendered about conduct in battle. police of a southern camp probably "Don't worry about Chuck," piped up wishes it wouldn't. That M.P. halted a Bill Sayer, Indiana's Department Adju- brand new Headquarters Company cor- tant. "If the first bullet doesn't hit him poral, who was driving near the camp, the rest of them will fall short!" and demanded his driver's license. The corporal flashed the paper; the M.P. EGIONNAIRE Robert Harvey of gave it a glance, then with a look of Mount Morris, Illinois, says that triumph, declared the document out of after all the raffle tickets had order: 'It expired April 3, been sold by his Post in a 1915,' he insisted. And it took fund-raising contest, the draw- a lot of argument to convince ing was made but the winner him that 191 5 was the year of was not present. A friend the corporal's birth, not the called his home, but was in- year of his license." formed by his wife that Al was out for the evening. ATOURIST party was mak- "Well," said the friend, l\. ing its way through "when he comes in tell him Munich in happier days, says he won a card table." Legionnaire George Goldsbor- "Won Clark Gable," the ough of Easton, Maryland. wife gasped. "Oh boy! Send The tour conductor was giv- him right over!" ing the usual rubber-neck spiel: "We are now passing ALKALI IKE played one one of Germany's most famous l\ joke too many. He stuck breweries," he called. his head into a room where "Damned if I am," yelled a

the boys were playing poker . Legionnaire, as he climbed and yelled "Fire!" They did. out of a window.

ADD to hash-counter slang. AN OLDTIMER, with World l\. A soldier walked into a l\. War service, had a yen cafe and ordered a dish of to get back into uniform and yellow squash. The biscuit- go to sea again. He looked shooter called "Step on a Jap" up a Navy recruiting station to the short-order cook. and offered his services. On entering he was directed to "It's something he put together from our "A/p" BROTHER, who had a newly-minted ensign, who some-day-we-may-need-it box." LVJ. not seen me in more began to interrogate him. than a year," writes one of "What was your service in our fair Bursts and Duds fans, "paid me what it's like to be shut up downstairs in the last war?" asked the ensign. a surprise visit while on his way to his when subs are shootin' at your boat and "I served in the turret crew on the army camp. The maid seemed in- not know what's goin' on upstairs. It Arizona," replied the old salt. terested when she noticed that he sat happened just about sundown and the "Well, I suppose you realize that with his arm around me. After he left officers run all of us downstairs and shut things are a lot different now," com- I asked: 'May, how did you like my the doors, and we didn't get out till next mented the officer. brother?' mornin'. What a fuss them fellers made! "So they are; so they are," sighed "'Brother!' she exclaimed, 'I declare, Couldn't rest and couldn't sleep for the the applicant. "We didn't lose the Miss Kathryne, I thought that man was racket. Some just set around in corners, Arizona in that war." " your pastor!' kinda thoughtful like and some of 'em sung old time church tunes, but a lot of "T7RIENDS," began the speaker, then LEGIONNAIRE T. S. Harris of Het- them chaps just prayed and pestered X he paused. "I should have said jtinger. North Dakota, reports that a God all night!" ladies and gentlemen, but I know you Milwaukee grocer has a sign posted for all too well." the benefit of the employes: "God gave LEGIONNAIRE R. E. C. McDougall man two ends: one to think with and jof Orrville, Ohio, says that one of CUSSING, plain and fancy, came one to sit on. Success is determined by from a parked auto A policeman which end he uses most. Heads you win hurried up and wanted to know what " tails you lose all of the fuss was about. "Some so-and-so stole my steering FEW of the comrades were holding A gear," complained the woozy motorist. . a chinfest after a regular meeting "Take it easy," admonished the cop, of Colonel Charles E. Young Post of "just get up here in the front seat where Charleston, West Virginia. The talk fell you belong." into the easy line of reminiscences of the First World War. "Now," said one NOW, Mr. Squilch," said the di- of the Legionnaires, "let me tell you, I rector of the radio quiz program, had a lot of experiences. All the way "I am proud to congratulate you on from Camp Lee and back I went through winning the $25 prize, less gift tax, in- things that some folks could make a come tax, sales tax, separation tax, book about. Take, f'rinstance, that time county franchise tax, and city tax; all when the submarine shot at us goin' of which makes you owe the sponsors over. It was terrible. No one knows just of this program exactly $1.14."

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FEBRUARY and March were All this fine equipment, I told Fred bit- bleak and miserably cold but terly, probably would not be properly that didn't stop me from carry- wetted until next year. Fred only grinned ing out certain plans for what I and mumbled something he probably hoped would be one of the best and most HARRY thought might soothe my shattered exciting trout seasons I had ever known. nerves and sour disposition. All of which Early in April, with the opening day less didn't help any too much. than ten days away, Disaster became an BOTSFORD By the end of July, I was able to walk unwilling but boon companion. I went to a little each day. Fred brought me some the hospital, thence to the operating sporting goods store and he would have fly-tying material and while I enjoyed, room where some of the best surgeons made a tremendous success of it, too, as always, the patient work required in did expensive, necessary and painful had he not been a too ardent practitioner tying a proper fly, I still burned with re- things to my body. On the opening day of sports—fishing and gunning in partic- sentment against the stern dictate of my of the season I now understand that cer- ular—adventures that took him far afield surgeon. tain of my friends were betting even from his store. Fred knew sporting Then one day, late in August, Fred im- money that I wouldn't last out the week. goods. Through him I had bought most parted a great message to me. "I've been However, a strong constitution, a stub- of my fishing equipment. He it was who talking to Doctor MaxAvell and he tells born disposition and excellent nursing introduced me to "Hardy's Anglers' me you need a little more gentle exer- and m.edical care brought me around and Guide," 396 pages thick, by far the most cise," he informed me. "Tomorrow I am by mid-July I was able to sit up for a impressive and informative of fishing going to show you a neat trick—and you part of each day and managed to take catalogues, issued by Hardy Bros., Ltd., are going to like it. I'm going to show a little interest in life. Alnwick, England. There is no commer- you how to stretch the fly-rod season In fifteen days the trout season would cial note in what I have to say, for a legally—and you are going to have a end. Meantime, the surgeon insisted on friend, lately returned from England, re- half hour working out that little wand no exercise. Further, when I voiced a ports that their fine establishment, where we got from Hardy's. Be ready for you timid hope that maybe late in August I the finest of fishing equipment, of all about four tomorrow afternoon—and all could motor up to Canada, he coldly in- types, had been made for well over you need is a half-dozen flies: Coach- formed me that if I wished to die to go sixty-five years, was the target for one man, Alder, Golden Dun Midge, March ahead and do it. By that time I had a of the most destructive of German Brown and a Sedge, size 0—plus the most sincere respect for his ability and bombs. For this, if for no other reason, rest of the Hardy stuff." my family insisted that I obey orders. I vow the Hun should be exterminated! I was interested, curious for more in- Besides, I wanted to live Through Messrs. Hardy, Fred secured formation, but he only chuckled and be- It wasn't a happy period. I groused, for me a 4>2-ounce fly rod, eight feet came evasive. Next day the hours with no end of petulance every time in length and the sweetest bit of bamboo literally crawled until 4 when Fred ar- Fred Johnson came to see me—which was I have ever handled. Reel and a double- rived, helped me into his car and drove often. You probably never heard of Fred tapered line came from the same source, me leisurely northward over familiar Johnson but I will always remember as well as a couple of dozen dry flies, roads. For fifteen miles he entertained him as a benefactor. Fred conducted a beautifully made and perfectly balanced. (Contmiied o?i page j8)

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over to peer at me. If something went Up and Out in a Hurry •wrong he would drag me into that air- chamber. But he only stares, swims away. The line quivers {Continued from page 15) The air feels about right for broiling a in my hand; structor was shouting, telling us to close sirloin. more boys are following me up it. Again our mouths tightly, squeeze our nostrils "That's enough," says the instructor. I look up and at last I see a gray-green and blow hard. This would equalize the The hissing stops, our ears no longer disk flickering unsteadily above—the surface increasing pressure which was curving bum. The pressure dial shows 44 pounds, our eardrums inward. For a minute it did exactly equal to the pressure in the tank In another minute I'm there, releasing help—and then the pressure had in- above. The water, waist-deep, just covers the line, and swim a few feet to the creased and we had to blow hard again the round lip of that inverted funnel. edge. Then the lung is on the cement to stop the pain. The silence is broken by a great glub- floor beside me and I'm leaning over the Suddenly I saw the pressure gauge on glubbing as bubbles foam up from that rail to watch the others climb up out the wall. The quivering needle was regis- submerged funnel mouth. The last hatch of the blackness, distorted by the shim- tering thirty pounds—about twice nor- is open, and direct connection with the mering surface. But the last boy, a mal. I blew hard on my ears to check hundred-foot column of water above has freckled seventeen- year-old, won't let go the piercing pain, and notice a little finally been made. But we feel only that the line. "I can't swim!" he shouts. So rouno .lindow in the steel wall through it's very hot and stuffy—desperately un- they pull him in. which the genial doctor is looking at us. comfortable. Now the kids, having passed their

Maybe looking for a Harvard man. The "You first." The instructor is pointing escape test, crowd into the elevator to air seems at oven temperature—about at me. I step near the inverted funnel. go down, and out into the service of right for shirred eggs. With a hose he blows ox>'gen into my America's under-water navy. Now it's thirty-three pounds. That's rubber bellows. I put on the mouthpiece; I've been bombed. I've ducked at the just heavy tire pressure. Nothing really the nose-clamps grip my nostrils. Then birdsqueak of machine-gun bullets and at to be afraid of. What does a bug inside he ducks me under and I rise in the the high whistle of heavy artillery. The a truck tire think about? Ask him. Ask darkness of the water-filled funnel. In soles of my feet have tingled when Ger- him anything. Ask him if he went to front of my nose, a clothesline dangles man mines vomited water into the sky. Harvard and if not what in hell made down from the surface far above. I I was badly frightened when a plane I him come here. They say this pressure clutch it and start up. The water be- was in turned and ran from enemj' isn't enough to affect the brain, so I comes green in the rays of a nearby raiders. Yet, these past few minutes had can't be whacky ! Neither was that other under-water floodlight. Up toward the been the most unsettling of all. Harvard man who wanted out of here. surface I see yet only blackness. Slowly "You know," said the genial doctor He was just smart. up, letting the rope slide through my who stood beside me, "all these kids The hissing suddenly stops. "Okay," fingers. An instructor in goggles swims volunteer for this deep test. They aren't says the instructor, "now turn on the toward me, trailing bubbles. I can't hear required to go down more than 18 feet. water." Another hissing begins. The him, whatever he's saying, but I must be But they know it's safe. We've never lost water in that small room rises rapidly doing all right, for he swims away. I a man. The instructors, who watch them now it's lapping our knees; now it's concentrate on breathing—slowly—in every minute, could pull them out at the climbing our thighs. We're standing in a and out of the rubber bellows. slightest sign of trouble. It's like being huge engine cylinder and the surface of Now I'm opposite an alcove in the home in bed." the water is a rising piston head, com- tank's steel wall. It's the fifty-foot lock, "But not for Harvard men," I mut- pressing the air. Our ears burn with pain. and another goggled instructor swims tered to myself.

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{Continued from page 25) Then there was the rush of feet beside New Hampshire men held on stubbornly salient. Firing of skirmishers increased the house; a voice shrilled, "Git in thar, in the peach orchard, mingling with Jer- as gray snipers advanced from the old man," and the farmer shuffled into seymen. A Gray horde swept around from woods a quarter-mile to the west and the kitchen, closed the oak door and the north side of the Sherfy buildings south where Seminary Ridge had con- dropped the bar in place. across the Emmitsburg road, Mississip- cealed their movements. Now firing was Angry voices filled the yard ; the weeds pians, Alabamans, Georgians. To their nearer at hand and Mr. Wentz sank into burned furiously, crackling and snapping, right the Texans came on, bearing down a chair on the porch. Suddenly he felt rising and falling. The thunder rolled, hard on the orchard. tired, his mouth was dry and his knees shaking the house until the windows rat- Three-inch rifles barked behind the in- shook. The striped tiger cat started out tled. The clock struck four times. Now fantrymen, firing over the heads of the from beneath the porch but darted back the cat pleaded on the window sill, cling- swarming brigades. They moved beneath at a new, closer burst of musketry that ing there with mouth wide and eyes fluttering crimson flags that bore blue sounded like flames racing through a round in terror. A Minie ball carried cross-bars. Above the din there was a patch of dead weeds. away wood and glass and the cat bounced wild, keening cry. "Listen to the John- Iron doors slammed close at hand, into the room, scurried under the stove, nies," said a New Yorker to the man on farther away heavy thunder began to roll. its tail thick as an arm. his right. The man stared blankly at the

The sky was blue with only small patches Lead slugs buried themselves in the log speaker, sank forward on elbows ; a crim- of white clouds. Singularly enough these walls with scarcely audible chunkings. son trickle stained the front of his shirt. cloud-scraps always dissolved instantly, Wentz looked uncertainly at the door, Sickles' spear-head was crumbling. then others took their place. There was saw splinters burst from it. At once a Green fruit in the orchard fell in a rain the. whistle of a shell and a*^ once a cloud china teapot spun off the table and be- of bark and branches, spurts of earth blossomed above the barn, white turning came tinkling fragments on the floor. jetted like tiny geysers under the trees. to bright orange. Scraps of metal He descended the steps to the cellar. The Blue line fell back to make a stand drummed on the roof. Beyond the corn- Pennsylvanians milled in the road, in a wheatfield as Confederate batteries crib men crouched behind the snake fence sought cover and fired from fence corn- were advanced to the road, unlimbered and poked black sticks between the rails. ers and behind trees. Just across the lane and went into action. They vomited can-

38 The AMERICAN LEGION Masa-Jne ister and spherical case, clearing the lor," commanded Colonel Alexander, and ness. Occasionally there was the red spurt orchard, and were joined by other guns he rode on directing the placing of more of flame from a musket, the deep com- beyond the orchard. Tides of battle rolled guns. Henry Wentz was home. The guns plaints the wounded horses made. Por- across the wheatfield, indecisively, from talked and the men served them well. tions of these fields were forever after side to side as though the world rocked There were not so many marks of shell to be printed with capitals—the Peach and then eddied into a turmoil in which on the Wentz house. The artillery officers Orchard and the Wheat Field and Plum the identities of commands were lost. had been as careful as they could, cir- Run which flows through the Valley of Meanwhile the Sherfy barn had taken cumstances considered, but the brick Death, down there in front of the Round fire from the shells. It was filled with Sherfy house was pocked over all its Tops where the big rocks are. wounded men. There was no time to get south wall. Some cylindrical shells were Sergeant Wentz had no time to go them out ; most of them stayed there. embedded there and one explosive shell over to the house; he must send battery It was well the guns spoke so loudly and rapidly. John Wentz sat on a broken chair in HE:^ got ENOUGH ON HIS MIND the windowless cellar, his back against the stone foundation wall feeling the RIGHT NOW WITHOUT earth move. It was close and he felt HAVING -TO smothered and caged. He wished he might WORRY ABOUT HIS WIFE. AND get out in the air. The cat came to him, rubbed against his legs and, when he put FAMILY-; IN ,/// ^ down his hand to comfort it, the cat CASE— climbed in his lap and pressed against him did purr. Take the. but not Confused uproar of sifted into the cellar; now there was the ache out thunder of heavy wheels outside where he his heari sat and the pounding of hoofs across the and put fhe slanting outside cellar door of oak plank- smile back ing. A battery was unlimbering out there. on his' face! The farmer thought of the cattle in the barn; without conscious thought he climbed the stairs and went out to the SUPPORT barn. The yard was changed. Scarecrows lay in the grass, one of them asked him Army EMERdENCy RELIEF! for water but pleaded unheard. The TO SE ADMiMiSTERED By THE WAR DEPARTMENT smokehouse was overturned and the summer Rambo nearby had been cut off close had gone through the house, tearing out horses, the ones that were left, to the to the earth. Near the barn Wentz part of a wall, leaving a broken bedroom rear for food and water. The men grum- stopped to brush at an angry hornet that exposed. Death's high tide washed up bled about a late supper; soldiers are buzzed close to his ear. Others came, the around the great stone barns and granite- always hungry, he thought. Now the air was filled with them. One ripped like house on the Rose farm, down the horses, they never complain. There were through his hat and the hat spun from road, where the Mississippians beat back limber chests to be replenished against his head. the Blue people at terrible cost. Here lay the morrow, orders to see to; he went The only Blue soldiers here now were four hundred Confederates, pale men back toward corps headquarters which those on the ground. Men in ragged but- sleeping under a pale moon, and not far Longstreet had established in a school- ternut streamed through the yard; the off Barksdale lay, cursing as he died, de- house. road before the house and the fields on termined to uphold the Stars and Bars. John Wentz had slept fitfully and un- either side were filled with them. They Over there at the Trostle farm the gth easily in the cellar through the early part were gaunt, powder-blackened men, lots Massachusetts battery has been sacrificed of the night and now he was hungry. All of them so ill-clad that their nakedness to hold the gray masses on its front, re- was quiet. He crept up the steps and was scarcely concealed, but their rifles tiring its last gun firing by prolonge. This felt along the mantel until he found the were polished, and shining bayonets were was done without support of any kind, candle-stick. He sat at table, with the fastened to the muzzles. the only instance in the Civil War. Long dinner on it that had been neglected, Mounted officers moved into the yard. ropes stretched from gun-trail to limber, ate of the cold food, pausing between One wore three stars on the collar of his the gun bounced off, served as it fell back mouthfuls to listen, then stepped out short roundabout, he was thickset, and and in motion, letting go quick blasts of on the back porch. He drew back sharply, his sharp, black eyes were peering ahead. canister that tore frightful gaps in the here was a long shadow—a boy lay there, His hair, thin in front, was snow-white, gray lines that pressed hard on its heels. wide eyes staring at the moon, a black '"It's only a scratch," he was saying to an Bigelow, its commander, was shot from stain spread around him and something inquiring officer, but blood dripped from his horse here but saved from death by dripped from the boards into the bed of his left arm. He said, "Get more guns a Confederate officer who screamed, rain lilies that grew below. Dark mounds up," and a courier saluted, said "Yes, sir, "Don't kill that captain." lay in the yard and on the road. The General Barksdale," and hurried away. Across the field a caisson let go, a red larger ones were horses. There were voices The general nodded to the farmer, said volcano carrying fragments of men and nearby, over along the black, silent guns. something to his orderly; two soldiers horses with it into the dark sky. Horses came straining across the torn escorted the old man to the door and As darkness veiled the field the firing fields now, hauling caissons and there pushed him inside with orders to stay died slowly away and the iron doors no was a creak of leather. outside there. longer opened and closed ; now there was When they passed the old man More batteries careened over the fields, an almost inaudible murmur, a confused, the gate, the horses were difficult to con- the fences were all down now except troubled sound of wounded men. They trol, they kept pushing away from the those in the front of the yard. Two guns asked for water and said they were cold, buildings across the road. The breeze stopped here, the cannoneers pulled the talking to the troubled stars. Fever came from that direction, embers still fence apart and trotted the horses into burned them and pain chilled them. No glowed where the Sherfy barn had stood the yard, spun about and unlimbered the help came—on both sides of the irregular and as the air drifted this way Wentz pieces. "Hold this position, Captain Tay- lines, and skirmishers prowled the dark- felt sick. The east was graying. He re-

JULY, + i .39 turned to the cellar where the cat awaited wall, Armistad yelling at the front of There was a bundle of papers tied with a him and they were glad for each other's his men, hat on point of sword. History string. He looked at the top one, it was companionship. was writing names now: Gushing, Han- a note about some obscure business trans- The sun came up over Gulp's Hill cock, Garnett, Kemper, Pettigrew, Gib- action addressed to his father. There was where there was a terrific racket ; Ewell bon . . . too many to record here. a letter with the printed legend: Tltad- was trying something over there where This was hopeless madness now. Re- deus Stevens, Attorney-at-Law, 53 Cham-

trees were skeletons against the red sky. luctantly Pickett ordered the recall, the bersburg Street, Gettysburg, Pa., and it Near at hand there was only desultory bugles carried it along the line through was dated December 21, 1841. firing; the sharpshooters wormed their the uproar, and slowly and sullenly the He paused, holding the papers in his way up trees and among the rocks, drag- Gray streamed back—less the ten thou- hand, listening. There was something in ging 36-pound rifles with telescope sights. sand that could not return. The hours the cellar. He inched down the stairway Cannon dropped shells at long intervals, flew by. Soon it was dark. The Gray guns to the kitchen where the clock ticked but when eleven o'clock came it brought that had been pushed forward now fell loudly in the silence of the house. Mov- silence. The sun was scorching, already it ing across the floor he stood listening by was 87 degrees under the trees. the open door that led to the cellar. Pickett's men had come up some hours Then he descended, pausing on each step. earlier and eaten their last breakfast in It was pitch black down here. Now his the woods along Seminary Ridge. Some heart almost stopped, something brushed sleeping, others writ- of them were were his leg. He reached down and there was ing letters home. the cat. It chirped and leaned against At one o'clock two Confederate can- his trousers, curveted and half rose on of non boomed ominously—a fragment hind legs, nuzzling his palm. silence was shattered then, the whole Breathing easier, he felt his way across Confederate line blazed and the Union the floor, the hard-packed earth nearly line replied with a wild clamor. The air smooth, stooped to avoid the hanging rocked shockingly, the sound skipped shelves where the applebutter crocks over mountain tops and was heard a hun- stood and moved around the vegetable dred miles away, but some towns not bins to the wall. many miles away never heard it at all. Now he sensed another presence in the The 220 guns hammered away, a deep cellar, knew it without surprise and stood orchestra thundering a prelude for Pickett without mt)ving, conscious of the pulse and Heth that lasted two hours. The **Better leave one corn for rain that beat in his temple. Then he moved narrow valley between Seminary Ridge —the Government is restricting back and felt his way along the wall, and Cemetery Ridge filled up and spilled weather reports." inch by irich, one arm extended until his over with sulphurous smoke. Then the fingers touched coarse fabric. There was firing ceased and the cannoneers found a cider barrel here, standing on a buck, themselves yelling in the strange quiet. back. Commands were consolidate and and he stepped behind this shield, felt for Their ears felt bruised. a counter-attack was awaited. It did not a candle in his pocket, lighted it. Peering The artilleryist, Colonel Alexander, come. Both sides were spent; they lay into the shadows he saw his father, sleep- sent a message, "For God's sake, go now watchful, licking their wounds. ing soundly, arm over his head. He stood if you are going; ammunition low." Late that night Sergeant Wentz made there looking at the old man for a long Pickett galloped up to Longstreet, saluted his way down from the ridge and crossed time, moved as though to waken him, and awaited his order. Longstreet could the fields toward home. He picked his thought better of it. Instead he wrote not speak; for once the warhorse was way carefully; Berdan's blue sharpshoot- something on a sheet of his notebook shaken. Pickett said, "I shall go forward, ers were out somewhere ahead and picket with a stub pencil, tore out the leaf and sir." posts of his own lines, nervously watch- fastened it to the denim coat of his Lee's final assault was about to be ing. He had to move cautiously, pausing father with a pin. He worked cautiously, made. Today everyone knows this as now and then to answer the challenge of drawing back once as the sleeping man Pickett's Charge. The trim gray lines the guard. moved and sighed. Then he snuffed the emerged from the woods on Seminary After a long while he reached the door- yard, along in the shadow of the candle and felt his way up to the kitchen Ridge, fifteen ' thousand men on grim moved and the door. Just inside he paused to dress parade, the lines all smartly dressed broken trees by the road and crept into listen. The way was clear and skirting in perfect alignment, moving precisely to the house. It was bright inside with the the Sherfy place he made his way back the music of the bands. "Guide is right, moonlight streaming through the win- still as death. The house was to the ridge. Here by the batteries he hup, hup, fo-o-w-d . . . march!" And dows, but spread a blanket for the few hours that out they came under fluttering crimson deserted, there was disorder in all the remained of the night. banners. The bugles sang. Over on Ceme- rooms. piled in the sky and tery Ridge the Blue soldiers stood up Upstairs it was the same, bedding lay Cloud masses up and cheered, then leaped to the guns and tangled on the floor, broken glass away in the distance there was a matter the guns began to speak. Now great gaps crunched underfoot. He looked in all the of thunder. Some scattered rain fell, big began to show in the Confederate lines rooms, last of all in the small chamber drops that mafle a pattern in the dust. but they were closed up and the lines in the ell where the boys slept. Here was John Wentz awoke in his cellar, stiff and came on. the same old rope-bed and the trundle- sore. In the heat of the days just past it The Confederate cannoneers poured a bed, odds and ends of scuffed furniture, had been comfortably cool; now a chill steel rain over the heads of their men, and the things boys prize— the rope nest filled it. He got to his feet slowly and sighting the pieces carefully. Caissons be- of an oriole in a chink on the wall, cane went up to the kitchen. Now for the first gan to blow up in the Union lines. The fishing rods beneath the rafters and a time he was aware of the disorder in crimson flags headed for an umbrella chest in a corner. This he pulled out from the house, it was desolate and he felt grove of red oaks behind the Union front under the sloping beams so that he could oppressed. The cat came up and asked lines. Pickett sat on a black horse by open the lid. for food. He found dry wood in the box the red barn on the Codori farm, watch- The chest was partly filled with a mis- by the stove and kindled a fire. The ing. Now the lines were meeting. The cellaneous collection of odds and ends; a hickory crackled pleasantly in the stove Blue batteries were using double canister box of bird eggs, clay marbles, a rusted and the warmth was comforting. He at ten yards. The red flags were over the knife, torn school books among them. found bacon, eggs and coffee and soon 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ) ; !

breakfast was on the table. He filled a out the few words that were there. for the dressing of wounds and the jolt-

saucer for the cat, set it on the floor and The note said: Goodbye, father; God ing of the wagons added to the seven- drew a chair up to the table. This was bless you, and there was the single-word teen miles of agony. Gray troops con- the first hot food he had tasted for two signature, Henry. t'nued to stream out of Gettysburg on days and he ate with relish. Then he re- Before noon the rain descended, pour- Sunday, July 5th, until all were gone. membered his pipe, filled it from the box ing down over the dry fields and flood- The Blue army followed slowly after of scrap tobacco on the mantel and felt ing the streams. Darkness fell early. them. comforted. From Seminary Ridge two wagon trains The rain stopped and the sun came were put in motion; one out the road to out again over the battlefield. Thousands NOW he felt a new awareness of Fairfield, the other took the Chambers- of black specks dropped out of the blue, things. Brushing the crumbs from burg 'pike. drifting on motionless wings, graceful at his coat he discovered the paper that This last train moved slowly over a distance, hideous when they alighted; was pinned there. There was writing on the rain-washed rough turnpike, it was great black birds with a wing-spread of it. He fumbled with the pin that held it, seventeen miles long. In the springless six feet. Their heads were bald and red laid the paper on the table until he found wagons the wounded were piled. The as blood. They were the buzzards, good his glasses back of the clock. He turned cavalryman Imboden guarded this train friends of death, haunters of the battle- the paper about curiously in his hands, he never forgot this march and wrote of fields and the final sable guests here at then slowly and with difficulty spelled it years afterward. There was no time Gettysburg.

The Junior Olympics Idea

Football punt 99 ft. ( Continued from page 35 cal education major is given a squad Baseball throw 200 ft. It was decided to arrange a program of which he has to pilot through the nine Hand stand Pts. for time held track and field events and gymnastics, to events which are being staged at different Rope climb (20 ft.) 13.3 seconds be held as a decathlon, with each con- spots on the big athletic fields. This gives Hitch kick 6 ft., 5 in. testant required to enter all events, as him valuable training in his chosen work, Posture Erect posture this would make serious training neces- for he will soon be staging track meets sary and thereby improve the physical In the first decathlon the 60-yard swim and other athletic contests of h's own condition of all contestants. was included. However, much to the when he eventually secures h s first committee's surprise, few boys from the teaching job. FIRST the age limit was set as 14 to eastern part of the State, where the The ability with which he puts his all, 1 7 inclusive ; then it was decided that streams are scarce, could swim at squad through and attends to their scor- because of the differences in age and size with the result that the officials were ex- ing counts on his college grades, and it is of the boys, there should be two divisions, ceedingly busy fishing the contestants out truly remarkable that each of more than Junior and Senior. Then for the reason of the tank. So, in the last two years 200 contestants can be timed and meas- that most of the physically deficient boys there has been substituted the hitch and ured in nine events in less than three are those who have not been outstanding kick, an event requiring both agility and hours. The aid of the School of Physical

in athletics, it was decreed that no one perfect timing, wherein the performer, Education strongly indicates that the would be eligible for the decathlon who after a run, endeavors to kick for height logical Legion Post to stage a program had ever won a high school letter in any against a suspended wooden disc—quite of Junior Olympics is one located near line of sport. This gives an opportunity a feat. a large college whose physical education to such boys who would otherwise never Few of the boys are at first familiar department is willing to cooperate. have turned out for track and field. with the hand stand, the rope climb and To furnish a goal for the boys to strive posture, but these were introduced be- AFTER the decathlon had been decided for in the various events, and cause them cause the experience of American schools XJL upon, the thought occurred that to train and practice the year 'round, of physical education has revealed that the Junior Olympics might profitably be standards were set in both the Junior and while young Americans are, as a rule, made more comprehensive and interest- Senior divisions. As soon as a boy passes fairly strong in the legs, they are on the ing, by adding golf and tennis tourna- all of the standards, he is rewarded with average woefully weak above the waist ments. There is a story in circulation a special badge of merit. Not all of them and need more shoulder, arm, and chest to the effect that when Comrade Tay- need be passed the same year. The events development. lor's son, Rod, learned of the proposed chosen and the standards set are as decathlon he "put the bee" on his dad to follows: SINCE the 60-yard swim has been elim- include the future Walter Hagens in the inated, every participant is required picture. The fact that he was the cham- SENIOR DIVISION to take a comprehensive swimming lesson pion in both 1940 and 1941 proves he Events Standards under the auspices of the Red Cross on had a good idea. The same age limits con- 75 yard dash 9.3 seconds the second morning of the two-day pro- trol in golf and tennis as in the decathlon, 120 yard low hurdles 17.2 seconds gram. Writing these lines brings to my but there are no senior and junior di- Running high jump 4 ft., 9 in. soldier, Running broad jump 16 ft., 6 in. mind that every American sailor visions, nor is anyone barred because of

Football punt 120 ft. and Marine should be a capable swimmer, having won a letter in any other branch

Baseball throw 23s ft. at least. of athletics. Hand stand Pts. for time held Think of those Japs, swimming across There is a point which I wish to in-

Rope climb (20 ft.) ii.i seconds to Hong Kong to explode Britain's pro- clude in this story and that is that it Hitch kick 6 ft., 9 in. tective mines, and also think of the haz- would be highly advisable for the Legion Posture Erect posture ards of drowning our men encounter when Posts staging Junior Olympics to meet JUNIOR DIVISION participating in landing parties or being in advance with the state high school associations in order avoid Events Standards attacked at sea by bombs and torpedoes to an over- lapping schedules. 75 yard dash 10.2 seconds The manner in which the University of of This would not 120 yard low hurdles 18.2 seconds Oregon Department of Physical Educa- affect the decathlon entry list, but would

Running high jump 4 ft., s in. tion handles the contestants in the de- be very important in connection with Running broad jump 12 ft., 4 in. cathlon is quite interesting. Each physi- the golf and tennis tournaments.

JULY, 1942 4i The question of financing such a ven- all of the boys have an opportunity to out, the 1942 meeting would undoubtedly ture had to be worked out, and it was hear and meet prominent citizens, ath- again have doubled in attendance. How- solved by the local Post deciding to care letic coaches, and Legionnaires generally. ever, the games held recently on May ist for all expenses except transportation, This is an occasion not easily forgotten. and 2d elicited a quite satisfactory re- though with a $2.00 entry fee for each Sparkling, bubbling, keen-eyed youths sponse, considering tire and gasoline competitor to be paid by his sponsoring who have competed with each other in shortages, plus the fact that so man> Post, which likewise furnishes transpor- the afternoon fill the air with lively ban- Legionnaires are engrossed in civil de- tation. The matter of sleeping accommo- ter and snappy come-backs, with every- fense work or have again joined up. dations is solved for the most part by one on the qui vive for the presentation With such a favorable reception of the Legionnaires opening up their homes to of prizes for the decathlon grand winners, program by the Posts, our Department the visiting boys, and this plan gives junior and senior, and also the decathlon officials became imbued with the desir- splendid opportunities for discussion of event winners, as this activity is com- ability of securing its adoption nation- questions affecting the future of our be- pleted in the one afternoon. The pos- ally, and as a result, a resolution to that loved country. ture tests and compulsory Red Cross effect was presented to the 1941 National The program occupies two days, al- swimming lesson which come the follow- Convention at Milwaukee, which adopted ways a Friday and Saturday. Official ing morning do not count in the scoring, it. Consequently, the Junior Olympics is entry blanks are filled out and posted as they are merely corrective and in- now a part of the national Legion pro- a week prior to the games, these blanks structive. The golf and tennis tourna- gram. having been supplied earlier by the host ments are not completed until Saturday It is the fervent hope of the Depart- Post. Each blank is accompanied by the forenoon, making it necessary that the ment of Oregon Legion Junior Olympics entry fee, for only in this way is the prizes for these competitions be pre- Commission, of which the writer is a local Post able to know how many boys sented at their conclusion. After the ban- member, that this program will now re- to expect; and with the data on the quet, with the boys theoretically bedded ceive a favorable response in all sections blanks, showing the age, weight, and down, the Legionnaires and coaches hold of the country; that in addition to the height of each competitor, they can then a social gathering to review the day's half-million junior baseball players whom be correctly classed into seniors and happenings and brag about how fast and we help develop each year, who, as I juniors. powerful they were in days gone by. know from 14 years' experience with Registration of the young athletes is It was first planned that the Junior them, cherish the friendship of Legion- completed on Friday forenoon. Box Olympics would be merely a local ac- naires and the ideals of our organization, lunches are served in the University tivity of the Eugene Post. However, we may contact each year another half-

Gymnasium, and at i :t,o all competitors there was such a response from the million live American youths among the must be ready to proceed to the athletic whole State that it appeared advisable track, tennis, and golf players, and by fields. University tennis courts and vari- and proper to have the program adopted so doing, draw them close to us and help ous golf courses. by the Department. The second year's to mold them into the kind of citizens At 6:30 p. M. Friday, the big social attendance more than doubled that of so needed by the country in times like get-together is held, a banquet where the first year and had not the war broken these.

Jack Tar, Take a Bow

(Continued from page feed the front lines. And the men who in a manner, give the landlubber an that's so. Tack on to the peacetime man these ships. The tough, hard guys angle on the spirit of the merchant hazards all the new ones war adds, and who can not only take it, see their pals service. It's a matter of pride to come it takes hard men to handle the job. die, but can come back for more. through, and it's a matter of pride to These men haven't the glamor of It should be remembered that mer- carry on. If you can't make a port one uniforms (if you exclude officers and chant seamen are not under compulsion way you make it another, just as the quartermasters, etc.), and they don't get to go back, as men of the services are. old clipper-ship Americans, who failed to medals, and a lot of them are not A great number of them are married, or get around Cape Horn on account of phenagling around for promotion. They're old enough to claim exemption and work the persisting westerly winds, often just Tom, Dick and Harry earning a on the docks or in the shipyards. But turned and went around the world to living and doing a good job. almost without exception a sailor remains reach Foo-Chow in China, via the Cape I have seen ten men take out a boat a sailor and he signs again. He hasn't of Good Hope. in a suicidal sea to take off the crew of a rifle, he hasn't any badges, he is just a You only have to read the papers to a Portuguese freighter sinking in the hard baby and no damned Jerry's going see the breed hasn't changed much. The Indian Ocean. Not one was interested in to scare him off the sea. And if this American seamen are still signing again, the Portuguese but it was just a sea sounds like hooey think back to the last and they're still tough. They should be courtesy, and they didn't get any medals show, and remember a few of our own given a ranking along with the men in the for it cither. In the last war I knew men recent experiences. The traditions of the service. It takes all the guts you have to who'd been torpedoed three or four merchant service run back around four go out there unarmed on the water, in times and just stood in line to sign and or five thousands years, and through all the utter dark, and know you're liable to sail again. This was in the British service. races, and I think the breed is still with get a smack in the middle any moment. The way the Americans have stood up us. I can quite understand why the cap- It wasn't so bad in the last show. The shows there's no corner on guts. The tain of the Graf Spec shot himself after subs ran alone; but this time they're in boys are dredged ashore in lifeboat or losing his ship. I can quite understand packs and if one misses you the other raft and just ask for a return dose. why many skippers still go down with doesn't. The men who man these ships The American public, by and large 'cm. I had an uncle who was a skipper, are those who can take it. Don't ever

docs not realize what this "silent service" and his slogan was, "If you have to lose forget that ! And if it wasn't for the mer-

means to them. The public thinks of the your ship the only crime is to come home chant navy you couldn't hold a tent in Army and Navy, and the bands all play- and tell about it!" Let's give credit to Iceland or a fort in Australia. The hard- ing, but none of this would function if all sailors in that way. Of any race. boiled babies who take the ships to sea it wasn't for the old nine-knot tubs, the That's all old stuff, of course, and are doing a swell job, and they'll do it as

fast tankers, the converted liners, that maybe doesn't make sense, but it does, long as is necessary, so they can go back

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to their other Job of delivering onions, water breakers, or kegs, were seldom peanuts and hardwood to some of our filled between voyages, so the water was own ports; which means to you, mister. bad, and the porcelain filters some boats

So if you meet a merchant sailor, take off were fitted with gave out about a quart your hat. He's probably going out to die of un-salt water a day, which didn't much so your fleet can keep operating and help twenty or thirty men. I understand your Army can be provided. And he isn't now they are fitting lifeboats with regu- squawking, because it's a sailor's job. lar stills, and why this wasn't done forty "You either deliver or don't come home years ago is a mystery. A man needs to explain." water, even if he can starve for weeks,

I have noted that some of the recent and in these war times particularly it sinkings have been pretty damned hor- would seem this angle would be taken rible; like men being fried in flaming oil care of without a lot of official hum-ing from tankers, or trying to survive in open and ah-ing. boats and suffering agonies from thirst. Which all sums up to, don't forget the In this last regard I should like to freighter men when you think of the state that some years ago I wrote a story other services. These are the lads who dealing with just such a thirst incident, keep 'em all sailing, and we'd be a sick and then received a letter from a doctor lot of monkeys if they didn't. Hurri- in Seattle (whose name I've unfortu- canes, collisions and fires in peacetime, nately lost) which stated that a body of and now it's a little shelling, torpedoing students in a mid-western university once or divebombing as well. Skip the ad- undertook a month's trial on how long mirals and generals for a moment and "He calls it a gesture of respect the human body could exist without remember the tough ginks who're leaving for a worthy adversary." fresh water. It appears they ate normally, port tonight. They don't know for where never drank, and took injections of sea- nor for what. Maybe for that sudden water through the rectum by means of a from thirst, as only a few syringes would flame spurt in the dark, and a ship going syringe, the amounts being frequent but be needed in open boats. But, as usual under in the blazing oil. Maybe for a small so as not to give an enema effect. in approaching official sources, I had no beach-head where the troops are hanging According to correspondent this reply, so I dropped the matter. on maybe for a battlewagon my ; running out was quite successful. The student guinea It occurs to me again, that while this of supplies in the mid-Pacific. They may pigs ate for a month, never suffered idea may be all eye-wash, if there's a not be very glamorous ginks, and, as I thirst, and the idea seems to be that the smidgin of possibility, it should be inves- say, they don't get to wear hash-marks body absorbs the water while rejecting tigated. God knows, enough of our sea- and a flock of ribbons, but they're doing the salt. I inquired of several doctors men have suffered tortures from thirst, the job as American seamen always have, about this and they admitted, with pro- and should this simple solution be found and if it wasn't for them you could just fessional reserve, that it might be so. I practical it would save a lot of grief. I as well toss your bayonets in the ashcan wrote the Hydrographic Office in Wash- offer it only for what it's worth, and and f jrget about building planes. The ington and also to the British Board of admit I don't know if it's worth any- Japs and Hitler would be here in a couple Trade, suggesting that if this test were thing. Speaking from personal experience, of weeks. I give you, gentlemen, the proven it would save all deaths at sea I know that in the old days a boat's merchant navy!

Crash Go the Bottlenecks

{Continued from page ij) vessels, both dry cargo and tanker, roads' 1,691,800 company-owned freight 300 destroyers and nearly two hundred placed in service; that 198 ships in the cars were augmented in 1941 by 80,000 submarines—to say nothing of the laid-up fleet have been reconditioned; new ones and by 600 new locomotives. swarms of MTB's, the various tenders, that 300 merchant vessels of various Orders for 974 additional engines and the minesweepers and all the rest. Actual types, aggregating in excess of three mil- 155,000 more freight cars will be placed progress reports on this vastest of all lion deadweight tons, have been turned for construction this year. Each month navy construction schedules Sam keeps over to the nation. scores of completely reconditioned cars in the vault, but as he privately reviews So much for the ocean-going picture. are being added. As a result of a railroad re- them now, he nods with satisfaction, for How about the facilities to get the thou- building program over the past eighteen he knows he has the men and material sand and one necessities for fighting mil- years locomotive pulling power has been resources to build ships faster and more lions to this fleet of ships—get them from increased 43 percent, average freight frequently than the "Yaps" and the Michigan and Montana, from Indiana train speed is up 45 percent, average car "Nasties." He is certain that, sooner or and Iowa, Ohio and Oklahoma, and all capacity has been raised from 42 to 50 later, the ships that fly the Stars and the other points hundreds of miles from tons. The rails are heavier with fewer Stripes will not only chase the lurking seaports? What is the report on domestic curves, the bridges are stronger, and the submarines to cover or plant them per- transportation? signal system is greatly improved. Since manently on the ocean bottoms; they The railroads moved 1,904,000 troops the fall of 1940 the railroads have been will, also, with the help of the United between December 7th and March 15th, delivering an average of 5,000 carloads Nations' fighting craft, literally and un- in addition to carrying thousands on fur- of defense and war materials every day questionably rule this world's waves loughs; every six seconds one of the to more than 140 widely separated gov- and that is Sam's naval answer to past 15,200 freight trains that daily and ernment camps, plants, and projects and present Axis threats on and beneath nightly roar back and forth over the and with all this there isn't the slightest the seas. nation's 235,000 miles of trackage starts indication that the congestion and other As Sam reads the summary of his its run; with 625.000 fewer freight cars difficulties of 191 7-18 will return. "Yes," shipbuilding report, he almost relaxes than in 1929, freight loadings last year Sam muses as he passes on to the next into a grin, for it tells him that since totaled 42,250,000 cars, an increase of report, "the railroads are right —they are 1939 there have been more than 250 5,892,000 ca-s above 1940. The rail- ready."

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The 4,912.000 trucks and tractor- gently in the breeze with that easy aban- and which powers the famed Curtiss trucks, plus about 277,000 commercial don that permeates the crowd at a Ken- P-40, the Bell P-39 Airacobra, the Lock- trailers in Sam's 48 States provide a po- tucky Derby or a World Series baseball heed P-38 Lightning, and the North tential haulage capacity 40 percent game. Contrarywise, they can assume a American P-51, has been tripled since greater than those he owned in 1917. porcupinish bristling effect, perhaps gen- last year—one plant in one month shipped To these may be added an estimated erated by thoughts of the Alamo, Cha- more Allisons than were made altogether 196,000 new vehicles, "frozen" at present, teau-Thierry, Corregidor. They bristled in 1940. but nonetheless available. Long ago the now, as Sam absent-mindedly rubbed a Trainload shipments of Buick-built American Trucking Associations, which purplish spot on one cheek, a purplish bomber engines are being made to plane represents the nation's motor carrier serv- spot that stands for Pearl Harbor. manufacturers and the originally sched- ices, arranged for the establishing of a "Transportation." mused Sam. "is rel- uled 1942 output will have been packed trucking equipment pool, flexible to care atively well under control. We have ships into the first six months of this year for fluctuating transportation require- at seaports and hundreds more coming and all this in addition to engine output ments of war materials. Trucks, and off the ways, all to help carry millions by the plants of aircraft manufacturers buses, too, have already been utilized of tons of things from here to anywhere. and others similarly engaged. Planes directly by the Army in maneuvers, and the truck equipment pool can be called on to augment the Army's own fleet of 300.000 vehicles. In view of the rubber situation, Sam's Director of the Office of Defense Transportation, Joseph B. East- man, last April began organization of a nation-wide war program to prolong the life of all transportation facilities and to increase the efficiency of mass transportation. On the report labeled "Domestic Com- mercial Aviation," Sam reads that "a substantial proportion of the available flight equipment," said to total about 300 commercial transport planes, was transferred outright to the Army Air Forces last month for operation by Army personnel. In addition, the air lines have converted 70 of their ships into cargo carriers, operated by air line personnel under contract to the air forces for taxi transportation all over the world of men and materiel. The remaining planes, or about half of those in commercial service Color guards of num>-rous Legion Posts of Brooklyn, New York, partici- last May, are available at all times for pated in the inauguration of Major League Baseball's series of sixteen emergency military missions and although benefit games for the Navy Relief Society and the Army Emergency on call, they are still owned and flown by Relief, on May 8th. The Navy Relief Society received about $60,000 the air lines. While this transfer of ships from this initial twilight game at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. The score: will necessitate adjustments on the part Brooklyn Dodgers 7, New York Giants 6 of many habitual air travelers, the addition of this great fleet of sky liners provides the Army with potential transpor- Between the rails, the trucks, and the air planes—planes, for which 50 million spark tation of the fastest type for several lines we'll get the stuff to the boats. Now plugs will be required. They're coming off thousand troops and equipment—should —what are we making in our factories production lines from California to Con- fighting necticut faster, ever it ever become necessary. that we must get to our forces —faster, faster. Another phase of civil aviation which in these ships?" and he strode back to Tanks, those mechanized hellions made the desk, picked report headed "Air- in America, so terrifying, so devastating, is "in service" for the duration is that up a of the "flying minute men'' of the Civil craft: Military." so well-equipped to "take it," what of Air Patrol, which numbers more than "On April 9th," he read, "Speaker of them? Chrysler's tank arsenal that was a 40,000 civilian pilots and private plane the House Sam Rayburn announced that cornfield such a short while ago has been owners, ineligible for active flight duty. U. S. production now exceeds 3300 planes at peak capacity for several months, Utilizing their own planes, tools, and a month."' He read that Henry Ford's while other Chrysler plants, responsible spare aircraft parts members of the patrol new and stupendous Willow Run plant for trucks, engines, cannon, ammunition, have been covering coast-wise shipping will soon produce a prodigious bomber and aircraft, are making shipments in lanes as an accessory watchdog service. far more often than human ingenuity has excess of schedule. Mediums of measure- The Patrol has been credited with pre- ever before considered possible. Reported ment of progress, stated, the report, are venting sinkings in Atlantic waters by one plant : Pratt and Whitney bomber indicated by the fact that 78 percent of all is being for frightening off attacking submarines, as engines of 2000 horsepower, each com- Chrysler machinery used well as with the liquidation of several parable in construction efforts to a rail- or being prepared for war work; that Axis undersea craft because they prompt- road locomotive, are coming off the line more than twenty million square feet < ly contacted Army and Navy bombers, a score a day. A Kansas airplane fac- comparable to a 4383 -acre farm—of which, in turn, scored heavily. tory's acres of floor space are literally floor space in nineteen United States covered with training and other ships, as plants are necessary for completion of SAM rose from his chair, walked slowly are the floors of many another airplane Chrysler war contracts; that pre-war to the window, and stroked his unique factory in all corners of the country. business of Chrysler units annually to- chin whiskers reflectively. Nowhere else Production by General Motors of the taled some $760,000,000, while the war in the world are there chin whiskers like Allison engine, which weighs less than a material contracts eventually will be at a Sam's. If you've noticed, they can flow pound for each of its 1325 horsepower two-billion-dollar rate per year. 44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ^ YOURNEW ^

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From the vast Baldwin Locomotive items turned out of General Motors fac- month, with current figures running close Works are rolling medium tanks three tories, shipments which represented a 62 to 5000. At first it was not expected and one-half times faster than the con- percent increase over the last quarter of that the hoped-for goal of 50,000 planes servative prediction of a year ago when 1 94 1 and which were nearly five times per year could be attained before 1944 the first 28-ton tank clattered away under as large as shipments for the first three now, barring plant destruction, there's a its own grumbling and rumbling power. months of last year. Many familiar names good chance to make it this year. Production has been trebled in recent in the automotive industry Sam now In regard to food for everybody, weeks and present indications point to a found linked with the machinery of war. Sam's Secretary of Agriculture, Claude ten-fold increase in the original spring AC Spark Plug Division's major job is Wickard, has said: "The burden and re- schedule by the end of this year. A com- .50 caliber machine guns, as well as those sponsibility upon the farmers are stag- parably optimistic report is in from special aviation spark plugs, and oil geriitg." But they too are well up on American Locomotive Company, from filters, bearings, instruments, air cleaners, production schedules, regardless of the other tank producers, and of particular and so on. In machine gun production enormous increases asked for in milk, interest is the fact that Britain and the there's an astounding new method of eggs, chickens, hogs, com, cotton, rice, United States in pooling resources against flaxseed, peas, beans, tomatoes and many the Axis, have standardized medium other foods. The Army, the Navy, the tank manufacture so that, with a few ex- nation, and even parts of the rest of the ceptions, all parts are interchangeable, world will be well fed. Wool, cotton, an accomplishment that will materially linen, rayon, and such silk as is available facilitate repairs, maintenance and. opera- will be used in enormous quantities for tion. hundreds of purposes, and according to Sam's progress reports they're all coming TANKS, guns, shells, trucks, engines, through in good shape. airplane parts, read Sam, as he thrust The saga of science in this war will a homy hand through tousled gray locks some day be told in its entirety. It will in some amazement at today's progress make thrilling reading. Never- before have report— 71 General Motors plants now military forces been so dependent on working on 1000 orders for war materials new devices and methods that ingenious with 14 more plants being re-tooled, men out of uniform have thought up and eight others under construction, and five created. Aircraft detecting devices, new awaiting completion of contractual ne- barrel making. It turns out from 24 to 55 explosives", vaccines, sulfa drugs, plastics gotiations. A national personnel program barrels an hour instead of one, as for- are but a few items on this lenghty re- to engage 25 million Americans one way merly. port. More than 50,000 inventive sug- or another in war production effort by a Buick is manufacturing shells and get- gestions have been offered by the good year from today. ting into production on transmission and people of Sam's country as aids toward The Army Ordnance Department, final-drive assemblies for Fisher tanks. winning the war. doing four times as much business The sprawling Chevrolet plant at Flint, handling four times the volume of orders Michigan, with its manufacturing and 1ATE that night Sam was still at his for military goods as at the peak of the assembly units scattered throughout the idesk, shuffling papers, making mar- ginal notes. situations last war; the Garand rifle, barely in pro- country, is responsible for 4x4 (four- Some were not duction in 1940's summer, now coming wheel drive) and 4x2 trucks, many with too good, like rubber and transportation out at the rate of 1000 a day and in the special bodies, axle sets and transfer of gasoline, but even these, Sam decided, hands of every U. S. combat soldier who cases, a brand new combat vehicle, and were problems that could and would be licked. is supposed to have one; the Frankford it is preparing to manufacture guns. The Available man-power and woman- Arsenal, almost the only source of small- Cleveland Diesel Engine Division has power to go places, do things, and make things arms ammunition last time, now crashing upped its production of power plants of was one of the least of the wor- through with more cartridges each month naval craft to hterally staggering propor- ries. Page after page of reports covering than it made in all of igi8, and two tions. sources of supplies, production and testing of thousands of other small-arms ammunition plants, as Delco Products is almost 100 per- items was carefully well as our peace-time arms industry cent engaged in making shot and shell of scanned. Finally Sam leaned back and supplementing this output. various calibers, motors, generators, fuses his hand stole up to that purplish spot Big as Sam is, mentally and physically, and fuse parts, primer parts, and landing on his cheek. he was plainly somewhat surprised and gear struts for bombers. Fisher Body's "Not a bad progress report," he said. "Not bad. In fact, all things considered, certainly pleased by the implications of tank production is seven months ahead this the figures. Progress, that's what it meant of schedule, and they're in production on expansion phase of the past six —progress. He reached for the phone and sub-assemblies for the North American months is little short of a modern mir- pushed a button. "I have your report," B-25 bomber, naval gun breech housings, acle. It just couldn't happen anywhere he said into the mouthpiece, "about that planers and boring mills, gun and Diesel except in a free country where the in- midwest plant that shipped its first engine parts, and they'll soon be making centive to do things like this doesn't Browning machine gun a year ago and gun mounts and completed bombers. depend on a bull whip and an iron heel. has now doubled its estimated produc- "But now comes the stretch," he con- tion. And I found your comment on AND so the list goes on—hundreds tinued. "All my 133 million people are Westinghouse manufacture of turbines xjl upon hundreds of companies, large in this thing to the finish—and from and gears most satisfactory—those new and small, each madly rushing on in its these reports, what a finish it's going to

Liberty ships will be ready for them. own effort to better the original schedule. be ! The real test lies ahead. America has list is long for even Sam to set a victorious breath-taking, Yes, I noted that 95 percent of Westing- The full too pace—a house plant capacity in 23 cities is on read in one day. The program is so big, muscle-straining, soul-wracking pace war work, and as for those three new so widespread that it's hard to grasp it and it must be maintained." and secret weapons - - -" and Sam in its entirety. Originally it was not Sam brought his big fist down on the actually smiled as he hung up the thought possible to reach the goal of 500 desk with a mighty slam. "If I know my receiver. bombers a month until late this year; America, it will be maintained! Where Another report caught Sam's eyes. It now it appears we'll get there much do you suppose Hitler and Hirohito got told how the first three months of 1942 earlier. Engine production plans call for the idea they could hck a nation like had seen $257,479,371 worth of war 9000 aircraft motors of all kinds in one ours?" 46 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine How your * 50Z RED CROSS DOLLARS

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were tracking down a criminal, and when It's Your Propaganda War they uncover its starting point, they can investigate whether the rumor was started (Continued from page ig) Working closely with the Anti-Con- maliciously for domestic reasons, inno- the people who staff the committees, with fusion Committee should be "Propaganda cently, or as the result of Axis planning. the help of an operator's manual. But Policemen"—and here is a place where A few such rumors tracked to their the committees couldn't go far wrong if the Legion with all its experience could sources would make it hot for conscious they operated on the fundamental prin- render a great service. or unconscious Axis helpers in any com- ciple that the most important single Propaganda that hinders the war ef- munity. The Propaganda Policemen consideration at the moment is winning fort—rumors or trends of thinking which would also serve as a check on careless the war, and everything else is secondary. in some way undermine the determina- talk, which sometimes can do as much With this principle strictly adhered to, tion to fight all the way and win the war damage as carefully planned Axis propa- the committee could not sell private —has to start some place. It doesn't gen- ganda. "opinion" or grind personal axes. erate everywhere spontaneously. Some If committees such as these to control The first doctor on the committee may person, or group, must start every rumor, confusion and the causes of confusion see that our having to win the war be- or must first voice every adverse opinion. could be set up all over the country, we fore we can settle anything else, is not Under present circumstances, the Wash- would no longer have to worry about the unlike the auto accident patient who is ington propaganda group knows nothing Axis propaganda drive which has been so worried about the fate of his smashed of these rumors or who starts them until promised by those "in the know" for this leg that he won't let himself get well they have made an indelible impression fall. For the one ingredient without which enough to find out whether anything is that shows up on public-opinion surveys. Goebbels' whole scheme of propaganda really the matter with the leg. In other But the community Anti-Confusion crumbles to dust is confusion—and we words, the doctor will be able to see the Committees, if they are on the job, will could take the sting out of that ingredi- American people (and help them see notice outcroppings of rumors or ad- ent. themselves) as so concerned about what verse opinions almost as soon as they are But only the people themselves, work- is to follow the war—who will then run born. Then the Propaganda Policemen ing independently and with a determina- the world and the nation—that they are can track down the source and find out tion to ration loose talk and to put sitting and worrying while the war is go- who has been "exposed" to the rumors everything to one side until the war is ing against us . . . and if we lose, then and may need straightening out. They over, can remove this Axis scourge which none of those things will matter at all. can track down a rumor as though they has many, many victories to boast about.

The Comics Go to War

(Continued from page 17) The time may also come when Super- vious that Dude was anti-Axis, and soon tently, when going through his physical man will blossom forth in real life head- after his debut Caniff was complimented as his pedantic, bespectacled alter ego, lines—for there are two army Divisions by Mussolini—who banned him forever- newspaperman Clark Lee, he read the carrying his banner. One is the 44th more from Fascist Italy. wrong eye chart. In fact, because of his Ordnance Training Company, D Battalion, Immensely set up by this experience, X-ray eyes, he read the eye chart in the at Aberdeen, Maryland—the other the Caniff turned more and more of his at- next room. Astounded at this feat, the 44th Bombardment Squadron of the tention to the Japanese-Chinese conflict Army snapped him up as a spy catcher United States Army air arm. Both fly the and with Pearl Harbor he went all out, and today Superman is busily catching Superman insignia, officially recognized calling the invaders Japs, and turning Japs and Germans who tamper with our by the Army. Dude loose. production front. While Joe Palooka is a composite pic- Things, however, were not going well At the present time his sphere of ture of the lovable, larruping buck for Dude himself. With our entry into action is the Holabird transport base in private, and Superman is the fightingest, the war, he was assigned to fly with the Baltimore, Maryland, guarding his me- mightiest dream G-man that ever existed, volunteer American group* guarding the chanical — and official — godchild, the neither one has a real life counterpart. Burma Road, and then transferred to the Superman army truck. However, Siegcl But Dude Hennick, the bushy-browed defense of Singapore. Suddenly he warns that if there's ever an invasion of hero who has all but stolen the spot- dropped from the script, and with his these shores, he can't promise to hold light in "Terry and The Pirates" is going mournful letters rolled in on Caniff Superman down—that he may take time actually an American flier. Dude Higgs. from all over the country. Caniff himself, out from spy catching to give a sub- Higgs and strip artist Milton Caniff went however, was fighting against the belief marine a shove to the bottom or toss a to school together at Ohio State Uni- that Dude had been killed in action and few planes back at Hitler and Hirohito. versity, and although Higgs took to the could not answer them. Meanwhile Superman, like the Palooka, air while Caniff kept his feet on the Their first information that he was works overtime. In April the War De- ground under an easel, the two remained safe then came from his sister in Co- partment gave him a high priority rating fast friends. lumbus, Ohio, who got his one permitted so that all Superman comic books could Through Higgs's letters from China, cablegram that he was hospitalized in be included among the essential supplies where he went as a volunteer flying United Nations territory, and it wouldn't destined for the Marine garrison at Mid- teacher, Caniff gleaned most of his back- be long before he'd be raring to go again. way Island—and the supermen in the ground for Terry. Never having been Despite this heroic competition, the A. E. F. in Ireland also demand him as farther east than Algiers, Caniff relied on Dragon Lady continues her guerilla war- super-favorite reading. Higgs for geographic and geologic detail fare as chief of the Chinese underground Moreover, by special request of the —and so thoroughly did Higgs provide army. Helping her is the engaging Pat Quartermaster Corps, Superman is con- it, plus a running story of his own ad- Ryan, who manages to sandwich in a lot ducting an educational campaign in pre- ventures, that Caniff plunked him in the of wooing with his warfare—and the day ventive maintenance. From the painless script, eyebrows and all. that Pat kissed the gorgeous Chinese pictures in this comic strip, members of Pretty soon the handsome, daredevil soldierette was a big one in the Caniff the Motor Transport Division can quick- flyer outshone even the Dragon Lady her- strip. No hardboiled sergeant she, the ly find out what safety methods they self. Fighting against the euphemistically * See Can't Hold Those Tigers, American should—and must—be employing. named "invaders" of China, it was ob- Legion Magazine, June, 1942.

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Dragon Lady has a khaki following stretching from here around the fighting fronts and back. Although there has not yet been created a comic character who might adequately represent the soldier on the production /ler/a/ Ears front, Skeezix provides the next best thing to it; for the foundling child, beloved by Uncle Walt, and the first comic baby actually to grow up, has now become a mechanical engineer. Daily expecting the draft, Skeezix is currently engaged on a mechanical military mission, somewhere on a battlefront. Standing almost directly in the line of roaring tanks and flying bullets, his job is to test and check on the performance of the tools manufactured by his company. Still a shock-headed boy, his once easygoing life in Gasoline Alley is further complicated by the problem facing so many soldiers, what to do about the girl back home.

For Skeezix is in love with the fair and lovely Nina, and after a prolonged discussion of the pro's and con's they were all set to get married. Interrupted at the altar, however, by his technical call to arms, Skeezix set out on active duty—leaving Nina to bear up bravely at home, ever faithful.

Another gay little morale-builder is the pug-nosed Boots, whose buddies are now almost all soldiers. The stay-at- home yokels haven't a chance with Boots, who at least three days a week trips forth in a most becoming, though unofficial uniform, for a spot of war work. That old spinach-eater, Popeye, has been doing his bit by inventing a goose that lays rubber eggs, and sinking "Yap" submarines. Snuffy Smith, who has pretty nearly taken over the Barney Google strip, is a yardbird now—and quite the funniest of the fighting funnies.

And Tarzan, who supermanned it daily and Sunday before the man of steel came along, is now organizing a commando group of animals. Since he's the son of a

British lord this is right up his alley, and he is planning to use elephants in place of tanks, real gorillas for guerillas, and smash down on axis armies in Africa. Wash Tubbs and Easy, Captain Easy, if you please, are busy organizing resistance in the Philippines and chic Jane Arden is now busy with enemies instead of gangster troubles. Daddy Warbucks,

Orphan Annie's guardian, is in uniform now, presumably British but very hush- hush on a secret and of course highly dangerous mission. Blondie is having sugar troubles but their new baby practically guarantees that Dagwood will not be drafted. All in all, there are very few of the comics still going their own sweet, slap- happy way. A few, like "Li'l Abner," reckon that the breakfast table deserves a little escape now and again. But from that mischievous minx Nancy, chief of the junior air raid wardens, to Private Palooka, the rest have decided that, by golly, this is Total War.

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then, some dealing with the motor car The Kansas Way given away to the lucky Legionnaire who had paid his dues before November 11, (Continued from page 27) driver has an itching toe to reach the and held the right number. And* another keep up their interest in government so floor with the accelerator. —for publicity—of flying district mem- that they know what they're voting on." "You can't make a boy or girl a good bership totals to Department Head- Meanwhile, Scott Berridge had been citizen unless you can raise him to voting quarters by carrier pigeon. rummaging through some reports made age," Berridge said. "And believe me, But suddenly Berridge said, "I wonder to the last Department Convention. the traffic toll got just too high. Four- if the people of the United States five years ago we took out one year just realize just how much the Legion does "TOOK at this," he said, holding out a to see what could be done to prevent for the children of the nation. I don't J—ipaper, "our child welfare program accidents. We got a good record, but remember the G. A. R. doing much when gave aid to 19,830 children last year in increasing numbers of cars brought it up I was a kid. But The American Legion 6,610 different homes. It cost us $202,601. again. So now, this year, we're tying into to-day is training a youth that will know That ought to show something when you the problem again. a darn sight more about his country stop and think we aren't' a large depart- "We have a State Safety Contest in than we did at the same age. And be ment. We had 18,836 members last year, which the Post which does the most healthier. the highest in ten years. That's more outstanding work gets a large Safety "Just look at this: the Legion spon- than one kid per Post who was taken Plaque. This keeps them busy figuring sored 3,000 Boy Scout troops. There care of." new ways to beat the problem. Some are a half million kids playing Junior "There is more than dollars involved," Posts purchased land for children's play- Baseball. The Boy's State in 34 States Click told me, "we're concentrating on grounds. The members go out and paint and Girl's State in 27 States are training getting a Coordinated Community Coun- the cross-walks, buy uniforms for the around four or five million kids how to cil in every Kansas city. The local Post schoolboy patrols, shout until they get be good citizens and guard what they've takes the lead in getting supervised traffic lights at dangerous street inter- got. playgrounds, summer camps—keeping sections. "Never mind what the Legion does kids out of mischief. It's the one big "One Post dropped safety literature in Community Service. Just stick to the answer to juvenile delinquency. In from an airplane. Others had safety pa- } outh angle. Then look around and try Lamed, which was a sort of testing rades, and got civic organizations together and find me one other organization that ground, there hasn't been one child to show safety moving pictures. Most is doing as -much. not a single one—brought before the Posts have a Safety flag flying under the "The American Legion is bound to Juvenile Court in the four years the American colors, and if there is an die some day, but believe me, they're Coordinated Community Council has accident in its jurisdiction the flag flies building a heritage that will live long functioned. And the cost to Lamed was at half-staff. We're all the time having after taps has been blown over the last only $125 a year. That's a cheap price radio talks, and dinning home the safety Legionnaire." for crime prevention and making useful idea. I couldn't help but agree. You get citizens, don't you think?" "It's the only way you get anywhere, youth-minded in Kansas after listening About this time Berridge fished out just keep pounding. But the Kansas to Berridge. And now that they're be- the report of Louis White, State Safety crop of kids is larger; and the accidents ginning to teach Americanism in the Chairman, who deals with traffic acci- involving their young lives are growing primary schools they'll be raising a fine dents. Kansas is a big flat State with fewer.' crop of Americans. Of which Kansas is plenty of straight fine roads where the We went through a lot of reports, as proud as she is of her wheat.

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(Continued from page 21) can be done without army equipment, Posts of Nassau County, New York New York, that pre-induction training without active army officers, without decided to take action on this pre-induc- can be carried on successfully on a vast governmcjit funds. We know that's true tion training and get things done. Under scale. The major, founder of the greatest because we have seen it done on a small the leadership of Sherman Moreland, Jr., voluntary drill movement in the history scale, and there is no factor in its expan- they voted unanimously to set up a of our country, trained over 30,000 men sion on a nation-wide scale that would county-wide drill organization, the prime in the period I9i6-'i8. Thousands of keep it from functioning successfully. purpose of which is to make it possible these Boyce's Tigers became non-coms With wooden guns and sighting and for men of active service age to benefit over night when they got into the service, aiming bars made locally from scrap by instruction given prior to induction and hundreds of them won commissions. lumber, with armories, school gymnas- into service.

There is a reservoir of some 15,000,000 iums, playgrounds and streets made avail- It is also the intention to set up a males in this country between the ages of able for drill, a weekly program of from cadre of "drill sergeants" in each of the 18 and 64. These have all been registered three to six hours of drill can be carried fifty-six county defense or war centers to now, and the Government has the power, out in these subjects: provide instruction for prospective se- under legislation passed by Congress, to lectees, as well as for civil defense order every one of them to do whatever 1. School of the soldier workers, motor corps and all other units job may in the discretion of the Presi- 2. Manual of arms seeking such training. dent of the United States be necessary to 3. Guard duty This work is now well advanced and the winning of this war. 4. The ABC of musketry nineteen drill floors are in operation at

We believe that there are enough non- 5. Military courtesy this writing. coms and former commissioned officers in 6. Articles of war To launch this undertaking a call was

Legion Posts throughout the United 7. Regular calisthenics sent out for Legionnaires and other ex- States to furnish every community with 8. Hikes and outdoor drills for physical service men who were willing to train to the instructors necessary to carrying out hardening. become "drill sergeants." These men were pre-induction training for every man to work two or three times per week. likely to be called into the Army. This In March of this year the Legion The Armory in Hempstead, Long Is-

50 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine land, being centrally located, was selected for the Sunday morning drills at which the key drill staff for the county would be trained. About 175 men turn out each Sunday for instruction. And are they glad to be at work? Over 100 were present for the voluntary session on Easter Sunday morning. Nassau County hopes to give a lead to the other counties of the country through this effort. Suffolk County has already followed suit under the able leadership of Bill Koernig of the Huntington Rotary Club, which backed the Legion Post in that town in this work. As of this writing over 200 men subject to call are now in training in this one small town. The First great need was the creation of a crack instructor corps. These men had to be "made" first so that they could teach in strict accordance with the new I.D.R.

Nassau's goal is 400 drill sergeants. Most of these men will be specialists in close-order drill and guard duty. Others will handle the A. B.C. of musketry. A third group will lecture on military courtesy and discipline. In short, all the basic subjects will be taught in a manner that will be to the Army's taste. The table of organization for this work in Nassau County calls for one man in complete charge of drill. He has selected Bu but I like to PLAY!" a leader for each of the three Legion — divisions in the county. These divisions And you'll have some wonderful are sub-divided and leaders are selected things to play with! Radio such as for the various drill floors. The County ''WHO -ME?" nobody knows today, and television, H.Q. Drill Staff of some ten exceptional- Not right now, sonny. But you and the results of new research in electricity and plastics ly well trained instructors superintends just wait! This whole great country and elec- tronics things that aren't even im- the Sunday drills and moves about from is going to be needing you. Say about — agined yet. Things that you'll have a drill area to drill area during the week 1 5 years from now, when you've hand in imagining, and to make certain that all is going accord- acquired a little algebra, and a best then making real. And you'll find there's no ing to Hoyle. girl, and 100-odd more pounds of play in all the world that's as much fun as A publicity committee is making ar- bone and muscle. helping to build the world the rangements to tell the value of this drill of "What'll it need ME for then?" future. work to all in the county through the For lots of things. For jobs a great press, handbills, announcements in movie Yes, sonny, we're all going to need deal different and better than today's. houses and in other ways. This commit- you. And we're all of us—fathers You like airplanes, don't you? tee is enlisting the aid of all church, and mothers, soldiers, men and school, business and social clubs. The "Airplanes? You bet!" women of American industry—work- movement is headed by the Legion Posts \\ ell, we'll need you to fly them. ing and fighting right now to make but all are welcome. It is non-political Better planes than any we have now, sure that this world of the future will non-sectarian there is no color and and flying higher and faster. They'll be be a better world. A world in which a line. safer, and the whole world will be young man like you can find the full- That this work is worth while is borne safer, too, when you take to the air. est opportunities to work and build out by the fact that men trained prior V\'e're determined on that, and we're and play. General Electric Cojnpany, to the start of this movement have risen doing everything in our power to Schenectady, N. V. rapidly through the ranks. Most of these make sure of it. What else do you men are sergeants, or are attending of- like to do? ficers' training schools, or are already "Well, we're buildin'a commissioned. clubhouse..." T/ie volume 0/ General Electric war pro- Building! Just the thing! duction is so high and the degree Let's invite the Rotary, many of whose We're of secrecv going to want your help with a lot of required is so great that we cannot local clubs have already endorsed this tell building. Houses, and the things that you about it now. When it can be work in their weekly paper. Chambers of told we go into houses. Things like air condi- believe that the story industry's Commerce, Kiwanis, Lions, Elks, K. of of develop- tioning, and better heating and light- ments during the war years will C, and Y. M. C. A. groups to join us in make one ing, and refrigerators. I tell you, the most chapters this undertaking. of fascinating in the you're going to be busy! history of industrial progress. Let's send the men to camp completely trained in the school of the soldier and physically fit as well, ready to start the technical training which only the Army GENERAL« ELECTRIC 9E2-317N4-211 should undertake.

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house was closed, Rudolf's Rathskellar A Matter of Loyalties empty and silent, the street deserted and dark except for a single square of grimy light small (Contifiued from page g) the golden eagle, but a flat, pasteboard where a tobacco store was had gone was March sixth too, but the box about the size of his palm. open, for no apparent reason. year was 1928. He'd taken the metal box Inside the little box was a cushion of Long-stemmed pipes, with bowls of

from the battered little safe that stood yellowing satin, pinned to it a black gros- cherry wood or painted porcelain, were under the stairs, between their slant and grain ribbon along whose edges ran white racked on the wall to Himmelsmann's the cellar door, and put it on the pre- lines. A metal ring attached the ribbon right as he entered this store. To his left, scription counter and unlocked it. to an equal-armed cross of dull metal. heavy-framed, old-fashioned showcases Outside, the clock in the window struck At the top of the cross's vertical arm displayed little wicker baskets filled each twelve. was embossed an imperial crown, in the with differently shaded brown flakes. Otto unfolded the paper. A gilt eagle center a W, at the bottom the figures, From behind the showcase hard, hostile spread wings across its top, and in the 1919. eyes laid themselves on Otto's face. center of the left side was a great, red Otto Himmelmann looked at his medal "So?" The man perched on a stool seal. His thumb moved slowly along the for a long time. He was remembering was weazened, his hair pure white. His lines printed and written beneath the olive-drab figures filtering through a leaf- countenance, gaunt, criss-crossed by many eagle: denuded forest, latecomers who'd turned fine wrinkles, was as dry-looking as his victory already won to disastrous defeat. stock-in-trade. "What do you want?" BE IT REMEMBERED that at a DIS- He was remembering an emaciated cor- TRICT COURT of the UNITED STATES Himmelsmann took hold of the counter poral with burning eyes, an Austrian edge with fingers that a little. OF AMERICA . . . OTTO HIMMELS- trembled IMANN having made re- house painter who shrieked in bastard "You don't know me, Herman? You have nunciation of all other allegiance German an oath to have revenge a hun- forgot how so long on the Committee

it by the said was thereupon ORDERED dred times over, for this defeat. . . . from the Verein we were together, to Court that he be admitted to be Outside, the clock struck one. plan picnics to Mannerchor Park oder A CITIZEN' OF THE At one in the morning the Yorkville maybe a Charity Bazaar." UNITED STATES street, far downtown, was desolate. The "I know you. Otto Himmelsmann,"

The door bell tinkled. Himmelsmann last time Otto had seen it, two years ago, Herman Messing said. "And I have not

quickly refolded the paper and put it it had bustled at this hour with blue- forgotten that when we our singing so- back in the green box and closed down eyed, flaxen-haired women, with round- ciety to become a secret chapter of the

the lid. Light feet pattered around the headed, portly men. The movie house Bund voted, two years ago, you said that end of the sales counter and a blonde, around the corner had flaunted great, no longer among us you belonged." roundheaded miniature of Otto came gaudy posters of the picture, Sieg im Otto sighed. "I was wrong." Some- through the curtain. OsteJi—Victory in the East. Rudolf's thing, a sound perhaps, perhaps some " Donnerwetter!" the druggist ex- Rathskellar had blazed with neon light furtive flicker of movement only half claimed, grasping his son's arm. "All ofer and inside it had been foggy with pipe perceived, made him glance toward the dirt you are, und the knee from your smoke, spicily redolent of good Pilsener rear. A partition cut the store across, knickers torn is. Once more fighting you beer, resounding with the thump of steins midway. The maroon portiere in the par- have been, nicht wahr?'' as the Sd?igerverein had roared forth the tition's doorway did not hang quite as

"Yeah," Carl mumbled. "I been fight- old drinking songs. it should. "I have decided that it is in'. So what?" Here, two years ago, had been a nos- among you I belong." "So, like I told you the last time, talgic corner of the Vaterland, warm and A tiny muscle twitched in Messing's tonight a licking gives und Saturday no friendly and gemutlic/i. Now the movie cheek. "What," he asked in German, "has moofies."

"But I couldn't help it, pop. Honest I couldn't. Half the class was layin' for me, an' they yelled names at me. They called me a Natsy—

"They called you— ! Aber—But you're not. You're so goot an American as them. You was born right here in this house." "I told them that, but they said my pop's a Natsy an' so that makes me one too, an' we was enemies an' then they beat me up. An' they held me so Jim- mie Parsons, whose brother was killed at Pearl Harbor, could have the tirst lick—" "Otto!" Gretchen called from the head of the stairs. "What iss with Carl he didn't from school come yet?" "He is here, mamma." Himmelsmann's hand dropped away from his son's arm. "He was chust telling me how on the way he fell down and got all over dirty and tore his pants." His tone lowered. "All right, liebchen. No licking tonight, und Saturday two moofies you can see. Go now, but not a word to your mother." The boy scampered upstairs. Otto threw back the lid of the green box "I didn't mind a bath once in a while but again. He took out. not the paper with this first aid stufE gets under my skin."

52 The AMERICAN LEGION Magaaw* caused you to change so suddenly?" "Not suddenly." The gutturals of his native tongue were grateful in Himmels- mann's throat. "For months, so close to my house I can almost reach out and touch its wall, a pig-dog factory makes machine guns to spray bullets into the flesh of Germans. Into the bodies of men

who wear the uniform I wore when by the Crown Prince himself was pinned here."' he thumped his breast, "the Iron Cross." The tobacconist was unimpressed. "Why, I ask again, has this suddenly become so important to you?"

Otto's hand closed into a fist. "Listen.

I have a son, Carl. For his sake I have Keep it clean! That's the Little swallowed my gall these months. Today Woman's order. She's talking my little boy was set upon by the Jew- about our car. Says the dirt and grease Communist toughs. He was beaten bru- and road scum that's ac- cumulated will raise Ned with tally because—hear you once—he is the the finish. I sure thought I was son of a German. It was then I knew in for it. And me a block cap- that he does not belong here, that I do tain, too! not." He spread his hands. "A man must belong somewhere, nicht wahr?" "Yes,'' Messing murmured, his eyes speculative. "A man must belong somewhere." "And fight for the land to which he belongs," Otto added. "But when one is old, he is helpless." "Not so helpless," the tobacconist said. to listening. "Perhaps He seemed be Jumping Jupiter, was I sur- not so helpless as one might think," and prised when I found how easy what he listened for came from behind it is to clean and polish our bus the maroon curtain, a low whistle. "Go with Johnson's Carnu. Carnu through that curtain, my friend," Mess- does both jobs at once in half the time cleans and polishes ing murmured. "Someone is there who — with one application. It slicks wishes to talk with you." up chromium trimmings, too. he obeyed. Otto's dry. As mouth was Rub Carnu on just hard He'd found what he'd come to seek, enough to loosen dirt— let it more quickly than he'd hoped, and he dry—wipe it off. Just like that, was afraid. your car is sparkling with its The room behind the maroon portiere original showroom shine. held a couch, horsehair showing through rents in its leather, a round wooden table with three decrepit chairs and, oddly enough, a telephone on another smaller table. The man who'd whistled from in here was Hans Gresser, who'd led the No sabotage in our garage! Johnson's Carnu removes every revolt in the Sangerverein, two years trace of road scum, grease, bug ago. juice — which can damage the He motioned Otto to one of the chairs, finish. Deterioration is retarded. took another himself. He was tall and For lasting protection— to make ver>- thin. His nose was like a hawk's. A a Carnu polish last longer—save black flame smouldered in his eyes. "Tell car washings and make upkeep me about this gun factory under your easier — apply Johnson's Auto W'indows, Herr Himmelsmann." Wax. At auto supply stores, serv- As Otto told him about the Atlas, ice stations, regular wax dealers. Gresser listened without movement, with- If you can't obtain Johnson's .Auto Wax, use regular Johnson's out expression. Otto told him how the Wax — it's almost as easy to use. factory covered the whole half square .All Johnson's Wax Polishes pro- that was fronted the block of small by \ide positive protection. houses and stores of which his own was Tune in Fibber McGee and Molly— almost at the center. Low-voiced, Otto Tuesday nights —NBC told about the high, wire mesh fence COPYRIGHT S. C. JOHNSON & SON, INC., 1942 topped with barbed wire that divided his narrow back yard from the yard of the plant, about the armed guards who patroled the fence twenty-four hours a day, about the steel-barred windows and the sentries at the gate. "They search every man, every truck- ^ f' ^ f Made by the makers of Johnson's \A

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54 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine load," he ended. "One can get not so cellar, before Mrs. Himmelsmann sees muffled sounds hinted at what he was much as a pin into that factory without it." He turned and went to the cellar doing there. their knowing it." door as though he'd been here many Otto still ate his Mittagsessen and sup- Hans Gresser nodded. "Yes. They have times, and disappeared through it. He'd per from the prescription counter, but learned a few things since the last time. moved with the athletic litheness of any Mount ate his in the warm kitchen with But not enough." His fingertips drummed American youth and had the appearance Gretchen and Carl. He would come up the tabletop. "I wish to ask you some of one, and his English had not had the from the cellar exactly on time, not a questions." slightest trace of accent. The customers, hair out of place, not a spot of dirt on He asked a great many. By the time Otto decided, would accept him as what his clothes or his hands. He would go Otto finished answering them, Gresser he pretended to be. upstairs. In a little while the clink of knew as much about the neighborhood, But the customers, the few that still cutlery would come down to Otto, and the store, everything, as the druggist did came, saw very little of John Mount. Carl's boyish laughter himself. He knew about Gretchen and Most of the time he remained down there John could tell story after story of Carl and the ways of the household, in the cellar, and only the vaguest of adventure in the far places, stories that even that they went out all together only every other Sunday afternoon when old Adolph Meyer would come for a few hours to relieve Otto. "In the spring, like this," he told Gresser, "and the summer, we go always to the Botanical Gardens. My Gretchen, she loves flowers so. Even in the back- yard she tries to grow some but cannot because the earth is only a couple inches over the roof of a big brick cesspool that served the old factory before the city built sewers to our neighborhood." "The old factory! It is torn down now?" "No. It still stands there behind my house, although they have on both sides of it built big new wings." "I see." Gresser's lids drooped and he sat very still. A third man brought two foaming steins, took away the ones they had emptied. Gresser stirred and his eyes opened again. The black flame in them burned more brightly as he called, "Herman, come here." Messing came into the room, sat at the table with a newspaper spread out in his hands, while Gresser addressed himself to Otto with, "Tell me, Herr Himmelsmann. You have relatives in the old country?" Otto's heart pounded his ribs. "My father," he said. "In Sossel-am-Elbe." "Ah-h-h." Gresser leaned forw-ard. ." "Pay attention. . . Of all that passed between Hans Gresser and himself. Otto told only one thing to Gretchen when she sat sleepily up in bed. "A clerk for full time I have hired, mamma." The thump of the shoe he dropped covered the small sound in her throat. A Message of Confidence "He will not much cost," Otto continued, bending to unlace the other one, "because he will eat und sleep here, und out The war has brought many changes felt no difference. The record as a from his salary the board I will take." to the Bell System. The nation whole has been good. That is the Gretchen stared at him as if he'd gone needed telephone facilities in new way it should be and the Bell crazy, but all she said was, "Ven is he places. It needed more facilities in System aims to keep it that way. coming?" the usual places. It needed all facil- But when war needs delay your "Monday, mamma." ities in a hurry. call, when you can't get just the The new clerk came at eight-thirty Shortages of essential materials service or equipment you need, let's Monday. He was long-legged and slender brought new problems and new put the blame right where it be- but ver3' strong, as one could see by the achievements in research and in longs—on the war. ease with which he carried his huge suit- manufacturing. Telephone calls in- cases through the store and into the creased about ten million a day. backroom, and set one down without a Bell Telephone System thump. Yet all this has been done with- "I am John Mount," he told Otto. "I out great change in your telephone shall take this other case down to the service. Millions of subscribers have Service to the Nation in Peace and War

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thrilled Carl so much that Tuesday the foundation so it won't show any built a lot bigger, an' his nose is crooked morning the boy got up at seven-thirty signs of having been tampered with." an'—I d'jnno. He looks tough, kind of." !" to breakfast with Mount and hear more "But your tools— "Oh, he's probably just a loafer." of them. "Will be packed back into the suitcase John's tension had gone. "Drink your It was the first time in years Carl was with my dirty clothes, and that into this milk, fellah," but when they got down- at table for the only meal his father ate empty crate and at five-thirty Friday stairs he grinned at Otto and said, "Carl there. Perhaps that was why Otto did evening the crate will be taken away by gave you a scare that time, didn't he? something he'd not done since the last a truck painted with the name of your Your hands were shaking when you couple weeks before his son was born, wholesale drug company. No one will brought the coffee to the table. I had a make Gretchen sit still while he poured ever know that what happens at eleven bad second too, till I heard about that the coffee and served it. was not due to an explosion of coal and broken nose. The man is one of ours. Wednesday morning the same pattern sewer gases collected in the cesspool all Harburg. A clumsy brute to let himself was followed. At a quarter past two that these years. This is going to be a beauti- be spotted by the boy. I hope the one afternoon Otto opened the cellar door. A ful job, Himmelsmann." His grin was at night is more skillful." strong smell of coal gas, and worse, met very much like Carl's when he told about "So," the druggist murmured. "Gresser him but he went on down the ladderlike knocking a home run in baseball. "The no chances is taking." steps. best I've ever done. You'll see, Friday." "No." Mount's countenance was hard, His head came below the floor beams Friday morning, while Otto Himmels- abruptly. Menacing. "I understand he —jerked to a sudden clank of metal on mann poured the fragrant coffee into the has your telephone tapped too, just in stone, a growl. An automatic jabbed at cups on the edge of the stove. John case—" A yawn interrupted him. "Lord, him in the dimness, held by a crouched, Mount finished the story he had been I'm sleepy. I worked till almost five this long-snouted monster. telling Carl. "You see? If I hadn't been morning. I better go down and finish." "It's only me," Otto said, placidly. observant enough to notice that the cat- Himmelsmann's nervousness was not Mount's left hand, leather-gloved, tle were keeping away from that clump abated by the youth's nonchalance. Dust- pulled off his gas mask. "I almost shot of trees, I should never have suspected ing the half-partition at the back of the you, you fool." He was swathed in a that Pancho was in there, watching the display window he upset a pyramid of dirt-daubed worksuit, his scalp hugged hacienda." Sulphur and Cream of Tartar Lozenge tight by a knitted skullcap. "Are you "Gee," Carl breathed. "That was the boxes, and, straightening that mess up, crazy, coming down here?" berries." Then, "You know something, he bumped into the clock, knocking it "I need to get a gallon Rhubarb und John? There's been a guy watchin' some askew and stopping the pendulum. Soda," Otto told him, "from there." He house in this block all week. He hangs This he didn't seem to notice. At any pointed to the stacks of wooden shelving out in that alley 'crost the street." rate, he went on about his routine, me- that filled the front part of the base- "Ach!" Gretchen exclaimed.— "Such chanical after so many years. ment. "Don't worry anyone comes in. foolishness. Drink your milk When he started to make up the day's The bell I would hear so soon the door "Just a minute, Mrs. Himmelsmann." batch of Magnesia, he found that the jar opens." There was a whiteness around John's of Citric Acid crystals was almost empty. "Bell or no bell, you're not to leave mouth. "What does this man look like, The reserve supply was in the cellar. the store unguarded." The metal that Carl? " Otto rapped his heel for John. had clanked was the scoop of a trench "Well, he ain't as tall as you but he's He weighed out the Magnesium Car- shovel lying now on two foundation stones at Mount's feet. Waist high behind him gaped the black orifice in the cellar's rear wall from which they'd been taken. "If you want something from These Too Shall Rise Again down here knock three times on the {Coitinued fro?n page 11) floor with your heel and 1 11 come up to terrible dance of death that they have had to devote an entire ask what it is." professional army in vain attempts to subdue you. Here in ." "Three times mit my heel. . . America, hundreds of thousands of your brother Slavs rejoice over your exploits, promise that in field or factory, in every way, "And don't get excited if it takes a and they will speed your deliverance. And you know you have other little time. I might be in there." Mount brother Slavs, fighting desperately for our common cause, not so gestured to the hole in the wall. far away. . . . "In there? That does not big enough for a man to get in look." GREECE "Not for you, certainly, but I can Sons of Hellas, come, arise! See at last our freedom's hour! just about scrape through. The tunnel is In all of America salute wider, to give me room to work on the humbleness do we of the United States the descendants of the Greece of Athena and of Sparta, mother cesspool wall. I just got the first few of us all in the oft-times difficult but eternally rightful, decent, bricks out and I can already see that honest art of helping free men govern themselves according to the drain from the factory, on the other the dictates of their consciences; of the Greece that was the cradle of that culture which, along with that of Christendom, has enabled side, is big enough so I won't have to the greater portion of the Western World to rise far above the do any more digging. We'll be ready for ethical level of the hordes now seeking to enslave us all. Your the fireworks Friday night." kilted warriors showed the world that a Black Shirt fast becomes "Friday already!" Otto gasped. a yellow shirt; and you succumbed at last only to the temporarily overwhelming might of the brown and gray shirts from the far- "At eleven, when the people going off North who are now endeavoring to starve and exterminate home from the movies will see us both you. And yet, despite the wholesale slaughter, theft, and cynical very busy dressing the window. This neglect of the Hun your guerrillas have been carrying the war to little toy," Mount glanced down at an them in the mountains, as at Thermopylae of old; by the sea- side, as did the men of Marathon; in the rugged rocky islands, as oblong black box, about the size of a in Crete. Your great forefathers once stopped Xerxes. Together, workman's lunch kit, that lay in one end we shall stop Hitler. And somewhere up in the heavens, far above of the open valise on the floor, "will be Mount Olympus, a homely, dumpy little old man, who sat so in under the factory floor by lunchtime, calmly with the poison of the hemlock coursing through his veins Socrates, who showed the whole world how to die for an ideal- I figure, and I will have the rest of the will look down on you and whisper, "Well done, my beloved !" afternoon to fill in the tunnel and fix young disciples

56 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-J-" — bonate. rapped again. Still no John. Otto went to the cellar door, listened. Dead POLIDENT'S TO silence. His forehead was beaded with sweat as he turned the knob and pulled open the door. The smells that gusted out were very much stronger than they'd been yester- FHISE day. "John," Otto called softly. "John and removable Mount." bridge wearers No answer. No sound at all came from below. He went down the ladderlike stairs. The black box was still in the open suitcase. Between the suitcase and the wall lay Mount, in coverall and gas mask, ver>' still on the floor. Panic jittered in Himmelsmann's eyes. He got to the youth, pulled off the mask. The eyelids were closed, bluish. There was a bluish tinge to John's skin, but his pulse was steady. Otto straightened up, panting. His fingernail ripped through the fabric of the gas mask, just under the left goggle. He threw the thing down, found a pile of burlap bags in which bath salts had POLIDENT invites you to accept this denture, and Polident goes to work! Every been delivered, made a pallet of them and handsome plastic Denture Bath—espe- stain, every bit of tarnish and food debris rolled Mount on to it. cially made to hold your complete denture is dissolved away. Your plate or bridge The tinkle of the front door bell took set in absolute privacy! Regular 50c value. emerges pnligfied like new. And no more the druggist upstairs faster than he'd Exclusive ventilating feature permits cir- Denture Breath. Just send top of Polident ever climbed. The customer was a man culation of air while cover is in place. Can carton with 10c to cover mailing and hand- he'd never seen before. All he wanted be sterilized by boiling. ling costs, and Denture Bath is yours. was a two-cent stamp. But remember, offer good for 90 days only. When he was gone, Otto took a nickel Our Gift to You! register from the cash and went to the Polident Denture Bath is marked to show r"sEND COUPON TO DAY- Limited Supply! telephone booth. He dropped the nickel proper water-depth for your Polident Solution. Hudson Products, Inc., Dept. AL I in the slot and dialed M-E-6-1-2-1-2. ' Just pour in a capful of Polident powder 220 W. 19 St., New York, N. Y. The ringing signal burred in his ear and fill with water to indicated mark—put in I enclose Polident carton top and 10c mail- I then a mechanical voice was saying, ing and handling cost for Denture Bath. ' ". . . . hear the signal, the will time be Name | eleven twenty-three and one-half." Address There was a moment'^ silence and the pOLiDcnr ^City State ' voice started again. "When you hear the The Modern No - Brush Cleaner For FALSE TEETH signal, the time will be eleven twenty- four. ..."

"There is trouble," Otto said into the transmitter'. "Gresser must call me at once." Special Fraternal Offer PULVEX "When you hear the signal," the metal- on all Supplies! FLEA POWDER lic, unhearing voice said, "the time will Ask for FREE Catalogue! -also kills Lice and Ticks .'" 25( AND 50c be eleven twenty four and one-half. . . HARRY LEVITS Otto hung up. DEP'T AL, 131 W. I4th ST., N. Y. C. After awhile the 'phone rang. "What is it?" Gresser sounded mad. "In my cellar," Otto told him, "is a gas leak unci my clerk is knocked out. The place too small is for me or Harburg. Someone Says Everybody is thin must quick come or all is for nothing." "Thin! Der Teufel! There's nothing HYPNOTIZED for me but to come myself. I will be A strange method of mind and body control, that leads to Immense powers never before experienced, is announced by Edwin J. Dingle, well-known there at half-past one." The line went explorer and Geographer. It is said to bring about almost unhelievalila improvement in power of mind. Many report relief of long standing illness. dead. Others acquire superb bodily strength and vitality, secure better positions, turn failure into success. Often with surprising speed, talents, ability and The druggist came out of the booth a more magnetic personality are developed. and glanced The method was found in remote and mysterious Tibet, formerly a for- at the clock, saw it was bidden country, rarely visited by outsiders, and often called the land of stopped. pulled miracles in the astounding books written about it. Here, behind the He out his big gold watch, highest mountains in the world, Mr. Dingle learned the extraordinary system he is now disclosing the Western world. shoved it back into his vest pocket and to He maintains that all us are giants in strength this hypnotism. The method found by Mr. Dingle in dragged a chair over to the window, and mind-power, capable of surprising feats, from the Tibet is said to be remarkably Instrumental in free- dela.v of old age to the prolonging of youth, from ing the mind of the hypnotizing Ideas that paralyze climbed on it to get the clock going conrjuest of sicltness to the achievement of dazzling the giant powers within us. business and professional success. From childhood, A nine-thousand word treatise, revealing the star- again. however, we are hypnotized, our powers put to sleep tling results of this system, is now being offered free by the suggestions of associates, by what we read, to anyone who quickly sends his name and address. He had to manipulate the hands to and by various experiences. To realize their really Write promptly to the address below, as only a lim- marvelous powers, men and women must escape from ited number of the free treatises have been printed. make the time and chime work together The Institute of Mentalphysics, Dept A66 213 So. Hobart Blvd., Los Angeles Calif. right. He kept making mistakes, and the

JULY, 1942 57 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine " ' way a peddler who'd parked his push- He had. no time to do anything before your work today your father in Sossel cart at the curb outside gaped at him they'd surged past him into the store, will another kind of iron get." didn't help. He was glad when the ped- through it and into the backroom. "No, Herr Gresser," Otto Himmels- dler decided to move on. After that, there Only four of them. One stayed here mann smiled at him. "My father lies in was nothing to do but wait for Gresser. with Otto. He held a gun in his hand. his grave in Sossel-am-Elbe, safe from The latter came promptly at one- "Take it easy," he said through still those like you who the Germany he loved thirty, dressed in overalls and carrying lips, looking across the street where the have prostituted." a plumber's canvas tool bag. "What hap- sixth man was putting handcuffs on Har- pened?" he demanded when Otto had burg. "Everything is under control." He GRETCHEN," Otto Himmelsmann taken him into the backroom. was the pushcart peddler. "Come on in- called up the stairs, Saturday "John tore his gas mask," the drug- side." morning. "I want you should come down gist whispered, "und the gases from the Two of the other men came out und see the new window display I made.'' cesspool got him." through the curtain, Hans Gresser be- She came down, his bride, no longer "The joker? He did not place —it?" tween them, each of his wrists manacled slim, silver threads in the gold of her "No. All is ready, but the hole to one of theirs. "Caught him climbing hair but still beautiful to him. He drew "Is too small for you. All right. I'll into the tunnel, Steve," one of them said her out through the store, out on the get it placed and get out of here." to the erstwhile peddler, "pushing a sidewalk, pointed to the window. "Aber the wall— time-bomb ahead of him. There's another It was almost bare. There was only an "That's your worry. Fix it yourself if one down there in bad shape. The Chief American flag hung across the back of you can. If you can't," the black flame wants a doctor for him." the window and in front of this, on an leaped into Gresser's eyes, "remember "No," Otto said. "A doctor cannot easel of cardboard, a framed paper. your father in Sossel when you think of wake John up till five-six o'clock, till At the top of the paper a gold eagle betraying me. All right. Go out by the wears off the morphine I put in his coffee spread its wings. Below the eagle were entrance and keep watch." this morning." words, some of which seemed to Otto to light. Otto Himmelsmann hooked the street "The morphine you put— ! What're be printed in letters of door back, mopped his brow with his trying to give us?" you BE IT REMEMBERED that . . . OTTO handkerchief. A half-dozen overgrown "That's right, Hal," Steve told him. HIMMELSMANN . . . have made re- youths were playing stick-ball in the gut- "Dutchy here tipped us off to this set-up nunciation of all other allegiance ter and in the alley-mouth opposite Otto a week ago. Say," he turned to Otto, was admitted to be a CITIZEN could make out a burly figure not quite "that stunt of wagging the hands of your OF THE UNITED STATES concealed by the shadows. He ran his clock to semaphore me the set-up was "A citizen of the United States," he handkerchief around inside his collar. a honey, but how come you know the read softly. "They know now, mama,

The batter's stick cracked the ball and code?" that it is not only on that paper printed. suddenly everyone was running. The ball "Why shouldn't I know it? Didn't I Our neighbors know now it is also writ- went into the alley and a fielder went in in the German army was an artillery ten on Otto Himmelsmann's heart. They after it. He collided with Harburg, but signaler. From the Crown Prince him- know now I belong to America, und to — '' the other players were converging on self for my work I got the iron cross the promise America means to the whole Otto. "Himmelsmann,"Gresser croaked. "For world."

Consolation Angling

(Continued from page 37) loaded his pipe and just as he lighted it, going to say that the last time you me with tales of superior brook trout he a feeding fish broke water at the far end caught a bluegill it was tame sport. That had taken in Potter Brook and Sage Run of the weed bed. Silently and gently he was because you used an old fifteen foot while I was in the hospital. I became so edged the boat closer. "There's your bamboo rod, big enough to land a musky interested that the car had stopped be- fish," he invited. "Let's see you drop that with—these little beggars have plenty of fore I realized where we were. I looked fly about three feet from the weed bed.'' scrap in them if you go after them with out on the calm surface of a little piece I stripped line with nervous fingers. light tackle." of water, scarcely a half mile long and Line whipped out, the little rod behaving "This is fun," I acknowledged. "Where about half as wide. Clear Lake! I knew perfectly. At last I had the distance and are there any more?" the water and, as far as I knew, it was the line straightened out a foot from the "Right where you snagged that one,"

Ashless. water, the leader curved neatly and the Fred replied. "There is probably a school "Expect to find trout here," I asked a fly dropped as sweetly as you please. No of them there and if they are hungry, little angrily. "And, if you do find 'em, sooner had it dropped than the water ex- you won't have much trouble getting all how about the game warden? My under- ploded and I instinctively struck, lightly the strikes you can stand for one day." standing is that trout season ended the but firmly. As the slender rod arched He was right ; cast after cast resulted in first of the month. Remember, I'm a under the strain I whooped in excite- a good fish, full of scrap—and one even half-invalid and a few months in some ment. "Take it easy, sick man!" Fred jumped as well as any trout. I lost three cozy jail would probably end me. Besides warned—but for a few exciting minutes by not being quick enough in stripping think what Doctor Maxwell would say!'' I forgot that I was a partially sick man. line. Time passed so quickly that Fred Fred was utterly unperturbed. He re- It was Heaven—the thing I had been called "Time" so soon I thought he was fused to answer but calmly strung up my cheated of by a gross conspiracy between cheating. But he was obdurate and home rod. He tied on the tiny March Brown. some surgeons and a horde of microbes we went. That night I slept soundly and "Come on down and get in that boat," he —I was fast to a fighting fish. the next morning when Doctor Maxwell commanded sternly. "Don't do a thing At last I led my fish close to the boat came he smiled wisely and opined that until I tell you—and remember that you and Fred netted it—a half-pound blue- Fred Johnson was a better doctor than will be back here on shore in exactly gill! ! ! ! I was astounded—for I had he was. I agreed. thirty minutes." expected a larger fish—a trout, at least. That was my initial experience in He rowed out into the calm waters and Fred grinned from behind a cloud of stretching the dry-fly season. All this a few hundred yards from shore let the smoke as he dropped it into the creel. happened fifteen years ago but there boat drift fifty feet from a weed bed. He "Don't say it!" he warned. "You are hasn't been a year since that time that

58 The AMERICAN LEGION Ma^-n-ine — — —

far from skilled and very inaccurate in making all casts. Now that I have lengthened my season, practice and patience, plus the same Hardy rod, now enable me to place a fly almost where I want it. This, I discover, has vastly improved my trout catches. Besides, ac- curacy and precision has stiffened my morale, if you know what I mean—and you do, if you are a dry-fly purist. It's grab-bag fishing, for you never know what is going to happen. Once in a blue moon a fine, lusty big mouth will

rise to your fly and if you think it's an easy task to handle three pounds of angry bass on a 4H-ounce rod, just have it happen to you—especially when you don't expect it! In several of my favorite, right-at- home lakes and streams, I sometimes fish "You should have read those black- wet, using a Scarlet Ibis and a tiny gold out instructions before we had a spinner. Look out for perch under such blackout." conditions! I've caught a two-pound perch before now that has given me a the Johnson idea hasn't paid splendid battle worthy of any trout I ever en- dividends. I've shared it with dozens of countered. Once in Oklahoma, I tied into 'Sani-Flush other anglers and that they now regard a crappie bass as big as a dinner plate saved my car's life. me with honest affection is pretty sound and it took me fifteen minutes of hard Cleaned out fhe radiator, evidence of its popularity. work before he was netted. Ever and you know" I have found stream after stream, lake anon you'll pick up a short, thick, rock A clogged radiator can cripple a car after lake, pond after pond that most bass, a most stubborn creature, full of cause overheating and expensive damage. fight anglers have believed to be barren of and endowed with endurance that Keep the delicate veins of the cooling fish, teeming with bluegills, sunfish and matches any brook trout. system free and open with Sani-Flush. It's easy. It costs only cents. lively perch, all affording excellent sport And these so-called "pan fish" are not a few Don't take chances just flushing on light equipment. Further: and this is always gullible, eager to rise to any fly, on with water. Sani-Flush is thorough. Use no mean achievement; while trout fish- any size, either. When they are rising, it yourself, or ask your service station. ing in the past I had many times re- almost any small neutral-colored fly will Sani-Flush is absolutely safe in auto turned home, tired and wet, and with an take them. When they are not rising, it's cooling systems, when used according to directions on can. It's in most empty creel—today I return with fish, to all a matter of some- very patient ex- bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold in the pleased family. perimentation, changing from size to amazement of my grocery, drug, hardware and 10c stores. And bluegills, sunnies, perch, taken from size and from color to color. Once I vir- The Hygienic Products Co., Canton, O. clean cool water, while not just as tasty tually exhausted my variety when I tied as trout, still are excellent food. on a Yellow May, the most useless of My fishing season today starts with all trout flies. Once a season, but not the opening of the trout season and only always, you may find a solitary hour on ends with my lakes and streams covered a memorable day when trout show a de- CLEANS OUT RADIATORS with ice. I get more mileage on my cided preference for the Yellow May tackle—more hours in the sunshine and otherwise it merely takes up room in DEFENSE SERVICE and Army Good Conduct ribbons now available. on the water. your fly box. I found that "pan fish," Send 10c in coin or stamps for a ribbon color chart and the most complete illus- And in addition: time was when, in too, have their moods, their queer trated book ever printed on medals, ribbons, fancies, for miniature medals, and all other items of common with many fly fishermen, I was they immediately showed the military insignia. Every veteran should know the ribbons of the various military medals. GEORGE W. STUDLEY BOX 396 AVON. N. Y. Authorized by YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? the I'nited States War Department Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was mailed correct for all near future issues? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail to Tired Kidneys THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. Until further notice, my mailing address for The American Legion Magazine is Bring new address Often Name (PLEASE PRINT) Sleepless Nights Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny Street Address tubes or filters which help to purify the blood and keep you healthy. When they get tired and don't work right in the daytime, many people have to get up nights. Frequent or scanty passages with smart- ClTY_ . State_ ing and burning sometimes shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don't neglect this condition and lose valuable, restful sleep. 1942 membership card _ number_ When disorder of kidney function permits poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it may also Post No .Dept.. cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, OLD ADDRESS loss of pep and ener.cy, swelling, puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Pills, Street Address. Don't wait ! Ask your druggist for Doan's used successfully by millions for over 40 years They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles City .State. of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.

JULY, 1942 59 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ! — keenest and most lively interest in my take your lightest tackle and go forth In Alnwick there's a shattered ruin that Yellow May—and in twenty minutes, and experiment with an open mind. I'll once housed the finest of all fishing- I netted an even twenty of the huskiest venture the hope that you may call me tackle houses. By appointment to H. M. bluegills I have ever seen. Since that day a most sensible person. the King—that was their proud boast I have yet to have them show the least It's probably a compromise. But life, and bad luck to the man who tripped interest in this fly—and that was true especially as we grow older, is a series of that stick of bombs. And may the in- during a dozen rises when they were compromises. Call it consolation fishing stitution of the Messrs. Hardy arise from hungry and fighting to reach other vari- if you will. If you enjoy it, if you thrill the ashes again eties of flies. to a rising fish, the sweet curve of a These are the things I think about Are you a cynic? Well, wait until you slender rod—^you are in for a lot of fun. when I go about my consolation fishing try it! Sometime, when business, illness These are sad days. Fred Johnson is —and the hope that they rise well for or something ruins your trout season, dead these many years, God rest his soul. you when you try it.

Big Brothers of Oradell

(Continued from page j/) Quinn, who is supervising the Legion's were among the very first to receive Government sponsors another. Argo- bond sales in Southern California, ex- Minute Men flags from the Treasury Summit Post put up $650 for two pressed his pleasure at the action of Star Department because ninety-nine percent scholarships, thus making it possible for Post and suggested that it would set a of their personnel has subscribed to the eighteen of the competitive students to precedent for other Posts having money weekly purchase plan for buying War fly. to invest. Bonds. The Post has also increased its

Henry J. Grogan, Commander of Cecil membership from 356 in 1941 to 426 Legion Service W. Fogg Post of Hyde Park, Massa- on May i, 1942. chusetts, reports that his Post recently MY SON, Private Walter Deecken, invested in a $1,000 War Bond. Also Surgery for Recruits en route by train from Fort that thirty of the Post members operate Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, to Mitchell an air raid control center in the Hyde "QlNCE November 26, 1941, 532 Field, New York, was suddenly stricken Park high school on a seven-day week O young Detroiters who were at first with illness," writes Adjutant George R. basis. The control center has been highly refused enlistment by the United States Deecken of 104th Field Signal Battalion commended for its efficiency. Army and Marine Corps because of Post of Jersey City, New Jersey. "He General John Swift Post of Chicago, physical defects, have had their defects was removed from the train at Syra- writes Historian William F. Boand, corrected and are now in the service," cuse, New York, early in the morning, draws its membership from the plants writes Frederick B. Thompson of the rushed to a hospital and within a very of Libby, McNeil & Libby, and Swift Michigan Department's National De- few hours underwent an appendectomy. and Company, two companies which fense Committee. "The highest cost re- I wired the Adjutant of Syracuse Post asking him to call on my son and see that he was made comfortable. Within 11 another few hours Dr. Patrick O'Hara, Post Adjutant, reported by wire that he had visited the soldier and that he was doing well under the care of Dr. Ernest Delmonico, a Post member. The friendly interest of Legion comrades in the welfare of my son was not limited to one visit, but was continued during the period of hospitalization. That kind of service is but one of the many, many cases of our devotion to mutual helpfulness—and is a service that will not be forgotten by my family."

Bond Buyers

STAR Post of Los Angeles—an outfit that gets its name from the sheriff's star, because its membership is taken entirely from the staff of Sheriff Gene Biscailuz of Los Angeles County—set a fine example to Legion bond sellers when its Commander, Roy E. Carter, sold the idea of buying a $50,000 War Savings Bond to the Peace Officers' Re- tirement Board. Acting on the motion of Deputy James S. Markey, Beverly Hills, a member of the Post and also a member of the Retirement Board, the bond was purchased for the group and will be held in trust for the deputies until it matures. Past National Commander John R. 60 : AWAY GO CORNS!

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The highlight The patriotic surgeon who attended him is the school award to one boy and one Know these Facts donated the surgical operation, operating- girl read their winning essays, cul- who Here is good news. A new 122-page, room fee. and the cost of the anesthetic. minating several weeks of work in up-to-the-minut3 book on Piles, Fistula In this case the surgeon's donation was citizenship and Americanization in our and other related rectal and colon ailments will be sent free. It may save about twice that of the cash outlay of three Junior High Schools. This year the — you much suffering, as well as time and the man who wanted to fight for Uncle youngsters wrote on the subject 'How- money. Write today—naming ailments Sam. Can I Help Win the War?' and, without —to The McCleary Clinic, 0766 Elms "This work has been carried on in exception, the youngsters wrote from Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. Detroit at the rate of more than 100 their hearts with an enthusiastic willing- cases per month without publicity of any ness to sacrifice and to see this thing kind and without the public solicitation through. Our plan has been adopted by ^ISfScratchinq of funds. The services of the physicians, several other Posts." Insect Bites- Heat Rash surgeons, dentists, opticians and X-ray Relieve itching of insect bites, heat lashes, athlete's foot and other skin experts have been given without any An Active Post troubles. Use cooling antiseptic O.D.D. Greasebss, stainless. thought of personal gain. The program Prescription. Stops itching quickly. 35c trial botUe has been carried on under the direction IEDDEN-YOUNG Post of Ridgway, proves it —or money back. Ask your druggist for D.O.D. Prescription. of William MoUoy, Adjutant and Wel- ^Pennsylvania, always active, has fare Officer of College Park Post of the completed one of its busiest years," Legion. Recruiting officers of the Army writes Maurice F. McDonald, Com- The American Legion and Marine Corps have cooperated by mander of the 28th Pennsylvania Dis- National Headquarters referring the rejected men to Legionnaire trict. "Here are some of the things the Indianapolis, Indiana Molloy. who, in turn, has completed the Post accomplished: Obtained its highest Financial Statement arrangements for the necessary treat- membership in twelve years, 181 mem- April 30, 1942 ment. The only requirement is that the bers; organized an S. A. L. Squadron men have a written request for treat- with seventy charter members organized ; Assets ment signed by a recruiting officer of the and trained a firing squad of twenty Cash on hand and on deposit ? 625,679.39 armed services or an authorized official members; financed ths purchase of Accounts receivable 52,322.76 of the selective service." ninety-two uniforms for Post members; Inventories 125.319.84 Inves'-ed funds 2,675,816.91 organized and trained a Post marching Permanent investment: Overseas Graves Dj:orat ion Trust Fund 214, 177 50 unit of sixty members; joined with the Child Welfare Winner Office Building. Washington, D. C, less Auxiliary in promoting a public Amer- depreciation 125,137.64 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less "TAST year the Department of Cali- icanism meeting; participated in a depreciation 44,296.97 Deferred charges 32.910.68 J—ifornia awarded Berkeley Post the county banquet in honor of the Depart- Dr. Watters Child Welfare Trophy, ment Commander; redecorated the Post 13,895,661.69 to irre- with all labor donated by mem- which each year goes the Post, rooms Liabilities, Deferred Revenue spective of size, that carries out the most bers; joined with the Auxiliary in pur- and Net Worth complete child welfare program," writes chasing new furniture for the Post Current liabilities ? 71,266.79 John R. Edwards, Child Welfare Chair- rooms; gave farewell party to the Serv- Funds restricted as to use 47,943.56 Deferred revenue 532,341.22 perhaps, did not ice 112th Infantry, and man. We, do any more Company, PNG, Permanent trust: or better work than many other Posts, held a joint birthday dinner with the OverseasG raves Decoration Trust Fund 2 14, 177.50 Net Worth but we had a thorough, well-substanti- Auxiliary. Restricted capital. .? 2,646.885.14 UnrestricteJ capit.il. 383.047.48 3,029.932.62 ated report properly submitted. "The Post Commander throughout "One of the varied activities which this busy year was David M. Gaylor, $3,895,661.69 helped win the trophy is our annual telephone superintendent, who has been Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant

JULY, 194^ 6i When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine succeeded by H. M. McElhaney, super- Graves, Past Captain, Sons of the Legion, THE intendent of the gas company. The Post were registered for selective service at does not intend to continue taking its the same time in American Legion Magazine the February registra- Commanders from the public utilities; tion. The registrars were Mrs. George INDEX of the next man in line is a dirt farmer." E. Miner and Mrs. W. F. Peer, Auxil-

iaries. . . . Charles E. Fortin, Com- ADVERTISERS Keeping Records mander of Lewiston (Maine) Post, reports the presentation of an American MANFORD NELSON, Adjutant of flag to St. Peter and St. Paul Church

Jens H. Jensen Post, Askov, Min- in its home town. . . . Commander Magazine, The 54 American Legion nesota, reports that his Post has in- Leon Schwarz of Lama Y. McLeod American Red Cross 47 stalled a complete system of records for Post, Mobile, Alabama, writes that the every man who enters the uniformed ceremonies of presenting an American American Telephone & Telegraph Co.. . .55 services from its area. "Each man flag to the Seamen's Bethel were at- seemed to understand and appreciate tended by sailors of several nationali-

our sincere interest in his welfare," says ties from ships then in port. . . . D. D. D. Corp 61 the Adjutant, "and all promised cooper- William Hedges Baker Post of Dover, Dean's Pills 59 ation in keeping the records of service New Jersey, claims that Legionnaire which will mean so much to them after Tony Raimondo, a member of the Post, the war is over." was the smallest soldier in the A. E. F. Emblem J)ivision 45 In the going-away kit of every man during the World War. Legionnaire Rai- is a copy of the Legion's service manual, mondo was four feet, ten inches in, Batteries. .Cover III Eveready Flashlights & "Fall In." It might be of interest, not height and weighed 103 pounds. . . . only to the members of Jens H. Jensen Charles Hagerstrom Post of Wisconsin Post but to others who have included Rapids, Wisconsin, has returned the his- General Electric Co 51 this handy manual in gift parcels, to toric G. A. R. flag, formerly the prop- know that more than a million erty Gore Products, Inc 64 copies of the Grand Army of Wisconsin of "Fall In" have been distributed to Rapids, to the care and custody of the men now on active duty. Women's Relief Corps, reserving the right to carry it each year in Institute of Mentalphysics 57 the Memo- Shorts and Overs rial Day parade. The flag has been carried in every Memorial Day parade by COMMANDER W. R. Graves the G. A. R., then by the Legion, for Johnson, S. C, & Son, Inc 53 PAST

of Philip Wade Post, Brighton, more than sixty years. . . . 63 Johnson's Foot Soap Colorado, and his son, William Lee Boyd B. Stutler

KJutch Co., The 63 LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Levits, Harry 57 James T. Mancan. Advertising Men's Post, Chicago, Illinois. Albert Richard Wetjen. Capitol Post, Salem, Oregon. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. Arthur Leo Zagat. Captain Belvidere Brooks, Post, New York City. Chesterfields Cover IV Charles LaSalle, New Rochelle (New York) Post. Hudson Hawley, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial Post, New York City. William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. Lynn U. Stambaugh, Gilbert C. Grafton Post, Fargo, North Dakota. McCleary Clinic 61 Mel Phillips, Lynbrook (New York) Post. John C. Redincton, Advertising Men'c Post, New York City. Paul Brown, William Bradford Turner Post, Garden City, New York. Richard Barnitz. Hanover (Pennsylvania) Post. National Carbon Company, Inc.. .Cover III Herbert M. Stoops. First Division Lieut. Jefferson Feigl Post, New York City. Frederick C. Painton, August Matthias Post, Westport, Conn. Will Graven. Advertising Men's Post, New York City. Oliver B. Huston. Capitol Post. Salem, Oregon. Pabst Sales Company 4 Harry Botsford. Harrishurg (Pennsylvania) Post.

Polident 57 Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of whom are Legion- naires, are not listed. Pontiac Motor Car Co 3

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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Get Out and Get Under Prince Albert 49

(Continued from page 34) "As a member of the 5th Division to dig down into their archives and Baseball Club, I am sending a snapshot Sani-Flush 59 resurrect pictures and notes of games print of the team which was taken in Esch, Scholl Mfg. Co 61 played during our wartime. The picture Luxembourg, on May 28, 1919. we. show of the 5th Division Baseball "If my memory is correct, the club Studley, George 59 W Club is rather the worse for wear, but started training in Luxembourg City

its contributor, George N. Earnhart of during the latter part of March, 191 9, Eason Tiney Post of the Legion, who is and then played an average of three Texas Company, The Cover II City Clerk and Treasurer of the Town games a week from April until July nth. of Tarboro, North Carolina, makes the We played all of the teams of the Divi- following nice offer to his former team sions which formed the Army of Occupa- Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. ..Cover III mates: tion, which included up to the 6th Di-

62 The AMERICAN LEGION Maf.azine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ganization has drawn tens of thousands of veterans to each convention. OOOOMYFEET.A Our all-out effort is to win the war and WHEN YOUR FEET HURT. YOU it is proper therefore that the Legion KURT ALl OVER /TIRED, BURNING, TENDER, ITCHING, PERSPIRING take the lead in curtailing its national FEET OR CORNS AND CALLOUSES convention activities. We have been PUT LINES IN YOUR FACE. praised in newspaper editorials for setting this example to other organizations. mcKmtiPi National convention reunions of vet- GET PROMPT RELIEF WITH erans' outfits, too, are out of order, and EFFICIENT, SOOTHING JOHN- the steadily-growing list of such an- SON'S FOOT SOAP. SOFTENS CORNS AND CALLOUSES. nounced reunions is withheld from this M All DRUGGISTS SINCE 1870 issue. Some outfits have already cancelled "Now, George, let them play their their 1942 reunions. A suggestion was JOHNSON'S SOAP game." f 001 own offered in these columns last month that .BORAX IODIDE AND BRAN. those organizations which will hold 1942 reunions, report at what time and place vision—in all, thirty-eight games. The other than the National Convention such last game was played at Neuenahr, Ger- FALSE TEETH reunions will announce- many, where was located one of the be held so that ments published. KLUTCH holds them tighter of the ex-German Kaiser. may be summer homes KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion ; holds dental The 2 1 St Engineers Light Railway So- plates so From there we entrained for Brest for much firmer and snugger that one can eat and talk with greater comfort and security ; in ciety, which has long held its reunions in our return to the States. many cases almost as well as with natural teeth. conjunction with the Legion's National Klutch lessens the constant fear of a dropping, "Our captain, Elliott Dent, who also rocking, chafing plate. 25c and 50c at druggists. . . . Convention sent this notice: served as coach, had been a star pitcher "The 1942 If your druggist hasn't it, don't maste money on subsiiiutes, but send us 10c and we will mail you reunion and banquet scheduled to be for the Atlanta Crackers and the Brook- a generous trial box. © i. p. inc. held with the Legion National KLUTCH CO., Box 2952-G, ELMIRA. N. lyn Dodgers. Lieutenant White of Wake Conven- Y tion in Orleans in September, has Forest College, North Carolina, was New manager. Lieutenant Rohwer had played been cancelled. This action was taken in the belief that the all-out war efforts the outfield for the Pittsburgh Pirates. should not be interrupted. I would be Rehor belonged to the Milwaukee Brew- glad to hear from any of the comrades ers and Flaherty was the property of the THE LEGION of the 2ist Engineers. C. L. Schaus, New York Giants. Dean was a pitcher — Secretary and Treasurer, 201 45th Street, from the Middle-West, but I do not OF TO-DAY Union City, New Jersey." know if he was related to the famous The following reunions have not been Dizzy-Daffy Dean family. George Dalzier One half of 1942 will have been affected by the Legion's action and de- was an old Army pitcher of Philippine spent when these lines are read. tails may be obtained from the Legion- fame and died while we were playing The American Legion will be well naires listed: in Luxembourg—his team mates acting on its way to its greatest membership. as pall-bearers. I had pitched for Duke Soc. OF 3d Div.—^Annual natl. reunion, Roch- chmn., 2493 of North Carolina (of Rose Bowl fame!) ester, N. Y., July 9-11. Ted Dash, are a more unified group than East Av., Rochester. We under Wallace Wade. 3d Div. Soc, AEF—For new roster of ex- we ever were, due largely to the name address to Harry "Our baseball club was designated to Marne men, send and present world conflict in which we Cedar, assoc. edit., 4320 Old Dominion Drivu, promote entertainment for the Occupa- Arlington, Va., and receive also free copy of are engaged. The Watch on the lihive. tion forces. We played baseball in the Soc. OF 5th Div.—Silver Jubilee reunion, We have a great opportunity to afternoon and then the same night fights Akron, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Elmer Taylor, seey.- treas., 2124 18ih St., S. W. Akron, will fur- serve, and we will not fail. were staged by boxers who traveled with nish details and copy regimental roster. 5th Div. History Five dollars. Send order us. — The ranks of The Legion have re- Games and other entertainment were to Wm. Barton Bruce, natl. hist., 48 Ayrault staged all along the Rhine and Moselle St., Providence, R. I. ceived many men recently who had Soc. OP 28th Civ.—Keystone Vets contact not paid dues for years or who had Rivers, and excursion trips were often old friends through your Society. Write to Lam- bert J. SuUenb^rgcr, nail. v. 535 S. Lime St., never belonged to our organization. arranged for us on sightseeing boats. p., Lancaster, Pa. We must make good Legionnaires "The ball players in the picture are: 29th (Blue & Cray) Piv. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 5-7. Write Wm. out of them.

Back row, left to right: Rehor, Earnhart, C. Nicklas, 4318 Walther Av., Baltimore. 1 o.- membership, official publication and informa- Stuart, Hresco, Washington and Dalzier; One of the best ways to accom- tion about 29th Div. medal, write Eark- Mc- Middle row, same order: Johnson, Paget, Gowan, natl. adjt., 1383 Rittenhouse St., N. plish this is to call their attention W.. Washington. D. C. to the fact that they owe it to Griffith, Lieutenant White, manager. 30th Div.—History still available. Write themselves to read The American Captain Dent, coach, Ferguson and E. A. Murphy, Old Hickory Publishing Co., Lepanto, Ark. Legion Magazine and other Le- Rohwer; Bottom row, same order: How- 31st (Dixie) Div.—For details of monthly meetings, and re-union-dinner during Illinois gion publications. Thus they will ard, Crandell, Hammett, Flaherty, Burns Legion Conv., Peoria, Aug. 21-24, write Wal- promptly become familiar with and Dean. ter A. Anderson, secy.-treas., 4913 N. Her- mitage Av., Chicago, I'.I. Legion viewpoint and policy. "I shall be glad to furnish copies of 32d Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Mor- rison Hotel, Chicago, I'l.. Sept. 5-1). Lester These days of rubber priorities the picture to those former comrades Benston, chmn., 205 Wacker Dr., Chicago. and rationed gasoline mean more and team mates who write to me." 37th Div. A.E.F. Vets. Assoc.—24th reunion, Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Write Jas. reading time for everyone. We can A. Sterner, 1101 Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus, Ohio. all become better Legionnaires by LA GUERRE! As was hinted C'EST Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets.—Natl. reunion, giving priority to Legion reading in these columns in the June issue, Orlando, Fla., July 13-15. Barney J. Sullivan, reunion chmn.. Court House, Orlando. material, and by absorbing Legion the 1942 National Convention has been 80th Div. Vets. Assoc.—25th reunion, Pitts- ideas as set forth in our own burgh, Pa., Aug. 6-9. Mark R. Byrne, natl. streamlined into a strictly business meet- secy., 212 Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. publications. ing and will be held in Kansas City, 88th (Cloverleaf) Div.—Annual reunion and dinner, Waterloo, Iowa, Aug. 11, with It's good for you, for your family, Missouri, September 19th to 21st, where Le?ion Dept. Convention. Write Carl Messmer, secy.. Bankers Trust Co., Dos Moines, Iowa. for your community and for your the Legion met in 1921. There will be 89th Div. Soc.—Reunion, Wichita, Kans., country. There is no more genuine no parade nor band and drum corps con- Sept. 5. Write Herman N. Wallis, pres., 3402 East Elm. Wichita. form of patriotism. tests nor the usual entertainment which 89th Div. Soc, So. Calif. Branch—Annual reunion during Calif. Legion Dept. Conv., Los during the years since the Legion's or- Angeles, Aug. 17-19. Write Comdr. Sidney M.

JULY, 194:! 63 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine —

FOOT ITCH ATHLETE'S FOOT Send Coupon "With these magnet-planes we could fly over the enemy Don^t Pay Until Relieved ." lines and yank the guns right out of their hands. . . At least 50% of the adult population of the United States are being attacked by the disease known as Athlete's Foot. SchaUmann, 1106 S. Broadway, Los Angeles. union, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 7. Bob Walker, Usually the disease starts between the toes. Old 3d Ind. Inf. & 137th F. A.— 14th re- secy., 2720 Ann Av., St, Louis. Little watery blisters form and the skin cracks union, Kendallville, Ind., July 28. Jesse Boring, 319th ^ngrs. Assoc.-—Annual reunion, Los and peels. After a while the itching becomes in- gen. chmn., 216 E. Wayne St., South Bend. Angeles, Calif., in Aug. For date and for entry tense and you feel as though you would like to 109th Inf. A.ssoc.—Quarterly reunion. in 1942 roster, write Kenneth Thomson, 218 scratch off all the skin. Armory, Broad & Callowhill Sts., Philadelphia! Central Bank Bldg., Oakland, Calif. Pa., July 10. Harold L. Inch, adjt., c/o Armory. Co. B, J03d Ammun, Trn.—Reunion, Myers- Beware of It Spreading 314th Inf, Vets. AEF—Annual convention, town, Pa., July 18-19. C. I. Homan, Lebanon, Scranton, Pa., Sept. 25-27. G. E. Hentschel, Often the disease travels all over the bottom of Pa. secy., 1845 Champlost Av., Philadelphia. Also Regt., the feet. The soles of your feet become red and Co. 6, 1st Air Serv. Mech. AEF annual Summer Family Picnic, Palisades Inter- Piccadilly, swollen. The skin also cracks and peels, the Annual reunion-dinner. Hotel New and State Park, itching becomes worse and worse. in Aug, Chas. M. Stimpson, secy., York City, Oct. 24. C. R. Summers, co. clrk., 1670 Sheepshead Bay Rd., Brooklyn, N. Philadelphia, Get relief from this disease as quickly as pos- Y. 3258 Glenview St., Pa. 332D INP. Assoc. (inch 331st F. H.)—21st AEF Siberia Vets., So. Calif. Reunion, Los sible, because it is very contagious and it may go — annual reunion. Canton, Ohio, Sept. 5-6. Angeles, 17-19, with Calif. Legion Dept. to your hands or even to the under or crotch A. A, Aug. arm Grable, of the legs. secy.. Canton. Conv. L. A. McQuiddy, natl. adjt., 1112% Menlo 353d (All Kansas) Inf. Soc.—25th anni- Av., Los Angeles. versary Here's to Relieve It reunion, Wichita, Kans., Sept. 5-6. For USAAC Natl. Assoc.—Silver Anniversary How details, write John C. Hughes, secy., 329 East convention for USAAC's and A.F.S. vets, Allen- The germ that causes the disease is known as Avenue B, Hutchinson, Kans. town, Pa., July 30-Aug. 2. Walter H. Davidson Tinea Trichophyton. It buries itself deep in the Co. F. SllTH Inf.—Biennial reunion, Buffalo, chmn., 526 N. Berks St., Allentown, or Wilbur tissues of the skin and is very hard to kill. A test N. Y., Sept. 19. Write H. W. Fickenscher, P. Hunter, natl. adjt., 5321 Ludlow St., Phila- made shows it takes 20 minutes of boiling to 57 Cambridge Av., Buffalo. delphia, Pa. Ask about free USAAC Reference destroy the germ ; whereas, upon contact, labora- Co. M, 357th Inf.—Annual reunion, Medi^ Book & Directory. tory tests show that H. F. will kill the germ cine Park, Okla., July 25-26. Martin G. Kizer. Base Hosp. 65 (Kerhuon) —Annual reunion, Tinea Trichophyton within 15 seconds. secy.. Apache, Okla. Greensboro, N. C, Sept. 7. Roy C. Millikan, H. F. was developed solely for the purpose of Co. A, 337th M. G. Bn.—Reunion, Awatonna, Greensboro. Ex-patients write also. relieving Athlete's Foot. It is a liquid that pene- Minn., Sun., Sept. 6. For roster, write B. I. Med. Dept., Base Hosp. Trng. Center, Camp trates and dries quickly. You just paint the af- Lunberg, Dayton, Iowa. Lee, Va.—Annual reunion. Fort Pitt Hotel, fected parts. 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 9. H. W. Colston, secy., union, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 6. Joel T. 1357 New York Av., N. E. Washington, D. C. Itching Often Quickly Johnson, secy., 411 Essex Bldg., Minneapolis. EvAC. Hosp. 13—23d annual reunion, Balti- 51ST Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—19th reunion, more, Md., Sept. 5-7. Chas. P. Sohn, pres., 417 Relieved Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 13. John G. Buck- W. Conway St., Baltimore. ley, Vassar Road, EvAC. Hosp. 33 1942 reunion has been post- As soon as you apply H. F. you may find Wappingers Falls, N. Y. — 56TH Pioneer poned. Write H. Grazier, secy., 1335 Av. that the itching is quickly relieved. You should Inf. Assoc.— llth reunion, W. 8th Smithfield, S., Dodge, Iowa. paint the infected parts with H. F. night and N. C, Aug. 1-2. James K. Dunn, Ft. secy., 723 llth St., Brighton, 118th Amb. Co. Annual reunion. Canton, morning until your feet are better. Usually this New Pa. — takes from 3 to 10 days. 108th M. G. Bn.—Reunion, Pine Grove, Pa., N. C, Aug. 6-7. Mrs. Chas. Mease, secy.. H. F. should leave the skin soft and smooth. July 25-26. Phil Howard, actg. secy., 322 S. Canton. 17th St., Reading, Pa. Navy Club op Missouri—3d annual reunion- You may marvel at the quick way it brings you relief. It costs you 139th F. a.—21st reunion, Evansville, Ind., breakfast, York Hotel, St. Louis, Sept. 7. Neal nothing to try ; so if you are troubled with Athlete's Foot, why wait a day Oct. 3-4, Funkhauser Post (A. L.) Home. Floyd Capaldo, skipper, 5641 Clemens Av., St. Louis. longer ? Anderson, secy., Elizabethtown, Ind. North Sea Mine Force Assoc.— For mem- Btry. B, 3d F. a.—Annual reunion, Pitts- bership and details 1942 reunion. New York H. F. Sent On Free Trial burgh, Pa., Aug. 20-21, with Pa. Legion Dept. City, in Oct., write J. Frank Burke, natl. secy., Conv. Paul K. Fuhrman, 525 E. Walnut St., 3 Bangor Rd., West Roxbury, Mass., or Arthur Sign and mail the coupon and a bot- Hanover, Pa. J. Pertsch, chmn., Cotton Exchange, 60 Beaver tle of H. F. will be mailed you Im- 56th Regt., C.A.C. Reunion, Milford, St., New York City. mediately. Don't send any money and — Conn., don't pay the postman any money, Sept. 6. Write Frederick M. Piatt, 64 Daytona Natl. Assoc. U.S.S. Connecticut Vets.—6th don't pay anything any time unless Av., Devon, Conn. convention and reunion-dinner. New York City, H. F. is helping you. If it does 3d Trench Mortar Btry. Assoc.—Annual Oct, 3. Fay Knight, shipswriter, 22 Jane St., help we know you will be glad to reunion, Rochester, N. Y., July 9-11. Barney Closter, N. J. send us $1 for the supply at Uie Gallitelli, secy., 294 17th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. U. S. S. Iowa—6th reunion. Lake Aquilla, end of ten days. That's how much 1st Corps Art. Park Vets.- Annual re Chardon, Ohio, July 26. Wendell R. Lerch, secy., faith we have In H. F. Read, sign, — and mail the coupon today. union, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 4-5. Emory Jami- 348 Front St., Berea, Ohio. son, 1905 Charles St., Wellsburg, W. Va. U. S. S. Salem.—Reunion, including crews of 19th Engrs. (Ry.) Assoc.—Annual reunion, all sub-chasers assigned to her, Boston, Mass., GORE PRODUCTS. INC. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 12. Write Francis P. in Sept. For date and details, write Cornelius 860 Perdido St., Conway, 4414 Sansom St.. Philadelphia. J. Riley, 106 Winthrop St., Roxbury, Mass. New Orleans, La, 34th Engrs—14th annual reunion, Dayton, U. S. N. R. F., Whiddy Island, Ireland. 1918 Please senc mo immediately a Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Geo. Remple, secy.-treas., 2523 —Reunion. Roy G. Hickner, Marshfield, Wise. complete supply for foot trouble N. Main St., Dayton. Marine Corps League—Natl. convention, as described above. I agree to 37th Engrs., San Fran. -Oakland Chap.— Chicago, 111., Sept. 2-5. Hq. at Hotel Sherman. use it according to directions. If at tlie end of 10 days my feet Annual banquet, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 14. Anthony J. Marchi, conv. chmn., 1450 W. Jack- are getting better I will send you .$1. G. J. Vergnes, Room 347, Blake Block, 1121 fcr\ islvd., Chicago ; Mrs. Olyse Marchi, Aux. If I am not entirely satisfied I will return Washington St., Oakland. chmn. the unusej portion of the bottle to you within 15 52d Engrs. Assoc. —6th reunion, Penn-Beaver Sub-chaser 131 —Proposed reunion of crew. days froL the time I receive it. Hotel, Rochester, P^., July 25-27. J. A. Bell, Write Roy P. Francis, 142 N. Concord St., South Nam» 412 E. Leasure Av., New Castle, Pa. St. Paul, Minn. Address 308th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—22d reunion, Newark, Ohio, Aug. 1-2. Lee W. StaflBer, secy., John J. Noll City State Sandusky, Ohio. 31 4th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- The Company Clerk 54 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jnt When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine O NOT USE an unshielded 0 KEEP YOUR FLASHLIGHT in a flashlight OUTDOORS in a blackout O EVERY HOME should have one convenient, accessible place — and except when absolutely necessary. or more flashlights! 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