The American Legion Magazine [Volume 35, No. 5 (November 1943)]

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THE AMERICAN LEGION

1943 YOUR battles, too!

SERVICE men wear these decorations of honor and campaign ribbons proudly. Some of them you of the Legion remem-

ber from other days . . . some of them are new.

Even today they stand for your battles,

too . . . battles that you are still helping to win, though the front line fighting is bemg done by another generation.

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"It's great to have you aboard. plan and live your own life in your own is why for the past 21/2 years Republic's way—the American way. production of steel for each month has "I'm taking a good look at you now exceeded that of the corresponding month "I want you to be free to climb as high because I may not have another chance in the previous year.* in life as your own ability will take you for a long while, —free to believe, think and talk as your But, despite military successes and all "I'm shoving off soon, son, but before I conscience dictates—free to live without production records, this war is far from hatred go I want to tell you how I feel about you. fear, without and without war. won. Every American has a bigger-than- ever job to do. Buy more War Bonds "I didn't fully understand what this war "Or else—I'd rather not come back at all!" and Stamps. Donate more blood. Collect was all about until you got here. Now I more scrap. Work harder at the job- really know what I'm fighting for, Helping support our armed forces are whatever it may be. "All I ever want you to know about dicta- nearly 70,000 men and women in Free American business, labor and agri- tors and concentration camps and race Republic Steel's Army of Production. culture, working together, are helping hatreds and slave nations and all the rest They, too, know what America is fighting to speed the day when our boys will come of the mess we're trying to clean up today, for. They, too, are determined to insure home victorious. And when that great day is what you'll read in your history books for their sons and daughters the same comes, we shall owe them more than when you're old enough to go to school, rights and freedoms and opportunities parades and speeches. We shall owe them which they themselves have enjoyed. opportunities for jobs, and an America "I want you to grow up as a free Ameri- worthy of their sacrifices. in can a free world. I want you to enjoy That is why Republic's steel plants for more and better opportunities for getting 33 months have operated at the average *Seven Republic plants have been award- ahead than I ever had. I want you to monthly rate of 100% of capacity. That ed the Army-Navy "E" for excellence.

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The Message Center CONTENTS THE following comes to us from COVER DESIGN Carroll D. Billmyer of Kingston, By C. C. Beall Rhode Island, an engineer by profession

UNITED . . . LTNCONQUERABLE and a member of South County Post By Warren H. Atherton, National of the Legion. Commander "I have read with keen interest your article Not to Collectivism in the Sep- NO MORE PARALYSIS BY tember number. I agree with you that ANALYSIS 9 our system of secondary education is By Arthur H. Motley

far from what it should be, but the SWEATING THEM IN 10 wrongs are more than you enumerate. By Captain John C.Lane If we believe that up to the age of Illustrated by John F. Gould discretion each American youth has the right to pursue a career of his election, WORTHY OF THEIR SIRES 12

both his elementary and secondary edu- By Dr. Lee J. Levincer cation should be sufficiently basic to COME ON. YOU G. I. S AND MAC'S 14 enable him to follow it and also to be a good citizen. This rules out the elec- MILK FOR A PENNY 19 tions demanded by our 'progressive' TO VICTORY AND BEYOND 22 teachers. By Boyd B. Stutler "Further, any good psychologist will The Old Grand-Dad admit that each of us can do several TOURING TROOPS 25 Distillery Co. is en- things sufficiently well to be happy and By Wallcren successful in doing them as the needs gaged in production "MARCHING ALONG TOGETHER" 26 of alcohol for war of society demand. Why then should we By John J. Noll purposes. This be handicapped by too narrow a prepara- whiskey was tion? Why should a boy who is too im- SEADOGS IN THE MAKING 28 made before mature to choose wisely, be allowed to By C. R. Sumner America en- dodge necessary subjects such as math- AT 12. I FOUGHT THE JAPS 29 and civics for tered the ematics, English, physics By Calvin Leon Graham something like dancing. Illustrated by V. E. Pyles "I have seen the results of this ill- 52 {Continiied on page 4) EDITORIALS

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of The American Legion and is owned THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE is the official publication Legion. Entered as second class exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1943 by The American March 1879. Warren H. A'herton. matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, III., under act of 3 Publications Commission; Vilas H. Indianapolis, lnd„ National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Charleston, W. Va^, Jerry Owen, Whaley Racine, Wis., Vice Chairman. Members of Commission: Phil Conley, Colflesh Des Ja.; Wilham F. Saler^ Ore.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Robert W. , Mom". Syracuse, N. Y.; Elmer Nelson, Murphy Palestine, Tex.; Lawrence Hager Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. Love, Ramsey, Raleigh, Milford Mass.; William E. Fischelis, Philadelphia, Pa.; Claude S. Neb.; George N. C- Glenn H. Campbell, Cleveland, O.; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, BUY Bideaux, Tucson, Ariz.; Le Roy D. Downs, South Norwalk, Conn. UNITED STATES Alexander Director of Publications, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Editor WAR Gardiner; Director of Advertising, Thomas O. Woolf; Managing Editor, Boyd B. btutler; BON^DS Art Director, Frank LIsiecki; Associate Editor, John J. Noll. BOTTLED IN BOND, 100 PROOF STAMPS postage is The Editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts unless return deal with National Distillers Products Corporation, N. Y. enclosed. Names of c/iorocters in our fiction and semi-fiction articles that is pure coincidence. types are fictitious. Use of the name of any person living or dead

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advised policy, for I have worked ten years in industry and taught engineering for nineteen years. Many a youth has been handicapped for various profes- sions because of such a poHcy, and many

voters do a poor job as a result of it. "It makes me angry just to mention a progressive teacher, a pacifist or an isolationist. Our boys are suffering dis- appointment, hardship and death because these men have too long controlled our schools, press, pulpit and our Congress. The present army and navy programs for our colleges are sound. "I wish you luck in your worthy campaign to free our schools and our children from faulty education."

AS A preliminary to the Omaha Na- ^ tional Convention, whose activities are chronicled in the article To Victory and Beyond, beginning on page 22, Na- tional Commander Roane Waring nominated a Post War Planning Commission of fifteen- men, most of them Legion- naires, and the National Executive Com- mittee confirmed those selected. The committee, headed by Past National Commander Louis Johnson, consists of the following: Past National Comman-

ders Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., and Ray Murphy, Governors Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, Leverett Saltonstall of Mas- sachusetts and Prentice Cooper of Ten- nessee, Dr. Willard H. Dow, President of Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan; Jacob Schmidt of Wisconsin and Arthur Cante of Chicago; Walter Moving, of Taylor, for President Lord & Birr mile an c.estraS' New York; General Frank Parker, Women bave ^,,p Juan i- v.n smokes * v , Trippe, President of Pan-American Air- ce ways; S. Toof Brown, Memphis, Ten- nessee; Frank Haucke, Kansas, and ,eal PIP^ -rom^ General Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland. Albert s The Editors And f^^'°r,S„,„_tbe so meUov^- omes tbrougb other More than 25,000 copies of this that comes every .^gUs magazine are furnished free every month to men and women in service, through the various reading rooms, libraries, recreation halls, U. S. O. lounges, and naval and military hospitals in this country. Six thousand of these are at the disposal of officers at the various embarkation ports, and are placed Co. Tobacco on transports sending our troops NATtONAL Wmston-b»'" ^THE SMOKE overseas. Any Legionnaire who jOY ^ wishes to supplement this service by sending his own copy to a person in Uncle Sam's service overseas can do so by placing first class /H/IDA/ESS postage on the envelope, and ad- pip«fuls of fragrant tobac- dressing it in care of the postmas- co in every handy pocket ter at the appropriate city in the 50 package of Prince Albert c^o/ce-foSacco United States. For a 52-page issue fine roM-your-own ciga- such as the one you are now read- rettes in every handy pocket ing, enveloped, the postage would package of Prince Albert 70 be eighteen cents.

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6 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine once and for all the recurring threat to all we have and are. As National Commander of The American Legion I have placed unreservedly at the disposal of the President of the United States all the power of our organization to speed the victory. The Omaha Na-

tional Convention made it clear that unconditional surrender of the Japanese and German governments

is our first order of business. Every American's private interests must be subordinated to the one job of winning the war with the least possible delay, to the end that the sacrifice of our boys be not continued

one hour more than is necessary. Every pound of material, every ounce of strength, every heartbeat in our bodies must be placed at the service of the men who are fighting and dying at the front. The team- work of the fighting front, the industrial front and the home front will win this war. Having destroyed the aggressors, we must make certain that the United States remains strong. Sue- monquerable By WARREN H. ATHERTON cessftil collaboration with the nations of the world NATIONAL COMMANDER in the preservation of the peace which will have been THE AMERICAN LEGION bought so dearly will depend upon our ability to destroy would-be aggressors before they get fairly started. As WE APPROACH the twenty-fifth anniversary Our post-war planning must embrace complete de- /\ of Armistice Day our thoughts turn to the votion to a free, just and equal social order under the X jLUnknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery American Constitution. We must keep open to the ^nd the sacrifice he and thousands of other Ameri- men who win the victory the opportunity deferred by cans of our generation made to beat back the hordes war. They must have their chance for education, for of Germany making their bid for world domination training, for jobs, for independence, for homes, and under kaiserism. for useful contribution to the nation. It is up to us Today, our sons are engaged in the business of to see that they inherit a nation worthy of the ideals meeting in the breach a new generation of that same and sacrifices they and ten generations of patriotic ruthless foe, again seeking to bend to their will the Americans before them fought to attain. freedom-loving nations of the world. The gangsters No one man can hope to win the objectives which of Berlin and Tokyo would set the clock back a the Legion in convention assembled has set for the thousand years and condemn our children and our months ahead. A million and a quarter veterans fight- children's children to a servitude which would be ing shoulder to shoulder can do it. I ask, and I am unbelievable did not the peoples of Poland, Czecho- certain I will receive, the co-operation and active help slovakia, Manchuria and the Philippines, and other of every member of the great Legion family in attain- nations under the Axis heel provide the most heart- ing these ends: a united, fighting, unconquerable rending of testimony. America now, and a world of peace and harmony Against this ruthless totalitarianism we of the after the victory has been won— a world dedicated to United Nations have mustered the might of decent the preservation of justice, freedom and democracy people everywhere in a grim determination to smash through constitutional government.

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reliance on the protection of . . with a firm

to each other Divine Providence, we mutually pledge

our Sacred Honor" our Lives, our Fortunes and

BY ARTHUR H. MOTLEY

To win the peace we of the home front have got to act before our men have smashed the Axis into defeat. Legionnaire Red Motley, publisher of American Maga- zine, here sets forth Part One of the Formula-for-Action

7 believe that going to win this ture. Character is enough collateral 1 we are for war—and win it sooner than we thought any man; faith is enough capital. —because of the tremendous job of The other day, for the first time production. Extravagant as the claims since I was in high school, I read the sometimes seem—the claims with which Declaration of Independence again. If ARE going to win this the sweet singers of advertising and you have not looked at it recently, go WEwar, and one of the very publicity have filled the airways and the back and read it. Of course, I remem- important reasons why we press—the story is true. bered how it began: "When in the ." are going to win it is that But, are we going to win the peace? course of human events. . . But it we are outproducing our competition. We cannot win the peace if we worship was the ending I had forgotten; and Industrial and labor leaders who, to the security. We must worship opportunity. that is really the most important part public, were heels twelve months ago That was the way this country was of all. I believe it well might be the

now are heroes. Everywhere, fastastic built. That is the only direction its credo for all of us in America today. quantities of the finest war materials future takes. I am sure that if all of us adhere to are being produced at rates far above We cannot afford to divide wealth; those principles—principles implemented the original quotas and, usually, at costs we must multiply it. Only through the with programs of action and courage well below the original estimates. multiplication of wealth can we build we cannot lose. I, however, do not hold with the idea an even higher standard of living for The ending of the Declaration of In-

that material is more important than all our people. We cannot lean on the dependence goes like this: . . with fighting men in this struggle, and I am Government. We must needle it. a firm reliance on the protection of

slightly ill when I hear industry and This comes right down to a personal Divine Providence, we mutually pledge labor screaming about the sacrifices obligation, incumbent on every man, to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, they are making which, though great, woman and child in America. Let's get and our Sacred Honor." are as nothing compared to the sacri- over the notion that we have to be As I said, we are going to win the fice of the man with the gun. But I do big shots to be important in this pic- {Continued on page jo)

NOVEMBER, 1943 9 third plane to come back ing ships of the eighteen that made up Illustrated by JOHN F. GOULD THEdropped a red flare as it circled our group for the day. All back but five the home field. Somebody in- now: Woolridge and four others. Had didn't reach its destination. Maybe it

jured on board ; that's what the they been shot down over enemy ter- got turned back at the coast of France, red flare meant. A field ambulance stood ritory? Had they landed in the Channel, Holland or Belgium without even drop- by. We'd know the bad news in a few or hit the silk? We know the possi- ping its bombs. Here comes the bulk moments. But at least that ship had bilities, and some of them are not of the formation, safe—except for returned safe. We breathed a sigh of pleasant. such incidents as dozens of bullet- relief as the S-2 officer ringed the pilot's Sweating them in, is the expression holes and flak-bites in the ship's outer name—Wallace—on the typed chart we use. Every mission is timed to the armor. showing the planes taking part in that minute. We know what time the ships We do some sweating over those day's mission. left our base, what time they are due babies—more than we tell the pilots Across the field a plane came in alone, over their target, what minute they about. To them we keep the affair cas- but casually and quietly. Ashley's plane. ought to be back. Half an hour ahead of ual. Men don't cry or admit fear to each Someone with sharp eyes called out, time we start sweating them in—worry- other. It would be unmanly to us, who "Isn't that a hole back of the top tur- ing, hoping, silently praying. Here comes are the older officers, to confess that we ret?" Spy-glasses were focused. "It's a a plane, twenty minutes early. Maybe it bleed at the thought of what some of hole, all right. Must have these boys go through. So killed the top gunner." we just call it sweating 'No, Ashley didn't them in. Herewith the story of journey's end: The bonnbers, hav- drop a red flare," argued another. ing dropped their load on Nazi territory, are being sig- WOOLRIDGE'S back We'd get the full story naled into the home airfield in Britain. Legionnaire Lane plane came in a few minutes. But all right, though there's comes from Holly, Michigan, Legionnaire Barton, war first came the job of a story there. checking in the remain- correspondent, from Akron, Ohio Three of the other four

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Sne Ed Millson, lead bombardier, who Captain Lane and Navigator Brad- "Little Big," Lieutenant Charles hails -from Seattle, Washington ley of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania R. Bigler, Rochester, Indiana

made the trip over and back without limped home with a good No. i engine while what had any of them seen? How incident. and a burning No. 4 engine which many enemy planes had they brought We lost one plane. Several of our men already had eaten a two-foot hole in the down, and how many of them could saw that plane catch fire, the flames and right wing. Woolridge wisely didn't try verify each other's story? What was the smoke spreading from engines to tail- to make home but came to earth at last they had seen of So-and-So, whose gun in an instant and obliterating the another U. S. air base in England and plane and crew were still missing? entire crew even before the ship started we sent a plane there to bring him and It all goes down on paper. From this to spin and crash. "Missing in action the crew back. a brief, crisp resume is made up by the over enemy country," is what the War We got Pilot Ashley's story at the intelligence officer and flashed to

Department will report to the families interrogation. The interrogation is defin- "Wing," which is our immediate com- of those lads. Tough luck : the pilot had itely official. The four officers and six mand. From that too is derived the been over just two months. Just last enlisted men from each bomber answer recommendations for special awards: the week he learned he had become a father. questions in turn. Had they hit their Purple Heart for being wounded in ac- A boy, and please God he has courage target? The plane's camera, operated by tion, an oak cluster (indicating you like his father. the radio man (who is also a gunner) brought down an enemy plane) for the

Lieutenant Woolridge and his crew would soon tell that for sure ; but mean- air medal that marks five successful had had a heroic escape. missions; maybe the Second Lieutenant Ker- Distinguished Flying mit D. Woolridge is Cross, or the Silver Star the name; comes from for exceptional braven,'. Norfolk, Virginia. He Ashley's story was reached the objective matter-of-fact. A and the bombardier un- plucky little fellow, loaded the bombs, de- only 23, he grew up spite persistent fire in St. Paul where his from German Focke- father belongs to a local Wulfs. But the ship did Legion Post and man- not escape unscathed. ages a big downtown Two of its motors, No. f ive-and-dime store,

2 and No. 3, were put Frank Ashley had had out of commission by two previous narrow gunfire that shattered escapes. His account of the oil and feed lines. this affair was typically No. 4 engine caught modest. fire, but he needed that "We always use eva- engine to get home with sive action, zig-zagging and dared not shut off Col. M. A. Preston (extreme right of second row) and crew of to make it harder for the gas. The plane bomber of the Eighth Bomber Command, "Somewhere in England" {Continued on page 30)

NOVEMBER, 1943 XI They do a lot of traveling in their own country while they're training, these soldats of 1943. In 1918 we'd have called this Riding the Plush

over a year I have been have followed their men on these far- FORmeeting soldiers in three httle flung journeys? Certainly we shall have towns of the Far West, where the best informed and most widely I have been field representative of a WorAy traveled generation of Americans in a of the USO. The other day I attended a century and a half. Even in Covered luncheon at our USO, together with Wagon days, the majority of Americans thirty-five soldiers and soldiers' wives. stayed at home, while only the pioneers As usual, we asked their names and home Their Sires saw the mountains and the prairies. States, only to find that, these thirty-five Today, the boy from Jersey has trained persons had come from fifteen States. in Tennessee and gone through field That is the usual story in this much- maneuvers on the many-colored desert By DR. LEE J. LEVINGER traveled Army. The. Navy does most of of Arizona. The farm boy from Iowa its training by districts, but the Army PAST NATIONAL CHAPLAIN, has joined the coast guard and is sta- grasps men by the thousands, scatters tioned on a California inlet. The Okla- them to every corner of the nation, then THE AMERICAN LEGION homa cowhand is stationed in the North- picks them up and transfers them again west and spends his furlough traveling and again the Columbia River Highway, to far-distant spots. I have it has two aspects: it mingles men from down met a boy from Maine who trained in North and South, from city and country, They are seldom articulate on the Florida and Texas, winding up in Cali- from every one of the forty-eight States, matter, but the vastness, the variety fornia. I have talked to New Yorkers, in the same units; and it takes these of America must have left its impres- inducted at Camp Upton, who nine days same boys on a personally conducted sion on every one of them. The boys

later found themselves housed in tents at tour of America. It is the greatest sight- from eastern or southern plains have Pendleton, Oregon, to begin their basic seeing tour in history, a "See America lived among the mountains which con- training. First" on a giant scale. I recently heard stitute the back-bone of the continent, The Army training program, of course, a soldier remark that the boys have to the western third of the United States. is concentrated on technical training and see America before they fight for it. Those from the crowded streets of Pitts- pre-battle experience. But from the What is the effect of this vast trans- burgh or Chicago have seen the snow- standpoint of many of these young peo- plantation of America's young manhood, peaks, the Great Salt Lake, have bathed ple, and from that of America as a and to a less extent, of our young in the Pacific. They will never again whole, it may have a by-product scarcely women, for in addition to those in the be able to think of patriotism in terms less important. As a human movement, WAC there are many army wives who of a city or a State; they have had a 12 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jnt —

The service man of today has a lot more savvy than we had twenty-five years ago. Before he starts to fight for his country he gets to know it by seeing a considerable chunk of it, and in the process sheds his prejudices and provincial-

ism. That's Americanism at its best

glimpse of the continent itself on which this republic stands. I cannot even guess what this grandeur must mean to many of them in personal expansion of horizons, in a deeper grasp of the world. Perhaps this depends most on their own per- sonalities, but the larger view of America is certain to grow in anyone who can still feel and learn. If our soldiers learn from places, they probably learn even more from people. The Protestant boy from Arkansas "Give a a horse he can ride," and If you're a Leather- needs a favor and is referred to his regimental chaplain; man neck get a sailor to pull the oars and you'll go to town he is doubly surprised, first that the chaplain is a Catholic priest, second, that the priest exerts himself mightily to help this unknown soldier of a different faith. The army chaplains, the representatives of various agencies in the USO, are learning to cooperate closely in the work of caring for all the soldiers of all faiths. This experience of the religious leaders will, in time, percolate back to many a city and rural congregation; at present it sets an example to the soldiers themselves which they are quick to perceive. They judge the chaplain, not by his ability as a preacher, certainly not by his denominational affiliation, but by his readiness to "go to bat" for the men in his outfit. So the chaplain responds and comes close to many men not of his own faith in the process of serving as their guide and friend. Myriad are the influences which must strike the individual soldier. The underprivileged boy meets the local social leaders as hostesses in the USO and dances with the banker's daughter and the ten-cent-store clerk alike he may not even realize which is which. The ordinary youngster from far away gets the thrill of a lifetime when he meets the stars of the Hollywood Canteen. I cannot guess how many of this generation, reared on the movies, have seen their first stage play, given by USO Shows in the camp, and then have followed up with a stage play at the next leave to a big city. Or how many, uneducated in the great classics of music, have heard them for the first If you're In the unlfornn of one of the fighting services of the time at the Hollywood Bowl and grown to recognize a United Nations, Stage Door Canteen In New York Is your dish whole world of experience formerly denied them. Recently I performed the wedding of a Jewish sergeant from Brooklyn and the girl who had come across the continent to join him. Such marriages are taking place daily, and the small army of wives is constantly growing in every army town. But this time the groom was a little embarrassed as he tried to explain to me about his best man—"a Christian, but my closest friend in the outfit." He was visibly surprised when I told him how often Jews and Christians are finding their truest comrades among men of other faiths. I said not a word of the broadening process which must have gone on in his own mind.

After all, he had been reared in a Jewish section of a great city; his neighbors, his classmates, his friends had been almost all Jews. And here in the Army, where there are still plenty of Jews for him to select as friends, he has chosen instead a Christian soldier from the Middle West. Probably the experience of taking part in a Jewish wedding meant even more to the Minnesota lad who had never seen a Jew in his childhood, but had heard the most grotesque, perhaps the most terrible tales about the one- time "Chosen People." East and West, city and country, Jew and Christian—here they meet in the Army. Not that all prejudice has disappeared, or that all meetings make for real understanding—simply that the opportunity is there, which in civil life was lacking. The Brooklyn boy The Jitterbugs take over for this all-Arnriy street dance In (Contimied on page 44) a Tennessee town. Just look at the size of that stag line

NOVEMBER, 1943 13 Here's a new department of the magazine, for men and women In Uncle

Sam's uniform. Up to now it hasn't a name. The guy or gal in uniform

who suggests the best permanent name, that covers all branches of

the service, will collect fifty dollars. Address John J. Noll, Company Clerk, American Legion Magazine, One Park Avenue, New York City 16

HAVE been in uniform, toons, anecdotes or anything else with figuratively speaking, for a service connection. Material accepted WE will the past twenty years in add something to the contributor's the role of Company Clerk monthly income. And we're not exclud- of Then and Now, in which department ing the brass hats! of this magazine comrades of the First Then and Now during the past year World War have had an opportunity, already took steps in the direction of through publication of wartime pictures this new department. As instances: The and stories, to do their reminiscing. Now picture of a Saturday inspection in a we're going to step further to keep along company street in Fort Bliss, Texas, in with the times. 1 91 7; spotted by a 1942 soldier in train- Editorially, we assume the guise of a ing down there, he sent us a snapshot "retread" and we hope you young fel- of the identical street—both pictures lows and young women who are now in uniform, replacing us oldtimers who Legionnaires with whom eventually you young vets will affiliate—will call a halt and stop boring our today's uniformed forces with tail tales of how they won the First World War, or make odious comparisons regarding service pay, privileges, chow, equipment and so on. The vets of igiy-'iS can await the end of this war, when in resumed annual reunions and at Legion Department and National Conventions, they can again "Yeah? Mebbe Hannibal did cross talk over their war. Now, they can sit the Alps elephants, but elephants attentively while they learn from the on is easier to sit on than jeeps!" lads and girls of today how they helped put the Axis out of commission. We older vets want to learn some- appearing in the February, 1943, issue; thing about it now, so this corner of the comparative pictures (March issue) your magazine is being turned over to of Camp Dix (191 7) and Fort Dix of our present armed forces ... to those today; in June, a pre-war training camp young men and women already dis- for women in 191 6, lined up alongside charged from service and those still ac- the WACS' and WAVES' training of tively engaged. In addition to enlisting today. Cameramen of the U. S. Army Signal your aid in selecting a title for the We know that we won't be disap- Corps roughing it during an Aleutian new department, we are inviting all of pointed in the response to this invitation. assignment. Above, center column, you to submit "unofficial" snapshots Send your pictures—and let's be frank Alaska and Nome, Malemutes ac- and stories of unusual or amusing or in stating that we'd rather not have quired as mascots by the camera crew interesting experiences, poetry, gag car- group pictures—and stories to The Com- and, bottom, their four puppies born pany Clerk of this magazine, One Park in the frozen North Avenue, New York (16), New York.

couldn't pass a physical even for a job WE'LL have to admit that we got as latrine orderly or captain of the head, a break just after we were trans- will accept us at least temporarily in ferred from the old Orderly Room of our new assignment. As time goes on, Then and Now to the job of Company one of you younger veterans will step Clerk of this new department. Good into the shoes of The Company Clerk illustrations help a lot in decorating the when his retirement for age is handed Orderly Room's bulletin board, and we to him. found a fund of swell pictures in the Our old-timers—more than a million hands of a cameraman of a Photo 14 The AMERICAN LEGION Magaiini —

Signal Battalion, U. S. Signal Corps, who had already done a hitch in Alaska and along the Aleutians. He helped to photograph Report from the Aleutians, a technicolor film which no doubt many of you have already seen in your local

movies. If you haven't, it's worth searching out. The old lack-of-space handicap won't permit us to share with you even a small percentage of the intensely interesting story we heard from our new friend, Lieutenant V. E. Ellsworth, U. S. Sig- nal Corps, while having lunch with him. Appreciating the fact that mascots in the present forces rate as highly as they did with old-timers a quarter of a century ago, we thought you would enjoy that part of his story relating to a family of Malemutes his oufit acquired in the Far North. A cameraman from the West Coast, Ellsworth found himself a sergeant as- signed to a movie camera crew commanded by Captain John Huston, Holly-

Even the toughest fighting can't down the American sense of humor. In the Solomons, Marines take over an ice plant installed by the defeated Japs

W.n bombs going off, but the submarine from the wolf, from an Aleut. They escaped his lens. weren't "salvaged" but actually pur- Their schedule called for shots of the chased. Christened "Alaska" and entire Alaskan-Aleutian sector—shots of "Nome," the latter soon became isolated American Army outposts, of "Nomey," as it was a lady dog. After plane and ship bases, and before the one or two flights, the dogs became crew came home, of the actions at Attu seasoned plane travelers and accom- and Kiska. He was at Dutch Harbor panied the crew on all of its assignments, the day before the Japs bombed that including the Attu and Kiska actions. base and eventually flew over Siberia When it was discovered that Nomey and even as far as European Russia. was to become a mother, the problem He took movies of the ceremonies open- of finding a suitable lying-in hospital ing the Alaska Highway through Canada, for her arose—and such conveniences and admitted that because the electric are scarce in the frozen North. Fortune motors in his Eymo had frozen, for the favored the expectant mother, when the first time in his career he was forced camera crew put down at Cold Bay Even in the Jungles of Guadalcanal, to grind out several thousand feet of a point where the Aleutian Chain our Marines enjoy the luxury of a film by hand. In his island-hopping ex- branches off from the Alaska mainland homemade shower peditions, he hitch-hiked on any plane —and discovered a Signal Corps carrier- that happened to be going his way. pigeon loft located there. In the plenti- wood director and son of Walter Huston, As an idea of what cameramen in far- outstanding actor of stage and screen, off places contend with, the lieutenant for duty in Alaska and the Aleutians. (we forgot to report that after his re- His introduction to the Alaskan scene turn to the States, he won a 2d lieu- was a submarine attack on the trans- tenancy after attending an officers' school), pic- port taking his crew to Adak. He re- permits us to reproduce a ported he got some good shots of depth- ture of one of their camps, where they really had to rough it. Ellsworth is the guy in back of the camera, combing his

ICAME-THE PA\NN locks, while a comrade is doing some home-cooking on their camp equipment. And now for the mascots: We know that back in the First World War, there was an overabundance of mascots —dogs and mules, bears and goats, par- rots and monkeys (those last had the Navy touch), many of which were in- CW-J R KNOWAU, troduced through Then and Now. So it was natural that the lieutenant and his "Look how close we are to the head! crew wanted a mascot. While in Nome, No wonder we had to keep guys Alaska, he acquired not only one dog, from trying to straddle our trench but a pair of them—Malemutes, a all night!" sturdy breed of arctic dogs stemming

NOVEMBER, 1943 IS we're inviting you to send their pictures and stories about them.

WITHOUT going through channels to obtain the information, we are fully convinced that Army and Navy orders contain the same ban against the carrying or use of personal cameras in the numerous theaters of operations, as was true back in 'ly-'iS. We have a sneaking suspicion, however, that that

ban is being deftly circumvented as

much now as it was during our earlier war. "Unofficial" snapshots made Marine Corps fighter pilots on Guad- throughout the A. E. F., aboard naval alcanal while away the time awaiting ships and in other barred places prov.ed orders for their next take-off to be common. Evidence? How else could we have illustrated Then and Now for "Laughing Gas"—a classic Signal feels slighted, let it produce some equally so many years with those personal, Corps photo of World War 1, shows good shots. human-interest pictures? "Big Nims" of the 366th Infantry. Below, his World War II counterpart FRED BARTON, war correspondent —Rufus Chapman, cook for the and Legionnaire, who collaborated officers' mess on a heavy cruiser with Captain Lane in the article Sweat- ing Them In, which you will find in this issue, was the subject of the three- ful supply of straw at that post, Nomey minute sketch we show on page 15. The became the proud mother of nine pup- drawing was, made in a Red Cross club pies. Only four of the pups, with proper in London by Laz, otherwise Abraham nursing, were saved from the litter. Lazarus. Laz has sketched thousands of We are happy to show a picture of "You would wisecrack that they Americans in these clubs in the past the proud parents and of the four little 'Flatfoots' this should use to stomp few months. The Red Cross gal is the rascals survived which the rigors of landing field flat again, you flatfoot!" epitome of all Red Cross ladies from arctic weather, on page 14. Cousin Clara Barton to Fred's wife Peg, doing Red Cross blood donor work back Far be it from this department to in Akron, Ohio. suggest violation of service orders—who Fred reports from London, following wants to see guys in uniform get trips to Northern Ireland and Iceland: "gigged" or "burned" (there are two Navy Lieutenant Dwight C. Shepler terms for the old-timers to mull over), of Boston, one of five artists being sent but we are sure there are available to the battle zones to depict war scenes, plenty of good shots which would pass was aboard a U. S. aircraft carrier in the Public Relations Officer's censorship British waters when King George came and would make fine illustrations for these columns. No posed group pictures, however, please! Awaiting such time as you young comrades start to swamp us with such pictures, we enlisted the aid of the Public Relations Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps and obtained the Official U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine photographs which help to decorate these pages. We thank them for per- mitting us to publish them. In this war our Navy and Marine Corps have been What became of the family? Three playing a major part and have earned of the puppies were given to Signal this special recognition. If the Army Religious services on the deck of a Corps crews in the Aleutians, but Alaska ship transporting Marines to the and Nome, with one of the youngsters, South Pacific for action were brought down the Alaska High- way by "Juicy," one of Ellsworth's companions, when the crew was returned to aboard. As the King went down the line the States, and are now members of the asking the usual question, "Where are household of an aunt of Juicy's in the you from, my lad?" he got the usual San Francisco area. Juicy had been a answers—Minnesota, Virginia, Illinois photographer on the staff of the San and so forth. But one freckled-cheeked Francisco Chronicle before donning the youngster made the King and his own uniform, and the Malemutes have been mates really guffaw when he answered, adopted as pets by the Chronicle's staff, "Brooklyn." pending Juicy's return after the war is ended. NAVY men stationed in Iceland With our men scattered to the four Swing music peps up K. P. duty on have a new organization called the comers of the earth, there must be a Destroyer. How about those old F. B. I., or Forgotten Buddies of Ice- some new and unusual mascots and records of yours? {Continued on page 50)

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Tlu ANtF.RICAN LF.GION Maza:h,e VChfn Answ-frtng Apvertisemfnts PirA<;F Mfntion Tiir Amtrican Ligion Maca/.tnt A group of children served by the school Penny Milk Fund gathered at the neat fronne club house of Peterson-Cram Post of Pittsfield, New Hannpshire

are hundreds of Posts of schools of the town seemed to be the THEREthe Legion that would jump at answer, and the members of the Post the chance to furnish milk to were in entire agreement when the sug- school children at a penny a gestion was offered at a meeting. bottle—if the milk could be had. That's A Milk Fund Committee composed of what's being done by Peterson-Cram Legionnaires Nathan Newman, Chair- Post of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. It man, Chester Adams and Clyde Wake- is one of the outstanding school assist- field was appointed to work out the ance-child welfare programs of the year, details and get the program under way. and this small Post of forty members That committee had the backing of the has again demonstrated that the measure entire Post, but the funds at hand were of usefulness and service cannot be limited. The Post had led in many pub- covered the period from November until gauged by the number of members of a lic enterprises, owned its own home, the end of the school term on June 20, Legion group or the population of the and its members were well integrated 1943, the committee distributed 33,312 area in which it operates. into the community life. So, when the bottles of milk, of which 6,006 were Last October, at the beginning of the plans were worked out, it was not hard given to children who did not have their 1942-1943 school term, the Department for the committee to interest public- pennies. The Post's School Children's of New Hampshire called on each of its spirited citizens, business men and heads Penny Milk Fund absorbed the shock of Posts to take up some kind of child of the industries in the section. Funds the $60.06. welfare program and carry it through. were made available and the Penny Milk The benefit to the children was so Commander Adelard R. Pellisier of Program got under way on November marked that not only the public school Peterson-Cram Post had a happy 12, 1942. nurse, but the responsible heads of the thought: why not combine the child The plan adopted was a simple one. several schools reported that it was both welfare project with some form of All that was needed was push and a a physical and mental uplift in school school assistance? Furnishing plenty of modest working fund—and Peterson- work. So the project is being carried into pure, fresh milk to children in the three Cram Post supplied both of these essen- the 1 943-1 944 term, with funds assured tials. Through arrangement with the to the Penny Milk Fund and with addi- Agricultural Marking Administration of tional ^e'fe qoiiyi -to \\oije aid generously allotted by a Fed- H\at oaf ^Mim the Federal Department of Agriculture eral bureau. It is a worthwhile program ' \f uje cart SAve up j tt^.a^efseo&.qei an adequate supply of milk was secured, and one that can be adapted to any and Harold Rand, Principal of the High community or any school by any Post. School, was placed in charge of distribu- Chairman Nathan NewTnan will be glad tion. The children in each of the schools to tell any interested group more about got their milk at a cent a bottle. the organization and operation of the This fixed price seemed to be within plan. the reach of every child, but the Post Peterson-Cram Post has been a leader wasn't hard boiled about the cent. Dur- in civic movements, so much so that its ing the first year of the program, which own community and surrounding villages

NOVEMBER, 1943 19 have come to look upon it as "their" Post—a clearing house and mainspring of patriotic and community activities.

Bojnbs Delivered/

DELIVERED okay!" That's the report that comes back to Bur- lington (Iowa) Post. The report con- cerns the carload of five-hundred-pound bombs bought by the Burlington Post last February with money realized from a special "Bombs to the Dictators" War Bond Sale, reported in Keeping Step for June. Now, thanks to Lieutenant William A, (Bud) Whittemore, Ordnance officer, and Technical Sergeant Neal I. Zollars, both from Burlington, we know just what happened to the Burlington bombs. The story is fully authenticated; the picture shown on this page of Lieutenant Whittemore and Sergeant Zollars lean- ing over a sign they had pridefully made, Burlington (Iowa) Post bought Bonnbs for the Dictators. Above, was taken in North Africa by a U. S. two Burlington soldiers in North Africa, Bud Whittemore Army photographer and the story itself and Neal Zollars, send them on their way to Leghorn, Italy was passed by an Army censor. "We've been waiting for weeks to find out what became of the carload of Came May 28, 1943, when nearly one fortress. Few raids have been so successful. bombs for the dictators, and we're hundred of Legionnaire Jimmy Doo- Burlington's bombs had been delivered tickled to death that these Burlington little's flying monsters, some carrying to the dictators promptly, efficiently and boys in far-off Africa had a prominent the Burlington bombs, delivered a with good results. part in spreading our message over the knockout punch in Leghorn, Italy, that dictator's soil," said Commander Paul was felt all the way to Berlin and Rome. Honors for the Dead Fulton. The armada flew more than a thousand It happened this way. When the miles, round trip, to pulverize the har- AMERICAN soldier dead in several bombs arrived overseas the shipment bor, railroad installations, dock facilities i- y- foreign countries, especially in the came into custody 'of an Ordnance Com- and an oil refinery, all used by the Axis mihtary cemeteries in France, will be pany commanded by Lieutenant Whitte- at Leghorn, without the loss of a single neglected this Armistice Day because the more which services the soil in which these comrades giant Flying Fortresses and lie is held by national ene- other bombers in Major mies. Special honors will be General Jimmy Doolittle's paid to the soldier dead in strategic air force. When he cemeteries in England, saw the labels from his home Mexico and in other friendly town it probably awakened nations, and honors will also nostalgic longings for his be paid to the new graves home, fireside and Burling- made in various places ton friends. His fellow- where troops are operating townsmen had given plenty today. of evidence that they At Aruba, a small island wanted to smack the Axis in the Caribbean Sea off the hard and he was willing to Venezuela coast, one of the lend a helping hand, and so Netherland West Indies, a to complete the personal new cemetery to care for the touch the Lieutenant called soldier and sailor dead has in Technical Sergeant Zol- been dedicated by Aruba- lars, (who, says Paul Ful- Esso Post of The American ton, is well known to the Legion. A monument has younger Burlingtonians), been erected bearing a large from a neighboring fighter memorial plaque cast in squadron to help in dedi- bronze, and from a tall flag- cating the load of five-hun- staff Old Glory keeps watch dred-pounders to the use for and ward over the graves which they were purchased of the service men buried by good Iowa money. They there. were photographed, together The ceremony of dedica- with three members of the tion was conducted by Army Arab loading crew for win- chaplains and short ad- dow dressing and scenic dresses were made by the effect. Probably they sang Aruba-Esso Post dedicates a cemetery for commanders of the Army the "Tall Corn Song," but the soldier and sailor dead in its home sec- and Navy forces on duty on of that the record is silent. tor on Aruba Island, Netherland West Indies the island. Post Commander

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Sportsman's Post of The American Legion, has been made to protect the public against any danger should the animals be loosed by reason of an air raid or other dis- aster. Carey Baldwin, director of the Zoo, has organ- ized a special air raid squad made up of animal keepers, and Sportsman's Post, which has already provided a number of auxiliary police, firemen and plane spotters, furnished a squad of expert riflemen to work with other selected personnel from the membership of the Mission Rifle and Pistol Club. These men are trained in handling fire- arms and in capturing animals. Only the "Hands Across the Border." Montgomery Post, Rouses Point, New York, best riflemen qualify for the job. An installs its officers at the International Boundary. Commander R. C. Mc- amateur might find it difficult to shoot Kenna clasps the hand of Commander Louis Laporte of Lacolle Branch a black panther on a dark night. In the event of an air raid an alert Harry Mills acted as master of cere- Arnold Cronkrite, Finance Officer Wil- signal is flashed to the men on duty at monies. The Aruba-Esso Drum and fred C. Viens, Chaplain Hale O. Wilson, the 200, and they, in turn, summon Bugle Corps furnished music for the and Sergeant-at-Arms Ernest Monette. the squad members to take their posts. occasion and when taps was sounded A banquet was held at the Post's This is not fun for the men who are three planes from the Army Air Corps clubrooms after the installation. Legion- stationed near the fifteen ferocious dropped wreaths prepared by the naire Robert C. Booth, Plattsburg, New lions, the ten grizzly bears, the eight Auxiliary Unit on the graves. York State Assistant Attorney General, tigers, and the great number of other was the principal speaker. blood-thirsty animals. The main job of the zoo air raid squad, however, is not Installed at Border Protection to shoot escaped animals but to cap- ture them with nets, ropes, traps and new officers of Montgomery THE cages. The fierce animals are to be killed Post of Rouses Point, New York, THE San Francisco Zoo, with its only when they cannot be recaptured were installed in a unique open air huge collection of man-killing wild and their escape would offer a public ceremony at the United States-Canadian animals, is being kept open, and its park menace. border, participated in by members of and exhibits make up a welcome relaxa- With Legionnaires on guard, this the Canadian Legion and by represent- tion spot for service men and war atives of the Spanish-American War workers. But ample provision, thanks to {Continuedr on page 49) veterans and the French Army of World War I. The impressive ceremonial was conducted at the International Boundary a mile or so from the American Legion Post's home with County Commander Harry L. Navarette as installing officer. American and British flags flew over the party, giving a truly international flavor to the affair, while an immense crowd gathered on both sides of the line to watch the proceedings. The Canadian Legionnaires were led by Commander Louis Laporte of the Lacolle (Que- bec) Branch. The newly elected officers of Montgomery Post inducted into office are Commander Richard C. Mc- Kenna, First Vice Commander Truman 0. Mur- A squad of expert riflemen, members of Sportsman's Post, San Fran- ray, Second Vice cisco, guard their home city against the menace of wild animals in Commander country's fourth largest zoo in event of escape during air raid

NOVEMBER, 1943 21 A new Legion year begins, with Roane Waring presenting his successor as National Comnnander, Warren H. Atherton of Stockton, California

To Victory and Beyoiul

By BOYD B. STUTLER

a clear, ringing man- any and all aid that will help to speed sponsibility, by participation in the WITH the of victory and the return establishment and maintenance of an as- date to "win the war, win day happy the peace, safeguard free of the ten or twelve millions of our sociation of free and sovereign nations, enterprise and the American fellow-Americans now on the battle implemented by whatever force may be way of life." Warren H. Atherton of fronts or in training. The kind of Amer- necessary to maintain world peace and Stockton, California, took over command ica they should find on their return to prevent a recurrence of war." of The American Legion when the gavel was the subject of a ringing resolution* Running through the entire series of fell to mark the close of the Legion's praising the American way of life and sessions as a theme motif was the warn- second war-time convention, at Omaha demanding that "freedom of individual ing that the war is not yet won, that

on September 23d last. National Com- enterprise be maintained." its end is not even in sight, though our mander Roane Waring returned to the Following through with the thought American lads and the armies of the ranks, his work well and faithfully done, of complete victory—and there was no United Nations have passed from vic- and with the plaudits of his fellow other thought expressed or implied in tory to victory on hard fought fields Legionnaires ringing in his ears. the convention—there was an endorse- on both sides of the world during recent The new National Commander has ment of a plan of "an association of weeks. Speaker after speaker reiterated steered the Legion program of national free and sovereign nations" for the it, led by the President of the United defense through the past five troublous restoration of the rights of peoples and States in his message to the Convention. years and is a believer in making of nations in the post-war world. That President Roosevelt had made tenta- America so powerfully prepared that no declaration of the convention rebuffed tive plans to attend and address the nation ever again will dare attack us. the isolationism of past years, but at Omaha meeting, and only the press of He made plain his enduring belief in the same time maintained a reservation official affairs at the capital kept him the fundamental principles of democracy of complete national sovereignty. away. He said in his message that "in ill his speech of acceptance and declared After reaffirming its faith in our these grave times all of our actions are that "we can only win enduring peace Government's foreign policy and asking determined by the unexpected demands by keeping America strong." for "unconditional surrender of and un- of the day and hour, and personal pref- Out of that twenty-fifth annual Na- relenting justice for" the axis powers, erences must give way to the larger tional Convention—the Legion's Silver the Legion said; "Our own national in- and sterner exigencies of all-out war." Anniversary meeting—came a program terests must ever be our first concern, The President sounded a note of for the Legion and the America of and we believe that our nation can best warning against complacency: "Had I today, and for the future. First and serve and protect its national interests, been privileged to address the conven- foremost was the declaration of support commensurate with its power and re- tion," he said, "I should have empha-

of our Government and its war effort ; a sized the thought that nothing can help *For the wording of this highly important pledge of its utmost endeavor to render resolution see An American Creed, page 52. our enemies more than for us to relax

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Masa-J,u A shot of the first session of the streamlined convention- Delegates in their places, and attentive to the business in hand

our efforts of all kinds in the prosecu- phere in the convention hall, the several Three or four musical organizations tion of the war. In many phases of the committee rooms, in the hotel lobbies parading the streets in the evenings national program there is need for an and wherever the delegates and working awakened reminiscences of the good old increased rather than a lessened effort. members of the convention assembled, days when five hundred or more such

, . . I am therefore glad to learn that strangely contrasting with the gay hilar- gayly uniformed outfits made the con-

The American Legion, from motives of ity of the pre-war years. Certainly it vention city a spot of color and of the highest patriotism and in accord was a different sort of gathering from noise. One lone Forty and Eight box- with its tradition, is taking the lead that which met in Omaha in 1925 when car, belonging to Omaha Voiture, lum- with the 'America Alert' program. . . . the very young American Legion as- bered up the streets a few times. But Legionnaires know at first hand the sembled there in its Seventh National gas rationing curtailed extended activ- face of the enemy. They can and they Convention. But the welcome was not ity. It was alone in a convention city; should carry to all of our fellow citi- less warm in 1943 than it was in 1925 in years gone by hundreds of them helped zens the message that the end of the —a welcome warmly extended at the to jam the streets and impede trafi&c, as war is not in sight until unconditional opening session by Mayor Dan B. But- they will again one day. surrender has become a reality." ler of Omaha; Governor Dwight Gris- Highlight of the opening day was It was a grim, business-like atmos- wold, a Nebraska Past Department Com- the appearance of General George C. mander; Legionnaire Governor Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, whose own

State is separated from the host city by the Missouri River; Robert Storz, Chairman of the Convention Corpora- tion and retiring Commander of Omaha Post of 6,000 members, and John Curtis, the retiring Department Commander of Nebraska. It was an entirely different group, too, even though hundreds of those in at- tendance in 1925 were back for the 1943 meeting. Eighteen years ago the Le- gion was young, and was just finding its place in the American scheme. The Legionnaires were young and full of life. In 1943, streamlined and geared to the demands of an all-out war, the Legion met in its working clothes determined on a course that will hasten the end of the war. There were a few din- Last Day: Admiral King becomes First Day: General Marshall, ners, banquets and social gatherings, but fifteenth recipient of the Legion's these were subordinated to the work- the sixteenth of a noted group Distinguished Service Medal ing program. honored with the Legion D. S. M.

NOVEMBER, 1943 23 The National Vice Commanders-elect. From the left: Edward Mulrooney, Wilmington, Del.; E. A. (Ted) Littlefield, Salt Lake City, Utah; R. L. McMillan. Raleigh, N. C; Martin V. Coffey, Middletown, O.; Hector G. Staples, Rockland, Me.

Marshall, Chief of Staff, United States mander of the American forces in I have a consultation with one of the Army, who received from National Com- Alaska for three years, and Lieutenant commanders whom I had not been able mander Roane Waring the fifteenth General Omer Bradley, who won un- to see though he had been in Wash- award of the Legion "s Distinguished Serv- dying fame as the commander of the ington for three days," explained Gen- ice Medal. As the National Commander American Second Corps in the Tunisian eral Marshall, "so I utilized this trip pinned the medal on the General's blouse campaign and in Sicily. It was his corps out here in the plane for the purpose under the several rows of ribbons de- that went straight up the center of the of conversation. ... I am going to noting honors won in a lifetime of dis- island and arrived first in Messina. ask each of them to say something to tinguished service, he said: "We salute Wholly unscheduled and entirely un- you. They are quite wholly unprepared With this presentation goes the Le- expected, the presence of the two bat- on the platform they are fully prepared you. ; gion's pledge of constant understanding tle commanders aroused the convention on the ground." of your problems and of our help as you to a high pitch of enthusiasm. The Both responded with brief speeches may ask it." General Marshall is a mem- ovation continued for some minutes and and both, in the course of recital of ber of Lafayette Post of Uniontown, the National Commander rapped time their experiences, stressed the fact that

Pennsylvania. and time again for order. the war is not yet won, and that we His address was devoted entirely to "I found that it was imperative that have deadly and dangerous enemies on the problems of America at war and both sides of the globe. "I can't help the status of the armies of the United being impressed with the fact that all Nations in the field. Promising a vig- of our people have not yet fully awak- orous prosecution of the war and a ened to the fact that we are in a war," prompt follow-up of the gains made said Lieutenant General Buckner, while during recent months, the general said: Lieutenant General Bradley, in his "We are similarly engaged in planning turn, told of the booby traps left by regarding other forces, particularly air, retreating German forces which wreaked and it will probably interest you as much such a heavy toll on civilians, as well as it will discourage the Japanese to as on military personnel. learn that our most difficult problem The next day National Commander is to find sufficient bases from which to Waring stopped the Convention to an- operate the vast forces which are to nounce that General Marshall had been be poured into the Pacific for the re- nominated for supreme command of arrangement of the affairs of the Son British and American troops around the of Heaven and his military clique." world—the most extraordinary military Then turning to his escort, he brought assignment in history. the entire Convention up shouting and Other highlight speakers during the cheering when he introduced Lieutenant Rev. Fr. John F. McManus, Wilson, course of the Convention sessions were General Simon Bolivar Buckner, com- Kansas, the new National Chaplain {Continued on page 37)

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NOVEMBER, 1943 State, were extended by Mrs. John Starr, after which Mrs. Harold Diers, National Chairman of the Convention Com- mittee, presented the convention chairmen who had done a splendid job of preparing for the meeting. In keeping with the streamlined convention, this reporter

finds it necessary to present a streamlined account of its activities. He is frank in stating that the paper shortage necessitates a curtailed magazine and resultant space restrictions. Reports of the National Secretary, Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell, the National Treasurer, Mrs. Cecilia Wenz, and the National Historian, Mrs. Grace Gilbert King, were presented to the convention, approved and accepted. Continued progress in Auxiliary activities even under the stress of wartime, and a sound financial condition were assured in the reports. In her accounting of her year of service as head of the Auxiliary, Mrs. Mathebat, National President, stated that the Auxiliary activities, complementing those of the Legion, have aided the Legion in giving the greatest year of service that any organization has ever given any country. In addition to the vast Auxiliary peacetime program, which has been continued, the war activities have been expanded and intensified during the past year when the United Nations were beginning their victorious offensives. She enumerated the aid given particularly in connection with bond sales, with the scrap metal drives and the blood donor campaigns. Units throughout the country have sponsored and conducted can- teens, service clubs and entertainment projects for the men in training and for those traveling about the country. She spoke of the splendid results obtained from the Auxiliary's special appropriation of $50,000 from which financial aid

Mrs. Lawrence Smith, National Pres-

ident , American Legion Auxiliary

the American Legion Auxiliary began the was given for the training of young women as service nurses. WHENsessions its National disabled in the First of Twenty-Third Annual While the men World War have not Convention, in Omaha, Nebraska, on September been forgotten, rehabilitation work for the disabled of the 2ist, the delegates of its 550,000 members were present war has been greatly extended, according to the Presi- faced with the huge task of carrying forward a three-way dent's report. In addition to these efforts, the Auxiliary ap- program. First, continuation of its long-established peacetime proved the usual $25,000 annual contribution to the Legion's program in aid of veterans of the First World War, their rehabilitation program, as well as the $10,000 contribution families, children and orphans; of its community service, re- for child welfare work. habilitation, child welfare and Americanism activities. Second, Continuing her report, Mrs. Mathebat said: "National de- the added, gladly-accepted responsibility of looking after the fense activities of the men and women now in uniform and their families, and of 'Auxiliary have looked giving service to the wounded men now returning in large num- forward to the time bers from far-flung battlefields. Third, the problems which will when the United confront the nation and particularly the veterans after the end States will again be of hostilities. at peace and in danger Under the able, decisive chairmanship of the National Presi- of repeating its old

dent, Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, the vast program ran along mistake of disarming smoothly and with unusual dispatch. too drastically in time Notwithstanding the fact that the convention had again been of peace. Twice the streamlined, as in Kansas City last year, and that many of women of the Auxil- the women participating in it bore the additional burden of iary have seen the having sons in uniform in far-off places, there were still present United States caught the colorful ceremonies which mark each annual meeting. The inadequately prepared presentation of the flags of the Allied Nations was impressive, at the outbreak of as was the stately processional of past and present National war and they are do-

officers, escorted by a battalion of attractive pages, carrying ing all in their power the colors of the California Department and of the National to prevent another Organization, and the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner. lapse into unprepar- At the first session, the pledge of allegiance to the flag was edness after this war led by Mrs. Lowell C. Allen, National Americanism Chairman. is won." Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, retiring Mrs. E. F. Hussman, National Chaplain, pronounced the in- Immediately follow- National President, occupied the vocation. The greetings of the Department of Nebraska, host ing the acceptance of chair

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-.ine A colorful picture was presented on the platform during the opening ceremonies of the American Legion Auxiliary's Twenty-Third Annual National Convention

her report, Mrs. Mathebat presented a ville Mucklestone, Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn, over at any price. . . . Then, too, you resolution stressing the importance of Mrs. James Morris, Mrs. William Cor- women can make the country see that a complete study of post-war America with, Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra and Mrs. America must not slow down in its war and the problems which will follow the Mark W. Murrill, were warmly greeted effort. The making of public opinion to peace. ~So that the Auxiliary might work when presented to the convention by this end is the wartime job of every closely with The American Legion in Mrs. Mathebat. Regretfully, some of member of the Auxiliary." formulating programs and policies that the National Presidents who had given Speaking on a subject close to the will protect and preserve American de- staunch service to the Auxiliary, Mrs. heart of the Auxiliary, that of child

mocracy, the National President of the Franklin Lee Bishop, Mrs. J. W. Ma- welfare, Monsignor Edward J. Flana- Auxiliarj' was authorized to appoint, cauley, Mrs. Boyce Ficklen, Jr., Mrs. S. gan, founder of Boys Town, warned the subject to ratification by the National Alford Blackburn, and Mrs. Malcolm delegates regarding the serious increase Executive Committee, a Committee on Douglas, were unable to be present be- in child delinquency and urged them to

Post-War America, to be comprised of cause of illness or other causes. Mes- help in combating it. "We are great eight members—three to be Past Na- sages were sent to them upon vote of people for building reform schools," he tional Presidents of the Auxiliary, each the delegates. said, "but we can only reform children to serve a five-year term, and the re- In bringing the message of the Legion by the personal sacrifice of a good ex- maining five members to be the current to its Auxiliary, National Commander ample. We will never be able to check National Vice Presidents. The resolu- Roane Waring, said in part: delinquency by legislation, only by tion was adopted unanimously. "We face new times in this Legion kindness and good social work." Greetings were extended and reports and the Auxiliary—the country is look- After preliminary meetings of the submitted for their respective Divisions ing to us for leadership and guidance. numerous convention committees on the by the five National Vice Presidents, "In many efforts of our joint organ- afternoon preceding the opening of the

Mrs. W. J. Danforth, Southern Division; ization you are better fitted to carr>- out convention, the chairmen of these com- Mrs. Hubert A. Goode, Western; Mrs. programs than we are. One of these, as mittees presented their reports to the Russell B. Howell, Eastern; Miss Marie this long, hard war goes on for a long convention during the three sessions. Koch, Northwestern, and Mrs. Lutie time, will be the combating of pleas Each was handled expeditiously by the Long Smith, Central Division. During for a negotiated peace, to get this war National President, presented to the the three convention convention and ap- sessions each of the proved. The chair- National Vice Presi- man of these com- dents, upon invitation mittees were: of the National Pres- Credentials, Mrs. ident, occupied the Mary Demke; Per- chair from time to manent Organization, time. Mrs. George Wal- thall Rules, The Past National ; Mrs. Presidents in attend- John T. Batten; ance, Mrs. Lowell Americanism, Mrs.

Fletcher Hobart, Mrs. Lowell C. Allen : Child Donald Macrae, Mrs. Welfare and Educa- Robert Lincoln Hoyal, tion of Orphans of Mrs. Frederick C. Veterans, Mrs. Lee Williams, Mrs. Wil- W. Hutton; Com-

liam H. Biester, Jr., The new National Vice Presidents: Mrs. William N. Cann, Delaware; munity Service, Mrs. Mrs. Albin Charles Mrs. Hurlburt Anderson, Colorado; Mrs. Walter G. Craven, North Allison Bills; Junior Carlson, Mrs. Mel- Carolina; Mrs. Rae Ashton, Utah; Mrs. Norton H. Pearl, Michigan {Cont'd on page 50)

NOVEMBER. 1943 27 $eadogs in the Making By C. R. SUMNER

They're known as "Jimmy Tis-

dale's boys," up in the mountain country of North Carolina, and they're making a record of which their State may well be proud

mand asked for volunteers to carry stretchers up to battalion headquarters. Jimmy Tisdale volunteered along with several others and as darkness fell started his trip, carrying a stretcher on his shoulder. The Germans, probably sensing that something was up, suddenly started shelling the area the two parties carrying stretchers had to cross. Frequently members of the party had to "hit the Illustrated by V. E. PYLES dirt" to avoid shell fragments. Then, just before the party reached War, and has produced Major Ed Rec- battalion headquarters, there came a tor of the Flying Tigers as well as a lull in the shelling. Walking in single lot more first-class fighting men in the file, the members of the party covered present war. ground rapidly. When the question of a pre-service The first shell that came over when training program in the high schools the lull was broken, got Jimmy Tisdale was suggested a year and a half ago in the left leg. His companions carried in a meeting of the Kiffin Rockwell him out on the same stretcher he had Post, Asheville, North Carolina, the on his shoulder when he was hit. Sev- obstacles in the way of such a plan eral days later that left leg was ampu- were seemingly insurmountable. State tated at a casualty clearing station school officials shook their heads a little operated by an Australian unit, and sadly when approached, and gave their Jimmy Tisdale's fighting days were answer: over. That was why he felt that he "Sorry, but we have no trained per- had some unfinished business with the sonnel for such work. All our men Germans. That is why every high school teachers who might be suitable are boy in this mountain area knows Jimmy being drafted." Tisdale. From here on out the story of how Jimmy Tisdale walks with a cane The fighting days of Jimmy Tisdale, this program was put into operation and doesn't do a particularly good job in spite of all obstacles is patriotic of walking either, but the way he gets soldier and emergency first aid man, drama of the first order. It revolves around is amazing. That is why he was were over around the personality of one man, selected as vice-chairman of the Amer- James W. Tisdale, and a piece of un- icanism Committee for the North Caro- charge that young men en- finished business that started back in lina Department, and given the respon-

THEtering the Army and Navy from August, 1 91 8. sible job of making the pre-service the high schools are "soft and On that date Jimmy Tisdale was training program work. Tabby" doesn't make the people serving as a private with the Royal His first trip was to Raleigh, to Super- of the Western North CaroHna mountain Montreal Regiment of the Canadian intendent Clyde Erwin, of the State's country mad—it makes them laugh. Expeditionary Force in France. The school system. Mr. Erwin was sympa- The reason for the laugh when some- regiment was stationed on the Somme thetic, but said the job was impossible body suggests the boys are soft can front in the vicinity of Amiens. On the under conditions then existing. There be found on the grounds of any one evening of August 6th, just as his were no funds for such work. There of half a hundred high schools where battalion was preparing to move into were no trained instructors. There was the pre-service training program installed the front lines for the drive that was no equipment. by The American Legion is in operation. being carefully prepared, Jimmy, who Mr. Erwin, of course, didn't know For more than a year this program was then 19 years old, heard his name Jimmy Tisdale and his determination. has been in operation and the boys it called out. He was told that he had Jimmy made a trip to Washington for turns out are lean, hard, and quick been selected for officer training and a conference with officials of the U. S. as mountain wildcats that roam their would leave for England. He saw his Department of Education. They too native hills. This is the section, remem- battalion march off to take up their were sympathetic. They liked the idea,

ber, that produced the boys of the position. but it would have to wait. Thirtieth Division in the First World The next evening the officer in com- (Continued on page 40)

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine I Fought Hie Japs By CALVIN LEON GRAHAM

OS fold fo Mack Brandewiede

He's got four years to go before he can get back into Uncle Sam's Navy, but Cal went through plenty In his seven months at sea

BATTLE stations! Nervously I stood at my post as second-loader of a .40 mm. ack-ack and scanned the dark clouds hovering over the Pacific. Thirty- two hours later, I had my first glimpse of the enemy, as suddenly Jap fighter planes, dive-bombers, and torpedo planes swooped down at our task force from all directions. I saw a torpedo plane headed straight for our battlewagon. Seemingly the pilot released his deadly cargo directly at me. Was I scared? Plenty! But the Jap had misjudged. The torpedo shot over our heads and dropped harmlessly into the sea. We let him have it. One of his wings The Jap showed us his tail in an came off and the plane effort to escape. We let him have it. plunged into the ocean One of his wings came off and his plane plunged into the ocean. After that, I began trying to crash-dive on our deck. never knew what happened to him as ever been in my life. I was a Navy man I my attention was forced to the other That was when we really opened up with A boot camp mate was the only one Japs attacking us. all we had. Not even one enemy plane to question whether I was old enough Our bombers had done such damage managed to get through the curtain of for service. I flared up and socked him. to some of the enemy carriers that their death we raised against them. He got in a stiff punch that busted planes had no place to land and they When finally the Japs got enough and my lips. I came back with a couple of quit, we saw that the Battle of Santa solid ones before they separated us. Cruz had cost us the destroyer Porter A transport trip to P^arl Harbor and that the carrier Hornet was listing was followed by a month of scraping badly. As we helped rescue the latter's paint off a battleship in dry-dock before crew, I decided that grade school back I was ordered to sea aboard the South in Houston, Texas, was pretty tame com- Dakota. pared with the Navy. My second major battle was off Savo Almost since I could remember, I'd Island in the Solomons. We knew that wanted to be a sailor. Perhaps it runs the Japs had us greatly outnumbered in the family. All three of my brothers and that they were trying desperately are in the Nav>'. to relieve their men at Guadalcanal, but Anyway, after Pearl Harbor, I de- we were determined to stop them. voted a lot of effort to obtaining my Six hours after we went to battle mother's consent. Finally, in August stations, the fight began. It was a night 1942, she signed the papers, although action and turned out to be a slugging much against her will, as naturally she match between surface forces. believed I should remain in school. Unlike my first taste of battle, I I was only 12, but I weighed 122 wasn't scared during this one, even after and stood 5-2. When I went through I was slightly wounded. That happened the recruiting office routine, apparently as I was carrying a message to an officer. nobody doubted that I was old enough I heard someone yell, "Down!" and I to be a Navy man and as I left for the hit the deck behind some heavy shells. Calvin Graham West Coas* I was the happiest I've (Continued on page 48)

NOVEMBER. ig4j 29 — — NO MORE PARALYSIS BY ANALYSIS

(Continued from page g) time came about because of a huge ex- kind of jobs they now have in the war; but we are going to win the peace pansion in the facilities that made pos- services. We could find out what they only if we are prepared for success. sible the widespread use of motor trans- have been taught, so that we in business By "we," I mean everyone in this portation. You will remember the tre- can be more intelligently selective in our country: industry, labor, agriculture mendous public planning—needled and absorption of this additional personnel. all of us. Government can only help. led by automobile clubs, chambers of After the previous war, you will re- Industry, I believe, must lead in this commerce, and city, county, and state member there was much conversation task of winning the peace; but all of governments—which resulted in the and complaint about the restlessness of us—we who are America—have got to building of huge highway programs. the men, both those who had been in cooperate in doing the job. uniform and those who had been in To win the peace, we must do more NOWHERE in America today is civilian war work. The men of today than plan. Planning, to me, calls up a there a national, let alone a state are coming back in larger numbers and vision of a lot of brass hats sitting plan for expansion in the facilities avail- from an even more dynamic and dra- around a mahogany table, thinking. able for aircraft. California, for instance, matic environment. If we expect them Reflection of this sort, without commit- probably has the greatest stake in the air- to join in the battle for a successful ment, is paralysis by analysis. Winning craft industry of any State in the peace with anything like enthusiasm, we the peace, like winning the war, calls Union. Only a few weeks ago I was told have got to prepare now for something for positive action. The sort of positive in California that the State is going the armed forces call "indoctrination." action I have in mind is the sort that to appropriate seventy million dollars to The winning of the peace and the im- so far has characterized the work of be spent after the war on highways. I provement of the American standard of the National Clearing House Committee was told also that they are considering living are every bit as vital and dramatic

—described by Lawrence J. Fenlon in appropriating ten million dollars now to as the winning of the final victory on the May American Legion Magazine prepare the details, so that the big plan the field of battle. But we must organize that is setting up nearly a score of can be put into operation the day peace to sell this vision to the rank and file organizations to make certain that the comes. When I asked if anything was in industry.. World War Two veteran gets a job. being done about facilities for increased Winning the peace cannot be left to The future of the aircraft industry, use of air transportation and flying, I chambers of commerce or associations to take a specific example, is not going was told no, nothing. Even to a layman, of manufacturers. Each of us must work, to depend on its present product, good it is apparent that without a tremendous contribute, and sell. We must make up as it is. It is not going to depend on increase in the size and number of air- our minds to use the Government to the plans for the future—now on the ports for private flying, for transporta- lead our programs, but we must do the drawing boards—although these plans tion, for express, for freight, and for planning, and preparing, and the selling (and I have seen them) are wonderful. mail, there can be no appreciable in- of these plans to the public. Let's pre- It is not going to depend on the air crease in the post-war demand for pare a program for America that is transport companies which, even if they planes. realistic, practical, and down-to-earth. were to double their pre-war mileage, Airports, of course, are but a part Those of us in business, in industry, in could not hope to absorb a fraction of of the pre-post-war preparation that agriculture are the second-line fighters the industry's productive capacity. The should include integration with highway today in a world at war. We will be the future of the aircraft industry, as far systems, railroad systems, high-speed front-line fighters in the world of to- as it is concerned with the manufacture communication with down-town areas, morrow, a world at peace. And we will of aircraft, is going to depend on one and everything else calculated to make fail in our obligation to the men who are thing: the existence or the non-existence it easy for America's millions to use sacrificing their lives to build the world of facilities that will make possible the this new method of transportation. of tomorrow for America, if we do not wider, more economical, and more effi- Aviation makes a spectacular example get ready now to operate our business cient use of all sorts of aircraft trans- with which to point a moral. But your and our whole economic and social life portation. business and my business are probably —in such a way as to be sure that we How are we going to get those facili- just as lax. When peace comes, we will can exploit the success they haVe won ties? There is a parallel in the auto- have the responsibility of reintroducing on the field of battle. motive industry which helped to lead into business and industry the millions We can win if we work with our the country back into a period of pros- of men now in uniform. Why don't you heads. We can win if we work together. perity after the previous war. Vastly and I begin right now to study these We can win if we have the courage to increased production of cars at that men? At least, we could find out the act now.

SWEATING THEM IN

(Continued from page ii) flak, the entire crew of ten escaped that wars-don't-pay to the Nazi Huns those fellows to hit us," he explained. unscathed. down below, and started back. Pilot Mil- "Well, this time I guess we zagged when ton D. Wallace of Houston, Texas, had we should have zigged." BY THIS time the plane that had the ship well in hand. It was a miraculous escape. A sizable dropped the red flare had come to This flak is insidious stuff, though. chunk from an aerial bomb had torn a rest. The field ambulance chugged along- They can shoot it pretty high now. It hole nearly a yard square in the left side and the flight surgeons, their little slips in as unobtrusively as a cockroach breast, so to speak, of Ashley's plane. black bags of bandages and needles —another unpleasant product of Ger- It shattered the compass and raised some gripped in tight fingers, trotted aboard. many—and is as hard to get rid of. further mischief, incidentally tearing off It was the navigator, Joseph A. Fried; Machine-gun bullets too don't need to the top-gunner's pants neatly but harm- home town, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. find the front door; they carve their ing not a soul. Despite this thunderbolt The bomber Fortress Judy had reached way through any part of the ship. And as well as dozens of smaller holes which its target pleasantly enough, had toggled a jagged chunk of shrapnel hit Joe Fried, indicated hits from enemy bullet? or its bombs loose to bring the message right in the back of the left kidney, tore

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a two-inch hole in the muscles and have the satisfaction, though, of know- But right now they are flyers and flesh, and went on toward his belly. ing that yesterday's mission brought fighters.

Bombardier William J. Castner of down 20 F-W's and attained its objec- Take First Lieutenant Edward H. Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, saw Joe tive. Probably the missions from now Millson of Seattle, Washington, who has Fried sway in his seat, pull himself erect, on will be increasingly difficult, and yet attained the proud distinction of being then sway again. There were fighter we can begin to see where the enemy one of our very best lead bombardiers. planes all around; but Castner left his is weakening. The front plane in the V-formation does gun and laid Fried out flat on his face, As much as possible—we make it safe the figuring and gives the signal for cut away the torn clothing with his for a man to bail out "hit the silk" bombing the target. Then the lead bom- knife, bandaged the wound as best he when he must abandon the plane. For bardier toggles his switch, and that not could, and administered a shot of mor- parachuting into the Channel each man only drops the bombs in his own plane phine to lessen the pain. wears a Mae West—a rubberized vest but signals to the rest of the formation to which inflates either through a blow-tube drop theirs too. If his bombs hit, so do JUST then seven enemy planes at- or capsules of compressed CO^,. Every theirs; if his bombs miss, all the bombs tacked at one time from 8 o'clock, man carries also emergency rations, probably miss. It is a big responsibility. meaning a point back of the left wing. packed in transparent and watertight Lives may be lost to accomplish this day's

That was when Castner left the injured wrappers, of food, smokes, and matches. mission, and our only repayment is the man and hopped back to his gun. He We know that some of the flyers who knowledge that we have weakened our brought down an enemy plane, either didn't come back are safe in officers' enemy's war strength by this much. an ME-iog or an F-W; he couldn't be prison camps in France or Germany ; the These bombardiers have to kfww, or the sure. Another enemy plane had a wing Red Cross tells us that. whole day's expense would be wasted. shot off and plummeted to earth. Some of our flyers are replacements Sometimes a visitor to our base asks Plucky Joe Fried tried to continue who have come to us within a couple pleasantly, "Have you any heroes?" writing his navigator's log even though of They want to in for the months. be Our answer is, "Every man here is a a finish right badly injured. Giving up, he wrote fight, when we take the war hero." And that is the truth. not«: "More morphine," and they gave back to Berlin, where it started. One of our newest and bravest heroes, Pilot turned flyers in him a second shot. Wallace We house these comfortably however, is a young man named Second the controls over to Co-Pilot W. H. tiny stucco buildings erected by the Lieutenant Charles R. Bigler, from Trinidad, Colorado, a new- into Thompson of Royal Air Force but brought more Rochester, Indiana. Bigler is a co-pilot. comer with only one hour's formation comfortable shape by the addition of Odd thing, that, because his ability en- brilliantly, flying, who came through and American running water. We feed them titled him to be made a first pilot, but did what he could to help the injured stout U. S. army rations, using the huge he refused the honor. There were two man. R.A.F. coffee mugs and the immense reasons. First, he's a little fellow, about That same night the doctors reported spoons common to England. five feet, two and lacking (as he the bullet had missed the spine but Few American pilots coming to UK thought) in self-confidence. Second, he nicked Joe Fried's liver, but that barring —army slang for the United Kingdom was a born hero-worshiper. And his par- pneumonia or infection they'd have him think it a tough job to learn the coun- ticular hero was a man named First out of bed in a few weeks. try. British airports are thoroughly Lieutenant Willis R. Carlisle from Hous- We Don't bomb Germany or the camouflaged; British maps are different ton, Texas. Carlisle was pilot of Bigler's occupied countries every day. We wait and difficult. Our men usually find their plane. He was a husky 180-pounder;

for clear weather. This precision bomb- own landmarks : clumps of trees, patterns enough to make two of Bigler, almost. ing of ours aims to smash submarine of lakes, and so on. basins, aircraft factories, arsenals and For that matter, you need to be a BIGLER gets the promotion he strategic mihtary points. We don't Columbus to find your way around a dreaded, after all. He probably gets bomb churches, movie houses and peo- camp such as ours, stretched as it is a DSC for bravery too. It happened this ple's homes. along country roads for miles. Living way. On the morning before a mission the quarters are scattered and hidden, to Carlisle's plane had not yet reached escape vicious pilots and crews are "briefed"—given a a enemy bomb. The its target—an important munitions plant planes are in open, on widely blackboard talk to acquaint them with stored the in Cassel, Germany—when a chance .30 their target for the day, the altitude separated cement squares we call dis- calibre bullet from an enemy plane above sea-level, the time of expected persion points. caught him fair. He just had time to arrival over the objective, and what Higher officers rate occasional use of turn to his co-pilot and say, "Well, type of bombs they are to employ^ a jeep, but most of the pilots feel little Big, it's your turn now. Take demolition bombs to pave the way, in- fortunate to rate a GI bicycle. Happily, over. Make it a good bomb-run." Then cendiaries to follow up. we are now over the series of injuries he crumpled. His full weight fell across Our group commander. Colonel M. A. which came from learning to ride an the controls, tipping the stick forward Preston, a 30-year-old West Pointer and English bicycle, with two hand-brakes and threatening to throw the plane off a brilliant flyer, says the general purpose and no coaster-brake, traveling on the its target. of these missions is to destroy Germany's left side of these narrow lanes they call There was no chance to call for help submarine and aircraft strength. That roads. from the navigator and bombardier. To will save a lot of American lives. We tear them from their posts just then have to look at the matter in a broad IT WOULD be comforting in a report- would have nullified the effectiveness of light. back-home like this to praise the war- the whole mission. Bigler braced his feet, There are many bombardment groups winning efforts of all the men in our held back the controls with his right like ours. Added together they make up bomber command who have shown them- hand and tried to pull Carlisle's body the U. S. Eighth Bomber Command. selves heroes. But they number hun- loose with his left. They dropped their Often missions make use of several dreds. bombs, as scheduled. Then Staff Sergeant hundred planes. Some of them don't look like heroes. Albert T. Tyler of Burbank, California, Some missions send us to bed with a They look like college boys. Or young the top-gunner, rushed forward and sick feeling. The day that seven out of men just embarking on a business career. helped. Bigler needed help, because his eighteen of our planes failed to come Or young fellows just taking on a wife oxygen supply had been cut, and a couple back, for instance. And just yesterday and starting a home of their own. They of times he nearly passed out. (They two of our planes didn't return. We are all of these things too, of course. used up the hand oxygen bottles in a

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hurry and finally tore loose a wall-tank of the precious gas from back in the waist and brought this forward.) Bigler called for help now that the mission had been accomphshed, but the intercommunicating phone system had gone dead. At high altitudes and with enemy gun-fire demanding attention the average man has enough to do to look after his own position in the bombing- plane; every man has a job, and you don't wander around the ship needlessly. Bigler called three times for help before anybody heard him. Even then they had a problem on their hands. While the navigator, Sec- ond Lieutenant John W. Bradley of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, took over all three nose-guns—and brought down a Nazi plane single-handed—the bombardier climbed back into the pilots' cabin to help. He was First Lieutenant Joseph G. Glaser of Williamston, Michi- gan. Bundled up in thick flying clothes and parachute he was hampered in his movements; and the pilots' cabin with its duplicate controls is of course a This is a field worth fighting for! compact and crowded space. And the dead pilot had been a big man. Glaser found that Carlisle's right foot had You this field or one just 1. Since Pearl Harbor, Remington know — wedged in beside the rudder pedals. In like it. You have tramped its yel- has produced three times as much straining and pulling to lift the dead low stubble when the air was crisp military small arms ammunition as man's foot and leg it somehow happened and the leaves were red. You have was produced by the entire country that Glaser inside his oxygen mask got his head jammed between the controls seen cottontails scuttle through a during all the four years of World and the dash panel, with the stick thicket, the thrilling flight of a War I. pushed forward. Somehow about this pheasant, the bursting of a covey time the button got pulled out that 2. Every working day. Remington of quail. brings the automatic pilot into play, enough military produces more than and that accelerated the descent of the adventure in Boys who found rifles to equip an entire infantry regi- plane. They dropped from 16,000 feet to this field have grown up and gone ment at full fighting strength. 8,500 feet in four and one-half minutes, away—many of them to European but by that time Glaser had pried the fronts, to the South Pacific, to Like every American, we look ahead dead pilot free and Bigler was able to Alaska. But when they think of to the time when a man and his level off. Then calmly and decisively little Big- home, this field is one of the things gun will again be headed for peace- ler put hi£ plane in another U. S. forma- in the woods and fields. they like to remember—a crisp, ful days tion and flew back with that escort to crackling autvunn day, the open When those days come, we'U again safe ground. The plane had accomplished season, that great-to-be-aHve feel- be serving ovu: sportsmen friends its mission and nine men returned safe. Glaser has been cited for the Silver ing when a man and his dog walk with Remington rifles and shot- Star. Staff Sergeant Tyler has been cited out on the land. gims, Nitro Express shells, Klean- for the Distinguished Flying Cross. But bore Hi-Speed .22's, Core-Lokt big For more than a century. Rem- Bigler will probably get the Distin- game bullets. Remington Arms guished Service Cross. For it was Bigler ington, as a maker of sporting arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. who piloted that 56,000-pound bombing and ammvmition, has been a part plane and brought it back to safety. The "Nitro Express," "Kleanbore," and "Hi-Speed" of this American scene. But today, man who didn't think he had hero stuff are Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.; "Core-Lokt" is a trade like the boys who have gone from mark of Remington Arms Company, Inc. in him turned out to be the hero of the the field, we have another job to do. month. And he has just turned 19. A fuU report of Remington's war Remington, YOU men, veterans of the First World War, you and your wives sit pufoduction story cannot, of course, and wonder and worry. How is the war be given now. But these facts may treating your sons, you ask. Will they interest you . . come back safely? The mails seem so slow, even with V-letters—and letters id under any conditions are unsatisfactory; under war conditions letters are more than ever impersonal and brief. There are things your sons don't dare tell of would welcome Remington Model 31 pump action repeating you. Some them shotgun and Nitro Express shot shells. a chance to cry their hearts out on their mother's knee; but men don't cry. In-

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NOVEMBER, 1943 33 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The Amejugjn Legion Magazine st€ad they affect a huge unconcern. When a plane doesn't come back the bunk-mates of the missing crew divide up the clothing, just as they themselves have "willed" their flying clothes to men who have been friendly, if and when they don't return. They don't tell you H E N that. You would like to know what sights they see around jolly old England, but ALL IS the censorship rules do not even permit them to name the towns and cities near which our air bases are located. That makes letter-writing tough. Much of SAID what these men would love to pour out to you who remain at home stays sealed in their hearts. AND DONE The one greatest wish of most of these brave young sons of yours is that you, their fathers, will be proud of them. You worry, back there safe at home. Some of us are closer to the war than you veterans back home, and we worry too. We often wish there were more that we older men, who have come back from the last war to help finish this new

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{Contimied from page 24) Ernest IsherwoouL Chairman of the mittee, chairmaned by Ed. L. Blake of Eric A. Johnston, President of the World War 11 Liaison Committee. Ronceverte, West Virginia, had been in Chamber of Commerce of the United Private Woodard, wounded in action session for three days and had worked States; Prentice Cooper, Governor of in New Guinea, told a graphic story through the nearly seven hundred reso- Tennessee, a Past Department Com- of the jungle fighting there. His home lutions adopted by Department Con- mander of the Legion; Past National is in Hewitt, Minnesota. ventions and sent up to the National

Commander Paul V. McNutt, Federal Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander- Convention for final action. Each one Security Commissioner and War Man- in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet and Chief of these resolutions had to be classi- power Commissioner; General Frank of Naval Operations, was scheduled to fied and referred to that one of the T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans appear at the convention at its conclud- eighteen other Convention Committees Affairs, whose appearance at Omaha ing session. The hall filled early await- which had the subject matter in charge. marked the twenty-first annual national ing his arrival, for he, like General Only two resolutions were sent to the meeting of the Legion he has addressed Marshall on the first day, was to re- Committee on Publications, but two in that capacity; Mrs. Edith B. Joyncs, ceive the Legion's Distinguished Serv- hundred and thirty were sent to the President of the National Education ice Medal, and his appearance was the Rehabilitation Committee. The others Association; Chester L Barnard, Presi- signal for thunderous ovation. Evi- fell in between the high and low cited, dent of the United Service Organization; dently, it was remarked, the Legion ap- and nearly every one of the conven- William Green, President of the Ameri- proves of Admiral King, himself a Le- tion committee groups was hard put can Federation of Labor, and Roy E. gionnaire—a life member of Lorain to complete its work in time for a re- Johnson of the American Red Cross. (Ohio) Post. port to the Convention as a whole. But Captain Lawrence A. Abercrombie, "This Distinguished Service Medal, so well was it done, and so well were U. S. Navy, veteran of eleven major established in 1921, has been awarded the divergent views equalized that each engagements in the war in the Pacific but fifteen times, including its presen- report was adopted with little or no since Pearl Harbor, winner of the Navy tation at this Convention to General debate on the floor. Cross and two gold stars in lieu of Marshall." said National Commander The reports submitted by the sev- two additional awards, told the Legion- Waring. "Today, sir, you join the hon- eral committees, after adoption by the naires of his battle experiences; of sink- ored company endeared to the heart of convention as a whole, constitute the ing Japanese submarines; of naval bat- ever>' Legionnaire for your work. We Legion program for the coming year tles, and of fights with the Nip air pledge to you our support in the tasks which National Commander Atherton forces. "In all the fifteen months I was ahead. We are honored to present to will carry through to high purpose and in command of destroyers in the Pa- you this medal." lasting national benefit. Highlights of cific, when we steamed two hundred Asserting that attacks recently car- that program are thousand miles and took part in eleven ried out with great damage to the Jap- Americanism: Protest against misuse major engagements, we did not lose a anese positions on the Marcus and of the franking privilege; a demand for ship or a man." Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific only rigid discipline in camps for conscien- Then Captain Abercrombie exploded foreshadow coming events, Admiral King tious objectors; condemnation of im- when he referred to the complacency emphasized throughout his address porting aliens for detention in reloca- and slacking of effort in some quar- the importance of the Navy's swiftly- tion centers; request for immediate citi- ters. "Who in the jumping blue blazes growing air arm, now striking hard at zenship to men serving in present war, said this war would be over by Christ- enemy bases. Shattering blows against and to Indians in armed services and mas? I just want to blast some of the enemy "with all weapons that can others who can pass the required liter- this false optimism this American pub- be brought to bear, synchronized and acy tests; called for continuance on ac- lic has and some of the damned com- coordinated with overwhelming assault," tive duty rank and pay while present placency of their thinking that this constitutes the aim of the Navy, the veterans complete their education; full thing is in the bag. We are only fight- Admiral said. year of U. S. history to be required ing on the fringe of the war. We really Accompanying Admiral King from in junior and senior high schools; asked haven't come to grips with this guy Washington were Rear Admiral Ran- that teaching of English be intensified yet." dall Jacobs, Chief of Naval Personnel, in Puerto Rico; approved creation of a Other combat men who appeared be- and Commander C. C. Kirkpatrick, both national Americanism endowment fund, fore the Convention were Corporal Al- of whom were introduced to the Con- and asked that all immigration be fred L. Martin, First Armored Divi- vention. barred after the cessation of hostilities sion, whose home is at Hayes, Kansas, Last scheduled speaker of the ses- until unemployment drops to less than winner of the Silver Star and Purple sions was Burton Bernard of Granite one million. Return of the Japanese Heart in action in the African cam- City, Illinois, sixteen-year-old winner of relocation centers to military control paign. Corporal Martin, interviewed by the Legion's 1943 National Oratorical was demanded. Resolutions were also Warren Atherton, Legion National De- Contest and a $4,000 scholarship good adopted asking a continuance of the fense Chairman, told modestly of his in any college of his choice. He is now Dies Congressional Committee on Un- part in the war and of the landing at in his first year in Washington Uni- American activities, and commending Oran last November. It was during versity, St. Louis, Missouri. That lad the Federal Bureau of Investigation. that landing that his ship was sunk. was in a tough spot, following imme- The Child Welfare Committee asked He made his way safely to shore, but diately after the Commander-in-Chief for nation-wide maternal and child care seeing a wounded comrade struggling of the U. S. Fleet, but he handled him- for dependents of World War II serv- in the water plunged in and rescued self like a veteran platformist and he ice men; an intensified program of as- him. For that act he was awarded the brought the listeners out to the edge sistance to children of veterans; the Silver Star. of their chairs with his prize-winning continuance of the child welfare visual Private First Class Norvel N. Wood- oration, "Legislative Transfusion." education program, and provisions for ard, 32d Division (an outfit that gave Though the formal sessions of the area child welfare schools of instruction. a good account of itself in the First Convention did not open until Tues- In its report, the Legislative Com-

World War and is adding new laurels day morning, September 21, a work- mittee reaffirmed the Legion's belief in to its time-faded battle flags in the ing group had been busy for several principle of Universal Service in time

South Pacific), was interviewed by J. days. The Resolutions Assignment Com- of war, and called for speedy enact-

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ment of a National Service Act similar Of more closely related organization affirmed its confidence in and full sup- to the Wadsworth-Austin bill now pend- interest are the resolutions restricting port of the Government and confidence ing in the Congress. the wearing of red caps to national of- in the military solidarity of the Al- The Employment Committee called ficers during their tenure of office; lies. The report also condemned any for a plan of orderly demobilization, with provision for holding the annual con- word or acts which tend to weaken our a system of furlough with pay and al- ference of Department Commanders military bonds with our Allies. lowances, at the end of the war; for and Adjutants; greater use of official The committee reaffirmed the 1942 the exemption of service family allow- American Legion ceremonies; simplifica- resolution: "We urge Federal regula- ances in figuring income for social se- tion of the membership record system; tion of all war supply agencies in time curity benefits, and for the preferen- calling for increase in the field service of war. We urge that lockouts, strikes, tial placement of veterans in both pri- of the National Rehabilitation Com- deliberate delays, profiteering, unjusti- vate and Government employment. mittee; asking that veteran organiza- fiable absenteeism, and other forms of The report formulated by the Internal tions be given first opportunity to pur- selfish interference with war production Organization Committee is one that is chase vacated Government property for be deemed treason and dealt with ac- of the utmost importance to the Le- use as clubhouses; providing that the cordingly." gion itself. Breaking a precedent of many Legion's Gold Star citations carry The committee also reaffirmed the years, on the recommendation of the space for signatures of Post officers, and long-standing Legion demand for mili- Committee and unanimous consent of demanding that no publicity be given tary training of all young men before the Convention, the sum of $250,000 was on matters to come before the Na- reaching the age of twenty-two years, appropriated to the World War II tional Executive Committee. and asked that the voice of the veteran Liaison Committee to be used in its Of the 230 resolutions sent to the be heard in the post-war readjustment work in serving and contacting the men Convention Rehabilitation Committee of this nation's internal and external now in service in all theaters of ac- for consideration, a broad program was affairs. tion; to acquaint the men with the pur- formulated relating to claims, rating, in- Climaxing the three-day conclave was poses of the Legion, and to further an surance and hospitalization affecting vet- the election of officers to lead the Le- intensified membership campaign. erans of both World Wars and men gion during the next year. National

Of first importance, also, is the reso- and women who are still serving in the Commander Waring, showing little of lution establishing a National Labor ranks. A complete report of the work the strain of guiding the strenuous Relations Committee to be composed of this committee was published in meeting, declared the election of officers of seven members, three of whom are The National Legionnaire for October, in order and National Adjutant Don to be drawn from the ranks of organ- and will not be repeated here because Glascoff began to call the roll. Alabama ized labor, three from industry and the of the technical nature of the work yielded to Pennsylvania, and J. Ernest chairman, a neutral member, to be which would require more space than Isherwood came forward to the micro- chosen by the six appointed by the Na- is available. phone to nominate Warren H. Atherton tional Commander. The National Defense Committee re- of California.

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He was unopposed as a candidate, Champaign, Illinois. Reports to the and quickly from the floor came a mo- convention included the information FALSE TEETH tion to make the election unanimous. that the fun and honor society of the Elected as National Vice Commanders Legion has sent 650,000 decks of play- to serve with National Commander ing cards to American fighting men Asherton were R. L. McMillan of overseas, has as usual enrolled thou- Raleigh, North Carolina; E. A. (Ted) sands of men in the Legion and assisted Littlefield of Salt Lake City, Utah; in child welfare and other activities. Hector G. Staples of Rockland, Maine; As Sous Chefs de Chemin de Fer the Edward Mulrooney of Wilmington, Del- convention named Sherman Davis, Des aware, and Martin V. Coffey of Mid- Moines, Iowa; Charles M. Mitchell, dleton, Ohio. Monroe, La.; Robert Kelsey, Spartan- Rev. Fr. John F. McManus of Wil- burg, S. C; Andrew W. Kerr, Clifton, son, Kansas, was not opposed for Na- N. J.; Lisle 0. Wagner, New York tional Chaplain, City; Harry W. Silson, St. Paul, Minn. Then in the closing ceremony, Past Other officers chosen were: Commis- National Commander Louis Johnson saire Intendant National, N. Carl Niel- presented the old stand of colors to re- son. Gig Harbor, Washington; Cor- WHY RISK THESE TWO tiring National Commander Waring. "It respondent National, Charles W. Ardery, is privilege niiiprpQ Denture Breath a sacred to hand to you Arlington, Va. ; Avocat National, Lynn now as you go back to your family these A. Robinson, Seattle, Wash.; Historian and Loose Plates UAIlbLllO colors that will represent a year of the National, Phil E. Clements, Indian- by brushing with Makeshift Cleaners ? hardest work you have ever put in," apolis, Ind.; Aumonier National, Rev. he said. "They come back to you, Roane, Brushing your plates with makeshift clean- F. C. Murgotten, Reno, Nevada; Dra- ers, such as tooth pastes, tooth powders as they came to you, untarnished, un- peau National, John Haller, Altoona, and soap, may scratch the denture material sullied, and having rendered high ser- Pa. ; Gardes de la Porte Nationaux, Sid which is 60 times softer than natural teeth. vice to the nation in time of war." M. Ferree, Louisville, Ky., and Gard- These scratches cause odorous film, food par- As the colors of the retiring Legion ner B. Parsons, Boise, Direc- ticles and stains to collect faster, cling tighter Idaho; — resulting in Denture Breath. Besides, chief took their places to the right and teur of Voiture Activities, Brook D. such brushing may wear down the delicate left of the rostrum, the new colors Coombs, Anderson, Indiana. fitting ridges and thus loosen your plate. were advanced and Past National Com- Directeur of Child Welfare, Milt D. mander Stephen F. Chadwick made the Campbell, Indianapolis and Cincinnati,

formal presentation to the new leader. O. ; Directeur of Americanism, Adrian

A few minutes later the gavel fell and Boyd, Clarksdale, Miss. ; Executive Com- another Legion National Convention mittee, Fred B. Comingore, Lafayette, passed into history. Ind.; Thomas Hickey, Quincy, Illinois; and William H. Walker, York, Penn. THE Forty and Eight, holding its Finance Committee, S. S. Eccles, Og- 24th annual convention in connec- den, Utah; R. F. Leehius, Elyria, Ohio. tion with the meeting of its parent body, Trophies and Awards Committee, John elected Oscar W. Lamp of Los Angeles, P. Conmy, Chicago, Illinois; E. Snapper California, as its Chemin de Fer for Ingram, Los Angeles, Cal. James N. ; No brushing, no danger when you soak 1944, succeeding Elbert H. Burns of Phillips, Arlington, Va. your plates in Polident. No worry about scratching or wearing down the plate. Yet, the daily Polident bath keeps your plates sparkling clean and odor-free. Polident is approved by many leading dentists and the SEA DOGS IN THE MAKING leading makers of modern denture materials. (Continued from page 28) a man to the pre-flight school for a "It can't wait," Jimmy protested. month to observe the training, to par- "Those boys need this training now." ticipate in it, and to learn the reasons "But you have no funds, you have no behind it. trained instructors," the official pro- Jimmy returned to Asheville. There tested. "This work requires special were no funds to finance the expenses knowledge." of the man, so he appealed to the mem- "Where can I find this special knowl- bers of Kiffin Rockwell Post. The agree- edge?" Jimmy pleaded. "I'll train my ment to supply the money for the train- own instructors." ing of one man was quick and unani- The official was thoughtful. He said: mous. "Down at the University of North Caro- Frank Hill, principal of the county's lina at Chapel Hill the Navy has set up largest high school, was selected. He "NOW WE GO OUT. . . HAVE FUN TOGETHER" a pre-flight school. Those fellows know went to Chapel Hill and started work. Millions call Polident a blessing. No fear of what is needed. Maybe they can help With that much accomplished, Jimmy Denture Breath— no risk of wearing down faced the task of selling the idea to the and loosening the plate due to brushing. you." Polident used daily helps maintain the origi- Jimmy went to Chapel Hill. There people of his community and the moun- nal, natural appearance of your dental plate Lt. Commander Harvey Harmon and tain section. He envisioned wide partici- for less than Ijf a day. Today— get Polident other naval officials listened in amaze- pation in his program and he wanted to at any drug, department or variety store. ment to Jimmy's request. They were convey some of his enthusiasm to those 3 oz.— 30^!; 7 oz. — 60(». FREE— Booklet on Denture Care.Write Hudson Products, Inc., sympathetic, they were interested, but who would have to make the pre-serv- Dept. L-11, 8 High St., Jersey City, N. J. they had a full time job on their hands. ice program possible. With something of the zeal of a cru- Back he went to Chapel Hill. Would sader, Jimmy persisted. His enthusiasm Lt. Commander Harmon and some of Asheville and poLiDcnr caught the imagination of the naval offi- his fellow officers come to others of the r/ie Safe Modern Way fo Clean Plates and Bridget cers. They agreed that Jimmy might send tell the school leaders and 40 The AMERICAN LEGION Maz^.zlKe When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ''SOME TONGUES SHOULD 8E CANNED!-

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NOVEMBER, 1943 41 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine need for the pre-service program? Again Jimmy was frankly apprehensive. He cials caught some of their enthusiasm. the naval officials were amazed. What had worked himself to a shadow pro- "It is hard work," Lt. Commander

But for Jimmy it was no time to rest on his oars. New problems were looming, chief among them the question of equipment. One of the things that seemed most essential was the erection of suitable obstacle courses at each school. Designs for the various obstacles were

furnished by the pre-flight school officers. The high school boys took saws Put yourself in his slioes toniglit and axes and went to neighboring moun- tainsides for hardwood timber. Under careful supervision they erected such Think how eager you'd be to talk to the folks at home things as inverted "V" ladders, overhead climbs, jungle crawls, scaling walls and if you were in the army and away at camp. similar devices. These were supplemented Thai's something to remember when you're thinking by rope swings, water hazards, deep sand pits and so on. about making a Long Distance call between 7 and All of this of course took time, but the 10 o'clock at night. program did not wait for the courses to be completed. All physically qualified You see, that's about the only time a soldier can get boys in the junior and senior classes of If the circuits are crowded, he may to the telephone. the high schools were formed into physi- not be able to reach home before taps. cal education units. They began taking calisthenics and precision drill as part of the program, and as fast as the ob- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM stacle courses were completed they went to work on them.

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43 NOVEMBER, 1943 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine It should be pointed out at this time him. It has all been very educational that another phase of the pre-service and Mr. Erwin would be the first to

program was also getting plenty of at- admit it. tention. Because of the emphasis which At a recent session of the U. S. Army the Army, Navy and other branches of cadet examining board in Asheville, a the armed service put on mathematics succession of bronzed, alert young men, and physics, special courses in these sub- with bocies tough as rawhide came jects were set up and made "musts" through, clear-eyed and confident. in the school curriculum. An outline of "Did you ever see such material?" the work to be covered in these courses one of the officers remarked. was drawn up with the help of the pre- His companion chuckled: "More of flight officials and mimeographed for Jimmy Tisdale's boys." distribution to each of the schools. Of course it isn't all Jimmy Tisdale. He was the one who had the vision of DURING the early stages of the pro- what could be done. He was the one who gram. Jimmy had proposed to Su- would not take "No" for an answer. He perintendent Erwin that the pre-service was the one who would not admit de-

program be placed in all high schools in feat. But it is to the everlasting credit

the State. Mr. Erwin is a practical man. of the school officials that they rallied He knew the difficulties that stood in to his support with an enthusiasm which

the way. He wanted to cooperate, but alone made the program possible. It is

he was unwilling to commit himself to the credit of the naval pre-flight offi- to a program that seemed doomed to fail- cials at Chapel Hill that they saw a ure because of a lack of funds and a lack chance for an experiment that would of trained personnel. So he hedged. blaze the way for the rest of the coun- "Go back up there to your mountains try.

and try it out," he said. "If you can But above all it is to the credit of make it work, then perhaps we can get the boys themselves. They are the ones it started all over the State." who took to the pre-service program He didn't think it would work, of with such zeal that they accomplished course, but then he didn't know Jimmy near miracles within a period of a few Tisdale and the way the boys in Kiffin short months. They are serious, quiet, Rockwell Post and the school officials confident and proud of what they have in the mountain counties would back done.

WORTHY OF THEIR SIRES

{Continued from page 13) Probably the most spectacular changes never went outside his own group be- are those induced by the interchange of '7 fore, nor did the boy from Minnesota. North and South. Recently a Southern Smoke They lived in different States, but even boy remarked to me that the War Be- if they had lived in different streets of tween the States is over at last; enough New York they might never have met Southerners have trained in the North a fCa/woocfie" and known one another. Today barriers and enough Yankees in the South that

are being broken down daily, in a wider the open mind is taking the place of knowledge of our fellow Americans. inbred prejudices. The New England I can't imagine how things would be if I didn't have nny Kaywoodie Pipe. But there is another aspect still, for or Ohio boy who trains in Alabama is As I sit and watch the smoke curl up- the soldiers come into contact with a entering an unknown world; he sees a wards, I bless the smell of it — a fragrance new type of civilization, a new way of system of fixed castes based on color. rare and fine, neither sweet nor strong. I life, which still is included in the rich- Politics does not exist as he has known never had the taste from pipes. same other ness and variety of America. The sales- it, a struggle between two parties. I think how the briar in this Kaywoodie man from Cleveland or Detroit sees how Negroes may not ride in his end of the pipe is older than I am. It always stays people live in rural areas and in small bus or street-car. The separation of good-tempered and mild. If I were going to towns of the Far West or South, for races is accepted generally by both choose another pipe, I'd certainly pick most training camps are located in such groups as part of the order of nature, another Kaywoodie — there's sweetness and flavor in the wood. areas rather than near the large cities. whereas he knows that very different Frequently he tells me, "You know, arrangements exist in his home city. He Kaywoodie Co., New York and London I like these little towns and the comfort comes from a place of shifting values In Neiv York, 630 Fifth A venue, New York 20, N, Y. people have in them. I don't believe and change, even of struggle, to a place I'll ever live in a big city again." He of rigidity and certainty. Certainly, he may have experienced the grinding pov- will understand the attitudes of the erty of the big city; now he sees the Southerner better than ever before. He democracy of the village. Or he may may grow to sympathize with them, and have experienced success, and now sees go back home saying: "They know how the hollowness of his old standards, to treat the Nigger down there." Or he based on tailor-made suits and night- may get an inkling of the intricate club parties. People of similar income problems involved in the living together in the small town live more spacious of human beings as fellow citizens, and lives; they do not wear out so rapidly go north determined to help in the from nerves induced by competition, evolving process. Whichever may be the with its eagerness and its fears. result, his pristine ignorance and local

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Nothing here for the Censor, but . .

The censor will pass this letter just like a mil- a refreshing glass of beer ... in the company of

lion others. Nothing in it to interest him . . . good friends . . . with wholesome American food ... as a beverage of moderation after a good . . Johnnie got a black eye yesterday . . . You wouldn't know Mary now, with the braces off her day's work.

teeth . . . Ed Fergus was asking after you, son." A glass of beer— a small thing, surely, not of us. yet But to Corporal Robert Hawks it's everything crucial importance to any of And a letter from home can mean to a soldier! morale is a lot of little things like this. Like a lot of other things that seem so small Little things that help to lift the spirit, keep the courag«>. little things that are part and and mean so much. You know how it is, yourself up of our American of life. ... a postcard from a friend ... a pat on the back parcel own way

from the boss . . . the cheering glow of an open fire. And, after all, aren't they among the things we fight fori* Pleasant everyday things . . . little privileges

. . . they chase the glooms . . . boost the old morale. A refreshing glass of beer or ale—a moment it it

relaxation . . . in trying times like these It happens that there are millions of Americans of who attach a special value to their right to enjoy they too help to keep morale up.

MORALE IS A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS

NOVEMBER, 1943 45 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine prejudices are rapidly breaking down. —the Jim Crow laws, the bars against tant village. The merchants refuse to But white soldiers are not the only voting, the lower educational standards, hire army wives until they make very ones who travel the length and breadth the more restricted vocational opportuni- certain that all local employes are al- of the country. Negro soldiers are placed ties. He sees all these for himself; he ready working in the army camp or in separate training units, but usually experiences the rigorous segregation of have gone to a manufacturing center. not in separate camps, from the white a Jim Crow State, even though he is Then they let down the bars because of boys. And they too are sent to distant wearing the uniform of Uncle Sam. The necessity, even though they know that spots for their training. Perhaps the discrimination of which he has heard these new workers will leave in a period Negro soldier from Missouri, whom I all his life has now become not a rumor, of weeks or months. Finally, everybody met the other day hitch-hiking on a but a reality to him. Probably when he gets to realize that these visitors, in California highway, was fairly typical. and his fellows get back north this new spite of their unfamiliar appearance in He did not have very strong social or knowledge will enter into their voting, uniform, are "just folks," including the political ideas; at least, he was not their Negro organizations, their partici- same familiar varieties of human nature articulate about them to a strange white pation in community hfe. as the townspeople themselves. One hears man, even a USO director. But he was Most army camps are located near complaints of careless renters, as one clear on one point—he was never going small towns because of the availability does of grasping landladies, but most of to return to the South to marry and of suitable sites. These little towns then the newcomers get on very well with bring up his family. He had met some fill up to the brim and overflowing with their involuntary hosts, and occasionally prejudice in California, just as he had army wives and families. There are few true friendships develop. The soldiers in encountered a certain measure of seg- accommodations to begin with, and these the permanent party at the camp make regation in the Army, but it was a dif- are speedily filled. The local people are friends in the town, have their standing ferent world from that in which he was not as deeply influenced as the soldiers, invitations to dinner, attend church with reared, for all that. How many of his for they do not move about, but they their wives, become part of the com- fellows feel the same way I cannot im- stay at home and meet this mass of munity. agine; I only know that ten percent military visitors who throng their streets, Imagine the effect on Kearney, Ne- of our Army is colored, and that the crowd their restaurants, and rent all braska, or Walla Walla, Washington, of effects of new experiences on uneducated their spare rooms. The first reaction was an influx of soldiers from the great people, who get their learning from life probably dismay. This was rapidly suc- cities of the East. How the narrow lines instead of books, may be exceptionally ceeded by a determination to help out, of Main Street-thinking bend and twist, strong. that the intruders might get a reasonable even if they are not quite broken down. Or take the colored boy from Ohio impression of their lovely little town. The human touch overcomes the dis- who was sent to a training camp in The women volunteer as hostesses at tance and the unfamiliarity. The Jew Texas. He does not come from heaven the USO, where over the coffee and cake from New York, the Irish Catholic from nor has he moved into a real hell. But they meet many a lonesome boy, just Boston, turn out to be very much like there are distinct differences in his status like their own sons in some other, dis- the home boys who have gone to Florida.

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46 ^^^^^^^^N LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion XfAGAziN^*' ^.and somehow/ home IS closer

from constant thumbing ... but to a boy on some distant hilltop, it's home. ..made real, brought nearer, by a few square inches of paper...

When it comes to pictures, we of Pabst Remember, the poses everyone likes best are informal ones — the family have no axe to grind. But we do know and friends out in the back yard, for how much they can mean to a boy away instance. from home... and— well, how long has it been since you sent him new pictures.'' Of course, if a glass or two of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer happens to get into the picture — that's These hints will help you to give him only natural when good friends get together! For all over America, this great beer likes the kind of snapshots he best is the symbol of friendly companionship. It's frtll-flavor bletided to give you all the taste-

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NOVEMBER, 1943 47 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine .

The western and southern villages are as great and wealthy cities, but also as losing many of their ingrown traits; after the cradles of America. North meets URTiS KNOWS BUT all, it is hard to call the man from the South, East meets West in the Army, and next county a "foreigner" when you in the travels of the army personnel ONE KIND OF SHOEMAKING have made friends with people from to their many training sites. thousands of miles away. The prejudice Of course, many prejudices and mis- More pleasure per mile and more between city and country people is understandings will survive. Human

miles per pair . . . that's beer) the surely weakening. Even the southern beings are not remade in a couple of Curtis ideal through four genera- village, long supposed to be the most years, especially by an educational pro- provincial of us all, is bound to give cess which is largely accidental tions of fine shoemaking. Honest and not way. The Negro soldier is still a "Nigger" devised as schooling. But millions of New England craftsmanship goes there, but the northern white man need the young men of America, thousands into every stitch and lift of leather not remain a "damn Yankee." These of the young women, and the inhabitants

that bears the Curtis name . . . thousands of Yankees in the vast south- of several hundred American villages

and what a difference it makes. ern training camps are not invaders or and towns have all experienced this carpet-baggers they are simply members unique education in Americanism. They AT BETTER STORES EVERYWHERE ; of the same Army in which the local have seen the vastness and the wonders CURTIS boys also are enlisted. The southern of our continental empire; they have SHOE CO., Inc. girl, reared on her grandfather's stories seen how other Americans live who are Marlboro, of Jeb Stuart or Stonewall Jackson, very different from themselves; they Man., dances at the USO and exchanges letters have made friends with soldiers of many with an Indiana boy now in the Solomon religions; they are learning to grasp the Islands. The personal ties, based on totality of America and Americanism. direct contact, are interfering with the In these days of war, when every

fixed sterotypes dating from four years American is so desperately needed on of civil war and two generations of the home front or the fighting front,

mutual suspicion. no factor is more important than the Isolation within America cannot en- unity of all of us in the defense of dure permanently in an era of auto- America. The more all groups and parties mobiles and airplanes. Today the army know each other, the better we all under-

training program is cracking the tough stand our country as a whole, the shell of provincialism at many points stronger we shall be to face the trials and in many ways. Our soldiers see the of war and the threatening years of Indian and Spanish cultures of the reconstruction after the war is over. southwest; they learn of the trek of the The process of national education, of Mormons to Utah, or follow the Mis- national integration, so slow during the Four Generations of Fine Shoemaking sion Trail in California, witnessing the last century, is speeding up today. The labors of the Spanish friars, the early Army of the United States, created to settlers of that region. On the other defend us from foreign foes, is also a FALSE TEETH hand, western and southern boys are significant factor in teaching America visiting Philadelphia, New York and to know itself. These men are truly KLUTCH holds them tighter Boston, and are seeing them, not only worthy of their sires. KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion ; holds dental plates so much firmer and snugger that one can cat and tall< with greater comfort and security ; in many cases almost as well as with natural teeth. Klutch lessens the constant fear of a dropping, rocking, chafing plate. 25c and 50c at druggists. . . If your druggist hasn't it, don't icaste money on AT 12, 1 FOUGHT THE JAPS tuhstitutes,h\it send us 10c and we will mail you a generous trial box. © i. p. inc. KLUTCH CO., Box 3052-K, ELMIRA, N. Y. {Continued from page zg) my grandmother was buried. I heard a terrific explosion and felt I went straight to the Navy's re- something strike the back of my head. cruiting office, told them what I had For a moment I was groggy. Then I done and that I wanted to return to ToAnySuit! struggled to my feet and delivered the my ship. Then my mother took a hand. Double the life of your message. She said that I should be in school and coat and vest with correctly matched pants. 100,000 patterns."' I was among about thirty ordered to revealed my true age. Every pair hand tailored to yourmeasare. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before rescue duty. I came across one of my The Navy Personnel Bureau's inves- pants are made. Fit guaranteed. Send piece of cloth or vest today. best friends. Red Hezil, with his head tigation verified that I was born on

blown off. For an instant I was sick. April 3, 1930 and so I was discharged, Then I got burning mad. Later, I con- with a clean record. soled myself with the thought that Perhaps I should return to school but some of the hell we gave the Japs was I won't until we've won this war. The MakesAII-Day in return for my pal. Our ship ac- navy was good to me: I came out counted for a Jap battleship and some four inches taller and 22 pounds heavier. StandingEasy enemy cruisers and destroyers. This I'm strong and healthy and I'm working victory cinched Guadalcanal for us. as a welder's helper in a shipyard. OnYourFeet After seven months at sea, I arfived At an American Legion bond rally, back in this country at an East Coast I was commended by National Com- If your feet all day — walking the floor you are on grandmother had mander Roane Waring and I've been or standing in front of a machine — just sprinkle port to learn that my Allen's Foot-Ease on your feet and into your shoes just died. She had always been very talking with a top Hollywood execu- every morning. This soothing powder really brings quick relief from the discomfort of tired, burning close to me, and though leave was tive regarding my appearance in pic- feet. When feet tend to swell and shoes feel pinched I felt that I simply had tures to further the war effort. So it from all day standing, try Allen's Foot-Ease to re- denied me lieve this congestion. Also acts to ab.sorb excessive to attend her funeral. looks like my course will be to help perspiration and prevent offensive foot odors. If you want real foot comfort, be sure to ask for I had no money, so I started hitch- build ships and leave it to my older Allen's Foot-Ease — the easy, simple way to all-day I day after brothers to fight them- standing and walking comfort. At all druggists. hiking home. arrived the 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Lbgion Magazine : : MILK FOR A PENNY (Co7iti?iued from page 21) Bothered with

fourth largest zoo in the United States is prepared for any emergency. CONSTIPATION? Fetes Selectees

NORTH Shore Post of Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has gone all the way down the line for the selectees sent into service by the Se- lective Service Board in its area, largest supplier of men for the armed forces in Milwaukee County. Here's a brief report from Commander A. Romson J. OWHK URST "This draft board was appointed in TRY WIS HtRlTH October, 1940, and North Shore Post has given a banquet to each class of se- «..<• ••Or)'"""' lectees leaving for the service, inviting 1 lemon also the boy's mother and father or sweetheart. Free entertainment and speakers are arranged for. Many of the boys returning on furlough have appeared to tell of their experiences and to give advice to those preparing to leave. Up to the present date, 2,329 boys have placed their feet under our banquet tables, not counting their guests. Here's a surprisingly simple way to avoid the alkalinize— aid digestion. Millions not troubled "We are still going strong even in the usual harsh laxatives. with constipation take lemon and water daily face of rationing, but how much longer just as a health builder. Most people find the juice of l lemon in a glass we can continue is a question. we But of water, taken first thing on arising, is all they Why not keep regular with this refresliing have a scrappy bunch of 274 members, need to insure prompt, normal elimination — morning drink that builds health too.'' Try it and I feel we can carry on to the end. gently. And lemon and water is good for you. ten days, first thing on arising— see if you don 'c We keep in touch with all the boys who benefit! Lemons Build HeolthI Lemons are among the write us at the Post. Our own sons and richest sources of vitamin C, which restores P. S.-IEMON & SODA • Some prefer juice of 1 Legionnaires in service receive a Post energy, helps you resist colds and infection. lemon in half gloss water with '/4 to 1^ teaspoon letter each month, and those encamped They're the only known source of vitamin P baking soda (bicarbonate) added. Drink as the in the home country receive a box of (citrin) and supply valuable amounts of Bi.They foaming quiets. candy and other gifts from time to time. All are remembered at Christmas with a gift box." Boyd B. Stutler

OUTFIT NOTICES LEMON and WATER • ••first thing en arising ORGANIZATIONS of First World War veterans—thousands of them —have suspended reunions for the duration of the war, because of transportation and housing restrictions, but are holding their groups together through bulletins, publications and other means. BUS-SICK? Some few, fortunate enough to have Nausea, dizziness, stomach their membership centered in certain distress may be prevented sections of the country, are able to con- and relieved witii tlie aid ot tinue reunions. Notices of such reunions follow Moihersiirs Single or Doubl* Frams Hth Engbs. Vets. Assoc. —Reunion-dinner, SEASICK HtMEOlf ie exp. 75c 16 exp. Split 55c City, Times Square Hotel, New York Nov. 13. 1 2 exp. Split 45c • 8 exp. Roll 35c 8:30. Morris Baratz, secy., 3965 White Plains _ • Av., New York City (6). All miniature and split size Hlm linislied in our 26th Encrs.—Reunion-dinner. Detroit. Mich., famous 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 Beauty Prints—deckled, em- Nov. 13. Bill Leitz, 5347 Spokane, Detroit. Don't Neglect Slipping bossed margin and embossed date. Last reunion for duration. is scarce and every snapshot is doubly precious Co. C. 143d Inf. —Reunion, Beaumont. Te.x.. When film count ! Don't take a chance and spoil good Nov. 11. M. P. Stewart, secy.-treas., 1475 Cart- m»keevery3hot TEETH poor developing and printing. Today, more than FALSE film wright. Beaumont. by efficient, prompt service Is your best pro- Base Hosp. 116—25th reunion. Hotel McAlpin, Do false teeth drop, slip or wabble ever, our careful, wasted film your best assurance of pride New York City, Nov. 13. F. C. Freed, M. D., when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? tection against — and satisfaction with your pictures. Send roll and money 59 E. 54th St., New York City (22). Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by or write for FREE mailers and samples—also complete 135th Amb. Co.—Reunion, St. Paul, Minn.. such handicaps. FASTEETH, an alkaline Price List. • • e o Nov. 11. Norman F. Gludt. adjt., 483 Marshall to sprinkle on } our (non-acid) powder Contact Finishing. S exp. rolls com- v.. St. Paul (2). Artistic A plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. plete set of deckled-edge, embossed, wide- 52d Pioneer Inf. Assoc., AEF—Annual re- Gives confident feeling of security and added margin prints. Credits for lailures. FREE En- largement Coupon witfi each roll. union. Hotel Governor Clinton, New York City, comfort. No gummv, gooey, pastv taste or Nov. 13. Edward J. PoUak, 331 Tecumseh Av., MAIL-BAG FILM SERVICE Mt. Vernon, N. Y. feeling. Get FASIEETH today at any drug store. Dept. 23 • Box5440A e Chicago 80

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COME ON, YOU G. I.'S AND MAC'S

{Continued from page i6) Subsequently a movie titled Boomtown land, and we don't mean buddies. A and dealing with the same locale was handsome diploma is awarded those so- released. That particular film was the and-so's who can qualify. An even more only one available when a movie pro- exclusive Icelandic organization is the jector was set up in the Navy's base Bluenose League. To be admitted to in Iceland. So it was shown over and membership you must have performed over again, until every man in camp an operational flight shoe for into the Arctic was able to recite the dialogue from naires, sthe right type oxford g^ Circle. The certificate of membership is memory. Eventually, though, a good occasions Du all walking signed by King Boreas as well as by sized movie house was set up, with 24 hours of ^^^j^ the local executive officer. plenty of film-with-sound available. •"^rbUck%ithrug'ged.long- So it was called Boomtown Theatre. leather sole^ ^^^anng AWAY back last January, this maga- Two old fashioned street lanterns built -L\. zine carried an article about our in local repair shops decorate the en- national capital written by Dorothy trance, and this touch of the gay nine- Miller. It was titled Boomtown, D. C. ties is one of the sights of Iceland. "MARCHING ALONG TOGETHER

(Continued from page 27) "Pioneer Pattern for Our Nation's To- Activities, Mrs. Carl H. Hatch; Legis- morrow." lation, Mrs. Byrum Harris; National The report of the Committee on Na- Defense, Mrs. Charles B. Gilbert; Pan- tional Defense came strongly to the de- American Study, Mrs. Harrison Smith; fense of fhe women in the service of Radio, Mrs. R. Elton Warman; Mem- the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and bership, Mrs. Albert Bevans. Coast Guard against character attacks, Also, Constitution and By-Laws, Mrs. "emphatically and indignantly denounc- Edward M. Box; Finance, Mrs. W. Har- ing such attacks and expressing pride, vey Stegman Poppy, Mrs. Hurlburt An- confidence and sincere admiration in and ; derson; Publication, Mrs. Harold Diers; for such women. ..." Rehabilitation, Mrs. Lawrence Smith; As Chairman of the Rehabilitation Resolutions, Mrs. Norman L. Sheehe; Committee, Mrs. Lawrence Smith of War Activities, Mrs. Norton H. Pearl. Wisconsin, reported that more than The principal actions taken, briefly $10,500,000 had been spent by the were these: The Constitution and By- Auxiliary for rehabilitation work since Laws Committee recommended that au- 1929. Beginning with that year and W. L. Douglas Shoes are priced thority be given the standing commit- through 1943, the organization has con- ^g.50 $3.50 Some styles 'S-SO tee by the convention to reword the tributed $371,137.65 to the Legion for Auxiliary's eligibility clause regarding rehabilitation activities. Recommenda- Douglas "Down-lo-lhe-Wood" construction assures you better fit. World War II service people to con- tions in her report, which was approved,

W. L form with any revisions of the Legion's included a request that the Auxiliary eligibility clause. Recommendation was petition the Government to remove the made that the Americanism Essay Con- necessity of paying taxes on any and W. L. O0UCl«S f SHOE CO.. BROCKTON IS. MASS. test be continued, the subject for the all cigarettes and playing cards that Stores in Principal Cities Good Dealers Everywhere 1943-1944 essay being announced as are sent into Army and Navy hos- BUY WAR BONDS FOR VICTORY!

HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? If your address has been changed since paying your 1943 dues, notice of such change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The American BACKACHE, Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana. The one mailing list covers both The American Legion Magazine and The National Legionnaire. LEG PAINS MAY BE SURE TO GIVE ALL INFORMATION LISTED BELOW BE DANGER SIGN NEW ADDRESS Of Tired Kidneys Name (Please Print) If backache and leg pains are making you miser- able, don't just complain and do nothing about them. Nature may be warning you that your kidneys need Street Address etc attention. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess City State acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints a day. If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't 1943 Membership Card No work well, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheu- matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting Post No State Dept , up nights, swelling, pufliness under the eyes, head- aches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with OLD ADDRESS smarting and burning sometimes shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Street etc Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, Address used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney City State tubes flush out poisonous waste from the blood. Get Doan's Pills.

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pitals and Veterans' Facilities for the exclusive use of the patients. A further resolution contained a request to the Surgeons General of the Army and Navy to permit Auxiliary women, long trained in hospital and service work, to enter Army and Navy hospitals for work with and for the wounded and disabled as members of hospital committees of the American Legion Auxiliary, instead of as members of any other preferred organization. Cooperation with the Legion and other agencies, groups and organizations active in the study of ,the causes of juvenile delinquency was stressed in the report of the Child Welfare Commit- tee, with the further provision that active measures to help in combating this serious problem be taken. Reaffirmation

of its previous action regarding the defer- ment of industrial employment of women with young children until all other sources of labor had been exhausted. There, briefly, are the principal actions taken by the Auxiliary's 1943 National Convention. Printed copies of Reports to the Convention and the Summary of Taking the play from old loves in pipe Convention Proceedings will be made tobacco is a Briggs specialty. For the available by National Headquarters. irresistible "come hither" of its won- Upon call for the nomination of can- derful aroma is just the curtain raiser didates for national offices, Mrs. Law- rence Smith of Racine, Wisconsin, was to taste-joys a man never gets enough PIPE MIXTUBE The Sfnoke alone named—there being no opposi- of. Here's why : Brigg.s is ca.sk-mellowed tion. The names of the following Na- for years — longer than many costly tional Vice Presidents, elected in the blends. So every golden crumb of its a iSmile caucuses of their respective Divisions, choice tobaccos is bursting with glori- were presented: Mrs. Hurlburt Ander- ous flavor, with gentle, full-bodied bliss, son, Boulder, Colorado, Northwestern with— oh, shucks, just try it! Buy a Division; Mrs. Rae Ashton, Vernal, package of Briggs today. Utah, Western; Mrs. Walter G. Craven, Charlotte, North Carolina, Southern; Mrs. William N. Cann, Wilmington, PRODUCT OF P. LORIILARD COMPANY. Delaware, Eastern, and Mrs. Norton H. Pearl, Detroit, Michigan. The American Legion After the formality of casting unanimous ballots for the national officers National Headquarters Brenda -Will had been concluded, the new National Indianapolis, Indiana Vice Presidents were presented to the You Step Out convention. Then in a colorful proces- Financial Statement sion composed of present and past August 31, 1943 WithMeTonight? officers of the Department of Wiscon- I know I've been an awful grouch not takinff sin, Mrs. Lawrence H. Smith, National Assets j-ou any place lately. But after standing all day at my new job, feet darn near killed with cal- to the platform. my me President, was escorted louses I've Cash on hand and on deposit | 614, 204. 05 and burning. Now reformed — or rather Past National President, Mrs. Wil- Accounts receivable 61,0y|.cS2 my feet have — thanks to the Ice-Mint you advised. Inventories 167,.S()().iO Never tried anything that seemed to draw the Corwith, in charge in- liam H. was of Invested funds 2,9ia,yU7.42 pain and fire right out so fast — and the way it helps soften callouses is nobody's business! Been stalling the new officers. The national Permanent Investment: OverseasGraves Decoration Trust Fund 222,624.64 able to get some extra overtime money — so what do let's colors of the retiring National Presi- Office Building, Washington. D.C., less you say, go dancing tonight. You can step depreciation on my Ice-Mint feet all you want. dent, Mrs. Alfred Mathebat, were 122, 30'). 51 J. Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less presented by Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn. depreciation 42,912.68 Deferred charges 28,104.03 With the retirement of the colors, the 0 0 00 MY FEET/ 14,177,981.2 5 23d National Convention of the Amer- WHY SUFFER FOOT TROUBLES ican Legion Auxiliary came to a close. THAT DRAG YOU DOWN. TIRED, BURNING, TENDER, PERSPIRING, At a meeting of the new National Liabilities, Deferred Revenue ITCHING FEET OR CALLOUSES Executive Committee, immediately fol- and Net Worth AND CORNS GIVE YOU THAT lowing adjournment of the convention. Current Liabilities 61,843.31 E-X-H-A-U-S-T-E-D LOOK. Funds restricted to National President Mrs. Smith reap- as use 103,338.68 Deferred revenue 301.415.20 pointed Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin Mac- Permanent trust: Qff/c/cm/ffj Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 222.624.64 GET PROMPT RELIEF WITH Dowell as National Secretary. Net Worth EFFICIENT, SOOTHING JOHN- Restricted The Committee then elected Mrs. Capital $2,893,319.49 SON S FOOT SOAP. SOFTENS Unrestricted Capital. . 593,439.93 13,488,759.42 CORNS AND CALLOUSES Cecilia as National Wenz Treasurer, ALL 14,177,981.25 AT DRUGGISTS AND Mrs. Grace Gilbert King as National TOILET GOODS DEPARTMtNTS Historian, and Mrs. E. F. Hussman Donald G. Glascoff, JOHNSON^ \{^Q1S0AP as National Chaplain. Acting Natiotial Adjutant .BORAX, IODIDE AND BRANi

NOVEMBER. 1943 51 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER DAY THE EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT

ORDINARILY, the anniversary of Armistice Day whose sacrifices will have made possible the celebra- receives extended notice in the November is- tions in which we shall all wish to have a part. sue of this magazine, and were it not for the When it comes (and don't look for it soon) let's

fact that this nation is engaged in a life-and-death make it a one-day celebration, and the next day re- struggle, we should have celebrated its 25th anniver- sume our wartime efforts, so that a real backlog of sary with a number of articles recalling the glories of materials will be available if any of the vanquished that famous day most Legionnaires will never forget. enemy tries to double-cross us. But a long, hard fight lies ahead of us, and every man So here's to Unconditional Surrender Day! The more of 1918 from General Pershing on down to those who you and I bear down on our wartime jobs the sooner served honorably as buck privates will understand our men, with their comrades of the United Nations,

why there is only this brief reference to the day of will give us the chance to celebrate. glory whose counterpart in this second great struggle of the nations, is still in the future, the date "known but to God." An American Creed The things we fought for in 1918 are those for which we fight once again—the right of democracy to THE overwhelming majority of the people of the live without fear of aggression from brutal gangster United States of America will applaud this reso- nations which trample underfoot the conventions of lution setting forth a belief in the American system civilization, mock their plighted word in an orgy of passed by the Legion's 25th Annual National Con- ruthlessness, and seek to turn back the clock a thousand vention at Omaha, September 21-23: years. "BE IT RESOLVED that, while we recognize the This time, God willing and the United Nations ca- importance and necessity of centralized controls in pable of reading the bloody lessons of history, the the interest of the war effort, we reaffirm our fidelity aggressor nations will be smashed utterly and their to the basic concept of the American system, a sov- vain, foolish populations, which gloried in the suc- ereign federal government of sovereign States, and that cesses of the Axis steam roller and now cringe as that all powers not granted to the federal government are steam roller is being destroyed, will learn that crime reserved to the States or to the people; that that gov- doesn't pay. ernment is best which governs least; that freedom of To the speeding of that day of vengeance The Amer- individual enterprise is of importance equal to the ican Legion pledged its entire resources the day Pearl four freedoms of the Atlantic Charter, and that ex- Harbor was attacked, and it has consistently placed traordinary controls surrendered to the central gov- the winning of the war first on its program of service ernment should be promptly returned to the state to God and Country. Nothing else matters while there sovereignties upon the termination of the war. These remains in the field even the slightest opposition to principles we regard as essential to the preservation of the forces of the United Nations. the American way of life. To them we hereby dedi- We expect a long, hard fight before the Axis throws cate ourselves unreservedly, singly and collectively, and in the sponge. If by some miracle the end comes in we highly resolve to work and fight to preserve on the next several months, we trust that no civilian will the home front the spirit that has given us our cher- go on a bender, throw up his job and think the mil- ished institutions of liberty and individual freedom, lennium is coming. Because the job of rebuilding the that our soldiers may return from the far-flung bat- United States will call for the same energy and de- tle fronts of the world to find the institutions for which votion to duty on the part of every civilian that has they have fought unimpaired." been put forth by the men and women in uniform For this we fight!

//,/ ./.II \\\ K FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

we associate ourselves together for the of our associations in the Great Wars; to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and following purposes: to inculcate a sense of individual obli- democracy; to uphold and defend the Constitution of gation to the community, state and the United States of America; nation; to consecrate and sanctify our comrade- ship by our devotion to mutual help- to maintain law and order; to combat the autocracy of both the fulness. to foster and perpetuate a one hundred classes and the masses; percent Americanism; to make right the master of might; —Preamble to the Constitution to preserve the memories and incidents to promote peace and good will on earth; oj The American Legion

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