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15* THE AMERICAN SEE PAGE 11 COMMUNISM'S ROUTE TO AMERICA LIES LEGION THROUGH CHINA MAGAZINE By MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

AUGUST 1953

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Vol. 55 No. 2. August 1953

Worlds I I 4.IOV THE AMERICAN H Quietest Tread Outgrips, Outwears them all! LEGION MAGAZINE

Cover by ANGELA CALOMIRIS Contents for August, 1953

COMMUNISM'S ROUTE TO AMERICA LIES THROUGH CHINA ARMSTRONG by Madame Chiang Kai-shek 11 a WHY THE FREE CHINESE ARE SO IMPORTANT TO THE FREE WORLD.

THE CHAPLAIN OF UPCHUCK (fiction) by John Wesley Noble 14 THE CHAPLAIN AND THE COLONEL SAW THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

PREMIUM WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO IN ST. LOUIS 16 THE MIRACLE-RIDE TIRE HOW TO ENJOY YOURSELF TO THE UTMOST AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THOSE ADDED YEARS? by William A. Ulman 18 THERE IS NO POINT IN DYING OF BOREDOM. • FOUR EXCLUSIVES give you RACING -COUNTRY STYLE by Alden E. Calkins 20 safety, silence, comfort found in ALL ABOUT THE PACERS AND TROTTERS. no other tire. (1) Interlocking HOW TO UNDERSTAND COMMUNISM by Victor Lasky 22 Safety for greater Tread "hold" YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT IT TO FIGHT IT INTELLIGENTLY. in all directions. (2) Silent J. 0. B. SOME SOLID ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN REHABILITATION 24 Traction Design cancels out hum and sing for world's quiet- SPINNING GEAR by Erwin A. Bauer 28 THE CLOSEST THING TO SURE-FIRE FISHING. est ride. (3) Intra-Tread Bumpers hold tread ribs apart THE NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE 3!

. . . muffle squeal. (4) Uni- Features Cushion Contour — more SOUND OFF 4 PRODUCTS PARADE .. . f NEWSLETTER 35

rubber on road for smoother EDITOR'S CORNER. . 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB. 28 PARTING SHOTS. . . . 64 Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not riding, longer wear. be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included.

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LOOKING FORWARD such an institution. Let that college re-achieve its esteem by correcting the Sir: I have just read the article in your leftist deviations that far outweigh the May issue by Sam Stavisky entitled good of teaching innovations attrib- How Veterans Stand in Congress. uted to it by the author. It will take From where 1 sit it looks as though many years for TC to get back on the wc stand just about where we should beam— and longer for the injuries it expect to stand under an administra- has created in the minds of ten mil- tion pledged to economy from the lion students to be mitigated. start. I think all veterans may well ex- A. G. Blazey, AI D. pect a drastic cut in Veterans Admin- I Vashington, hid. istration especially in hospitalization and pensions. The AMA has alw ays Sir: Teachers College, according to believed that the hospitalization pro- James C. G. Conniff, is "largely liberal- gram was a form of socialized medi- Democrat, Fair Dealish in politics; cine and although they may not come agnostic (neutral would be a fairer word) in religion; in of public every out and say so you can be sure of favor step their support of cutting the program education only, certainly non-sectarian to the quick. education; anti-dogmatic in the ex- of the day George H. Talbott treme; friendly to even- new idea; J Lexington, Ky. willing to try everything once, but harping on no one string." Let's take a look at the alternative: reactionary QUINSANA FIGHTS Republican (or Democrat); biased and authoritarian in sectarian religion; dogmatic in the extreme; unfriendly to every new idea; unwilling to try any- ATHLETES FOOT thing once; and harping on one string. Is that \\ hat Conniff is trying to sell us? INFECTION Richard Wynn HIS COTTAGE Assistant Professor of Education Teachers College Sir: On page 17 in your (May issue a Not a part-time, night-time remedy! Columbia niversity picture of a cottage appears with the U • New York City Quinsana's full-time action fights athletes caption, "Above all be sure that the foot all clay long. Gives fast relief! out of 9 family agrees on the vacation spot." Sir: Your article The TC Story sets users results. 10 report amazing This cottage and area happens to be forth for the first time an unbiased ac-

• 91 per cent of foot specialists interviewed my property and is located on the count of an institution that is indeed

used Quinsana on their patients. Easy to Ausablc River at Flume Falls. I'd ap- difficult to appraise. I have long felt use, and no nasty medicinal odor. preciate your letting your readers that the ideology of TC is one calcu- know of its whereabouts, as many lated to instill in its disciples an atti- • At the first symptoms of athletes foot . . people will pass it in their travels and burning, itching, cracks and peeling be- tude of univ ersal scepticism. 1 am con- will connect it with your issue. vinced that the eclecticism of TC tween toes . . . get Quinsana quick! Shake Tim Kelley produce a state of neurosis in it on feet. To help keep feet cool, comfort- would Wilmington, V. able, shake in shoes. N. anyone who would seriously attempt to put in practice the contradictory TC COLUMBIA U principles offered. To say that one should make up his own mind (which Soothes, Sir: Relative to The TC Story in your practice the gods of education frown June issue, I find that the author is on) in such a helter-skelter of "live trying to give a clean bill of patriotic cools opinions" is to ascribe to a man great- health to an institution that has, for er powers than any currently possess. the past quarter-century, advocated Maurice A. Hannon tited socialism under the name of American Kenosha, 1 1 'is. democracy, and whose faculty member, Professor George S. Counts, as Sir: Mr. Conniff has outdone the tax - feet! recently as 1950 advised that the best ings of the fanatic propagandists serv- QUINSANA way for this nation to fight commu- ing totalitarianism. He reveals himself nism w as to adopt socialist ideologies. as lost in a democracy and as one who We need no propaganda buildup for ( Continued on page 59)

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McCarthyism . . . terror visited upon innocent communists and "liberals," in the form of blood baths, the rack, and die loss of jobs in government, teaching and other places where reds and pinks should have power. "HP Patriot (read Superpatriot) ... an un- educated simpleton who is not bright enough to realize that the United States lags far behind the civilized world in everything but crass material wealth. Be- ing so bigoted, he stands in the way of progress and opposes sharing our wealth with such highly cultured nations as India, the Gold Coast and Tibet. Veteran ... a lazy character who never had it so good as when he was in service, and who as a civilian wishes to bleed white those who didn't share his good times in uniform. Worse, he is a flagwavier who doesn't subscribe fully to global fraternizing and fracases.

Cultural Vigilantism . . . This hum- dinger is brand-new but it should be rolling over many tonsils by the time you read this. It is supposed to mean that Legionnaires and such-like are burning nice people at the stake, blowing up colleges and libraries, and using flamethrow- ers on the contents of same.

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When writing to manufacturers concerning items described here kindly FITCHEW mention that you read about in The American Legion Magazine them HAIR TONIC g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 TAX LOSS: $12,000 A DAY. This illegal still was seized in April, 1953 in an apartment building in Oceanport, N. J. Enforcement agents es-

timated that it was "easily capable of costing the government $12,000 a day in alcohol taxes." Above: Police Chief Robert Berry checks 5-gal. cans found near the big mash cooker in the cellar.

TAX LOSS: $28,350 A DA Y. This oil-fired boiler TAX LOSS: $47,250 A DAY. When Federal and city authorities raided this illegal still in Brooklyn, N. Y., supplied heat to the cooking unit of a 1500 gallons-a- in March, 1953, they captured equipment valued at an estimated $100,000, 10,000 lbs. of sugar and 700 five- day still, seized in April, 1953 at Vineland, N. J. gallon cans ready for filling. They calculated that the equipment could make 4,500 gallons of "bootleg" Police estimated it cost the government $28,350 every day, representing a daily tax loss of $47,250 to the Federal government alone. While such outlaw in lost taxes every day it operated at capacity. stills represent major investments, nine out of ten seized are filthy and vermin-ridden.

A $6 Tax will reduce Bootlegging

. . . and give you legal beverages at fair prices

The pictures above show one of the from $6 to $9 a gallon, it was the product down to average income levels. main reasons why the legal distilling signal for big-city criminals to move A $6 tax will take most of the is industry asking that the Federal in. And since November 1951, with "gravy" out of illegal distilling . . . excise tax on distilled spirits be ad- the added advantage of a $10.50 Fed- will make mass-production installa- justed from today's S10.50 per gallon eral tax, this particular kind of crime tions like those pictured above too to the 1942 rate of $6. has been more profitable than ever. expensive a risk. Bootlegging today is big business These last two increases were sup- A $6 tax will recover some of the

. . . an organized outlaw empire built on posedly "temporary." They have long tax millions now being stolen from the difference between $6 and $10.50. outlived their usefulness, defeated Federal, state and local governments. It is a vicious business. It breeds graft, their revenue purpose and—what's A $6 tax will give you good legal corruption, defiance of law and order. worse—brought a decaying racket beverages at fair prices. Sickness, blindness, sometimes death back to life. These benefits are not wishful itself, come from the bootleg bottle. Today the bootlegger really fears thinking. They are based on the

Bootlegging feeds on high liquor only one weapon . . . the return ofa fair record. taxes. In 1944, when the rate jumped tax that would bring prices of the legal

IT'S THE TAX THAT HURTS!

In spite of general increases in costs since 1942, the average dis- tillery price of legal whiskey itself has not risen appreciably. Today over half of every dollar you spend for whiskey goes for Fed- eral, state and local taxes!

H puslic inte'resiby LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES, I NC, 155 e. 44th ST., new york 17, n. y.

! IN BEHALF OF THE PRODUCERS AND MERCHANTS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES !

The stage triumph that rocked the nation for 3 years

Stalag 17 IT WAS AN ADDRESS -OF A PRISONER OF WAR CAMP!

17 .WHERE THE ENEMY MADE THE MISTAKE OF PUTTING Stalag 630 U.S. ARMY SERGEANTS TOGETHER

...A DOWN-TO-EARTH TRIBUTE TO THE INDOMITABLE Stalag 17 SPIRIT OF MEN LIVING UNDER BRUTAL CONDITIONS ...WHERE THEIR ONLY WEAPON WAS LAUGHTER!

STARRING

Stalag 17 WILLIAM HOLDEN • DON TAYLOR OTTO PREMINGER

Produced and Directed by BILLY WILDER

Written for the screen by BILLY WILDER and EDWIN BLUM

Based on the play by DONALD BEVAN and EDMUND TRZCINSKI A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

Right across the way from the Russian women's bathing shack! ^Communism's route to America UES THROUGH Q-Mj\W Once they control Asia, the reds will move to conquer

the world. The Free Chinese can wreck this master plan.

By MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

AS TOLD TO THE EDITORS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

ago, and, it seems now, very far communist-led forces on the bloody Engaway from this era of crisis, I came mountain escarpments of Korea—more to America as a child. I came from a atrocities than most Americans have most ancient civilization to learn the been allowed by censorship to fully life and ways of your still youthful but appreciate. We, of China, have already wonderfully advanced United States. lost our homeland of continental China, When I was a student in America, and all of our Chinese peoples except Europe was already weltering in rivers those outside of continental China have of blood, but both America and China become enslaved. Therefore I say to were isolated from the general blood- you it is already too late further to letting. Later, it was to be our fate to put our trust in men who have only suffer through the wreckage of two hindsight! It will be only through the world wars, neither of which would guidance and consecrated energies of leave us in any peace, nor from which AMERICA, encircled by red armies, can men and women with foresight that we we could have escaped with any human become a conquered land. A red can now save ourselves. army of Asia, with 800,000,000 slaves or national honor. China, and the Chinese people, can and vast sources of economic treasures, be Now we of China and you of the can bleed America into catastrophe. saved. Of that I am certain. There are United States are being engulfed, slow- Valiant Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Asia's many factual reasons why I am certain ly but surely, in another world war anti-communist beacon, and China's ada- of this, though they cannot be exposed mant patriot, tells The American Legion catastrophe, a third and still more dan- within eyesight of our enemy of the why we can safely rely on the moral in- gerous struggle for survival. In fact, tegrity and personal character of the Kremlin. But time is short and we are China has had no respite from sustained Chinese people, once they have arms to today facing the awful hazard of that warfare since 1931, when wise counsel fight Soviet communism back from red potential moment of eternal time when Peiping to the Red Square of Moscow. did not prevail in the Manchurian In- it may become too late—too late to save cident, and man's aggression against our cherished civilization and freedoms. man was not cauterized at its source— The Kremlin has already obtained as we of continental China wished. slave-control, since the end of World Those statesmen who have sought to allow ourselves to become trapped by War II's actual battles, of one-third of justify their lethargy of 1931 by the men who have only hindsight, as the world's peoples and over one-third statement that hindsight is easy, fore- though intellectual foresight were be- of the world's land resources. Tremen- sight difficult, pay unthinkingly high yond the pale of man's rationale? dous potential resources, including oil, tribute to the actual wisdom of those Is free man, again, to be outwitted lie dormant in China and other parts who foresaw the inevitable implica- and captured by schemers? of Asia. If honesty is to become the tions from the shadows cast before the Is America to be captured by allow- liability, and deceit the winning asset of tragic events of the Manchurian deceit. ing the Soviet communist enemy to dis- the world of the future, we, Chinese The chain of events was not only to sipate America's great potential Pacific and Americans, can become conquered. lose the rich Manchurian provinces of allies, the millions of Asian people who But I cannot believe that evil will be China to the Japanese militarists of 1937 hate communism, but who have no ma- allowed to triumph over moral integ- but to turn their great strategic assets terial, or modern military technology, rity. over to the Kremlin communists of for stopping communism's march We Chinese, for many generations, 1950. through Asia? have honored men and women because Should we unaggressive people—of You in America have experienced the of their personal character, rather than China and of the United States—again first atrocities against your youths by their powers or estates. That is our first

11 CARTOON BY CAItEY ORR — ©CHICAGO TRIBUNE ^ECONOMIC

Many economic plans for the Republic of China which were interrupted Fearful that Chiang's forces will destroy them, the commies are by the Japanese and the reds have now been transplanted to Formosa. doing everything possible to checkmate him diplomatically.

(continued)

COMMUNISM S ROUTE TO AMERICA LIES THROUGH

basic similarity to the people of the or honor, by gains or privileges ob- United States, and it is in this similarity tained by stealth or compromise with of our characters that we are joined our principles. As people and as nations across the Pacific, and, therefore, on we both rank probity as a primary pre- this that America's and Asia's ultimate cept; we both frown on moral turpi- freedom must, I believe, be based. tude; we both honor integrity. Are we W hether the principles of human both to be vulnerable to conquest by Dr. Daniel Poling, editor of the Christian freedom, justice and equality of oppor- stealth and subterfuge? Herald, poses with his friends, the Chiangs. tunity can win out over the subterfuges The country which I love next to my of communist imperialism by with- own, the United States, is in my mind cific, all the way to Southeast Asia, and

standing the strain and stress of our my second home. I have learned many all the way southwest to the borders era—as well as the massed forces of ag- important facts in America. But in of India.

gression threatening us— is a question China and among Chinese people 1 have The Chinese people have a very long that depends very largely on ourselves learned certain eternal truths which, if history of survival in spite of tempo- as individuals and as nations; on our you Americans and we Chinese com- rary tortures—tortures worse than any

native character. bine our moral assets and forces, I am other people in modern civilization

Again I say there are many similari- sure all the world will soon know. have experienced. Nothing short of the ties between your people and mine, Among these are the indomitable cour- complete annihilation of our race will though we have been so far away from age of the Chinese people; the inde- prevent our people from trying to gain you across the Pacific, and speak a structible spirit of the still-free Chinese their liberty. language so strange to you, that not Army on Formosa; and the deathless The busy people of the W est have many Americans have had the oppor- soul of the only temporarily captured sometimes overlooked the fact that tunity to realize our basic similarities. Chinese nation. As long as the bastion China, when it became a republic by Beneath our differing skin textures and of Formosa remains as the citadel of national revolt against Manchu despo- pigments, our native customs and lan- Chinese freedom, the hopes and deter- tism in 1911, inherited many of the in- guages lies the real base of our 160-year- mination of our enslaved people will firmities of the Manchu dynasty of old friendships and our peoples' long remain indomitable in their efforts to some three hundred preceding years. confidence in each other. We have regain their freedom—and this does not During the first fifteen years of the identity of human ideals; both of us apply only to the Chinese people of republic our efforts to unite the coun-

have fought for human liberties and occupied China; rt applies, as potential try were thw arted by the continuation human freedoms. alliances with Americans, to all the of old civil wars. Neither of us, Chinese or Americans, Chinese people who may be widely That was an initial liability your in- have ever defiled our national character, scattered throughout Asia and the Pa- fant American republic, in the 18th

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1,200,000 fighting men of Formosa, by airborne and coastal tactics can propel The Chinese have proved that they can readily spearheads of revolt against the communist slave-master on the China mainland. adapt themselves to modern conditions of war.

Century, did not have to survive. Our our young republic, we were on the allies, were infiltrating our whole na- first Parliament convened in 1912, fol- very brink of unifying China as an anti- tional fabric from the rear. lowing the downfall of the Manchu communist bastion when the Japanese From the very inception of our autocracy. But our truly National Con- militarists became alarmed at our grow- Chinese republic of 1911, throughout gress was not able to convene until 1924 ing Asiatic progress, economically and forty-two turbulent years, there has when the Kuomintang Party- was finally politically, and invaded our Northeast- never been a year when the people of able to assimilate little warlords and es- ern Provinces, Manchuria, in 1931. China have had peace. W hat other na- tablish the dicta that, throughout all From that very rich area, and in spite tion of men and women have lived China, "universal suffrage shall be car- of our pleas to the League of Nations, through such an era? ried out; class suffrage based on proper- Japanese forces began systematically Nor were we to have peace after VJ ty qualification shall be abolished." spreading southward until 1937 when, Day; for immediately the sovietized The process of national unification still talking "peace", they suddenly at- communists in our midst began to take could have made very successful strides, tacked Shanghai. Had we not made advantage of the ravages of our land after 1924, had it not been for the in- very considerable internal gains against by the Japanese militarists, and pro- filtration by the Kremlin communists, the communists, in both reforms and pelled their Chinese agents and dupes astutely led and instigated against us. national assets, between 1925 and 1937, into carefuUy devised strikes and civil The old bolsheviks of the Soviet revo- China could never have withstood the turmoil. These disturbances were lution did not want our revolution gigantic, punitive air, naval and land backed by divisions of the Chinese against the Manchus to produce a attacks which lasted from 1937 to 1945. Armies which had been especially strong, independent, Asiatic republic; It is often forgotten that all during strengthened against us with the ac- they conspired to take over the young the terrible years when we were fight- quisition of Japanese arms and equip- Chinese republic as their satellite base ing the Japanese on one front, to pre- ment, ready to add soviet-supplied force for Asiatic communism. vent them from overrunning all Asia, to their various, cumulative demands. In spite of Moscow's infiltrations into soviet agents of the Kremlin, posing as Meanwhile, the soviet treachery at- tacked the Republic of China with their other great weapon—propaganda. The propaganda they used against us must AMERICAN THE LEGION, at its Annual fered aid of Nationalist China on For- be emphasized, because it was the Convention of 1952, stood firmly mosa, a nation which is able to give us propaganda of communist lies and de- against the propaganda for recognizing both direct and diversionary assistance. ception which did most to gain for the the red regime of communist-occupied We are permitting ourselves to be un- China as a Chinese "Government" in duly influenced by the advice of other Kremlin the vast resources of China— either Washington or Nations. the United nations who are ^BMMEffitM^KM not Moscow's military might. I want "We are giving our enemy undeserved themselves profiting y ^aflP^Hj to impress upon the people of America, sanctuary in launching direct attacks before it is too late, that the free world upon our forces from the air. Our ene- mies are taking advantage of our inde- is up against not only military force cisive action, including the interminable but an amoral, atheist cabal of world and unsatisfactory truce discussions. The marauders, full of treachery, and per- Korean War must be ended and it must haps even more dangerous to our civili- be ended in a military victory. Chiang Kai-shek and National Com- Continued on page "We have failed to utilize the prof- mander Gough meet on Formosa. ( 60 13 By JOHN WESLEY NOBLE

t was the men themselves who named The colonel chuckled. "I think 'Up- ticularly to Sergeant Parkinson, the big the island "Upchuck." Coming up in chuck' is a damned good name for the blond soldier who was close to all the the landing craft from the Pacific place," he said. men. side, they stirred slowly awake, to stand Everyone, of course, was spiteful only Now, as the others laughed, he and stretch and stare at the dark, bleak of Japs at that point. It takes time for glanced up quickly, and his baby face little rock on the foggy, leaden sea. the slow Arctic erosion—the bitter rain reddened. "In prayer," he said, "there Beyond the fog was the Bering Sea, a and snow, the endless, forlorn, freez- is a peculiar quality that maybe you've heaving loneliness, and this treeless ing fogs, winds, murky muskeg and the overlooked. Something my father re- chunk of geology, folded and fractured mosquitoes, and the near-distant deep minds—" and convulsed by volcano and earth- grumbling of volcanoes—to work under "The gospel according to your quake, had been designated their per- a man's nerves. It takes inactivity, bore- father?" quipped the colonel. sonal field of combat. They sniffed the dom and careless tongues. At first they Something within Melk firmed his droppings of innumerable ocean birds could afford to turn their corrosive eyes on the colonel. "Yes," he said, "you and the fish market stench of the sea humor on the personalities among them, could say so, sir. My father is only a lions honking off into the waves. They and the colonel could have his little farmer, but he has pursued his Scrip- shrugged and named it Upchuck. laugh at Ellsworth Melk, the youthful ture diligently, and he tries to live by

Chaplain Melk saw it was not a grand chaplain. They weren't fighting them- it. To me he has always been an instru-

place. Standing near the colonel, he selves, yet. ment of God. I have learned a great uttered one of his homilies. "You are Not that the colonel disliked Melk— deal from him that has become part of either a part of the problem, as my but rather that he couldn't take him me-" father always says," he observed, "or seriously. One night, at dinner in his "See?" said the colonel to the others. a part of the solution to the problem—" quonset, he asked Melk: "How would "I always say I got a chaplain with the "And which do you mean to be, you go about praying to get some Japs strength of two men." Captain?" asked the colonel. "Fowl or for us, Chaplain?" No one laughed directly. The colonel flesh?" It was the first time since the landing turned it back to Melk. "What about Melk frowned, but he didn't reply. that Alelk had come into the colonel's your father on matters of prayer, Chap- If there was rebuff in the colonel's direct line of fire. Usually, after dinner, lain?"

words, he didn't mean to pursue it. he gravitated to the enlisted men, par- Melk directed his blue eyes over the 14 )

He tottered but he stayed close, looking into the charred thing that had been his friend's face.

colonel's head, a habit he was develop- in the Corn Belt." The laugh was polite, a bond of strength and seeming calm. ing. Earnestly gazing there, he seemed so the colonel pushed on. "Two men The big non-com was from the same actually to pick up his line of thought. in one, and the old man comes through farm country as Melk. He knew Melk's "When we pray," he said softly, "we strongest." brand of talk, and he was taking the must remember that the Lord has given As time went on, he made occasions spiritual erosion better than the others. us each only one tongue, but he has to say it frequently, though after a while The chaplain was "listening" a good given us two good ears. If we want no one laughed. deal, either alone with his father's worn something of God, sir, we can't do all After a while the bitingest humor lost Bible beside him, or to the men when the talking. We must let Him have His itself in that Aleutian winter. The he went among them. say." tempests came hounding down over the What he heard troubled him. They There was an unsteady silence while ice floes from the Pole, swept over the cursed now in his presence, as if he the colonel's gray-black brows bristled. Bering Sea and bored to the very heart weren't there. And it wasn't Japs they He cleared his throat and smiled heav- of the outpost. Long, sullen si- were cursing, for everyone ily'. "Thank you, Chaplain," he said. lences in the quonsets erupted knew now that no Japs Melk got up. "As a matter of fact, into loud voices, and fights. Pneu- would ever be coming to sir," he said. "I am going to do some of monia, frost-bitten toes and ears, this frozen, back-eddy that listening now, if you will pardon broken legs caused by the impos- island. The war, for Up- me." sible terrain over which men and chuck at least, had swirled "Tune in for both of us, Chaplain," machines were driven by the away. the colonel said. "My ears aren't what colonel, kept the battalion medic It was inevitable, then, they once were. Most occasions I've had weary and harassed in his little that the cursing should shift to pray, there seemed to be a disrup- metal base hospital. Even among over to the Pentagon—"the tion of communications." the officers in the colonel's quon- "Put a combat Big Brass in them swivel The officers smiled, and Melk pushed set, dinner lost its casualness and officer up there." chairs" — for exiling them out into the raw night. became a tense routine. there. And finally, no longer "Yes sir," the colonel said, beaming, The chaplain's hut alone stood peace- able to conceive a living army that dis- "I've got two good men in one—the fully, and there Melk and Sergeant tant, they got onto the small brass they little feller there, and his old man back Parkinson tried to build between them ( Continued on page 52 15 • Thousands o£ Legion- O Jungle animals put on daily 0 Milles Fountain opposite • St. Louis, 1953 naires saw service at his- shows at the Zoo in Forest Park. Union Station in St. Louis. toric Jefferson Barracks. Where to go and what

A check list for the 35th National Convention, Aug. 31 — Sept. 3.

1953 NATIONAL CONVENTION at St. THELouis promises to be one of the largest in Legion history. Not only the usual excitement of the annual gather- ing and the sights of the city on the Mississippi, but also the almost perfect transportation network are an induce- ment to thousands of Legionnaires to visit St. Louis.

The city is easily accessible from any point in tbc United States. Eighteen railroad trunk lines, several major air- lines, bus routes and the transcontinental highway s make it a perfect selection for a convention city. Once in St. Louis, the visitor finds a modern metropolis providing a perfect vacation for himself and his family.

Whether it be entertainment, historical sights, shopping or just plain loafing, St. Louis offers the equal of any of America's major cities. For those who arrive early for the Convention there is first of all the world-famous "Muny Opera." Presented in a modern open-air theater in Forest Park, the Municipal Opera attracts visitors from all over the United States and Canada each year. A top flight orchestra and stars of opera, CHECK LIST FOR ST. LOUIS HIGHSPOTS stage, radio and screen make the musi- cal productions a unique feature of St. 1. Arena (Sports) KINGS HIGHWAY & LINDELL BUS (95) 5700 Oakland FOREST PARK BUS (52) and (93) Louis night life. 2. National Guard Armory 6. Cahokia Power Plant - East St. Louis, 111. 3676 Market LINDEN WOOD BUS (92) 7. Chase Hotel - Station WIL For the sports-minded, two major 3. Art Museum Kings Highway & Lindell league baseball clubs provide an oppor- Forest Park FOREST PARK BUS (52) LINDELL BUS (93) and HAMPTON (90) 8. Concordia Seminary — Station KFUO tunity to see the best players in both 4. Auto Cluh 801 Demun LINDELL BUS (93) 3917 Lindell Blvd. LINDELL BUS (93) 9. Congress Hotel — 275 Union ++) (Continued uu page 5. Barnes Hospital Group UNION BUS (13) UNIVERSITY (11) 16 J

National Convention City Aug. 31— Sept. 3. • The Old Courthouse, famous as • North of St. Louis the Mississippi the scene of the Dred Scott trial. and Missouri rivers flow together. to do in St. Louis

16. Fairgrounds Park 41. St. Louis University - Station WEW Grand Ave. & Nat'l Bridge Grand & Lindell LINDELL BUS (93) NATURAL BRIDGE BUS (104) 42. Oakland Stadium (Sports) 17. Fairmont Hotel FOREST PARK BUS (52) 4907 Maryland TAYLOR BUS (18) 43. Shaw's Botanical Garden 18. Forest Park Highlands 2315 Tower Grove (Amusement Park) SARAH & LINDELL BUS FOREST PARK BUS (52) (42) and (93) 19. Forest Park Hotel 44. Sheraton Hotel 4910 W. Pine TAYLOR BUS (18) 3701 Lindell LINDELL BUS (93) 20. Fox Theatre — Grand & Washington 45. Shubert Theatre LINDELL BUS (93) Missouri Theatre — Grand & Delmar 46. Busch Stadium St. Louis Theatre - Grand & Delmar Major League Baseball LINDELL BUS (93) LINDELL BUS (93) GRAND STREET CAR (70) GRAND STREET CAR (70) 21. Gatesworth Hotel 47. Radio Station KMOX 245 Union Blvd. UNION BUS (13) 401 S. 12th GRAVOIS BUS (105) 22. Jefferson Memorial (Lindbergh 48. Station KXLW Trophies) HAMPTON BUS (90) MANCHESTER BUS 53-54-55-56 23. Jefferson Expansion Group 49. Tower Grove Park (River Front) TOWER GROVE BUS (21) 24. Jewel Box (Forest Park) GRAND STREET CAR (70) HAMPTON BUS (90) 50. U. S. Arsenal 25. Jewish Hospital BROADWAY STREET CAR (40) 216 S. Kings Highway 51. Washington University — Francis Field KINGS HIGHWAY BUS (95) UNIVERSITY STREET CAR (11) 26. Kings-Way Hotel and CLAYTON (14) 108 N. Kings Highway 52. Zoo — Forest Park KINGS HIGHWAY BUS (95) FOREST PARK BUS (52) 27. Lafayette Park 53. Union Electric Bldg. BULIfl PARK-SOUTHAMPTON BUS (80) Birthplace of American Legion 28. Mm Arthur Bridge 12th & LOCUST (DOWNTOWN) Foot of Chouteau Ave. 54. Campbell House 29. Masonic Temple 15th & LOCUST (DOWNTOWN)

l l.l-IJ!HII.'.MIgmi 3681 Lindell LINDELL BUS (93) 55. Old Cathedral - Foot of Clark St. 30. Melbourne Hotel 56. To Jefferson Barracks National 3601 Lindell LINDELL BUS (93) Cemetery BARRACKS BUS (114) 31. Municipal Golf Course BROADWAY STREET CAR (40) Forest Park LINDELL BUS (93) 57. Public Library 32. Municipal Opera 13th & OLIVE (DOWNTOWN) t I I1 e% m|— u— H> Forest Park LINDELL BUS (93) 58. Anheuser Busch Brewery I W.'.1»1'1.T:H i and HAMPTON (90) 721 Pestalozzi 33. O'Fallon Park - N. Broadway BROADWAY STREET CAR (40) FLORISSANT BUS (74) 59. Elks Club BROADWAY STREET CAR (40) Lindell & Grand LINDELL BUS (93) ROADWAY 34. Park Plaza Hotel 60. Alhambra Grotto OlD COUKTHOUSt Kings Highway & Lindell 2626 S. Grand 103 KINGS HIGHWAY BUS (95) GRAND STREET CAR (70) 35. Police Headquarters fi i Union Station 12th & Clark GRAVOIS BUS ( 105) 18th & Market 36. Public School Stadium LINDENWOOD BUS (92) Drum and Bugle Contests .„ bi - Aloe Plaza J ML! i.v«mm LINDELL & KINGS HIGHWAY 18th Market BUS (93) and (95) & LINDENWOOD BUS (92) 37. Reservoir Park 10. De Paul Hospital — 2415 N. Kings Highway LAFAYETTE BUS (99) 63 Small Arms Ammunition Plant KINGS HIGHWAY BUS (95) GRAND STREET CAR (70) 4500 Goodfellow 11. Eads Bridge GOODFELLOW BUS (117) 38. Roosevelt Hotel - 4903 Delmar Foot of Washington Ave. PAGE. DELMAR BUS DELMAR, UNIVERSITY & 64 Knights of Columbus Club 12. East St. Louis Veterans Bridge—Foot of Franklin Ave. CLAYTON STREET CARS 10-11-14 3908 Olive 13. Eugene Field Home 39. St. Louis Cathedral DELMAR, UNIVERSITY & 634 S. Broadway BROADWAY STREET CAR (40) CLAYTON STREET CAR 10-11-14 14. Excursion Steamer — Foot of Washington Ave. LINDELL BUS (93) 15. Fairgrounds Hotel — 3644 Natural Bridge 40. St. Louis Municipal Airport 65. Corondelet Park NATURAL BRIDGE BUS (104) WOODSON BUS (65) GRAVOIS BUS (105) 17 t is w i ll know n that the average baby born 50 years ago could not expect to live long enough to read this article: in the 1900 census the life expectancy of the average human being was only forty-nine years. Diphtheria, scarlet fever or even whooping cough could be nearly as deadly as pneumonia, plagues and war. And, if a man who had not made a stake lived much beyond fifty, he was considered to be in the shadows of life; certainly, it was too late to begin on a new job or w ith a new company. Thirty was the top age level for employment—industry wanted to count on at least tw enty years out of a man before he began to "decline." To- day, despite the fact that a man's useful life expectancy has increased from 49 to a minimum of 68, there are still some companies clinging to the archaic, cruel and senselessly arbitrary ruling Tykatwillyoudo witk those that a man past 60 can be only a Board Chairman or a Rocking Chairman. But, one of the biggest considerations in reaching a happy and contented later No matter what your ago. now is the time to life, as any doctor will tell you, is a zestful desire to do so—and to have a real incentive. Therein lies the problem. Psychologists will tell you that few healthy, active men crave retirement— for more than a few weeks. A large part Take a company like Western Elec- And second, and by no means of less of our population is acknow ledging this tric, which has a firm and long-stand- importance, it keeps highly trained and reality, both among those being invol- ing policy of arbitrary retirement at knowledgeable men away from the untarily retired and those seeking re- age 65. There are just no exceptions. brain-picking fingers of the competition. employment, as much from boredom as But this is just another example of the The problem of how best to employ

I rom necessity. old saying that it is an ill wind which our older workers comes into clear A concerted effort is being made by blows no good. Nearby in Illinois is focus only when you fully realize that the Automatic Electric Company, a smaller concern manufacturing tele- phonic equipment, which has an equally firmly established policy of hiring recently "separated" W. E. over-age personnel on five-year contracts and frequently at more money. Needless to

say, this is not across the board, but good men need not fear if the count of

their years is the only limiting factor. There are many other industrialists, large and small, who follow enlightened personnel practices in this regard. A A Chicago manufacturer uses his retired Chicago plant has instituted a plan men as consultants to train younger men. to utilize their retired men as part time Knowing many trained men had gone consultants, especially in the training south, Boeing went after them there. your Legion, other veterans' organiza- of younger men. tions, v arious departments in the Gov- This fair-to-all policy has had a dual the competition for earning a livelihood ernment and the more advanced leaders effect — it sharply increases the inter- extends into practically every field of ot industry to utilize the great reserve est and vigor of men approaching re- endeavor. It is not confined to the ma- of abilities represented by those between tirement while they are still on the job. chine shop; it includes the self-employed fifty and seventy at all levels from the It abolishes that half-sullen, half-haunted man who must retire himself to avoid manual to the executive. But there are look of a man about to get a gold watch serious morale problems down the line contrasts in industry policies w hich are and a slightly forced speech from some in his own otherwise happy plant. I both dramatic and, in some cases, un- character who at least still has his job know of one man in Louisiana w ho re- fortunate. and can afford to be jolly about it all. tired himself, had a big sendoff with a

18 key—to the whole matter. Employers must be liberalized, educated; they must realize that modern medicine and den- tistry, coupled with shorter working hours and fewer days per w eek in most industries have greatly extended the peak usefulness of our citizens. This leadership belongs in part w ith Govern- ment, but the execution of modern employment concepts still remains w ith the employer. There is a plant in an Ohio town that follows an intelligent program: as a part of their insurance- retirement-pension program, they have the part time services of a young doctor with a good know ledge of psychology. He examines all of the men peri- odically—strictly routine—and gets to know them both mentally and physically. If he pays more attention to the

older men, it is so smoothly done they YEARS? do not realize it. It is his job to help ADDED last as ants to. make a man as long he w But only the doctor and the employer

know it. To the rest he is just "The Doc" from the insurance company, so life span. plan to take advantage of your longer they are perfectly at ease with him and he gets the facts of a man's capacities objectively without having to abide by some management engineer's slide rule calculations on theoretical geriatrics. There are some w ho advocate loans pint of crocodile tears for every pint of nezer who lived to a hundred and to oldsters to start up their own Bourbon consumed, and passed the twelve and dropped dead pulling a who wish businesses, or make a lifetime hobby word around that he was off to Florida plow , but we speak here of the average start paying off. This sort of loan could to live. A month later he was in another man of yesterday, today and tomorrow . range from such ingenious ideas as the State working in the shop of a friendly Personally, if I live to a hundred and elderly California couple w ho made a competitor who never knew the real twelve, I'd rather be behind a Cadillac ghost town pay off as a tourist attraction. name of this able old foreman until the than a plow. But Cadillac or not, I want day after he died at seventy-seven. But to be able to work and not be told that

the problem is not isolated within the according to statistics (a) I am not good boundaries of industry as such. It is on enough to handle the job at my age, or,

the farm and in commerce; it is indoors (b) that I won't live long enough to and it is outdoors, upstairs and down. amortize the expense of training me. We've cured or controlled the worst Whose crystal ball says so? of the physical diseases which so limited The need for something other than man's effective life just a few genera- hopeful platitudes is now—and great. tions ago. Of course, there always is Social Security, once thought the pana-

the story of someone's old Uncle Ebe- cea of all social ills, especially for the over-age-in-grade, isn't as rosy as it looked—depreciation of the dollar took its toll there, too. Some pension plans of the few far-sighted companies which Your birth certificate may say you began them twenty or thirty years ago are old, but "it ain't necessarily so." are not paying off in actual purchasing power today anything like what was to an ex-automobile salesman in (Massa- originally envisioned. Many men who chusetts w hose heart could no longer relied on such support in their later stand the exertion of long hours on the years have had to start scratching for floor; he now rolls especially high qual- other ways of adding to their purchas- ity cigarettes for the wealthy and is ing power—and thus they increase the making a good living. He realized he keen competition for those jobs which had to slow down, but not come to a do exist with the more liberal em- dead stop. There is absolutely no end activities, but there is Setting a good example, the government ployers. to the list of such now gives a break to people up to 70. That is the key— if there is any one (Continued on page 50) 19 The Hambletonian, world's richest trotting race, at Goshen, N. Y. The mechanical starting gate helps start the fields evenly and fairly.

RACING- Country Style

The trotters and pacers are packing them in this summer from coast to coast.

By ALDEN E. CALKINS

this sizzling supersonic age, Americans have turned back paper plates under the same spreading trees that have shaded Inthe clock to the horse and buggy days for their fun. untold others enjoying a revival of grass roots Americana. Incredible as it sounds, it's true. And it is growing more For, like the theater, harness racing is a fabulous invalid so. With 501 harness racing tracks breaking all records for which has resolutely declined to die even when its death has attendance in 1952, this summer is headed toward even great- been predicted gleefully by "experts," including those who er support of the tradition-rich sport that started in Revolu- said night racing would not prosper. tionary times and has grown up with the country. For most major events, in sports or out, one usually has to

Whoever said that a difference of opinion is what makes go to a large city. Harness racing further upsets the usual. As horse racing also opined that such disputes are usually ar- witness the famed Hambletonian, world's richest trotting bitrated by shoving one's dough through a win, place or stake, soon to be raced at the tiny village of Goshen, N. Y.;

show window. But just to make it more paradoxical, at least the Little Brown Jug, foremost event for pacers held at the four-fifths of the trotting and pacing meets this year will Delaware, Ohio, County Fair, and two $30,000 harness have no betting. That means it isn't always the hope of cash- events coming up soon at the DuQuoin, 111. fair. ing in on a long shot that pulls ever-increasing numbers to This phenomenon of the sports world (or perhaps of any harness races. Steadily mounting purses getting larger fields world), a re-affirmation of faith in the less frantic rush of

of horses to compete in what basically is sport for sport's modern life, can be explained. However, it's not easy. True, sake are matched everywhere by bigger crowds — betting there are other activities as popular in the city as in the coun- or not. try. But it's difficult to think of one whose recent strides have

Perhaps the echoing hoofbeats of 12,000 trotters and forced an increase of 8,000 horses in 10 years to fill the de- pacers racing in practically every State in the Union will mand. Or that has seen the spectacular growth of the metro- drown out, at least this summer, the rumblings of a confused politan plush night-racing plants matched by the persistent world. As a healthy seasonal substitute for worry, there are continuance of 400 county fair harness tracks — 80 percent millions of shirt-sleeved folks showing no shyness today in of the total. shouting about the finer points of their hopefuls. Somewhere There is, of course, the challenge presented by the trotting nearby, church ladies are often serving up hot chicken on and pacing gaits, for they are each man-created. While any horse can trot, it takes long, patient tutoring to make that horse trot fast and not break stride. Pacing is even trickier. The horse's right fore and hind legs both go forward simul- THEY MADE HARNESS RACING HISTORY

The colorful Kelly, with the flowing Tom Berry, another famous Sep Palin, renowned Hoosier reinsman, be- beard and bright green trappings. driver, and dachshund Dutch. hind Greyhound in an old high-wheeled sulky. "Here they come!" around the turn at the Ohio State Fair.

The pacer. The horse's left fore leg and left hind leg move forward simultaneously. Then the right legs.

The trotter. The Left front leg and right hind leg alternate: then the right front and left rear.

The upsurge in harness racing interest also lies, at least in part, in the fact that anyone—man, woman or teen-ager —can drive a trotter or pacer. (Imagine most of us aboard a thoroughbred run- can't, as amateurs, do ner! ) Maybe they quite as well as the pros, but they can and do race against them at any time taneously, quickly followed by its left legs in a sort of rolling and at any place on the major league Grand Circuit or at the sidewheeling gait. This is perhaps even a prettier sight than smallest county fairs. Probably the most famous amateur of the trotter throwing alternate right front and left back legs the day is 44-year-old Harrison Hoyt, of East Dorset, Yt. forward. The rhythmic footwork is such a fascinating study He won the Hambletonian stake in 1948 with his own in motion that one frequently hears the comment, "Well, he Demon Hanover. Hoyt now has his half-owned Lloyd didn't win, but he sure made a good try!" In other words, Frederick ready for the $100,000 trotting classic being held while the horse may have lost, his defeat is softened by the at Goshen on August 12. handsome performance both horse and driver turned in. Alma Sheppard, who was only 11 years old in 1°37, pi- Americans seem to support man's prowess in almost any- loted her father's Dean Hanover to a world record mile of thing that he does better than someone else. There's plenty 1.58V2 one autumnal afternoon at Lexington, Ky., to grab of evidence that skill with two reins, a stopwatch and whip, most of the headlines as the youngest expert amateur. It had all of which a driver must expertly palm while riding a never been done before in such spectacular time, for the all- bouncing, swerving 32-pound sulky, is rewarded by crowds time mark of a trotter (Greyhound) is only three and one- who instinctively sense smooth coordination in man and half seconds faster and was made one year later. But it would horse. (Continued on page 47) 21 )

HOW TO UNDERSTAND

This is how the commies and the pro-commies

It is necessary to fight com- have suppressed and distorted the facts about the red munism intelligently, and that means you have to study it. menace— and how you can get the facts despite them.

By VICTOR LASKY Last May 3, the New York Herald Tribune book section, one of the nation's most important, ran a review monumental conspiracy aimed at trol of the leading book review sections, by one Gordon Craig, described as a keeping Americans in virtual ignor- through which they virtually black- Princeton University history professor. A ance of the menace of communism mailed publishers into producing books Prof. Craig disputed Mr. Flynn's thesis is being thwarted, mainly by the desire giving aid and comfort to those who that China sold out, commenting: of Americans to learn the truth for hate America. was "It is difficult to be charitable to this themselves. Not that all is serene, however, from kind of thinking." Then he launched Korea did much to awaken most an anti-red viewpoint, in the book- into an all-out whitewash of the I.P.R., Americans as to the nature of the enemy world today. Little, Brown & Co., de- which for years had been a happy hunt- we face. Many illusions on the possi- spite the departure of its pro-red editor, ing ground for a vast number of red bility of doing business with the Krem- Angus Cameron, recently put out a spies and traitors. Among other things, lin were shattered. communist-indorsed biography of a Prof. Craig described the red seizure of There was a time, not so long ago, commie doctor who died in Soviet China in terms of "the Chinese people" however, when the nation's bookshops China. making their own "revolution." Vicious were filled with books extolling the It was this staid Boston firm which attacks on the legitimate Chinese leader, soviet way of life. Books on China, for published the novels of Stefan Heym, Chiang Kai-shek were rehashed. example, were mainly of the anti-Chiang who recently announced he had been Curiously enough, a day or so before Kai-shek variety. Most of them pictured granted "asylum and citizenship" in Red the review was published, one of the the "new" China, led by A'lao Tse-tung's Germany. Herald Tribune's book reviewers, Ed- bully boys, as the harbinger of peace Another old firm, Houghton Mifflin, ward Fitzgerald, appeared as an "un- and security in the Far East. recently published a book by Helen J. friendly" witness before a Senate com- This incredible situation, in which Bryan, Inside, the story of her imprison- mittee. Fitzgerald, had also re- anti-communist books were being con- ment for defying Congress. Miss Bryan who viewed books for the Saturday Review, sistently sabotaged, was detailed at was the executive secretary of the Joint the New York Times and the Book of length by Irene Corbally Kuhn in a well- Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, which the Month Club refused, on the grounds remembered article Why You Buy specialized in financing the operations of self-incrimination, to deny that he Hooks That Sell Communism published of such "refugees" as Gerhart Eisler. had been a member of a World War II in this magazine in January 1951. At the same time efforts are still be- spy ring. The bookshop situation has improved ing made to prevent the publicizing of somewhat. More and more publishers anti-communist books, although a bit Typical of the obscurantism being are finding a market for hard-hitting more subtly than before. When John T. foisted on the public was the list of books dealing with the realities of soviet Flynn's book, The Lattiniore Story, "notable"' books of the year released by

existence. appeared recently, it was either ignored the American Library Association. But the professional anti-anti-com- by most critical media, or attempts were This list contained such titles as Alan munists who control the editorial pages made to axe it to death. The book of Barth's The Loyalty of Free Men, and of several leading daily newspapers are course is the authoritative story of the David Hurlburd's It Happened in Pasa- still trying to buck the tide of rising successful conspiracy involving the red- dena, a biased account of a school con- Americanism. infiltrated Institute of Pacific Relations, troversy. For too many years these thought- various red agents, and Owen Latti- But what is significant is that the

poisoners were in practically full con- niore, to hand China to the reds. ( Continued on page 55 22 : . :

A CHECKLIST OF BOOKS DEALING WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF COMMUNISM

THEORY AND PRACTICE BANNERS OVER ASIA, by O. O. Trul- Communism: U. S. OF COMMUNISM RED by R. N. Carew Hunt (N. Y.: Macmillan, linger (Boston: Beacon, $3.50) Red pene- THE CRY IS PEACE, by Louis Budenz (Chicago: $2.75) Theoretical. tration. Regnery, $3.75) Soviet "peace" drives SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF COM- THE KOREA STORY, by Frost & Caldwell analyzed. MUNISM by Jules Monnerot (Boston: Bea- (Chicago: Regnery, $3.50) Eye-witness re- COMMUNISM VERSUS THE NEGRO, by Wil- con, $5.50) Red theory, practice. port. liam, A. Nolan (Chicago: Regnery, $3.50) THE RUSSIAN MENACE TO EUROPE, by Karl THE CHINA STORY, by Freda Utley (Chicago: Analysis of Reds' failure to win over Negro. Marx and Friedrich Engels, (Glencoe, 111., Regnery, $3.50) How we lost China. Free Press, Writings, suppressed FROM MAJOR JORDAN'S DIARIES, by George $3.75) by THE ENEMY WITHIN, by Fr. Raymond F. Racey Jordan (N. Y.: Harcourt Brace, $3.50) Kremlin, cite Russia as European threat. BOLSHEVISM: TO SOVIET deJacghcr and Irene Kuhn (N. Y.: Double- Inside Soviet lend-lease. INTRODUCTION day, $3.75) Red China exposed! COMMUNISM, by Waldemar Gurian (Uni- PREJUDICE AND THE PRESS, by Frank OUT OF RED CHINA, by Liu Shaw-Tont) Hughes (N. Y.: Devin-Adair, $6) On Left- versity of Notre Dame, $3.25) Communism, secular religion. (N. Y.: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $4) By wing press. Chinese ex-red. LATTIMORE STORY, by John T. Flynn (N. Y.: SOVIET IMPERIALISM: ITS ORIGINS, AND ASIA AFLAME, by Ebed Van der Vlugt (N. Y.: Devin-Adair, $1) Excellent. TACTICS, edited by Waldemar Gurian (Uni- Devin-Adair, $6) Communism in the East. WHILE YOU SLEPT, by John T. Flynn (N. Y. versity of Notre Dame, $3.75) By scholars. Devin-Adair, $2.50) On high red infiltration. THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNISM, by REPORT ON MAO'S CHINA, by Frank Moracs COMMUNIST TRAIL IN AMERICA, by Jacob Georgio La Pira, others (N. Y.: Fordham, (N. Y.: Macmillan, $4) Indian editor's dis- Spolansky (N. Y.: Macmillan, $3.50) FBI $5) By European thinkers. illusionment. man's story. THE VATICAN AND THE KREMLIN, by Ca- McCARTHYISM, by Joe McCarthy (N. Y.: mille M. Cianfarra (N. Y.: Dutton, $3) Re- Novels, Picture etc. Devin-Adair, 50(*) The Senator's side of the ligious struggle. Miscellaneous: Books argument. PARTY, by 1984, by George Orwell (N. Y.: Harcourt Brace, NEGRO AND THE COMMUNIST The Red Empire Wilson Record (Chapel Hill, University of $3.00) Life in a collective world of the future. $3.50) Red efforts to form Mikhail North Carolina, MALENKOV, by Martin Ebon (N. Y.: McGraw- WHEN THE GODS ARE SILENT, by Republic." Soloviev "Negro Hill. $3.75) The new red boss. (N. Y.: McKay, $3.95) On Soviet WORLD COMMUNISM TODAY, bv Martin Ebon life. Red Espionage, Conspiracy and Murder (N. Y.: McGraw-Hill. $5) Kev source-book. A ROOM ON THE ROUTE by Godfrey Blunden THE NEW SOVIET EMPIRE, by David Dallin (N. Y.: Bantam, 35c*) On Soviet terror. ASSASSINS AT LARGE, by Hugo Dewar (Bos- (New Haven: Yale University Press, $3.75) THE TIME OF THE ASSASSINS, by Godfrey ton: Beacon, $3) Red murders outside Russia. Important. Blunden (N. Y.: Lippincott, $3.75) Ukraine REPORT OF ROYAL COMMISSION TO IN- RUMANIA UNDER THE SOVIET YOKE, by under nazis and reds. VESTIGATE DISCLOSURES OF SECRET Reuben Markham (Boston: Meador, $4) Red IF YOU WERE BORN IN RUSSIA, by Arthur INFORMATION TO UNAUTHORIZED Rumania. Goodfriend (N. Y. : Farrar, Straus, $5) Pic- PERSONS, (Ottawa: King's Printer, $1) RAPE OF POLAND, by Stanislaiv Mikolajczyk ture-text. Official on Canadian spies. (N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, $4) By former Polish SINCE STALIN. HISTORY OF TREASON by Ralph de Toledo no A PHOTO OUR SEEDS OF Premier. TIME, by Boris Shub and Bernard Quint and Victor Lasky (N. Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, COMMUNIST PARTY IN ACTION, by Angela (N. Y.: Swen, $3.95) Graphic portrayal. $3.50) Hiss case. Rossi (New Haven: Yale, Major work. $4) COMES THE COMRADE, by Alexandra Orme CRIME WITHOUT PUNISHMENT, by Guenther COUNTERFEIT REVOLUTION, by Sidney Lens (N. Y.: Morrow, $3.50) Witty story of reds Reinhardt (N. Y.: Hermitage, $3.50) Red (Boston: Beacon, $3.75) red imperialism. On "liberating" Hungary. intrigues. TOTAL TERROR, by Albert Kalme (N. Y.: SHANGHAI CONSPIRACY by Major-General Appleton-Century-Crofts, $3.50) Red Baltic ANIMAL FARM, by George Orwell (N. Y.: Har- C. A. Willoughby (N. Y.: Dutton, $3.75) genocide. court Brace, $2) Brilliant satire. MacArthur's intelligence chief on red es- CONQUEST BY TERROR, by Leland Stowe BURNED BRAMBLE, by Manes Spcrber (N. Y.: pionage. (N. Y.: Random, $3.50) How reds seized Doubleday, $3.95) Of European communists. SPIES, DUPES AND DIPLOMATS, by Ralph dc satellites. THE CASE OF COMRADE TULAYEV, by Victor Toledano (N. Y.: Duel], Sloan & Pearce, Serge (N. Y.: Doubleday, $2.75) Moscow $3.50) Vivid story of Reds in Far East and detective story. Inside Russia Washington. DARKNESS AT NOON, by Arthur Koestler (N. Y.: Macmillan, they confess. VERDICT OF THREE DECADES, edited by $2) Why Exposes by Former Communists Julicn Steinberg (N. Y., Duell. Sloan & THE GREAT IDEA, by Henry Hazlitt (N. Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, $3.50) Defends in- and Undercover Agents Pearce, $5) Must on Soviet history. THE END OF A REVOLUTION, bv Fritz Stern- dividualism. MEN WITHOUT FACES, by Louis Budenz berg (N. Y.: Day, $3) Kremlin exploits NEITHER FIVE NOR THREE, by Helen Mac- (N. Y.: Harper, $3.50) Inside C. P. workers. hines (N. Y.: Harcourt, Brace, $3) Commu- RED MASQUERADE, UNDERCOVER FOR THE FORCED LABOR IN THE SOVIET UNION, by nists in publishing. FBI, by Angela Calomiris (Philadelphia: David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky (New ANTHEM, by Ayn Rand (Caldwell. Idaho: Cax- Lippincott, $3) Life as red, by FBI photog- Haven: Yale, $4.50) Best on subject. ton, $3) Of a man who rediscovers individ- rapher. RUSSO-GERMAN ALLIANCE, by A. Rossi (Bos- ualism. ton: 1939-41 WHOLE OF THEIR LIVES, bv Benjamin Gitlow Beacon, $3) Analyzes pact. I KILLED STALIN, by Noel Sterling (N. Y.: (N. Y.: Scribner, $3.50) On U. S. reds. OPERATIONAL CODE OF THE POLITBURO, Farrar, Straus & Young $3) also in paper 1 LED THREE LIVES, by Herbert Philbrick by Nathan Leites (N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, $3) bound editions. (N. Y.: McGraw-Hill, $1) C. P. life, by Red strategy. FBI plant. JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION, by Solomon N. OUT OF BONDAGE, by Elizabeth Bentley Sehwarz (Syracuse University, $5) Dispels Pamphlets (N. Y.: Devin-Adair, $3.50) How college girl red "tolerance" myth. became involved in espionage. BRIEF ON COMMUNISM, MARXISM & LEN-

WITNESS, by Whittukcr Chambers (N. Y.: INISM ( American Bar Association, Ave Maria Russia: Biography and Personal Random House. $5) One of greatest books of Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 15c). our times. Reminiscences COMMUNIST INFILTRATION IN UNITED IRON CURTAIN, by Igor Gouzenko (N. Y.: STATES, (Chamber of Commerce of the Dutton, $3) By Russian who exposed spy LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, by William L. U.S., Washington 6, D. C, hO()- ring. White (N. Y.: Harcourt Brace, $3) Russia, COMMUNIST TRADE UNION TRICKERY EX- a first-hand account. POSED, by Karl Baarslag (Washington. D.C. LEAP TO FREEDOM, by Oksana Kasenkina Communism: What To Do About It? Argus Advisory Associates, Box 174, Frank- (N. Y.: Lippincott, $3) By a woman who lin Station, $1). STRATEGY FOR SURVIVAL, by John E. Kieffer fled red Consulate. COMMUNISTS WITHIN GOVERNMENT (Cham- MY LIFE IN THE RED ARMY, by Virsky (N. Y.: McKay, $4) Plan to defeat Russia ber of Commerce of U.S.. Washington 6, (N. Y.: Macmillan, $3.50) Inside picture. in case of war. D.C, 50?1 ). CONTAINMENT OR LIBERATION? by James I JOINED THE RUSSIANS, by Heinrich von COMMUNISTS WITHIN LABOR MOVEMENT Burnham (N. Y.: Day, $3.50) Dealing with Einseidcl (New Haven: Yale, $4) Bismarck's of (Chamber of Commerce of U.S., Washington Kremlin realistically. grandson tells communist conversion. MILITARY ATTACHE IN MOSCOW, by Major- G, D. C, 50(- ). THE COMING DEFEAT OF COMMUNISM by THE NEW RED ANTI-SEMITISM, (Boston: James Burnham (N. Y.: Day, $3.50) Beat- General Richard Hilton (Boston, $3) Mos- Beacon Press, 75^). ing Communism without war. cow life SHAME AND GLORY OF THE INTELLECTU- TELL THE WEST, by Jerzy Gliksmun (N.. Y.: SOVIET IMPERIALISM PLUNDERS ASIA 77 St., Trade Union Committee, 1710 ALS by Peter Viereck (Boston: Beacon, $4) Jewish War Veterans, 50 W. $1) (N. Y.: Free On intellectuals who to their "glory" were Jewish leader in red slave camp. Broadway, $1 ) Vladimir Petrov (N. Y.: anti-Nazi, but to their "shame" are anti-anti- SOVIET GOLD, by AMERICA'S TRAGEDY- TODAY, bv Hamilton Communist. Farrar, Straus, $4) On slave labor. Long (N.Y.: 18 Beekman St., 50c) On World by Nicholas THE CHOICE, by Boris Shnb (N.Y.: Duell, Sloan MY RINGSIDE SEAT IN MOSCOW, War II red infiltration. Crowell, foreign & Pearce, $2.75) Psychological warfare. Nyradi (N. Y.: $3.75) By CHINA LOB-LOLLY, by Geraldiue Fitch (N. Y. diplomat. GOD AND MAN AT YALE, by William Buckley, Devin-Adair, Zhf ) Red China lobby. Victor Kravchcnko Jr. (Chicago; Regnery, $3.50) Deflates "aca- I CHOSE FREEDOM, hv STALIN, A SELF PORTRAIT (N. Y.: Farrar, Y.: Scribner. $3.75). demic freedom." (N. Straus, $1) Amusing. THE ULTIMATE WEAPON, by Oleg Anisimov, SOVIET RUSSIA AND JEWS (N. Y.: American (Chicago: Regnery, $3.50) Keeping peace Communism and the Far East: China Jewish League Against Communism, 220 W. without appeasing. 42nd St., 50f). THE PEOPLE'S POTTAGE, by Garet Garrett and Korea STALIN'S HOAX ON THE COMMUNISTS, by (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, $3) Attacks alien Ernest S. Pisko (Boston: Beacon, 50f). ideologies. BRAIN-WASHING IN RED CHINA, by Edward ANTI-COMMUNIST PAMPHLET SET (N. Y.: Hunter (N. Y. : Vanguard, $3.50) Must Catholic Information Society. $1). Communism: Theory and Religion reading. RISE OF RUSSIA IN ASIA, by David Dallin PINK FRINGE IN METHODIST CHURCH?

( Houston, Texas Committee for Preservation A CENTURY OF CONFLICT by Stefan T. Pos- (New Haven: Yale, $5) Russia's age-old seize Orient. of Methodism, Box 937. Free). soi/)/ (Chicago: Regnery, $7.50) Must on dream to red revolutionary strategy. NO SECRET IS SAFE, by Mark Tennien (N. Y.: STALIN'S SLAVE CAMPS (International Con- Unions. 20 W. 42nd COMMUNISM AND MAN by F. J. Shecd (N. Y.: Farrar, Straus, $3.50) A missionary in Red federation Free Trade Sheed & Ward, $2.50) Catholic approach. China. St., N. Y., 75?). 23 The basis of the Ad Men s Post project was the belief that a Initial survey of the problem showed that most press- disabled vet is not handicapped if fitted to the right job. ing need was for professional guidance in job placement for disabled vets. Ad Post secured services of Just One Break, Inc., specialists in the field.

PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED VETS HELPED BY J O B. BECOME SELF-SUPPORTING

Ex-GI John Glasheen, an arm amputee, is now assistant to hotel beverage manager.

Phillip Tully passed New York State Insurance exams and is now employed by an insurance firm.

O. B. interviewer classifies the skills and abilities of a disabled applicant. Jobs for 40 vet- < Ray Pollard, ex-Army Air erans were found in the first year of operation. Force was placed with a cigarette manufacturing company. 24 Rehabilitation of disabled veterans is incomplete unless they have productive

jobs. Here's how Advertising Men's Post No. 209 of N.Y.C. is meeting the challenge.

#2,500!? "1 •mm

Employers were queried on the number of Here CBS's Jack Sterling raises funds for Ad J. O. B.'s Executive Director jobs available for disabled vets. At the same Men's Post rehab work at Christmas auction. Henry Viscardi, Jr., displays time an educational program was conducted Insert: Past Commander Hugh Norman presents Post's checks. His example in-

to sell prospective bosses on the advantages check to Orin Lehman. J. O. B. President, to spired the Post's interest in of hiring the physically handicapped. set up Ad Post Wing for disabled veterans. J. O. B.'s work with the disabled.

il THE NEED FOR J.O.B. BECOMES MORE URGENT WITH THE ADDITION OF THE DISABLED KOREAN VETERANS ABILITIES we

Well organized and active, Ad Men's Post No. 209 of New York City, has for many years conducted a well-rounded and compre- hensive program in collaboration with Veterans Hospitals in the New York area. Their work has been invaluable as a supplement to the regular VA budget with funds for equipment and services not ordinarily provided. To some of the Post members, however, even this extensive and helpful program did not seem adequate or complete. For the veteran the aid stopped when he passed through the hospital door. The Legionnaires asked what happened when the disabled vet left the warm and protective confines of the hospital and its facilities. In November 1951, at of their An example of the disabled's ability to match one the more fortunate is provided by Abilities, regular weekly luncheons, the Post Inc., heard first hand of a J. O. B. affiliate. Employing only the one of the major disabled in present defense work, company is (Continued on page 44) delivering above the normal production rate. 25 PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS Spinning C£ear to get the fish that used to get away

Bass, bluegills and red-eared sunfish. A few of the many species that may be caught with spinning gear.

By ERWIN A. BAUER Top of spin cast. Rod has been brought smartly to twelve Our division was preparing for the assault on Cas- o'clock position. Snap of wrist sino just ten years ago when I saw my first spin- starts lure forward to target. ning outfit. An Italian angler was casting it for trout along a small mountain brook. Circumstances Q Comfortable grip on rod. as they were, it aroused little interest. But nowadays Index finger extended ready

1 keep a couple of spinning outfits in my car, vir- to pick up line. (Note that reel tually the year around. and guides face the ground.) Today spinning — or spin-fishing — is an epidemic Index finger picks up line, that is spreading wherever you find any of the rod using only the tip of finger. and reel boys. The number of them is actually increasing because of spinning. Generally, it's the most Line held against cork simple and most effective means of catching fish yet grip by tip of index finger. devised for novices and fishing addicts alike. It's a Metal pickup finger is turned boon for beginners. to bottom of reel and opened. Spinning isn't something new under the sun. The During forward motion fixed spool reel as we know it was invented in Eng- ^3 of cast, line is released. Point land fift>r years ago. Spinning reels were no novelty of release is determined by on the chalk streams of France or on Swiss Alpine target. Line flows oft swiftly. lakes for more than twenty-five years. Returning World War II servicemen provided necessary the El When reel handle is impetus to the sport in America with fishing equip- turned, the pickup finger auto- ment collected in every corner of Europe. matically closes and engages

Spinning is popular because it has simplified fish- line for the retrieve.

ing. It is easy to learn, too. Effortless and fairly ac- In the reel shown (Mas- curate casting is possible for school boys, housewives tered) the shaft jacket is and office workers who have only rare days to spare, given a forward turn which as well as for the fellows who work hard at fishing. puts the anti-reverse click into There are no backlashes and backcasts gone astray action while drag is in play. to worry even the greenest spin-fisher. And selection of a balanced outfit isn't nearly so important as IBI Setting the drag nut. This in bait or fly casting. controls the pressure under

Consider this: I needed several years to become which the fish will run.

a proficient bait caster. I toiled through many a fish- Casting [inline and ing trip before I learned to use fly fishing tackle spin reel sequence properly. But a dozen exploratory casts, more or less, by Dona to Leo and Jim Deren. and I had spinning licked. At least I was doing well Oilier pictures by the author. 26 TYPICAL EFFECTIVE The cast is the simplest kind of oper- to give a slight tension. Keep the reel SPINNING LURES FOR FRESH WATER ation possible. You use the weight of spool parallel to the line spool and be- the lure to put a bend in the rod—then gin winding. There's an important de- you let go. The line peels easily off the tail to remember when winding; keep reel and is stopped when the lure hits the line running from the bottom of the water. The act of casting is almost one spool to the top of the other, or exactly the same as in bait casting. You vice versa, but never top to top or bot- swing the rod smoothly backward, then tom to bottom. Fill the reel spool to forward, releasing the line on the for- bottom of bevel at edge of spool. ward motion. Now you need a practice casting Let's go back and start from scratch. plug. A quarter-ounce surface plug You have a spinning outfit and you with the hooks removed will do very

want to use it. It's possible, of course, well. In a pinch you can practice right to substitute a long casting rod or a in your backyard, but casting over

short fly rod, with some alterations to water is much better. Dry land casting the grip section—but generally it would over a lawn results in uneven tensions be a poor exchange. You need a spin- while retrieving and the line does not ning rod and reel. spool properly for succeeding casts. Many beginners become discouraged Now for the cast, the overhand cast because their initial selection of lines is basic and should be mastered first. was wrong. Most often they chose When fishing later on, you'll be making lines that were too heavy, perhaps just all sorts of horizontal casts, side-swipes, to be on the safe side. Or maybe an underhands and backhands, but stick to inexperienced tackle-store clerk ad- the overhand cast for a starter. Hold 1 Upperman bucktail, 2 Bucktail jig, vised it. Heavy lines destroy all the ad- your casting arm parallel to the ground 3 Paul Bunyan 66, 4 Heddon Torpedo, vantage gained from spinning. with your elbow relaxed by your side. 5 Lee Lure, 6 Plastic bubble which can Two types of spinning lines are avail- Hold your rod at about 45 degrees and be partially filled with water for casting able—monofilament nylon and braided. sight over the tip toward your target. weight, 7 Ny-lure, 8 Pfleuger weighted begin- spinner, 9 Pflueger weighted streamer, The monofil lines cast more easily and Using only your wrist in the 10 Pflueger Razem, 11 Heddon Polly- are vastly more durable, but they do ning, bring the rod straight up until the wiggler, 12 Heddon River Runt. not coil around the reel spool as easily. grip reaches the verticlc — or slightly Braided lines are more limp, coil beau- past it. Without pausing, bring the rod

tifully if not too heavy, and should be forward again. Release the line just as used for initial spinning efforts. Six- the rod reaches the 45 degrees, or start- enough to catch fish. My seven-year- old son was doing fairly well after fifteen minutes of practice.

Spinning is deadly because it is versa- tile. An angler can cast lures in a wide range of weights and sizes, live or artificial. He can cater to the whims and vagaries of nearly all species of fish. Greater casting distances with small lures or baits are possible. And the trend, nowadays, especially in heavily

fished waters, is to lighter, smaller lures that more closely imitate the natural forage of game fish. Here's a good example of spinning's

adaptability. I fish a great deal in western Lake Erie for smallmouths and white bass. For years I've heard the old timers, the guides and party boat skip- pers swear that the smallmouths, except on rare occasions, wouldn't take arti- ficials. It was a matter of bottom fishing, they said, with minnows or crayfish. And they were partially correct. The bronzebacks weren't interested in the jumbo-sized plugs then on the market. But now that spinning permits the use of very small, deep-running spoons and spinners, the exclusive use of live bait It's especially impor- is strictly a horse and buggy theory. pound test is ample. After some skill in ing position again. going too far Spinning differs from other methods spinning is attained, a switch to four- tant to keep the rod from cast of fishing, mainly, in that the reel has a or five-pound monofil line should be back on the backcast. The forward still only fixed spool. Line pays off the end of made. should be brisk, too, but use the work. the spool, rather than from the side of There is one correct and numerous your wrist. Let the rod do easy? a revolving spool as on a casting reel. incorrect methods of putting line on the How could casting be more smooth and The negligible amount of resistance reel. To do it properly, place the spool After your cast becomes de- from such an arrangement permits the of line flat on a table, using a pencil to automatic, you should try for some ( page 45) longer casts of lighter lures. hold it in place and using your fingers Continued on 27 Now that the heat's in and the insect By JACK DENTON SCOTT chester, have set up an experimental station horde is with us, E. E. Paddock has a hint of 522 acres called Nilo Farms, 12 miles that should be helpful to your dog and paper; and drop them on the coals. Espe- from East Alton, the purpose of which is maybe yourself. "The tick season is with us cially good if your fishing camp is short to assure sportsmen of the future more again," he points out, "and when one goes on seasoning materials. game through "controlled shooting." afield and accumulates several tick bites, After a successful year of operation Harry H. Hammer of 121 West 21st it is helpful to have a simple remedy to where pen-reared game birds were liber- Street, Los Angeles 7, California has sub- stop the almost unbearable itching caused ated ahead of the hunters, C. H. Hopkins, mitted an idea for baiting with live fish by the tick. director of conservation for Olin, believes that looks awfully good. Here it is: "Wring out a rag or sponge in piping hot that farmers can profit from raising birds water, apply to the bite for two or three and planting cover for the birds on their minutes. The itching will stop and not farms. During seasons when little or no return. income from their acreage can be utilized "Also if you try to extract a tick from the through farming, owners of farms can in- body of your dog, yet the tenacious head vite hunters to hunt their land. remains, try applying a few drops of iodine The men at Nilo recommend a charge directly on the tick's head. It will drop off The system is to use rubber bands. You per hunter of $25.00 per day. Each hunter in few minutes." a apply the rubber band around the fish and is given an opportunity to shoot six birds.

you put the hook between the fish and Nilo Kennels is operated in conjunction Ever catch a friend the rubber band. . . . The method of put- with Nilo Farms where good bird dogs /hen you were ang- ting the hook through the fish causes them are available to accompany the hunters. ling for a fish? It's to bleed and in a short time they lose their Interested farmers may visit this proj- quite a harrowing ex- pep and die. . . . "For anchovies, herring, ect, inspect the installation and get com- perience, and the minnows, or any other live bait, my plete information as to costs and method tricky maneuvering friends and I have had great success with of operation. Nilo recommends that the necessary to force the this method, as it keeps them alive for a plan will work best with two farmers hook out of the flesh long time, with plenty of action." working together who own adjoining is enough to make The above sketch illustrates the three farms. Earning potential of $2,000 per year a strong man shake. different places to apply the rubber bands; each is estimated. For complete information Rush E. Castelaw, a fish-catching M.D., and for easy application we recommend write Olin Industries, East Alton, Illinois. has a few words of advice. that you twist the band around the 1st and "If a fish hook is caught," he says, "in 2nd fingers; then spread the fingers apart any part of the body and has penetrated wide enough so you can slip the band over past the barb, remove it by pushing the the bait, in any one of the three places hook forward, on through the tissue until

shown on sketch. . . . With a little practice the barb is exposed. Then cut the barb off you can regulate the tension of the rubber and back the remainder of the hook out band so it will fit SNUG but not tight of the flesh tissue. around the tail, gills or lower jaw. "Be sure to clean and sterilize the field, This last is best because it exposes the both where the hook entered and where white belly of the bait to fish approaching ir w as pushed through. Iodine or alcohol from above. It will not work with all bait is suitable for sterilization. Then dress fish. the wound with a clean dry or wet dress- ing." This of course applies only to single Two quick ones: hooks. The treble-type hook is a nastier John Hudson, Conservation Officer from Want a surefire method for finding fish? problem and may call for more expert Union City, Tennessee, states that many Ben Tepe thinks he has it. "When fishing attention. times when he has been in the woods and for crappies, or any school fish," Ben says, had occasion to use his pocket knife and long through In our May issue we mistakenly reported "tie a string about fifteen feet found it dull, he simply took a smooth piece tie lliat Herter's Inc., Waseca, Minn., were the gills of the first fish caught. Then of little soil it of offering without charge the booklet, The wood, rubbed a on and found an inflated balloon to the other end that it an excellent knife-sharpening find a Only Way lo I'rofessionally Fillet and Clean made string and release the fish. It will stone. have to do Fish. Actually the book is given with the school of fish and stop. All you "To keep tackle and tackle box free from nearby purchase of a Canadian fillet knife costing is watch the balloon, stop your boat rust," remarks Fred Willard, "put several 85^. We regret any inconvenience the error and start hauling them in." may have caused. pieces of carpenter's chalk in the box. The (balk absorbs moisture and will prevent If you have problems or questions eonnected with' the outdoors: hunting, fishing, dogs, etc., Sound advice from Jess L. Gurley: rust." don't hesitate to send them on to The Outdoor Like camp fire baked potatoes? Place Editor, American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. We will do our small piece of salt pork or bacon with Olin Industries, Inc., of East Alton, Illi- best to help. Please enclose a stamped, self- potato and roll up in metal foil (or wet nois, parent company of Western-Win- addressed envelope for reply.

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non-service hospital admission, but 217 Representatives preferred to get their House Reverses Proposed Slash recommendations from the proper committee. An inexpert bill could see sick In Veterans Hospital Budget vets die while being investigated. A dense fog covers a major slash of $300 million for payment of veterans' From January to June, disabled vet- June 18, the House acted upon them. compensation and pension. The bill erans lived in fear that repeatedly At presstime, the Senate was still to be actually eliminates this amount, but the threatened slashes in the VA hospital heard from. law requires VA to pay specific amounts and medical budget would gut Federal Economy was achieved elsewhere in to all who qualify, not adhere to a veterans medical care. But on June 18, the House version of VA's budget. In money ceiling. It was understood more the House of Representatives almost a rider to the bill, the $160 that VA money would be appropriated for such completely reversed previous portents. chips in toward a vet's home loan was payments later if needed, but some ob- servers inferred that The lower house passed up to the Sen- eliminated for the period Sept. 1, 1953 the House might ate a money bill allowing enough funds to June 30, 1954. expect VA to make the cut stick. Only ($702,179,600) in 1954 to operate all Another rider limited the time in way VA could do so would be to get beds & services in VA hospitals & homes which certain veterans could apply for tough on adjudication of compensation that can be staffed and used— 114,315 out-patient dental care. A rider also & pensions. beds. knocked 50^ off the $1.50 fee to be Another fog hung over authoriza- The vote in the House: 394 to 2. The paid schools for monthly reports on at- tion for new hospital construction. While meaning of the appropriation: a gain tendance of GIs during the next year. the House version OK'd $48,867,000 to (instead of a slash) of 5,086 beds in Congressmen did not feel too happy build mental hospitals in San Francisco use for fiscal year 1954 over 1953. about riders to a bill, coming from an and Topeka, the President would need For the first time in history, the House appropriations committee, which in to instruct Budget Director Dodge to version — which still had to weather the effect would alter existing law and approve this construction, and to un- Senate — tied the VA hospital appropri- should be the business of the veterans freeze construction authority on the ation to the number of beds that could committee. A third, and more ticklish, funds already appropriated for a new be staffed and put in use. rider was knocked down, 217 to 179. It hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. The dollar figure above does not in- would have empowered VA to investi- Total VA appropriation passed bv clude additional general VA adminis- gate claims for hospitalization by vets House was $4,008,335,264. for fiscal tration funds allowed which would ap- seeking care for non-service disabilities. year starting July 1, 1953. Senate ac- ply in part to hospital and medical Question to investigate was vets' ability tion was still awaited, could be com- general administration. to pay for treatment. General sentiment pleted one way or another before these House action on this, the medical in the House was for a tightening of words are published. phase of VA's budget, was a victory for the nation's disabled veterans and their friends, and a tribute to the House's ability to reverse its field after studying facts, hearing all sides.

Until almost June 1, the picture for sick & disabled vets had looked black. Daily fulminarions against veterans had rumbled out of Washington all winter & spring, many of them from powerful House committeemen. The cry to slash VA funds had always been out of proportion to the actual feeling in the nation's capital, but it was louder than ever, and more than enough to scare champions of disabled vets. For months, urgent pleas from Legionnaires, Legion Auxiliaries, other vet organizations and friends of veterans poured into Washington. They begged their Congressmen to study the facts, pass an adequate VA funds bill. Congressmen felt the urgency of the messages, and did study the facts. On VA hospital patients . . . new hope from the House.

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LEGION SERVICE: it hadn't even sought, because local port of churches, community beautifica- veterans wanted to share the post's fine tion drives, sw imming pools and parks. Each Post and hs Town reputation in town. All of these and many others were The actual job of rendering more and typical of what the nation's best posts On June 1, with three months remain- better community service would be up have long sponsored. ing to his term in office, Nat'l Cmdr. to the posts and districts. National Hq. Some posts, the special committee Lewis K. Gough surveyed the state of could only inspire, help, suggest, en- warned, have tended to "club them- the Legion. He saw a healthy Legion, dorse and implement. selves to death," placing mmbers' club- with a solid two-year re-growth. Na- To do this, Cmdr. Gough appointed house pleasures above all else. A good tional membership ran 98,882 over the a special national community service clubhouse, well run, never hurt and of- same date two years earlier. Only in committee, topped by Ass't Nat'l Adju- ten has helped posts, but experience terms of the untapped potential could tant E. A. Blackmore, at Indianapolis has shown that good programs make membership be viewed as a current Nat'l Hq. The committee prepared & healthy posts. All club and no program problem. released a 2-eolor broadside to the 17,- has always proved to be slow death and Cmdr. Gough saw that his remaining 249 Legion posts, proclaiming renewed brings on community disrespect, ac- job as Legion head was not to invent emphasis on community service as a cording to the substance of a special a shot in the arm, but to leave office national aim. committee release. at the end of August with the ground- Clubbed to Death: What is commu- Plentiful examples of the sort of post work done to keep the upward trend nity service? In a letter to all posts, service whose increase is sought were going. Comdr. Gough pointed out that every at hand. tied his Gough next act to a bedrock basic Legion program is a community Macon (Ga.) Post 3 & Unit 3 raised principle. Since its formation one great asset. In addition, the special commit- $1500 cash, $10,000 worth of food and truth has hung over every aspect of tee's broadside suggested many serv- clothing from citizens of Macon for tor- making the Legion go & grow. The ices that are not specific Legion pro- nado relief in neighboring city of War- post that enjoys its own town's respect grams, but come under the community ner Robins, April 30. needs no artificial membership hoopla, service mandate of the Legion dedica- Interlaken (N. Y.) Post 462 and Unit no phony publicity to substitute for tion. 462 have a grateful letter of thanks from honest public relations. The backbone Included as suggestions were boys' the Sisters of Mercy at the leper colony ol the Legion has been and will always clubs, blood banks, learn-to-swim pro- in Trinidad, British West Indies. Post & be those posts that do things in and for grams, various children's projects, sup- Unit shipped 187 pieces of clothing, 70 their towns that command local respect, pairs of shoes and three boxes of maga- that add up to breathing life into the zines to Antilles Post 1, in Trinidad, for preamble phrase "obligation to com- disposition at the leper colony. Mary Made News . . . munity, state and nation." 70 civic organizations in Allen county, On June 15, Cmdr. Gough kicked Mary Caviston, Ohio, built and are running a 24-hour- off a national community-service pep- 14, had her breath a-day serviceman's canteen at Pennsyl- up program. Objective: to expand dra- taken away by vania R.R. station in Lima. Post 96 and matically the Legion's future service to well-wishers, pho- Voiture 366, Lima, joined in project communities everywhere. Conceiving it tographers and which has been lauded in resolution of as a long range drive, Gough announced newsmen when Ohio state legislature. he would ask all candidates for Nat l she came through Post 550 in Heuvelton (N. Y.) is Mary Caviston Cmdr. lor next year to espouse the tne door of Post typical of good, small posts. Its 60 mem- plan. 229 in Roselle, N. J. Finally she got bers enjoy fine reputation in community Nobody questioned Cough's concept. it. Mary was the 5(),()()()th teen-ager of 650 total pop. Typical of its service It is a Legion cliche that active posts to attend the Friday-nite, adult-led, spirit was assignment, not long ago, of make a strong Legion. A special study teen-age recreation program at Post Post meeting space as a school classroom ol sixteen ol the nation's leading "growth 229. Weekly, chaperoned teen-age during temporary shortage of school- posts" by this magazine lour years ago parties began back in 1945, and rooms in Heuvelton. showed all sixteen to be acknow ledged Mary came in at just the right mo- Post 883, Long Beach (Calif.) has by their fellow townsmen as commu- ment on May 14, 1953 to be guest made a permanent project of making nity leaders. One in particular merely No. 50,000. Besides pix, publicity wheel chairs for kids with cerebral palsy. went through the motions of a member- and attention, Mary got a season With 7 chairs made and 13 building,

- ship drive while it emphasized service. pass for the 1953-54 teen-age re- requests for more came in from 35 states. It woke ii]) one morning to find that creation season. Many Texas posts responded to Dep't it had won a slate membership trophy of Texas emergency call, rushed aid in

32 * T " E AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 cash and household goods to San Angelo model county and town gov'ts that year. outside aid for needy children of vets, and Waco victims of May tornadoes. This year, the 6th District held its to create public child aid agencies legis- 200 latively or otherwise where needed, to Post 893, Old Forge (N. Y.) gives third Youth County, expanded to at Bentley give cash emergency awards where no free emergency hospital service in its boys and girls, in conclaves relief can be found. Adirondack Mountain area. (See photo Post in Elmira, May 14, 15. Elsewhere, other of Legion youth gov't idea Appeals for Natl Legion aid now of new panel truck added to this service expansion is Nebraska leads all states. average 227 a month. The Legion finds on facing page.) growing. There, the state school system involves outside aid for 40, makes cash awards Post & Unit 78, and Post 58, in Engle- every Nebraska high school student in to 187. wood (N. J.), joined 30 civic organiza- "Boys and Girls County Government." In May, almost 90% of children tions, furnished 70 of the city's 300 vol- South Dakota schools have similar helped were of WW2 parentage. Few unteers in a two-hour, 60,000-pound program on smaller scale. 2nd Legion requests now come for aid to children pick-up of clothes-for-Korea, June 21. District of Texas recently pioneered of WW1 fathers. Requests for help for At latest count, 22.7% of Legion posts youth county idea in that state, and the children of Korea vets is on the upswing. sponsor Boy Scout troops. Dep't of Legion Dep't of Texas now eyes 2nd Washington leads in percentage, with District model as a likely statewide pro- 51.5% of posts in state having troops. AMERICANISM: gram. New York, with 23%, sponsors most The trend toward smaller youth gov't total scout troops— 1,387. Total Legion- What is ''persuasion"? units, to include more youth over-all, got sponsored scout troops is 3,810, tops preliminary national Legion attention in In mid-June, the U. S. and the UN among all civic organizations. Legion Americanism conference at Indianapo- seemed willing to sign a paper allowing has room for 14,000 more troops. lis last Jan. 10 & 11. Nat'l Boys State the reds to persuade unwilling Chinese Legion Dep't of Pennsylvania pub- Chm'n Harry Gambrel, (Missouri) sees and North Korean POWs to come home. lished a handsome book this spring, Boys Counties and Boys Cities as likely The millions of words about the Korea selling importance of blood-giving, for future nat'l programs, in view of grow- truce ferment printed in U. S. papers Red Cross distribution. Post 201 at Sun- ing local initiative and enthusiasm. seemed to avoid going into the meaning bury, Pa., gave 189 pints of blood in of "persuasion," but the June 15 issue one Red Cross drive. . . . The 30 posts of the Firing Line took up the question. of Michigan's 2nd District each deposit MEDICAL: The Firing Line is a monthly expose ten pints of blood a year in common of communism published by the Legion's blood bank at U. of Michigan Hospital. Who Else Wants Them? Nat'l Americanism Commission. It is available free to veterans and their Firing Line, "per- In its June convention, American To paraphrase The families. By March this year, 328 pints Medical Association resoluted for suasion" of an unwilling POW by a soft had been deposited, 198 released. an end to VA medical care for non- spoken red emissary would be something Post 246 in Elgin, S. D. (Pop. 1,000) service cases except such flat-broke like this: has finished a $40,000 community build- that TB and mental cases as there is now "Hello, soldier. We understand ing, only part for post home, balance for room for. you don't want to go home. This is a public meetings, school events, town A current Legion bedside survey great, free, democratic world and of social functions, etc. of 2,688 VA patients rated non- course you may do as you please. Post 49, Stamps, Ark., has opened a service-connected shows they spent "Now, then, just a little information large, pleasant picnic park for the com- $1,373,128.29 of their own for for the records of the People's Democ- munity. Sign at gate says "Everyone private care before being admitted racy: welcome." Job took five years. to VA hospitals, and used their "What is your name? Junior rifle team of Post 32, Spring- private medical insurance too. "What is your village? field, 111., is one year old. The team Many were sent to VA by private "Who are your father and your copped a third and a fourth in trophy doctors & private hospitals when mother? matches its first year. they ran out of funds. All income "Who are your wife and children? Post 256, New Underwood, S. D., is had ceased for more than 55%. An- "Who are your friends? sponsor and producer of nat'l High other third or more depended on "Now, don't you want to come School Rodeo, at Rapid City, S. D. Julv disability pensions for income. home?" 24-26. Survey covered 18 general hos- The Firing Line raised the question First week in June, 91 Minnesota pitals, no TB or mental hospitals. whether this country, which opposed school children enrolled at "Legionville" Stalin and fought Hitler, can now or summer camp for school patrols at ever agree to the torture of hostages by calling it "persuasion." Ques- Brainerd, Minn. Legion in Minnesota is CHILD WELFARE: simply a major sponsor of the camp which gives tion two: could the UN, existing almost and humane re- uniform training to school patrol chil- Needs Up solely for human rights the dren all over the state. Total summer lations among people, ever survive attendance promised to hit 600, a record Direct aid granted to children of vet- signing of such an agreement? Nobody for the camp's six years existence. erans by the Legion's Nat'l Child Wel- else seemed to ask the questions, and South Youth Counties: Some Legionnaires fare Division now averages nearly only Syngman Rhee, aging burn because "only" 20,000 boys and $5,000 a month, marking a trend that Korea leader, answered them. He freed prisoners behind his own 12,000 girls out of nation's millions of is substantially up. A year ago the fig- thousands of future, teen-agers take part yearly in Legion ure was under $4,000. Factors include lines, risking his and his country's in- Boys States and Girls States. Among increase in number of veterans children rather than subject them to mild but latest to find a way to new growth for (now 24 million) and a cutting back of formative communist interrogation. and puzzled by Boys State idea is New York's 6th Dis- aid given children by some public agen- Americans, disturbed applecart, might trict, in Binghamton area. 6th District cies, says Child Welfare Director Ran- Rhee's upset of the under- started a Youth County in 1951, and 100 del Shake. find the key to his deed in an style. high school juniors (boys & girls) ran Legion Child Welfare policy is to find standing of "persuasion" 1953 THE AM] ICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 33 VETERANS AFFAIRS: The Housing Committee has asked "The Legion salutes the Stars and for 10,000 additional rooms in private Stripes, pledging anew honor, allegiance VA Changeover Begun homes for the use of Legion visitors and loyalty to our flag. and their wives. All rooms will be "We pledge new glory for Old Glory, Designated acting head of the Vet- checked, prior to assignment to visitors, and invite all liberty-loving Americans erans Administration on June 30, Harold by members of the Legion Auxiliary. to join us." V. Stirling two days later announced To entertain the influx of visitors, St. Flag display, it was pointed out, is for approval of so-called Gray plan VA Louis is adding several special events to proper and called for on 16 different

streamlining. its usual list of attractions. Chief among days, and the first step in increasing dis-

In a letter to Nat'l Cmdr. Gough, who these is the championship boxing bout play is for each home to have a flag supported the plan, with reservations, scheduled for September 2, at the ready for display. Stirling said directions had been given 18,000-seat Arena. Official flag display days are: New "to commence the reorganization im- The sponsor, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, Years Day; Inauguration Day (Jan. 20

mediately." ; Birth- has not yet named the contenders. in Inauguration years ) Lincoln's The plan divides VA into three major Legionnaires may visit the "world's day; Washington's Birthday; Easter divisions and clarifies staff and operat- largest brewery," Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, Sunday; Mother's Day; Armed Forces ing functions. In appointing Stirling, when Anheuser-Busch holds open house Day (May 16); Memorial Day (half- President Eisenhower "requested" that at the home of Budweiser Beer. The staff until noon); Flag Day (June 14); "no major appointments within the Vet- Yankees and Browns will be playing at Independence Day; Labor Day; Con- erans Administration be made except on Busch Stadium and exchange tickets for stitution Day (Sept. 17); Columbus an acting basis." Legionnaires will be available. Day; Armistice Day; Thanksgiving Day With the VA since 1921, Stirling is a The Legion's own colorful shows take and Christmas Day. member of National Cathedral Post 10, place Aug. 30-31 when the national Washington, D. C. music and marching contests will be INTERNATIONAL: held. St. Louis is expected to attract a MEMBERSHIP: record turnout of marching units for The Legion Abroad the Sept. 1 parade. Temporary seating In Killarney, Ireland, in April, Father Going l along the parade route will be available |) Francis P. Duffy Post 2 took part in the in ample numbers at nominal cost. An Tostal celebration, an Irish cultural Membership cards for 1953 at Nat'l Arrangements are handled at Con- pageant. It was the first time the Post, Hq. on June 4 totalled 2,689,234, or vention Headquarters, 301 N. 12th which is located in Killarney and has 91 56,064 over same date a year ago. North Street. Contact with the staff can be members, took part in a community Dakota broke its all-time high by that made there or by calling MAin 9479. date, with 25,387. Louisiana had done celebration. Post Historian Richard W. same earlier this year. McElligot reports it was a signal honor A big party was thrown at San Jose THE FLAG: that the Post was invited to march be- (Cal.) Post 89 recently when no less hind the American flag in an ancient than 36 members got 35-year cards. For Old Glory, Irish celebration. Four area membership At Mildenhall, England, more than conferences — are set for August, with nat'l representa- New Glory 5,000 British and American people tion at each. Area 1 (Conn., Me., Mass., servicemen & civilians — took part in June 18, with July 4 looming, Nat'l N. H., R. I. and Vt.) at Providence, impressive Memorial Day ceremonies Cmdr. Lewis K. Gough launched an 8th & 9th. Room reservations: E. F. for U. S. war dead in the American appeal for more & better display of the DeSonie, Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, WW2 cemetery near Cambridge. An flag of the United States. Rather than Providence. Area 3 (Ala., Fla., Ga., R.A.F. plane scattered 3,811 sweet peas, a one-shot Independence Day appeal, Miss., N. C, S. C, and Tenn.) at Hen- one for each American who lies in the Gough authorized a slogan for continu- derson ville, N. C, 8th & 9th. Rooms: cemetery. ing Legion use as a flag-display re- W. Fuller, Skyland Hotel, Henderson- J. minder. The slogan: New glory for ville. Area 4 (Ark., La., Mo., Okla. and Old Glory. RELIGION: Texas) at New Orleans, 15th & 16th. Many independent radio stations and Posts continue to report big public Rooms: E. J. Bieger, Jung Hotel, New major networks, including CBS, Mutual reception of Legion's Back to God Orleans. Area 7 (Ariz., Cal., Colo., and NBC, picked up the program for movement, with hotels and restaurants N. M. and Nev.) at Grand Canyon, July 4th emphasis, and broadcast the eager for Legion's cards with mealtime Ariz., 15th & 16th. Rooms: Buford Bel- Legion slogan and Legion-supplied spot prayers of four religions. Post 145, High- gard, Box 412, Grand Canyon, Ariz. announcements to accelerate flag ob- land Park (111.) says Moraine Hotel in servance. that city and Congress Hotel in Chicago CONVENTION: Said Cmdr. Gough: "The American will use cards. The Mamaroneck (N. Y.) Legion regrets evidences on the part of Chamber of Commerce took up the St. Louis' Biggest our people to take too much for granted program, got a big spread in N. Y. St. Louis Legionnaires and citizens the blessings of America and to 'play Times, now reports many hotels and are completing last minute arrangements down' the need for public recognition, restaurants in N. Y. seeking the meal- for the National Convention Aug. 31 — respect and devotion to such symbols of time prayer cards and Laymen's Na- Sept. 3, expected to be the largest gath- our dearly bought heritage as the flag tional Committee is taking up the pro-

ering ever held in their city. With more of the United States. . . . gram nationally. than 25,000 Legionnaires attending, "Ours is the flag of more than one Post 572, St. Louis, has distributed hotel and motel rooms as far away as hundred and fifty million people from prayer cards to St. Louis hotels and St. Charles, Fenton, Valley Park and every religious, national and racial der- restaurants. Post Cmdr. Joe Brooks re- Alton are being used to accommodate ivation in the world. It is the flag of ported: "We have been amazed at the ." Convention delegates. free citizens under God. instant and enthusiastic acceptance . .

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 FUND SHORTAGE CAUSED POW PAY SLOW-UP: $157,938,000. . . . These policies are the 5-year non-con- War Claims Commission, charged with processing and vertible, non-participating term life insurance for which paying claims of WW2 prisoners of war, ran out of funds on eligible K-vets must apply to VA within 120 days of their

May 22 and ceased sending out checks until its treasury discharge or separation from service. . . . Post-Korea veterans eligible could be replenished. . . . This accounts for the slow-up of for this insurance are those with service in the payments due POWs at the rate of $1.50 for each day spent U. S. Armed Forces anywhere in the world since June 27, 1950, to active service for a in . . who were ordered period under forced labor or inhumane conditions. . Representa- excess tive John J. Dempsey, New Mexico, introduced a bill (H. R. of 30 days and who were entitled to the free indemnity

4873) calling for the transfer of $60,000,000 of liquidated protection of the law. . . . These policies may be renewed enemy assets from the Justice Department to the War Claims every 5 years at the premium rate for the then attained age.

. . .. They may not be converted to any other type of GI Fund. . . . This bill was approved by the House Interstate life insurance, nor are they entitled to dividends under the and Foreign Commerce Committee in mid-June. . . . Legion

law. . . . the cost for family protection for has urged speedy action. . . Payments will be resumed But premium most ages is the lowest of all types of life insurance when the transfer is authorized and completed. . . . Funds GI used in payment of these claims come from enemy assets, administered by VA. Post-Korea vets who apply for this insurance within and not from U. S. Treasury funds. . . . Meantime, War Claims Commission continued to process and adjudicate the fixed 120 days of their discharge or separation do not

claims at the rate of about 2,300 per week. require a medical examination. . . . The Servicemen's Payment had been made on about 62,000 claims on Indemnity and Insurance Acts of 1951, which set up this applications dating up to September 15, 1952, when deple- insurance, also provide another type of special life insurance for disabled K-vets discharged on or after April 25, 1951, tion of funds occurred. . . . About an equal number remain with service-connected disabilities that would be com- to be paid. . . . But War Claims Commission has received

more than 1,000 applications since the expiration of the pensable if 10 percent or more in degree. . . . This insurance

deadline on April 9, 1953, which cannot be acted upon includes both term and permanent plans of coverage with

unless Congress authorizes another extension of time. conversion rights, but with no entitlement to dividends. . . . Disabled eligible veterans may apply to VA for this insur-

s{s SJ: s{s Hs ance within one year from the date VA finds their disabili-

GI BILL VETS CHANGE OF ADDRESS: ties to be service-connected. . . . But a medical examination

is required to determine whether the applicants are uninsur- Vets in school under the K-GI Bill who have not able because of non-service connected disabilities. received checks for the last of their spring terms probably did not notify VA of their change of address when they * * * *

returned to their permanent homes. . . . Post Office cannot forward such Government checks from one address to DEATH DATE OF MIA FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES

another. . . . For that reason, a lot of GI allowance checks A recent decision by the VA Administrator sets up prin- mailed to the school address went back to the Treasury, ciples to determine death date for insurance purposes of where they will remain until VA finds out where to send servicemen missing during a period of hostilities. . . . Decision

them. . . . K-GI Bill allowances for the month of May were held that the date of disappearance of an individual during

sent out in late June. . . . Vet-trainees who gave notice to a period of hostilities may be considered the date of his

VA of summer address got their checks promptly. . . . death where there is (1) evidence that the insured disap- Others will have to do some letter-writing, and experience peared while actively participating in combat or under

some delay, before their allowance checks come along. . . . comparable conditions; (2) that he was not accounted for To inform VA of an address change, all a vet needs do is as a prisoner of war or as a parolee or internee; (3) that to write a letter to the Regional Office handling his records. there was no subsequent official or other information as to

. . . Information needed to identify his claim is the claim his existence subsequent to his disappearance; (4) that his number, which must be given together with his old and family received no information as to his whereabouts sub- new address, and his signature. sequent to his disappearance, nor after the restoration of normal conditions; and (5) that after termination of hos- s|c Sis % 3§S tilities and/or declaration of peace no intelligence has been PICKING UP: POST-KOREA INSURANCE received which would rebut the inference of death arising

Nearly nine times as many K-vets have the special from the facts. . . . The decision further held that if the evi-

post-Korea GI Term Life Insurance as had it a year ago. dence is insufficient to indicate the probability of death as ... In April, 1952, only 2,265 of these policies were in force of a definite date, the date of death is a date 7 years after with a value of $19,136,000. ... A year later, April 30, 1953, the unexplained absence, as provided in Public Law 591, the number had increased to 19,006 and the amount to 77th Congress.

35 HELPFUL GUIDE FOR HOME-BUYING VETERANS: that branch of the service. . . . Requirements are exemplary "To the Home-Buying Veteran," a 32 -page guide for behavior, efficiency and fidelity in an enlisted status for vets planning to buy or build homes with GI loans, has been period of 3 consecutive years completed after August 26,

made available at all VA offices. . . . Pamphlet is designed 1940, or a period of 1 year completed during time of war to help WW2 and K-vets get started on the right foot undei to include period December 7, 1941, to March 2, 1946; or the GI home loan program. ... It discusses such points upon termination of service of more than 1 year when any as what a vet should look for in selecting the neighborhood, portion of that service was rendered after June 27, 1950. . . . the lot and the house itself. . . . Covers the cost of home Good Conduct Medal may be awarded for service of less ownership, the contract of purchase, final settlement or than 1 year after June 27, 1950, if separation is by reason closing the loan, and what to expect before and after moving of physical disability incurred in line of duty. . . . Char- into a new home; the responsibilities of a vet home owner acter and efficiency ratings must be "Excellent" or higher. and what the VA can and cannot do to assist the veteran. . . . Department of Army also announced that applications ... A copy of the pamphlet will be sent to each veteran are required for Good Conduct and other service medals by

applying for a certificate of eligibility for a GI loan. . . . former members of the Army. . . . Write The Adjutant Vets also may obtain copies by writing the nearest VA General, Department of the Army, Washington 25, D. C,

Regional Office. . . . There is no charge for the pamphlet. Attention: AGPO-AD-M. . . . Give full name, serial number, grade, dates of service—and be sure to sign the letter. H: &

DEADLINES FOR STATE BONUS PAYMENTS: sfs a|e . $ Steady stream of inquiries coming to Vetletter indicates NEC RESOLUTION ON INSURANCE SUITS: that many vets interested in bonus payments in their old Resolution No. 8 adopted by the National Executive home States have not kept up with the published announce- Committee at its May meeting in reference to "certain"

ments of these benefits. . . . Again, the situation on the bonus suits against the United States in insurance matters which front is as follows: Of the 21 States and 2 Territories that must be brought in the District Court of the District of have authorized bonus payments to their WW2 veterans, Columbia (Vetletter, June, 1953, p 31), has been questioned the application deadline in 11 States and 1 Territory have by some readers and rehabilitation workers, who have called expired, as follows: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, for clarification. . . . The problem which the resolution seeks

Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island, South to cure is a complex one; in fact it is in the proverbial Dakota, Virginia, the of ... West and Territory Hawaii. Of "Philadelphia lawyer" class. . . . There is now no express those still receiving applications and making bonus pay- authority granted by statute to sue the United States in ments, the deadlines are: Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, and insurance controversies where other than claims are involved.

Pennsylvania, December 31, 1953; North Dakota, February . . . Therefore a suit may be filed against the Administrator

17, 1954; Washington, March 31, 1955. . . . No application of Veterans Affairs as an individual only, and the only deadlines have been fixed for WW2 bonus in Massachusetts, court of competent jurisdiction is that in the District in

New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Alaska. . . . which he can be served—Washington, D. C. Eligible claimants may obtain the necessary forms from Readers are right in stating that existing law now allows the following: an action to be brought on claims either in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia or the U. S. District Alaska—Veterans' Affairs Commission, Box 2721, Juneau, Court for the District in which the claimant or claimants Alaska. reside. . . . Resolution simply seeks to enlarge the jurisdiction Massachusetts—State Treasurer, State House, Boston, of the District Courts in insurance cases to permit the Massachusetts. United States to be sued on all insurance matters in any Minnesota—Adjusted Compensation Division, Department Federal District Court. of Veterans' Affairs, 23 East 4th Street, St. Paul, * * * * Minnesota. Montana—Adjusted Compensation Division, Arsenal VA APPROVES STANDARD FARM LEASE: Building, Helena, Montana. VA must be assured that a K-vet has operational control General, New Hampshire—Adjutant State House, Concord, of a farm before his institutional on-farm training program New Hampshire. can be approved. . . . This may be by ownership, lease, New York—Veterans' Bonus Bureau, Department of Taxa- management agreement, or other tenure arrangement to tion Finance, 1875 and North Broadway, Albany 4, cover the entire period of the course. ... To eliminate New York. varying interpretations of which constitutes "operational North Dakota—Adjutant General's Office, Fraine Barracks, control" by Regional Offices, VA has approved the use of Bismarck, North Dakota. a Standard Farm Lease which has been prepared and issued Oregon—Department of Veterans' Affairs, State Library by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. . . . Lease is for use Building, Salem, Oregon. of landlords and tenants in all types of renting—crop-share, Pennsylvania— Veterans' Compensation Bureau, WW2 crop-share-cash, cash, standing, or livestock share—and is Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. adaptable for use of Institutional On-Farm Training. . . . Vermont— Office of Adjutant General, State Office Build- Spaces are provided for writing in particular details or ing, Montpelier, Vermont. special arrangements that a landlord or tenant may want. Washington—State Auditor, Division of Veterans' Com- . . . Copies of this form (Farm Agri-1; Revised 1949) and pensation, Olympia, Washington. Your Farm Lease, (Misc. Pub. No. 627) containing detailed * * * * suggestions for filling out the lease, may be secured from NEW REGS. FOR GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL: County Agricultural Agents, from the State Agricultural Army has announced new regulations for award of College, or by writing the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Good Conduct Medal to members and former members of Washington 25, D. C.

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LEGION PUZZLE CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED Frank H. Foeckler, disabled veteran and a patient for 55 months in the VA hospital at Martinsburg, W. Va. was declared the winner of the $10,000 top prize in The American Legion Puzzle Contest, June 24. No contestant submitted a completely correct solution to the original puzzle. Foeckler was one of several in a tie, and got top score solving the tie-breaker. Legion and contest officials expressed their pleasure that a disabled veteran succeeded in competition with thousands of contestants. Foeckler's letter (Page 39) which accompanied his last entry indicated the great help the $10,000 windfall will be to him and his family.

Below is a partial list of winners. The remainder will be published in the

September issue. Official notification is being made by National Headquarters, Indianapolis, Ind.

1st PRIZE: $10,000 THIS ILLUSTRATION IS A REPRODUCTION OF AN ORIGINAL NEEDLE-POINT TAPESTRY. Frank H. Foeckler VV. 107, Vets. Hospital Martinsburg, W. Va. Post #15, Washington, D. C.

2nd PRIZE: $2,500 Clarence A. Daley R.F.D. #2. Chepachet, R. I. WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC Post #8, Dept. of N. Y. 3rd PRIZE: $1,000 Mrs. Albert R. Bird OF THE NATION 201 Burns St., Ida Grove, Iowa Post #61, Dept. of Iowa.

4th PRIZE: $1,000 Mrs. O. D. Brundidge 727 Wilson, Lancaster, Texas Post #53, Dept. of Texas. Daily, as on a magic loom, the 10 PRIZES: $500.00 EACH countless activities of millions of people George T. Ank, Perryville. Mo., are woven together by telephone. Post No. 133. R. G. Calloway, Miami 4 3. Fla., Post No. 29. Home is linked with home. Mrs. James R. Critser, Stoughton, Mass., Post No. 89. Business to business. Community to Mary E. Hicks, Kingsport. Tenn., community. City to city. Post No. 3. More prize winners on next 3 pages Friends and places nearby or far away Official Correct Solution are within the reach of a hand.

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. . . Believe me these puzzles were hard to solve and whoever wins really deserves it. If I should win, what a Rubbed my eyes real hard yester- great help it would be. It would solve day when I saw Hap Jackson's truck most of my financial and family troubles after spending 55 months in in Biff Morgan's alfalfa field . . . help- this hospital. Here's hoping for the ing Biff get in his cutting. best. Wish me luck. Sincerely, Since they've been carrying on a FRANK 11. FOECKLER friendly argument for years now (over how much fertilizer to use per acre of Bob Reupke, Corpus Christi, Texas. alfalfa), I just had to ask Hap what Carl Reupke, Corpus Christi, Texas. was going on. Janice Reupke, Corpus Christi, Texas. Bernice Reupke, "Got my own crop in safely last Corpus Christi. Texas. R. D. Richeson, week," he says. "And since Biff's boy Richmond, Ind. Harry J. Richey, Jr., is at the summer encampment of the Macungie, Pa. Mrs. H. E. Roberts, I the I Petersburg, Va. National Guard, figured least Wm. C. Robbins, E. Hartford. Cunn. could do was to help him out. After Edward O. Ross. Georgetown. Conn. all," Hap went on, "there's no argu- Irwin M. Rothman, Brooklyn 26, N. Y. ment over how important the National Harry G. Rotman, Jasonville. Ind. Guard is to all of us." Marvin Sallee, Lamed, Kansas. R. J. Sampson, From where I sit, a fellow like me, Philadelphia 6, Pa. Nina Sasseen, who's too old to get in the Guard, can New Rochelle. N. Y. G. L. Saunderson, Eureka. Calif. still vote, do a turn at jury duty, and

C. L . Sealy, Huntington Park. Calif. remember to respect others' rights. Robert J. Shea, New Bedford, Mass. Even a little thing like respecting a John W. Shaffer, Connellsville. Pa. neighbor's right to have, say, beer or John D. Shearer, Morristown, N. J. E. S. Sherwood, buttermilk at dinner is important if Grand Rapids, Mich. Glenn J. Shore, we want to keep America strong. We Algona, Iowa. Miss I. Sorrentino, have to be on "guard" in more ways Brooklyn 33. N. Y. Gilbert V. Spankie, Scaview, Wash. than one these days! Victor J. Stalick, Douglas, Wyo. Ednund O. Starbuck, Denver 6, Colo. Mrs. E. Sterr, Canton, Mass. F. E. Stewart, Peoria. 111. Geo. L. Strickland, Whigham, Ga. Margaret C. Sullivan, Dorchester 24, Mass, E. R. Swansoai, Sioux City 1, Iowa, Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 39 . .

John W. Taylor, Lyle W. Ball, Thomas H. Clark, Alice A. Ebersold, Redlands, Calif. Kenyon. Minn, Newton. Kan. Los Angeles 7. Calif. Marcus B. Taylor, John W. Barker, Miss Dorris Clarke, Robert W. Eckels, Puente. Calif. Calais, Maine. Jackson Heights 72, N. Y. Westwood, Mass. W. Gary Thompson, William Barton, Mrs. R. C. Claypool, W. S. Edson, Asheville, N. C. Mishawaka, Ind. Mattoax, Va. Dallas 6, Tex. George W. Tong. Mrs. J. Y. Bassett, Willard G. elites, Mrs. J. N. Elkins, Santa Barbara. Calif. Asheville, N, C. Cornelius, Ore. Elberton, Ga. Andrew J. Townsend, Elizabeth Bauman, Mrs. Martha Cook, Wayla C. Ellis, Toledo 6, Ohio. Malibu. Calif. Atlanta 6, Ga, Albuquerque, N. M. Edwin Trebel, Harry E. Bensen, Sarah M. Coombs, H. G. Erickson, Bayard, Iowa. Joliet, 111. Portland 5, Maine. Minneapolis 18. Minn. Eleanor R. Toney, Esther Bill, Max Coldiron, Edw. T. Erickson, Peru. Ind. Windsor, Conn. Norton. Kan. Minneapolis 23, Minn.

C. J. Underbill, Morris Bodily, Alex L. Collins. W. G. Esplin, Melrose 76. Mass. Corsicana, Tex. Inglewood. Calif. Salem, Ore. Judy Urban, Allan Briggs, Mrs. Arthur Collins, H. R. Eveleth, Detroit 15. Mich. Washington 16. D. C. Little Rock, Ark. Burlington, N. C. Edith Vernon, Clifford Brooks, Anthony Colucci, C. W. Fairbanks, San Francisco 9. Calif. Almena. Kan. Encino, Calif. Santa Barbara. Calif. R. E. Ware, Mrs. Claire E. Brown, Saul S. Cowan, Wilbur A. Fasen, Clemson. S. C. Houston 12, Tex. Hartford 5, Conn. Scotia 2, N. Y. Jamea A. Weede, Mrs. H. B. Brown, George W. Cross, Dwight H. Feldman, Clovis. N. M. Montgomery 7, Ala. Chicago 41, 111. Kalona, Iowa. Helen Welch, James A. Bruce, W. C. Cunningham, Richard S. Felton, Geneva, Iowa. Garfield, Ark. Biloxi, Miss. Paterson 2, N. J. Donald R. Whitaker. John A. Brumbaugh, Jr., John H. Curtis. Edward F. Flagge, Downers Grove. 111. Pittsburg, Kan. Proctor. Vt. East Haven 12, Conn. Bessie A. Whitbeck, Charles W. Bullard, Orville J. Daggett, Wm. H. Flanagan, San Jose, Calif Long Lake, N. Y Des Moines 14, Iowa. Newtonville 60, Mass. James W. Williams, Rose V. Burnhan, J. K. Davis, Clarence Flatau, Clearwater, Fla. Clintonville, N. Y. Clayville. Va. Port Angeles, Wash. John D. Winters, Lawrence Burski, Elsie Dehmel, Robert L. Fleckenstein, Ruston, La. St. Cloud, Minn Cedarburg, Wis. Syracuse 10. N. Y. Mrs. H. A. Woodruff, Ben H. Butler, Carl DeLander, S. D. Foote, Redlands, Calif. Sacramento 19. Calif. Kimball, Minn. New York 21, N. Y. Mrs. Alice C. Worden, H. B. Butler, C. E. Dempsey, W. H. Ford, Rockport, Mass. Brooklyn 9, N. Y. Pine Bluff, Ark. Corsicana, Tex. C. K. Wyatt, E. L. Buttram, C. A. Deppen, John C. Gaughan, Baltimore 31. Md. Olympia, Wash. Dolton, 111. Independence, Kan. Ed V. Zagst, Mrs. R. H. Byrne, Fenton Day, Jr., Orville W. Gildow, Atlanta, Vivian, La. Hackettstown, N. J. Ga. North Bend, Ore. Jean Paul DeVoy, John J. Glass, Dr. C. S. Ziesel, Frank W. Campbell, Brookfleld. Mo. Scottsville, Va. New York 14, N. Y. Yarmouth, Maine. Joseph K. Doerfler, Wm. F. Glavin, Mrs. Scott Campbell, Appleton, Wis. Concord, N. H. Caro 1, Mich. Joseph Dolan, Herman Gottlieb, 250 PRIZES: Barbara L. Canterbury, Haddonfield, N. J. Brooklyn 8. N. Y. Cantrall, 111. M. Ray Doubles, Mrs. Marjorie Gray, TELECHRON Burrell Cappon, Richmond, Va. Troy. Mo. Canandaigua, N. Y. Francis Drakes, J. P. Greubel, ELECTRIC CLOCKS Herbert G. Carpenter, Oklahoma City, Okla. New York 36. N. Y. Seattle 9, Wash. Ross C. Durst. E. D. Griesinger, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Ind. Erie B. Allen, Emery W. Chilbvrg, Hammond, Miami 35. Fla. Bishop Hill. 111. Mrs. Harold Eastman, Mrs. Leonard Gubrud, Concord, N. H. Elkhorn. Wis. Elizabeth Allison, Jorgen Christensen, Albany, N. Y. Omaha, Nebr. George W. Earl, Manuel Guerra, Whittier. Calif. Scranton. Pa. Mrs. Eleanor M. Ames, C. F. Clark, Erie. Pa. Arcadia, Calif. M. K. Arnold, LeRoy E. Clark, Names of remaining prize winners will Glendale 6, Calif. Omaha 3, Nebr. be published in the September issue. J. D. Arnold, Milton H. Clark. Glendale, Calif. Portland 5. Maine.

President, 1933-34 . . . William H. Died: May — Dr. L. Kosminsky, Legion People }. Mclnhjrc, N. Y. City, was cited by Texarkana, Ark., former national head IN THE NEWS Mayor of New York, June 11, for of 40&8; Past Dep't Cmdr., Arkan- meeting 82 ships carrying 126,000 Retired: June 1, Edward A. Linsky, sas; ex-Nat'l Exec. Committeeman . . WW2 dead, and 71 trains carrying Adjutant, Dep't of Pennsylvania since June— Frank L. Grcenya, Milwaukee, 15,000 Korea war dead into N. Y. 1935, and Coleman Vice-Chm'n, Nat'l Security Commis- Curran, Adjutant, sion at death; Past Dep't Cmdr., Wis- Dep't of Massachu- consin; ex-Nat'l Exec. Committee- setts for 15 years. man . . . Arthur Short, Jackson, Miss., Linsky, long a na- Past Dep't Cmdr., Mississippi . . . tional Legion fig- Stephen Manning, Marlboro, Mass., ure, retired at 55 ex-Chm'n, Nat'l Contests Supervisory because of ill health. Linsky Daniel W. Shaub Committee . . . George Vivian, Du- Mrs. Biester Gen. Casey has become acting adj't of Pa. Dep't. luth, Minn., Past Vice-Cmdr., Dep't

City. Mclntyre, a Metropolitan Life of Minnesota . . . Julius Peyser, New jobs and honors: Mrs. Rae Ins. Co. exec and a Legion Founder, Washington, D. C, Past Cmdr.,

Biester, Drexel Hill, Pa., has been did the job for N. Y. Dep't and N. Y. Dep't of District of Columbia . . .

named by President Eisenhower to be County Legion . . Gen. Hugli Casey, Mrs. Clarence Bird, Bennington, Vt., new Superintendent of the U. S. Mint chief engineering officer with Mae- wife of Clarence Bird, Legion Nat'l at Philadelphia. She is the first woman Arthur command in WW2, and new Field Representative, New England

ever named for the job, has been Cmdr. of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. . . . C. L. Fleming, Las Vegas, Nev., a national Legion Auxiliary figure Post, N. Y. City, is named head of Past Dep't Vice-Cmdr., Nevada, and

since 1926, was Nat'l Auxiliary N. Y. City's new Transit Authority. . alternate Nat'l Exec. Committeeman.

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Society of the 1st Division — 35th Annual reunion, New York City, Sept. 11-13, New Yorker Ho- tel. Info from Society of the 1st Div., Box 1529, Philadelphia, Pa. 1st Armored Div. Assn.— 6th annual reunion. Wash- ington, D. C, Aug. 28-30; Shoreham Hotel. Details from 1st Armored Div. Assn.. 1529 18th St., N.W.. Washington 6. D. C. 4th (Ivy) Div. Assn.—Annual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 27-29; Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Con- tact Silvio D. D'Anella, Chairman, 752 S. 8th St.. Philadelphia 47, Pa. 5th (Red Diamond) Div., (both WWs)— 33rd annual reunion. New York City, Sept. 5-7; Hotel New Yorker. Info from John B. Morier, Chair- man, 5 W. 63rd St., New York City 23, N. Y. 7th (Lucky Seventh) 7Armored Div. Assn.—Annual reunion, Newark, N. J., Aug. 21-23; Hotel Douglas. Details from J. Edward McCarrick, 55 S. Oraton Parkway, East Orange. N. J. 11th (Thunderbolt) Armored Div.— 11th national convention and reunion. New York Citv, Aug. 13-15; Hotel Roosevelt. For details write Bill Peters, 97-17 129th St., Richmond Hill. N. Y. 12th (Hellcat) Armored Div. Assn.— 7th annual re- V-7 is the new greaseless union. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 27-30; Hotel Stat- ler. Write William W. Hawkins, Exec. Secy.. grooming discovery now 1086 Geneva Ave., Columbus 8, Ohio. in Vitalis. Developed es- 16th Armored Div. — Annual reunion, Cleveland, New Vitalis with V"7 Ohio. Aug. 14-16; Hotel Hollenden. Write Les- pecially to overcome the ter Bennett, Chairman, 5820 Recamper Dr., Toledo 13, Ohio. prevents summer dryness, disadvantages of various 24th (Victory) Inf. Div.—Reunion. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 14-16. Info from Allyn Miller, Vice Pres., messy oils. 737 E. Livingston Ave., Columbus 5, Ohio. outdates messy oils! 25th Infantry Div. (all personnel) —Annual reunion. Vilalis with V-7 guards Washington, D. C, Aug. 7-9; Hotel Statler. Info from G. J. Check, Colonel. Inf., Office hair and scalp from dry- Chief of Legislative Liaison, Dept. of Army. ® Washington 25. D. C. ness caused by sun. wind, 27th Div. Assn. (both WWs)— 33rd Annual reunion, Syracuse. N. Y., Oct. 9-10. For info and copy water. Keeps hair neater, of The Orion Gallivanter write Natl. Hdqrs.. VITALIS handsomer. No 27th Div. Assn., P.O. Box 1403, Albanv. N. Y. gummy 29th (Blue and Gray) Div., (both WWs ) —Annual film, no "oil-slick" look reunion. New York City, Sept. 4-7; Hotel Stat- MAfR TONfC ler. Details from Donald N. Sheldon, 30 Atkins Try new Vitalis with V-7! Ave., Brooklyn 8, N. Y. 30th (Old Hickory) Inf. Div. Assn.— 7th annual re- Does wonders for your hair union, Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 20-22. Details from Product of Bristol-Myers John P. Carbin, Jr., Exec. Secy., P.O. Box B, Bergen Sta., Jersey City, N. J. 31st (Dixie) Div (both WWs) — Annual reunion. Chicago, III.. Aug. 7-8; Morrison Hotel. During Legion III. Dept. Convention. Write W. A. An- derson, Secy., 4913 N. Hermitage Ave., Chi- cago 40, 111. 32nd (Red Arrow) Div. Assn., (both WWs)—An- HOW TO CHOOSE nual reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 5-7. Info from Walter W. Jennerjahn. Chairman. 32nd Memorial Bldg., 774 N. Broadwav, Milwaukee A BINOCULAR 2, Wise. 36th Div. Assn. — Annual reunion. San Antonio. Texas, Sept. 5-6. Info from Thomas S. Bishop. P.O. Box 5068, West Austin Station. Austin Close-up sharpness of detail . . . brilliance of image . . . 31, Texas. 37th (Buckeye) Div. Vets. Assn. — 35th annual re- lifetime service can be built into a binocular only union, Akron, Ohio. Sept. 5-7; Hotel May- and flower. Info from 37th Div. Hdqrs.. 21 W. through advanced optical design and precision man- Broad St.. 1101 Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus 15. Ohio. ufacture. Outdoor lovers and sportsmen who have 41st (Sunset) Infantry Div. — Reunion, Olvmpia, Wash.. Aug. 15-16. Details from 41st Div. find they get most for their money— in per- Post No. 165, American Legion. 526 N.W. compared, Broadway. Portland 9, Oregon. formance and service— from a Bausch & Lomb Binoc- 69th Inf. Div. Assn. — Annual reunion. New York City, Aug. 21-23; Hotel Statler. Info from ular. To get the facts which will help you make the Pierce Rice. Room 404. 109 W. 42nd St., New York, N. Y. best choice in a glass for your own use, send 75th Inf. Div. Vet. Assn. — National convention, Washington. D. C. Aug. 14-16; Hotel Wash- for the 32-page booklet "Binoculars — ington. Write John McBurney, Secy., 5822 E. 14th St., Kansas City, Mo. and How to Choose Them." 83rd (Thunderbolt) Inf. Div. Assn. — 7th annual convention. Cleveland. Ohio, Aug. 20-22: Ho- Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., tel Hollenden. Info from 83rd Inf. Div. Assn., 1435 Clark St., Pittsburgh 21. Pa. 11520 Lomb Park, 88th (Blue Devils) Inf. Div. Assn. — 6th annual convention, Boston, Mass.. Aug. 13-16. Shera- Y. ton Plaza Hotel. Info and reservations from Rochester 2, N. Joe Cooper, Chairman. P.O. Box 156, Brighton. Mass. 89th (Middle West) Div. Veterans, (both WWs) — Reunion. St. Louis. Mo.. Aug. 31-Sept. 3. during Legion National Convention. Write Daniel Bartlett, Chairman. 506 Olive St., St. Louis. Mo. 90th (Tough 'Ombres) Div. Assn., (Midwest) —Re- union. Fargo. N. Dak. Sept. 26; American Le- gion Club. Write Thomas J. Ameson, Treas., Box 962, Minneapolis 1, Minn. 92nd (Buffalo) Div. Vets. Assn., (both WWs)—Re- union. Chicago. 111.. Aug. 6-8: headquarters 5745 So. State St. For details contact Jesse L. Carter, Commander, 6223 Indiana Ave., Chi- cago, III. 95th Inf. Div. Assn. — 4th annual reunion, Milwau- kee, Wise. Sept. 25-27; Hotel Plankinton. Info from 95th Inf. Div. Assn., P.O Box 1274, Chi- cago 90. 111. 100th (Century) Div. — 6th annual reunion, Balti- more, Md.. Sept. 25-27; Lord Baltimore Hotel. Info from The Century Assoc., P.O. Box 86, Hartford 1, Conn. 102nd (Ozark) Inf. Div. — Reunion. Chicago. 111.. Aug. 7-9; Hotel Sherman. Info from Earl F. Hooper. Secv-Treas., 51 Highland Ave., Port Washington. N. Y. 04 th (Timberwolf ) Inf. Div. Assn. — 8th annual reunion. Cleveland. Ohio. Sept. 5-7; Hotel Hol- lenden. Write John J. Kristofik. Secv., 2280 W. 41st St.. Cleveland 13. Ohio.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST. 1953 • 1 save ways to 540th Ord. HM Co. T.K.—Reunion. Springfield. III., Broden Rd.. Buffalo 24. N. Y. or Jack Richards, 3 Aug. 1. Contact Floyd W. Schmidt. RSI. Belle- 545 Minnesota St.. Buffalo 15, N. Y. ville. 111. 87th Div. Assn. —Annual reunion, Phila.. Pa., Sept. money Co. C, 66th Signal Bn. — 3rd annual reunion Mil- 25-26; Ben Franklin Hotel. Info from William and waukee, Wise. Aug. 8; Wisconsin Hotel. For M. Churchill. Associate Aviation Underwriters, time information write Marvin L. Rand, 744 N 4th 90 John St.. New York. N. Y. St.. Milwaukee 3. Wise. • 721st Railway Operating Bn. —Annual reunion, Al- trip . • 62nd Armored FA Bn. — Annual reunion. Dallas, bany, N. Y.. Sept. 25-26; Hotel Ten Eyck. on any Texas. Aug. 15; American Legion Post #4 53, Contact J. Stapf, Secy., Nassau. N. Y. 8414 Denton Drive. Details from W. T. Hester, 54th Pioneer Inf. Veterans Assn.— 35th reunion 123 West Monroe St.. Lovington. N. M. or E. dinner. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 26: 5th Dis- D. May. 6507 Lovett. Dallas. Texas. trict club rooms. Write H. J. Doyle c/o Doyle 113- 131st Engn. and AGF Bandsmen's Assn. Lock Company. 302 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, (WW2> — 3rd anuual reunion. Kokomo. Ind., Minn. Aug. 15. Write Donald E. Johns. PC Box 154, 611th OBAM Bn. Assn., (2nd Bn., 304th Ord Reg. Hilisboro, Ind. B.)— 8th reunion, Nigara Falls, N. Y., Sept. 304th Inf., 76th Div. — 8th annual reunion. New 25-26; Hotel Niagara. Write Melvin C. Haseley. York City, Aug. 15: Hotel Governor Clinton. Rt. 25, Rohr St.. Niagara Falls, N. Y. Details from Edward Cain. 45-12 159th St., 155th Inf. Regt., 31st (Dixie) Inf. Div. —Reunion. Flushing. N. Y. Phila., Pa.. Sept. 26: Penn-Sheraton Hotel. 91st Chemical Mortar Bn. — 8th annual reunion. General "Crack" Hanna (WW 2 CO.) and Phila., Pa., Aug. 15-16: Benjamin Franklin Chaplain O'Connor expected. For details write Hotel. Contact P. J. Hennessey, 5501 Whitby John K. Gartv. 1913 Wvnnewood Road. Phila- Ave.. Phila. 43. Pa. delphia 31, Pa. Valley Lehigh Chapter, 7th Division Vets.—Reunion. 113th Engineers Assn., ( WW 1) —Annual reunion Allentown, Pa., Aug. 23. Write Clarence W. W. Noblesville. Ind., Sept. 26-27: Forest Park. Best. Secy.. 1215 Tilghman St.. Allentown. Pa. Info from Charles M. Beal. 321 S. Main St., 75th Station Hospital (WW2)— 1st annual reunion. Tippon. Indiana. Pittsburgh. Pa.. Aug. 28-30. For information 110th Engineer Regt. — 35th annual reunion, Kansas write Robert A. Loos. 217 Orchard Spring Rd., City, Mo.. Sept. 27: Aladdin Hotel. Details Pittsburgh, Pa. from George A. Raddant, Secy.. 1708 Balti- Battery A, 882nd FA Bn., 70th Div.— Reunion. Van- more. Kansas City. Mo. dalia. III., Aug. 28-30. Contact Wayne L. Co. B. 137th Inf., 35th Div. (WW 1)—Reunion. Brannon. 630 North First St., Vandalia, 111. Holton. Kansas. Sept. 27. Details from Floyd 7th United States Cavalry Assn.— 16th annual re- A. McGehe. Secv.. Co. B. Holton. Kansas. union, Cleveland. Ohio. Aug. 30-Sept. 3. De- 55th Artillery, CAC, AEF, (WW 1)—Reunion. Bos- tails from Commander Forrest Beeson. M. ton, Mass.. Oct. 9-11. Contact Secy , Walter 1932 W. 43rd Place. Los Angeles 62. Calif. E. Jones, 15 Winthrop St.. Maiden, Mass. 94th Signal Bn.— 6th annual reunion. Elkins W. Va., Sept. 4-6. For info write Archie Ramberg. 409 Kearns Ave.. Elkins. W. Va. No change of bus! On longer trips, you 54th Signal Bn. — 6th annual reunion. Santa Cruz. can choose from scores of through Cal., Sept. 4-7: Casa Del Rey Hotel. Details Navy and Marines from David H. Ferrari, c/o 1339 Pacific Ave., schedules straight to your destina- Santa Cruz. Calif. 505th Ord. H. M. Tank Co. — reunion. tion—no change of coach or baggage. 8th annual Cleveland. Ohio. Sept. 5-6; Hotel Hollenden. Co. 17, G. L. N. T. S. ( 1939)—Dinner, Marshall- Write Gerald A. Wilson, Pres.. 816 South Cen- town. Iowa. Aug. 2. Write Gerald (Wag) tral Drive. Lorain, Ohio. Wagner. Woolstock. Iowa. Merrill's Marauders — Annual reunion. Baltimore. "Old" Co. C, 1st Corps, M. T. Bn., USMC— 2nd Md.. Sept. 5-6; Lord Baltimore Hotel. Info annual reunion, Aug. 14-16. Peoria, 111.: Hotel from chairman Dr. A. L. Kalodny. 6023 High- Pere Marquette. Contact W. Lueder, Jr., RR gate Drive. Ealtimore. Md. 3, Box 22, Chicago Hgts., 111. 321st Ord (MAM) Co.— 1st reunion. Jackson, Miss.. 8th Bn. Seabees— 2nd annual reunion. New York Sept. 5-7: Heidelberg Hotel. Write Morton C. Citv. Sept. 18-20: Henrv Hudson Hotel. Details Stewart, P.O. Box 1884. Meridian. Miss. from Edw. W. Sanford. 90 Woodland Ave.. 17th Signal Operations Bn. — 8th annual reunion. Bridgeport 5, Conn. Columbus Ohio. Sept 5-7. For info write E. 33rd Seabees— 7th annual Convention. Buffalo, F. Hofmeister, Secy.. 710 Crown Ave.. Scran- N. Y.. Sept. 18-20: Hotel Statler. Write K. ton 5, Pa. Daumen. Secy., 79 Earl Place, Buffalo 11. Co. E. 168th Inf., IWW1) — Last Man's Club re- N. Y. union. Shenandoah. Iowa. Sept. 5-6. Write Emergency Iowa. USS Tappahannock, (AO 43), Korean Everett Briggs, Shenandoah. Crew — 2nd annual reunion. Boston. Mass., Tiffin. Ohio. Sept. Co. A. 741st Tank Bn.— Reunion. Sept. 26. Reservation and info from Frederick 6: Ewald's farm. Write Bob Ewald. Rt. 5. Bob Davis. Jr.. 911 York Ave., Pawtucket, R. I. Tiffin, Ohio, or Val (Doc) Fister. RD 9. Box 174, Akron. Ohio 71st Naval Const. Bn.— 4th reunion. New York City. Oct. 16-18: Hotel Woodstock. Contact Joseph 11th FA Vet. Assn. (WWI, 2 and Korea ) —Annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio over Labor Day week- P. Tiguv, Chairman. 88-38 249th St., Belle- rose L. end; Hotel Statler. Contact R. J. Summers 6, I,. N. Y. Secv.. 81 Ampere Parkway. East Orange, N. J. 16th Evac. Hospital— Reunion. Detroit. Mich. Sept. 5-7; Hotel Sheraton-Cadillac. Info from Helen Church. 52 Leitch Ave.. Skaneateles, N. Y. Hdqs. Btry. 156 FA Bn. 44th Div.— 2nd annual Con- AMERICAN LEGION No local slops/ You'll save hours trav- vention. Cleveland. Ohio. Sept 5-7; Hotel THE Carter. Write G. C. Cooper. 1221 E. 83rd St.. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS eling direct to any big city . . . with Cleveland. Ohio. MAY 31, 1953 no time wasting delays . . . and with 699th Ammo Co. — 7th annual reunion. New York 5-7; Hotel New Yorker. Contact Sal plenty of relaxed sight Citv. Sept. seeing. Mirabella. 37-41 102nd St., Corona 68. N. Y. ASSETS 893rd T. D. Bn.— Annual reunion. Pottsville, Pa.. . . 658,157.23 Sept 5-7. Contact Lewis M. Krebs. Jr., R. D. Cash on hand and on deposit. .$ #1, Schuylkill. Haven. Pa. Receivables 259,229.55 Co. D, 108th Inf., 27th Div. ( WW 2)—Reunion, Inventories 413,183.93 Niagara Falls. N. Y., Sept. 6-7. Write Walter Invested Funds 1,056,670.28 Fredriksen. 141 Aldrich PI.. Buffalo 20. N. Y. Permanent Trusts: Army — 8th annual reunion, 1st Signal Bn., 7th Overseas Decoration Columbus, Ohio. Sept. 7. Details from John Graves Summers. 63 Grant Ave.. Grove Citv, Ohio or Trust Fund 254,154.30 George Hands. 12034 Bramel. Detroit. Mich. Employees' Retirement 254th FA Bn. (WW 2)— Annual reunion. Ft. Wayne. Trust Fund 1.2li7.fi5G,74 1,521.811.04 Ind. Sept. 12; Hotel Van Orman Contact El- mer W. Rodewald. 4921 Smith St., Ft. Wayne Real Estate 973,972.65 5. Ind. Furniture and Fixtures. 301st Engineers Assn.— 3 3rd annual reunion. Water- less Depreciation 272,873.41 burv. Conn., Sept 12th: Hotel Elton. Info Deferred Charges 66,186.90 from E. S. Borod, Secy.. 51 Empire St., Provi- dence 3. R. I. $5,222,084.99 Battery B, 124th FA, 33rd Div., (WW 1)—Reunion. Urbana III Sept. 12. Info from Walter Rein- hold 307 E. Elm St.. Urbana. 111. LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE Co. E, 133rd Inf., 34th Div.—Reunion Webster City. AND NET WORTH Iowa Sept 12-13. Write Donald M. Andrew. 1220 Walnut St., Webster City. Iowa. Current Liabilities $ 303.873.9S 355th Inf. Society— 35th annual reunion. Omaha, Funds restricted as to use 103,362.12 Nebr. Sept 12-13; Hotel Fontenelle. Write Col. Deferred Income 1,190,311.56 Omaha. H. F Luenenberg. 1806 Mavfield. Permanent Trusts: Schwarz. Secy., 1706 Ar- Extra luxury! Enjoy extra comfort Nebr. or Albert P. Decoration lington. Des Moines. Iowa. Overseas Graves features at slight extra fare . . . re- 43rd Inf. Div. Vet. Assn.— 7th annual reunion and Trust $ 254,154.30 H.. Sept. 12-13; served seats, convention. Portsmouth. N. Emplovees' Retirement , steward service to ma- Reservations from 43rd Wentworth-bv-the-Sea Trust , 1,267.656.74 1,521,811.04 jor cities and popular resort areas. Inf. Div. Vet. Assn.. 2110 Industrial Trust Blclg.. Providence 3. R I. Net Worth: 10th Station Hospital— Reunion. Des Moines. Iowa. Restricted Capital: Write Vinson G. Sept 18-20: Hotel Kirkwood. Reserve Fund . . 23,852.30 Findiev, 312 E 19th St. S.. Newton. Iowa. Restricted Fund. 17,939.98 Evac. Hospitals— 6th annual 48th Surgical, 128th Reserve for construction reunion. Austin. Minn. Sept. 19-20. Details from Joseph James. 1205 W. Winona, Austin. Wash. Office.. 47,901.16 FREE! Picture Real Estate 973,9^2.65 Map of U.S.A. Minn. . _,. 34th Inf. Div. (Natl. Assn. ) —Reunion. Sioux Citv, Reserve for Rehabili- Mail to Greyhound Information Center, Iowa. Sept. 19-20. Write Bob Pace, 1423 Mam tation 317,941.07 71 W. Lake St., Chicago III., for illus- 2, St., Sioux Citv. Iowa. Reserve for Child trated full-color map describing trips Btry. B, 177th FA Bn.— 5th reunion, Ft. Wayne, 50 around Welfare 20,627.54 America. Ind. Sept. 19-20. American Legion Post 47. Contact Wm. L. Hile. 2030 1/2 Brookside. Ft. 1,402,234.70

Wavne 6, Ind. , Name annual reunion, Cleveland, Unrestricted Capital: 431st AAA AW Bn.— 3rd over Ohio Sept. 19: Hotel Carter, Write Russell M. Excess of Income Address Turner. 66 Clifford Drive. Greentree. Pitts- Expense . 700,491.64 2,102,726.34 burgh 20. Pa. ¥5.222,084.99 Buffalo. N. Y.. Sept. City 551st AAA BW Bn.—Reunion. 20: Adam Plewacki Post Home American Le- gion Details from Stephen Chojnacki, 530 State »L 6 53 42 * THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 , !

USS Gleaves ( DD 423) — 2nd annual reunion, New Virgil Ault, Bill Ault and Joe Quail. Write the Tahchee, or anyone knowing of my treat- York City, Oct. 17; Hotel Piccadilly. For fur- Henry L. Hornsby, Route 2, Ashland, Ala. ment at Reedy Island. Claim pending. Write ther info, J. M. Rexroad, 117 Pocahontas St., 178th Combat Eng. Bat., Co. B. — Need to locate Lyle B. Henry, Lake, Logan County, W. Va. Buckhannon, W. Va. Capt. Beautel and Capt. Green (Co. Cmdrs.) 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Reg., H. S. Co. —Like to

and Sgts. Trimble and Kelly (Platoon Sgts ) locate A. C. Marshall, Mobile, Alabama, or any also First Sgt. Need help for claim for the in- men who knew of fall I had in 6x6 troop truck jury I had at Camp Gruber. Okla. Am paralyzed while on Guam in 1944. Claim. Write Lawrence from waist down. Write Malcolm T. Preece, Jr., Tollifson, 925 West Washington Street, Cam- Air Louisa. Ky. den, Ark. 8th Div., 28th Inf., Co. L. —Claim pending for ex- 357th Fighter Sqdn. (Fighter Comets)— 5th annual Sgt. Theodore R. Helminski, my husband, hos- reunion, New York Citv, Sept. 18-20; Hotel pitalized 2 1 4 years and now at VA hospital, Piccadilly. Contact Don Drake. 102 W. Morris Montrose, N. Y. Need a buddy to come forward St., Bath. N. Y. who remembers his hospitalization in France in 50th Troop Carrier Sqdn., 314th Troop Carrier 1944. Write Mrs. Herman R. Helminski. 60 Group, Ninth AF— 1st annual reunion. Louis- Carlton Ave.. Brooklyn 1. N. Y. Claim impor- ville, Kv.. Sept. 25-27. Details from Dean tant to him and family, including 3 small Fairchild. Acting Secy., 107 Henry St.. Bing- children. MISSING hamton, N. Y. IN KOREA Air

Co. M, 38th Inf., 2nd Div.—Our son. Pvt. Emory E. 578th Tech. School Squadron, Basic Training Cntr. Hylton, missing since Feb. 12 1951; captured #4, Hotel Evans, Miami Beach, Fla. (Nov. while trying to run a road-block; no other word. 1942 to Feb. 1943) — Urgently need to hear Anxious parents would like to hear from serv- COMRADES from Army Med. Officer who treated and taped ice comrades; any word will be appreciated. my back for an injury. Jan. 19, 1943, at AAF Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Hvlton, Keenan, W. Va. Infirmary, Bancroft Hotel, Miami Beach. Also Co. G, 17th Inf. Regt., 7th Div.—Our son. Pvt. John from Army Nurse or WAC Medic Technician on IN DISTRESS Tuin, was reported missing near Triangle Hill, duty same time. Also from men who remember Oct. 6, 1952. Will service comrades or anyone me injuring my back that date in Flamingo who knows about him or incidents leading to Park. Miami Beach, while helping move phy- his disappearance, please write? Mr. and Mrs. sical director's platform during basic training Tom Tuin. Estelline. S. D. period. Write George Leo Resh, 5921 Carnot Army Co. G, 7th Inf., 3rd Div. — Parents will greatly ap- St.. New Orleans 22. La. preciate any information from service com- Kelly Field, Texas (1920)— Must contact Donald A. rades of PFC Duane A. Hoyle, reported missing Knowland, formerly Pittsburgh; Joe Pochron, 95th Signal Bat. Co. A., (WW2), Persian Gull Com- Dec. 3, 1950. at Huk-su-ri. Korea. Name not Chicago, and Lt. N. Eller retired) mand—Need to hear from Capt. Harry S. New- Louis (now on P.O.W. list but parents received one letter whose last address San Antonio, man, Cpl. John Palko, Cpl. Silas B. Wiggins known was from him, dated Jan. 3, 1951, saying he was and Chester Sullivan, med., of Co. A. or from Tex., or anv other officer or enlisted man at a prisoner. Write Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hoyle, 501 any other members of Co. A. who remi ber Kelly Field in Oct. 1920. Write Harry A. Davis, 1st Corso. Nebraska City, Neb. nervous condition of Marqis E. (Ben) efi- Taylorsville. Miss. H. S. Co., 2nd Engr. Combat Bn. — Parents will

baugh while serving in Persia or trail. i : at greatly appreciate any information from any Camp Forrest, Tenn. Write M. E. Defii,_agh, released prisoner of war who knew PFC Boyd Marlinton. W Va. W. Cassidy, listed as a P.O.W., missing since B.R.T.C. Fort McClellan, Ala. (1942) Co. A., 9th Navy and Marines Nov. 30, 1950. Write Charles E. Cassidy, Box Bat., 3rd Reg. — Essential I contact men who 204. Renovo, Pa. knew me there then to establish claim. Also Co. B., 23rd Inf., 2nd Div.—Our son. Pvt. Richard men at following units: 451st Engr., Depot 98th Seabees and 5th Amphib., Marine Corps—Need L. Holmes, was reported missing Nov. 30, Co.. Camp Gordon. Ga. (1942); 2nd Platoon, to contact any former member of USNCB 98 1950. Was wounded near Kunu-ri. Name not same Co., Corsica (1944-45 1; American with me on Maui Island. Sept., 194 5 when I on P.O.W. list. Will appreciate information of Graves Reg., Naples, Italy (1946-47); Det. injured my back. Also the Marine Cpl. Medical his whereabouts or word from anyone who 1A. Q.M., Camp Kilmer, N. J. (1947-48); Hq Corpsman who treated me on Maui Island at knew him at that time. Write Mr. and Mrs. & Hq Co.. 7th Med. Transportation Port, Ft, that time. Very important as claim is involved. Charles T. Holmes, Randle, Wash. Hamilton. Brooklyn, N. Y. (1948-50); Port Hq Write Herbert T. Youngblood, 3790 S.W. 27th Heavy Mortar Co., 38th Inf. Reg., 2nd Div.— My son, Det. 9201 TSU-TC-NYPE. Brooklyn, N. Y. Lane. Miami 24. Fla. Sgt. John K. Hotburn, was reported killed in 1950-511 Write Charles A. Nacco, 460-49th USS Tahchee — Need to contact men who were action. Nov. 30, 1950. at Sinanju near Kuni- St.. Brooklyn 20, N. Y. aboard USS Tahchee first three months of 194 3 ri. Would greatly appreciate hearing from 130th Field Artillery — Need to contact following who remember my being thrown from deck of someone who was with him during that offen- buddies of 4 years service who were with me barge carrying flat cars down Delaware River. sive, or who knows the circumstances of his when I received a back injury at Fort Sill. Barge was towed by USS Tahchee. Especially death, or from parents of men in the same Okla., in June, 1944 —claim with VA pending: anxious contact Machinist's Mate Francis Ma- company. Write Mrs. Minnie Holburn, 115 Is- Richard Harms, Charles Holley, Bill Ackason, kin Reading, or CBM John Kovach, formerly of land Ave., Warwick Downs 5, Rhode Island. Young Veterans! reconsider the Army advantages

IF YOU'VE received your Army discharge Your within the past 90 days, you've already had a taste of civilian life. You've had a valuable Army Career chance to compare.

Well, how does it stack up? Is it all you Benefits! expected? (Can you afford to This is just to remind you of your Army career advantages. They're still there—waiting for you steady lifetime income plus continuing medical pass them up?)

—if you re-enlist within 90 days after discharge. and dental care . . . and even legal counsel for • Opportunities for specialized Perhaps now is a good time to re-examine them yourself and your family? add it up, When you training and education from your new civilian point of view. the total is guaranteed security. And security • A pay raise every two years— these days is pretty hard to by. Take your Army training and education for come and increased promotion oppor- instance ... as an experienced soldier you now And remember! You are still eligible for your tunities have a better chance for special instruction in a re-enlistment bonus if you return to the service • A family allotment when married variety of fields. And that pay raise every two within 90 days. • A 30-day paid vacation every year years, with increased promotion opportunities So, examine your Army advantages carefully. • Increased responsibility with in- . . . how does that look? Compare them with what you are now getting or creased service And while we're talking benefits, let's not will be getting. Then see if you don't want to • And eventually, retirement with forget about retirement. Where else can you re-enlist. There's a lot of satisfaction in making steady income retire after only twenty years on the job with a your career one of service to your country

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 43 WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO IN ST. LOUIS (Continued from page 17) leagues. With the National Convention and lagoons are still others of the at- post served as a training camp in both falling in late August and early Septem- tractions of one of the finest municipal World Wars. ber, Legionnaires will have an oppor- parks in the United States. Primarily a city of home owners, St. tunity to see several games which may For those who like to refresh their Louis has some of the finest residential decide the pennant races. knowledge of history, St. Louis offers areas to be found in the United States. More than a hundred theaters—both many important landmarks in the coun- Famous for their architectural excel- motion picture and legitimate stage- try's growth. Still standing is the old lence and surrounded by attractive lawns provide daily entertainment of the Courthouse, once the site of slave auc- and gardens, the homes add to the lighter variety and in the 1,400-acre tions and the scene of the famous Dred beauty and charm of the city. Together Forest Park are enough attractions to Scott trial. It marks, too, the starting with the nearly nine hundred churches keep the Legionnaire visitor occupied point of the Daniel Boone trail, one of of nearly every denomination they give throughout his stay. The St. Louis Zoo the earliest routes to the western ter- the visitor a feeling of a well-devel- is an ever-popular attraction with ritories. On the riverfront is the Old oped and comfortable place to live and grown-ups and kids alike. Its daily wild Rock House, built in 1810 as a fur work. animal shows have become famous all trading post and tavern for rivermen. Whether the visitor spends most of over the country through newsreels and Here too is Eads Bridge, built in 1874, his time in downtown St. Louis near television. This free presentation is just first to span the Mississippi. Memorial Plaza, in Forest Park or sail- one of many located within the Park. For thousands of Legionnaires, St. ing along the Mississippi on the excur- The Jefferson Memorial housing many Louis offers a reminder of their service sion steamer S. S. Admiral, he can be of the Lindbergh trophies, the Art days in historic Jefferson Barracks lo- sure that he will enjoy the warm hos- Aluseum, the Jewel Box, a magnificent cated on the city's southern boundary. pitality of St. Louis, "City of a Thou- modernistic botanical exhibit, and lakes Dating back to the Indian Wars, the sand Sights." THE END

J.O.B.-A MASTER PLAN YOUR POST CAN USE (Continued from page 25) difficulties faced by the physically hand- employers followed. After three months the community in added revenue from icapped. The speaker was Henry Vis- of careful and thorough study, the Post new wage earners and reduction of cardi, Jr., Executive Director of Just voted $2,500 to Just One Break, Inc., public funds for support of the dis- One Break, Inc. Viscardi himself had the money to be used to establish a abled, and to the Post and its members overcome the handicap of being born Wing for one year beginning May 1st, in the feeling of having contributed w ithout legs. The organization he di- 1952. once again to the welfare and well- rected was concerned with the placing Using the experience and personnel of being of the veteran and his family. of physically handicapped people in the established organization, the Wing The men who have been most con- productive jobs. would have as its purpose the placing cerned in the operation and direction The figures presented in the course of this program in the Ad Men's Post of the talk came as a revelation to Past have broken the ground in a new phase Commander Hugh Norman. Some DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND of Rehab work. Their experience and 250,000 people become seriously dis- observations are valuable to Posts and who ought to have a subscription to the Legionnaires concerned with the same abled each year through industrial, Legion Magazine? If you send $1.50 to- household and traffic accidents. Vet- gether with his name and address to — problem. A pamphlet entitled "Opera- erans involved are, of course, in direct The American Legion Magazine tion J.O.B." can be had by writing Ad- proportion to their percentage of the Circulation Department vertising Men's Post No. 209, Hotel population. The need of these people 700 North Pennsylvania Lexington, New York 17, New York. Indianapolis 6, Indiana for jobs, particularly the non-service- For other Posts interested in a ven- it will bring him a year's subscription. connected disabled vet, is great. Work- ture of this kind, Ad Men's Post ers in the field pointed out that no re- stresses the following cardinal points: habilitation program is complete until 1. Interviewing employers and selling the patient is returned to a productive of disabled veterans in jobs. The proj- them on the advantages of hiring the job. ect was successful from the start and physically handicapped. Norman came away from the meeting quickly caught the interest of Post 2. Getting several doctors and men with the thought that here was a pro- members. In its first year of operation trained in personnel work to act as con- gram that could be a natural addition 40 physically handicapped veterans were sultants for the purpose of ascertaining to the existing Rehab program con- placed in productive jobs covering a the best types of jobs a disabled veteran ducted by the Post—the finding of jobs broad range of skills, experience and can do. for disabled veterans and placement of training. 3. Enlisting the support of the local those capable of regaining a place in The publicity given the Wing brought press and radio to aid in selling employ- in society. After a discussion with Post immediate response. Other Posts hear- ers on hiring the handicapped and otherwise interesting the community in Commander Julius Joseph, Jr., the two ing of the work asked for information sat down with Henry Viscardi to for- to enable them to set up their own the project. a mulate a concrete proposal to lay before program. Handicapped veterans ap- The Ad Men's Post has established the Post. plied for job assistance and employers Rehabilitation Fund to assure continu- For In the full and free discussion which utilized the service of the Wing in hir- ance of its job-finding program. followed in the Executive Committee ing disabled vets. Legionnaires whose Posts cannot sup- and at general meetings, objections and Now well into the second year, the port such a program on their own there comments were made by the Post mem- program has paid dividends to every- is an opportunity here to help an al- bers. Investigations of job facilities, one: To the vet in giving him a chance ready-active organization in a growing the end talks with VA officials and possible to support himself and his family; to venture. 44 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 SPINNING GEAR (Continued from page 27). AMAZING THjjjg/>j^ gree of accuracy. As soon as the lure is over the target, stop the line from peel- SEA/SAT/ONAL NEW TING ing off by placing the forefinger of your Ca?EAM FOR casting hand on the spool. It's as simple as that. poor ITCH Let's say you're a bait fisherman, and r(ATNLm'S poor) chances are better than fifty-fifty that - USE HELPS you are. You've had your preliminary REGULAR casting practice, and now you want to RELIBVE /TCR/N6- fish. Spin fishing was made to order for SOOTHES 3URN/NG cast live bait easily and you. You can BETWEEN CRACKED REEL/A/6 you don't need heavy sinkers to do it. TOES - A/OS HEAL/NG Two summers ago I spent the best part of a week trying to hook an old AMAZINGLY residenter brown on the Pere Mar- quette. I saw the trout a number of times when the light was favorable, under a maze of fallen trees. And I tried every way to get him out of there. F/A?ST USEO - CREAM RROVEO First, wet flies. 1 drifted dozens of pat- TING terns past the log jam, but the brown /A/ --''Si EFFECT/ V£ /N K/LL/N6 rejected them all as phonies. It was im- HOSPTALS SPEC/F/C TYPES OF possible to get a good drift with dry NOW 4TNLETES FOOT FUHG/ flies for two reasons. The spot was just RELEASED OA/ 60 SECOND barely within range of my fly-casting TO CONTACT' ^ outfit and the current passing it broke DRU66/STS __ ^gigggrgriy off into a backwater and prevented a GUARANTEED £ V£/Y //« or/f££ /WO01/CKS natural drift. Bait was out of the ques- #AV£ fA't-EO T&YAMA2///& tion because the distance was too much TING MUST TING OS£AM W/>At" for my flyrod. 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... ALSO //V berries and accusations of being a MONEY BACK.' I AVA /L ABLE 7H£ A/EW "meat" fisherman by my companions, I set up a light spinning outfit and ob- NEW, DIFFERENT, EJCCl(/S/V£ $ ^ «- tained a supply of nightcrawlers. I ^CHRISTMAS CARDS 1] MAKE $6.73 CflWT„ WITH NAME IMPRINTED ™* waded out some distance above the log iKM VMB you sell one—and they're amazingly easy to v Pen - n - 'R/uaaH studios '»" jam, rested the water for several mo- sell! We have new Adding Machines in orig- II EARN EXTRA SS / Deal with a Leader. Earn BIG EXTRA inal factory cartons you can sell for only ments, and then cast a large gob of $14.95 and you make 45%. They're execu- crawlers into the current just above the tive model portables, precision built with /OVER 100«// new boxes. Other exclusive AMAZ. automatic clearance, direct ING Profitprofit cardscarrl^ & novnovelties. subtraction, VW%W%/\FlTr ™ id postal fish. I used no sinkers in an effort to fully guaranteed. Send for life size color 'PROFIT' You take NO RISK -d today for box samples on photo with full details. Write today to assortment get a perfectly natural drift. I couldn't approval. You also get free LIGHTNlMG ADDING MACHINE CO.. Inc.. samples easy-to-sell personal Christmas cards, stationery, nap- have reached the spot with my flyrod. Dept. A7, 1260 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles 26. kins. It costs nothing to try. WRITE TODAY. PEN-'N-BRUSH, Dept. AM-8, 139 Duane St., N. Y. 13, N. Y. The bait tumbled and swirled into the pocket below the logs. Deliberately — without hesitation — the old brownie FREE FOR ASTHMA took the bait and I set the hook into If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke solid resistance. For several moments and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to we had a real interesting contest going send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for on, a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA and take orders t.-r t est known line Uniforms for w but the odds were loaded on my resses. beauticians, nurses, doctors, et< a preparation tor temporary symp- dentists. MEDICINE, including Nylon, Orion, Dacron. It's easy work v. side for this one. The brown not only tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. Hoover — fam. .us everywhere for smartest styles, top quality and value. b KEK' Complete Style Display, de No matter where you live or whether you have wound up in my net, but he converted faith in any medicine under the sun, send today HOOVER DEPT. EM. 17. NEW YORK 1 1. N. Y. / / I a couple of skeptics into spin-fishermen. for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Frontier Asthma Co. 872-T Frontier Bldg. With spinning gear, drifting bait is 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. as elementary as lighting a cigarette. Anyone can do it. Just bait up with YOUR SPARE TIME hellgrammites, soft crayfish or worms and drift them into pockets, deep runs, IS WORTH glides, and beneath undercut banks. It's $1000 AN HOUR deadly for smallmouths, rock bass, and IN THIS SENSATIONAL NEW BUSINESS channel cats. You can do the same in OF LAUNDERING VENETIAN BLINDS Combine a steady repeat CASH other regions and it's find just as fatal business of YOUR OWN with your present job. Small invest- to trout. Try it even where the fish are ment for new portable machine wary and shy from seeing artificial flies that washes 10 Venetians an hour, at $1.00 per blind! Start DRAIN/MASTER floating past day in and day out. Try to in basement, garage, or utility Without electricity or moving p room-an hour a day for 5 days earns you $50 per week! Others pumps of pe: get a natural and 300 gallons water fron soiled eel- unencumbered drift have expanded into full time-report as high as $1000 a month lars. pools, trenches, etc. Just attach with a (j uden hose income-and more! No experience needed— no age limit. FRFE book- to any screw-type faucet, attach another secti n of hose- on those so-called "fished out" to the discharge end, turn on the water ami it goes to waters let tells how to start. Get names of successful operators in your vprk. Non-rusting • $3.95 post paid l state. No salesman will call-NO OBLIGATION. WRITE TODAY . W e No catalogu near home—no sinkers or floats. You VENETIAN BLIND LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT CO., INC. NOVELTY MART may be surprised by the results. 442 NORTH SENECA, ^HUfiuHB WICHITA 12. KANSAS 59 E. 8th St. Dept. 168 New York, N. Y.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 45 Spinning tackle is also your best bet For all their cussedness, carp are shy an old lunker bass chasing minnows at for bait fishing in lakes and ponds. and wary feeders. Coarse tackle and the edge of some cattails. Drifting slowly with the wind or pad- clumsy methods do not fool the jum- More of an angler than a divot digger, dling carefully about is my favorite way bos. But spinning tackle, it sometimes Charlie raced to the car, exchanged his to get bragging-size bass. Of course it's seems, was designed for carp. At least irons for a casting rod, and swung into a little different from stream fishing. In it has been extensively used on them action. He might as well have spared

any waters where there is vegetation for decades in Europe. Anyway, try the effort, though, for every cast he you need a float. Pass up the large and this sometime: carry a small supply of made with the large plugs "spooked" brightly painted ones you see on tackle doughballs in your kit. Any of the gen- the bass until it stopped feeding.

shelves; merely use a plastic bubble erally recommended types is all right, Charlie tried a number of other

made specifically for the purpose or, just so each individual bait is small, no angles. He caught a couple of small bass

better still, the cork from a discarded larger than a dime. As soon as it's evi- in the process but had not a tumble bottle of bonded. If you use a light live dent the bass or pike are on a hunger from the reluctant lunker. Charlie did

bait—minnows or worms—the bubble is strike, dig them out. learn that the bass usually loafed near better because it gives added casting Using a small, sliding sinker a foot the base of a weeping willow when not weight. If the bait casts easily- alone, or so above the hook, bait up and cast feeding. He also learned that the fish use the cork. into deeper areas—or other places where was allergic to approaching fishermen Cast your minnow, lamprey, leech, or you have seen carp working. As soon as as well as to large plugs. It didn't want hellgrammite around the edges of weed a carp samples your bait, flip the pick- any of either. beds, around sunken obstacles, stumps, up bar over to allow line to pull freely At that time, Charlie was brand new and near drop-offs. Keep moving— and from the reel. Nothing discourages a at spinning. His casting had all been in keep placing the bait in as many likely carp (or most any other fish) like un- practice and he hadn't acquired much

places as you can. Loitering in one area natural drag. Allow the fish to run sev- confidence in it. It was with resignation is restful to the fisherman but rarely eral feet—then hit him hard. On aver- that he tried it on his eighth hole neme- productive. age spinning tackle, you're in for a sis. He selected a darter type plug and,

Your spinning outfit is not always fight that will cover a lot of water. keeping far away from the willow, made the best one to use for panfish—for the There are as many spinning lures on a long cast. It was almost fouled up sunfishes, crappies, bluegills and perch. the market as there are spin-fishermen when a hook caught momentarily on Since they are small, a light flyrod will —almost. It must be a hopeless task for a branch, but luck was with him when

give you a little more sport. But if other beginners to select a few good lures the plug plopped easily to the water. fish refuse to cooperate some day, you from such a great selection. Some are Charlie allowed the plug to rest mo- can use the same spinning outfit and be good, obviously, and some poor. But tionless for several seconds. Then he in business for panfish. It's a case of w hich is which—I'm certain that not gave a slight switch. Another pause and using the float, again, and methodically even the experts would agree. For the plug disappeared in a violent boil

covering suitable water with bait. Or largemouth bass and pike I like the on the surface. For some time there- you can continue to use regulation smaller (Vi ounce or less) versions of after Charlie was busily occupied. The spinning baits and tie a small panfish old reliable bait-casting plugs. Some of last time I saw him that evening, he size fly or rubber spider on a length them even have more wallop than the was still occupied—trying to sell the of leader a foot or so behind the lure. larger originals. bartender on spinning. You may be surprised at the big fish Charlie McClellan once had an in- American anglers have been slow in you'll attract. teresting experience with the spinning accepting the imported spinner and Carp are much maligned, even hated size of an old established floater. It was spoon baits that have swelled our by fishermen. But for sheer doggedness the single incident that most hastened markets. Many of them, however, have and strength they have little competi- his addiction to spinning. The scene proved effective—especially for large tion in fresh waters. And they con- was, of all places, the water hazard of trout, for salmon, lakers, and northern. tinue to hit right through the summer a golf course. Charlie was contemplat- I've had good luck, too, fooling small- when game species are less active. In ing a brassie shot one day when he no- mouths with some of the smaller spin- many places, it's a matter of carp or ticed a suspicious bulge in the water ners and spinner-bucktail combinations. nothing. I'll take carp. just off the bank. Investigation revealed There's one important item to remember when fishing— it applies no matter what tackle you use. Fish as slowly and deliberately as you can. If you can get out at night, all the better. Many game species are partially nocturnal in their activities anyway. In

summer they're almost entirely so. If

y ou're on brown trout water, for in-

stance, try floating the larger dry flies. For casting weight, use a plastic bubble. You'll make your fly-casting friends green with envy, both with your larger catches and because you can fish an entire evening without snagging trees and bushes on the backcasts. I'm entertaining no ideas about getting rid of my bait casting and fly cast-

ing outfits. But each season I find more deadly and more effective applications for my spinning gear. Perhaps you'll find it that way, too. THE END

46 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 RACING — COUNTRY STYLE HOW TO MAKE -(Continued from page 21)- be a mistake to think that little Alma's Registered trotters and pacers have TIRED EYES public-appealing feat was much more nearly doubled in number since 1946 than evidence that the amateur has a when such registration was inaugurated. firm grip on his or her prerogatives in Taxes paid to States in which harness the rich-in-heritage American sport of racing betting was held last year totaled harness racing. more than 20 million. Sulky-pullers, as Most owners of trotters and pacers, yearlings, sold for an average of $1,976 whenever possible, help their regular last year to hit a new high. One, Smash- trainers, who most of the time are also away, cost a Toledo, Ohio sportsman race drivers, tutor their stable. They $46,000. Two others, sold to a Far Hills, rise with the sun and ride 20 to 30 miles N. J. stable, cost $35,000 apiece as un- in a morning behind their horses. tried youngsters. Eight other yearlings Thrilling? Good exercise? A feeling of brought $20,000 or more — indicating getting somewhere, even though it is that money talks when it comes to prov- just 'round and 'round a track? Ah, yes, ing one's faith in the sport. especially when the horse you've feel Refreshed trained and argued over wins—even a minor race. When your eyes have that used No preliminary resume of why the up feeling from the effects of sport has prospered should ignore the importance of the mechanized starting wind, dust, glare or over -long gates of which the Phillips gate is prob- hours of work, Murine comes to ably the best known. This motorized your aid. Just two drops in each contrivance helps to start the fields of eye — and the feeling of fatigue horses evenly and fairly, eliminating the seems to float away. Murine is so old-fashioned tedious "scoring" or simple to use. Murine jockeying for position which formerly easy and drove everyone thoroughly mad with makes your eyes feel good. frustration and delay. The professional drivers, almost without exception, come originally from small towns and usually make their adult homes in rural areas. There is a decided MURINE trend toward younger men, although -for your eyes the stars, like the top executives of any enterprise, are well past middle age. But today a comparative youngster doesn't LEARN have to wait until an oldster dies to get "I hit two home-runs, stole six bases, and a crack at training a large stable, thus struck out twelve men—and you worry about MEAT CUTTING your floors!" Train quickly In 8 short weeks at To- bringing more and more younger men ledo for a bright future with security AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE in the vital meat business. Big pay, —and a few young women— into the full-time jobs — HAVE A PROFITABLE MARKET OF YOUR OWN! Pay after gr.i'iu;ition. Diploma given. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 47 ers and a leaden foot on the gas pedal, 1849, with his dam, the Charles Kent sistant trainer-driver to his venerable trainer-drivers swing easily from one mare, thrown in for good measure. It dad. locale to another. They may be rac- was the year of the California gold rush, In August, 1931, W. M. Wright, who ing in the East one week and find them- but the Orange County farmer did not had created the world-famous Calumet selves in action in the midwest corn have to leave his own hearth to corral Farm in Kentucky's blue grass, never belt the next week. This means that more than $200,000 in stud fees from knew that his homebred Calumet But- famous horsemen like Tommy Berry, the great Hambletonian. In fact, more ler won the Goshen classic. Wright, Fred Egan, Ben and Gib White, Del than 90 percent of the trotters and pac- one of the leaders in developing the Miller, Bi Shively, Johnny Simpson, Del ers in action today may claim Hamble- American standardbred (running horses Cameron and innumerable others will tonian as their lineal pappy prefixed by are thoroughbreds), was in a deep coma be seen successively at, say, Santa Anita, several great-greats. when his favorite captured the Ham- Calif., Toledo, Ohio, Saratoga Springs, The Hambletonian, as the richest bletonian. Wright died shortly there- N. Y., the night tracks at Yonkers and sulky race in the world, probably has after. Roosevelt raceways near New York more tales surrounding it than any other The Indianapolis trotting-pacing meet, City, Goshen, N. Y., Springfield and harness event. It was pretty7 much of a soon to be held not far from the Na-

DuQuoin, 111., Delaware, Ohio, Indian- flop with the public in its first four tional Headquarters of The American apolis, Ind., Columbus, Ohio, and Lex- years, starting in 1926. It alternated be- Legion, showed last year just how firm- ington, Ky. tween Syracuse, N. Y., and Lexington, ly harness racing has gripped its pub- Many of the younger reinsmen re- Ky. And when William H. Cane lic. There is no wagering at the Indiana turned to the sport after serving in brought it to Goshen in 1930 with the State Fair, but more than 30,000 persons

World War II. Johnny Simpson, 34, depression just under way, many pre- refused to go home last year even volunteered naturally enough for the dicted it would collapse like the market though a tiresome 40-minute wait pre- cavalry and ended up as an infantry had a few months earlier. But it didn't, ceded the last event. A final wind-up officer. Jimmy Wingfield, 38, who as and today it's practically legendary. heat was required to name the victor a mere shaver was the groom for the Only one driver, Benjamin Franklin in a scheduled two-best-out-of-three- renowed Greyhound, was another White, now 80, ever has won the Ham- heat race. And while only two horses doughboy officer. Jimmy Jordon, 48, bletonian four times. Perhaps his most returned to the track to settle the issue, and Jimmy Arthur, 34, both shouldered dramatic victory was in 1936 with Rosa- and such a race is not too exciting for arms along with their head trainer, Del lind. His young son, Gib, was seriously most people, the whole packed grand-

Miller, 40. And Bi Shively, 75, who is ill. The elder White had purchased the stand stayed till the end to get its fill apt to be racing in California one week filly and given it to his son to cheer of harness racing. and be looking for new honors in the him up. The boy could only watch his Rain is the all-time bugaboo of trot-

Atlantic States shortly thereafter, is a famous father tutor the game little lady. ting-pacing events. While running Spanish-American war veteran—as are He lived in the faint hope that the filly horses can gallop in a sea of mud, har- others who never seem to grow old would somehow win the great sulky- ness horses must pull light sulkies piloting harness horses. derby. Came Hambletonian Day, and through the muck—and it's hard to do. People may wonder why the Ham- Gib White was carried to the roof of So, if it rains long and hard prior to bletonian stake is so famous and why it the Goshen grandstand. There he saw race time, everything possible is done is now always held at Goshen. First of his father, then 63 years old, win in to "wring out" the track by driving all, Hambletonian himself (a poor race two straight heats clocked in 2:01%, scores of cars over it to squeeze out the performer, but a wonderful sire) was the fastest time in which the Hamble- water. And surprisingly enough, this foaled at Sugar Loaf, N. Y., only four tonian had ever been won. treatment works well. For muddy, wet miles from Goshen. William Rysdyk P.S. Young Gib, given a new lease on tracks have been ironed out in less than

r bought the gangling colt for $125 in life, fully recovered and today is as- two hours to permit the full day 's or night's program to be held. That makes the classic remark about everyone discussing the w eather, but no one ever doing anything about it somewhat outdated. For engineers today build harness speedways to shed most of the moisture, using a combination- type surface that quickly absorbs the water. And as stated earlier, the other tedious delay caused by many false, uneven starts has been eliminated by mechanical starting gates. They now get a large field of sulky-pullers off more smoothly and as fast as the stall gates used by thoroughbreds. Many transplanted city dwellers around New York, once from the far rural reaches, like to go at night to the brilliantly arclightcd Roosevelt and Yonkers Racew ays. Here they may risk a few bucks on their favorites. And if they are older than most, they may hark back to the "good old days" of Dan Patch, Single G, Lou Dillon, Star Pointer or more modern greats like Greyhound and Billy Direct. They 7 w ill recall the names of old drivers such as

4fl • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST. 1953 Pop Geers, Tommy Murphy, Billy takes youth and its quicker reflexes to Andrew s, Dick McMahon or more re- pilot a fast-steppin' trotter or pacer cent greats such as the late Walter R. around a track crowded with equally- Cox and Sep Palin. But while the old determined drivers. As there is no short, days w ere grand, as they always seem easy road to success for most harness in retrospect, it's somehow a livelier, horsemen, the successful ones advise more vital sport today. getting in young and sticking with it. For one thing, there are more young Del Miller, now only 40, has one of amateurs of both sexes enjoying a whirl the largest stables on the trotting-pacing at racing their horses. Maybe it's be- turf. His string of 66 horses earned cause the thrills of the motorized age $547,038 last season to lead all competi- Save...buy 6 pkgs. are wearing a trifle thin. At any rate, tors. His breeding farm at Meadow- change is in the air. Heat racing, usu- lands, Pa., does well, too, for he sold ally the best tw o out of three deter- two yearlings last fall for $30,000 and mining the w inner, is being replaced by $25,000, respectively. Miller employs single dashes or races that settle the three chief aids, two younger and one matter all at once. older than himself. men The legend that you must be at least Native Dancer is a name of note in 40 or, preferably, older to win consis- thoroughbred circles. The standard- tently is being thoroughly dissipated by breds have Stanley Dancer, 26-year-old

"wonder boy" of New Egypt, N. J. He over began his career in 1948 with one horse. Today he has more than 50 under his wing, with a payroll covering 20 assist- ants, a half-mile training track, barns 45 and other equipment on his 106-acre farm. He's a star performer at Yonkers Raceway. Last year, he moved into the More than six times as many top 10 reinsmen of the U. S., finishing men of your age will die of eighth with $188,913 earned for his two- lung cancer this year as died score owners. As recently as 1950, in 1933. Our research scien- tists still don't know why. Dancer slept in a tack room on a cot They do know, however, that to save needed money. over half of those who will Simpson, years old, of Johnny 34 develop lung cancer can be Chester, S. C, and Hanover, Pa., where saved ... if they get proper he supervises the huge Hanover Shoe treatment while the disease is Farms' breeding establishment, was top still in the silent, symptomless race-winning driver in both 1950 and stage. That's why we urge you 1951. But he was not among the first to have a chest X-ray every six months no matter how well 10 reinsmen in races won last year. That you may feel. can, of course, happen to anyone and For more information call it to comparatively often does—even us or write to "Cancer", care young and up-and-coming men like of your local Post Office. "Thought I'd go home and soak my feet. Johnny. Why, think you can offer a more exciting Then there is the typical "team" of evening?" Cancer Society old-timers, such as Ben White, Bi American AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Shively, Tom Berry and Fred Egan, whose combined ages total 299 years. much younger trainer-drivers. But They probably have not seriously or while it's true that anyone can pilot a needed horses to train for a decade in sport with trotter or pacer, it takes a lot of know - so, but they continue the how to become a great trainer. And their enthusiasm—and skills— unabated. once such a crack tutor, a man is a much These are success stories that cannot better driver because he his be duplicated too often. But they are knows Write for complete horses thoroughly. indicative an unmistakable trend to- of information. Dept. 5008 SCHULT There is the better future in the harness rac- TRAILERS case of 15-year-old ward a SCHULT Corp., Elkhart, Ind. Jimmy Dunnigan, Jr., whose father is ing world for nearly everyone. For as president of Buffalo, N. Y. Raceway. drivers win more races, there are more He decided that he'd better start in and more owners who want their serv- 1953 FOUNDER'S RE-UNION young to learn the intricacies of har- ices. As in other things, if they cannot of ness racing. So, last summer he took a always get exactly the man they're after, The American Legion job as in will for groom the Del Miller stable to they settle someone else. will be held at learn everything from the hoofs up. For Seasonal records such as the 25 world The Missouri Athletic Club while there are expert blacksmiths, of marks that were equaled or bettered St. Louis, Mo. course, a trainer must know how he last year will probably be beaten this Saturday, August 29, 1933 wants his horses shod for perfect bal- summer. The unwavering yardstick by Dinner at 6:30 P.M.. by Reservation. Those who attended the Paris and St. Louis Cau- ance and highest speed. which a harness horse is measured— his cuses in 1919, are invited. Please make Res- ervation. Young Dunnigan's idea to get into or her ability to race a mile in two THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDERS the game early is particularly minutes or less— applied to horses important was 49 2820 North 40th Street, Milwaukee 10, Wis. today when there is not only more rac- in 1952. Perhaps the most spectacular or to Joseph A. Bernard 12 City Hall, St. Louis 3, Mo. ing but harder-fought contests. It often performance last summer was that of

THE AMERICANA-*LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 49 Star's Pride, who trotted a mile at ing the unwieldy high-wheeled sulkies speedways in New York City. The DuQuoin, 111., in 1:57%, which estab- of the mid-nineteenth century (see Cur- Grand Circuit was born in the latter lished a new world's race mark for a rier & Ives prints), battled for top part of the 1800's and is still the major horse of either gait. Two other horses, honors. league trotting and pacing loop. U. S. Good Time, a pacer, and Sharp Note, Wealthy and influential men became Grant was a trotting enthusiast, visiting a trotter, won more than $100,000 each personally interested and as the low- the old historic track at Goshen to see in 1952. It was the first time in the his- the equine immortals of the day. Rail tory of the sport that any sulky-puller tycoons like Harriman and Yanderbilt had won that much in a single season. personally participated in harness races, Trotting and pacing events were w ith the former's son, Roland, owning many years ago more strongly sup- and operating his late father's half-mile ported than the "runners" or thorough- oval at Goshen. This village is probably breds. Then the pendulum swung the the only small community in America other way. Today the popularity of with two tracks—both devoted exclu- the metropolitan night harness tracks, sively to trotting and pacing. where anyone can go after work, is Today one can pay a great deal or steadily eating into the attendance at only several hundred dollars for a trot- afternoon running tracks which for half ter or pacer. By helping to train it and a century have pretty well had it their by assigning it to a less busy and per- own way in big city areas. In the coun- haps less expensive professional tutor, try, the harness horse has always reigned one can enter it, at no great cost, in a supreme. dozen or more events this summer. If As the eastern seaboard was settled the horse doesn't win to help pay back first, that is where trotting first ap- the investment, the owner has had the peared, some time close to the Revolu- fun of helping to get him ready for his tionary period. Impromptu races devel- races. And, if he likes, actually to drive "And now, let's all taste one of our deli- oped on country roads just these events. between cious, golden brown muffins." him himself in two horses, ridden astride or harnessed AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE The personal equation, that of being to a cart or wagon. As news of these able to climb up behind a horse and clashes spread, man's natural gambling handle the reins, is such a novelty in this instincts asserted themselves and slung, bicycle-wheel modern type sulky age of streamlined speed that it will matches were established to determine slowly emerged, they took to driving always lure more and more avid sup- the champ. These grew into more for- their own horses in "matinees" con- porters to the ancient and honorable mal affairs where a field of horses, pull- ducted on the Brooklyn and Harlem sport of harness racing. the end

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THOSE ADDED YEARS? (Continued from page 19) also no end to the growing list of men could only expect to meet on the streets restrictions: "It is not fair to our own and women who must be led into self- one person out of twenty-five who was senior employees who have worked help. Opportunity, not charity, is the over 64, today every twelfth man in their way up with us; think of the pen- demand from the able of mind and body the country is in that upper age bracket. sion plan." Informed specialists in the out of the 1,800,000 unemployed in the "It is interesting to note," says Leo labor relations field consider this to be United States today. But the rising pro- Werts, Executive Director of the De- more of an excuse than a valid explana- portion of retired oldsters in the semi- fense Manpower Administration, "that tion of a musty policy. True, promo- self-employed brackets, while encour- in a recent survey made by the Depart- tion-from-within is an established and aging in itself, is not the answer to the ment of Labor, more than forty percent proper custom when intelligently ad- prejudices which greet other categories of the older men who were aggressively ministered and when the promoted in- of workers. seeking employment were veterans. dividual has the ability to handle the The real seriousness of this situation They are not men who readily accept a new job; however, this does create a is not simply in the tear-jerking melo- secondary position in the labor force of situation where an experienced man, drama of the deserving individual who the country just because of the number looking for employment in his special- gets a raw deal from life, but in the fact of their years." ty, has to face beginning at a lower that we have a steadily aging country. Werts did point out that although the level of capacity, responsibility and pay It was all well and good in 1900 to boast future looks brighter than ever before than he feels—and can demonstrate- of our "youthful" nation, both as to for the workers who were born around that he deserves, man for man, on a the age of the country and as to the the turn of the century, the present al- purely competitive basis within any average age of the working force—agri- lows much room for improvement. given plant. cultural and industrial—which consti- "This is not directly a job for govern- Another factor which frequently tuted the population. At that time we ment—federal or local—to carry out militates against the more mature work- still had a massive daily jolt of youth- other than to provide leadership in the er is his perfectly natural "lack of flexi- ful immigrants arriving and adding broad educational program that must bility," as the personnel experts refer vigor to the national blood stream; to- go on. Industry must be taught that to it. This does not mean that he is day that hypo has diminished. Accord- more and more of the older members crippled with rheumatism or arthritis ing to the Department of Labor, 43 mil- of a community are making astonishing —it means that in many instances he lion of our working population are over contributions. The various areas of in- and his wife have dependents, homes 45, far too large a proportion to even dustry must realize increasingly the or other financial obligations—to say dream of shelving; by 1975, more than value of a worker as a man rather than nothing of the friends and other rela- half of the working force of the United a statistical digit on a form chart based tionships of years' standing—which

States will be 45 or more. We are, in on 19th Century thinking. make it extremely difficult for them to fact, growing up. Where, in 1900, you Industry still offers reasons for its hit the road with hearts as gay and free

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST. 1953 • 5 J ers and, without fanfare, set up a test Electric and between them they set up plans may not mean immediate employ- group of employees who themselves a loosely organized group of valuable ment. But he can surely take renewed were unaw are of being part of an ex- men who had been or were being re- hope and attack his own problems with periment. Two-thirds of the group tired under G. E.'s compulsory system. renewed vigor. He should, as well, make turned out even better than had been These men are hiring out as part-time it as easy for himself as possible. Many hoped for; the other third were per- consultants and auditors; they are train- a man is turned down for a job not ceptibly i nder par for the course. Now ing younger men; they are undertaking because of age, as such, but because of a strange and understandable reaction other specialized assignments as advisors his own insistence on some of the "pre- took place. ConEd, with very much in- rogatives of my age and experience," or terested union advisors peering intently because of carelessness about some ap- over their shoulders, found themselves pearances and attitudes which are pop- in the position of having to fire "good ularly considered to be symbols of old Tom" and keeping Dick and Harry. senility. To help correct this, some sin- Was this discrimination? A bad morale cere explorers in this field from the condition ensued. The result? Go back Department of Labor have prepared a to the old system and retire them all at sort of informal check list which I sub- 65, regardless. Taking the position of mit here without comment. having to choose amongst the efficient I Perhaps you have other penetrating and inefficient— due to age—was just too and personal questions to which a job- tough a morale problem to face daily seeker should address himself in order and it opened the doors to incredibly to avoid unnecessary barriers in his complex decisions w hich could only be path toward a secure and active Second wrong. Act in his life.

It is not always the company's per- 1. Are you defeated? (If so, don't sonnel office which is responsible, bother reading any more questions.) though they take the brunt of the 2. Are you willing, or able, to take blame. The real villain in the plot, ac- a chance? cording to many advanced personnel 3. Do you maintain a neatly-groomed experts who have studied the problems appearance; are you scrupulous about in industry and in government, is more keeping your teeth or dentures clean apt to be the insurance companies who and odorless? operate the retirement plans. These ex- 4. Do you stand on your rights as "an perts acknowledge that many of these "I don't care if I do own this building and old timer"?

if you have looked everywhere, Grace . . . funds are set up on U. S. Census birth 5. Are you a "Rooster," i.e. an old you just can't park there!" and death rates and vital statistics con- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE bird who chases young chicks to prove cerning the population w hich were set he's still a man? up over 40 years ago and which have 6. Do other men usually get better little actual bearing on today's condi- and consultants to smaller businesses breaks than you do? tions as shown by later census reports. throughout the Erie area. 7. Are you garrulous and enjoy tell- A continuing battle is going on between Another firm looking for a depend- ing others how well you used to do it? these insurance companies and the ex- able labor pool after Korea, was Boeing 8. Are you slowing up in certain perts in the Department of Labor who Aircraft, of Seattle. They recognized phyr sical-mechanical operations? (There are trying to liberalize the country's that many middle-aged and older fami- are always others less exacting.) labor policies for the older people. lies were in one form of retirement or 9. Are you willing to be an "elder Senator H. Alexander Smith of New another in St. Petersburg, Florida. They statesman," or do you still w ant to run

r lersey, stalwart of the Senate Commit- started recruiting there, deliberately the shop > ourself? tee on Labor and Public Welfare, says, seeking out those who not so long ago 10. Can you, w ith God's help, lick "I would like to see a special Presi- had been considered by other firms as yourself? dential Commission appointed to study "unemployable on account of age." If you can answer the last question the overall problems of unemployment And in so doing they proved that many in an honest affirmative, you will know- among older persons and to make rec- who had been thought too inflexible in in your heart which are the right an- ommendations on all these subjects." their way of life, simply and happily swers to all the rest of the questions.

Progress is being made in many ways. pulled up stakes and moved from semi- If y ou measure up to those answers In Erie, Pennsylvania, for example, Leo tropical Florida to the Northwest, and and really want to work, you can stop Carney, the U. S. Employment Service glad to be of service. worrying. According to the experts, representative, got together with the For the average man, these hundreds you are better than half-way there. pension and welfare man from General of examples, these many well-founded THE END

THE CHAPLAIN OF UPCHUCK (Continued from {rage 15) could see and feel around them. The a corporal. "Ah'd like t'pull down his "one tongue" sparingly, and that mostly big gray colonel, for once in his career, baggy britches and sit his bloody bot- in chapel, where he called on lesson loomed larger than a chief of staff. He tom on Okmok Volcano while I shoved after lesson his father had told him of angrily drove them to work and his flat feet in one of them glacier hardship. If it exposed him to more maneuvers, as if by the pressure of his cricks." ridicule from the colonel—constantly authority he could stamp down normal Chaplain Melk heard more of the quoting his father—Melk bore it as his human longings, loneliness and resent- detail than the other officers, whose cross. The message was what he was ment. own voices were not always quite silent, trying to sell. "You know what ah'd like to do with either. At first he tried to absorb it all There came a night, though, when that overstuffed hawghidc?" growled in a good example. He used his own Melk sought out the battalion medic.

52 * THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 That weary older man could only "Steady, soldier," Parkinson drawled. shrug and shake his head. "There's no "If a big rube like me can take it, you pill for it, Chaplain," he said. "They can." need thawing inside—bright lights and The day the field generator exploded last Week (*S- jitterbugging and juke boxes. Some bare there was no safety valve. Parkinson legs besides those on their pin-ups. It's was on it, and it burned him crisp, from /Made a classical, clinical case of going nuts." head to toe. It happened an hour before "But doctor—" Alelk began. the boat came up with the overdue mail, "No medicine at all for it, Chaplain, which the sergeant never got to read. *2592i it comes under your department, any- The men were not reading theirs, either, with Science's New Midget Miracle, PRESTO Fire Extinguisher way. You'll just have to administer some as he lay in the base hospital trying to So reported RAY BARTA of Wisconsin. Many YOU! more of your barnyard philosophy un- die unheroically. They stood outside others "(leaning up" -so can AMAZING new kind of fire extin- til you get the right dosage." huddles, "Presto" does job the door in dark, brooding . guisher. Tiny extinguishers that cost 4 Melk stiffened, his blue eyes glinting of bulky crumpling their letters and battered times as' much, are 8 times as heavy. as 2 seconds. Fits in behind the silver spectacles. "I see, sir," Ends fires fast packages. palm of hand. Never corrodes. Guar- anteed for 20 years! Sells for only he said. He lifted his eyes over the work- "What'd Hawg-hide want that frozen $3 98! Show it to civil defense medic's head. "My father has always ers owners of homes, cars, boats, rig started for, anyhow?" they de- farms, etc. and to stores for re-sale Kerr re- said we are a part of the problem, or of — make good income. H. J. manded. ports $20 a day. C Kama. $1,000 a Write for FREE Sales Kit. No rhe solution. 1 shall try." He zipped up month. obligation. MERLITE INDUSTRIES, Inside, the battalion medic cleaned 298, 201 East 16th St., his parka jacket and hiked off to find Inc.. Dept. Mopa Science's New York 3. N. Y . IN CANADA: as best could, knowing St.. Montreal 1, up Parkinson he Midget Co., Ltd., 371 Dowd Parkinson. New P.Q. (If you want a regular Presto to you can't scrape the charcoal off a flesh Miracle use as a demonstrator, send $2.50. "Parkinson," the doctor told the "PRESTO" Monev back if you wlsh.l and blood man as you would with a colonel, "is the best medicine we have. piece of burned toast. Parkinson stank I'd hate to face another winter in this What can I do to and he hurt, as he waited for Melk, but outfit without him riding the safety get relief from the severe symp- he didn't whimper. The bandages that toms of bronchial asthma? valve." turbaned his head and covered his eyes stayed white only a little while. His big Inhale the pleasant somehow, the cauldron of Upchuck f&0{(/0fc' body oozed. aromatic fumes from Dr. R. contained itself into the short Aleutian Schiffmann's ASTHMADOR summer. When the colonel wasn't driv- They had seen Melk pick up his mail. —available at all drug stores in and Canada— in powder, Someone remembered seeing him read- U.S. ing them, Parkinson and Melk had them cigarette or pipe mixture form. over a rock. off on exploratory expeditions. It was ing a letter and stumbling Use anywhere, anytime—conven- ient, economical. the sergeant and chaplain who got them Then he had ducked into his hut and shooting geese— no easy trick with a come out with his father's Bible. He the rifle. But of course the colonel stopped had headed off by himself toward island, they said, and STHMADOR that. He was a golf man himself. other side of the "We've got no expendable ammuni- that's where they found him and told tion for goose hunters," he stormed. him. He came right away, still carrying

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snow cones back along the island chain. doctor who had not kept him from fire seemed to burn in him. No man, He gasped when he met the smell of dying. thought the doctor, should become this the burned man. He stumbled, as if he "Major, we're burying Parky tomor- sick from witnessing the death act- couldn't go farther, but finally he laid row," said the spokesman. "The rites not even when the dead man was his his hand beside Parkinson's arm. will be strictly private—no officers. Just closest friend except for one, and even "Don't look on me, chappy," mur- his friends, you might say. And please though he died unprettily. He told Aielk mured the dying sergeant. "It— it ain't omit flowers." the colonel's idea. good—" The medic didn't say yes or no. He "I have my wishes, too," said the Melk gulped back his nausea; his eyes looked into their angry eyes, shrugged, chaplain. His voice was subdued, but were swollen. "If— if you can stand it and watched them stump out of his edgy. "My wishes happen to coincide to happen to you, Parky," he said. office. As they wished, he conveyed with my duties here." He tottered, but he stayed close, look- their message to the colonel, grimly "Very laudable," said the medic, "and ing into the charred thing that had been waiting. I shall so advise the colonel. But you his friend's face. Behind him the other "This still is the Army," said the don't seem to understand. They have men came up slowly. They looked bit- colonel. "We will proceed in the proper said no officers at the funeral. They are terly at the black, smeared sheets, at the manner." threatening—even bodily injury." medic standing idly by. Perhaps they He summoned all the officers and re- Melk tapped the letter slowly, meet- didn't realize there was nothing more he peated his words. He lined up the non- ing the doctor's gaze. "It is a problem," could do. They weren't reasoning. They coms and told them. And then he strode he acknowledged. "And sometimes, didn't like it. Nostrils flared from more back to his headquarters and examined major, you are solving the problem than the stink. Eyes were bitter and the facts. They demanded no exhaus- when you step out to face it." He the tears were bitter. tive Intelligence investigations. The men smiled wanly. "My father—of whom Parkinson made one last try. "If a big were cleaning guns. They still had am- you've heard me speak often, I know- rube like me can take it—" He didn't munition. They told themselves Parkin- put duty above all other things. Per- finish. son had died "like a hawg." If he could haps he did it for this very moment. "Hawg-heads!" a soldier spat. His not live decently and die decently, they He always told me, 'Ellsworth, you may eyes fixed on the gold collar ornament —his buddies—would at least see to it fly to the ends^f the earth, or you may of the major. he was buried decently. The intent swim down to the deepest depths of they expressed is not countenanced by the sea, but you can never escape your during the next hours vehement cur- any military regulation. duty.' rents drove the men of Upchuck, and "What about Melk?" the young lieu- "Melk, your father can't solve this only Chaplain Melk was left beyond tenant asked at staff. "He's an officer, one for us." them. He sat apart in his quonset, pon- too." "I know." The eyes of the little chap- dering deeply, while all the bitter, lone- The colonel grunted. "We'll put a lain came up slowly. There was suffer- ly months came surging up in a tidal combat officer up there. A man with ing in them. He handed his crumpled wave upon the Battalion. Parkinson's fists, rather'n the country preacher. letter to the medic, who saw immedi- ". body was not decently cool before his Major, will you so inform him—wher- ately the phrase . . has fallen on final name was an essence of brewing vio- ever he is?" sleep." He frowned, embarrassed. lence. He was in his quonset, staring at his "I'm terribly sorry, Ellsworth," he

They didn't bring it to the chaplain. open Bible and folding a letter over and said. "I didn't know, of course. Would He was not a man to fight them back. over. The pink was drained from his you like me to give you—" They went, rather, to the base hospital face, his eyes were haggard, his skin "No medicine, doctor," Melk said, where Parkinson had died, and to the was the color of dry clay. Yet a cold managing a wry smile. "You have no medicine for this." He shook his head. "God, in his wisdom, has simply given me a duty this day. I must bury my own grief. If my task is very frightening,

then it means I must find greater re-

sources than I alone thought I had." He tapped a passage in the letter. "You see

I have two funerals today, really. And

now I must make ready." Bareheaded, he went to where the men were gathered, building a coffin for the sergeant. He took the shovel from the corporal. If there was a pro-

test, he ignored it. "I wish to help make the resting place for my friend," he said. He pushed rocks aside, dug and got down into the hole to make it deeper. He helped to place the casket by the side of the hole and then he car-

ried wild flowers to lay around it. "Chaplain!" a soldier said gruffly. "We-" Melk replaced a flower as it tumbled. "Almost the last ones of the summer," he said. "Parky liked the blue ones." The soldier stood back, frowning. The colonel watched from his quon- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE set window, his big hand clamped to

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 55 communists were perfectly acceptable Baarslag got an immediate reply on Walter Gellhorn's Security, Loyalty & as teachers. how the term "McCarthyism" was born. Science, (financed, incidentally, by the Which might help explain the incred- Ralph de Toledano, author of Spies, Rockefeller Foundation); and Carey ible outpouring of testimony before Dupes and Diplomats, wrote: McWilliams' Witch Hunt—The Revival Congressional committees on the many "The word McCarthyism was first of Heresy. school teachers infected with the Red used by Owen Lattimore before the McWilliams' long pro-communist rec- virus. Tydings Committee. The next day it ord is well known. What makes his Today Dr. Hutchins is spending was picked up by the Daily Worker. book interesting, however, is his view Henry Ford's millions (those that are Then the pinkos picked it up and before that it is perfectly okay for reds to be tax-free) in various educational schemes, you know it the N. Y. Times made it working on atomic bomb projects or in one involving the study of Telegu, a famous." the Department of State. neglected Oriental language spoken Most Americans are now beginning McWilliams, it might be added, is mainly in Hyderabad, India. A quarter to look behind such smear words as now editorial director of The Nation, of a million dollars is being expended "McCarthyism." Particularly since Ko- which the New Leader, one of the bet- on this project. rea there has been a widespread re- ter anti-red sources, has consistently Not one Ford Foundation project, action against communism, as the exposed as pro-communist. however, is aimed at exposing the com- Kremlin's little helpers now ruefully And Francis Biddle, whose book at- munist menace. The writer has written know. tacks anti-communists as witch-hunters, for information to the contrary. His But this state of affairs should be no is the former U. S. Attorney General request has never been given even the excuse for complacency and inaction. who was once given a list of some 1000 courtesy of a reply. federal employees with alleged red con- However, the Ford Foundation did nections. Biddle returned the list with Periodicals: Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly reply to a request that it produce an the observation that it was practically ALERT (Los anti-communist Angeles 12, Calif.: 127 S. Broad- worthless. TV show called Temp- way, monthly, $3 year) West Coast develop- est-tossed, an exciting production based ments. We now know that on the list were AMERICAN MERCURY (N. Y.: 11 E. 36th St., on firsthand accounts of life behind the monthly, $3 year) Features anti-red articles. such names as Alger Hiss, Lauchlin COMMENTARY (N. Y.: 34 W. 33rd St., pub- Iron Curtain. "The Workshop's activ- Currie, Harry Dexter White and others lished by American Jewish Committee, $5 ities for the coming season have been year) Good anti-red articles. since identified as part of the red under- COUNTERATTACK (N. Y.: 55 W. 42nd St., committed," a Ford official replied, weekly, $24 year) Weekly newsletter, a must. ground. FIRING LINE (Indianapolis. 700 N. Pennsyl- "and plans do not include a series At present, Mr. Biddle is chairman on vania St., $3 year) Bi-weekly of National the subject of communism.'" Americanism Commission, American Legion; of something called Americans for analysis red activities. More recently, the Ford Foundation FREEMAN (N. Y.: 240 Madison Ave., fortnightly Democratic Action, a so-called "non- $5 year) Anti-collectivist, anti-communist. did get interested in the subject. It ap- communist" group which has urged HUMAN EVENTS (Washington: 1835 K St., propriated the fantastic sum of $15,000,- N.W., $10 year) Washington developments. U. S. recognition of Soviet China. NATIONAL REPUBLIC (Washington, D. C 511 000 to investigate so-called threats to Eleventh St., N.W. monthly, $3.50 year) To get at the truth there are many Keeps civil liberties. close tabs on reds. books, pamphlets and magazines avail- And where do those threats come able for patriotic citizens eager to learn from? "From the McCarthys and the Communists are most dangerous when the nature of communism and how it McCarrans," as one Foundation official their intended victims are overconfi- should be fought. We present these lists put it to the writer. "The domestic dent. They are unbelievably resourceful for your attention and urge that you communists are no real menace; they've and inventive when their previous tech- keep them for reference. been exposed too often." niques have been exposed, as FBI Direc- Every effort should be made to see Yes, the communists that local libraries carry these sources are being ex- tor J. Edgar Hoover recently pointed posed, but no thanks to Dr. Hutchins out. of anti-communist information. Good and his ivory-tower colleagues. Patriotic Americans, anxious to serve anti-red books should be presented to Last summer, Karl Baarslag, while their country on the home front, must these libraries. serving as research director of the Le- learn to fight communism wisely. The One plan has been worked out by gion's National Americanism Commis- crucial first step is to learn the truth the Legion. In a letter to every Post sion, suggested that some patriotic foun- about this menace. Not only must they Commander and Unit President, Na- dation finance these projects: keep abreast of all current develop- tional Commander Lewis K. Gough 1. A scientifically conducted research ments, but they must also study the and Mrs. Rae Ashton, President of the project to ascertain why universities basic texts exposing communism. American Legion Auxiliary, suggested that libraries with and colleges teach so little about com- This is not as dull as it sounds. The Legionnaires present munists and how they operate, as dis- revelations of such former communists books dedicated to individuals "for hon- tinguished from formal, stilted courses as Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bent- orable service in the Armed Forces of on Marxism and Russia. ley, Hede Massing and Louis Budenz the United States in perpetuating the 2. A survey of communist-inspired make exciting reading. They provide ideals of freedom and liberty." morale disintegration and demoraliza- more than sheer entertainment how- This is one way to commemorate the tion techniques, particularly in the ever. They constitute a veritable treas- lives of those who were killed fighting theater, motion pictures, books, in mag- ure trove of information on the insidi- communism in Korea. azine articles, radio commentaries and ous workings of the red underground. Bookplates for this project can be other public opinion media. But not all books dealing with the obtained from National Emblem Sales, 3. A national contest with suitable communist question are of value. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Indiana. awards for those who track down to For example, Merle Miller's The Sound, authoritative books exposing their sources certain cliches and stereo- Judges and the Judged gives a biased, communism should also be donated to types employed by leftists to confuse hysterical and unrealistic account of the the schools. Last April the Luzerne and divide public opinon. How, for ex- grave problem of red infiltration of the Count)' American Legion Committee, ample, were such cunning phrases as entertainment world. representing 14,000 Legionnaires in 41 "red-baiting," "smearing of innocents," Other book titles, totally ineffective Pennsylvania Posts, presented such "McCarthyism," "witch-hunting" and in the fight against communism, include books to five institutions of higher "creeping fascism" coined? Francis Biddle's The Fear of Freedom; learning in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity.

55 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 Besides books and pamphlets, other All these columnists should be sup- publications from time to time carry ported. Let your editors know about having them appear regularly in your important disclosures on communism. »l« MOVES FROM HEEl 10 The U.S. News and World Report, local papers. Contrary to popular opin- I0[ WHEN WMKINE published by David Lawrence, is par- ion, your newspaper editor is not aloof. ticularly excellent. He is vitally concerned in what you And of course this magazine, which think. In newspaper parlance that is features articles by such outstanding known as "reader reaction," and he authorities in this field as Eugene Lyons, wants it. Irene Kuhn, Louis Budenz, Freda Utley One of the best sources of anti-com- WALK ON AIR Here's quick relief lor anyone suffering from cal- and J. B. Matthews. Several of these munist information can be found in the luses, blisters, spur or bruised heels, or general articles have been reprinted and should various Congressional reports now foot fatigue. Albin Air Cush'n Innersoles give your circulated. stemming from the well-publicized in- be feet immediate comfort. Just place in your shoes Another important source of anti- vestigations. Your Congressman or Sen- and walk. Air moves thru a small channel gently communist information is the news- ator will be glad to supply you with massaging feet. Odorless, non-absorbent, almost weightless. Order by men's or women's shoe size. these reports. Just write to him. Also, Only $2.95 a pair (No COD's, please — money back let him know how you feel about things if not delighted). Albin of California, Room 108, generally. He'd like to know the think- 1401-65 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles 17, California. ing of his constituents. Show Hew COLOR-CHROME Christmas Cards The Congressional committees now EASY SALES $CA°0 probing communism include the House BRING YOU

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 57 4. Bring good lecturers to your com- 12. Be alert regarding communist exercise care in the fight against the munity. efforts to promote racial or religious reds. Dissent should not be confused 5. Ask opinion-influencing media, such bigotry or to infiltrate minority groups. with communism. Before acting in any as newspapers, magazines, and radio, to 13. Check "peace" groups. Do they specific situation, seek the advice of carry useful material on communism. take the stand that Russia is always right experts. Praise them when they do so. and we are always wrong? There are Now we come to the problem of 6. Be sure that your local bookstores many reputable peace organizations, but "lists." The belief has gained currency

feature good books exposing com- communists are also promoting appease- that there is in existence a huge master munism. ment in the guise of peace. file of the names of all communists. STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN 14. Never use the term "communist" Perhaps the FBI has one—let us hope so. 1. Be on the alert for communist sym- loosely or inaccurately. Misuse of the But unfortunately as far as can be de- pathizers in your community, especially term only gains friends for communism. termined, there "ain't no such animal" those who can mold youth or public- The latter injunction is of tremendous anywhere else. However, there are opinion. A communist line from teach- importance. In the recent words of Vice numerous compilations of subversives ers, lecturers, librarians, writers or com- President Richard Nixon: made either by private or congressional mentators is dangerous. bodies. One extremely valuable com- 2. Be as cautious in sponsoring move- pilation is Red Channels. ments as you would be in signing a Of late, a big controversy has arisen business contract. Look before you sign over Red Channels, which contains the or join. names of dozens of actors, writers and 3. Find out from reputable sources, directors in radio and TV who have such as Counterattack, Alert or the at one time or another given aid and American Legion about communist comfort to the communist cause. sympathizers in the entertainment field. This booklet is one of the most im- When sure of the facts protest to spon- portant anti-communist source books sors about such employment. yet, if not evaluated properly, the ma- 4. Identify public officials and poli- terial it contains can do harm to the cies displaying softness towards com- anti-communist cause. In the words of munism. Demand a more patriotic at- the foreword to Red Channels "every titude. safeguard must be used to protect inno- 5. Ask questions before you send your cents and genuine liberals from being children to a college or university. unjustly7 labeled." In the more than Avoid schools which tolerate pro-com- three years since Red Channels' publi- munist professors. Bring this subject up cation a score or so of those listed have

at alumni meetings. Find out what is made their pro-American positions being taught in schools you support. clear. They should not be punished for 6. Urge bookstores not to feature past stupidities. books which aid communism. Therefore if some action against HE ACTIVE someone listed in Red Channels is con- 1. Support organizations which are "Why, Edwards, Miss Prentice. That's silly templated in your community, it would

. . . can't distinguish our little friends fighting communist infiltration. you be advisable to check with the pub- at night!" 2. Assist efforts lishers, Counterattack, 55 West 42nd St., to free labor unions AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE from communist control or to prevent New York. such infiltration. Another error sometimes committed is hastily 3. Get the habit of writing to news- "Many sincere persons today fear by anti-communists to check papers, magazines, and public officials that our freedoms are being endangered the indices of Congressional reports on to protest aid to communism. Praise by efforts to root out communist sub- communism and assume there is some- sound anti-communist moves. version. There are complaints about the thing wrong with anyone so listed. 4. Demand enforcement of existing danger of thought control and forced Because the error is committed too laws designed to control communism. conformity. Yet, we have ample proof frequently some Congressional com- for 5. Give financial support for com- that the danger of communist subver- mittees now publish a warning note "attach significance the petent private groups fighting com- sion is real. readers to no to munism. "We intend to meet this threat with- mere fact of the appearance of the name 6. Coordinate on a local level anti- out endangering the innocent or punish- of an individual or an organization in communist activities of private groups. ing those who may merely have been this index." Urge joint action on higher levels. deceived. As a matter of fact, this writer's name Favor small but active committees. "We must remember that extremes appears in the indices of various Con- 7. Report evidence of espionage and beget extremes. If there is in some gressional reports. Typically was the sabotage to the F.B.I. circles an extreme reaction to commu- listing of his name in the I.P.R. hearings.

8. Urge that schools and colleges nist infiltration it is the product of the The writer got his name listed because teach facts about communism. other extreme of ignoring the danger. Owen Lattimore, in his testimony, 9. Take a strong and informed inter- Had communist spies and traitors been named him a bigshot in the so-called est in American foreign policy. ruthlessly exposed in the past many China Lobby! 10. Publicize activities of communist persons today would not be looking for To sum up: Learn all you can about fronts in your community. Be sure of them in unlikely places. communism. Then act against com- your facts. Get advice on libel. "The policy of this Administration is munism. But check with those who

1 1 . Have the courage to act in face a middle-road between the extremes of know before you act. The fight against of possible smears and slander from ignoring communism and of suspecting communism should not be thrown off communist sympathizers. Support patri- it everywhere." the track by errors. The communists otic ex-communists who cooperate with in other words, what the Vice Presi- know how to take advantage of your the F.B.I. dent suggests is that patriotic Americans mistakes. the end

58 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST. 1953 ( Continued from page 4) more of a subsidiary for civil service would do better to join his dictatorial, big-wigs, and a gravy train for a bunch holier-than-thou comrades across the of females who cause more trouble Itodorantfipecial! than they're worth. Kindly withhold sea. His article on TC is full of cliches ^ used by any propagandist who is in- my name and location. The GS-15 is MONTH'S capable of thought and writing ability. the kind to step on noses and step — SUPPLY7]I5* And as in a tirade of a hired propa- hard. Staff Sergeant USAF gandist there is neither logic nor rele- vance in his writing. Sentences and Special bargain way paragraphs have no relation to each BUM GUESS to try this great man's other. Sir: "The storms of protest" which deodorant! Send 15* in William F. Raffaniello you claim articles published in your Woodside, N. Y. coin for regular 29* magazine arouse arc not to be seen MENNEN bottle (month's supply)! BOX 1181 where you would have us look for Limited offer. NEWARK, N. J. DOWN THE RIVER them. They are not in your letters to Sir: A few short years ago we liter- the editor but in the advertising col- ally sold the Chinese people down the umns. Let's look. I have the June issue river. Now we stand ready to do the before me. As usual, the advertising same thing, through the UN, with the is getting thinner and thinner. Is that 100 WAYS Koreans. Again we stand ready to an indication of what business thinks compromise, w ith these people as the of you or of Legionnaires? Legion TO MAKE men and their families arc among the $ paw ns. If they compromise the situ- J QQ ation where it is I should hate to be best potential customers of any product in America, no automobile, SELL WETMORE the one to face my comrades who yet SUGDEN stayed where they fell and have to tell food or clothing manufacturer invites them that they fell for a just and us to try his line. Why? Is it because CHRISTMAS CARDS of your editorial policy? Your lack of 100 thrilling money makers that honorable cause. I can not make my- can make you $100-$200-M0RE. FREE self believe in my ow n mind that they elementary fairness has reduced you Two 21-card $1.00 Christmas As- Imprint Sample sortments. EXCLUSIVE imprint Assortments did so. to liquor and tobacco ads, ethyl gas cards 50 for $1.25 up, gift novel- on approval Name Withheld and the petroleum institute, a hair ties, 120-piece EXCLUSIVE gift ensemble, imprint notes, sta Interlaken, N. Y. tonic and a few classified which in- wrap tionery, Everyday cards. Big 5%/^£"' G "° ranle d b clude the dregs of the market and cashr«h bonushnnus - Write todaytodav - f r ^ (\Good Housekeepingu DISPUTES BRYNNER some obviously dishonest. This is a WETMORE & SUGDEN, INC. letter to print along with your self- 482 Monroe Ave. Rochester 2, N. Y. Sir: In a letter in your May issue, Yul administered pats on the back. Brynner says that he did not fight in Jay C. Rosenfeld MEN! WE FIT an International Brigade in the Span- Pittsfield, Mass. ish Civil War, and in fact w as never W I D E FEET! T We apologize to our advertisers for in Spain in his life. Apparently when E to EEEE Only-Sizes 5 to 13 fold's indicate Mr. Rosen remarks which We s per t a 1 1 ze in w-i-d-e sizes. Fine 1 article in wrote my the January issue (tress, work, casual styles that he doesn't know what he is talking hot '.hi'! find in the wi on communist penetration of TV, I need. Top quality. Large variety about. The fact is that so far this year, Popular prices. placed too much reliance on publicity Money Back Guarantee The American Legion Magazine is Not sold In stores. Write for put out by Mr. Brynner's (or his pro- FREE catalog today. No ob- 18.5% ahead of the corresponding 2-Eyelet ducers') press agents, and countenanced Crepe Sole HITCHCOCK SHOES Moccasin period last year in advertising revenue. by Mr. Brynner himself. According to Hingham 853, Mass. Illustrated In 1952 our ad revenues were 9.8% publicity stories published over a six- ahead of 1951; in 1951 they were year period, .Mr. Brynner drove a 7.2% GROW MINIATURE TREES ahead of 1950, and so on. Incidentally, SEED & PLAN truck for the Spanish Loyalists in the kJU4J1l FRE£! these gains are being despite a Civil War, w as captured near .Madrid, made New fascinating IIOItTiY! $ f $ % Heal LIVING general trend Editors OPPORTUNITY! imprisoned for two months, and there- to the contrary. "Ming" Trees— Beautiful elm oranKG, oak, cypress—any Kind! Full grown but by lost his hair (N. Y. Herald Tribune, miniature. Help us till huge demand

from 1 nt > - i <> i- Decorators, Offices, Oct. 2, 1945 and Feb. 1946; Brook- 24, ATTENTION VA AND AMA Hotels, etc. FREE Seed and Wan write: lyn Daily Eagle, Feb. 24, 1946; N. Y. NATIONAL NURSERY GARDENS, Dept. AL8 8463 So. Van Ness, Inglewood 4, California Sir: I the wife of a veteran. Post, July 2, 1949 and June 24, 1951; am WWII sec also ostensible personal interview My husband has been in very ill health for almost three years, and has lost published in the communist-aiding AprauiixiAiT one job after another because of it. N. Y. Compass, April 15, 1951). Ap- 11 I BECOME AN EXPERT parently, this publicity stunt has now He is now making about $30 a week and everyone knows a husband and I back-fired on Brynner. As I w rite this, u n imm Aliu $4, mm to a year. Executive Accountants and C. P. A's earn $10,000 live that. I train you thoroly at home in spare Brynner's name appears on a list of wife cannot on have worked Thousands of firms need them. We time for C. P. A's examinations or executive accounting positions. unnecessary. Personal training under supervision in ever since our marriage but would Previous experience candidates the Actors Equity elec- of staff of C. P. A's. Placement coun-el and help. Write tor tree book, "Accountancy, the Profession That Pays.' tion, in company w ith such fronters rather stay at home and raise a family, LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St. but could not raise children on his III. as Frank Silvera, John Garth III, Jo- we A Correspondence Institution Dept. 8361 H, Chicago 5, seph Anthony and Kim Hunter. Ap- salary. We have filed all kinds of all parently, Brynner is getting bad ad- papers with the YA but the help w e've received was a paid trip for him RUPTURE-EASER vice from someone. Pat. Off. (A Piper Brace Product) Vincent Hartnett to Jefferson Barracks and when he got New York dry there, there were no beds available. Of course he doctors, but doctors cost

money. One bill from a doctor for Double. -.4. 95 WHEN DO THEY CUT? $200 is facing us now. I sure wish Right or left No Sir: Some months ago it w as said that someone would explain to us how Side $^95 Fitting Required the government intended cutting down some veterans can receive all kinds of A strong, form^fitting washable support. Hark lac- on civilian personnel in the armed help while others receive nothing. My ins adjustable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather forces. is this When supposed to come husband's leg was wounded while he bands. Unexcelled for comfort. Also used as after operation support. For men, women and children. about? The reason I ask is because was in Germany and he has to use a Mail orders give measure around the lowest part they're running all over us at this air cane. of the abdomen and state right or left side or double. We Prepay Postage Kxcept on C.O.D.'s. base, and seem to have the upper hand. Mrs. Warren K. Hershey PIPER BRACE CO. It isn't the Air Force any it's III. more; Springfield, Sll Wyandotte. Dept. AL-83. Kansas City 5. Mo. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 • 59 COMMUNISM'S ROUTE TO AMERICA LIES THROUGH CHINA (Continued from page 13)

zation than any of the Tojos, Hitlers or "deliver" the "starving poor of China" ants now own their own farms. For- Mussolinis of our past. We can win from an "oppressive Government." For mosa's predominant crops are rice and battles on clearly seen battlefields; but ten years powerful propaganda forces, cane sugar; last year the rice harvested we Chinese and you Americans, a moral more effective than armed troops, have surpassed the peak Formosan produc- people without the techniques of de- been at work to turn Asia over to the tion under the Japanese occupancy. We ceits and treacheries, are greatly handi- communists—and to accomplish this, have local self-government, and an ex- capped in waging victorious war against communist propaganda was especially tensive program of civic education,

a dishonest foe. I am very sure that his- organized for the United States. His- whereas under Japanese rule the people

7 tory will prove that the lies and deceits tory , I believe, will further document of Formosa had no voice whatever in of communist propaganda were the in detail the evils now unknown to the government affairs. We held our first most important factors in the losses the people of America. election by universal suffrage in May, free world has sustained on the main- The basic 1943-49 goal of the Krem- 1950, and 80 percent of the qualified land of China. lin was that of inducing Generalissimo men and women voters cast their bal- To conquer the world the Kremlin Chiang, through external pressures, to lots. has planned first to conquer Asia; to take Chinese communists into our na- On Formosa, today, councillors, conquer Asia it knew it must first con- tional government—while permitting mayors and magistrates are elected by quer China. Communists, their agents units of the communist army in China the local populace. Of the 814 Coun- and dupes, went to work, not only in- to remain outside the government's cillors elected, 72 are women. We side China but inside the United States, control and under the absolute leader- women of Free China, from all sections and inside the governments of many ship of communist puppets of Moscow. of life, have organized ourselves into other nations whose people actually We knew the dangers of such a "coali- an active Woman's Anti-Communist were friendly toward us, to misrepresent tion" even though some of our friends League, with branch posts widely scat- facts and to create their kind of public appeared not to understand them. tered throughout the Formosan hinter- opinion. They set off, particularly with- Today the free forces of China are land, as well as in its towns. They give in our old and greatest ally, the United mainly concentrated in Formosa. Here, their spare time and substance to vol- States, continuous barrages of adroit, on this Pacific island with an area equal unteer work in activities comparable highly organized and skillfully directed to Massachusetts and Connecticut com- to those of your American Legion Aux- propaganda against our struggling gov- bined, is our new Free Chinese bastion, iliary. Today, Formosa has no beggars; ernment. We were the first government a mere hundred air miles from the the people are simply but adequately in Asia to take the field against com- enemy -dominated coast. By hard work clothed; there is meat, as well as rice munism, and the first victim, therefore, and the friendly cooperation of all the and salted vegetables, in our school of the communist "Big Smear" tactic inhabitants of Formosa, many of the children's lunch boxes. of abuse and distortion with which we economic and administrative reforms Had China, with the democratic have since become so familiar. which we had been unable to carry out precepts under the creative philosophy Most of us now know how subtle during the preceding tragic years on of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, not had to fight the and widespread were the communist the continent, are now being imple- Japanese aggressors, and not had to efforts propagandizing the distorted mented. We have successfully raised fight the treacherous infiltrations of ideology that communist Chinese were the standard of living throughout the Kremlin communists these long, bloody7 merely "liberals," "agrarian reformers," island, in spite of the loss of the wealth years, we today would be one of the "real democrats," having "no connec- and industrial resources we once really great nations of the civilized tion with Moscow." They were, the possessed on the mainland. world—a great republic which would free world was told, merely trying to In Formosa, farmers who were ten- stand as a cornerstone in Asia for liberty, progress, and equality of human opportunities. Our 7 problem today , from our Formosan base and fortress is to regain the land, people, resources and freedoms which we have lost through Japanese invasions and communist sub- versions.

We all know that the Korean war is

no isolated phenomenon and is not to be independently resolved or won. It is vital, therefore, that the communist power in Asia have its energies and superficial resources disrupted and scat-

tered on all possible fronts, before it can organize itself, by supply lines, into an adamant foe for over-running Thai- land, Burma and Indo-China. I do not believe there is any7 way short of superior force, and strategic tactics properly used, to achieve an end to communist domination of Asia's mainland—and let me repeat again the axiom that if communists get complete "Maybe something's wrong with the vaccine? They get this far and then they control of China they get control also feel faint for a few moments." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE of Asia. An imperialist dictatorship over continental China and its 450,000,000

6() • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • AUGUST, 1953 people—and its very rich resources of the future—will spell doom for all the 800,000,000 people of Asia, all the way to .Malaya and India! The world has plenty of evidence that we can achieve no moral assets with Moscow, or Peiping, or with communists anywhere, through negotiation. Negotiations, as long draw n out as they ^MEMBER, desire, are used by communists for tactical ends and for the gaining of day- AMERICAN to-day advantages to suit their ends. Communist "peace" slogans are traps for people of good will. Communist agreements are not worth the paper they are signed on. LEGION It is difficult for the people of the mainland, under the bloody heel of communists and the village murders by MAGAZINE brutal communist police, to start on RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL their own any organized revolt. With no right of free association, the slight- est suspicion of revolt will bring down on them the w holesale massacre not only of themselves but of their entire families or often villages. However, our far-flung mainland intelligence keeps us Do You Believe In Signs? informed as to their desire to revolt, their wish to become fighting guerillas the instant we can organize and supply the arms and necessary diversions. Our Well here's one sign you can really count on. It's the Formosan difficulty is not in obtaining official emblem of The American Legion Magazine effective recruits on the mainland, but in obtaining and supplying the neces- Retail Advisory Council. You will spot it in thousands sary equipment. Millions of Chinese of store windows in your home towns all across men and women will rally around patriotic units, inside communist-occupied America. It means the shops displaying it are owned China, when we are sure that their pa- and operated by fellow Legionnaires. triotism and self-risks will not be sacri- ficed by uncoordinated and ineffectual techniques. The flame of revolt smol- You can shop with confidence wherever you see this ders intensely; we must not allow it to die out, cither by waiting too long, or colorful red, white and blue shield . . . it's your assur- by disclosing it to the enemy so it can ance of honest and friendly service. The Retail Advisory be murderously snuffed out! Council is designed to help Legionnaires everywhere. With your help and assistance, let me assure you that the Chinese people of So band together noiv in this nation-wide shop- the mainland will rise at the propitious ping service and shop the Legion way— every day. moment and regain their land and regain also a new security for all Asia. The supplies and tools they need to fight w ith victoriously would be con- And remember, ask for brand name products that sidered alongside your military methods you see advertised in your American Legion Magazine. as quite primitive, but in patriotic Chinese hands, before the Peiping com- These are the fine national advertisers who make this munists can liquidate them, even your service possible. most rudimentary land and air w eapons can be victoriously effective. More than a year before the outbreak of the Korean debacle my husband, in 1949, asked the United States to take the leadership in organizing an anti- 'Retail communist mutual military alliance of Asians. The then Secretary of State in THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Washington dismissed our proposal as Advisory 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36. N. Y. "premature." Again in 1949, President Quirino of the Philippines also delivered to Washington a plan for a "Pacific Council Anti-Communist Pact," without the specific military aspects of our proposal. This plan was also rejected.

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That the British government, for Nationalists on Formosa, but because of some quite self-aggrandizing purposes the hundreds of thousands of secretly of its own, joined your then Secretary anti-communist soldiers and civilians of State in not wanting an Asiatic alli- within their occupied territories who ance across the Pacific, for the protec- were ready—when we gave the signal- tion of Asia's liberties, will surely prove to attack on hundreds of thinly-held —if it has not already proven—one of communist fronts. the great historical blunders of our gen- We have in the past established sys- eration. South Korea, the Republic of tems for knowing in detail the Krem- China on Formosa, the Philippines, lin's imperialistic plans with relation Japan, Siam, Malaya and many of the not only to China but to all Asia and the now-called "neutralist" states of south- Pacific. In 1925 my husband became a eastern Asia could have been banded member of the Central Executive Com- Communist machine-gun fire dropped him in mittee of the major Chinese political combat. But whole blood kept him alive, saw party, the Kuomintang. Well informed him through the hospital. He thanks you for WALLY of Moscow's plans, he and the Kuomin- his life. tang Party became the Chinese bulwark look So wucU like in Asia against communists and communism. In 1926 he was given com- if uoud uoear mand of the Army of the Chinese be \t, like him Republic. In Asia he stood squarely in the Kremlin's Asiatic path. To conquer Asia, soviet communism would have to pass through or around Chiang and the Kuomintang. In 1945 the soviet Red Army was allowed, by the then secret Yalta agreement, unbeknown to us, to occupy She'd been exposed to polio. A new serum certain very strategic positions in Man- Gamma Globulin, made from blood, helped after ward off the dread disease. She thanks you churia and to retain them VJ Day. for her life. There was never any doubt until Manchuria was occupied summarily by the Soviet Union after VJ Day, that the Nationalist forces of the Kuomintang, supported by loyal, patriotic soldiers and citizens, would eliminate the in- (From September, 1938 A.L.M.) filtrating communists who threatened us. From Manchuria, however, as soon together under the wise leadership of as the Japanese militarists surrendered, the soviet red equipping the United States in 1949 and the com- army began cap- munist-inspired attacks on South Korea Chinese communist-led troops with and on French Indo-China might well tured Japanese supplies and armaments have been prevented. and sent them south against us. The world-wide forces of commu- Despite the treaty of "Chinese-Soviet nist aggression have become united Friendship and Alliance," which the A tornado whipped suddenly across her home under a single overall Red Army mili- Kremlin signed with us in August, 1945, town. She was badly injured by falling debris. tary If and shortly after handing over the But a quick operation, several transfusions command. we are to make our equipment it had obtained from con- pulled her through. She thanks you for her life. combined strength fully effective, the anti-communist people in the Far East, quered Japanese to the communists, as well as in Europe, must similarly the Soviet Union began funneling to unite. Can there be any logic in spon- Chinese communists still larger quanti- ~\f\ree, grated I people say soring a mutual alliance (NATO) ties of supplies and weapons which it against communism in Europe and had obtained from the United States under World War II lend lease. The We HERE... shrugging aside a mutual alliance against communism in Asia and the Pacific? If Chinese communists thus armed were united communists, out of Kremlin, able to drive us south from our cities, because you n/^reTHERE the could destroy, one by one, the free na- enslave the people of mainland China tions of Europe, who was so forgetful and use many of them not only against of the Pacific as not to know that united the Chinese Republic but as the armies communists, out of Moscow, could also which they sent across the Yalu River, destroy, one by one, the free nations in that catastrophic winter of 1950, to and states of Asia? overrun and capture your American The danger to communist plans for soldiers. the domination of Asia by an unleashed The Chinese troops who surrendered Formosa was one of the primary factors quickly to Americans in Korea—follow- which started Stalin's successors in the ing your initial dropping of "freedom" Kremlin on their March, 1953, cam- passes into their ranks from the skies of — GIVE paign for more time in Asia through a Korea and who have spent long new propaganda of "peace" and "truce" months in your South Korea prisoner- in Korea. The Kremlin became worried of-war stockades, were in the majority not only because of our 600,000 armed former Nationalist soldiers who did not ...give it again and again 62 want to serve under communist traitors, strength. Faced with defeat by the and took that opportunity to escape. Kaiser's troops, the only partially or- DON'T ANYONE PASS THIS AD UP! If you do you'll really be missing the boat. This Item That is why the communists of iMoscow ganized Soviet communists won their lb so HOT the type nearly turned RED. We are not using a large ad for fear of set- and Peiping so angrily wanted them re- control of Russia by calling for a ting this magazine on fire. NO! no long sto» v . All we have to \say is this electrically controlled — as Asiatic ex- "truce" and agreeing to the now-no- killer turned for punishment , bulb is the BEST insect \ , 4 J /consolidated research has been amples. Had not communist propaganda torious "Peace of Brest-Litovsk," dur- \ ^/ Vable to produce, bar NONE. m Mysteriously. It KILLS ALL types of insects scientifically, impressed on Chinese troops the lie that ing which they reorganized their army, automatically. Only one 2 hour 'application keeps KILLING disease- capture by the United States, or the marshaled new military strength, and arrylng. destructive and annoying lsects around the clock for more United Nations, would result in tortures then, breaking the "peace," liquidated lan 2 weeks. Genie will make i" home Insect proof. M. re pow- il than DDT yet harmless to hu- and death, desertions from the Chinese the Germans by both military force ts, pets and plants. Approved E for home use. Not a gadget

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