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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE thatJUST

VOL. 54 No. 5

COMBED CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1953 ARE THEY RUINING OUR DOGS? 11 BY HENRY P. DAVIS

If you love dogs you can't stay neutral on this.

THE MOVIES AND THE AMERICAN LEGION 14 BY ROBERT B. PITKIN Resolving a dispute of long standing. May is the month of poppies, and this is a typical "greenhouse." Do you need another HOW TO PICK A SUMMER HOME 16 reason to wear one? BY ROBERT SCHARFF

Don't let first appearances fool you. POSTMASTER: Please send copies returned under labels Form 3579 GERMANY TODAY 18 to Post Office Box BY WALDEN MOORE 1055, Indianapolis 6. Indiana. What is emerging from the ruins and rubble.

The American Legion HIS TEAMS WIN AND WIN AND WIN 20 Magazine is the official publication of The Ameri- BY ED FITZGERALD can Legion and is owned The magic touch brought to Junior Baseball. exclusively by The Ameri- can Legion. Copyright 1953 by The American THE Legion. Published month- WELL-DRESSED SPORTSMAN 22 ly at 1100 W. Broadway, BY GEORGE H. WALTZ, JR. Louisville, Ky. Acceptance is said for tradition. for mailing at special rate There not much to be of postoge provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. HOW VETERANS STAND IN THE NEW CONGRESS ... 24 5, 1925. Price single copy, BY SAM STAVISKY 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered as These personalities are all important to you. second class matter June 30, 1948, ot the Pest Office at Louisville, Ky., THE LEGION IN PICTURES 26 under the Act of March big events little incidents. 3, 1879. Non-member sub- As the lens sees the and scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Depart- ment of The American THE NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE 29-36 Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. Features EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES SOUND OFF! 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB . 28 Indianapolis 6, Indiana EDITORIAL AND EDITOR'S CORNER 6 NEWSLETTER 37 Because of Viralol— *a ADVERTISING special compound found PRODUCTS PARADE 8 PARTING SHOTS 64 Vaseline S80 Fifth Avenue onlyin 'Vaseline' Cream New York 36, N. Y. Cover by Walter Richards Hair Tonic—hair stays IIAIUTOMC WESTERN OFFICE in place, looks and feels 333 Noith Michigan Avenue Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not natural all day long. envelope is included. Chicago 1, Illinois be returned unless a selfracMressed, stamped Try it today—see if your friends don't notice difference in your the Please notify the Lewis K. Gough, National Commander, Indianapolis 'Vaseline' appearance. Circulation Depart- John Stelle, McLeons- E. Booth, Huntington, tin, Texas; Russell Lor- Cream Hair Tonic con- ment, Publications boro, Illinois, Chairman W. Va.; Roland Cocre- combe, Malta, Mont.; Legion Publica- hom. Baton Rouge, La.; George D. Levy, Sumter, tains Triple-A Lanolin, Division. P. O. Box of the Dan Clovis Copeland, Little S. C; Dr. Charles R. 10S5. Indianapolis, tions Commission; . . Iowa; too . and it's homog- W. Emmett, Ventura, Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Logan, Keokuk, Indiana, if you have enized for easy llow. California, and Earl L. Dague, Downingtown, William P. Roan, Lorks- changed your ad- Meyer, Alliance, Ne- Po.; Josephus Daniels, ville, Penna.; Emmett dress, using notice braska, Vice-Chairmen. Jr., Raleigh, N. C; Sofoy, Jacksonville To form 22S which you Members of the Com- Dave H. Fleischer, St. Fla.; D. L. Sears, may secure from mission: Lang Arm- Louis, Mo.; Earl Hitch- ledo, Ohio; Harold A Newburgh your Postmaster. Be strong, Spokane, Wash.; cock, Glens Falls, N. Y; Shindler, Edgar Vaughan sure to cut off the George D. Baron, Herschiel L. Hunt, Aus- Ind.; G. address label on Bethany, Conn.; Charles St. Paul, Minn. Managing Editor your Magazine and Advertising Director Director of Publications Boyd B. Stutler paste it in the space Fred L. Moguire Vaseline James F. O'Neil A rt Editor provided. Always TRADE MARK (R) Marshall Adv. Mgr. give your latest New York, N. Y. Al Eastern Director A ssociate Editors William M DeVitalit membership card A ss't to Frank Lisiecki Robert B. Pitkin Wettern Adv. Afgr. number and both Editor Irving Herschbein your new and your H. J. Prussing, Jr. CREAM HAIR TONIC Joseph C. Keeley Manager old address. A dvisory Editor James F. Barton Detroit Adv. Rep. is the registered trade mark VASHLTNE Alexander Gardiner Indianapolis. Ind. John D. Gillman of the Chesebrough Mfg. Company, Cons'd 2 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 Gmn/AgoiMt Throat-Scratch enjoy the smooth smoking of fine tobaccos_the finest quality money can buy

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THANK YOU, SERGEANT of safety, as no doubt thousands of observing GIs also noticed. Sir: I stationed in about 35 miles am Japan, Robert G. Durham west of Tokyo. Our unit has been taking Lexington, Ky. a very active part in the Korean campaign and has been ever since the beginning of T Our Art Editor has been found guilty this so-called police action. At the present and sentenced to open and close a rifle bolt 5,000 times. Editors time I am in a hospital and the reason I

am writing is because I have less than 90 Sir: Second Division Post No. 860 has au- days to finish my tour over here and I want thorized me to write and thank you for to change my address so I will continue to the grateful honor bestowed on the "Sec- get the magazine when I get home. I am ond to None" Division by placing on the a of member William H. Bollman Post No. March cover a soldier wearing the insignia 158, Lebanon, Pa., and I consider The of this famous Division. Incidentally, American Legion Magazine one of the best should any Second Divisioner within the I have ever subscribed to. Keep on with Greater New York area see this letter they your good work. I have been in the Air are more than welcome to come up and Force for over 19 years and I for one ap- join the Post. We meet the fourth Friday preciate what the Legion has done for all of each month at 75 Eighth Ave., just off service personnel. My wife is a member of 14th St. the American Legion Auxiliary. Max Schetres, Adjutant M/Sgt. Jolin A. Sitko New York City APO ,..,San Francisco FROM YUL BRYNNER WANTED Sir: In a recent article by Vincent Hart- Sir: I appreciate my American Legion nett on communist infiltration into tele-

I express. I Magazine more than can But vision, my name was mentioned. I am not,

like variety so that is why I am asking, nor have I ever been connected with nor polishes in the ~A Because it cleans and could you find space for a crossword have I endorsed any organization which puzzler same operation, it is easy to keep your to my knowledge supports or endorses or E. Bluff W. is in sympathy with the social, political or car clean and shining with Bowes Auto Poplar Bluff, Mo. economic aims of the communist party. Polish and Cleaner. suggestion contained in Hartnett's Sir: With bowling one of the most com- The Mr. dirt I international In one quick operation you remove petitive and individual sports, how come article that was an volunteer in the Spanish Civil War happens to be in- and dulling road film and restore original no bowling page in our ever-popular and correct—in fact I have never been in Spain. fatigue. growing Legion Magazine? beauty . . . without back-breaking Anthony Tschofen Regarding the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Keep your car clean and shining the Committee, in 1948-49 I accepted an invi- Babylon, L. I., N. Y. easy way, with Bowes Auto Polish and tation to appear on what I thought was to Sir: I should like a to see woman's page be a charitable benefit. However, on hear- shine with less Cleaner . . . gives you more in American Legion The Magazine. ing that this organization was involved in of your car. Estetfe Klein work and makes you proud leftist activity I notified it 1 would not ap- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. pear. My entire background has been one BOWES SHINE CLOTH of persecution by bolsheviks. My family was forced to flee from Red Russia; our Chemically treated, this possessions were seized and several mem- unusually efficient shine bers of my close family perished in Soviet cloth absorbs dust, leaves slave labor camps. I am proud of being a no oily film to catch more naturalized citizen of the United States. I, dust . . . and . . . makes more than most other citizens, know the your polish and cleaning horrors of totalitarianism and tyranny. job last over a long period Yul Brynner of time. Save time and York City labor with this unusually THAT MARCH COVER New effective shine cloth. Sir: Your cover of the A larch issue ad- vertises The American Legion Marksman- BOWES " SEAL FAST" AMUSED BUT SAD ship Program as life-saving, the lad CORPORATION yet behind the firing line has a rifle in his hand Sir: I am, in a very sad sort of way, amused INDIANAPOLIS 7, INDIANA with the bolt closed. How come? /My ten- by your cover on the March issue and by BOWES PACIFIC CORP. year-old son in five seconds with two years finding in the same issue your editorial at \ .MCA camp detected this serious breach about Senator McCarran and the McCar- RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA

A • The American Legion Magazine • May. 1953 ran-Walter Act. To paraphrase the cover, his further information, the Urban League that "The American Legion, Anti-Semite." is among the interracial movements Apparently your editorial writer has not communists hate most, as anyone who reads read or does not understand the implica- the Daily Worker and similar communist Dr. tions of the McCarran-Walter Act. Its ex- sheets already knows. It is a pity that lucid clusion of communists, which we all favor, Wittmer should introduce this into a important subject. is only an incidental part of the Act. It is treatment of a very a deliberate attempt to further an old Lester B. Granger policy of discrimination against eastern Executive Director, National Europeans, particularly Jews. The McCar- Urban League, New York City ran-Walter Act must be repealed and all the 'America First-Fascist" features there- ANSWERS STALNAKER of removed. Sir: Stalnaker's declared choice of com- Alan I. Stern munism to McCarthyism wasted valuable Los Angeles space in the March issue. Such remarks are

On page .'».'! of the March issue we pub- based on ignorance or hatred or a fondness lished an article telling why the Legion is for communism. Senator McCarthy or any supporting the McCarran-Walter Act. other American who has the courage to Editors expose communists, traitors and criminals will always have Stalnakers to try to defeat such patriotic efforts. Your corre- spondent's remarks would be better directed if they had appeared in the Daily Worker instead of in The American Legion Magazine. Thomas C. Grimes Bedford Village, N. Y.

GOOD IDEA STALNAKER ON RELIGION

Sir: As Junior Vice Commander in charge Sir: I am one Legionnaire who would like of programs I recently staged an evening's to see The American Legion get out of the this entertainment for Winnetka Post No. 10, religious and education business and stay get pursuant to the admonition in the Preamble out. The recent "Back to God" program, to our Constitution: "To preserve the with Eisenhower and Nixon, was an insult memories and incidents of our associations to any intelligent man's reason. Do you in the great wars." I selected five vets from think, or have at least wondered, that if both wars. Each spoke on "My most inter- there is divine guidance that it is available esting war experience." Each was allotted only to the United States of America? eight minutes to talk, and after all five Bill Stalnaker LONG speakers had finished the Post members in Houston, Texas the audience, by vote, awarded a handsome prize to the best story teller. A good time BIRTH OF A WORD was had by all. I recommend that other Sir: Everyone should know that the word Posts try it. "McCarthyism" was first used by Owen Samuel S. Otis Lattimorc before the Tydings Committee. Winnetka, III. QUART The next day it was picked up by the Daily Worker. Then the pinkos picked it NOW HEAR THIS because it up and before you knew it the New York LONG Sir: I had the good luck to read in your Times made it famous. lasts long — saves you added Name Withheld February issue the article Now Hear This quarts between oil changes by Dr. Felix Wittmer. One of the suggested Beeville, Texas speakers in that article was Ralph de Tole- This 100% Pennsylvania motor oil dano, who was on a program in Palm REASON FOR PRIDE with vM"JmujkJi£m stands op under Beach that afternoon. I went to hear Mr. Sir: The story My Boy Sato in the January intense heat . . . resists the forma- de Toledano and 1 was greatly impressed. issue is a warm, understanding account of tion of oil-wasting engine deposits. I hope that Legion groups throughout the the experiences of an American Army offi- country will promote talks and articles by Your engine stays cleaner, smoother cer and his faithful, intelligent servant. like men of worth, Dr. Wittmer and Mr. running . . . less oil! Major John McNally has shown in this uses de Toledano. article his keen perception of causes and Pennzoil gives all engines an extra Anne M. Stuart effects which talent he exhibited as an margin of safety. There's a correct Palm Bench, Fla. eighth-grade pupil in Pequot School, Fair- grade and type of Pennzoil for Sir: Felix Wittmer's article demonstrates field, Connecticut. At that time he was YOUR car and service conditions. that the writer is an active anti-communist, recognized by the student body, which but it also demonstrates that he is not al- elected him to be the first judge in the ways able to recognize other anti-com- newly-organized School Government, Sound your munists. Fie states that while he was on the modeled after the New England Town Z faculty of the New Jersey State Teachers Governments. During this time, his teach- College of Montclair, "typical brotherhood ers singled out his compositions because speakers" appeared in their College's proof their interest, vocabulary and individu- gram. "Such orators," he stared, "who ality. The writer of this letter has been this never uttered a harsh word against the proud in watching this deserving soldier, Soviet Union, were usually 'on the house' hero and writer, taking especial interest sign of some such powerful outfit as the Urban because he was such a promising pupil, League or the United Nations Association." while she was principal of the school. I ©l!>r>3. The I'ennmil Co. For Dr. Wittmer's information, the Urban wish John much success. Member Penn. Urnde Crude Oil Assn.. Permit No. > L. League is not a powerful outfit but a hard- Harriet Schreiber PENNZOIL ' MOTOR OIL AND LUBRICANTS

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The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 5 APPLIED PROPAGANDA

If you want to see how propaganda works, keep a sharp eye on what is happening these days.

By now everyone is aware that government investigations have struck pay dirt in the form of red traitors strategically placed in government, education, etc. You'd think, then, that every American would want to see all the rats brought to light. But no. For one reason or another, the

American public is being bombarded with propaganda that investigations of subversives must cease. As a corollary, the propagandists arc doing everything in their power to discredit the investigations and the people who are exposing the Krem- linites in our midst. It is absolutely amazing to sec where this

stuff is coming from. Certain column- ists, whose copy appears in hundreds of newspapers, consistently sell this line. Re- spected clergymen get up in their pulpits

and preach it. Radio commentators stuff it into millions of loudspeakers. Ambitious

politicians peddle it. Some of our largest new spapers become hysterical in their dia- tribes against investigations. Arc these people agents of the Soviet? In all likelihood not. Still, they are doing a job that merits for each of them the bright- est and reddest medal the Kremlin can be-

stow. For if there is one tiling Malenkov &

Co. do not want, it is to have Americans learn the complete story of the communist conspiracy.

ABOUT THE BOOKISH SET

Somebody must be offering a loving cup, 0 a smoked ham or a Mickey Mouse wrist watch for the year's best book on academic freedom. ^Ye can see no other reason for the rash of such books being hacked out these days. Late arrivals include a tome by Ernie Melby, the N.Y.U. flash; and a volume by Dr. James B. Conant. It could be that people buy such books, but even if they don't we can see how money can be made out of them. As an example, when Conant's book came out the New York Herald Tribune decided to

review it, so they hired Harold Taylor to perform the necessary rites. Harold, an academic freedom expert from away back,

is prexy of Sarah Lawrence, probably the outstanding college in the entire city of Yonkers. We can safely assume that Harold was BECAUSE OF LIQUEUR QUALITY and HIGH PROOF (94.4) paid for his review, but he also got a valuable by-product by sneaking into the re- DRINKS NEVER TASTE THIN WITH GORDON'S GIN \ iew a free plug for his own forthcoming book on academic freedom. Watch what happens next. As soon as 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN . GORDON'S DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N. J. Harold's book comes out the people hired

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• The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 About-Academic-Freedom Guild. And every last one of them will give his own little volume a free publicity ride.

AMATEURISH Like any other major publication The set for American Legion Magazine gets a tre- We're mendous amount of stuff from publicity people. Some of it is top-drawer, most of it is fair-to-middling, and the rest is pretty summer A pathetic or downright silly. In the latter category is some of the stuff that originates with propagandists in the employ of teachers organizations. Currently, and for some time, the boys have been making themselves indispensable by setting up all kinds of bogeymen to frighten teachers. They foster the myth that the woods are full of "enemies of education," "Zoll-like creatures," "attackers of the public schools," and so on ad nauseam. Then, like a motley bunch of voodoo doctors they come up with all kinds of public- relations charms and incantations to ward off these imaginary evils. For a price, naturally. You wouldn't mind it if they did their job with finesse. If they showed some of the flair, for instance, of the press agent who once dropped a midget on the lap of

J. P. Morgan. Or the movie press agent w ho once escorted a lion into a New York City hotel. But these fellows are pretty dull. What we'd suggest is that the teachers get together, fire them, and hire Ed Bernays, Carl Byoir or some other professional. Education could stand a lot of good

will which it isn't getting at present.

MISSING PERSONS DEPT.

Considering the excellent and effective law s we have in this country against over- time parking, spitting on the sidewalk and passing a red light, we wonder when our

government is going to get around to the statutes concerning the following: Steve Nelson. He's the communist spy who got into this country illegally in the first place, who has been involved in one passport fraud after another, and who was active in the ring that stole atomic bomb secrets. For some reason he's still loose. Harry Bridges. The law was supposed to have caught up with this commie labor leader and everyone was sure that by now he'd be back in his native Australia. Re- grettably, no one seems to be doing any-

thing about it, so Red 'Any is still around. Judy Coplon. The sweet young thing who wr as tangled up with Soviet spy Gubitchcv. Once again the law got all fouled up, and then Judy had a baby. Presumably on the theory that prosecution of Judy w ould be a blow against mother- hood, Judy can go where she wants to go. The Rosenbergs. Unlike the foregoing, these two condemned traitors are at least in jail. However, continued postponements

of their execution make one wonder. Wil 4 ' You can't have good engine performance without good the terrific pressure being applied inter nationally and at home cheat justice? $*~m{ spark plugs. So, get the best—get CHAMPIONS— When is the public going to realize that our government's handling of these and and you, too, will be other cases plays right into the Soviet's SUMMER DRIVING." hands? Don't Americans know it confirms SET FOR the Kremlin's propaganda that the Soviet —Mays WILBUR SHAW, President, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and has ways of protecting communists? 3-Time Winner of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • J .

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Many dog lovers are convinced that some of our best breeds are being

spoiled to produce animals whose appearance will win blue ribbons.

Expert Percy Roberts examines an Irish Setter for bench show honors as he is posed by handler. PHOTO BY EVELYN SHAFER Below, Askew's Carolina Lady is "too snipey" for bench shows but is a star performer in the field. By HENRY P. DAVIS

Head held high on a taut leash and his forepaws fanning the air, the big Irish Setter flashed by, every hair in his mahogany-colored coat glistening like burnished copper, his tail carried like a red plume. The crowd roared its approval. "Magnificent!" exclaimed the man on my left. "What spectacular action, w hat dash and fire! He'll win this one for sure."

"Bunk," protested a friend on my right. "That action is utterly impractical, unnatural and artificial. Put that dog on a loose leash and he'd almost fall apart." and there were many in the audience attending their first We were sitting at the press table of The dog show of the dog show. year, the Westminster Kennel Club's annual event at A1adi- This one didn't win the group competition for sport-

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11 (continued)

ARE THEY RUINING OUR DOGS?

placement. The very artificiality of the dog's gait was viewed by such practical field dog men as my friend with

mixed emotions . . . tolerant amusement and deep concern for the often-asked, too-pertinent question, "Are they ruining our dogs?"

I had observed this Irish Setter before the judging and took a good look at him after the awards were made. My friend was not far from right. The dog would, indeed, have had a rough time performing the task for which his breed

was once noted . . . the finding and handling of upland game birds. A bird dog should be built to travel at a good clip over rough and rugged terrain for hours at a time. Well-sprung ribs that will give ample lung and heart room, and well-muscled running gear that can carry him at a gallop for long periods without undue fatigue are Tiutsts in a hunting dog. This fellow, like most bench show-winning members of the pointing breeds, had neither. His chest, deep enough, that's true, was slab-sided and shaped somewhat like an inverted hairpin. His smooth shoulders were characteristically devoid of the extra muscle a hunting dog needs and his hind quarters were lacking in the bulging muscle essential for propelling power. His handsome coat, beautiful to look at, was far too luxuriant to be practical in The author hunting in Mississippi over two of his gun dogs. Both Pointer the field. Besides weighting him down and Setter are handsome animals but neither could win on the bench.

it would prove a catch-all for burrs, beggar-weed and other foreign matter, of the breed standard, intended to de- iels, Springer Spaniels, and perhaps to and had he enough courage or hunting scribe a working-type field dog. a lesser degree among those who prefer desire to tackle a briarpatch, which is It is in the manner in which this members of the working dog group doubtful, he would emerge looking as standard is interpreted that the hunter, such as Collies, Great Danes, German though he had just had a haircut at a who looks for utility, and the bench Shepherds and others. And the forks barber college. The high action which show fancier, who places emphasis on of this road will never meet until there intrigued the spectators so much was beauty, are at variance. What the bench is common agreement as to how the induced by the fact that his head was show man may describe as "well- various breed standards should be in- held so high the forefeet barely touched sprung ribs" may be considered flat and terpreted. the floor. Given his freedom this dog slab-sided by the man who looks for a Due to natural differences in per- traveled with a rather low head and his physical characteristic vital to endur- sonal preferences, and even the foibles natural gait was often a shambling pace. ance in the field. Hind quarters that the of those entrusted with the task of in- But under the guidance of a clever bench show judge accepts as "wide and terpreting the standards and applying handler he was "fire and dash" to first- powerful," as called for in the stand- them to individual dogs this may never time dog show visitors. ard, are more often termed "narrow This was not an isolated instance. It and weak" by the man who admires

is far too common at bench shows all well-conditioned gun-dogs. The bench Henry P- Davis is president of the over the country. Far too common, show fancier places great emphasis on National Dog Welfare Guild and lias that is, from the practical hunting dog head and coat. The "practical" dog written many books about dogs. An fancier's point of view. But there are man takes as his yardstick the maxim authority on the sporting dog, he has two sides to every question and "Are "Pretty is as pretty does." judged fox-hounds, retrievers and spaniels, is the only man who has they ruining our dogs?" is no ex- This divergence of opinion is by no and acted as judge at every major bird ception. When considered point by means confined to the Irish Setter dog Held trial in the United States point, this individual dog, with an im- fancy. It is particularly prevalent and Canada. pressive bench show record behind among fanciers of Pointers, English him, met fully the written requirements Setters, Gordon Setters, Cocker Span-

12 BENCH SPRINGER whether he is a field trial winner or a bench winner. Some breeders, as I have said, however, preferred the bench show game to that of field trials, either from choice or because it was a less expensive sport. And that is how we have come to think of two varieties. It is true some judges, with no experience in the field, will lean to the exaggerations that are sometimes seen; but the average man, who knows real conformation, will select the type that is a mean between the old extreme Striking in appearance, but what Not much for looks but any hunter would and the weedy type which, we must brush and briars would do to that coat! be proud to own this doughty game-getter.

come about. The terms of the standards are simple enough, too simple in many instances, for they are relative. What one judge might consider a "light" eye another might, and frequently does, accept as "fairly dark." Such terms as "moderately long," "slightly arched," "well bent," "not too throaty," as frequently found among the standards, are subject to varying interpretations. This beautiful champion English Setter National Champion Mississippi Zev, too When one realizes that is typical of the bench show type. small for bench, won four field titles. three eyewitnesses to an accident will seldom

describe the incident alike it is not hard BENCH POINTER FIELD POINTER to understand that a dog which does not receive favorable consideration at the hands of one judge might be handed the blue ribbon by another.

It is also easy to understand why some should ask the question, "Are they ruining our dogs?" The answer depends largely upon the speaker's point of view. Back in the 1870's when bench shows first got their start in this country, dogs of the sporting breeds competed on fairly even terms in both bench shows and field trials. Many dual winners were to be found among This handsome bench champion lacks the National Champion Peter Rinski, too Pointers, English Setters, and Irish Set- ruggedness which field work requires. "rough" for bench. Every inch a bird dog. ters. True there was considerable difference in the conformation of the winners but most bench show contenders of his reputation and won both in the admit, has cropped up occasionally." were also good performers in the field, field and on the bench. Many generations of Pointers have which is far from being the case today. Writing in The Modern Pointer, pub- come and gone since Mr. Hochwalt For example, in Pointers there was lished in 1923, Mr. Hochwalt said: "In wrote the above. Even in those days Bang-Bang, imported by the Westmin- the days of early importations all of the there was a sharp cleavage in the ranks ster Kennel Club in 1883, and described field trial sires were champions on the of Pointer admirers. Rather than com- by the late A. F. Hochwalt, America's bench. Graphic, Lad of Bow, King of ing back to the mean, or happy medi- outstanding authority on sporting dogs, Kent, Rush of Lad, Tempest, Tribula- um, to which Mr. Hochwalt referred, as "a well balanced, medium-sized lem- tion — in short, the pointers of our time the cleavage in type and temperament, on and white dog, with a wealth of — trace to a common origin. At the which is unfortunately greatly reflected bone and muscle, well-sprung ribs, great present day nearly every field trial man in hunting desire and ability, is much depth of chest and a long, lean neck." could show and win on the bench if he wider today. There is so much differ- He already had a record of several wins selected his best specimens, and no ence that seldom are the two types seen in important field trials in England and doubt every breeder of so-called bench in direct competition cither in the field a first place on the bench at Crystal show dogs could win in the field if his or on the bench. And the ancestry of Palace. In America he proved worthy stock were developed for that purpose; both types frequently must be traced Picture credits: Field Irish Setter — Harry Maag: Henry P. Davis and doss — James Moore: Bench Springer — so there is really no such thing as two back quite a few generations before William Hrown: Field Springer — Harvey's Photo Service: Field Setter and Field Pointer — Tennessee Conservation types. pointer should be a pointer, (Continued 011 page 59) Department. A 13 An over-all view of the dilemma the reds gave

Hollywood, and of the relationship between

theMOVIES and

By ROBERT B. PITKIN

imi. last year. The American try had gone to great expense for five person w ho reads the record finds it

InLegion has been linked more closely years to clean house. hard to believe that it happened in with events in the Hollywood mo- In 1947 the major film companies America. Two summaries from the vol-

tion picture industry than in any pre- had established a policy of ( 1 ) getting umes of amazing testimony furnish a vious period. rid of all identified and unrepentant slight hint. Twice, in 1952, top (New York) ex- communists, and (2) getting rid of all First, testimony indicates that the red ecutives of the major film companies movie personnel who would not testify penetration of the film industry was met with then National Commander frankly on the subject of communism planned by a Soviet Commissar for Donald R. W ilson and others to dis- when under oath as witnesses before Heavy Industry, Michael Aisenstein, cuss problems created in the movies by Congressional committees. doing business in San Francisco in 1934 more than fifteen years of communist That policy was first announced at and 1935 as West Coast representative infiltration. the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New- of Anitorg Corporation. Between the two talks, nat nal rep- York on November 24 and 25, 1947. It According to testimony, early parties resentatives of The American Legion, became known as the "Waldorf Decla- in the planning included the Soviet including the present National Com- ration." The policy was followed after Consul in San Francisco, Galkovich; a mender, Lewis K. Gough, visited the a fashion, though not always promptly. small group of American "liberals" in- West Coast studios in May, 1952 and By 1952, pursuit of the Waldorf cluding Albert Rhys Williams and Ella exchanged views with the top studio policy had cost the industry a minimum Winter; at least one West Coast CIO executives and with legal ami union of $1,700,000 in lawsuits, settlements organizer, Jeff Kibrc, and left-wing leaders in the studios. and reworked or abandoned film prop- intellectuals and "cultural" organizers

The film companies had many rea- erties. However, the movies could in New York — including V. J. Jerome sons for going beyond their own walls scarcely have weathered the storm and John Howard Lawson, both of

to discuss anti-communist movie oper- without it. whom moved to Hollywood and be- ations. Public resentment against com- So great had been the communist in- came prophets of the large "liberal" munism in the movies was perhaps at filtration before 1947 that no summary wing of the Screen Writers Guild.

its highest in 1952, although the indus- can possibly give an idea of it. The Second, reams of testimony indicate

14 that the Soviet master abroad and seek a way to distribute them trouble." There had been little difficulty plan went steadily forward here. at the box office over communism dur- in the hands of its Ameri- A greater blow to the film industry ing the better part of the seventeen can sponsors with com- was the secondary effect of the 1951-'52 years from 1934 to 1951, w hen the complete success short of en- findings. They showed how inadequate munists were making vast inroads into tire domination of the the Waldorf policy had been during its the movie world. During those years movies for thirteen years! From 1934 five years of existence, even though the customers were largely ignorant of

to 1947. The movement infiltrated the it had saved the industry. w hat was going on. Until 1947 most of Los Angeles Democratic Party; enlisted The Waldorf policy did not identify the opposition to the communists had hundreds of movie personnel into com- movie communists. It called for their come from Hollywood's AFL film munist party membership; sucked thou- removal when and if identified. In unions, headed since 1945 by Roy

sands in Hollywood into thinly trans- 195 1 -'52 a large number of presumably Brewer, and from a small group of mili- parent front "movements" and oppor- "innocent" ex-communist fronters, who tant anti-communists, typified by such tunist causes; molded the tenor of had claimed all along that they had been actors as Ward Bond, John Wayne and everyday conversation in Hollywood, fooled by the communists, were dis- Adolphc Menjou, and such screen writ- and produced a bloody struggle for con- covered to be or to have been active ers as the late Jim McCuincss, Adele trol of the movie labor and craft unions party members. Buffington and others. by the communists. Thus, of 102 screen writers who The American motion picture indus- Only the last step—complete domina- signed one pro-communist petition as try owes a debt to Roy Brewer, head tion of American films— failed. It failed "honest liberals speaking up on a matter of the studio lot AFL unions, that it can because exposures by the House Un- of civil liberties and a point of consti- never repay. A "hayseed" movie house American Activities Committee and tutional justice," 36 (or one in three) projectionist from Nebraska who had stubborn resistance of the Hollywood have since been identified as actual risen in the AFL theatrical workers AFL film unions forced the communists communist party members, as have the union. Brewer was assigned to Holly- to extreme and suicidal steps in 1946-'47. wives of two others. wood in 1945. In less than eleven w eeks Then, after thirteen years, the film As a result, fewer and he perceived what the industry had not industry heads perceived something — fewer paying movie cus- seen clearly in eleven years. The fate but not all—of the degree of infiltration tomers were willing to of American movies lay in a battle in and the danger that the "rule or ruin" patronize pictures made which there would be but one w inner communists presented. Thus the Wal- by any people w ho had —the communists or the industry. dorf Declaration. Until then the indus- unexplained front records, Brewer was the first person in an offi- try heads had been nearly as ignorant whether or not they had cial film industry capacity who declared of the truth as the average American. been proved communists. unremitting and organized war with the The exposures of 1947 and the Wal- The industry faced a dilemma whose communists on their ow n terms. dorf policy definitely put communism solution was beyond its imagination. It was the resistance to communist on the defensive in the movie industry. It couldn't force people to attend capture of Brewer's AFL unions in But in 1951 and 1952 new Congres- movies. 1946-'47 that pushed the communists sional investigations shocked the indus- On the other hand, it felt it had gone into open, bloody union warfare in the try and the public. They exposed a vast about as far as it could go with a fixed Los Angeles streets, thus administering network of communist influence in policy that excluded known commu- the first of a series of shock treatments filmdom that had been untouched by nists and "Fifth Amendmcnters." The that began to stir Hollywood out of its the Waldorf policy, and was apparently industry was unwilling to be a court suicidal trance of "enlightened liberal- undreamed-of by the industry heads in or an FBI to investigate and try its quite ism." New York, though it was fairly com- large residue of people who still had Even this did not arouse the movie mon know ledge in Hollywood. some sort of unexplained public asso- audiences. Few newspapers clearly re- When the 1951-'52 investigations ciation with communism. ported the fact that the violent strikes tapered off, the list of identified com- As it shrank from becoming a police of 1946-'47 in Hollyw ood munist party members in Los Angeles agency to find the "guilty," the industry were neither more nor professional circles had risen above 400. was stuck for a way to guarantee to it- less than open warfare Of these, 288 were in the movies—from self or its Alain Street customers w ho for the communist con- producer on down. Highest concentra- the "innocent" were. trol of the movie unions. tion was among the screen writers. To add to the confusion, the left- Or that the unions were Other film people had escaped sub- wing terms "innocent" and "guilty" the club the communists poena, and the list of studio personnel were widely accepted, when the indus- intended to use to force the studios to who "took the Fifth Amendment" and try's actual problem was that of ac- accept the kind of picture content and refused to talk to the point of commu- ceptability or unacceptability at the censorship that the party's screen writ- nist affiliation when under oath had risen box office. ers, directors and producers w ere pre- above 70. These revelations shook the Consequently, the movie industry was pared to insist upon. American film industry — and touched over its head in a muddle that is nor- But after 1947 there was a stirring of off a growing, nationwide silent boycott mally alien to the entertainment indus- public unrest as official government of movie theaters. try. The muddle was so confused in its committees began to pile the facts on In the studios, the new findings great- nature and terms that it became almost the public record. Even then, few ly enlarged the number of "unemploy- impossible to conduct an intelligent con- movie-goers ever read such hair-raising ables" under the Waldorf Declaration versation on the subject. documents as the six volumes of hear- so as to include the new-found commu- For this a deep bow to the commu- ings on Hollywood communism pub- nists and defiers of Congress. Some of nists. lished by Congress for 1951. If movie- these drifted to Europe and Latin In a way, the movies had long held goers had been ardent readers of such America to make "American" films their critics responsible for "stirring up (Continued on page 39)

15 (2) Be equally careful to avoid a too-shady locatio

(3) Be sure the drainage will keep you high and dry.

After working out such general details as allowable costs and general section you wish to locate in, there are many There might be wonderful bathing in a nearby lake, ways to obtain a summer place. A copy of a local news- but be sure that you have the right to bathe there. paper from a nearby town or county seat may have just the place you w ant in its "For Sale" ads. If not, you can pay in advance for the insertion of a want ad of your own, hinterlands Getting ready for a summer vacation in the being sure to let it run for several issues. is like preparing for a landing on hostile shores during Real estate agents nearest to the town in which you are a war — both operations require careful planning and a seeking property may be able to give invaluable help. They lot of hard work before the mission can be undertaken usually have photographs of available properties and if you properly. In both cases, it is necessary to know the exact should wish to look at one, they will be glad to take you to

location and conditions that are to be encountered. it. A word of caution — don't be swayed too much by the Your first consideration, w hether you plan to build, buy agent's enthusiasm. He is thinking of his commission on or rent your summer home, is to find a favorable location. the sale and is likely to be just as enthusiastic over any other This may sound easy, but actually it takes a considerable place that involves the same amount of money. amount of time and investigation to make sure that the If you are unable to visit the area at the present time, location meets all your family's needs. The whole family the real estate agent can save you a lot of running around should have something to say about this — half the fun of by sending you a listing of available property. Then w hen rinding a summer place is the planning of the various details you visit the area, you will have advance knowledge of in family councils. What do they like to do — fish, boat, type of land and buildings that can be had and the general swim, dance, hunt, hike, ride"- If the spot does not meet value. Write to the local chamber of commerce, state Real their requirements, the finest vacation home in the world Fstate Board or the state Development Commission for the

w ill prove to be a disappointment. names of brokers in the vicinity you wish. To establish a summer residence, you must make up your If you live near a National Forest, you may be able to mind as to the approximate location. If you have a car and obtain a cabin or cottage plot from the United States Forest are to use the spot for only a few weeks a year, distance isn't Service. You can't buy the land, but you can rent a site and

so important. But, if you are a "week-end" vacationist or build a place on it by getting a permit. Anyone can get a

must rely upon public transportation, you w ill not want to permit and application is made by writing to the Forest spend more than three or four hours traveling each way. Supervisor or Forest Ranger of the particular forest in which Therefore, 50 to 125 miles distance would normally be the you think you would like to live, specifying the location range. To localize the area in which to look, use the desired of the property, the use to be made of it and the estimated distance you w ish to travel as a radius to mark on a road cost of the building you intend to construct. Rentals range map the various available potential vacation areas. You will from $15 to $50 per year depending on location and ac-

probably find a half-dozen or so possible places that w ill cessibility. meet your family needs. Another source of low-cost land is the Bureau of Land

16 Above all, be sure that the family agrees on the vacation spot. Don't overlook the danger from fires and floods.

Management of the United States Department of the In- fireplace and situated in cool pine grove, 4 acres. Sale terior. This bureau looks after the millions of acres of price $3,000 or $200 for season. government-owned land. The land is available in small It sounded like just what I wanted, so I investigated. On tracts for vacation or year-round home sites, and is also arrival at the cabin site, I found everything in the ad very available for recreational and business purposes. It is priced, true. It was a good hunting section or at least it must have in some cases, as low as $1 per acre under a renewable lease been because all surrounding territory was posted w ith no- with option to buy at an average sale price of $10 to $50 hunting signs. It was near the Connecticut River; that is, if per acre. If you are a citizen at least 21 years of age, or the you call twenty miles near. True, it was only a few steps head of a family (if you are not yet 21), you are eligible (big ones, of course) to the large lake, but in order to reach to rent or buy the land. The plots of land generally run the lake, the real estate agent told me I would have to get from three to five acres. For a complete list of all regional a right of way from another owner for say, $50 a year. land directors and the land they control, plus the most By this time I was thoroughly disgusted to say the least, recent official explanation of the plan, write to the Bureau and didn't bother to inspect the "neat" log cabin just off the of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Wash- asphalt highway, w hich turned out to be a half mile of ington 25, D. C. and ask for the bulletin, "Facts on Small almost impossible dirt road. The tall pines kept the cabin Tracts." cool but cut off most of the sunshine and therefore made No matter what your source of information on property, everything there damp. you must go out and inspect it before signing on the dotted This little parable of mine serves to emphasize, I hope, line. Make sure you are getting what you want. If it is lake- the primary necessity of personally inspecting property shore or riverbank frontage you wish, be sure that the before renting or buying. It may sound silly, but each year property actually borders the lake or river. Wildcat land thousands of Americans lay their hard-earned money on sharks have been known to peddle anything within a mile the line for vacation homes, sight unseen, and arc propcrly of water as "lake-shore" property. You must be certain, gypped in one way or another. For this reason, take your too, that you are getting a decent stretch of water front time when obtaining a summer place and get the opinions and not a bog or a rock pile, and that neighbors are not of your family and friends. The more people who view too close. Newspaper advertisements and real estate bulletins the property, the more opinions you will receive, but re- may be truthfully written, but you can't expect the owner member, no place will suit everybody. to tell the bad features of his place. For example, last spring Once you arrive at a prospective summer place, thought- I read the following advertisement in the newspaper: ful consideration must be given to the location factors of drainage, w ater supply, orientation and accessibility. Some A-l Sportsman's Camp — For Sale or Rent thought must also be given to safety factors— paths of escape Located in good hunting section near Connecticut in case of a forest fire, distance from dangerous cliffs and River; only few steps from large well-stocked lake for protection against storms and floods. In cities and suburbs, good fishing and bathing. Just off asphalt highway; de- municipal laws protect against dangers and disease, but in pot town handy. Neat 3-room log cabin with porch, rural areas there arc fewer rules and (Continued on page 55)

17 (Germany Ojoday

The rebirth of German industrial activity is dramatically shown in this busy Ruhr scene.

Emerging from the ruins, Western Germany is making an amazing recovery. By WALDEN MOORE

Steel provides the sinews of German Precision-built equipment, such as these world This mile-long assembly line could be at Detroit. strength, and production is going up. famous Rolleiflex cameras, find ready markets. Actually it is in the modern Volkswagen factory.

if. functional lines of the striking glass-frouted build- man newspaper friend of mine described them, "visibly ex- Tiing rising from landscaped flower-beds in the heart of pressed the higher standard of living which can be reached Berlin are symbolic of the new Germany — a Germany by the raising of production." that has forged from postwar ruins a booming industrial The "raising of production" has already resurrected the

machine, a stable economy and a modern pragmatic politi- Berlin Fair Grounds from a bomb crater and turned it into cal outlook. a site that attracted 580,000 visitors to the Industrial Fair. The building, known as the "glass house," was erected at The Fair grounds are now used for attractions ranging from the Funkturm Fair Grounds by the Italian government, to modern horse races to pastry-making exhibits where skilled house its exhibits at the German Industries Fair last fall. bakers turn out dishes from recipes dating back to medieval

I tab w as one of thirteen nations to whom West German)' court kitchens.

played host at a giant industrial exhibition whose theme Modern Germany, everywhere, is a combination of the was "Living Standards of the Free World." old and the new, the reminiscence of tradition, the reminders The exhibits included a family dwelling furnished with of devastation and the promise of a brighter future. products of American ami W estern F.uropean industries. In 1945, Berlin was in utter ruin. The city had been the "The German goods in this house, " as a letter from a Ger- target of forty major bombing missions from the West —

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the help of ERP funds, the Kempinski has studio rooms with television available. Nor is it only in Berlin that the "raising of produc-

tion" is both a slogan and a fact. Throughout West Germany, w here at the close of the war 25 percent of all homes were in ruins, 400,000 new dwellings are now rising each year. Bricks are being made from the dust of rubble, and special housing projects (all privately financed) provide adequate three-room apartments for a rent as low as $8 a month. In Frankfurt the first super-market, complete with pushbaskets, was recently opened by the German firm Schade and Fullgrabc, after the owners had visited the U.S. to get a line on American methods of making life easy for customers. Just outside of Cologne, a mono-rail train with a speed of 185 miles per hour has been tested by the German Railroad Study Company. Many trains already in operation give the traveler unusual service: office compartments with linguist secretaries, cinema and dance cars. In 1945 railroad stations w ere piles of debris; lo- comotives, coaches and freight cars had been reduced to scrap. Routes were interrupted—for example, there was not a single heavy-duty railway bridge left across the Rhine. Much of the equipment that had not been destroyed had been stolen. It is estimated that the The rubble of a blasted country first had to be gotten out of the way. Russians carted off $10,000,000 worth of loot—over and above what was legally granted them by the Potsdam agreement. The railroads suffered heavily from this larceny. But today the Bundesbahn (Federal Railroad) has over 274,000 cars running on a network of rails throughout Western Germany. Half a million people are employed in their operation. Sixteen schools are maintained by the government to train personnel, and aptitude and psychological tests are given applicants by the Bundcsbahn*s psychological laboratory in Munich. Food on the railroads is famous for both quantity and quality—the German Sleeping and Din- ing Car Company even maintains its own wine cellar! Reconstruction of the highway system (Autobahn) has paced that of the railroads. In 1945 less than 30 percent of the roads in industrial areas were passable. There are now 1,300 miles of super-highw ays, some of them four-lane, with call boxes stationed along the way in case gas or repairs are needed between service stations. There are also 15,000 more miles of good trunk roads. Traffic in the big cities is handled by linguist policemen wearing brilliant yellow arm bands w ith Western Germany shows the American influence in many ways. Another is this self-service super-market which does a thriving trade in Frankfurt. the languages they speak printed in green. Shop windows are full; food is plentiful. Oxen are once again

barbecued at folk festivals; bacon is baked in the and days and nights of red army artillery barrage. There fol- breakfast pancake batter; beer, w ine and traditional lowed two months of red army occupation and systematic loot- fruit liqueurs flow freely. Hotels provide accommo- ing of whatever was left. dation for 300,000 travelers: 200,000 Americans took Today, from the Funkturm tower on the Fair Grounds, 400 advantage of these facilities last year.

feet above the city, a combination of damage and restoration is As these circumstances would indicate, there is clearly visible. Blocks of houses have disappeared, leaving great practically no unemployment among West Germans. open spaces. But, where rubble has not yet been cleared, people There arc a million unemployed refugees from the have planted flow ers and vegetables, so that in summer, gardens Soviet Zone, however. rise from the ruins. To the east, one sees the Tiergarten— freshly The plight of these refugees, herded together in planted w ith a million saplings. During the war, the Tiergarten, cellars of unreconstructed buildings or deserted air- once a tall forest park, became a vast plain. Trees spared by raid shelters, without any privacy and little sanita- bombs were chopped down by Berliners and used for fuel in tion, with only the meagerest sustenance, without the frigid winter of 1946. means of making a livelihood, often without hope, From the Funkturm tower, one can also glimpse the new, ultra- is desperate — and dangerous. The longer their prob-

modern Kempinski Hotel. Functionally built, and erected with lem goes unsolved, and the ( Continued on page 51

19 of. hawk is a stocky, in 1944 and 1947. In addition, over a my own, so I can spend all my free time sandy -haired school- nine-year stretch they have reached the on this thing — and I do. We go to teacher with a thick national finals three other times. work right after the championship ening middle and an un- Many a major-league scout would tournament every year and hold try- mistakably in id western give his right arm for quiet, unassuming outs to screen boys for next year's team. twang in his voice, w ho Joe Hawk's record for developing base- No time wasted at all. Then we get the never played ball as a ball talent. Headed by Herman Weh- kids out on the ball field in April and young man but who must meier of the Cincinnati Reds. Clyde start playing ball. Of course, they're be ranked as one of the Vollmer and Ralph Brickner of the still going to school then, and some of shrewdest and most Boston Red Sox, and Don Zimmer, the them are playing on school teams, but successful baseball Mobile shortstop who already has signed from July 1st on. they're all ours. After coaches in America. a Brooklyn Dodger contract as Pee Wee that, we play four games a week — on He has coached Reese's understudy for 1953. an even Tuesdav, Wednesday, Friday and Sun- three boys' teams to two dozen of his Legion proteges now day."

the I .egion's Nation- under contract in professional baseball George Scholl interrupted. "Tell al Junior Baseball arc grateful to the principal of Bridge- him," he suggested, "w hat we do the

( Championship. town, Ohio, Elementary School who other three days in the week." The National When the Robert handled them in Legion ball. Joe hasn't It was Joe's turn to grin slyly. "We

Legion Junior I .. Bentley Post 50 even tried to add up the number of his practice,'' he said. "From three and a Baseball Trophy. ream of Cincinnati, kids who have won college scholarships half to four hours, every Monday,

< )hio, won the 1952 with the help of their baseball skill. Thursday and Saturday, we practice. American Legion Junior Baseball cham- How does he do it? Then on Monday night — every Mon- pionship at Denver, Colorado last Sep- "Hard work," Joe said, turning to day night from April until the end of tember, I lawk set an all-time record by his assistant coach, George Scholl, for September — we have a team meeting nailing down his third pennant in the confirmation. Scholl nodded his head at which we watch baseball movies,

country's most tar-thing anil most hotly and grinned. I le made it clear that tac- listen to guest speakers who know base- competitive tournament for teen-age tician Hawk doesn't spare the troops. ball, and talk about our ow n problems. ballplayers. He and his boys hail to out- Joe admits it cheerfully; hard work is We don't stop those meetings until the last more than 16,000 teams. Joe's kids the only "system" he has. "I'm married," season is all over."

previously had won the championship he said, "but 1 haven't got any kids of Thar doesn't sound as though Haw k

20 leaves anything to chance, but there is even more to his ball Association. "They are our real secret weapon," says Joe. program. To make sure his Legion team has a steady stream In 1952, Joe's third championship club had at least two of talent flowing up to it, he runs teams in three Knothole truly outstanding players, pitcher Howard Whitson and leagues which give kids from nine to fifteen a chance to catcher Russell Nixon. The Reds signed Whitson to a hand- pick up experience. The Class C league takes boys from nine some bonus contract after he closed out the Denver finals to eleven, Class B takes the twelve and thirteen-year-olds, with a 5-2 victory over San Diego, and Nixon, who, along and Class A the fourteen and fifteen-year-olds. There is no with his twin brother, first-baseman Roy, graduated from bottom to the age qualification for American Legion Junior Legion baseball in 1952, was picked as the "player of the Baseball, only a ceiling. You can play the year of your year" in Legion baseball. Russ was further honored at the seventeenth birthday; you may not play the year in which first game of the World Series between the Dodgers and your eighteenth birthday falls. But Joe's Knothole leagues Yankees, at Ebbets Field, when he was invited by National aren't regular Legion leagues. They are the kind of local League president Warren C. Giles to throw out the first expansion posts and coaches are free to improvise. ball. Russ isn't the first Legion player-of-the-year tendered Joe loses so many classy eighteen-year-old ballplayers this honor but never before was it quite so appropriate. every year that he has to pay just as much attention to his Giles, in whose field box Russ stood for the ceremony, is the "farm system" as he does to his varsity. Right there is the former president of the Cincinnati Reds and himself a long- secret of his astonishingly frequent victories in the national time member of Bentley Post. It was a big day for the base- championships. Most other Legion teams have a long, pain- ball official as well as for the kid catcher. ful road to travel in order to rebuild after a championship It was a day, Joe Hawk admits ruefully, that might never array has been wrecked by "graduation." Joe Hawk simply have come about if he hadn't been able to talk the French reaches into his Class A league, runs the eager kids through Bauer Dairy Corporation of Cincinnati into sponsoring the a series of intra-squad games, and picks the players he thinks Bentley Post ball club last spring. The local merchant who are most likely to help Robert E. Bentley Post 50 win an- had picked up the bills for the team for a number of years other pennant. He comes up with some prizes, and at the had finally withdrawn. Bentley Post couldn't carry the load same time, more than fulfills the chief aim of Legion base- alone. There was a matter of some $1,800 that had to be ball, which is to give summer time adult-led athletics to as raised. Joe, the schoolteacher-coach, is also a first-class sales- many boys as possible. In 1952, more than twenty adults man on the side. He went to work. helped coach and manage the teams in the Bridgetown Base- Paul Betscher, general manager of (Continued on page 43) The WELL-DRESSED SPDRTSMi

Today's outdoorsman is more comfortably dressed because

of scientific developments and lessons learned in combat.

you've browsed through your favor- where outdoor living — and survival — manufacturer think of sports gear in Ifite hunting and fishing catalog lately became a full-time job with a grim terms of weight, portability, and con- you've probably missed seeing an old purpose. Clothing and equipment de- venience as well as durability. As a re- familiar item. The basket fish creel — signers and manufacturers found them- sult, when the up-to-date fast-water long the traditional badge of the trout selves suddenly in the business of turn- fisherman wades into his favorite trout fisherman — has about gone the way of ing out General Issue gear. It didn't stream this spring he will be just a the Model T and the bowler hat. There take either group long to find out that shadow of his former self. A good many are still some of each around, but you'll there was a good deal more to outdoor traditional (and bulky) items besides have to hunt if you want to buy one. clothing than just serving as a shell of the basket creel will be missing from The omission of the old-style creel protection against heat or cold, rain or his gear. No floppy tackle pouch will indicates far more, however, than just snow. They soon learned, for example, swing from his back or shoulder. There the passing of a symbol. It is part of a that a properly7 designed jacket could will be no metal fly box jammed into whole new trend. It represents just one easily double as a storehouse for a fight- a hip pocket, no heavy rain jacket left step in a process of evolution in the de- ing man's small duffle without detract- on shore with his lunch, no jumble of sign of outdoor equipment. ing from its basic function. By V-J Day flies hooked onto his hat band. Yet, in Time was when the fisherman was there were especially designed vests, spite of what seem to be tragic omis- almost stuffily traditional about his jackets, kits, and pouches to meet the sions, he will be better equipped, more clothes and gear. For one thing, he had needs of just about every class of fight- comfortable, and less likely to get very little to choose from. Once he had ing man. A compact apron-like fishing drenched by a sudden downpour than the basic waders and creel and rod and kit, to cite one example, saved the life he ever was. What's more, he will weigh reel, he added an assortment of clothing of more than one pilot forced down at pounds less and be less encumbered. odds and ends usually chosen primarily sea by providing the means of catching Thanks to a combination of new de- for their rugged stoutness rather than an occasional fish for food. The kit was signs, relatively new materials, and im- their comfort and convenience. designed for the purpose by "Mike" proved manufacturing processes, he Then came World War II. A good Lerner, the well-known big-game fish- will be streamlined for action with many part-time outdoorsmen suddenly erman. everything he needs within half an found themselves in the Armed Forces Today, both the sportsman and the • arm's reach.

Left, red Woolrich hunting coat and cap. Storm coat parka with hood by U. S. Plastic boat. Easy to inflate. Use- Right, water-proofed Ouxbak coat and Fiber and Plastics. Pullover model. Light ful in shallow water, 8 lbs., cap. Coats have game pouches in back. weight. Good in boat or duck blind. folds to jumbo 'phone-book size.

22 By GEORGE H. WALTZ, JR

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Plenty of pockets. Left shoulder holds cigarettes, right shoulder, eye-glasses.

ric waders or hip boots, our up-to-date angler will probably be wearing foot- and-leg gear made of Vinylite or some other similar plastic material. And for several reasons. Plastic, stocking-foot waders now available tip the scales at less than a pound and a half and are soft and pliable enough to be folded into a compact pouch-size bundle — a considerable saving in on-the-body weight and storage space over the conventional variety. Resistant to rot, mildew, scuff- ing, and peeling, they also can be quickly repaired right on the spot if they snag a tear. A special patching kit is provided with every pair. Plastic waders of this type can be had for less than $10; plastic "hippers," which are also available, sell for around $4. The plastics like Vinylite and Koro- seal have revolutionized and lightened rainwear for the sportsman. A full- length plastic parka with hood weighs considerably less than a pound, while a plastic wader top, also complete with hood, can be folded into a flat six-by- six-inch packet. Either one can be The old and the new. Right, Masland Klamath coat. Note trout being dropped in bought for about $6. A complete suit — zip-in creel, made of mesh. Waterproofed. Leg waders by U. S. Fiber and Plastics. pants and parka — sells for less than $13. Even the battered old felt hat, for If he has invested in the latest, he will ettes, and other fishing incidentals, plus years the favorite headgear of the trout be wearing one of the new fishing jack- a giant expansion compartment built fisherman, has given way to streamlined ets. Besides being a trim water-repel- into the back big enough to hold a models of lightweight poplin. For those

lent short coat, it boasts no less than lunch as well as a compact rain cape or who prefer a peaked cap to the snap- ten pockets of assorted sizes for stow- jacket. There's even a built-in creel brim variety, there is a design available ing fly or lure boxes, sun glasses, cigar- made of nylon mesh that can be zipped that has a hinged plastic sun shield that out easily for cleaning or to serve as a can be flipped down in front of the handy fish carrier. Other conveniences wearer's eye with a flick of a finger. PNOTOS BY JOHN SCOTT include a rod-holder loop, a brass land- Fishermen's pants, too, have come in ing-net ring on a six-inch loop, and an- for a remodeling. One new version, other brass ring to anchor down a lead- made of Zelan-treated cloth, features er cutter. For the fisherman who prefers a button-over tab near the bottom of a shorter, sleeveless garment to go with each leg to prevent the pants from "rid- waders, there's a zippered vest of simi- ing up" inside boots or waders. An- lar construction that houses almost as other pair features an adjustable waist many conveniences, including a zip-on so the pants will fit snugly and com- nylon creel. Empty, neither garment fortably over a wool shirt as well as a weighs much more than the combined T-shirt or light sports shirt. A strap on Ripon of Wisconsin makes soft buck- weight of the old basket creel and its each side of the waistband can be tight- skin hunting mitts with trigger double-strap harness! ened or loosened to take up or let out finger in right hand. Wool lined. Instead of rubber or rubberized fab- (Continued on page 58)

23 IN THE NEW CONGRESS

Economy is the watchword and

there are many ideas on the subject.

THESE KEY LEGISLATORS STRONGLY he swing of political fortune which lation from her own party in power in restored the Republican Party to behalf of ex-GIs and their dependents.

power in Washington, enlarged the But such is not the case. role of Edith Nourse Rogers, of Massa- The blunt fact is that veterans legis- chusetts as one of the champions of war lation is in for rough sledding in the veterans before the 83rd Congress. current 83rd Congress. Mrs. Rogers assumes this larger role The Republican Party made econ- by virtue of her becoming chairman of omy in government expenditures and a the House Committee on Veterans cut in taxes one of its principal plat- Affairs. It is in this committee that most form promises in the 1952 election cam- veterans legislation originates; it is the paign, and the GOP leaders on Capitol chairman of this committee who must Hill are eager to carry out this promise pilot most bills dealing especially with legislatively. the needs of ex-GIs through the rocks The difficulty is that there are at least and shoals of Congress. three conflicting theories on how to Mrs. Rogers is on the roster of Con- economize on veterans affairs. Each of gressional champions of the veteran not the three has substantial and powerful only by chance. She is a champion by backing. conviction. During 14 previous terms in The first of these is the theory of the Congress, and even before, the lady adequate veterans program, which has from Lowell, Mass., earned a reputation largely been followed since WW II but throughout veterandom as a devoted is now on the wane. The adequate vet- McCarthy, Jenner, friend of the men and women who erans program seems to cost more im- Senate Senate fought in che uniform of their country, mediately, but has long range econ- II and especially as a vigorous advocate of omies because it functions better, the disabled ex-servicemen. achieves more per dollar invested, and A little lady with a big heart, bright makes the best use of past investments. eyes and a cheery smile, with an orchid Thus, by spending more on better the simplest apparent economy, and is or gardenia perched off her shoulder, medical practice, VA general hospitals widely supported by nearly everybody Mrs. Rogers belies her threescore and cared for over 100,000 more patients in whose main objective is to trim the na- ten years by agility of foot and mind, 1949 than the same facilities couid have tional budget. For pure simplicity, spruceness of stride, and strenuousness handled at the 1945 patient turnover nothing can beat it. If the VA is given of her daily schedule. Her shy voice, rate. Mrs. Rogers, the veterans organi- only half as much money to operate on, with a wisp of a catch in it, her pleas- zations, and most people who are close- then the "cost" will be cut in half. This ant demeanor camouflage a fiery spirit ly familiar with the workings of the theory ignores the crippling effect of when aroused. VA programs on the human level in- the "economy" on the veterans pro- It would appear, then, to those un- sist that the only sound—or real—econ- gram, and a poorer return for the schooled in the ways of Washington omy in veterans affairs must come from money that is spent because of (a) the that so ardent a chairman of the House a well-run and adequate program. inefficiency of under-financed activities Committee on Veterans Affairs should The second theory is the theory of and (b) the continued closing down of hive little difficulty in obtaining legis- immediate cost reduction. This gives facilities in which large capital invest-

24 while Mrs. Rogers' committee is most influential in the field of new laws af- fecting veterans. There are, and always will be, new veterans laws in the hopper —but none of those coming up mean quite so much to veterans as the sound operation of existing programs. "Our biggest battle in the 83rd Con- gress may well be the fight to keep what we have for the veterans," warns Mrs. Rogers. Those close to veterans affairs agree with her. The attitude of President Dwight D. Eisenhower has, of course, an important impact on veterans legislation. He, too, is committed to a program of economy, but he has also publicly stated: "No program of economy should overlook the legitimate rights and needs of the disabled veterans." In past Congresses veterans benefits have often been criticized and reduced for immediate economy's sake, leaving expensive facilities idle, hampering vets services and driving competent men out Ike greets Joseph M. Dodge, his Budget Di- of the Veterans Administration — never rector. Under Truman, Budget Director had great power to curtail veterans hospitals.

Carlson, Short, Allen, Wolcott, Taber, Senate House House House House

ments have already been made, while gram. Because of its failure, Presidents to return to such risky employment. the need for which they were built Coolidge and Hoover centralized ad- Since the end of World War II there grows. ministration of veterans affairs in what have been several attacks on veterans

The third theory of economy is the is now the VA. preference, on veterans hospitalization, theory of administrative dispersal. This The most important legislation on on the GI Bill of Rights. idea is to break up the VA and hand veterans affairs will turn about the With immediate cost reduction a its functions out to many other agen- three economy ideas this year and next. major issue and objective in the 83rd cies. On the books, the VA budget And it is not necessarily true that a Congress, the veterans organizations would largely disappear — to become House Veterans Affairs Committee must be especially vigilant during the hidden in the budgets of other agencies. whose chairman is a champion of an next two years that the budget-slasher's In past experience this proved actually adequate program can guarantee wise hatchet be not wielded blindly on long-

to be more expensive, as it multiplied veteran policy. The economy battle established veterans rights. These rights duplication and red tape in handling swings the spotlight onto the budget have been earned the hard way, and claims—and crippled the veterans pro- and government reorganization plans, (Continued on page 46) 25 WHERE THE LEGION LIVES -4th in a series of pictures of Post homes

Quigley-Baum Post 72, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, occupied other community groups. The annual bowling tournament of the the new home pictured above in May, 1950. The interior includes Legion Department of Pennsylvania has twice been rolled on a Legion meeting hall, a banquet hall, recreation room, restaurant Quigley-Baum Post's alleys. Post membership is now nearing 1,500 facilities for members and their families, a Boy Scout room and a and is going up steadily. The new building cost a little more than "civic room" for the meetings of civic, service, fraternal and a half million dollars.

THE LEGION IN PICTURES

The white arrow (left) points to sand that filled Hillsborough Inlet at Pompano Beach, Florida, three years ago. Cut off from their ^ ocean outlet, boats in Pompano's harbor and the inland waterway (dark channels) might as well have been miles from the Atlantic instead of only a few hundred feet. The sand blockade drove out the charter boat business, and Pompano Beach's resort-appeal shrank.

The sand is gone now, and party boats have returned to Pompano. Instead of seeking state or federal aid, Pompano's civic groups and leaders banded together and financed the dredging and jettying project, with counsel from the Army Corps of Engineers. Sterling McClellan Post 142, American Legion, played one of the leading roles in fund-raising and directing the inlet clearance. Even the distant New York Times saluted Pompano for handling its own problems without going to Washington.

m COMMANDER VISITS "VALLEY OF OPPORTUNITY"

Recently, National Commander Lewis K. Gough visited New York State's "Valley of Opportunity" in the Bingham- ton, Johnson City, Endicott area, where International Busi- ness Machines and the Endicott Johnson shoe company are nationally known for sharing the benefits of successful business with their workers and their communities. Commander Gough particularly honored Endicott Johnson's policy toward veterans (re-employment, jobs, training, nearly $1 million vacation pay to men in service in WW II, housing projects, medical care for the disabled, retirement pensions and a host of other benefits). Commander Gough was royally received, had a busy time visiting the hospitals, clinics, golf courses and recreation areas available to employees and their families, and inspecting working conditions in the Endicott Johnson and IBM plants. Then the many Nearly 1800 "Valley of Opportunity" Legionnaires honored Com- Posts of the Sixth District gave him a feed. mander Gough at dinner in Endicott Johnson'* recreation hall at 26 Endicott, N. Y. New York Commander Bruce Perry introduced Gough. The Commander (right) and Endicott John- From a high point, IBM vice-president Dause and Gough signs Korea vet son president, Charles F. Johnson, Jr., visited Bibby, Commander Gough and president Jim Martone to put Post EJ disabled vet employee Anthony Cerasaro. Johnson take in an eyeful of the valley 82 one up on last year. LEGION

South America; shows graphically the techniques, fun and fish in Chile and Uru- IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR guay. Trout, marlin, swordfish are just a CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAY OFF WITH HUNTING AND FISHING ACCESSORIES few billed as the lead characters. This film (16 mm. color and sound) is available for Maine, usually in the lead when it comes carefully along the backbone, cutting off loan to sports and civic groups. If your to helping non-resident sportsmen, has just the entire fin fillet section. Repeat pro- local Legion Post or sports club is inter- published Fishing In Maine, the annual cedure on reverse side of fish. This system ested, drop a line to South Bend Bait Com- angler's guide. This makes the 15th year of does away with the gutting of a fish. And pany, South Bend 23, Indiana. publication; the book is rich in material for you end up with a perfect, boneless hunk the visiting fisherman. Camps and Cottages of meat. You fishermen who can only take a sum- Rent is another state-of-Maine booklet Okay. You know how to properly scale for mer vacation and crave Florida should write worth thumbing through. Write the Pub- and fillet a fish. Now, how about catching for the free Fishing Guide distributed by licity Bureau, Gateway Circle, Portland, a few? May's the month to get into motion. the Stuart, Florida Chamber of Commerce. Maine, for free copies of these booklets. And according to the Fish and Wildlife Stuart, where the St. Lucie and Indian Service, the 17,127,896 fishing licenses sold Rivers meet and head out to sea through couple of facts in 1952, an increase of 1,101,197 over the A St. Lucie Inlet is a place all fishermen about fish that even previous year, are a firm indication of the should know. Four miles off shore in sum- the fish- pull of the fishing line. It also seems to argumentative mer, the Gulf Stream veers northeast. Sail- clan to chop a big piece off the theory that Ameri- erman seem fish are lurking there. Summer tournament, agree on: (1) Remov- cans are spectator sports people and have June 1st to September 15th. Tackle prizes. is a messy, little interest in getting in there and par- ing scales from the creature Free bottom-fishing off bridges around ticipating in the sport themselves. Over 17 discouraging job. (2) Fish that are filleted Stuart. Fresh-water fishing up jungle rivers. million guys can't be wrong. Something are easier to cook and eat. Working on Bait casting. Reef fishing. Surf casting. that simple basis, George Leonard Herter else to ponder: Over 9,751,801 of these fishing licenses came from the four central has brought to perfection a fillet knife de- William A. Sterbin- signed by the French Canadians over 75 geographic regions — the areas where half sky works in a clean also a book- of the readers of The American Legion years ago. He has published note: "Don't throw Magazine reside. let, entitled Only Way to Professionally away those small Fillet and Clean Fish, and True French Summer shouldn't be just straight fish pieces of floating soap Fry Fish. lengthy title but a worthy ad- A fare for the younger sportsman. In addition that you have around dition to any fisherman's library. This to varmint shooting there's fun in either the house," he says. booklet's yours for free. Write Herter's entering or observing shooting matches. "As you know, fishermen like to have a Inc., Waseca, Minnesota. Consider: few extra hooks »handy. That's why you Herter claims that most fishermen fillet see them stuck in hats, forced into the seat incorrectly, leaving that worthless and (1) National Sons of the American Legion of a boat, etc. tasteless portion of the fish appended—the (Gallery) Trophy. For members of the "By just taking the hooks you want and belly. The above sketch gives the graphic SAL, 50 feet, indoors or outdors, .22 forcing them into the soap chunk, they are example of a fish's carcass. Black portions rifles with metallic sights, five to eight easily seen, and if the soap and hooks are those that are eatable and the only ones members to a team, all from one squad- should accidentally fall out of your pocket that should be used. Don't waste your time ron. Fired during April or May. or the rowboat, they'll still be easily seen cleaning and scaling worthless sections. (2) A. A. Mitten Trophy. For Sons of The and can be retrieved, even from the water. Here are a few Herter hints that may American Legion. Outdoors only, 50 Also with the contrasting colors of hooks help: Scrape those stubborn scales off with yards prone only, .22 rifles with metallic and soap, during the twilight hours when the edge of a spoon— scraping against sights, five man teams only. Fired dur- by many fish bite, the hooks remain easy to the grain. If some of them still don't seem ing June and July. locate should you need them." to loosen, cross-wise. natural scrape The For further details on The American Legion curve also of of the spoon catches most Marksmanship Program, write George Are you a gun collector, a shooter, a pro- the scales off and keeps them you; prevents Sweeney, Chairman, 1598 Olympian Circle, fessional or amateur gunsmith, a dealer? another scaling that of taking the job— S.W., Atlanta, Georgia. No matter what your interest in guns, gun dried but sticky little objects off your own catalog #3, with ammunition digest, avail- skin and clothing. In addition to wading icy mountain able from Philip J. Medicus, 18 Fletcher properly fillet, first cut off the fish's streams and stalking the forests of To America Street, New York 38, N. Y., at 50 cents the head, then begin at the front of the fish, when time and finances permit, are you copy is one of the most knowledgeable little next to the backbone, cut deep into the fish also what the experts term "an armchair books on the market and worth many times until strike the belly ribs, then this sportsman," or "a you run rocking-chair rover or the asking price. cut back to the beginning of the fin fillet adventurer"? I am, and I get a great deal area. Go back to the beginning of your of pleasure out of reading about sports in If you have problems or questions connected with the outdoors: hunting, fishing, dogs, etc.. cut and, by pulling outward on the flesh, far places. Not long ago I saw a film that don't hesitate to send them on to The Outdoor cutting toward the belly, work the fillet transported me out of hard realities for Editor, American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth off down to the belly bones. Then push 22 minutes of foreign fun. And for free. Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. We will do our best to help. Please enclose a stamped, self- the knife through the fin fillet section and The film is titled Fabulous Fishing in addressed envelope for reply.

28 • The American Legion Magazine • May. 1953 The National Legionnaire

Schoolmen's Post Adopts Code of Principles POSTS URGED TO OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY ON MAY 30 And Definition of Teacher Responsibilities Fitting ceremonies by all Ameri- can Legion Departments, Posts and A "Statement of Principles of Ameri- or any authoritarian organization, has Auxiliary Units in commemoration for Teachers" has been formu- thereby voluntarily forfeited the right canism of Memorial Day, May 30, is urged lated by the members of Schoolmen's to teach in the public schools of a free by National Commander Lewis K. Post No. 543, New York City, which society. Gough. was formally endorsed by the New York 5. The public has the right to expect "Memorial Day should be a most County Organization of the Legion. its teachers to adhere to the principles sacred occasion for all American Legion units," said Commander The statement is a clearly denned out- enunicated in this statement. As agents Gough. "It is a day that we should line of the responsibilities of teachers, of the public, the Board of Education consecrate to the memory of our particularly in reference to slanted and the Superintendent of Schools have fallen comrades of all wars. It was teachings and the limits of academic the duty of insuring the fitness of in- their sacrifice that made this nation freedom. dividual teachers. To do this, it is en- great. Memorial Day should be for Schoolmen's Post has a membership tirely reasonable for the Board of Edu- all American Legionnaires and of over 600 teachers from every level cation or the Superintendent of Schools Auxiliary members a day of re- and division of the New York City edu- to question teachers about overt acts of i dedication of our hearts and lives to God and Country." cational system. "As teachers and vet- disloyalty, or about membership in or- u erans," says Post Commander Moe ganizations or groups dedicated to the Deutsch, "we feel that the use of these destruction of the American way of life. Double Celebration principles as a yardstick will help to Such investigation of a vital factor in avoid misunderstandings by the public a person's fitness to enjoy the privilege Weehawken (New Jersey) Post No. and provide a basis for housecleaning of teaching in a public school is no in- 18 will hold a double observance of in the teaching profession." fringement of either individual rights Memorial Day—the services in honor of or academic freedom. the fallen at the Weehawken War Mon- Statement of Principles 6. A teacher who advocates the over- ument following the annual township 1. It is the responsibility of educators throw of our American form of govern- parade. This service will be followed by to transmit the cultural heritage of ment by force and violence, or who a meeting on the lawn of the Post home America to the younger generation as knowingly belongs to an organization when — important to all members — the a basis for the continuing improvement dedicated to such ends, or who refuses mortgage on the home and club house of our society. to answer questions concerning such be- will be burned. Department Commander 2. It is essential therefore, that edu- liefs or membership, is unfit to teach William C. Doyle will present Continu- cators be loyal to the spirit of our in American schools and should be dis- ous Membership cards, 5 to 35-years, to American institutions. This loyalty must missed. Post members. include acceptance of the principle that changes in these institutions are to be accomplished by legal processes within the framework of the Constitution. Legion Institute Fits Members for Top Posts 3. A teacher has the duty of developing in his pupils a knowledge of and a All Levels; 8th Term Will Start July 1st devotion to the foundations of the On American way of life, namely the free- More than 25,000 plete the course. This is in addition to doms guaranteed by the Constitution, Legionnaires — the graduation certificate which is offi- the dignity and worth of the individual, young and old — cially signed by the National Command- the inviolability of the family, the en- have enrolled in the er and the National Adjutant. couragement of free enterprise con- previous terms of The Institute is conducted under the sistent with the general good of society The American Le- direction of the Membership and Post and the control of government through gion Institute Activities Division at National Head- elected representatives directly respon- which offers a 6- quarters, Indianapolis. Director C. M. sible to the people. It is also teacher's a Graduate cap patch months correspond- (Chuck) Wilson has announced that in- duty to arouse in his pupils an accept- ence course in Post, formational pamphlets and application ance of the responsibilities which ac- Department and National leadership for blanks for enrollment have been sup- company our freedoms. For these pur- those who want to fit themselves for plied to all Department Headquarters, poses, the teacher takes the place of the posts of responsibility in the world's and are also available to Posts and in- parents and represents the community largest veterans' organization. The 8th dividual Legionnaires by writing the during school hours. term of the Institute is scheduled to Division at National Headquarters. 4. A teacher is also responsible for start during July. Tuition fees are fixed on a sliding guiding children toward truth. This re- The deadline for enrollment of scale— 1 to 4 enrollments from a Post, quires not only scholarship but a mental Legionnaire students is June 15. Les- County or District, $6.00 each; 5 to 9 and spiritual integrity which abhors the son No. 1 will be mailed out to all en- enrollments, same units, $3.00 each; 10 perversion of truth to serve the inter- rolled students during July, marking the or more enrollments, same units, $2.00 ests of Communism or any other form start of another Legion school year. each. In the past many Posts have se- of totalitarianism. In our democratic Of the thousands of Legionnaires lected students and paid their fees—and society there are divergent points of who have completed the course, many this plan is being continued for the 8th view on many controversial subjects and have been selected as Department lead- term. Records show that the investment the teacher must teach all the facts. ers, and to places in the national or- has paid big dividends in developing Any distortion or "party line" approach ganization. This year a distinctive patch qualities of leadership and that a great would destroy the tradition of Ameri- for wear on the cap, an academic mor- number of the most effective leaders in can education. A teacher who submits tarboard in blue on a yellow back- many Legion areas are graduates of willingly to the authority of the Com- ground, will be issued to all Legion- former terms of The American Legion munist Party or its Front organizations, naire students who enroll and who com- Institute.

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 29 JUNIOR BASEBALL PROGRAM "Hometown USA" Commended in Congress FEATURED IN MOVIE FILM

With the coming of spring and the As Vital Service to War-Weary Men Overseas opening of the major league baseball season, the Legion's "Hometown USA," a Legion pro- Junior Baseball program is getting a big lift 10- g-ram which makes possible an exchange from a minute short film being in of tape-recorded personal messages be- NORTH DAKOTA SOLONS PAY sh^wn movie houses throughout the country. is tween the folks at home and service It HONOR TO JACK WILLIAMS titled "Legion at Bat," men and women overseas, was launched and is a smashing feature detailing experimentally during the 1952 Na- The North Dakota Legislature the magnitude and importance of the program. tional Convention in New York City. It paused long enough in its delibera- Directed by veteran producer was so successful immediately that, at tion of State matters to pay a well- Emer- son York and released the October meeting of the National deserved and well-earned tribute to by Columbia Pic- Jack Williams, Department Adju- tures Corporation, the film is Executive Committee, official sanction scheduled tant—the only one the North Dakota to be shown in more than 5,000 theaters was given to a national program. Legion has ever had. resolution A to an estimated audience of 50,000,000 Thousands of Posts and Auxiliary adopted by both Houses extended people. The narration is by Bill Stern, units have taken up the program; more congratulations to Department Ad- a sportscaster whose voice is than 2,000 in the United States have jutant Williams upon entering his known to sports fans everywhere, pledged cooperation with local Posts 35th year in that office, and that the with the tech- nical credits going and Units by including voice recordings Legislature "expresses its gratitude to James (Rip) Col- lins, former major league and written greetings from men over- and appreciation of his many years star, the film of service in a great American was produced in seas on their regular broadcasts. In association with the cause." National Americanism Commission. Michigan, Governor G. Mennen Williams founders Legion One of the of the Highlights of the film show sequences officially proclaimed a "Hometown in North Dakota and its Adjutant from the 1952 National Convention USA" week as the Michigan Depart- since the organization took form in parade in New York City; the election ment Commander Eugene N. Houck en- 1919, Adjutant Williams has served of National Commander Lewis K. couraged all Posts to adopt the project continuously. He doubled in brass 1942-43 he traveled with Gough; the growth and development of and participate in it fully. in when National Commander Lynn Stam- American Legion Junior Baseball with The program has attracted wide at- baugh as Aide. The only other De- star graduates Larry Jansen, tention and has been discussed and com- Warren partment Adjutant who can chal- Spahn, Virgil Trucks, Bob Feller, Ralph mended in Congress. In her "K-E-E- lenge Jack Williams' record of serv- Kiner, Stan Musial, Pee Wee Reese, Ed N-O-T-E-S," an occasional bulletin sent ice is James L. Boyle of Maine, who Lopat, Ted Williams and many others. to the press and to her constituents, was a delegate to the Paris Caucus, Included are action shots of the final Mrs. Elizabeth Kee, Congresswoman Secretary of the Maine delegation at game of the 1952 Little World series from the 5th West Virginia District, a the St. Louis Caucus, and Depart- between the Cincinnati, Ohio, and San member of the House Veterans' Affairs ment Adjutant since the Legion was organized in the Pine Tree State in Diego, California, teams, played under Committee, gave high praise to the < 19191919. the arcs at Bear Stadium, Denver, project. Mrs. Kee said: Colorado. "War-toughened veterans of grim The film winds up with a close-up of battles can hardly hide their disappoint- the Junior Baseball player of the year, ment when they are passed over at mail father, wife, sweetheart or friends, to Catcher Russell Nixon of the Cincinnati call. Many a grown person has shed a serviceman. These messages are proc- championship team sponsored by Robert secret tears because a letter has not ar- essed and then sent directly to the serv- E. Bentley Post No. 50, who takes the rived. It is a major tragedy in the lives iceman by The American Legion. final and well-dressed bow. The spirit of of those who are away for the first time. Through a cooperating plan with the Junior Baseball is vividly and forcefully The need for a message from home is various camps and installations, he then presented in the last scene as both teams more vital to a homesick person than has opportunity to record a message to join in the handclasp of good sports- food or drink. be sent back home. The Department of manship. "Recognizing this human need and Defense has given the plan its enthusi- A graphic story of the Robert Bentley finding a way to meet it is one more astic approval, and has directed its per- Post champion team and its veteran service The American Legion is giving sonnel to cooperate in every way." coach, Joe Hawks, "His Teams Win and to members of the Armed Forces all A pamphlet explaining in detail how Win and Win," is printed in this num- over the world. They, more than any Departments and Posts may activate ber of the magazine, on page 20. other one group, remember the heart- "Hometown USA" has been distributed aches of loneliness and homesickness. from National Headquarters. Additional Their new project, called 'Hometown copies of the pamphlet are available on USA,' is a tremendously important but request to "Hometown USA," The LEGION'S SCOUT PROGRAM still relatively simple plan. Congress- American Legion, 1608 K Street N. W., STRESSES CIVIL DEFENSE man Stringfellow, of Utah, says 'it pro- Washington 6, D. C. vides the next best thing to face-to-face Emphasizing the importance of Boy contact between mothers and sons, Scouts in the Civil Defense structure, wives and husbands, sweethearts and Memorial Day at Santa Cruz the Boy Scout Committee of the Depart- friends. It permits a relationship at the A traditional service at Santa Cruz ment of Illinois, chairmanned by George heartstring level.' Speaking further on (California) High School is the solemn C. Sullivan, has set up a plan to stimu- the floor of the House of Representa- observance of Memorial Day, in which late Post sponsorship of Boy Scout tives, Congressman Stringfellow said: members of the Legion Post, as well as Troops. Incorporated in the plan is the 'Whether these American boys are sol- the community participate. Soon after thought to integrate the Scouts and Ex- diers, sailors, airmen or Marines, the end of WW1 a Memorial Field was plorers into the Civil Defense system, whether they are cold or warm, hungry dedicated at the school, with eleven trees such as observers for the Ground Ob- or well fed, suffering from wounds or surrounding it, each tree dedicated to a server Corps and training in first aid in the prime of physical condition, all student lost in WW1. A part of the and relief. of these men have one common denomi- service each year is the placing of Another part of the program is nator. They are all lonely— all a little wreaths at each tree by the Girls' Honor pointed to a campaign to stimulate the homesick — all longing for Hometown Society, and a tribute to the 70 who Scouting program and to assist Posts USA.' were lost in WW2. The flag ceremony and Auxiliary Units in sponsoring "The Hometown USA project makes is conducted by Legionnaires, reports Troops and Cub Packs, with plans to it possible to record greetings of mother, C. E. Fehliman. meet local needs or facilities.

3Q • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 Tom Hayden, Assistant Department Ad- jutant Newcomb, Past Depart- NEW DEPARTMENT ADJT. Forrest PRESIDENT NAMES MAY 16 ment Commander Charles Blackburn, TAKES OVER IN MISSOURI present Grand Chef de Gare, 40 and 8 TO HONOR ARMED FORCES of Kentucky, and other officials, past Missouri's Department Com- Eisenhower has desig- and present, of the Bluegrass State President mander, Harold L. Butterfield, has nated Saturday, May 16 as Armed Legion. Boyd B. Stutler, Managing Edi- announced the appointment of Forces Day to pay honor and tribute tor of The American Legion Magazine, James S. Whitfield as Department to our men in service in all branches. Adjutant to succeed John H. Hatton, represented the national organization at The slogan for the observance will resigned. Adjutant Hatton had the Madisonville observance. be "Power for Peace." This date will served the Missouri Department for mark the fourth anniversary of several years, since the Headquarters Armed Forces Day which, by Presi- were removed from Kansas City to Raised Fund for Hospitalized Vets dential proclamation in 1950, replaced the separate observances by Jefferson City. The new Department Republic Aviation Post No. 1240, the individual arms of the defense Adjutant assumed his duties on Farmingdale, New York, has long been March 21. structure. attentive to the needs of hospitalized Posts of The In his new capacity, Adjutant Departments and veterans. At the last Christmas season urged to join Whitfield will be the host Adjutant American Legion are the Post set out a number of "Buddy veteran, civic and patri- to the 35th National Convention in with other to otic groups in local and State cele- St. Louis, August 31 to September 3. Boxes" for voluntary contributions brations honoring the members of He is a WW2 veteran and at the carry on its work. Employees of the Forces in emphasizing time of his appointment was serving Republic Aviation Company, Farming- our Armed their responsibilities in our nation's his second term as a District Com- dale, Greenlawn and Port Washington effort to attain a lasing peace. mander. responded with contributions amount- ing to $16,979.50 - which enabled the Post to expand its work. TRIBUTE IS PAID TO MAN LEGION CITED FOR WORK CHRISTENED LEGION IN GETTING OUT THE VOTE WHO JAMES A. HARD, GAR VET, Throughout the Department of Ken- SECOND TO LAST, IS DEAD The American Heritage Foundation, tucky, by proclamation of Department through its Executive Secretary Clyde

Commander Harry H. Hansbrough, Jr., . James A Hard, C. Vandeberg, presented the national "Major Gordon Observance Day" was next-to-last surviv- organization of The American Legion celebrated during the Legion birthday ing member of the an honorary citation "in appreciation of week, March 15-17. The special day was Union forces of the outstanding performance in support of designated in honor of Major Maurice Civil War and the the national non-partisan register and K. Gordon, prominent Madisonville at- nation's oldest war vote campaign of 1952." torney and dean of the Hopkins County veteran, died at The presentation was made in the bar, who is Kentucky's No. 1 Legion- Rochester, New offices of The American Legion Maga- naire. York, on March 12 zine in New York City, and in the ab- It was Major Gordon, then serving at the age of 111. sence of National Commander Lewis K. with the 36th Division, a member of Death came to the Gough was accepted for the Legion by the initial Caucus in Paris on March high spirited, cigar- Past National Commander James F. 15-17, 1919, who moved that the vet- James A. Hard smoking veteran O'Neill, Director of Publications. erans organization then in the making ten days after his "On November 4, 1952, the United be named The American Legion. Major right leg was amputated above the knee States witnessed the greatest demon- Gordon returned to the home land in in an effort to check a circulatory de- startion of active citizenship at the polls time to attend the first stateside Caucus ficiency. in the history of the nation. More than at St. Louis on May 8-10, 1919; was one His death cuts the list of Civil War 62 million American citizens marched to of the organizers of the Legion in Ken- veterans to five—one Union, and four the polls as free men and women and tucky and the Hopkins County Post No. Confederates. The sole Union veteran cast their ballots in accordance with the 6 at Madisonville, his home town. He is Albert Woolson, 106, Duluth, Minne- dictates of their own conscience. This is served as Department Commander in sota, last man of the Union's Army of a grand total of nearly 12 million more 1920-21, and as National Executive 2,675,000 men, and last man of the votes than ever cast before," Mr. Van- Committeeman the following year. Grand Army of the Republic, once a deberg said. The main celebration centered in powerful force of more than 400,000, of In paying tribute to the Legion's aid Madisonville on the evening of March which he remains the Senior Vice Com- he said: "This tremendous achievement 17 when several hundred Legionnaires mander-in-Chief. would not have been possible without drawn from many parts of western Ken- Surviving Confederate veterans are: the unselfish and sustained crusade on tucky gathered at the fine clubhouse of William A. Lundy, 105, Laurel Hill, the part of four million members of the Hopkins County Post No. 6 to pay a Florida; Thomas A. Riddle, 104, Austin, Legion and its Auxiliary who labored personal tribute to Major Gordon. Some Texas; John Sailing, 106, Slant, Vir- diligently over an eight months period dozens of others, scattered from New ginia, and Walter Williams, 110, Frank- to get Americans to register, know the York to California, sent letters and lin, Texas. issues, and vote at the election." telegraphic messages— all too many to Born near Victor, New York, enlisted The Legion's own "Pledge to Vote" be read at the meeting which followed in the Union Army four days after the campaign, the magazine cover "If a barbecue dinner. firing on Fort Sumter, when he was 19- You're Not Registered You Can't Vote," Post Commander Fred Oglesby pre- years-old. He served with Company E, and the Legion's slogan "Vote as you sided, and during the course of the eve- 37th New York Volunteer Infantry, and please, but please vote" were cited as ning presented Major Gordon framed saw action at Bull Run, Chancellors- particularly effective in the nation- copies of a congratulatory message from ville, Fredericksburg, South Mountain wide campaign. National Commander Lewis K. Gough, and Antietam. the Department Commander's procla- Active in the Grand Army of the Re- Sends Magazine to Korea mation, a diamond-studded Past Depart- public, he was the New York Depart- ment Commander's lapel button, and a ment Commander for some years, dis- William Verhagen Post No. 60, Kim- Gold Life Membership card awarded by banding the group in 1947 when he was berly, Wisconsin, is another Legion unit Hopkins County Post No. 6. the lone survivor. He was one of the which sends The American Legion In attendance at the observance were few veterans who gathered at Indian- Magazine to all members of the Armed Department Commander Harry H. apolis in 1949 for the last National En- Forces from its area who are serving Hansbrough, Jr., Department Adjutant campment of the GAR. in Korea.

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 "31 ADDY NAMED CHAIRMAN OF TRIBUTE PAID TO PHILIPPINE S UNKNOWN SOLDIER CHILD CARE COMMISSION

David V. Addy, Detroit, Michigan, has been appointed Chairman of the National Child Welfare Commission by National Commander Lewis K. Gough to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Chairman Samuel S. Fried, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Chairman Fried, who had served since October, 1952, was forced to relinquish the place in mid-year because of health and on advice of his physicians. Chairman Addy, who is a Past De- partment Commander and Past Na- tional Executive Committeeman of the Michigan Legion, is nationally known as an expert in the field of child welfare. He has had long service on the Legion's National Child Welfare Com- mission and was its Chairman in 1946, 1947, 1949 and 1951. He was currently Solemn honors were paid to the unknown dead of the Republic of the Philippines serving as Vice Chairman of the Com- in World War II by The American Legion, represented by two of its Past National mission. In civil life he is Budget Di- Commanders, in early March. Past National Commanders Frank N. Belgrano, Port- rector of the city of Detroit. land, Oregon, (left), and Stephen F. Chadwick, Seattle, Washington, led in the cere- George Ehinger, Dover, Delaware, mony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Fort Santiago, Manila, and placed was named by National Commander a wreath on the tomb. In memory of the American dead, the Legion leaders also Gough to replace Chairman Addy as placed a wreath at the flagstaff at Fort McKinley National Cemetery. Commanders Vice Chairman. The new Vice Chair- Belgrano and Chadwick were members of a special commission sent to the Philip- man is a Past National Executive Com- pines to make a survey for our Government of the mutual security aid results in mitteeman and has served for a number that country. of years as Chairman of the Child Wel- fare Committee of the Delaware De- partment. He was Area B Child Wel- MONTANA LEGION WINS IN MARINE AVIATION HISTORY fare Chairman in 1949. EFFORT TO UNCOVER REDS AVAILABLE TO MC AIRMEN OBSERVANCE OF POPPY DAY Culminating a five-year battle by the The Marine Corps, in 1947, issued a Legion to get a law on the Montana History of the Marine Corps Aviation SET FOR SATURDAY, MAY 23 statute books that can be used to un- in World War II, by Robert Sherrod, cover and combat communist, commu- for presentation to Marine Corps flyers The annual observance of "Poppy nist-front and other subversives, the as one means of equitably distributing Day" throughout the nation has been State Legislature at its recent session the profits earned by the Corps' Ex- set for Saturday, May 23, Mrs. Rae enacted a law to set up an Un-American changes during the war. The funds were Ashton, National President of the mil- activities investigating committee. The limited and the free distribution was lion-member American Legion Auxiliary sum of $5,000 was appropriated for the limited to those who had earned battle has announced. On that day millions of expenses of the committee. stars on their campaign ribbons and to Americans will wear a bright red poppy The Montana Department of the Le- the next-of-kin to those killed in action. to honor our war dead, and to aid the gion had sought such a law since 1948, The Marine Corps has announced that disabled veterans. when E. F. Naegele, then Department there are still some unclaimed copies On the day designated— in some areas Commander, inaugurated an aggressive on hand which are available to eligible for a couple or three days in advance- campaign against subversives and un- Gyrene flyers on request. The eligibles women of the Auxiliary and men of the Americans. At the 1951 session the are those who served in Marine Avia- Legion will take station on downtown Legion-sponsored measure was enacted, tion during WW2 and earned at least street corners, tramp from door to door but the Legislature failed to make an one combat star, and the next-of-kin and visit community business offices to appropriation for expenses and opera- of those killed in action. distribute an estimated 40,000,000 red tion—and thus it failed. Applicants for the history are ad- paper replicas of the flower that gained The present law provides for a bi- vised to send complete names, serial fame as a decoration of battle WW1 partisan committee of four members, numbers, aviation units served with, cemeteries in Europe. The paper pop- two from the Senate and two from the dates of attachment and detachment, pies are assembled in a year-round pro- House. The records gathered by the awards, medals and combat stars to: gram of the Auxiliary by veterans in Legion's Un-American Activities Com- Major Edna Loftus Smith, USMCR-W, hospitals and convalescent workshops. mittee, headed by Past Department Room 5E567 Op-52, Pentagon Building, In addition to the much needed mone- Commander Naegele, will be made avail- Washington 25, D. C. tary reward, the veterans receive in able to the investigators, who will make this program what the doctors evaluate their report to the 1955 session of the as a necessary and important form of Antwerp Post Serves Flood Victims Legislature. occupational therapy. V. O. Overcash, Past Department Antwerp (Belgium) Post No. 1 was Last year more than $2,500,000 was Commander and present National Ex- actively on the job when the recent dis- realized from distribution of 30,000,000 ecutive Committeeman, who has played astrous tidal floods spread havoc poppies. Much of the money remains in its area. a leading role in the Department's anti- throughout With Post mem- the communities where it is raised and bers and Leslie A. Weisenburg, Ameri- subversive program, points out that serves to assist disabled veterans and can Consul at Antwerp, Commander Ed more than 20 persons have run for pub- needy children of veterans. Pauser visited flooded villages and dis- lic office on The little red poppy is a symbol of re- the communist party ticket tributed food and clothing to American membrance and a token that we do not in Montana. Though he believes that and Belgium war veterans. A liberal forget the men who fell or their dis- the new law "will only scratch the sur- response was made to Commander abled comrades. face." Pauser's appeal for funds.

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POST FINDS YOUTH PROGRAM able service by complementing our ra- IOWA POST GIVES TIMELY dar screen. It is a most important com- CHECKS JUVENILE HOODLUMS ponent of our air defense system. SERVICE AT TRAIN WRECK Detailed information on these pro- When Adam Plewacki Post No. 799, Members of McGlothlen-Cowie Post grams can be obtained upon request to Buffalo, New York, moved into its new No. 1"45, Sheldon, Iowa, were on the job the National Security Division, The $400,000 home in 1949, it soon found quickly when a passenger train collided American Legion, Box 1055, Indianapo- that the two-story yellow brick struc- with a railroad snow plow near Sheldon lis, Indiana. ture was a target for youngsters in the on the night of February 2l. One pas- area. Windows were shot out by air senger was killed and 26 injured — the Past rifles, lawn and shrubbery were torn Commanders Honored Legion mustered its forces quickly and up, and autos in the parking area were Five Hundred Legionnaires, wives much suffering and discomfort was alle- stripped and defaced, and there were and friends were in attendance at the viated. other vandalism both costly and annoy- 33rd annual Washington's Birthday The manager of the Legion Club ob- ing. banquet given by Joseph L. Davis Post tained buses from the local school to Leaders of the Post, which is the larg- No. 47, Havre de Grace, Maryland, take 250 uninjured passengers to the est in the Department of New York, which has become known as one of the Legion club house. Legionnaires and looked about for a solution—and they prime winter social events in that area. Auxiliares served hot coffee and sand- found it. The Post's recreation facili- Two Past Commanders, Joseph W. Dye wiches to the stranded persons until ties were opened to the youth of the and M. J. Bouchelle, were presented transportation problems could be worked neighborhood. At first they came three Gold Life Membership cards by Com- out. Post officers have received many let- or four a day, then when the word mander Albert Alexander. ters of thanks for its fine service. spread that there were no strings to the open house, the attendance grew to a score or more each day. Vandalism was not completely eliminated, but it Dates for 1953 Legion Department Conventions was reduced to a minimum—the young- The Department of Florida, as usual, leads off in 1953 with its Department Con- sters accepted who the use of the bowl- vention at Orlando on May 22-24, and is the only Department unit to hold its annual ing alleys, billiard room, the gym, the meeting in that month. The others will be held, tightly bunched, in June, July and basketball, badminton courts and other early August. facilities do their own policing. The 35th annual National Convention will be held at St. Louis, Missouri, on A feature article about the Post's August 31-September 3. youth program in the Buffalo Evening DEPARTMENT PLACE DATES News quotes a police official as saying: Alabama Mobile July 5-7 "What the Plewacki Post is doing is Alaska Cordova June 24-27 wonderful. It keeps the children under Arizona Flagstaff June 11-13 A rkansas Little Rock July 24-26 proper supervision and is one of the California Long Beach July 30-Aug. 2 mediums of cutting down juvenile de- Canada Win nipeg June 13 linquency. They get a chance to let off Colorado Estes Park June 12-14 Con iipptipiit Hartford July 16-18 extra energy in beneficial ways and Delaware Dover July 17-18 children seldom get involved with the D. of C. Washington July 30-Aug. 1

( i r 1 :t 1 law when they are members of a church Florida * » « lulln H yj May 22-24 90 l 1 Juiip group, a club, or some other recreational it 1 IL program." Georgia Savannah July 10-12 Hawaii Honolulu July 16-18 Commander Eugene Kayne says the Idaho Moscow July 31-Aug. 2 Post does not stop at allowing young- Illinois Chicago Aug. 6-9 sters free use of the play rooms and Indiana Indianapolis July 24-27 Iowa Waterloo Aug. 3-5 recreational facilities. At its last Hal- Italy Messina (Sicily) June 13-14 lowe'en party, more than 3,500 boys Kansas Topeka Aug. 7-9 and girls of the general neighborhood Kentucky Louisville July 10-12 Louisiana New Orleans July 24-26 were in attendance, and other parties Maine Rockland June 19-21 are held during each year. Two high Maryland Baltimore July 8-11 school juniors are sent each year to the Massachusetts Lowell July 9-11 Mexico City Aug. 1 Empire Boys' State. Mexico Michigan Detroit July 30-Aug. 2 Minnesota Minneapolis Aug. 2-5 Mississippi Biloxi July 5-9 Missouri Joplin July 17-19 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR Montana Great Falls June 26-28 Nebraska Omaha Aug. 2-4 CIVIL DEFENSE GROUPS Nevada Las Vegas Aug. 6-8 New Hampshire Nashua June 19-21 Men with military experience are ur- New Jersey Asbury Park Sept. 10-12 gently needed to volunteer for assign- New Mexico Silver City June 24-26 Rochester July 17-19 ments in Civil Defense and Ground New York North Carolina Wilmington June 10-13 Observers Gorps. At its last National North Dakota Minot June 28-30 Convention in New York City The Ohio Cleveland July 24-26 American y Legion recognized this need Oklahoma Tulsa Aug. 8-9 Oregon Seaside June 17-20 and approved recommendations calling Panama C.Z. Balboa June 6-7 for the participation of all members in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh July 27-Aug. 1 these two activities, which are so vital Philippine Is. Manila June 12-13 Rico Ponce July 25-26 to our security. Puerto Rhode Island Providence June 19-21 The mission of Civil Defense is well South Carolina Charleston June 27-30 known—it is designed to reduce the loss South Dakota Mitchell June 14-17 17-19 of life and restore normal operations Tennessee Chattanooga July Texas Beaumont Aug. 7-9 as quickly as possible following any Utah St. George June 4-6 enemy attack. A sound, well organized Vermont Brattleboro July 16-18 Civil Defense corps in operation at all Virginia Roanoke Aug. 14-16 Washington Yakima Aug. 13-15 levels can serve as a powerful deterrent West Virginia Huntington July 25-27 to attack. Wisconsin Oshkosh July 17-19 The Ground Observers Corps, while Wyoming Lander June 25-27 less well known, performs an invalu-

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 33 Smith-Reynolds Post No. 14, Vancouver, * Washington, reports that Rev. Albert * * * LEGIONITEMS * * Forgey holds some kind of a record as a triple-Chaplain. In 1951 and again for 1953 he served and is serving as De- Captain Belvidere Brooks Post No. of 22 new members for the February partment, District and Post Chaplain. 450, New York City, covering Manhat- initiation - he had 'em. Initiation was "If that isn't enough to win laurels," tan West Side from 72nd to 100th conducted by the 22nd District Ritual says the Adjutant, "then we claim to Streets, found that many public school Team, and another bunch of new mem- have the tallest Legion District Com- classrooms were without American bers has already been lined up for a mander in the world— Slim Holley, Alcoa flags. The Post bought 100 silk flags spring ceremony at the Post's Freedom Post No. 173, Vancouver, who stands for classroom use and presented them Farm. 6 feet, 8 inches above his shoe-soles." to the Board of Education — classroom * presentations were made by Past Com- Legionnaire Lindo Corso of Ottawa * * Lambert Fairchild, Post Com- (Illinois) Post No. 33 was presented a mander Gene Linquist, Minnesota's 6th Dis- mander Edward C. Jackson and staff. Legion Hero Medal and citation by trict Commander, also has a Chaplain to

. . . Woodland Hills (California) Post Kankakee (Illinois) Post No. 85 for enter-Rev. Martin Bremer, who is serv- and Auxiliary Unit, which always works saving a boy from drowning, after two ing as Chaplain of St. Cloud Post No. 76, as a team, recently hosted 200 of the of the lad's companions had been swept the 6th District, and Department of Min- town's business men at a dinner party away and drowned. The citation reads: nesota. . . . Continuing the safety marker "in deep appreciation for the many good "In recognition of unselfish distin- program, each one dedicated to a Korean things the merchants have done for the guished services for outstanding hero- War fallen hero, sponsored by George Post since it was started five years ago." ism in saving John Erickson, Jr., from Shaw Post No. 17, Reno, Nevada, the . . . F. M. Cleckner, Ohio's 14th District drowning in the Kankakee River, March sixth of the series, in memory of Sgt. Commander, suggests that all Legion 19, 1953." . . . Adjutant Cleo Payne of Lloyd J. Henley, was dedicated on March Posts hold open house for Korean vet- 2. Ceremonies were conducted by Dat- erans on June 25—the anniversary of So-La-Lee Post No. 12, Reno's woman's the start of the Korean War. LEGIONNAIRE KOREA HERO Post. AWARDED MEDAL OF HONOR Riley-Vest Post No. 9, Bluefield, West Florida's Governor, Legionnaire Dan Virginia, highlighted its ceremonies McCarty, kicked off the membership honoring Korean veterans with a radio class of Sauls-Bridges Post No. 13, Tal- panel discussion by four men, represent- lahasse, which is named in his honor, by ing the Army, Navy, Air Force and signing up his Executive Secretary, Marine Corps, who had but recently re- Warren Blackmon, as the first member. turned from the Korean front. Post The Post winds up its membership Commander H. Edward Steele presented drive each year by l'ecruiting a "Big Honor Certificates to each new veteran. Name" class. Classes in previous years . . . Uniondale (New York) Post No. 1487 have been named Dwight Eisenhower, has started a program of erecting safety Jonathan Wainright and Captain Bob signs in its home community, starting Gray. . . . Highland Auxiliary Unit No. with a full dozen at danger points and 201, Louisville, Kentucky, sponsors adding one or more each month. . . . nurses' training, and for three consecu- Henry J. Marx Post No. 564, Granville, tive years has given tuition for the Iowa, highlighted its February meeting training of six girls. Mrs. Roy Yeager, by presenting 30-year Consecutive Mem- President, recently sweetened the fund bership Cards to 18 members. by presenting a check for $1,200 to the

SS. Mary and Elizabeth Hospital. . . . Past Commander August Hennig, Headed by National Vice Commander C. Rehab. Director of Chicago (Illinois) Addison Wagner, Battle Creek, Michi- Board of Trade Post, has started a drive gan, the officers and members of Joseph Legionnaire Duane E. Dewey, a mem- to obtain the right to vote for all per- B. Westnedge Post No. 36, Kalamazoo, ber of Edward W. Thompson Post No. sons inducted into the Armed Forces Michigan, held a bedside initiation cere- 49, South Haven, Michigan, received under the age of 21. mony for Earl Lammlin, Korean vet- the nation's highest military award, the eran confined to a Kalamazoo hospital ' Medal of Honor, from President Eisen- with polio. A Navy veteran, Legionnaire hower in a ceremony at the White House Bryan Mudget Post No. Carlsbad, Lammlin was stricken in October, on 7, on March 12. A hero of the Korean War, Mexico, through its Stationery and the day after the funeral of his wife New Legionnaire Dewey served as Corporal Book Committee headed by Arthur G. who died of polio. . . . Thoma-Tuttle in the 5th Marine Regiment, and was Estes, has shipped 469 books to the VA Post No. 52, Boonville, Missouri, raised cited for "conspicuous gallantry and Hospital at Albuquerque, 948 books to $2,000 in the annual Cooper County intrepidity at the risk of his life above Korea, and has several hundred on hand, Polio Drive — one-fifth of the quota of and beyond the call of duty, on the 16th some for the 23rd Infantry, on hand $10,000. A good part of the fund came of April, 1952." ready for dispatch to Korea. . . . L. V. from a bake sale conducted by the ladies He was a machine gunner in an ad- Breck, 1st District Service Officer, 4821 and a Legion polio auction. * vanced position when he won the covet- N. Kimball Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Spokane (Washington) Post No. 9 has ed decoration by saving the lives of has the discharge and other military sponsored Boy Scout Troop 19 for 29 two comrades when he smothered the papers of Private Roy L. Shy, 4th consecutive years. Membership of the explosion of an enemy hand grenade Cavalry. He would like to return them

Troop, according to Adjutant J. A. with his own body. He had been wounded to the owner. . . . Past Commander Pat- DeGeus, includes boys of white, Negro in the left leg and hip and was being rick M. Coyne, born on March 17, was on

and Japanese races. . . . Pikesville (Mary- treated by a medical corpsman when the receiving end of a St. Patrick-Pat land) Post No. 210 and its Auxiliary Unit the grenade landed near him. He rolled Coyne birthday party thrown by Fort presented a check for $724.20 to the local over on the grenade and took the blast Hamilton Post No. 27, Brooklyn, New

March of Dimes campaign, net proceeds —which kept him in the hospital for York. . . . Past Commanders of Weirton from a dance. ... To honor the 22nd several months. "You must have a body (West Virginia) Post No. 10 have or- Legion District, Walter Bien, Member- of steel," commented President Eisen- ganized a Club to meet each Wednesday ship Chairman of George E. Hilgard hower as he looped the ribbon around for lunch and conference on Post and Post No. 58, Belleville, Illinois, set a goal the young Marine's neck. general Legion affairs.

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W. Laads, Secy., 6906 N. Navarre Ave., Chicago 724th Ry. Operating Bn.—2nd annual reunion, 31, 111. Gatlinburg, Tenn., June 6-7. Info from Edwin OUTFIT REUNIONS 552nd Ordnance Co.—6th reunion, Boston, A. Jacobs, 16505 Park Grove, Detroit 6, Mich., Mass., May 2; Hotel Copley Square. Info from or James O. Kopp, 1508 Shelby St., Sandusky, Henry M. Nash, P. O. Box 191, Jamaica Plain Ohio. 30, Mass., or John Woods, 35 Mt. Everett St., Co. I, 152nd Inf., 38th Div.-Reunion, New- Society of the 1st Division—35th annual re- Dorchester 26, Mass. castle, Ind., June 6-7; National Guard Armory. union, New York City, Sept. 11-13; New Yorker USS Yorktown, (CV 10)—6th annual reunion. Write Charles E. Ritter, 1828 Winfield Ave., Hotel. Info from Society of the 1st Division, Box New York City, May 8-10; Hotel Belmont Plaza. Indianapolis, Ind. 1629, Philadelphia 6, Pa. Write George Bernard, care New Equipment Co. A, 314th Amm. Train, 89th Div., (WW1) 1st (Old Ironsides) Armored Div. Assn., (East- Digest, 60 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. —Reunion, Nebraska City, Neb., June 7; Arbor ern Chapters)—2nd annual reunion. New York 3103rd Service Bn., (WW2)-Reunion, New Lodge Park. Write E. F. Barry, Pres., or A. H. City, May 2; Governor Clinton Hotel. Reservations York City, week-end May 9; Hotel Governor Clin- Thege, Secy., Box 228, Wahoo, Neb. through Anthony Pepitone. 120-23 143rd St.. ton. Info from Stanley Rubin, Chairman, 170-22 PCE (C) 873-Reunion, Kansas City, Mo., June South Ozone Park, L. I., N. Y. 143rd Rd., Springfield, L. I., N. Y. 12-13, all hands. Contact Robert W. Lyons, 2340 2nd (Indian Head) Div. Assn.—32nd reunion, 1476th Engineer Maint. Co.—4th annual reunion, Agler Rd., Columbus, Ohio. Boston, Mass., July 23-25. Info from Natl. Hdqrs., Louisville, Ky., May 16-17; Seelbach Hotel. De- 103rd Amm. Train, 28th Div., (WWl)-Annual 2nd Div. Assn., 116 N. 3rd St., Camden 2, N. J. tails from Herbert R. Axe, 3614 Dayton Ave., reunion, Mystic Chain Park near Vera Cruz, Pa., Society of the 3rd (Marne) Inf. Div., (both Louisville 7, Ky. June 14. Info and reservations from Thomas F. World Wars and Korea)— 34th annual conven- Troop C, 104th Cavalry—6th reunion, Harris- Delong, Secy., 1041 Graham St., Bethlehem, Pa. tion, Chicago, 111, July 12-15. Contact Edward J. burg, Pa., May 16; Penn-Harris Hotel. Details 78th Naval Constr. Bn., (Seabees)— Reunion, Butler, Hotel Sherman, Clark and Randolph Sts., from John E. Renninger, Secy., 42 W. 5th St., New York City, June 20; Hotel New Yorker. Info Chicago, 111. Pottstown, Pa. from Keith E. Pilkenton, 193 Clinton Ave., 3rd (Spearhead) Armored Div. Assn.—6th an- Hqrs. Sqdrn., Antilles Air Command, (former- Brooklyn 6, N. Y. nual convention, Milwaukee, Wis., July 23-25. ly Antilles Air Task Force and 6th Fighter Com- 78th A.F.A. Bn., 2nd Armored Div.-5th annual Details from Paul W. Corrigan, Natl. Secy., 80 mand)— 3rd annual reunion. New York City, May reunion. New York City, June 26-28. Contact Federal St., Boston 10, Mass., or M. Stuart Goldin, 16. Write James W. Sexton, 3131 N. Bambrey Bill O'Connell, 110 Carlyle PI., Roslyn Heights, Commercial Trust Bldg., Philadelphia 2, Pa. St., Philadelphia 32, Pa. L. I., N. Y. 4th (Ivy) Div. Assn.—Annual reunion-conven- U. S. Base Hospital No. 27—34th reunion. New H and M Cos., 306th Inf., 77th Div.-Joint re- tion, Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 27-29; Bellevue- York City, May 16; Hotel Abbey, 6 p.m. Contact union, New York City, June 27; 77th Div. Club Stratford Hotel. Contact Silvio D. D'Anella, Re- Bernard J. McAfee, 305 8th Ave., Brooklyn 15, House. Contact George Allen, H Co., or John J. union Chairman, 752 S. 8th St., Philadelphia 47, N. Y. Byrnes, M Co., at the Club House, 28 East 39th Pa. 759th Tank Bn., (L)—Reunion, western states St.. New York, N. Y. 4th (Breakthrough) Armored Div. Assn.—7th members, Fresno, Cal., May 16. Contact I. L. 55th Naval Constr. Bn.—Reunion, Tacoma, annual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., June 18-20; Milgrim, 7 Robert Place, Millbrae, Cal., or Floyd Wash., June 27-28; Winthrop HoteL Write John Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Write 4th Armored Briggs, 1234 N. Cedar St., Fresno, Cal. Arsanto, 1823 So. Sprague St., Tacoma, or Lowell Div. Assn., P. O. Box 247, Madison Sq. Sta.. 3154th Ordnance Alumni—7th annual reunion, A. Taylor, 400 S.E. 98th Ave., Portland, Ore. New York 10, N. Y. Philadelphia, Pa., May 23; Hotel Benjamin Evacuation Hospital No. 33, (WWl)-Reunion, 5th (Red Diamond) Division, (both WWs) — Franklin. Details from Robert Knox, Secy., 531 Des Moines, Iowa, June 28; Union Park Shelter 33rd annual reunion, New York City, Sept. 5-7; E. Elm Ave., Woodbury, N. J. House. Write Harold W. Grazier, Secy., 1335 8th Hotel New Yorker. Info from John B. Morier, 216th Gen. Hospital Assn.— 4th annual reunion. Ave. So., Fort Dodge, Iowa. Gen. Reunion Chairman, 5 W. 63rd St., New New York City, May 29-30; Park Sheraton Hotel. USS Key West, (PF 17) -2nd annual reunion, York 23, N. Y. Contact Andy Menzia, Secy., 75 Middle St., New York City, July 3-5; Hotel McAlpin. Details 8th (Thundering Herd) Armored Div. Assn.— Lowell, Mass. from Reunion Committee, USS Key West, 6 So. Annual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., July 3-5; USS President Lincoln—35 annual reunion. Washington Ave., Bergenfield, N. J. Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Write Daniel H. Hahn, New York City, May 30. Info from Harvey D. Co. H, 110th Inf., (WWl)-Annual reunion, Jr., Reunion Chairman, 529 Forrest Ave., Drexel Carter, Suite 12F, 270 Park Ave., New York 17, Washington, Pa., July 12. Info from J. F. Cris- Hill. Pa. N. Y. well, 20 Acheson Ave., Washington, Pa. 10th (Tiger) Armored Div. Vet. Assn.—2nd USS Leedstown Survivors Assn., (AP 73) — Co. C, 260th Inf., 65th Div., (WW2) -Reunion, national convention, Washington, D. C, May 22- Annual reunion and dinner, New York City, May Chicago, 111., July 9-11. Write John S. Monroe, 24; Hotel Washington. Details from Edwin J. 30. Write Frank A. Wiseman. President, 126 W. Rear 736 St. Clair St., Latrobe, Pa. Grace, Natl. Secy., 172 Larch Rd., Cambridge 82nd St., New York, N. Y., for reservations. USAACs—National convention, Pittsburgh, Pa., 38, Mass. 1127th and 1400th M. P. Cos.-Reunion, Wheel- July 16-18. Details from USAAC, 940 Western Society of the 28th (Keystone) Div., (both ing, W. Va., May 30-31; Hotel Windsor. Write Ave., Pittsburgh 12, Pa. WWs) -Convention, Harrisburg, Pa., July 22-25. Frank Farina, 1001 Sherrill Ave., Yeadon, Pa. Co. C, 108th Inf.—2nd annual reunion, Harris- Reservations from Robert Laskowski, 18 S. 38th Inf. Regt., (both WWs and Korea) -An- burg, Pa., July 18. Info from W. J. Steremet. Market Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. nual reunion, Syracuse, N. Y., May 30-31; Onon- P. O. Box 676, Pontiac, Mich. 24th (Victory) Inf. Div.—Reunion, St. Louis, daga Hotel. Details from A. H. Zindel, 568 W. 151st Med. Bn.—Annual reunion, Steubenville, Mo., Aug. 14-16. Info from Allyn Miller, Vice 193rd St., New York 33, N. Y. Ohio, July 19. Details from A. R. Carmoney, RD Pres., 737 E. Livingston Ave., Columbus 5, Ohio. 817th Tank Destroyer Bn.—8th annual reunion, 1, Mingo Junction, Ohio. 29th (Blue and Gray) Div., (both WWs)-An- Pittsburgh, Pa., June 6; Hotel Roosevelt. Contact USS Helena, (CL 50)-Reunion, Chicago, Ill- nual reunion, New York City, Sept. 4-7; Hotel Ted Warner, 280 Hastings Ave., Buffalo 15, N. Y. July 24-26; Sheraton Hotel. Contact USS Helena Statler. Details from Donald N. Sheldon, 30 At- Reunion Committee, 624 Morris Ave., Springfield, kins Ave., Brooklyn 8, N. Y. N. J. 32nd (Red Arrow) Div. Assn., (both WWs)- Co. A, 128th Inf., 32nd Div., (WWl)-23rd an- Annual reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 5-7. In- THE AMERICAN LEGION nual reunion, Neillsville, WiBC, July 25-26. Write formation from Walter W. Jennerjahn, Chair- HEADQUARTERS A. F. Prange, Secy., Reedsburg, Wis. man, 32nd Memorial Bldg., 774 N. Broadway, NATIONAL 314th Inf. Assn., (WW2)—7th annual reunion, Milwaukee 2, Wis. FEBRUARY 28, 1953 New York City, July 24-26; Park Sheraton Hotel. 41st (Sunset) Inf. Div.—Reunion, Olympia, ASSETS Info from John Grudzien, Pres., 93-17 Roosevelt Wash., Aug. 15-16. Details from 41st Div. Post Ave., Jackson Heights, N. Y., or Theodore J. No. 166, American Legion, 526 N. W. Broadway, Cash on hand and on deposit $ 709,119.26 Romeo, 125-03 107th Ave., Richmond Hill, N. Y. Portland 9, Ore. Receivables 315,901.43 943rd and 177th FA Bns.— 1st reunion, Detroit, 63rd (Blood and Fire) Inf. Div.— 4th annual Inventories 486,978.46 Mich., July 18; American Legion Memorial Home, reunion, Chicago, 111., June 12-14; LaSalle Hotel. Invested Funds 1,056,301.61 401 West Lafayette. Info from Uriah S. Pringle, Info and reservations from Jerry Rosenberg, Permanent Trusts: Secy., 411 N. Maple St., Saginaw, Mich. 1570 Sherman Ave., Evanston, 111. Overseas Graves Decoration Co. H, 338th Inf., 85th Div.-3rd reunion, 75th Inf. Div. Vet. Assn.—National convention, Trust Fund $ 257,823.06 Philadelphia, Pa., July 31-Aug. 2; Bellevue-Strat- Washington, D. C, Aug. 14-16; Hotel Washing- Employees' Retirement ford Hotel. Write Ralph Squibb, 3703C Garfield ton. Write John McBurney, Secy., 6822 E. 14th Trust Fund 1,265,563.33 1,623,386.38 Ave., Pennsauken, N. J. St., Kansas City, Mo. 325th (Checkertail Clan) Fighter Group-llth 973,972.66 76th (Liberty Bell) Inf. Div. Assn.—Reunion, Real Estate annual reunion, entire group, Washington, D. C, Furniture and Fixtures, New York City, June 13-14; Hotel Commodore. July 31-Aug. 2; Hotel Mayflower. Contact J. less Depreciation 277,225.38 Details from Alfred S. Kalet, 116 John St., New Stanley Wolf, 3401 Broad Branch Terrace, N. W., Deferred Charges 65,330.29 York City, or Gen. Henry C. Evans, 6 S. Calvert Washington 8, D. C. St.. Baltimore, Md. $5,398,215.45 52nd Seabees—6th annual reunion, Memphis, 80th (Blue Ridge) Div. Vet. Assn., (both WWs) Tenn., first week in August. Info from Frank —Annual reunion, Roanoke, Va., July 23-26; Garner, 1036 Brewer St., Memphis, Tenn. Hotel Roanoke. Write H. F. Collette, Res. Secy., LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE 80th and 185th Ordnance Cos.— Reunion and 302 Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. AND NET WORTH picnic, Mecosta County Park, School Section 83rd (Thunderbolt) Inf. Div. Assn. -7th annual Lake, between Stanwood and Remus, Mich., Aug. convention, Cleveland, O., Aug. 20-22; Hotel Hol- Current Liabilities $ 264,609.19 2. Contact Thomas R. McNamara, Plainwell, lenden. Info from 83rd Inf. Div. Assn., 1435 Clark Funds restricted as to use 105,550.90 Mich., or Wm. Wagner, 538 Ada St., Kalamazoo, St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. Deferred Income 1,427.644.25 Mich. 88th (Blue Devils) Inf. Div. Assn.-6th annual Permanent Trusts: Co. C, 928 Signal Bn.— Reunion, Allentown, convention, Boston, Mass.. Aug. 13-16; Sheraton Overseas Graves Decoration Pa., Aug. 14-15; Americus Hotel. Contact Michael Plaza Hotel. Info and reservations from Joe Trust $ 257,823.05 Terensky, Box 271, Sturgeon, Pa. Cooper, Chairman, P. O. Box 156, Brighton, Mass. Employees' Retirement Ranger Battalions Assn.—Reunion, Chicago, 111., 90th (Tough 'Ombres) Div. Assn., (Midwest) Trust 1,265,563.33 1,523,386.38 Aug. 14-16; Hotel Sherman. Info from Raymond —Reunion, Fargo, N. Dak., Sept. 26; American Net Worth: F. Aim, 4924 Paxton Rd., Oak Lawn, 111. Legion Club. Write Thomas J. Ameson, Treas., Restricted Capital: USS Kidd and USS Blackhawk Assns.-6th Box 962, Minneapolis 1, Minn. Reserve Fund . . 23.464.13 annual joint convention, New York City, Aug. 94th Div. Assn., (WW2) -Reunion, New York Restricted Fund. 17,939.98 14-16; Hotel Governor Clinton. Write Harold City. July 23-26; New Yorker Hotel. Details from Reserve for construction Manning, 310 E. 8th St., Kewanee, 111. Bernard Frank, Chairman, Commonwealth Bldg., Wash. Office. . 65,095.44 304th Inf. Reg. Assn.—8th annual reunion- Allentown, Pa. Real Estate 973,972.65 dance. New York City, Aug. 15; Hotel Governor 106th (Golden Lion) Inf. Div.-7th annual re- Reserve for Rehabili- Clinton. Info from Pincus P. Ettinger, Chairman. union, Columbus. Ohio, July 24-26; Hotel Fort tation 317,941.07 398 E. 148th St., Bronx, N. Y. Hayes. Contact D. B. Frampton, Jr., Gen. Chair- Reserve for Child 140th Anti-Tank Co., 35th Div.-Reunion, West man, 1201 Huntington Bank Bldg., Columbus, Welfare 20,627.54 Plains, Mo., Aug. 21-23. Write Henry O. Haw- Ohio. 1,409,040.81 kins, Box 603, West Plains, Mo. WAVEs, USN and USNR, vet and in service Unrestricted Capital: convention- —11th annual reunion, Denver, Colo., July 31- CWS Veterans Assn.— 18th annual Excess of Income over Mo., Aug. 31-Sept. 3. All Aug. 2; Brown Palace Hotel. For info send self- reunion, St. Louis, Expense . 668,083.92 2,077,124.73 addressed, stamped envelope to National Wave CWS, both WWs or in service. Contact George Reunion Committee, P. O. Box 622, Denver, Colo. $5,398,215.45 W. Nichols, Secy., RFD 4, Box 426A, Kingston, 332nd FA Veterans, AEF—Annual reunion, N. Y. (Continued on page. 36) Chicago, 111., May 2; Morrison Hotel. Contact E. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 35 HONORED FOR 20 YEARS OF MISSING IN KOREA SERVICE TO POST COLORS COMRADES IN DISTRESS

Co. D, 34th Infantry, 24th Div.-Will officers For twenty years, and men who served with Pfc. Frederick Eugene Co. E, 168th Inf., 42nd Div., ( WW 1) -Urgently need to hear from Clyde Doolittle; Sgt. Pierce, missing July 20, 1950, at Taejon, please never missing a Capt. H. write; give any information about him. Mr. and Browning, 1st Platoon, Pvt. John T. Smith from day except in in- Ala., or any others who can help Henry Morgan, Mrs. Matthew Pierce, RR 4, Box 111, Edgerton, Wis. clement weather, or who remember his foot trouble while hiking in Germany. Write Frank C. Whyte, Box 58, Co. A, 34th Inf., 24th Div.-Would like to hear Legionnaire Peter from anyone who was with my son, Pfc. Robert Citronelle, Ala. Anti-Tank Co., 275th Regt., 70th Inf. Div.— G. Detamore, missing at Taejon, July 20. 1950, Thomopulos has Need to contact comrades who remember about or who knows anything about him. Mrs. C. L. raised and lowered Detamore, Upperglade, W. Va. my ear trouble while in action; claim pending. Harris, 82nd AAA AW (Sp)-Would like to hear from the colors at the Tom Grove, Okla. Base Hospital, anyone who has received POW mail from Korean Roses Hospital and Shoemaker home of Roger Wil- Will servicemen who became missing at Kunuri on or California— anyone, personnel or patient, who remembers Warren G. Higginbothom in first about Dec. 1, 1950. My son, Pfc. Warren O. Ken- liams Patterson named hospital May-July, 1943, and in latter last dall, reported missing there; name is not on POW Post No. 349, Mine- part of the year, please write. He was a sailor list, but I recognized his picture in POW photo. injured when the Story was torpedoed and Write please. Mrs. Mary Kendall, 33 Greeley St., ola, New York. SSHM Thomopulos sunk, May 18, 1943. Claim pending. Write G. W. Concord, N. H. Peter when he was 5th Inf. Regt., RCT-My son, Pvt. Anthony Once Davis, Route 5, Box 71, Jasper, Ala. Co. A, Div., Mattucci, missing at Punch Bowl area since June he delegated 5th MG Bn., 2nd (WWl)-Will in a hospital for treatment Corp. 21, 1952; will anyone having information about Robert Cummings or anyone who knows sick or or knowledge of him please write. Mrs. P. Mat- the duty to his daughter — but his whereabouts please write. His statement needed for claim. Harry Carlton, 3718 Monser- tucci, 230 E. 67th Street, New York 21, N. Y. well, the flag has flown daily at the Post 19th Bomb Group, 30th Bomb Sqdrn.-I will rate St., Coral Gables, Fla. appreciate information from anyone who served home. Battery A, 586th AAA, Camp Bowie, Texas- Will anyone who remembers accident while with or knew Cpl. Westervelt C. Stagg, B-29 recognition of his faithful service, my In on maneuvers, please write. Statements needed. gunner, reported missing May, 1952, after taking Legion- off from Okinawa. Barbara Russell, 161 Conant a testimonial dinner was given Virgil M. Gauthier, Box 634, Pascoag. R. I. Co. I, 116th Inf., 29th Div.-Would like to hear St.. Hillside, N. J. naire Thomopulos — who came to this Co. B, 38th Inf. Regt.—Will anyone who knew from anyone who served with me from April, or has information about Cpl. Donald A. Sangs- country as an immigrant from Greece— 1941, through March, 1945 Need help to establish disability claim. Paul J. Neal, 308 Queen land, reported missing about Feb. 17, 1951, please on February 5. A gold watch with the write. Ralph L. Sangsland, Blackfoot, Mont. St., Strasburg, Va. Co. K, 24th Inf. Regt., 25th Div.-Will greatly inscription "To Pete, for faithful devo- 13th Regt., QMC, Camp Lee, Va.-Would like to hear from William H. Pinkney, Lt. Von Men- appreciate hearing from anyone who knows what tion to our Flag" was presented by happened, or the present whereabouts of my hus. don and Lt. Law, an MD in outfit in Nov., 1942, band, 2nd Lt. Hal T. Gibson, missing since Dec. Joseph Nohowec, first Commander of when I was sent to hospital for treatment. State- ments needed. John W. Proctor, Ward 6A, Battey a, 1950. Mrs. Anna Gibson, 1803 Columbia Ave., Roger Williams Post and former Mayor Tyrone, Pa. State Hospital, Rome. Ga. Co. L, 35th Inf. Regt., 25th Div.-Pyt. Norman of Mineola. Post Commander Murray USS Starlite—Need to hear from shipmates in Sept., 1945, who knew Raymond H. Buzard, in- L. Neiheisel was reported missing about July 26, Morgan presided. 1951; parents will greatly appreciate any infor- jured while loading ship. Need help for widow's mation about him from service comrades. Mr. pension. Mrs. Elaine Buzard, Walnut, 111. and Mrs. Art Neiheisel, 2839 May Ave., Redondo, 249th Port Co., 496th Port Bn.-Would like to Cal. contact Capt. Forrest A. Jones or any commis- officers the Liberty Ship Don Mar- Co. E, 31st Inf. Regt. 7th Div.-We will deeply SUPPORT OF MENTAL HEALTH sioned aboard appreciate healing from any men who knew our quis when it was rammed in Sept., 1944. Need claim. Arthur Gottlieb, 540 son. Pvt. William Walker, reported killed on Jan. WEEK URGED BY COMMANDER help to complete 25. Please write. Mr. and Mrs. William Walker, Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1-42) 2 St. Nicholas Place, New York, N. Y. 158th Medical Detachment, (194 -Will any- Hdqrs. Co., 31st Inf. Regt., 7th Div.-Parents Cooperation by all American Legion one who knew me in New Guinea please write. Need statement for claim. Ira Belmont Maness, of Cpl. David A. Fereind will greatly appreciate Departments and Posts in observance hearing from service comrades, or anyone who Box 232, Lillington, N. C. knows what happened to him or his present of Mental Health Week, May 3-9, has SS Bohemian Club, SS Western Seen, SS Lin- denwood Victory—Will anyone who knew the whereabouts. Name not on POW list. Write to been urged by the National Commander. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fereind, Box 148, Fife late S 1/c Leonard Dennis Seekford in service, Lake, Mich. Mental Health Week, the theme of please write; was Gunner's Mate on above ships, 38th Inf. Regt., also stationed at USNTS, Bainbridge, Md., AGS, 2nd Div.—Anxiously awaiting which is "Fight Mental Illness — Ring word about my son, Pvt. Edward E. Perrotte, Norfolk, Va., and USN AGC, Brooklyn, 'N. Y. reported missing between Kunuri and Sunchon the Bell for Mental Health," is spon- Need statements to complete claim for widow on Nov. 30, 1950; will anyone who knows about and two small children. Mrs. Leonard Seekford, sored by the National Association for Avenue Boulder City, Nev. him please write. Name not on POW list. Mrs. 660 G, Adalgisa Perrotte, 17 Chipman St., Medford, Mental Health, Inc. 22nd TTTO—Need to contact Clarence Gehling, Davis, Frank Graham and James Rigge- Mass. The American Legion, by National Elmer Co. B, 19th Inf. Regt., 24th Div.-P/c. Clarence bee who served with me in Sept., 1943, at At- W. Ebcnsperger was reported missing July 16, Executive Committee action in 1950, lanta, Ga., and have knowledge of an injury I falling from plane wing. Need state- 1950; will anyone having information about him appropriated $25,000 to back the cam- received a please write his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence ments for claim. Howard Dillingham, Aquebogue, H. Ebensperger, Box 1456, Hasleton Branch, paign, the purpose of which is "to make N. Y. USS Princeton—Will shipmates who remember Home, N. Y. every American aware of his stake in Co. C, 17th Inf. Regt., 7th Div.-P/c. Billy R. me, R Div., when ship was sunk near Formosa Or V oil, missing since Jan. 7, 1951, at Tanyang; mental health and to tell him and his Oct. 24, 1944, please write. Statements. Herbert will any service comrade, or parents of boys of neighbors, through their mental health Rea. Bed 22, Ward E-3, VA Hospital, Big Spring, tfiat outfit please write to Roy E. DeVoll, 303M> Texas. Albion St., Edgerton, Wis. associations, how they can work togeth- Ft. Washington, Md., and Jefferson Barracks, Mo.— to contact the following for purpose Co. E, 7th Regt., 1st Marine Div.—Will anyone er to raise the level of mental health in Need who knows what happened to my son, Cpl. of obtaining statements to support claim: Law- Grover Williams, please write. Missing since Nov. their communities." rence R. Galloway, Frank W. Reichle and Wil- liam W. Glenn, AGD, Ft. Washington; Almond 28, 1950; no other word. Mrs. Ben Williams, R 3, Further information may be obtained Box 60, Walkerton, Ind. Wilson Fuller and Albert W. Hand, Jefferson Co. A, 32nd Inf. Regt.-Prf. Thomas J. Turner from state or local mental health asso- Barracks; Capt. Westcott, MC, 1040 AAFBU, Santa Ana, Cal.; Minter, Chaplain, was reported missing at Chosin Reservoir Dec. ciations or by writing to The National Capt. Camp 2, 1950; no other word. Will appreciate word San Luis Obispo, Cal.; Frank J. Richardson, Btry. from anyone whe knew him in service in Korea. Association for Mental Health, 1790 A, 53rd Bn., Camp Collan, Cal., and John L. Pflipsen, 249th CA Bn., Ft. Stephens, Ore. Please Miss Ada King, Route 1, Box 300, Jasper, Ala. Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. Co. K, Sth Cav. Regt., 1st Cav. Div.—My son, write. Philip J. Pinter, 510 Oliver St., Conway, Cpl. Donald F. Lawlis, was reported missing Ark. Nov. 2, 1950, at Unson; will greatly appreciate 46th Service Sqdrn., 34th Air Service Group- any word about him, or from anyone who knows Need to hear from Luddeck, Miseria, Edward the circumstances of his disappearance. Also OUTFIT REUNIONS Gregory and other men who helped to carry me out when I fell on my head at supply warehouse would like to hear from parents of men in the (Continued from page 35) same Company. Mrs. Marion F. Lawlis, 1655 N. at Payne Field, Everett, Wash., in Feb., 1942. Alabama St., Indianapolis, Ind. 56th Reg. CAC, (WWl)-Reunion, Stamford, Statements needed for claim. Sylvester Kaster- 7th Cav. Regt., 1st Cav. Div.-Will anyone who Conn., Sept. 6. Info from Paul J. Walsh, Secy., bauer, Route 2, Ogilvie, Minn. was with my husband, Sgt. John M. Farmer, 60 Franklin St., Danbury, Conn. Co. F, Sth Marine Rcgt.-Will Gunnery Sgt. when he was killed, please write. Mrs. Myrtle Batteries B and C, 156th FA Bn., 44th Div., "Pappy" Poe, Pfc. Al Needham and any others Farmer, Box 3, Lindale, Ga. (WW2)—Annual reunion, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who knew me at God's Little Acre, Paekakariki, Battery C, 15th FA Bn„ 2nd Div.-Will appre- Sept. 19; State Armory. Details from Dan Gonia, New Zealand, please write. Need statements. Art ciate word from anyone who knew my husband, State Armory, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Forbord, Clearfield, Minn. Lt. Patrick .1. McMullan, reported missing Feb. 184th Gen. Hosp. and 684th Complementary Co. B, 108th Machine Gun Bn., 28th Div., 13, 1951; especially to hear from his comrade Unit—7th annual reunion, Boston, Mass., Oct. (WWl)-Need to locate Capt. George R. Potter, who tried to contact me last summer. Mrs. Pat 9-11; University Club, Trinity Place. Write Harry Russell Perry, Jim Hobbs and others who were McMullan, 721 Wilson St., Ames, Iowa. W. Pratt, Secy., 83 Buckingham Rd., North An- with Carl S. Lewis when he was gassed. State- Signal Corps, 36th Inf. Regt.—Can anyone tell dover, Mass. ments needed for claim. Write Charles H. Krier, me anything about my brother, Pvt. Daniel P. 377th AAA AW Bn.-Reunion, Tulsa, Okla., Adjutant, Seminole Post No. Ill, American Gualticre, reported missing near Chunchon in Oct. 17-18. Write John W. Sheffer, Rt. 1. Ton- Legion, 6918 Florida Ave., Tampa, Fla. January, 1951? He did cartoons for Japanese kawa, Okla., or Charles H. Barnes, 1207 E. Rain- Company 2, 21st Regt., 3rd WAC Training newspapers and Pacific Stars and Stripes before bow, Perry, Okla. Center, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.— Would like to hear going to Korea. Some one should remember him 561st Heavy Maintenance Tank Co.—Reunion, from women who served with me in 1943, espe- and be able to tell us what happened to him. New York City, Oct. 9-11; Hotel Governor Clin- cially Mrs. Petrie and Mildred G. Burson. Need Please write. Miss Meredith Davis, 12 Maurice ton. Contact Edgar Moorby, Secy., 40 Spruce St., help to prove disability claim. Mrs. Geneva C. Av., Ossining, N. Y. Oneonta, N. Y. Wright, Canadian, Texas.

3g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 Veterans MAY, 1953

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

INSURANCE BOARD MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS t in the regulations were ironed out to ease the case of the calling for teachers who seek teaching certificates and advancement, Five major recommendations , including one an extensive educational campaign by the Legion and VA and do not have a degree as their objective. to inform WW2 vets of the value of converting their 5 -year * * * * term NSLI to a permanent plan of insurance, were made in a report of the Legion's Rehabilitation Insurance Advisory "FOXHOLE PAT" FOR FROSTBITTEN SOLDIERS: Department of the Army has ruled that combat veterans Board on March 6. . . . Other recommandations listed by bitter winters of Board Chairman Milo J. Warner, Toledo, Ohio, asked that hospitalized for frostbite suffered in the insurable veterans be given the right to renew their insurance the Korean War are eligible for the $45-a-month combat- after allowing it to lapse through expiration of term, and duty pay for time spent in recovery. . . . Along with the asked that the VA provide for automatic renewal of term soldiers wounded or injured in action, the frostbite casualty is entitled "foxhole for the of injury and policies in order to reduce red tape and cost. . . . Another to pay" month recommendation made for benefit of Korea vets advocated for not more than three months thereafter, during which a policy of automatic premium waiver on term insurance he remained in the hospital. . . . Maximum payment is $180. for servicemen captured or listed as missing in action, to be * * * * made retroactive to June 27, 1950, the date of the start of CLOTHING PAT FOR RESERVE OFFICERS: Korean hostilities. . . . Fifth recommendation referred to death benefits from gratuitous NSLI issued in amount of Most of the approximately 110,000 Reserve Officers

$5,000 to volunteers in Armed Services prior to December 7, recalled to duty since the start of the Korean War found 1941. Board recommended removal of the requirement that their uniforms too big, too little, outmoded, outworn, or to receive the benefit a parent must have been dependent in the hands of the Salvation Army. . . . Anyway, most of upon the serviceman at time of death, and of the 7 -year them had to be completely re-outfitted. . . . Defense Depart- time limit on applying for the benefits. ment is preparing to pay a uniform and equipment allowance of $100 — but to get the money each eligible officer will have

S|C s|C s)c 3|C ^ to apply for it. . . . Only officers barred from payment are: ERRORS IN CHECKS FOR PREMIUM PAYMENTS: (1) Served less than 90 days active duty which was started New VA regulations pertaining to payment by mail of after June 24, 1950. ... (2) Received an initial uniform premiums on NSLI and USGLI ease the grace period for allowance of more than $200 during their present tour of vets whose checks are returned because of their own errors active duty. . . . (3) Went on active duty within two years after finishing an earlier term of active duty as an officer. or the error of banks. . . . An additional period of 31 days Eligible officers are advised to write a letter to the is granted if it is shown that the remitter had sufficient funds proper pay branch of their arm of service, making applica- in the bank to make payment had it been properly executed and presented. tion for the allowance. . . . Give serial number, date of recall, term of service, (more than 90 days), did not receive initial jjc jjc s|c sj* uniform allowance, and that more than two years had OBJECTIVE EASED TEACHERS: REQUIREMENT FOR elapsed since former tour of duty as an officer. Under an amended VA regulation, teachers training Here's where the letters are to be sent: . . . Former under the Bill will meeting the con- GI be considered as Army officers: Settlement Division, Finance Center, U. S. tinuous pursuit requirement through summer session courses Army, Indianapolis, Indiana. . . . Former Air Force officers: following the cut-off date if they are in attendance with the Military Pay Division, Air Force Finance Center, Denver, objective of fulfilling State requirements for a teaching Colorado. . . . Former Navy officers: Bureau of Supplies certificate or credential. . . . Regulation previously provided and Accounts, Field Branch, Cleveland, Ohio. . . . Former that teachers pursuit could meet continuous requirements Marine Corps officers: Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps, through summer session courses only if they were enrolled (CDD), Washington 25, D. C. as candidates for a degree. . . . Also were employed as

*(• *f* •(* teachers during consecutive school years, and pursued their studies during consecutive summer courses. . . . VA advises MONTANA EXTENDS BONUS DEADLINE: that complaints were made that this policy discriminated Montana veterans of WW2 who did not apply for against the teacher who was required to take additional their State bonus before expiration of the original deadline

training to meet certificate requirements but whose objective on December 31, 1952, have been given another chance. . . . was not the attainment of a college degree. . . . Inconsistency The Legislature at its recent session extended the time to

37 estimates that eligibility for the United Nations Medal. . . . Personnel January 1, 1954. . . . Director James F. Neely — Philippine and/or the Philippine 3,500 eligible veterans have not filed their applications awarded the Defense Liberation Medals automatically eligible for Philippine this is their last chance. . . . Application forms are available from Adjusted Compensation Division, P. O. Box 612, Independence Medal. . . . Order of wearing the Philippine law service ribbons is fixed at immediately following United Helena, Montana. . . . Montana Adjusted Compensation authorizes an honorarium of $10 per month for stateside States service ribbons and preceding any foreign decorations that Philippine service and $15 per month for foreign service up to a $400 and service medals. ... It is pointed out the not issued or sold by the Department of the Army. maximum for service between December 7, 1941, and items are after one Army Good Conduct Clasps: One Good Conduct Medal September 2, 1945. . . . Director Neely reports that year of operation, 53,109 veterans have been paid a total is issued by the Department of the Army and a clasp with to loops is worn on the ribbon for additional enlistments. ... A of $18,946,110. . . . Again this warning — all applications with or 5 loops indicates up to the 5th be valid must be submitted before January 1, 1954. bronze clasp 2, 3, 4, enlistment. ... A silver clasp with 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 loops * * * * indicates up to the 10th enlistment. ... A gold clasp with INDIANA WW2 VETS TO GET THEIR BONUS: 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 loops indicates up to the fifteenth enlist-

ment. . . . The silver and gold clasps are new — heretofore At least 75,000 Indiana WW2 vets will receive their only the bronze was authorized with 5 loops, which would State bonus checks within a couple of days after June 1. . . . show only 15 years of service. Additional checks will be mailed at the rate of 25,000 to

30,000 a month -each of the State's 274,895 WW2 vets who jft 3fS af* 9|i benefit will have his money has made application for the VA DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM PAYING OFF: Legislature. by Christmas. . . . This action was ordered by the The direct loan program of the VA is due to expire on In addition, the deadline for filing applications was extended June 30 unless the time is extended (bills propose extension to June 30, 1953, to take care of some thousands of eligible to June 30, 1955) and further appropriation is made to veterans who did not know of the bonus, or who neglected make new loans. . . . The direct loan program, restricted to to file within the time set in the law. . . . Checks will be rural areas where 4 percent money is not available for mailed in numerical order of claim numbers. . . . This means, veteran housing under the GI Bill in areas specifically desig- to the individual vet, that if his claim is numbered less nated by VA, has proved a life-saver to thousands of WW2 than 75,000 he can expect his check the next day or two after vets — and the program is paying off. . . . According to the June 1. . . . Payments will be made through the office of records the program started with an initial appropriation of State Auditor Frank T. Millis. $150,000,000, supplemented by the 82nd Congress by Bonus checks will average slightly less than $400, and $125,000,000, payable in quarterly installments of $25,000,000, total cost is estimated to be about $110,000,000. . . . Under

and made a revolving fund. . . . By the end of February, 1949 law money to pay bonus was raised by a one-quarter $189 millions had been made in direct loans and $57 millions of one percent surtax on the State gross income tax; the were in process, with $16 millions in Regional Offices in fund to accumulate until sufficient funds had been acquired unreserved funds — a total of $262 millions. . . . On April 1 to pay all at once. . . . Indiana WW2 vets who have not the final quarterly appropriation of $25 millions became made application have until June 30. . . . This is the last available, plus $3,000,000 in repayments — for a grand total

chance. . . . Write Indiana Bonus Division, 431 North of $290,000,000. . . . Repayment of principal and sales have Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, for official applica- boosted the fund $15,000,000 more than the appropriations tion forms. made by Congress for the program. * * * * WEST VIRGINIA ALSO EXTENDS BONUS TIME: * * * * West Virginia veterans of WW1 and WW 2 who have KOREAN CASUALTIES MOUNT: not applied for the State bonus have been given extended Defense Department announced on March 11 that the

time by the State Legislature. . . . New deadline date is June United States battle casualties in Korea had reached the

30, 1953. . . . Only State to pay a WW1 and WW2 bonus total of 130,992. . . . The list included 23,134 dead, 95,063 at the same time, more than 235,000 claims totaling excess wounded; 9,184 missing; 2,215 captured, and 1,396 previously of $65,000,000 have been paid, according to T. H. (Pat) missing but returned to military control.

McGovran, Director of Veteran Affairs. . . . Bonus is cal- * * * * culated at the rate of $10 a month for stateside duty, and $15 a month for foreign service, up to a maximum of $300 DRAFT CALL 53,000 FOR MAT: for those who had only home service, and $400 for those Army has issued a call for 53,000 drafted men for May

with foreign service. . . . Vet must have other than dis- to replace those whose terms of duty have expired and to

honorable discharge, and must have been a resident of keep the service at authorized strength. . . . Inductions will West Virginia for at least 6 months immediately before continue at this rate through July because of a relatively

entering the service. . . . Necessary forms and information high rate of discharges. . . . Air Force, Navy and Marine may be obtained by writing to: Department of Veterans' Corps will not take drafted men during May, continuing

Affairs, Capitol Building, Charleston, West Virginia. to rely on volunteers and re-enlistments. . . . The call brings to 1,414,430 the number of men drafted since the start of * * * *

the Korean War. . . . All but 81,430 went into the Army. . . . KOREA, PHILIPPINE MEDALS - SERVICE CLASPS: Selective Service officials predict that a great number of the Department of Army has announced changes in regula- new draft will have to come from the ranks of the 19-year-

tions in reference to service medals. . . . Army personnel olds because many Draft Boards are running low on older awarded the Korea Service Medal automatically establish men.

38 The Movies and The American Legion —————————— (Continued from pago 15) ——————————————

things, the industry could well have view the whole mess the communists While the Legion would not "call off collapsed overnight. had got the movies into. its dogs" just to be a pal, Wilson told The trouble at the box office began in The meeting was held in Washington, the industry heads that the Legion earnest when such individuals as colum- D. C, on March 31, 1952. The then would cooperate in any earnest steps nist George Sokolsky and such organi- National Commander of the Legion, that the movies would take to better zations as The American Legion began Donald R. Wilson, with one aide, met their reputation, and the same would ap- to acquaint the public with what was with top-echelon representatives of the ply to any individuals whom the Legion in those documents and what the shout- eight major studios, and with Eric had spotlighted. The emphasis was on ing was all about. Such outside public Johnston, executive director of the as- "earnest." information programs, broadcasting the sociation of the major producing com- If the Legion had been wrong in any official record, stirred up fairly general panies. Companies represented were of the information it had published, it resentment in Hollywood. Columbia, MGM, Paramount, Republic, would welcome any correction that the By late 1951, the studios had no an- RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Universal and studios could supply. swer left except resentment. Revelations Warners. These remarks brought out the pain- by the House Committee on Un-Ameri- The meeting was inconclusive but ful fact that few studios knew much can Activities had undone nearly every about the actual position of many of public-relations cliche about commu- their personnel whose names were be- nism in the movies that had been mime- coming box-office poison. Many of the ographed for the newspapers by the film people who had apparent commu- studios over fifteen years. What wasn't nist connections protested that they had so was so. What was a mere nothing was been publicly cited or named, but had a big plenty. The reaction in the hinter- never had a platform from which to land was violent. answer the allegations, or explain the The National Convention of The facts. Nor had the studios given them a American Legion in Miami, in 1951, in- platform. structed The American Legion Maga- Spyros Skouras, head of 20th Cen- zine to publish all available information tury-Fox, admitted this weakness. His on communist associations of people studio was not in a position to defend still employed in the entertainment in- any of its employees who might have dustry. The demand for such action been wronged by public association originated in several states, was com- with communist movements, because bined into one resolution and passed the studio didn't have the facts. unanimously. It was the first time a Skouras remarked that he, at least, Legion convention had given such spe- felt the time had come to give his em- cific instructions to the Legion's maga- ployees the platform which they sought. zine. He announced that after a recent con- "Twelve beautiful dancing girls, In its December, 1 95 1 issue this maga- ference with columnist George Sokolsky twelve - PHOOEY!" zine published Did The Movies Really AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE he had already begun to get together Clean House?, an article by J. B. Mat- any and all allegations of communist thews. It was a long listing of associa- fruitful, and became the subject of great connections against his employees, and tions with communist movements of speculation in the press. At that meet- was inviting them to arm him with a people still active in films; of the studios ing, Commander Wilson defined the written, signed explanation or denial. where they worked, and of their cur- Legion's interest and policies as those Nate Spingold, of Columbia, said his rent productions. The article brought of opposing communism in America. studio had been doing just that for a a mixed but violent reaction. Some of He defined the Legion's method as that year. the studios concurred with the Legion's of giving the widest possible distribu- Columbia and RKO said they both attitude that this problem related to tion to (a) information identifying had considerable information as to American security and had to be faced American communists, and (b) infor- which of their employees were in hot in the open. However, Hollywood "lib- mation which seemed strongly to relate water. Republic said it didn't have eral" elements protested that the article people and activities to communist in- much of a problem. But every studio was unfair and somehow un-American fluence. welcomed Commander Wilson's invi- —although it was dissemination of pub- He recognized that the path that tation to compare notes in the hope of lic information to the public. On at events had taken was damaging an en- confining the Legion's criticism to per- least half the major studio lots, resent- tire industry. But the Legion would sonnel whose studios could find no ment toward the Legion boiled over. continue its public information pro- factual defense for them. Then, sporadically, Legion posts and gram, he said. It was mandated to do so For this purpose they requested that other local groups began to picket by its conventions, and dedicated to do the Legion give them all information theaters here and there where films in- so by its principles. No proper solution that it had—large or small—that tended volving the questioned personnel were could be found by suppressing the rec- to connect any of their employees with showing. ord. This would only perpetuate the communism. Late in the winter of 1951-'52, the top immunity to informed public criticism Any such information would be executives of the major film companies which had permitted the vast commu- treated in strictest confidence, and called a halt to the practice of the stu- nist penetration of the movies in the would be seen only by top studio per- dios railing at their critics. They stepped first place. If the movies (and the ques- sonnel and the actual individuals in- in and took the play away from the stu- tionable individuals) could achieve a volved. dio lots. The first thing they asked for record on communism that would stand With that understanding, Com- was a meeting with the National Com- the public gaze, then there would be no mander Wilson agreed. Before the mander of The American Legion to re- problem. (Continued on page 41)

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • gg TAX LOSS: $750,000. This still, seized in January, 1953, in Brooklyn, had a daily potential output of over 10,000 "fifths" of illegal whiskey. Government agents estimated the Federal excise tax loss at $750,000 during the 3 months it operated.

TAX IOSS: $247,500. This innocent-looking cot- TAX LOSS: $42,000 A DAY. Last September, Philadelphia police seized their biggest still since Prohibition, tage in a quiet Long Island suburb housed a still that capable of producing over 40,000 "fifths" of bootleg whiskey a day. Every day it operated at capacity, according to had been operating at capacity for five months when police, it robbed the Government of $42,000. Commented a local newspaper: "Raiding stills is fine, but the most seized April 11, 1951. Local police said it cost the effective way to stamp them out is to reduce taxes to the point where the legitimate products will be preferred to Government $247,500 in taxes. those which often bring death and illness." B0Ori£G*ING

. . . a vicious racket hits the big time

When the Federal excise tax on distilled spirits The bootlegger is more than a thief of Gov- was increased from $6 to $9 a gallon in 1944, ernment tax millions. He breeds graft, corrup- the profit to be made from illegal "no-tax" tion, disregard for law and order. Sickness, whiskey was too big for organized crime to blindness, sometimes death itself, come from ignore very long. his bottle. By 1946 — with copper, sugar and other raw What's the answer? materials available bankrolls — underworld The legal distilling industry proposes: (1) were financing stills, warehouses, trucks and Reduce the excise tax to a realistic $6.00 a salesmen in setting up shop in and near metro- gallon rate, which would still be 167% higher politan cities. than it was in 1939. (2) Increase the penalties By 1951, Federal seizures of moonshine for illegal distilling. (3) Increase Federal and stills had jumped from 6,461 to 10,250* ... an state enforcement staffs. increase of 59% since 1946. More alarming, Before you agree or disagree with these their daily producing capacity had more than recommendations, please read the "Tax Facts" doubled*. Today, when undermanned law en- column at the right. forcement, agencies are able to seize a still, they find more and more of the mass produc- PER tion equipment pictured above. TAX LOSS: $12,000 A DAY. Revenue agents said this modern still, captured near Lakewood, N. J., in And today, the Federal tax is not $9 but October, 1952, was able to cheat the Government of $10.50 a gallon. The last tax increase of over $12,000 every day it operated. The gang had November simply prob- erected a special building with a peaked roof to hide 1, 1951, made a bad the 22-foot still from passing motorists. lem worse.

'Source: ATTD, Bureau of Internal Revenue, U. S. Treasury Dept.

PUBLISHED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST BY LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES, INC., 155 east44th st., newyork 17, n. y. IN BEHALF OF THE PRODUCERS AND MERCHANTS OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES .

(Continued from page 39) of the information, was tempted to call TAX FACTS meeting broke up, the film heads in- off any further attempts to cooperate vited Commander Wilson to send a with the motion picture industry. But personal representative and a writer MGM officials speedily apologized and from the Legion's magazine to the turned the responsibility for checking West Coast to talk directly with the the information over to another v.p., studio operating heads. Louis K. Sidney—a man of considerable A few days later an official Legion tact, adroitness, competence and sym- letter went to the eight major studios. pathy. around $4.27* for a "fifth" of When you pay It listed major and minor communist It may have been Cohn, or perhaps your favorite whiskey, you actually pay about associations of several hundred artists others who had been mishandled at the $1.89 for the whiskey itself, about $2.38 more in Federal, State and local taxes. then employed, and invited the studios MGM studio before the interviewing That's like paying a "sales tax" of 125% on the to correct the Legion on any matters was turned over to Sidney, who spread merchandise! Taxes take over half of your liquor in which they found the Legion to be to their fellow employees and the news- dollar! in error. This information had been papers the MGM studio notion that the Here's what happened during the first full year compiled by the Legion from scattered Legion had issued a secret blacklist to (Nov. 1, 1951—Nov. 1, 1952) of the present It applied to film artists $10.50 per gallon Federal Excise Tax . . public sources. the motion picture industry. The story who were currently employed or who soon spread in Hollywood that the

. . . You had to pay $237 million more in liquor were connected with current film re- movies were "knuckling under" to the taxes than you would have paid at the $9 rate. leases. It later became known as "The Legion, and were ready to "clean . . . Your Federal Government gained only $30 that time "300 million in liquor excise revenue . . .an increase Legion List," although by house" of alleged subversives" on 2" of less than /u . . . because you bought less many other sources had added infor- the Legion's say-so. From there the

legal liquor. ' mation to it. yarn went to the national press—with

. . . Your Federal Government lost about $40 mil- The Legion's covering letter is highly fanciful embroidery—and called forth lion in corporate income taxes as profits de- interesting, in view of later develop- rights clined with drastically falling legal liquor sales. pious editorials about the of men ments. It said: "We respectfully re- to "face their accusers." . . . Your Federal Government lost additional millions in personal income taxes as distillers, quest that you check this material for Meanwhile, six—and later a seventh— wholesalers, retailers and suppliers cut their any possible factual errors and make of the eight major studios adopted vari- payrolls and dividends. such report to us as you deem proper." ations of the Sokolsky-Fox-Columbia

. . . Your State Governments lost approximately Any use of this material called for plan to give any employee a chance to $33 million in liquor tax revenue . . . money badly needed for welfare and other vital delicate handling by the studios. It had answer without publicity any discover- programs. been released to them on the theory that able connection in the public record be- a lot of innocent people had gotten bad tween himself and communism. To the Under the $10.50 tax, bootleggers had more rea- answering, son than ever before to defy the law. In 1951 names without a chance of Legion's collection of small and large alone, Federal and state authorities with lament- and that a careful check might enable facts, the studios added whatever in- ably inadequate staffs were able to seize 20,402 some or many of them to clear them- formation they could find from any illegal stills. No one knows how many thousands selves of the slightest suspicion and re- other sources that tended to put their more escaped seizure. duce the serious problem that they and employees under a cloud. This program A Tax Increase of 854% Since Repeal! their industry faced. of the studios was soon known to the Almost immediately, it began to look press, which inaccurately called it a

as if it had been a mistake to trust the Legion program. studios to check on such delicate in- The program the studios had chosen formation. A writer at MGM, Art to follow worked well within its Cohn, who had a perfectly innocent natural Limits. It was the first effective but unexplained association with a com- plan to help any movie employee who munist newspaper (the communists had could show and wanted to show that pirated his copy from a regular Oak- he had innocently become publicly con- land paper) was called into the offices nected with communism. ICM 1910 1911 191] 1914 of a vice-president at the MGM studio, First, a significant number of the Since the $9.00 tax went into effect in 1944, whis- and came out believing that the Legion people involved had, like Art Cohn, key has carried the heaviest Federal tax burden had demanded that he be liquidated simple, straightforward answers that of any commodity or service. On top of today's industry. clear of the prohibitive $10.50 rate you must pay an average from the motion picture put them entirely in the of $2.80 a gallon more in other Federal, state and Cohn, in a just rage, wrote letters to faintest suspicion of any deliberate con- local taxes! Commander Wilson and to Congress- nection with communism. men, inveighing against the Legion's Second, another significant group Distilled Spirits vs. All Other Excise-taxed "blacklisting" of him "without attempt- had at one time, at least half-knowingly, Products— 1939-1951 ing to confirm the information." Cohn, been sucked into communist activities,

a hater of communism, deserved as only to regret it. Of these, many wrote much as any man a chance to explain and signed unmistakably clear state- to his employers in private conference ments of where they stood, and frankly that the communists had affiliated him described their earlier mistakes. with them by stealing his name and his But probably the greatest measure works. of the value of the program is to be 1939 1911 1913 1915 1917 1919 I9J1 He could only have gotten the im- found in the alarm it created in left- Chart above shows what's happened to distilled pression that he was being "liquidated" wing camps, and in the desperate meas- spirits vs. all other excise-taxed products and services since 1939. The $6.00 rate proposed by by a crude interview at the hands of the ures that were made to sabotage it. the legal distilling industry represents a 167% MGM v.p. who was charged with the In its June 28, 1952 issue, the maga- increase over the 1939 level, as compared to an very job of letting Cohn set the record zine The Nation published its view that average increase of 129% on all other excise- straight. the whole business was a vicious "at- taxed products and services. Cohn sounded off, Command- tack on civil liberties." 'The average national retail price When at apparent misuse LICENSED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES, INC. er Wilson, irked an One paragraph from The Nation's The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 41 article sets the tone. Said The Nation: sources. Commander Wilson's actual change in the understanding that the "Out of the 'appeasement' meeting be- contribution was to assure the studios studios and the Legion were cooperat- tween the Legion and the industry rep- that, as a critical and respected public- ing in an attempt to help the industry resentatives came a preliminary list of opinion body, the Legion was not out by limiting, as much as the facts would some 300 names, furnished by letter to to harass the industry. warrant, the area of criticism. In the

each studio. The letter stated that if the But the Legion played another part operations of the studios, and the de- studio employed any of the listees, that borders on comedy, as a result of cisions as to who was publicly accept- picketing on a national scale would en- misrepresentations in the press. Some able, the studios would continue to go sue when the picture involving the per- daily papers and motion picture trade their own individual ways. In the pub- son's services was released.'''' (Our journals were only slightly more mod- lication of information, the Legion italics.) erate, and only slightly more truthful would go its way. Such outright lying in the "defense than The Nation in reporting the events In their own interests, and in the in- of civil liberties" could be a measure that came out of the Washington meet- terests of any innocent people involved, of The Nation's alarm that the program ing of March 31, 1952. National Variety both the studios and the Legion now might work. and Daily Variety (Hollywood) re- had more and better information, which Anyway, among Hollywood's true ported repeatedly that the Legion had was especially helpful in protecting the victims of communist finagling the op- tendered the studios a blacklist of 300 innocent. portunity to go on record was widely alleged subversives. The New York Today, there is little more that the welcomed. Signed (and sometimes no- Times picked up the story. The New studios or the Legion can do in this tarized) letters poured into the studio York Post editorialized that the studios direction. The studios cannot, and have offices, with such statements as: "A cor- were "knuckling under" to Legion pres- no obligation to, employ people who rect understanding of the facts is very sure, and the idea was bruited about are rejected by the public as commu- important to me." ... "I recognize that that the Legion was doing the hiring nist sympathizers—and a superior court my name has been associated with sub- and firing in the studios and intimidat- has so found (RKO vs Paul Jarrico).

versive organizations, and I willingly ing them with threats. The Legion is bound by convention ." cite these organizations . . As a consequence of all this fanfare, mandate to publish information that

. . . "All of us make mistakes, and the press bestowed upon the Legion a indicates communist connections on the ." I'm happy to explain some of mine . . new appearance of importance and part of people who seek public patron- ... "I am glad to have this opportu- power—practically the dictator of per- age as entertainers (Resolution #2, nity to clear my name." ... "I once felt sonnel of the multi - million - dollar Miami Convention, 1951). Commander that the communist party had a right to American motion picture industry. Wilson's term expired at the end of

function, and I became associated with This was a hard reputation to live up August 1952, and his successor, National

the front organizations listed below . . . to. Some Hollywood lawyers and inde- Commander Lewis K. Gough, has re- history has proved that they were based pendent producers greeted the news affirmed the Legion's position.

on lies and I disavow all of them." they read in the papers with joy. They The subject of Legion picketing of It was a much smaller group that re- rushed to the Legion with their clients pictures has caused widespread discus- sented the program. Some of these re- and employees. They besought the sion. Contrary to screams from The fused to cooperate, others wrote dia- Legion's blessing or threatened dire Nation, the Legion's national organiza- tribes against the "inquisition," and a trouble. tion has never once suggested that any few wrote austere letters that weren't Apparently, for different motives, the Post picket any picture. On the other to the point—anything from essays on fringes of the motion picture world hand, it does not ask Posts not to picket. human rights to long lists of the fine were anxious for the Legion to be fool- The national organization has no au- pictures they'd produced and the hon- ish enough to set itself up as Holly- thority over such local decisions. ors and press notices they'd received. wood's official clearance agency. The national Legion does ask Posts What was the actual effect? A dozen A prominent Hollywood lawyer to make sure of their facts and to re- or so film employees were able to point wrote to the Legion demanding that a view legal implications before taking out that some of the information that certain studio be required to hire his such action. It will supply the best avail- damaged them was in error. For the client, and a budding legal business able information on picture personali- rest the explanations proved nothing grew up which claimed to be able to ties and their public record on commu- conclusively, but made two groups of "fix" film folks with the Legion. nism to any Posts that ask for such in- people out of what had been one vague An excitable actress who had been formation. Depending on its nature, this group. One is the group that was will- out of work for some time rushed to information may encourage or discour- ing to speak up frankly, whom the stu- the press with a story blaming the age the Post in its action. What hap- dios can now defend against public cri- Legion for her decline and threatening pens is a reflection of how the record ticism with their own statements. The all sorts of legal complications for the sits with the folks on Main Street. other is the group which the studios re- Legion if she didn't have a job soon. It has become somewhat of a fad to main powerless to defend, because they Unfortunately, hardly anybody in protest that any sort of public pressure have chosen to let the record as it ap- Legion officialdom had ever heard of against an "artist," short of a criminal pears be the final record. her. indictment, is bad as a matter of prin- And there it stands today. Eventually, the Legion's New York ciple, regardless of one's objection to With the Waldorf Declaration of office became so loaded with calls, mail the "artist." 1947 the studios moved against some and visits for the mistaken purpose of It is doubtful that arguments based identified communists. movie hiring that a second meeting was on such principle are made in good With the project of 1952 they offered scheduled between Commander Wil- faith. One of the first effective examples the "presumed innocent" a platform to son and the film company heads. The of pressuring a film artist out of busi- state their case. meeting was held in New York. It veri- ness in Hollywood occurred just be- The Legion's actual part in all this fied the fact that the Legion was not to fore WW II. Hitler's girl photographer, was small, but important. Giving the in- and would not clear movie personnel, Leni Riefcnstahl, was cold-shouldered

formation that it had was but a con- or recommend who should and who out of Hollywood, and her movies of venience. All of the information was should not be hired by the studios. the Berlin 1936 Olympics were boy- available to the studios from other It turned out that there had been no cotted out of a successful run in Ameri-

42 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 ca, without any criminal indictment. ences are far from over. Today, in Independent producer John Huston The Hollywood community was almost France and Italy, films are being pro- recently expressed resentment at trick- 100 percent for this political boycott, duced for American consumption by ery that entangled him personally in although Miss Riefenstahl's "art" was native communists and red refugees Hollywood communist front move- of the highest. Hollywood liberals still from Hollywood. ments in the past. Huston had the dis- boast of this achievement today. A In both countries, there are both turbing experience of hearing from the good thing, too, since the proceeds of communist and non-communist movie mouth of a friend the details of how a successful run of Fraulein Riefen- unions. American producing and dis- he had been manipulated. Huston, who stahl's films would probably have gone tributing companies are only beginning sometimes makes movies abroad and re- into Hitler's war chest. to distinguish between the two, and leases them through United Artists, an- The difference in principle, if any, between communist and non-commu- nounced that he would pursue a tough between boycotting an "artist" who fed nist producers, writers and directors. attitude toward the use of communists Hitler's kitty with U.S. box office re- It is a moot question how many in- in his foreign-made films. He is receipts, and boycotting those who can- formed Americans would want to pa- ported to be carrying out this promise, not be trusted not to feed Russia's kitty tronize "American" films made abroad in spite of serious scheduling delays, the same way, has never been put forth. by communists. Italian labor sources in a film now in production in Italy for Part of the public resentment that report that 50 percent of the wages of United Artists release. has ruined Chaplin's Limelight as a U.S. members of the Italian communist American producers and distributors, box-office attraction is the utter lack of movie tinions go into the treasury of the with their strong economic position as any assurance that the receipts would communists, to be spent in whole or in the gateway to the large American mar- not find their way into communist tills. part for "anti-American activities, ket, can exert a powerful influence The furor over Chaplin obscures the propaganda, espionage, etc." against the strength of communist fact that, generally, things are certainly Non-communists in both France and movie unions and artists abroad. better in Hollywood today. A few Italy are in the midst of a fight for the Italian and French anti-communist years ago, almost any communist-de- future of their countries to a degree yet labor unions emphasize that the Ameri- signed petition could attract the signa- unknown in America, and they are ap- can distributors should make the dis- tures of a host of movie artists. A few palled at American producers and dis- tinctions. If the U.S. public must make months ago a nation-wide communist tributors who do business with the the choice, they argue, it will eventually petition contained nearly two hundred European communists. United Artists, result in bad business in America for names of college faculty members and the major non-producing U.S. film dis- all foreign-made films, which will hurt clergymen, but not of one person cur- tributor, has burned its fingers several the non-communists abroad quite as rently employed in the movies. The ex- times in the foreign-made film field. much as the communists. The European treme left cries that entertainers have a Now, UA shows signs of extreme wari- non-communists agree with hundreds right to sign such petitions, but are ness but faces a difficult problem. of thousands of Americans that there is scared out of it by "witch-hunters." United Artists does not have direct one matter of principle that counts What is far more significant is that, control over the making of pictures it above all others in this tangled business. today, Hollywood knows a communist releases. It has had a few bad recent That is that men and women of the free petition when it sees one. A lot of experiences—some of them prolonged world have a right to a highly positive trouble would have been saved if that because of contracts previously signed. assurance, with no maybes about it, that had been true a few years back. Ameri- Now, United Artists announces that it the money they spend in idle entertain- can communism can't get very far if it will take a strong position in the future ment will not be used in any way to can't find suckers to use and abuse and against contracting to release products foment their own destruction. ruin. that may feed red tills, and will look This principle has never been chal- But attempts to fill communist coffers much more closely into any foreign- lenged except by changing the subject. by exploiting American movie audi- made film it handles. THE END

His Teams Win and Win and Win

4 Continued from page 21) the French Bauer Dairy, was an old the national championship this year?" nati and watched the Middletown, Ohio, friend. Joe and Paul both were born Hawk explained hurriedly that the team play a Cincinnati club in a Legion and raised in Harrison, Ohio. Betscher odds against such a feat were much game. "I knew while I was watching gave a sympathetic hearing to him, and too long even to consider seriously. He them," he said, "that my Knothole team was particularly impressed when Hawk pointed out, however, that his kids had back home could've knocked the socks displayed a copy of the American Le- done it twice, and who was to say they off either one of them." gion Magazine containing an article on couldn't do it again? He got his money. Encouraged to feel that his kids de- the 1951 Junior Baseball champions. The The team was safe for another year. served a chance in Legion play, Joe article made mention of the business If it had been necessary, Joe would went about the business of making a firm which sponsored the team. have canvassed the city from door to connection. He's a non-veteran, as is his "You mean," Betscher asked, "that door, arguing for contributions, rather sidekick, George Scholl. (The Bentley the French Bauer company will get this than let the team disintegrate. He has Post team is, according to Legion rules, kind of credit for sponsoring you if you been at it too long, and he has put too managed by Herb Michaels, executive win?" much of himself into the project, to secretary of the post.) He finally man-

"That's right," Joe said. "Legion base- give it up now. He originally began aged to awaken some interest at Schwab ball is a big thing. And we'll wear the with only some Knothole League Post in Cheviot, Ohio. "Playing for name of the company on our uniform youngsters, in Bridgetown. His first Cheviot in 1938," Joe said, "we won the shirts all season." flare of interest in American Legion state championship but got beat in the Betscher obviously was impressed. Junior Baseball came one day in the Regionals at East Chicago. A young "Well," he said, "okay. The only thing summer of 1937 when he stood on the pitcher from Detroit took care of us is, though, do you have a chance to win sideline at Deer Creek Field in Cincin- there. Fellow named Hal Newhouser."

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 43 After fielding a Hawk-managed team game to be home free. But the pitching 5-0, and the bases full, in the first in- in 1938, 1939 and 1940, Schwab Post went sour and the Middletown hitters ning. He got the side out without al- gave it up on the ground that it was too found the range. Before they could lowing another run, and he held War- expensive. So salesman Joe sold his bill shake the cobwebs loose, the Cincinnati ren scoreless the rest of the way to win, of goods to Bentley Post, and the boys found themselves going into the 9-5. chances are he'll stay there for keeps. ninth inning on the short end of a 10-9 With the state title won, the Bentley

It has been a wonderfully fruitful part- score. It didn't seem possible, but it had Post boys went back to Cincinnati and nership. State champions in 1941 and happened. Joe Hawk accepted congratulations semi-finalists in the national champion- Things looked a little more hopeful from his friends on winning his eighth ships a year later, Bentley Post hit the when Russ Nixon smashed a two-base American Legion Junior Baseball state jackpot in 1944 with Joe Hawk's first hit. They looked a lot better when he championship. big title. That was the year Herman scored, a few moments later, on a single. At Lawrenceburg, Ind., the Bentley Wehmeier, the fireballing right-hander But it was still a tie game, 10-10, as the boys picked up the Region 7 champion-

of the Reds, was the pitching mainstay ninth ended. Fortunately for Bentley ship, after which, at Bloomington, 111., of the club. Post, Russ Nixon came up again in they copped the Section C title. In this Beaten in the semi-finals of the state the top of the tenth. This time the last scrambed before the nationals at tournament in 1945, and national final- bases were loaded for him and the Denver, Col., Bentley suffered its only ists again in 1946, Joe's boys bounced defeat of the entire Legion tournament, back in 1947 to win 38 ball games and to Cape Girardeau, Mo. in a 9-8 thriller. lose only one, and capture the national Before thousands of interested fans championship at Los Angeles. Don Zim- (there were 4,565 on hand for the big mer, the Brooklyn rookie, was Joe's Labor Day doubleheader), several shortstop. dozen scouts for major-league teams, "We were losing, 5-3, in the last half a platoon of college coaches, and Base- of the ninth inning in the Regional ball Commissioner Ford Frick, the finals," Joe said, thinking back. "We Bentleys won three straight games at had two men on base and two outs, and Denver to walk off with their third Zimmer was due up. Well, he hadn't national championship. Austin, Texas had a hit in seventeen straight times up, was beaten, 3-0, with Whitson pitching

and I seriously debated putting in a a masterful shutout, in the grst game.

pinch-hitter. I was talking about it to The second game, with San Diego, was

George when I happened to notice, out a thriller, with Cincinnati winning, 9-6, of the corner of my eye, that Don was in an eleven-inning night donnybrook saying a prayer while he was kneeling that lasted until five minutes after one out there in the on-deck circle. That o'clock in the morning. It took an in- settled it; I wasn't going to take out any side-the-park home run by left-fielder kid who wanted to stay in there that Carl Beiler to help Bentley Post come bad. Well, he hit a triple off the screen from behind, 6-3, to tie the score in the

in right field to tie it up. Then, a few ninth inning. But, as Joe Hawk is proud minutes later, the pitcher walked a to point out, the boys did come from man "Excuse me, Mister. Got to get this up to force Don home with the winning before it eats into the metal." behind under that terrific pressure, and run!" AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE that, he says, is the trademark of a fight- When he began spring tryouts in ing ball club. The third game, which early April, 1952, Joe had eight of his tournament's top player responded to Whitson won, 5-2, was another personal sixteen players back from the previous the challenge with a mighty triple that triumph for the young pitcher, who season — an important item when you cleared the bases and put Bentley Post signed, a day or two later, to play for consider that the 1951 team had been ahead, 13-10. A passed ball gave Russ the Cincinnati Reds' farm club at good enough to finish third in the na- a chance to scoot home with the four- Columbia, S. C, in the Sally League. tional finals. Best of all the returnees teenth run, and not even a two-run rally Howard held San Diego to six hits. was the five-foot ten-inch, 150-pound, by Middletown in the last half of the Hawk means it when he says win- right-handed pitcher, Howard Whit- inning could undo Nixon's work. ning isn't everything, that it's the simple son. Since he started out playing Class That game, as coach Hawk points pleasure of working with the kids that C Knothole ball, Howard has won 140 out, started Russell Nixon on his way gives him the biggest kick. You know ball games and lost exactly six. not only to Columbus but also to the he is as serious as he can be when he Joe needed a first baseman but he Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, talks about the way he works to help solved that headache by taking Roy New York. The winner of the Ameri- his boys get college scholarships and, if Nixon, who had won four games as a can Legion Junior Baseball "player of such is their wish, to move on to pro- pitcher the year before, and switching the year" award has his picture hung in fessional baseball. You can sense his sin- him to the bag. He filled a hole in the Hall of Fame for a year and is offi- cerity when he says, "What matters center field by taking another pitcher, cially awarded his trophy at the annual most is that if we don't teach each boy Roger Sigler, and handing him a field- major-league observance of baseball's to be a little better man, and a little er's glove. anniversary in Cooperstown. better citizen, we're failures." There is Bentley Post didn't have the easiest Joe's team played six games in the no question about the tremendous time in the world getting to Columbus. Ohio state championships and won all depth of purpose this small-town ele- Playing Middletown on July 19 and 20 of them. Howard Whitson picked up mentary school principal brings to his at Western Hills, Cincinnati, the boys two of the victories, giving, in the sec- summer hobby. with the big "French Bauer" emblem ond, as magnificent a demonstration of But don't bet a nickel that Joe on the backs of their shirts won the clutch pitching as the Legion tourna- Hawk's won't be able to fulfill all his first game, 3-1. They ran up a 9-0 lead ment ever has seen. Against Warren, ideals and still find time to win another in the third inning of the second game Howard went to the mound on a re- national championship. He's got the and appeared even that early in the lief assignment with his team losing, formula. the end

44 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 FARMER Hob Thompson says oil gives area a "second crop" — leaves farmers less dependent on weather and wheat.

SCHOOL PRINCIPAL C. W. Liefur is planning new audito- rium for record 300 new stu-

dents who will enter in fall.

MERCHANT Pat Deen saw THE MODEL DERRICKS on this relief map represent ing in North Dakota. Keen competition among scores of business boom in Yellowstone eleven new oil fields opened in the Williston Basin during oil companies is speeding development of the Williston Valley as oilmen from all over past as the 20 months. Hand points to Tioga Field where first Basin an important U. S. oil producer — and, at the same U. S. poured into area. producing oil well was brought in after 29 years of search- time, is bringing new prosperity to the whole area.

New Oil Frontier Opened By

American Companies' Pioneering

HOUSEWIFE Mrs. James Key, like many North Dakotans en- In the Williston Basin of the Dakotas and your family will eventually gain, too, for these joying new prosperity, plans to Montana, America's oil companies have spent new oil-discoveries promise to make a sizable build own home. years fruitlessly searching for oil. The cost contribution to future U. S. supplies. has run to millions of dollars. But the long The odds against finding new sources of oil search has now started to show results. are high — only one out of nine wells in un-

The first producing oil well in the Williston proved but promising areas actually turns out Basin was completed two years ago. Since to be a producer. But oilmen are willing to then oilmen have discovered eleven new oil accept such risks as long as they have a fields with over 130 producing wells. chance to earn a profit while serving you. Because scores of privately-managed oil Has your post seen the exciting free motion companies risked huge sums searching for oil picture "Crossroads, U.S.A."? If not, write before, the to Oil Industry Information Committee, Amer- where it had never been found CARPENTER Lester Frantzick people of the Williston Basin today are en- ican Petroleum Institute. Box 99, 50 West is even busy during long winters since his town's population prosperity. 50th St., New York 20, N. Y. joying new wealth and You and has nearly doubled. How Veterans Stand in the New Congress Quietest (Continued from page 25) Congress over the years has recognized through a 21 -day rule. But this rule has the cost of these benefits as part of the been discarded by the current Congress. Tread on Earth over-all cost of war. It remains possible to get a bill released Analysis of the make-up of the 83rd from the Rules Committee through a Congress discloses that of the 435 mem- petition of a majority of the House Outgrips, them all! Outwears bers of the House of Representatives, members, as was the case of the ter-

240 are veterans, of whom 225 are minal-leave pay bill, but this is a rarely- Legionnaires; that of the 96 members of successful maneuver. the Senate, 62 are veterans, 61 Legion- During the 80th Congress, when im- naires. mediate cost-cutting ruled Capitol Hill, Superficially, these figures would in- the Rules Committee effectively pigeon- dicate a fair shake for reasonable legis- holed a number of veterans bills be- lation sponsored by the Legion. cause, as the Legion's National Legis- Experience has shown over the years lative Commission reported to the 1947 that once a piece of veterans legislation convention: "Congressional leaders de- is brought to the floor for open debate, cided that no legislation granting bene- and the issue involved clearly presented fits to veterans, which would necessitate to the membership of either chamber, the appropriation of any new money, the chances for passage of the bill are would be passed by Congress." reasonably good. However, there's The Legion Legislative Commission • FOUR EXCLUSIVES give safety, many a roadblock between the legisla- again reported to the 1948 convention silence, comfort found in no other tive hopper, where the bill is intro- that "many bills remained dormant on tire. Interlocking Safety Tread (1) duced, and a vote on the Senate or the House and Senate calendars by vir- for greater "hold" in all directions. House floor. tue principally of the refusal of the (2) Silent Traction Design can- Most veterans legislation starts in the House Rules Committee to permit them cels out hum. (3) Intra-Tread House. A member of Congress, of his to be considered and voted upon on the Bumpers hold tread ribs apart, own initiative, or at the instance of the floor of rhe House." muffle squeal. (4) Uni-Cushion Legion or some other vet group, intro- The same three legislators who set Contour — more rubber on road duces the measure. House policy in the 80th Congress — for smoother riding, longer wear. Generally—with certain exceptions- Speaker Joseph W. Martin, of Massa- veterans lulls in the House are automati- chusetts, Majority Leader Charles A. UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED 3 YEARS! cally referred to the House Committee Halleck, of Indiana, and Rules Commit-

Unserviceable tire will be replaced by com- on Veterans Affairs. Here, as in the case tee Chairman Leo E. Allen, of Illinois parable new tire with full credit for the of all other committees, the chairman —make up the leadership of the House period of guarantee not realized. determines how quickly hearings are to in the 83rd Congress.

be held on the individual bill, if at all. In fairness to the GOP leadership Mrs. Rogers, as chairman of the vet trio, it should be emphasized that at no committee, has signified she will hold time have they been adamantly opposed hearings on as many bills as is practicab- to all vet legislation. Thus, the House, ly possible. In the 80th Congress, when under the same leadership in the 80th she w as also chairman, the House Com- Congress, did participate with the Sen- mittee on Veterans Affairs considered ate in enacting 36 veterans measures 498 bills and resolutions, some duplica- into law. The point is that the Rules tory, held 156 hearings, and reported Committee has large pow ers to stymie out 60 pieces of legislation. all other committees. To expedite the hearings, Mrs. Rog- Once the veterans bills get to the ers has set up a half dozen subcommit- House floor, Mrs. Rogers, as chairman tees. Should a subcommittee report of the House Committee on Veterans favorably on a bill— and at times even Affairs, leads the fight to put them over, \\ hen it reports unfavorably—the meas- although she may turn the floor right ure goes before the full Committee for over to the chairman of the subcommit- action. Disapproval of a measure by the tee which initially dealt with the bill. full Committee kills the legislation for Passage of the legislation by the all practical purposes. If approved by House is only the first major step to- the full Committee, the bill goes to the ward the bill becoming a statute. The

House Rules Committee, which is bill must next clear similar hurdles in something of a legislative traffic cop in the Senate, and here, for the lack of a giving measures from the various com- single committee dealing with veterans mittees the green light (or red light) affairs, the course is even tougher. for floor debate. The House in 1947 merged three It is through the Rules Committee committees dealing with various aspects

that the House leadership exerts its con- of veterans' problems into one Commit- trol over legislation. It is in this com- tee on Veterans Affairs. The Senate, ^Uj£|Tf Armstrong's handy mittee that the leadership can ami does however, has persisted in dividing its * 88-page Road Atlas- bottle up any bill it doesn't want to veterans bills between the Senate Fi- Radio Guide! Send lOtf to cover reach postage. Dept. A-l. Armstrong open debate. nance Committee and the Senate Labor During the past few years, the House and Public Welfare Committee. This Rubber Co., West Haven 16, Conn. Rules Committee could be forced to act division of responsibility prevents the on a bill, and clear it for floor debate, (Continued on page 48)

4g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 .

Oil makes him an independent businessman . .

His office is on America's highway. His customers sit in the driver's seat.

Of the 200,000 service stations in the U. S. about 95% are independently

owned or operated. As independent business men, their job is to keep

America's wheels moving. Texaco Dealers operate in all

48 states — maintain their position with the aid of outstanding

petroleum products plus their own dealer know-how.

Here indeed is a striking example of free enterprise

at work in a highly competitive economy.

The Texas Company {Continued from page 46) GOP leadership from the labor-welfare Senate from raking an over-all, balanced committee, oh which Morse served for CUSHIONED view toward veterans legislation. This many years and displayed a keen inter- situation, plus the fact that the commit- est in the welfare of veterans.

tees are often deeply enmeshed in other Key man in the Senate is Majority pressing national problems, slows down Leader Robert A. Taft, of Ohio. The action on veterans affairs in the Senate important Rules Committee in the Sen- via the usual committee processing, and ate is headed by Sen. William F. Jen- gives rise to impulsive, personalized ner, of Indiana. These two legislators, legislation. outspoken proponents for quick cost- In the spring of 1952, for example, cutting, will have much to say in the during Senate debate on a bill to in- leadership decision to clear veterans crease disability allow ances, Sen. Lester bills in the Senate for floor action, or C. Hunt, of Wyoming, personally' led to shunt the measures aside. COMFORT a successful fight to raise pensions of The country's veterans will need a Spanish-American War veterans and strong champion in order to obtain the fUcmeesied (up their dependents by a flat 15 percent. best possible compromise in reconcil- Sen. Guy Cordon, of Oregon, and ing the differing versions of Senate and Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, of Colorado, House on a given subject. Mrs. Rogers then urged a similar 15 percent increase will be serving as veterans' advocate in in compensation and pensions for the many of these bchind-closcd-doors KNAPP veterans of World Wars 1 and II, and scrimmages. quoted the support of the four major Once a measure finally wins passage

veterans organizations for the proposal. through both chambers of Congress, it This move was defeated, and a sliding- then goes to the President for approval, SHOES scale increase approved, after Sen. as in most cases, or for veto, as occur- Fugene D. Millikin, of Colorado, de- red several times in legislation dealing

clared in an oratorical outburst: with the so-called World War I vet- "The easiest thing any man can do erans bonus. It takes a two-thirds vote today is to make himself a cheap hero of those present and voting in each Walk on air in Knapp Aero for the votes of the veterans. One of House to pass a bill over the President's treds. Factory Fitted by your the ways of doing it is to vote and veto, as finally happened with the

local Knapp Shoe Counselor. work for more and more and more ill- World War 1 bonus. At times, though,

12,102 individual sizes . . . 137 considered benefits for the veterans." the President can exert his own au- smart styles in high quality Senator Millikin is chairman of the thority, so that even though Congress Senate Finance Committee in the cur- a few years ago authorized the govern- Dress, Sport and Service Shoes rent session of Congress. ment to build 16,000 more hospital beds,

for . . Men and Women . The other Senate committee dealing President Truman simply refused to Factory Direct Prices! with vet affairs, the Committee on get the program started. Even after an

7 Labor and Public Welfare, is headed authorization bill becomes law , the by H. Alexander Smith, of New Jersey. battle for veterans legislation is only- Oregon's Sen. Wayne Morse, who half done. Most authorization bills re- broke from Republican ranks to be- quire appropriations to make the meas- come an independent during the past ure effective, and appropriations rc-

election campaign, was dropped by the ( Continued on page SO i

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( Continued from page 48 The American Legion and the othei quire passage of a second act by Con- vet organizations have a strong inter- gress and the signature of the President. est in several other Congressional com- As we have seen, the most important mittees. items of "veterans legislation" in recent Proposals for ripping VA apart, re- years have not all been new laws. They peatedly defeated in recent sessions of have also included the annual appro- Congress but very much alive in the priations on which depend the stability current session, must first come up be- of existing programs. The painful fore the Senate and House Committees shortages in operating VA hospital on Government Operations. The House beds, of which the Philadelphia area unit is headed by Rep. Clare E. Hoff- crisis is an example, arc chiefly due to man, of Michigan. The Senate unit is past appropriations cuts. headed by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, All appropriations bills, without ex- of Wisconsin. ception, must originate in the House. Dispersal of VA functions is by no Here, the normal procedure is to refer means a dead issue in the current ses- funds bills to the House Appropriations sion of Congress.

Anyway you look at it, the Legion WALLY and the other veterans organizations are in for a bitter battle to maintain an adequate veterans program.

ENJOY A QUEBEC VACATION IT IS DIFFERENT! Renewed moves to curtail or elimi- Tour the rugged picturesque Gaspe Peninsula, the nate veterans preference in government mighty St. Lawrence river, the deep swift-flowing Saguenay, the beautiful Laurentian Mountains, and jobs must first go through the House the Eastern Townships, with their countless spar- Post Office Civil kling lakes and rivers. Visit the famous shrines and and Senate and Serv- churches of French-Canada and enjoy old-time hos- ice Committees. These are headed, re- pitality in comfortable modern inns and hotels. spectively, To help plan your vacation, write for free road maps by Rep. Edward H. Rees, and booklets to :— Provincial Publicity Bureau, Parlia- of Kansas, who in the past has looked ment Buildings, Quebec City. Canada; or 48 Rocke- feller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. with disfavor on attacks on vet prefer- LA PROVINCE DE 'tU6 /40TDtoRAPH FIENDS SPOT AU.-Wi. C&Leee'tTI&S ' ence, and by Sen. Frank Carlson, also (From November, m(> A.L.M.) of Kansas. Legislation dealing with housing and Committee, which generally decides rents comes out of the House and Sen- how much money will be expended ate Banking and Currency Committees. during the next year on a particular The respective chairmen. Sen. Homer piece of legislation. On rare occasions, E. Capehart, of Indiana, and Rep. Jesse the House has brushed aside the com- P. Wolcott, of Michigan, both publicly BUY UJJW~Tuini3 DIRECT! mittee's proposed expenditures, for We pack and sell Vitamins and Vitamin- declared, just as soon as Congress eterans Administration or for specific Mineral combinations at DOWN TO EARTH V opened, that they favored increasing PRICES. Vou SAVE MORE than 50*. by buy- veterans benefits, and increased the ap- ing direct . the interest rate on GI housing loans propriation. For the most part, how- [33331 PRICE LIST and PROOF of the above the long-established 4 percent. amazing values we offer. SEND NAME and ever, the House and Senate tend to go ADDRESS right now. A major item on the Legion's pro- along with the recommendations of the HUDSON VITAMIN PRODUCTS CO. gram for 1953 is Universal Military 199 Fulton St., Dept. 686 New York 7, N. Y. House Appropriations Committee and Training, which comes before the its powerful chairman. Armed Services Committee. Rep. Today, the effectiveness of a vet- Dewey Short, of Missouri, chairman of erans benefit program, already author- the House Committee, is unequivocally ized by Congress, can be nullified or opposed to UMT. On the other hand, FREE sharply curtailed by failure of Congress the chairman of the Senate committee, VALUABLE CATALOG OF BUSINESSES, to appropriate adequate funds to put Sen. Leverctt Saltonstall, of Massachu- FARMS OR RANCHES AND INCOME the benefit into full operation. For ex- setts, has favored UMT in the past, ample, the 82nd Congress ordered VA PROPERTY-FOR SALE OR TRADE- and introduced the Legion-sponsored to start building two new hospitals pro- THROUGHOUT WEST AND MID-WEST bill in this session of Congress. The out- viding 2,000 beds, but by failing to vote Over 2000 offerings, approx. 200 pages. Contains vital look for UMT is generally more favor- information, prices, terms, earnings, lease, rent, names sufficient funds to man and maintain able in the Senate, which voted out a and addresses so that you can deal direct with owners. existing hospitals in the VA system, ALL TYPES -FROM $1000 to $1,000,000 Retail, Whole- UMT bill in 1951 with but five dissent- forced the shutdown of approximately sale, Industrial Plants, Factories, Service Businesses, ing votes. Farms, Ranches, Groves, etc., large and small. No 25,000 of the VA's 128,000 beds. When salesman will call. No commission to pay us. Simply The American Legion has a mandate it came out that we were building new write today for Free Catalog No. 137-F to NATIONAL to seek legislation covering 101 Con- BUSINESS & PROPERTY EXCHANGE Dept. 137-F, 4101 hospital space when many beds were West 3rd St., Los Angeles 5, Calif. vention and National Executive Com- idle it was widely assumed there was (Extra Free Service: Write us exactly what and where mittee resolutions in the current Con- you want to buy and we'll advise owners of your no need for the beds. gress. During the first three days of the requirements.) The new chairman of the House Ap- 83rd Congress, more than 100 vet bills WKITE fOR CAIAIOO propriations Committee is Rep. John were tossed into the legislative hopper, PACKS IN YOUR Tabcr, of New York, an avowed ad- including a number sponsored by the VACATION BAG! vocate of drastic cuts in government expenditures. On the Senate side, where Legion. Most of these bills were re- mew £fosman pneumatic for funds bills are sometimes liberalized, ferred to the 27-member House Com- target shooting anywher* the parallel committee is headed by mittee on Veterans Affairs, where they Fingertip cocking, adjustable sight. $095 precision rifled barrel. .22 caliber. ~ • Sen. Styles Bridges, of New Hamp- come under the charge of Mrs. Rogers CROSMAN ARMS CO., Rochester 20, N.Y. Dept. 54 shire. as chairman. the end

5Q • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 —

Germany Today — — (Continued from page 19 > — greater their number grows, the more

fertile soil is provided for the "unity" propaganda of the communists on the one hand, and the nationalist propaganda of the neo-nazis on the other. From where I sit West Germans are trying to cope with this problem. The government screens refugees as rapidly as it can, 6y Joe Marsh tries to rind them jobs, provides bed- ding in refugees' quarters—and medical care. There are several private organizations for refugee aid, one of which is headed by Berlin's distinguished Mayor, Ernst Reuter. The challenge is a politically com- plicated one, however. The communists are smart enough to try to send some A Difficult "Situation" of their own into West Germany, posing as refugees from communism. Therefore, before aiding refugees to relocate, the West German Govern- Did you see that "Classified Ad" ment (German Federal Republic) must that a farm- be certain of their political beliefs. last week? The one wanted There is actually only one political hand who had to be "an expert agri- party in East Germany — the Sozialis- culturist, sheep herder, tractor driver, tische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (German Socialist Unity Party) known bridge player," plus being "an au- as SED. The Soviets have forced into thority on chemistry, biology, physics this party politicians who are bitter and mathematics"? enemies. Leaders who do not agree to join are murdered. The part) controls labor, through the Free German Trade Slim Thomas, who ran that ad more Union Federation. It controls youth or less as a joke, called and said, "I through an organization known as Free German Youth, and women through got 23 answers and almost every one the Democratic League of Women. claimed they could meet all those qual- There is even an organization for chil- ifications! That means keeping dren, the Young Pioneers, whose major Pm task is spying on parents and teachers. the man I have— 'Handy' Peters. Membership in these organizations is not exactly voluntary. It is almost im- "He was thinking of quitting next possible for a person to have access to month but now I've got to talk him what he needs to stay alive unless he belongs to one of them. into staying. Handy never pretends to There are four spy systems which be an expert, he's just a good all- keep watch over the people: the dread around hired hand." Russian secret police, the political police of the SED, the Ministry of State Security Spy System and the youth po- From where I sit, Slim's smart to be lice. wary of people who consider themselves There is no unemployment whatso- all-around "experts." ever. Everybody works where he is told to be Some folks to work. Nor is there any economic- will "expert" on anything—from the security. Farms are too small and quo- tas for "gifts" to the government too clothes a man should wear to whether high for the farmer to make any kind he ought to drink beer or buttermilk. of income. Unions are controlled by Personally I don't to "classify" SED bureaucrats who act as "agents" want of management. The "agents" are hated myself as knowing all the right equally by management and labor. Each answers. laborer must meet a quota in order to avoid a pay cut, and if poor material spoils a man's output, the pay cut sticks. Despite the slave whip—perhaps because of it—East German production re-

mains low. Much of what is produced is - sent to Russia. Meat, sugar and fats are rationed and the food allowance for the industrial population runs under Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 51 2,000 calories. Clothing is in extremely haps, that the rest of the spurt is the Choice of short supply, especially shoes. Shop result of traditional German "effi- the Softball windows were displaying pictures of ciency" . . . that the Germans have al- Stalin instead of merchandise. ways been an efficient and ambitious Champs too! In West Germany, on the other hand, people. But the Germans I knew at the production is now 140 percent above end of the war were neither. All the pre-war level. One hundred and twenty- initiative had been beaten out of them. three million tons of coal and 16 million They were a terrified people, afraid to ' "J n WL tons of steel were produced in 1952, take any responsibility for any kind of SEND w ith u0 million dollars worth of goods action. exported in the first half of the year. When the U.S. Military Government FOR THE Among these Mere 45,000 "Volks- took over in Germany, one of the first wagen"' — small, road-hugging, four things we did was to post orders abol- NEW H & B passenger cars being manufactured at ishing all former nazi laws. Among the rate of 550 per day by a firm in these was a law forbidding Germans to SOFTBALL RULES Wolfsburg operating under govern- marry non-Germans. Yet every time a ment trusteeship. German in my area wanted to marry7 a Nor is production limited to heavy foreigner, the burgomeister insisted on The Hillerich 1 Bradsby Softball Inventiveness personally for a rul- Rule Book for 19S3 is ready goods. characterizes such sending him to me at your dealers. Get your copy products as clear plastic telephones re- ing that it was all right. It was useless from him or send 10c direct cently demonstrated at a plastics exhi- for me to point to the general order. (coin) to cover mailing. to us bition in Duesseldorf; mail-carrying Every German wanted a personal Print name and address plainly. rockets — tested near Bremen— gasoline- order — one that could be produced if Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Inc., to him. Louisville, Ky., Dept. L-21. propelled rickshaws manufactured by somebody tried punish He was Messerschmidt, the aviation company. sure somebody would. Even suits for space travel have been Among the forces which have re- [MiiauuKncj at a Astronau- ' displayed Congress of stored spirit in Germany, three, in my

' LOUISVILLE tics in Stuttgart. And the little town of opinion, belong at the top of the list. SLUGGER BATS New Gablonz, built on the site of the One is exposure to attitudes of the former Kaufbeuren Dynamite Works allies. Since I know the American atti-

FOR SOFTBALL & BASEBALL in Southw est Bavaria, earned 10 million tudes best, I will speak of them. U.S. dollars in 1952 from the manufacture policies in Germany have certainly not and sale of glass jewelry. been beyond criticism, but by and large 1 YEAR WEAR No wonder German manufacturers they have reflected, even if uncon- GUARANTEE are seeking foreign markets for their sciously, the commandment: "What- Famous Slight Factory Imperfect tftSftj; products! A trade agreement has been soever ye would that men should do to Genuine 100% GABARDINE ONLV signed w ith Iran, and others are being you, do ye even so to them." DRESS PANTS s negotiated — especially in the so-called The Germans thought we would be HALF! Buy Direct—SAVE ¥5 "backward" areas of the world — to nazi pattern. These pants can Really Take Itt conquerors in the Our Yet, priced at nearly HALF what you'd pay elsewhere! Imperfec- which Germany offers the electrical efforts to help Germany help itself back tion so slight you probably can't find It, does not affect wear. Ideal for machinery and equipment needed to democratic dress, school, work. Beautiful hard- on its feet and to introduce finish gabardine. Genuine 2- way, 2* ply rayon and acetate for Super-Wear. develop their resources. Germany has a patterns in political, educational and so- Guaranteed In Writing For One Full Year! Holds crease. Zip front. Bltr 444 million dollar surplus in the Euro- affairs at first received by pockets. Blue, Tan. Gray. Light Brown, Dark cial were Brown. Blue-Gray, Green. WAIST: 28 to 42 pleated or — a balanced plain front. (Sizes 44 to 50, add 50c per pair.) pean Payments Union and Germans with incredulity and suspi- sire. 1st. r c tin un unucv Send name, waist 2d, 3d IfcNU NU MUNtT color choice. BELT FREE WITH 2 budget at home. cion, then with curiosity mingled with pairs: Pay postman price, plus small C.O.D. Or aend price plus 25c pstg., save C.O.D. The West German mark is consid- finally with determina- LINCOLN TAILORS. Dept. AM-7 Lincoln, Nebraska skepticism—and ered "hard" currency, and Germans tion to take advantage of this oppor- THE LIGHTEST TRUSS are once more building savings ac- tunity to reassert themselves among the I EVER WORE . . . counts. This is something of a phenom- RUPTURE NEVER FELT BETTER nations of the world. LIFE IN MY enon. I left Germany, many of AIR-FLO TRUSS When The rcassertion, however, is not na- 1/ friends were determined WEIGHS 2 2 OUNCES my German tionalistic. As Frau Hannah Kiep, • No Metal Pads • Washable never to save again. Twice in one gen- Secretary of the Ger- * No Leg Straps • Non-Slip Women's Affairs SEND FOR FREE CIRCULAR eration they had seen their currency Diplomatic Mission to the U.S., ex- WATKINS SURGICAL CORP. man 130 West 42nd St. Dept. 15, N.V.C. scrapped. plains it: "There is no more 'Deutsch- What changed their minds? What land Cber Alles.' It is not German s Borrow 50 to '600 factors are responsible for the rapidity 'efficiency' that is rebuilding our coun- and earnestness of the German recov- try — it is a spirit born of the past we BY MAIL ery? have had, and of knowing that the fu- Confidential Loan Service One economic factor, of course, is ture is best if we can earn our way with Need money? NonmHrr where you live. .. you can borrow BY MAIL, $Ml.OO to $6UH.(>u invested does w ant to ilns i-jisy. qun k. confidential way. No en- U.S. aid. The U.S. has upwards the West. Germany not dorsers needed. Employed men and women of Kood chunirler eligible. Solve your money of three billion dollars in post-war be superior. Germany does not want to problems quickly find in complete priVHcy with a loan made by mail. Kmployer. relatives and wants to be a friends will not know you're applying for a loan. No Endorsers Germany. be inferior. Germany Convenient monthly payments. Rush coupon— REPAY jminir occupation — for Application Klank sent has as much else- partner. Germany wants to become a in plain envelope. There's no oblitration. ON EASY But the U.S. spent FREE TERMS STATE FINANCE CO., 323 Securities Bldg. w here—w ith less startling results. What good member of the European family Dept. B-117 OMAHA 2. NEBRASKA Quick! Easy! PRIVATE is different about Germany? of nations." I STATE FINANCE CO., Dept. B-117 323 Securities Bldg., Omaha 2, Nebraska I second factor in German recovery, I'lr rush FREE Application Blank. First, we must point out that Ger- A of becoming part of a NAME man)', unlike other Western European then, is the hope ADDRESS nations, has not had to divert any of unit even greater than the "fatherland" CITY STATE her national income to defense in Asia —a United States of Europe. Despite po- Age. obstacles | Occupation or defense in Europe. litical hurdles in Germany and

52 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 this goal and determination to earn it

is official foreign policy of the present fellow, German government administration. It's hard to say, young The Chairman of the Committee of 26 but you can be sure there are the Schuman Plan jurists appointed by What will great things ahead. Ad Hoc Assembly to prepare a draft of a European Constitution was Dr. Today we telephone from Heinrich von Brentano, a German. moving automobiles, trains, air- A third factor in recovery is cur- the telephone ships far out at sea. rency reform. Inflation and devalua- planes and tion of currency was a principal cause And radio microwaves beam of the failure*of the Weimar Republic, telephone calls and television which began to disintegrate two years be like programs from tower to tower before Hitler. Loss of savings had wiped out the security and morality of across the country. the political and economic backbone of The day is coming when you the nation—the middle class. when Conversely, today, security and will be able to reach any tele- morality have been restored. The real phone in the country simply by upward swing in the German come- dialing a number. back began in 1948 when a new central I grow up?" bank, the Bank Deutscher Laender, was Perhaps some day in the fu- provided with the tools to introduce ture you may just speak the into West Germany the Deutsche iMark —replacing 16 of the old Reichsmarks. number into the transmitter and In the following six months alone, pro- get your party automatically. duction rose 50 percent. resulting from these The changes and BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM other factors are apparent not only in the economic, but in the civic, political and cultural life of the nation. The

status of women is a good example.

Frau Kiep, whom I quoted on Ger- man foreign policy, is one of a hundred women who hold government positions. There are many more in the professions. Numbers of them, like Erna Lindner, who runs the Lindner Precision Ad- enine Manufacturing Company in Ber- lin, rebuilt their husbands' businesses, after the war had taken both husband and business. The rebuilding called for physical as well as mental effort. Frau Lindner sold what possessions she had left, used the proceeds to pay laborers to clear the factory ruins, and joined them in the work, with a wheelbarrow. Today she employs 280 men in her restored factory, and is doing business with the U.S., Japan, Australia and Western Europe. Despite the fact that none of these women dare appear at work wearing makeup, their presence in the official and professional German world, and their participation in civic affairs rep-

resents a revolution which it is hard for Americans to appreciate. Until recently, German law has supported the theory that women should have only three interests: "kinder, kirche, kuche" (children, church, kitchen). But the West German constitution, better known as the Basic German Law, adopted in 1949, declared that there should be no discrimination between the sexes. That's not all the constitution

declared. Point I, Article 1, reads: "The dignity of man shall be inviolable."

Articles 3 and 4 continue: "No one may be prejudiced or privileged be-

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cause of his sex, descent, race, language, tion. The "Art for the Working- Why let a tough job homeland and origin, faith. . . . Free- People" project at Recklinghausen in

dom of faith and conscience shall be the Ruhr is a good example of how the give you a chronic inviolable. Undisturbed practice of re- post-war revival of the arts got under ligion shall be guaranteed." way. The people of Recklinghausen Other articles guarantee freedom of made a deal with the people of Ham- ACHING BACK? the press, the right to assemble "peace- burg that if Hamburg actors would fully and unarmed," to move freely come to Recklinghausen to entertain Ever wonder why hard work makes back muscles ache and throb night after night? (It didn't when throughout the territory of the republic the miners, Recklinghausen would in you were younger!) The reason is simple. As your muscles get older, they no longer support you and "freely to choose occupation, place turn contribute enough coal to heat a properly. Without support, your midsection can get of work and place of training." Prop- theater in Hamburg. too strained and tired to "snap back" as it once did. So you ache. Fortunately, however, there's an easy, erty rights are also protected. Another example of the up-by-the-

pleasant way to get . . . All the way down the line, while bootstraps attitude of modern Germany Instant relief. guaranteeing individual freedoms, the is the founding of the Free University Bracer Supporter Belt is the answer. Bracer is the kind of man's garment that gives firm support to the constitution also takes precaution in Berlin. The movement for the uni- muscles that aren't supporting you. Helps relieve backache, helps you feel less tired. Helps you . . versity began in 1948 when three stu-

Look better, too. dents were expelled from the old Uni- Bracer helps pull your stomach back to its natural versity of Berlin, in the Eastern Zone, position. Helps you stand straighter and taller. Its wide waist band is knit of cool, elastic cotton. because of articles written in a student Attached Tube-weave leg sttaps can't curl or bind. Colloquium, were bitterly or detachable pouch models —each with convenient paper, which fly ftont. $3.95 and up at drug, men's wear, surgi- critical of Soviet university administra- cal supply stores. Get your Bracer today! tion. The entire student council re- FREE B00K1ET For additional facts, write today for free book- " signed in protest against Soviet suppres- let. "Feel Belter, Look Better Bauer & Black, 309 W Jackson sion of their rights. A group of these Blvd., Chicago6, III., Dept. AL-5. students, headed by Horst Hartwich, a pharmacology student and son of a Bracer' Berlin druggist, persuaded Mayor Ren- SUPPORTER BELT ter and eleven other distinguished citi- Made by Bauer & Black Divisionof The Kendall Co; zens to form a committee for the es- tablishment of a new university in West Berlin. The new Free University now has 6,000 students, 38 student organi- RE£&^ATE zations and an advanced self-govern- PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG, ILLUS- TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report making substantial incomes. Start and run your ment system. own business quickly. Men, women or all ages, learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property Management, Appraising, Loans, Mortgages, and German university youth is extreme- related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- wowll rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. ly European-minded, and the League Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. G.I. Appr. WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (EST. 1936) for European Youth has an active mem- Suite 300 Law BIdg. Dept. AL Kansas City. Mo. "Why don't you read the morning paper at its recently breakfast like other men?" bership. Some of members Don't Neglect Slipping AMERICAN I.WilllN MAllAZINE sent into the Soviet zone balloons to which were attached postcards reading: "Day of Free Europe; coal and steel the against the misuse of these freedoms to FALSE first TEETH a step." than thousand re- overthrow representative government. More Do false teeth drop, slip or wobble when you plies were received. talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed For example, articles relating to educa- and embarrassed such handicaps. professor, in by tion state: "Art and Science, research A German now teaching FASTEETH, an alkaline (non-acid) powder to the U.S., expressed to me his belief that sprinkle on your plates, keeps false teeth more and teaching shall be free. Freedom of youth is its teachers, firmly set. Gives confident feeling of security teaching shall not absolve from loyalty German ahead of and added comfort. No gummy, gooey, pasty to man)' of w hom, he said, resist trends taste or feeling. Get FASTEETH today at any the constitution." And again—though student government, classroom drug store. "all Germans shall have the right to toward discussion inclusion social form associations and societies," never- and the of theless—"associations, the objects or ac- science in what used to be a purely classical curriculum. However, there tivities of which arc directed against the 40% \ START A BUYING SERVICE OFF- constitutional order or the concept of are a number of German agencies which at home, spare tl >. Get big-name mer- chnndlse for clients ( and yi self) at up to 40% are attempting to retrain German and more below the reguln list price. Make fat international understanding shall be commissions. Folks eagerly v through you to get teachers in these methods. sizeable discounts. Send posl rd for details. prohibited." newer AMERICAN BUYERS' SERVICE Another strong pro-European and 631-AL Linden Ave., Buffalo 16, N. Y. This constitution is a document of spiritual revolution for Germany. Only anti-communist force in West Germany briefly, under the Weimar Republic, is the Trade Union Federation, w ith a has Germany ever known anything like membership of around six million. The "Thought Td lose my what Americans would call representa- federation published two years ago a "white book" showing that commu- mind from terrible pain tive government. And the Weimar constitution went to such extremes (for nists could never be good trade union- ists because they would always put until I found Pazo!" example, proportional representation) party aims above the welfare of the says Mrs. F. L., Brooklyn, N. Y. that it was close to impossible to ad- workers. Itching of simple piles drive you mad? Is minister it in practice. When the Ger- agonizing pain daily torture? Amazing man economy broke, there was no The federation is equally opposed to Pazo* acts instantly to relieve such misery any revival of nazism. Its leadership has Soothes inflamed tissues. Lubricates hard- single party secure enough to defend ened, dry parts. Helps heal cracking, reduce the republic from the strong men who declared that they would meet any real swelling, soreness. Don't suffer needless then took over. threat of such a revival with a general agony from simple piles. Get Pazo, get real comfort, right away. Ask doctors about it. The spirit of popular participation strike. Suppository form—or tube with perfor- today is not confined to political life. Several local strikes were held to pro- ated pile pipe for easy application. *l'azo Ointment and Suppositories® It also emerges in the arts and educa- test meetings of the neo-nazi Socialist

• The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 Reich Party — SRP. The government sue of ownership of the Saar in their banned this party last October, after a campaigns. The Saar, populated by FEET BURN? decision of the Constitutional Court Germans, is economically united with that it was "engaged in an attack on France. The Schuman Plan includes the democratic order." Its former mem- a proposal to make it into a country bers have since been carefully watched controlled by all six nations in the coal- by the police. steel pool. Saarlanders themselves are neo-nazism making a bid for their country to be- This does not mean that No unmedkated powder can the Plan capital. can be crossed off the list of possible come Schuman relieve sore and burning feet dangers in Germany. In the last local The Saar problem is in one way typi- as Ammens Powder does! elections for 100,000 Council seats, four cal of all German problems today: there For Ammens contains avowed nazis, one of them William are no German solutions for these prob- three famous medicinal in- Schepmann, a former Storm-Trooper lems—there are only European ones. gredients—gives 3-ti'ay med- Staff Chief, were elected to village Even German economic recovery pre- icated skin care: (1) It soothes, relieves and skin. Its extra softness office. Ten percent of the 18 million sents a problem to the rest of Europe, helps heal irritated (2) protects and cushions sore skin, and so pro- votes cast in this election represented which fears a renascent German indus- motes healing. (3) Its extra fluffy texture gives a combination of extreme nationalism trial machine. As part of the European cooling relief. For real medicated skin care, get 10 economy, however, this machine can and neo-nazism. However, since this genuine Ammens Medicated Powder wherever lift percent was concentrated in lower help the living standards of the free fine drug products are sold.

Saxony where a peculiar law gives each world — as the German Industries Fair FREE trial-size can. Write today to Dept. L-53, Bristol- Hillside, N. {Offer limited to U.S.A.) registered person three votes, it is not last fall attempted to demonstrate. Myers Co., J. fair to say that nationalism or neo- And Germany, which would suffer nazism is characteristic of even a tenth first if the red army rolled in Europe ^^ss of the voting population. Schepmann, —is at last conscious that her future lies .GoodGood HousekeepingHousekeeDin? I rWMAMMENS incidentally, is now in jail. He was in cooperation with the West. That si°r,i». ..ow^S MEDICATED POWDER appealing a sentence when elected, and consciousness makes Germany a coun- the appeal was not granted. try where one can actually see history It is also significant to note that the happening daily. ACCORDIONS section where neo-nazis made any The closing chapter in that history, DISCOUNTS headway at all is a section where 30 however, will not be written by Ger- I percent of the people are refugees. We mans. It will deal with European and | UP TO 50<7b FOR have previously stressed that the refu- American response to Germany's en- " VETERANS 5-DAY gee problem in Germany is one which deavor to achieve partnership, and it must be solved before the twin dangers will be written by you and me and our DIRECT from TRIAL of nazism and communism can be writ- former comrades in arms here and Importer to You!' SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, or your ten off. abroad. money back! NOW you can save up to 50% by direct purchase from America's leading Neo-nazi candidates also used the is- It takes two to make a peace, the end distributor of famous genuine ITALIAN ACCORDIONS. Send for FREE Illustrated Catalog! How To Pick A Summer Home ACCORDION MANUFACTURERS & WHOLESALERS OUTLET (Continued from page 17) 2003 West Chicago Ave. Dept. EB| Chicago 22, III. restrictions to safeguard you. However, have it tested for purity. Most local, in country living the initiative to pro- county or state health departments will vide these safeguards for your family do this job without charge. Just put a FOR THE/ MAN IN 3 is left to you. sample of the water in a sterilized bot- WHO SHAVES ELECTRICALLY Drainage can be generally settled by tle and send it to the local health officer. looking at the terrain. It is a common Another important health factor is A smoother shove in half practice to place the summer house the location of sanitation facilities. Out- A the time with at the bottom hillside, where it nestles side toilets should be placed in a se- snugly against the earth, protected from cluded spot not too close to the house. i SHAVEX storms by elevated ground and trees. Regardless of the type of sewage and increases power and efficiency Unless the grade around the house is waste disposal system — cesspool, septic of your shaver up to 60%

such that the water runs away from it, tank or privy — it should be located be- No matter what make Shaver you use, or how you may awake some stormy night with low the level of all sources of drinking tough your beard -you'll get a better shave with the impression that you are on a boat. water and at least 100 feet away from SHAVEX added. Property has little or no value unless the source. Converts ordinary household AC current to a good supply of water is available. Find Good orientation means the place- J smoother, stronger DC for faster, closer Z— out from neighboring property owners ment of the home on the plot to take shaves. Actually lengthens the life of your/jXM if they have an abundant flow advantage of breezes, sunlight, views through- shaver. Simply plug SHAVEX into wall / JH out the year. To assure health protec- and desirable surroundings. The chief socket, attach Shaver— and shave! / 21 tion, make certain that the water supply points to be taken into consideration Its premium performance will guar-/ -«_JbJ antee luxury shaves-or your SJESMi&L is safe. In the city, water is supplied and when checking the orientation of your money back. carefully watched utility companies, summer cottage are commonly desig- by A Sing Crosby Research Product but in rural areas it must be obtained nated as the direction from which the If your electric shaver dealer cannot supply you — order direct.

from wells or springs. It is seldom safe most beautiful scenery can be enjoyed, SHAVEX CO. Dept. AL 5. Boi 2011. Hollywood 28, Calif. Pleose send SHAVEX of $5.95 eo. Check or Money Order to use water from streams or lakes for privacy, location of shore or lakes and enclosed. 10Do>- No Risk Triol. drinking purposes. A drilled or dug streams, the slope of land and the pres-

well is the best form of water supply ence of large trees or other natural for- Addrr for a vacation house. But whatever the mations. It should be remembered that City- source, the only sure way of checking excessive shade is not good for a house. whether the water is safe to use is to A home in a pretty, shaded nook may The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 55 MAKE MORE MONEY, DRAW BIGGER CROWDS look fine on a clear day, but it will be- intend to use it for — a hunting and WITH BEAUTy- GLAMOUR- come damp and uncomfortable. fishing lodge, a weekend cottage, or a , SHOWMANSHIP

From the standpoint of safety, it is full-time vacation home. unwise to have your summer place on The first question to ask yourself is, a cliff or a point where a steep slope or how much "roughing" can you and dangerous rock formation must be ne- your family do cheerfully?

gotiated to reach the house. Avoid If the place is to be used primarily BETTER'N A places with leaning CRYSTAL BALL trees or overhang- for a hunting and fishing lodge, it can NO MIRRORS TO BREAK ing rocks and earthen banks that might consist of a single room, with sleeping WASH OR POLISH fall. Make inquiries of the natives about and cooking facilities arranged to make GLAMOROUS NEW IDEA IN BEAUTY. MODERN SHOWMAN- SHIP. LIGHTING EFFECTS AND LOUD SPEAKER. IT'S DIFFER the height of flood waters from nearby of the space available. The ENT. IT STIMULATES MORE BUSINESS AND PAYS FOR IT- the most SELF IN BALLROOMS. SKATING RINKS. CLUBS. TAVERN BARS. AMUSEMENT PARKS. HOTELS. RESORTS. MILITARY streams and note whether the site is in construction of the cabin can be simple CENTERS. Wnl, Fo. Co F.te D,U,U a pocket that might become a lake if and the modern conveniences limited, Hollywood Spots-Lite Co. the rainfall is heavy. will Oept A 3612 No. 16ili Si. Omjhj 10. Nebr.nU since only a small portion of time Lake-shore property requires a still be spent in it. But when the cabin is further investigation. For the cleanest used mainly for weekend use, it brings INVENTORS water the year 'round, your summer you back to the question — what kind home should be located on the deep of accommodations do you, your family If you believe that you have an invention, you should find out how to protect it. We are repristered Patent Attorneys. water end of the lake. Make sure, too, and your friends require? (You will Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect Your Invention," and an "Invention Record" form. No that it is spring-fed so that the clear have plenty of friends when you have a obligation. They are yours for the asking. McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON beautiful lake does not recede and be- summer place, and they need consider- Registered Patent Attorneys come a dirty little pond in the hot, dry ing too.) Four or more people might 146-P Victor Building Washington 1, D. C. summer weather. The lake should also sleep in one room and be satisfied and be checked to see whether it is dam- again each of these might require a ^Hentooc Folding med up or not. A friend of mine a few private room. "7 BANQUET / seasons back rented a summer place on For those wanting a full-time vaca- TABLES / j/ a seemingly beautiful reservoir. But tion home, the considerations given the when the dry season came, the gates of weekend cottage must be amplified ten- Direct Prices And the dam at one side of the lake were fold. You must remember that you and Discounts To opened to furnish water for the small your family will be there for the entire American Legion manufacturing concerns in the valley. summer; consequently, you must have Clubs, Lodges, This, of course, made the waters of the some conveniences. You don't need all Societies beautiful reservoir into a good-sized the modern conveniences of city living mud puddle with plenty of mosquitoes at first, but you can plan to add them. Manufactured and other insects. Just as important as the location and Speaking of mosquitoes, no real es- size of your summer house is its con-

COMPANY i tate agent or owner is going to tell you are buying or 69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX, IOWA struction. Whether you about such an inconvenience. The only just renting a place, you must thorough- sure way of finding out these condi- ly check the structure as well as you

tions is to talk with nearby residents or can, if you wish to have the greatest • • • with the townspeople. possible pleasure during your stay. A CT||f|Y AT UflMF I-egally trained men win higher posi- It is always an advantage to have your leaky roof, defective plumbing or a UlUUI nl flUITILtions and bigger success in business and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. vacation place in the vicinity of a high- damp floor can make your stay very u d More Ability: More Prestige: More Money S'ep bV jtep You way, especially if it is to be used during unpleasant indeed. can train at home durine spare time. Decree of LL.B. We furnish all text material, including 14-volume Law Library. Low cost, easy terms. Get oar valuable 48-page "Law Training for Leadership" the fall or winter for hunting. It should, Since the foundation is the backbone and "Evidence" books KKEE. Send NOW. LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY. 417 South Dearborn Street however, not be too close to a main of any house, it should be carefully A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 5JblL, Chicago 5, III. road both because of the constant rush checked first. A house built directly on of traffic and the lack of privacy. Side the ground will invite wood decay and roads are preferable if they are in good termites. Generally speaking, the house condition and are kept open the year should be at least one foot above the in mind that WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 'round. But you must keep ground and the piers should be of ma- AND LOW DIRECT PRICES the road may be excellent in dry sonry, stone or brick — not wood. If impossible J. P. REDINGTON&CO. weather but may become the foundation is of solid construction, DEPT. 197 SCRAHTON 2, PA.J during rainy weather and when the look for masonry cracks and crumbling ground starts to thaw. mortar. Check, too, for open joints be- The proximity of churches, stores, tween the wood sills and foundation Housework doctors, post office, bus and train sta- walls where water can seep in. tions and so on, should be carefully Next check the condition of the floor Easy Without studied in terms of your own situation. girders, joists and other structural Also find out about such important members close to the ground. Inspect items as the delivery of bottle gas, elec- carefully for dry rot or termite de- Nagging Backache tricity and food stuffs. struction by tapping with a hammer or Nagging backache, loss of pep and energy, head- using a knife. If the blade penetrates aches and dizziness may be due to slowdown of kidney Up to the present time, nothing has by function. Doctors say good kidney function is very been said about the points which should easily, it usually means danger ahead in important to good health. When some everyday condition, such as stress and strain, causes this im- be considered when selecting the vaca- the form of maintenance bills. Sawdust portant function to slow down, many folks suffer tion itself. Before you can this, at the base of a foundation or pier may nagging backache— feel miserable. Minor bladder home do irritations due to cold or wrong diet may cause you must determine the purpose the also indicate termite trouble. Uneven or getting up nights or frequent passages. Don't neglect your kidneys if these conditions house is to serve, the number it must squeaky floors may be a sign of rotted bother Dunn's diuretic. you. Try Pills—a mild Used accommodate, and the amount of floor members, too. While checking successfully by millions for over 50 years. It's amazing how many times Doan's give happy relief from money to be spent. The size of your the floor, be sure there are no w ide these discomforts— help the IS miles of kidney tubes and filters flush out waste. Get Doan's Pills today! summer home depends upon what you cracks in it, as this can make the house

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cold and damp. To overlook this is to When buying any vacation property, ask for trouble. in addition to a thorough inspection of stone exterior the place, you will want to check all RUPTURE-EASER On masonry, brick or A Piper Broce Pi walls, search for cracks, broken bricks the legal aspects of such a transaction. or blocks and loose mortar, especially Here the advice of a competent lawyer around door and window openings. If is required. No amateur has any busi- Double. ..4.95 the house is of frame construction, ex- ness posing as an authority on the sub- Right or left no amine the siding or shingles for loose ject of land transfer. This is especially Side $995 Fitting and decayed members. Check for loose, true in the purchase and use of riparian Required

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81 1 Wyandotte. Dept. AL-53. KansasCity5. Mo. bad spots can be easily repaired but if tain the services of a surveyor to stake there are many of them, a new roof out your property with the latest sta- will be required. Shingled roofs should tistics. In this way, you know exactly be examined for broken, missing, warp- what you have bought. ARTHRITIS ing or loose shingles. Misplaced shingles Next, have your lawyer or a title If you are suffering from arthritis, rheu- of any kind will cause eventual leaks. company investigate to sec if the prop- matism, neuritis or sciatica, send for this free illustrated booklet. Contains Go over all metal flashing in the valley erty is perfectly free of all mortgages, valuable information on what causes of the roof, around the chimney and liens and the like. Make certain that arthritis . . . what to do for arthritis . .

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For the past several years a number of Physicians have reported amazing success in clearing Psoriasis with lipan — a new medical wonder taken inter- nally, li pa n (registered U. S. Patent Office) is a combination of glandular substances that treat certain internal disorders which many medical men now agree to be the cause of Psoriasis. Clinical results show lipan successful in over 90% of the cases treated. Even stubborn lesions are alleviated to a degree almost beyond belief. Absolutely harm- "It's the chap who bummed a meal here this morning. He wants to know less! Ask your druggist for lipan, or write direct what's good lor indigestion." for free booklet. Or send for month's supply (180 tablets) enclosing or money order for $8.60. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . check SPIRT & COMPANY. Dept. AM. Walerburv. Conn. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • 57 !

The Well-Dressed Sportsman

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the slack in a pair of neat front pleats. day haberdashery, under and outer wear. They'd be handy pants for the middle- The types of fabrics, particularly in ager who starts out the season with a cotton, how ever, differ widely. For the

paunch and slowly whittles it down fisherman, water-repellent poplin is the with exercise! favorite—a fine-combed cotton poplin Never before has the fisherman been for cooler, wetter weather (it can be able to dress as comfortably as in this made more water-repellent), and a spring of '53. And the same goes for the more loosely woven cotton poplin for hunter, come the season. For several hot-weather wear. years now, the manufacturers have Although "Army Duck" is still the come up with jackets, vests, and other traditional cloth for hunting clothes,

wear with the emphasis on roomy give, because it is the toughest fabric avail- convenience, and general all-around able in its price class, other cotton ma- comfort as well as woodsability. terials now on the market offer a good Coats come with deep, broad bellows many plus qualities in comfort and expansion pockets for shells, grub, and wear. One such cotton fabric, because gear. They have large built-in blood- of its weave and Zclan treatment, is said and-moisture-proof game bags that are to be just about as waterproof as it is accessible from either side of the back. possible to make a piece of woven In many, the game bag when partially cloth. The threads in its oxford weave (similar to the weave used in your regu- WAIAY lar oxford shirts) expand when they get damp and close up the small spaces in the weave. Another special Crave-

netted cotton fabric is so designed that

it has a soft, pliable, suede-like finish that makes for a "quiet" cloth when it It's a ivouderjid is worn—a desirable quality where the hunter is concerned. thing to be sure While we are on the subject of fab- when you shop. rics and water-repellency, there are a few basic facts that the outdoorsman And you can be sure when you shop should keep in mind when he goes at a store displaying the red, white shopping for water-repellent clothing. and blue American Legion Magazine The words "water repellent" are ap- Retail Advisory Council emblem. plied to two general fabric treatments- durable. This emblem has become a symbol one durable, the other not The former, naturally, is apt to add more of trust and confidence to thousands (from March. 1936 A.L.V. I the price of a garment than the latter. of people from coast to coast who to Non-durable finishes usually have a now shop "The Legion Way". unhooked can double as a waterproof wax base. They wear off with use and Remember, the RAC store owner is seat for the wet-weather hunter. In at laundering or cleaning. Clothes treated a Legionnaire. He is your buddy and least one model, it can be zipped out with such a water-repellent finish must local Post. a member of your own completely at the end of a day's hunt. be re-treated from time to time if the He is giving his full support to this Hunting vests feature all-around sportsman plans to stay dry. This is a worth-while Legion activity— de- game bags that can be gotten into from job that most large commercial laun- serves your support. the front as well as the sides. They also dries and cleaning establishments are Comradeship and cooperation are have deep side pockets for ammunition; equipped to do. these in addition to the conventional Durable water-repellent finishes, on the strength of the Legion — Let's elastic shell loops designed to hold any the other hand, most often have a resin keep it that way gauge shell. base that impregnates the fibers of the So when you're out to shop, remem- In the hunting-pants department, im- cloth and doesn't wear off or launder ber this emblem — look for it every provements include such things as or clean out. It is important, however, time — and give the Legionnaire who deeper leather-trimmed pockets, double that when such clothes arc laundered displays it your support. thickness legs and seats for added pro- or cleaned, all traces of soaps, deter- For a list of the RAC stores in your tection against wear and wet, reinforced gents, or cleaning fluids be thoroughly lock-stitch act as very community write . . . crotches, sewing that can't rinsed out. If not, they will pull out, and extra-strong fly zippers. efficient "lubricants" that will allow the A variety of types arc available in either water to seep through the weave. By 'Retail the usual straight-hanging variety with the same token—and this will come as stitched-in cuffs or the wool-knit-ank- somewhat of a shock to the superstitious let style. sportsman who thinks clean clothes Advisory As for fabrics, cotton is still "king" might change his luck—greasy or dirty and wool the "queen" when it comes clothes, even though made of the best Council to fishing and hunting clothes. So far, fabrics and treated with the best fin- the so-called miracle fibers—nylon, or- ishes, will lose their water repcllency THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE lon, etc.—have made none of the great unless they are properly cleaned or 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N Y inroads they have made in our every- laundered!

• The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 On the accessory front, a number of of kitchen matches, yet they give off novel items will intrigue the outdoors- enough heat to boil a pint or so of man who is also a gadgeteer or who water in a matter of a few minutes. wants the maximum in portable com- Most burn kerosene, some operate on forts. For the man who likes to keep either gasoline, naphtha, or benzine. One his clothes, his equipment, and himself model, of the expansion pressure type in the best of repair while he is in the using gasoline as fuel, comes complete woods, there is a compact 3%"-by-6%" with nesting pots that serve as a case emergency kit that houses 37 separate and measures only 5 inches high and items including tools, sewing gear, and 5% inches in diameter. a first-aid kit. It comes in a flat zippered There's one thing for sure, 195 3's SNAP ON- SNAP pouch. outdoorsman has a good chance to be F L When it comes to combining com- better dressed from the comfort and AT LEADING fort with the tops in portability, there convenience point of view and better DEALERS in U.S.A. and CANADA! are few items of outdoor gear that can equipped then he ever was before. His compete with the modern "pocket" main job is one of selection to pick the stove. Models can be had that aren't a right gear suited to his own particular DO YOU SUFFER great deal larger than a large-size box needs. the end RHEUMATISM? ARTHRITIS? NEURITIS? SCIATICA? Are They Ruining Our Dogs? send for FREE BOOK (Continued from page 13) which reveals why drugs and medicines give only Temporary relief and fail to remove causes; explains a specialized the common bloodlines are established. judge was the "practical" A. F. Hoch- non-surgical, non-medical treatment which has proven successful for 33 years. Write today. In the early days it was not necessary walt. BALL CLINIC. Dept. 560 Excelsior Springs, Mo. for a gun-dog to possess excessive speed Harry D. Kirkover's Ashantee Dom- or wide range, for game was fairly easy inant won consistently on the bench and to find in most areas. But with civiliza- in field trials, and Dapple Joe, owned tion's encroachment upon natural hab- by Raymond Hoagland, was also a well- itat, game became scarcer and harder to know n dual winner. The currently fa- Easv to learn in 60 to 90 days with our" lie. mo Study Course. RESULTS find and, in order to enjoy a day of mous bench show champion, Captain GUARANTEED. Make Money! Be Pop- ular! Have Funl Big Opportunity! shooting, Radio, Television. Stage AppearancesI good the hunter required a Speck, owned by Charles Palmer and For Free Information regarding price and terms. WHITE. You must state dog with speed, range, nose and stamina Walter Armstrong, is a sound dog that your age. Dummy Catalog 25c. FRED MAHER SCHOOL OF VENTRILOQUISM to cover more ground in less time. Thus attracts the eyes of practical field dog Box 36, AL5 Kensington Station Detroit 24, Michigan more emphasis was placed on the dog's men. He has never been shown in field hunting ability than on his looks. The trial competition although Mr. Palmer LEARN bench show fancier, who prized his dogs asserts he is a splendid gun-dog. for their beauty and companionship Dual winners are as scarce these days MEAT CUTTING rather than for their as Train quickly In 8 short weeks for a worth as an asset untaxed "luxuries," for, through lack bright future with security In the vital meat business. Big: pay. full-time Jobs to the gun, was unwilling to accept any of the field work necessary to maintain — HAVE A PROFITABLE MARKET OF your OWN! Pay after graduation. given. sacrifice in beauty, and confined his it, the Diploma Job help. Thousands of bench-bred Pointer is sadly lack- successful graduates. Our 28th year! for big, new illustrated FREE catalog. No obll- breeding activities mainly to types that ing in keen hunting desire, and the .1. Approved. ATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING stressed conformation and color. eagerly ambitious field-bred member of Dept. A-31, Toledo 4, Ohio Fanciers of the bench show Pointer the shorthair breed seldom has the phy- knot everyone does as well, but E. O. Lockin, tvhoi began "refining" the breed. Nowadays sical attributes that attract the bench started a business of his own, reports ... A we see many leggy, narrow-chested show judge's eye. for 12 months I've averaged Pointers winning blue ribbons, although In English Setters the difference in the breed standard specifies that "legs type is even greater. During the early , should be moderately short rather than period of the breed's popularity the long" and calls 800"ico«" for a chest that is "deep bench show and field Setter were one most of it clear profit for me! and as wide as a proper shoulder will and the same dog. Judges were practical permit." Many dyed-in-the-wool gun- men and always had in mind that an discovered how to be dog O Many men have men deride the gait of the modern English Setter was intended first for independent, to be free of bosses and lay- bench type Pointer as unsound and un- utility and secondly for beauty. Such offs. L. A. Eagles grossed more than $200 his first week. Others report gross up to suitable for field work. The smoothness great field dogs as Prince Rodney, Fairy $12,000 per year. How much you make and symmetry so appealing to the bench Beau, Master Ben and Jersey Prince depends largely on you. You need no special skill, no large investment. show fancier connotes "softness" and won consistently on the bench, but it No shop Decenary. Our electric rug lack of ruggedness to many gun-dog has been many years since a dog that washer cleans rugs, carpets right on floor their natural color and . . . helps to show breeders. had proved his ability in open competi- beauty. So efficient and safe, used The last noted field trial Pointer to tion in the field has garnered bench- largest hotels and railroads You take no risk. achieve bench show honors of conse- show honors. Perhaps the last was High- Machines fully guar- quence was the famous Mary Montrose, tone Tony, a well-known dual w inner anteed. first Write for full infor- dog to w in the National Bird Dog some 20 years back whose blood is mation including how Championship three times. Only two found in many fine and handsome field to make big profits in your own business, g weeks after she had won her first na- performers today. They arc, however, <^g3g|3MS£j tional title in a thrilling and grueling not of the "bench show type." The MAIL COUPON TODAY FOR FRIt BOOK three-hour race, Mary was shown at the title of "field champion" has been be- VON SCHRADER MFC. CO., 1555 "R" PI., Racine, Wise. Without obligation, send your FRIE booklet contain- Westminster Kennel Club show at stowed on a number of bench showing information about your electric RUG washer and how I can start my own [>ermanent, profitable business. Madison Square Garden, where she winners by the American Kennel Club, won in all her classes and eventually but they won their qualifying points in Addr.n was awarded the trophy for best Pointer competitions licensed by that organiza- City bitch in the show. This was in 1917. The tion and usually confined to the breed.

The American Legion Magazine • May, 1953 • JCJ Difference in opinion as to what con- terpreted just as it has been in the past What about the Irish Setter? Once a stituted the "ideal" type of English Set- years, and the oversized toys which are fine gun-dog in high favor with many ter occurred early, to such extent that absolutely worthless in the field will still sportsmen throughout the country, this hefore many years there were two dis- have their day. We have had much of grand breed has been taking a back seat tinct types of Setters in vogue in this that on the middle w est circuit of 1917, in the field dog caravan for quite a country; one erroneously called the field when some judges, who probably never number of years. Never a really serious trial type and the other strictly a bench saw a Setter in the field, insisted on ex- factor in major field trial competition, show dog. Unfortunately, both factions alting dogs that were cripples, simply the Irishman does number among his went to extremes, and the practical man because they had great large heads with clan many excellent shooting dogs. But was just as much at fault in fostering the deep muzzles and heavy flews. 'Quality' he was early adopted as the darling of a snipey, undersized specimens as the they called this type, but what is the considerable segment of the bench show bench show man was in breeding the use of this so-called 'quality' if the dog fancy and his honors have been won in logy, narrow-chested, big-headed dog is unable to move . . . and, after all, that realm rather in the sphere for we see today. Writing in The Modern what constitutes quality? w hich he was originally intended, the Setter, again in '23, Mr. Hochwalt said: "What happened in 1917 is still oc- hunting field. "For a time there was a movement curring in 1923.* Men officiating as Set- The Irishman's handsome mahogany afoot to change the type of Setter which ter judges w ho never saw a dog in the coat causes him to be less easily seen would meet the happy medium, and field and would not know what is ex- in the field than his English cousin, and Gath was set up as the ideal, but bench pected of one if they did, continue to this has mitigated against him with show followers would have none of tell of the 'beautiful condition of coat, many hunters. Originally a red and him, and then followed a period of the rare front and the quality,' but never white dog, breeding to intensify the chaos. Dogs were up one week and stop to consider that a dog must have rich red color and eliminate the w hite down the next, all dependent upon who rear parts also, and shoulders that are may have had some effect on the dog's the judges were and what kind of a correct, but particularly feet. There is field qualities. No matter what the dog they admired. Some of the saner a tribe of camel-footed Setters that has breed, its field qualities, hunting desire, judges adhered to the happy medium as been exalted time and again by some pointing instinct and even its style are far as possible, but the extremist, in judges who prate of their 'wonderful bound to suffer when no thought is cither direction, wrought the havoc; form' and I happen to know that not given them in a breeding program that and here let it be said that if more prac- one of these dogs, with feet the size of is concentrated only on physical con- tical Setter men, men who w ere accus- saucers, could run thirty minutes at a formation, color and coat. Particularly tomed to seeing dogs afield, had been gait faster than a tortoise, much less do is this true when the physical make-up employed as judges during those days, the work that is expected of a practical docs not lend itself to the hard work perhaps the standard would have been field Setter." expected of a gun-dog afield. interpreted as it was intended. Mr, Hochwalt's writings of 1923 This breed possesses such striking "This condition prevailed for many could well apply today. However, the beauty that it always attracts great at- years and is still in evidence in some English Setter Club of America, to tention, especially when shown in com- quarters, although at the present there is w hen w hich he refers, is no longer actively petition w ith other breeds. And a tendency to fix upon a type of Setter is that possesses great ani- pursuing its efforts to settle upon a type one shown that is designed to combine the practical invariably captures the keen satisfactory to all, but now centers its mation he with the beautiful. The English Setter interest of the gallery of spectators. interest in field activities. And the Club is doing much in this direction and heavily-headed, decp-flcwed Setters An example of this occurred at the it is hoped that its aims may be realized, Kennel Club's continue to hold sway on the bench. famous Westminster bur unless practical judges are called on 1953 show at Madison Square Garden. to officiate then the standard will be in- ''The revision date of his booh. A handsome Irish Setter had won the sporting dog group, which entitled him to compete for Best in Show honors. Defending champion was the famous Doberman Pinscher, Champion Rancho Dobe Storm, about as near-perfect a specimen of the breed as can be found. The Irishman was cleverly shown, his flashy action on a taut leash capturing the hearts of many in the gallery. So intense was this interest that the judge, a noted dog authority, was soundly booed when he waved the Doberman to the place of honor. Yet experienced field dog men were quick to see that the gait of the Irish Setter was impractical for work in the field. The unperturbed judge stated he made his placement on "soundness."

There is, how ev er, an optimistic note in all this. The English Setter Club of New England, which numbers among its members such well-known breeders as Pert Prince and Davis H. Tuck, is devoting its energies to competitions designed to create more interest among breeders and owners in improving the field possibilities of bench show Eng-

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lish Setters. Officials of the Club are so carefully cultivated and trimmed in TAKE convinced that, with work and breed- an impractical manner, would prevent GOING FISHIN? POWER-KING ing acumen, the dual purpose Setter is his progress through the brambles and not beyond the realm of accomplish- heavy cover to which he was originally ment. Theirs is not an easy task, but adapted. The bench show Cocker has in the short time the Club has been in lost, through neglect, much of his de-

existence progress is being shown. sire to hunt, and the ridiculously heavy The Irish Setter Club of America coat which is now so highly prized lias continued its field trial program. would prevent him from doing a good fishermen! It suffered a serious blow in the death job of it even if he tried. This exces- Here's a light made for You need one. A compact, durable electric $^f^50 of Edwin M. Berolzheimer, who car- sive coat is purely a fad, for the Cock- lantern that shoots a 1/4-mile beam. Uses «J .

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to do with this phenomenon. Joe was a driver All she knows is that Western Whose acts were slow; fleas have had a maximum life He failed to stop, So he had to SOOTH of 518 days, w hile those be- go. hind the Iron Curtain have — G. D. Gleason reached the over-ripe old age of 1487 days. DON'T THEY ALL? — Harry Sperber Item fram a fashion book — Milady wears "the doe-eyed" look. OR ELSE, PERIOD This is new? That gal I've got In Russian funictuation Has worn the dough-eyed look a lot! There's no interrogation

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