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JUNE 1972 Volume 92, Number 6 National Commander LEGION John H. Geiger CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1904, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 using Post Offi< r Magazine Form 3578. Attach oid address label and give old and new addresses with ZIP Code number and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant.

Contents for June 1972 The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 1:545 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 NOW THAT SHE'S IN, Publisher, James V. O'Neil WHAT HAS RED CHINA BEEN DOING IN THE UN? Editor Hohert B. Pitkin BY THOMAS A. HOGE 4rc Editor Amidst fanfare, the UN's newest member modestly took A\ Marshall last — her seat in the world organization November A ssis tan t to Pub lis her and then what did she do there? John Andreola Assistant Editor James S. Swartz A LOOK AT CHICAGO, ILL 10 Associate Editor BY R.B. PITKIN Roy Miller A preview of the city where the Legion will hold Assistant Art Editor Walter H. Boll its 54th Annual Convention this August 18-24. Production Manager Art Bretzfield SHOULD CONGRESS SUPPORT A CHILD Copy Editor DAY CARE PROGRAM? 18 Grail S. Hanford Circulation Manager TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION Dean B. Nelson PFo: REP. JOHN BRADEMAS (D—IND.) Indianapolis. Ind. con: rep. JOHN M. ASHBROOK (R—OHIO) Advertising Sales Robert Redden Associates, Inc. 121 Cedar Lane NIGHT RIDERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 20 Teaneck, N.J. 07666 BY TOM MAHONEY 201-836-5755 All about Paul Revere and others whose successful rides The American Legion Magazine Commission: for the selfsame reason rank alongside Revere's. James E. Powers, Macon, Ga. (Chairman); llenjamin B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn. ( J' ice

MAKING THE MOST OF LEGION ASSETS 25 Chairman) ; James R. Kelley, Radnor, Pa. (National Commander's Representative ) ; Lane BY JOHN H. GEIGER, NATIONAL COMMANDER. THE AMERICAN LEGION Armstrong, Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Booth, Some ways for Legion posts to grow in prestige and stature Huntington, W. Va.; E. J. Cooper, HoUyuood. Fla.; Raymond Fields, Oklahoma City. Okla.; just by making better use whafs at hand. of Milford A, Forrester, Greenville, S.C.; Chrin

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Youngstotvn, Ohio ; Russell H. Laird, Des NEW BRAKES ON UNFAIR SNOOPING 26 Moines, Iowa; Howard E. Lohman, Moorkead, BY HARVEY Minn.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N.Y.; Loyd ARDMAN McDermott, Benton, Ark.; Morris Meyer, How the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 helps give citizens Starkville, Miss.; J. H. Morris, Baton Rouge, the leverage to protect their names and reputations Jai. ; Frank W. Naylor, Jr., Kansas City, Kans.; Harry H. Schaffer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; against investigative abuses by businesses. George Sinopoli. Fresno, Calif. ; Wayne L. Talbert, Delphi, Ind.; J. Cornelius Tromp, Manhattan, III.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville.

Ala. ; Edward Mc Sweeney, New York, N.Y.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 best account I've ever read of the incident. I couldn't lay the article aside till LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I had read it to its entirety. Everett J. May Kansas City, Mo.

Letters published do not necessarily ex- nated. A great discovery was that of a press the policy of The American Legion. sir: I surely enjoyed the article on the Keep letters short. Name and address must drug that can undo the enzyme that is Titanic, along with everyone else I be iurnished. Expressions of opinion and required for cancer to live. requests for personal service are appreci- talked to who had read it. I hope in the years ahead that we can ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or Joseph E. Mulhern answered, due to lack of magazine staff for say that the Cancer bill is the most im- tliese purposes. Requests for personal serv- Sheldon, Iowa portant of legislation of ices ivhich may be legitimately asked of piece our time. The American Legion should be made to This bill is great news to the people who your Post Service Officer or your state YOUR INCOME TAX (Department) American Legion Hq. Send are suffering the agonies of this killer letters to the editor to: Letters, The disease, for now they can live with the sir: I want to congratulate you on the American Legion IVIagazine. 1345 Avenue of knowledge that all that is possible is cirticle, "Why Pay to Have Your Income tlie Americas, New York. N.Y. 10019. being done, by private, government and Tax Figured?" (March). It's certainly THE OLYMPICS volunteer agencies, to find the vital an- going to be my inspiration to try to do swer. I hope for the sake of these people our return next year. The I.R.S. claims sir; Your story, "The First Time Ameri- that the 1.6 billion dollars that govern- to make these forms simple. However, ca to the Olympics . . . 1896," Went ment has allocated will be the answer. to me, as well as many others, they (April) rates A-plus with me. It hap- Kevin Breen just aren't. pens I've been a track buff since the St. Johns University To pay $30 to have a joint return made, 1908 Olympic Games when Johnny Brooklyn, N.Y. with less than $6,000 involved, is all right Hayes won the marathon. I imagined I for the C.P.A., but not so good for two knew something about the Olympics, THE TITANIC retired people in their 70's. but I must raise my hat to author Lyn- Mrs. a. E. Walker, Jr. wood Mark Rhodes. Congratulations on sir: Thanks for the article on the Titanic. Marshall, Va. publishing a fine piece of writing. ("When the Titanic Went Down," Henry R. Schnitzer March.) The author, Peggy Robbins, ob- Bayonne, N.J. viously did a lot of research. AUTHORS SEEK MATERIAL ON: Do you know about Titanic Enthusi- WORLD 2 FLIGHT OFFICERS THE CANCER FIGHT asts of America? It is an organization WAR whose members are interested in one sir: For research on a book, I would sir: The Cancer Act of 1971, which was way or another in the history of the like to hear from the men who graduated the subject of your April article, "Can great ship and wish to perpetuate her from the U.S.A.A.F. Aviation Cadets in Cancer Be Licked?", was passed so late memory. The official publication is "The WW2 as Flight Officers rather than 2nd in the year that appropriations for its Titanic Commutator," which comes out Lieutenants. first year ended up $83 million short of three or four times a year and is very the authorized $400 million. Supplemen- Rabbi Leonard Winograd interesting. 1322 Lincoln tal appropriations are needed to restore Way Every ten years, the Enthusiasts get McKeesport, Pa. 15131 these funds for the 1972 fiscal year. We together to commemorate the disaster. urge readers to write to the President There was a good gathering here in New requesting the full appropriation as AAA SI. BN. HQ BATTERY WW2 York in 1952, but I did not hear of any promised in the Cancer Act of 1971. plans for the 60th anniversary in April sir: For a history of the 245th AAA SI. William C. Bryson of this year. Bn. Headquarters Battery (WW2), I Nassau County (N.Y.) Division Arthur T. Knowles need to hear from any former members American Cancer Society New York, N.Y. of the Battery. Wantagh, N.Y. Howard L. Larson sir: My compliments for the fine story Rt. 1, Box 88 sir: Your article on the cancer fight on the Titanic. Peggy Robbins did the Wilbnar, Minn. 56201 mentions the work of Dr. Robert A. Good, University of Minnesota Regents Professor. Minnesota is justifiably proud of Dr. Good because he received his original chair at the University of Minnesota by virtue of a $500,000 trust fund established by the Minnesota American Legion and Auxiliary. The funds were raised in a four-year drive from 1950- 1954 and invested by the university, the proceeds of which funds chair a research program in heart research. Dr. Good, a world-renowned immu- nologist, has recently accepted an appointment as president of the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. We are proud of our part in helping to launch Dr. Good's career, and are sorry to lose him. Frank C. Momsen, Adjutant Department of Minnesota St. Paul, Minn.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 3 Now that she's in, What Has Red China Been Doing in the UN ?

A. By THOMAS HOGE A look at how the UN's newest member is behaving L\TE LAST fall. Communist China joined the United Nations, replac herself since coming to the world organization ^ ing the Taiwan government of Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek as the representa- longer or go the way of its predecessor, Chinese and Russians picked to air their tive of China. What has she been doing the League of Nations, and die a linger- feud before the nati ons of the world. there? So far, her UN actions have only ing death. "We should always be modest in our come through to most of us in bits and are definitely entering into a new international relations," Chairman pieces. Here's a rundown, whose main "We Mao phase in the history of the United Na- Tse-tung once said, and when the Chi- point is that the Red Chinese started by tions," Cyrus R. Vance, who nese delegates, clad in blue and giving the United States the business, but commented brown heads the policy study committee of the tunics, walked quietly into the blue soon focused on the Soviet Union. They Mao Association of the U.S.A. "This is and gold assembly hall, they appeared dragged the Soviet representatives into a UN an absolutely critical time to try to make to be following Mao's pronouncements series of childish, name-calling quarrels of the organization what it must be if to the letter. On that first day, they to the exasperation not only of the red- it is going to be the kind of world it peeked timidly into the delegates' faced Soviets but to others at the UN should be." crowded lounge, but did not enter. Sev- who found the Chinese-Russian quarrel It was this critical time that the Red eral days later, their press officer, interfering with serious business. Kao The Red Chinese made their formal UN PHOTO entry into the United Nations on the afternoon of Nov. 15, 1971, with a round of handshakes and smiles. A few hours later they were blasting the United States in what was supposed to be a routine, polite, acceptance speech. With- in a week, they had homed on their prime target, the Soviet Union. The classic Israeli-Arab exchanges and the clashes between Indian and Paki- stani in UN debate were gentle banter compared to the invective hurled back and forth by Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik and Peking's Deputy Foreign Minister, Chiao Kuan-hua and the permanent UN representative, Huang Hua. Dredging up rhetoric from the East- West cold war days, the Chinese took aim at the Russians and proceeded to accuse Moscow of everything from col- lusion with the capitalist powers to "social imperialism." Stung by the last label, Malik charged his tormentors with "vicious pathological slander against the Soviet Union." Then Malik countered with a taunt of his own. He declared that Huang Hua was aspiring "to the role of imperialist jester." "It would have been amusing," com-

mented one Western delegate, "if it had not occurred while the Security Council was trying to end the shooting war between India and Pakistan." The exchange of insults erupted at a time when most UN members were already wondering whether the world organization, ridden with debts and be- set with self-doubts, would survive much Peking's Chiao Kuan-hua started off politely enough in his UN acceptance speech.

4 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 Liang, hesitantly joined a group of against the United States, accusing it of his colleague Huang took up the cudgels. American reporters at a table for a beer aggression by sending U.S. naval forces On November 24, nine days after and a chat. into the Taiwan Strait and by military Peking made its debut in the world But the tip-off to the true Chinese intervention in Vietnam, Cambodia and forum, Chiao roused Malik's ire by urg- strategy came in the acceptance speech Laos. ing the assembly not to put to a vote of Chiao Kuan-hua, a tall man with Chiao spelled out Peking's claim to the Soviet proposal to call a world dis- Taiwan as "an inalienable part of armament conference. Such a parley, he UPI PHOTO China's territory," and claimed that the declared, would merely become a "per- United States had publicly acknowledged manent club for endless discussions." this. Chiao then charged that both the "It was only because of the outbreak United States and Russia were using of the Korean war," he said, "that the nuclear control agreements to "camou-

U.S. Government went back on its own flage . . . their own nuclear expansion." words and sent armed forces to invade Malik lashed back in the same vein, and occupy China's Taiwan, and to date by trying to link up China and the

they are still there. . . . The Chinese United States. The Soviet envoy noted people are determined to liberate Taiwan that only Chiao and U.S. Sec'y of State and no force on earth can stop us from William P. Rogers had opposed the doing so," he shouted. Soviet plan for a world arms conference. Turning to disarmament, Chiao gave The assembly, Malik added with the-

Huang Hua China's permanent UN representative.

The chief occupation of Red China in the UN so far has been to bait the Russian bear. graying hair parted in the middle. Chiao a hint of how his government intended atrical emphasis, thus had had "an op- started off in low key, saying, China "will to deal with its one-time ally, Soviet portunity to witness this curious Sino- not act as a superpower. . . Russia. American duet of negativism." "China is still an economically back- "If the United States and the Soviet Chiao rose to the challenge and ward country, as well as a developing Union really and truly want disarma- charged that the arms talks thus far had country," Chiao said. "Like the over- ment," he said, "they should commit led to little real progress and any resolu- whelming majority of Asian, African themselves not to be the first to use tions adopted "remain but empty papers and Latin American countries, China nuclear weapons." that are utilized by the two superpowers belongs to the Third World." For 24 hours, the United States made to hoodwink world opinion." There was an appealing modesty in no comment on the Chinese blast. Then, Chiao then blasted the whole existing the words and delegates settled back in after a trip to Washington, U.S. Am- concept of disarmament, declaring that their seats. bassador George Bush issued a written many small nations were fighting for At this point, Chiao removed his statement charging that Chiao had used their existence and should not be ex- glasses and looked out over the crowded "intemperate language" and had fired pected to disarm at all. It was a tack hall. The United Nations, he asserted in "empty cannons of rhetoric." After this clearly aimed at winning the support of louder tones, must not be manipulated brief salvo, the United States bowed out the Third World. and monopolized by "one or two super- of the dispute, leaving the two com- "It is entirely just," Chiao asserted, powers." munist powers to battle it out. "for the people of the world and all He then launched into a diatribe With obvious enthusiasm, Chiao and peaceloving countries to demand that

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 5 CONTINUED Now that she's in, What Has Red China Been Doing in the UN?

singing a duet, openly trumpeting for the dismemberment of Pakistan." Malik flushed and retorted: "He (Hu- ang) has repeated here my word 'duet,' but that is not original. He might perhaps have invented something new." Malik had welcomed the Chinese into the assembly by expansively referring to them as "comrades." But less than three weeks later, they were calling each other "mister" which is a term of contempt in diplomatic parlance. "As for Mr. Huang," Malik told the council with elaborate sarcasm, "if he wishes to call me Mister, I am quite prepared to call him Mister, if he prefers to be called a Mister." By now the gloves were off, and such words as "slander." "lies" and "Socialist

An Indian view of Russia's indignation at China trying to align itself with the bloc of small nations. The picketer is Brezhnev.

Jacob Malik, Russia's UN rep, flushed at the charges China leveled at the U.S.S.R.

betrayal" were hurled back and forth. When the Chinese came up with the label "social imperialism." Malik

pounced upon it, noting that Peking had said "social" instead of "Socialist." He implied that this was a show of ignor- ance on the part of the newcomers from Peking.

"Social imperialism is as great an ab- surdity as fried ice." Malik said. Both China and Russia plunged into the Indian-Pakistani debate, but usually In the UN, China charged that Indian troops went into Pakistan with Russia's help. wound up in a squabble over some point that had little to do with the conflict. these two superpowers withdraw to their or two superpowers" of practicing power At one point, Huang compared Indian own countries all their military bases on politics and warned that "the danger of aims in East Pakistan (Bangladesh) foreign soil and to demand the adoption a new world war still exists." with Japan's Manchukuo government in ol effective measures to prevent nuclear One or two superpowers. It was the Manchuria before WW2. Huang accused war." same line that Chiao had used in his Russia of being India's boss and warned As in the assembly. Red China made opening assembly speech. Malik to beware of history. a low profile entry into the Security The council was involved at this point Malik countered with a vague claim

Council where it was admitted as one in an intense debate over the bloody that only the "decisive victory" of the of the five big powers with the right of conflict between India and Pakistan, but Soviet forces had liberated Manchuria. veto. Welcomed by U.S. Ambassador this did not deter the Chinese. Huang "Mr. Huang Hua says that Malik has Bush on November 23. Huang Hua soon proved himself as adept in the art not understood history," the Soviet en- started off on a modest note expressing of catcalling as his colleague, Chiao. voy declared. "Well ... I want to say hope that "fhe spirit of the UN charter And again the target was Malik and the that Mr. Huang has falsified history." will be carried out." Soviet Union. The argument then veered to Henry Then Huang began to warm up to Huang threw Malik's label "duet" Pu-Yi. the Japanese puppet emperor of his subject and was soon parroting the back at him, saying: "The representa- Manchuria years ago. Malik recalled standard Peking line. He accused "one tives of the Soviet Union and India are that the Soviet Union had taken him

6 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 prisoner and allowed him to read the works of Marx and Lenin. "And when we handed Pu-Yi over to the Chinese, we had virtually prepared him as a Marxist," Malik said. "The Chinese received not an emperor, but a

Chiao Kuan-hua ripped into the U.S. before turning his big China, forgetting what she did to Tibet, belabored the Soviets in the UN for what guns on Russia's Malik. their tanks and army (seen above in Prague) did to Czechoslovakia in 1968.

China accused the U.S. and Russia of provoking the Mideast crisis and "colluding with each other" in that part of the world. man who had already read Lenin and the traitors to socialism of the Chinese maneuvers and was not cowed by Soviet Marx." side have fallen," Malik then embarked military might. Undaunted, Huang retorted that "the on a lengthy tirade of his own. China went to considerable lengths historical fact" was that Pu-Yi "was re- "The Chinese representative, with his during the council debate to depict the leased and became a librarian for a vicious pathological slander against the Pakistani civil war as an internal conflict

period of time," dying in 1967. Soviet Union, is aspiring . . . to the role which India had helped to provoke by "I take note of the fact that the of imperialist jester. He is amusing the arming the rebels and then using the quisling Pu-Yi was not punished in imperialists with his malicious slander dispute as an excuse to settle old scores China, but was converted into a librari- against the Soviet Union." and dismember the state of Pakistan. an," Malik replied with heavy irony. Malik's blast had little visible effect. Elaborating on this theme, Huang He added that elsewhere war crimi- It was clear by now that the Chinese accused the Soviet Union of supporting nals had been hanged, "but in China they were determined not only to challenge India's intervention in the Pakistani con- became librarians." Soviet expansionist policies in the Indian flict and using its veto power in the In patronizing tones, Malik advised Ocean, but in the Middle East, the Security Council to help the advance of Huang to improve his manners and to Mediterranean and in Europe as well. the Indian army. consider how his harassing tactics looked They seemed bent on making clear to Straying to other fields of dispute. to the outside world. the rest of the delegates that Peking was Huang accused the Soviets of hypocrisy Referring to the "low level to which not taken in by Moscow's diplomatic in calling for total withdrawal of Israeli

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 ^ CONTINUED Now that she's in, What Has Red China Been Doing in the UN? troops in the Middle East, while oppos- Russia's Malik described the Chinese problem was "something left over by ing the cease-fire and withdrawal of tactics as negative, but he may have been imperialist rule." Having taken this pot- Pakistani and Indian forces. This, Huang prejudiced. For years. Malik had been shot at Britain's longtime administration asserted, was in keeping with Russia's dealing out criticism against the West over the island, Huang Hua stepped "aggression against the people of Czech- in both the assembly and the security aside without voting. oslovakia." council, and years ago the Western dele- China has repeatedly denied that it is

When the perennial debate on the gates quit wasting time replying to his a superpower, but it has accepted all the Middle East got under way in the assem- barbs, unless the issue demanded it. fringe benefits that go with super-status. bly. Peking jumped in with both feet, Now the Chinese were baiting Malik Peking took permanent big power mem- blaming the United States and Russia to the point where his aides were coun- bership on the Security Council and for provoking the Mideast crisis and seling the veteran Soviet envoy not to joined in private five-power talks on accusing them of "colluding with each blow his cool. selection of a candidate to succeed U other" in that part of the world. Perhaps the gravest blow the Chinese Thant as UN Secretary-General. "They are taking advantage of the presence dealt to Malik's prestige was Informants said that in these private temporary difficulties facing the Pales- the assembly's decision to postpone at exchanges, the Russians and Chinese tinian and other Arab peoples to make least to 1972 any action on the Soviet were as cold toward each other as they dirty political deals in their contention proposal for a world disarmament con- were in public. To keep the talks from for important strategic points and oil ference. bogging down altogether, the three West- resources and the division of spheres of WIDE WORLD PHOTO influence," declared Chiao Kuan-hua. As Western diplomats had privately predicted even before the Chinese were seated in the UN, Peking was trying to project an image of itself as a champion of the small countries. It also was making an open bid for the friendship of the Arab states; a move certain to gall Moscow, which had been doing the same thing for years and did not welcome competition from its communist rival. "The essence of the Middle East question." thundered Chiao, "is the aggression against the Palestinians and other Arab peoples by the Israeli Zionists with the support of U.S. ruling circles." Having unleashed this wholesale blast against Soviet Russia, the United States and Israel, Chiao confounded his fellow diplomats by suddenly stepping aside and letting the 130 other delegations negotiate a resolution calling for re- sumption of the Mideast peace mission of UN trouble-shooter Gunnar V. Jar- ring. Despite his strongly worded speech, Chiao did not vote for or against the The two Nationalist China reporters were ousted from UN on Red China's demand. resolution that emerged from the bar- gaining table. He merely abstained. The West generally opposed the idea, ern representatives found themselves

This is the way China has acted on but it was China's outspoken opposition serving as a buffer. most major issues before the assembly that carried the Third World along in In the first two rounds of balloting. or security council: unbending speeches the landslide vote to postpone the pro- Peking—which favored candidate Felipe couched in high-flown phraseology, and posed parley. Herera of Chile—cast a veto against then when the time to vote arrived, an "After all, it did not affect the real Austria's Kurt Waldheim as Secretary- attitude almost of disinterest. world," said a Western source, "because General. Finally, on the third round, the A second look at the Chinese speeches there would not have been a conference Chinese lifted their veto and Waldheim disclosed that many of them dealt mainly at any rate. We knew what the Russians was chosen. in platitudes and had little bearing on the were up to, and the West would have One version has it that Huang had issue at hand. had to kill the proposal if China hadn't. passed the word around that he would "China's Middle East speech," ob- It was very nice to have the Chinese to have preferred Herera or some other served a Western delegate, "was not do our dirty work for us." candidate of the Third World, but. relevant to the resolution being pro- On Cyprus, the Mediterranean isle realizing that no such candidate could posed. It might have been made by a where Greek and Turkish Cypriot fac- make it, he gave in rather than bear the Martian. tions live in open hostility, the Chinese blame for causing a stalemate. "Then when we began to negotiate followed their routine of thunder and Another version says that the Russians over a resolution," the delegate con- inaction. When the semi-annual proposal were upset when the Chinese finally un- tinued, "the Chinese stepped aside, as to continue the UN peace force on the blocked Waldheim's election because if to say that they were washing their island for another six months was placed they had counted on Peking's vetoes to hands of the dirty politics the rest of us before the Security Council, Peking's bottle up selection of a new helmsman were playing. It's all a little confusing." representative declared that the Cyprus until Thant's actual retirement several

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 weeks later. Then, under pressure of nounce him. I am appealing to him." for the customary assistance the host time, Moscow had hoped, according to Coming to An's assistance, another country provides all newcomers to the this theory, to force the West into a deal Chinese delegate, Chen Chu, said that, world forum. But this soon changed, as that would revive the old Soviet troika regardless of whether Baroody was mak- Peking began to realize that it had to idea with three men at the top of the UN, ing a denunciation or an appeal, China have such help. Now the Chinese make each armed with a veto; a westerner, a rejected it. routine calls on the American mission neutral and a communist. Baroody did not forget the incident, on such matters as tax exemptions, spe- The Chinese behavior has baffled and weeks later during the debate on cial license plates and other privileges many nations of the Third World. They India-Pakistan, he chided both Malik that have been dear to diplomats as long generally appreciated Peking's avowed and Huang for bickering while the UN as one can remember. stand for a strong Secretary-General, was trying to stop a war. The Chinese also requested and were and supported Peking in delaying the "Is it a tragicomedy, while people are given a special office at UN headquarters Soviet call for a disarmament confer- suffering in the millions and there is war beside New York's East River. It is a ence. going on?" he demanded. "How are we privilege accorded only to the big pow- But the small nations generally con- to expect any clear thinking on the part ers. sider China's atmospheric nuclear testing of those who indulge in vituperation and Soon after they arrived, the Chinese to be at odds with the goals of the Third in recrimination? demanded that U Thant lift the accredi- World. And they are disturbed by the "We have had enough," Baroody con- tation of two veteran Nationalist Chinese feud going on between China and the cluded. "We cannot take it any more. If newsmen, Teh-cheh Tang and Chen-chi Soviet Union. they call each other traitors and betray- Lin. Peking argued that a resolution During the council session on the In- UPI PHOTO WIDE WORLD PHOTO dian-Pakistani dispute, several of the smaller countries criticized the Russians and Chinese for their name-calling contest and urged them to act in a more dignified manner. Some diplomats believe that in avoid- ing use of their veto power to hold up action on major issues, as the Russians did for so many years, the Chinese may be getting ready to demand that the assembly revoke or cancel out a 21 -year- old resolution which had condemned Peking as an aggressor in the Korean war. The aggressor resolution, backed by the United States, is still on the UN books. No such measure can be ex- punged from the record, but a later resolution can take the sting out of it. The Chinese lost their aplomb at one point in the session, and took on Saudi Arabia's veteran ambassador, Jamil Baroody, who has been making waspish and often telling speeches in the assembly and Security Council—as well as in the major committees-—for more than 25 years. brilliant orator, Baroody will A While the UN debated disarmament, China set off a nuclear blast, and Saudi Arabia's roam from one debate to another as his outspoken Jamil Barpody stunned the Chinese by his criticism of the act. fancy dictates. And he is not accustomed to having anyone talk back to him, in- ers, what have they left to call us capital- adopted October 25 by the assembly cluding the big powers who accept their ists?" called for expulsion of all representatives Arab colleague with a mixture of amuse- From the day they arrived in New of Nationalist China (Taiwan) from any ment and resignation. York, the Red Chinese have been secre- UN activities. The communists declared Four days after Peking was seated, tive about their activities outside the that the two correspondents fell into this Baroody wandered into the assembly's actual debates in the United Nations. category, since the Central News Agency main political committee where the dis- They ask dozens of questions of other of China for which they worked was armament debate was in full swing. Tak- delegations before debate opens on an owned and operated by the Taiwan gov- ing the floor, Baroody expressed shock important issue. But they seldom dis- ernment. that China had picked that time to set close their own views as the other dele- After checking the validity of the red off a nuclear blast. gates do, or give any hint on how they demand with his legal advisors, Thant This stunned the Chinese and drew an intend to vote. But Peking apparently has withdrew the accreditation of the two angry retort from An Chihyuan, who been active behind the scenes. newsmen and immediately touched off a was sitting in the committee for Peking. Last February, officials learned with flurry of protests. A spokesman for the He declared that China's weapons were some surprise that Chinese and Mexican US Mission said that Washington "fully for defensive purposes and added that representatives had held a dozen private supports" complaints made by American he did not appreciate being denounced meetings in New York leading up to and foreign journalists over the dis- in such a manner by Baroody. their agreement establishing diplomatic accreditation. The prestigious Foreign "I did not denounce anybody," said relations. Press Association also fired off a protest Baroody, in surprised tones. "I can de- When they first arrived, the Chinese to Thant. nounce him, but I do not want to de- declined to approach the United States (Continued on page 53)

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Chicago looking west into the Loop (left); northwest across the Chicago River (center), and north up Michigan Avenue's "magnificent mile" (right). Scene Is from observation deck of Prudential building. Drawing on next spread looks south from same point. Tall building on extreme left is new First National Bank bidg., and at extreme right, not far from where Michigan Ave. abuts on the lake, the John Hancock bIdg. Twin circular towers in center of spread are at Marina City on the river.

By R. B. PITKIN When it is finished, the Sears building 4,500 seats, the Arie Crown is only a will match the 110 stories of the twin fraction of McCormick Place. The Le- So what's new in Chicago? towers of New York's new World Trade gion will have no use for two huge ex- The question is pertinent. The 54th Center—which has just eclipsed the Em- hibit halls, one above the other. If you National Convention of The American pire State building (1,250 feet) as the didn't read the signs, you could get lost Legion will meet in Chicago this August world's tallest. But Chicago's Sears build- in McCormick Place looking for the 18-24. Having been there in 1933. 1939. ing will top New York's new giant in Arie Crown. McCormick Place has seven 1944, 1945 and 1958, this will be the height by 100 feet (1,450 to 1,350) and or eight restaurants and a big cafeteria, sixth time the Legion will have met in it will then be the world's tallest. as well as plush bars, considerable shop- the so-called "Windy City"—where, one Be that as it may, by all odds Legion- ping facilities and indoor vehicular road- might add, the average annual wind ve- naires will find the most impressive "new ways—most of which are somewhere be- locity is less than in Bismarck. Boston, thing" in Chicago to be McCormick tween gaudy and sumptuous, not to Buffalo, Cleveland. Galveston, Key West. Place, the new exposition center in which mention spacious. Minneapolis, Omaha or San Francisco, the Legion will hold its convention busi- I said seven or eight restaurants in not to mention the top of Mt. Washing- ness sessions on Aug. 22, 23 and 24. McCormick Place. It's hard to count ton. ( Page 250, World Almanac for This is on the lakefront, south of the them. Like some of the several bars, 1972, under "Speed of Winds in the Loop, where the Century of Progress some of the restaurants start where

United States.") world's fair wowed everybody back in others leave oft", and you get the feeling

There's a lot that's new in Chicago. 1933. Until it got McCormick Place, the you might have missed one. Then. too. Slowly, new skyscrapers are starting to area south of the Loop was sort of on one of the restaurants can come and go. replace the more ancient buildings in the the decline—the classier part of the city It's a sort of indoor sidewalk cafe in the old downtown Loop area. Chicago now for visitors had slowly been creeping lobby, whose space can be turned to has one 100-story building (the John north. But McCormick Place is some- other use according to the plan of the Hancock office and apartment building thing else. day. on upper Michigan Ave. ) while two taller It's like an aircraft carrier and an ice- There's a covered mall in the above ones are under construction in the down- berg. What shows above the ground looks ground level and a lobby right under it. town area. They are Sears Roebuck's like a real big carrier, a flattop 1,360 one floor down. They separate the ex- growing job off Wacker Drive and Stand- feet long and 610 feet wide. But it goes hibit-hall section from the theater sec- ard Oil of Indiana's tower overlooking down two big stories underground. tion. The Legion has held conventions almost everything from the north end of There's nothing else under one roof like in halls no bigger than the mall and the

Grant Park—to dwarf the previous lone- it. lobby. Some of the restaurants are ordi- ly grandeur of the 41 -story Prudential The Legion will meet in the Arie nary sized, but the Lindheimer Banquet Building next door. Crown Theater. In spite of its nearly Room on the terrace level is for banquets

10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 CHICAGO, ILL• Site ofthe 1972 American Legion National Convention

feeding up to 20,000. I heard that it had had to go to the old stockyards auditori- fed 25,000 at a breakfast, and that um site). So they rebuilt McCormick

40,000 people had met at one time in the Place from the ashes and reopened it in

larger exhibit hail. The things you hear 1971. While they were at it, they made about McCormick Place have the awe- some changes based on their experience

some quality of a page in an almanac in running it for six years. For example, that gives you the tallest mountain, the they found that the original main exhibit worst disaster, the longest heat wave and hall couldn't accommodate a big, full- the distance to the farthest star. masted sailing ship at a boat show, so Chicago has some boasts that need when they did the place over they made qualification—like the fact that the the ceilings higher. In fact, they doubled Morrison Hotel was the tallest building the size of the whole place. The memory that was ever torn down, or that the of the fire lingers on. For instance, there United of America Building is the will be no smoking in the Arie Crown world's tallest, commercial, white-mar- Theater and fire marshals may be on ble-faced building. But you don't have to hand to remind forgetful Legionnaires

qualify McCormick Place. I'll leave off of that during the convention meetings. the statistics with word that there's room As for the rest of Chicago as a con-

for more than 2,000 cars in the under- vention city, it seems a little foolish to

ground parking lot, and for more than be telling about it. So many Legionnaires 4,000 cars in adjacent ground-level park- are already there, or go there frequently, ing lots—including that of Soldier Field, that readers by the thousands will know Vvhich IS the next structure north of Mc- more about the city than we can spell Cormick Place. It is Soldier Field (which out here. Chicago is the nation's biggest has been cut in half since Dempsey convention city. Thousands of out-of- floored Tunney for the "long count" town salespeople go to the huge Mer- there) which will house that great public chandise Mart just across the Chicago musical spectacle, the Legion's National River from the Loop, or to the Furniture Senior and Junior Drum and Bugle Corps Mart a little further north on the Lake championships on Sunday night, Aug. 20. Michigan shore, to see the unveiling of But before we leave McCormick Place new lines of goods each year. Last year, —a little bit of history. It's new and it 58,000 people attended a housewares isn't. It was all finished about 1961 and exhibit in McCormick Place that was The Water Tower, a lone survivor of the was in business for six years before a fire not open to the public. There's hardly a great fire of 1871, seen against 100- gutted it in 1967 (which is why the tem- business or non-business organization story John Hancock office and apartment building on upper Michigan Ave. pestuous 1968 Democratic Convention that doesn't convene in Chicago some-

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The view south from Prudential building observation deck. Scene is described m text below.

times or frequently, and, as we've noted, without any natural border for "down- by which visitors cross over them. the Legion has been there five times be- town." To the right, beyond Michigan Ave- fore. It's the only city where the Legion In our large drawing, based on photos nue, the Loop area extends nine blocks held its national convention two years taken from the 41st floor observation out of the drawing to Wacker Drive on in a row. That was because, in 1944 and deck of the Prudential Building, you look the Chicago River's south branch. The 1945. there was a war on and Uncle Sam south over Grant Park with Michigan bulk of the Legion visitors will be housed

felt that it would conserve wartime rail Avenue on the right, fronting the park. along this stretch of Michigan Avenue transportation to meet in a central city (The wide-angle photo on our open- and in the next few blocks into the Loop. rather than off at one corner of the na- ing pages looks west, northwest and north The Conrad-Hilton Hotel, at 720 S. tion. from the same deck.) In the far distance Michigan, will be the Legion headquar- If Chicago and its suburbs sprawl all (in the drawing) is McCormick Place, ters hotel and provide up to 1.900 rooms. over adjacent Illinois, Indiana and Wis- easily identified as being something like It's indicated in our drawing. A block

consin, the Legion convention is essen- an aircraft carrier. The large structure north of it the Pick-Congress will house

tially concerned with a much smaller facing you at the foot of Grant Park is the up to 700 Legionnaires and hold several area—principally the eastern three- or Field Museum of Natural History. To the Legion social functions. Also in sight four-block width of the old downtown left of it a short distance is the Shedd are several other hotels and motels that Loop area. Aquarium. Almost hidden behind the will house Legionnaires. The Palmer

The whole Loop is only nine blocks Field Museum is Soldier Field. Way out House, some two blocks in from the east-west and 12 blocks north-south if to the left at the tip of a spit of land jut- lower right corner of the drawing, will

you stretch its southern limits as far as ting into Lake Michigan is the dome of take up to 1,800 Legion guests, and it

Polk Street, which few do. the Adier Planetarium. Beyond it is will contain the concurrent national con- The real Loop is simply an area en- Meigs Field, for small planes, on the vention of the Legion Auxiliary. All told, closed by a loop of the elevated railway, outer barrier (Northerly Island) of a sort 12 hotels available to the Legion are on

but by common consent "loop" is a gen- of lagoon (Burnham Park Harbor). All this part of Michigan Avenue or in the eral term for the downtown business sec- the park from the Field Museum to past near Loop—and there are more to the tion, some of which is outside the ele- McCormick Place is Burnham Park. In north. vated railway loop. You can walk all the near foreground, on the Grant Park On Monday, Aug. 21, starting at 10

over it in a longish stroll. side of Michigan Avenue, is the Art a.m.. the Legion's annual convention

The downtown area is better defined Institute of Chicago. parade will start on Michigan Avenue at

on the north and west by the Chicago The Illinois Central railroad tracks the Chicago River. After a few blocks it River, on the east by Lake Michigan and look like an eyesore in Grant Park when will swing into view on the near part of Grant Park on the lakeshore, and on the seen from the air, but they are below Michigan Avenue in our drawing and south by nothing but opinion, since the ground level and are invisible to pedes- continue to approximately the Conrad-

city continues indefinitely to the south trians except from the numerous bridges Hilton. It is gently downhill most of the

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way, a splendid arrangement for an August parade.

Chicago is quite neatly laid out for learning your way around. All West addresses are west of State St., two blocks St ART in from Michigan Ave., and all East INSTITUTE

addresses east of it (and the line of State St. as an east-west divider continues even

when State St. vanishes, as it does by running into the lake north of the Loop) All North-South addresses are based on Madison St., which just misses coming into the lower right corner of our drawing. State and Madison intersect in the Loop. Since State is pretty close to the lake, there's a lot more west than east to Chicago. All numbered streets are south of Madison, and in counting blocks south (say to 23rd St., which runs into McCormick Place) you can treat the named streets north of there as numbered streets. That is, 23rd is 23 blocks south of Madison even though the streets immediately south of Madison have names, not numbers. Monroe is a block south of Madison. In counting blocks, you can

treat it as First St. You don't care? I just thought it was interesting. Were you ever a stranger in Atlanta, where the street you're on keeps changing its name, most likely to Peachtree lane, drive, circle, place, court or something? All of the streets in the Loop behave ILLUSTRATED BY TOM RATLIFFE

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The skyline from lakefront, looking northwest with Soldier Field, Field Museum and CONTINUED Shedd Aquarium in near foreground. White building at upper left-hand corner of Grant Park is Prudential bidg., from which scenes on first two spreads were taken. from south. A Look at Chicago, 111. Tallest bIdg. on extreme left is again First National Bank, this time seen Conrad-Hilton is at left edge of picture facing park. Bandshell in Grant Park, where is seen just above Field Museum. themselves, going either east-west or summer concerts are held, north-south, except Wacker Drive. If to delight the Drive it would bearing for visitors who want to see the has the window-shopping they'd named it Riverside — defines girl friend "class" stores and salons on explain itself. It goes north-south along sights and spend money, since it is the street and in the hotels and office the river, and then east-west when the two sides of the Loop. There enough buildings. river goes that way. The Chicago River shopping in the Loop to satisfy most if you will saunter up A little more than halfway up "the is the only river besides the St. Lawrence pocketbooks, but mile," at Chicago Street, you come to a that drains out of the Great Lakes, Michigan Avenue and leave the Loop by Water Tower and its Pumping though some Niagara River water gets to crossing the river, you enter the "Fifth relic—the Station. Chicago's most ancient relics the Hudson via a man-made canal. Avenue," "Park Avenue," "Champs will Chicago were virtually wiped out 101 years ago The Chicago is on such an impercept- Elysees" or what you of by the great fire of 1871. which was or ible watershed divide (15 feet high) that the "near north" area. Here, upper Mich- drag. It runs was not started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow in the course of history it has flowed both igan Avenue is the main kicking over a kerosene lantern. When into and out of the lake. Man found it for about a mile north of the river until the blaze was over, the Water Tower flowing in and decided he wanted it to an inshoot of the lakefront curve brings against stood intact amidst four square miles of flow out—and he was able to switch it Michigan Avenue to an end stretch north of ashes. so that its waters now go out of the lake Lakeshore Drive. This It isn't as impressive as Philadelphia's to the Mississippi instead of into the lake the river is called the "magnificent mile" turned Independence Hall, but for a city that to the St. Lawrence. by Chicagoans. Had our artist wiped out in a day. the For anyone who thinks the pollution around and looked north he'd have been had its former self magnificent mile. Water Tower is a fine enough relic of a thing is new, they turned the river around looking straight up the between 1890 and 1900 because the The near north area embraces numerous lost past. de- The tower holds no water now, and city's wastes—via the river—were be- high income apartment houses and looking at all the windows in it I couldn't fouling the whole south end of the lake velopments. There are 1 3 fine hotels and off of figure out how it ever held water—nor back then. It was one of the greatest sani- motels along this stretch or right could the cop on the beat enlighten me. tation works ever undertaken, and the it, all the way to the Drake at the north But the pumping station still operates as river water was purified long before it end. Some Legionnaires will be housed of the Chicago sanitation setup. reached the Mississippi. How true that along here, though there will be no of- part the magnificent They both are made of a sort of creamy is today. I do not know, but some Missis- ficial Legion doings on with yellowish mortar. You can sippi watershed states welcomed the shift mile. The stretch also has a lot of the stone at a nearby spot and see the tower and joined Chicago in legal defenses newer office buildings, including the stand the 100 stories of the when other Great Lakes interests tried (present) tallest building in Chicago, the centered against Hancock building up ahead, to get to stop this diversion of lake water to the John Hancock, topped by twin broad- John contrast of the oldest and Mississippi. casting antennae that look like feelers of a sentimental mile" the newest in one eyeful. The Chicago River is important as a a man from Mars. Even more, "the

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Art Institute of Chicago seen from foot of Monroe St. It is on Michigan Ave. facing up Adams St. a block south of Monroe.

Circular towers of Marina City make a modern Chicago landmark. They are across Chicago River from Wacker History. Drive, at State Street. Main entrance hall of Field Museum of Natural

of just The distances between everything empty 80% of modern art and we've discussed are not enormous. about everything else, too. Wonderful impressionists, top masters of the Though I don't recommend it if you're French Renaissance, the greats of the classical busy, I sauntered on foot from the center of the Loop up the "magnificent mile" Dutch school—Rembrandt, Hals—and and back down to the Field Museum, so on. Also Oriental and American art with plenty of ogling detours, and then of all vintages, and the works of some back north to the Loop—between break- of our great photographers—Edward fast and lunch. Weston, Steichen, et al. The nearness of some of the fine mu- The Field Museum of Natural History seums to the Loop could make it worth- at the foot of Grant Park is a long walk while for convention-goers who don't from the Loop, or about a $1 cab ride normally visit museums at conventions (of only a few minutes). It is one of our to take a peek. The Art Institute of Chi- great natural history museums and has cago, on Michigan at Adams St., is lo- a good many specimens of man and his cated right where Legionnaires will have works as well as stuffed or rebuilt crea- their biggest population density—a short tures of now and the past—from all

stroll to it for most of them. They charge corners of the earth. It cost me $1 to get something to get in, and you decide how in, and was well worth it. It is only a much. They suggest $1. Of course, slroll from there to the Shedd Aquarium, when you really do a museum you walk where it's another $1. Perhaps I was until your arches fall. Unlike the Shedd piqued at the lack of anywhere to sit Aquarium, they have benches in the Art down in the aquarium only because I'd Institute (and in the Field Museum, too) already walked aplenty. You can really where you can sit down when weary. The take in the aquarium in about 20 min-

Art Institute is a splendid museum, and utes to half an hour. I liked all the live I'd say if you don't like what you see, fish, dolphins, tortoises, turtles, penguins

keep walking and you will. and eels I saw there. These Chicago in- Some day we will forget about 80% Sketch of area that will contain all Legion stitutions lead you on and on from one convention events, except some contest of modern art and the 20% we keep to another just as their contents do. It trials and finals at Northwestern Univ. in of it is is only another bit of a walk from the will be worth keeping. Too much Evanston to the north. The Chicago River Planetarium. like the story of the emperor's new cloth- and its branches divide the city into a aquarium out to the Adler lake I ing—there's nothing to it but everyone North Side and South Side on the I must confess I didn't go there, for and a West Side west of the two river says there is. The Art Institute has top had walked all over town and through branches. There is no East Side. examples of the good 20% and of the the Field Museum and the aquarium

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CONTINUED thanks to the efforts of Admiral Gallery's your state will have X rooms available brother. Father John Gallery of Chicago, in certain first-class get A Look at Chicago, 111. a hotel. You can and to Chicagoans who raised a quarter one by notifying your state Adjutant be- and rd had it. For all I know, the Adler million dollars to bring the U-505 up the fore he parcels them out to others or is the greatest planetarium in the world. St. Lawrence and through the lakes to surrenders all claim to unasked-for The literature says that in addition to have her installed at the museum. rooms. Of course, delegates have first its ever-changing shows of the skies it The ever-changing and costly exhibits claim, but so long as his state's rooms has a "world-famous collection of math- of modern science and technology at the last, a paid-up Legionnaire can go as ematical, navigational and astronomical Museum of Science and Industry are a part of the convention even if he has no instruments that was begun by the Strozzi bit overwhelming. official status there. Single rooms in the family in Italy more than 400 years ago." About 13 miles southwest by west of various hotels range from $16 to $26 a Two famous public institutions in the Loop (actually in Brookfield) is the day, with most of them right around the Chicago are a long distance from the Chicago Zoological Park, or Brookfield $18-$21 mark. Some of the hotels have Loop area. One is the 14-acre Museum Zoo. one of the few inland places where free parking, some charge from $1.50 of Science and Industry—near the Uni- you can see trained dolphins show off. to $4.50 a day for parking, and three versity of Chicago, on the lakefront in It is really a great zoo. which is why I refer guests to public lots.

Jackson Park at 57th St. Thafs 57 blocks mention it in spite of its distance from Just as you get your room from your south of Madison, or more than twice the Loop. It's about a 45-minute bus own state Legion organization, that's as far from the Loop as McCormick ride from the Greyhound bus terminal also where you have to get your ticket

niOTOS ON TIIKSE IWCING PACES: BILL ENGDAHI HEDRICH-BI.ESSING

Without cars for comparison, the great size of McCormick Place exposition center would not be apparent. Main

exhibit hall is behind glassed front, and there are two decks below it. Theater section is a separate wing.

Place. The main building is a leftover located at Clark and Randolph streets. or tickets to the National Commander's from the Columbian Exposition of 1893 I am not going to describe hotel ac- Dinner for Distinguished Guests. It's al- —which celebrated the 400th annivers- commodations, because Legionnaires ways a sellout—on a first come, first ary of the landing of Columbus, though cannot choose their own unless they go served basis—so the earlier you apply it opened a year late. You could spend a as individual visitors, when they'd have the better chance you have of getting whole day drinking this museum in. One to compete with the Legion for space at tickets. This year, the dinner will be on of its highly publicized exhibits is the that time. The Legion requires and re- Monday evening, Aug. 21. (as opposed

Nazi submarine U-505. which was cap- serves only first-class rooms, and it has to Tuesday in the past) in the Inter- tured and taken as a prize off the African more than enough reserved in 20 first- national Ballroom of the Conrad-Hilton. coast by a U.S. Navy task force under class Chicago hotels and motels, each of No speakers, just dinner and entertain-

Captain (later Admiral) Dan Gallery, which has pledged a specified number. ment—and it is $15 a head. on June 4, 1944. (See American Legion These are divvied out in blocks to state The switch in date of the dinner is tied

Magazine, April 1958, p.26. ) It is the delegations, by a complex process of to another switch. The opening, and key- only submarine ever taken whole at sea priorities (based on membership), con- note, meeting of the full convention will as a prize in wartime. On June 26, 1954. sultation, inspection and problem-solv- not convene on Tuesday morning, as in

it was hauled up on the Lake Michigan ing that goes on between Convention the past, but Tuesday evening, Aug. 22.

beach and on Sept. 3 it was put on dis- Director Bill Miller and the various state It will sit at 6 p.m. in the Arie Crown play as an outdoor museum exhibit (Department) Adjutants. In the end. Theater in McCormick Place, and will

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 probably be over about 9 p.m. During have refreshments by buying them. The It is hopeless to discuss in any detail the saved daylight hours of Tuesday two hotels (which are a block apart) the eating, shopping, theater and other there will be some notable forums and have set aside enough space for a couple tourist facilities in a city as big as Chi- panels on various subjects of interest to of real big socials. Both parties are con- cago. The Loop area and the magnificent the Legion and the nation (with out- sidered to be a single event, known as mile have enough stores to bankrupt a standing speakers). They'll be open to the Host City Bail. This is also a new visitor before he's fairly started, enough registered Legion and Auxiliary visitors, convention feature. first-class restaurants to feed him well and will meet in one or more of the down- All of the convention committees and in a different setting for each meal of a town hotels. These Tuesday forums are commissions except the contests com- long visit, and enough pubs to drown a brand new convention feature. mittee will hold their meetings in the him. Following the opening evening session Conrad-Hilton. Trials in all or some of The Chicago Tribune published a spe- of the full convention, two huge parties the musical and marching contests will cial Sunday section guide for visitors in refreshments are planned be held at the Northwestern University with and music Feb. 1971. It listed 83 stores in eight in the Pick-Congress campus in Evanston, 111., as will some Conrad-Hilton and Loop blocks of State St. (two blocks in for the of the finals. official hotels later evening hours of No other conven- from Michigan Ave.), including six tion activities will Tuesday, Aug. 22. A member can qualify be held farther from large department stores (Marshall Field; himself guests his con- the than Place. and by showing Loop McCormick The Wiebolt's; Carson Pirie Scott & Co.; vention registration badge. He can get in Drum and Bugle finals will be in Soldier Montgomery Ward; Goldblatt and Scars by paying a dollar a head, and he can Field, Sunday evening, Aug. 20. Roebuck). Paralleling State St. —with their own commercial attractions—are Wabash (separating State St. from Mich- igan Ave. on the east) and to the west Dearborn, Clark, and La Salle streets in the heart of the Loop—crisscrossed south of Wacker Drive by Lake, Ran- dolph, Washington, Madison, Monroe. Adams, Quincy, Jackson, Van Buren, Congress and Harrison streets. The Trib-

une threw up its hands at listing all the

stores on these streets, but it listed 69 more along upper Michigan Avenue's

magnificent mile. You name it and they

have it, from hair-styling, jewelry and imported hats to the latest detergent ad- vertised on TV as having secret chem- icals that make laundry white and purify the environment. Twenty movie theaters were listed—six north of the river and 14 south of it, most of them clustered in the northern Loop area.

Discussing the good restaurants is a laugh. With seven or eight in McCormick Place, three or four each in some of the hotels and scores more scattered all over town, I'm hardly going to pick on three or four and recommend them over all others. In a 32-page pocket-sized "guide to dining pleasures" called "Enjoy Chi-

Arie Crown Theater in McCormick Place, where Legion will meet. (Contimied on page 50)

One of the numerous restaurants (left) and bars (right) in McCormick Place.

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Opposing Views by Congressmen on Tlie Question . . SHOULD CONGRESS SUPPORT "YES" IN 1969, President Nixon told Congress: "So critical Bill had the support of a is the matter of early growth that we must make a wide variety of groups national commitment to providing all American chil- business, labor, religious, dren an opportunity for healthful and stimulating educational and health. development during the first five years of life." Why has there been such The President was correct. We now know that what strong support for child happens in the earliest years of a child's life leaves an development legislation? enduring impression. Good food and health care, emo- The fundamental reason, tional security and stimulating environment contribute of course, is the benefit to immensely to the development of a child's intelligence the lives of children, but a and ability. One authority noted, for example, that second factor is that there "In terms of intelligence measured at age 17, about Rep. John Brademas are now 6 million pre- SO'/c of development takes place between conception (D-Ind) school children whose ." 3rd District and age 4. . . mothers are working.

The House education subcommittee I chair con- many because they have to. These children in particu- ducted three years of hearings on a bill aimed at meet- lar require the "opportunity for healthful stimulating ing the commitment for which the President called. development" of which the President spoke.

In 1970, the White House Conference on Children Yet on December 9, 1971, President Nixon vetoed assigned this Comprehensive Child Development Bill the Comprehensive Child Development Bill. He did number one priority for favorable action by Congress. so in spite of: (1) the clear evidence of need for the Almost 100 members of the House of Representatives, program; (2) the strong support of so many groups, of both parties, cosponsored the measure and last fall and (3) his own eloquent plea for a "national commit- Congress passed it, with over two-thirds of both Demo- ment" to children. crats and Republicans in the Senate voting for the Fortunately, there are both Democrats and Republi- final bill. cans in Congress who want to make good on President Under the measure passed by Congress, preschool Nixon's promise of 1969. We are therefore continuing children of middle income as well as poor families our efforts to provide "all American children an oppor- could receive a range of nutrition, health, education tunity for healthful and stimulating development dur- and other services. ing the first five years of life." For poor children, the program would be free, with fees, based on ability to pay, charged others. Unlike the public school system, participation in child development programs would be completely voluntary, with parental control of programs. The Child Development

If you wish to let your Congressman or one of your Senators know how you feel on this

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 A CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM ?

I OST MEMBERS of Con- directed psychological theory—that child-care "ex- gress see the wisdom perts" know better than the parents how to raise chil- of providing day care facil- dren. By regarding our children almost as wards of ities for working mothers the state, these liberal experimenters would use the with preschool-age chil- child development programs as vehicles to reach their dren, especially where the social objectives. day care makes it possible As the President pointed out in his veto of this pro- for mothers in the lowest posal, it is fiscally irresponsible, administratively un- income group to get off the workable and—most serious—it is loaded with family- dole and improve their weakening implications. We cannot afford the prospec- economic standing and en- tive annual cost of $20 biUion to finance the efforts of Rep. John M. Ashbrook hance their self-respect. legions of new bureaucrats who would inculcate the (R-Ohio) Providing a far-flung federal government's life adjustment philosophy into 17th District network of federally run the minds of their hapless charges. The states would communal centers for shaping children from every be relegated to an insignificant role as the communal economic stratum to fit into an experimental mass- approach to child rearing displaced our traditional assembly government cast, sculpted by bureaucrats family-centered approach. and behavioral scientists, is another proposition alto- The federal government should not infringe upon the gether. moral and legal rights and responsibilities of parents Through a basic misunderstanding, many persons in the upbringing of their children. What we need to view the child development proposal as a day care do is provide for those children who do in fact need center bill, when in reality it would be more accurate help, while at the same time protecting from unsolic- to depict it as the "child control" or "parent replace- ited federal intervention those children who are now ment" legislation it is. Certainly a simple day care receiving adequate parental care. center bill would not be labeled by the President of the United States in his message vetoing the bill "the most radical piece of legislation to emerge from the 92nd Congress."

The mandate of the bill, as spelled out in its pre- amble, is so broad that it would be hard to imagine anything that could not be covered. The bill contem- plates, ultimately, federal support of the entire range of services bearing on the development of our children. These child development proposals are funda- I have read in The American mentally wrong, proceeding as they Legion Magazine for do from a mis- June the arguments in PRO & CON: Should Congress Support A Child Day Care Program?

IN MY OPINION THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS- issue, fill out the "ballot" and mail it to him. l| VES NO SIGNED ADDRESS TOWN STATE

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 I9 Night Riders of the American Revolution

How Paul Revere and others at Boston; Jack Jouett By tom mahoney

16-year-old Miss Sybil Ludington NOBODY WOULD be more delighted in Virginia, and than Paul Revere to know that two centuries since his time the silverware at the sack of Danbury, Conn., all warned the coun- fashioned in Boston by himself and his father is widely imitated, that the origi- tryside that the British were coming. nals are treasured as collectors' items, or that the family name adopted in America by Paul's French father lives on in a substantial national corporation. Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. But nobody would be more astonished than Paul Revere to learn that after two centuries he is better remembered not as a Boston silversmith, but as the man who—"On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five"—singlehandedly carried the warning to Lexington and Concord that the British were coming. Revere owes this fame exclusively to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem,

written long afterward. It is often known by a phrase in its second line: "The Mid- night Ride of Paul Revere," but its actual

title is "Paul Revere's Ride." Revere never made the claims Long- fellow made for him. He achieved less, but had more adventure than the poet reported. In fact, he left behind two written descriptions telling how he shared the feat with several other men. By his own account he never completed the ride himself, having been caught and de- prived of his horse by British soldiers, so that he did not come "to the bridge

in Concord town" when it was "two b\ the village clock" or at any other time that night. Revere and his companions might oi' might not be equally astonished to know that they—and chiefly Revere—arc alone widely remembered today as night riders of the American Revolution who carried word of impending danger in time. A similar ride by John Jouett, in Vir- ginia, saved Thomas Jefferson, several ether signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence and most of the Virginia legislature from being taken by Tarlcton's cavalry, running ahead of Cornwallis' army in 1781. A 16-year-old girl named Sybil Lud- ington similarly aroused the countryside in southeastern New York and brought the colonial troops out to save the day during the sack of Danbury. Conn., in 1777. Nobody knows if Revere and his Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, gets warning from Jack Jouett that British cavalry friends ever heard of Jouett and Miss is headed toward Charlottesville to capture Jefferson and Virginia legislators.

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old New York girl, raced through the night to rouse troops to combat a British invasion force.

Ludington. Quite probably they did. If Touett's ride. But the nation as a whole smith in the city. Coney's silverware is so, they might be all the more bemused recalls only Revere. as highly prized as that of the two Re- today to think that only Revere is re- Paul Revere was the eldest son of veres today. Some believe that it may membered more than locally for such Apollos Rivoire, who changed his Hu- have been Coney who insisted on calling feats. Miss Ludington's route is well guenot name to Paul Revere after com- Apollos Rivoire by the name of Paul marked in the country west of Danbury ing to Boston and being apprenticed to Revere—a more manageable name to today, and a plaque in Cuckoo, Louisa John Coney, then possibly the best silver- pronounce in English. Later, a poem was County, Va., the marks start of Jack ILLUSTRATIONS BY JACK RUGE written suggesting that it was the pleasant

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CONTINUED Night Riders of the American Revolution sound of the name Paul Revere that led when Paul was 19. At that age the son printed a first edition of 14,000 copies

Longfellow to zero in on the younger was craftsman enough to take over the of it, a large press run even by present Paul as the sole hero of the famous mid- family business. In the French and In- standards. A hero-hungry Civil War au- night ride to Lexington and Concord. dian War he served in the artillery at dience bought them quickly. William Dawes (an ancestor of Vice Crown Point against the French. He had Longfellow's spirited lines made a President Charles Dawes, who served made earlier rides to Concord, New York national hero of Paul Revere 45 years under President Coolidge) and others and Philadelphia carrying news or warn- after his death and 88 years after his had a share in the warning. Beside ings. On one trip he spread the news of ride. Every schoolboy has heard the lines: Dawes's portrait in Boston's old South the Boston Tea Party. Revere and several Meeting House today is a poem by Helen others had volunteered to be "express Listen, my children, and you shall hear F. More, entitled "What's in a Name?" riders" for the patriots when needed. A Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the Eighteenth of April, in Part of it runs like this: month after his famous ride he made the Seventy-five; engravings for the first Continental paper Hardly a man is now alive Why should 1 ask? The reason is clear money. When the British man-of-war Who remembers that famous day and My name was Dawes and his Revere. Somerset was later wrecked on Cape year. History rings with his silver name Cod, Revere salvaged 2 1 of her big guns Closed to are the portals of fame. for the defense of Boston. was also me He He said to his friend, "If the British Had he been Dawes or I Revere, a lieutenant colonel in an expedition march No one had heard of him, I fear. against a British naval base in Penobscot By land or sea from the town to-night. No one has heard of me because Bay. That was a disaster, and it took Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch He was Revere and I was Dawes. three years to exonerate Revere of per- Of the North Church tower as a signal

sonal blame for it. light- if land, two, if sea; There has to be some truth in this. Revere was an "Indian" at the Boston One, by and by I on the opposite shore will be. What Longfellow would have done with Tea Party. He drew cartoons propagan- And Ready to ride and spread the alarm dizing for rebellion. He invented and sold Through every Middlesex village and PHOTO WALTER BOLI. dental plates. Before his famous ride, he farm. carried a warning to New Hampshire to For the country folk to be up and to circumvent British seizure of arms there. arm." Before he died, aged 83, he discovered a new process for rolling sheet copper, and The next stanzas have Revere rowing made metal fittings for Old Ironsides. "with muffled oar" to the Charlestown Long after the Revolution he made cop- shore and waiting there "impatient to per plates for the boilers of a Robert mount and ride" while his friend listened Fulton steamboat. for the British "marching down to their For all this, he was no more famous boats on the shore," and then climbed in his time than some, and less famous the tower to the old North Church to than others. Nor is there any indication show two lanterns. Only then, according that he sought fame. Snow's "History of to Longfellow, did Revere spring to the Boston," published in 1825—seven years saddle. after Revere's death—fails to mention him. S.G. Drake's "History and Antiqui- A hurry of hoofs in a village street, ties of Boston," published in 1856, men- A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the tioned his name but had nothing on his dark.

ride. This was 81 years after it happened. And beneath, from the pebbles, in pass- Enduring fame for Paul Revere began ing, a spark Struck out a steed flying fearless and to take shape on April 5, 1860. On that by fleet: day, the leading American poet of his That was all! And yet, through the gloom time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and the light. saunte"ed over from his Cambridge The fate of a nation was riding that home and chanced to visit Boston's old night. . . . North Church. He wrote in his diary:

"We climbed the tower to the chime of It was twelve by the village clock. bells, now the home of innumerable When he crossed the bridge into Medford

pigeons. From this tower were hung the town. . . . lanterns as a signal that the British troops Statue of Sybil Ludington honoring her It was one by the village clock. ride stands at Lake Carmel, New York. had left Boston for Concord." A guide When he galloped into Lexington. . . . identified in the diary as "Mr. H." told

Apollos Rivoire, Jr., is certainly an open Longfellow of Revere's exploit. It was two by the village clock. question. Moved by what he heard and fasci- When he came to the bridge in Concord Paul Revere was an ardent patriot and nated by the ring of the name Revere, town. . . . civic leader. He certainly would have Longfellow next day at his home, which claimed more fame for other deeds (if is a tourist attraction today, began a This is fine as poetry but faulty as his-

it were up to him) than for his 16-mile poem about the ride. On April 19, the tory. Apparently relying for his facts on ride to rouse the countryside when he poet noted, "I wrote a few lines on 'Paul what "Mr. H." told him, Longfellow errs was 40 years old. By his own descrip- Revere's Ride,' this being the day of that on at least three counts. First. Revere— tion, his actual role was that of a co-star achievement." Longfellow made this who knew about the troop movement at best. "The Landlord's Tale" in his book, hours earlier—arranged for the two lan- He was born in 1735. His father, who "Tales of a Wayside Inn." In 1863, Tick- terns in the North Church before leaving had opened his own silver shop, died nor & Fields, the Boston publishers, Boston. They were to be hung as a gen-

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 eral warning to all—not to start messen- at the Massachusetts Historical Society. "I set off, it was then about 1 1 o'clock, gers on their way. He did not need to Both explain that William Dawes had the moon shone bright. I had got almost

see them, and when he crossed the left Boston an hour earlier than Revere over Charlestown Common . . . when I Charles he rode off on the first horse he on the same mission. Then at 10 p.m., saw two Officers on Horse-back, stand- could get. Dr. Joseph Warren, leader of the patriots ing under the shade of a Tree, in a nar- Second, Revere never reached Con- in Boston, asked Revere to ride to John row part of the road. I was near enough cord. While he set out for there, his main Hancock and Samuel Adams at Lex- to see their holsters & cockades. One of

mission was to Lexington. A better told ington with the warning that the British them started his horse towards me . . . tale would note that he beat another were on the march—probably with the I turned my horse short about, and rid messenger to Lexington who had a good aim of capturing them and destroying upon a full Gallop for Mistick Road, he head start on him. This was William the arms stockpile of the patriots at Con- followed me about 300 Yards, and find-

Paul Revere reached Lexington in time to alert John Hancock and Samuel Adams to the British threat, but he was captured shortly after.

Dawes, who caught up with Revere at cord. Warren had noted that Dawes had ing he could not catch me, returned . . .

Lexington and got closer to Concord. started out the long way around, via the I proceeded to Lexington . . . and Finally, neither of them carried the word Boston neck and Roxbury—and feared alarmed Mr. Adams & Col. Hancock. to Concord, and it was an unsung Dr. he'd be late or intercepted. Revere, like "After I had been there about half an Samuel Prescott—met on the road by the British, saved four miles by crossing hour Mr. Dawes arrived, who came from Dawes and Revere while coming home the Charles River. The lantern signals Boston, over the neck. from a date—who did get the word had first been arranged to warn all who "We set off for Concord & were over- through to Concord. All of which takes could see them and knew their meaning. taken by a young gentleman named nothing away from any of them—for to "Two friends rowed me across Charles Prescott, who belonged to Concord & correct Longfellow is not to disparage River," wrote Revere later, "a little to was going home. When we got about half Revere. the eastward where the Somerset, man- way from Lexington to Concord, the The ride he made was hazardous and of-war, lay. It was then young flood, the other two stopped at a House to awake exciting—more so than Longfellow told ship was winding & the moon was rising. the man, I kept along. When I got about it, since Revere was caught by redcoats They landed me on the Charlestown 200 yards ahead of them, I saw two of-

who threatened to shoot him. Revere, at side. . . . fi.cers as before. I called to my company 40, had eight children and a young, "I got a horse of Deacon Larkin. While [Dawes & Prescott] to come up ... In second wife. A less bold man of his age the horse was preparing, Richard Devens, an instant I saw four of them, who rode would have been home with them instead Esq., who was one of the Committee of up to me with their pistols in their hands

of out in the night warning of the British Safety . . . told me that he came down & said 'G—d d—m you, stop. If you search and destroy mission to Concord. the Road from Lexington, after sundown go an inch further, you are a dead Man.'

Moreover, Revere's two modest and ac- . . . that he met ten British officers, and "Immeditly Mr. Prescott came up. We curate accounts of his ride could very well mounted & armed, going up the attempted to git thro them, but they kept easily have been read by Longfellow Road. before us, and swore if we did not turn

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CONTINUED Night Riders of the Americaii RevoUition horses. Revere rides on and on—and merits the fame when the story is told right. So do Dr. Prescott and Jack Jouett in that pasture, they would blow our chusetts. Formerly celebrated on April and Sybil Ludington. brains out. . . . They forced us in. When 19. it is now another Monday holiday. Capt. "Jack" Jouett we had got in, Mr. Prescot said 'Put on!" When Esther Forbes was working on John made what He took to the left, I to the right towards her Pulitzer Prize-winning book. "Paul American History Illustrated in 1971 a wood at the bottom of the Pasture. . . . Revere & the World He Lived In." she called "The Other Ride of the Revolu-

Just as I reached it, out started six of- was asked several times. "Is it true that tion." His 40-mile dash through the Vir- ficers, seized my bridle, put their pistols Paul Revere never took that ride at all?" ginia night was more than twice as long to my Breast, ordered me to dismount, The debunking of Longfellow has led as that of Revere. It has equal notice which I did." many to think he never did—which is with Revere's in a book "Horses and At 2 a.m., instead of being in Concord worse history than Longfellow's. Besides Heroes" by Frazier Hunt and Robert town, as Longfellow wrote. Revere was those already mentioned, she noted other Hunt, but is little known outside of Vir- a prisoner of the British who already had alarm riders that night named Loring. ginia and Kentucky. We have two fine four captives in the pasture. One of these Sanderson. Ebenezer Dorr and Joseph paintings of Revere, one by John Single- was Solomon Brown of Lexington. He Hall. But because of his earlier rides to ton Copley showing him as a bold young had noticed the British officers on the Concord. New York and Philadelphia, man. and one presenting him as a road and had told Hancock and Adams she felt it proper for it to be Revere if friendly oldster by Gilbert Stuart. Copley about them. Because of Brown's warn- Longfellow had to choose a single name. is said to have made his portrait in paying, there were patriot guards around the He ranked high if not highest among ment for picture frames bought from house in which Hancock and Adams the "express" riders. Revere. Of Jack Jouett. we have only a were staying when Revere arrived. Revere's "later and nationwide fame silhouette. Brown was caught when he tried to go on he owes solely to Longfellow," wrote Jouett at the time of his exploit was to Concord with a warning. The patrol COURTESY, injSEUM OF FINE ARTS. BOSTON marched all five back to Lexington. At the edge of town, hearing alarm guns, the soldiers took the horses from their captives and freed the men, who made their way into town afoot. Revere watched a

British grenadier sergeant ride oflf with the horse he'd borrowed from Deacon Larkin, then he returned to Hancock and Adams and helped them pack for flight. Dr. Prescott, who had been in Lexing- ton courting a Miss Milliken. escaped the patrol by spurring his horse over a low stone fence at the end of the pasture. He rode cross-country to Lincoln, where he roused the leader of the minutemen, and then to Concord, where he was the Paul kevere (c. 1770) Paul Revere (c. 1813) Revere silverware first to give the alarm. He continued to Two portraits of Revere, done by famous American artists J. S. Copley (left) and Acton and aroused the minutemen there Gilbert Stuart (center). Revere's porringer (right) recently sold for $11,000. in time for them to fight at Concord North Bridge. When the British force of Dixon Wecter. in his book "The Hero 27 years old, 6 feet 4 inches, and weighed 800 reached Concord, they found little in America." Says Wecter. "Prior to 220 pounds. He was a captain in the Vir- to destroy. According to one account Longfellow's poem Revere's name was ginia militia. Like Revere, he was of "they set fire to several carriages for the not included in a single dictionary of Huguenot descent. His father ran the ." artillery, destroyed 60 barrels of flour, American biography. . . It appeared Swan Tavern in Charlottesville. Va.. and rifled several houses, took possession of for the first time in a biographical refer- also owned land in Louisa County to the the town-house, destroyed 500 lbs. of ence book in 1 872. Parks, schools, towns. east. Young Jouett was in the Cuckoo balls." Prescott later served on a priva- Masonic lodges and warships were subse- Tavern, whose site was near the present teer, which was captured, and died in quently named for him. Patriots' Day intersection of Highways 33 and 522, the prison at Halifax. began to be observed in 1 894. The next evening of Sunday, June 3, 1781. This William Dawes likewise eluded the year, the Daughters of the American was in the hamlet of Cuckoo in Louisa patrol but was thrown from his horse, Revolution made a shrine of Revere's County. lost his watch and had to turn back. With North End Home, the oldest house in This was either a rainy or bright moon- remarkable luck, he found the watch a Boston. The Paul Revere Memorial As- lit night, depending on which account few days later. During the Revolution, sociation now shows it to tourists. A you read. Jouett never got around to

Dawes served as "Assistant Commisary statue of him stands near the old North writing about it himself. Late in the eve- of Issues at the Magazine in Worcester." Church. The Revere face on the current ning, in any event, the clatter of cavalry

He lies in Boston's King's Chapel Burial 6c U.S. postcard is from this statue. In halted the pleasures of the tavern. Ground, across Tremont Street from 1971. an autograph dealer priced a rent Jouett saw on the road outside where Paul Revere is buried in Old Gran- receipt signed by Revere at $1,000. His Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton. one of the ary. silver pieces command much higher best known British cavalry leaders Because some historians confuse him sums. Sothehy-Park-Bernet. Inc., in New sometimes called General Cornwallis' with Dr. Pre.scott. and because he did York, auctioned a 1780 Revere silver "hunting leopard." With him were 170 ride four miles farther than Revere, porringer for SI 1.000 last Jan. 28. A green uniformed dragoons and 70 there have been persistent efforts to ob- new edition of the Longfellow poem ap- mounted infantrymen in red. They were tain recognition for Dawes. Horsemen pears nearly every year. The 1972 entry, moving west toward Charlottesville. Gov. reenact his ride as well as that of Revere by Windmill Books, is illustrated by Thomas Jefferson and the Assembly of on Patriots' Day each .April in Massa- Joseph Low, an artist known for his (Conti)nied on page 42)

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION Making The Most Of Legion Assets John H. Geiger By NATIONAL National ^^'^^^^JîÊL-f ^Jj^î^j^^^ Commander, The American Legion.

OF THE THINGS that has impressed me in talks with late ONE September, and October is the best month to place them Legion district commanders around the nation is the in schools. number of posts that are making some good local use of Many posts have discovered that giving a subscription to

available Legion assets, but aren't making the most of them. The American Legion Magazine to its local library helps its Meanwhile, these same posts are seeking ways to serve better local image. Non-Legionnaires who see our magazine by

and strengthen their local images. It is worthwhile to talk accident are surprised that it is not just a fraternal magazine, a bit about how to increase a post's stature by enlarging on but one loaded with valuable information about our world

the familiar, instead of groping for something new. There are some of it hard to find elsewhere. Yet many posts settle for many ways to do this. Here, let me suggest three in some one subscription to one library. How about every library if detail, and you take it from there. there's more than one in town, and how about every high Many posts give their high schools copies of the Legion's school and junior high school library, and all barber shop, annually revised guide to colleges, scholarships and other medical clinic and hospital waiting rooms? Our magazine student financial aids. It is called Need a Lift? and is pub- constantly gets requests from teachers and students seeking lished by us for posts to give to their schools. No guide to articles that they've heard about. Why not supply their colleges is more respected (or sought after) than Need a Lift? libraries with every issue locally as a public service? A sub- A companion leaflet is called "College Guide for Parents and scription may be ordered from Circulation Dep't. whose Students." In general, school counselors use Need a Lift? as address is listed on the contents page of each issue. Subscrip- a reference for advising college bound high school juniors tions ordered by posts are $1 a year—ordered by anyone and seniors, while students take the Guide home to share else they are $2 a year. with their parents. Every Legion post has a service officer, one of whose many Some posts put one Need a Lift? in the hands of one school duties is to help veterans in their claims with the Veterans counselor. Others put one copy in a local library and give Administration and other agencies. The work has become so one to a school counselor. Yet there's a far larger demand for complex that the post service officer may be an expert, but both publications than posts are meeting. Teachers, schools he may be an amateur (which is all right, since he has a direct and libraries buy them by the thousands from our Nat'l Hq. link with Legion professionals all the way to Washington). This reflects to the credit of the national organization, but A post can readily expand this basic Legion service in two doesn't do a thing for the prestige of the local posts that might obvious directions. Its service officer may become more expert have supplied them routinely. Last year 83,000 copies of and thus be able to do more himself for local veterans. And Need a Lift? were sold, and this year's pressrun is 140.000. the post may seek veterans to serve, its services Over 6 million copies of the Guide have been sold. Legion by publicizing posts were not the biggest purchasers. Publicity in U.S. News and setting up regular hours (or available phone numbers) and World Report recently created an enormous demand for for contacts. Nationally, the Legion represents more veterans the Guide. It caught some posts by surprise, though not those in their claims than any other organization. Yet, it is a cer-

that have been making the most of it all along. tainty that there are many veterans and veterans' widows who Some posts regularly put enough of both publications in would not know who to contact, or how. locally, at the time their schools for all counselors and each college bound student they need Legion help.

as well. Any post can certainly provide Need a Lift? for each I have cited here just a few basic Legion programs that are counselor and the Guide for each college bound student. tailor-made for enlargement in any post that wants to up- In every town there are clergymen, various social workers grade its performance. We have so many standard programs and others who also counsel youngsters on going to college. that could be enlarged and assets that are not used fully that

The wide-awake Legion post will give them copies, too. it sometimes seems a shame to hear of a post that is groping

Both publications can be bought, prepaid, from American for ways to grow. The literature it regularly receives suggests Legion Nat'l Hq, PO Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. many more directions in which to move than the average Need a Lift is 50

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 25 — New Brakes on Unfair Snooping

How the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970

polices investigative You can visit a bureau and have an improper record corrected or amended. abuses. By HARVEY ARDMAN agents bring in adverse information. On top of these and many similar prac-

tices, it was the posture of both insurance IS NOW several years since—in the IT heard and credit investigators that while they woman whose reputation is deservedly late 1 960's—a hue and cry was might exchange information back and smeared by credit or insurance reporting. in our land against some of the practices forth, and sell their poop about you to If one is a deadbeat he can't expunge the of private investigators of ordinary citi- others, you were never to see it. know evidence, and with computers now mak- zens such as you and I. what it said or know where it came from. ing it possible to spread the record of Chiefly under the gun were some prac- Yet some reports were made available to millions of people from coast to coast in tices of credit bureaus and insurance people who had no business seeing them, twinkling, a man can be in an awful company investigators, who pass back a in spite of published company and trade fix once he's cheated a couple of people and forth between themselves—and sell protests that they carefully guarded the out of what he owes them. And while to merchants, employers, banks and the confidential nature of their files. the two-year-old Fair Credit Reporting like—the content of files they build up Such reports regularly led to adverse 1970 tries to come to the rescue and keep about the majority of us. Act of actions against people who sought and all who are unfairly maligned, its Most of the complaints aired in the of needed credit or insurance. They had no eftectiveness depends largely on their 1960's are now old hat. We'll just men- redress, yet immense harm was some- knowing and claiming their new rights. tion a few as a refresher. times done to them and their good names, The act will not be fully eft'ective until If you had been arrested on some whether they deserved it or not. Such people know enough about its con- charge, private firms might pass that most reports were also sold to employers, in claim their rights when they find information around to be used against tent to some ca.ses to deny people jobs they were have been blackballed for credit, you, but never check to discover if you they seeking. insurance or work by some too-high- were found not guilty. All of these practices, and more, were handed private investigation. If a merchant reported that you were thoroughly aired and substantiated in The purpose of these words is to tell a deadbcat, he might have been right. numerous state investigations and at Con- act. But he might have reported you as a vou a bit of what's in the gressional hearings in the late I960's. eflfect, it acknowledges the con- deadbeat because you refused to pay him In They added up to a system of corporate sumer's stake in the information that is in a matter in which he hadn't fulfilled star-chamber proceedings against private disseminated about him. It doesn't give his part of the deal. Your credit or in- arrogant nature that over who gets what insurance report might give his side of the citizens of such an him total control it is a wonder it went on as long as it did about him. but it does give story, but not yours. formation serious challenge on the Con- right to know what's in his file, Many fairly secret reports on private without him the gressional level. to know when it does him harm and to citizens—chiefly insurance reports it is all over yet. it. It also goes far to im- were often put together by an investiga- And not know who gets However, it might come to a quicker of bureau records tor picking up neighborhood gossip about prove the accuracy end if as much publicity were given to people, even setting up procedures you in a few minutes and sticking it in about the content of the Fair Credit Reporting that force the dossier-keepers to correct your file as if it were a true and accurate given to the exposes if there is a dispute record of you and your character. Such Act of 1970 as was their mistakes, or, consumer's insurance information was often totally that led to passage of this act. about the facts, send out the rights too. false, but was used either to deny, cancel The new law gives citizens many version, their and reputa- act regulates the activities of any or non-rcncw a policy. It also tended to to help protect names The gives out credit and blackball you among other insurers. tions against the kind of practices we organization that people be- Furthermore, many investigating agen- have reviewed briefly above. character information about from its own ex- cies placed a premium on having their Nothing is going to save the man or yond that which comes

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perience with a cuslomer. Such organi- ence, we will just call them all "bureaus'" And it need not tell you routinely the zations include not only credit bureaus in the rest of this account. sources of any personal evaluations it and commercial and insurance investiga- The most important right the act may have in your file opinion about tive agencies, but also private detec- grants you is the simple right to know your character, etc. However, you can tives, detective agencies, banks, collec- what's in your file. No matter what the discover these sources if you bring suit tion agencies, personnel agencies, black- circumstances, you now have an absolute against the bureau. listing groups—anyone at all who pro- right to know "the nature and substance" You can inquire about your file at any duces a report used for granting credit or of everything that is in your dossier. This time, but in most cases one would in- insurance, or for employing, promoting, means the bureaus must tell you, in de- quire because he'd been turned down for retaining or reassigning an employee. tail, what they have on you. A mere something. But how could he know that

The same goes for the cooperative credit summary won't satisfy the law's require- ii was a bureau report that led to his re- information exchanges found among ments. jection, or what bureau did the reporting? businessmen in many cities. For conveni- There are just two exceptions to this. In the past, you may have been turned The bureau needn't tell you what medical down for credit, insurance or employ-

information about you it has on file. ment completely or partly because of in-

The 1970 Act tries to protect people's reputations from being unfairly maligned by abuses revealed in the late 1960's.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 27 CONTINUED New Brakes on Unfair Snooping credit within 30 days, the bureau must notify recent past recipients of your rec- formation supplied by a credit bureau haven't been denied credit, but simply ords that a particular item has been de- or investigative agency—witiiout even wish to know what's in your file for leted. Or it must supply them with your knowing what happened to you. No reasons of your own, the bureau may explanatory statement. Free of charge. more. You have another new right under charge you a "reasonable fee," the It's easy to imagine how useful this the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Now, amount it would normally charge for might be. You may find adverse informa- whenever credit or insurance for per- giving out a report to one of its sub- tion in your file that applies not to you sonal, family or household purposes is scribers. To get this information, accord- but to another person with your name. denied; or your charges are increased for ing to the law, all you have to do is to This has happened many times. You may credit or insurance, or whenever you are appear at the bureau (an appointment find that the carpenter who did a bad job rejected for a job—cither wholly or part- may be necessary) and properly identify repairing your front porch (and there- ly because of information supplied by a yourself. You may even find out about fore got only half the fee he'd asked) re- credit bureau or other investigative the contents of your file by telephone, if ported only his side of the story, making agency—you must be told so by the firm you have properly identified yourself by you look like a deadbeat. Now you have that turns you down. You must also be mail previously. at least a partial remedy, a chance for told the name and address of the bureau Perhaps the next most important of rebuttal. Those who might grant you or agency that supplied the information. your new rights comes into play if you credit will at least know there are two

Then, of course, you can visit the bureau, find that there is inaccurate information sides to the story. Or, if they've turned find out what is in your records and have in your bureau dossier. down your credit application on the basis them corrected— if they're incorrect, that If you question the accuracy of any of a one-sided story, they might change is. their minds, if the rest of your file looks In fact, even when the information good. doesn't come from a credit bureau or All this will happen except in one cir- investigative agency—but still results in cumstance. If the bureau believes your request for reinvestigation or your state-

ment disputing an item is "frivolous or irrelevant." Then, the bureau need take no action. But the law cautions reporting

agencies that this provision is not to be regarded as a loophole, as a way to avoid reinvestigation. Bureaus must assume the

consumer's complaint is bona fide, unless

there is "clear and convincing indication to the contrary." Of course, an unfavorable item in your credit file may not be inaccurate at all. You might not even be able to argue

with it. In years past, you might have gone bankrupt. Someone might have sued you concerning a debt and gotten a judgment against you. You might have an arrest record. The adverse information the bureau has on you might be genuine. What then? At this point, another new right comes into play. While you cannot control the reporting of any recent, true, adverse If he has identified himself beforehand, one has a right to a report on his file by phone. items concerning you, the bureau cannot

report such information after it has be- your not getting credit- -you must be item in your file, or believe more should come obsolete. first told that you've been turned down be said about it. the bureau must, by In many states, if your bankruptcy and, second, that you have a right to find law, reinvestigate the item, going back was 14 years ago, it cannot be reported out why. The usual silence of days past to the original source and to any other routinely to all potential credit grantors, i^ no longer legal. If you make a written sources that you designate. If the item insurers or employers. The period is re- request within 60 days of being turned is found to be inaccurate, it must be de- lated to the statute of limitations in each clown, the bank, store or loan comp;my leted from your file. It must also be state, and applies to other adverse items must tell you the nature of the informa- deleted if it can't be reverified. Even if involving legal decisions against you, too. tion, though not the source. the reinvestigation apparently supports There is an exception to this right, At your request, any of these bureaus the original information, you may file however. If the person or firm requesting must tell you the names of any firms that an explanatory statement with the bu- information about you from the bureau have received reports from it about you reau, telling your side of the story in is considering granting you credit or sell- w ithin the past two years while consider- 100 words or less. From then on. when- ing you life insurance in the amount of ing you for employment, and the names ever that item is reported to anyone con- $50,000 or more, or if he is thinkinj: ot all others (banks, stores, loan com- sidering you for credit, insurance or em- about employing you for a salary of panies, etc.) that may have received re- ployment, your statement (or a good, $20,000 or more annually, there's no ports from the bureau about you within clear summary of it) must go along. time limit on anything. the past six months. And the bureau cannot charge you for On the other hand, bureaus cannot If, within 30 days of your inquiry, you this service. simply report that you were arrested, for have been denied credit, the bureau can- Furthermore, if \ ou have been denied example, if the public records also show not charge you for this service. If you ILLUSTRATED BY NORMAN DOHERTY that vou were found innocent, or the

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an attorney who's investigating you as a prospective juror, or l^Icing for ammu- nition in a divorce action. Neither can anyone issuing "protective bulletins" to merchants listing deadbeats. or anyone compiling "blacklists" of, say, employees accused of dishonesty. Even the government has no routine right to see your credit file or investigative report. Justice Department officials, or FBI agents trying to track down a fugitive or Internal Revenue Service agents looking for a cheater can't browse through your credit dossier at will. There are three exceptions to this, though. First, the law does not deny access to your file to anyone authorized by you—in writing—to see it. Second, government agencies can see your file if they are required b'y law to consider your financial responsibility before granting a license or other benefit (but not if they're doing a survey or study). Third, anyone can see your file if a court has so ordered. This affords you protection from pryers. from people fishing for damaging information or from the merely curious case was dismissed. The new law requires At the same time you're told this kind though not from those with legally recog-

that if they report "public record infor- of investigation may be made, you must nized needs. giving you all of these mation," it must be just as up-to-date and also be informed that you have the right In addition to accurate as the public records. To make to make a written request asking for a new rights, the Fair Credit Reporting Act inves- sure of this, this type of adverse informa- "complete and accurate" statement as to places a number of obligations on tion must have been rechecked by the the "nature and scope" of the investiga- tigating or reporting agencies. credit bureau no later than three months tion. And this information must be given For example, it stipulates that every set reasonable prior to reporting it to anyone requesting to you no later than five days after you've reporting agency must up of the information about you. asked for it. In other words, on demand, procedures to assure the accuracy The new law also gives you some new the company asking for an investigation material they collect and disseminate. rights concerning a rather special type has to tell you what questions they're They must carefully train new personnel of report that might be made on you, an asking and of whom. They don't have to and even retrain current employees from "investigative consumer report." This tell you the answers, at least not until time to time. Even isolated instances of type of report, most often commissioned they deny your application. Then, your error must be followed up and proce- by a company considering your applica- other rights, described earlier, come into dures established so that errors of that

tion for insurance, has in it, like your effect. sort don't happen again.

credit records, all available financial in- Even if you've never done anything Consumer reporting agencies that use

formation about you. But it goes further. wrong in your life, never even been late computers have to work out security sys- It always includes information about with a single payment, chances are you tems to "reduce the possibility" that com- your character, your general reputation, aren't delighted to know there's a lot of puterized consumer information may be your personal characteristics or mode of personal information about you on file stolen or altered—either by authorized living. To get this information, employees somewhere, apparently easily available or unauthorized computer users. This of the firm making the report have visited to a wide variety of people. There are provision is designed to stop a bureau with and questioned your friends, neigh- some things that aren't just anyone's employee from maliciously ruining vour bors, associates or anyone else who might business. The new law recognizes, to a credit, or from getting information that know something about you. For example, degree, your right to privacy. It specific- might be used improperly in some way. if an investigative agency employee visits ally states that no one may receive your The act also forbids, at least by impli- your former employer and goes beyond credit file or an investigative report on cation, practices such as maintaining verifying the fact that you once worked you except for "legitimate business pur- quotas on the reporting of adverse infor him—if he asks questions about your poses." formation by investigators and recording work habits, personal life. etc. —that"s The credit bureaus always said that it the percentage of cases in which an in- an investigative consumer report. was their policy not to show their reports vestigator recommended that the appli- The most important new right you to people who had no legitimate right to cant be denied insurance, credit, employ- have with regard to such a report is that see them, but the exposes of the 1960"s ment, etc. In the past, credit bureaus and you must be told such an investigation is revealed examples of their own violation investigative agencies have sometimes taking place. This disclosure must take of such policies. Now it's a matter of law put a premium on adverse information,

place not later than three days after such that access to your dossier is restricted if for no other reason than that it proved a report is requested. In practice, many to those who are evaluating you for the reports were valuable to their cus- insurance companies inform their cus- credit, insurance or employment. Your tomers. tomers that an investigation may be made neighbors can't legally get a copy of your Credit bureaus or other reporting at the time the application is signed. If credit report simply by calling the credit agencies must also take precautions to you want insurance, you probably won't bureau and paying a fee. Nor can a chum make sure they're not giving out reports be able to stop this kind of snooping, but of a bureau employee, or someone who to fictitious creditors. If the bureau isn't at least you'll know it's happening. says he's "making a study." Neither can familiar with the organization requesting

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CONTINUED New Brakes on Unfair Snooping Some consumers have complained that bureaus require an unreasonable amount information, it must make an on-site but gossip, and they still talk about his of identification as a condition for dis- visit and check references. politics and hair, which have nothing to closing their records. One credit bureau, The Fair Credit Reporting Act is more do with his driving ability." for instance, makes consumers fill out a than just a set of instructions. It has teeth. When the new law had been in effect form that asks for his addresses over the For example, the law provides that if less than a year, and even though its con- last five years, his employers during the any bureau or user of its reports will- tents were not yet widely understood, the same period, the number of his depen- fully fails to comply with any of the law's FTC had already received well over dent children, his wife's name and her requirements, the consumer has grounds 1,000 complaints about bureau practices employer, then demands that the inquirer for a suit and may recover actual and under the law. "What we've seen so far is sign the form, which also authorizes the punitive damages, plus legal fees. Fur- probably only the tip of the iceberg," says bureau to investigate him and authorizes ther, if a bureau fails to establish pro- Sheldon Feldman, of the FTC. "Most any business or organization to give full cedures to insure accuracy, you may also consumers don't yet know their rights information and records about him, ef- be able to sue on the grounds of negli- under the act." fectively getting the consumer to waive gence, in the event an error in their re- According to Salvatore Sangiorgi, as- his right of privacy. A case involving this port harms you. The law also provides for penalties for those who obtain information from a credit bureau or investigative agency under false pretenses, and for bureau employees who willfully and knowingly give information to them—up to $5,000 in fines and up to a year in jail or both. The Federal Trade Commission has been given the responsibility for enforcing the new law. Passed in 1970, the law went into effect April 25, 1971. Currently, the FTC is conducting an investigation to see how well it is working. Complete results of that investigation will be released in a few months. Meanwhile, however, some tidbits have leaked out. The news isn't all good.

For example, if the Wall St. Journal is correct, the case of Robert Meisner, of Croton-on-Hudson, in Westchester County, New York, is not cheering. According to the Journal, Mr. Meisner applied for auto insurance. The report on him received by the insurance company—he later found out described the Meisner family as follows: "A man and his wife, a secretary, who together earn $5,000 a year. They have

an 18-year-old son, who will be driving Act penalizes bureaus or their employees who show your file to unauthorized persons. the car, a 'hippie type' youth, who is active in various anti-establishment con- sistant director of the FTC's New York form is now before the courts. cerns and is suspected of using marijuana regional office, some New York credit Without pretending to give legal ad- on occasion." bureaus apparently have told inquirers: vice, it would seem to me that if any

The facts, as reported by the Journal, "We don't have to show you your file consumer is offered such a form to sign, are these: Mr. Meisner is an Oldsmobile and we aren't going to." Others, he says, he could leave in all the information that salesman with a substantial income. His have put off consumers with excuses, identifies him, strike out all passages in wife is a registered nurse who, by herself, such as "the man who handles that sort of which he agrees to anything (in the origi-

earns more than $5,000 a year. Their son, thing isn't here right now and won't be nal and all copies), sign it, and demand Danny, lettered in track in high school, back for three or four days. Come back his full rights under the Fair Credit Re-

campaigned in a recent election for the then." porting Act. If refused, it would seem to Republican candidate, represented the Credit bureaus aren't happy to see be something to report to the FTC. The

student body on the executive committee consumers for several reasons. First, they act does not make your rights under it of the PTA, won a school award for his don't want trouble and arguments with dependent on your agreeing to stipula- work in student government and is con- people who have bad credit records. Sec- tions drafted by the bureau. sidered by his principal a "model student, ond, they don't want unauthorized per- Some consumers have found out about a straight kid." sons to get hold of their reports. Third, their dossiers easily enough—but only As required by law. Retail Credit Co., and maybe most important, consumers after paying $25 or more. And some of Atlanta, the firm which has issued the aren't paying customers. And, chances credit bureaus have illegally charged to report, reinvestigated the facts of the are, the more that consumers know about investigate disputed facts. In one in- case at Meisner's request. They corrected their dossiers, the more pressure they are stance, this charge amounted to $10 an every mistake, except what Meisner— felt likely to put on legislators to limit the hour, with a minimum of 15 hours. After was the most important one "the stuff content of, and access to, such informa- the FTC stepped in, the credit bureau about Danny and drugs, which is nothing tion. {Continued on page 49)

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH VETERANS NEWSLETTER ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU JUNE 1972

LEGIONNAIRES URGED TO WRITE SENATORS be estimated in advance. . . Thus, SEEKING PASSAGE OF S3345, TO RAISE annual income questionnaires would G.I. BILL EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS: reflect truer levels of net income and benefit payments would not change The Legion, which has long been radically. . . See a Legion service beating the drum for increased G.I. officer or contact the VA for help. Bill educational benefits for Vietnam now has a bill in the era veterans, LEGION SEEKS COMPENSATION BOOST IN Senate which substantially bears out TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE: its Resolution 342, adopted at the Legion's 53rd Nat'l Convention last At recent hearings of the Senate fall. . . In March, Sen. Vance Hartke, Subcommittee on Compensation and Pen- Chmn of the Senate Committee on sions, Legion representatives called Veterans Affairs, and Sen. Strom for a cost-of-living increase of $50 Thurmond, a member of that committee, per month in compensation for war introduced S3345, which seeks, among veterans rated 100% disabled. . . other things, to improve the veterans Present payment is now $450 monthly. . . educational program by authorizing Corresponding rate increases (about (1) payment of 75% of the cost (up to 11%) were also sought for veterans $1,000 in a year) of tuition, fees, with other levels of war-incurred books, etc. (2) a direct and/or guar- disability. anteed loan program and (3) an increase Among other things the Legion called in subsistence allowances for veter- for were: (1) an increase from $47 to ans taking vocational rehabilitation $75 for the rate of statutory payment training benefit payments. for service-connected loss or loss Legionnaires wishing to back this of use of a foot, hand, eye, hearing bill which will enable more Viet vets or ability to communicate, etc. (2) to get higher learning are asked to special compensation for service- write their Senators urging support connected veterans whose chronic for S3345. . . If the bill can clear kidney disease requires constant renal the Senate quickly enough, a Senate/ dialysis, and (3) a statutory presump- House Conference could satisfactorily tion of service-connected death of resolve the matter in time for ex- any veteran whose service-connected G.I.'s to benefit from boosted pay- disability was rated permanent and ments when they register for school total and who dies of another natural this fall. cause.

"UNUSUAL" MEDICAL EXPENSES NOW SOME DETAILS ON VIET VET BONUS PLANS EXCLUDABLE FROM COMPUTATION OF IN STATES OF WASHINGTON & S. DAKOTA: ANNUAL INCOME FOR PENSIONERS: Two states, Washington and South A recent change in the death and Dakota, recently adopted Vietnam era disability pension law as it applies veterans bonuses. . . Here are some to veterans, widows or dependents details on those plans. provides for the exclusion of unusual In Washington, to be eligible, a medical expenses from the determina- veteran must have (1) service between tion of annual income. . . Generally, August 5, 1964 and a date yet to be the term "unusual" means "exces- determined (2) received the Vietnam sive". . . In practice, unreimbursed Service Medal (3) been a resident of expenditures which exceed 5% of the the state for one year prior to service claimant's reported annual income will and (4) not received a bonus from any be considered "unusual". . . Health, other state. . . The payment is $250; accident, sickness and hospitaliza- it may be applied as a credit for tion insurance premiums can be counted tuition to institutions of higher toward any determination of unusual learning. . . The bonus may also be medical costs. . . For pensioners with paid to his widow, children, parents high annual medical bills for care or legal guardian. . . Applications or medicines, this could be an im- accepted after July 1, 1972 from Legion portant feature. . . It would be wise or other veterans' organization to keep accurate records as the law is service officers, county auditors or subject to some interpretation. . . county clerks, the Vietnam Veterans Long term costs of medical care should Bonus Division or State Offices of

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CONTINUED VETERANS NEWSLETTER

Veterans Affairs. . . Write: Reuben B. G.I. benefits don't affect this. . .

Garnett , Department Service Officer, The law is so complicated and space The American Legion, 414 Olive Way, so short here that interested vets

Seattle , Wash. , 98101 or the Vietnam are advised to visit their local Veterans Bonus Division, P.O. Box 536 Social Security offices for more info

Olympia, Wash. , 98504. and help. . . There is even a possi- In South Dakota, certain disabled bility of retroactive benefits. Vietnam era veteran residents of that 2. Some veterans way down the economic state may collect the maximum bonus scale are unaware that they may

of $500. . . If the veteran is 10% or qualify for food stamps . . . They don't more disabled on July 1, 1972 or later even have to be on welfare to col- for service-incurred disability while lect. . . Briefly, a veteran with three on active duty in the Vietnam area dependents whose income was $360 per anytime from June 1, 1958 to a terminal month could get $108 worth of food

date to be announced, the veteran or stamps per month for $99. . . A single his surviving dependents may be paid vet living alone whose income was

the bonus. . . County Veterans Ser- $170 per month could collect $32 vice Officers in that state may be worth of food stamps per month for a

contacted for information and cost of $26. . . Important point G.I. applications. Bill money spent for tuition, books and other school and college fees does

not count as income. . . Check the G.i. BILL EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS local welfare office. EXPIRE SOON FOR SOME VETERANS: 3. Veterans taking part time schooling Veterans discharged from the armed and who seek and are available for forces between Jan. 31, 1955 and full time work may be eligible for June 1, 1966 who still plan on using unemployment compensation payments. . . their G.I. educational benefits had Check the veteran's coordinator in

better get started. . . Their eligi- your local state employment office. . . bility for VA educational assistance Conditions and actual benefits vary payments runs out May 31, 1974, whether from state to state. they are enrolled at that time or not. . . The expiration date was fixed INDIANA AND GEORGIA LEAD MOVEMENT by a 1966 law except for flight train- TO RESTORE VETERANS DAY TO NOV. 1 1 ing, apprentice and on-the-job training. . . These forms of train- Don't look now but the States of ing are available under the eight year Indiana and Georgia have legally re- policy—because of the 1966 law turned Veterans Day observances from until Aug. 31, 1975, or eight years the fourth Monday in October back to after discharge, whichever comes the original historical date of Nov. last. . . See a Legion service officer 11. . . In 1971, Veterans Day was or contact the VA. observed nationwide on Oct. 25, which just happened to be the fourth Monday in October, the day aside for the SOME $$$ BENEFITS SOME G.I. BILL set STUDENTS MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT: observance by Congress. . . However, much confusion resulted. . . Some Some students still don't realize groups observed the traditional Nov.

there are extra benefits for which 11. . . Most obeyed the law and

they may be eligible even though they switched to Oct. 25. . . Other groups already collect educational benefits honored both days with unsatisfactory

under the G.I. Bill. effect in most cases. . . Out of it Here are some all a movement grew to return observ- 1. Under the Social Security Act, an ances to the honored and traditional

unmarried and under-22 ex-G.I. who date. . . In the House, Rep. Harley 0.

is a full-time student, and whose Staggers (W.Va. ) introduced H.J. Res. parent (either retired or disabled) is 938 to designate Nov. 11 of each year covered by Social Security, could be as Veterans Day and Sen. Robert Dole

eligible for student benefits ranging (Kans. ) introduced similar legisla-

from $35 to $210 per month depending tion in the Senate. . . The State of

on circumstances. . . The benefits Oklahoma never did adopt the national are not deducted from parents' pay- switch or change its date of observ-

ments nor does the veteran have to be ance. . . So, the box score right now

living at home or receiving support. . . is three states in favor of Veterans There is an income limitation but Day on Nov. 11 and 47 to go.

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South Carolina Youth Wins Heroin "Hot Line" As part of the nationwide battle National Oratorical Contest against drug abuse, the White House reports the establishment of a special Thomas Joiner, 17, Rock Hill, S.C. youth, gets Legion telephone in Washington, D.C., whereby any citizen in the continental in national finals held at $8,000 college scholarship U.S. can make a toll-free telephone Weirton, W. Va.; three other high school orators share call to report information about the illegal distribution and sale of heroin. an additional $10,000 in 35th annual nat'l program. If you've got some real facts, call 800-368-5363. The 1972 American Legion National ber of the Thespian Club, the band, and High School Oratorical Championship the National Honor Society. He was Contest—the 35th Annual—was won by president of his junior class. Young 17-year-old Thomas W. Joiner of Rock Joiner plans to attend Furman University stitution and then follow with an off- Hill, S.C, in competitions held at Weir to pursue a career either in dentistry or the-cuff talk for three-to-five minutes on High School, Weirton, W. Va., April 20. music. His speech coach is Mrs. Thomas a constitutional subject with only five The young Rock Hill High School E. Jackson. minutes preparation time. senior thus wins an $8,000 college schol- Tom also participated in the South The oratorical program is a responsi- arship to the college or university of his Carolina Boys State program last year bility of the Legion's Americanism choice. He was sponsored by Frank as a member of the House of Represen- Division, whose Chairman is Daniel J. Roach Post 34 of Rock Hill. The winner tatives and the Boys State Band. He is O'Connor (N.Y.). Since its inception will also appear at the Legion's National also an Eagle rank Boy Scout. in 1938, over $275,000 in cash college Convention in Chicago during August. The Legion's oratorical contest is scholarships have been dispensed at the based on the United States Constitution national level alone. Funds for this pro- On the way to the national title. Joiner and is designed to test the students' depth gram are provided by the Legion's won local and state contests, the Regional now of knowledge on the basic principles of Life Insurance Trust Fund. Many more 5 and Sectional C contests. As a state our constitutional form of government. thousands of dollars are awarded at winner certified to regional competition, other Other objectives are to develop leader- levels of the Legion Tom won another $500 from the national program. ship and the ability to think and speak The finals were sponsored by Weirton program. He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. clearly. Each contestant must deliver an Post 10 and the Dep't of Va. Wilson M. Joiner of Rock Hill. W. cight-to-ten minute oration on the Con- {Continued on page 34) Also sharing in the $18,000 scholarship pot were three other high school seniors, survivors of nationwide competitions involving several thousand youngsters who worked their way through local, district, county, state, regional and sectional contests on their way to the finals. Second place winner and recipient of a $5,000 college scholarship is Channing R. Taylor, 18, of Lincoln, Neb., a senior at Lincoln High School. He was sponsored by Lincoln Post 3. Third place went to Donnie P. Min- yard, 17, of Marietta, Okla., a senior at Marietta High School. He garnered a $3,000 scholarship. Burch Bros. Post 3, Marietta, sponsored Donnie. And fourth place went to a repeat winner, Kathleen Ann McCormick, 17, of Cambridge, Mass., a senior at St.

Peter's High School and the 1 97 1 second place winner. Miss McCormick, who won $5,000 in last year's contest, takes home another $2,000 this year. All final- ists, except the first place winner, are allowed to compete again, providing they meet all other contest qualifications. Winners of the 35th Annual National High School Oratorical Contest. From left: Thomas The 1972 champion is active in student W. Joiner, 17, Rock Hill, S. C; Channing R. Taylor, 18, Lincoln, Neb.; Donnie affairs at his school where he is a mem- P. Minyard, 17, Marietta, Okla., and Kathleen Ann McCormick, 17, Cambridge, Mass.

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NEWS Jobs For Veterans produced jobs for uncounted numbers another in today's economy, are also About two years ago the Legion kicked of veterans as a result of 200 Legion- jobless. However, most unemployed ex- ot\ its Jobs For Veterans Program in an sponsored job fairs alone, not to men- G.L's are young, undereducated, un- effort to help provide employment for tion the jobs vets later get at follow-up trained and turned off to society. They the nation's Vietnam era veterans. It interviews and from secondary publicity need education, training, guidance, in- started as a 17-state pilot project, was or contacts that result. formation, jobs, and—if you will— quickly boosted into high gear nation- Yet, despite efforts by all, there are little push in the right direction or a leg wide and shortly thereafter was joined still some 400,000 Vietnam era veterans up the ladder. by a similar program initiated by Presi- out of work and their unemployment So the Legion's program goes on, by dent Nixon and the programs of other rate for March (vets 20-29 years old) itself in some areas, melding with other organizations. was 8.6%. This doesn't even count the programs and organizations wherever The Legion's bellwether program has older veterans who, for one reason or needed in other areas. Here are the latest reports received up TOP PHOTOS BY JOHN ANDREOLA to press time. • In New York, the Legion's 10th District held a Tri-County (Nassau, Queens & Suffolk) Job Opportunity Pro- gram April 17-19 at Mineola Memorial Post 349, Mineola, N. Y. About 550 Viet vets showed up for interviews with more than 50 local and national firms who had some 500 jobs available, not counting those listed with the N. Y. State Employment Service, which also participated. Representatives of educational and training institutions were also on hand. It was too early at press time to get complete statistics on the whole program. The N. Y. Division of Veterans Legion and Auxiliary workers at N.Y. Tri-County Job Opportunity Program (see sty). Affairs reported a highly successful Vet- erans Assistance Day at Utica on April 5 at which over 1,000 vets turned out for interviews with 124 companies, organizations and agencies. Utica at the time was running about 10.2% unemployed. The Utica City and Oneida County govern- ments had 60-70 jobs available under the Emergency Employment Act. About 120 vets got jobs on the spot. Another smaller Job Fair was held at Lockport on March 21. • In Maryland, the Legion held a Job and Opportunity Fair at the Baltimore War Memorial, Mar. 14-16. Almost 800 veterans registered during the three-day event with some 60 employers. Prelimi- nary figures indicate 65 veterans got im- mediate jobs, 460 were referred, about Nat'l Jobs For Vets Program went to Germany to brief G.l.'s (see story). 90 signed applications with various police departments in the state, 51 applied to the Baltimore Fire Dep't, and 75 registered to attend school. About 100 ex- servicemen without high school diplomas arranged to take high school equivalency exams. A galaxy of federal, state and city agencies were on hand to assist the program. The Armed Forces Network filmed proceedings for possible distribution to armed forces outlets and viewing by servicemen around the world. • In Mississippi, the Legion, other veterans organizations and state and federal agencies, assisted the VA in putting on a Veterans Assistance Day, Feb. 24, at the State Fairgrounds in Jackson. Over

1. 000 veterans showed up for a super- market type of veterans benefits program. Coordinators of the event report

3 1 8 veterans were actually placed in jobs. employers, 415 Maryland Legion's Job & Opportunity Fair at Baltimore War Memorial (see story). 400 referred directly to

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 applications accepted for federal jobs Legion Commemorative Bottle panies: American Bankers Ass'n, Ameri- and well over 3,000 separate interviews can Hospital Ass'n, Int'l Ass'n of Chiefs conducted by participating units. The of Police, Nat'l Ass'n of Home Builders, VA issued 30 certificates of eligibility for Nat'l Urban League, Nat'l Ass'n for the home loan purchases and held hundreds Advancement of Colored People, Ameri- of interviews on other veterans benefits. can Tel. & Tel., Bankers Trust Co., Cum- • In Oklahoma, 254 veterans attended mins Engine Co.. Gen'l Electric Co.. a Job Fair put on by the Legion and the Gen'l Motors Corp., Goodyear Tire & State Employment Service at Miami, Rubber Co., Howard Johnson's, Int'l Okla., Feb. 25. About 32 employers pro- Business Machine Corp., J. C. Penney vided jobs for 36 men hired on the spot Co., Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., Mobil and it was estimated another 50 would Oil Corp., Richard Clarke Associates, soon obtain employment as a result of and The Xerox Corp. contacts made during the program held • In Washington, D.C., the U. S. Civil at the Miami Legion post home. Repre- Service Commission announced new pro- sentatives of educational institutions also cedures to improve federal job oppor- manned booths. tunities for returning veterans. A Viet- • In Pennsylvania, the Legion, the nam era vet discharged within the past National Alliance of Businessmen, the year and having not more than 14 years Chamber of Commerce and federal, state of schooling may be given a temporary and local government agencies have been appointment up to Grade GS-5 or its cooperating in a series of Job Mart Days equivalent if he meets the qualifications held during eight-week periods in three of the job being filled. He need not com- cities; Lancaster, Harrisburg and York. pete with others for relative standing on What you're looking at are front and rear After the first eight weeks, statistics indi- a list of eligibles. If a written test is in- views of the Legion's Official Commemo- cated 108 employers were participating, rative Bottle which goes on sale in Chicago cluded in the qualification requirement, 145 job orders were received, 1,473 vet- during the 54th Annual Nat'l Convention, he must pass it but a passing mark is Aug. 18-24. Produced by the Ezra Brooks erans had registered with 892 referred sufficient. Military service alone is quali- Distilling Co., the ceramic bottle (trimmed to employers, 272 to Job Bank listings fying for any appointment up through in 24-carat gold) is a handsome addition and 66 to training opportunities. The six to post and home bars. Only a limited grade GS-3 provided the employing quantity will be produced and the mold agency determines he can perform duties will be destroyed to protect collectors. satisfactorily. Interested persons should Legion Magazine staffers promptly dubbed PH & T Competition check the U. S. Civil Service for more him "Big A.L." For a S/^-size view of the information. The symbol shown here represents 15" tall ceramic Legionnaire—who comes the Official Major League Baseball apart at the waist—please turn to p. 3. • In Syracuse, a Veterans Source Di- Pitch, Hit & Throw Competition rectory, recently ordered published by (PH&T), a nationwide program for Mayor Lee Alexander and prepared by counties surrounding those cities have boys aged 9 through 12. Now in its his Jobs For Veterans Task Force was about 500 servicemen coming home each third year and sponsored jointly by snapped up by young veterans. The book- month. the Major Leagues and the Phillips let—now reprinted—lists just about • In Texas, a huge effort was mounted Petroleum Corp., PH&T offers young- everything a veteran needs to know during March and April by the Legion, sters a chance to compete at contests about his area and contains brief descrip- the National Alliance of Businessmen, in pitching for accuracy, hitting for tions of benefits available. the Office of the of Dallas, the distance and throwing for distance Mayor and accuracy. Winners advance VA and federal and state employment agencies to call attention to the problem Legion Mounted Drill Team of Vietnam era veteran unemployment. -tir'"'". It all culminated in a Veterans Oppor- tunity Fair at the Automobile Building of Fair Park in that city on May 10-11. Football quarterback Roger Staubach of the World's Champion Dallas Cowboys was the keynote speaker at the kickoff breakfast which started the program in motion. • In Europe, the National Jobs For Veterans program combined with the Department of Defense to run a series of Job Information Fairs in Germany through local, district and division from Mar. 27 through April 7. The Hancock Post 119 Mounted DrillTeam competition to compete for four na- Main of Greenfield, goals were to give attending servicemen Ind., poses in front of its tional championships at the All-Star post home with the trail bikes used by advance job counseling, acquaint them Game, to be held this year in Atlanta, members in competitions and events. The with the employment situation in the group July 25. Registration is open through plans to compete at the Legion's U. S., emphasize career opportunities i^lat'l Convention in Chicago where there June 4. PH&T also offers a way for available in a variety of industries and will be three classifications of cycle com- Legion posts, whether involved in petition this year: Class A, Heavyweight, alert them to the skills, education and Legion baseball or not, to participate 1200 cc displacement; Class B, Light- training they'll need. at the local level. Contact a Phillips weight, 50 cc to 350 cc displacement; Two-day meetings took place in Class C, Scooter or mini-bike (solid wheels 66 station or authorized location to Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern. Stuttgart and instead of spokes and under 75 cc dis- register your own son or for details placement). For information, contact Nurnberg at which 5.925 G.I.'s attended. on participation. Nat'l Contest Office, The American Legion, Participating organizations and com- P. 0. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 35 The53'''Natlonal Executive

The 53rd National Executive Committee of The American Legion held its annual spring meeting at National Headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind., as this issue went to press. Shown on these two pages are the 1971-72 representatives. Of the 65 members, 58 are from state and foreign departments and were elected by their department conventions. The remaining seven are the elected national officers: The National Com- mander, five National Vice Commanders, and the National Chaplain. The National Commander serves as chairman of the Committee. Living Past National Commanders (not shown) are also life members of the committee but without vote.

John H. Geiger Rev. Paul J. Schwaab National Commander National Chaplain

Hugh W. Overton George Petrovich Robert E. Cockrill Lawrence E. Fisher James A. Gilbert Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California

John J. Adams James E. Zulick W. D. Harrell Jessie J. Cotter Melvin J. Alsager Norman Biebei Florida France Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois

Louis R. J. Malo E. Roy Stone, Jr., Glenn R. Greene Robert J. Foster Jack W. Flynt William E. Christoffersen Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 Corrimittee of The American Legion

Harold W. Fann Arthur M. MacCarthy Roy Sweet Harry G. Wiles Wallace C. S. Young National Vice Commander National Vice Commander National Vice Commander National Vice Commander National Vice Commander

Robert I. Hendershott Robert B. Grauberger Joseph G. Leonard Thomas W. Mulrooney Hy Wayne Canada Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia

Melvin H. Heckman Stewart H. M. Lund H. Armand DeMasi U.S. Grant Harry A. Greene, Jr. Robert C. Smith Indiana Iowa Italy Kansas Kentucky Louisiana

Ralph M. Godwin Jerome P. Dobel, Jr. Franklin D. Pehrson Jerome N. Henn Thomas W. Miller Laurence R. Spaulding Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire

Francis J. Moriarity Norman J. Guster Vermont Wyoming

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 37 NEWS Freedoms Foundation Awards Winner of a George Washington paign by the Legion's Louisiana Dep't, Honor Medal in Radio Programs cate- the State of Louisiana passed an act to gory was WCAO Radio and the Balti- provide a bonus to certain veterans who

more, Md., Legion . served in the Vietnam Theater and to The Dep't of Ohio Auxiliary won $ 1 00 certain dependents. Dep't Cmdr J.H. and a George Washington Honor Medal Morris and chairman of the Vietnam in the category of Community Programs Veterans Committee William Detweiler for the 1970 Buckeye Girls State, "which employed an advertising agency to work introduced high school junior girls to on the campaign, while Department Hq their rights and responsibilities through instituted a vigorous effort among its 272 a mock government designed to provide posts and their members on behalf of the a grounding in American ideals, tradi- bonus project. tions and institutions." Post 32, Papillion, Nebr., won a The Louisiana State Univ. Foundation Gen. Omar N. Bradley, right, given The George Washington Honor Medal "for has received a gift of $18,343 from George Washington Award. Dr. Henry Vis- a youth-oriented (Community) program the Legion and Auxiliary Dep'ts of cardi holds his American Exemplar Medal. stressing civic concern and pride, indi- Louisiana. The grant will establish the At left Is Gen. Harold K. Johnson, USA vidual initiative and appreciation for our Louisiana Dep't American Legion and (Ret.), Freedoms Foundation president. rich heritage of freedom, including sup- American Legion Auxiliary A.R. Chop- General of the Army Omar N. Brad- port of the Boys' State program, a Law pin Scholarship, and will be awarded Training course for youth, 'clean-up ley, of Beverly Hills, Calif., America's beginning in the 1972-73 academic year competitive sports ac- only living five-star general, has been campaigns,' and to an undergraduate student who is a given The George Washington Award, tivities." Post 32's Finance Officer, CWO Louisiana resident and is a former Boys Offutt the highest honor bestowed by Freedoms Raymond G. Scott, USAF, AFB, or Girls State Citizen and who plans to a George Washington Honor Medal Foundation at Valley Forge. It consists won major within the College of Chemistry in the Forces letter of $5,000 and the George Washington for his entry Armed and Physics. writing contest. Plaque. The recognition is in part "For Also winning a Washington his long, dedicated and selfless service to George A new fruit orchard and grape vineyard Honor Medal was Post Baltimore, his country as a professional soldier, the 174, was made possible for the Montana Vet- — spirit of patriotism and a re- GI's general, head of the Veterans Ad- Md. "A erans Home at Columbia Falls by a birth of pride inspired ministration, and chairman of the Joint community were Montana Legion-sponsored fund drive as members furnished Boy and Girl Chiefs of Staflf." spearheaded by Marvin Hansen, of with flags, The American Legion won a George Scout troops American sup- Kalispell, Fourth District cmdr. Planted ported a blood bank program, partici- Washington Honor Medal in the Ameri- by 40 volunteers, the orchard will re- pated in and sponsored patriotic and cana Awards: "Activities to restore replace an old orchard and vineyard which national holiday celebrations en- spect for the rule of law, encourage re- and will be retired. A total of $850 has been events.'" sponsible citizenship, inform members couraged youth athletic donated by 45 Montana posts and 40 of Wisconsin Auxiliary of the community of current problems The Dep't individuals. This assured 118 trees of won a George Washington Honor Medal and encourage youth to "speak up' for selected growing varieties for Montana, for its citizenship building program: America documented concern for the 16 grape vines, a new irrigation pump Youth, Adult, Community. destiny and future of America and the and the necessary fertilizer, spray and Winners of Certificate Awards obligations of each citizen to exercise his Honor tree shields for the new orchard. were the Dep't of Ohio for Buckeye or her rights with responsibility." The American Legion Auxiliary was Boys' State and the Dep't of Massachu- setts Auxiliary for 1971 Girls' State. awarded the George Washington Honor Medal (Americana Award) for a citizenship program that culminated in Girls' BRIEFLY NOTED Nation. Past Nat'l Cmdr William R. Burke The American Legion Magazine and (1960-61), Calif., Nat'l Executive Com- its editor, Robert B. Pitkin, won a George mitteeman Roy Stone, S.C., and Nat'l Washington Honor Medal in the Non- Security Commission member J. Ray- profit Publications category, as did The mond McGinn, Vt., have been appointed, Free State Warrier, publication of the along with other prominent Americans, Wisconsin Legion curling champions Dep't of Maryland, Daniel H. Burkhardt, to an advisory council to the Senate editor. Winners of Honor Certificate Veterans Afi'airs Committee. The first For the past 20 years an American Awards were the Dep't of Pennsylvania's business session involved a review of Legion Bonspiel has been held annually American Legion News, Edward T. pensions, compensations and veterans in Wisconsin, rotated among the various Hoak, editor, and the Dep't of Dela- education. curling clubs. This year the host was the ware's The Delaware Legionnaire, the Clintonville Curling Club. In the photo, late Dr. Park W. Huntington, editor. Dr. Robert McFarland, of Augusta, Me., is Bonspiel Chairman Jim Schroeder (left) Huntington also won a George Washing- the new president of the Dep't Service presents the First Event trophy to Skip ton Honor Medal for his editorial: "Is It Officers Assoc., succeeding Fred Heinle, Roy Eberhardt of Post 63, Clintonville. Too Late?" (See "Deaths," page 39.) of Milwaukee, Wis. Other officers for Other members of the Eberhardt rink,

Awarded the American Exemplar 1972-73 are: Garland Bloodsworth the overall winner, are (1. to rt.) Guy Fan- Medal was Dr. Henry Viscardi, Jr. (Del.), vice president; Walter Hyde (R.L), drey, Milt Boehlke, and Dwain Johnson. (center in photo), president of Human sec-treas.; W.W. Wadsworth (Ala.), Second event winner was Post 216, Poyn- Resources Center, Albertson, N.Y., a chaplain; and Harry Stephens (Ore.), ette. Calkins Rink, Post 63, Tilleson national leader in rehabilitation who was sergeant-at-arms. Rink, won the Third Event, and Post 23, born without legs, and stood only three Milwaukee, Parker Rink, won the Fourth feet and eight inches when fully grown. After a promotion and advertising cam- Event.

38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 POSTS IN ACTION this Distinguished Service Award to American Legion Life Insurance William F. in recognition of his Month Ending March 31, 1972 Ed Kuni, 58, adjutant of Post 463, Hauck selfless endeavors, inspired leadership Benefits Plymouth, Pa., hit the Appalachian Trail paid Jan. 1-Mar. 31, 1972 $ 565,492 and valuable contributions while serving Benefits paid since April 1958 12,342,278 in Georgia on Easter Sunday in an at- Basic Units in force (number) 111,696 as 1956-70. New Applications approved since tempt to hike the entire 2,000 miles to executive secretary We Jan 1, 1972 906 the northern end of the Trail on Mt. gratefully pay this tribute to one we are New Applications rejected 565 proud to call friend and leader, who Katahdin, Maine. Only 10 men, reports American Legion Life Insurance is an official program Legion, adooted the Appalachian Trail Conference, have furthered the principles of international of The American by the National Executive Committee, 1958. It is understanding, friendship peace." made the entire trip since the Confer- and decreasing term insurance, issued on application to paid-up members of The American ence was founded in 1925. Kuni will Legion subject to approval based on health and backpack through 14 states, hoping to Francis Polen, Nat'l Treasurer of The employment statement. Death benefits range from $40,000 (four full units up through age 29) complete the walk late in September. He American Legion since 1958, elected (25 in New Jersey) in decreasing steps with age termination of insurance at end of year in Trail president of Peoples Bank & Trust Co., to recently hiked a test run of the from which 75th birthday occurs. Available up to Indiantown Gap to Delaware Water Indianapolis, ind. He joined the bank in four full units at a flat rate of $24 per unit a year on a calendar year basis, pro-rated during 1926. A past District 11 Cmdr, Fran is Gap— 125 miles. the first year at $2 a month per unit for insur- a member of the Capital Improvements ance approved after January 1. Tinderwritten by two commercial life insurance companies, Legionnaire Ronald Boultinghouse, of Board of Indianapolis and a past presi- the Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California dent of the Indianapolis chapter of The and United States Life Insurance Co. in the Citv Post 95, Bridgeton, N.J., six years ago of New York. American Legion Insurance Trust took on the task of clearing and clean- American Institute of Banking. Fund is managed by trustees operating under the laws of Missouri. No other insurance may ing 68 headstones and a cannon in the use the full words "American Legion." Admin- Legion Nat'l Executive Committeeman istered by The American Legion Insurance Di- Civil War Cemetery, established in 1877 vision, P.O. Box 5609, Chicago, Illinois 60680. by veterans of the Grand Army of the Edmund G. Lyons, of New Jersey, and to which write for more details. Republic but neglected for many years. Mrs. Lyons, involved in a March auto Boultinghouse, a monument engraver, accident; Mrs. Lyons suffered a broken W.C. Wallace, 78, of Anaconda, Mont.. cleared the site and, with the help of arm and hip, he had head cuts, multiple Past Dep't Cmdr (1953-54), Alternate Freeholder John Rose, of Cumberland fractures, two broken ribs and con- Nat'l Executive Committeeman in 1955- Co., obtained 40 tons of gravel and 32 tusions. In April, further surgery was 57 and Nat'l Executive Committeeman tons of topsoil, and brought it in via anticipated for both. Get well messages in 1957-59. wheelbarrow. With help, the cannon was may be sent to their home: 2 Friar Lane, remounted. Boultinghouse paints it each Clifton, N.J. 07013. Russell L. Clithero, of Sitka, Alaska, year. Every morning he goes to the Past Dep't Cmdr (1943-44) and Alter- cemetery and raises the flag and each Lloyd (Ed) Johnson, of Joplin, Mo., ap- nate Nat'l Executive Committeeman in day at sundown he lowers it. The post pointed Dep't Adjutant of Missouri; he 1951-52 and from 1968 until the time has agreed to maintain the cemetery. is a past post and district cmdr; Richard E. (Rick) Carpenter, recently appointed of his death. NEW POSTS Dep't Program Director, has been serving as Acting Dep't Adjutant. Dr. Park W. Huntington, Sr., 76, of The American Legion has recently Wilmington, Del., Past Nat'l Chaplain chartered the following new posts: Paul Frinsthal, assistant director of the of The American Legion (1934-35), Past Vandenberg Post 125, Cal.; Lompoc, Legion's Americanism and Children & Dep't Cmdr (1957-58), Past Nat'l Ex- Lawrence Washington Post 205, Hender- Youth Div., appointed an alternate mem- ecutive Committeeman (1962-64). Past son, Ky.; Mystic Island Post 493, Mystic, ber of The President's Committee on Nat'l Cemetery Committee vice chair- N.J., and Anderson Post 80, Manila, Employment of the Handicapped, to man (1969-71), and Dep't Chaplain at Philippines. serve on the Youth Committee. the time of his death.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Harold P. Redden, of Longmeadow, Bernard F. Schmidt, of East Moline, III., of the Legion's Legion Nat'l Adjutant William F. Hauck Mass., Nat'l Cmdr's Representative on a 1970-72 vice chairman Nat'l Americanism Council. (left in photo), presented with the Dis- the Legion's Finance Commission, at tinguished Service Award of the People- home recuperating after a brief medical to-People Veterans Committee. Making stay in a hospital. Harold C. Smith, 78, of Rockville, Md.. (1928-29). the presentation is Sam Shaikewitz, Past Past Dep't Cmdr Nat'l Cmdr of the Jewish War Veterans DEATHS and a co-chairman of the Veterans Com- George K. Snow, 80, of Mt. Airy, N.C., mittee. The plaque is inscribed: "People- Walter Welles (Pinky) Barnard, 78 of Past Dep't Cmdr (1944-45). to-People Veterans Committee presents Butte, Mont., Past Dep't Cmdr (1950- 51), Past Nat'l Executive Committee- J. Paul Heinel, 80, of Wilmington, Del., man (1953-55), Past Nat'l Vice Cmdr Past Dep't Cmdr (1927-28). (1961-62), and a member of the Legion's

Nat'l Legislative Commission from 1 962 Charles Q. Kelly, 79, of Little Rock. until the time of his death. Ark., Past Nat'l Vice Cmdr (1939-40), Past Dep't Cmdr (1933-34), and Past H. Emmett Waring, 74, of Lamar, Colo., Nat'l Executive Committeeman (1935- Past Dep't Cmdr (1946-47). 37).

Lewis P. Fields, 75, of Amarillo, Tex., James F. Byrnes, 92, former Supreme Alternate Nat'l Executive Committee- Court Justice, Secretary of State under man in 1928-32. President Truman; Byrnes and the late Herbert Hoover were honored with The L.C. Lozier, 79, of Moberly, Mo., who American Legion's Distinguished Ser- attended the St. Louis Caucus and was vice Medal during the 1965 Nat'l Con-

People-to-People award to Bill Hauck Dep't Cmdr in 1939-40. vention. {Continued on following page)

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Robert Lee Browne, 72. of Lafayette. and headache (left temple). Write "CD126, 128th Maint Bn, Co C— (July) Leonard Reuven, American Legion Magazine, 1345 Ave. of the 7600 S. Ridge Rd., Madison, O. 44057 La.. Past Dep't Cmdr (1948-49), Alter- Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019" 138th & 198th Field Art'y Bns— (Aug.) Andrew Army Special Service Unit 1936 (Fort Mac- Cowherd, 119 Arbor Park No., Louisville, Ky. in nate Nat'l Executive Committeeman Doyle July 1945) —Need information from 142nd Inf, Co B— (Aug.) Dewey Mann, 2105 1949-51, and a 1967-72 member of the Capt Skidmore and any other comrades who 21st St., Witro, W. Va. 25143 recall that Peter Dacko fell while playing 143rd Inf, l.st Bn, Hq Co (WW2)— (July) Roland Membership and Post Activities Com- football and injured his back, arm and leg. Hughes, Rt. 1. Nassau, N.Y. 12123 Write American Legion Magazine, 145th Inf, Co E— (Aug.) Carl Koppler. 626 mittee. "CD127, 1345 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. Claremont Ave.. Ashland, O. 44805 10019" 148th Inf, Antitank Co— (Aug.) Charles Falk- 373rd QM Truck Co (Burma Rd July 25, 1945) ner, 408 Franklin St., Sharpsville, Pa. 16150 Helen Howard, 80. an executive secre- —Need information from Lt McRay, T 4 152nd Inf, Co L— (Aug.) Ralph Lichtenwalter, Shines, T/5 Felders, Sgt Ellis, and Phelan 425 So. HiPh St.. Warsaw, Ind. 46580 tary at Nat'l Hqs for 31 years until her (an officer) and any other comrades who 160th Inf, Co I (Korean War)— (June) Mike Sherry, 1241 So. Azusa Ave., West Covina, retirement in 1957; she served as secre- recall that James J. Henderson, Jr., fell from back of truck and suffered a head injury. Calif. 91791 tary for Gen. John J. Pershing during Write "CD128, American Legion Magazine, 196th Field Art'v Bn— (Aug.) Ellis Lovem. Jr., 1345 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 3805 Ventnor Rd. S.E., Roanoke, Va. 24014 the Legion's ninth Nat'l Convention in 10019" 197th AAA AW BN Bat A (WW2)— (July) Leo Paris, France, in September 1927. Leone Sr., 7155 So. Hermitage, Chicago, 111. 60636 202nd Coast Art'y AA— (Aug.) Roger McCabe, 7400 Edgemere Blvd., El Paso, Tex. 79925 203rd Port Co— (July) Ernest Reber, Upper Sandusky, O. Rt. 1 43351 COMRADES IN DISTRESS 208th Field Art'y Bn— (Aug.i D New Orleans, Pratt, Lt Atwell. CPO (FTC) and Cmdr N.j. 08867 La. 70119 Johnson other comrades (Exec O), and any G3rd Eng. Co A— (Aug.) Glen Young, 4462 3854th QM Gas Supply Co— (Aug.) Jack Hat- who recall that John P. Conibellack showed Leppert Rd.. Hilliard. O. 43026 tem, 55 Taylor St., Waltham, Mass. 02154 a nervous condition and an inability to get 67th AAA Gun Bn, Bat C— (July) Clarence .American Guerrillas of Mindanao (lOtli MIL along with comrades and superiors. Write Lister, P O. Box 163. Lansdowne, Pa. 19050 Dist, USFIP, WW2)— (July) Robert Pesnell, "CD124, The American Legion Magazine, 71st CA. Bat H: 384th AAA, Bat D— (Aug.) 207 May fair Dr., Shrevenort, La. 71107 1345 Ave. of the Americas, New York, N.Y. Alton BishoD, 354 Brooktondale Rd., Brook- (1952)— (Aue.) George 10019" KMAG, CHEJUDO tondale, N.Y. 14817 Haffner, 60 Delwood Rd., Stratford. Conn. 263rd Inf Keg't, Svc Co, Riicker, Ala. Camp SOth Chem Mortar Bn. Co A— (Aue ) Donald Mexican Border Veterans— (June) Walter (Nov. 1944) —Need infonnation from Capt Carnenter, R ±- 1. Neli°h, Neb. 68756 Morris. 861 Oakland. N/E Cedar Rapids. Iowa Morley (CO), Lt Col Balch (Reg'fl S-4), Col 81st Div— (Aug. > Gerald Anderson, 3N530 Lom- Pioneers. MFSS or 1st Med Reg't (Carlisle Rounds (Bn CO) or any other comrades who bard Rd., Addison, 111. 60101 Barr. Pa.)— (Aug.) Holland Jones, 2580 recall that Riiegsegger Gordon had a nervous S6th Eng.— (Aug.) Robert Wheeler, 537 Prospect Brookwood St.. Apt. 10-C. Harrisburg. Pa. breakdown in Camp Rucker, again in Eng- Ave., East Aurora. N.Y. 14052 land and further in Nantes, France. Write 95th Medical Gas Trt Rn— (Aug.) Walter Gantz, "CD125, The American Legion Magazine, 829 Palm St . Scranton, Pa. 18505 NAVY 1345 Ave. of the Americas. New York. N.Y. in7th Fng Re""! & Bn fWW)&2). 254th Ene Bn

10019" I Rt. 3, (WAV2), 522 Eng Co ( WW2)— ( Auu. Ed Vi'-k- 2nd Marine Div— (Aug.) Robert Andre, nsth Div, 377th Reg't, Co G, 1st Platoon (Frau- strom, P.O. Box A, Ishpeming. Mich. 49849 Box 475-B, Sonora, Cal. 95370 lautern, Germany Dec 1944 or Jan 1945) 113th Ord Co MM— (Aup.^ Sam Cecil. R^l Box 8th Defense Bn, Fox Bat (Wallis Isl. Apomama Need information from Pine (Attica. Ohio), 206. Bardstown. Kv. 40004 WW2), 8th AA Bn. Baker Bat (Okinawa, Cnpt Hardy (CO). Eversol, Ripley, Mollahan, 114th Inf Reg't, Anti-Tank Co— (Aug > Euaene WW2)— (Aug.) Edward McGee, Box J, Wood- Thomas, Passa, Krause and any other com- Hobelmann, 3163 Carefree Lane. Florissant, stock, Ver. 05091 rades who recall that Raymond Sorey was Mo. 63033 8th Marine Reg't, 2nd Bn, Co H (Later "Hq"), knocked downstairs in a brick house by 120th Ord Co MiM— (Aug.) Arthur Kuehn. 1753 ,Smm Mortar Platoon— (Aug.) Curtis Kemp, shell concussion, incurring a bleeding ear Cliffview Rd., Cleveland, O. 44112 P.O. Box 5681, Kansas City, Mo. 64102

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Charles Coble, Jr., Gordon Drake, Walter LIFE MEMBERSHIPS Stucy, Charles Blomquist and William Provod The award of a life membership to a Legion- (all 1970). Post 229. Roselle. N.J. naire by his Post is a testimonial by those who John R. Brophy, Charles A. Hughes and know him best that he has served The Ameri- Arnold M. Albero (all 1972), Post 8, New can Legion well. Rochelle, N.Y. Below are listed some of the previously un- Irving Trent, Raphael Valentine, Edward published life membership Post awards that Wolfe (all 1971), Post 14, Brooklyn, N.Y. have been reported to the editors. They are George Brockman (1972). Post 22. New York, arranged by States or Departments. N.Y. Clement J. Ward and Sterling I. Brownell Herbt H. Little, Esker A. McDannal, Lynn S. (both 1972). Post 79, Messena, N.Y. McLaughlin and Anthony R. Willett (all 1971), Conrad Heiselman, George Heppner, Joseph Post 107, Leeds, Ala. Kelley, Morton Finch and Clarance Hyde (all W. R. Thompson, Roy Harrell, H. D. CuUum 1972). Post 150, Kingston, N.Y. and Joseph H. Dowless (all 1970), Post 136, Joseph Novicki (1972), Post 178, Millerton, Monette, Ark. N.Y. Homer Snodgrass, Denver Snodgrass, Wallace John B. McEvov, Arthur J. Martin, Victor M. Monmouth Co., N.J., Legion ran its 28th Yates (all 1969), A. Britton and H. G. Childers Meister and Stanton W. Miller (all 1972), Post annual safety essay contest, gave cash, both 1970), Post 171, Lincoln, Ark. 184, Hudson. N.Y. Harold Wohlgemuth (1963) and Glenn B. bonds as prizes. Contestants and those Wilbur J. Oakley (1972), Post 10, Richmond. Cal. Mitchell (1972), Post 222, Canajoharie, N.Y. judges who are not Legionnaires got Howard W. Ames, Jr. (1972), Post 314, Haw- Joseph Lockbaum, Vincent Sherman (both subscriptions to The American Legion thorne, Cal. 1971). Post 514, Winthrop, N.Y. Plisek Henry Adams, Charles Avery, A. D. Baker, IVIagazine. At left is Reese Gibson, of Bertram A. Lafoon and Rudolf D. (both 1972), Post 23, Aurora, Colo. Howard Baltzer and Joseph Colmerauer (all Freehold Post County Safety 54, Chmn. Norman N. Vose (1972), Post 119, Largo, Fla. 1971), Post .527, Hamburg, N.Y. At right is Dep't Cmdr Frank Piampiano. Ferd Eble, Jr., E. E. McClain and Wm. J. John W. Dodge (1972), Post 1001, Scotia, N.Y. Sams (all 1972). Post 317, Bradenton, Fla. Fred Perkins (1972), Post 1045. Fishers Island, Wade H. Gilbert and Ernest E. Orr (both N.Y. 1972) and Albert R. Cousins (1966), Post 186. Nicholas Pasquini, Victor LaValee and Stan- 12th Defense Bn USMC— (Aug.) Robert Krause, Greenville, Ga. ley Clayton (all 1971), Post 1091, Schenectady, 746 N. 4th, Seward, Neb. 68434 Stephen W. Wagner, Hirschle C. Irons (both N.Y. 21st Seabees— (Aug.) W. A. Thompson, 3101, 1970), Warren L. Harris, Frank B. Mace and Love Nussman (1966), J. L. Beaver (1967) Shady Brook, Midwest City, Oltla. 73110 Charles E. Peterson (all 1971). Post 16. Canton, and Harvey L. Huffman (1971), Post 115, Kan- 123rd Seabees— (Aug.) Walter Krpan, 1108 So. 111. nanolis, N.C. 5th St., Pelcin, 111. 61554 Herman Lewis, Clarence Lucas, Walter B. John L. Gauer, R. W. Gilliam, Leo J. Grand- ABSD4— (Aug.) John Pontifice, 11 Benson Ave., Pfeifer, Giles Sullivan and Dr. Newton Krabbc Pre, Frank G. Hallowell and George L. Hartel Seekonk, Mass. 02771 (all Post 24. Champaign, 111. (all 1970), Post 3, Dickinson, N. Dak. Submarine Veterans of WW2 (Minnesota Chap- 1971), Raymond C. Daly (1970), Post 154, Western James F. Skinner, Otis Stine, Roy Suiter, ter)— (Aug.) E. E. Carley, 1694 Hubbard, Springs. 111. Clifford B. Snider and Oliver L. Spencer (all St. Paul, Minn. 55104 Donald R. Dahl, Rolland E. Dirksen, Lyle W. 1970). Post 11. Lancaster. O. WAVES— (Aug.) Waves, P.O. Box 6351, Kansas Christen, Eugene G. Ebens Harold D. Fossil, Ore. City, Mo. 64126 and Warren W. Jobe (1972), Post 27, Fransen (all 1972), Post 197, Pecatonica, 111. Lawrence R. Beck, Alexander, Women Marines (Aug.) Mrs. Margaret Carte, Crowder W. — Charles W. Culdice, Robert L. Larson and 89 St. George PI., Goleta, Cal. 93017 Kristian R. Schau (all 1972), Post 122, Canby, USS Benham (DD397)— ( Aug.) Myrl Flohr, Box Ore. 99, RR 5, Sykesville, Md. 21784 Charles J. Marberger, Elmer Miller, Harold USS Cambria (APA36)— ( June) Louis Haas, 12 Miller, Sheldon E. Cambria Rd., Syosset, N.Y. 11791 W. B. Minnich and George Thrush (all 1971), Post 286, Cressona, Pa. USS Cascade (AD 16 1951-54)— (May) Bob Robert H. Gibson (1971), Billy L. Slinkard, Croghan, 2343 Hampton Ave., St. Louis, Mo. USS Cobla (SS245)— (Aug.) Charles Wedell, Herbert Clyden, Kenneth O. Gillesnie and Charles D. Gunn, Jr. (all 1972), Post 34, Viet- Rt. 2, Manitowoc, Wis. 54220 nam. rSS Cony (DD508)— ( July) Melvin Junge, 404 Harry C. Roy L. H. Davis, Oak St., Holgate, Ohio 43527 Daum, W. Daum, Earl F. Flanagan and Henry G. Hay (all 1971), USS Electra (AKA4)— ( Aug.) Wayland Mar- ders, 12021 Vale Rd., Oakton, Va. 22124 Post 7, Huron, So. Dak. Charles E. Christman (1968), Lester Cohrs USS Fullam (DD474)— ( Aug.) John Jeanisse, The of Post 119, Gulf- 2917 Larkspur Lane, Secane, PennR, 1901S new post home (1972), Guy E. Markham (1968), John T. Raftis, Sr. (1968) and Vern W. Workman (1971). Post USS Cleaves (DD423)— ( July) Jim Burke, 156 port, Miss., has won its builder, Myrick 47, Colville, Wash. Gibbs Pond Rd., Nesconset, N.Y. 11767 BIdg Systems, the Silver Award in the Robert D. Haines, Charles C. Hopkins, Flovd USS Hammann (DD412) & USS Gansevoort— Stran-Steel Corp.'s Building of the Year (Aug.) Floyd Hurley, 433 Thomas Ave., Ma- J. King, William R. Kiser and Edwin L. Kuhn quoketa, Iowa 52060 Contest. The two-building home has a (all 1969). Post 91, Romney, W. Va. Anthony Kosky (1971), Post 4, Athens, Wis. USS Hughes (DD410)— ( Aug.) J. P. Farmer, large auditorium, kitchen and other areas. 2939 Turner Ave., Roslyn, Pa. 19001 John P. Eckman (1972), Post 6, Stevens Point, Wis. USS Icefish (SS 367)— (Aut? ) Charles Wedell, John Haupt, Lester Helms, Herman C. Rt. 2. Manitowoc, Wis. 54220 T. Joe Mitchell (1969) and William Knoepfel Krueger, Emory S. Rogers and F. H. Uttormark USS Jallao (SS368)— ( Gerald Pileer. Aug.) (1970), Post 211, Paris, 111. 3519 Schroeder Dr.. (all 1972), Post 198, Marion, Wis. Manitowoc, Wis. 54220 Alexander Glover, Jr. (1972), Post 264, USS Manila Bay (CVE 81)— (Aug.) Arnold Lake Forest, 111. Life Memberships are accepted for publica- Lind. 2002 D 24th St., Los Alamos, N.M. 87544 Henry Appel, Joseph Allen, Hugh Clark, USS North Carolina— (July) 965 tion only on an official form, which we provide. Leo Drake, Thomas Danhof and William Huck (all 1972), Willis Ave., Albertson, N.Y. 11507 Reports received only from Commander, Ad- Post 593, Lacon, III. USS Pargo 264— (Aug.) Lester Rilev. Twin jutant or Finance Officer of Post which awarded Max Fabian (1972), Post 827. Chicago, III. Lakes. Minn. 56089 the life membership. Dr. Claude R. Pettibone (1972), Post 20, Pittsburg They may get form by sending stamped, self- USS Marine Det (WWl)— (Aug) Crown Point, Ind. "Murphey" Tidball, 873 Boxthorn Ave., addressed return envelope to Donald W. O'Neil (1972), Post 178, Garrett, "L.M. Form, American Legion Magazine. 1345 Newbury Park, Cal, 91320. Ind. USS Thorn (DD 647)— (Aug.) Kai S"'enson, Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019." William Alwood, Jr., Joseph N. Baldwin 2190 Allwood Dr., Bethlehem, Pa. 18018 On a corner of the return envelooe "'rite Ibe (both 1950), Byron J. Dielman (1953). Robert number of names you wish to report. No writ- L. Jennings and Allen B. Fisher (both 1972), ten letter necessary to get forms. AIR Post 202, Butler, Ind. Neil H. Bunker, John W. Burns, Carroll E. 3rd Serv On (WW2)— (Aug.) Walter Baker, 216 Frost, Shirley E. Haraden and Lawrence E. Arthur St.. Zelienople, Pa. 16063 Johnston (all 1971), Post 25, Bar Harbor, Me. 58th Bomb Wing- (Aug.) Joseph Pokraka, 1730 John E. Burns and Henry B. Graham (no LaPorte Ave., Whiting, Ind. 46394 dates). Post 2, Baltimore. Md. 302nd Airdrome Sadn (WW2)— (July) Elry Emory B. Kaufman. Ralph R. Lane, Paul B. Wilkinson, 6327 Wilmarbee Dr.. Fort Wayne, Milburn (deceased), Clyde Redding and Harry Ind. 46804 Wirtz (no dates). Post 81, Baltimore, Md. 312th Bomb On (WW2)— (Aug.) Edward Cas- Harry T. Hull, Woodrow F. Robertson, Wil- sidy, 589 College St., Macon, Ga. 31201 liam J. Ryan, Jr., Francis R. Saunders and 330th Air Serv Gp, 73rd Wing— (Aug.) Arthur Elmer F. Stockslager (all 1972), Post 236, Shields, Rt. 1, Box 154, Grand Rapids, Minn. Sharpsburg, Md. 354th Serv Sqdn (England, Africa, Italy WW2) John R. Henderson, John H. Henderson, Karl — (Aug.) Joe Perusich, 324 TranVerse Blvd., K. Mayo, Edward F. Morlev and Rennie Spring Kenmore, N.Y. 14223 (all 1972), Post 110, Medfield, Mass. 426th Night Ftr Sqdn— (July) John Henzler, Lester A. James, Rosamond M. Johnson, 815 Glen Allen Dr., Baltimore. Md. 21229 Joseph E. Leger, John Logue and Austin Max- 485th Bomb Gp— (Aug.) William Schoultz, 532 well (all 1968), Post 183, Shirley, Mass. Park Ave., Newton Falls, O. 44444 George L. Powell and Dale Donley (both 828th Bomb Sqdn— (Aug.) Carl Gigowski, 344 1972), Post 368, Morenci, Mich. Eola St. SE, Grand Rapids, Mich. 49507 Joseph C. Fins (1972), Post 53, Ridgewood, 831st Bomb Sqdn— (Aug.) Howard Woodyard, N.J. 3539 Butternut Dr., Lambertville, Mich. 48144 John J. Denkinger (1972), Post 70, Nutley, Canadensis, Pa., Post and Unit 922 raised 843rd Avn Eng. Bn— (Aug.) Alfred Sauter, 826 N.J. $1,600 for a memorial "Dedicated to the Ulm, Mirm. 56073 N. Pavne St., New Frank M. Kuhn (1972). Post 90, Bergenfield, men and women who helped preserve a Dodge City. Kans., Army Air Base (All Former N.J. Personnel & Students) — (Aug.) Joe Berkely, Edward H. Maier, Frank Peacock, Roland free nation." The memorial, of Rhode Box 760, Dodge City, Kans. 67801 Boultinghouse, Raymond Wilson and E. Carl Island Granite (ten feet long, four feet Williams (all 1972), Post 95, Bridgeton. N.J. high), is flanked by two bronze vases in MISCELLANEOUS William O. Vincent (1970). Alex E. Ferguson, which the Post and Unit will each place American Defenders of Bataan & Corregldor Herbert E. Quinton, James Duguid and Richard (Aug.) Wayne Carringer, Fontana Dam, N.C. Horner (all 1967), Post 228, Springfield, N.J. a floral display on patriotic holidays. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 41 7 —I —1

THE HEAVIEST HUMAN ON RECORD NIGHT RIDERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WEIGHED 1.069 LBS. AND WAS BURIED (Continued from page 24) IN A PIANO CASE! Virginia had fled there a few weeks The Speakers of the two houses, and The Highest Alimony E>er Paid Was $11,550,000. A War Thai! earher after a British force, led by Bene- some other members were lodging with Lasted 38 Min. A Woman Who Bore 69 Children. The Largest dict Arnold, the American traitor, raided us. I ordered a carriage to be ready to

Insect . . .a "Goliath Beetle." The off World's .Most Expensive Per- Richmond. carry my family; we breakfasted fume At $370 An Ounce. The Assembly included several signers at leisure with our guests, and after The biggest! The smallest! The richesil The highest! The oldest! of the Declaration besides Jefferson breakfast they had gone to Charlottes- The longest! The fastest! The greatest! The Guinness Book Of Patrick Henry; Benjamin Harrison, an- ville; when a neighbor rode up full World Records contains over 3.000 records of science, nature, cestor of two future Presidents; and such speed to inform me that a troop of the achievements of man, the' world of sports, the arts, enter- revolutionary leaders as Richard Henry horse was then ascending the hill to t.iinmcnt and little known fan- I tastic phenomena. Packed with^ Lee, John Tyler and Thomas Nelson. Jr. the house. instantly sent off my fam- unbelievable facts and over 350 Tarleton's ily, after a short delay for photos. Capturing them obviously was and some Settle any argument! Amaze objective. your friends! You will not be able . to put it down. This 600 page - Jouett slipped out to the stable behind hard covered volume is a must for any library. Over 5.000,000 the tavern and mounted his horse. Prince copies sold worldwide. Only $5.95 (moncvback guarantee).— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Charlie, a bay racer that was "the best • I GUINNESS HOUSE, P.O. BOX 1192AL and fleetest nag in seven counties." Rid-

! ANSONIA STATION, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10023 i ing by familiar back roads and across Please rush mc Guinness Book Of World Records at hilly, country, Jouett the S5.95 each (plus 60c post, & hand). Enclosed is my check rough raced or money order for If not completely satisfied. British westward. Low branches cut and I will return the book within 15 days for a full refund. scarred his face for life but he pressed Mr. Mrs. on through the night, with only a few Miss let rest. Address , brief stops to Prince Charlie

Ciiv State Zip Tarleton stopped for three hours near (Make check/M.O. payable to GUINNESS BOOK) Louisa Courthouse to let his horses rest. He was dashing 70 miles in 24 hours and there is a limit to what horseflesh can

endure. A little later he captured 1 wagons loaded with arms and clothing for the Continental forces in South Caro- lina. Tarleton burned the wagons and pressed onward. But he stopped for half "Take two jellybeans and cal me in the morning." an hour at Castle Hill, home of a famous THE .AMERICAN LEGION M.AG.AZINE Dr. Thomas Walker, to eat breakfast and We'll meet you at the station to capture "some of the principal gentle- pressing arrangements, I mounted my ... or airport or terminal. Our resort has been men of Virginia." horse. dispensing hospitality like this for 150 summers. Jouett reached the Charlottesville area Heated pool, lake boating, golf, electric carts, hiking, fishing. Nightly entertainment. well ahead of Tarleton and dashed up Jefferson got away safely just as Brit- Special family rates. to Monticello, Thomas Jefl'erson's home ish dragoons under a Captain McLeod Crawford House east of town, at 4:30 a.m. Jouett was arrived at Monticello. They had been Crawford Notch, N.H. unkempt, his face and uniform scratched detached and sent ahead by Tarleton to Information: Daniel 0. Miller, Inc. 420 Lexington, N.Y. and torn. Jeff"erson, who opened the door try to capture Jefferson, but were or- himself, was a little skeptical of the news dered not to harm his house or his pos- Name —he was surprised to hear that the Brit- sessions because of his good treatment of ish were so far inland. British officers sent Virginia after their Address to But he hospitably poured Jouett some capture at Saratoga. McLeod remained City State Zip Madeira wine. The captain drank this, at Monticello 18 hours and obeyed his then rode two miles more into Charlottes- for few STAIR CLIMBER orders scrupulously. Except a ville and warned others. As Jefferson's bottles of wine liberated by his men with- by WECOLATOR telescope revealed no soldiers yet in out his knowledge, nothing was touched. sight, the Governor was in no hurry to War could be gentlemanly at times in Enjoy your multi-story home without climbing a single step leave. Later he described the morning in those days. with a comfortable, dependable, these words: A Virginia guard, meanwhile, had maintenance free Wecolator Stair Climber. Installs quickly been placed on the ford of the Rivanna and neatly on straight or curved Learning that the legislature was in below Charlottesville, but Tarleton and stairways. Operates on standard session at Charlotte, they [the British] llOvolt household service. his men stormed through to capture and Also available - Cheney Wheel- detached Colonel Tarleton with his destroy stores of firelocks and gunpow- chair Lift - a real help to persons legion of horse to surprise them. As der. They also captured seven slow-mov- confined to wheelchairs. he was passing through Louisa on the ing members of the Assembly still in Write or telephone for a free brochure evening of the 3d of June, he was ob- Charlottesville despite Jouett's warning. THECHENEY COMPANY, 76 11 N. 73rd St. Dept. L, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53223 served by a Mr. Jouett, who, suspect- The legislators reconvened in Staun- 414/354-8510 ing the object, set out immediately for ton, 40 miles west, and a few days later LEARN Charlottesville, and knowing the by- on June 12 passed this resolution: ways of the neighborhood, passed the MEAT CUTTING enemy's encampment, rode all night, "RESOLVED. That the execu-

Trmin qaiclcly in 8 shore w«el(s at Toledo and before sunrise of the 4th, called tive be desired to present to Captain for • brtKht focurewich eecarity in the vitml meat buBinese. Biir par, full-time jobs at Monticello with notice of what he John Jouett an elegant sword and HAVE A PROFITABLE MARKET OF YOUR OWN I Time payment plan available. Diplo- had seen, and passed on to Charlottes- pair of pistols as a memorial of the Li tfiven. Job help. Thousand« of buc- tul graduates. OUR 49th YEARI Send illustrated FREE calaloK. No obligation. ville to notify the members of the high sense which the General As- No. 0197T NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTINC legislature. Dipl. .\. T..IC1I0. Ohio {Continued on page 44)

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NIGHT RIDERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ii SAFE DEPOSIT BOX" (Continued from page 42) sembly entertain of his activity and area. Danbury, Conn., is just across the PROTECTION enterprise in watching the motions state line. Ludington was so active in the of the enemy's cavalry on their late cause of the Continentals that General IN YOUR HOME iMV incursion to Charlottesville and con- Howe, the British commander in New veying to the assembly timely infor- York, offered a reward of 300 English mation of their approach, whereby guineas for his capture dead or alive. the designs of the enemy were frus- A British search and destroy opera- trated and many valuable stores tion, as in the case of Revere and Jouett, preserved." gave Sybil her opportunity. On April 25, 1777. Gen. William Tryon. previously a Jouett received his pistols in 1783 but. British Colonial Governor both in North A FIRE-TESTED because of the inexplicable delays which Carolina and New York, led 2.000 Brit- sometimes keep rewards from war vet- ish troops ashore at Westport. Conn. HERCULES erans, did not get his sword until 1803. HOME VAULT® Meanwhile, he had moved to what is now For wills, deeds, tax records, Kentucky and married Sallie Robards stocks, bonds, other (his Virginia sweetheart who had pre- valuables. Built like ceded him): served in the Virginia and

fire-resistive label. Kentucky legislatures; and pioneered the Wall, closet and portable raising of fine cattle and horses in Ken- models. Yellow Pages under Check tucky. He died on March 1. 1822, at age "Safes — Meilink" for dealer. 67, and was buried in the family cemetery at his Bath County farm. Peeled ^ Oak, in a grave that for many years was ^ MEILINK STEEL SAFE CO. unmarked. Box • . Toledo, Ohio 43606 P.O. 2847 Dept. AL6 One of his sons, Matthew Harris Send FREE Household Inventory Forms and Jouett, won fame as a portrait painter. Home Vault Catalog. One of Matthew's sons, James Edward Name_ "Fighting Jim" Jouett, became a rear admiral. As a Union officer of the Meta- Address. coinet at Mobile Bay in 1864. he heard City_ Admiral David Farragut order: "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells! Captain Dray- State. .Zip. ton go ahead! Jouett full speed ahead!" "Roger, don't roll your eyes when "But for Jack Jouett's heroic ride there you I'm talking to you." would have been no Yorktown and the THE AMERICAN LEGION 5IAGAZINE How's Revolutionists would have been only unsuccessful rebels," said Stuart G. Gib- They marched quickly inland and next bony, president of the Thomas Jefferson day reached Danbury, where tents, pro- Your Memorial Foundation, at the unveiling visions, medical supplies and other of a marker at the Cuckoo Tavern in stores for the American army had been 1926. The tavern no longer exists, and collected. Hearing? the marker is at a nearby site. Virginius The British burned these, also most Dabney. editor of the Richmond Times- ot the private houses in town. Drunk with Chicago, 111. — A free offer of special Dispatch until he retired in 1969, and a looted liquor, they indulged in an un- interest to those who hear but do not leader of the Virginia Historical Society, restrained orgy, "one of the most brutal understand words has been announced has campaigned for recognition of Jouett and disgraceful performances of British by Beltone. A non-operating model of and June 4 is now ofTicially Jack Jouett arms in all the war" according to one the smallest Beltone aid ever made will Day in both Virginia and Kentucky. account. Messengers carried word of this

be given absolutely free to anyone Locally, the Pendletons, a prominent in all directions. answering this advertisement. Virginia family in the Cuckoo area, have One reached Colonel Ludington at Try it to see how it is worn in the been seeking for years to get better Fredericksburgh, now Ludingtonvilie, privacy of your own home without cost recognition for Jouett. Dr. Griffith B. N.Y., at 9 p.m.. and asked him to muster or obligation of any kind. It's yours to Daniel, of Louisa—a stamp collector his regiment and help repel Tryon. "No keep, free. It weighs less than a third has urged a Jouett postage stamp in con- telling where the redcoats are headed of an ounce, and it's all at ear level, in nection with the U.S. Bicentennial in next," said the weary messenger. one unit. No wires lead from body 1976. There was the possibility that Tryon to head. A stamp is also being urged for Sybil might turn west and attack the flank of These models are free, so we suggest Ludington, the New York girl who made General Washington's army then at you write for yours now. Again, we one of the longest and least known rides Peekskill. N.Y. The Colonel's regiment repeat, there is no cost, and certainly of the revolution. was the only one between Danbury and no obligation. Write to Dept. 4971. Sybil Ludington. who was barely 16 Peekskill, but all 421 officers and men Beltone Electronics Corp., 4201 W. at the time of her exploit, was the oldest were at home on furlough after service Victoria, Chicago, 111. 60646.

ess County then included what is now the Colonel turned to his daughter, Sybil. (/. S. SAVING BONDS Putnam County as well as its present {Continued on page 46)

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The book will be mailed in a plain plenty to go around. (Please print or type shipping At Santa Anita, for example, over wrapper) two million dollars is bet every day. And it's a statistical fact that only one out of 20 walks out a big winner. You I Name can be one of them! I Larry Voegele doesn't look like a race- I Address track tout. He's not. He's a college graduate. He was the Zip I City State editor of a newspaper. He was a legislative assistant to a congressman.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 45 Mail This Coupon! NIGHT RIDERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Can Radioear's (Continued from page 44) Til go," she volunteered. "The men know me and I know the road." It was a chill night. She dressed warmly while her father saddled a horse. Her long hair NEW trailing in the wind, she turned south over Horse Pond Road to Lake Mahopac, banging on doors and shouting at windows. Hearing Aid "There's trouble," she called. "The British are burning Danbury. The Colonel wants you right away. Bring your gun!" Help YOU? She then turned west through Red Mills to Peekskill Hollow, then back north- ward to Hortontown and Pecksville. She returned home at daybreak after riding 40 miles in all! Nearly the whole regiment was then in line. An hour or two later Colonel Luding-

ton led it into Connecticut. With other forces, he caught up with the retreating British at Ridgefield. Harassing them, with the tactics of Concord and Lexington, his men hurled them bleeding back to their ships. "I congratulate you on the Danbury expedition," Alexander Hamilton wrote Ludington. "The stores destroyed have been purchased at a pretty high price to the enemy." George Washington personally thanked Sybil and so did General Rocham- beau, the French leader. At 23, Sybil married Edward Ogden by whom she had six children. Two of her grandsons served in the Army. One of them, Edmund A. Ogden, a major, established Fort Riley in Kansas. Sybil died Feb. 26, 1839, "aged 77 years, 10 mos. &

I 1 d's" according to her tombstone (which spells her name Sibbell) in the Luding- ton plot in the old Presbyterian burying ground at Patterson, N.Y. She lies near her Thousands — just like you — may father. be helped to better hearing with The Daughters of the American Revolution and the New York State Department Radioear's model 1020. of Education have placed highway markers at several points along the route of her It's more powerful to give you a historic ride. In 1940, the late Berton Braley, who for years edited the "Parting wider range of smooth, clear hear- Shots" department of this magazine, wrote a poem about her ride. This Week Maga- ing. Tiny, lightweight, and depend- zine, a Sunday newspaper supplement, published it. able, too. Now Herman Herst Jr., of Shrub Oak, N.Y., and others are urging that she be Get the facts for yourself! Mail honored during the forthcoming Bicentennial. If they have their way, Sybil will this coupon and we'll send you information about Nerve Deafness gallop again in one of our 1977 commemorative postage stamps. Braley 's poem and about our powerful new 1020 borrows Longfellow's style to immortalize her. aid. Send me your informative Sybil Ludington's Ride booklets. AL672 By Berton Braley

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In April, Seventeen Seventy-Seven, A smoky glow in the eastern heaven (A fiery herald of war and slaughter) Came to the eyes of the Colonel's daughter. FOR PERMANENT "Danbury's burning." she cried aloud. The Colonel answered, " "Tis but a cloud, FUND RAISING A cloud reflecting the campfires' red, Easy way to raise money for your Organization hush you, Sybil, to bed." because everyone has fun ploying BINGOl So and go Thousands of Organizations are making up to $500.00 per week using' BINGO KING" supplies ." "I hear the sound of the cannon drumming. . and FREE Idea Bulletins. Write for FREE catalog " and details on raising money for your Organiza- "Tis only the wind in the trectops humming! tion. So go to bed, as a young lass ought. PLEASE GIVE NAME OF ORGANIZATION. ; And give the matter no further thought." Young Sybil sighed as she turned to go, DEPT 779, BOX 1178, ENGLEWOOD, COLO. 80110 "Still, Danbury's burning—that I know."

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And the British—the British are coming on. Send a messenger, get our men!" His message finished the horseman then Staggered wearily to a chair And fell exhausted in slumber there.

The Colonel muttered, "And who, my friend, Is the messenger I can send? Your strength is spent and you cannot ride And, then, you know not the countryside;

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Sybil grew weary and faint and drowsing.

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Dateline Washington.. SHOPLIFTING SURGES. TELEPHONE PRIVACY BILL. SPORTSMEN AND POLLUTION.

Shoplifting is increasingly adding to pay considerably more for the fun of htont- the cost of running a retail business, ing and fishing, according to a report of by the Department of Interior. and at 28% . leads other crime headaches the nation' s stores, according to a Small While there was a 70% rise in outlays by Business Administration report. Shop- devotees of rod and gun over the past lifting offenses rose by 221% over the decade, the survey shows that fishing en- decade. thusiasts increased from 25.3 to 35.2 Theft by employees of the retail outlets million, but the niimber of hunters de- is estimated at only 13%, but experts in clined some 300,000 to 14.3 million. Over- this area believe that in-house purloining all, by 1970, nearly one in four Americans, of goods actually accounts for a higher 12 years of age and up, stalked for game in loss than shoplifting, but that employers the sky, land or water. One-third of the are reluctant to admit the magnitude of fishing fans were women; but of the hunters, the inventory shortages. only one in ten. The "ordinary" crimes-burglary, robbery, Sportsmen must be willing to, pay as much vandalism, shoplifting, employee theft, for maintaining wildlife habitat—by means bad checks and arsons-cost the U.S. retail of higher license fees and levies—as sector nearly $5 billion a year. Small they pay for privilege fees, transport, business is hit hardest. Stealing of equipment, etc., warns the Department of merchandise by customers and employees Interior, or fish, fowl and animals will together may amount to 5% of sales, enough vanish. to put a store in the red for the year. PEOPLE AND QUOTES Of course, consumers pay the cost of trying DISARMAMENT TREASURY REFORM to prevent this pilferage. ". . . it is my strong view that "Like a patient suffering with it would be a great and danger- fever, the Treasury's attitude —^until the Your home may be your castle ous mistake for the U.S. to toward reform comes in fits phone rings and you find yourself trapped take unilateral disarmament and starts, interspersed with the harangue of a fast-talking salesman. action." Defense Sec'y Melvin periods of profound coma." These phone invasions may infringe your R. Laird. Rep. Henry S. Reuss (Wis.). privacy four or five times a day, accord- PENALIZING PUSHERS CITY PEOPLE complaints reaching Congress. ". ing to . . don't yet know how "For those who traffic in we In reaction, Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin to solve this mounting crisis drugs . . there should be no has initiated a Telephone Privacy Bill, sympathy whatever and no of people with problems in our central cities—but we must find urhich has gained the endorsement of a grow- limit insofar as the criminal out before it is too late." Sec'y ing bloc of Congressmen. These legisla- penalty is concerned." Presi- Nixon. George Romney, HUD. tors would bar cemetery lot salesmen, dent DECAYING CITIES insurance solicitors and such from dis- BLAME FOR VIETNAM turbing the peace of any household "There is no question that . . the people some of who some cities will decay indefi- without prior permission. the President to get the urged nitely ... I am not sure we The bill would require solicitors to troops out of Vietnam as soon can or should try to stop decay as possible will blame him limit their sales pitch to those phone now where there is no reason for a goes users who failed to list a "don't-ring" if the military situation city to exist." Albert Walsh, bad." Dean Rusk, former request against any sales firm arousing ten Housing and Devel. Comm., Sec'y of State. N.Y.C. complaints. Calls from charities, political organizations and poll takers, how- SERVICES NOT FREE HUMAN VALUES NEEDED ". ever, would be exempted from the ban. "In our society, we must be . . human values are essen- willing to pay for the services tial in a democracy; anything we demand. Nobody gets any- that threatens them makes our P olluted skYj. water and land are forcing thing for nothing." C. Jackson whole society a little less free, America ' sp ortsmen to stalk their quarry Grayson. Price Comm. Chair- our nation a little less strong." farther away from their hometowns and man. Vice Adm. H.G. Rickover.

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NEW BRAKES ON UNFAIR SNOOPING dig out promising personal information hay from it. (Continued from page 30) \ and make This may be the knottiest problem of decided the whole thing had been a mis- might then "dry up." (But not if sources all—how to collect information and yet understanding. were recorded separately.) Third, if insure it be given only to authorized peo- Ahhough there are a fair number of the file consists of a coded computer ple. No one has an answer for it, yet of noncompliance like this, printout as many do the consumer examples — — fundamental rights of privacy are at most complaints, the FTC is said to feel, wouldn't be able to understand it. (True, stake. It is conceivable that some day problems, mis- unless he was given a printed key, which result from technical from the whole concept of private investiga- understandings and misinformation. As seems easy enough.) tions as presently practiced may be suc- consumers learn their rights and bureaus As a matter of fact. Sen. Mark Hat- cessfully challenged on constitutional their obligations (and as the necessary field has introduced a bill that would re- grounds—especially if attempts to con- court precedents are set) there's reason quire reporting agencies to furnish control the abuses and give a fair shake all to believe that the will well, as law work sumers with copies of their reports before around are circumvented. written. businesses or other copies are supplied to One of the most obvious holes in the While the Fair Credit Reporting Act subscribers. Not surprisingly, the in- new law is the one Senator Hatfield seems is a long step in the right direction so far vestigating industry is dead set against to be shooting at. Unless the consumer as consumer rights are concerned, it is by this bill. or his agent can actually see the files,

There actually is one such law on the there is no way for him to know if the books—in Oklahoma. But credit bureaus bureaus' statements of their content are are so dead set against it that so far truthful and complete. If they are caught they're refusing to obey it. too often deceiving the consumer on that, There are also loopholes—perhaps in- support to put over a bill like Hatfield's evitable ones—in the provisions in the will most certainly materialize. act against giving information to un- For all its loopholes and enforcement authorized persons. Arthur R. Miller, in difficulties, the Fair Credit Reporting

his book "The Assault on Privacy," re- Act of 1970 is a significant advance in ports that MIT students were able to tap consumer rights. Chances are, though,

in on computers handling classified Stra- it is only the first of several measures tegic Air Command data. If these stu- that will eventually be passed to help us

dents were able to do it, there's good retain what privacy we have. The FTC reason to believe unscrupulous individ- report on how the bill did or did not work uals with training in computer opera- during its first year or so could be the tions could tap into credit bureau files, basis for further controls. the end

"This is the happiest day of my life!" THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE JOCK ITCH no means perfect, even if it is perfectly enforced. For example, it does not limit the kind ISN'TSOMETHING of information that can be gathered, nor

does it require that merchants, insurance companies or potential employers be TO BE TREATED LIGHTLY given only relevant information about a person. Right now, credit bureaus or investigative agencies can report a consumer's race, religion, politics, or neigh- tak borhood gossip about his sex life or drinking habits. Just why a credit grantor, employer or insurer would need to know these items is a good question in many cases, though drinking habits—if the information is reliable—could have a bearing on such things as auto insurance and job applications. Jock Itch is a fungous iniec tion piration (an important factor It can become serious. The act does not give consumers a n the growth of Jock Itch fungi It can keep coming back even tinea cruris). Its medication right actually to see their dossiers, nor to — though you try all manner of directly attacks susceptible possess copies of them. The credit bu- "remedies," from baby powder fungi. And because you spray reaus fought hard to prevent consumers to petroleum jelly. Cruex on, you can reach into getting from this right—and won. Why But you can get fast relief hard-to-get-at places and avoid the shouldn't consumers be able to see their with Cruex®, the spray-on medi- sting or burn of rubbing, dab- records or have a copy? The Associated cated powder specifically made bing, or smearing. So fight to fight Credit Bureaus, Inc., gives three rather Jock Itch. Jock Itch seriously(and help keep Cruex soothes itchy, inflamed lame reasons for this: First, the con- it from recurring) with cooling, skin. Cushions against further soothing Cruex. Guaranteed to sumer might destroy his file if he saw it irritation. And absorbs per- work or your money back. (but this would hardly matter if what he saw was a computer printout or a CRUEX. THE MEDICATED SPRAY photocopy). Second, seeing the file SPECIALLY FORMULATED TO FIGHT JOCK ITCH. would reveal the bureau's sources, which ©1972 Pharmacraft Division Pennwalt Corporation SPHWMACRAFT

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 49 A LOOK AT CHICAGO, ILL. — (Continued from page 17) —

cage," the Chicago Convention and cock and Prudential Buildings), distinc- Tourism Bureau lists 281 restaurants tive neighborhoods, regular tours of

which it calls "excellent." For 167 of business and institutional establishments you a better fit. these, no special cuisine is mentioned. (such as the Furniture Mart, the Mer- But 114 of them are cited as serving cantile Mart, the Board of Trade, the Dentur-Eze holds dentures American, Armenian, Cantonese, Chi- Sun-Times, the Tribune, the First Na- naturally firm. It protects nese, Continental, seafood, French, tional Bank, Inland Steel, Marshall Field, gums as long as it holds, German, Greek, Indian, Italian, Irish, Sears Roebuck, Schwinn Bicycle, Uni- and lasts longer too. So Japanese, Jewish, Mexican, Polynesian, versity of Chicago, "kitchen tours" by you can enjoy the good Scandinavian, Scottish, steak and beef, Quaker Oats in the Merchandise Mart, Turkish or Yugoslavian-Serbian special- etc., etc.). In the summer, there are band things in life. ties. concerts at the Bandshell in Grant Park. For the kind of fit you've To get the whole tourism list you might always wanted, get THE Tribune listed 143 restaurants as drop in at the Bureau at 332 South Michi- Dentur-Eze today, at your worthy of mention. Some are a bit gan (right off the middle of the Loop), favorite drug counter. distant from State and Madison, but 32 when in town. Its whole list of potentially of them are in the Loop and 36 are on or interesting things ranges the alphabet within three blocks of upper Michigan from antiques to zinnias.

Dentur-Eze' Ave. The Trib listed 25 downtown night- From anywhere in the Loop, it's only CUSHION PLASTIC club-bars (many in hotels), and said it a stroll to the Chicago River where, was holding its list to those that are better around Michigan Avenue, a couple of known nationally. It listed 43 bars and PI IMP DRAINS pools, cellars, laundry tubs firms run sightseeing boats out onto the rUIVir - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS pubs in what's called the Rush Street IRRIGATES lake. It took a little digging to discover Heavy duty ball bearing pump. All metal, rust- area, a few blocks west of the extreme proof Type XB. stainless shaft. Use Vs, HP or if—and how—a Legionnaire might have larger, l HP 1,200 GPH 60' high or 3,000 upper end of Michigan Ave., and 34 t'\ GPH 25' well. 5,200 GPH max. IV4" in; a crack at catching one of the salmon more a little north of that in an area » 1" out. Belt or direct drive. $13.95 for which the Great Lakes are newly Type P won't rust or clog. Bronze bear- called Mid-Town/ Old Town. From this ing. To 2.400 GPH. 1" in; 3/4" out. $9.95 if in P'pd cash with order. Money back Guarantee. it should be plain that a lot of Chicago's famous— he fishes out of Chicago LABAWCO.Box 21, Belle Mead, N.J. 08502 evening-out activities are located farther August. This magazine's own outdoors north yet, as well as in the Loop and consultant, Gil Paust, put me in touch "near north" area on which I've drawn with Russ Reinecke, at Abercrombie &

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE . JUNE 1972 5I ing a sinker frequently tangles the line during a cast. Thirteen-year-old Nancy Conran of Daly City, Cel., LIFE ties a lump of sugar near IN THE OUTDOORS the hook. It casts easily, the bait sinks and the sugar dissolves, then you can fight the fish with a free line. Wildlife Photography FRESHEN UP your sleeping bag by open-

ing it, then placing it in a tumble laundry drier for about 20 minutes, without heat, YOUR NEXT outdoor trip shoot all the in flight, should be shot at 1/1000 to stop ON advises Mrs. I. T. Aylward of South La- wildlife you can find —with a camera. action. The trick in wingshooting is to fol- guna, Cal. This will fluff it up and aerate it. Nature photographers claim it's easy for low the flying bird in the viewfinder and Later spray with disinfectant to prevent anyone with a basic knowledge of photog- to keep swinging even after tripping the mildew and odors. raphy. Although any camera can be used, shutter. the recommended type is the single-lens re- For further information, read: "The SMALL magnets in your tackle box will flex because, without a complicated adaptor, Complete Book Of Nature Photography" hold hooks and flies; put them on the bot- it will take a 200mm or 400mm telephoto by Russ Kinne, published by Amphoto, 915 tom, sides and top of the box, suggests Bob lens. Longer lenses are heavy, bulky and Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10011. Price: Gillick of Avalon, Cal. If your box is non- too slow; shorter ones don't magnify suf- $8.95. ferrous, stick them on with epoxy cement. ficiently. With these telephotos you can get close enough to wildlife without spooking MINNOW SEINE POLES invented by HANDY hook disgorger can be made from them. A tripod must be used whenever pos- Legionnaire Earl Kinsell of Millsboro, Pa., an old toothbrush, according to Olai Folstad sible to prevent vibration. A lighter substi- are designed to make it easier to catch slip- of Rice Lake. Wis. Just pull out the bristles tute for long hikes is the "clampod" which pery little bait fish. Photo shows inventor and file a V-notch in the end. will clamp the camera to a convenient tree branch or fence post. FOR SHORE FISHING, when you have to A remote-control release is an inexpen- move along the banks of a lake or pond, a sive asset. It is a rubber bulb which connects carpenter's apron is a good tackle carrier, to the camera with 40 feet of vinyl tubing reports 66-year-old Mrs. Nell Young of (not rubber, which stretches). Squeezing Appomattox. Va. It will hold plugs, spinning the bulb trips the shutter by compressed air. lures and hooks and they won't snag in the Longer tubing can be used but requires a rough material. Better than lugging a tackle hand pump to generate sufficient pressure. box. A motorized attachment, which automatically winds the film and sets the shutter, is TELL the approximate time without a effective for photos of birds and leaping fish, TO watch, use your fingers, advises Mark Tay- but it's expensive and heavy. A small elec- lor of Bryceland, La. Face the setting sun, tronic flash is recommended for pictures at hold your hands at arms' length, fingers night or in dark woods; its flicker doesn't extended and held horizontally top seem to disturb feeding animals or birds as one on of the other. Let the top finger touch the do the longer peaking flashbulbs. It should sun and measure the number of finger- be 20 feet or less from the subject. Heavy- widths to the horizon. Allow 15 minutes per duty electronic units can be used for greater finger. Example: 6 finger-widths means distances. When reading an exposure meter Wi hours before sunset. for non-flash pictures, it should be pointed

at a nearby object which is as dark as the distant subject. For example, when a bird A WET DOG, coming in out of the rain, all is flying in a bright sky, a reading should be always shakes himself over you and your taken of some convenient object no brighter good furniture. The remedy, writes Pete than the bird itself, otherwise the picture Miner of Batavia, N.Y., is to blow in his will be underexposed, due to the influence ear just before you bring him indoors. Then of the bright sky on the meter. he'll shake himself outside. As for film, Kodachrome II gives the Legionnaire Kinsell with seine poles. .sharpest color pictures but is slow (ASA 25); CARRY your own portable ashtray and help prevent forest fires, suggests Mrs. Rich- Kodachrome X is almost as good and faster and his rig. The seine can be rolled around ard Hinman of Mitchell, Neb. Make a hole (ASA 64): High Speed Ektachrome sacri- poles after use for storage. Price: about the cigarette in the bottom of fices sharpness and color for speed (ASA $5.00 from The Shurkatch Fishing Tackle diameter of a an empty 35mm film can. fasten the cover 160 and can be boosted higher). There are Co., 50 Elm St., Richfield Springs, N.Y. tightly, tape a clip to the can so it can hang many excellent black-and-white films; the 1.^439 or at sporting goods stores. rule to remember is that the slower the film on your pocket or belt. Insert cigarette butts in the hole. Unscrew the lid to empty. speed, the sharper the picture and finer the KEEPING fishing worms fresh and firm is grain. always a problem. F. E. Wright of San It's easy to get within camera distance of Antonio, Tex., has a solution. He buys FISHING FILM oft'ered free by Johnson It's color, animals when it's not hunting season. A moss from his nearest florist, lines the bot- Motors. 27 minutes long. 16mm called "My Pal. Son," and is built blind isn't necessary. Wear camouflage tom of his bait can with it. dampens the My clothing and hide in natural cover. An ap- moss, adds the worms, and covers with around a father-and-son fishing expedition proach at night is usually even easier; use more damp moss. The worms stay tough into Ihe Canadian wilderness. It won a first a pocket flashlight both lo hypnotize the and lively. prize in the 1971 National Travel-Outdoors animal and for focussing the camera. Or Film Festival. Write: Solana Studios. 4365 use a camera trap; attach the mounted IF VOL' carry luggage on top of your car N. 27th St., Milwaukee. Wis. 53216. camera's cable release to a mouse trap (with when you travel, slip each piece into two reduced spring pressure) so when it snaps heavy-duty plastic garbage can liners, or If you have a helpful idea for this feature it we'll you it will press the release, and run a string tightly tie the liners over them, advises send it in. If we can use pay $5.00. However, we cannot acknowledge, from the trap's trigger to a position where Cint Kiicik (age 8) of Arlington Heights. return, or enter into correspondence con- Ihe animal will trip it. Use the camera's 111. This will keep them dry if it rains. cerning contributions. Address: Outdoor self-timer so the trap won't jar the exposure. Editor, The .American Legion Magazine, Recommended exposure for wildlife photos SPINCASTING a baited hook is usually 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, is 1/250 of a second. Birds, especially those difficult because the bait is too light. Add- N.Y. 10019.

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Now that she's in, WHAT HAS RED CHINA BEEN DOING IN THE UN? nese rhetoric obscured the facts and true (Continued from page 9) intent of the letter. Hua's letter carefully avoided any Tiie ban remained, however, and Pe- them that the United Nations intended suggestion that either Hong Kong or king brought in its own newsmen, whose to uphold their job contracts. Macao as Western colonies—might duties apparently include appearing at Meanwhile, Chen Chu—who had de- — have the right to choose independence parties in New York to enlist sympathy livered the lecture to the translators rather than Chinese domination. To for the Chinese viewpoint. chose to go on a leave of absence. acknowledge that they were colonial ter- In February, the Committee for New Reached at his home by telephone, he ritories could undermine Peking's claim. China Policy, which had sent a group of refused to discuss the issue with news- Peking also avoided making any explicit American scholars to visit Red China, men. demand for any actual change in the gave a fund-raising party. The Commit- An account of the meeting put out by political status of the two cities. Both are tee asked the Chinese mission to send the Chinese Information Service, an international ports which are the princi- some delegates to the affair, which was agency of the Nationalist government on pal sources of a rich flow of foreign ex- held at an apartment on Riverside Drive. Taiwan, said that the red delegates had change for the Chinese Reds. No delegates appeared, but two Peking warned the translators to forget about Hong Kong, a city of 29-square miles newsmen, Chiang Hai-tao and Tai Tseng- being international civil servants and to on an island 91 miles southeast of Can- yi, showed up. For the next few hours, take a political stand favorable to Peking. is commercial they exuded charm and eagerly answered The Nationalist dispatch quoted an un- ton, a center of bustling activity. It has been a British Crown questions about life behind the Bamboo colony since 1841. Curtain. But when a black youth asked a peninsula south of the about China's attitude on Africa where Macao, on Canton River, has been held by Portugal it has had a number of diplomatic re- since 1557. calls it a "territory of verses, Chiang abruptly suggested that Lisbon he wait for another occasion to pose his Portugal overseas." question. China could easily have seized either city over the years, but apparently the As they began to feel more at home in New York, the Chinese became more commercial value has deterred her. vocal about their likes and dislikes. SHORTLY AFTER Peking made its entry into the halls of the UN, a former LAST January, a number of the UN American ambassador, J. Russell Wig- j Secretariat's Chinese translators were jolted when the Peking delegates gins, sounded a warning. harshly criticized the translators' work "China," said Wiggins, "probably will and warned them to shape up. The trans- confront the United Nations with many lators do not work for China, but for the difficulties." UN. It apparently was a classic understate- The episode began with a call from ment. Peking's admission, for one lh:n >. the Chinese delegation on January 8 in- brought within the walls a new dimension viting two top Chinese translators to to what for 26 years had been a two- come with a few fellow workers to the sided contest between the United States

Roosevelt Hotel where the Chinese ". and the Soviet Union. Until then, if these . . You felt ten years younger today stayed before they acquired their own because you took my iron pill instead of two superpowers agreed upon solution of headquarters. Seventeen translators your tranquilizer this morning." a crisis, there was hope that the United showed up. Most of them had been hired THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Nations could continue to function and in the early days before the reds took perhaps even be effective. over the mainland in 1949. But the entry of Peking set up a global Over tea and candy, four Chinese dele- identified member of the UN staff as power triangle with the third power still gates, headed by Chen Chu, spent three commenting that the "Communist of- an unknown quantity. Red China entered hours and 25 minutes criticizing the per- ficials bared their fangs for the first the organization billing herself as the formance of the Chinese translators. time." champion and protector of the small, One shaken UN staff member said later A copy of the Nationalist account was poor nations against alleged plots of the that the men from Peking had warned submitted by Western reporters to Kao two superpowers. It had an ironic ring them that they should not take it for Liang, spokesman for the Peking delega- to those who remembered how the Chi- granted that they had "iron rice bowls" tion. He refused to look at it or comment nese overran little Tibet more than a a Chinese expression meaning job secur- on it. decade earlier. ity. Since the 1971 General Assembly ses- The Chinese also trumpeted claims The following day, Tsu-ying Cheh, sion ended in December, the Chinese that the small nations were insufficiently head of the Chinese section of the trans- have not been heard from so often, but represented in the United Nations. This lation department, called a meeting of various committees keep meeting and the could mean that China would eventually the 77 Chinese interpreters, translators Peking delegates surface every few weeks try to change the structure of the UN and editors to tell them about the session on some issue. On March 1 3, Huang Hua bodies. at the Roosevelt. sent a letter to the UN Committee on Peking wasted no time hurling shafts By this time, UN authorities had got- Decolonization, spelling out Peking's at both the United States and the Soviet ten wind of the incredible affair and said claims to Hong Kong and Macao as Union. But the tenor of its remarks and cautiously that they did not believe that "part of Chinese territory occupied by the tone of the recent propaganda ema- the Peking delegation had violated the British and Portuguese authorities." nating from the Red Chinese capital indi-

UN charter, which prohibits govern- The Chinese letter also defied Japan's cate that Moscow is to be depicted as the ments from trying to instruct or influence claim to eight uninhabited islands in the real foe. Chinese leaders apparently feel the secretariat staff. At the same time, East China Sea between Taiwan and that if two foreign devils must haunt the UN officials sought to ease the fears Okinawa. They are known to the Japa- them, Russia is the closer and more of the Chinese translators by assuring nese as the Senkakus. But as usual, Chi- ominous. the end

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 55 —

BORROWING TROUBLE He gives me his money, My generous spouse; And no sooner done he PARTING SHOTS Comes into the house To ask for a twenty, A five, or a ten; It dwindles from plenty To nothing—and then, "Where is all that money?" He yells, like he meant it And I tell him, "Honey, Remember? You spent it!" Nova Trimble Ashley THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD A CONVERTIBLE

This 86-year-old man finally wed his 84- year-old girl friend and they spent their honeymoon getting out of the car. Lloyd Bvers

VARIANT EFFECT

From experience some speak. And we find their thoughts astute; Others from experience Deem it wiser to keep mute. Paul Tui irN YOU CANT WIN

To prove his great love for her he swam the deepest river, crossed the longest desert and climbed the highest mountain. Then she divorced him because lie was "Daddy, Daddy, I've only got one cavity!' never home. Joseph C. Salak I MH WII^HICAN l.Kr.IOV MAGA/.INK TELL TALE POINT OF VIEW The words which have the sweetest force. \ loui-ycai-old was sitting by his father as he fished from the bank Or seem the worst I know. of a creek. His father was wearing his fishing license on the back of his Depending how I stand, of course. liat. After he'd got several nibbles but no bites, he began to look discouraged. Are these: I told you so. D()n\a E\i.i III "VV'liat's the matter with those lish, anyhow!" he exclaimed. Said his small son, "Dadd\, why don't you turn your hat around so the lish can see your license?" HAIR AND HEARTH DoRoriiEA Kent A hippie doesn't ask much from life, just room and beard. SHE KNOWS SOMETHING Maurice Slitter The elderly farm couple sat rocking in front of their fireplace one wintry night in Wisconsin. "The years are passing us by, Sadie," said the old man. She agreed. "We're getting older," he said, "and pretty soon only one of us will be left." "That's right," said Sadie, "and when that happens, I'm moving to Florida." Robert Rick

CHALLENGE . . .

I'l)on returning to her classroom the teacher found the children sitting quietly at their desks. Since this was unusual, she asked them for an ex- planation. Rather hesitantly, a girl said: "Well, you once told us that if you ever left the room and came back and found us sitting perfectly still, you'd drop dead."

Lucille J. Goodyeak CRAFTY CRAFTSMAN

A women hired a painter to paint her garden fence, but she was surprised to see him arrive a couple of weeks before he was supposed to and put a "Wet Paint" sign on the fence. She asked for an ex- planation. "Well," said the painter, "people walking past can't resist a 'Wet Paint' sign, and they can't resist touching the paint to see if it is wet. I'm tired of having my work smeared up, so I put up the sign a couple of weeks in advance. Then they'll be tired of investigating by the time "I'm sure Mother will like it here the paint is really wet, and I don't even have to put up a sign." once she gets to know us." Dan Bennett THE AMERICAN I.EOION MAGAZINE

56 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1972 New EXECUTIVE STRIPES1

Haband Business Slacks in Burlington Mills Fabric! YOUR BEST FRIEND MAY HAVE YOU FOOLED! You may think he's a big spender, laying out S30 a pair for the latest Executive Style Business Slacks. You see how his slacks stay wrinkle-free and crisply creased. Yet he always seems to have money left over. You can do it too. Here's how: There's a new polyester out called "Trevira®." It is usually confined to custom tailors and deluxe high priced department stores. But famous Burlington Industries bought a terrific jag of Trevira® for their exclusive Menswear Division. Wove it in a blend of 65% Trevira® polyester/35% Avril® rayon and came up with a truly amazing wash-and-wear high performance Executive Fabric. ATOIVin Haband Executive Slacks! THESE ARE WELL MADE PAIRS BUSINESS SLACKS Burlington Mills Fabric for only O HABAND Exact Waist Sizes I 18^ Already Cuffed, Ready to ™ POSTAGE Wear So Your Friend Has No Cleaner's Bills or Pressing Bills Separate waistband and He Saves Wear and Tear on Expensive Clothes! • PERMANENT PRESS* You see, Haband of Paterson, N.J. has this new deluxe 4 Deep Pockets plus extra quality Executive Fabric with Trevira for you to try. In handy watchpocket beautifully tailored Executive Slacks made for the finest Hookflex top closure offices in the land. Slacks you would think came from a Talon unbreakable zipper high priced haberdashery but actually come On Approval BanRol no-roll waistband to try on IN YOUR OWN HOME, at an amazing low price. Wider belt loops

You get TWO PAIR for only $18.95 in your EXACT SIZE , — In Smart Looking Subdued already cuffed and ready to wear. 2 for $18.95 that's EXECUTIVE STRIPES only $9.50 per pair, complete ! See Yourself in these Younger Looking EXECUTIVE SLACKS Stripes Make You Look Taller! Be conservative. For business, you must. But next to these alive and slim looking executive stripes, your whole closetful of old slacks will look out of date. Choose your regular favorite business colors with new. Good Taste, almost hidden woven stripes. On Approval, 2 pr. for 18.95 HABAND NO IRON

POST EXEC-SLAX PAID Fabric by Burlington Industries 3 for 27.95 4 for 36.25 HABAND CO. WAISTSIZE:29-30 31 32-33-34-35-36-37 38 39-40 41-42-4344-45-46-47-48-49-50-51 52 Dept. AL-12 ir«SEAMS: 26 27-28 29-30-31-32 33-34 265 N. 9th Street Paterson, N.J. 07508 How Waist Inseam COLOR Many Size Size Please send pairs of Executive Slacks as specified BLUE at right. Remittance of $ GREY is enclosed. OLIVE BLACK please print ^pj^ Street # ! BROWN

TRY THEM ON. Then, if you do not choose to wear them we wit] refund your remittance*! in full 3^^ju^c»«^