The American Legion Magazine [Volume 52, No. 4 (April 1952)]

SEE IN THIS ISSUE. ->PAGE 14 ARE WE TRYING TO LOSE GERMANY?

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Doesyourskin smart, burn, when you apply lotion after shaving? THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Try it on your forehead. Same

skin yet no burn! That's because VOL. 52 No. 4 your facial skin is irritated from

shaving— probably because you're CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1952 using a razor blade ground like a THE BEAR WHO LEARNED FEAR (fiction) 11 penknife and you have to "bear BY JIM KJELGAARD down" to shave clean. A story about a rogue bear and a hunter. PAL's patented Hollow Ground ARE WE TRYING TO LOSE GERMANY? 14 process makes "bearing down" BY RICHARD S. WEIL State Department men hard at work. unnecessary. You shave with a Fishing is certainly one of the most relax- BASEBALL THEN AND 16 light, light stroke; your face NOW ing sports we know, BY ED FITZGERALD but it can also be ex- is cool, relaxed— your skin isn't asperating, as this It's a different kind of game these days. m»>ntii's cover shows. irritated, is left smooth as a POSTMASTER: Please THIS I SAW 18 send copies returned BY HAMILTON GREENE teen-ager's! You owe it to under labels Form 3579 to Post Office Box Korea through an artist's eyes. your face to try 1055. Indianapolis 6. Indiana. THE LEGION'S NEW COMMANDER 20 The American Legion BY R. B. PITKIN Magozine is the official publication of The Ameri- You've heard about Donald R. Wilson. Now meet him. can Legion and is owned exclusively by The Ameri- can Legion. Copyright THEY DARE TO LAUGH AT STALIN 22 1952 by The Americon BY JOHN KORD LAGEMANN PAL Legion. Published monthly at 1100 W. Broadway, It isn't all reverence for the commies' god. Louisville, Ky. Acceptance for mailing at special rate SINGLE EDGE BLADES of postoge provided for in A KILLER HAD COME TO CALL 24 Section 1 103, Act of Oct. BY EDWARD R. VINSON 3, 1917, authorized Jon. 5, 1925. Price single copy, The murderer and his moll had a reason for this visit. 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Entered os second class motter June HOW TO PROTECT YOUR DOG 26 30, 1948, ol the Post F. Office at Louisville, Ky., BY GEORGE BURTON under the Act of March Since your pet can't help himself. 3, 1879, Non-member subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Depart- ment of The American THE NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE 29-36 Legion Magozine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. Features EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES SOUND OFF! 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB. ... 28 Best Say/ Indianapolis 6, Indiana ^ EDITORIAL AND EDITOR'S CORNER i> LEGION PUZZLE CONTEST 37 ADVERTISING PRODUCTS PARADE .... 8 NEWSLETTER 41 for 580 Fifth Avenue 10 25< 64 New York 36, N. Y. PARTING SHOTS 21 /or49< • 44/or98< WESTERN OFFICE will not in Zipak dispenser with 333 North Michigan Avenue Manuscripts, ai twork, cartoons submitted fur consideration be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envcliipe is included. vault for used blades. Cliicoqo I, Illinois 4 for 10^ in regular packing. PAL Double Edge and new Please notify the Donald R. W ilson. National Commander, Indianopolis PAL Gold Ttiin Double Edge Circulation Depart- John Stelle, McLeons- Long Armstrong, Spo- L. Sears, Toledo, Ohio;

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We pause a moment here on this page, foregoing We look ahead. We see The Texas Company our usual advertising message, because of the future in the hands of those who today

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Sound Off! Misery

Writers must give name and address. Name withheld if requested. So many letters are being received it is not possible FIRST to promise answers. Keep your letters short. Address: Sound Off, The American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave., New York 36, N. Y.

CONCERNING KATYN McCauley. Doesn't he read the papers or CHOICE was the article conceived before the season Sir: You arc to be commended for featur- got under way? John K. Walsh a glass of ing Ambassador Lane's article on the atroc- ities committed by the reds upon the Pohsh Jejferson City, Mo. Sparkling, Refreshing officers in tlie Katyn forest. Bringing to fight these and other savagely brutal acts TWO FLAGS of the communists should help to keep the Sir: Recently I attended a memorial service powers that be from continuing to cover held for a deceased Korean War veteran, up for Stalin and his inhuman helpers. I impressed with the absence Frank A. Harasick and was during the ceremony of any reference to Los Angeles the United Nations. No United Nations Sir: It seems to me that your semantic color flag was displayed and no mention was is getting to be unbearably purple. Re: made that this veteran gave his life while Dependable The Truth About Katyn with its vocabu- scr\'ing the United Nations. It seems to me lar>' limited to words like that much could be done to impress people Relief for L "gunmen," "red atrocity," "outlaws," "murderers," "revolt- with the importance of the United Nations, ACHES •PAIN ^ ing crime," etc. And what. Sir, is the meat and I would like to suggest that when the FEVERISH MISERY\ of all this soul-stirring business? This: "The widow or next of kin of the deceased Russians displaced 15,000 Polish officers, Korean veteran is presented with an Ameri- kept them awhile, then executed them." can flag, during such a service, it would be Period. If true, the one-sentence datum well if a flag of the United Nations is also might be useful as a psycho-sociologic presented. characterization of the enemy, useful in William F. Spikes predicting his future behaviour. Again, Judge, Eleventh Judicial District period. Too bad about the Poles. Also too of Nebraska bad about the 12,000 men, women and St. Paid, Nebraska children that Joshua slaughtered when he sacked the city of Hai. It's a historical LILY-LIVERED, OSTRICH-LIKE fact, over and done with. Not to be forgotten, but not to be childishly screamed Sir: I regret to see that in your January about either. If you've got a fact, present issue you take a lily-livered ostrich-like at-

it; but stop giving people a belly-ache with titude when you state in your Sound Off column the following: HEADACHE the emotional stew you hide it in. The Legion isn't a rabble to be roused by you. "Almost c\cry letter we received con- ACID INDIGESTION Walter M. Miller, Jr. cerning this article asked that we print MUSCULAR PAINS Kyle, Texas lists of commies and pro-commies in movie- making. However, the industry insists it is By all means, let us not get excited over gradually eliminating subversives, so we'll AT ALL DRUG STORES in U. S. and CANADA such thing.s — or Korea. Editors wait and see. Individual Legionnaires all over America are ready, w illing and anxious to do anything possible to rid the entertainment industry of these subversive elements, and it

appears to me that > <)u as editors ceitainly do not evidence the guts of the average MONirMAHm OPPOMUNiTf fOR YOU Legionnaire. I sincerely hope that you will WITHOUT INnSTMSNT.^ No experience needed to act as our Local reverse your stand and each month print Dealer for MASTER Work Uniform garments in our magazine a list of these people who Every busmess concern a prospect Advertis- ing embroidered on garments is a big sales would ikstroN- our way of life while en- feature You can easily earn up to many DOESN'T HE READ THE PAPERS? joying tiic fruits thereof. thousands of dollars per year. We supply all Sales Equipment FREE Write Sir: We enjoyed Basketball, Midivestern David Womack, Jr. GIO. MASTER GARMINT CO.. DIPT. 204 Style in the February issue, but how in the Represe//.'ative, Htiniphreys County world could he have failed to mention such House of Representatives teams as Kansas and St. Louis University? Jackson, A'liss. Both have in all tens" — Kansas been "top T See Editor's Corner. FOLDINGCHAIRS has held the lead — St. Louis U. took Ken- . IN Siee£ or lUixxi tucky in the Sugar Bowl. For that matter POLDINC BANQUET TABLES THE V'RY FINISH how about Kansas State, which just beat

WRITE FORt CATALOGUE 1 Kansas? And for that matter Oklahoma Sir: After reading Can You Get Good AND LOW OIRECT PRICES I Aggies? Or aren't these "midwestern" Care in a \' iter, vis Hospital? by National teams? If he has to mention George Mikan, Commander Wilson in the Februar>' issue, DEPT. 197 SCRAWTOM 2. PA.J now a pro, how could he omit Easy Ed I for one can say — "They are tops." I re-

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cently returned from the \\'ilkes-Barre VA mad ones. Why not send the bigwigs to is much trouble Korea and see how fast the>' finish it up? . . too hospital. . Nothing DONT LET as long as the patient receives the benefit. Mrs. Melvin Kifer The medical staff is the very finest that Sligo, Pa. can be obtained. They take personal inter- ADDED QUARTS Sir: I think James C. Jones, Jr., will find thorough study of each est in and make the rank and file Americans are pretty I can truthfully say I received won- case. well fed up with the Korean situation. It TORMENT YOU... derful care. M. S. Leonard isn't our fault that the needed men and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. arms weren't sent over there. It seems as though the people don't have too much to say about what goes on any more. Mrs. LeRoy Geyer Shady Bend, Kan.

THE LADY MISSES THE MARK your Sir: Concerning the story They'll Never Sound Know in your January issue, has it oc- curred to you that one BIG reason for (other magazines) turning down this story could have been its libelous insinuations on HUNDREDS OF EXPERTS the public and private life of Ernie Pyle? Sir: Concerning my widely read and criti- The parallel cannot fail to come to anyone's SWITCH TO

cized letter on temperatures. I should have mind. The majority of the public know only

known better — honest. Truth is, the article the public side of Pyle's life, and knowing

made mc kind of angry, and as I skimmed nothing of this private life will erringly o\ cr the temperature part, the only thought draw the conclusion that that brave little tliat flashed through my mind was con- man was a drunkard and communist. Mrs. Levy fused with Absolute zero. I immediately Jerome jumped on the typewriter and beat oflt my Philadelphia letter to > ou with no further scientific (or How Mrs. Levy could confuse Maurice otherwise) thought. This lack of thought Zolotow's fictional Dike Jones with Ernie has been very carefully pointed out to me Pyle is hard to understand. Most GIs knew several by hundred letters and cards. Guess Ernie for the grand guy he was, and those the moral is: shalt off "Thou not sound same fellows know about some of the as- until thou hast done sufficient thinkingi" sorted oafs who ambled around the rear House ADO LESS OIL John areas trying to act the part of war corre- Frankfort, Mich. spondents. Editors BETWEEN CHANGES

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Sir: All's Quiet on the Home Front in the Sir: If you cut the tomnn rot about Russia have quality motor oil February number expresses what a lot of and a lot of other unnecessary stuff then that assures low oil us must feel. The only trouble is, it will a Texas member will appreciate the Legion consumption. You'll reach so few of the ones who ought to Magazine. We in Texas know what you read it. I am w riting to suggest that re- are talking about but don't quite get the have oil that's refined prints be made sent ever\" and to member idea. Harvey E. Boyd from 100% Pennsylvania of Congress. Philip VV. Tieinann Sidphiir Springs, Texas crude, the best and most Cavendish, Vt. stable ever discovered. Sir: It is almost as if James C. Jones, Jr., You'll have oil with had listened in on some of the conversations I recently had with my son, Cpl. AVilliam a special tough film to W. Clark, 79th Engineers Construction resist sludge, varnish and Battalion, who after ten months on Eni- carbon . . . that safeguards wetok went into Korea early in December 1950 and came out at the end of Xo\ ember valves, rings and pistons from 1951 on rotation. He expressed the same scorching heat. And you'll feeling of shame and disgust. have oU that keeps your engine Langdon W. Clark HAREM DUTY Drexel Hill, Pa. clean and lets it run smoothly Sir: They Never Had It So Good in the ... oil that lasts longer! Try Sir: If I were to meet a Korean veteran I February issue brings to mind a letter from Pennzoil once and you'll stay with would be ashamed to face him — I would one of our readers (Ex-CBI Rojindiip have to that I, along admit with every Magazine) who claimed his sole duty as a it. Switch now . . other American from the President down, T/Sgt. in India for two years during WW have double crossed him. II was "attendant" at a maharajah's luxuri- A. G. Gotty ous palace grounds, keeping the GI's sta- Jamaica, N. Y. tioned nearby from entering the ladies' quarters without authority. During his Sir: ^^'hat a passive bunch of fools this "tour of duty," he lived on the palace nation has become! AVe cannot possibly grounds, dined frequently with the maha- continue in this manner and hope to survive. H. M. K. rajah and his aides, had full use of the grounds' facilities on his days off. This Junction City, Ore. T/Sgt. complained bitterly when he was

Sir: i\Iy husband is a three times wounded finally rotated home to his current job as GIVES ALL ENGINES AN EXTRA MARGIN OF SAFETY \ cteran of WW II. \A'hen >'ou read things $200-a-month laborer. like that .Marine wrote it just makes you Clarence R. Gordon PENNZOIL® MOTOR OIL AND LUBRICANTS mad. A\'hen I read his article I cried, but Editor AT BETTER DEALERS . . . COAST TO COAST the tears weren't just sad ones, they were Denver, Colo.

The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • 5 THE ditofslorner

FOR MOVIE LOVERS

Among the Sound Off.' letters published this month is one from Mississippi which takes us to task for something we said in our February issue. At tliat time we published excerpts from several letters asking us to print a monthly list of current movies in which reds take part. In response, we

said we'd wait and see if the motion picture industr>' would clean house witliout further urging. That hasn't satisfied a great many readers who accuse us of backing down. Tliey say there's little chance of Hollywood getting religion so what are we waiting for? Maybe we're overly optimistic but we still have hopes that the tycoons will wise up, if only because people aren't in a mood

to support pro-commies, even if they're great lovers, divine dancers or cute comics. We intend to keep tabs on them but we'll Paul Jones has made wait awhile longer before taking further steps. evenings MORE ABOUT MOVIES cheerier We are indebted to a college professor for pointing out something we seldom

think about \\ hen it comes to movies. That for five generations! is, the terrible impact the>' can have abroad, especially with a bit of judicious editing. As recent examples he mentioned such films as "Saturday's Hero," "Born Yester- day," "All the King's Men," and "Death of a Salesman." Maybe it's just another of And five generations of experience have those strange coincidences, but people with produced a wliiskey witli the extra mildness, commie or commie front records had extra sniootluiess, extra-ricli, mellow flavor you something to do with all four films. usually expect only from much higher-priced whiskies. ANTI-ANTI-COMMUNISTS

But, there's no extra charge for experience. With thousands of American boys dead in Korea, and more than a hundred thou- That's why we think you'll agree when you taste sand maimed, >'ou'd think that every Paul Jones just can't buy a better drink.' American would be sufficiently aware of

communism to hate e\ ery aspect of it. But the sad fact is that even today a commie

or pro-commie is likely to have an easier

time of it than the person who makes an honest effort to expose subversives. Let a person ask any questions, especially Paul if he strikes a sensiti\ e nerv e in tlie commie apparatus, and he soon learns liow powerful are the forces arrayed against him. Hell find himself fighting not just Paul Jones rciis or pinks, but, quite often, the most substantial people in liis community. .\nd

Jones ,<•' '\ as often as not he ll find himself damned in press and pulpit as a dangerous person. A^' SINCE V riie people who take part in such cam- 1865 1^ J paigns are not communists. Usuall>', with ail honesty, they can say, "I hate communism." But the fact remains that someone, somehow, maneuvers them into doing the dirty work of the communist part\' — destroying the people who are hurting communism. Frankfort Distillers Corporation, N. Y. C. Blended whiskey. Why are they so foolish? Quite often it's 86 proof. 72^2% grain neutral sjjirits. because they've been sold a bill of goods

American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 that coninuinism isn't really so bad, and not nearly as evil as, say, people who ask questions about reds in strategic places. You can't blame them too much since in many cases they haven't been told the facts, and in other cases they wouldn't understand the facts even if the facts were laid before them. But in still other cases the From where I sit anti-anti-communists have among them a reprehensible lot of opportunists who find they can garner applause or even financial preferment by playing the left side of the lu *ioQ Marsh street. SARAH LAWRENCE

There has been quite a to-do lately in the town of Bronxville, New York, home of Sarah Lawrence College. You may recall that this girls' school was mentioned in the article Do Colleges Have to Hire Red Professors''' in our November issue. Ed Got Red Soon after that article appeared things began to happen. Dr. Harold J. Taylor, president of the institution, requested a meeting In His Own "Hot Water" with the Commander of the local Legion Post to discuss the "attacks" on Sarah Lawrence. Wanting to know the facts before going to bat for the school, Com- mander Daniel E. WoodhuU asked some ''Big Ed'' got started on a ''Pay- questions about certain college people. Taylor said he'd give answers but no an- Your-Bill" campaign last week and swers were forthcoming either to the local ended up with a slightly red face. Ed's Post or to the Westchester County Ameri- canism Committee which also had become been our Water Commissioner for ten interested in the situation. Instead, statements began pouring from years and for ten years now he's been quarters condemning the Legion. various getting riled up over slow payments The issue, it seemed, was "academic freedom." A college committee \\ as set up to of the bills. defend it, and it issued a windy statement which was widely published. Petitions were So, he finally decided to do some- circulated in the community and signed by some of the best people, including the thing drastic about it. Last week he editor of Redbook Magazine, an official of sent out notices that if the slackers Tiiiie-Lije, an American Broadcasting Com- pany vice president, and various and sun- didn't pay up by Friday night, he'd dr>' other vice presidents, etc. shut off their water. NO CONNECTION Naturally, some still didn't square One of the few amusing aspects of this furore concerns a press agent for a West- accounts. Ed ordered their water turned chester County hotel. This chap, a Legion- off, and 14 homes went without all naire, busied himself in the Sarah Lawrence ruckus and subsequenth' joined the parade week end— the Commissioner's among of statement-givers. In his published statement, the press agent told how he had acted them. Seems Ed forgot to pay his bill. as go-between in negotiations between Post and college, "feeling convinced in my own From where I sit, Ed's mistake is mind, then as now, that there was no hint one we all make at times. We are too of communistic thought at Sarah Law- rence." The source of the trouble, he quick to accuse others while forgetting pointed out, was The American Legion our own faults. Lots of us do it, for Magazine, and the article Do Colleges Have to Hire Red Professors? instance, over a difference in taste for Getting the impression from this that soft drink friendly he was handling publicity for the college, a or a glass of beer. one of our editors wrote to him asking for Let's respect each other's preferences photos of the campus and certain members we'll all of the faculty. Back came this answer by and stay out of "hot water." registered mail, return receipt requested: "I am not now, have never been, and never expect to be employed by Sarah Law- ence College — directly or indirectly — as Public Relations Director or in any other capacity whatever." Not wishing to injure anyone w ith guilt

by association, as the reds and pinks put it, we are glad to publish this demurrer by Brewers Foundation Schuyler Patterson. Copyright, 1952, United States The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • J Products ^brxfsomer Hair/

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PRODUCT OF AMERICA S LEADING MANUFACTURER OF CIGARETTES LLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT Lash got the rifle out of his cabin and whistled for his dog.

You can supply your own moral to this thrilling tale of a marauding beast. By JIM KJELGAARD

was ASH CLAYTON was intent on catching The horse heard him coming, and ran reason. He knew only that he afraid. I a big trout. Holding tensely still, at once to his side. Wild-eyed, trem- early spring he had bought a flock only his head and shoulders pro- bling, he crowded so close that he al- In eleven ewes, and truding above some blackberry bushes most knocked Lash off his feet, and the of sheep, a ram and that they would be the that grew beside the stream. Lash fetid, sweaty smell of him was strong he had hoped nucleus of a profitable venture in wool watched the trout rise and suck in a in the man's nostrils. sheep had been turned floating insect. A long gash trailed from the horse's and mutton. The on the mountain side. Lash, who could go into any of the short ribs almost to his haunch. No loose to graze the ways of rogue bears, lowland towns and earn more in a wolf or cat strike this. The wound had Now, knowing that would no longer find month than he now earned in half a been inflicted by a bear's swinging paw, he knew he flock intact. year, lived in the mountains because he and it must be a big and hungr>' bear his it Lash whistled shrilly, went into his found in his clearing the freedom and that w ould attack a horse and pursue independence which he must have. He to within sight of a barn. Gently Lash cabin for a rifle and, coming out, Presently his dog came knew and understood the things about patted the trembling horse's neck, and whistled again. toward him. It was a big dog, hun, and because of that he knew how- soothed it with words. bounding all part Labrador, part Airedale, and very to catch the big trout. "Easy, Major. Take it easy. You're Unhurriedly, Lash tied a Black Gnat right now." intelligent. Lash and the dog crossed the clear- to the end of his leader. He made ready When he went toward the barn, the ing and plunged into hardwoods that to cast over the blackberry canes into terrified horse swung instantly to fol- covered the mountain. The fear, the the current carrying the flies. low. He crowded past when Lash coldness \\ ent with him but he could not At that moment, a horse screamed. opened the door, and entered his stall. back. horse had come to him Lash, forgetting the trout, leaped the Pitching a fork full of hay to the horse, turn The the sheep also were in stream aad ran tow ard the barn. he swung the door shut when he left for safety and A week ago, being temporarily caught the barn. danger. were two-thirds of the way up up on everything that needed a horse's Raiding bears had come before and They before the dog showed strength, he had turned his black horse would come again. But this one should the mountain reaction. ran a little ahead loose to forage. The black was a big not have come. At this time of the year any He way forepaw lifted and horse, and far from timid. Some terror there was plenty of natural food in the and stood with one had driven him from the mountains, forest. The raider was a rogue, an out- his head up, sniffing audibly. perspiration where the grass in the narrow valleys law. Lash brushed from his was much richer than in the overgrazed There was something else, something forehead, and knew that he should not all. was assailed pasture. for which Lash could find no definite be sweating at He by

CONTINUED) ment escaped Lash, but the calmness remained with him as he returned to THE BEAR THAT LEARNED FEAR the barn and lay down on the hay. Driven away, the bear might come back.

But if it did. Patches and the tethered The bear was forty yeards away. It was a huge and hulking thing, all muscle and fury. ewe would warn him. Then he would go again into the darkness, for this was the eerie feeling that, up here, the bear Patches, or anything else about the a thing which he must face. There was completely in command of the sit- clearing. The bear would come again. would never be any freedom until he might sitting, uation. Even now he be Soberly Lash locked the eleven sheep had faced it. watching, and preparing to hunt, the in a corral and fed them hay. He spent Lash awoke in the early dawn, and man. To relieve the situation. Lash a restless day. He had been happy here, saw the tethered ewe calmly cropping spoke to the dog, in his wild isolation, but he was happy grass. Lash untied it and put it back "Let's go. Patches." no longer. The bear ruled; man did not. into the corral. The dog flashed out of sight and now By evening. Lash's fear and helpless- Coldness and fear walked that he was bereft of the dog's com- ness had changed to anger. with him once more when, pany the man's fear mounted. But the Leaving ten sheep in the corral, he after breakfast, he put the sheep were more to him than the money drove a stake into the ground and teth- dog on a short leash and and labor he in\ ested. Because of that, ered a ew e to it. Then he rigged a bat- set him on the bear's track. and because he was a man, Lash ran tery-powered spotlight in the barn, took He followed Patches al- ahead toward the dog's angry barking, his rifle in his hands, brought Patches most to the top of the mountain before instead of back dow n the mountain. in with him, and waited. the dog growled warningly. He burst upon the scene to see the Stars were dim in the sky and no Lash stood still, and it was as though dog standing with feet braced. Snarling, moon shone. A cricket, who lived under he had suddenly been stripped of all he faced a heavy laurel thicket. Down a pile of weathered boards, chirped his his clothing. He stood naked and alone the slope, eleven frightened sheep hud- doleful night song. There w ere the little except for the dog. Purposely he bit dled stupidly. sounds made by the hooves of the sheep, his lip so hard that he could taste blood, Lash saw that the expensive ram was and the uneasy stamping of the horse and centered all his attention on the dog. not the one that had been slain. And in his stall. Hour melted into hour. Backed against Lash's legs. Patches the bear, he knew, was even now Past midnight the tethered ewe bristled. He swung his head to a difi^er- crouching in the laurel thicket over a stirred. An uneasy, quavering bleat ent quarter and Lash knew the bear ewe. floated into the barn. The tethered was circling trying to find the best Lash knew exactly what he should do sheep bleated again, and struggled to quarter from which to launch his at- next: Go into the laurel and shoot the break its rope. The ewe knew that the tack. Lash tried to straighten his shak- bear. It was a very simple thing, but he bear was coming and that she w as helping legs. could not bring himself to go forward less before it. Lash put a steady hand Patches' growling became a little less because fear was holding him back. on the spotlight's switch and grasped certain and Lash knew that the bear Lash walked slowly forward to place his rifle firmly. was going away. He would come back. himself between the dog and the sheep. Now, he was calm. His hand did not Wanting to run but forcing himself not His voice was thick. quiver and the cold fingers that had to. Lash moved into a ravine, a deep "Take 'em home. Patches." caressed his spine w ere no longer there. slash in the mountain's side, for he The dog looked wonderingly around, Presently he knew why. thought the bear would come up the then backed up to him. It still faced the Up on the mountain the ravine when he came. Holding the dog thicket, still bristled, for the dog knew bear was master, and afraid very close, he concealed himself in a where its enemy was. But Lash had of nothing that came. But laurel patch. ordered otherwise, and a dog must look this was a man's domain, Three minutes later, forty yards to a man. Lash waved an arm towards a fear zone for the bear away, he saw the bear. A huge and the sheep. The dog turned. Barking, just as the mountain had hulking thing, all muscle and fur\% it nipping the heels of strays, the dog been for a man. Doubtless out in the had slipped unnoticed into the ravine. chivvied the sheep dow n the mountain. darkness, the bear was experiencing the Lash knew a momentary wonder that When they were safely awa>'. Lash same sensations which had beset Lash. anything so huge could move so quiet- backed slowly from the thicket. He w as The memory of that came again to him, ly. He felt the perspiration on his fore- sweating, rigid, and he knew that he and then he knew that he could not do head, as he stood up. was ruled by fear. Only when he had this thing as he had planned to do it. The bear stopped, a monster whose put a hundred yards between himself He rose, leaving the spotlight and every fiber vibrated with rage. Lash and the thicket did that fear begin to carrying only a small flashlight in his raised his gun and controlled his trem- subside. hand. Leaving the barn, he walked di- bling fingers. This w as it, the thing he A mighty sense of shame over- rectly to the tethered ewe. The fright- had come for. He cocked the gun, and whelmed him. He stopped, knowing ened thing raced towards him to the the bear rose on its haunches. that he should turn around and go back limit of its tether, then fell as the It stood still, a thing taller than the up. He could not. The feeling that the stretched rope threw her. The ewe got man. Lash began to breathe again, and bear was complete ruler of the moun- up and shivered. Lash lighted his flash- a little exultation mounted within him, tain top sent clammy shivers up and light. for the bear had stopped. His finger down his spine. He overtook and fell Out in the darkness, the beam fell like tightened on the trigger, and the gun in beside Patches. The sheep, com- a golden cage over something that cracked like an exaggerated whiplash. manded by the dog, trotted placidly might have been another black shadow The bullet flicked away a small piece ahead. were it not for the fact that it was so of the bear's right ear. As though he Lash brooded. His chance had come big and so black. Lash snapped the rifle had melted away, the bear was gone. and gone. The bear w as still there, still to his shoulder, shot and missed. Almost Lash eased his gun down, knowing ruler of the mountain, and the sheep instantly the bear was gone. that this was best. Nobody killed need- were not safe. Nor was the horse, or A muflled exclamation of disappoint- (Conthmed on page 49)

13 ARE WE TRYING TO

The key to Europe's future lies in Germany,

but official bungling is causing Germans to turn away from America.

By RICHARD S. WEIL

America's vast investment in Germany is poised today on the brink of the

sewer, hi many respects, there is more doubt than hope at the moment that Germany, West German\% will ever be a genuinely effective partner on the side of the world's free nations.

Tragic as this truth is, it must be recognized, reluctantly or otherwise, by the people of the United States, who have paid so much, in dollars and in the blood of sons and husbands, for our stake between Rhine and Elbe. Were we to lose Germany because of some Russian tactics w hich we were powerless to combat and defeat, it John J. McCloy, U. S. High Commissioner for Benjamin Buttenwieser, who re- w ould be appalling, but perhaps under- Germany, reports to President Truman. At cently resigned as Assistant U. S. the right is Secretary of State Dean Acheson. High Commissioner in standable. Were we to lose the coun- Germany. try because of some immutable ani-

mosity of the Germans toward us, it would be appalling, but perhaps under- conventional sense of attachment to an difficult tasks to persuade them to join standable. If we are to lose Germany alien ideology. But sometimes it seems an army, their own or a ^Vest Euro- because of the ineptitude of our policy as if a new term could be coined: sub- pean one. And just about as many spec- and administration there, then it is ap- version by stupidity. tators turn out to watch a military palling and not understandable by any The situation confronting us does parade on the Bismarckstrasse as line known method of rational analysis. not arise from any defects in the char- Fifth Avenue for a similar function.

Recently I had occasion to bid good- acter of the German people. Indeed, at Again, the dire would-be nazi lead- b\ e to an American official in Berlin, the end of the war, that nation offered ers, grasping for the fuehrer's mantle, who was quitting in anger and frustra- the opportunity for perhaps the greatest have been rejected consistently by the tion after more than six years of occu- social experiment, in a conversion to a voters; in all elections in which they pation duty. "I have seen the Morgen- democratic way of life, that the mod- have participated, they have polled a thau Plan, which was a terrible mis- ern world has ever seen. Even today, meager three to eight percent. If there take," he said. "Still there was a basis nazis are experiencing extreme difficulty is any growing sentiment for these ex- for it in the passion of war and the in trying to stage a comeback. The tremists, it comes from a \'earning for first flush of victory. But today we have Germans, wondrously for a conquered, some kind of leadership, a leadership no plan at all, and the magnificent foun- occupied people, were deeply recep- once sought, but not found, in us. Ironi- dations which were made arc crumbling tive to all things American. Hitler, who cally, if Germany should once again away. I'm getting out before the roof had heaped upon them suffering and embrace a new dictator, it might well caves in." ruin, was totally discredited. The sur- be because we had failed to provide a A day-to-day observation of Ameri- vivors of the cataclysm raised their e> es proper alternative. can activities in the former Reich leads in expectation to the winners. And it must be said that these things to one inescapable conclusion: If we Today, almost against their will, the have come to pass only within the last continue in our present direction, we Germans are embittered and despair- two and a half years, since the change- shall be helping Stalin more than we ing. It is we who have failed them, over to the American High Commission. are helping ourselves. A Germany op- rather than the other way around. If we Policies and politics are not abstract posed to the West is one of Russia's lose Germany, it will be our fault and things; the\' are, in their inception and greatest dreams. If w e contribute to the that of no one else. their execution, human beings of flesh realization of that dream, w c shall find There is no support for any theory and blood. In \\'est Germany they are Europe as far west as the Channel ruled that the Germans are innately militaris- primarily the men of the American by Moscow. tic or incorrigibly disposed toward High Commission, headed by attorney

There is no suggestion of subversion totalitarianism. Far from their being and ex-World Bank President John J. on the part of America's administra- eager to don jack-boots and shoulder McCloy, whose deputy, until a short tors in Germany, not, that is, in the a gun, it would be one of our most time ago, was Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. 14 LOSE GERMANY?

Squatters in the U. S. Zone scavenge through a garbage dump for stray bits of food and clothing. Conditions are even worse in the Soviet Zone, as proved by the many who risk death to escape.

Why did American officials treat the the people of Berlin — and America's notorious communist kidnapper, Dr. face. This writer also remembers the Hans Kemritz, with such deference? first diplomatic reception which the It was at Butten- new High Commissioner attended: wieser's New \\ ith suit unpressed, noticeably in need York home, inci- of a haircut and shave.

dentally, that Al- I remember the people of Berlin lin- ger Hiss stayed ing the streets of the city, shouting and while appealing crying, and thanking God with folded his conviction for hands as Clay returned to dedicate the having lied about P'rcedom Bell. It was a spontaneous treason against blood-tingling ovation, greater possibly America. It is than any ever accorded to any non- McCloy and Co. German in the country before. I know 1 ^ J From Der Spiegel who today must too the silent passage of McCloy bear the responsibility for America's through the city, the despondency and

success, or lack of it, in Germany. If we Our authorities overlook such police disinterest of people who, as Lord brutality as this beating are losing that country, they cannot dis- adminis- Mayor Renter declared recently, desper- tered to an American photographer. sociate themselves from this fact, its ately need a new source of inspiration. implications and its consequences. of honor enabled him to serve his coun- One of the first things McCloy did This writer admits a profound ad- try better perhaps than any other rep- when taking command in the summer miration and respect for the former resentative abroad in recent times. This of 1949 was to alienate all of the trained Military Governor, Gen. Lucius D. writer remembers Clay as the brilliant and capable advisers who had so ex- Clay, whose energy, integrity and sense originator of the Airlift, which saved ( Continued on page 50) 15 .

Large bonuses, night games and farm sys-

tems are the rule in baseball today. The old-timers

say it was a better game in the good old days.

By ED FITZGERALD

AN ERA when bas- $9,500 — providing for the services of INketball has gone ten men! George Wright, the shortstop, through almost as was the highest salaried man on the many rule changes as club, drawing down a whopping $1,400 fix scandals, and foot- for the season. No fewer than six of ball has been tampered the players got only $800 for the year. with so vigorously that only the members CONNIE MACK of the rules committee He's seen base- know what's going on HAD A CHOICE. WHICH OF TH ball grow from (and even some of the sand-lots to them confess to being a big business. confused at least half the time), lovers of the more stable game of baseball like to point to their sport as a model of dependabilit\ Their pride in the strength of base- l)airs traditions is understandable but exaggerated. Three .strikes and you're still out at the old ball game, but a lot of other tilings have changed since Connie Alack was a young catcher for the East Brookficlds in his Massachu- setts home tow n. You no longer have the pri\ iiegc of rci]ucsting either a high or low ball from the pitciier and you're no longer out if the inficlder catches BABE RUTH TRIS SPEAKER TY COBB

> our grounder on the first hop. Fur- Possibly the greatest outfield of all They were so good that even today fans am tlicrmore, you can't soak the ball with time, each man was outstanding. sportswriters choose them for All-Star teams^' a heaitiiy helping of tobacco juice in order to coax your pitches into a series of unpredictable gyrations; spit-ball has become a horrid word. Baseball salaries rose steadily as the more money than Hoover gets for being l>ut those are only technical varia- game increased in popularity, and, of President." tions. Hasebnll has undergone many course, they zoomed to new heights "^Vhat's that got to do w ith it?" Ruth more fundamental changes through the when Babe Ruth caught the imagina- asked angrily. "Besides." he said as an years. For instance, it is now far and tion of the whole country. The Babe afterthought, "I had a better \ ear than away the richest, the most "big busi- did every ballplayer of the future a big he did, anj way." ness" of all professional sports, and its favor when, before the start of the 1930 As the pay scale went up. the game star players arc rewarded with dazzling season, he held out for a two-year con- inevitably became more 'c'cntific. as p.iy checks. It's hard to realize, as you tract at $80,000 per. Even some of his befits a multi-million-i'ollar oiK'r;.t;on. read of contracts ranging all the way sportsw riting pals were shocked b>' Haphazard mctlioils— .-.nd err; t'c people up to $125,000 for a season's plaj', that Ruth's astronomical demand. "There's —were frowned upon. It i n't iikch', for the total pa\ roll for America's first pro- a depression on. Babe," they warned example, that an\" maior league club fessional baseball club was a mere him. "And what you're asking for is would hire a manager today capable of

Ig • T)ie Aiiierican Legion Magazine • April, 1952 «

Fortunately for baseball, the game isn't likely ever to become so business- like that it will have no room for the fierce individualist. Whether his name $100,000 A year to be Rube Waddell or Dizzy Dean or Ted Williams Yogi Berra, the "character" helps make

the game what it is. it \\ ill never matter to him whether the manager is a fist- $1500 a year fighting Frank Chance, a professorial to George Wright Eddie Sawyer or a rowdy Leo Duro- cher. He'll be himself regardless. Just as Dizzy Dean was being completeh himself when, before a 1934 game with the Dodgers, he got into an argument with Frankie Frisch, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals' riotous Gas House Gang. P'risch had insisted on going over

the entire Brookl> n batting order w itii Dean, and Dizzy was bored stiff. Evcr\- time the old Flash told Diz how he ought to pitch to one of the Dodger doing what Brooklyn's beloved AA'ilbert hitters. Dean disagreed. Finalh', he blew

Robinson did before a National League up. "Listen, Frank," he said disgustedh . - game in the '30's. "We'll put that rookie "This is plain silly. Here I win twent\

Oscar Roettger on first toda>-," Uncle six games alread>' this season and it Robbie told a reporter before the game. don't seem right for an infielder like you "Roettger?" the reporter frowned. to be tellin' a star like me how to pitch." - "Let's see. How do you spell his name?" The Dodgers of the same era had ,11 II Robbie winced. He tried a few times, one of baseball's all-time characters in stumbled unhappily, then gave it up. outfielder Babe Herman, a powerful "The hell with it," he said. "We'll put hitter but one of the world's worst PHOTOS BY CULVER Co.x back on the bag." He did, too. fielders—and no prize as a base-runner, either. It was Herman w ho, b>' his cele- brated feat of doubling into a double play, provoked one of the best Dodger stories of them all, the one about the cab driver who was passing Ebbets Field one day and yelled up to somebody in the rear of the grandstand: "Hey, what's the score?" "Philadelphia's leading, 2-1," called down the obliging fan, "but w e got two men on base!" The cabbie, remembering the fool- hardy w ay Herman and his cohorts ran the bases, shouted right back. "Which base?" Probably the best story about Her- man's fielding is the one Tom Mean> tells about his attempt to get Babe's own opinion of the matter. The veteran sportsw riter asked Babe if it were true that he had been hit on the head several times while trying to catch fly balls. "Fm gettin' sick of hearin' that one," Herman said indignanth-. "I'll tell you,

if I ever get hit on the head by a fly ball, I'll quit this game." "What if you get hit on the shoulder?" Meany persisted mischievously. Herman drew his ever-present cigar out of his mouth and thought that one over. "Hell, no," lie said serioush'. "On the shoulder don't count." Actually, although w e still have Yogi Berra and a few others like him, baseball has pushed its literacy rate 'way up. Almost all ballplayers now come into the game with at least a high school education, and lots of the boys are col- (Contimied on page 56)

17 Assaulting hilltops in Korea involved roughest hand-to-hand fighting in my experience. Chinese habitually threvt^ grenades in dozen lots vt^hich looked like clouds of startled blackbirds. Sketch here shows 7th Regiment troops attacking hill 71 7.

This bulldozer, working through pad-

, dies, struck a mine which tore off a small piece of blade. Steel fragment Innocent victims are always the most touching. could have gone anywhere — but it hit This mother holds child killed by ammo truck. and killed minesweeper Billy Lewis,

many yards away. Worst luck I ever saw.

Wally Holbrook, 7th Regiment Tank Co., pulled neatest escape when he repaired a damaged M4, and dragged wrecked M39 out of enemy mine field, seconds before Chinese artillery blasted the area. Zimmerman, a 3rd Divi- sion assistant squad lead-

er, had c/osest ca/l I ever v/itnessed. Red soldier rose up to hurl grenade and Zim's rifle, jammed by dirt, misfired. Grenade hit Zim on shoulder blade, bounced off and exploded down slope!

JUST BACK from Korea, after half a year in those god-awful hills, I can thumb through my sketches and find certain ones that seem to phrase themselves in superlatives. There will be a most this — or a worst that. Sketch books are like that.

I offer here a spread of pictures built around some of these standouts. They

represent, I am sure, those pictures which will stick in my \ isual memory for the greatest length of time. I thought and felt a great deal in Korea, but this — Most bitterly tragic was death of medic who with great difficulty had I saw. carried bad leg casualty off hill 347. While giving transfusion, single long range mortar shell killed medic and blew off casualty's remaining leg.

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>S HERE'S THE STORY OF DONALD R. WILSON . .

The ugion's new

THE 34-YEAR-OLD ATTORNEY FROM

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, IS AN ENEMY

OF CONFUSION AND A STICKLER FOR PRINCIPLES

By R. B. PITKIN

THE ELECi ION of a ncw National Coinniander of The American Legion at Dinner Key Auditorium in Aliami, Florida last October wasn't very exciting. On the roll call for nominations for the office of National Commander, Alabama yielded to West \^irginia. West Virginia nominated Donald R. Wilson, of Clarksburg, West Virginia. The roll call continued and every single delegation seconded the nomination of Wilson. That was that, and no final roll call for votes was necessar\-. Don Wilson's place on the national Legion scene dates back to May, of 1949, when National Commander Perry Brown invited a number of able WWII veterans to speak at the National Commander's dinner, held in conjunction with the meetings of the National Executive Committee in Indianapolis. Don A\'ils()n, who was then Department Commander of West Virginia at the age of 32, was one of the least known, nationally, of the younger speakers on the program of this affair, and he was tl.c last to speak. Many of those present from distant states had heard We. t Virginians speak so highly of Don that they were ready for anything, but when Wilson was introduced they were more pleased than impressed at first sight of him. They were surprised

to see a not-quite-slight > oung man of medium build and erect stature, neatly tailored and youthful in appearance, with cleanl>' chiseled features and hair so blond as to be nearly snow \\ hitc. Not a few would have been less astonished to have seen an all-pow erful, raging orator of the old school, with the chin of a bulldog, the chest of a bull and the mane of a lion. But e\'cn the strongest points of Wilson's appearance — a level gaze and a firm mouth — were tempered by a repressed smile and a subdued tw inkle in his e> es.

When Wilson began to talk, he undertook to fill in the empty spots of the speeches of thojc who had preceded him on the platform. He extemporized a quiet talk on the relation of sincerity and clarity of Wilson's beliefs. "I'd never seen Don

Legion policies to national and international affairs, going all before," says Kercheval today. "But 1 knew on the spot that the way back to the beginnings of the Legion. On this we had ourselves a man." foundation the unassuming young man who had been a The delegates to the District convention felt the same Legionnaire for just three and a half years outlined a logical way. They sent Wilson home with the office of District course for the future. Vice-Commander. This honor pleased and embarrassed Judging from the later remarks of those who were present, Parrish Post, for — not having been a member at the previous Wilson put many a 30-year Legionnaire to shame with his Post elections — their District Vice-Commander held no total grasp of the picture he portrayed — and made them office in the Post. This was remedied by naming Wilson

like it. His talk may have been as quiet as his appearance and Post Commander at the summer elections. The District

his manner, but it brought down the house with its content. topped that the next year by naming Wilson District Com- "I hardly knew Don from Adam that night," says Maurice mander in 1947, and at the state convention in 1948 Don Stember, long-time Adjutant of the Department of New- was elected Commander of the Department of West Vir-

York. "But when he was through talking I agreed with ginia. In a httle over two and a half years he had held everybody from West Virginia who Commandership at every level of the said Don was destined to be the second Legion organization in the state, or National Commander from that state." par for the course. A Past National Commander who West Virginia Legionnaires say they was present says: "After that it was practically pushed leadership on Wil- only a matter of time. We were look- son for a number of homely reasons. ing for War II leadership, and if you "We who have had the hon- He would take responsibility. Having believed in the Legion you had to be or of fighting, each in his taken it he would give it everything for Don. He gave us the best outline own way, to preserve what he had. He had a nimble mind, and an of the position of the Legion in we believe is our country's intense personal sincerity. He had an destiny, America we had ever heard, and his are among those astute political sense. He was trained who bcJieve it is righteous whole talk was cued to what had just in human affairs. He wouldn't com- and just and good to be been said on the same platform, so we promise a principle. He made a fetish proud of America, and of thinking feet. best knew he was on his her moral and material of informing himself. He was the In the field of public affairs, Wilson strength. We would see this off-the-cuff speaker in sight. is as much of a contradiction of the .strength reactivated to be "Don't get the idea these are all vir- usual idea of a successful vote-getter as used in the interest of good tues," says one of his home-state sup-

it is possible to conceive. With no vis- all over the world." porters, "although they'll do until ible "push" about him, he began to at- DONALD R. WILSON, something better comes along. Don tract attention from the moment he T^ational Commander, wouldn't push himself like we thought sought out the Adjutant of Roy E. The American Legion he should, so we'd push him. Then Parrish Post, in Clarksburg, West about the time you'd made him the Virginia and asked to join the Legion. boss, he'd turn around and ask you to That was in November of 1945, and do your job so all-fired perfect you'd Wilson was fresh out of the Army at wonder if the guy was human. He the age of 28. makes you squirm sometimes. He His only previous experience with the Legion had been wants everything done a little bit better than right, and

as a member of a Boy Scout Troop sponsored by Parrish he works so hard at it himself you don't have the nerve to Post when Don was in the seventh grade. Now he brought offer an excuse." to the Post a deadly seriousness about the things that are When business is not pressing, Wilson's essential serious- written on paper to which the Legion is dedicated. Wilson ness evaporates. He has a quiet sense of humor, and likes was busy starting a home, and establishing a career in the conversation with a pleasant edge of banter. He claims a practice of law. He had gone into the Army a week after discouraging weakness for golf. While consuming great graduating from the University of V^irginia's law school volumes of coffee he will defend his reputation for being in 1942. the worst slicer in golfdom, using every art known to an A month after joining Parrish Post, Wilson served notice aggressive trial lawyer. Because there are few better debaters that he had joined the Legion to be a Legionnaire. At a Post than W'ilson, men with far worse slices have come away meeting he asked for some work to do. He got work, did it, convinced that, compared to Don, they were professional and came back for more. The members of the Post were golfers. delighted with him, and noted that he spoke well and His fondness for debate goes back to his childhood. His thought clearly. In June of 1946 they sent him, as a delegate, earliest ambition was to be a lawyer, and he took up de- to the convention of the Third Legion District of West bating and public speaking at fourteen, when he was a fresh- Virginia at The State 4-H Camp at Jackson's Mill. man in Washington Irving High School, in Clarksburg. He The West Virginia Legion Boys State was in progress approached debating with the instincts of a football player, there, and somebody who knew that Don was a pretty good seeing it as a delightful sort of subtle combat in which the talker asked him if he'd care to say a few words. Few War II argument and the opponent were to be exploited with finesse, veterans knew much about the Legion's programs at that with the object of winning. early date, but the delegate from Parrish Post quietly Although his high school debates didn't go down in his- summed up the why's and wherefore's of Boys State, out- tory, the evidence suggests that he had the personality and lined the idea behind it, said he believed in it, thought it the astuteness to do a pretty good job. He was a good stu- was too small and suggested some ways to make it bigger. dent, a member of the school honor society — and was so To the young men who were the Legion's guests he outlined popular that he was president of his class in both his junior some principles of government. Dr. P. E. Kercheval, West and senior years. Virginia's long-time Legion National Executive Committee- Graduating from high school in 1935, Wilson entered man, was present and he whistled between his teeth at the Princeton with the class of 1939, and took a pre-law course. ')4> effect of Wilson's words on his listeners, and at the intense I Conthiued oti pa^e

21 THEY DARE TO

Wilhelm Pieck, East Germany's puppet the instrument on Pieck's desk. "It's got an I president, was conducting a visitor through earphone all right, but no mouthpiece." f his executive offices. kind of a tele- '.'Oh, that," said Pieck. "Tha,t's direct j "What my By JOHN KORDl phone is that? " asked the visitor, examining line to Moscow." [ LAGEMANN

PRIME GAGS IMPORTED FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN.

A forlorn, hungry-looking East Zone dog wandered across the Potsdam Platz into the West i-i' 1 Ui^ •i1 Zone sector of Berlin and met a dog chewing on a bone. "You look like you could stand something to eat," offered the West Zone dog. "Want to finish my bone?" The East Zone dog said no, thanks, he'd lost his appetite for food. "Say, there are an awful lot of nice dogs over here," the West Two East Zone officials were dis- Zone dog suggested. "How about cussing the changes which Commu- letting me introduce you nism would bring to the European around?" The Soviet Zone dog way of life. shook his head sadly. He just "Take Christmas, for instance," said wasn't in the mood to meet new one. "Before long people will get used dogs. to celebrating not on the 24th but on "Too bad," said the West the 21st of December — Stalin's birth- Zone dog. "Isn't there anything day." that would make you feel bet- "Maybe," said the other. "But how are ter?" we going to get them used to a Santa "Yes," said the East Zone dog. Claus who doesn't give presents but

"If I could just bark." comes around to collect them."

At a meeting of party delegates from the satellite countries a Soviet official explained the aims of the

new five-year-plans. "After the first plan is fulfilled, each party official will be given a bicycle," said the Russian. "When the second is completed, each official will be given a car. And after the third, each of \ ou \ will have an airplane." Everybody seemed impressed except the delegate

from Czechoslovakia. "But what would 1 do with an airplane?" he asked. "Now, look," explained the Russian. "Suppose in 10 or 15 years shoes were available in, say Vladi- vostok. You fly there in your plane - and you'll be one of the first in line for the shoes."

22 YOUR first impression when you cross from West Berlin to the Russian sector is that people who live behind this fringe of the Iron Curtain have forgotten how to laugh. But if you stay awhile and keep your ears open you soon discover they have lAUGH AT STAIIN learned how to laugh in whispers. The jokes they tell are called "fluster witze" or "whisper jokes" — the same kind of stories that are told with a straight face in all countries in . I I the Satellite and I I the Soviet Union itself. No telling how many unfortunates Here as I heard them during a recent visit to Berlin, are some of the whisper jokes which may give you a fresh slant on how it have been shipped to Siberia for telling feels to take orders from Stalin. The humor is sometimes grim, sometimes bitter. But as a propaganda it's all the more or laughing at these jokes. weapon deadjy because the Russians can't laugh bac

Day after day from early morning till dusk a tall, gaunt man in ragged clothes stood on the quay at Rostock harbor and peered out to sea. Naturally this aroused the suspicions of the Soviet harbor commander, who came in person to find out why the man stood there. "I am looking for the grain ships coming in from the Soviet Union," the man explained. "You idiot," the harbor commander told him. "Don't stand here watching the harbor. The place to look for the grain ships

is in the newspapers."

When a mummified body was recently dug up in Hungary, a leading Russian anthropologist was sent all

the way from Moscow to establish it as the remains of the fabulous con- It was story telling time in an queror Kubla Khan. "This discov- F.ast Berlin school and one of the ery," he was told, "will increase the little girls told about an event that prestige of Soviet Science through- had happened the night before. out the world." "Our cat had ten kittens," she The most painstaking examination said, "and they are all good Com- of the bones failed to reveal any evi- munists." dence of their identity. The tone of The teacher was charmed and Moscow's inquiries became more and asked the girl to be sure to tell the more impatient, and finally the sci- same story when the school in- entist was given just one more day spector came around. A few days to come up with the answer. A scien- later the inspector appeared and tist from any other country would the girl was called upon to re- have admitted defeat, but years of peat her story. experience with Communist dialec- "Our cat had ten kittens," she tics made the Soviet scientist equal said, "and they are all good West- to the occasion. "IDENTITY KUBLA KHAN ern Democrats." The teacher was very upset. POSITIVELY CONFIRMED," he "But last week you said the kit- telegraphed back to Moscow. "THE tens were all good Communists." MUMMY HAS CONFESSED." "That's right," said the girl. "But this week they opened their eyes." {Continued on page 49) By EDWARD R. VINSON

JANUARY 9, 1950 was a cold, foggy day in McKinney. The streets of the httle North Texas town were still rutted with snow and slush from a near blizzard that had swept down from the Panhandle on the day after New Year's. Rows of hack- berry trees that protected the sidewalks from blistering heat in the summertime were grim and barren. Like the people who walked beneath their branches, the stalwart sentinels looked depressed, and anxious for something to happen. At the stroke of three, the doors to the red brick school building burst open. Boys and girls, covered with raincoats, slickers and umbrellas, poured down the steps and trickled away into the folds of the fog. Seconds later, Oreta Sweeney, a trim, blue-eyed young school teacher, left her class room and hurriedly climbed into another teacher's automobile. Stepping out in front of her home, Oreta spied a strange car in the driveway, behind her own. It was a late model Pontiac Oklahoma and Texas provided the setting for this drama. sedan, but so covered with mud and sand that it was hard to The murder was committed at Wynnewood, bringing tell where the windows stopped and the steel frames began. She Sheriff Swinney into the case. Brawley made the arrest. looked closely at the hcense plate. It was from Oklahoma. A lump formed in her throat. Ed, her rwo-hundred-pound husband, had been sick when he left for Ardmore that morning. She had tried to persuade him to postpone his trip, but there were some drillers he had to see in the oil fields that day. He must have suffered a bad attack, she thought, and one of his men has brought him home. Mrs. Sweeney scurried up to the back door; removed a key from her brown leather purse and prepared to unlock the door

— when she realized that it was already unlocked. She opened it quickly — and came face to face with a burly, black haired man, standing in his stocking feet. He wore blue jeans, and two shirts, gray over maroon, both of them open at the collar. He held a pair of cowboy boots in his hands. "Where's Ed?" she asked in a voice that was ready to break. "I beg your pardon," the stranger said. "Where's Ed? Didn't you bring him home?" "No," he said pleasantly. "I saw him this morning, though, and he promised to meet me here this evenin' to pay me some money he owes me. What time you lookin' fer him?" "I'm not — until tomorrow night." When Ed Sweeney bought this paper at Ada, Oklahoma, The stranger looked down and realized that he was still hold- he had no idea that his home had already been taken ing boots in his hands. "Oh, yes, I meant to apologize for comin' over by the killer whose picture appeared on page one. in when nobody was home. The front door was unlocked, and it was so cold outside, I knew you wouldn't min'." duce m'sclf. I'm Elmer Lee Haggard. I'm sure you've Mrs. Sweeney walked into the adjoining bedroom and de- heard Ed speak o' me. I worked fer him as a welder up posited her coat. Turning around, she found herself facing a until 'bout two months ago. He's a fine man, Ed is, but prett>', brown-eyed girl. She wore blue jeans too, and a red he works too hard fer his own good." plaid shirt that was obviously brand new. Her auburn hair was "How do you do, Mrs. Haggard. I didn't see you parted in the middle and fell loosely upon a pair of strong when I came in." shoulders. "No, ma'am, I was in the bathroom brushin' my "This is my wife Mildred," said the dark haired man. He hair. Hope you didn' min'. I was moppin' up the floor, snapped his fingers. "That's right, my name. I forgot to intro- too. You see Elmer Lee's boots wuz awful messy when 24 and warm in there." Mrs. Sweeney seated the friendly couple around the table and brewed a pot of coffee. When they were served, she told them she would have to leave for a while. "I'm taking an extension course at the schoolhouse," she said, "and

it lasts two hours." Mr. Haggard came to his feet instantly. "Well, in that case, let me get my car out of the driveway fer you." "That won't be necessary. Another

teacher is picking me up." "It would be no trouble at all," he urged. "I could back mine out and when you leave, I'd run my car into the garage and

get it out of your way." "No, you can leave your car right where

it is. My friend will be by for mc any minute now." "Well, before you leave," said Mr. Hag- gard, "I wish you would put in a call fcr

Ed. I need that money somethin' awful and I'd like to make sure he's goin' to meet me here like he said." Mrs. Sweeney walked into the bedroom and picked up the telephone. Her gray- shirted guest followed, and stood in the doorway. She asked the long distance operator to get T. E. Jones' residence in Ardmore. If Ed were in that vicinity she knew he would most likely go there for a visit. When the connection was made, she asked Mr. Jones about her husband. She listened for a moment. "He hasn't seen Ed all day," Mrs. Sweeney said. "Then ask him to call you as soon as he comes by. But," he raised a cautious finger, "don't tell Mr. Jones who's here." The teacher did as she was instructed, and in a few minutes left for the schoolhouse. "I'll be back about seven," she said. "Just make yourselves at home." Mrs. Sweeney sat through the extension class without too much difficulty, although her mind wandered from the subject several times. The Haggards seemed to be a very nice couple, she thought, and it was good that Mrs. Haggard was going to have a baby. She didn't think of them again un-

til the class was over. She called her mother on the telephone and in the course of the conversation mentioned her guests. "Would you like for your sister and me to come over and stay with you until they leave?" the mother asked. Mrs. Sweeney walked into her bedroom and picked up the telephone "No-o, he's just a welder who used to work for Ed. They'll be gone soon. Be- back by this time." we came and we had to wash 'em off. It got things sort of sides, Ed's probably already dark when Mrs. Sweeney messed up." It was seven o'clock and pitch Fog that was gray in the afternoon "I still don't see how you entered the house," said the returned to her home. black wool that comely schoolteacher, looking over her guests with an edu- had now turned into a thick canopy of the white, clapboard house, except for cated eye. "I always lock the doors when I leave." completely obscured front porch. The only sound Mr. Haggard looked his hostess straight in the eye and a small circle of light on the pushing some cars around on smiled understandingly. "It was unlocked all right, Mrs. came from a switch engine, of town. Sweeney; still, I'd never have come on in 'less Mildred the east side the couple sitting where she had hadn't been feelin' bad. She's six months pregnant and we Mrs. Sweeney found the kitchen table. For the first have to be careful." left them, drinking coffee at specks of mud on the man's outer shirt, The red headed girl winked at Mrs. Sweeney. time she noticed and a drop of dried blood on the bridge of his nose. (Continued on pa^c 44) "Oh, well, in that case, let's go in the kitchen. It's nice 25 HOW TO PROTECT

How to keep your pet from joining those that are lost, strayed or stolen,

and what to do in case he does get away from you.

By GEORGE F. BURTON

PROBABLY isn't unusual for the aver- ITage dog owner to walk into a pet shop, plunk down $2.00 for a collar, $10.00 for a fancy silver-plated tag, and add an additional $3.00 to have the dog's name engraved in deep and lasting letters. This is undoubtedly the sil- liest and most thoughtless gesture any dog owner could ever make, especially if he thinks anything of his dog. There are in America today criminal gangs that operate in a highly efficient manner. Seldom are members caught and brought within the meshes of the law. These little heard of criminals are dog thieves. picked up by the will They are successful because the aver- These strays A.S.P.C.A. get humane treatment. But usually a lost dog has a rough time. age dog owner is not completely thoughtful where his dog is concerned. Much care is given to the feeding regi- men, exercising the dog, having him examined by the vet, but almost no thought is given to the possibility of the dog becoming lost, strayed or stolen. Most people just take for granted that this can never happen to them. And when it does they not only are completely unprepared, but in their care- lessness have placed opportunity in the hands of the dog robber. Logically, if the only printing on the dog's tag is his own name, then even if the person finding the dog wanted to return him, he would find it virtually impossible. And with the dog thief, the Dog thieves frequently tour a community looking for valuable animals. only asset he needs in disposing of the dog is his name. Dog thieves operate in every city in dog? Several things. First, don't buy psychology. He may steal the dog, find the country and even tour villages and an expensive collar and have his name the name and then call you and say that country towns in search of the lost, engraved on the tag. Buy a tag large he has found the dog, is several miles strayed or stolen. Hospitals use dogs in enough to have your full name and ad- away and, at a lot of trouble to him- scientific experimentation; unscrupu- dress emblazoned, also that of your self (probably mentioning he had to lous pet show owners buy them, falsify veterinarian in case of an accident, so miss a day's work because of the dog, papers and peddle them as highly valu- he can be called immediately. etc.) will return it to you. Naturally, able pedigree dogs. It is true that the How does this help? In the first place, he expects a reward in proportion to the dog robber doesn't realize too much for if the thief doesn't know the name of value of the dog. a stolen dog. It is his purpose to get your dog, it is going to be made much Say you give him only $5.00 as a re- rid of it as soon as possible, thereby more difficult for him to try to peddle ward. If he sold it for vivisection, or to reducing the personal risk of discovery it as his own. In the second place, if a "hot" dog-pet shop, he wouldn't get as well as making a quick sale turnover. your name is on the tag, quite often much more, and there he would always What can be done to protect your the thief tries a winning little piece of run the risk of discovery and arrest.

26 his life and will positively discourage him from following cars. The problem of discouraging your pooch from tagging or following strangers isn't quite so easily solved. You want your dog to be friendly, but YOUR DOO not over-friendly. Psychologically it isn't a simple thing to teach your dog

that you are pleased that he is friendly but highly displeased when he evinces his friendliness to the degree of fawning on and following strange persons. A friend of mine, a man who knows dogs and their habits better than most people know their own, once taught me a method of breaking my dog of the dangerous trick of following people.

I had a black Labrador retriever, a rollicking friendly character, with love in his oversized heart for everything

that walked. I returned his aflFection, but couldn't break him of what he considered the natural habit of follow-

You help the dog thief when This is how to show you you give him a dog's name. are the dog's owner.

PHOTOS BY DONATO LEO

This "paper treatment" can stop over-friendliness. The "water cure" will keep your dog from following cars. And it won't hurt him.

But by returning it, he is being mag- Of course it is possible that your dog ing people. After spending long hours nanimous; you realize this and make it of his own initiative may get the idea recovering my black Lab at times when worth his while. to follow a passing car, or take a walk men should be tucked under cozy Usually the dog thief, provided the with a stranger. blankets, I decided to put into action name of the owner is on the collar, will If he has a penchant for following my dog-wise friend's advice. wait a few days before calling you. Men cars it might make good sense to give Here it is: Ask some friend of yours, who steal dogs know very well how at- him the cold water treatment. Have a a person you seldom see, or perhaps tached a person becomes to a dog. friend of yours drive by your home someone you know only slightly, to Sometimes they wait until they feel often enough to attract your dog. Then visit your home. He should have a that you must have given up hope of as your dog follows him, have him slow tightly rolled newspaper in his hand. ever recovering the dog, then they down and throw a pail or bucket of When your dog starts following this spring their call. Surely you are appre- water directly on your dog. Harsh? Not man, he should turn, viciously and si- ciative, and most certainly you give as at all. A little cold water thrown into lently, and start beating the dog with large a reward as you can afford. his face at the proper moment may save {Cojitinued on page 60)

27 Legion Rod and Gun Club

By JACK DENTON SCOTT

IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR to roadside guard rails which throw off a strong glow when light is flashed on them. CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAY OFF WITH SHELLS. CARTRIDGES, LINES OR LURES. They aren't painted with luminous paint and seem to last for years. On one old coun- While walking in the woods this past day fishermen and went down with a loss try road, these bands have been glowing hunting season exercising niy try- dogs and of many lives. As a result of that tragic strongly every night for five years that I ing I to work an inch or so ofF the midriff, sinking legislation has been introduced know of. I suggest that you write to the noticed a couple of characters leaning specifically limiting the number of fisher- Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Hartford, Conn., against a tree, rifles in hand. They appeared men passengers on small parry fishing boats. explain your situation and ask them if any to be listening intently. As I got closer, I This act hasn't been passed as yet and has of this metal is available. It certainly should noticed ear of their flap- plugs peeking out met strong opposition from commercial be. If it is, yoiu" problem is solved. pers, and started thinking about the num- fishermen. One of the more sane requests. Some are ber of hearing aids I had noticed hunters Respected oldtime seadogs like Joseph real lulus. But we don't mind. Send them wearing during the last season. This, I rea- and Frank Dolan of Guilford, Conn., put on. If we can help we will. soned, could lie because they had got too it this way: "We've been running out com- close to the blast of a twelve-gauge, or else mercial craft from these shores for rwenty- the auditory nerve of the average American five years, and never has a boat of ours been was rapidly going to hell. overloaded. It's stupid to jam a boat with As I got closer they threw me a disgusted fishermen. No one gets any fish and you look, took the hearing aids out and said, spend all of your time untangling lines and April is stream month. Trout time. Get "Well, Buster, you gonna be around here hooks, with the result that nobody is satis- your rods limbered and the joints oUed up. long? We're trying for some bushy tails." fied. Bring out the old flies and get some new It ended up with me asking them about "Take a tuna fishing boat. Six men should ones. Incidentally, if you want a new trout- the ear plugs. It seems that this year science be tops. Maybe eight if they take turns. getting fly, send in a suggestion or idea we has again chalked up a score against the No more. We troll with overhead rigs and can use in this column and we'll mail one wild animal. Hearing aids are being used to it's impossible to get more than a couple out to you. magnify woodland sounds. The scamper of of them in action. And bottom fishing for a squirrel or the thump of a rabbit, picked blacks: Put no more than eight people in up on the hearing aid device, gives the a boat, with a captain to run the boat and hunter abnost the same auditory range and a mate to bait hooks and take care of the ability as the woods creatures. paying customers." Joe Dolan shakes his head. "I'm not sure any legislation could turn the trick now. Seems to me it's up Don't let your hunting dog down now to the people themselves. If they see a that the season is over. Remember to give captain has so little concern for them that him exercise every day or night and, if he'll jam up the boat, then they should get you've got him on a concrete run, April is the time to get in there and scrub those Another tag-end bit of information about off that boat." detail legislation runs so that eggs will not be left in this past hunting season. Both encephalitis As we get more about worm the pores. You'll probably worm and Newcastle disease hit game birds. governing commercial fishing craft and concrete this spring. it won't Pheasants, mostly those released by the pany boat fishing we'll pass it on to you. your dog And mean a thing if you don't keep his run clean and states, were dropping dead of the brain sanitary. Stop the cod liver oil you've been disease. The rise of tliis killer couldn't be putting in his food this last winter. Give it explained. Hunters were warned not to eat only during the cold months. Use Rex birds that acted sick or logey. It could be Wheat Genn Oil, mixed with his meat and dangerous. Some scientists claim that New- meal and you'll find that it'll do wonders castle may wipe out more game birds than for his coat — also his spring and summer all the hunters combined. It is a virus dis- H. J. Bornholdt, vice president of the ease widespread in poultry, especially Commercial State Bank in Wausa, Nebr., disposition. chickens. Wildlife specialists who have been sends on this letter. "We use weighted cans studying the disease claim that game birds to mark the good spots when lake fishing," pick up the virus during flight letdowns on he writes. "The cans are painted yellow. Of poultry farms. Total figiu-es on the number late most of the lake fishing has been at of game birds killed by Newcastle aren't night. Our problem is to find something to in, but the estimate is high. On one large put on the cans, or attach to them, so they IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS OR QUES- game preserve there was an 8.5 percent loss can be located at night. I have experimented TIONS CONNECTED WITH THE OUT- of birds due to savage sweep of this new with several kinds of luminous paint but DOORS: hunting, fishing, dogs, etc., don't scourge of our wildlife. find that they only last a few minutes. Is hesitate to send them on to THE OUT- there anything you can suggest?" A problem. DOOR EDITOR, AMERICAN LEGION Remember the Pelican dLsaster off Long Yes, night fishennan Bornholdt, we can. In MAGAZINE. We will do our best to help. enclo.se stamped, self-addressed en- Island last year? That party fishing boat the state of Connecticut they have bands of Please a that was pathetically overloaded with Sun- metal, similar to aluminum that they attach velop for reply.

28 • The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 The Xatioxal Legio]\ivaire WHO MADE THE LEGION^S POLICY AGAINST HOOVER VET PROPOSALS? By ROBERT B. PITKIN Associate Editor, American Legion Magazine

Who made The American Legion's The cost of these services is borne not ists, insurance specialists; doctors, child policy opposing- the Hoover Report rec- by the veteran, but by the service of- vrelf are workers, nurses, hospital volun- ommendations on veterans affairs? .ficers and/or the service agency. Thus teers, hospital inspectors, etc., and the The Citizens Committee for the the Legion National, State and local or- vast majority of them are in it for the Hoover Report has been spreading the ganizations foot all the costs of their love of the work and the sense of duty rumor that this national Legion policy professional service officers. Volunteer to the disabled veterans. is the invention of a few top national rehab workers share the cost of their The two major achievements of the officials of the Legion who have some work with the Legion, giving their time veterans organizations in the legislative soi-t of vested interests to protect in the and frequently paying their own ex- field during the past 32 years have been Veterans Administration. penses. As practically all Legionnaires guided chiefly by these men and women. So far we have ignored this rumor on know, service work is mostly giving anJ One major achievement has been to these pages, because it seemed so trans- hardly any taking, except for the taking create sound and nearly adequate bene- parent. Now we have a number of in- of satisfaction. fits for veterans based on (a) the na- dignant letters from Legionnaires ask- These tens of thousands of men and tional moral obligation to war veterans ing us to call the Citizens Committee's women rehab workers have always had and (b) the actual needs of the nation bluff, and set the record straight. a major policy-making influence in the for reabsorbing war veterans back into We give below a rounded picture of veterans service programs of the vet- the civilian society and economy of the the origin of this policy. It may be of erans organizations, an influence well nation. particular interest to those local news- justified by their being the most com- The other major achievement has been papers that have been printing the Citi- petent and knowing in the field of vet- to create government administrative ma- zens Committee's phrases as their own erans rehabilitation. They break down chinery whereby the benefits would editorials. into scores of specialties : claims special- actually become available to the vet- There are well over 75,000 men and women in this country who — profession- ally or as volunteers - render personal THIS LETTER WENT TO 620 REHABILITATION WORKERS service to veterans, especially to disabled veterans and their dependents, and to the dependents of deceased veterans. of (tllOlUt Offices. Sig flfTH AVIIIUE. • Many these people are regular LEGION HEN TOIl II li.l. UUrHOIIE lUtSOl <-lllt^ veterans service officers. Others are rehabilitation committeemen and volun- Feb. 19, 1952 teer hospital workers. All of them are generally known as "rehab workers." They include nearly all the men and Dear Veterans Service Worker: women in the country oittsidc of the Veterans Administration who know at Widely circulated statements appear- first hand the problems, difficulties and ing in the press, on the radio, and being distributed by various % principles of making veterans affairs organizations, say that the American Legion's policy on the Hoover work. Report is not based on a concern for veterans, but on the desire Their dedication and aim is to secure of a few officials to protect sinister "vested interests" in the for the individual veteran or his depend- Veterans Administration. ents the maximum benefits that Con- The same widely circulated statements say that the Hoover rec~ gress has awarded, and to render what ommendatioris in veterans affairs would create "better service for other service they can to disabled vet- tremendous savings." erans and their dependents. veterans (not less as the Legion contends) v/ith Between rehab workers and the VA The same sources flatly deny the Legion's warnings that worse there is a cordial but not-always-friendly service, more expense to taxpayers, irnpairment of administration relationship, roughly parallel to that be- of veterans a.ffairs, defeat of veterans claims superimposed red tween a lawyer b>' (rehab worker) and the tape, disrnemberment of VA, destruction of veterans preference in court (VA). Civil Service, corruption of Civil Service, as well as reduction Just as lawyers join the bar associa- and inpairment of medical services to disabled veterans are inher- tions, so most rehab workers are af- ent in the Hoover recommendations in veterans affairs. filiated with the veterans associations and become the chief counselors of the TOU ARE OME OF THE LEADING EXPERTS IN VETERANS AFFAIRS IW YOUR veterans VETERAl'IS THEIR organizations in the field of STATE, AND YOU WORK DAILY TO HELP ESTABLISH LEQAL veterans CLAIMS. Speaking from your PERSONAL EXPERIENCE in handling veterans service. Many states and cities, rehabilitation, what comment on the above as well as the veterans organizations, benefits, claims and would you make for publication? maintain veterans service programs as official public agencies. The vast majority of rehab workers in the country belong to The American Legion. The Legion furnishes huge sums Rt^rt B. Pitkin and the largest organized national ma- Associate Editor chinery to help the service officers in their service to the individual veterans. rbp/ro

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erans — without which the benefits would perience of the national corps of rehab be meaningless. workers in The American Legion. It WHAT DO YOUR SERVICE The signal success of the Legion in spared 16 million War II veterans the both areas is, and has been, the fruit agonies that War I veterans suffered OFFICERS THINK OF THE of the ardent toil and experience and from inadequate planning for readjust- HOOVER REPORT? the cumulative wisdom of the tens of ment to civilian society. The GI Bill also it thousands of rehab workers, profes- spared the nation the agonies suffered ( Copies of the letter reproduced with this workers sional and volunteer. during the tumultuous years of pain story went to 620 veterans service between Feb. 19 and Feb. 24, 1952. On the With the exception of the Economy and growth in veteran policy after War first of March 207 answers were in. They Act of 1933, there has been slow but con- I that were climaxed with the Bonus are tabulated below. OFFICERS sistent progress in national veteran pol- March; with Hooverville; with the U.S. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE For No called out against veterans in the icy and administration ever since War I, Army Verify Hoover Corn- nearly all of it guided by the influence national capital where, inadequately Legion Report ment 0 of the veterans rehab workers. The readjusted fourteen years after the war, National 10 0 State. Legion 57 0 0 Economy Act, a disaster in national destitute veterans had become pawns of State, public 13 0 0 14 0 0 policy, became law in 1933 without con- a communist drama that fed on their Local sultation with the rehab workers. It dissatisfactions. VOLUNTEER SERVICE WORKERS 0 lived a year and eight days, achieved Today's Legion national policy oppos- National 10 0 State 14 0 0 nothing, and caused untold misery to ing the Hoover Report recoymnendations Local 84 3 2 disabled veterans, including suicides in veterans affairs is the fruit of the Total 202 3 2 among those ejected from hospitals or experience of the same tens of thousands Average years of personal veterans service experience. . . . 18.7 years stripped of income from service-con- men and ivomen who have steadily of Annual veteran-problem case nected compensation. guided Legion and national veteran pol- load handled under jurisdiction Elsewhere, progress has been steady, icy away from the mistakes of the past; (if professionals reporting (ex- cluding duplicate figures) 2,609,342 except in the of political generation rehab work- areas immoral- and of a new of Of 113 volunteers reporting, 57 listed pri- ity and incompetence. Laws cannot im- ers who have learned their jobs under vate occupations, as follows: public of- medical 8, insurance 9; merch- prove these, neither Legion sponsored experieyiced tutelage. ficials 16, ants 5, attorneys 6; post oflSce 3; educators laws nor Hoover laws. Immorality and When word of what the Hoover Com- 2: supreme court judge 1; engineers 2; supervisor 1; farmer 1; banker incompetence in administration of vet- mission proposed began to leak out in industrial 1: newspaper editor 1; corporation presi- erans affairs have fluctuated and will 1948, scarcely a veterans rehab worker flent 1. fluctuate with the character of the in the nation was blind to its meaning. changing administrations -national and (The news had to leak out, because the VA. Hoover Commission did not consult with before it more than forty resolutions op- The GI Bill was a creation of the ex- the rehab workers as it formed its rec- posing the Hoover Report that eman- ommendations.) ated from the States. The committee By 1949, when the Hoover Report was combined them into one resolution, made public, rehab workers sounded off 1 which was passed by the more than VET BENEFITS IN DANGER; about it all over the counti-y. They saw, 3,000 delegates without dissenting voice. as clearly as a cop can see a car going WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN This writer was present and felt the through a red light, that by breaking temper of the convention. A well-planned campaign by anti- up the VA among many agencies only Had a group of national Legion of- veteran forces is organized to stam- one thing was certain. Service to veter- ficials tried to swing the convention to pede Congress to enact by next June ans would be curtailed by bureaucratic the Hoover Report, that action 1 five major legislative proposals favor topheaviness. Administrative expenses careers. dealing with veteran affairs— would have ended their Legion a cam- would go up, and the vast economies paign spearheaded the so-called Subsequently, the same policy was re- b.v claimed for the Hoover reorganization Citizens Committee for the Hoover afliirmed at county, state and national could only come from defeat of veterans Report. These proposals are em- conventions of 1950 and 1951. benefits laws through decentralization bodied in 17 separate bills— but they The origin of the Legion's policy is have a common purpose. of responsibility and management. If not a matter of opinion, it is a matter That is to dismember the VA and this seems complicated to the layman, of record. destroy veteran benefits; to halt vet- it is as simple to rehab workers as giving the Citizens Com- erans' preference; to put vet hospi- Even so, measles is to a doctor. doubt about tals in a common pool—in fact to re- 1' mittee the benefit of the Legion official policy opposing the duce VA to a mere "benefits section." their rumor that a few top officials in- Hoover Report began at the county con- The Legion has launched "Opera- vented the Legion's Hoover Report pol- ventions in 1949, where rehab workers tion Victory" to stop this drive; to icy, the editors of this magazine mailed save presented their case against the Hoover VA and safeguard veteran in- out 620 copies of the letter reproduced terests. You can help—write your Report born of personal experience. If with this story between Feb. 19 and Congressman and Senators today. they were overheated, as many were, it Feb. 24. The letter went to every i-ehab Tell them .you are opposed to the was in understandable rage at the folly current address was im- Hoover Report proposals insofar as worker whose of a group of distinguished citizens sob- check by the measures touch on veteran mediately available for a spot erly proposing to burn the disabled vet- affairs. our office. On March 1, a total of 207 erans house down to keep him warm. answers were in. The i-esults, tabulated Here are the 17 bills: Hundreds of Legion county conven- in detail elsewhere, showed the follow- To destroy veterans' preference: tions opposed the Hoover Report in S. 1135, already passed by the Sen- ing : 1949. Nearly every state organization policy and analysis ate and now in the House. H.R. 2420, Verified Legion followed suit in the state conventions, H.R. 2748, H.R. 3311 and H.R. 3687. of Hoover report 202 To dismember the VA: Veterans' where the growing host of expert wit- For Hoover report •••• 3 Insurance Corporation-S. 1138, H.R. nesses included the veterans service No comment 2 3317, and H.R. 3677. U. S. Depart- workers of official city and state boards ment of Health: S. 1140, H.R. 3305 and commissions. and H.R. 3688. VA Hospital Con- Traveled Long Distance It was a foregone conclusion that the struction Service: S. 1143, H.R. 3309 national convention in Philadelphia in Drill Team of Malcolm and H.R. 3680. The crack Southampton, To reduce VA to a mere "benefits 1949 would echo the universal ground Ross White Post No. 433, the 170 miles to act as section ": S. 1151, H.R. 3316 and H.R. swell of resentment voiced by rehab New York, traveled 3686. workers and supported by their fellow honor guard to National Commander Write your Congressman and Sen- Legionnaires. Donald R. Wilson on his oflficial visit to ators today! At Philadelphia, the convention com- the Department's 10th District, at Val- J mittee on veterans rehabilitation had ley Stream, on February 4. 3Q • The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 LEGION SHARES IN AWARDS Chaplains Hold Parley to Organize "Back OF FREEDOMS FOUNDATION More than 600 American individuals, to God" Movement in Posts and Departments schools and organizations were given Freedom Awards by Freedoms Founda- Comprehensive plans tion at the annual ceremony at historic for a continuing "Back FOR GOD ANt) COUNTRY Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on Wash- to God" movement ington's birthday. Cash awards of throughout the United $100,000 were made, and Honor Medals States were laid at a con- were presented to a long list who have ference of Department made outstanding contributions to free- Chaplains of The Ameri- dom and the American way of life in can Legion at National 1951. Headquarters, March 19 Selected for a place in the honor roll and 20. was Joseph C. Keeley, Editor of The Out of the Conference, American Legion Magazine, for his presided over by National article "Let's Have More Schools Like Chaplain O. G. Birkeland This," published in this magazine for and addressed by Na- August, 1951. He was awarded an tional Commander Donald Honor Medal, as was also Zora Neale R. Wilson, and other Na- Hurston, whose article "Why the Negro tional officers, came a na- Won't Buy Communism" published in tionwide committee struc- the June, 1951, number, attracted nature on Department and tional attention. A. Luke Crispe, Brattle- Post levels as the frame- boro, Vermont, 1951 Chairman of the work for a permanent Legion's National Americanism Com- program of emphasizing mission, won an Honor Medal for his religious activities in article, "The American," in the Auxil- daily life. iary National News, March, 1951. "Scores of editorials Awards were made in sixteen divi- appearing in newspapers sions. In the General Category, second from coast to coast, to- place awards were made to The Ameri- gether with hundreds of can Legion National Americanism Com- telegrams and letters mission for its Boys' Nation program, from religious leaders American Appreciation Month, and its and others, both within bulletin "Summary of Trends and De- and without the ranks of velopments," and to the American The American Legion, Symbolizing the material and spiritual strength of Legion Auxiliary for its Girls' Nation leave no doubt that the The American Legion, a new poster in eight colors will program. Aberdeen (Washington) Post 'Back to God' movement be distributed to all Posts, Units and Voitures about No. 5 received an Honor Medal award has a program. had tremendous April 1. National Commander Wilson urges that the for its "Alert America Week" impact upon our people," poster campaign be launched on a concentrated, na- Other second place awards went to said National Command- tion-wide basis to emphasize the Legion's — and the the Luzerne County American Legion, er Wilson. "They demon- nation's — spiritual foundation. After the initial dis- West Wyoming, Pennsylvania, for its strate that the the grassroots tribution is made, a plentiful supply of posters will be Americanism activities report and to of America are respond- available to meet all demands. The poster is from an Pierre, South Dakota, American Legion ing to spiritual quicken- oil painting by Jes W. Schlaikjer, distinguished Wash- for its "Government Days in South ing, that our people real- ington, D. C, artist, who is a charter member of the Dakota" program. ize the need in these cri- Legion Post at Winner, South Dakota. Legionnaire An Honor Medal also went to Past tical times to get closer Schlaikjer has painted many covers for this magazine National Commander Erie Cocke, Jr., to God." and has also illustrated some dozen or more articles. for his "I Am An American Day" ad- Terming the Chaplains dress at Hollywood, California. of 1952 =^= as the "VIP'S of In the public addresses by youth cate- The American Legion," National Com- Family That Prays Together Stays gory, nine awards were made - seven mander Wilson said the world's largest Together!" of these were won by high school pupils veterans' organization will lend its full Each of these posters is handsomely who participated in the Legion's 1951 resources to carry on this threefold spir- illustrated and carries the emblem and National High School Oratorical Con- itual reawakening campaign encourag- name of The American Legion. test. First place awards went to Tom ing regular church attendance, daily Discussion panels were conducted on Calenberg, Gary, Indiana, and Charles prayer and religious education of chil- each phase of the "Back to God" move- V. Singer, Jr., San Bernardino, Cali- dren. ment and plans were laid for Depart- fornia. Winners of second place were National Chaplain Birkeland, ap- ment, District and Post organizations Rodney Nicholas Mara, Providence, pointed as director of the crusade by the in every state and community. Rhode Island, and Kay Jon Mildon, National Commander, pointed out that The religious press of all denomina- Ogden, Utah. Receiving Honor Medals The American Legion has developed a tions and all ministerial associations has were Jack L. Gilmer, Atlanta, Georgia; series of dramatic posters and outdoor been urged to cooperate in the project, Carl H. Gunderson, Mishawaka, Indi- advei-tising panels in full color to give and ministers of churches and syna- ana, and Martin E. Palmer, St. Louis, added impetus to its divine guidance gogues throughout the nation have been Missouri. program. These striking posters carry advised that American Legion Posts such slogans as: and Auxiliary Units in their areas are Medford Post Home Burned "America's First Line of Defense — available for assistance to them in en- fine of Medford (Massachu- God and His Church ! Attend Every couraging full participation by residents The home Sunday!" of their communities. setts) Post No. 45 suffered a $30,000 "Teach Children Religion for a Bet- Particularly encouraging to the De- fire damage in the early morning of ter Community!" partment Chaplains in the conference is February 10. When discovered by the "Americans — Let's Put God Back in the almost universal acclaim and ap- custodian the fire had spread through Our Homes and in Our Government proval given the Legion's "Back to God" the walls and broken through the roof. for the Sake of Our Children. The movement by the press. Cause of fire is undetermined.

The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 '31 Lobby of Leyden-Chiles-Wickeisham Post's new million dollar home at Denver; at right, part of crowd at dedication service. DENVER POST HAS NEW MILLION DOLLAR HOME; SETS NEWTARGET

Now that the members of Leyden- Quigg Newton, a World War II veteran in the new home, at which National Chiles-Wickersham Post No. 1, The and a Legionnaire; Department Com- Commander Wilson was the principal American Legion of Denver, Colorado, mander Cal Maier; James F. O'Neil, speaker. have formally dedicated and entered Past National Commander and Director their spacious $1,000,000 Memorial of Publications; Fred Bramlage, Junc- WATSON B. MILLER NAMED TO building, they have fixed their sights on tion City, Kansas; Lewis K. Gough, SUBVERSIVE another objective. They hope by the end Pasadena, California; Walter Alessan- CONTROL BOARD of the year to be the Number One Post droni, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Art President Truman has named Watson in the world in membership. Confidence Connell, Middletown, Connecticut — all B. Miller, who has served the Legion was expressed in all quarters in Denver Past National Vice-Commanders. as Special Representative of the Na- following the dedication on February The neighboring States of New Mexi- tional Commander in Washington since 8th that the present 10,000 numerical co, Wyoming and Arizona also sent dele- July 1, 1950, to be a member of the Sub- strength would be doubled within a gations, including Seaborn Collins, versive Activities Control Board. He will year. This they feel sure will enable former Department Commander of New succeed Seth Richardson, who resigned them to take over the leadership now Mexico. Jack Oakey, former Department from the 5-member Board last year held by Omaha Post No. 1. Word of this Commander of Colorado and Director while serving as Chairman. activity has reached Omaha, and they of The American Legion's National The Board was set up under the In- maintain that it won't happen. Field Service, was also in attendance. ternal Security Act to determine Denver has at least one other impor- Special guests of honor were the sur- whether communist or communist-front tant American Legion event scheduled viving relatives of those for whom the organizations must register with the this year, and that is the finals of The Post is named, as well as several mem- Government. It is currently holding American Legion Junior Baseball pro- bers of the Memorial Building Corpora- hearings on the Attorney General's gram. This will be staged in September tion. Harold Dolan, President of the move to force the communist party to and, interestingly enough, the Denver- Memorial Building Corporation, made register. ites, joining with The Legion, are con- the address and presented the trophies. A veteran of both Government and fident that the previous attendance rec- At the conclusion of his address he Legion service. Legionnaire Miller ords established in Omaha will be handed the keys of the building to Post served as Director of the Legion's re- broken. The dedication program, which Commander Frank Lynch, Jr., who habilitation service from 1923 to 1941. saw a dream come true, was a note- made the response. Dr. Lee Winemiller, He resigned to become Assistant Ad- worthy event attended by National Past Post Commander, presided at the ministrator of the Federal Security Commander Donald R. Wilson, who cei-emonies. More than 4,000 persons Agency under Past National Com- formally dedicated the edifice, which were in attendance. mander Paul V. McNutt, and upon houses a fine auditorium, finely equipped Coupled with the dedication was the resignation of his chief in 1945 he was offices, eight bowling alleys, several din- Mid-Winter Conference of the Depart- appointed Administrator. In 1947 he ing rooms and beautifully appointed ment of Colorado, in which most of the was appointed Commissioner of the recreation rooms and offices. visiting Legionnaires participated. This U. S. Immigration and Naturalization In addition to the National Com- was held in what is now the former Service, which he held until his return mander, dignitaries participating in- home of Leyden-Chiles-Wickersham to the Legion in 1950. cluded Governor Dan Thornton; United Post, and was presided over by Depart- He is a Past Department Commander States Senator Eugene D. Millikin, a ment Commander Maier of Longmont. of the District of Columbia, and a Past charter member of the Post and a con- The conference was followed by the an- National Vice Commander, elected at the tributor to the building fund; Mayor nual Last Squad dinner, which was held New Orleans National Convention.

32 • The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 COMPETITIONS ALL SET TO WASHINGTON BUGLER WINS NORTH SHORE POST MAN WINS CHAMPIONSHIP TEN TIMES STIR UP 1952 CONVENTION $1,000 FOR SELF AND POST Revised rules for the eight national John J. Enright, Lincolnwood, Illinois, competitions of musical corps, to govern was the winner of the top prize of $1,000 the contests at the 34th National Con- cash in the contest sponsored by the vention in New York on August 24-28, United States Plywood Corporation, on have been sent out to all Department the subject "Why I Like Weldwood Adjutants and recorded musical units. Glue." The contest was open to Legion- Norton E. Granger, Chairman of the naires and Auxiliares only, and was Contest Supervisory Committee, is an- announced in a full-page advertisement ticipating the greatest number of con- in the October number of The American testants in the history of the Legion at Legion Magazine. the annual 1952 meet. He points out the Conforming to the terms of the con- accessibility of the convention city, test, an additional $1,000 in cash was splendid housing facilities, unexcelled awarded North Shore Post No. 21, Chi- spots for staging the contests — plus the cago, Illinois, of which Comrade En- fact that New York is in the heart of right is a member. Presentation of the the drum corps world. top awards were made at a meeting of To back his argument, Chairman North Shore Post by Robert Gospel, one Granger looked back to the 1951 con- of the executives of the Plywood Cor- tests at the Miami Convention. In the poration. Drum and Bugle Corps battle there the Second prize of $100 went to Matthew Corps of Hawthorne (New Jersey) Post J. Zepka, Adams, Massachusetts, and No. 199 nosed out the champion Gaba- third prize of $50 was awarded to Mrs. rina-Mazarakos Memorial Post No. Madeline Woodside, Long Island City, 1523, New York City, by .117 of a point. New York. In the national junior class of Drum and Fourteen prizes of $25 each were won Bugle Corps competition, the St. Vin- by F. J. Benscoter, Hutchinson, Kansas; cent Cadets of Jersey City, New Jersey, Nicholas J. Heidy, Silverton, Colorado; downed another Skeeter State outfit, the Wilton E. Carter, Commander, East defending Holy Name Cadets of Garfield, Out in Washington State the Legion- Marion Post No. 351, Marion, South by .393 of a point. The Chairman rea- naires call him "Mr. Automatic" in the Carolina; Robert A. Matrakos, Lincoln, sons that the ins will want to stay in, bugle competition — that's Cecil Bannis- Nebraska; Morris R. Scott, Washington, and that old champs and good wind- ter of Albert J. Hamilton Post No. 7, D. C; Collins Ewins, Odessa, Missouri; jammers from dozens of other Posts will Bellingham. He lias won the individual Dewie Rigg, Tullahoma, Tennessee; S. do their level best to oust them. bugling contest 10 times out of 12 tries 0. Wilson, Vivian, Louisiana; Frank L. since 1937, and at tlie same time has Ulrickson, Ellsworth, Kansas; Frank helped his crack Post Drum and Bugle H. Wilson, Appleton, Wisconsin; H. R. CHILD WELFARE MONTH TO Corps to cop the Department champion- Mull, Springfield, Illinois; Henry Shel- BE OBSERVED IN APRIL ship 10 times, not counting a sixth place don, Chicago, Illinois; Carlton Gibson, in the national competition at Los An- Indianapolis, Indiana, and J. Dryden, "Let's Tell the World" is the theme geles in 1950. Beginning as a Boy Scout Ellsworth, Kansas. of the April, 1952, observance of Amer- bugler, Champ. Bannister served in the ican Legion child welfare month. An Canadian Army in WWl; joined Belling- Corporal Mitchell Cloud, Jr. eight-page leaflet with this title has ham's Hamilton Post in 1923 but did not Red been issued by the National Child Wel- get into the Drum and Bugle Corps until In the Veterans' Newsletter for Feb- fare Division and is being distributed 1936. His victories since 1937 — he has a ruary appeared a list of Medal of Honor to all American Legion Posts and lot of trophies to show for them — span winners, including Corporal Mitchell Auxiliary Units. 12 competitive years in his Department". Red Cloud, Jr., whose home address was The leaflet includes two suggested No Department Contests were held dur- given as Friendship, Wisconsin. This news releases on child welfare for use ing 3 war years. brought several letters from Wisconsin by Posts and further suggestions for readers, all in agreement that the young telling the world of The American hero was born and spent his life at Mer- Legion's child welfare work, especially JUNIOR BASEBALLERS MEET rillan, Jackson County, Wisconsin. its current campaign to emphasize re- Error in the address was made by the '52 ligion in the lives of children. Copies of TO PLAN FOR PROGRAM fact that his mother was living at the leaflet may be obtained without Friendship at the time the posthumous Four area conferences to plan the charge from the National Child Welfare award of the nation's highest military 1952 Junior Baseball program were at- Division, The American Legion, honor was made. For the record, the P.O. tended by representatives of all the con- Box 1055, Indianapolis correct address is Merrillan, Wisconsin. 6, Indiana. tinental Departments of the Legion. The conferences were held at New York City, Birmingham, The Home is Theirs Albania; Des Porchlight Polio Pickup Moines, Iowa, and Salt Lake City, Utah. After 27 years of trials and troubles, Leaders in Legion baseball discussed Westmont (Illinois) Post No. 338 took the home of Halker-Flege Post No. 69, plans for the 1952 season. Rule changes on the responsibility of collecting funds Reading, Ohio, is debt-free. A mortgage adopted by the National Americanism in a polio drive. An idea suggested by burning ceremony was held on February Commission were explained to the con- County Chaplain Renouard of placing a with 24, Mayor Charles Gertz of Read- ferences by Dale Miller, Administrator replica of an iron lung on a trailer ing, and Mayor Carl W. Rich of Cin- of the program. From reports received equipped with a mobile sound system cinnati as the speakers. Past Com- the 1952 season will top any other year was adopted in putting on what was mander Charles Greiner, Jr., presided, and the conferees were lavish in their called a "Porch Light Polio Pick Up." and Commander Charley Lohmueller praise of volunteer workers and spon- Making the rounds in the early night, had the assistance of 15 Past Command- sors who spend much time and approxi- citizens were requested to turn on their ers in touching flame to the mortgage. mately $2,000,000 annually to support porch lights when they heard the music The home was built in 1927; was lost the sandlot ball game. A million or more if they wanted to contribute to the polio during the depression, but was re- youngsters participate, learning the fund. Result: $1,800 picked up in no purchased at the close of WW2. rules of good sportsmanship. time at all.

The American Legion Magazine • April. 1952 • to 200 each year. But for 1952 they went to town with a challenge to other father * * * * * * and son teams in the Ohio Department LEGIONITEMS — record so far 272 members of the 800 enrolled in the Post. The result — a Granite Falls (Minnesota) Post No. cabin to the Police Worthy Boys' Camp younger son, 19 and married, felt left G9 threw a turkey feed for its Junior near its home city. The 20x20 foot cabin out of affairs — he wanted to join the Baseball team, runner-up in semi-finals is of concrete block construction, with Legion. He enlisted in the Air Force — in 1951, on January 14, and gave dis- cement floor and aluminum roof, built at then reported to his Legionnaire father: tinctive jackets to each member. Post a cost of $1,000, it is designed to house "Now I can join the Legion." . . . Billy also joined with other Legion units in 12 boys. The Rock Hill Police Depart- McKee Post No. 236, East Point, three-county area to purchase 16-mm ment operate the camp; last year 127 Georgia, has taken on sponsorship of a projector for Riverside Sanitorium in boys were cared for. . . . Now here is one Boy Scout Troop as one of its 1952

Granite Falls. . . . Milwaukee (Wiscon- for the book - Wilmington (Massachu- community activities, starting with 13 sin) Police Post No. 415 has established setts) Post No. 136 has a Finance Officer Scouts. Legionnaire Ralph Jaillette is a death benefit of $100 for its members, who is serving his 32nd year in that Scoutmaster. to be paid to the surviving wife or chil- office - in fact he's the only FO the Post dren. Membership in Post is restricted has ever had. Joseph B. McMahon was Continuing its active youth program, to members of the Milwaukee Police De- elected Finance Officer when the Post Frank P. Hommon Post No. 24, Hunt- partment, and has an enrollment of was organized in 1919, and he's still on ingdon, Pennsylvania, sponsored a 394. the job, without a break. Post Adjutant Health Show on January Warren H. Cheever nominates him as Strength and 5. More than 500 persons crowded into Senior FO of the entire Legion. Though the Tide of Toys was not car- auditorium to witness * the high school ried as a national program in 1951, the the three-hour program featuring local idea was so appealing to William Scho- A father and son Legion team story boys in body-building and weight lifting Grove, Wis- Post ville Post No. 220, Soldiers comes from Charles C. Weybrecht activities. . . . Parsons-Marnatti Post for consin, that it put on its own drive No. 166, Alliance, Ohio, with a result. No. 95, Brockway, Pennsylvania, awarded the community deserving. Result: Post Past Commander William F. Jordan, a gold Life Membership card to Charter distributed toy.s, clothing and a full member since 1922, hit his stride when Member A. D. Grasso, who is known in

includ- . Christmas dinner to 35 families, his son, Stanley Jordan, joined up in his community as "Mr. Legionnaire." . . ing 121 children Grayling (Michigan) 1945 after WW2 service. Active in Post Legionnaires and Auxiliares of Waekley- Post No. 106 came up with its annual work, the team went after membership Rowland Post No. 420 planned and car- Christmas party for children, bigger in a big way, rolling up records of 100 ried out a successful Operation Blood and better than ever -744 children in at- Bank at St. Elmo, Illinois. The 132 pints tendance. Highlights of the party was of blood obtained during a visit of the recorded by WATC radio station, with HUSBAND AND WIFE SERVE Red Cross Blood Mobile were sent to the program going on the air on De- CHAPLAINS the St. Louis blood bank for civilian and cember 22. The Post had a 1951 member- AS NATIONAL Armed Forces use. ship of 177 CPO Walter Scott Gibson, -V * *• who hails from Albany, Georgia, has of Women Veterans Post been given the Award of Merit by Tokyo Members Bridgeport, Connecticut, have (Japan) Post No. 1-of which he is Vice No. 181, women veterans in the Commander. Adjutant George Puchowski cared for the hospitals and homes in their area for reports that Legionnaire Gibson, is years. A special remembrance Chairman of the Membership Drive at some sent out to more than 100 hospi- Atsugi, Chairman of the Boy Scout Com- was talized women vets at Christmas time, mittee, Chairman of the Junior Baseball carried out by Commander Committee, and has signed up more a project Winifred O'Neil and Chairman Eleanor members than anyone else in the Post. F. Wal- Smith. . . . Members of Charles * * lace Post No. 666, Campbell, California, Prowlers added insult to injury when are working hard to popularize their they entered the home of Post No. 331, slogan, "I'll March Memorial Day for slogan at Shorewood, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, My Buddies Who Cannot." The suburb. Finding no cash, the uninvited was coined by Post Commander Frank resolu- guests smashed a cigarette and pinball J. Knox, and was approved by machine — using the Post Commander's tion at the Legion National Convention At the 16th National Convention held last October. . . . "Salt City gavel to do the dirty work. . . . Organ- at Miami at Miami, Florida, in 1934, Rev. Park W. Gorman B. ized in 1935, the Drum and Bugle Corps March," composed by Dr. Huntington, Wilmington, Delaware, was the champion Syra- of Post No. 3, Lincoln, Nebraska, has a Mance, director of elected National Chaplain to serve band, will unique record -75 percent of its present cuse (New York) Post No. 41 through the year with National Com- membership are WWl vets. The corps be featured in the Syracuse American mander Frank N. Belgrano, Jr. Seven- makes about 50 appearances each year Freedom concerts. teen years later, at the 33rd National in Nebraska; has missed only two Na- Convention held in the same city of * -k- tional Conventions in 16 years, running Miami, Mrs. Park W. Huntington was Treverton (Pennsylvania) Post No. 92 up to over 200,000 miles of travel. Its elected National Chaplain of the Ameri- has a Commander whose name is Legion. membership of 45 includes many promi- can Legion Auxiliary - the first instance Son of Reynolds Reed, first Commander nent business and professional men - of a husband and wife having served in of Treverton Post, the present skipper is with thi-ee playing doctors. comparable offices in the two organiza- Thearle Legion Reed. WVV2 vet. whose tions. Above, Past National Chaplain middle name conies from his father's service organization. Past Com- Paper City Post No. .325, Holyoke, Huntington presents an orchid to Na- favorite is of 11 mem- Massachusetts, sponsored a university tional Chaplain Huntington immediately mander Reynolds Reed one years of extension course directed by Amherst after her election. The Huntington home bers recently honored for 30

Post. . . . Pacific Beach College at its home. A large class of is at Wilmington, Delaware, where Past service to the has inaug- Legionnaires and war veterans of the National Chaplain Huntington is Direc- (California) Post No. 552 - are stored, area was enrolled and completed the tor of the State Department of Welfare, urated a flag service flags devotes full time, after many preserved and raised on proper occa- course. . . . Frank Roach Post No. 31. to which he fee. Uock Hill, South Carolina, presented a years in parish work. sions, for a small

"^/^ • The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 ETO, Sta. 128-lst reunion, 450 Sub Depot, Sam THE AMERICAN LEGION Harrisburg, Pa., May 30-June 1. Contact HEADQUARTERS Seibert, Box 269, Elizabethtown, Pa. OUTFIT REUNIONS NATIONAL 554th QM Railhead Co.-Reunion, Indiana State INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA Dunes Park, July 4-6. Contact Donald J. Jaunta, Secy-Treas., 838 169th Place, Hammond, Ind JANUARY 31, 1952 (WW2)-Reunion. Harrisburg, 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Division—32nd 55th FA Bn., July 18-19. Write William H. Taylor, RD 1, annual reunion, Chicago, 111., Aug. 20-Sept. 1. ASSETS Pa., Shermansdale, Pa. Full info from Frank F. Barth. 18014 Home- on deposit....! 796, 715.22 . „, . „ n Cash on hand and 144th Infantry Par Oneri Club-Reunion, all wood Ave.. Chicago, 111. 391, 890.44 Receivables hands 144th Regt.. 1917 to 1945, Longview, 'Texas, 29th (Blue and Gray) Division Assn.— 34th an- Inventories 429, 326.45 August 30-Sept. 1. Contact W. J. Hefner, Secy., nual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29-Sept. 1: Invested Funds 459, 482.11 P O. Box 805, Fort Worth 1, Texas. Benjamin Franklin Hotel. Info from John Kay, Permanent Trusts: Treas., Upper Darby, Pa. Overseas Graves Decoration 63rd (Blood Fire) Infantry Div. Assn.— and Trust Fund $ 255,647.59 3rd annual reunion. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 22-24; Employees' Retirement Sylva nia Hotel. Details from M/Sgt. Lester A. 956.49 Trust Fund . . . . 1,238,308.90 1,493, Noel. Pre.sident, Box 2094, Huntington, W. Va. COMRADES IN DISTRESS . 726.43 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division-Re- Real Estate, less depreciation . 916, union, observing 10th anniversary of activation, Furniture and Fixtures, less 307 ,218.87 St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 30-Sept. 1; Sheraton Hotel. depreciation 454.20 and Naval Training Write Alvin H. Fry, 7545 Oxford Drive, Clayton Deferred Charges 52 Co. 43-298, San Diego, who re- $4,847 770.21 School, Farragut. Idaho-Will anyone 5, Mo., for details. at USS Oklahoma. Commissioning and WWl members my late husband, Fred Kirkland. 1943-44, please write. State- Crew— Reunion, New York City, May 3-4; Hotel above stations in benefits. Mrs. Vved Governor Clinton. Write Joseph Bacco, Secy- LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE ments necessary to secure Box 6324, Cedar Grove Sta., Treas., 1615 East Ave., Rochester 10, N. Y. AND NET WORTH Kirkland, P. O. La. Persian Gulf Command— Reunion, Flagstaff, Shreveport, . 166,960.83 Motorcycle units-Will any- Ariz.. June 28-29. Information from Eddie Poole, Current Liabilities $ 8th Armored Div., to use 111,298.52 remembers me and my blackouts, 1942- Rt. 1, Box 120, Flagstaff, Ariz. Funds restricted as one who 1,375,671.91 needed. David L. 216th General Hospital Assn.—3rd annual re- Deferred Income 43 please write. Statements St., Ann Arbor, Mich. union, Philadelphia, Pa., 23-25; Penn-Shera- Permanent Trusts: Watson, 726 So. Main May Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.-Will ton Hotel. Write Andrew Menzia, Secy-Treas., Overseas Graves Decoration Troop E, nth Cav., J. remembers Harrison A. Newton, 79 Middle St., Lowell. Mass. Trust $ 255,647.59 anyone who write. Statements needed for Hdqrs. Co.. Combat Command B, 14th Armored Employees' Retirement (WWl vet) please 1,493,956.49 purposes. W. Barth. Adjutant^ Post No. Div.— Reunion planned. Binghamton, Y., Trust 1,238,308.90 claims C. N. July Port Ewen, N. Y. 19-20. Write Richard Wheeler, 38 Floral Ave., 1298. Memorial Home, Net Worth: Air Base-Urgently need to Binghamton, or Clarence Santa Ana Army E. Anderson, Kennedy, Restricted Capital: Pre-flight Squadron; Y., locate Harold Watkins, CO N. for details. Reserve Fund . . 23,464.13 needed for claim. Morton (Moe) Cohn, Battery B, 60th FA Bn., 9th Div. -Reunion, Restricted Fund 17,939.98 statements St., Monroe, Mich. Canadensis, Pa., Sept. 4-6. For information write 724 Washington . Reserve for construction Bn., Camp Bowie, Texas G. Skibinski, Sv. Battery, 667th FA Wm. Canadensis, Pa. Wash, office . . 780,294.40 served with me m 56th Engineer —Need to contact men who Searchlights, . . WWl— Reunion, Real Estate . 80,000.00 1944- statements needed for claim. Walter L. New York City, Aug. 29; Hotel New Yorker. 901,698.51 West Frankfort. 111. Write William U. Yates, Secy., 1504 Kinsdale Smith. Rt. 2. Unrestricted Capital: to hear from St.. Philadelphia 26, Pa. Co. C. 7th Bn., 2nd Regt.-Need Excess of Income over Expense Richards and I, Pvts. Paul Walker, Gerald Johnson, Co. 71st Infantry— Reunion, 71st Regt. 1,699,882.46 1 Month .... . 798,183.95 who knows of my fall Armory, Park Ave. and 34th St., New York City, Sgt Spencer, or anyone $4,847,770.21 at Ft. McCIellan in Septem- April 18. Write Robert Ritchie, Co. I, 71st In- on the obstacle course back on a Pic^ •« fantry Armory, New York 16, N. Y. ber, 1945. when I struck my Ward Hebert, 1209 bt. 34th Engineers, (both WWs)-18th annual re- foxhole. Need statements. Marshfield, Wis. union, Bellefontaine, Ohio, Aug. 1; Joseph St.. 30-Sept. mem- hear bers 1164th and 1341st please take notice. Info 2nd Bn.. 291st Inf., 75th Div.-Need to USS Ludlow, (DD 438)— Reunion, New York son, Pfc. from Alfred Koch. Pres., 1207 Berkshire Rd., from men who served with my late City, Aug. 1-3. Full details from Cal Custy, 56 No. battalion Dayton 9, Ohio, or Colquitt, particularly his George Remple, Secy., 2523 Meriden, Conn. Charles K. Pearl St., , Drain. Jr.. and his N. Main St., Dayton 5, Ohio. Island,, j commander. Lt. Col. Jesse C. Mineforce, 12th Naval Dist., Treasure injuries in Battle Co. F, 168th Infantry, (WW2 ) -Reunion, Vil- company commander. Received Cal.-Reunion WW2 personnel, San Francisco, Talla- lisca, Iowa, July 5-6; American Legion Country of Bulge. Mrs. Flora Colquitt, 518 17th St., Cal., October 25. Contact P. N. Chamblies, 548 Club. Write Edwards Reynolds, Villisca, Iowa. dega, Fla. 5th Ave., San Francisco, Cal. , . A ^ Co. I, 102nd Infantry— Reunion, Berlin, Conn., or 103rd Engineers, Advance Section, 73rd Seabee Assn. -3rd reunion. New Orleans. 108th FA, April 19; Wonder Bar Restaurant. Info from Earl Will anyone who remembers me bemg La.. July 25-27; Jung Hotel. Write Edw. P. (W WD— Girard, 5066 Main St.. Bridgeport, Conn. on the first night of action, Box 428. Hammond, La. gassed at Verines 431st AAA AW Bn. -Reunion, Washington, Dameron, urgently needed. William 882nd FA Bn.-3rd annual reunion, Chicago, please write. Statements D. C, Sept. 27: Hotel Static.-. Write Russell M. (Indian Bill), Beech Creek, Pa. 16; Drake Hotel. Contact Lloyd Carey. Kenenelly, Turner. Secy., 66 Clifford Dr., Greentree, 111 Aug. Benning, Ga.- Pitts- 3839 No. Janssen Ave., Chicago 13, 24th General Hospital, Fort burgh 20, Pa. Secy-Treas.. hospital to locate men who were in above 303th Need FA Bn. and Regt.—Annual reunion din- York City, especially the Sergeant in charge of the ner-dance, ''^'512th FA Ban. Assn. -Reunion. New in 1943, Midston House, 38th St. and Madison needed. James L. ( Louie) April 26; Yugoslavia-American Hall, West 41st dispensary. Statements Ave., New York City, April 19. Info from John 3324 Bishop St., Little Rock, St. Write Louis Horowitz, 825 Gerard Ave., Thompson, (cook), Wilkes, 28 E. 39th St., New York 16, N. Y. Bronx 51, N. Y. Ark 51st Medical Bn.— Reunion, Harrisburg, Pa., Forge Gen. 643rd TD Bn.-Reunion, New York City, April TSU SGO, DMD 9963, Valley June 8; Republican Club, 26 N. 2nd St. Contact who re- 71st Armory, 34th St. and Park Ave. Info Hosp., Phoenixville, Pa.-Will anyone Eugene F. Rabenstine, Cassatt BIdg., York, Pa. 26; at Nov. from John A. Wesenberg, 23 Linden Blvd., members me in service at above hospital, 301st Supply Train, 76th Div., (WWl) -34th for service- Brooklyn 28, N. Y. 1949-Jan. 1950, please write. Claim annual reunion, Boston, Mass., April 26; Hotel ^ , Nash, c/o 69th Signal Bn.-Reunion, Buffalo, N. Y., July connection pending. Thomas Harold Lenox. Write Leroy F. Merritt. 20 Waverly St., Okla. Details from Donald Day. 200 Newburgh Eastern Okla. State Sanitarium, Talihima, Brockton 50, Mass. 18-19. Texas- 325th Ave., Buffalo 15, N. Y. 8th Airship Co., Camp Owen Biernie, (Chcckertail) Fighter Group, 15th Air this 24th Signal Co., 24th Inf. Div.-4th annual re- to locate men who served with me Force— Gth reunion. Providence, R. I., Aug. 1-3. Need Ohio, Aug. 30-31. Contact Claim pending. Fraricis A. All members 317th, 318th and 319th Fighter union, Columbus, station in 1920-21. Rugh, Room 333, YMCA, Columbus, Ohio. St., Corpus Christi, Texas. Sqdrns. contact Co-Chairman A. T. Frye or L. E. Waynt Codd 4117 Carlton Pigeon, (ASR 6), Asiatic Fleet-Person- Fort Riley and Camp Oldham, 104 Market Ave. So., Canton, Ohio. USS Troop A, 10th Cavalry, reunion, Thomson, Ga., at home of men who served Co. C, 3154th Ordnance Alumni— 6th annual nel planning Funston-Urgently need to locate Hawes, in October. All hands con- thrown from a reunion, Boston, Mass., May 16-18; Hotel Puritan. Captain R. E. with me and know of my being K. A. Buchanan, USN, Subgroup C. Braidey, c/o Details from A. W. McDonald, Secv., 251 tact Chapclk. horse. Claim pending. Fred East Cove Springs, Fla. American Legion, 236th St., Bronx 70, New Yoik. one, Lantresflt, Green George L Giles Post No. 87, USS Starr, (AKA 67)-2nd annual reunion, Co. C, 314th Ammunition Train, (WWl)-An- 5745 S. State St.. Chicago 21. 111. in June. also Engineers Sandusky, Ohio, July 8-10. Full info from C. L. nual reunion, Fremont, Neb., 1st Sunday 267th QM Bn.. South Pacific, Scribner, Neb. me Johnson, 2001 S. Fruitridge Ave., Terre Haute, Write Ray L. Spath, Secy-Treas., at Montrevalla-Will anyone who remembers Ind. 57th Field Hospital Assn., (WW2)-2nd annual sustaining spinal, back and head injuries please Details and hear from Capt. Louis "Black Catters" (VPB 11, 33, 34, 52 and 101) reunion, St. Louis, Mo., June 12-14. write. Particularly need to Secy-Treas., Powell. Lt. Louis Cham- —Reunion, Chicago. 111., reservations from John B. Webb, T VanEmen. Lt. Paul Labor Day week-end. Huey F WaHter, Complete info from Thomas L. Burbee, Jr., 3213 2021 Harlem, Joplin, Mo. pion, Sgt. Howard Swanson. James Nelson (^pl. Her- N. E. Union Ave., Portland 12, Oregon. Base Hosp. 3, Espiritu Santos, New Gus Standavent, Cpl. USN Jones, Pvt. Fhilip 325th FA Assn., Hebrides-All hands. Cub 1 and 13 Medical units man Perrie. Pvt. Joseph 84th Div., (both WWs) and Washington, and Pvt Her- Auxiliary-5th annual reunion, serving during the Guadalcanal campaign, all Roberson, Pvt. Eddie Frankfort, Ind., pending. Charles E. White, June 14-15; Hotel Coulter. Write Paul Moore, ranks; reunion June, 1952, during American man Stokes. Claim S. Hy- Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. Secy.. 802 (A) West Poplar St., Frankfort, lU., Medical Assn. meeting. Write Dr. Albert 1528 Mississippi N. Y. Engineers-Urgently need to or Joseph W. Schultz, 2820 Brown St., III. man, 450 E. 63rd St., New York 21, 133rd Combat Alton, was captured with me at China-Burma-India Vets.-5th annual reunion, 713th Railway Operating Vets.-Reunion, hear from anyone who Aug. 29, 1944. Need help to con- Omaha, Neb., Aug. 8-10. Full details from Chicago, 111., June 27-28; Del Prado Hotel. Con- Metz, France, Ex- that day Remembers Mur- CBI Roundup Magazine, 2402 Curtis tact Marvin Krinke, 1200 Lafond Ave., St. Paul, firm injury received St., Denver Sgt. Petcock, Ky. Write 5, Colo. for details and reservations. ray, Bronx, N. Y., and Minn., Sterling, Ky. Bn.-Reunion, St. Elmer C. Williams, Rt. 1, Mt. NOB, Palermo, Sicily-Reunion, Chicago, 111., 718th Railway Operating J. Coyne-Urgent that I locate June 14; Roosevelt Room, Morrison Hotel. Reser- Louis, Mo., Aug. 1-3. For details write Leo J. PFC William Crest- know of the circumstances leading up vation from W. A. Beam, P. O. Box 55, Moline, Sorgmann, Secy-Treas., 13 Banbury Court, men who of this man in Paris, on Dec. 5, 1944. 111. wood 19, Mo. to the death have statements to prove pension claim for 52nd Seabees—5th annual 91st Seabees— 4th annual reunion, Anderson, Must reunion. New Or- widow and two children. Please write Samuel hj. leans. La.. Aug. 1-3; Jung Hotel. Details from Ind., May 31-June 1; Hotel Anderson. Details Miller. 12 Hollywood Ave.. Tuekahoe. N. Y. John J. Haeuser, N. P. Sercomb. 514 N. Milwaukee St., Secy., 1922 Alvar St., New from Div.-Need to hear from Lt. Orleans, La. Jackson, Mich. 30th Infantry, 3rd George Henderson. Bn. Scout Officer at Marne 403rd Bomb Sqdrn.—Reunion. Omaha, Neb.. Flying Tigers—American Volunteer Group in Medical River July 15. 1918; also Capt. Wyraan, Oct., 1952. Info from Kessler, China—Reunion, Hollywood, Cal., June 27-29. Jay 8922 Klinedale Corps and Miss Ferguson, Nurse at Gen. Hosp. Ave.. Rivera, Cal. Complete details from Dick Rossi, 1933 N. Bron- Bronx, N. Y., 1918-19, or any who were pa- 104 th Infantry son Ave., Hollywood, Cal. 1, 1919. Reg. Vets. Assn.— Annual re- tients in Ward 48 from Dec. 1918 to May. 60th Seabees—Reunion, Streator, 111., Aug. 30- union, Springfield, Mass., April 25-27; Head- Write Ray F. Santy, RD 2, Constable, N. Y. Info from Mayor Dietman, 15 Bluff Place, quarters YD Club. Write Raymond S. Fuller, 31. (Continued on page 36) Chairman, YD Club. Springfield, Mass. Oak Hills, Streator, III. The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • 35 YEOMEN (F) SETS REUNION APRIL THEME IS RELIGION WITH NEW YORK CONVENTION IN LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN MISSING IN KOREA has been des- The 26th annual reunion of the Na- The week of April 17th This is a new column set apart for tional Yeomen (F) organization will be ignated by National Chaplain Reverend seeking information about service per- placing held with the National Convention of O. G. Biikeland as a time for sonnel lost or missing in the Korean The American Legion in New York City, special emphasis on the importance of conflict. Its use will be strictly limited August 24-28. Highlight of the affair religion in the lives of children. Rever- to that area, and to those lost or missing will be the annual dinner on Wednesday, end Birkeland has requested the co- as a result of military action. We can not August 27, at the Brass Rail Restau- operation of all American Legion Posts expand the column to include "missing rant, 521 Fifth Avenue, starting at and Auxiliary Un^s in publicizing an persons" generally, or for the purpose 6 p.m. appeal to parents to make religion an of renewing contact with old comrades. Reservations for the cocktail party integral part of family life. Co. I, 31st Infantry— Will anyone who knew and dinner ($5 per person, including The National Executive Committee of Ptitrick K. Crvagan previous to Dec. 3, 1950, the gratuity) should be made with Miss The American Legion in 1949 author- date he is listed as missing in action, please write Lawrence Cieagan, Centerville, Iowa. Veronica E. Costello, Chairman, 124 E. ized the National Chaplain to designate Medical Co., 3rd Bn., 38lh Inf.-S^t. David A. 24th Street, New York 10, N. Y. a week each April for this purpose. For Si'hrcfflcr, missing in action near Hoensong, Korea, February 12, 1951. Will anyone who knows The National Yeomen (F) was or- the past 15 years April been has Amer- about him please write his mother, Mrs. Edward ganized in 1926 during the American ican Legion child welfare month, and SchicfTler, Rt. 2, Solinsgrove, Pa. Legion Convention in Philadelphia, and the week set aside for religious observ- Co. C, 19th Infantry— Will anyone who knows anything alj

COMRADES IN DISTRESS THE AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (Continued from page J5) Income Budget — 1952 Expense Budget— 1952 Co. B, SATC, Auburn, Ala.-Need to locate Set. General Income: Internal Affairs, Indpls $ 230.764.00 Bichard Helmer, believed to be from Or- New Dues @ 25(- $ 675,000.00 Field Service 60,786.00 leans, and Lt. Thompson, probably from Fort Dues prior years 750.00 Membership & Post Activities . . . 91,393.00 Smith, Ark., in above outfit in 1918. Claim pend- S.A.L. Due 1.500.00 Internal Atfairs, Wash 40,668.00 ing. Write P. D. Beverett, @ 25t'- Box 234, Vernon, Fla. S.A.L. Dues prior years 100.00 Economic 42,827.00 346th Engineers—Will anyone who served with Pnhlirations: Americanism 117,673.00 Die at Kimbolton Airfield, England, in 194:j, Subscriptions 75(f 2,025,000.00 Legislative 77,282.00 please write. Need statements to support pending @ Subscriptions prior years ... 2,250.00 Public Relations 133,209.00 claim. Lester L. Westberg, 127 Knight St. Pon- Advertising 1,225,000.00 Finance 72,099.00 tiac. R. I. Purchase discount Executive 152,934.00 Hdqrs. Battery, 881st FA Bn., 69th Div.-Need 8,000.00 Miscellaneous 30,000.00 Security 48,497.00 to hear from anyone who served with me in ETO, Emblem Sales, net 120,000.00 Publications 3,090,254.00 Dec. 1944. t

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'°H T m R 1 M E ngnHnnHHBn IT Here are your Clues to Puzzle No. 1 "y "R S E S A "s M L ACROSS 10 1 When enjoying ourselves, we are apt keenly to resent any attempt to us. R "P A 9 Space. 13 10 What any "angel" hopes for. 1 R L L U M O u 11 Hands that are soiled with ____ can sometimes repel even true love. E D 15 Adieu Jumbled. 16 A cynical lover sometimes has to resort to _____ to win a worldly lady. S "l N O E "n T 16 Question. 19 A tyro Thespian usually starts with a part. E D N w A 22 To excessively can destroy the balance of even a strong-minded man. V T O "o S A 28 It is wiser to dismiss than to rely on it. 27 Discontented workers often tend to be ____. will nBianMnH 29 A wise man tread slowly on finding that his reputation has unaccountably . 31 The severing State—abbrev. A R D N S E P 32 Women appear more easily excited than men by 34 In contact with.

E P ^R E 's S *H 38 A prisoner sometimes has to work hard for his . 9 39 A scoundrel often turns a woman's head with of lies. R A O DOWN 2 Handy for a true barbecue. 'h T R 1 E M 3 Concerning. the is woman's fickleness. niin "A E D "I u 4 The more sophisticated a man, more he about n Unless you are Jittery, a should not frighten you. even on a dark, dreary night. 5 ____ "r S E A "s K V M L 6 After marriage, women often discover that their husbands are not as as they seemed, 10 7 Young career girls are apt to dislike men who strive to be with them. R "b "P A 9 Kxlst. 33 10 A woman who a man Into marrying her often regrets it. 1 R L L U M O R 12 We are apt to be irritated by people who find our amusing. u E L m S L 14 The fact that it Is an often intends to mislead us as to its true value. 16 Make 111. is lady for wife. S 1 N O E T 19 A true gentleman apt to prefer a ____ young a 30 20 Sometimes It may take daring and courage to break a . A E D N 25 Today, more than ever, a university is cautious with its . J7 N V T O "o K s A 26 Gourmets highly seasoned food to Insure good eating. 27 Tie Jumbled. "O "R M 28 A town In France taken by the Germans in 1914 and retaken by the French In 1918. the people. 3t 29 ___ A R D N S E P SO Often has deceptive Innocent appearance. 33 Obiter dictum—abbrev. 36 Border state—abbrev. L I E CUT ALONG DOTTED N 36 Bom In San Francisco. How Commpn Sense Sohe^ These Sampte dues OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK: LEGION PUZZLE CONTEST No. 1 Carefully study the reasoning applied in answering these sample questions. By I understand that my entry will be judged on the applying the same type of sound logic, your common sense can help you obtain basis of the best solution submitted by me, and I a prize-winning solution to the contest puzzle. Don't rush—your first Impulse may agree to accept the rules of this contest and the decision of the binding upon me. Enclosed be wrong— think out all possible answers to each question before deciding on judges as is my contribution of $1.00 or more (in cash If of solutions. the one correct answer. doubts remain send in additional sets money order) to the CONTEST COMMITTEE, AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEAD- THE CLUE: THE CLUE: QUARTERS, DEPT. A3, INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

~~A school-boy who makes the most Name It's apf to embiller aging employees when of his— usually is oc- the boss says he wonts to them. cloimed by his fellow students. Address-~~

~~Cify_ -Zone. State- PUZZLE SPACES: PUZZLE SPACES:~~

~~American Legion Post No.- S T BRA~~

1 i 3 E P R E 's S *H At first glance there seems to be two correct The word BRAIN seems to be correct on first 1 solutions-TEST or REST. But using our inspection. But stop to consider, and you R A sense the one correct solution, TEST, common realize there is another possible solution— becomes apparent. Aging employees are more BRAWN. If you will recall who received T R 1 E likely embittered when their boss says he M 12 wants to TEST them than when he stays he the greatest acclaim from fellow schoolmates E "A E D u merely wants to REST them. A TEST would —the captain of the algebra team or the cap- U be a reflection on an aging employee's ability "y tain of the football team— you will understand R S E S A "s K [T to work— something he would surely feel bitter why is the one, logical, common 10 about. A REST, however, carries no such BRAWN answer. letter R A A reflection with it and hence ordinarily would sense The "W" should be 13 12 not result in bitter feeling. placed in the blank space. 1 R L L U M El R 14 Be Sure to Read These Official Rales E L S m L S 1 N O E "N D 1. WHO MAY ENTER: THE CLEAR THINKING PUZZLE CONTEST is open only to residents of the 48 states and the District of Columbia, with the exception of employees of the National Headquarters of The American Legion and members of the armed forces (because of the uncertainty of addresses) and also any person or any member of his family who at any time 'N V T o K S prior to this contest has won FIVE HUNDRED ($500.00) DOLLARS or more, in cash or B goods, in any other puzzle contest. M

2. HOW TO COMPETE: This contest is based upon common sense, clear thinking and logic. There may be several choices as to which word most adequately meets the meaning of the clues. A R D NpT s P Therefore be sure to study the clues carefully. Study the sample solutions provided for your guidance. Our judges will determine the correct solution on the basis of common sense, clear thinking and logic, and in addition, on the basis of the judgment, skill and taste employed by E P R E 's S 'h

the contestant. Words must be used in accordance with the meanings and definitions given for 1 them in standard dictionaries. R A O to 3. THE PRIZES: Total of THIRTY THOUSAND ($30,000.00) DOLLARS in cash and goods T R 1 E shall be awarded as follows: H M FIRST PRIZE $10,000.00 NEXT TEN PRIZES (each) 30" Admiral TV sets E "A E D "I u SECOND PRIZE ...... 2,500.00 NEXT 200 PRIZES (each) IS or o Ford Station Wagon 1952 Remington Rand electric razors nationally R S E S A "s K V M L lot (he election of the contestant) advertised at $27.50 each, 20 T"'" "'^E ''OOO OO NEXT 250 PRIZES (each) R A "b > A FOURTH PRIZE 1,000.00 Telechron Personollty electric clocks os adver- 71 13

NEXT SIX PRIZES (each) . . 500.00 tised in Life at $11.95 each. 1 R L L U M O R 33 4. HOW TO ENTER: For each contribution of ONE ($1.00) DOLLAR in cash or postal rnoney "e S m I order only, the contestant may submit one, two or three completed entries. The maximum number of entries shall not exceed twenty-seven (27) for each contest. The contest will run S 1 N O E "N T for four (4) months. These restrictions shall in no way prevent the donor from contributing more than NINE ($9.00) DOLLARS to the Welfare and Service Program. AU solutions must 30 E be submitted on official entries (or official printed puzzles.) The date of entry shall be deter- W A D N mined by the postmark on the envelope containing the entry; (but in no way does The American Legion assume the responsibility for delivery of mail. ) Contestants are required to inform "N V T O "o K S A The American Legion of any change of address. All entries become the property of the sponsor and will not be returned. All entries must be In ink. Pencilled, mutilated or altered words will mrm disqualify the contestant for that particular puzzle only. Only one prize can be won by a contestant in each contest. In no event will the contest committee enter into any correspondence R S "h E p with a contestant except as specifically provided herein. A D N 1

5. IF THERE ARE TIES: Five numbered additional tie-breaking puzzles will be sent to the tied 5 contestants. The contest judges will first judge the solutions to tie-breaking puzzle number one E P ^R E S S H and so on to number five, if needed. Should the tie-breaking puzzles result in additional ties, 9 new sets of puzzles (subject to the same rules) will be sent until all ties are broken. Each R A O contestant will be required to submit his solutions to each set of tie-breaking puzzles within 1 fourteen ( 14) days from the date of mailing. The tie-breakers will be similar in form but more difficult than the original puzzle. T R 1 M E

6. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS OF CONTEST: On entering the contest each contestant represents U that solutions submitted under these rules are his individual effort without assistance from any person, not a member of his or her immediate family, and that such solutions were neither R E S "a "s K VIm L purchased nor obtained by collusion from any person, group or source. Affidavits to this effect will be required of the winners. The American Legion will not be responsible for entries A delayed or lost in the mail, either from the Legion to the contestant or from the contestant n 1 Bom to the Legion. The American Legion will not be responsible for damage or destruction of solutions resulting from an act of God, strikes or war. 1 rT L L U M O R

7. DECISION OF THE JUDGES: The contestant agrees upon entering the contest that the decision of the judges shall be final. And that all matters pertaining to the actual conduct of the fontest, the determination of the wirmers, the time limits involved, and any and ell measures utilized to "l N E "N T determine that the solutions were the efforts of the contestant himself and to guarantee s o equality of opportunity in competing for the prizes shall be in the sole control of the judges, and that their decision in all of these matters shall be final and conclusive. A E D N 31 8. IN THE EVENT OF ANY DISPUTES: The contestant agrees upon entering this contest, that in V T O "o K S A the event of any dispute, disagreement or litigation arising thereunder, the Laws of the State of Indiana shall govern. No suit shall be instituted with respect to a claim for a prize unless notice in writing, stating in clear language the grounds for such claim has been sent by registered mail to: JWLM The Contest Committee National Headquarters, American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana within R D N s H E P two ( 2 ) weeks after the A announcements of the winners. m

9. WHEN TO ENTER: All entries to The American Legion Puzzle Contest No. 1 must be post- marked prior to midnight June 15th, 1952 and received no later than July 5th, 1952 at: DOTTED LINE THE CONTEST COMMITTEE, National Headquarters, American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana. ^CUT ALONG —

~~Every dollar You Donate Helps Support Our Great Cause...~~

~~THE AMERICAN LEGION WELFARE AND SERVICE PROGRAM~~

With each dollar or more you donate, you The American Legion Welfare and Service Program supports gain a chance to win $10,000—and, at the all of these vital activities. Our responsibility to the Vet and same time, lend a helping hand to hospital- the community in which he lives has never ended! Your help ized vets ... to needy children ... to widows is needed now—send your donation and entry form to the and orphans of servicemen killed in action Legion Contest Committee without delay. ... to the proper education of your children ... to the exposure of dangerous Communist elements in America and countless other ALL THESE IMPORTANT PROGRAMS BENEFIT important jobs The Legion's Welfare and Service to more than 100,000 diiabled veterans with claims each year Service Program is doing in your community. • Assistance to widows and orphans of veterans and servicemen • Regular,

So don't wait! You may win a fortune in cash, a luxurious government-approved inspection of care and treatment of patients In Station big screen television set, 1952 Ford Wagon, a Admiral veterans hospitals • Social ond welfare work for needy children * Cood- a famous Remington Rand electric shaver citiienshlp training for youth • National program of boys' baseball, with —any of the 470 big prizes may be yours more than 1,000,000 participating * Promotion of American history and when you donate a single dollar or more to Constitution study through contests for school children • College scholarship our great cause. Remember, we must never awards * Promotion of Boy Scout work • National marksmanship training relax in the tremendous task of attracting • Providing expert advice and counsel on veterans affairs and national funds for our programs of VETERAN'S REHABILITATION, CHILD WEL- security to government and government agencies * Promotion of better FARE, NATIONAL SECURITY and national security * Study and exposure of dangerous communist and • AMERICANISM. Every contribution to fascist elements in America And many others . . .

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You don't have to be an ex- If you alone successfully An additional one dollar or This new Puzzle Contest pert! It's fun to enter this solve it, you'll win the more donation gives you an gives you a chance to win simple entertaining contest $10,000 First Prize. In case opportunity to submit 3 more huge prizes while supporting that lets your plain everyday of ties, additional puzzles solutions to the one puzzle a worthy cause. Every time common sense help you come similar to the original in in the contest. If in doubt you enter, your donation up with the right answers. form but more difficult—will about any answers, better carries forward the urgently Always remember that you be submitted until all ties your chances with additional needed work of the Ameri- will be judged on the basis are broken. entries. can Legion's Welfare and of your best solution. Service Program.

~~CONTEST COMMITTEE AMERICAN LEGION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Dept. A3, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Veterans APRIL, 1952~~

~~A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU~~

~~Application must be made for the exemption provided.~~

Vets who have GI guarantees or loans on their homes . . . Use Treasury Department Form No. 755, obtainable remain personally responsible for the payment of the loan from the office of your Collector of Internal Revenue, and if they sell and let the purchasers assume payments on the file with the Collector before the event takes place. . . . Get authorization for holding the enter- loan. . . . VA warns that WW2 vets should not sell their tax exemption before property without making certain that their interests are tainment — otherwise the Post or Unit may be stuck with a bill. fully protected. . . . The best way to do that is to have the big tax purchaser pay cash or arrange a loan in his own name. . . . Failure to follow this plan has caused a lot of vets a lot of grief. Hoover Commission proposal to transfer the Selective

Property is more easily sold with the favorable 4 per- Service system from its independent status to the Bureau cent GI mortgage remaining in effect — a factor that some- of Labor was rejected by the Senate Committee on Execu-

times influences the selling price. . . . However, vets selling tive Expenditures on February 20. . . . The bill was viewed property with the GI loan intact run the risk of later having unfavorably at a sub-committee meeting before considera-

to pay all or part of the debt resulting from the default of tion by the full committee. . . . The vote of disapproval was the new owner. ... It works this way: Should the new unanimous. owner of the property fail to keep up the mortgage payments,

the holder of the GI mortgage can foreclose. . . . When the proceeds of the sale resulting from foreclosure do not cover Draft-eligible conscientious objectors were ordered by the amount of the GI loan outstanding, the difference may President Truman, on February 21, to work 24 consecutive

remain a debt against the vet. . . . The VA has to pay the months in civilian jobs approved by their draft boards. . . . holder of the mortgage for the guaranteed portion of the This order affects about 8,200 men registered as conchies. debt. . . . The vet in whose name the loan stands will then owe the Government the net amount of that payment, plus

interest. Controller General Warren has rejected all claims filed certain Under conditions , VA might agree to release by civilian employes at Army and Navy installations for the veteran's liability and substitute the purchaser who extra pay on legal holidays during WW2. . . . The General

~~assumed the debt, without impairing the guarantee. . . . This Accounting Office has received more than 50,000 claims~~

is . done generally to cure or avoid default. . . Vets faced as a result of a Supreme Court ruling upholding gratuity with difficulties of probable foreclosure on properties they pay and other holiday benefits to Government Printing have sold with the GI mortgage in effect should consult Office employes. . . . Basis for rejection of other claims of their Legion Service Officer, or get advice from the nearest civilians is that Army and Navy have no wage agreement VA Regional Office. with their employes similar to the GPO accord. . . . Warren suggested that Army and Navy workers stop filing claims "to avoid needless expenditure of public funds." Posts, Units and Voitures may be able to save a con- siderable amount of money for their treasuries, charitable and welfare work by observing the provisions of Section 1701 Continuous follow-up from the office of State Auditor of the Internal Revenue Code. . . . This section provides Benjamin O. Cooper, Springfield, Illinois, during the past for tax exemption on admission tickets to entertainments three years (using this Vetletter as one of the media) has and events given for religious, educational or charitable reduced the unclaimed Illinois WWl and WW2 bonus checks purposes, or for the exclusive benefit of a church, educational in total amount of undelivered money from more than institution, charitable or veterans organization. . . . Specifi- $300,000 to approximately $40,000. . . . But Auditor Cooper cally, the exemption clause applies to The American Legion, still has unclaimed — or returned to his office as undelivered — its "Posts, or organization of "war veterans, or auxiliary 76 WW2 checks ranging in amount from $50 to $900 He units or societies or any such Posts or organizations, if also has 120 WWl checks with a range of $6 to $300. . . .

such Posts, Units or societies are organized in the United Illinois vets — if you made application for either WWl or States, or any of its possessions, and if no part of the net WW2 State bonus and failed to get your check— get in touch earnings inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or with State Auditor Cooper. ... He may have some good individual." news for you.

~~41 GYRENES MAY RE-UP AT OLD GRADE t trend to get away — when feasible — from the notarized affi-~~

Marine Corps has modified its rules to permit enlisted davit, the change meets objections of medical men who, Regulars and Reserves who have separated themselves from while not opposed to the principle of the affidavit, did pro- the Corps, to re-enlist within one year without loss of test the time -waste in hunting up a notary. ... In making certificate as to the validity of the statement, the doctor rank. . . . Previously a brief separation resulted in loss of

rank. ... It is believed this softening of the rule will induce must specify whether his evidence is based upon office records or memory. more combat-experienced men to re-enlist. . . . Also, the Corps plans to obtain 1,000 commissioned officers from the enlisted ranks, drawn from senior non-commissioned officers, SUMMER TRAINING FOR RESERVISTS: and from the qualified younger men who can meet the Army has announced that 190,000 Reserve Officers and

standards. . . . Some 85 percent of Marine Corps officers enlisted men will have field training and at Army schools have had enlisted service. this year. . . . 160,000 have been allocated for 15 days of active duty for training on a mandatory basis. ... Of this DENTISTS TO BE CALLED TO ACTIVE SERVICEt number, 44,000 will be officers, and 105,000 enlisted Reserv- During the month of April, 335 dentists will be called ists. . . . Another 11,000 Reserve officers holding individual to the colors, according to a Defense Department announce- mobilization designations will get the 15 -day mandatory ment. ... Of these, 85 will go to the Army; 200 to the Navy, training tours. ... In addition, 2,000 recruits in the ORC

and 50 to the Air Force. . . . Dentists to be inducted are without prior military service are authorized to serve a tour Priority I registrants participated as students in the who with an active Army training division. . . . 15 -day tours of Army Specialized Training Program, or similar Navy summer field training, other active duty, or attendance at program, and those who were deferred from service during school are authorized for 15,000 officers of the Volunteer WW2 who have had less than 90 days in the Armed Forces. Reserve.

72 SAVE SOLDIER: YOU HAVE HOURS TO A NATURALIZATION FOR ALIEN GIs: Seventy-two hours after you give a pint of blood so House has passed a bill (H. R. 401) to expedite natural- badly needed by the Army in Korea, you may be saving the ization of aliens serving with the Armed Forces since be-

life of a wounded man. . . . Almost within minutes after ginning of Korean hostilities. . . . About 58,000 aliens are the blood is taken it starts on its way to the place it is now in uniform, says Representative Francis E. Walter,

~~needed most. . . . First stop is a West Coast processing Pennsylvania, sponsor of bill. ... If enacted by Senate,~~

~~laboratory. . . . Thirty-eight hours later it arrives in Japan. measure would cover aliens in Armed Forces from June 25,~~

~~. . . From there it is rushed by air to field hospitals and 1950, to June 30, 1955.~~

~~mobile surgical units near the front lines in Korea. . . .~~

Within minutes after a soldier is hit by a bullet or shell LEGION LAUNCHES ''OPERATION VICTORY": frag, an Army Medical Corps man is usually at his side. . . . The wounded soldier is given first aid and sped to a battalion Legion has launched "Operation Victory," an aggressive

~~station. . . . There your blood— given only three days before counter-offensive in Congress to save the VA from dismem-~~

~~— is transfused into the soldier's veins. . . . That pint of berment, and the entire veterans' program from destruction.~~

~~blood might well be the difference between life and death...... Threat comes from the Hoover Commission reorganiza-~~

~~So, no appeal could be stronger — the need was never greater tion bills, which if passed by Congress will strip the VA and~~

— give a pint of blood to save a life. reduce it to a mere "benefits section;" destroy veterans' preference in Government employ; combine all VA hospitals PAY FOR CORRECTION OF RECORD SLOWED: in a general group under a Department of Health; set up an insurance corporation, and wipe out VA hospital con- Service personnel and veterans who have filed claims

struction service. . . . Legion vigorously opposes the bills for back pay under Public Law 220, 82nd Congress — which affecting veterans which, in the name of economy, would allows payment following correction of military or naval create new bureaus and divisions; scatter the vet service records — have a wait for their money ahead of them. . . . over a multitude of agencies — in fact the Legion firmly Claims are being processed, but are bound by the usual red believes, after long study and analysis of the present system, tape of governmental adjudication machinery. . . . PL 220 that no real economies would be effected, while service to authorizes heads of military departments to make such veterans would be sadly crippled. payments, provided payment has not been made under a National Commander Donald R. Wilson has issued a private law. . . . Also excluded are claims for which the ringing call to arms to the combined strength of 4,000,000 petitioner might subsequently become entitled under VA Legionnaires, Auxiliares and Forty and Fighters to add laws and regulations. . . . All such claims filed are sent to their protest to the Hoover Report bills as they affect the field pay offices and are then returned to the Washington veterans. . . . "Operation Victory" cannot fail if the voice Finance Office for settlement.

of the veteran is heard in Washington. . . . These measures vitally affect every Legionnaire — every veteran, present VA CUTS A BIT OF RED TAPE: and prospective. . . Organize your Posts, Units and Voitures

~~VA regulations now permit "certification" rather than for "Operation Victory". . . . Write your Congressman and~~

"notarization," of written testimony in support of service- Senators today. . . . Tell them you are opposed to the Hoover connection for purposes of veterans' benefits. . . . The change Report bills that affect veterans — dismemberment of VA, affects all lay or medical written testimony submitted by, veterans preference, U. S. Department of Health, Veterans' or in behalf of, a claimant to prove entitlement to VA Insurance Corporation, and VA Hospital Construction service -connected benefits. . . . Marking something of a Service.

~~42 Which bird do< is your choice ?~~

~~ENGLISH SEHER POINTER~~

~~SETTER vs. POINTER: Upland game hunters can argue for hours about the relative merits of the setter and the pointer—especially where quail and pheasant are the game.~~

~~The setter is a long-haired dog . . . exceptionally good in brushyand briarycountry.While the pointer~~

~~is a short-haired dog, ideal for more open country.~~

Both dogs have similar styles of hunting, and the sportsman who favors one over the other will never let his dog down in an argument. That's why it's a good idea to try both dogs and make up your own mind. After all, you're the expert, and the best dog for you is the dog that works best for you.

YOU'RE THE EXPERT in choosing whiskey, too! Whiskies difFer in flavor and in freedom from harshness. That's why we invite you to compare the taste of Calvert with any other whiskey — regardless of price or type.

~~MAKE THIS 60-SECOND TASTE TEST: Just ask a friend or barman to pour Vi oz. of Calvert into a glass, and the same amount of any other whiskey~~

~~into another—without telling you which is which. Compare each one for smoothness, flavor and freedom from bite, burn or sting. Then pick the one that really tastes better to you.~~

~~Here's why we believe you'll pick Calvert: It is blended to your taste ... to a taste detennined by a "Consumer Jury" of thousands of folks like you.~~

~~However, if you still prefer another brand, then that's the whiskey for you. Fair enough?~~

~~Calrert^ Challenges Comparison~~

~~Mith any whiskey. . . at any price !~~

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~~Inside This Kitchen A Killer Had Come To Call (Continued from page 25)~~

"If Ed's coming home, he should be and looked out into the night. "Nobody ELMER LEE HAGGARD here any minute now," she said. "I'll go there," she said with a sigh, ^and re- MURDERER turn on the back floodlight for him." turned to her chair. STILL AT LARGE. "I wouldn't do that," the black haired BUT THERE WAS SOMEONE "I just saw him last Friday," said Mr. man said. "You'll just be wastin' elec- THERE. Sweeney. "I was in Hennepin and he tricity." Ed Sweeney had felt bad that morn- showed me his pistol, a big German

"I suppose you are right," the school ing when he left McKinney, and as the Luger. I told him he'd better put that teacher said. "Well, there's no sense in day wore on, had become sicker and thing up or he'd get into trouble. Looks sitting here in the kitchen. Let's turn on sicker. His stomach felt weighted with like he didn't take my advice." the heat in the living room and we'll lead and his head throbbed like a steam "Naw," said the cashier, "and the go in there and listen to the news. pore feller he killed was as innocent Haggard objected again. "There's no as a lamb." use heatin' up that big room; besides Mr. Sweeney rubbed his troubled we've been listenin' to the radio in the stomach. "How did it happen?" car all day. We'd rather just sit here "It seems that Haggard got into a in the kitchen and talk, if it's all the fight with a blacksmith Saturday night same with you." So they did. in a beer hall at Wynnewood, Haggard They had been talking for about five was getting the worst of it and his red- minutes when all ears perked up. A headed girl friend, a Mrs. Mildred sound came from the direction of the Dejackimo, got into the fracas too. She driveway — like the brakes of a car. was hurtin' the blacksmith, gougin' him Oreta had heard her husband's Dodge and everything, when a young feller by sedan come into the driveway a thou- the name of John Baugh pulled her off, sand times. It sounds like Ed, she said said he was goin' to see to it the fight to herself, and waited expectantly to was fair. Baugh was a veteran," she hear the car door open and close again, added. but there was no other sound. "What happened then?" "Is that him?" Mr. Haggard asked, "The law come in 'bout that time and remaining at his chair. His partner stopped the fight. Haggard told the looked at herself in the kitchen mirror cops he wasn't mad at the blacksmith; and began to powder her face. engine. He had made several calls in the that it was just a friendly tussle; then There were two windows on the side oil fields and had stopped for some gas he and the girl left." The cashier closed of the driveway, one beside the table, in the little town of Ada, Oklahoma. As the cash register and held the newspaper next to Mr. Haggard, and the other he was paying the bill, a pretty cashier close to her bosom. "About fifteen min- about the length of an ironing board pointed to a man's picture on the front utes later, Haggard and this Dejackimo toward the front of the house. The page of an Oklahoma newspaper. woman came back to the place, and Venetian blinds on both were drawn "You know that man?" walked in without sayin' a word. Baugh tight to keep out the cold. Mr. Sweeney looked closer. "I'll say was standing at the bar with his back Mrs. Sweeney arose from the table I do. That's Elmer Lee Haggard; to the door. Haggard pulled out a pistol and walked hurriedly to the forward worked for me until couple o' months and shot eight times. Seven of the bul- window. She pushed two of the slats ago." His voice trailed off to a whisper lets caught Mr. Baugh in the back. The apart, wiped a peep hole in the steam as he read the headlines: pore boy never had any idea what hit him. He was dead when he struck the floor." "Is Haggard s'posed to be around here anywhere?" asked Sweeney. "Could be. All the cops in South Oklahoma have been lookin' for hmi for two nights and two days now and they haven't had a lead 'cept Mrs. De- jackimo. The woman that keeps her two babies says she called her on the telephone last night and told her she was goin' on a long trip." Ed Sweeney climbed into his automobile and sat for a moment. His stomach hurt worse than it had all day. He thought about seeing a doctor in Ada, but decided he had better head for home. It was only a few hours' drive and if he could make it to the Wysong clinic, they would know what to do for him better than the doctors in Ada. Mr. Sweeney had arrived in McKin- ney about 4:30 P.M. He was in such agony that he went straight to the clinic. A doctor administered a shot to ease the pain, then proceeded to give

44 * American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 him a thorough examination. When he left the chnic at 7:15, he drove out to Heard Street, turned left, proceeded two blocks and turned into his own driveway. His headlights picked up a strange automobile, covered with mud. He looked at the license plate and his heart stopped beating. The killer and the redhead were in there with his wife, waiting for him to step into the house. Ed felt of his billfold. He had $150 needed in it. Haggard was "hot." He money to reach the border. Sweeney thought of the big German Luger pistol; he thought of poor John Baugh. He knew that whatever the killer wanted of him, he would not hesitate to get, by w hatever means w ere necessary. Sweene>''s brain was still fuzz>' from the dope, but the sight of Haggard's car sitting there in his own driveway pumped fresh blood into his brain. He w as faced with a desperate situation. He shut off the car lights to think it over. The two-hundred-pound man saw- lights in the kitchen windows, ^^'hat was going on behind those blinds? Had Oreta been hurt? Was she dead or alive? Ma) be she didn't know Haggard was a killer! He thought about driving over to the Humble filling station and calling Haggard on the telephone; he tire would tcll Haggard he had a flat and ask him to come over and see him there. A thousand plans shot through his wearied mind but none of them seemed to work. "I must get help," he decided, "before 1 do anything." Sweeney released the handbrake and his automobile rolled backward into the street. He waited for several seconds, his eyes pinned on the light in the back of the house. Nothing happened, so he started the motor and w hen he was in the second block, sw itched on his lights.

biside the kitchen all was tranquil. The man w as talking. "My father was a "LONG DISTANCE, PLEASE!" as many teletypewriter messages as mighty fine man. Just as good as any lighted a in 1940. Millions of miles of Long preacher 1 ever knew." He Seems that's what everyone is say- cigarette and held the wooden match Distance pathways have been added — ing these days — in factories, offices, in his hand until it burned dow n to his in wires, in cables, and radio-relay. army camps and navy yards ... on by fingers; then quickly flipped it, catch- farms, in homes, in shipyards and ing the burnt end, with the dexterity of Even that is not enough. More of a magician. arsenals. everything is being built as fast as we

"I remember when 1 was seven years For America is doing a big job in a can get materials. old, just a little critter. I swiped a pearl- hurry. To speed things up and get handled knife from the country store. For America's defense is on the done, the nation depends on It was a beaut, and when father saw it, work lines, and telephone people are get- he hit the ceilin'. 1 thought he was Long Distance. So, it's "full speed tino the message through. behind, but he had gonna tear up my ahead " for thousands of telephone better sense than that." men and women, too. VOL'R LONG DISTANCE CALL "What did he do to you?" asked the WILL CO THROUGH FASTER, redhead. They're putting through four times IF YOU CALL BY NUMBER. "He put me out in the middle of the as many Long Distance calls and twice big road the next morning and made me walk four miles to the store and return the knife, and let me tell you, that taught me a lesson 'bout right and SYSTEM wrong that has stayed with me longer BELL TELEPHONE

than anything I ever learned in a The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • 45 " church." He pulled up his blue jeans just waiting to collect some money from the sheriff ," Ed told her. "Oon't w orry." and looked at the smoke rising slowly you when you came in." She grasped "Well, you can trust in them if you to the top of the room. "I've said a her neck with both hands. "I knew I want to, but I'm going to find out my- lotta things in my life that I shouldn't should ha\"e gone over there." self." a said, and left a lotta things undone Oreta's mother paused for a moment. Mrs. Sweeney walked into her bed- that I shoulda done, but from that day room and picked up the telephone. to this, I've never done anj thing real Haggard followed and stood in the bad, anything I'd be shamed fer my doorway. She could see her breath w hen father to know 'bout." she said "Hello." Just then the telephone rang in the bedroom. "That you, daughter?" "Yes, Mamma, w hat's on your mind?" "Oh, nothing in particular. I was just Outside the kitchen, things were mov- calling to see if you had heard anything ing fast. S\\ ecney had gone straight to from Ed as yet." Sheriff Levi Bradley's office in the "No, I haven't heard a thing, but we're courthouse. A long distance call was looking for him any minute." put through to the sheriff in Pauls Val- "Is it cold over there?" the mother ley, Oklahoma. asked. "Would you like to have a man by "Cold!" shuddered Oreta. "Can't you the name of Elmer Lee Haggard?" hear my teeth chattering?" Sheriff Brawley began. "Well, what are you doing to keep "I shore would," said the Oklahoman. warm? "Everybody in this country's looking sitting in the kitchen talking for him." "Just and hovering over the stove." "Well, he's here in McKinney and I "Well, I'll let you go now. Just think we can take him all right." thought I'd call." "Better be careful; he's trigger happy "All right, Mamma. Goodbye." and so's the redhead with him." "Okay," said the Texan. "I'm goin' Haggard preceded Mrs. Sw eeney in- out after them in a few minutes, and "I can't get that report card back for to the kitchen, and the conversation

yon . . . yon ga% e nie 'A' in I'll call you collect as soon as I've come an something picked up again. This time the redhead and they're still mailing it to relatives." back." took the lead. She told her hostess about AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE While Sheriff Bra\\ Iey was calling his her two little children by a former hus- men together, Ed Sweeney paid a visit band, how cute they were and how- to Oreta's mother and sister, who lived then continued, "W^hat do you suppose much she hated to be away from them. together on the other side of tow n. they're doing with her now?" Her lis- "I've been able to travel around with "God in heaven!" the mother ex- teners struggled to repl)', but said noth- Elmer Lee for the past year," she said, claimed when she heard the news. "You ing. "We've got to do something to get "but course I won't be able to much mean Oreta's in the same house with a her away from that horrible man." longer. The baby'll be here in Alarch murderer?" She opened the front door "Don't worry, Mom," said the son- or April, then I'll have to go in retire- and started across the threshold, but in-law, placing his hand upon her back, ment agin. But," she said, "I don't min' suddenly turned and faced Oreta's hus- "the sheriff's getting a posse together too much. I like little babies." She placed band and sister. Her face twitched with right now. I know he'll be able to get freshly manicured fingers over her excitement. "Oreta called me from Oreta out without any trouble atall." mate's hand and looked at him through school this afternoon and told me about "Yes, but how can we know she's half-closed eyes. those people being over there. She said all right this minuter" "\A^hat y' got up there in the attic?" they were a real nice couple and were "You'll just have to trust to God and Mr. Haggard asked his hostess, without No other way of shaving... no other shaving cream gives you closer, cleaner, longer-lasting shaves... and is so good for your skin!

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4g • The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 bothering to apologize for changing the subject. "Oh, just a lot of stuff," Orefa said. "How many rooms are there up- stairs?" "Two." "What y' have in them?" "We rent one room to a young lady, and the other is a spare." "How much money do y' keep in the house?" "We don't keep any." "Do you have any jewelry?" "Not any more than you see on my fingers." She held out her left hand and displayed two rings. Haggard looked at the rings thoughtfully, then continued: "Do you and Ed keep separate bank accounts?" "Yes, we do. He has to keep one for his business, you know." The telephone rang again, and as before Haggard escorted Mrs. Sweeney to her bedroom and waited. "If it's Ed," he said, "lemnie talk to him." But it was Orcta's mother again. She liad forgotten to ask if her daughter had gone to the clinic that afternoon. Mrs. Sweeney gave her the information she wanted and hung up. AVhen they were seated around the kitchen table. Haggard resumed his questioning. "How much money do you make at >'our job?" He was being a little too personal, thought the school teacher, but he was courteous, and after all they had to have somctiiing to talk about. She would never sec him again anyway. So she told him. "Do )'ou invest >'our money or do you let your husband do it fer you?" Mrs. Sweeney did not answer. Instead her ear turned toward the garage. "Did you hear a rattling sound out there?"

"I believe I did hear something," said the black haired man. "What did it sound like to you?" "Could have been the door to the deep freeze closet," she suggested. "I'll go out and see." "Don't bother," Mr. Haggard told her. "My hat's in there and if you locked it up, I might forget and leave it." The conversation became slower and slower. The two women were beginning to show signs of weariness and were leaning heavilj' upon the yellow metal table. The red hands on the wall clock had just moved into the nine o'clock position w hen Haggard straight- ened in his chair. "Sounds like a car outside." He looked at his hostess. "See if it's Ed." iMrs. Sweeney crossed the room and peeked through the blinds again. "I see the dim outline of a car," she announced, "but it's in the other driveway. They've had a lot of sickness over there. It's probably the doctor."

The Americon Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • When Airs. S\\eene>' turned around, a deputy and a state highw ay patrolman Haggard was standing betw een her and brushed past. "Where are they?" the the table. "Look," he said, "you don't sheriff demanded, in muffled tones. iHisAIADDIN have to stay up if you're gettin' sleepy. Mrs. Sweeney pointed toward tiie You can go to bed any time you want kitchen and the men tiptoed down the 5-ROOM HOUSE to." He was solicitous, but his voice car- hall. Haggard and Mrs. Dejackimo were ried a note of firmness. "But .Mildred seated at the kitchen table talking to and me are gonna sta\' up until each fREiGHT n974 PAID Ed other when suddenly a voice of comes, if we have to sit up here all steel filled the room. night." "I'm Levi Brawley," announced the For the first time all evening, Oreta law -enforcement officer. "I'm sheriff of became frightened. She could not un- Collin County. You can consider your-

dress and go to bed \\ hen these people selves under arrest." were in the kitchen. They had acted Haggard turned in his chair. His head nice, but after all they w ere total strang- hunched forward. His cold black eyes ers. She was still struggling for an an- riveted upon the ten-gallon hat, then swer when Mildred spoke. dropped to the holster at the sheriff's SAVE 4 PROFITS ON LUMBER, "Wasn't that somebody callin' your right side. His hands clenched convul- MILLWORK, HARDWARE & LABOR name?" She looked at Mrs. Sweeney. sively. The Aladdin Rcadi-Cut System of Construction "I didn't hear anyone. Where did it Sheriff Brawley remembered the ad- enables you to save 18?S lumber waste and up to 30% labor costs, and guarantees you will receive come from?" vice from Pauls \"alle>\ His right hand the highest quality KILN DRY lumber and a "I couldn't tell." swept down and up again, and Hag- COMPLETE house as specified. You can buv YOUR COMPLETE HOUSE, ALL IN ONE SHIPMENT, All three listened. There was no sound gard found himself looking into the cold direct from our mills and save the in-between profits. save a grinding noise that came from muzzle of a fort\"-fi\"e automatic. BUILD IT YOURSELF—AND PAY the kitchen clock. At 9 P.M. Sheriff Brawley placed a YOURSELF THOSE HIGH WAGES "Oreta." A voice called faintly. It collect call for Sheriff Claude B. Sw in- You get all the lumber cut to fit by fast machinery- production line methods—marked and numbered, seemed to come from the rear of the ncy at Pauls \'alle\', Oklahoma. ready to erect practically without a saw; the use of house. "You can come on dow n in the morn- also siding, flooring, trim, all millwork, doors, windows, mouldings, glass, hardware, nails, roof- Mrs. Sweeney opened the back door; ing and pick up Mr. Haggard and Mrs. ing, paint and complete drawings with instructions. Many Aladdin home buyers erect their own houses. took tM'o steps onto the back porch, but Deiackimo," said the man from Texas. ALADDIN HOUSES ARE NOT PREFABRICATED saw no one. She came back in, closed "Did >'ou have an>- trouble taking the door and walked to the front of the them?" house. Haggard and his partner re- "Naw. It was easy. One of our school- mained in the kitchen. teachers was holding them for us, and Oreta opened the front door, and be- all w c had to do was go b.v and ring the

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Anicricun correspondents liavc been kicked and beaten; photographers have had their cameras smashed. This writer has been present at one riot after another where poHce have turned upon AUied and German newsjiien instead of communists. And never a word of objection from U. S. authorities, although the American press corps has made repeated protests. In several cases the offending policemen have been photographed while engaged in their savagery; they can be clearly identified. Never, though, has a single one of them been publicly reprimanded or disci- plined. The U. S. officials refuse to in- tercede because, as one American Pub- lic Safety officer explained: "We don't want to make them (the police) angry. If we disiicartcn them, they might not stand by us when we need them." How gravely such incidents can com- promise American interests was demon- strated a short time ago in the death of Look! Another man switched to Kentucky Club—» a communist rail official in West Ber- the lin. Police uncovered a number of thoroughbred of pipe tobaccos propaganda posters in the station of which he had charge. According to the original West Police reports, he col- DO IT TODAY! SWITCH TO lapsed and died of a heart attack brought on by the excitement. The T U. S. commandant. Brig. Gen. Lemuel "••« 1 f Matthewson (who holds the record of never having given a single press conference or interview during his tenure) KENTUCKY CLUB promptly dispatched a note to the So- viets, rejecting their claims that the rail Notice how much better your pipe tastes — how official had been beaten to death. much fresher your mouth feels when you switch to Smugly Alatthcwson sat back while Kentucky Club. Send for free catalog showing fine the Russians harangued about American pipes and how to get them at big savings. Mail "gangster methods." Then, at the height Pouch Tobacco Co., Wheeling, West Va. Dept. 67 of the furore, the police admitted that in fact the communist had been slugged by the police officer in charge of the expedition, and for no justifiable reason. Their new testimony handed the $900 IN SPARE TIME 250 Ft. 3 PLY NYLON That's what L. H. Mix did in a Soviets a whopping propaganda victory, 45 II}. test year! You can malie uiJ to $3 or an while the U. S. looked as foolish as a $4 hour sharpening saws with FLIES P&K Fly Reel Level Fly Line 225 Ft. the FoJey Saw Filer. Steady cash ASSORTED Liteweifiht Size E or D 3 PLY NYLON business, no canvassing. Start 10 lor St. 00 3.1.00 75 Ft. $1. 00 llOll). tC! Mack Sennett comic in a pratfall. spare time — Free Book shows BRAIDED NYLON FISHING NES

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gests that either we are afraid of an- American . . . We gave it as a present." tagonizing Russia, or that we are re- While churches in America cannot SOME STYLES „ issues TO SIZE 10 serving these to bargain with obtain priorities for steel, a new night- WIDTHS AAA TO EEEE Russia for some settlement at German club has been put up in Berlin — an in- expense. Whichever may be correct, describably luxurious affair, with a pri- neither is calculated to make friends and vate telephone and pneumatic tubes Knapp Shoes win influence. connecting each table, and a floor-show 2. /\1ilitarily: We are pouring hun- consisting of multi-colored fountains dreds of thousands of troops into Ger- cascading 2,000 gallons of water a min- many, and are building bases and in- ute in an exquisite geyser ballet. At the stallations for them at huge cost. Yet time, than half of all Ber- The size you need ... in the styles you want same more ... at factory-direct prices for Men and we have not decided where — or, for liners are now buying in the Russian Women! Over a hundred smart styles. For that matter, \\ hether — we are ultimately stores across town, where the currency Dress, Sport and Work ... all with Knapp preparing to defend Germany and exchange rate allows them prices a half Cushioned Comfort. Permanent record kept in sectors. of your size and style. Mail coupon today West Europe. to a fourth those the Western for free style folder and the name of your Our officials reassure the Germans A visitor whom I took recently to the local Knapp Shoe Counselor. that we are going to guarantee their Soviet sector saw a queue of haggard, country's borders; but the question of bent women waiting to buy potatoes. <<*4*^_FOR_FREE COLORFUL FOLDER how is never mentioned. One week it "Those poor people under the commu- KNAPP BROTHERS SHOE MFG. CORP. is going to be along the Rhine, the next, nists!" he exclaimed. Actually, they

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if it Africa. sectors, driven to the Russian shops by Name (print) may be Spain or North We exhort the Germans to align themselves what can and must be regarded as an Address with us, but never tell them what they indifference toward their welfare. City State can expect in terms of security for Unemployment in West Berlin is at themselves, their homes and families. a staggeringly high level. One of the

52 * The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 reasons for it is that factories cannot terials were sent from Berlin and ^Vest Commission finally ordered counter- export their products from the city be- Germany to Russia, the satellite nations measures against ECA firms in\olved cause of Russian obstructions along the of East Europe and Red China. These in illegal trade with the East. Nothing superhighway connecting the city with goods, all vital to Russia's w ar economy, is done to firms trading legally, for the West and along the waterways. consisted of generators, dynamos, ma- U. S. officials say this is necessar>' for Once when the autobahn was blocked, the country's economy. the U. S. ran a truck convoy through A communist official whom 1 have the Soviet control barriers. It was dra- known for a long time told me bluntly: matically successful. It was never at- "Without the materials you in the \Vest tempted again; the barriers are still have sent, our industries might have there. collapsed long ago. You will be able We cannot keep Berlin's lifeline free, to evaluate some of the help you hav^e but American officials keep reassuring given us only after another war — as Berliners that American troops and you were able to do in the case of your their dozen World War II tanks will pre-Pearl Harbor shipments of scrap defend the city against the 25 Russian and oil to Japan." divisions massed outside. Can we ex- Such incidents could be cited end- pect the Germans to take that seriously? lessly, for more pages than in a year's Recently with American concurrence, issues of this magazine. All together the huge Hermann Goering steel works they add up to one thing: the picture at Salzgitter was refused permission to of administrators who are complicating resume production, although it is des- our job as a nation today by grievous perately needed by the West. One of inadequacy and inefficiency. the reasons advanced privately was that I hold no particular brief for the the plant is located too near the Rus- (From April, 1939 A.L.M.) Germans. I have a frank admiration for sian zone border, and would fall too some of their qualities, and a loathing easy a victim in the event of attack. Yet chine tools, electrotechnical equipment, for others. But I do regard Germany as hundreds of millions of dollars are be- and enough scrap metal to provide indispensable to our preparations for ing spent to rebuild factories in Berlin, tanks for an armored division. This was defense. I believe that we cannot afford located not near but directly in the all shipped legally, with the express to cast aside one single individual who Tiiiddle of the Russian zone. approval of U. S. and Allied authori- can help us in the great battle we are

In this connection it might be pointed ties. And it was not until last July, a facing; I believe that least of all can we out that in the past year, tens of mil- full year and a half after Marshall aid afford to alienate West Germany's forty lions of dollars worth of strategic ma- to Berlin began, that the U. S. High millions. the end

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~~The Legion's New Commander LOOSE PLATES (Continued from page 21)~~

Fit Tight! He majored in politics, and in that field Princeton. During the summers he specialized in international affairs. Here strove to "perfect his slice" in golf, and lie acquired much of the training that did some work for the Weirton Steel \V^est X'irginia Legionnaires discovered Company, where his father, A. B. Wil- in him at the end of War II. He con- son, is an electrical engineer. For a tinued debating, and was manager of while, one summer, Don was a news the varsity debating team his last two commentator on station WBLK in years at Princeton. Clarksburg. He spent his third college just place Students of political science at Prince- summer doing research for his senior this pad ton have two undergraduate political thesis in international affairs, for which on plate— societies, the liberal Whigs and the con- he elected to do a detailed study of servative Cliosttphic socict)'. One can Anglo-American dipkjmatic relations CHEW IN COMFORT! imagine that Don Wilson's quick under- between 1895 and 1902. During his standing of Boys State after he joined senior year he tutored Princeton imder- Chew all kinds of food! Koiiifo Dental the Legion mirrored his appreciation classmen in the politics and economics Pads bring you blessed relief from pain departments. and soreness caused by ill-filtinp false teeth—or your money back. Plates hold Wilson graduated from Princeton in TIGHTER—won t slip or click. 1939 with the highest average grades Easy to use. Write today. of the little group that was specializing TOR UPPER PLATE Send ?] .00 for 20 Lowers in international affairs, and with a Phi Send -Sl.OO for 16 Uppers Beta Kappa key. KOMFO DENTAL PAD CO., In the fall of 1939 he entered the L^ni- Deportment 592 versity of \^irginia law school at Char-

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SLCNDCR ! profession of law since he was a fresh- 33 CLOTHES CATALOG man in high school. At X^irginia he Newest st,vle.s. Sizes 44- to STOUT 70. P.^nts, suits, shirts, maintained the pattern of his life at shorts, pa.iamas. sweat- ers, jackets, work Princeton, and increased his load of MEN; ciollies. etc. Slenderiz- ing, comfortable. Low work. He was a member of the student Priced! flUARANTEEn. Scnci fi>r FREE Hook today. honor committee, which supervises the STOUTFITTERS, Dept. AC-1, 603 Sixth Ave, New York 11,N. Y. rigid honor system at Virginia U. He was a member of the Raven Society, honorary scholarship and leadership group in the law school. On the side he was an instructor in public speaking in Executive Accountants and C. P. A's earn $4.0(10 to $10,000 a year. Tltousands of firms need them. We train you thoroly at home in spare the undergraduate college. He was time for C. P. A's examinations or executive accoontinp positions. Previous experience unnecessary. Personal traininK under supervision of staff of C. P, A's. I'lncement counsel and help. Write for tree President of his law class in his final booli. "Accountancy, the l'rofessi

Wilson won the traditional Princeton Two days later, on iMarch 1, he mar- MOWMASTMn mows oratorical contest for third-> car men. ried his high school sweetheart. Alary His subject: "The case for administra- \^irginia Hornor. While Don was at Saucer t^a^ a/en. tive tribunals." Princeton, she had gone to Dennison Mows lawn grass smoothly end evenly. Pulverizes He was naturally a competitor in University in Ohio and then to Rollins clippings. - Cuts toll grass end weeds easily. - In- Princeton's historic prize debating con- College in Florida. stant adjustable cutting height. - Pulverizes fallen test for seniors. This contest has been Wilson was ordered back to Camp leaves. Keeps yard clean oil through the autumn won in the past by such men as Norman Pickett for training as a platoon leader, season. - 2 H P. Motor - Direct Drive - Rugged, All Metal Machine - Light Weight - Easy to Handle Thomas and Booth Tarkington. In 1939, then transferred to Camp Campbell, for the first time in history, the Kentucky, for further training in Ariny free Wustratod folder — TOtiu '7

ADDRESS- _STATE._ jab) and played a lot of tennis while at the JoLvi J. Aleaiiy, then berthed in New 54 • The Ameiican Legion Magazine • April, 1952 York. Wilson became the Adjutant and man of the Legion's National Legisla- Staff Judge Advocate, which meant in tive Commission in 1949. National Com- effect that he was the administrator of mander Erie Cocke, Jr., appointed him the hospital activities of the ship. to head the Legion's Foreign Relations

The John J. Meavy sailed for Oran Commission in the fall of 1950. on June 4, 1944 — two days before Nor- mandy D Day — to cover the Mediter- \V.\I.I.Y ranean phase of the invasion of Europe. It. evacuated the wounded in the inva- So uo' cfk 'ears old; that a new generation humor in Wilson's blue eyes and his sign with that club when he graduates. has come into control of this tremen- long, sensitive fingers did not seem to The good college teams are combed douslj' important national organization. belong to a "sabre rattler." unceasHigly by major league scouts on His blond hair, his blue e> es, his figure The Monitor^s appraisal was all to the the prowl for material. This has created and stance add up to what has been point, for the Legion's new National a vastly different situation from that idealized as the American type." \Mien Commander holds no truck with the which existed in the old days, when a Wilson spoke, the Mirror added, "it noisy, empty patriotism of the dema- college boy was regarded with suspi- was the American mind — not the mind gogue. As a proponent of national poli- cion if not downright distaste by his

of . . . sophisticates, . . . kibitzers . . . cies proceeding from strength and clear less learned teammates. ." wise-cracking dcbunkers . . that spoke. objectives he advances, step by step, with Of course, a bachelor of arts degree James Lyons, writing in the Christian the quiet, devastating logic of a mind does not necessarily mean an athlete is Science Monitor on December 1, 1951, long schooled in the realities of public going to be a better ballplayer. Aloe found Wilson to be the opposite of the and international affairs. the end Berg, one of the most scholarly men ever to enter the game, found that out. i\loe never gets tired of telling about Kill ms€ mU'DesTRoyme cen/Hs the time he was traded to the Chicago STAPHYLOCOCCUS ALIUS WITH WARD'S FORMULA White Sox and found the Chicago newspapers filled with featured stories about his intellectual attainments. The articles made much of his ability to speak a dozen languages and of his post- graduate studies at the famed Sorbonne in Paris. Moe was a good catcher but a weak hitter. In his first start for the White Sox, he spoiled his advance notices by striking out twice, looking NOTHING, Absolutely nothing especially bad on curve balls. After- known to Science con do more to ward, he was sitting disconsolately by his locker \\ hen Buck Crouse, a rough- and-ready scrapper of the old school, SAVE YOUR passed by. Buck slapped Moe on the shoulder in comradely fashion. "Aloe," he said cheerfully, "I don't care how many degrees you got, they ain't learned you to hit that curve ball HAIR no better than me." Beware of your itchy scalp, hair loss, dandruff, head scales, un- pleasant head odors! Nature may be warning you of approaching Of all the arguments that rage be- baldness. Heed Nature's warning! Treat your scalp to scientifically prepared Ward's Formula tween baseball old-timers and younger Millions of trouble-breeding bacteria, living on your sick scalp fans, unquestionably the most frequent- (see above) are killed on contact Wards Formula kills not one. but all tour types of these destructive scalp germs now recognized ly renewed is the case of the rabbit ball. nedical authorities as a significant cause of baldness, germs-don't risk letting them kilt your hair growth. Scornful stalwarts of the old guard like ENJOY THESE 5 BENEFITS IMMEDIATELY to scoff at the distance-hitting feats of

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cial major league baseball was made to. You just don't see fellows like C\' somewhat livelier for the fii'st time in Young, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, Honus 1920. That year, the manufacturer Wagner and Eddie Collins any more, switched from domestic to Australian pla> ing ent\' cars tw > and more of big THE SLUGGER yarn and found that the Australian league ball. You don't sec the same kind product was stouter, that it could be of physical ruggedncss that character- wound more tightly and that it pro- ized the immortals. With few excep- duced a bouncier ball. Any changes tions, the present-day player makes CHOICE! that may have been made in the con- twice as much fuss about playing half struction of the ball since that time as long. were strictly undercover. You can't get Take Cy Young, the incredible an> body to admit that it has been tam- pitcher whose record of 511 major pered with at all. The A. G. Spalding league victories is likely never to be firm, which makes the balls for both matched. The legendary right-hander. major leagues, emphatically denies the constant allegations that the ball was "hopped up" to exploit the homer hunger created by Babe Ruth, and that it has been enlivened still more since World War II. You may well ask why, if the jackrabbit ball was placed in action in time A. L. BATTING CHAMPION for Ruth to whack his 60 home runs in 1927, the all-time high batting average eason after season, of .424 was recorded by Rogers Horns- genuine auto- by in 1924? Or, if that was a "dead" graphed Louisville ball they were playing with in the old Slugger bats remain da> s, how come Ty Cobb was able to the choice of the cham- ; hang up a spectacular .367 lifetime bat- pions in every League. ting average over a stretch of 24 sea- I -'i Take your cue from sons and go over .400 no fewer than them and insist on a Louisville three times? By the same token, you | Slugger when buy! have a right to wonder why, if the ball you is so bouncy today, a wicked slugger FRI i: AT lOUR DIALTr'S like Ted Williams doesn't drive it out or I sold 5f in coin of the park every time he catches hold ^Ili/Urich & B,,uhhy. D.til L-21, LoiiiuiUe 2. Ky. of it fair and square? Williams hit only Print name iinil .ulilrtss pl.iinly. Soflhiill rule hooks 30 home runs in 1951. "Really! That's very inicic.sting! . . . also tif.iil.iblc iOc I'tr iol>y. Did you hear that, Homer? ... It's very Yet the myth, if that's what it is, of strange because I was talking to Mrs. the lively ball is as hard to stamp out as Hccker just last week and she told ine..." a grass fire. "This juiced-up ball is mak- AMEliK'AN I.Kr.ION MAr.AZINE Louisville ing a joke out of the game," Bill Dickey growls. "I don't care what they say. who was pitching for the Red Sox well The manufacturers and the league offi- into the 1900's, thought nothing of SLUGGER BATS cials can deny it all they want, but this working every other day and thinks FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL isn't the ball we used when I was play- modern pitchers would benefit from a ing. This ball reminds me of the one diet of more, not less, work. "Pitch 'em they used in 1930. All you had to do every three days," he says, "and you'd was get a piece of it and it took off. find they'd get control and good strong

~~Everybod)' hit that year. Terry went arms. I know. I've seen it done." over .400. Babe Herman was around Cy is a great advocate of rigid train-~~

t> more floor wax to buy. No .399. Hack Wilson hit 56 home runs or ing. "You got to harden yourself and By pattes, liquids, l^h^waz it riffht tn th* pad. Easy to ope. something like that. They wouldn't stay hard," he says. "Even in the years No tirfFome kneeliuK. Simply glide Dors. linoleum, etc. Taltr IrirndnlMakr monru! admit it was a hot rocket any orilrrK frnm more when I was w inning thirty games a SAMPLES FOR TRIAL than they will now. But tely to all who peudnameatonce. they got scared season, I never loafed. Soon as baseball ^FNI> NO MONFY—JHAf ItOtlT nOTIir KRISTEE PRODUCTS CO., Dept. 1463, Akron 8. Otlio and deadened it after that." ended, I hit for the farm. I got up at They deadened it? In 1930, Al Sim- daylight, took care of the stock, milked mons of the Philadelphia Athletics led the cows, mended fences, worked a the American League in batting with a fourteen-hour day, seven days a week. Packed with SINSATIONAL .381 average. In 1931, he retained his Even in bad w eathcr, I w ent out in the VALUES in WAR SURPLUS, championship with an average of .390. barn and chopped kindling wood." FACTORY CLOSE-OUTS and GENERAL MERCHANDISE! Babe Ruth hit 49 homers in 1930 but It's hard for an old campaigner like lOOOl o( items for the Mfgr, came back with a wholly creditable 46 Cy to hide his scorn for the coddled Mechonic, Sporlsmon, Pho- togropher, Hobbyijt, Home in '31, while a year later Jimmy Foxx heroes of today. Obviously, he thinks Owner, etc BIG SAVINGS on blasted 58 Clothing, Housewores, Hard- of the "deadened" balls out it's disgraceful that the majors haven't ware, Foam Rubber, Hand & Power Tools, Outdoor Camp of the park. As you can see, it's all very had a thirty-game winner since Dizzy & Equipment, Industriol Tools & confusing. Dean made it for the Cardinals in 1934. Supplies, croft Ports, Metols, Plostics, Godgets and o huge stock of Hydroulic Supplies — Cylinders, Pumps, Fortunately, there's one point on "We did have some advantages," he Valves, Motors, etc. which both the old-timer and the said reflectively. "I admit some of my SAVE UP TO 85% IN WAR SURPLUS! SeHdOnlt^ lo'hondlinjS moiling) youngster generally agree. 50* They don't cut-plug tobacco w ould get on the ball. 6321F San Fernondo Rood make ballplayers as hardy as GLENDALE 1, CALIF. they used ( Continued on page 59 PALLEYcSra

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( Continued froi/i page 51 You can't discuss differences between haven't been changed through the pass- We had a bigger strike zone, too. It was the old and the new styles in baseball ing of the years. That's w hy the game across the top of the shoulders down without considering the revolution still has a hammerlock on the affections to below the kneecap. My favorite wrought by night ball. Since Larry of the American people. It's still the pitch was a w histler right under the MacPhail introduced the night game same absorbing struggle of graceful, sure

chin. . . . But there were disadvantages, to the majors in 1935, with President athletes on the precise geometric pattern too. Poorer fields, poorer equipment. Roosevelt pushing a button in the White of the marvelousl>- concocted playing Bad food, bad traveling conditions, no House to turn on the lights for the first field. It's still the darting pitch from shower-baths, noisy rooming houses." time, the sport has been seen less and the mound, the slash of the bat, the bold Young, who never had a sore arm in less in the daylight. There is now only scoop of the grounder by the charging his entire 22-season major-league career, one all-daylight park in the major fielder, the long throw to first and the and who was still strong enough to leagues — the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley trigger-quick verdict of the umpire. pitch a no-hitter and strike out eigh- Field. All the clubs play night baseball Incidentally, there's something else teen men in his last minor-league ball in varying degrees. Some, like the New that hasn't changed—the umpiring. It's game w hen he was well into his forties, York Giants and New York Yankees, still just as keen, just as ferociously im- has no use for diathermy machines, stick to a modest fourtecn-game sched- partial as ever. It's still the backbone of whirlpool baths and the like. ule at home, playing two night games the sport. We were reminded, reading Actualh-, many oldsters who criticize with each of the other teams in the about the fuss kicked up by Umpire Al the major-leaguers of today are in re- league. Others, like the Cleveland In- Barlick's angry ejection of Roy Cam- ality expressing resentment toward the dians and Philadelphia Athletics, play panella from a late-season game with fancy salaries the boys are drawing about half their home games at night. the Boston Braves last summer, of an down. Contrasted with the sums paid Still others, like the tw o St. Louis clubs, earlier day when Bill Klem, who had out in other years-Young, for example, expose themselves to the sun only on embarked upon a personal crusade to reached his top price when he gouged weekends and holidays. curb row dyism in baseball, showed how $7,000 out of the Cleveland Indians- All this night activity has damaged to handle an enraged ballplayer. A the salaries of today are princely. But the standards of play. Worse, it has youthful hot-head, objecting to the call even more than the inflated contract shortened the average ballplayer's career of a third strike by the "Old Arbitra- figures of the modern era, the stars of even though it may have helped enrich tor," had thrown his bat wildly into the the past are disgusted by the fantastic him while he was around. The erratic air over home plate. Bill never even bonuses tossed into the laps of so many hours, uncertain weather conditions ex- looked up. untried kids. They can't help but com- posing valuable limbs to the dampness "Young man," he grated in his fog- pare the $100,000 paid to Paul Pettit (a of the night air, and the mi.xed-up eat- horn voice, "if that bat comes down, resounding flop so far) by the Pitts- ing habits forced upon the players have you are out of the ball game!" burgh Pirates with the signing of the done incalculable harm. That was baseball then; it still is base- fabulous Walter Johnson, for example. The fundamental appeals of baseball ball now. THE END Cliff Blankenship, a Washington catcher who had been benched by an injury, was sent by Manager Joe Can- UIVCLE WALTER tillon on a trip to Weiser, Idaho, in 1907 to scout Johnson, who had been recom- IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RiGHT mended to the club. Impressed by what he saw, Blankenship offered the great fastballer a salary of $350 a month for the rest of the season and a cash bonus of $100 for signing. Johnson listened carefully, then went home to talk it over with his farmer father. Next day, he told Cliff it was a deal, except for one thing. "Dad and I think," he said, "that if I can't pitch good enough, you ought to pay my train fare back home." The general feeling on the part of the old-timers is that rookies turn out better when they are forced to fight for their jobs and their money. Honus Wagner, speaking at a dinner in Pitts- \r SMOICES SWEET IT CANT BITE burgh last winter, convulsed his audi- SIR WALTER RALEIGH S BLEND OP CHOICE ence w ith reminiscences of how tough KENTUCKY BURLEYS IS EX.TRA-A6ED TO life was for a rookie when he was break- GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. SrAVS ing into the National League. "I re- LIT TO THE LAST PUFF. AND NEVER member," he said, "somebody on the LEAVES A SOGGY HEEL IN YOUR PIPE. Giants hit a double in one of my first games and I congratulated him when he reached second. 'Nice hit,' I said, friendly-hke, 'Go to hell!' he said." The Flying Dutchman cleared his throat ostentatiously. "Now, that may sound kind of rude," he explained, "but, you know, I kind of liked that remark. That MAKES EVERY PIPE fella was the first major-leaguer who A PIPE OF PEACE ! ever spoke to me."

~~The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • >~~

How To Protect AMAZING COMFORT — NO SPECIAL FITTINC TOES IRRITATEI^? Your Dog (Continued from page 27) RUPTURE-EASER Get FAST RELIEF with For MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN the rolled newspaper. Of course it is this MEDICATED Powder! more sound than fury. The dog is more

No unmedicated powder can relieve sore or itch- frightened than hurt. He is puzzled, ing toes as Ammens Powder does! unable to completely figure out this For Ammens contains three famous medici- strange action. Repetition does the trick. nal ingredients ight or Left — gives 3-u'ay medicated skin Have this repeated often enough (but care: (1) It soothes, relieves and helps heal irri- not too often) to definitely discourage tated skin. (2) Its extra softness protects and the dog. People who visit you often, cushions sore skin, and so promotes healing. real friends, should pull the reverse. Double (3) Its extra fluffy texture gives cooling relief. $495 A strong, rorm-fiiting washable support. Back lac* For real medicated skin care, They should pet the dog, let him kno\\' get genuine ing adju.stable. Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg Arnmens Medicated Powder at any drug coun- that they like and respect him. Dogs strap. .Soft, flat groin pad. No steel or leather bands. Uneicelled for comfort. Also used as after ter today. are really thinking animals. After a operation support. Mail orders give measure arounci the lowest part of the abdomen and FREE trial-size can. Write to- short time, your dog will realize that state right or left side or double. (Note: Ba sure to give both size and side when ordering. day to Dept. A-42, Bristol- it isn't a good idea to have anything to We prepay postace except on CO. D.'s. Over 300,000 Grateful Users Myers Co., Hillside, N. J. do with strangers. Friends of yours will Trial (Offer limited to U.S.A.) 10 Day Offer be friends of his. Money-back Kuarantee if you don't gel blessed relief. Naturally, if your dog has any traces Delay may be serious — ORDBR TODAY t of aggressiveness or viciousness in him. PIPER BRACE CO. AMMENS 811 Wyandotte Dept. AL-42. Kansas City 6. Mo. SELL AIR CUSHION SHOES

Build a permaneni ' repeat ' business of 2>^^^ Powder KOur own w.lhoul one penny of invest- menll Sell John Nell Ait-Cushion Shoes Direct from famous New EnglanrJ factory. Firestone Foamex cushions — complete line of men's dress, work, safet/ shoesi DuPont Neoprene non-morking soles. tt-i:L51,000AMONTH? ^'<^^^^:::^ lodoy! Women's ond children's shoes. Fast deliv- eries from our mammoth slock department. Write for FKEE cotalog and complete instruction course — todoy' That's what Stanley Hyman made selling the amazing new Presto Fire l^JOHN NEIL SHOE CO. eotalog ILm-^^T'—- Ext ingui slier! Miuiv othfis cle^iniim =^ DEPT 2 1 — Brockton 64, Mass. up"— so can you: Am;izlnK tiny new extlneruisher t-nds lires fast as 2 seonds. Guaranteed lor 20 years! Sells for onlv S.'J.98: Write for Free sales kit. No obliuMtion. Merllte Irtdustries. Inc., Dept. 294, 201 East 16th Street. New York 3, N. V. (II you want a regular Presto to use as a dem- onstrator send $2.50. il Money back you wish. > HOT WATER Gabardine Trenchcoat from ANY COLD WATER FAUCH! REAL ofFim smE! INSTANTLY-Yes, you can Witli .Military sU-eve — ygQ now have continuously run- NOT itAtil,AN. but , . ning HOT water with the ^1 ) set-in .shouidtM.s, stoniiiiifft', sliouldt-r J' JET INSTANT HOT WATER straps, yolve linitig, 2 bi^' slash pocli- camp, office, fac- 'ts, bfit all around. Weather-sealed HEATER, in kitchen, summer cottage, Inipn Kniile. Sizes 34-46. tory or farm. Regulates from tUKEWARM to REAL HOT Regulars, Shorts & Longs with a turn of the tap. A cinch to attach ... No tools constructed of gleaiti- SEND NO MONEY needed. 110 Volt AC DC. Durably £^;r''cha?LS ing chromed steel and porcelain 8 foot U.L. Cord. or .send check or niom-y order plus 350 posta;;(', Print name, address, size. 10 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE! (Jiiaranrced tit or money back. Order Send only $1.00 deposit, balance C O O. plus postage. iMiw while la.Kfs. siiiipiv Send $4.98 and we pay postage. THE JET must give STRAGO MFG. CO., Dept. A-28 you satisfactory service! SUCCESS PRODUCTS 211 7th Ave., New York 1 1, N. Y. 246 Roebling St.. Dept. 999. B'klyn 1 1. N. Y. "Forget it, Jim. You can't get 'em all.' AMEItllAN I.KGION MAGAZINE Earn $8,000 and More ^"'MIDGET TREES! HOME!- SPARE TIME! 'NO EXPERIEKCE NEEDED! From Your Own Business AT It s r.'eu ' .\m.i.'iiis' FULL CROWN du.ir[ trees 12 INCHES For a minimum investment, it all livins — onlv would be wrong to use this sys- HIGH! Elm. oranue, oak, cypress—any you con earn $8,000 ond kinil! All BLOOM and even BEAR $15,000 from your own soft tem. But if he had, then he wouldn't FRUIT. Perfect, healthy specimens, but miniature! Make costl,v home dec ice cream business. A nation follow strangers anyway. orations and beautiful expensive t wicJe company offers you terpieces Isold for over $1,500 each). — It's easy! Fun! A new fascinating ar. this genuine opportunity Long walks with your dog, taking tistic HOBBY — a new fabulous S$$S$S no franchise to buy, your BUSINESS' Real seed and sensational n.'iv sciTft dotails BOTH investment secured by equip- him for rides in your own car, making crouin- pljn ment. Write to: a real pal of him also go a long way DARI-DELITE toward correcting any of his faults. 1524-4lhAve. Rock Island, III. Give him a chance and he'll build up NATIONAL NURSERY GARDENS, Dept. AL4 8463 S. Van Ness • Ineiewood 4, Calif. such a love for you that he won't have BUY WHERE YOU SEE THIS SIGN room in his heart for anyone else. WANT TO BE PAID There arc other things you can do to protect your dog. A couple of effective organizations strive daily to help people recover lo.st dogs and advi.se them on i AMERICAN NYLONS 49

Regular 25(' package Sustaining, $5.00 and Contributing, sent free! Try it $2.50. It isn't absolutely necessary to TRIMS 2 good ways belong to the APU to engage Daisy AS IT MOWS Miller's skill. She will make an honest IN ONE effort to find any lost dog; she even EASY OPERATION gives interesting and sagacious advice Sove time and laborl So sure are we (hat you will on how to keep your dog out of the find the versatile MontaMower an amazing work and Send Postcard to time saver that we offer It on approval for an extended trial period. Its live, precLsion mechanism first gathers RUM & MAPLE lost ranks. then smoothly cuts a clean 16" swath through Rrasa. TOBACCO CORP. Piled ceiling-high in her apartment- dandelions, spike grass and tall lawTi weeds. Almost 104-T East IMh St. noi'êless. As modem and efficient as your electric razor. Cuts right up to walls, fences, trees and under over- New York 3. N. Y. headquarters. Miss Miller has an exten- hanging shrubs . . . practically eliminates hand trim- ming! Cutting height adjustable. Cuts steep banks easilyl BUY RUM & MAPLE CIGAREHES sive file of dog lovers. Facts like these Cutters are self-.sharpenlng. Drive shaft mounted on free roiling, permanently lubricated and factory sealed bear- can be gained from it about dog own- ings. Hundreds of thousands In use. Buy direc*t from factory and save. Write for full 98 SPITZ PISTOL INVENTION ! todty details en limited ers in many parts of the country: . . . $2 ''Special Price Extended Trial Offer". "Name, temperament, vocation, breed MONTAMOWER DISTRIBUTING CO. A.L. 24, KEELER BLDG. • GRAND RAPIDS 2, MICH. Complete wilh Simplified preferred, educational background, 30 bullets percussion action family, personal likes and dislikes." irmits low cost shooting. Not — on oir or pellet gun but a Every man and woman on her list is a Light small bore pistol ! Mmg INVENTORS powder cliorge drives .12coliber of the thief, I thoroughgoing enemy dog lead bullets ot high velocity - Gun If you believe that you have an Invention, you should find has only 4 moving ports. 5 inch barrel Heovy duly. Free and will do anything possible to put out how to protect It. We are registered Patent Attorneys. pamphlet on expert pistol shooting, indoor-outdoor tor- Send for copy of our Patent Booklet "How to Protect get ranqes. Ammunition ot stores Limited quantity Spotz one in jail. Vour Invention, ** and an "Invention Record" form. No pistols. Sold direct. Adults only. Siote oge. Send S2.98 to obllt;atlon. They are yours for the asklne. LUNDI ARMS CORP., Box Z354,. Son Gabriel, Calif. When a dog \\ hose owner belongs to McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON the Animal Protection Union becomes Registered Patent Attorneys CASH IN YOUR SPARE TIME! 1468 Victor Building Washington 1, D. 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Miss Miller carefully selects ASTHMADOR...the quality-blended For kilting gome -self-defense - target skill. K^tfa formula thai acts to relieve conges- Silent ond very powerful. aUAtANTUD '"^^SUM names from her list. Post cards are sent tion... helps make breathing easier. JO GO THUOUCH Vi" PirWOOD : Ask your druggist today for famous ^W^^^^^ This is on to all of these. Miss Aliller deluges the Kills without poison. Oorts go ^^BBÎ^^^ ng weapon. right through rabbits, ^^^dg^Âmerfcon sportsmen squirre s, etc area where the dog was lost with the ^^g^^f^T who first try it cannot '"o;,'^? believe their eyes- J "•"'^^^^^^îPfc- result that within a day post offices, ASTHMADOR accurate and powerful is thl* MoJffi *'*^^0^^Sff^^ 2" in powder, cigarette or PtPe mixture form _^^^^^0i^glKfl^^*^ blowgun. Averoge person con hit a banks, gas stations, hot dog \\agons, ''''' ^jH^^Sj^^^^b bullseye ot 30 ft. olmosi every time. Shoots m^^^^ô^"^^^ over 300 ft. Precision mode-' j" bore. Blue steel. drugstores, railroad stations, even mov- ^^^^ Beautiful finish. Comes with six5"steel hunting darts, target, instructions. Limited quantity. Sold direct only. Send 4.98 to ing vans and staid restaurants have WHOLESALE IMPORT C0.,Depi.8X ,604 S. Morer.go, Alhombro, Calif posted her Animal Protection Union GOLD-SILVER- postcard. With this kind of publicity COINS centering in the area where the dog was lost, a dog thief has little opportun- CTIinV AT UnMP Legally trained men win higher posi- Easily located with new I UU I n I nUITIk tions and bigger success business Llg^htweight M-Scope d in Detector. Superior per- ity to peddle the dog. If the dog is not and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. formance, lowe'it price. , We guide voa Prestige: ' niontlUy payment plan. More Ability: More More Money etep by step. Yoa FREE LITERATURE located. Miss Miller widens her circle, can train at home doririR Bpare time. Detrres of LL.I..B. We furni&ti all text materiitl, ineludinK M-volam© Law Library. Low coet, easy Fisher Reseorch Lob., Inc. and covers the entire forty-eight states terms. Get oar valoablc "Law Training for Leadership" East Palo Alto Calif. and "Evidence" book8 FREE. Send NOW, LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITV.417 South Dearborn Street if necessary. A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 4361L, Chicago 5. III. Miss Miller has a few things to say to DOES YOUR CAR BURN the dog owner regarding protection. TOO MUCH OIL? "Every person with a dog outside a kennel Genuine GABARDINE cut ell use sharply I fence should have a distinctive restore compression — tag on his dog. It should be noticeable, DRESS TROUSERS stop piston but in no way resemble a license tag", slap I Slight Factory Imperfecl and it should be on the back of the VALUES UP TO $i: Save Gas! collar. this tag should be the own- Save half what you'd On pay elsewhere! Order istonld 2 pairs get $2.50 er's name and address and telephone — belt Free! Imperfec- SEND MONEY number. Such a tag works with both tions very slight, do NO not affect wear. Hard Send u,s your name and address today — honest finish. Holds crease. and dishonest folk. You person- Shine we'll send you facts — testimonials — Retains press. ally know that anything resistant. Zipper PROOF that Piston Seal pays for itself you would do front. Roomy pock- ets. Blue. Tan. Gray. Light many times over! Takes minutes to apply to a ] get man's dog back to him. Con- Dark Brown. Blu — adds 10,000 new miles of economy Brown. sider the thief: the Gray. Green. WAIST: 28 and power to your car! Absolutely guar- He has to transport 42 pleated: 28 to 50 pla

1 11 1 anteed by world's largest line of overhaul J J V| 1 l*M Send name, waist size, 1st, dog; he has to fence him. And he knows 1 1 1 an MII V i WtM compounds. Send card or letter for full niM 2nd. and 3rd color choice. that he can tell you a cock-and-bull State if 1 or 2 pairs (belt free with 2 pairs.) details today to: LEONARD t POWERS Pay postman price plus small postage. Or send 33 Eost Ave., Attica, N. Y., Dept. Al- 3 story \\ hen he returns your dog that money and save pstg. Money-Back Guarantee.

. In Conodo: 1269 Greene Ave., Montreal 6 will bring tears to your eyes. You will iH-l!ilMIMifl-fflE: The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 • gj stick much more of that long green mailed to all owners of dogs so iden- Ov/n a CHRBS-CRAFT on y $45 stutT in his hands than he can ever hope tified. to get from a fence, Follow ing are a couple of factual re- "W hy put the tag at the back of the ports of work accomplished by Identa-

~~neck? Because more people than w ill code, giving an objective and somewhat~~

admit it are afraid of dogs and w ill not colorful picture of w hat the\' have been reach under the neck to read the tag doing: on a lost dog." "November 7 — Two-year-old Red Miss /Miller rates as of prime import- Cocker. Propert\" of W. R. W'ebb, ance, the fact that you must have a Long Beach, California. Disappeared good photograph of your dog. The from ow ner's backs ard day after it was photo should be taken in show stance. Identacoded. Recovered four weeks It should be a good clear picture, every later, by a strange coincidence. The mark on the dog should be easily dis- Webbs' youngster had overheard a tinguishable, and it should be taken w ith the distinct idea of reproduction in jyicjiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiciiiiiiiiniK^ mind. I VETERAiX'H Kt'HOOL AlVD | As worthw hile as is the Animal Pro- COLLEGE DIRECTOItY tection Union under Miss Miller, it I | isn't the only organized means for the ^]||IIIIIIIIIIC]llllllllllliC]IIIIIIIIIIIIC]llllllimilC]IIIIIIIIIIIK]IIIIIIIIIIIIC]!ii protection of your dog. $2070— Beautiful 3I-ft. Express Cruiser Kit Boat The National Dog Record Bureau of Assemble a Chris-Craft Boat Kit: many moflels, 8' tliru 31', as low as $+5 (for «-ft. Pram Kit). 11687 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles I'recut Pliilippine Mahofcany parts. Fir marine- PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE BIG, ILLUSTRATED plywood panels; brass screws; instructions. 49, Calif., w hich calls itself Identacode, CATALOG NOW! No obligation Graduates report making ^10110 monthly. Start and run your own business Send for FREE catalog. Dealer inquiries invited. up to was developed and tested during the quickly. M>,'n. women of all ajie?, learn easily. Course covers Kit prices quoted f o b. fi.ctory. subject to chauk'e without notice. Sales. Property Management. Appraising . Loans. Mortgages, of related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in our classrooma Chris-Craft Corporation, Algonac, Mich. fall of 1947. The whole thing actually hundreds WORLD'S LARGEST BUILDERS OF MOTOR BOATS WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est. 1937 Suite 300, Law BIdg. Dept. AL Kansas City, IMo. DO YOU HAVE A FRIEND CHRIS-CRAFT CORPORATION C D C C I Iv E E • who ought to have a subscription to the Algonac, Michigan | Legion Magazine? If you send $1.50 to- Please send FREE Boat Kit Catalog to: I liis address to — MUSIC gether with name and BE YOUR TEACHER! I OWN The American Legion Magazine ' Name I r Learn at home this money-saving way Circulation Department Il's easy as A-B-C, no matter uhicli In- ^Iriiment you want to play. Vou learn by Address. 700 North Pennsylvania pl:i>lnK real melodies from actual notes insU-aU of tiresome exercises. Everything ts Indianapolis, Indiana in i>rint and pictures. First you read how to City _State_ plaj a tunc. Then a picture showf; you how. it will bring him a year's subscription. Finally you play it and heitr how It sounds. Some of our 850,000 pupils are now B.\ND LE.\I)ERS. If you want to learn music fast, send post card for FRFE Booklet and -*•*•** Print A- Picture sample. Mention instrument. Write today! (Our ."ilth successful year.) FREE came about as a result of the last war. U. S. SCHOOL OF MUSIC BOOKLET Studio B464, Port Washington, N. V. this Study of the tattooing methods adopted by the U. S. Army and used in its K-9 Learn Profitable Profession command brought out the fact that the in QO days at Home sword same sort of system was needed the MEN AND WOMEN, 18 to 60 by Swedi.-«h MassaBe graduates make big money workinif full or spare time with docturs or id American public to protect its dogs. ">3pitaW, health resorts, sanatoriums. clubs. rivate practice, A dignified, interesting areer! Qiialify for your graduation cer- With more than 22,000,000 dogs in this ticate. Thorouffh Instruction at home as 1 class rooms. Write now for Illustrated challenges country the task loomed as a large one. ;.>.ik-FKKE. The College of Swedish MassaeA Since that time Identacode has trained Dept.275D,41 E.Pearson, Chlcagol 1 more than 160 technicians; opened re- CAHCER gional offices in New York, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Spokane and Milwaukee; TIRED OF NO received inquiries from 627 Kennel I Clubs and dog owners in 42 states and from England, Ireland, Mexico, Argen- the sign of the cancer Under tina, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, and given MONEY? sword the American Cancer Identacode protection to dogs in 16 second rate jobs? Like to start a real Society seeivs to save lives by states and the District of Columbia, career with a lifetime of high salaries? spreading vital facts to you, Canada and Cuba. To date, 65,000 dogs Write me about two growing fields that your neighbors, and your phy- really need men. Radio-T-V — Elec- have this protection. tronics — Diesel and sicians ... by supporting re- and Automotive Identacode is actually a program of Allied Mechanics. Ed. Howes, Chief, search ... by providing im- dog protection through positive and 456 W. Santa Barbara Avenue, Los proved services for cancer permanent identification. The record Angeles 37. patients. comprises: a code number for each in- Only under the sign of this dividual dog, and simple, quick and sword is there a three-fold, na- painless tattoo of that number high un- ® tional attack on cancer. Cancer Get on^^- : der the dog's right hind leg. Its supple- Strikes One in Five. Your Dol- ' SAMS mentary recordings and assets are: UNCLE lars Will Strike Back. A series of records of your dog's « Payroll Mail Your Gift to ''Cancer" numbers kept in local and national files, Care of Your Local Postoffice with a reserve set of records maintained START AS HIGH AS $3,795.00 YEAR IVIEN — WOMEN ———— — ————^^ by National Dog \\'eek. Inc., and the Thousanils ap- / franklin INSTITUTE AMERICAN pointmonts be- # Dept. M.62. Rochester 4, N, Y. original record secured in a safety de- ing made. o (Not Government Controlled)

32-PaKe .5 Sir.s: Hush with cli.-irpre. ( 1 ) 32MJ;ifro CANCER SOCIETY posit vault, plus a certificate of title, Book FREE o tjook wltti list Of U.S. Government Jobs; Mail Coupon O Ci i Tell me Iipw to qualify for one. Today. / Name w hich is simply a copy of the record SURE. ' Address Aee7

g2 * The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 playmate boasting that his father had a dog at home that had numbers on it MADE-TO-MEASURE NO MORE and that its color had been changed CLOTHES from red to white! Airs. Webb relayed this information to the Long Beach "Bay Window!" FOR MEN Humane Society. Officers of the So- ciety found the father at home. When questioned about the Identacode tattoo numbers, he .stated that he was respon- S

pouch ( det;ichable) for mascu- use neither, you still should be able to line support and protection. DESIGNS FOR Wear a "Chevalier" Health Sup- | pick up protection points from them. porter Belt and see what an amaz-

COMPLETELY NEW AND | ing diJference it makes in the Today many veterinarians offer the way you look ansorbs persplr.itlon. dog's life. yo can rhanpe It regu- DEPT. L. MINNEAPOIIS. MINN. So that l.-irly we Ir u my days. I will ellher dust. stains. Kreasf. S KRKE pouch. In 10 return CHEVA- atrainst wear. Riinie. available today, it doesn't make sense LIER to yoTi and you will return my money, or other- l»ad resists crack- I weather. Tough, durable, wise my payment will be a full and hiial purchase price. ingl Handsome tailored appearance- For ALL lose I i-iu-s, ALL years. ALL makes and models. NO pins'. No to your dog. Remember, your Uckil No •«wing! Ini;enious «NAP-TITE feature. Just SNAP I My waist measure is. sizt* your waist If no OD or off m a JIFFY! Best of all: they're only 2.95 foi dog's life is in your hands. Smart as he I riont or rear seal. SPECIAL! Pail for front and rear, only 4.SS. .Send no may be, he can't buy a tag and have money. Vay price plus postage on delivery or send check •>r money order for #re« rteliverv and SAVE! Mention cat make, model & year; «lso If front seat is full front or the correct information engraved, nor SPLIT coupe front. Try 10 day* at our risk! Guaranteed I' ^.ntisfy or monev back! RUSH! can he the arrangements to have I CITY Zone. .STATE make ' ID Save up to G.5c. We pay poslat'O ,\ou enclose pa CONSUMERS MART, Dept. 158D-150 _ merit now. Same Free Trial ; -mI p und prlvileire. 131 West 33rd St., New York 1, N. Y. his leg tattooed. the end

~~The American Legion Magazine • April. 1952 • )~~

~~TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS.~~

JVith the ivorld so full of goings-on Accusings and deiiyiugs — If a guy ivould really kno'ui ivbafs ivhat He viust read between the lyings. Parting Shots — Mary B. Ward MONEY SAVER A woman hailed her husband into couit for non-payment of alimony. The judge was a very fairminded man and he started to question the woman. WOMAN DRIVER "The alimony that your husband is pay- I'd gladly give you half the road ing you is pretty high," he said. "Are you To do your daily jaunting. "Aren't they wonderful?" she said, run- sure that he is able to pay it?" If I cojild figure out, my dear, ning the green beads through her fingers. "Well, he ought to be," snapped the they Which half the road you re wanting. "And cost me a fortune," she added woman. "After all, you realize that he — Jack L. Morse confidentially. doesn't have to support me any more!" "I know," agreed the nobleman sarcasti- — Bill Odiorne WEIL? cally. "My mother had a staircase made of It." — Dan Bennett NO TAX PROBLEM Summoning the new recruit, his Colonel ordered, "Private, dinner this evening When your ship conies in Uncle Sam will will FUST RATE PHILOSOPHY dock it for you. be a very special affair. I am entertaining _ Francis O. Walsh several high-ranking officers of the Army, About raising children, the experts' confusion the Navy and the Air Force. Here is a list. BENEDICTION As Finds some of us clinging to this they arrive, you are to stand in the old In your fine new house, may the roof never doorway and call the guests' names." conclusion: leak, That kids ivho are healthy, with The youngster furrowed liis brow, then appetite The tile never chip, the stairs never creak. fust rate. brightened to reply, "Gosh! That'll sure be May the paint never fade, the pipes never Are gonna be hard as fun! And if it's an order, I w on't get tossed the dickens to rust. into the frustrate! _ guardhouse, will I?" S. Omar Barker No blinds become frayed, no boiler a bust. — Mary Alkus May the fence never warp, the dog never LOTS OF CHOW woof. SELF May your neighbors be distant, POWERED Marine Pfc. Douglas Hale of Detroit, but not aloof. A modern home is one where everything Mich., believes he has found the most prac- May the green grass grow from the time it's is controlled by switches except the children. tical Chinese soldier in Korea. seeded — Rose Through an interpreter, Pfc. Hale talked Green And only to a Chinese prisoner who had surrendered the crabgrass wither, unweeded. voluntarily. May the drains stay clear, the washers tight. NEWLY RICH The Chinese was carrying a May your home sheer fistful of surrender leaflets. be unalloyed delight, An American All leisure, relaxation and fun — woman traveling in France "Why did you surrender?" asked Pfc. was at a |)art>- one night and she w as intro- Hale. And please enlighten me how it's done! duced to a former Russian Grand Duke. "I cook breakfast for 60 soldiers," the — Thomas Usk Trying to make an impression on him, she Oriental chef answered. "Then they go out showed him a long chain of malachite to fight. Nobody came to dinner. I thought THIS IS HERESY beads, a semi-precious gem stone, which I'd better go south." A Texan passed aw ay and upon arriving she had purchased on her trip abroad. — U. S. Marine Corps at the gates of his eternal home, remarked, "Gee, I never thought heaven would be so much like Texas." "Son," said the man at the gate sadly, "this ain't heaven." — M. I. Lockridce

~~YOU CAN BANK ON THAT That felloiv Jim is brimming rvith vim And vigor in large amounts; There's zest in Iiis step and his mind has pep And his checks are chuckful of bounce. — Berton Br-\ley~~

~~THE HONEYMOON IS OVER The bride had presented her husband with her first meal.~~

~~"The two best things I cook are chicken pie and strawberry shortcake," she purred.~~

~~"Well," said the husband, "which is this?" — Harold Helper~~

~~NO DICE~~

Whenever I choose to play poker, I lose. At craps I fade out when I'm faded. When out at the track, any horse that I back Proves a jade who's exceedingly jaded. I can't win a bet when I'm playing roulette. At Bingo 7/!y fortune is mucky; (Aiid at love it's my fate to be given the gate — So I guess I'm unhappy-gp-lucky. — Dick Poore g/J • The American Legion Magazine • April, 1952 ! !

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