The American Legion Magazine [Volume 72, No. 5 (May 1962)]

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MAGAZINE 1949 GOLD RESERVE $24,400,000,000 THE FLOW OF GOLD

How It Affects Your Pocketbook,

Your Job and Your Future 1961 GOLD RESERVE $16,700,000,000 By LAWRENCE FERTIG

PRO COM Barry M. Goldwater Hubert H. Humphrey U.S. Senator (R) Ariz. U.S. Senator (0) Minn.

Some Kind Words for Youth by vice adm. hugn h. goodwin

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THE BIG ISSUE-PRO & CON ARGUMENTS The American Legion Publica- tions Commission: ON THE QUESTION: 18 Edward McSweeney, Armonk, N. Y. (Chairman); Dan W. Should the U.S. Limit Aid to Friendly Nations? Emmett, Palo Alio, Calif., Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y ., and Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss. WHY SOLDIERS TAKE THAT (Vice Chairmen): Lang Arm- strong, Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY 20 John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; By OLLIE STEWART Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge, La.; E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, The search is usually for wartime memories. Fla.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, Downingtown, Pa.; Raymond THE VALLEY OF FIRES 22 Fields, Guvmon, Okla.; Dave H. Fleischer, St. Louis, Mo.; Her- BY H. C. NEAL schiel L. Hunt, El Campo, Tex.; Sumter, S. C.i Describing trick that again, in Korea. George D. Levy, an ancient worked Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk. Iowa; Lewis E. McCray. Tusca- loosa, Ala.; Earl L. Meyer, Al- SURF FISHING THAT GETS RESULTS 24 liance, Neb.; Robert Mitchler, BY VLAD EVANOFF Oswego, 111.; Harold A. Shind- lcr, Lafayette, Ind.; William F. How to bring in big ones, and enjoy it. Taylor, Greensburg, Ky.; Benja- GOLF min B. Truskoski, Bristol, Conn. HOW TO GET WELL IN WISCONSIN 26 CLUBS The American Legion Magazine BY ROBERT B. PITKIN Editorial & Advertising Offices HILLERICH t BRADSBY CO. Louisville, Kentucky 720 Fifth Avenue A Legion project puts new life in the seriously ill. New York 19, New York

Publisher, James F. O'Neil NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 31 Editor PICK A Joseph C. Keelcy Managing Editor Departments Robert B. Pitkin Art Editor Al Marshall YOU SAID IT! 4 Associate Editor John Andreola EDITOR'S CORNER 6 Editorial Assistant Eli L. Kerins Automatic PERSONAL 8 "FREE STRIPPING" Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. FLY REELS ROD & GUN CLUB 10 Advertising Director Robert P. Redden 10 MODELS NEWSLETTER 29 Midwestern Adv. Mgr. Norman C. Schoen BRIEFLY ABOUT BOOKS 45 $6.95 Midwestern Advertising Sales Office Wacker Drive LEGION SHOPPER 52 35 East $13.50 Chicago 1, Illinois West Coast Adv. Rep. PARTING SHOTS 56 Blanchard-Nichols Assoc. AT TACKLE COUNTERS EVERYWHERE 633 S. Westmoreland Ave. Los Angeles 5, Calif, and Aladdin Laboratories, 620 South 8th Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included 900 Third St. Minneapolis, Minnesota This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material San Francisco 7, Calif.

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crazed public and a sadistic press that tore him to souvenirs and destroyed his life? However, we know that he gave much of himself to this country and had the courage to admit his mis- takes. Walter G. Page Wyandotte, Mich.

sir: I resent the implications made by Dale Shaw in his article "What Hap- pened to Lindbergh?" against the great and devoted patriot Charles A. Lind- bergh. Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, USAF (Ret.) Winter Park, Fla.

sir: While most of the Lindbergh arti-

cle is not bad, I happen to be one of the Legionnaires who lived through the Lindbergh era and saw him viciously smeared prior to and during WW2. I feel that Mr. Shaw also has been somewhat less than fair to him. In what may be oversimplified terms, Lindbergh said then, in effect: "Ameri- BLACKLIST Gifted? Give him The Book of Knowl- ca should not get into this European sir: As a 42-year member of the Le- war to save bolshevism. We should edge . . . then watch him go further! gion I want to commend you for tend to our own affairs." Bright but bored? of The Book Knowl- opening the columns of the magazine S. C. Lyons edge is written and arranged to catch in your March issue to Roy M. Brewer Dry Branch, Ga. it. his interest . . . and to hold for his article "The Truth About the sir: Your March issue as usual was up Mentally Blacklist." This was in reply to the lazy? More likely uninter- to par with one very important ex- article Ring that ested. The Book of Knowledge because by Lardner, Jr., ap- — ception. How did that Lindbergh arti- peared in The Saturday Evening Post. of its non-alphabetical unique arrange- cle get by you? It was about as clever If we had more facts and less cover- ment will arouse his curiosity. — a piece of red propaganda as I have up our country would be better off. seen. It was hard on the Germans, Doesn't like to read? Don't blame him R. L. Benson easy on the Russians, and damned give him The Book of Knowledge. Read- Wrightsville Beach, N. C. ers are leaders. Start him now on The Lindbergh with faint praise. Gen. Edwin E. Schwien Book of Knowledge. It inspires reading sir: Enjoyed very much the article on Los Altos, Calif. Grades not good enough? The Book of the blacklist, by Roy M. Brewer. We should this. Knowledge can help your child in every have more like area of school work. George E. Chalfont HOLIDAYS FOR SHOPPING Steubenville, Ohio Always asking questions? Be glad! It sir: Americanism is getting a tossing shows an eager mind. The Book of Knowl- around. Historical holidays are ig- edge answers all his questions. WRITE! nored by American business and labor. Workers fight to get these days off Sure to get into college? Don't be so sir: I note that many letters in "You and when the days come all you can sure. Start preparing your child now by Said It!" say that the Legion should read in the newspapers are ads: "We giving him The Book of Knowledge. do this and the Legion should do that regarding the inroads of communism. are open Lincoln's Birthday," "We are What you should do now open Washington's Birthday," "We The only way to get results is to drop You can evaluate The Book of are open Memorial Day," "Big Sales," Knowl- the "let the other guy do it" attitude edge in all unpatriotic method your own home. Send the and write to your Congressman and etc. Thumbs down on coupon for the free 24-page "sampler" sales on national holidays. Senators in Washington. The com- of actual pages from The Book of Knowl- Everett E. Wolf munists are organized. They do it. I do edge. It is packed with science quizzes, West Sayville, N.Y it and get wonderful letters in return. poetry, biographies of famous people, Ralph J. Sai.vati things to make and do. Mail today. Middletown, N.Y. PROPAGANDA AND SLANDER THE BOOK OF sir: The wave of propaganda and LIKES BALLOTS slander against all anti-communists, who are not afraid to stand up and KNOWLEDGE sir: We like the idea you have of in- be counted, has convinced many of opens the to cluding ballots in your "Pro & Con" door success anti-communists are feature. We can now give our ex- our people that the real enemies of our country rather FREE 24 PAGE FULL COLOR BOOKLET pression to Congressmen. Too few of than the themselves. The THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE® us have done so in the past. communists The Grolier Society Inc. I people who are trying to rid our 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. Lyle B. Clark country of communism and awaken Please send me the color booklet described above. Moorhead, Minn. the people to its menace before the communists take us over as they have There are- -children in my family, ages - THE STORY LINDBERGH done in so many other countries, are Name- sir: 1 was a small boy when Charles A. called super-patriots, right-wing radi- cals, rightists, far-right extremists, Address Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. He be- far came my hero and he remains the ad infinitum. The boys who fought City -Zone- same. In my opinion, a great man. Dale our wars were super-patriots till the Shaw's analysis of Lindbergh in your wars were over, but those who got County- 5-62' " American Legion .March issue is a bit one-sided. What home alive and opposed socialism and

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page 14, the article "The Flow of BnGold" discusses our diminishing gold reserves and shows that this is not just a problem to worry economists and bankers but something that poses a threat to every American man, woman and child. An in-

teresting footnote to this article is provided by Norris Cotton, U. S. Senator from New Hampshire, w ho wrote: "I read that the Federal Reserve Board has just purchased 50 million dollars' worth of French francs. My curiosity

aroused, I telephoned the Reserve. The francs are to be used whenever the American dollar weakens in relation to the franc, to buy back our dollars in the foreign exchange and thus bolster their

value. I learned that the Treasury Depart-

ment is doing the same thing and has millions of dollars' worth of various foreign currencies with which to resist pres- sures on our dollar. I asked for the list,

but that's a secret. Can it be that the once all-powerful American dollar has gotten

so wobbly that it has to be propped up PANEL TELEPHONE TOUCH TONE PRINCESS TELEPHONE with rupees and pesos?"

STOP STRENGTHENING THE USSR! Here are some of the new telephone instruments in various stages of development. Some MNikolai lenin, one of the founding are still experimental. Others are undergoing further work or being tested in actual use. fathers of the Soviet state, once de- Exciting in themselves, they are symbols of other exciting things to ... your come to make clared that some day the communists communication services even more attractive, useful and convenient. would hang the capitalists with rope sold to the reds by capitalists themselves. Lenin was aware of Russian history when he made that crack, but the impli- There Is No End to Telephone Progress cations of it have obviously never been understood by Western policy-makers who permit and in some cases encourage This business has lived and grown search, manufacture and opera- manufacturers and experts to contribute Soviet Empire. successful by giving service. tions in one organization, with to the strengthening of the So we see this country exporting vital close teamwork between all three It has done its best to give the technical and industrial equipment to the

public what it wanted, when it . . . Bell Telephone Laboratories, USSR and we hear that trade with Rus-

sia is to be stepped up. wanted it, with efficiency and Western Electric and associated The reasoning behind the latter move, courtesy. And then invented Bell telephone companies. which we fail to follow, is that if we better things. Wherever the trail may lead, deluge the Russians with goods, the Little Red Fathers in the Kremlin will have to In the future, as in the past, on earth or underseas, in the air compete with us, and this will keep them the greatest progress will come or through space, we will be try- too busy making butter to permit them through the combination of re- ing very hard to serve you well. to make guns. Quite obviously, those who are promoting this theory overlook the fact that if we pour American goods behind the Iron Curtain, it will permit BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Khrushchev to give more time and attention building A-bombs, missiles, Owned by more than two million Americans to tanks, etc. Even if it isn't cricket.

6 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 If you'd like to know the extent to which the West has built up Russia over the past thousand years, and the way in which Russia has consistently used West- N0WNVL0N22, ern goods and brains in its attempts to dominate the world, we strongly urge

you to read a new book. The title is "East Minus West — Zero," the author INBOLTACTION is Werner Keller, the publisher is G. P.

Putnam's Sons, and the price is $6.95. The theme of this fascinating volume, New Remington Nylon 11 clip and Nylon 12 as set forth by the author is: "All that the West stands for, all that it has tubular give amazing accuracy and achieved and is still achieving, culturally, technically and scientifically, has been handsome detail at moderate price— done without a single contribution from the Russians. If the Russians had never thanks to extra-tough structural-nylon existed at all, it would have made not an iota of difference to what the West is Now you can have all the advantages of famous chip-proof, able to offer all humanity." warp-proof, waterproof structural-nylon combined with ord- The book sets forth in detail the ways nance steel in two great new Remington bolt-action 22's. in which Soviet leaders, for centuries, made it a policy to beg, borrow, buy or The Nylon 11 (clip magazine) and Nylon 12 (tubular steal from the West what they needed to magazine) both feature Remington's revolutionary combi- build a powerful state. Quite often the nation of structural-nylon stock with ordnance-steel barrel. materials, the technical skill and the lead- The result: Quality and performance you would expect only ership they obtained from Western na-

in an expensive, custom-made 22 . . . perfect checkering tions were used in wars against those same countries. In cultural fields, too, Russia and inletting . . . super-accurate three-point bedding . . . borrowed heavily from the West. Even chrome-plated Mannlicher-type bolt handle . . . and struc- much of the Kremlin itself, whose build- tural-nylon strength and durability unequaled in any 22 at ings seem so uniquely Russian, was de- any price. Plus practical features like the handy top-mounted signed by famous Italian architects! safety, fully adjustable However, the book does not deal en- thumb rear sight and receiver tirely with the early days of Russia. Much grooved for "tip-off" 'scope mounts. of it tells how, in recent years, under the For a new experience in bolt-action performance, see the communists, Russia attained its dominant Nylon 11 and 12. They're at your Remington dealer's, now. position. American individuals and Ameri- can firms figured prominently in the red NYLON 11— Clip model takes short, long or long rifle cartridges. leap forward, providing the know-how Capacity: 6 in clip plus one in chamber. (10-shot clip also available.) and the materials that made possible such $36.95* NYLON 12 (shown at left)- Extra -capacity tubular model prime examples of "Soviet achievement" holds 22 short, 17 long or 15 long rifle cartridges. $39.95* as Magnitogorsk, Gorki, Dnieprostroy, NYLON 66— Famous structural-nylon autoloader now in new etc. It describes how Stalin took advantage Apache Black and chrome . . . $54.95*. In traditional Mohawk of America's $11 billion wartime help to Brown. $49.95* *Prices subject to change without notice. build his bloody postwar world, and it tells how systematic Soviet espionage and thievery gave the Kremlin their missiles, nuclear weapons, and even aircraft. It's all on the record. We suggest that you get the book, read it carefully, and then make your feelings known about any moves to strengthen the Soviet Union still further in the name of "trade" or "peaceful coexistence."

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How to give him an education and INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH EVERYDAY PROBLEMS the freedom You can classify the 1962 round of home-building, which now is underway, as "only fair" for both builder and buyer. Overall, the residential construction to use it picture shapes up thus: Housing starts — that is, the number of private residential units (including apartments) for which ground will be broken — are estimated at 1,400,000, up a bit over last year. But the gain is so small that you can interpret it as an omen of waning demand. Bolstering this guess are the latest vacancy figures: The rate for rental housing is now 7.9%, while the count for home- owner properties is up to 1.3%. Both figures have been rising for four years in a row. Prices, however, still are edging up some. That's largely due to labor costs (the tags on materials have been pretty steady recently) Land costs also continue their climb, though at a slower rate than heretofore. As a quick estimate, figure the price of a quarter-acre with utilities at around $2,500. Mortgage money continues to command a stiff interest rate. If the rate moves at all, it will be only in one direction — up. As for home furnishings, prices are relatively stable and supplies are abun- dant. Moreover, in this area there has been a flood of new items giving you 1) a much broader choice of goods, and 2) better values in many instances.

Most current articles jou read Because a borrower usually repays a loan on the installment plan, he ob- about education are concerned viously has less and less of the borrowed money at his disposal as time goes with the rising costs. But chances along — though the interest stays constant. are you're more concerned these So now Congress is being nudged to force banks and other lenders to days about the kind of world your explain their loan rates in "effective" or "simple" terms. A quoted or youngster will graduate into. 5% U.S. Savings Bonds can help 6% rate, the critics maintain, isn't that at all — it's actually much higher. make sure it's a better one. That's true, say lenders. However, they claim even Einstein couldn't have You see, the money you put calculated the simple rate with hairline accuracy because of all the variables into Bonds does even more than involved. As a rough approximation, though, First National City Bank has grow into a sizable fund for his come up with this conversion table: books and tuition. It helps make • sure he can study what he wants, If you are using a "revolving credit" plan with a monthly service charge where he wants. And it helps of 1% on the outstanding balance, your simple interest rate will be a bit over Uncle Sam keep our economy 12% per year. free your children strong and —for • If you borrow on the discount method (interest subtracted from the loan to graduate into. in advance) or the add-on method (interest added to the face of the loan), Why not start a college fund the rate. is, loan will with Savings Bonds? There's no the simple rate will be about double quoted That a 5% better way to help your country work out to around 10% in simple interest terms. today and your youngster Meantime, bear this in mind: tomorrow. 1) A knowledgeable money man will tell you that when you're shopping for a loan, you should think of the costs in terms of actual dollars as well The Commu- as rates. As one banker puts it: "You've got to repay in cash — not arithmetic." nists covet the world. To- 2) For income tax deduction purposes, you should have a breakdown day they domi- from the lending institution of the amount of interest you paid. If you can't nate 13^ billion get this on installment purchases, you can deduct up to 6% of the average people and 16 unpaid balance over the course of the year. nations —one of them at our front door. One Although everybody swears he is going to hang up his uniform at age 65 of the best ways (under Social Security regulations you could collect 80% of your benefits we can oppose if you quit at 62) , a lot of people don't do it. Moreover, recent National Indus- them is to keep financially strong individually and as a nation. trial Conference Board findings show that many employers — especially in retailing — won't slam the in your face because Buy an extra Bond during the Freedom Bond Drive manufacturing and door of age. Keep freedom in your future with Remember, though, that if you continue working, this may affect your Social Security benefits (until you reach the age of 72 when you're in the U.S. SAVINGS clear no matter what you make). Generally, you'll lose $1 of benefits for every $2 you earn in excess of $1,200 per year up to $1,700. Above that, you BONDS lose $1 for every $1 you earn. It's a good idea to check the situation out with your Social Security board

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MOST PEOPLE, children and grownups,

dislike cod-liver oil but fish love it, says

John J. Jandinski, of Northampton, Mass. Because of its peculiar scent it is now being used as a base in making scent lures for fishing, and you can take advantage of its properties by putting a dab on whatever kind of bait you happen to prefer.

DISTURBING NEWS from the U.S. De- SERIOUS SPIN FISHERMEN who A NON-SKID PLATFORM which can be partment of the Interior tells that the would like to attain expert status will be installed in a boat is described by Guy W. downward trend in the continental water- helped by a new book "The Modern Sci- Doron, Sr., of Vincentown, N.J. The plat- fowl population has reached the lowest ence of Spin-Fishing," by Erne St. Claire, form itself is made of plywood cut to fit point in 11 years. Of the favored hunting an authority in this field. Unlike most the bottom of the boat. This is then stud- species, only the scaup and the Canada this deals with ad- books on the subject, ded with bottle caps placed a quarter-inch goose consistent increases. Mallards techniques, developed "the hard show vanced apart, which are fastened, sharp side up, pintails have a nine-year low. trial error. However, and recorded way," through and with small, flat-head nails which are clinch- black ducks observed is — 256 The number of was the material so presented with ed on the bottom of the board. There will the lowest since 1950. canvasback con- illustrations further clarify it — that The to be no slipping on this platform, he assures tinues to be critically low. there's left guesswork. book nothing to The us. may be obtained from Continental Arms Co., 697 Fifth Ave., New York 22, N. Y., for $2.00 postpaid.

A NEW CARBINE, a .22 caliber autoloader, has been announced by High Stand- ard Manufacturing Co., of Hamden, Conn.

Called the Sport King, it should be available at dealers throughout the U.S. by the time you read this. It has an over-all length of 38'/) inches, and weighs only 5/4 pounds. It has such deluxe touches as a solid brass A HOOLA-HOOP, according to Frank S. plate, a golden trigger and trigger guard, Bower, of Wapato, Wash., makes an ex- leather sporting sling strap, etc. A tubular YOU CAN STEAM life back into flies that cellent casting target. "It works very well under-barrel magazine gives the rifle a ca-, have begun to droop after a winter in the for all lures," he says, "it is cheap, shows pacity of 17 shorts, 14 longs, or 12 long tackle box. Richard Burke, of Lincoln Park, up well, and can be used in a pool, lake, rifle cartridges, and the three sizes may be Mich., who offers this idea, says that the pond, or on land. It also works very well used interchangeably. List price will be fluffiness will return if you heat water in a with snow on the ground." $49.95. teakettle to the boil, and hold the fly in the jet of steam with tweezers. When the A PINE CONE with a coating of alumi- fly looks fluffy enough, remove it. num paint is suggested as a float by Gary Shaw, of Warrensburg, Mo., for night fish- THE CHEAP PLASTIC CASES that come ing. It is easy see in dark, and of to the with sunglasses make an excellent holder course there is no problem of supply. for extra spoons, plugs, etc., that are carried by fishermen. T. F. Gill, of Beeville, Tex., using them, points out that A GOOD CANDLE HOLDER for tent use who suggests don't have several such cases around which can be made quickly with a pocket if you the house, you can get them for a few knife is described by Bill Geagan, of pennies from dealers. Bangor, Maine. You stick the big blade of the knife into one of the poles, and push A WIRE SUIT can be used to the candle down onto the smaller blade HANGER FREDERIC REMINGTON, whose paint- that make a highly practical and versatile target is pointing upward. ings of the Old West have put him in the holder. Mrs. Daniel Graff, of Munhall, Pa., first rank of American artists, is the subject who suggests this, points out that the hook of a new book that will be treasured by his INTRIGUED by the suggestion of E. Fred can be straightened out to serve as a sup- many admirers. Titled "Frederic Reming- Clausner (February) that a snake could be port if you want to stick it in the ground. ton, In the Land of His Youth," it contains killed a by moving gun muzzle in front of (Or you can use the hook as it is to hang a lot of hitherto unpublished material con- the reptile, Victor E. Chartener, of Lans- it from a branch or a line.) The frame itself cerning the early life of the artist. The dale, Pa., comes up with a counterproposal. is bent to form a square and the target is author, Atwood Manley, is a charter mem- Possibly with tongue in cheek, he says that wrapped around it and clipped, pinned or ber of John C. Peggs Post No. 67 of Canton, his method is to approach, or better yet, otherwise attached. N.Y., and the book may be obtained from back off to a distance of eight to 12 feet him at $2.00 a copy. from the snake and aim at a point approximately five inches from his head. "Instinc- A FIRE without matches can be made this feature tively," Vic maintains, "he will strike at without much trouble when you are hunt- If you have a helpful idea for it we'll pay you the bullet, thus, poor beastie, smashing his ing, according to George Stover, of Fallon, send it along. If we can use unable to acknowl- own head." He insists that his method Nev. "You take a cartridge," he says, "and $5.00. However, we are or enter works at night too, since (he says) snakes pry the bullet loose. Be sure not to lose edge contributions, return them them. Ad- are equipped with an infrared mechanism the powder. You then pour the powder into correspondence concerning American Legion which will automatically aim at a heated near some kindling. Then you put the dress Outdoor Editor, The Fifth Ave., York 19, N. Y. band of air preceding a bullet. cartridge in the gun and fire it into your Magazine, 720 New

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Violence shall no more be heard Then shall the earth yield In thy land wasting nor Her increase and God even Destruction within thy borders Our own God shall bless us

Armistice, the central figure in the Liberty Memorial frieze, with war on one side, peace on the other.

Kansas City Rededicates Its Liberty Memorial

program to encourage international understanding, dors from all over the world and surviving veterans of the memories of the great Kansas City American Legion 35th, 42nd and 89th Divisions of World War I. A convention of 1921, and the homecoming dinner for On November 10, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower the Legion's then newly elected Commander Charles Bacon, spoke at the rededication ceremonies about men's hopes for combined to make the November 10-12, 1961 rededication peace, justice and freedom and stated that the Kansas City of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City one of the outstand- Liberty Memorial, originally dedicated to peace rather than

ing memorial events of recent years. war, still symbolized these hopes. The three day affair brought to this city in the central part General Eisenhower told about the reinstituted People-to- of our nation two former United States presidents, ambassa- People program which stresses strengthening friendships between Americans and other (Continued on page 39)

Guests at the 1921 original dedication of the Memo-

rial site were, I. to r: Lt. Gen. Baron Jacques of Belgium, Former President Harry S. Truman was Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower Gen. Diaz of Italy, Marshal Foch of France, General guest of honor at the banquet given in with Joyce C. Hall at the rededication Pershing and Admiral Lord Beatty of Great Britain. Kansas City for Legion Commander Bacon. of the Kansas City Liberty Memorial. Brenda the chimp does a hand stand for Bob-0 the clown makes a hit with the tots, Carmencita, 17 year old trapeze artist, is her owner and trainer, Anna Delmonte. doing his act at the Circus Hall of Fame. noted for her unique balancing routines.

BRINGING BACK TO LIFE Those

Housed in the Circus Hail of Fame

at Sarasota are memorials to some

of the illustrious names and memo-

rable events of bygone circus days.

<—Circus acts are presented daily at Hall of Fame's inside arena; ring curb is relic of '44 Hartford fire.

Life-like marionette shows delight The head of Wallace the lion, who killed 3 of his The Two Hemispheres Bandwagon is the largest children who visit Hall of Fame. trainers before being killed, is displayed here. and most famous of all circus parade wagons. lid-Time Circus Days

ions roar, drums beat, elephants sashay down main street—once more it's Spring and the circus is back IJk in town. So it's been since the 1870's when P. T. Barnum and W. C. Coupe began touring America with a railroad circus show that made circus synonymous with wonderful, fantastic, unbelievable entertainment for all the family. Over the years the "Barnum-Coupe Circus" evolved into the "Barnum and Bailey Circus" and then the "Ringling Bros, and Barnum & today. Bailey" combined circus that we know Entrance building of Circus Hall of Fame in Sarasota, Florida. These impresarios of the big top were responsible for bringing such star performers and attractions as Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale"; tiny Tom Thumb; the mighty lion Wallace and the gorilla "Gargantua the Great" to our stages Circus Hall of Fame by submitting the performer's name to where they joined the roster of legendary greats of the enter- a National Awards Committee. The performer must be re- tainment world. tired for five years or be deceased in order to be eligible. In 1955, a group of circus fans, at the instigation of Col. Since 1956, when the Circus Hall of Fame opened its doors, B. J. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, decided that much of the visitors have been treated to the sight of such mementos as: magic and excitement of those bygone circus days should be the Two Hemispheric Band Chariot, the largest and most preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. Their ef- famous of all circus bandwagons; the world's largest collec- forts resulted in the establishment of a Circus Hall of Fame tion of sunburst wheels of circus parade wagons; Tom in Sarasota, Florida, traditional home of circus performers Thumb's coach presented to him in 1844 by Queen Victoria; when they are not on tour. Jenny Lind's sleigh presented to her by P. T. Barnum and the Here circus memorabilia is displayed and a room has been head of Wallace the lion. set aside to honor the "Greats" of circus history. Among cir- The Circus Hall of Fame combines the best of the circus' cus performers so honored are: wire walker Bird Millman, past with the best of the circus of today by presenting pro- clown Dan Rice, animal trainer Lucia Zora, aerialist Lillian fessional circus acts daily for visitors. Leitzel, flying trapeze artist Alfredo Codona, equestrian For you who have never quite outgrown the thrill of rising James Robinson, story teller "Mickey the Clown" and ring- early and rushing out to the railroad siding to watch the circus master Fred Bradna. animals unloaded, for you who still remember the fun of help- Anyone may nominate a candidate for election to the ing to pitch the circus tents, happy memories and new thrills end PHOTOS BY JOSEPH STEINMETZ are waiting for you at the Circus Hall of Fame. the THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 13 1949 GOLD RESERVE $24,400,000,000 TheN^jow of Gold

How it affects your pocketbook,

A German housewife during that country's disastrous inflation in 1923 burns your job and your future. almost worthless marks to cook a meal.

By LAWRENCE FERTIG 1961 GOLD RESERVE $16,700,000,000 Gold! this magic word has echoed , down the ages of recorded his- quantity are most likely to retain then- For instance, when the Federal Re- tory in countless tongues among value. "Paper" currencies, manufactured public of Germany was emerging from the world's many civilizations. Through- at will, tend to lose their value. the chaos and destruction of WW2 she out history gold has always represented A chart showing the flow of gold into was a poverty-stricken nation with in the minds of people the ultimate in and out of the leading nations of the practically no gold in her treasury. economic security. In good times and world can be compared to a fever chart Under the guidance of her Economics bad, gold has rewarded its owners with of a patient striving to get well. And this Minister Ludwig Erhard she started on the ability to instantly command the flow of gold has a direct bearing upon the road to recovery by establishing goods and services of the world. the economic well-being of every citi- sound economic principles. Germany

In modern times the British econo- zen. It affects his job, the purchasing vowed never to inflate her currency and mist, John Maynard Keynes, dismissed gold as a "barbarous relic" of the past

and asserted with unwarranted certainty BILLIONS OF AMERICAN DOLLARS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO SUCH AS THESE I

that it represented an "outworn dogma." But another British economist, Roy Har- rod, who wrote a very sympathetic biography of Keynes, disagreed and more nearly expressed the truth when he said that "The collective wisdom of mankind has assigned a certain role to gold ... it may not be a perfect device,

but on the whole it is a remarkably good one." Today, as in ages past, nations strive to accumulate gold in their national Tito of Yugoslavia Gomulka of Poland Toure of Guinea Nkrumah of Ghana Nehru of India treasuries. Theorists arise from time to time who assert that gold can be dis- power of his weekly salary, the current her tax laws encouraged thrift, work missed except as a metal for industrial value of his savings and the future value and investment in industry. As a result, use. But nevertheless, the world goes on of the money which he or his govern- she became the most prosperous nation with its money closely linked to gold ment has set aside to help support him in in Europe and today the Federal Re- because people everywhere, as in all his- his old age. public has in her treasury over $3.8 tory, recognize it as a means of storing When a nation permits itself to be billion of gold (and approximately an value for the future and retaining value weakened by economic ills, gold flows equal amount of dollars which, as we for the present. Currencies which are from its treasury in more or less rapid shall see in a moment, are used in in- linked to gold and therefore limited in fashion — the fever chart points up. ternational exchange just like gold). When a nation achieves economic On the other hand, the United States,

Lawrence Fertig is a columnist for the World-Tele- health, it attracts more of the world's which had over $24 billion of gold in gram and Sun and other Scripps-Howard newspapers. Author, "Prosperity through Freedom." gold — the fever chart points down. its treasury immediately after the war,

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 mine the world's confidence in our currency — then there would not only be a national crisis, but there would be a world crisis.

The reason is that every important nation of the non-communist world em- ploys dollars as the equivalent of gold for the foundation — the base — of its monetary system. Thus if the dollar,

because of special weakness, is devalued by action of the United States unilater-

ally — if it becomes worth less in relation to gold and other major currencies — the treasury of every important nation of the West will suffer a great loss.

More important still, the confidence of the world in the United States would suffer a severe shock. Foreign trade would be confused and curbed because its basic unit of exchange — the dollar — would be under a cloud. People would be apprehensive about the dollar's future value. The implications would be not only economic, they also would be political and would affect our military alliances.

WHO CAN GET U.S. GOLD

Under our law the U.S. Treasury is empowered to sell gold at $35 an ounce Gold at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Each brick is worth $14,000. to foreign governments and foreign Cen- tral Banks (such as the Bank of Eng- land, the Bank of France, etc. These took a different path. It followed the not want the price of gold to rise in free Central Banks correspond in a way to inflation formula. As a result, when markets and the dollar to become weak. our Federal Reserve System). This law

Europe no longer was in dire need of So the authorities have made it illegal does not apply to individuals. everything we produced, she demanded for United States citizens either to buy The U.S.. Treasury also buys gold gold for many of the dollars she had ac- gold abroad or to exchange their dol- mined by domestic companies at the cumulated. lars for gold over here. same fixed rate. (Last year this amounted Our gold supply has steadily declined But the link between the dollar and to $53 million.) until today it is near a danger point. gold internationally is so close that if Many eminent economists assert that We have approximately $16.7 billion of anything should happen to the dollar — this $35-per-ounce price for gold today gold and we have steadily lost some of if our economic policies should under- (Continued on page 46) it every few months. We have been los- ing gold because we have not, in the eyes of the world, successfully fought our economic ills. Our fever chart some- ARE WE HEADED FOR THIS ? times flattens out for a few months, but it is still rising, and if continued, will reach a crisis point.

LINK BETWEEN GOLD AND THE DOLLAR

Today the significant fact about gold is that it is linked to the dollar throughout the non-communist world. But that link has been broken for the citizens of the United States. It is illegal for United States citizens to own gold either here or abroad. They cannot — as citizens of other nations can — express their preference for gold over dollars. It appears that our government is fearful of how American citizens might act if they were free to change dollars for gold in a free gold market, such as the one that exists in London. Our government does

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 15 *

By Vice Admiral

HUGH H. GOODWIN,

U.S. Navy (Ret.) We keep hearing that th

F STATISTICS ARE THE ESSENCE of i truth there is no hope for the younger generation. Headlines scream of muggings, knifings, rapes, and brutal assaults against defenseless women and helpless old men. A wave of "cop fighting" N *"*« which is sweeping the nation's largest cities has been reported by newspapers and periodicals from coast to coast. The latest FBI report flatly states that teen-agers were arrested in 64 percent of the country's automobile thefts, 52 percent of its burglaries, 49 percent of

its larcenies, and 26 percent of its rob-

beries. In a current article J. Edgar Hoover calls for vigorous measures to curb young hoodlums, and to awaken lethargic and disinterested citizens to fight for the preservation of law and order in their communities. "Goon girls" are joining up with the boys" gangs in the big cities and some sociologists believe their influence is a A stereotype of modern youth is driving incentive to the increase in juve- the vicious punk whose activities are nile crime. New York City has an esti- reflected in juvenile crime figures. mated 3,000 "Debs" in its girl gangs, which exist as auxiliaries to the several Too often we overlook the fine — hundred organized gangs of boys. young people, in uniform and out, who are the hope of our country. Speeches and articles announce that patriotism is dead— a thing of the past. The New York Times recently drama- tized the grumblings of the 920th Trans- pend upon in these dangerous times. they do, and the causes they espouse. portation Company as it mustered in That being the case, they think, maybe Many of their basic problems stem from the west Bronx for recall to active duty, we'd better try for the best terms we can resentment born of frustration over in- and quoted one of the old-timers as say- get from the Kremlin. This attitude adequate housing, unemployment, racial ing, "It was 1,000 percent better in 1940 might be called the Americanized ver- tensions, real or fancied discrimination with the young men than it is today." sion of the "Better Red than Dead" doc- —the hundreds of problems created or The city slums, with their minority trine of despair which threatens to get aggravated by the shift of population groups, idleness, and poverty are made a foothold in Britain. from the country to the cities and towns. to order for agitators. Some police offi- However, the simple fact is that this In the past 70 years the population of cials believe the incidents in the current is an utterly false and distorted picture, the nation has tripled, and the ratio of wave of "cop fighting" are planned and not the image of America and American two persons on the land for every one incited by communist agents, particular- youth. It is a reflection of the night- in the cities has been reversed. In 1960, ly when the crowds begin to chant their marish conditions in the big city slums, the urban communities accounted for battle cry. "police brutality," before anywhere youth, subjected to the terrible 70 percent of the people, while only 30 thing has happened. Another significant tensions of economic need and racH percent remained in the rural areas. factor is that the incidents usually occur and class antagonisms, fight viciously There are no adequate plans, as yet, to in the big cities— New York, Chicago, among themselves and look upon any cope with this change in population Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles— outsider as fair prey. The beatniks are density and its attendant issues. where they are assured of maximum still another face of this unreal com- The problems created by the concen- news coverage. posite of today's youth. Scornful of the tration of people in the cities are beyond With the recurrence of incidents in- ideals and traditions which are a part of the scope of this article. In the first volving vicious teen-agers, some people their American heritage, they are omi- place, they are applicable to people of have come to believe that this is modern nously susceptible to radical doctrines all ages. In the second place, they are youth. They are fearful of the future if of thought, speech and action. tied up with basic economics, automa- these young hoods and their tough molls There is a grave danger in the over- tion, job opportunity, and a host of are the Young America we have to de- emphasis on these groups, the things sociological questions which must be

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 younger generation is pretty bad and getting worse, but here for a change are

Sc kind wordsjbr YOUTH

No problems are posed by these American Legion Baseball players.

The Navy is counting on intelligent young George Raspen has a definition men such as Willie Page, GSSN, left, and of patriotism that lays stress Frank Miller, GS2, shown checking a missile. on his personal responsibility.

solved in the interest of promoting a few turncoats who succumbed to com- healthy national atmosphere. The par- munist brainwashing in the Korean War ticular effect of these concentrations, as to support his case. These things are in were applied to juvenile behavior, is being at- true—they are statistics. But to quote D. C. Hafen's marks boot camp so high that he was upgraded. He was tacked by such groups as the Boys' Havelock Ellis, "The methods of statis- trained as an Electronics Technician. Clubs of America, Girl and Boy Scouts, tics are so variable and uncertain, so apt The American Legion, YMCA and to be influenced by circumstances, that

YWCA, Police Athletic Leagues, and it is never possible to be sure that one arms with the British Empire.

Catholic, Jewish and Protestant youth is operating with figures of equal No one of sound mind would con- organizations. J. Edgar Hoover outlined weight." tend that all is well in the world, or that the activities of these groups in an in- Boiled down to everyday language, any generation has been without its prob- spiring article, "These Fighters Against Ellis meant: You can prove anything lems. We live in crucial times—of course

Youth Crime Need Your Help," in the with statistics. we do. But it does not belittle the gravity Reader's Digest for April 1961. If belief in the infallibility of statistics of the situation to take stock of our as-

Every detractor of modern youth is was a part of our tradition, the North sets, to find confidence, inspiration, and

convinced of his facts. He can cite case American Continent would still be made some measure of comfort from the

histories to prove each and every con- up of British Colonies; it was a mathe- knowledge that our fundamental clusion. One writer contends that patri- matical impossibility for the Thirteen strengths are still with us. And I believe otism is dead, and quotes the cases of a Colonies to be victorious in a contest of (Continued on page 48)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 17 PROCONWASHINGTON

THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE: Should United States Aid B

ments of wheat. This kind of foreign aid makes no PRO sense, except to communists. The United States seems bent on rating the interests of the "neutral" nations above those of our allies. The Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) most favored group are the countries the UN has la- beled "underdeveloped." I have long contended that in When our allies have their property stolen by neu- giving aid — military or eco- tral aggressors, all they get from the United States is nomic — the most generous alan expression of sympathy. The neutrals go on receiv- locations should go to friends ing American handouts. and allies who have demonstrated reliability and will- In the case of Portuguese-owned Goa, seized by ingness to resist the enemies of freedom. Others should India, the much-stressed right of self-determination receive aid only if it is clearly demonstrated the grants was ignored. Yet there has been no disposition on the actually strengthen American security. part of our Government to cut down aid for "neu- Our attitude toward non-communist nations should tralist" India, the recipient of $2 billion in assistance. be determined with a greater emphasis on their friend- The list of places where our aid will do us no good or ship for the United States and their willingness to op- be used to advance communist objectives is too long pose communist objectives, rather than on the level to detail. The fact is, we are squandering America's of their living standard and the nature of their domes- substance and endangering our currency and econ- tic policies. omy by aiding many wrong countries and wrong I believe that our foreign aid program should be causes. handled so as to promote our own strategic interests In the present world crisis, freedom must be our and advance the cause of freedom throughout the first concern. We can guarantee nothing unless we world. Our interests, I believe, require an immediate retain our economic strength. scaling down of foreign aid because of its dangerous Our foreign aid managers will soon have to recog- adverse effect on the international balance of pay- nize that it is not possible to fight communism by ments. strengthening communist nations; that it is not possi- I suggest we begin by cutting the aid presently going ble to buy the support of "neutrals"; that the mere fact to communist countries. Take Yugoslavia, for exam- of underdevelopment does not present us with a moral ple. Here is a country that, without doubt, would side obligation to rebuild whole nations. with the Soviet in any East-West showdown. Yet we already have given Yugoslavia $2 billion and are getting ready to send more. We've given Tito jet planes and plan to send him a nuclear reactor and huge ship-

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

big issue, tear out the "ballot" on the facing page and mail it to him >

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 THE BIG ISSUES

Limited To Friendly Nations ?

our efforts to give peoples around the world — "neutralist," "non-aligned," or even communist-controlled CON — an alternative to poverty and exploitation. In South Viet Nam and Latin America, to cite two examples, we Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) are properly making social and economic reforms a prerequisite for U.S. assistance. We cannot help pre- dangerous status quo just because a few self- support foreign aid because serve a I proclaimed friends say we must. of its long-term, strategic I believe, as the Senate voted last year, that "special significance. Each carefully- attention consideration" should be given those spent foreign aid dollar will re- and countries which share our view of the world situation. pay itself many times over in national security. I also believe that aid to communist Poland and Yugo- But should we limit our aid to "friendly" nations? slavia has served the national interest under both the Take Latin America, for instance. No region is more Kennedy and Eisenhower Administrations. Our aid vital to our security, yet none is more vulnerable to primarily agricultural — in communist subversion. The Latin American masses, to these countries has been Yugoslavia's case, 52 percent; in Poland's case 99.99 caught between extremes of poverty and wealth, are of grain eloquently to ripe for upheaval. percent. Our bushels speak more these proud peoples than propaganda. The cancer of communism in this hemisphere has The communists themselves give foreign aid to re- to be excised, but we have all seen how hard it is to gimes which share their view of the world make some governments grasp the surgeon's knife. by no means situation. their targets are the people, This makes the Alliance for Progress program more Why? Because and through the people, the world. Without being cyni- urgent. We must strengthen these vulnerable nations. cal, we, too, must understand the use of this cold war Misery arouses our sympathy, but as a nation we tactic. We must not judge an aid recipient exclusively have to think first of our national security. To achieve by his vote at the U. N. Our criterion is whether aid to this goal, we are diverting a small percentage of our given country tends to national enormous gross national product into prudent, well- a promote independence, political freedom, and a better life for the peo- managed foreign aid. The object is not to buy new ple. Does it weaken communist influence? Above all, friends or to keep old, but to create the conditions of does it help us display the fruits of freedom. equality under which genuine friendship can take root. us fight the cold — Our prosperity will be worth nothing unless the under- Let war and the war for human dignity — with all the economic diplomatic developed countries get the chance to develop their and resources at our command. own national institutions on a basis of cultural and political independence. Because of the communist threat, we must redouble

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

IN MY OPINION THE U.S.

I have read in The American Legion Magazine for May SHOULD Q SHOULD NOT LIMIT AID TO FRIENDLY NATIONS the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: "Should SIGNED. United States Aid Be Limited to Friendly Nations?" ADDRESS.

TOWN -STATE.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 19 WHY SOLDIERS TME 9W By OLLIE STEWART

I'll be back— if it's the last thing I do!" If I heard it once during World War II, I heard it a hundred times. You heard it too, wherever you entimentol were. Maybe you even said it, and meant it— and, at some time during the past 16 or so years, maybe you've actually taken off for some place you had to go back to. If so, you were running true to form. If not, you probably just couldn't make it. For, while you were racking up

Hitler and Tojo, there must have come to you, as it did to everybody else who wore dog tags, a moment when one oume place or one person made you hanker to dig in and linger awhile. It was true of generals and privates alike. It was

Have you ever wanted to revisit those places you knew when there was a war on?

Most famous of the returnees was Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In 1959 President Eisenhower visited his apartment at Culzean Castle.

even true of unsentimental sergeants. dream come true, with varying results. They were doing something special for But since the show had to go on— Take Joe Napoli. Because of Joe, an somebody they loved — a GI who came tanks and trucks rolling at dawn, foot- unusual ceremony took place in the back as he said he would! sloggers moving out, and artillery lob- town of Comblain-La-Tour, Belgium, on While fighting to liberate Comblain- bing the big ones—there was nothing to July 1, 1961. Everybody from miles La-Tour, Joe Napoli got banged up so do but cling to a dream that, in most around came to see the town's main badly, they thought for a time he cases, went like this: square get a new name—Times Square. wouldn't make it. But he did. And while

"What wouldn't I give to see Oki- And they were really shook up when an recuperating in the town, he found the nawa, Tokyo, Rheims, Paris, Sorrento, authentic Times Square sign—sent from people so kind that he vowed to return or that sweet, little Maria again! And New York by Manhattan Borough Pres- one day and thank them. It took a long one day I'll sure as hell make it. Not to ident Edward Dudley—was unveiled on time, and he thought about it a lot, but stay, just to say hello to the people and one corner of the re-christened square. when he finally managed to make his find out what I missed the other time!" None of the local people had ever seen way back, he had more to say than, "It's

A lot of old soldiers have made that New York, but it made no difference. good to be here again." He had an idea

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 Joe Napoli's big idea was to give the town square of Comblain-La-Tour a new name and to help the people financially.

to propose, and, the way he figured, it where he jumped with the paratroopers made a vow heard around the world. He should put Comblain-La-Tour on the on D-Day. Gen. Eisenhower couldn't flatly declared: "/ shall return!" map. resist seeing England again, and the It took him three years, but he did it. He figured right. The idea became British people showed their gratitude by On January 9, 1945, he waded dramatic- reality in July 1959, when Joe Napoli giving him a permanent home in the ally ashore at Lingayen Beach, leading a staged the first annual World Festival of Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire Coast of revenge-hungry military force that pro- Jazz—right there in the little town. He'd Scotland. But for sheer drama, few ceeded to sweep the sons of Nippon from sold his idea to top musicians through- things can match the "returns" of Gen. the Philippines. out the world—not just to American Big Douglas MacArthur. Defeated early in And then came his sentimental jour- Names—and from France, Holland, Ger- the last war at Corregidor and Bataan. neys. In 1946. he went back to be the many, Denmark, and Britain they came and forced to flee by submarine to avoid principal speaker at the first independ- on the double with their instruments. capture by the Japanese. MacArthur ence ceremonies of the Philippine Islands Jazz fans naturally followed. And so —and was almost mobbed by the joyful each year, for the past three years, some- people. And last year, in July, he made thing like 30,000 people have flocked to what may be his last visit to the islands. the town for two days in July—and they Whether it is or not, this latest visit will spend more money than the merchants not soon be forgotten. lay hands on for the rest of the year! First of all, the 81 -year-old General of Joe Napoli's dream has thus resulted the Army arrived at Manila International in more than just a trip back. He's now Airport in a special military jet provided an honorary citizen of Comblain-La- by President Kennedy. And as the Old Tour and can't count all his friends in a Soldier marched down the ramp, accom- dozen or more countries. In a way, his panied by his wife, he got a tumultuous contribution in peacetime is more sig- welcome— "the kind usually reserved for nificent than the one he made when he Chiefs of State." according to the Associ- carried a gun. His adopted town is living ated Press. He was met by President and better today than ever before. The Times Mrs. Carlos Garcia. Top government Square sign gives Uncle Sam steadfast officials and members of the foreign dip- friends-across-the-sea. And, because of lomatic corps were on hand. The airport Joe's unselfish example, fewer people in was splashed with American and Philip- Europe are inclined to regard all Ameri- pine flags, and full military honors were cans with a jaundiced eye. given the returning hero.

Generals ?o bnck too! The following day, July 4, wearing his One of the first things Gen. James M. Roy introduced himself to the battered wartime campaign cap and mili- Gavin did, after arriving as Ambassador man he had once befriended. All tary uniform. Gen. MacArthur paid a to France, was to revisit Normandy he got in return was a blank look. (Continued on page 44)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 21 By H. C. NEAL

Bracing himsklf in jump position at the exit door of the lead aircraft, the grim-faced officer leaned outward to intently scan the ground helow. He was oblivious to the slipstream which ripped at his face and clothing. Forward up the aisle from the colonel, twin lines of combat-loaded paratroopers stood tensely at the ready, awaiting the green light which would send them leaping at full tilt from the plane. Be- tween the lines of jumpers, 18 cargo packs swung from the drop cable which ran overhead to the open belly hatch. Strung out behind the craft in a standard vee of vees were 17 other troop carriers, the U.S. Air Force's famed "fly-

mind, stocky, open-faced Col. Kenneth W. Boker was known in airborne circles as a good "book soldier" whenever prac- ticable. But he had also built a reputation for rewriting the rules any time circumstances warranted. At the age of 34, he had been a parachutist for years and was possessed of one of the most out- Watchers cursed bitterly as the heavy artillery pieces crashed. ing boxcars," each crammed with men Three nearby enemy soldiers rushed—* and machines of war. It was shortly after the American with fixed bayonets. noon of a late October day in 1950 as the planes droned steadily over the val- leys and hills of North Korea. The colonel ducked back from the rushing wind momentarily, shook his head to clear his eyes, then, still grip- ping the door with whitened knuckles, again thrust the upper portion of his body out into the vicious slipstream. "This flashing moment before the jump is the longest year of a man's life," he thought. Endowed with an analytical

This story is based on incidents that happened during the Korean War but the author has avoided using actual names or identifying the unit. His reason-: The "Col. Boktr" of the piece would "come roaring out of retirement to scalp us" if he were publicized as a hero.

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 standing individual combat records of The intelligence officer, a precise

World War II. young captain, gestured toward the sand Abruptly the near edge of the drop table mock-up. "There is your drop P' zone came into view. zone, Colonel. It runs almost due east- YON GYANG

An instant later the green light flashed west and is bounded on the north, as you on and simultaneously the jump master can see, by a fairly high ridge of hills. slapped the colonel on the buttocks. It's a good long valley, should give you "Let's get it!" Boker shouted, and around 40 seconds flying time — plenty plunged out the door. Instinctively he enough to get your people out of the The area in which the Colonel twisted to face the tail of the plane and planes handily." tried out his "Boker's bluff." ducked, allowing the parachute to blast Boker checked an important angle of open directly ahead of his hurtling body. the mission with his next question. "And when that cavalry unit neared the city. this is where the roadblock goes up?" he Your roadblock should catch most of You probably read the newspaper asked, pointing. them before they can make the Yalu headlines about that operation at the be- "Yes, Sir," replied the captain, "there River, their prime objective. You'll be

ginning of the first bitter winter of the on the east edge of the drop zone . . . the just a few miles south of it." Korean war. It was a spearhead above road which you will note leads to a pass "We corral these prisoners and hold Pyongyang, some 30 miles deep into en- in the north ridge of hills." He glanced them until the next morning when the emy lines. Col. Boker and his troops around at the circle of Boker's fellow armored elements are supposed to link leapfrogged the lines on a bridge of silk officers — battalion staff, unit command- up with us ... is that it?" queried Boker. and captured more than 1,100 prisoners, ers, and others whom the colonel wanted "That's about the size of it, Colonel. both military and civilian. to be on hand for the briefing. Of course, some of these people will But unless you were there at the time, "Now, who all is supposed to be using probably have gotten past that point by you wouldn't know the full story of "Bo- that road?" one of them asked. the time you get into position. There's ker's bluff"— one of the damnedest hoaxes "High-ranking civilian officials, plus a where your trouble will come from, if in the annals of U.S. military history. few military stragglers. Sir," said the you have any." It kicked off in the briefing tent at the briefing officer. "They've been fleeing "How many troops could be north of airfield near recently-liberated Seoul sev- north out of Pyongyang since last night us by the time we set up shop?" eral days before. ILLUSTRATED BY DOM LUPO (Continued on page 40)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 23 By VLAD EVANOFF

After 30 years of angling and trying almost all the different kinds of fresh and b salt-water fishing, I'm convinced that for the ultimate in exciting sport, thrills and satisfaction, nothing can beat surf fishing.

1 realize that this is a pretty strong statement and many anglers will disagree, especially those who have never had an opportunity to cast a lure into the turbulent surf from our coastal

beaches. However, it has been my experience and observation that once an angler has tried surf fishing and caught a few fish he usually becomes an ardent participant. Dedicated enthusi- asts roam the beaches seeking the finny denizens of the white water. Take my own case. My fishing career started

in the traditional manner when I caught my first sunfish from a fresh-water brook with a tree sapling for a pole, a short length of line and a bent pin for a hook. From there I went on to catch trout, black bass, pickerel, pike, walleyes, catfish and other fresh-water species. Then, a little more than 20 years ago, I caught my first bluefish in the surf, followed a year later by my first striped bass. For several years I for- got all about fresh-water fishing while I concentrated on catching fish from the surf. I traveled to beaches all over the country, and fished with some of the best surf anglers in the nation. Tips ac- pulled big fellows of quired from these anglers plus my own Once you've a few out trial and error experiences added to my surf fishing skill. Surf fishing has been steadily growing in popularity with each passing year. the white water, other fishing often seems tame. About the time that I first started surf fishing only a handful of anglers showed up at the beaches, but now, at the more popular surf fishing spots, you'll find plenty of company, especially on week- son and banish the everyday worries, would put up a tough fight and really ends. Last fall, when the annual Martha's anxieties and trials of modern living. strain their tackle. Such bruisers can be Vineyard Fishing Derby was held, some Then there's the suspense found in found in the surf. The striped bass, one 1,516 anglers from 22 states and Canada the "lure of the unknown." When you of the favorite surf fish along the At- traveled to that island off the Massa- make a cast into the mysterious sea you lantic Coast and parts of the Pacific, chusetts coast to participate in it. can never be sure what you will catch. often reaches 50 or 60 pounds in weight Another noticeable trend about surf For example, one angler in Massachu- and many 25 pounders are taken each fishing is that it no longer attracts only setts was fishing for striped bass and year. The same is true of the channel sportsmen from coastal states or sea- hooked and landed an 180 pound tuna. bass, another popular surf fish found shore areas. Many surf anglers now Other surf anglers fishing in New Jersey along our southern states from Virginia travel hundreds of miles to the beaches had some kind of "'monsters" grab their to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico. to fish on weekends or during their va- lures and take all the line off their reels. They grow to 60 or 70 pounds and 20 cations. They guessed that sharks were to blame to 50 pounders are fairly common. And

Surf fishing is a combination of many but no angler succeeded in landing one if you really want to slug it out with attractions, thrills and pleasures. There's to really find out. The excitement of not big fish there are always sharks which an exhilaration which comes from just knowing exactly what you will catch is run up to 1000 pounds or more and often being down at the beach and watching often lacking in fresh-water fishing where venture within casting distance of the the ever-changing ocean. Spending many biological surveys will reveal exactly beaches. hours at the seashore, the surf angler what kind of fish are present in a lake Of course, size alone is no guarantee sees and observes sights which other and how big they have grown. that such fish will put up a good fight, people miss—colorful sunrises and sun- Many fresh-water fishermen have also but as a general rule most of the fish sets, cloud formations, the greens, blues tired of catching small, puny trout a few found in the surf such as striped bass, and greys of the sea, white-capped waves, inches long or small bass and panfish. channel bass, bluefish, weakfish, king- soaring gulls and terns, flights of ducks For a change of pace they'd like to feel fish or whiting and corbina are tough and geese. All of them help relax a per- something big on their line, a fish which scrappers. At times, surf anglers can

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 always challenging, rarely easy and you really work for your fish. When you do catch a lot of fish or one big fish in the surf, you get a genuine feeling of accom- plishment and satisfaction. When actively fishing, the surf angler is an individualist who is mostly on his own. He must locate the best fishing spot, choose the right lure or bait, cast

it out to reach the fish and then hook

him. He must fight it out with the fish without help. There is no guide, captain or mate to lead him by the hand to the (Continued on page 50)

Time of day is important. As a rule, daybreak and sundown are productive.

also catch albacore, bonito, snook, tai pon and salmon when these fish com inshore in certain areas. Anyone who Experienced anglers look for has caught these fine gamefish knows deep holes, tidal rips, etc. what kind of fight they put up. The same fish caught in the surf fights A concentration of gulls much harder than when hooked from a . WV- or terns is a good sign. boat. Because of shallow water a fish cannot sound and sulk. He usually takes off on a long, fast run which peels line off the reel at an alarming rate. You can't follow a big fish too far in the surf as is often done when fishing from a boat. Instead, you stand your ground and slug it out, giving line when needed, gaining it back when you get a chance. The odds are on the fish. He can snarl your line around a rock, pile or jetty. tackle caused by the waves, currents, He may leap out of the water, roll on rips and undertow. Small wonder then your line or shake his head and throw that a large percentage of the fish the lure. Or he can come in fast and hooked in the surf are lost during the create slack in your line, causing the fight.

hook to fall out. Or he can foul your line Yet this is one of the things that helps around a nearby angler's line. Then make surf fishing a more intriguing Other fishermen can often

there are the additional strains on your sport than other types of fishing. It is tell you about prime spots.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 25 This sign has marked the road Camp American Legion's lagoon on Big Carr Lake mirrors the to health for thousands of Wis- healing serenity of the 17-acre camp that has helped restore ill consin's ill and disabled vets. veterans for 38 years. Cabins extend deep into woods at right.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 A group of patients organizes a pontoon boat fishing So many patients enjoy rock-gardening as a gentle party. They are headed straight for a sandbar where restorer that there's precious little open ground another patient pulled in a big walleye the day before. that is not already being used for this purpose.

A "new" healing science has been

used for 38 years at this Legion camp.

By ROBERT B. PITKIN PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR You could call these scenes "Jim Burns' Dream." Way back in 1922 Burns said that some sort of a rest and recuperation camp — with more of a social than a hospital atmosphere — was needed for many Wisconsin veterans after serious illnesses, or long hospitalizations. Burns, now retired but still active, was from 1919 to 1959 the Wisconsin American Legion's Department (state) veterans Service Officer. The American Legion camp in the Wis- consin North Woods that you see in these pictures was first put in operation as a state Legion project at Burns' suggestion in 1925 — and has been going not only strong, but stronger, ever since. Camp American Legion lies on a narrow strip of land between Big Carr and Little Tomahawk Lakes, near the village of Lake Tomahawk, in Wisconsin's North Lake country, about (Continued on next page)

VA Therapist George Nash treats guests on his vacation.

Convalescing veterans at Camp American Legion are forever finding work to do as the North Woods air perks them up.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 27 (Continued from preceding page) In 1955, the Wisconsin Legion invited It is, of course, the volunteer nature 22 miles northwest of Rhinelander. It is Lcs Root, Chief of Corrective Therapy of the enterprise that does so much with in The American Legion State Forest- at Wood VA Hospital (Milwaukee) to so little. The patients themselves take so called because Wisconsin Legionnaires outline the program of care for the care of their own needs to the limit of in wheel- planted seedlings to reforest it more than camp's patients, and Root accepted the their abilities. Patients who are 40 years ago as a conservation project. job of Rehabilitation Program Director chairs, or blind, don't need full-time paid For four months of the year — June of the camp, as a volunteer sideline. With attendants. The other guests give them to September — the camp continually the camp coordinated with the VA ther- such pushing, wheeling or leading as fishing, has from 40 to 60 medically certified apy program, it is today the pride and they need for boating, or swim- "patients"' or guests — war veterans who joy not only of the Wisconsin American ming and other normal daytime activi- are either discharged from, or on leave Legion, but of the medical staffs of Wis- ties. Meanwhile, the camp finds volun- from, hospitals in Wisconsin. Their stay consin's Wood, Madison and Tomah VA teers who will tend to the more personal

is free — underwritten by the Wisconsin Hospitals. needs of the more helpless. Last sum- American Legion. The guests come and Many of the camp's patients today mer, Mrs. Emma Mclnnis, of Milwau- go in relays, and during a summer become straight from those three hospitals kee, a widowed member of The Ameri- tween 200 and 300 recuperating veterans to enjoy a continuity of their hospital can Legion Auxiliary, spent the entire get real, no-hokum "nature therapy." therapy program after discharge. summer at the camp giving the more They eat meals served from excellent VA therapists come to the camp in re- helpless such attendance as they needed kitchens, often tailored to prescribed lays every summer to spend their vaca- in their own cottages or at mealtimes. diets. They include paraplegics, stroke tions there, giving the patients the ther- The list of other contributors to the and coronary victims, mental patients apy they may still need. For reward, the camp includes the State of Wisconsin who are ready or nearly ready for dis- therapists ask no more than camp privi- for its leasing of the state-owned land on charge, amputees, post-operative cases, leges for themselves and families and the generous terms; many grateful former and victims of numerous other physical professional adventure in non-institu- patients; and numerous Wisconsin firms, misfortunes and serious illnesses. tional post-hospital therapy that the ex- stores and organizations. Lists of dona- The guests have free daily medical perience gives them. tions run for pages in each of Superin- checkups in addition to daily therapy, Much of the camp equipment has tendent Bowen's annual reports. administered according to their needs been donated by Wisconsin Legionnaires In the early days, camp finances crises in Wis- by vacationing VA therapists. They rest, and Legion Posts, and their Auxiliaries. caused periodic Legion camp swim, eat, sleep, talk, joke, fish, hike, The 22 cabins have been "adopted" by consin. On several occasions the garden, go boating, do the light house- Posts, which furnish them and keep was saved by state aid and funds raised keeping of their cottages, play games, them in repair. Much of the work of the by private subscription from Wisconsin enjoy hobbies. Many of them want to camp—such as new construction and re- industry and individuals through the in- Legion- start doing some work in the non-pres- pairs—is done by working parties from fluence of leading Wisconsin sure atmosphere of the camp as a prel- Legion Posts tens or hundreds of miles naires. ude to resuming their own occupations away. Recently, a Legion working party After World War II, Wisconsin's size that and obligations— and they work as much from Little Chute, Wise, came some American Legion reached such state Legion as they want to. 100 miles north and laid a huge concrete it became possible for the operation. At More than anything else, the camp floor for a new therapy building as fast fully to finance the camp the gives them a needed transition from the as trucks could pour the wet mix. In a state Convention, the members of themselves 35^ institutionalized dependency of hospital- 1960, no less than 23 working parties Legion voted to assess dues to run the living to the resumption of life's respon- from Legion Posts all over the state a year additional annual about $1500 sibilities — a transition that has prevent- made improvements or repairs at the camp. This revenue, and ed many of them from relapsing. camp, while many more gave funds or allocated from the sale of Rehabilitation provides all but a few hun- Living at the camp is free and easy. It equipment. stamps, now dred dollars of the $28,000-plus annual has 22 cottages, a main lodge, a hobby Hardly a summer day goes by that shop, a darkroom and loads of other spe- one or more Legionnaires from some budget. American cial equipment which grows and grows part of the state do not drop by to dis- From every angle, Camp of daily by contributions of Legionnaires cuss with Camp Superintendent Hal Legion is an outstanding example can do. and Auxiliaries in the state. It has a Bowen some job that their Posts may what a Legion state organization has small fleet of outboard motorboats and a undertake for the good of the camp. Medically, VA therapist Les Root patients large pontoon boat for the free use of all Bowen, an able camp administrator, and lauded its curative value for the Journal the Asso- guests, on waters loaded with muskies, his wife Helen, manage the camp and on the pages of the of Mental Reha- walleyes, largemouth and smallmouth reside there all year with their children, ciation for Physical and bass. It has a sand beach for fishing, div- using the winter months for necessary bilitation. (July-Aug. 1958). ing, swimming and loafing, and two camp overhauls, purchasing, accounting, Legionwise, the camp has stood the piers for the same. reporting and preparing for the next sea- test of time as a paragon of the practical In recent years, medical science — and son. expression of American Legion doctrine, the Veterans Administration in particu- The Bowens are the camp's sole full- which-after 37 years of operation-en- lar — have recognized that there is a defi- time staff. Other paid help includes joys more Legion support than when it nite medical need for the kind of post- kitchen and other summertime employ- was enthusiastically started in 1925. hospital experience that such a camp ees. The whole project is governed by an But the best measure of all is what it provides. What Jim Burns felt by the seat unpaid Legion board of directors on an does to those who need its benefits. Lord of his pants in 1922 has now become a annual budget of about $28,000 a year, help you, poor reader, if you are ever truly scientific branch of medical therapy provided entirely by the Wisconsin cornered by a Wisconsin veteran who, hospital, called Physical Medicine and Rehabili- American Legion. That is a fantastically after long, long months in a tation. low figure for a medically-involved rest was eased back to the tensions and obli- Now that science has caught up with camp which in a season affords about gations of normal life through the bridge the intuition of the Wisconsin Legion- 4,000 patient-days care, and has been of Wisconsin's Camp American Legion. naires of 40 years ago, Camp American able to show a cost of less than $7 per You won't get a word in edgewise. Legion has really come into its own. patient-day on occasion. THE END

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 . . .

VETERANS _, NEWSLETTER MAY 1962

CP; A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

HOUSE PASSES their admission eligibility . . . It proposes COMPENSATION INCREASE: to create a class of eligible but deferred The House of Representatives passed HR applicants for care, based on VA estimates

10743 on April 2, granting increases in of their economic status. . . .To "Newsletter"

compensation to war-disabled veterans. . the proposed deferred class of eligible Next stop for the bill is the Senate... veterans has the look of a gimmick to deny Legion supported the bill with reservations care to an indefinite, but sure, percentage

(see earlier story on page 31) . of veterans who are eligible under the law. . The courses of illnesses do not revise HOUSE OK'S NEW INSURANCE themselves to conform to delays based on

PLAN FOR WWI VETS WITH economic formulae. . .Deferment on a non- GI TERM POLICIES: medical basis is guaranteed to mean no care

A bill to save WWI vets from the dilemma at all in many instances. . .The VA may feel a of having held GI insurance (USGLI) in term real need to create a new class of priorities form too long passed the House on April 2 among eligibles for hospital admission

. . .The bill would permit exchanging the where there are hospital waiting lists. . prohibitively expensive (in later years) But it would make sense only if the formula term policies for new "endowment at age 96" for priority were based upon medical urgency policies. ..It would fix the premium rate as . . .However, at present the VA proposal to of the date of exchange, thus preventing the establish priorities among waiting patients cost from skyrocketing every five years is based entirely upon a dollar-formula

. . .Vets would give up the privilege of devised by VA. . .As the proposed deferred maturing the policies for disability while class would be among veterans already legally living. . .Exchange could only take place at admissible with respect to their i nability age 65 or later. . .Legion supports the bill to pay for their own care , the Legion has

. . .Now it goes to the Senate. advised the VA that it also believes the proposed deferment formula to be illegal. BILL TO CREATE SUPER VETS-MEDICAL-BOARD BILLS TO RENEW PATENTS PASSES HOUSE: ON LEGION EMBLEMS: A bill to create a non-VA medical board, Sen. John McClellan (Ark.) has intro- with the power of overriding VA denials of duced bills to extend for 14 years the patents service-connection of veterans' disabili- protecting the emblems of The American ties, passed the House on April 2. . .Because Legion, The American Legion Auxiliary and of its technical knowledge of what is the Sons of The American Legion. . . The present involved, the Legion believes the govern- patents will expire within a year. ment would be sorry if the bill becomes law, even though there would be instances in VETS WANT TO KNOW which such a board would render judgments ABOUT GI INSURANCE REOPENING: the Legion would applaud. Q. What has become of the Legion's bill asking that WW2 insurance be reopened so that VA HOSPITAL ADMISSION insurable vets who have no GI insurance or PROPOSALS QUESTIONED: less than $10 ,000 worth might be able to Veterans Administration is revising its take it out? hospital admission procedures for veterans A. At presstime for these words , the bill with non-service-connected illnesses. . .It remained in the House Vets Affairs Committee is adding emphasi s to that part of the ap- Q. They say there is no justification for plication dealing with a patient ' s inability reopening the GI insurance, since the vets to pay for his own care ... It has added a staff had plenty of time to take it out during and of specialists to interview veterans on after the war... Yet the first time I knew I

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couldn't take it out was when I applied ten . . . As a result , nearly 90% of all VA pensions years ago... What happened? go to WWI vets. . . If you' re badly disabled

A. About eleven years ago, Congress cut and have a limited income , inquire further short the right to take out the insurance of your Legion service officer, no matter without a moment ' s grace . . .One day you could, your war or your age. . .If you're over 65, no the next day you couldn' t . . . The Legion' matter your war, do the same if you're bill asks a limited time , to grant , in effect slightly disabled and your income is quite the warning period that was not provided small. when the right to the insurance was cut short Q. Does anything prevent benefits for

. . .At that time, many of the eligibles were vets' widows from being "racketized" by such in school or in j ob- training or were just gimmicks as deathbed marriages solely to starting their families, and lacked the qualify for widows' benefits? income to undertake a full insurance program A. Yes. . . .In the absence of a child the

. . . Even so , many of them would have acted marriage must have occured at least five fast if they'd known that the right to the years before the death, or, in the case of insurance was to be withdrawn. . .But they Korea vets, before Feb. 1, 1965... The Korea weren' t even given time to act fast. . .There exception acknowledges the "normalcy" of a is resistance in Congress to reopening the marriage of less than five years where the insurance and vets who were trapped by the couple is young... The 5-year rule does not, abrupt cutoff will serve their own interests of course, deny a widow GI insurance pro- by writing their Congressmen on behalf of ceeds when she is the named beneficiary, but getting the fair chance that was denied them. it does apply to all gratuitous rather than contractual VA widows' benefits. LEGION POLICY COMMISSIONERS Q. A 100% war-disabled vet next door has VISIT EUROPE HOTSPOTS: in addition to his basic compensation, been A party of 80 members of The American getting extra for his dependent (under 18)

Legion National Security and Foreign Rela- son. . .Now the son is 18 and wants to go to tions Commissions flew to Europe at their college. . .It seems to me the dependency own expense, April 9, for on-the-spot study still exists while the son is in college, of Berlin and NATO military installations and the father's extra allowance shouldn't in Europe. . .Pan American Airlines christ- be cut off. . . If it is , it ' 11 be an awful ened a DC-7C "Clipper American Legion" for load on a badly disabled vet with a boy in the trip. college A. Tell him to advise the VA that his son VETS Q & A: is going to college .... If it's an approved Q. A guy wants to bet me that the U.S. school, the extra compensation will pays benefits to widows of soldiers who continue , while he ' s enrolled , until he ' s 21 fought against the U.S. armed forces. . Q. When my WW2 vet husband died in 1955,

What ' s he got up his sleeve? I couldn' t get a widow' s pension for myself A. The few remaining widows of Confeder- and children because my husband hadn' t had ate veterans, who have been eligible for a war-disability. Now somebody tells me I VA benefits since 1958. should reapply. Has there been a change ?

Q. When the Veterans Administration A. In 1960 the rule was changed. . admits a veteran to a VA hospital , does this Assuming your deceased husband met the automatically make his family eligible for service requirements, absence of a war- cash benefits while he's hospitalised? disability will no longer bar you from a

A. No family cash benefits accrue from widow' s pension. . .The amount of your income the admission of the breadwinner to a VA will be the determining factor. . .However, if hospital you are remarried you would not be pension-

Q. Is it true that there is no pension eligible in any event. . .But minor children for WWI vets when they get on in years? (under 18) of your deceased husband may be

A. Yes and no. . .More than a third of WWI eligible even if remarriage has ruled you out vets are now pensioned by the VA. . .But there . . .To see if you or the children meet all is no pension just for age or just for a requirements in detail, check with your particular war. . .Veterans' pensions for all nearest Legion Post Service Officer. wars this century are based on disability and Q. A local editorial screams against limited income, regardless of the war of "millions of vets' wives and children get- service. . .After 65, age is recognized as ting free care in VA hospitals. " Do they? providing 90% of the disability requirement A. Rubbish !.. .None do.

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 OF THE EWS AMERICAN LEGION AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS MAY 1962

The Legion does not oppose it solely Compensation Bill Moves, because the scale makes no sense. The Legion does not oppose it solely because it underpays all war-disabled But Keeps Faulty Scale veterans who are less than 100% disabled — according to the most scientific evalu- War-disabled veterans need a cost-of- power because the alternative would be ation of their average impairment. living increase in their monthly compen- to set a different compensation rate for The Legion also opposes it because sation. It's overdue. The Legion is all for each war-disabled veteran. That would the Legion is jealous of the reputation for it. The most-favored bill in Congress be just plain expensive murder Uncle of the U.S. veterans program. this year to grant it is HR 10743, which Sam, with 1,991,856 individual rates to For years, amateur analysts have cleared the House Veterans Affairs Com- set. (That's how many vets are walking rushed into print with unsound criti- mittee in mid-March. or lying around right now with compen- cisms of that program. The Legion has The Legion supports the bill. Unhap- sable war-disabilities.) answered and defended it against every pily, it does not support it wholeheart- When a veteran is rated 90% disabled, half-baked assault. But the compensa- edly, but only with reservations — and that means — and only means — that his tion scale is susceptible to sound criti- intelligent analyst. it's no fun for the leading veterans or- disabilities, on the average, impair earn- cism by any The ganization to have to hem and haw on a ing capacity 90% as much as disabilities scale is more than an unexplainable ap- question of supporting needed increases rated "total" would impair it. According plication of the U.S. veterans program. in the discharge of our permanent debt to the only formula in existence, he It is self-contradictory. The Legion to our war-disabled. should receive 90% of the "total" rate. couldn't defend it. disabled Trouble is HR10743 continues and But 79.5% is what he is allowed. Conceivably, vets rated 90% further distorts an illogical, unexplain- What goes for the 90%-disabled holds might deserve less than 90% of total able, self-contradictory non-formula for for all others who are less than 100% compensation because their disabilities determining what veterans with different disabled. They are not paid in propor- had been overrated. But nobody has degrees of war-disability shall receive tion to the scale, and there is no known seriously contended that this is so. per month. The unthinking can shout analysis to explain the actual compen- Should that be shown, the remedy and holler for the bill without reserva- sation paid to the war-disabled who are would be to revise the rating schedule, tion, thus "proving" that they are the rated from 10% to 90% disabled. which was constructed by experts in the real champs of the disabled vets. The HR 10743 provides increases up and field. But the 90%-disabled are paid taciturn (in this case) Legion can only down the scale, and that's good. But the 79.5% without a peep from anyone that grumble that it goes along because if new figures throw the "formula" even the rating schedule is wrong, let alone this doesn't pass there obviously won't further out of whack. that 90% is not only wrong, but is exactly be any increase this year. The Legion The Legion opposes a scale which de- 10.5% too high. will probably get kicked in the pants for nies the meaning of the very terms on The usual defense of the present non- its hesitation, the usual short-run penalty which it is structured. system is much less scientific. It is: "I'm for being right. Legionnaires are advised to smile when that happens. Anybody who supports this bill without reserva- PROCLAIMING LEGION BIRTHDAY tion endorses something that's wrong. The Legion has grown strong in the long run by sticking to what's right even when called names. Why does a veteran who is 90% war- disabled receive only 79.5% of the compensation that a 100% disabled vet gets, instead of 90%? There is no logical answer, and the terms of that question con- tradict themselves. The amount of compensation paid to war-disabled veterans is supposed to be based upon average loss of earning capacity for the particular disabilities. Some vets with the same disabilities suffer more or less in earning capacity, so you can always find a case of two vets with the same disability but wide dis- parities in their earning power. But this isn't in question. The is War disabilities are compensated ac- American Legion's 43rd Birthday occurred in March. Here Mayor Frank McDonald as he proclaimed Legion Birthday Week in Evansville, Ind., flanked by members of four cording to "average impairment" rather Evansville Posts. L. to r., Frank Schaal and James Girten (Post 8); Carl Niehauss (Post than individual impairment of earning 265); Mayor McDonald; William Goeble (Post 187), and Melvin Roush (Post 354).

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in favor of the more seriously disabled addition served a tour of duty in Korea, envisioned as a swift war of movement veterans getting the most compensation." 1950-52. Thus the 53rd volume to be into a duplicate of the frightful stale- Amen! The abandoned formula not published, which is by Blumenson, just mated attrition of WWI.

only did that, but did it in direct and came off the presses on April 5, 1962, Therefore it is fitting that more than unchallenged proportion to the serious- though it is the Normandy breakout half of the volume details the eruption ness of the disability. story. from Normandy. It starts with the The Legion supports HR10743 - but It lists for $10.25, and can be ordered hedgerow-country dilemma, proceeds

if you read that it does so with clear from Sup't of Documents, U.S. Gov't through General Bradley's conception reservations, you'll know why. Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. of Operation Cobra, then traces Cobra's miraculous from Army WW2 History (It is not Vol. 53, for they don't have evolution a planned Smashing Across France numbers) breakthrough southwest toward the At- lantic port of Brest to a complete break- The only trouble with the U. S. Its title is Breakout and Pursuit. It is out and chase east through Paris to the Army's histories of its operations in part of a subseries called "The European German border. \V\V2 is that they are so slow to come Theater of Operations." The whole 80- If you were there, it differ- and so expensive to own. odd volume project is in turn called makes no ence if you were a staff officer or an in- This is a "trouble" only because they "The United States Army in World War fantry private; a are so magnificently and painstakingly II." Publisher: Office of the Chief of support fighter-bomber crewman or — 's done that one would want to own them Military History, Dep't of the Army. a tankman Blumenson history will show you in detail the big all and devour them as fast as possible. Breakout and Pursuit is, in short, the picture of what you were doing. You The Army plan is to publish 87 vol- detailed history of the Allied sweep umes. across France, starting with the bog- might well be able to trace every important movement of your par- It was 20 years ago last December down in hedgerow fighting in Norman- own ticular outfit, and understand what diat we first got into WW2, and the dy in July, 1944 after the initial land- happened and why far better than you 53rd Army history volume is just off the ings on Omaha and Utah beaches, and could presses, with the 54th and 55th going ending as Allied forces drew up along when you were an eyewitness and part of the story. to press. They will average about $8 the Siegfried Line to eye the German If you were at home or in the Pacific per volume, so the whole set, when fin- nation from its borders on Sept. 10. or Burma or on the Atlantic, will ished, would have a retail tag of some- Two crucial months are wrapped up you know what happened in northern thing in the neighborhood of $700. in 702 pages of historical text, not to Fiance in the The Army produces the volumes in an mention an index, bibliography, ample months after D-Day as you never did from order keyed to the problems of doing maps bound to the rear cover, smaller the newscasts. All the Army histories are like that, each one, so that one of the first to be detail maps furnished with the text; and and Breakout published was, by editorial happen- liberal photographs of the slogging, and Pursuit is no exception. It runs the from staff stance, that of the final campaign of the clanking, then sweeping advance toward gamut planning in Eisenhower's war: Okinawa, The Last Battle. Now Hitlerland. Hq, to the invention of Rhino horns on tanks (to break long out of print, it will be hard for any The crux of the whole campaign, through the hedgerows without ex- of the others to equal it. after the beachheads had been estab- posing their bellies) The breakout from Normandy oc- lished, was to break out of the murder- in the welding shop of Sgt. Curtis G. Culin, curred long before the Okinawa battle, ous hedgerows and swamps of northern Jr., of the 102 Cavalry Rec Sqdn — from the arraying but Martin Blumenson, who served as Normandy. During the first month after of huge forces generals an historical officer in the ETO in WW2, the June 6 landings, these obstacles by to the individual struggles of small groups of had several other assignments, and in threatened to tie down what had been GI's to gain objectives of the moment, through every hour of every day of summer 1944 North France. rbp Spaghetti Dinners ... for Jane Russell's WAIFs Many U.S. organizations will be holding spaghetti dinners in May, to raise funds for themselves and for WAIF — international child adoption agency founded by screen star Jane Russell. If you're invited and wonder about going — WAIF is a good outfit. If you're wondering about a WAIF spaghetti feast for your own group — get details from WAIF-I.S.S., PO Box 2828, Holly- wood 28, Calif. Kit includes fundraising plan, and how to serve 50 to 500 WAIF spaghetti dinners.

The Legion's Nat'l Executive Com- mittee has set its annual spring meeting at Indianapolis Nat'l Hq. for May 2-3. The full committee is portrayed on the facing page. THE 43rd NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN LEGION

Here are the members of the Nat'l Ex- officers-Nat'l Cmdr, 5 Nat'l Vice Cmdrs, ecutive Committee of The American and the Nat'l Chaplain. The Nat'l Cmdr Legion for 1961-62. These 65 members is chairman of the NEC. include 58 from the state and foreign In addition, the 31 living Past Na- departments elected by their department tional Commanders are members with- conventions, and the 7 elected nat'l out vote. Rev. Kon't Keating National Chaplain

Herald E. Stringer Walter Barnard Edward T. Hoak Wilson Morrison J. Milton Patrick Edward Wysocki Hugh W. Overton Alaska Nat'l Vice Cmdr Nat'l Vice Cmdr Nat'l Vice Cmdr Nat'l Vice Cmdr Nat'l Vice Cmdr Alabama

Marshall Blackard John J. Flynn John B. Finucane Robert Grauberger Joseph G. Leonard Morris Wasserman Arkansas California Canada Colorado Connecticut Delaware

Harold D. Beaton E. Meade Wilson Dana W. Lyman James E. Powers Wallace C. S. Young Peter B. Wilson Charles C. Shaw Dist. of Columbia Florida France Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois

Arthur McDowell John W. Moore H. Armand de Masi Keith Brecheisen Rob't W. Anderson Albert V. LaBiche William J. Rogers Indiana Iowa Italy Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine

David L. Brigham Gabriel T. Olga Norbert Schmelkes Ralph M. Godwin Maryland Massachusetts Mexico Mississippi

Russell W. Lindborg Stanley M. Huffman Raymond F. Mudge William G. McKinley Dr. D. H. Reed Louis E. Drago Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York

Tim T. Craig William Stern Merle F. Brady Gene Hassman R. G. Bush Walter Alessandroni North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Panama Canal Zone Pennsylvania

Jose J. De Guzman Gilberto M. Font John A. Ryer E. Roy Stone, Jr. Earl E. Hoelscher Walton D. Griffin Joe L. Matthews Philippines Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas

Clark Cheney Edward H. Giles L. Eldon James W. A. Carpenter Leonal 0. Bickel Lloyd J. Berken C. B. Metz Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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Jobless Disabled Vet Some say you are too old to work at 40 and too to "Am I a Dud?" young get Social Security old t POSTS IN ACTION $ I ." * * i The following letter is from a town age benefits . . M yL. = Items from our nearly 17,000 posts. = "Where do I go from there? ^ JJ. in Butler County, Ohio. + Those of most general interest and * 1 If any firm in or near Butler County "Am I a dud? People are afraid to -ft widest geographical spread are se- + | Jf handle me. Fear I will lected, with apologies for the hun- | wishes to take a very small fraction of blow up before * dreds of others so kindly reported = *J the chance that the writer once took, we they get the pin pulled. I have had them J to the editors from all sources. | will put it in touch with him. The letter tell me the Government should get me a * 4 1 bigger pension. But that is not what I ******** | follows "I am writing to find out if anyone can want. Experienced Host — The Legion's f give me an answer to the question: Am "I want to help myself, and by work- Little World Series junior baseball I I a dud?' ing it keeps my nerves steady. finals will be run Post by 4, Keene, 1 "I am a man 40 years old, and a dis- "People have said to me: 'You poor- N. H. in 1963. The Post is used to big 1 abled vet of WW2. I lost an eye and an boy, you should not have to work.' things. It has hosted the northeastern 1 ear and have a good-sized plate in my "I want to work. regional Legion Baseball tourney for | head. "I am not after pity. several years. Locally, it recently put | "I am married and have one son. I "I am not after more compensation. up $1,500 toward a new Salvation 1 bought my home on the GI Bill, and "All I want is for someone to give me Army building in Keene. | worked for one company 9% years, when a chance to prove myself in my working I and a lot more were laid off. day. Elbow Grease — Members of Post | "I have tried getting work in a body "Is that asking too much? And is a 145, Harrisburg, Oreg., paid off a § plant, but could not get it because of my company doing that taking much of a Legion note in March by cutting and 1 handicap. Also in a big paper company chance? selling cords 20 of wood donated by 1 — but turned down for the same reason. "They were willing to offer us almost member Clans Gustafson. ". anything while the on. Have 1 . . if they would only give you a war was

chance to prove yourself and your abil- they forgotten us now . . . ? Breath of Life - Post 210, Waupun, f ity to work. They just brush you off. "I remain,

Wis. recently raised funds for a home 1 (signature) respirator lor a member who needed |

it. When he is well, the Post will I place the device in the city nurse's | office, to be on loan for any resident. 1 Speaking on the White House lawn. Pres. John F. Kennedy told the Legion's Telling Story - Post 581, Columbia, i winter conference: "When a British general saw a Pentagon plaque commemo- 111., recently solved its local public | rating the burning of our Capital by the British in the 1812 war, he gasped: 'J oan relations problem by buying a page 1 of Arc, yes. But Washington? No!' "... J. G. Taylor Spink, St. Louis, publisher in the town ne\vspaper(TlieCohtml)ia f of The Sporting News, will get a well-deserved Legion citation for coverage of Star) and filling it not with a typical to let a law § Legion youth baseball . . . William McKinley warns that the proposal ad, but with a series of news stories 1 court review YA decisions on vets' claims would bring back the "pension lawyer" which detailed the Post's current pro- 1 of post-Civil War disrepute. McKinley is N.J.'s Legion Nat'l Exec. Committeeman. grams and its historic role in its town. \ When Sophia Loren had a medal pinned on her in France by the Legion's Paris Law & Order — To help police in the . is f Post 1, newsmen demanded to know why. Silly question . . Ralph Godwin the village of Argyle, Minnesota, § Mississippi's 1962 Crusade ehmn for the American Cancer Society. He is also 10th Argyle's Post 353 gave village the a . . j in seniority on the Legion's Nat'l Exec. Committee . Gilbert Myers died as he two-way police radio. 1 lived. The Ohio Legion's top expert on the U.S. flag, he was stricken in Ashtabula at 69 while giving a flag talk. Theater Opened - Post 51, Butte, | Nebr., has undertaken to the open | Sen. Thomas Dodd (Conn.) told the Legion's Foreign Relations Comm'n we'd closed movie theater in Butte, and \ better push military aspects of space and not share "peacetime" space know-how operate it for the community. § with Russia: "They want to pick our brains for their military use and tell us

nothing." Educator Dr. Carl J. Rees, Legion Comm'n member from Delaware Musical Jamboree — Post 1790, 1 agreed: "You can't separate peaceful from military space techniques." Rochester, N. Y. held its second an- f nual indoor musical drum corps show f Earth-orbiter John H. Glenn told the Legion's winter conference that the Legion — a pageant so successful that it helps \ motto "For God and Country" is one that astronauts must have close to their underwrite the Post's own . . . . . drum corps | hearts Glenn belongs to Post 251, New Concord, Ohio . He was seconded - The Emerald Cadets — as well as | by Astronauts Virgil Grissom (Post 250, Mitchell, Ind.) and Alan B. Shepard,

its basic Legion programs. 1 Jr., (Post 9, Deny, N.H.). Shepard's father for years led a Boy Scout unit spon-

sored by the Deny Post. The Scouts go for "God and Country" too . . . The Legion GAM Club - Post 93, Trenton, N. J. f offers plenty of activity for members let out by their employers as too old to work, currently lists 72 members of its I notes Joseph Holzka, Staten Island banker and member of the Legion's special GAM Club lor 1962. stands committee on problems of aging veterans. Dr. F. Rachielle, just transferred GAM | VA J. for Get A Member, and every mem- % from Tucson (Ariz.) to Wood (Wise.) VA Hospital, supports Holzka, citing her who secures one other member I splendid volunteer work in VA hospitals by men and women in their 70's and 80's. is posted as a GAM on the pages of 1

Post 93's prize-winning newspaper, \ Legionnaires currently endorsed by their state organizations to run for Legion The Communique. § Nat'l Commander at future conventions include (alphabetically): Daniel Foley

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 . Legion Weekly). re- (Minn.); William Haese, Wise; Donald succeeding Larry Centola . . Marc A. The American He Johnson, Iowa; Joseph Matthews, Tex.; Kremers, Arlington, Va., added to staff treaded in WW2, was a volunteer and James Powers, Ga— Former Presi- of Legion Nat'l Security Comm'n in worker for employment of the handi- board dents Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Washington . . . Idaho State Police capped, and at his death was Eisenhower were among notables who snatched up George Foulke when the chmn of Advertising Distributors of joined Nat'l Legion Commander Charles State Highway Dep't retired him. He'll America . . . Among 95 killed in a March L. Bacon's Bells Across the Nation com- administer the statewide American Le- jet takeoff crash at N.Y.'s Idlewild Air- mittee to sponsor ringing of bells every- gion Idaho State Police Auxiliary, in port was Luella Reckmeyer, American where for four minutes on April 19 which he was a captain. Heart Ass'n aide, who handled details (Patriots' Day; anniv. of Paul Revere's TAPS: Thomas E. Paradine, among of AHA awards to the Legion at its 1961 ride, Battles of Lexington and Concord) the first WW2 vets to achieve nat'l Le- Nat'l Convention . . . Harry Hall, former Legion from Puerto Rico, died . . Sup't Past Nat'l Vice NECman . Shelby M. Jackson, Louisiana gion prominence, a of Public Education, well told in our Cmdr and former assistant to the Presi- in Miami in March. April issue how La. schools are teaching dent of Coca Cola, died in March at IIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllltllllllllllllllMllillllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllll students the facts about communism. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y. after a long illness

Bows for similar work in their states are . . . Ida Summers died at 75, in Lynd- BRIEFLY NOTED I due Dr. Leon P. Minear, Oregon State hurst, N.J., in Feb. A Navy payroll illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllHIIMIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllillllllllllM Sup't of Schools, and Dr. Charles worker in WWI, some said she was the

Boehm, Pennsylvania's Sup't of Public first woman Legionnaire . . . Rev. Wayne A single film of the documentary movie Instruction. O. Kantner passed away at Tiffin, Ohio. "Operation Abolition" showing red- Neal Grider retired from active board He was Ohio Dep't Chaplain in 1944-45 organized San Francisco riots was pur- membership of People's Bank & Trust . . . Two valued WWI Legion leaders, chased by The Lucas County (Ohio) Co., Indianapolis and Francis Polen was both members of N.Y. Advertising Men's American Legion Council in Dec. 1960. named to the same board. Grider is a Post 209, died in March. They were A year later 15,631 people had seen the former, and Polen is the present, Amer- John J. Hall and C. Robert Baines. Hall film in 172 showings. ican Legion Nat'l Treasurer . . . John originated the Legion's nat'l highway Andreola, formerly with Newsweek, safety program and was known as the Spoof Dep't — Post 422, Berwyn, 111., succeeds William Luddy as Assoc. Edi- "father of motor vehicle inspection" in enjoys as one of its prime social func- tor of this mag . . . Wilson J. Hebert the U.S. Baines was the first publisher tions of the year its Hobo Dinner Dance, confirmed as Louisiana Legion Adjt (1919-1922) of this magazine (then at which everyone dresses in his worst

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THIS IS YOUR LAND: Your land has well-water available by drilling The great national magazines acclaim this area to be a Ideally Located in the Heart of New Mexico paradise location in the heart of one of America's fastest at expense of purchaser. growing states. The low price of this currently unde- 'Land of Enchantment" only 29 Miles From the veloped land, with its built-in natural attractions, prom- Your land has available electric power, main ises future profits from the continuously growing values Historic Capital City of Santa Fe power line through the center of Fiesta Ranchos, in land. Nearby Espanola is nationally known as Mexico's which can be tapped at expense of purchaser. New INTRO- REFUNDABLE "Gateway to Fishing." MONTHLY ACREAGE DUCTORY DOWN Your land is accessible by car, road through Surrounding mountains offer many of America's finest TERM5 skiing area, year-round hunting, camping and trail rides. PRICE PAYMENT center of Fiesta Ranchos. New Mexico is a magnet to hundreds of thousands of y2 acre $99 $5 down $5 per month Your land has no time restrictions of any kind, tourists who visit annually famous missions, Indian pueblos, art colonies such as world famous Taos only 1 acre $198 $5 down $6 per month no building restrictions, no assessments, no miles 34 from Fiesta Ranchos, guest ranches and fine x \ /2 acres $297 $5 down $7 per month taxes until your deed is delivered, build when- restaurants. Healthful, dry summer climate and nearby medicinal hot 2 acres $396 $5 down $8 per month ever you are ready. springs 10 miles from Fiesta Ranchos are natural bless- acres $495 ings. 2V4 $10 down $10 per month Your land in the heart of the Santa Fe, New 5 acres $890 per The land of fiestasl | $15 down $15 month Mexico resort country. Two U.S. highways are on either side of Fiesta Ranchos, 10 acres $1580 $20 down $20 per month Highway 285 and Highway 64. Your land is in the "vacation site," between the 20 acres $2360 down per The booming industrial city of Albuquerque Is less than $40 $40 month Rio Grande and Ojo Caliente Rivers; green 100 miles south via Highway 285 and 85. mesa viewing the superb mountains. SnrmTnrruTriro'o 3 n it a s uwrs'a as mnm a 0 % Your land is close to fishing, healthful hot TODAY: Reserve Your Land With Refundable Deposit springs; . . Kit hunting, hiking . riding thru lush 30 DAY UNCONDITIONAL Carson and Santa Fe national forests nearby. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE FIESTA RANCHOS-P.O. BOX 788-1, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO Your land lies rich in the sun ... in the blessed • Guarantee plot of your rancho offi- warm, dry climate famed the world over for is Gentlemen: cially recorded in the county. healthy, happy living! The enclosed check is my refundable deposit for acre(s) • Guarantee you receive signed deed of Fiesta Rancho land. My offering price js enclosed Your land is protected by a master land $ , ... upon completion of payments. title insurance policy. _ down payment $ , monthly payment $ , terms IPl 8 0 0 911 Free Protection for you, the original offering i.iSSJLSJ)JIJtJLSUULSLSLSLjLSt.tAJIJlSJJUIJt include low 4% interest. If I am not completely satisfied after buyer! receiving my purchase agreement, details, and map showing exact location of my reserved property you agree to refund my deposit historic offer! HERE'S WHY we can make this Title insurance for additional within 30 days of this date. We eliminate high-powered sales organizations. We pay no sales commissions to brokers or state-supervised protection and Name „ _ salesmen. This land, amidst all the scenic beauty 1' Address : _ :._ the southwest can offer . . . this is its own best assurance that your land is owned salesman! That's why you pay just for the land City Zone State

. . . there's no middleman! free and clear of all prior claims! J THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE MAY 1962 35 IF YOUR PIPE BITES NEWS — write to me now! clothes, and men are saluted as "bums." Finals of the Legion's Nat'l Oratorical All I want is your name, I'll mail you complete Out of a sense of delicacy, women are contest in 1963 will be at Eau Claire, description of pipe my not saluted as "bums", however. They Wis. This year's finals, shortly after smoking discovery and let you smoke my pipe 30 are called "bummies." presstime for these words, were at Salt days at my risk — just to prove what may sound Lake City, Utah. like unbelievable claims. Oklahoma American Legion is modern-

1*1 PE looks like any ordinary pipe—masculine, izing the Girls Building at its American 76 Minneapolis grade schools have pur- MYconvent ional, no gadgets! But when you smoke Legion School in it you suddenly discover you are smoking tobacco by Home Ponca City, chased books, films and records with a a heretofore unheard of principle that contradicts Okla. The Home School is run by the $3,000 gift to the school board from the every idea you've ever had about smoking. From the very first pipeful— no bite. Then, hourafter hour, day Oklahoma American Legion for veter- Americanism Committee of the 5th after day. without resting it, this wonderful invention gives you the smoking pleasure you have never ans' children, many of them waifs who Minnesota American Legion District, for without bite, without bitterness dreamed possible— would otherwise be committed to a state the "support and encouragement of or sludge. Smokes dry too. Such claims have often been made but never performed. Now, to prove them institution. Those for whom no foster Americanism teaching." with your own tobacco. I'll let you smoke this remarkable new kind of pipe 30 days on a 100% money home can be found grow up as part of back guarantee. Just send me your name now for the community life of Ponca City. $47,- Sites for the finals of the American FREE description of this new principle, diagram of the interesting stem construction and my trial offer. 000 of modernization is under way, and Legion Baseball tourney have been set And if you're a real "pipe man", you'll always be glad you saw this ad. Write to me now. E. A. CAREY, the Dep't seeks another $26,000 to finish for two years ahead. This year's tourney 1920 Sunnyside Ave., Dept. 246-E, Chicago 40, 111. the job. Many Oklahoma Legion & is at Bismarck, N. Dak. In 1963 it goes Auxiliary units and individuals are con- to Keene, N. H., and in 1964 to Little FREE FOR tributing to the fund. Bock, Ark.

ASTHMA The American Legion Dep't of Ohio has The Nevada American Legion has won If you suffer asthma attacks, choke and wheeze, find sold its Hq. building at 1373 E. Broad the Henry D. Lindsley Trophy for sleep impossible because of the struggle to breathe . . . try FRONTIER ASTHMA MEDICINE now! Get immediate, St., Columbus, but continues to rent having attained the highest percentage blessed relief from the dreaded symptoms of bronchial asthma. Over 1,000,000 bottles sold. FREE TRIAL bottle space there pending construction of a of its previous year's membership by by return mail. You pay nothing. Send name and ad- new building. March 1. Nevada hit 95.39% of its 1961 dress now to: FRONTIER ASTHMA CO., 172-B Frontier Bldg., 462 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York. enrollment by then.

Idaho American Legion is seeking a MAGNIFYING READING GLASSES state law outlawing the Communist Mexico's American Legion has again hit party, and amendment of the Idaho an alltime membership high, with 1,033 State Constitution to permit naturalized members for 1962 by mid February. citizens of Japanese or Mongolian an- Last year was its first time over 1,000— cestry to vote, serve on juries and hold with 1,028 at year's end. public office. It is also considering estab- NEWEST STYLE FRAMES with finest Piano-Convex lenses lishment of a state American Legion En- The Feb. roster of American Legion for people who need simple magnifying lenses to read finest print and do precision work and have no eye disease. dowment fund, raised by contribution, publications enrolled in The American Send name, address, age, sex and only $3.95 NOW for DELUXE MODEL, or sent C.O.D. Satisfaction guaranteed. to help underwrite American Legion Legion Press Ass'n hit a new all-time JENAR CO., Dept.44-F, 170 W. 74 St., New York 23, N. Y. programs in Idaho. high with 593, most of them Post news-

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All-Purpose' Oil Sons of The American Legion Champs — Members of Post 491, McHenry, III., receive the National Commander's Guidon, symbolic of the national S.A.L. drum and bugle championship Clean • Lubricate • Prevent Rust which their Squadron corps (the Viscounts) won at the 1961 National Convention of The American

Legion. L. to r., George Mrachek, Post S.A.L. chairman; Post Commander Roy Homo; Ed Reid, 3-IIM ONE OIL Viscounts manager, as they received guidon from James J. Condon, secretary of the Legion's REGULAR -OIL SPRAY - ELECTRIC MOTOR National Contests Supervisory Committee.

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papers. Previous high was 587 reported Al Gondring (1959), Post 491, Ceres, Calif. Lawrence A. Friend (1961), Post 471, Rensselaer, Sinforoso Baldlvlso and lusto Berzabal and Do- N.Y. at the end of 1960. mingo Gapuz (all 1961), Post 598, Oakland, Calif. John Baker, Jr. and Alexander Balmaln and Henry Hougland and Lowell Huston and Ernie George D. Barclay and Abraham J. Bernstein (all Lentfer and Floyd Llklns (all 1961), Post 53, Monte 1961), Post 543, New York, N.Y. No one may be a District Commander of Vista, Colo. Angelo Rizzo (1961), Post 573, Brooklyn, N.Y. Delman L. Roberts (1960), Post 131, Center, Colo. Melvin Newman and Herman Regensburger (both the Legion in North Carolina unless he Ernest Luthl and Oscar McLane and Wallace 1961), Post 1181, Middletown, N.Y. Mitchell and Herbert Ostergren (all has been a Post Commander. No one 1961), Post 105, Benjamin Grossman (1952) and William G. Cromwell, Conn. Foerch (1961), Post 1237, Bronx, N.Y. may be a Division or Department Com- Dr. Julian D. Parker (1961), Post 62, Stuart, Fla. John Paul Rogers (1962), Post 1563, Brooklyn, Robert W. Lindsay (1961), Post 294, Morris, 111. N.Y. mander unless he has held a lesser com- Thomas R. Gott and Norman Telford (both 1959), Sam Bird, Sr. and Ray Hunter and Arthur Jones Post 446. Centralia, 111. (all 1961), Unionville, N.Y. mandership or state Legion office. This Post 1607, Harold Deege and Waldo Frey and Oscar Zoller W. G. Weischedel (1960) and B. C. Shubrook rule, passed in 1958, goes fully in effect (all 1961), Post 640, Liberty, 111. (1961), Post 87, Lenni. Pa. Floyd Vinnedge and Roy Wood (both 1961), Post Horace W. Daft (1962), Post 190, Chester, Pa. this year. 101, Lowell, Ind. Thomas R. Aubrey and Theodore Augustus and William S. Van Hemert (1961), Post 89, Pella, Philip Bey and James Bust! (all 1960), Post 295, Iowa. Brownsville, Pa. Arnold About 1300 bowlers competed in the Dabms and Edward J. Ehlers and Ernst George C. Dietrich (1951), Post 490, Pittsburgh, Hinricbs and Henry Klindt (all 1962), Post 353, Pa. Michigan state American Legion bowl- Dixon, Iowa. Charles R. Campbell and Jeremiah Fahrlnger and Robert Kltch (1961), Post 246, Galena, Kans. David B. Helwig and Edward R. Unangst (all 1961), ing tournament at Grand Rapids, Feb. Dr. John A. Snowden (1961), Post 19, Winchester, Post 541, Catawissa, Pa. 24-March 18. Ky. Robert Schenck, Sr. and Roy A. Thompson and Mack Kohn (1961), Post 105. Boston, Mass. Ernest Simmons and Benjamin Stella (all 1960), Alexander Cameron and Arthur Greenslade and Post 544, Minersville, Pa. John W. Spinner (all Post Graniteville, The Ohio American Legion recently 1959), 159, Max C. Marshall (1961), Post 37, McKenzie, Mass. Tenn. Roland Reed sponsored its 12th annual state Legion (1961), Post 185, Feeding Hills, Victor Landig (1946) and Macarlo Garcia and Mass. Rev. Mack Johnson and Joe Presswood (all 1948), bowling tournament in Middletown, Konstanty Schumikowski (1959) and Dr. James Post 52, Houston, Tex. E. Ryan (1960) and Michael Dulaski with more than 1650 Legion bowlers. C. (1961), Post J. Evans Barnett (1961). Post 134, Boscobel, Wis. 224, Eastnampton, Mass. Rev. Urban Baer (1962), Post 252, Eastman, Wis. Edward J. Samp, Jr. and Thomas J. Savage and Arlie A. Delano (1961), Post 50, Frannie, Wyo. John J. Wrenn and Sylvester Wrenn (all 1961), Post The Pennsylvania state American Le- 442, Cambridge, Mass. Joseph Shapiro (1961), Post 218, Detroit, Mich. Post Commanders or Adjutants are gion Bowling tournament will be held Ralph L. Smith (1961), Post 20, Kirksville, Mo. asked to report life membership awards to "Life Memberships," The in Upper Darby from 19 to 10. Charles H. Murjahn (1947), Post 241, St. Louis, May June Mo. American Legion Magazine, 720 5th Emil A. Pinter (1962), Post 525, St. Louis, Mo. Ave., New York 19, N.Y. Post number, Maxwell T. Tucker (1959), Post 2, Tecumseh, location and date of award is re- More than 1500 Legion bowlers com- Nebr. quested in all cases and current peted in the 15th annual Minnesota Charles W. Kasper and Clements M. Kfslcki and membership card number when pos- Elmer E. Quinn (all 1961), Post 331, South Omaha, sible. Receipt of names cannot be state American Legion bowling cham- Nebr. acknowledged. John B. Stearns (1958), Post 71, Hanover, N.H. Life Memberships in Maryland, Ohio pionships at Fairmont. John W. Furst (1962), Post 71, Brewster, N.Y. and West Virginia are only accepted if Fred N. Knaup (1951) and N. M. Leban and received via the Department Adjutant, George Martin and Fred A. J. Zlckert (all 1952), in conformity with state Legion policy. More than 600 Legionnaires competed Post 391, Brooklyn, N.Y. in the Wisconsin state American Legion bowling championships at Beaver Dam, in March. The proof is in the puffing About 500 Legionnaires bowled in the Nebraska state American Legion bowl- • TASTES FRESH • SMOKES COOL • BURNS STEADY ing championships in March, at Grand Island.

Many vets are not Legionnaires because nobody asked them to join. This cannot be said about the Legion in Omaha, Nebr. In fact, an Omaha man known to have served in WW2 was asked to join recently, then had to be turned down. His service, it turned out, was in the German army.

The Nat'1 Junior College Basketball Championship was run for the 13th time by Post 68, Hutchinson, Kans., and the Boundary County, Idaho, grade school hoop tourney was run for the 14th time by Post 55, Bonners Ferry.

LIFE MEMBERSHIPS

j The citation of an individual Legion- naire to life membership in his Post is a testimonial by those who know him best that he has served The American Legion well. Below are listed some of the pre- viously unpublished life memberships K. J Reynolds Tobacco Co.. Winston-Salein, N. C. that have been reported to the editors. They are arranged by States or Depts. The flavor most favored in the U.S.A. Walter W. Belford (1961), Post 10, Richmond, Calif. Peter L. Clavere (1961), Post 408, San Francisco, Calif. Bortley Logue and William Schmitt and Jesse Smith (all 1961), Post 422, Rialto, Calif. PRINCE ALBERT THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 37 . . .

NEWS

9th Armored Engrs — (Aug.) Wm. F. O'Donnell, Marchbanks, 423 Depot St., Oswego, Kans. 104-12 - 104th St., Ozone Park 17, N.Y. 349th Inf Regt, Machine Gun Co (WWI) - (June) COMRADE IN DISTRESS 11th Engineers (WW1) - (May) Joseph Boyle, 326 Glenn M. Ricketts, 219 N. Guthrie St., Gibson

i . York St., Jersey City 2, N.J. City, 111. Readers who can help these com- 12th Armored Div — (Aug.) Lawrence E. Mintz, 351st Inf Regt, Machine Gun Co (WWI) - (Sept.) 20020 Snowden Ave., Detroit 35, Mich. Henry J. Reinders, Mallard, Iowa. rades are urged to do so. 15th Evac Hosp Ass'n (WW2) - (Oct.) Andrew 353rd Inf Regt (WWI) - (Sept.) John C. Hughes, Notices run at the request of are C. Baumerich, 51 Mountain Ave., Hawthorne, 829 East Ave. B., Hutchinson, Kans. The American Legion Nat'l Rehabilita- N.J. 389th Field Art Bn, Bat. C - (Oct.) G. Melvyn tion Commission. They are not ac- 20th Aero Sqdn, 1st Day Bomb Grp (WW1) - Goetze, 6276 Charlotteville Rd., Newfane, N.Y. cepted from other sources. (June) Jerry T. Ricketts, 808 S. Hawkins Ave., 409th Inf Regt, Co D - (July) Lesile B. Klie, 5140 Readers wanting Legion help with Akron 20, Ohio. S. Richmond St., Chicago 32, 111. 21st Aero Sqdn - J. Devine, 3037 593 Engr Boat & Shore Regt, Co D - (Aug.) Bob claims should contact their local serv- (WW1) W. Linview Ave., Cincinnati 8, Ohio. Ellis, 400 Grand Ave., Johnson City, N.Y. ice officers. 21st Engrs, 2nd Bn., Co D — (June) Richard Lang- 609th Tank Dest Bn - (Sept.) Don A. Vogt, P.O. Service officers unable to locate ford, Box 296, Factoryville, Pa. Box 142, Geneva, N.Y. needed witnesses for claims develop- 26th Engrs Assn (WW1) Southern Div - (June) 713th Rwy Opr Bn - (July) Leonard N. Adams, ment should refer the matter to the S. S. Noblit, 3932 El Campo, Fort Worth 7, Tex. 3561 Harley Rd., Toledo, Ohio. Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission 33rd Div-(June) William Engel, 176 W. Adams 830th Engr Aviation Bn—(Aug.) James G. Scott, 341 Northridge Rd., Circleville, Ohio. through normal channels, for further St., Rm. 1634. Chicago 3, 111. 34th Engrs (WW1) - (Sept.) George Remple, 2523 1127th & 1400th Mil. Police Assn-(July) Frank search before referral to this column. N. Main St., Dayton 5, Ohio. Farina, 1001 Serrill Ave., Yeadon, Pa. 34th Inf Div - (Sept.) C. Vernon Johnson, 1111 Americal Ordn Ass'n—(Aug.) Anthony Little, 130 734 Railway Operating Bn Co C, WW2-Need to Center Point Rd. N. E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Legion Circle, Rochester 16, N. Y. contact members of this outfit who recall Carroll 35th and 801st Aero Sqdn's - (Sept.) Frank C. Recept'n Cntr 1773, Duty Personnel-(June) Wil- T. Ashley, and particularly a train-run on Feb. 18, Erhardt, 1256 E. La Salle Ave., South Bend 17, liam B. Mallory, 604 Medford, Topeka, Kans. 1945 from West Aachen, Germany, in which a Ind. U. S. Army Ambulance Service Ass'n— (July) Walt- pusher locomotive violently struck the train near 35th Div Ass'n - (Sept.) Gilbert Schreiner, 611 er H. Davidson, 526 N. Berks St., Allentown, Pa. Liege, Belgium, causing some damage in the ca- West 10th., Topeka, Kans. boose and hurling brakeman Ashley against a 39th Combat Engrs — (Sept.) Thomas Sweares, wall. Claim pending. Contact Marion A. Ventur- NAVY 2217 E. Raymond St., Indianapolis 3, Ind. 2nd Marine Div Assn-(July) Alvin I. Siegel, 14535 ini, Mississippi State Veterans Affairs Commis- 42nd (Rainbow) Div — (July) Harry H. Cory, S.W. 97th Ave., Miami 56, Fla. sion, P.O. Box 131, Jackson, Miss. 1441 Northwestern Bank Bldg., Minneapolis 2, 25th Special Seabees—(Aug.) William Minn. Godlewski, 2507 Melva Court, Toledo 11, Ohio. Walter Bressman, former Chicago resident who 45th & 143rd Aero Sqdns (WWI) - (May) Saml served in Army, may be entitled to share 80th Seabees-(Sept.) Harold L. Fowler, 3086 Ash- WW2, H. Paul, 540 E. Gravers Lane, Philadelphia 18, wood Rd., Cleveland 20, Ohio. in small estate. Contact "Comrades in Distress, Pa. Ave., Espirito Santo Spare Parts Dist Cntr-(July) Neil American Legion Magazine, 720 5th N.Y. 45th Evac Hosp - (June) Calvin Stan, 410 North 19, N.Y." As several by same name may answer, Fitzgerald, Cokato, Minn. 10th St., Fairview, N.J. provide father's name and mother's maiden name. North Sea Mine Force Ass'n—(Oct.) Jacob J. Ram- 50th Engrs, Co C - (Aug.) Walter F. Pralle, 329 mer, 54 Walnut Ave., Floral Park, L.I., N.Y. S. 18th St., Lincoln, Nebr. USN Hospital, Seattle, Duty Personnel-(July) Mrs. ^IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMilltlillillllllllllllK 107th Bn, Bat. - (Aug.) Floyd L. Cauthen, AA A Robert (Bernice Max) Clarke, 2321 N.E. 130th 131 Lynwood Dr., Lancaster, S.C. St., Seattle 55, Wash. 112th Cavalry — Cavalry Association, (Aug.) 112th USS Aaron Ward-(July) Charles B. Shea, 3303 OUTFIT REUNIONS P.O. Box 1112, Dallas, 21, Tex. Orion Ave., Cincinnati 13, Ohio. 125th Inf Regt - (July) Howard W. Baker, P.O. ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiiiiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiii'A CSS Ancon-(May) Victor H. Kester, 297 Palmer Box 528, Flint 1, Mich. Ave.. Falmouth, Mass.. 133rd Inf Rgt, Co I & 1st Iowa Inf, Co I (Mex. Reunion will be held in month indicated. USS Helena (CL-50)-(Aug.) Joseph J. Cannone, Border & WWI) - (June) Roy H. Uffelman, 810 For particulars, write person whose address 2450 South 19th St., Omaha 8, Nebr. Blackhawk Blvd., Burlington, Iowa. USS Nevada-(Oct.) M. E. Hicks, 8902 Polland is given. 190th Field Art Grp (WW2) - (July) Mel Sober, Ave., San Diego 11, Calif. Notices accepted on official form only. P.O. Box 361, Sunbury, Pa. USS's Black, Bullard, Chauncey & Kidd-(Aug.) 191st Field Art, 1st Bn, Hq Serv. Bat. - (Sept.) For form send stamped, addressed return & Harrold F. Monning, 310 East 8th St., Kewanee, Carter, Prospect, envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion A. D. Tenn. 111. 209th Field Art - (June) Jack K. Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y. Bn (WW2) US Submarine Vets WWI-(Aug.) Charles R. Cook, Embrey, 1717 Poplar St., Winfield, Kans. Notices should be received at least four 7909 N. Neva Ave., Niles 48, 111. 266th Field Art Bn, B. Bat. - (July) Gus Seftas. before months scheduled reunion. 32 Petrak St., Charleroi, Pa. Earliest submissions favored when vol- 302nd Inf Reg't., Co L-(June) Chas C. Misner, AIR ume of requests is too great to print all. 333 Knox St., Westerville, Ohio. 388th Bomb Grp (H)-(July) Edward J. Huntzinger, 313th Ammo Train, Co D (WWI)-(June) Mrs. 863 Maple St., Perrysburg, Ohio. ARMY Clark Harris. Idana. Kans. 452nd Bomb Grp, Heavy—(June) Francis L. Ball, 1st Div. Society - (Sept.) Arthur L. Chaitt, 5 316th Inf Ass'n - (Sept.) Ray Cullen, P.O. Box 8102 Barbara St., Omaha 24, Nebr. Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia 18, Pa. 1303, Philadelphia 5, Pa. 4th Inf Div & 4th Engrs (WW1 & WW2) - (Aug.) 337th Engrs & 1338th Comb. Engr. Grp - (Aug.) C. B. Jones, Birchwood, Wise. Carl Sergent, 856 Montgomery Ave., Ashland, 4th (Ivy) Div (WW1 & WW2) - (Aug.) Kenneth Ky. THE AMERICAN LEGION Davis, 262 S. Main St., Homer City, Pa. 342nd Inf Regt, Co D - (June) Robert O. Ware- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 8th Armored Div Assn — (July) Henry B. Rothen- heim, Jr., 861 Jerry's Dr., Ellicott City, Md. - FEBRUARY 28. 1962 berg, 134 No. LaSalle St., Chicago 2, 111. 347th Field Art Bn, Hq Bat. (June) Dale E. ASSETS Cash on hand and on deposit $ 636,932.21 Receivables 230,933.20 Inventories 519,849.41 Invested Funds 1,747,884.81 Trust Funds: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Funds $ 271,121.07 Employees Retirement Trust Fund 3,201,876.27 3,472,997.34 Real Estate 813,871.39 Furniture & Fixtures, Less Depreciation 228,144.32 Deferred Charges 62,052.30 $7,712,66'4.98 LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE AND NET WORTH Current Liabilities $ 520,683.74 FLORIDA BOOK! Funds Restricted as to use 31,601.85 Deferred Income 1,822,141.74 Yes! This amazing new fact-filled digest is Trust Funds: yours FREE! Discover the true inside story Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Funds $ 271,121.07 of Florida's fantastic growth and exciting Employees Retirement Trust Fund 3,201,876.27 3,472,997.84 opportunities for vacation . . . retirement Net Worth:

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Restricted Fund . . 21,921.22 limited—so ACT NOW! Real Estate 813,871.39 Reserve for Reha- MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY! bilitation ..... 505,122.17 Reserve for Child TO: "Florida Digest", 557 N.E. 81st St., Dept. 5PZ-384 Welfare 70,609.45 Miami, Florida Reserve for Name Convention . . 60,000.00

I (PLEASE PRINT) $1,495,709.34 Unrestricted I Address Capital . . 369.530,97 1,865.240.31 I City ..Zone- -State $7,712,664.98

38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 —

KANSAS CITY REDEDICATES ITS LIBERTY MEMORIAL (Continued from page 11)— ~

world stability and sacrifice of the soldiers, sailors and MEN PAST40 peoples to encourage ." and understanding. Because the Liberty citizens during the European War. . . Memorial was to be rededicated to inter- The site selected for the memorial lies Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, national understanding, it seemed suit- at the edge of the central business dis- Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, able to select Kansas City as the head- trict of Kansas City, Missouri. Nervousness, Tiredness. quarters for the People-to-People pro- Actual construction of the monument If you are a victim of the above symptoms, the trouble may be due to Gland- gram. Joyce C. Hall, Kansas City began in 1923, the architect, H. Van ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- resident and president of Hallmark Buren Magonigle of New York having ease for which it is futile for sufferers Cards, was named chairman of the been selected unanimously from among to try to treat themselves at home. People-to-People's executive committee. local and nationally known architects To men of middle age or past this type of inflammation occurs frequently. On November 1 , Veteran's Day, who submitted designs in a competition 1 It is often accompanied by despond- sponsored by Kansas City. ency, emotional upset and other mental At that time the price bid for the con- and nervous reactions. Neglect of such Inflammation causes men to lose their struction job was $1,142,250. But it is vigor, grow old prematurely and often estimated that to duplicate the Liberty leads to incurable conditions.

Memorial buildings and grounds today Most men, if treatment is taken in would cost around $30,000,000. time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- treated for Glandular Inflam- The memorial consists of four major CALLY mation. If the condition is aggravated elements: the shaft, Memory Hall, the by lack of treatment, surgery may be Museum, and a giant frieze on the north the only chance. terrace wall bounding the Memorial court. N0NS(JR$WAL TREATMENTS

On the shaft, which is the Memorial The NON-SURGICAL, New Type treat- proper, are carved four colossal figures ments used at the Excelsior Medical representing honor, courage, patriotism Clinic are the result of discoveries in recent years of new techniques and and sacrifice. drugs plus over 20 years research by Memory Hall houses two murals, one scientific technologists and Doctors. depicting the 1921 dedication ceremony, Men from all walks of life and from Former President Harry S. Truman and over the other, the end of World War I. 1,000 communities have been suc- former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral cessfully treated here at Excelsior The Museum, a building of the exact Springs. Arleigh Burke, USN, Ret., with Legion and They found soothing and com- same size as Memory Hall, was conceived forting relief and new health in life. military officials at the Kansas City Lib- erty Memorial rededication, Nov. 11, 1961. as a flag shrine and the original flag of RECTAL-COLON the Rainbow Division — the 42nd Divi- EXAMINATION DISORDERS former President of the United States, sion which was commanded by General AT LOW COST Are often associ- Harry S. Truman delivered the Veteran's Douglas MacArthur in WW2 is on dis- ated with Glandu- Inflammation. play here. Arching across the of the When you arrive lar Day address and took part in the city's top can treat these at the clinic, our We memorial parade. That evening Mr. room in the shape of a rainbow are the disorders for you doctors — who have at the same time Truman was a guest at a banquet given flags of the native states of the men who years of experience we treat Glandular Inflammation. for Commander Bacon at which Admiral made up the ranks of that division. in this field — make REDUCIBLE Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Ret., spoke. The giant frieze was done by Edmond a complete examination. Your condition HERNIA The events of this three day memorial Amateis, a New York sculptor who had is frankly explained Is also amenable celebration recalled the original dedica- served overseas in WW1. It is one of the and then you decide to a mild non- surgical treatment tion ceremonies in 1921 of the site largest carved in stone in the world, if you will take the on that we have de- which the Liberty Memorial was to be measuring 18 feet high by 148 feet long. treatments needed. veloped. Full de- Our treatments are tails of this treat- erected. that occasion the The sculptor envisioned that the me- On American so mild, hospitaliza- ment are given In our Free Book. Legion had selected Kansas City in morial was to stand for hundreds of tion is not required. which to hold its third annual national years as an expression of the nation's Write Today For Our % convention and had secured a group of attitude toward war and he developed Our New Free Book a great WW1 heroes as guests. Among the theme of both war and peace that is gives facts that may guests were: Marshal Ferdinand Foch depicted on the giant frieze. At each save you painful, expensive surgery. Tells of France, Admiral Lord Beatty Great end of the frieze is carved of the Stars and HOW and Explains Britain, Lieutenant General Baron Stripes, along with the "clinging ivy of WHY NON-SURGICAL Jacques of Belgium, General Armando remembrance" and a sword symbolizing treatment methods are so successful today. Italy, might for the Diaz of and General John J. defense of an orderly and Write today. No obliga- Pershing of the United States. Others just government. tion. attending were: In the center is Vice-President Calvin the figure of armistice EXCELSIOR Coolidge, Major George C. Marshall, with five groups of figures on one side MEDICAL CLINIC WW1 ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker depicting the horrors of war and five i Dept B 11 51 Excelsior and Harry S. Truman, then a resident of groups of figures on the other side por- j Springs, Mo. Gentlemen: Kindly send at once, your nearby Independence and member of the traying the blessings of peace. I me J I New FREE Book. I am interested in full Legion's decoration committee. For all of us the spirit of every war I information (Please Check Box) • Hernia Rectal-Colon Clandular Their presence in the city for the memorial and every memorial day is ex- | ' Inflammation | American Legion convention made it a pressed briefly and simply in the in- J ! NAME I perfect time for the citizens of Kansas scriptions carved on two fountains of the ! i City initiate I to a long hoped for project, Kansas City Liberty Memorial: "Who I ADDRESS the establishment of a memorial "ex- more than self their country loved" and J TOWN- pressing the appreciation I of the people "The glory dies not and the grief is past." I J STATE_ of Kansas City, Missouri, of the service THE END

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Shrinks Hemorrhoids THE VALLEY OF FIRES (Continued from page 23)- New Way Without Surgery The captain offered Boker a cigarette, Cargo loads had been packed, the Stops Itch -Relieves Pain lit it, then his own, and replied calmly, vari-colored chutes affixed to them, and "Maybe fifteen hundred." the whole packages hauled by truck to For the first time science has found a new healing substance with the astonishing The colonel snapped a quick, raised- the planes on the previous evening. ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve eyebrow look at the captain, smoked There, the jumpers had hung them into pain — without surgery. meditatively, In case after case, while gently relieving glanced around at the other position on the cargo drop cables which pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. officers, then replied slowly, "Now, ran center ceiling down the aisle of each Most amazing of all — results were so check on this. set roadblock, thorough that sufferers made astonishing me We up a aircraft— 18 loads to a plane. The cargo statements like "Piles have ceased to be a collect prisoners which could number a packs, each weighing between 200 and problem! thousand or more, and hold them until 300 pounds, contained radios, machine- The secret is a new healing substance (Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of a world-famous the armor comes. Meanwhile, through- guns, ammunition, telephones, medical research institute. out the night, we can expect possible at- supplies, switchboards, reels of wire, and This substance is now available in sup- pository or ointment form under the name tack by an enemy force of some fifteen all the rest of the paraphernalia of para- Preparation H®. Ask for it at all drug hundred from beyond the north ridge. chute infantry warfare. counters. And we do all this with 422 people?" His The artillery pieces and vehicles, voice rose slightly. along with rations, water, more ammo Miracle Cushion Boker's war record in the European and more medical supplies were to be theater substantiated the fact that he dropped from a separate flight coming

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Boker digested this estimate of the and marched the mile and a half to the Free Home Trial. Satisfaction assured OR Payment if you MONEY BACK. No Down situation, then remarked drily, "Of aircraft that waited silently on line in the have old instrument to trade. Easy Terms. Accordion Corn, of America, Rush name to course, if there should happen to be sev- pre-dawn. Take-off time 2003 Chicago Ave., Dept. A-52, Chicago 22 frigid October eral hundred more than that north of was set for 0600 hours. NO MONEY DOWN! the ridge, and they get a good look at As the minutes ticked away, a light HOME* our strength, an assault would not be fog began to form, increasing in density SITES considered outside the realm of possi- as load-up time neared. Col. Boker $395 bility. Do I peg it, Captain?" checked with airstrip control on weather "Quite right, Sir," the officer admitted. conditions at the drop zone. plane had Lovely acre sites in Central Florida hills, A lake, grove area $395, no money down, $10 "Now," queried Boker, "what can we been dispatched there earlier for this a month ° 5 miles from famous Rainbow Springs • Roads, utilities • 22 miles to Gulf expect on the drop zone itself?" express purpose. Coast • Fish, hunt • Invest or retire. FREE yes," "securing better there, Sir," he was told. color folder • Write Dept. 603-O "Oh, said the captain, "No up Rainbow Park, Box 521, OCALA, Fla. this area won't present much of a prob- "We will delay take-off one hour and see Prices Go Up May 31st. Write Now & Save! lem. There is a complement of infantry how it looks." Smoke for Relief — from the in there now, maybe a short company— At 0645 came further word 150 people at the most." aircraft lazing in the drop area. "Fog ASTH MA- HAYFEVER "That's nice," remarked one of the shows no signs of thinning—there's no staff officers, with slight sarcasm, "since wind to break it up." try them FREE we're a little bit understrength too." Boker cursed in futile frustration. The Actually the airborne combat team longer their delay, the more fugitives Sufferers from Asthma and the dis- comforts of excessive secretions in the assembled for this particular mission was could slip through that ridge-pass toward nasal passages associated with Hay Fever have, for over 60 years, found severely understrength. It included only the sanctuary of the Yalu River. quick, temporary relief by smoking 300 infantry troops, about 70 artillery The Air Force operations commander PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleas- ant, inexpensive. parachutists who would drop four 105- ordered a further take-off delay of two For free samples, write mm howitzers to work with, and some hours. 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40 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 Rendezvousing above the airdrome, third! Down they plunged at a crazy command post in a large foxhole on the the planes formed-up in the familiar vee awkward tilt. The party of watchers south edge of the valley some 400 yards of vees and then headed north. cursed in bitter frustration as three of back from the roadblock. Cave, a lanky, the four artillery pieces crashed thunder- easy-going fellow, had been with Boker His brief plunge through space having ously onto the hard, unyielding earth. in some of the European mix-matches. been checked by the familiar bone-jar- Minutes later the artillery executive As darkness closed in, Col. Boker ring shock of his chute blasting open, the officer, dodging sporadic small-arms fire, summoned all company and unit com- colonel enjoyed momentarily the ever- dashed up to the infantry command post manders to his post. new exhilaration of swinging lazily in the and confirmed the colonel's worst fears. "Here's the outlook, gentlemen," he saddle, while the earth moved up pur- All three howitzers were badly damaged began. "We're in business and the fugi- posefully to meet him. —unusable, lost to action. tives from Pyongyang will keep coming

Abruptly he returned to the matter at "Rough go, Sir, only the one is oper- along through the night. The armored hand and scanned the ground with a able," he commented. "However, we do people will take them off our hands in keen-eyed appraisal of the situation. have plenty of ammo for that one." the morning—early—and send them back

Puffs of smoke and the crackle of small By late afternoon the first phase of in trucks. Our wire is in, our radio net arms fire became evident. There ap- the mission had been accomplished with- is in. We've got communication. peared to be at least one company of out undue stress. Securing the drop area "We also have firepower," the colonel enemy infantry on the drop zone. Some had cost fewer casualties than expected. continued. "Our automatic weapons are were firing frantically at the descending Fourteen killed—mostly with rifle fire laid in overlapping zones of coverage to chutists while others ducked for cover. from the since-routed valley defenders— the north. The artillery can help if we

Some 40 seconds after leaving the 41 wounded and two missing. need it, and they've got more ammo than plane, Boker smacked onto the ground, The roadblock had been set up by E they can say grace over. That's the good tumbled quickly head-over-heels, and company which then fanned out around part. leaped to his feet to shed his chute. Other it and down the road. As darkness "Now, here's the rough part. Scouting jumpers were going through the same neared, they had taken 82 prisoners and reports indicate that there are several motions all over the valley. Some of more were coming along regularly. The hundred of these so-and-so's out there those who tumbled never got up, enemy single artillery piece had been registered on the other side of that ridge. Most of fire reached them first. As the American to fire on a trail crossing some 2,200 them are armed, uniform troops. I don't troopers recovered from their jolting yards up the road, just above the point know where the hell they came from, landings, the heavier roar of their M-l where the road passed through the north but they're there. F company, on the rifles and Browning automatics boomed ridge. By reducing elevation slightly, it far right, reports an estimated two com- over the intermittent blast of Korean could easily cover the pass. panies north of them. Is that right, Capt. weapons. Operating with controlled The colonel and his adjutant, Capt. Peters?" The F company commander haste, the troopers went about securing Fred Cave, had set up a more permanent nodded in grim assent. the drop zone with workmanlike precision. In landing, one young lieutenant, a platoon commander, had drifted toward some trees at the edge of the field. He fell through the trees and came to a halt about five feet off the ground, hang- ing upside down in his harness. Spying the apparently helpless parachutist, three nearby enemy soldiers grinned cruelly and, spurning the quick, merciful death of a rifle volley, rushed th him with fixed bayonets. Reacting quick- IN REVELATION, YOU'LL ly, the lieutenant left off fighting his SEE FIVE OF THE WORLD'S harness, rapidly unholstered his .45 au- GREAT TOBACCOS tomatic, and blasted all three, the last to die slumping to the earth not more Notice the different cuts and colors in the flakes? Each one than ten feet away from the lieutenant. adds its own personality, and Other troopers rushed about the field when they're all together, a opening the equipment packs and grab- secret recipe does something bing up the automatic weapons and rare for the flavor. Try it soon ammo packed therein. Squads and pla- and get some new pleasure in toons formed up quickly on their leaders your pipe. and moved off according to plan. Immediately the enemy infantry began to pull back in disorganized retreat. Kentucky Burley— dark flakes, slow burning Some four minutes after the troopers Virginia Bright— bright leaves, even burning had cleared their planes, the echelon of Old Belt Bright— slightly darker, good body heavy drop aircraft flew over the valley. Latakia-deeper brown, extra mild First out, jeeps, weapon carriers and Perique-very dark, wonderful aroma cases of ammo that dangled heavily be- neath newly-opened chutes. Then came those priceless big howitzers. As the colonel and his staff watched REVELATION in keen anticipation from the edge of the MILD SMOKING MIXTURE | \ field, one of the artillery chutes ripped and streamered. Immediately a second piece suffered a ripped chute. Then a

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 41 "G company," Boker continued, "has Within 30 minutes all units had pulled reported to the disgruntled brigadier. spotted better than 300 immediately back to the south area of the valley and "Excellent news, my general, we have north of them. H company, strung out the entire perimeter was soon dotted with just been joined by 70 more rifles who from G to the road, has the least amount small fires. cleverly by-passed the Yankee road- in front of them—maybe a hundred. I As the hours dragged toward mid- block. That gives us over 1,100 men." company, back here on the south side night, the air grew bitterly cold. At 2400 The general grunted. Then, to his of the valley with the artillery, reports hours the mercury dropped to 18 de- aide's utter astonishment he replied, "I nobody behind us. They're all in front." grees. Huddled with Cave in the com- trust these new people are not too tired He paused again and looked intently mand post foxhole, Boker noted with to march further. We move out shortly. around at the circle of fellow officers. satisfaction that things were still quiet. With good fortune we can reach the "Now, gentlemen, those people read The only activity was the roadblock Yalu by nightfall." us pretty well. They've been scouting, where his men continued to take as- "But, my commander, what of the at- too. They saw that artillery crack up. sorted groups of prisoners. tack? Do we not destroy the puny band They know how many men we have. If If the reds attacked, Boker reasoned, of Americans as you planned?" they decide they can take us tonight, be- "Obviously," replied the general, with forced patience, lieve me, it can get rough. He paused for "you are not yet aware breath, then. "Any comment?" that they have received reinforcements." The men looked around at each other, The captain gaped in amazement. then back to the colonel. "Are you abso- "No, eager one," continued the briga- lutely certain they will attack tonight?" dier, "I would fall into extreme disfavor asked one. with our honored advisors if I should "It's quite possible," the colonel re- commit my valiant band against the ac- joined. "Here's the pitch. It's cold right cursed Americans now. They could cut us to small tassels. I have personally now. Before the night is over it's going scouted to get a hell of a lot colder. Our men the Yankee strength from the ridgetop. 1 counted more than 300 fires can't counter an attack if they are half- frozen. We're going to pull out of those in that valley." positions to the north and dig in on the "And," he concluded drily, "there are south side of the valley here. Then each easily ten men at each fire." The half-rested Korean troops re- man will build a small fire and keep it going through the night. Spread them assembled and began to move north on the the first out about 30 feet apart." road beyond ridge as the light of Utter disbelief was the group reaction dawn brightened the eastern sky. Simultaneously, Col. tele- to this statement. Capt. Cave's face in- Boker got a phone report to the effect that friendly dicated his complete lack of foreknowl- units three edge of Boker's plans. armored were now within miles of his roadblock position "But, Sir," he protested, speaking for THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE and coming up steadily. the entire group, "If we make lighted His face haggard from night-long targets of ourselves, won't that be an it would come in early-morning. Their alertness, Boker rose tiredly to his feet, invitation to them to take us?" favorite hour seemed to be at 0430 sharp. and smiled down at his drowsy adjutant. "Possibly," snapped the colonel, "but Reports continued to come in by field "Hear that, Fred?" he remarked. if we are hit, I want these men in con- telephone from his various units. His "That scream is our tac-air support. dition to function." people were all awake, tense and ready. Boker's proposal was directly oppo- And our tanks are coming up the road. as the fighter planes get set, site to what the book indicated for such Shortly after midnight, two Korean As soon we'll attack those people over the ridge. an afterdark situation. Despite the senior scouts attained the summit of the second They've called it a bad deal and are mov- officer's firmness of tone, Capt. Cave highest north ridge. They wore heavy ing out north again." reiterated his protest. quilted jackets and each carried a Rus- "Sir," he declared, "I've been with sian-made burp gun. Their ears strained lubilant realization erased the fatigue you for a long time and we've come out and their thin lips moved silently as they from the captain's face as the import of of some pretty rough spots together. But counted. Boker's words sunk in. "It worked, Ken. it fires bluffed this idea of a valley full of fires is the Minutes later they hurried back down By God, worked! The damnedest thing you've ever come up the hill to make a disturbing report. The them out!" he shouted happily. ." those people fight funny, with! If you don't realize . . information they gave was then verified "Sometimes "Steady, Fred," the colonel inter- in person by a bandy-legged individual Fred," mused the colonel. He grinned rupted, Then, after a pause, "Now, wearing the collar tabs of a brigadier and lit a fresh cigarette. "Apparently gentlemen, get that word around imme- general, North Korean People's Army. they count funny, too." diately. Send it around with the pass- Observing the fire-lighted activity in Operational records of the airborne word. I want to see some fires around the valley, he cursed inwardly. His atti- combat team sum up exactly what hap- here right after dark." tude was remarkably similar to that ex- pened in the next five hours after the After the various unit commanders hibited by Col. Boker during the dis- troopers launched their attack. Using had Left, Boker turned to his recalcitrant astrous howitzer drop. their one howitzer to deadly effect, and friend, eyed him steadily for a moment, In methodic concentration, the Ko- supported by elements of the armored and then said earnestly. "This is the only rean commander finally lumbered back units plus a strike force of nine jet air- way, Fred." down the mountain, flanked by his stolid- craft, Boker's troops killed 374 verified Cave met his eye, then grunted in faced escort. He disappeared into his enemy dead and captured 742 prisoners lingering disbelief. command post, a lean-to, to ponder what to add to the 417 taken throughout the

"Have you ever seen it tried, Cap- his own eyes could not believe. night in their roadblock. tain?" asked the colonel. At 0330 hours, an hour before the Expert poker hands in the outfit

"No, Ken, I haven't." scheduled attack on the American troops, deemed it a fair-sized pot that was taken

"Then don't knock it." an earnest young North Korean captain in Korea with "Boker's bluff." the end

42 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 HOW TO GET THINGS DONE See What Is Happening With Graphic Visual Control regular on active duty who the only "The Boardmaster" saves you time and prevents had won the Medal of Honor and mlxups. Your operations are pictured at a glance. A simple and flexible for whom he could cut orders. Well, tool. Often pays for itself some screwball asked that the Legion the first day. You type or write on cards & snap in go on record as to who was the great- grooves on metal board. Use for Production, In- est soldier. Then someone said why ventory, Loading, Traffic, not read the citations of all Medal of Scheduling, Sales, Main- tenance, Personnel, Etc. Honor holders. The vote: Edwards Facts are at Eye Level. Made of Aluminum for 1140, 80, Woodfill 10. So the York lifetime service. /" \ Legion did vote me the greatest of 750,OOOinuse. / "!?| n\ Learn how this ( »/[Q9U I add that they soldiers. I hasten to valuable system \.«U J were wrong! I was, and I am a cow- helps you to get things done better, faster by Seeing What is Happening. Write for full details. ard. But I pack the medals only be- ( Continued from page 4) FREE 24-PAGE BOOKLET NO. AR-10 cause I was good looking and cross- GRAPHIC SYSTEMS, 925 Danville Road, Yoncoyvillo. N.C. eyed. communism were not looked upon as Daniel R. Edwards, patriots for long. Maj. S. AUSR.,(Ret.) H. B. McClellen FEET or TOES ITCH? Royal, Ark. Beware! Athlete's Foot Starts Just That Wayl Cameron, Tex. Get Dr. Scholl's Solvex at once. Stops intense itching right off. Dan Edwards holds not only the Medal Instantly kills fungi on contact; of Honor but two Distinguished Service helps heal red, raw, cracked or THREE-YEAR-OLD peeling skin. Sold everywhere. Crosses, four Distinguished Service sir: Words cannot express our feelings Medals, three Silver Stars, two Bronze toward The American Legion for DTScholls SOLVEX Stars, etc. being kind and helpful to us in our so The Editors STAMP COLLECTORS!!! hour of need. Legionnaire Ray Well- ington was indeed very kind and went sir: Kisters a of ASTRONAUT SHEPARD all-out to help our baby, Andy. Gerry was member Mr. & Mrs. Jack Gottesman & Andy the 91st Cavalry Reconnaissance Complete mint postage set, commemorating our Brooklyn, N.Y. Squadron and not the 82nd Recon- first American Astronaut naissance Squadron, as stated in the Alan B. Shepard and the Three-year-old Andy Gottesman was article. The 91st was a separate unit Mercury capsule, given to ADULTS to in- the recipient of the Legion's 19,000th FREE and was classified as Army troops, troduce our bargain ap- National Child Welfare temporary as- while the 82nd was an integral part provals. sistance award. See page 33 of our of the 2nd Armored Division. The STAMPEX CO. Box 47- HC. White Plains, N.Y. April issue. 91st was a proud outfit and General The Editors Patton requested this unit be detached from the First Cavalry Division and assigned to his Western Task Force FALSE TEETH BREAK? ERRORS OF FACT for an invasion of North Africa. Mem- Now repair them GOOD f$198 sir: The article in the March issue bers of the Squadron are proud of uryuq at home in 8 min. " | about Gerry Kisters states that he is Gerry Kisters as he was a real soldier. — Amazing PLATE-WELDrepairsclearand pink plates and replaces teeth. Simply flow on put the Medal Mark A. Watson — the first man to win both together. Works every time— holds like new or money of Honor and the Distinguished Serv- Shreveport, La. back. At Drug Stores or send $1.98 plus 22c handlingto Home Dental Aids Co., Box 1731 Dept. '5 ABakersfield, Calif. ice Cross. I have three acquaintances , who won both—'Wild Bill" Donovan, sir. The author of "Gerry Kisters, General MacArthur and Theodore Soldier" states that Kisters was the first WHEN WILL Roosevelt, Jr. man ever to win both the Medal of Eric Fisher Wood Honor and the Distinguished Service Bedford, Pa. Cross. This appears to be incorrect. BE CURED? Prior to our entry into WW2, both sir: I enjoyed the Gerry Kisters story the late Maj. Gen. William J. Dono- BUT why does Forrest Perrin say, van, former head of OSS, and Maj. ". Gen. Charles E. Kilbourne, former . . he won the Congressional Medal of Honor"? If Mr. Perrin had both- Superintendent of The Virginia Mili- ered to look up Army regulations cov- tary Institute, had been awarded not ering awards and decorations he would only the Medal of Honor and the Dis- have found that officially it is called tinguished Service Cross but also the simply "The Medal of Honor." Distinguished Service Medal. Joseph P. Roth Col. Herbert J. Slingo (Ret.) New York, N.Y. Park Forest, III.

regret having erroneously stated Marlssay* sir: That's a dandy piece about Lt. We that Lt. Gerry Kisters "the Say when. 1°r Gerry Kisters being the first man to 2nd H. was win both the A4H and the DSC. What first man to win the Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross." As with your dollars!, was that I got before he was out of for the disputed point concerning Lt. diapers? The way it came to me, I • RESEARCH Kisters' outfit, the official Listing was the first man to pack 'em both. I Army • CLINICS do not question Kisters. If he's got as of Medal of Honor citations states that Kisters was awarded the Medal of much as a Bronze Star I'll say he de- • PATIENT SERVICES serves another round. But the article Honor for service near Gagliano, Sicily, HELP FIGHT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS makes the rest of us godamliars. Call when he was attached to the 91st Recon- Send contributions to MS c/o Postmaster up General MacArthur. He's got 'em naissance Squadron. too. At the St. Louis convention in The Editors Free Book on Arthritis 1919 there was a hell of a broil. Gen- And Rheumatism eral Foch said, quite correctly, that Letters published in You Said It! do not CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES necessarily represent the policy of The HOW TO AVOID Alvin the greatest Explains why drugs and medicines give only temporary Sgt. C. York was American Legion. Name withheld if re- relief and fail to remove the causes; tells all about a pro- individual soldier. General Pershing auested. Keep your letters short. Address: ven non-surgical, non-medical treatment which has pro- You Said It, The American Legion Maga- ven successful since 1919. Write for this 36-page FREE named Capt. Woodfill because he was zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y. BOOK today. No agent will call. Ball Clinic, Dept. 560 M Excelsior Springs, Mo. —

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highly dramatic visit to the scene of his just looked me over as though I'd asked cializing in waffles and bacon and eggs. wartime return—Lingayen Beach—and for a handout, and mumbled something Every time I see it I could kick myself. I gave photographers another shot of that about having seen so many soldiers dur- once sat in on a conference at which an iron-jawed profile. ing the war he couldn't remember half of ex-GI was trying to promote capital for

l ater, he was the main speaker at the them." the first of the Pam-Pam chain (the one celebration of the 15th anniversary of Here Roy stopped to light a cigarette on the Champs Elysees), but I didn't Philippine independence. And so anxious and take a pull at his drink. Then he con- have sense enough to make my future were the people to see him and let off tinued, "I was so let down, I didn't even secure by getting in on the ground floor. steam that 400,000 Filipinos marched want a drink—but I ordered one because War correspondents, since they went past the reviewing stand to stage the big- I couldn't think of anything else to do. everywhere with U. S. forces, have like- gest Fourth of July Independence Day And finally, since I'd come so far, I de- wise felt the urge to "go back and take a parade in their history. cided to try once more. 1 knew Gaston look." Clarence W. Hall, a correspond-

In between the two extremes—generals spoke English, so I reminded him of a ent who went through the hell of taking like MacArthur, Eisenhower and Gavin, Okinawa, tells a significant story in and an ordinary Gl named Joe Napoli— Reader's Digest of a place from which there are millions of other ex-soldiers he couldn't stay away. Subduing Oki- who have felt the urge to go back to nawa yard by yard, the unit Hall was something! No matter what draws them accompanying came face to face one day —a rip-roaring celebration, a girl with with the remote village of Shimabuku provocative eyes, a religious conviction, (1,000 inhabitants). Taking no chances, a discovered relative, or just plain curi- the wary GI's raked it over with a osity—the sentimental trail has always blistering barrage, then crept forward offered the hope of recapturing an through the dust to see if any living thing elusive moment of glory. Some have had survived the shelling.

found it, and rejoiced; others have met Most had survived by running away, only frustration, and returned home sad- and the first of those who came back ly disappointed. were two old men. Bowing and smiling, Roy Emerson was one of the latter. they said they were the mayor and the He found no gold at the end of his senti- schoolmaster—and proudly held out a mental rainbow. Ten years ago, Roy tattered Bible. Through an interpreter, passed through Paris on his way to Liege, Hall and the soldiers learned that 30 Belgium. During the war he spent several years before, an American missionary months in Liege as a quartermaster ser- had stopped in Shimabuku long enough geant, and was so anxious to get back to teach these old men a couple of hymns that he spent only one night in Paris. and leave them a Japanese edition of the "Say — who was that lady I And on that one night, after we'd had a Bible. Since that time, the village had saw you with last, knight?" good dinner and had wrecked a bottle of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE used the Ten Commandments as its legal cognac, he talked my ears off about code and the Sermon on the Mount as a Liege. couple of things we'd done together. He guide to social conduct. "I plan to stay a week," he said with said something in French but, from his Hall moved on with the troops, but re- enthusiasm. "There's a guy named Gas- expression, you'd have thought he'd bit turned to Shimabuku a few days later

ton who runs a hotel-bar-restaurant, and into a green apple. That did it. Without with his jeep driver. They attended a since I practically kept his family eating even touching my drink, I laid a bill on community service, and afterward the

for months, he told me several times that the counter and walked out." driver whispered, "So this is what comes if I ever came back, he'd throw the big- Cherchez les femmes is a pretty shrewd out of only a Bible and a couple of old gest blowout for me the town ever saw. deduction when old soldiers express a guys who wanted to live like Jesus! May-

I expect to have a ball!" burning desire to retrace their wartime be we're using the wrong kind of Roy left Paris the next morning—but steps. Girls, perhaps, have caused more weapons to make the world over!" he didn't spend a week in Liege. He ex-servicemen to "go back" than any- The memory of that village never left didn't even stay 24 hours! He must have thing else. Thousands have returned to Hall, and some months ago he found that caught the first train out, because he was Japan, France, Italy, and Germany—and he couldn't resist the urge to go back and

back in Paris and ringing my bell before in each country a few hundred have set- see what had happened to it. So he re-

I'd had my dinner. I guessed what had tled down to stay. turned; and, writing about it, he says he happened. Some came for a short visit and stayed found Shimabuku surrounded by "prog-

"How bad was it?" 1 finally asked. for business reasons. Keen-eyed oper- ress." All around it were Army ware-

He hesitated, and then it came out in ators, with a sentimental attachment for houses, supermarkets, movie theaters,

a rush. "I know it sounds stupid, but making money, are now firmly en- golf courses, neon lights, and bars—"but

when I walked into Gaston's place, I had trenched in every big city that figured in spiritually the village still remains undis- the silly notion that he would drop every- the war. I can't call the roll in the Far turbed by the honky-tonks." Shimabuku

thing and waltz me around the bar. He East, but in Europe I can give several still lives by the Bible! didn't. He was behind the bar, all right, examples. I, too, was a war correspondent. From but all he did was look up and ask me Anybody visiting Paris can hie himself 1942 to 1945, I saw my share of battered what I'd have. I figured he hadn't recog- to the International House (in Montmar- towns and villages— in Britain, North

nized me in civilian clothes, so I grinned, tre) and fill up on fried chicken, chitter- Africa, France, Belgium and Germany. stuck out my hand, and told him to bring lings, barbecue, and apple pie—in a Since 1948, every time I've been able to

out the bottle he'd been keeping for Old restaurant run by an ex-warrant officer. afford it, I've revisited places I had to Sarge—the name he always used to call And across the street from the American pass through in a hurry during the war— me. But he didn't even take my hand. He Express is a place called Pam-Pam, spe- and every one of them has given me

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something that has greatly enriched my fine to be up there beside the judge, in- Why men in Accounting. Banking, Sales, memories. stead of standing before him. Credit, Real Estate, Traffic, Purchasing, A few years ago I took ten dollars and The Army billeted me in some of the and every other branch of business started hitchhiking southward from Sal- finest hotels you can name—the Scribe in erno. Hitting the small towns and keep- Paris, Excelsior in Rome, Carlton in ing away from tourist spots like Sorrento, Cannes, Aletti in Algiers, Mamounia in I wound up almost two weeks later in Marrakech and the Savoy in London. " Palermo, Sicily—and still had a dollar Since the war, I've revisited all these LAW. and a dime in my pocket! Along the way, cities—but I sure as hell haven't stayed in almost nobody refused me a ride, and I those same hotels! The rooms I once oc- SPARE TIME as a way never had so much fun in my life. For cupied now cost half as much for one to increased earnings any GI who slopped through Italian night as I pay for a whole month's rent. Whatever your present posi- mud in 1943-44, as I did, I'd recommend They run from 30 to 50 bucks a day! tion or previous schooling, you can qualify for rapid promo- similar. it's differ- it's worth, I think at least something Brother, a For whatever tion and top salaries through ent Italy now! one trip back to somewhere makes an ex- LaSalle Law training at home. A knowledge of Law is es- In Foggia, birthplace of the late soldier a better man. He'll not only be sential today in every activity Mayor La Guardia of New York, I more understanding, but also just might of business. New problems of taxes, insurance, contracts, found people who might have starved if be lucky enough, while the guns are quiet, liability, employment, and much more — all require it hadn't been for the generosity of Amer- to see more clearly the basic truth about legally-trained men for key positions. ican soldiers with their rations. And these war, which is: Nobody wins; everybody You can master Law in people tried to repay the whole Ameri- pays. spare time under supervision of LaSalle's can Army by feeding me up to my crew- For me, half the fun of going through professional faculty. Cost is low. Upon com- cut. In San Severo the chief of police, the war has been the going back to a pletion you are awarded a Bachelor of Laws degree, if after introducing me to a judge, suggest- critical spot—and wondering how in qualified. Famed LaSalle Law Library of 14 volumes is given ed that I sit beside His while court God's I ever managed to get out of Honor name to you as part of the course. was in session. I did—and it felt mighty it alive! the end Send for free book, "Law Training for Leadership."

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 45 THE FLOW OF GOLD (Continued from page 15) sneaking suspicion that the dollar might is too low and should be changed. They dividual countries, they state their sta- have to be devalued, after all. If con- reason that it is an artificial price in tistics as "gold and convertible ex- in dollar is lacking, the price terms of all other commodities, and also change" — the "convertible exchange" fidence the of gold will ultimately rise in the free that it is a tiny base for the vast amount being mostly dollars. of bank deposits which have been cre- Foreign individuals as well as foreign market. The U.S. Government can, by ated since the war. Only by establishing Central Banks are concerned with the special arrangement, dampen it down forever. a realistic price for gold can we ever value of the dollar and can influence the for a long time, but not get back to a true gold standard which flow of gold. It must also be remembered that the would permit U.S. citizens to freely ex- While individual citizens of foreign individual owners of pounds, marks, change dollars for gold and restore com- nations cannot bring their dollars to the francs, etc., can register their fear about fashion. plete confidence in the value of the dol- U.S. Treasury and cash them in for gold the dollar in another easy They if are disturbed, simply swap lar. But even the most ardent advocates as their Central Banks can, they never- can, they of a higher gold price agree that: theless can easily get gold in the free their dollars for other currency. When In that market they they do this, their dollars end up in the ( 1 ) This must not be done by uni- market of London. Central of their lateral U. S. decision, but by interna- register their fears, hope and expecta- vaults of the Banks flood of dol- tional agreement; (2) All major world tions on the future value of the dollar. country. If there is a such currencies must be re-aligned, based They bid for gold with dollars which lars, the Central Banks become appre- upon the new higher gold price; and they can get in exchange for their own hensive. They may decide that they have gold. (3) Such a move should be made only local currencies. too many dollars and not enough they in turn convert their dollars into if measures are simultaneously taken to This free market gold comes mainly So prevent a new round of inflation result- from the production of newly-mined gold, at the standard rate of $35 an have ing from this change in the gold price. gold in South Africa, etc. Also, some ounce. This is precisely what they the past years. This change in the price of gold is a comes from communist countries which been doing over few highly technical and involved subject must have Western goods and pay for Since it is in the interest of foreign which need not be discussed here. them this way. Last year communists Central Banks to see that the value of it is to be ex- The important fact is that whatever sold $200 million gold in free markets. the dollar is maintained, the price of gold, the U.S. must be The price of gold in the London mar- pected that they will not press the U.S. guided by sound economic policies out- ket can, to be sure, be somewhat con- Treasury to convert the dollars they own at too rapid a rate. There is lined in this article, or it will get into trolled by the U.S. Government. We into gold trouble. can — and have — used some of the vast some kind of sub-rosa agreement among Today foreign nations must depend gold stocks to dampen down speculative the Central Banks at the present time. upon the fact that the U.S. Treasury fever. When the price of an ounce of Also, a formal agreement was reached in in fall of last year by lead- will honor its commitments to give gold gold was pushed up to $40 an ounce in Vienna the Interna- for dollars at the rate of $35 an ounce. October 1960, the U.S. Treasury quietly ing nations which set up the tional Monetary Fund. They agreed to This is an important fact to them be- arranged with the Bank of England to cause every foreign Central Bank em- release a lot of gold for sale on the mar- set up a pool of about $6 billion of vari- — ploys dollars as the equivalent of gold ket. Today, the price in London is a ous currencies of the world pounds, liras, etc. These curren- in backing its currency, and these dollar little over $35 an ounce. Will it stay francs, marks, in holdings would represent a loss if the there? cies can be loaned to any nation dollar plunged downward. When bank- No one knows. It all depends on how trouble, under certain conditions. ers refer to their "reserves" against cur- much confidence people have in the dol- It is an ironic fact that this Fund was rency and credit outstanding in their in- lar and whether they begin to get a really organized because of the threat to the dollar. The once-powerful U.S. dollar will probably now have to go hat- in-hand to other nations for support. The lending of these currencies can take the pressure off the dollar temporarily. But no currency in the world can be saved permanently by loans. Eventually the dollar will have to stand on its own feet, and its price will be determined by the value that other people place

upon it.

CONFIDENCE - KEY TO THE GOLD DOLLAR PROBLEM

What is the basic reason for confidence or lack of confidence in the dol-

lar? This is the heart of the problem. How do people judge whether the dollar should be converted into gold or not?

Their judgment is made on the basis of two facts which are closely related to each other: (1) How sound are the basic monetary, tax, labor, spending and other policies within the United States? Are they inflationary and are they undermining

46 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 the strength of the dollar? If we are over- Such a move to deplete us of our gold Now! Life Insurance spending, and our policies are inflation- would be disastrous. Furthermore, it ary, many people will demand gold for would undermine foreign confidence in Birth to Age 80 their dollars. the dollar, not increase it. First (2) What is the trend of our balance Such a move would be made in an of international payments? Our balance- effort to soothe foreign holders of dol- 30 Days of-payments may be described as the lars. But its net effect would be to take ONLY 25£ figure resulting from balancing all away any automatic restraint upon the net Per Policy the dollars we send abroad against all issuance of paper dollars. The dollar 1000 — the dollars received over here from for- would be paper money — fiat money CASH FOR YOUR FINAL EXPENSES. AVOID BEING A BURDEN TO YOUR FAMILY This fig- with no legal gold backing behind it. eign sources in any one year. Introductory Offer. Answer these 9 paper has ure is closely watched throughout the The history of such money questions on a plain piece of paper and world and has an important bearing on not been a pleasant one. In fact, it is mail with only 25c for 30 days' protec- policy. the strength or weakness of the dollar. replete with tragic episodes, such as the tion. Regular rate shown on Issued without doctor finally made of Amounts usually If our balance-of-payments threatens to bonfire that the French examination. the be negative and fairly large (that is, if their paper "assignats" at the end of Ages Amount Ages Amount we are sending many more dollars out 18th century. 0 to 15 $1000 45 to 65 $1000 can to than we are taking in) it will shake So, basically, the only way we 15 to 45 2500 65 80 500 address. confidence in the dollar. make the dollar strong and stop the out- 1. Print full name and 2 . Date of birth? The elements going into the balance flow of gold is to correct our balance- 3. Height? 3a. Weight? 4. Occupation, kind of work? done only if of our payments are the following: (a) of-payments. This can be 4a Name and address of employer? export goods and import goods. we curb the inflationary policies in this 5. Race? We we 6. Beneficiary and relationship to you? This gives us a net credit or a net deficit. country. 7. To your knowledge have you had heart, lung, diabetes, cancer, or chronic disease? Last year we exported $5.2 billion more Are you deformed, lost a hand, foot, eye, NECESSARY or ever rejected for insurance? that is not the ANTI-INFLATION POLICY than we imported. But 8. State condition of health. entire story, (b) In addition, we paid 9. Amount desired, and sign your name. out about $5.6 billion for military and What policies that contribute to in- NO AGENT WILL CALL you direct curbed? 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Such would have the same effect as labor policy is essential for a sound dol- currencies regardless of our economic moves official devaluation, since they would lar. We must put a curb on the monopoly policies. feature of unionism which underlies the Even though we inflated the money cause the dollar to sink in foreign mar- excessively high cost of American goods supply, even though wage costs and kets. Finally, of course, the dollar might devalued. in many industries. If our costs and prices zoomed upward each year, even be officially prices are pushed too high, our exports though practically all our policies were If a dollar crisis developed, a new inflationary force would be set in motion. will diminish, the deficit in our interna- inflationary, nevertheless, gold did not of our sav- tional payments will increase, and the leave this country and the dollar re- This could affect the value jobs, the prestige outflow of gold will become more rapid. mained strong in international markets ings, income from our United States and, to a great ex- (5) Our steeply progressive income during the early post-war years. This of the entire Western taxes must be revised. 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SOME KIND WORDS FOR YOUTH (Continued from page 17)

are doing so much that the youth of our country ranks near will to win. This extract from an Action ing the sailors who prove develop missiles for the the top on the list of vitally important na- Report was typical of most naval units: to and ". this vessel just Navy. I talked with men ranging in rat- tional resources. . . Six months ago had to 1st class petty I've known youth, in war and peace, been commissioned; 97 percent of the ings from seaman 18 to 33 years, from for a long while. As a teen-age seaman crew had never been in action; 85 per- officer; in ages from first time homes spaced across the country from in World War I, I served with other cent of them were seasick the Florida. teen-agers doing men's jobs in coal-burn- the ship had blue water under her keel; California to with these young men brought ing battleships in the North Sea. I ma- now they have the appearance and con- Talks denominator—an acute tured and watched others mature in a fidence of veteran men-o'-war's men! out one common appreciation the value of an educa- climate of strict discipline and indoc- Their conduct under attack left nothing of for fractional percentage trination which engendered a fierce pride to be desired and is another shining ex- tion. Even the didn't want it for themselves, "get in service and country. In later years, ample of the adaptability and courage who ." education" topped the list of things . . an as a commissioned officer, I saw young- of the young men of our country. would advise a younger brother to sters from farms, towns, and city slums That Action Report was written in they or that they would want their chil- arrive on board ship as raw recruits. I 1943, and I do not concede that there do, watched boys develop into men and tried has been much change in the basic dren to do. Seven of the young sailors I met are to lend a helping hand to one, or to use make-up of American youth over the definitely leaving the Navy when their restraint upon another, in guiding each intervening years. enlistments expire. All of them are go- to his fullest potential. Over the years, Not long ago I accompanied a Navy college. They are not entitled to the patterns were much the same with League group on a tour of the U.S.S. ing to from the government, such different groups of recruits; about ten NORTON SOUND, the Navy's only ex- assistance educational benefits received percent developed into outstanding lead- perimental missile ship. We saw a lot of as the GI veterans of World War II and Korea, ers, the great majority became good sub- interesting hardware, oscilloscopes, radar by all have financial plans which they stantial sailor-men, and some few were equipment, and telemetering devices; but but believe will be adequate while they are failures—destined to be misfits all their most impressive of all were the young in college. All of these men have some lives. sailors working with these complicated savings, several have arranged loans World War II was a great era for mechanisms. With only high school ed- relatives, and all expect to have American youth. The sneak attack on ucations for the most part, bolstered by through part-time jobs. Every member of this Pearl Harbor fanned patriotism to a courses at Naval Technical Schools, group expects to enter state-supported feverish pitch. One of my orderlies in these young men were working side by colleges where the tuition is modest, and the GAMBIER BAY, an escort carrier, side with junior engineers from the con- not one of them anticipates any difficulty pridefully told me of the "17 club" in tractors' plants. in gaining admission to a good college. the ship. It was composed of sailors who "These boys are great," said a Navy these showed any evi- had enlisted at the age of 17, and its Leaguer from Reno, Nevada, as we left None of men members looked with amused contempt the Block House where a complicated dence of resentment at not being in line benefits. They were not on the "older men" (all those over 18), briefing on the firing procedure for a for veterans' who they insisted had joined the Navy Terrier missile had been given by a 22- aware of a bill, S.349, sometimes known favorably just to keep from being drafted into the year-old 2nd class petty officer. "They're as the "Cold War GI Bill," Public Army. The airplane had a lot of appeal enthusiastic and smart, and they sure reported by the Senate Labor and pro- as a glamorous combat weapon, and a know their jobs. I wish a lot of the Welfare Committee, which would people number of the pilots in the Air Group American people could see these kids vide readjustment assistance to were too young to vote. Youth and in- in action—they're inspiring." who serve in the Armed Forces between experience were part of every unit of I found them inspiring too. A week January 31, 1955, and July 1, 1963. As years in our greatly expanded fighting forces, but later I returned and spent several days a group they felt that the four so were determination to fight and the in the NORTON SOUND, interview- the Navy had been well spent and that

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no further obligation existed on either find places in a specialized society, and side unless a shooting war started. If war they're demanding quality in education. did come they were unanimous in say- They have confidence—sometimes I wish ing they were ready, willing and anxious they had a little more humility-but they do have assurance and confidence. It's up to help win it. ANYTHING! Frank Miller, a gray-eyed 23-year-old to the educators, the parents, and the essentials from Waynesville, N. C, is one of the communities to teach them the few sailors in the NORTON SOUND of self-discipline and good citizenship." with a university background. "I had "Integrity and consistency are as im- one year at North Carolina State and portant to the country as to the individu- another at the University of North Caro- al," said DeWayne C. Hafen, Electronics lina," he said. "I was taking a liberal arts Technician 2nd class. Hafen has re-en- Selective course, but I was restless and not sure listed for six years in the Navy's what I wanted. My faculty adviser sug- Training and Retention Program. gested that doing my obligated military "I was raised in Las Vegas," Hafen told me. "As a kid I did odd jobs around the hotels, and from my early teens I had a part-time job in the bakery at the Desert Inn. I went to work there full- ORAFix time when I finished high school. Pretty holds dentures fast.. .all dayl soon I realized that the head man had been working for 30 years, and he <| ORA/tV wasn't making much more money than 45c I was. It didn't look like much of NEW Thrifty Size Saves You a future to me, so I went talking to the over 39° size I what I found service recruiters. liked LEARN out about the Navy's school system, so I joined up. 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I made own business quickly. Men, women of all ages, I? *// learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property 3rd class after 18 months service and Management. Appraising, Loans. Mortgages, and THE AMERICAN LEGION' MAGAZINE related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- Wowl a year rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. 2nd class in the minimum time Write TODAY for free book! No obligation. Approved* for Korean Veterans later. I'm up for 1st class." service might be a good way to settle Now WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL. ESTATE (Est. 19361 3521A Broadway Kansas City, Mo. down, think things out, and decide what Of course all young people aren't like to look for in life. I tried to get in the Miller and Hafen. When we read of a athlete getting a draft de- RUPTURED Air Force Navigator Program, but there professional BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY was some delay in that so I joined the ferment because of physical disability Surely you want to THROW AWAY we're likely to agree that patriotism isn't Navy. I made good marks in the tests in TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rupture Wor- ries. Then Why put up with wearing a griping, 'boot' camp, I should have with two what it used to be. But then we remem- chafing and unsanitary truss. For there is now a years college, and was sent to the guided ber that the Conscription Act of March new modern Non-Surgical treatment that is de- permitted anyone whose num- signed to permanently correct rupture. These missile school." 3, 1863, Non-Surgical treatments are so dependable, that himself completely a Lifetime Certificate of Assurance is given. Miller is an only child. He is well- ber was drawn to buy Write today for our New FREE BOOK that read, a hi-fi bug, and exceptionally well- free of all obligation for the sum of gives facts that may save you painful, expensive surgery. Tells and Explains WHY NON- $300. And, it is a matter of record that HOW posted on current events. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MAY 1962 49 and acted alone it" necessary." said a 22- downy-cheeked youngsters who flew talked with were satisfied with that defi- year-old Missileman 2nd class, who night intruder missions over enemy-held nition, but not George Raspen, an 18- expects to attend the University of Colo- jungle fortresses, the men who would year-old seaman from the coal mining rado. rather have been in college or at home region of northern Pennsylvania: "The United Nations is a great or- with their families, but who fought and "That's all right for a dictionary defi-

ganization. It's a forum where gripes can died on land, on and under the sea, and nition," he said, "but it's just a starter. be aired without coming to blows," de- in the air—the men who died just as To me, patriotism means that I'm able clared an 18-year-old Aviation Store- dead as any patriot at Valley Forge or to live in this country and enjoy the

keeper. Shiloh. things it offers because of what people

"The U.N. should've acted in Hun- These new-found young friends of did to make it this way. I've got a re- gary. We encouraged those people to mine are working on missiles, just as sponsibility to contribute something too, revolt and then we let 'em down," said there are others of their age group man- so that my children, when they come a 20-year-old Machinist's Mate. ning nuclear submarines that scrape the along, and other children, can have all "We pay too much attention to "world underside of polar ice packs, piloting air- these things and more." opinion' and not enough to our oldest craft (winged missiles really) at speeds These young men I've talked about are allies," contended a 21-year-old Elec- which probe the fringes of fantasy, and real; they are a vital, living part of our trician's Mate, "we should only help clamoring for the opportunity to be hur- nation. Not one of them ever makes the those countries who are willing to help tled into space in the nose cone of a headlines, and they are total strangers to us." rocket. that segment of the public whose only Basically, the sailors I talked with are With so many youngsters doing so understanding of America comes from no different from the thousands of men many exciting things, maybe we'd better the press and the commentators of radio who parachuted into the darkness over decide exactly what patriotism means and TV. But they are there, thank God,

Normandy in the pre-dawn hours of before we agree that it is dead— a thing many hundreds of thousands of them in D-day, the hundreds in swim suits and of the past. uniform today, and there are millions flippers (the uniform of the Underwater Webster defines patriotism as: "Love more like them who are available to Demolition Teams) who reconnoitered of country; devotion to the welfare of insure the future of our country in war murky waters off invasion beaches, the one's country." Most of the people I or peace. the end

SURF FISHING (Continued from page 25) fish, offer advice on the proper bait or ment bet is a two-piece surf-spinning rod. Surf anglers also need the following lures and say "cast here" or "drop your The spinning reel you purchase for items: a fishing knife, fish stringer, head- lure in that spot." When a surf angler surf fishing should be a large salt-water light for fishing at night, sand spike to catches a fish he receives all the credit model holding at least 250 or 300 yards hold the rod upright, a rod belt and for his catch, unlike fishermen who en- of line. The line should be a monofila- pliers. An assortment of fishing lures gage in party boat or charter boat fish- ment type testing about 20 pounds. such as metal squids, spoons, jigs, sur- ing where so much depends on the skill Later on you can acquire an extra spool face plugs and underwater plugs will and knowledge of the captain and others. for the reel and use a lighter line to complete the outfit. If you are planning Surf fishing is also a democratic kind cast lighter lures. to do any fishing on the bottom with of angling with no limitations as to age, To be properly dressed the surf angler bait, you also will need nylon leader sex, creed or financial or social status. needs a pair of boots or waders to keep material testing about 40 or 50 pounds, Your position in life means nothing to his feet and legs dry during cold weather. hooks in various sizes, three-way swivels the fish and won't help you a bit in Waders which extend up to the waist or and pyramid sinkers in three or four catching him. In other forms of salt- higher are preferred by most expert surf ounce weights. water fishing money can mean the dif- anglers since they are warmer, keep you A good surf fisherman must be able ference between failure and success. The drier and enable you to wade out into to cast his lure or bait out to where the rich guy with a big sports cruiser, fancy deeper water. They are more expensive, fish will be feeding. Fortunately this is tackle, plenty of time, and money with of course, especially the all-rubber types less of a problem nowadays, since the which to hire a captain and mate has the which are the best kind to buy. A water- development of the spinning reel. Now advantage. The poor guy who can't af- proof jacket will protect you during cold almost anyone can learn how to cast ford to own such a boat or hire these or rainy weather and keep the spray 200 to 250 feet or more in a short time services is left out in the cold. But with from running down your neck. The best with a little practice. All you have to do surf fishing it's different. Once you buy a type is the parka-style with a hood and is learn how to operate your reel and serviceable outfit and a few accessories, a drawstring around the waist. study the fundamental motions of cast- your future expenses can be limited. To hold your lures, sinkers, rigs and ing. Watch other surf anglers and see

You can buy a good surf fishing outfit other accessories you will need some how they do it. The instruction booklet for about $80 or $100. This includes the kind of bag or container. A large shoul- which comes with most spinning reels rod, reel, line, boots or waders, surf der bag or tackle box is good if you plan will tell you how to operate yours. jacket and a few lures. After that you to fish in one spot and don't expect to The most difficult aspect of surf fish- can make a few other additions as the move around too much. But for the ac- ing is trying to locate the fish or the need arises. For the beginner, a surf- tive surf angler who will walk up and most productive fishing spots. This in- spinning rod of hollow glass in the heavy down beaches and climb out on jetties, formation can be obtained from various class is the best bet. Such a rod will run a belt with attached pouches is most sources, but you will have to piece it to- about 10 or 11 feet in over-all length practical. The U.S. Army type pistol gether to provide an indication of where and should be able to cast lures and belt with numerous eyelets is ideal for to try your luck. Many surf fishing "reg- sinkers up to three or four ounces. If you this and is used by many surf anglers. ulars" depend on other fishermen or live near the ocean you can get such a To it you can attach small bags and friends to tip them off. If, for instance, rod in one-piece. pouches such as those which can be you knew that someone caught fish at But if you have to travel great dis- bought in many army and navy surplus a certain spot, that would be the place tances or live in a city, your best equip- stores. to try. Other sources of information in-

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elude fishing tackle stores in the vicinity surf fishing is found early in the morn- and newspaper columns by outdoor ing, around daybreak, and in the evening writers familiar with that particular lo- at sundown. Good catches are also made cality. during the night, especially in the sum- When down at the beach check with mer and fall months. Certain fish will 62-A other surf anglers to see if they are bite during the daytime but others are colorful WHOLESALE Catalog No. FLAG CO.. FORT DODGE. IOWA catching any fish. A concentration of less active when the sun is bright. Striped MARTIN'S gulls or terns is one of the best signs of bass, for example, bite better on cloudy feeding fish, since these birds act as or stormy days. Some fine catches of ITCHING Torture "spotters" for surf anglers. When they these fish are made during or right after dive and wheel over a spot near shore it a storm which has caused big waves and Stopped like Magic usually means that gamefish such as a rough surf. Here's blessed relief from torture and misery of rash and eczema with a new other The gratifying thing about surf fishing rectal itch, chafing, striped bass, bluefish, weakfish and amazing scientific formula called LANACANE. This medicated creme kills harmful species are feeding and chasing small is that it offers freedom from the restric- fast-acting, stainless bacteria germs while it soothes raw, irritated and baitfish to the surface where the birds tions found in other forms of fishing and inflamed skin tissue. Stops scratching and so speeds

healing. Don't suffer ! Get LANACANE at druggists in most sports. There are few rules or regulations to follow and since a boat is Make Rubber Stamps for BIG PAY unnecessary, you don't have to waste ^g^Jhj ^jgg**1 Need more money? Earn $30- $50 time reserving one in advance. A surf t a week, spare time, at home mak- , ^îtf IMjjir > ingrubberstampsforoffices.fac- fisherman simply grabs his rod and takes * tor es - individuals. Hundreds of ^^^m^^^^l useS i'^lj^WP^^W ^^mm - Hundreds of prospects— ev- off. If the fishing is poor or conditions \3jgffiBBBHMHWl^^^ ery where. Right in your own com- JH^HflEi^âît munity. Turn out special stamp- lor aren't right, he quits and goes home or ^^^HHflKrSK^^^^ names, addresses, notices, prices, etc., U ' El*$&&g$mf in minutes with table-top machine. We turns to other activities such as swim- - furnish everything and kelp finance you. ? Write for free facts. No salesman calls. sun-bathing, or sight- ming, camping RubberStampDiv.,1512JarvisAve.,Dept. R-8-E, Chicago26 seeing.

Surf fishing is often a waiting game with periods of poor or mediocre fishing PSORIASIS in between periods of fast and furious activity. Your success in surf fishing will SUFFERERS depend mainly on your zeal and persis- We have a "6" ingredient ointment and tence. The guy who catches the most or an internal tablet, a combination which the biggest fish is the one who doesn't is giving wonderful relief to a great many sufferers. It's proving so effective that it quit when the going gets tough. He fishes warrants a trial by all who have this ail- in bad weather and good, day and night. ment, and it's supplied on a 14-day home trial plan. for details to Canam He hikes up and down the beach trying Write Sales Co., Dept. 300, Rockport, Mass. different spots and making cast after cast. Sooner or later he will be there when the red-hot action takes place and BE THE KNIGHT "Got a little too much Novocain in this one." will experience a kind of fishing that he THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE will doubtless remember for the rest of THAT FIGHTS his life.

find it possible to grab them. An alert There are many beaches along the surf angler immediately casts his lure Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Coasts where CANCER out into the water at that spot and tries surf fishing can be done for various spe- to get the gamefish to strike. cies. As a general rule you'll find that Without your help, the

Sometimes you may not see any birds the best fishing occurs from April to Sword of Hope can't cut but can see the big fish themselves break- November with the peak months from through to end cancer ing water or swirling in their frenzied June to October. The best way to find forever. Why? Because dash to catch the smaller baitfish. At out where and when to fish in your area it takes money to buy such times such time-tested lures as sur- is to write the Chamber of Commerce of face and underwater plugs, metal squids a coastal town and ask if they can direct chemicals, scintillation or spoons are apt to draw a strike. you to surf fishing areas. If you visit the counters, isotope scan-

If you don't see any birds or fish, spot, go to the nearest fishing tackle ners, manometers, then you must depend upon your knowl- store that caters to surf anglers and ask radioactive iodine edge of the beach or shore, underwater for information. Another and one of the all the toolsof science formations, tides, rips and other clues surest ways of getting information and that could result in to tip you off to the best fishing spots. learning the fundamentals of surf fishing

Surf anglers usually look for deeper is to join a surf fishing club. There are the big break- holes, channels and tidal rips where bait- hundreds of these clubs in the larger through.

fish or other foods are present to attract coastal cities and towns. Here you will Fight cancer with a larger gamefish. Sand bars, shallow areas meet other anglers whose hobby is surf checkup and a check. and protruding or partly submerged fishing and you'll pick up tips and hints rocks where waves crash and turn white which will enable you to become a are good spots to try. Also inlets or riv- skilled surf fisherman in a shorter period ers emptying into the ocean are generally of time. productive surf fishing locations. If If you're in the mood for a new ex- there are any jetties or breakwaters you perience, surf fishing may be your an- can usually go out on them to cast into swer. Why not grab your rod, head for deeper water. the nearest coastal waters and try your TO CURE MORE-GIVE MORE The time of day is an important factor hand at it? SOCIETY in surf fishing. As a general rule the best THE END AMERICAN CANCER

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