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WASHINGTON PRO & CON: THIS MONTH'S ISSUE "Does the United States Need a Freedom Academy to Help Fight the Cold War?"

PRO: Sen. William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin) • CON: Sen. Stephen M. Young (D. Ohio)

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I Tested The Fish-Catching Discovery

Illegal in Six States! BY LEONARD HARTMAN Holder of 26 World Fishing Records

— that it One year ago I was given a pound muskie so big become a local legend — that startling assignment! I was had had survived for years by outwit- to test-prove a fishing asked ting everyone that had cast for product that uses an appeal so him - YET WAS SO DAZZLED irresistible to fish that it is BY the sprinkling of Lure Glow against the law to use it in on my bait that he struck with Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Utah, such savage abandon he couldn't Minnesota and Wyoming. pull himself loose! But fishermen in every other state are still permitted to use Another Thrilling Example it... One day my wife and I were The product is a remarkable fishing on the Gulf Coast in Cen- chemical discovery called LURE tral Florida. The wind was NW GLOW. It makes any lure or live and the surf had lathered to a bait light up with a bright eerie near golden brown. After two Works on Any Lure glow the instant it hits the water. hours without a single nibble, we or Live Bait Because of this glow, fish can went back for the Lure Glow. Ap- see your lures and bait up to plying it to the same lure I had These photos show two identi- twice as far away depending on been using — but not to hers — cal worms — and two identical local water conditions, even on we cast in the very same spot we lures — but in each case, those pitch black nights - even at had been fishing before. I caught treated with Lure Glow glow depths of forty feet where the big my first fish on the second cast. brightly in dark water! This fan- ones hide. Within an hour I had 27 fish, in- tastic scientific discovery now Also, because a lure sprinkled cluding jacks, ladyfish, redfish makes any lure, plug, spinner or with this powder can be seen so and a small grouper. Oh yes, my live bait many times more effec- far away, it actually "draws" wife still hadn't taken her first tive when you use LURE GLOW. right to your sight-feeding fish fish . . . Need I say more? hook. Its eerie glow irresistibly worms and was catching them SPORTSMAN'S attracts fish like bass, pike perch, Huge Catches Produced By right along with me, and became TRIAL OFFER trout, musky, walleyes and doz- a converted Lure Glow user. Lures That Had Failed Before We ens more. both caught our limit of small- Thousands of fishermen have already this scien- My experiences were not mouth bass ranging from iy2 found out how I was astonished unique. Other fishermen also re- pounds to one lunker of 4 pounds tist's sensational LURE GLOW It sounded too good to be true. ported amazing successes. They 2 ounces. powder has multiplied the fish- BUT EVEN THESE PROM- found that Lure Glow works catching powers of popular lures ISES PALED COMPARED TO whether you fish in a lake, a pond A SCIENTIST'S DISCOVERY and live baits. Now you can see ACTUAL RESULTS I or a stream — whether you go for yourself — without risking a THE . . . Why it works GOT! After my own fish-catch- after bass, pike, perch, crappie, single penny — how this new dis- ing experiences with this revo- bream, trout, walleyes and many For years fishermen have covery can help you make record known that light lutionary new discovery, I had to other fresh and salt-water fish. attracts many catches you never believed possi- kinds fish. report that the company's claims They found it works whether you of Fish are "drawn" to ble! light perhaps like are at- for it had been actually under- use plugs, spinners, live bait, or moths A single container of LURE tracted stated! That this amazing Lure lures especially suited to the fish to a light bulb. Light is so GLOW is enough to treat your effective Glow powder had, in fact, pro- you're after. It simply makes at attracting many kinds favorite lures and baits up to 300 duced FAR MORE DEVASTAT- whatever bait you use more vis- of fish that some states even out- or 400 times. Its cost is only $2.98 ING RESULTS than they had ible through more water—makes law the use of a light of any kind. — and it doesn't even cost you this, said it would. Results like these: it attract fish from further away! Knowing a fisherman-sci- that — not even a single penny — entist in 1. In test after test, I found that Pete Thompson, Rochester, N.Y. Rochester, N. Y. spent if you don't find it makes your a sprinkling of Lure Glow made Writes: I am an avid fisherman years trying to find a way to baits and lures more effective! the difference between the exact who does most of his fishing in make fish lures light up in the Yes, even if you spend up to same lure producing fabulous the Finger Lakes region, and un- water. If he could only make $2.00 for each lure ... or up to them do this in dark water, catches — or catching little or til using Lure Glow, I had only he $40 for your rod and reel . . . you nothing at all. average luck. One day I bought a reasoned, especially at dawn or must see that equipment catch 2. 1 found it drew fish in to one box of Lure Glow powder and the dusk when the fish are biting more fish when you are using single fisherman's hook out of an bass in Canadagua Lake would best, — and in deep water where LURE GLOW, even when other entire group — even when the not leave my bait in the water the big fish lurk during the day fishermen with the same equip- other fishermen were standing for more than a few minutes be- — then these lures would have not ment are catching nothing! In right by his side — even when fore they would hit it and wind only the "appeal" their manu- other words you must catch more they had the same skill, the same up on my stringer. I used your facturers buiit into them, but also fish, larger fish and get bigger equipment, the same lures! fabulous LURE GLOW on both an added appeal so terrific that enjoyment — or you will have Yes! In trial after trial, Lure worms and crabs while my fish- it is actually outlawed in six tried Lure Glow at our expense. Glow worked after everything ing partner was using plain states! It won't cost you a penny. else tried failed It worms and crabs. After watching we completely. © HARRISON INDUSTRIES INC., 1963 proved its worth to me once and me catch fish for half an hour, he for all when it drew in a huge 38- tried some Lure Glow on his AMAZE YOURSELF MAIL TRIAL COUPON TODAY!

HARRISON INDUSTRIES, INC. Dept. 22-AL 250 Passaic Street, Newark, New Jersey Please rush the new fishing discovery LURE-GLOW on AMAZING TRIAL OFFER. If it does not make my lures and bait attract and

. catch more fish . . bigger fish . . . and make fishing more fun . . . if it doesn't make my lures or bait LIGHT UP and visible up to twice as far through the water you will refund my money immediately with- out question. (Illegal to use in Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Utah, and Wyoming)

$2.98 enclosed. (Cash, check or money order) . Send Postpaid. I save all COD charges. Full money-back guarantee. Send COD. I will pay postman $2.98 plus COD postage charges. Full money-back guarantee. NAME ADDRESS CITY ZONE STATE Like a Moth to a Flame . . . Fish Couldn't Resist It! In Canada: Order from Harrison Tackle Co., 675 King St. W., Toronto, "Catches like these gave me proof, time and time again, of Lure Ontario (Oht. Res. add 3% tax) Glow's fantastic fish-catching power." — L. HARTMAN.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 1 Available after

400 years I The American valuable acreage on FEBRUARY 1963 ©li Spanish Volume 74, Number 2 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Bos 1055, tanfl (5rant LEGION Indianapolis 6, lnd. The American Legion Magazine Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., by The American Legion. Copy- Contents for February 1963 right 1963 by The American Le- gion. Second-class postage paid at Louisville, Ky. Price: single INFORMATION 6 copy, 20 cents; yearly subscrip- FOR YOUR tion, $2.00. Nonmember sub- BY NATIONAL COMMANDER JAMES E. POWERS scriptions should be sent to the Department of The In this department Commander Powers Circulation new American Legion Magazine, P.O discusses problems that require attention. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, lnd.

Amazing land bargain at SCIENTISTS MADE TO ORDER 12 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: BY MAX GUNTHER Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. booming ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, lnd., How industry and universities are working using Post Office Form 3578. At- —as little as $10 monthly and give together to get the most competent men. tach old address label old and new addresses and cur- number. With 274,000 people now and streaking toward rent membership card be sure to notify your Post a million, fast-growing Albuquerque, New Mex- LOST AND WON ...14 Also THE PRIVATE WHO Adjutant. ico, now offers you the opportunity of a lifetime BY BERNARD QUINN to own choice big-city homesite land at far below current market prices. Learn how you The story of an American GI, George Mergenthaler, The American Legion and can actually be a big landowner here for only a hero to many Luxembourgers. Executive $10 monthly and get in on the fortune-building Administrative Offices 6, Indiana potential of big-city land in this booming sun- Indianapolis James E. Powers, National shine resort-metropolis, famed for the best cli- REMINDER 16 ALGER HISS: A Commander, The American Le- mate in the U.S.A. BY RALPH de TOLEDANO Indianapolis 6, lnd. For the first time in history, this beautiful gion, old Spanish Land Grant is now being subdivided There are those who would like Americans into big Western-size half-acre and full-acre The American Legion Publica- to forget the Hiss trial and its meaning. homesites, and offered to land investors at huge tions Commission: Armonk, discounts from all other current land prices in Edward McSweeney, Charles the entire Albuquerque area. Guaranteed ideal N.Y. (Chairman); Dr. A WAY OUT OF TRAFFIC JAMS 18 Keokuk, Iowa (Vice land for building, with roads, power, phones, R. Logan, Chairman); Lang Armstrong, water system already available to those desiring BY JAMES N. SITES Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. or later. to build homes now The whole civilized world is getting tied Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; RIO RANCHO ESTATES is located directly Swoyerville, Pa.; up in traffic. But relief is now in sight. .(ohn Cicero, on the banks of the romantic Rio Grande Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge, River, only five minutes from metropolitan La.; E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, Albuquerque, and right next to a $12,000-an- THE BIG ISSUE - PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS Fla.; Clovis Copcland, Monit- acre golf course development. Schools, churches, ion, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, theatres, big-city shopping all just a few min- Downington, Pa.; Dan W. Em- utes downtown from property. ON THE QUESTION: 20 mett, Palo Alto, Calif.; Ray- mond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; FOR INVESTMENT-RETIREMENT "Does the U.S. Need a Freedom Academy to Help Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Ga.; Herschiel L. Hunt, El Nowhere else in the entire Southwest can you Fight the Cold War?" Campo, Tex.; George D. Levy, choice land in such a prime location — so buy Pro: Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) Sumter, S.C.; Frank C. Love, close to a major city— for as little as $10 monthly. Meyer, Sen. Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) Syracuse, N.Y.; Earl L. Complete price only $795 per half-acre, $1,495 Con: Alliance, Nebr.; Morris Meyer, per full-acre ranch estate. Remember — this is Starkville, Miss.; Robert Mitch- A. big-city land, with adjacent property already THE HORSES 22 ler, Oswego, III.; Harold priced at $4,500 to $12,000 per THE GENERAL AND Shindler, Lafayette, lnd.; Wil- acre. Act now! Land prices are BY J. J. HANLIN liam F. Taylor, Greensburg, Ky.; Bris- starting to skyrocket in this Benjamin B. Truskowski, grab the world-renowned Wilder, "Sunshine Paradise" of the The Russians tried to tol, Conn.; Robert H. great Southwest. Rush coupon Lipizzans, but General Patton said, "No." Dadeville, Ala. for FREE fact book, land maps, photos. No cost or The American Legion Magazine Offices obligation. TEENAGERS BRING HISTORY TO LIFE.... 24 Editorial & Advertising Avenue BY JOHN G. PITKIN 720 Fifth New York 19, New York History books inspired these youngsters F. O'Neil A Division of American Realty & Petroleum Corp. Publisher, James to re-enact great historical events. Editor ("rTiRIO RANCHO ESTATES, Dept. 201 -B Joseph C. Keeley 1429 Central Avenue, N.W. BRIDGE IS FOR EVERYBODY 26 Managing Editor Albuquerque, New Mexico Robert B. Pitkin BY WILLIAM S. ROOT Please rush FREE fact book, land maps, Art Editor photos, and details on the big-city land op- Some basic facts about this popular game Al Marshall portunity you offer at far-below-market to prove that everybody can enjoy it. Associate Editor prices, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. John Andreola NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 29 Editorial Assistant Eli L. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 3 TWO SETS OF PARENTS Tomlinson arc most certainly the fin-

sir: 1 read your article "Your Children est analyses of the situation it has been

Need A Second Set Of Parents" in the my good fortune, and I might add, of November, 1962 issue. 1 found myself Legionnaires everywhere, to have read.

surprised, because I thought I had As Commander of the 8th District of

taken all necessary steps for my family. the Department of Texas, a position I

But upon reading your article 1 found held until last August 1st, I am well the most important step was left out. aware of the deep concern felt by

Thanks to your article I can rectify Texans relative to the South American that mistake. and Cuban situations. The President's S. D. Blair recent action on the Cuban affair cer- Beale AF Base, Calif. tainly was well received. sir: I greatly appreciated and enjoyed William H. Dalton reading Patricia K. Brooks' most en- Houston, Tex. lightening article "Your Children Need A Second Set Of Parents." Since the HIGH SPEED author brings out the sad fact that sir: I recently read the article "The

"property is often better protected Big Train," by Norman Beasley, which than people," as a property guardian you published last July, and remem- must account to the court annually, bered reading about Walter Perry w hile a personal guardian never ac- Johnson years ago when he was at his counts at all, let us hope that our judi- best. The story told how Johnson and ciary, in the near future, will make it a left-handed pitcher were tested for mandatory for a personal guardian to speed on a rifle range. I think the left- account to the court, not only annu- hander was Nap Rucker. Johnson was ally, but every trimester. This new and clocked at 122 feet per second which sorely needed amendment which I re- gave the batter almost a half-second

look over. I believe left- spectfully suggest, might make certain the Constitution was founded on the to the ball the hander clocked at 112 feet per people understand that children left Ten Commandments, straight out of was second. testing elec- motherless or fatherless should be pro- the Bible. Second, our judicial system The was done by tricity, the ball hitting and breaking tected by our courts as well as, if not was set up after the Twelve Apostles, wires set up at intervals. This test better than, property. twelve people make up a jury. This is should have been accurate since it Charles Clement Haimo right out of the Bible. Third, our Na- was York, Y. a rifle-testing setup. New N. tional Motto is "In God We Trust," Alva V. Zigler which appears on all our coins. Now, DENTAL NOTES with the Constitution founded on the Tama, Iowa sir: May I congratulate you and Lester Bible, how could they reach the deci- TRUE CHAMPIONS David for the most wonderful article, sion that they did? I think they all sir: It fellow "How to Keep Your Teeth," that ap- should resign except Justice Stewart, makes a feel good to peared in the December, 1962 issue of the only one who voted against the de- read about champions giving such a surprising amount of blood through- your magazine. Several articles have cision. As for the rest, the smell is the years, but hats are off in appeared on this vital subject previous- fouling up the good clean air up here out our devotion to the thousands of ly, but yours is unquestionably the in Vermont. boys who gave all of their blood defending our best; and I, as a periodontist, consider Howard H. Rhoades country. this a worthy contribution as a public Bellows Falls, Vt. health service. It required great talent Miles Rolfe to take a technical subject like this and ALGER HISS, TV STAR Mandan, N. D. explain it in easy-to-understand terms. sir: Last Veterans Day the American Jack K. Whitman, D.M.D Broadcasting Company put Alger Hiss CASH AND CULTURE sir: It is a fallacy to assume that Jacksonville, Fla. on a TV show. This was in poor taste we in a shooting with the sir: Modern dentistry needs all the and reached a low point in showman- are not war publicity available to educate the pub- ship. communist criminal conspiracy. Our lic on the need for good dental health William Stewart press has carried numerous accounts and how to obtain and maintain this Bellerose, N. Y. of American boys killed by commu- nists. In addition to occasional shoot- end. You are helping dentistry sir: Please add my protest against what ing incidents, there is also the massive strengthen its weakest link — dental I consider the mean, miserable, low, education of the public. dirty, contemptible action of ABC, "Hate the U.S.A." propaganda program Wayne V. Gilliam, D.D.S. Howard K. Smith, James C. Hagerty, being carried on in North and South America the communists. This is Rock Island, III. and everyone else connected with this by being financed with States dol- sir: Here is a bouquet to the editor despicable smear. United lars. Where they get the dollars? who selected "How to Keep Your H. S. Riecke, Jr. do read accounts of Russian perform- Teeth." Everyone who still has teeth New Orleans, La. We ers playing to packed houses in one should read it. A young dentist dis- sir: As an Infantry veteran of WW2 city another. In covered this situation in my teeth at who was present at Honolulu on De- American after our enthusiasm for music and our the age of 60 and he saved all of them cember 7, 1941, and participated in the good will the for me. It takes time and money but invasion of Dutch New Guinea, Leyte, good attempts to "understand" Russians, are unwittingly financing the treatment is well worth it. It is Alindoro and assorted islands in the we the war against us the communist not painful, as one might suspect. Pacific, I am amazed and dumb- by criminal conspiracy. We will not un- John J. Lavengood founded that the American (?) Broad- Gnalala, Calif. casting Company would on Veterans derstand communism by listening to Day bring Alger Hiss into the living a symphony orchestra from Russia. PRAYER DECISION rooms of American homes. Let's not help them to destroy us. sir: The decision by the Supreme Joe Bender John F. Schmidt Peoria, 111. Court outlawing prayers in public Williamstown, N. J. schools is the most ignorant piece of injustice ever handed down by that LATIN ANALYSES Letters published in You Said It! do not necessarily represent the policy of The court. sir: This country was founded un- The writings on South America American Legion. Name withheld if re- auested. Keen your letters short. Address: der God and will remain so, even if I "Turmoil in Latin America," No- You Said It, The American Legion Maga- some atheists think otherwise. First, vember ALM 1 by the eminent Edward zine. 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19. N. Y.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 I9ve been wanting to build N EW things for gears — but this

IDEAS, TRENDS, PRODUCTS Heathkit shortwave radio was

Ampex Corporation, which pio- mg first real success. Had fun neered in video tape recording, has announced a new machine, to be available in July, which is likely to building it* get great pride have a tremendous impact on edu- cational and industrial TV. This is a portable video recorder, called the showing it off, and saved Ampex VR-1500, that weighs only 130 pounds, can be transported in the trunk of a car, and costs $12,000, $90°° f99 which is only one-fourth the price of tool previous machines. With it, you can make recordings from a conven- tional TV set or with a TV camera, and play them back immediately. Educational use is stressed, but it can also serve in such fields as sports, medicine, military, etc. The VR-1500 resembles an overgrown home tape recorder, and it uses 800- foot reels of two-inch-wide tape.

Now you can send pictures by long distance or local telephone at regu- lar voice rates without using a spe- cial leased wire as was formerly necessary. The Holmdel Laborator- ies of the Bell System and the Stewart-Warner Corporation have developed two devices which make such service possible. These are an analog Data-phone sub-set and com- patible Datafax facsimile equip- ment. The former, developed by Bell, looks like a conventional tele- phone and it serves as the link be- tween the telephone line and the facsimile equipment. The Datafax units are made by Stewart-Warner. Quantity production of the two de- vices is scheduled by the second quarter of 1963.

Just as automobiles have cut into the business of full-size railroads, the Christmas season gave strong indication that model automobiles, Heathkit electronic luxuries are which can be raced over tracks by beginner-builder designed! remote control, meant fewer sales You can build a Heathkit, too! Easy to follow instructions enable of electric train sets. Indeed, from you to build the kit of your choice in a matter of hours. Get the the amount of advertising and store

. . . for free today! display devoted to the little cars, "Heathkit Habit" send your Heath catalog they were the hottest items in the nation's toylands last season. How- ever, the manufacturers are think- ing in terms of year-round interest. One of the pioneers in the field, IT ) HEATH COMPANY Strombecker, has started a Strom- Benton Harbor 56, Michigan becker National Road Racing Club, a subsidiary of Daystrom with racing rules and practices, and local meets are being planned. NAME. Inquiries concerning any of these FREE HEATHKIT CATALOG. ADDRESS. products and addressed to The Choose from over 250 Marine, Ham American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth CITY .ZONE. Radio, Stereo/Hi-Fi, Home and Test Avenue, New York 19, N.Y., will be kits, at savings of up to 50%! STATE. referred to the manufacturers con- cerned. The Editors

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 For Your Information

FROM NATIONAL COMMANDER Q^OymC^ £. -ffl&US&UlS-

It's Up to You, as Well as Me

You and I have a decision to make. On this page and in veterans who had not used their entitlement were caught succeeding issues, I intend to state it in plain terms. short by the abrupt termination of new policy issues in 1951. The American Legion is dedicated to a sacred purpose: The legislation was bi-partisan and designed solely to assure service to God and Country. It has produced great achieve- fair play. It passed the Senate and died in a parliamentary ments during the past 44 years in pursuit of that purpose. maneuver in the House of Bepresentatives. It remains the largest, best equipped, and most representative In 1960 both of the national political parties wrote into veterans organization in the world. their convention platforms a moving acknowledgement of Today, The American Legion ought to be wielding a the plight of aging veterans and the need for liberalizing the powerful and growing influence in the land. It ought to be disability pension program. To date, neither party has suited asserting effective leadership at every level of our society. its actions to its words. It ought to be gathering record harvests of membership and These items from the recent record underscore two im- prestige. portant facts. First, we have a tough row to hoe; we can

It ought to be doing these things, but it isn't. hoe it, but only if we put our minds and hearts to the task. Why? Because too many Legionnaires have lost the will We have no reason and no right to be complacent. Secondly, or forgotten the way to practice The American Legion creed the job of veterans' rehabilitation is by no means done. Old of service. I mean personal service that costs us time and wounds of the body and spirit frequently give just as much effort and promises no personal gain. pain and require just as much care as those that have just This is what built The American Legion. In my judgment, been sustained. this is what we must contribute now if we are to meet our Why doesn't the national organization do a better job of primary responsibility as Legionnaires. getting our programs through the Congress? This is a question In recent years we have witnessed a slow but steady chip- I hear time and again as I visit with Legionnaires throughout ping away at the foundation of the national program of the country. veterans' care. If the process is allowed to continue, thousands A senior member of Congress provided a key to the answer of disabled and ill veterans will be denied care due them last summer when he was asked why he had voted against an under present law. The nation's historic policy of according American Legion bill. "Frankly," he said, "I didn't know the special treatment to veterans, their dependents and survivors Legionnaires in my district cared one way or another about will lapse. Men and women who have earned through war- the bill." time service a place on the nation's honor roll will find them- He hadn't heard from the people whom he represents and selves consigned to a social planner's welfare roll. whose opinion he values most. He hadn't received the signal The American Legion can prevent this happening, pro- from back home that would have tuned him in on the sup- vided we muster the spirit, leadership and unity of which porting evidence and arguments made available by our rep- we're capable. resentatives in Washington. The choice is yours as well as mine. National and depart- The majority of the members of Congress are not anti- ment officers and staffs can do a great deal to keep you in- veteran. They want the nation's promises and veterans' needs formed and carry out your mandates. But the real power of honored. But they rely on you and me — Legionnaires back The American Legion is generated by you and your fellow home — for the information and expressions of personal in- post members. It's the performance level of your post in terest that will help them meet their responsibility. adapting basic Legion programs to local needs and aspira- We need this kind of close, coordinated action that can tions that determines our effectiveness on the national scene. make our legislative program go. A new plan to encourage Let's not kid ourselves. We have not been effective enough. and facilitate it is now being placed in effect. I am confident Despite our protests, Veterans Administration services have that the plan will have the vigorous cooperation of every been cut back repeatedly over the past decade. Legionnaire who is in a position to take a direct part in Two years ago the newly-inaugurated President of the strengthening our Congressional relations. United States called for increases in veterans' disability com- The challenge I have outlined here is bold and immediate. pensation payments — a move The American Legion had We have met challenges before. We will meet this one with advocated long before. After 19 months the Congress re- the unity of purpose and action that Legionnaires have dis- sponded with legislation providing only modest increases in played in the past. payments and reducing the payment-to-disability ratio for Behabilitation is one of several fronts where we are being beneficiaries in the lower disability range. summoned to practice our creed of service with unqualified Last year The American Legion supported legislation to vigor and dedication. We recognize, at the same time, addi- reinstate for a limited time the right of World War II and tional opportunities in other critical areas such as American- Korean veterans to obtain National Service Life Insurance. ism and National Security. What we're planning and doing We did this because a number of insurable and disabled in these fields will be the subject of messages to follow.

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DATELINE WASHINGTON

Proud President de Gaulle is giving Washington's foreign FOR THE RECORD policymakers as much of a headache as Russia's Khrushchev FOREIGN AID:

these days . . . The inflexible French general insists that "The current impression of our policy of "interdependability" for the Western Allies, the foreign aid program is a badly distorted caricature." with the U. S. exclusively in charge of the nuclear button, Assistant Secretary of State is not good enough for France ... He says that, despite our Harlan Cleveland. stepping up to the brink of nuclear war in the Cuban affair, "I can convince any rea- the U. S. would not dare fire missiles into Russia to block sonable man that we've sub- Red Army expansion in Europe, since the U. S. knows that the stituted aid for trade . . . ap- peasement for a firm and fair Soviet has the capacity for atomic counterattack . . . Thus, foreign policy." Rep. Otto Pass- de Gaulle pushes ahead for an independent French nuclear man, Louisiana Democrat, force . . . and France has brainpower and resources to achieve chairman of House Appropri-

the determined de Gaulle's goal in the near future . . . ations foreign-aid subcom- mittee. On the domestic front the the President 88th Congress and Note: Get set for a big Con- will be wrangling this session over such perennials as aid gressional slash. to education, old age health care, taxes, spending, etc. SCIENCE:

. . . There'll be at least one spanking new issue bouncing "I think we're going to see within the next generation the around this session . . . labor's demand for a 35-hour work artificial creation of living week . . . This is not just a talking point . . . The AFL-CIO things, starting with the virus is already beating the political bushes for votes . . . — and that's almost here." Another fresh bill among the old-shoe measures will call Dr. W. H. Sebrell, Jr., direc- for the creation of a Home Service Corps, patterned after the tor, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Columbia Univer- Overseas Peace Corps . . . The domestic corps would be sity. destined to work with slum children, migrant laborers , Amer- Note: Who needs more vi- ican . . . Indians, mental health institutions, and the like ruses? The current 88th Congress despite November elections, TAXES: " 'Expense-account living' looks pretty much like the 87th . . . with two more Repub- licans in the House of Representatives and three more Dem- as a way of life . . . should eventually disappear as a com- ocrats in the Senate . . . but the election did underscore mon practice." Mortimer M. the importance of getting out to vote . . . Less than 52 Caplin, U.S. Commissioner of percent of the total vote went to the winner in 43 contests Internal Revenue. Note: From now on, even for Congress or Governor . . . One out of 12 races was won members of Congress will by a bare few votes . . . have to pay for their own

Despite rough going of IL S_;_ aid to education on Capitol Hill, meal checks when dining out the Federal government is already spending more than $2.7 with lobbyists. billions for various educational programs, according to a POLITICS: "Maybe you would like to preliminary study by a Congressional subcommittee. This have fresh young candidates, three figure is years old, and does not take into account but what do you do with the the expanded research programs into health and space . . . Old Guy who's in there? You shoot them." Victor A. The sonic booms created by our supersonic warplanes upset can't Johnson, staff director, Senate the equanimity of affected communities. Thus the Air Force Republican Campaign Com- tries to notify the civilian authorities in advance. This mittee. public relations approach prevents surprise but also serves Note: No comment. to stimulate claims for damages, according to House sub- GOVERNMENT: committee testimony. "We cannot afford stereo- typed thinking that echoes

"Once , we took pains to announce well ahead that the sonic cliches of the past that have boom might affect a particular area," an Air Force official no validity today." Secretary testified, "but then had to call off the mission. Nonethe- of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman. less, five claims for damages were filed against the Note: Bravo! Spoken like a . government true cliche master!

8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 criticism caused James C. Hagerty, vice president of ABC, to go on the air to New Guaranteed defend the network against the storm Fund-raising aroused by the program. Plan Apart from the aforementioned state- gives you ment, we have seen or heard nothing, however, from the man behind the man who gave Hiss this spot in the sun—Mur- MORE PROFIT ray D. Lincoln, president of the Nation- wide Insurance Company. Presumably Mr. FROM Lincoln is the kind of hell-raiser who steps back once he gets people stirred up EVERY SALE! enough to fight. Now, you may be interested in reading something about the star of the Nation- wide Insurance Company show, ex- convict Alger Hiss. You'll find "Alger Hiss: A Reminder" on Page 16. STIRRER-UPPER AGAIN THE ACLU "WIurray d. Lincoln is fond of saying nother instance of the kind of "injus- UyU that what every big organization tice" that irks the American Civil Lib- needs is a 'vice president in charge of erties Union was reported recently in a revolution' — somebody on the staff news story. In this case, the well-publi- who'd spend full time keeping everybody cized folk-singing group, the Weavers, ." and everything stirred up . . was the issue. This bunch had been The foregoing leads off a book called scheduled to appear on a Jack Paar show "Vice President in Charge of Revolution," on January 2, 1962 but the date was can- Reach your goal easier, faster by Murray D. Lincoln, as told to David celled when they declined to sign affi- Karp. davits saying that they were not and never with Dolly Deere Candy Mr. Lincoln is president of the Nation- had been Communist Party members. wide Insurance Company. He is also an Here's sell: The ACLU expressed its resentment what you official of the ultra-liberal Americans for thus: "We believe that the imposition of A delicious assortment of chocolates with Democratic Action, usually referred to as assorted natural centers . . . Brazil nuts, political qualifications as a condition of the A.D.A. almonds, cashews, Virginia peanuts, grape- employment is discriminatory and con- fruit peel, orange crush, raspberry crush As the sponsor of the television show trary to the ideals of a free society as set and raisins. Covered with deluxe dark and which starred Alger Hiss, the convicted forth in the Bill of Rights." milk chocolate. Packaged in a handsome perjurer, on a program entitled "The see-thru plastic serving container personal- We don't like to take issue with the Political Obituary of Richard Nixon," ized with your organization's name, picture distinguished barristers who work with and/or insignia printed on the wrapper. Mr. Lincoln obviously believes in prac- the ACLU, but we refuse to concede their ticing what he preaches about stirring bland assertion that the Communist Party Here's how it works: things up. Few programs have evoked is a political organization. It most assured- There's nothing to buy! Just order your such a reaction of outrage on the part of candy and we deliver it — with us paying ly is not, but is a criminal conspiracy, and Americans. We know because we have the freight. You pay for it after you sell it, has been so held by the United States and you pay only for what you sell. You been on the receiving end of a lot of mail Supreme Court. keep 450 for every dollar sale! And you can protesting the taste bad and worse of the return unsold candy to us! Think of it: not program, particularly since Mr. Hiss's one penny invested on your part! starring vehicle displaced a Veterans Day RIGHT AND WRONG WAYS Here's how help you sell it: program originally scheduled. RIhortly before Christmas a series of we There is an experienced Dolly Deere repre- Because of the mail we did a little disturbances in the suburban branch sentative right in your area to sit down with of a York department store landed checking, and a few interesting facts New you and help you plan every step of the way! turned up. For one thing, the fellow who a group of customers and store employees He's free, too! runs the show, Howard K. Smith, may be in court. The ruckus was precipitated Here's why you can't miss! called a controversial figure in his own when the customers demonstrated against right. He's a former contributing editor communist-made merchandise being of- This isn't just another "assortment of choc- olates." It's different — and everybody goes of The New Republic, and no one could fered in the store. The store maintained for it. All you need is enthusiasm! . . . the ever accuse him of right-wing tendencies. that the customers damaged merchandise. same enthusiasm that got your organization A published report stated that CBS had In our estimation both were wrong. We going in the first place!

turned down the Smith series, even don't like to see communist-made goods Get all the details on the extra advantages though $40,000 a week was involved, be- being sold here, even though (as the store offered by Dolly Deere, the fund-raising plan designed with your organization in mind. cause Murray D. Lincoln insisted that pointed out) our State Department en- Clip convenient coupon below, mail today! Smith be allowed a free hand to run the courages this practice and there is nothing SEND COUPON TO: show as he saw fit. illegal about it. On the other hand, we ; 1 Dept. AL-2 However, in a statement issued by Mur- don't think it is a good idea to stage such I Dolly Deere Candy Company ray D. Lincoln in answer demonstrations. This is another manifes- j to protests from Box 4830, Delaware Valley viewers, he disclaimed responsibility. The tation of extremism, and the people who Philadelphia 24, Pa.

statement pointed out that prior to the engage in such demonstrations open Gentlemen: Please tell me more about I Plan. the Dolly Deere !| show many protests were received by themselves to legal action. I Nationwide Insurance and "the company What is the right way? If a store you

| Name . | advised Mr. Smith and ABC of the num- patronize feels that it wants to peddle ber and substance of these protests. This communist goods, it has that right. But Address , was done on Sunday preceding the show you also have the right to pass up such

I _ but it was made clear that Nationwide merchandise and take your business else- Phone I recognized that the responsibility for the where. You also have the right to tell the Organization— i | show rested solely with the ABC net- store management why you are doing so. work." Any dealer who is willing to pick up a City State I J The American Broadcasting Company, few dollars from the sale of red-made Age (if under 21) j which accepted the show, may by now merchandise won't want to go into the j feel that it committed a grave error. The red by losing customers.

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Engineering students at New York Univer- sity tell the story of a senior who, as grad- uation day approached, visited a company recruiter to apply for a job. The recruiter asked the young fellow about his education. SCIENTISTS "Well," said the senior, "this year I'm taking courses in mechanical vibration analysis, elas- — tic stability theory "Fine, fine," said the recruiter impatiently. He looked gloomy. "Let's go back to your year. What did you study then?" freshman — "Physical metallurgy, metallurgical "How about high school?" said the re- cruiter, still looking glum. 'Physics, calculus — "What about grade school?" "Grade school?" said the student. "Well — uh — we had lessons in — uh — science." The recruiter vaulted over his desk and shook the young man's hand. "You're hired!" he said. Things haven't gone quite that far yet, but the story illustrates the direction in which they're heading. Big companies today would rather not see a science or engineering stu- dent sharpen himself to too fine a point of specialization in college. When he applies for a job they'd rather hear that he has a fairly broad, general science education. Then he can do his sharpening under their guidance. In fact, they would so much rather have it this way that they stand ready to pay for this sharpening themselves. An officer of Minneapolis-Honeywell, a company which each year interviews some 3.000 science and engineering seniors at 100 colleges throughout the nation, puts it this way: "There is an education gap between what industry needs and what universities teach.

This gap is almost impossible to overcome.

Technology is advancing so fast that schools can hardly be expected to keep up. So indus- try counts on the schools for a solid back- ground in basic science. Then industry can bridge the gap between teaching and doing." The sum of human scientific knowledge has grown tremendously in the past two dec- ades. "You can see the problem," says W. Don Nelson, BSEE, Colorado '57, sets up a problem to be solved with the Scott Hill, engineering recruitment chief of analog computer used by Honeywell's engineering department at Minneapolis. General Electric. "With this tremendous rate of change, whole new areas of speciali- The student training program at the Bell Tele- zation can come into existence between phone Laboratories calls for academic work plus the time a man enters college and the ties, when he knows himself better and rotational assignments on technical projects. time he graduates. He can't easily make when we know what the needs are, than detailed plans for his future. The best see him narrow himself too much in he can do is prepare himself for fast college and perhaps get dead ended footwork by getting a good, solid, basic later." education." The statistics on this industry-paid Companies like fast-footwork men — education are startling. Take a typical men who can be counted on to adapt to company, General Electric. In an aver- fast change, who can enter new special- age year, 40 to 50 percent of GE's tech- ties as the need arises. This requires nical people take some kind of school- further education, of course, as the man ing, ranging from doctoral courses in progresses through his career. Compa- universities to classes at the company's nies today cheerfully pay for this edu- own plants and labs. In 1961 alone, cation. "It costs us more this way," says some 7,600 GE men and women took an IBM executive, "but that's all right undergraduate or graduate college cour- with us. We'd rather have a man start ses with financial help from the compa- specializing in his late twenties or thir- ny. It cost GE more than $1 million. The

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 Made to Order By MAX GUNTHER

How industry and universities cooperate to close the "education gap."

employees completed more than 10,000 college courses, most of them aiming at master's or doctoral degrees. As for in- company courses, says recruiter Hill, these add up to some 10,000 man-se- mesters per year.

All this is producing two by-products of tremendous importance to American

students and their parents. Industry is helping us solve two of our thorniest problems.

The first is the problem of money. Perhaps you have sons or daughters. You want them to go to college. They're in- terested in scientific careers, and you're

all for it. But where an undergraduate degree — Bachelor of Science or Engi- John W. Brook, research engineer with Herbert Adams works at Lockheed's neering — opened many doors 20 years Grumman Aircraft, is working for his Ph.D. astrodynamics laboratory. Here at ago, today you face the fact that many under a Grumman Scholarship Plan. UCLA he is studying for his Ph.D. careers call for a master's degree or doc- torate. You can afford the first four years, but you wonder where you'll get the money for postgraduate study. Much of this burden is now lifted off your shoulders. Your youngsters' employer will probably do at least half the check writing for you.

The second problem is that of edu- cational aim. Your son or daughter comes to you and asks advice: "What should he specialize in? Where lie his best chances of a successful, happy working life?" Even if you have gen-

eral answers, you find it hard to make them specific and personal. Your young- ster's mind still isn't fully formed. How Tuition Jay Zwynenburg, an IBM employee who earned a degree under the company's can you tell where his interests will turn, master's thesis to University of Vermont professors. Refund Plan, explains his where his aptitudes will bloom as he ma- tures? His question causes you a good deal of pain; you wish you didn't have

to answer it so soon. And today you don't. The advice of your youngster's future employers is: "Tell him to get a solid foundation in whatever broad sub- ject area attracts him — electronics, chemistry, biology. When he comes with us, we'll help him figure out where to concentrate." The companies typically heed their own advice. They urge the young student to take his time about diving into a spe- cialty; and the same advice applies, as far as they're concerned, after he's hired. Seldom will a company push a man into Richard Mulford, John Gough and Richard Lahey divide their time between the a narrow alleyway in his first year or two. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, a General Electric-operated AEC laboratory, and Generally he'll be bounced around the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They are shown here at RPI, Troy, New York. (Continued on page 53)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 13 By BERNARD QUINN

Church bells tolled in the war-wracked village of Eschweiler late on the afternoon of March 26, 1945. The sound, sadly reminding all who heard it that death was in their midst, drifted across the meadows and into the fir tree forests of the Ardennes area of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In the village, six townsmen emerged from the artillery- scarred church carrying a newly-made pinewood coffin on their shoulders. Behind them came the priest and altar boys, followed by the men of the village. Women, fingering familiar rosaries as they prayed, and children completed the proces- sion. The mourners moved toward the nearby cemetery where a fresh grave had been dug from the still half-frozen earth. In the coffin lay the body of an American private of the remarkable 28th Infantry Division — one who had lived, fought and finally died on Eschweiler soil. The villagers were escorting their special "Soldat Americain vaillant" to his well- earned place of rest in the graveyard of the village where he Pvt. George Mergenthaler had spent the last 30 days of his life, and where he was to rest in peace for some 30 months. Candle flames flickered in the gathering dusk, and the murmuring prayers of the women grew silent as the priest stepped to the edge of the grave to softly recite "Prayers For The Dead." No helmeted chaplain stood by to lend a fare- well Army touch to the somber scene. There were no volleys fired in salute, and no moving sound of "Taps" drifted in from a nearby hillside. There were few of the amenities usu- ally associated with a military burial — for it was wartime in Luxembourg, in a heartbreaking period of a cruel but, at last, toho Xost fading winter. Almost all of the village's 300 residents were gathered in the cemetery for the simple tribute. Only the very old and the very young, the crippled and tired, and those who could not be spared from their chores were absent. The Eschweiler and Won folk watched the bearers lower the coffin into the grave, and saw their priest, Father Bodson, shovel a clod of earth onto the coffin and then make The Sign Of The Cross. soldier Eschweiler thus honored was listed on The whom George Mergenthaler lost his big United States War Department records as Pvt. George Ottmar Mergenthaler. He had been killed three months earlier on a narrow road at the edge of the village. fight in a German ambush but he won Private Mergenthaler was not just another dead American soldier, one of the thousands who died in that murderous the love of many Luxembourgers. German counter-attack in the Ardennes in December 1944. Nor was he destined for a routine burial, tied inside a mat- tress cover and set in a wartime grave "somewhere in Europe." George was someone special, special to many besides his loved ones in America. To the sturdy people of Eschweiler he was the tall, young American who had lived, sorrowed, joked and worried among them for a month prior to his death.

When George Mergenthaler, grandson of the German im- The Germans were taking it easy and no trouble was expected migrant to the United States Ottmar Mergenthaler — inventor from across the Our and Sauer Rivers where the Germans of the linotype machine — reached Eschweiler on November were supposedly bedded down in the "quiet sector." 18, 1944, he was one of 160 men of the 28th Cav Reconn It was during those 30 days that the townspeople of Esch- Troop (Mech) who were to be billeted in four adjoining weiler came to know the smiling stranger who could speak communities. Sixty of the troop, George among them, re- with them in French or German, who helped with the farm mained in Eschweiler. Their troop, with the rest of the 28th, work, played the village Santa Claus, told them about life had just come from 14 grueling days of action in the Hurtgen in Texas and finally fought for them. They came to know Forest campaign — one which cost the 28th Division over George — and many of his buddies — during that period from 5,700 casualties. The fighting was the most difficult ever faced November 18, 1944, when he jeeped into their midst, muddy by the Keystone outfit in World War II. The concentrated and unshaven, looking for a billet, until December 18, when German artillery had had a terrifying effect. Casualties in the he died on a narrow forest-bordered road, trying in the last Schmidt-Kommerscheidt area alone were so heavy that at one physical effort of his 24 years to work a machinegun which time it was necessary to effect a four-hour truce just to re- had jammed, and thereby cover the escape of his buddies. move the wounded. Michel Huberty, one of George's best friends in Eschweiler, The Division, organized as a unit before the American said: "George was often here — he came many nights in those Revolution by Benjamin Franklin, had at last dropped back weeks and we spoke in French and German. He was helping from the front to get some rest. Christmas was approaching. us always. He was cutting the wood and carrying the hay

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 to the cattle. He was a fine lad." living with Father Bodson, enjoyed a and their huge Panzer forces. We were

Pvt. Cletus LaFond, George's closest memorable feast. Forsaking the regular on guard constantly then. . . . Sunday wartime buddy, writing to me from GI Thanksgiving Day meal, we accepted night (the 17th) 20 to 30 refugees slept

Menominee, Mich., told of life during his invitation to dine with him . . . short- on the floor of the Pletschet farmhouse.

that month of "resting up" in Esch- ly after Thanksgiving, George and I were . . . On the following morning, just be- weiler: "At mealtimes many times, the required to leave Father Bodson's place fore the fight with the Germans started, boys were invited to share the home and move in with the Pletschet family. everyone had left except the uncle of the cooking of their hosts, and reciprocated This move was for security reasons, but Pletschet family. He was sitting in a by bringing some of their GI food, mostly to have the headquarters element chair alone in the house when the krauts

chocolate and fruit juices to the kindly together. . . . Everyone was in a gay fired a shell into the feed lot of the

people. Occasionally some of the Catho- mood as Christmas approached. Many house, setting it on fire. . . . About 60 lic boys attended evening devotions dur- packages were received from home in men of the troop remained in Esch- ing the advent of the Christmas season. the troop. I believe at that time George weiler to fend off the attack by powerful ... At Thanksgiving, George and I, still received a light-colored purple vest German reconn troops operating with (from his mother), which he wore next tanks, armored cars, and even bicycles. to his woolen OD shirt for warmth. Looking across the fields, one could see

Christmas packages were opened before the Germans running . . . the communi- all members of the Pletschet family, and cations between our troop CP and divi-

provided a lot of entertainment. . . . On sion hqtrs. at Wiltz were out. . . . Shortly the 17th of December refugees began to before the refugees and townspeople left, pour through Eschweiler, attempting to George said to me: 'Cletus, some lady get into Belgium ahead of the Germans living near the Cafe Halt reported that

' - —BW

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg erected this monument where Mergenthaler's body was The Pletschet farmhouse where George was billeted. It still bears the scars of war. found by Virginia Huberty who is shown at left.

the Germans were close by it.' After

thinking it over I said: 'It seems impos- sible that the Germans could have ap- proached us so quickly.' He agreed with

me, but as it turned out, it was all too

true. . . . About that time we went into the Pletschet farmhouse, taking one last look. George spied some chocolate pud- ding cooling in an outer room. He took

a spoon and began to eat some of it,

saying: 'It'll be some time before they'll be back and all this will spoil.' That was ." poor George's last meal. . . For during those 30 days, while Mer- genthaler and his buddies were sleeping in beds of a sort, getting regular hot food, drinking the country beer and en- joying a well-deserved rest, the German High Command was putting final touches on a plan that would involve the 28th, or as the Germans themselves

had named it, the "Blutig Eimer" (Bloody Bucket) Division. A commemorative Mass was celebrated in the church at Eschweiler on Oct. 8, 1945 In that Ardennes counter-attack, the (Continued on page 47)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 15 By RALPH de TOLEDANO When alger hiss's lawyers moved for a new trial, seek- ing to rehearse in court their tired contention of "forgery by type- writer" and the argument that the entire American legal system was corrupt, they were asked one simple question by Fed- eral Judge Henry W. Goddard. Was there, he said, "a shred of evi- dence" to sustain their plea? "No, your Honor," they answered. This should have ended the comedy of Hiss's pretensions. The case he had built up in the press consisted of a lame and meaningless affidavit from a "documents expert"' whose major claim to fame was her efforts in behalf of the convicted communist spies, Ethel and Julius Ros- enberg. So empty a defense could im- press only those who believe that anti-

communism is a crime — but that treason

is simply a form of nonconformism. Yet from the moment that Alger Hiss was confronted with hard, irrefutable evidence of his espionage (and worse) before a Congressional committee, a grand jury, and a Federal court, he has had at his side a noisy group of influen- The famous scene that proved to be Hiss's undoing, when he confronted Chambers. tial adherents who have proclaimed his innocence or minimized his crime. We now find the confusion compounded by Howard K. Smith, a television commen- tator, and James Hagerty, former press When the ex-convict Hiss went on a nationwide secretary to President Eisenhower and now vice president of the American Broadcasting Company. telecast, the reaction was proof that Americans Given the history of the Hiss Case,

it would be too much to expect that they are the last. The Smith-Hagerty caper, however, is particularly shocking. Since had not forgotten the extent of this man's guilt. television was the medium, Smith and Hagerty, despite their protestations con- cerning motivation, were able to abuse their great powers to poison the well of public opinion and to attempt the rehab- ilitation of a man — not merely a con- That zealous stalwart of the American victed felon who betrayed his country's Civil Liberties Union, Morris Ernst, de- secrets to the Soviet Union, but one livered himself of the opinion that Hiss whose entire political life was one great was not guilty on the basis of Hiss's self- communist lie. serving book and with the startling con- The Smith-Hagerty action in giving fession that he had never bothered to Hiss a forum, on a program designed to read the court record. kick former Vice President Richard Earl Jowitt, an unemployed Labor Nixon at a moment when he was down peer whose distaste for things American and vulnerable, has justly aroused many did not include the Yankee dollar, put Americans. They feel that an insurance together a curious volume in defense of company might have secured more de- Alger Hiss so full of "errors" that sirable means to sell policies. But the Doubleday, the publisher, honorably American Broadcasting Company was called back and destroyed the first edi- simply following a course of action tion. Lord Jowitt Helen Buttenwieser which came naturally to others of other- Helen Buttenwieser, a heavy contribu- wise decent reputation. His Lordship put together a curious tor to the bail fund of Soviet spy Robert book in defense of Hiss, so loaded home as Soblen, used her Park Avenue with errors that Doubleday recalled it. rallying point for the Hiss defenders This article is based on Ralph de Toledano's a Mrs. Buttenwieser, who later contrib- book "Seeds of Treason," the story of the during the trial. After the jury pro- uted $60,000 to spy Robert Soblen's Hiss-Chambers case, recently updated and published by Henry Regnery Co. nounced his guilt, she sat in the court- bail fund, was an ardent Hiss backer.

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 Appeals for the Second District, which included Judge Augustus Hand who gave a lifetime of distinguished service to the Federal judiciary; by the Supreme Court, whose dicta we are told are the law of the land; and by what Alistair Cooke chose to call the "drunken" American press. These confusers were lending their support to Hiss's contention that his conviction came about because the American public was "obsessed" with "an unreasoning fear of communism"— and that the real culprits who stole clas- Alger Hiss as he appeared on Howard K. Smith's "Political Obituary sified State Department documents for of Richard M. Nixon," featured on the ABC network on Veterans Day. the Soviet Union were "persons whose identity (Whittaker) Chambers has never

made public . . . officials . . . charwomen room weeping. And in New York legal . . . messengers . . . someone else." circles, she passionately argued his de- The solicitude for Hiss goes back to fense. the time when the cold and ugly evidence Who were these people impugning? In was beginning to mount. The Christian taking up the cudgels for Hiss they were Science Monitor, which reported in 1946 subscribing to his assertions that every- that "more than one congressman, when one was lying but himself, that he had the subject of leftist activity in the State been framed by President Truman's Department is mentioned, pulled out a

Justice Department; by the Federal Bu- list of suspects that was invariably head- reau of Investigation; by Thomas Done- ed by Mr. Hiss," began collecting an gan, a former FBI official of impeccable anthology of testimonials to prove that reputation who as special assistant to the charges of Hiss's communis^ espionage Attorney General had presented the case were false. Individuals acted spontane- to the grand jury; by respected members ously. of the House of Representatives, of "If there is anything I can do," wrote Murray D. Lincoln, the president whom Richard Nixon and Karl Mundt of Nationwide Insurance Company, Dean Carl B. Spaeth of the Stanford law (now a senator) were but two; by a trial which sponsored the show. He says school and a former State Department jury; by Judge Goddard; by the Court of he likes to get people "stirred up." (Continued on page 54)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 17 By JAMES N. SITES ONE RAINY AFTERNOON last Fall, I hailed a taxi in Paris near the Arc de Triomphe and gave di- rections to a hotel on the Rue de Riche- lieu. My destination was only IV2 miles

away, yet it took nearly an hour as the

driver and I sweated out traffic jams equal to any met on crosstown streets in Manhattan. The next day, feeling much

older and a little wiser, 1 went under- ground, took a Metro subway train and covered the same distance, portal to portal, in about ten minutes. Similar situations were encountered in one city after another around the world during a year-long study of over- seas transportation problems. The study was made to learn what other nations are doing about their problems and to discover what both problems and solu- tions may mean to America. The result was some eye-opening lessons that help point the way toward getting America

out of her deepening rut of urban traffic Roads leading into New York usually look like this, with traffic flowing smoothly. snarls. No one need prove that we have an urban traffic problem. Everyone who

lives in a big city knows it only too well. Even people in many smaller towns find themselves being engulfed by the sprawl- ing expansion of the "megalopolis" — re- gional cities that planners tell us will A WAY OF ultimately stretch in a solid belt OUT from Maine to Virginia, from San Francisco

IN EUROPE -THE SAME PROBLEM HHii to San Diego, Miami to Jacksonville and from Milwaukee through Chicago to Benton Harbor, Michigan. And even if the average guy somehow manages to evade this urbanizing octopus, he will probably wind up paying a stiffening tax

bill to help cope with its problems.

The fact is that a 20th century night- mare has been created by the addition of new millions to city populations. Census Bureau figures project an America of 230 million people by 1980, and the majority of these 50 million newcomers will cluster around existing

urban areas. The result is a frustrating Paris is trying to unsnarl traffic by improving subway service. Note rubber-tired train. stagnation of street traffic that, despite billions spent for feverish roadbuilding, seems to be getting steadily worse. Our abundance of cars and highways is prov- ing to be simply too much of a good thing. Providing circulation for our teeming super-cities has already become

such a chore that it is now almost easier to cross the continent than to cross town. We may soon need a shorter work week, not so much to provide more leisure time as to allow more hours each day for get- ting to and from work. It was a desire to discover how Europe solves its traffic problems that sent me

Copenhagen is zoned, as shown on map, and on an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship motorists who park at a distance, pay less. The through major cities dotting the world business section, above, has less congestion. map from Ireland to India and into Rus- 18 sia. I rode subways, buses and streetcars, pushed rented foreign cars through fierce traffic jams, and talked with city plan- ners, transport officials and private citizens. Some of the things I picked up would hardly apply to the United States. For instance, what big American city could hope to move around via the exotic gon- dolas and canals of beautiful, watery Venice? Nor do we have the problem faced by the city fathers of Istanbul, who, upon deciding to crack down on street parking by passing out tickets bearing large fines, discovered that al- most none of the policemen could write! And in New Delhi, India, where street

traffic is a wild, weird mixture of rattly cars, bicycles, sacred cows, camels and rickshas, a traffic expert said his main problem was trying to get buses through the melee. About 20 bike riders get a little too close to the buses each year. At such a rate, he quipped, "the streets should be pretty well cleared in about 13,000 years"! But the closer drivers get to Manhattan the more bumper-to-bumper traffic they encounter. Taxi operators in Mid and Far East- ern cities make our drivers look conser- vative. They ignore brakes and rely ex- clusively on their horn and a heavy- footed gas pedal for getting around the city. In Beirut, Lebanon, if you hail a cab, a half dozen will churn over the curb to get to you. The remedy: whistle Traffic Jams and duck for the nearest doorway. Aside from these unusual situations however, there are many worthwhile The whole world is getting snarled in traffic, things Americans can learn from others in coping with the urban transport prob- lem. West Europe long ago found out and more and better highways are not the answer. the value of running whole trains of cars on tracks and thus moving enormous numbers of people safely and rapidly, regardless of the tricks of nature and motorists. In Paris and Moscow, most passenger movements, including even short-distance trips, are handled by un- derground lines. In London, which has the longest subway network of all, sur- face buses still handle more passengers; yet railroads move people over much longer distances and are taking over more of the load as the surge of private auto driving brings increased street con- gestion. This underscores the guiding principle Europeans are following in meeting city transportation needs — balanced devel- opment of both highways and railways. Europeans generally start with their long-established intercity rail lines reach- ing to major downtown stations, which are developed to the fullest capacity for long-haul commuting to and from the suburbs. (It might be added that Euro- peans somehow don't seem to understand the United States system perfected in Los Angeles where rail transit was first driven out of existence by spreading slabs of concrete, only to be relaid later Expressways such as this at San Francisco pour traffic into already congested areas. (Continued on page 43)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 19 WASHINGTON

fjpf 1 I I I J: l# PROCON PRESENTINC; BOTHV SIDES OF THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE:

Does the U.S. Need a Freedom

program at all beyond a pitifully inadequate indoc- trination of a few hundred foreign-service officers. Legislation to establish a Freedom Academy is PRO urgent. We need extensive research on methods of Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) waging the cold war. We need a center to train free world leaders in cold-war tactics — government per- THE FREEDOM ACADEMY bill, sonnel, teachers, trade unionists, businessmen, clergy allowed to languish and die and others. in both the 86th and 87th Con- Opposition to the academy comes, oddly enough, gresses, deserves top priority in generally from liberals. They fear a Freedom Academy the 88th. would be controlled by arch conservatives who would We are engaged in a cold war on many frontiers of force their narrow concept of Americanism on every- the world. This war is being waged through propa- one. They fear a center to train Americans in the arts of ganda, political manipulation, riots, revolutionary agi- subversion would compromise our high national ideals. tation and other paramilitary activity. With proper safeguards, these possibilities would be War by subversion is new in the 20th century, and remote. Our military academies have managed to go we are engaged in such a global war in deadly earnest. forward and do an excellent job without becoming cap- Thousands of specialists, graduates of the Lenin School tives of any political school. The Freedom Academy of Political Warfare and other training centers, are at would certainly not turn out professional subversives. work across the world, using techniques unheard of Rather, it would equip qualified, talented young people 30 years ago. to expose communist tactics and to present in positive They know how to infiltrate trade unions and other terms the virtues and ideals of our democratic system. mass organizations; how to organize strikes; how to set Times change. Methods of warfare change. We can- up "fronts"; how to incite riots. They are trained "pros" not win the cold war with pre-World War I techniques. in the science of crisis. The chain of "spontaneous" un- We need a drastic up-dating of our approach to war- rest erupting today in country after country shows all kinds of war. The Freedom Academy would assist that this training is paying off for the communists. us in waging a 20th century war with 20th century From every standpoint, we have far more to sell weapons. mankind than the suppression and starvation of com- munism. Yet we are losing, in most cases without military action. Why? Reason: The communists know exactly what they want. They are organized and trained to get it. Are we? How are we countering the Soviets? We have no

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 >

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 THE BIG ISSUES

Academy to Help Fight the Cold War?

Furthermore, Justice Department, Defense Depart- ment, C.I.A., U. S. Information Agency and security CON sections in other government agencies constantly ana- lyze problems of communism for the benefit of their Sen. Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) personnel. There is much coordination among them. If these departments surrendered their anti-com- iUR struggle against the munist educational programs to the Freedom Acade- o;'international communist my, they would be crippled in many of their related conspiracy involves infinitely operations. If they retained these functions, it is obvi- complex problems. As leader of ous that the Freedom Academy would be duplicating the free world, we must maintain our armed might to them. Adding one more voice to a chorus will not make assure that the communist dictators will never embark it more harmonious. Both State and Justice Depart- on a war of conquest. We must employ not only our ments are opposed to this proposal. military strength, but our political, psychological and It is doubtful that other governments or public economic resources as well. It is wishful thinking to opinion abroad would support the idea of enrolling believe that a new government agency without opera- foreign nationals in this Academy for work to be done tional responsibility, the so-called Freedom Academy, in their home countries. Such activities are, by their would be able to cope with the grave and many-faceted very nature, undertaken secretly. The Russians do not problems involved in this effort. Frankly, the only advertise the fact that foreign communists in the attraction of this proposal lies in its name. Soviet Union are being taught techniques of sub- Intense research into the nature and technique of version. Soviet propagandists would herald the Free- the communist conspiracy is absolutely necessary, and dom Academy as a "cold war institute" and a school our intelligence agencies are fulfilling this vital func- for espionage. tion. There is no sense in duplicating their efforts. Freedom Academy proponents estimate its mini- The State Department has primary responsibility in mum cost at $35 million a year. Government agencies marshaling our non-military resources in the cold war. somehow have a way of costing taxpayers much more Its Foreign Service Institute has developed an exten- money than anticipated at their inception. This has all sive program on anti-communist techniques, and plans the hallmarks of becoming another multimillion dollar are underway for expansion. During the last five years, bureaucratic boondoggle. Far from being an aid in the 2,750 students from many government agencies at- cold war, it would result only in duplication of effort tended its seminars on communist methods and or- and waste of taxpayers' money. ganization. Educational opportunities are also avail- able at any of 25 colleges and universities offering spe- cialized courses in Soviet and Chinese communism.

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THE UNITED STATES NEEDS DOES NOT NEED I have read in The American Legion Magazine for A FREEDOM ACADEMY TO HELP FIGHT THE COLD WAR February the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: SIGNED "Does the United States Need a Freedom Academy to Help ADDRESS, Fight the Cold War?" TOWN STATE.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 21 Colonel Podhajsky, head of Vienna's Spanish Riding School, meets General Patton. General Patton on Lipizzan in St. Martin, Austria.

THE GENERAL AND THE HORSES

How General Patton kept the world's best riding "I'm sorry, colonel," the general mut- tered, "but as you know, there's a war going on." "But the Russians will get them—" falling into the horses from hands of the Russians. "Well, that's their business. I'd like to help, but I just can't see how I can right now." driving through Hungary," the colonel The colonel nodded. He got into his By J. J. HANLIN said, "I appealed to my friends in the worn coat and started back to camp. But Russia's entrance into the 1961 German Army to let me go west. I knew on the way back, through a fluke of luck, British Grand National horse- that if the Russians got hold of me it he ran into an American officer who racing points to the Soviet's in- wouldn't be Siberia ... in fact, they'd knew and loved horses. terest in things other than five-year plans. love me to death. But soon the horses "I don't know the major's name," the It was the same interest in horses, per- would end up in Siberia and I'd be colonel said. "But he recognized me as haps, which almost resulted in their turned out to pasture." one of the Austrian riders in the Olympic making off with some of the world's best The colonel knew that the Russians games of 1936. Even though this was the mounts at the close of World War II. would want not only his Viennese horses, age of the tank, there were still a few But for General Patton, today Austria's but also those in Czechoslovakia. Mean- army men who knew horses and this was priceless Lipizzan horses would be per- while, he feared that the Americans one of them." forming in Moscow rather than in would not realize the value of the price- The major quickly introduced himself. Vienna. less mounts and would allow the Rus- "How are you getting on, colonel? Is Thanks to some tolerant officers in the sians to corral them. Full of doubts and there anything I can do for your horses?" German Army, Col. Alois Podhajsky, worries, he and his men headed west and "I don't have many of the best horses," head of the Spanish Riding School in were taken prisoners at St. Martin, the colonel replied sadly. Vienna, was allowed to continue his per- Austria. "What!" formances during the war. The Nazis, "So here we were," he said, "in Ameri- "The Nazis took them to Czechoslo-

however, took the best stallions to a can hands . . . but our priceless stallions vakia." He paused and wet his lips. "May breeding farm in Hostau, Czechoslo- were in Czechoslovakia." I speak to you about something impor- vakia. It was a blow to this school, which After much pounding on doors he was tant?" has bred and trained horses for over 200 allowed to see Gen. Walton H. Walker, The major nodded, "Of course—" years, but not a fatal one. who later died in Korea, and tried to "There is no time to lose and the

"When I heard that the Russians were interest him in the horses. American Army has got to act. The Rus-

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 Lipizzan mares with their broods on farm in Piber, Austria, their permanent home. Stallions remain there until they are three.

Movements such as this capriole ex- The horses are trained at the Spanish Rid- At a daily training session, visitors watch plain the fame of the Lipizzan horses. ing School to move in perfect formation. the start of a maneuver called a courbette.

sians will certainly get these horses and "Has the colonel got any horses at St. Martin. Secretary of War Patterson ship them east. And once they get them, all?" he asked. was also on the plane. they are lost to the world. But I can't "Yes, some, sir—" Colonel Podhajsky now had real sup- make the general understand." "Maybe we should invite General Pat- port in back of him. "You see, general," The major immediately called General ton down here for a show," he said, "and he said, "they are going to claim those Walker's headquarters and informed the in that way we can get more stars in horses as war booty. They'll say they are general's adjutant that the world's best back of this than I've got." German property." riding horses were threatened with ex- But the general probably didn't real- "Just let 'em try it!" the general tinction. He told him that the Russians ize just how much backing he would get snapped. were fast approaching Hostau and cer- from General Patton. The cavalry vet- "Well-" tainly they would have orders to snag eran, although fighting now in tanks, "Colonel, from now on you and all these fine animals. knew all about the Spanish Riding of your horses are under the protection General Walker, once the matter was School. He packed ten other generals of the American Army. And the Ameri- brought to his attention and emphasized into a C-47 and flew 600 miles south can Army is going into Czechoslovakia by his adjutant, moved fast. from his headquarters in Germany to (Continued on page 43)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 23 By JOHN G. PITKIN PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR

These are pictures of today's authentic Colonial Militia of Cresskill, N.J. Though they range in age NEW JERSEY TEENAGERS from 10 to 15 years, this group of 17 young men has been teaching America's colonial heritage by demonstration and talks in numerous northern New Jersey communities U. S. history is their hobby, and these since they were first organized by young Richard Duffy, son of electrician Walter Duffy, in 1959. They devised uniforms from modern clothing to simulate the early militia gear. They purchased the three-cornered hats and the Kentucky rifles, young men learn it-and teach it— by and made their own Revolutionary cannon, which fires with the mighty bang of a huge salute inserted in the barrel. At winter club meetings they study colonial history and invite adult historians to speak to them. At other times they are in reproducing the Colonial Militia in detail. demand to demonstrate publicly on patriotic occasions, or before historical groups, and to speak on America's colonial heritage. the end

The Militiamen muster to give their Lt. Bob Luce, designer of the cannon, leads forth the artillery to start town an impromptu July 4 surprise. an unscheduled Independence Day Colonial Militia Parade in Cresskill.

Crowds cheered, July 4, as the youngsters marched to the corner of Cresskill's Concord and Lexington streets.

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 BRING AMERICAN HISTORY TO LIFE

As neighbors listen, Cap't Richard Duffy ends July 4 pageant Wide publicity brought more demands for demonstrations by With a detailed talk on Washington's troops at Valley Forge. the young militia. Here they drill for future appearances.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 25 By WILLIAM S. ROOT DUMMY «MONG THE HUNDREDS of letters The declarer's Bridge hand, shown L\ received by me in response to my on the cover, is the famous "Missis- ™ ^article in the November issue, there sippi heart hand." Most players was one from John Henning which I felt would bid seven hearts and if dou- was of particular interest to other Amer- bled, would redouble. This would be ican Legion readers. Mr. Henning stated a grave mistake, for one of the oppo- that he finds today's Bridge, with its nents holds the seven missing hearts modern bidding system, too complicated, as well as the six top spades. There- and he believes that the game often is fore, it is impossible to make even one taken too seriously by many of the heart. Ask friends how they'd bid. people who play it. Literally thousands of potentially good DECLARER Bridge players who share Mr. Henning's

BRIDGE is for EVERYBOD

A little study and a lot of practice are the secrets to successful bridge playing.

views may have given up Bridge after an unpleasant encounter with players who spent most of the evening yelling and insulting each other. If you are one of those who has decided that Bridge is not your game because of just such an en- counter, a careful reading of this article may assist you to change your mind.

Bridge is really a game for everybody and if you put forth a sincere effort to learn the game, you will become a good Bridge player. In the every-man-for-himself card games such as Gin Rummy, Poker, etc., good players win consistently and this satisfies their egos. But Bridge is a part- nership game, so good players don't en- joy playing with weak players. If a weak player makes a mistake that causes a bad result, it is a reflection on his partner's ability. Such mistakes irritate good play- ers no end. (Continued on page 41)

Interested in starting a National Bridge Compe- tition among all American Legion Posts? Wil- liam S. Root will help you. He will also be glad to send you a free copy of a folder explaining Point Count bidding. You can write to him in care of this magazine.

BIDDING QUIZ As South you hold: 5. The bidding goes: What do you bid on each of the follow- A Q 10 9 2 <$74 OKQ92 * 10 84 South West North East ing hands? Don't look now but you will I NT Pass 2 Pass 3. The bidding goes: W find the answers to this quiz on page 42. North East South West ?? As South you hold: 1 Pass ?? 1 . The bidding goes:

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VETERANS j^j^^^^^^J ^|^ FEBRUARY 1963

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

MEMBERS TOOK $36,582,740 IN NEW September's issue, and some 3,000 Legion- INSURANCE UNDER LEGION PLAN IN '62: naires used it within two months to secure Members of The American Legion took out insurance ... .American Legion Posts greatly new life insurance under The American increased their requests for application Legion's low-cost plan for members (see forms for their members from the office of page 3) in the amount of $36,582,760 during The American Legion Life Insurance Plan,

1962. .. .Nearly 9,000 members became newly P.O. Box 5609. Chicago 89, 111 . insured, while 24,057 took advantage of the The second application form to appear option, first provided in Jan. 1962, to in this magazine was in the December issue, double the amount of insurance formerly and more than 1,500 members had followed up permitted. .. .At the end of 1962, the total on it within three weeks. insurance in force under the Legion's mem- The third application form to be pub- bership plan, new and old, was $164,516,750 lished is on page 3 of this issue. worth of protection. American Legion low-cost life insur- With the 5th birthday of the plan three ance is reducing term insurance, available months away, the Legion had paid death to members of the Legion in every state and benefits to bereaved Legion families in the abroad. ... Insured members pay $24 a year amount of $828,331 at the close of business (full unit) or $12 a year (half-unit)

for 1962. . . .The earlier prediction that the Maximum insurance is $8,000 for members

first million dollars in benefits to Legion under age 35. . . .The amount of insurance families would be paid by the 5th anniver- decreases in steps with age, while the sary of the plan this April remained un- annual payment remains the same (see chart

changed. . . .One of the last claims to be paid on page 3) in 1962 was on the policy of a Pennsylvania The Occidental Life Insurance Co. of member who had died a year and a half earlier California is the underwriter in 49 states,

at 66, naming a brother as beneficiary. . . while the United States Life Insurance Co. When normal insurance procedures failed to is the underwriter in New York and Puerto locate the brother in 14 months and the Rico.... All applications and queries are claim was about to go in a "missing bene- handled by the Legion's Chicago insurance

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before New Year's Day. . . .One of the first a possible bad risk, a more detailed form claims paid in 1963 was that of a 36-year- is furnished, on which the decision of old midwestern Legionnaire ... .He applied insurability is based.... In case of rejec- for American Legion Life Insurance in mid- tion, payment is refunded.

1961 ($6 for half a year) , doubled his Insurance payments are based on the

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and died suddenly of a heart-attack late in month of the year ( full unit ) or $1 per

December ... .His $30 investment resulted in month (half unit) , not counting the month his widow receiving a check for $4,500 in which the application is dated. right after New Year's Day. Thereafter, renewals have a Dec. 31 Most of the 9,000 newly insured members deadline each year. for 1962 applied late in the year when, All death risks except future wars are based on 4% years' good experience, na- covered under the plan, so that claims are tional promotion of the insurance plan was paid without regard to occupational or stepped up. travel hazards, even including peacetime The first application form ever to be military and flying risks. published in this magazine appeared in last The plan was officially adopted by

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 27 . . . action of The American Legion National But the low-cost advantages of mass-type Executive Committee in April, 1958.... Pay- insurance disappear if too many individual ment at the rate of a million dollars in 5 choices are permitted to jack up the admin- years to bereaved Legion families has fully istrative costs. .. .Future experience with justified the action.... It is the only the new two-choice plan may permit further insurance plan which may legally use the increases in the permissible limits. precise words "American Legion" or the seal of The American Legion, both of which are Q. Many employee group policies do not exclusively held by the Legion under Con- require a showing of individual good health, gressional patent .... The plan is admin- so why does the Legion's? istered by The American Legion, and guided by an unpaid national American Legion A. An employee group policy taken out Insurance Committee, whose members are by a firm only covers those who are working appointed by the National Commander with regularly for the firm at the time they are the approval of the National Executive insured. .. .That carries a broad presump-

Committee tion of good health for the group. . . .Ours is a membership plan, and the assumptions of Q AND A ON LEGION INSURANCE: basic good health that go with fulltime Here are the five most commonly asked employment are absent.... To protect our questions about the Legion's life insurance underwriters, and the Legion, and all in- plan (see above item) : sured members, reasonable individual good health must be attested to. Q. Why does the amount of insurance decrease with age? Q. Are all those with a record of ques- tionable recent good health automatically

A. Because the cost of insurance in- re j ected? creases with age as death claims increase.

. . .There are other ways to meet the problem, A. Not at all. . . .They are sent a more the commonest with term insurance being to detailed questionnaire, and many members raise the premiums with age. . . .This costs become insured based on the fuller informa- more to administer (billings at different tion.... Each case is judged according to amounts for different ages) and still has the individual facts. the effect of causing people to reduce their insurance as increasing age raises the Q. I took out a $12 unit, and it was cost. . . .Another way is to charge a flat rate several weeks delay before I got my certifi- for everybody at all ages that is high cate, though the check was cashed promptly. enough to take care of the risk over a life- Now I want another $12 unit, but I would time.... This charges the young more than certainly like to be insured promptly, as their risk and the old less than their risk, I'd hate for the insurance not to be paid and has the effect of sending the young after I'd applied for it simply because it somewhere else, causing the whole plan to took considerable time to handle the appli- collapse (as their payments are needed to cation. carry the old) The Legion plan has a fixed, low rate A. You probably applied during the last for everybody to age 70, and charges every- half of 1962 when so many members applied one the fair rate for his age by reducing that there was a backlog of applications. . . the amount of insurance as the cost rises But the delay in processing cut no ice.... with age. You are insured on the first of the month following date of your application if it is Q. That being the case, why not let acceptable, whether or not you have re- those who wish more insurance take it out ceived a certificate or policy. . . .Your can- and pay the cost? celled check is sufficient evidence of your application, and checks are cleared prompt- A. This is being done within the limits ly even when other processing is caught in that experience justifies. .. .The Legion a rush. .. .State laws do not permit insurors plan was new in 1958.... Good experience to avoid paying death claims by delays of permitted doubling the amount of permis- their own making when acceptable applica- sible insurance in 1962, which 24,000 mem- tions and payments have been tendered in bers took advantage of within the year.... good faith.

28 TH E AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS •FEBRUARY 1963-

Legion to Seek Major Changes their disabilities. The increase in com- pensation in 1962 did not correct this. '63 As a result of the three huge wars of In U. S. Vets' Program in this century there are nearly two million veterans who have war-disabilities 375,000 survivors of war-killed need boost; severe enough to be compensable. They Proportionate compensation for 1.8 million war- range from 10% to 100% disabled, plus some with severe multiple disabilities disabled sought; Pension reform urgent as defec- which exceed the standard for 100%. tive law nears fourth year without amendment. For the last ten years, Congress has departed from the previous principle of National Commander James E. Powers looming are of great importance to large compensating war-disabled veterans in has made it plain that he wishes all numbers of veterans and veterans' proportion to the government's own Legionnaires to get behind the Legion's families, and are definitely major policies measurement of the extent of their dis- 1963 legislative program, especially the in the Legion's 1963 platform. abilities, substituting an arbitrary basis veterans affairs program. Among these should be named (1) of payment that downgrades 17 out of What is the Legion's veterans affairs survivors' compensation; (2) war-dis- every 19 war-disabled veterans. program for 1963? ability compensation and (3) pensions. When a war veteran is 10% disabled The American Legion ended 1962 Survivors' compensation. There has or 90% disabled, or some other per cent, with a total of 39 resolutions dealing not been a cost-of-living increase for de- this is always a measurement of a war with the federal veterans program, all pendent survivors of war-killed veterans disability. of them adopted by delegates and com- since 1958, nor for about 212,000 of It is not a description of a physical mitteemen chosen by the membership. them since 1954. Meanwhile, living costs condition, but is a measurement of what The Legion has programs in other have continued their merry zoom. Some he should be paid relative to any stand- areas too, and 39 resolutions dealing 375,000 people are involved, most of ard of payment set for 100% disability, with veterans affairs alone might seem them widows or minor children of men based on the most up to date medico- like quite a lot to expect the average who died as a result of war service. economic standards. member to discuss in communicating War-disability compensation. The Having set the compensation for 100% with his Congressmen. problem here cannot be so simply stated. war-disability at $250 a month last sum- However, many of these resolutions Only last summer, a general increase in mer, the Congress then set compensa- could be called "watchdog resolutions". compensation was awarded to veterans tion for every lesser degree of war dis- They call attention to things that scarce- with war-disabilities. The problem that ability at a dollar amount below the ly require rallying the whole member- remains is one beclouded in murk which scale. Where 90% disability should rate ship to support. Some of them have results in the great majority of war- $225 a month by the very meaning of already been taken care of. disabled veterans being under-compen- "90% disability", the act allowed $34 a On the other hand, a few issues now sated in proportion to the extent of month less, or $191. (To next page) RUSK, McNAMARA GET LEGION THANKS FOR BOYS NATION SUPPORT

Dean Rusk (left photo) U.S. Secretary of State, and Robert McNamara, other Federal agencies, for their pains in receiving and briefing the 100 U.S. Secretary of Defense, receive Legion certificates of appreciation young delegates to American Legion Boys Nation on gov't workings from Nat'l Commander James E. Powers. Thanks went to them, and last July. Youngsters were picked from 25,000 at Legion Boys' States.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 29 (CONTINUED) trary system as a substitute for the scale Legion's Veterans Program for 1963 have been too vague for precise inspec- tion. It has been said that this down- It was the same as if the act had said, in earning capacity from injuries or grading of most war disabilities is neces- combinations of injuries shall be directly: "A veteran who is officially sary adopted and applied by the Bureau in order to compensate veterans judged to be entitled to $225 a month [later the Veterans Administration]. more, the more severe their disabilities. by the severity of his war disability shall Ratings may be as high as 100 per Yet (a) payments according to the scale receive a month." centum." $191 provide more compensation for the more so on, for In plain language, veterans' war-dis- And 80%, 70%, 60%, 50%, seriously disabled, and do it in direct abilities shall be rated from zero per 40%, 307, 20% and 10%. The latter of and unchallenged proportion to the — cent to 100%, and the compensation course should only rate $25 a month measured degree of disability; and (b) shall be paid each veteran in the same but the award was $20. for more than thirty years special awards proportion that his rating bears to 100%. There has never been any explanation have provided extra compensation, One of the reasons sometimes given of these arbitrary awards below scale above the scale, for extremely disabled for setting payments at less than scale that was susceptible of analysis. The veterans, so that compensation as high is that there are some war-disabled vet- method of setting the percentages was as $725 a month is available to veterans erans who, in spite of a disability rating not challenged, and the Veterans Ad- with multiple and extremely disabling of anywhere from 10% to 100%, appar- ministration is required by law to keep war injuries — as compared to $250 for ently have no reduction in earning it up to date, which it does continuously. 100% on the present scale. capacity, and are doing quite well. For thirty-five years, from 1917 to The arbitrary payments below scale The 1917 law foresaw such attempts 1952, compensation for war disabilities have also been excused in terms of re- to repudiate an average by hand picking was paid according to the scale, without flecting a special concern for the welfare cases on one side of the median. It said: presenting any difficulties, in line with of the war-disabled. (If you say that "The ratings shall be based, as far the definitive Risk of Its not sense, agree — but it War Act 1917. as practicable, upon the average im- does make we provision, in is just preserved succeeding laws: pairments of earning capacity . . . and said the same.) ". not upon the impairment in earning . . the monthly compensation shall As a matter of fact, the last year-end be a percentage of the compensation capacity in each individual case, so report of the Veterans Administration that there shall be no reduction in the that would be payable for . . . total and (1961) showed, in round numbers, permanent disability equal to the de- rate of compensation for individual million war-disabled veterans gree of reduction in earning capacity success in overcoming the handicap of some 1.8 ." an injury . . below their resulting from the disability . . . receiving compensation "A schedule of ratings of reduction Other public explanations of the arbi- ratings. There were 135,576 from WWI; Past Nat'l Commander Arthur J. Connell Dies; 1,146,124 from WW2 and 193,934 from Connecticut Leader Was Last WWI Commander Korea, for a grand total as of June, 1961, of 1,790,643 war-disabled veterans com- pensated below scale out of a total then Past National Commander Arthur J. years in the newspaper field he joined Connell, of Middletown, Connecticut, his father's clothing business, and in receiving compensation of 1,999,531. died after a long illness on Dec. 18, 1929, purchased his own men's wear How this shows a special concern for 1962. He was born in Boston, July 17, store in Middletown, Conn., which he the war-disabled is far from clear. 1898. owned and operated until his death. He With approximately 375,000 sur- lived in neighboring Portland, Conn. viving dependents of war killed veterans Connell joined Milardo-Wilcox Post now overdue a cost-of-living increase, 75 of The American Legion in Middle- and with nearly 1.8 million war-disabled town, and became its Commander in veterans under-compensated in relation 1933. to the degree of their disabilities, the In 1941 he was named Connecticut Legion's 1963 aims in these two fields Department Commander. The following alone express an unsatisfied interest in year he was a National Vice Commander, the welfare of approximately 2,175,000 and from 1947 to 1953 he was Connecti- casualties of war — the survivors of the cut's National Executive Committeeman. war killed and the living war-disabled. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Pa- The Pension Issue trice Finlay Connell, formerly of Boston. Pensions. The Legion also has a Their only child, Joan Connell, was healthy interest in the very important killed by a truck in 1943, and the Con- question of pensions for non-service- nells established numerous educational connected disabled veterans and the awards in her memory. needy surviving widows and minor chil- During his year as National Com- dren of veterans whose deaths are not Arthur J. Connell mander, Connell OK'd for the Legion, attributable to war causes. There has Art Connell became the last World President Eisenhower's changing of Ar- been a tendency to shrug off the need War One National Commander of The mistice Day to Veterans Day, and was for pension reforms on the basis that American Legion to date when he was the Legion's spokesman for the success- any concern with it is simply a symptom elected to that office at the St. Louis ful addition of the words "under God" to of "lack of interest in the war disabled." National Convention in September, the Pledge of Allegiance. He also led a But the pension issue is too real to 1953. successf ul fight against attempts to deny ignore out of any pretense that it is He left Harvard in 1918 to join the care to needy patients in VA hospitals. only an indication of a lack of interest Navy, served as an enlisted man, and re- Connell was the prime mover in es- in something else. turned to Harvard to complete his edu- tablishing the Legion's present employee This is no idle comment. Uncorrected cation at the end of the war. After a few personnel system. imperfections in the present veterans

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 pension law have already resulted in wrong in substance or in detail, or on "Kilroy" Is Gone that far beyond why it is wrong, or on exactly what repercussions extend When James J. Kilroy died recently the domain of The American Legion. should be done about it. at age 60 in Boston, Mass., the most The issue of veterans' (and survivors') Second, it is universally agreed that probable original of the Kilroy who "was pensions will be a very critical one in its failure is not a failure of excess, but here" in WW2 passed on. A former 1963 as it was in 1962. that it is a failure to provide the bene- Boston City Councilman and Massachu- to veterans and their survivors that Because of massive discontent with fits setts State Legislator, James J. Kilroy the existing law, members of Congress were predicted by the designers of the went to work as an inspector in the Fore were placed under great pressure for ex- law when they sought and secured sup- River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., two treme action — far beyond any request port for its passage. days before Pearl Harbor. of the Legion — in 1962. There is no question that 86-211 has After VVW2, The American Transit Explosive done great good in some of its provi- Association offered a prize of a 22-ton More than 200 members of the House, sions. On the other hand even its trolley car to the man who could submit lent their names to a petition to force a staunchest defenders do not dispute that the best proof that he was the person militant pension bill out of the House it has failed in those aspects that caused who started WW2 lighting men all over Veterans Affairs Committee, an action the most misgivings when it was first the world writing "Kilroy was here" on that sent party leaders and the Adminis- proposed. But there is no such agree- fences, walls, latrines, bombed-out build- tration hurrying for a makeshift delay ment on why it has failed. ings, palm trees, packing crates, bombs, until (we hope) Congressional veterans 86-211 always had much to recom- shells, ships, tent Haps and any other affairs leaders would take constructive mend it, but some of its provisions were possible writing surface from Perth, action. novel and experimental. They promised Australia to Murmansk, USSR. The number of states sending pension beforehand to be either so harsh or so The Massachusetts shipyard inspector reform resolutions to the Legion's 1962 unreasonable, or so alien to the nature furnished evidence that as an inspector National Convention exceeded the num- of pensions that it was doubtful from of crates and equipment going overseas ber sending resolutions on any other the start that they would produce the he had vouched for his inspection of question. general satisfaction with the law that its them by writing "Kilroy was here" on The daily mail received in the offices architects predicted. them. Of all the explanations that turned

of The American Legion from individual Early experience, after it went into up, James J. Kilroy's earned him the veterans (members and non-members) effect, indicated that the novel aspects trolley car, duly delivered to his Halifax deals more with pension reforms than needed liberalizing amendments. home. Late in 1962, he died. with any other matter in the field of Hardships veterans affairs. As time passed more and more imper- Washington There would have been no discharge fections continued to reveal themselves. Legion Winter Conference petition in Congress in 1962 were not Here, for instance, is a veteran's widow, The American Legion's third annual the members of the House equally aged 66, with no income except Social national Winter Conference in the Na-

aware of the growing concern with this Security and VA pension, who writes to tional Capitol is set for March 10-14, question. The American Legion Magazine. She when hundreds of Legion leaders and The general members of Congress says that an increase of $4.90 a month workers will target on Washington, D.C. know, and acutely feel, the importance in her Social Security brought it to $644 Highlights of the mammoth gather- of the pension issue and will look to the a year. Because of this her $60 VA pen- ings will include the National Com- veterans organizations, the Veterans Ad- sion, based on the war services of her mander's dinner to the Congress of the ministration and the House Veterans deceased husband and in consideration United States (March 13); the annual Affairs Committee for suggestions for of her poverty, was reduced by $15 a American Legion Rehabilitation Con- constructive action in 1963. The wide- month in accordance with 86-211 (be- ference (March 12, 13, 14); the Nation- spread concern over pensions can be- cause her Social Security went over al Commander's appearance before the come explosive if the matter is treated $600). House Veterans Affairs Committee merely as a symptom of lack of interest So we have the government forcing (March 12); meetings of the National in something else. $58.80 a year on a widow whose non- Commander's Advisory Committee The 86-211 Mess pension income is in the $600 bracket (March 11); meetings of American Le- The present basic veterans pension and penalizing her $180 a year in re- gion Department Service Officers (March year, law is Public Law 86-211, passed in turn for a net loss of $121.20 a 10) ; and meetings of five national Amer- 1959. It became effective July, 1960. due to the provisions of 86-211. ican Legion Commissions (Legislative, The issues and controversies raised by 86-211 also stipulates that she could National Security and Foreign Relations, this law, the diversity of opinion about not refuse the Social Security increase March 12, 13, 14; Finance, March 11; its failures as well as its successes have in order to prevent the net loss. and Rehabilitation, March 11 and 14).

had interesting effects. This is no isolated case. Social Security The banquet for the Congress will Few laws have been so widely known increases that were in the works at the move into the huge dining hall of the by their number. "86-211" is a familiar time 86-211 was adopted have done Sheraton Park Hotel, where it will be term, for better or worse, in the minds the same thing to many veterans and comfortably housed after having over- of tens of thousands of people far re- widows in this very low income class. flowed its previous site. The Defense De- moved from the halls of Congress and The authors of 86-211 predicted in partment and State Department will pro- the government agencies. 1959 that 70% of veterans and widows vide briefings for the National Security It has created such a terrible muddle who were badly enough off to qualify and Foreign Relations Commissions, re- that there seem to be only two areas of them for VA pensions under the older spectively. The three-day Rehabilitation

general agreement concerning it. law would do better under 86-211. The Conference will feature panels of depart- First, it is generally agreed that the whole 70% would be in the most needy ment heads of the Veterans Administra- law as it now stands is wrong. There is group. tion and other agencies meeting with no such agreement on whether it is (Continued on next page) Legion service officers from every state.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 31 (CONTINUED) then did choose it during mid-1961. Legion's Veterans Program — Pensions In its written presentation, the VA correctly labeled this to be a study of This prediction was a basis for sup- ing the speediest direct action to remedy veterans and widows who delayed port that the bill received from other the whole situation. choosing 86-211. But in its testimony it sources. J. The testimony of the Veterans Ad- represented the study as an analysis of Since those who were already pen- ministration. the action of an entirely different group sioned under the old law at the time Spokesmen for the Veterans Adminis- of people, which it was not. 86-211 went into effect could choose to tration appeared at the hearings and In its written presentation, the VA

remain under the old law or elect to offered the results of two studies it had correctly stated that 76% of those who come under 86-211, it was predicted made. delayed choosing 86-211 did not under- that 70% would see the advantage of 86- One study purported to show how stand the law. But in its testimony the 211 and make the change. much better 86-211 is than the older VA asserted that they did not under- Now. after almost three years, only law. What the Veterans Administration stand the law because of (a) a lack of 13.6% of veterans and 31.1% of widows did was to compare the benefits that information and (b) misinformation. have elected to make the change. Com- would have been obtained under either The VA was wrong when it said that bined, they amount to about 19% of all law by those who, during a certain its study analyzed actions of those who beneficiaries, rather than the predicted period in December 1960, had applica- have not chosen 86-211, and it was even 70%. tions for pension on file under Public more wrong when it said that its findings As this may be taken as a measure of Law 86-211. indicated a lack of information or mis- a very large failure of 86-211 to live up The detailed information in this study information. to its beneficial expectations, the ques- is very valuable. But the Veterans Ad- On a different day during the hear-

tion of why the enormous difference be- ministration misused it. ings, A. VV. Stratton correctly testified tween promise and performance is now Every veteran and widow whom the for the Veterans Administration that "In a matter of great contention. VA selected for this study had applied March of 1960 we sent to every one of Why the Failure? for benefits under 86-211. None had ap- them a pamphlet which explained the The American Legion contends that plied under the older law. bill." We may disregard, as extreme the 1961 Social Security law, with the They had screened themselves. Every speculation, the VA's additional testi- punishment it inflicts under 86-211 of one was one who expected to receive mony that the veterans and widows who the type that we have seen, and other benefits under 86-211, while not one got this pamphlet probably threw it unpredictable factors which have the person selected for the review was one away in the post office. same effect, would not permit more than who expected to receive benefits under The Veterans Administration knew 52% (rather than 70%) to benefit by 86- the old law. This weighted the group that no person studied in its survey had 211. The Veterans Administration now chosen for the study in favor of 86-211. a lack of information or lacked correct agrees with this figure. The VA, in its testimony, did not point information. The VA itself had sent the The Legion further contends that this out in making a favorable compari- correct information to every single vet-

many of the 52% would get an immediate son for 86-211 on the basis of its find- eran and widow who had an option to gain by switching to 86-211, but would ings. choose the old law or the new one. suffer a long-term loss because of hidden Conclusion: The study was not ob- Then why are we observing here a complications in 86-211. These compli- jective. The VA revealed a motivation phenomenon of the Veterans Adminis- cations, the Legion has testified, reduce to make 86-211 look good. Probable rea- tration making an interpretation of data the supposed 70% who could benefit son: The VA is under pressure from the which it knows to be untrue? from 86-211 to only about 23%. As 19% Bureau of the Budget and Congressional A Search For Devils have made the switch to 86-211, there leaders to make 86-211 look as good as The motivation in government to — remain about 4% who could still switch possible, and as a co-author of 86-211 is make 86-211 look good is translated with a certainty of better benefits (while also showing a defensive pride of author- when investigating why 86-211 has some of the 19% who have done so will ship. failed — into an effort to blame the fail- find they have made a mistake). The second VA study purported to ure not on the law itself but on devils. Total inability to understand the show that pensioners who can come un- Hence, when the VA finds that 76% enormous complexities of 86-211 prob- der both laws, old or new, and can of those who delayed choosing the new ably accounts for the remainder, who choose either, have failed to choose 86- law did not understand the law, it avoids might very well gain by choosing the 21 1 in large numbers because they have the possibility that the law is at fault new law, but fear to do so because they lacked proper information and have had (being far too complex for understand-

cannot understand it. misinformation. ing) and blames the lack of understand- Under 86-211, if an "old law" pen- VA representatives testified that 76% ing on something else — concealers of

sioner chooses 86-211 and finds that it of the total number of pensioners failing information (unnamed) and peddlers of hurts instead of helps, he cannot switch to choose 86-211 have been misinformed wrong information (unnamed). back. The choice is irrevocable. or uninformed. Its finding that 76% oLthose to whom

As you will see, the failure of 86-211 The data presented in this study is it sent correct information do not under-

is explained by others on other grounds. also interesting, and is quite detailed. stand the bill would correctly lead to What They Said However, this study strays even far- the conclusion that the meaning and The House Veterans Affairs Commit- ther from showing what the VA testi- implications of 86-211 are quite gen- tee held pension hearings last August mony said that it showed than the first erally incomprehensible to them. The and September. A summary of some of study did. VA testimony did not mention this obvi- the major appearances of witnesses will First, it was not a study of pensioners ous possibility. give a further picture of the 86-211 pen- who have declined to choose 86-211, but The VA did present sufficient detail sion muddle, and many of the other side was a study of pensioners who delayed to reveal how it decided that lack of in- issues and controversies that are delay- choosing 86-211 for about a year, and formation and misinformation were the

32 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 devils that made 86-211 fall short. Bashara on Trial Comment: Our search for objective Every response by pensioners to the 2. The testimony of John Bashara. study and constructive amendment of VA's poll which showed that the pen- John Bashara, then National Com- the existing veterans pension law, in- sioners did not understand the law was mander of the Veterans of World War volving the crucial needs of tens of automatically interpreted by the VA to I, Inc., testified at the 1962 hearings on thousands who live a hand-to-mouth ex- prove lack of information or mrinforma- veterans pensions. istence, is not only being misguided by tion. Mr. Bashara avoided discussion of unbalanced official approaches such as Every answer that was inadequate to 86-211 as much as possible because his the VA's defensive "studies"; but it is give a clue to the reason for delay was organization had a prime interest in a burdened with personality clashes, heat- lumped by the VA into the uinformed separate pension bill for WW1 veterans ed controversies over side issues, and and misinformed group. regardless of what should happen to an overdose of emotion and rancor, all Every answer which showed that the 86-211. making it more difficult to get to the pensioners had the wrong impression of His group had narrowly missed point: What should be done for the best the law was interpreted by the VA to having its separate bill taken out of the interest of all concerned in the way of prove lack of information or misinforma- Veterans Affairs Committee by dis- amendment to PL 86-211? tion. Not once did the VA even enter- charge petition, more than 210 members The Legion tain the possibility that the veteran of the House (219 needed) having 3. The testimony of The American or widow, having the information, might signed the petition. Legion. be unable to understand it correctly. Bashara's testimony on 86-211 was Representatives of The American This neglect became almost funny when, mainly directed at indicating why his Legion testified at the hearings, led by during the hearings, several members organization felt that it was unsatisfac- Robert McCurdy (Calif.), Rehabilita- of the Veterans Affairs Committee of tory for WW1 veterans. tion Chairman; John Corcoran, Rehabili- Director, (Tex.) the House of Representatives found it An incident of his appearance, how- tation and Don Peters necessary to quiz Mr. Brownstein of the ever, was highly indicative of the mess then Legislative Vice-Chairman. VA at length in order to understand and confusion that the pension situation The Legion testimony was a straight 86-211 themselves. is in at the present. analysis of 86-211, of its good points, The search for devils should proceed Members of the House Committee on its manifest weaknesses and failures, and with caution, for if there is a real devil, Veterans Affairs quizzed Mr. Bashara of the Legion's recommendations. nationwide in scope, operating to pre- about insulting letters they had received The general sense of the Legion's vent comprehension of the meaning of from members of his organization, and testimony was about as follows: The law could be simplified by re- 86-211, that devil may be found in the about campaigns to defeat members of ducing the number of levels at which Veterans Administration. Congress that they had conducted. other income reduces the amount of read a letter calling To understand this you must realize Rep. Dorn (S.C.) pension paid. Only two steps instead that no veteran or veteran's widow him "yellow". of three should apply. step at present is at should ever elect to choose 86-211 over Chairman Teague cited a campaign The bottom a miserly level and should be raised. the old law without counseling with an to defeat him in his district by the Texas The amount of pension paid should organization of the Veterans of World expert. The complexities of the choice be raised. defy any possibility of publishing gen- War 1, Inc. The amount now paid at the bottom — eral information that would reliably Rep. Saylor (Pa.) mentioned an or- level which includes people with no income at all, most of whom are old guide each individual to a correct ganizational meeting of 85 members of and disabled — should be at least $100 choice. Even with the best advice in the Mr. Bashara's group in his district to a month. world, the choice is a gamble for many. "lick Saylor." The present law operates virtually on level. But during the last year, over the ob- Nobody questioned the right of the a pauper As veterans pensions recognize serv- jections of The American Legion, the members of Mr. Bashara's organization ice to the nation and are not a 100% Veterans Administration has closed 161 to be active in behalf of their bill. welfare program, the restrictions of of its contact offices throughout the Mr. Bashara testified that he could 86-211 do not reflect the reasonable land, which were established to counsel discipline members who act in the name standards that awards based on service justify. veterans on such difficult matters. of his national organization if their Counting a wife's income in deter- Not in the history of all veterans laws political activity goes beyond limits, but mining a disabled veteran's entitlement has any one law required expert counsel that he had no control over their in- to pension seemed reasonable when the with more certainty than 86-211. But dividual political actions in their own law was enacted, but in view of its negligible effect in experience it should last December the VA closed 26 more names. be eliminated. Its purpose was to stop of its contact offices after having closed Some Committee members felt that wealthy veterans from transferring 161 since 86-211 became law! Mr. Bashara's suspension of his former their income earning property to their In its testimony on the subject of national commander, Charles McCarthy, wives in order to get a pension. In actual practice the provision hurt in pensioners' lack of understanding of the of Ohio, who had opposed the excesses cases where the wife of a penniless and law, the VA did not mention that it had cited above, belied his testimony. disabled veteran went to work to keep undercut their avenues to understand- Very quickly, a Congressional hear- the family together. The saving to the ing! ing purportedly on veterans pensions government has been very small, while great hardship has been worked in in- Later the House Committee staff testi- turned into a trial of Mr. Bashara and dividual cases. fied that it is in the rural areas that most an inquiry into the internal activities of The Legion has given wide dis- pensioners who might benefit from good the Veterans of World War I, Inc. Some semination to the terms and benefits counsel are to be found — just the areas members of the Committee attacked, of 86-211. The spokesmen presented a catalog where VA has shut its doors! while others defended Mr. Bashara. of other changes which the Legion Conclusion: Much that is discour- It was many pages of testimony later recommended. agingly misleading came from the VA's that the hearings got back to be hear- The members of the House Commit- testimony. ings on the veterans pension program. (Continued on next page)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 33 (CONTINUED) Actually, underneath all the fog of Legion's Veterans Program — Pensions controversy, all responsible students of the problem agree with that. tee asked the Legion spokesmen to give explain the nationwide failure of 86-211 Simplification and liberalization are priorities to their recommendations. Mr. to live up to the predictions, it was inevitable. McCurdy declined, stating that he did doomed to success from the beginning. In the delay occasioned by the sort not have the power to give precedence The House Committee staff had ad- of debate we have seen, people who are to one Legion request over another. The vance information that two county serv- desperately in need of action now are last Convention had recommended them ice officers in two Texas counties were having their relief postponed.

all. handing out the bad advice as part of The American Legion holds itself He asked the House Committee to an active campaign against 86-211. above the quarreling factions, and, as recognize them all and urged its mem- (These were part-time service officers the major veterans organization, focuses bers to do their best within whatever paid by the counties, not in the employ on insistence that what should reason- means they might find. of the Veterans Administration or any ably be done, and must inevitably be Many Legion proposals could be car- old-line veterans organization). done, be done now — as promptly as ried out at almost no cost, he said. The Texas study was made in areas possible. Eliminating the wife's income require- where devils had already been radared How much can be done to improve ment would be one of those. into view, and was in no sense a national any pension law must, in the last analy- The government might actually gain inspection of veterans' and widows' hab- sis, be measured by the funds that can by eliminating the requirement that a its in choosing 86-211 over the old law. be secured. It is always reasonable to 10% disability be shown by a veteran The non-Texas cases were not clearly seek sufficient funds so that the law may aged 65 in applying for a pension. It identified as to locale in the testimony. operate in a reasonable and fair manner would put a stop to the cost of medical It appears that they were mostly in cen- that is consistent with its nature. 86-211 examinations of members of an age tral Florida, and it seems that the Com- was so meagre in its original format that group in which nearly all people are at mittee staff had advance information its beneficiaries deserved somewhat least 10% disabled. that the Veterans of World War I, Inc. more than was originally planned. A Veterans' Conspiracy? were pressuring pensioners not to choose Meanwhile, 86-211 has fallen short 4. Testimony of the House Veterans 86-211 in that area, before the Commit- by some 84 million dollars a year of pro- Affairs Committee staff. tee staff went there to put hundreds of viding for its beneficiaries amounts that The staff of the House Committee had cases from that area on the record- were intended for them under the act

gone out into the field to interview The hearings were replete with testi- when it was adopted. widows and veterans who are pen- mony that the Veterans Administration, It is fruitless to continue to quarrel sioners. Several thousand had been in- The American Legion, the other older over why it fell short. terviewed. veterans organizations, and the State The VA is partially right when it says In the staff testimony, led by staff service staffs had not been found to be that misunderstanding of the bill has chief Oliver Meadows, this field survey engaged in these practices — and these prevented many beneficiaries from turned out to have been directed almost are the groups that advise most veterans choosing the most benefits. entirely to inquiring into the failure of on their rights from coast to coast and But the main fault is in the law itself. some widows and veterans to choose 86- from Canada to Mexico. It is too hard to understand, and some 211 over the old law. That being the case, the Committee of its restrictions make choosing a The burden of the staff's testimony staff, like the Veterans Administration gamble for veterans and widows whose was that local veterans service officers, earlier, had so pre-selected its area of in- means are so miserable that they dare and the Veterans of World War I, Inc. vestigation as to give an unbalanced not gamble. Its levels of payment and had conspired, out of a desire to see 86- view of the causes of the failure of 86- exclusion are too mean. 211 fail, to advise widows and veterans 211. The fault is also partially in the Vet- not to chose the new law if they could The remarkable findings in Texas and erans Administration, which is closing stay under the old, even if the new law Florida are local shockers, and certainly out the offices that are supposed to ad- benefited them. belong in the record, but hardly under vise veterans on things too difficult for The staff developed and cited a large the heading given them by the House them to understand. number of cases in which aged widows Veterans Affairs Committee staff — "Sur- The American Legion urges that the and veterans in meagre circumstances vey of Pensioners Entitled to Increase law be simplified. It urges that its would have benefited by choosing the Under Public Law 86-211 Who Have meagre provisions be liberalized to bring new law, but who said that they had Failed to Elect" — with its strong im- it up to and somewhat above the level been advised by their service officer not plication that this is the general answer which was predicted for it. It urges that to. The staff developed further cases in to the failure of 86-211 to do what it those restrictions which have proved to which the same thing had happened was designed to do. have saved the government little or through the influence on the pensioners Time for Action nothing be removed. of the members of local barracks of the What is to be done about veterans Based on predictions made by VA Veterans of World War I, Inc. and widow pensions? and Congressional leaders, The Amer- Comment: These findings are an in- The position of The American Legion, ican Legion supported 86-211 as a mini- teresting revelation. But they are not in- developed at length by your delegates mum bill, at their request, when it was dicative of a national situation. The to the 1962 national convention, is that up for passage in 1959. chief studies were made in central 86-211 is too meagre, too complicated, The bill was then theory, and its de- Florida and in two counties in Texas. and unnecessarily restrictive in many of signers freely admitted that experience The Texas situation was the worse, and its provisions. would of course indicate needed amend- produced the most outrageous cases. It needs simplification and liberaliza- ments.

But if this was a search for devils to tion. This July, 86-211 will have been in

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force three years, with plenty of experi- the present bickering and delay. tions that fate can deal out to anyone

ence that it failed of expectations, but Rep. Olin E. Teague, of Texas, Chair- indiscriminately. with no amendments yet. man of the House Veterans Affairs Com- To the veteran who is healthy and Those expectations were the basis of mittee, correctly emphasized during the prospering there is no need of a pension the Legion's original support of the bill. 1962 hearings that there is no sense in if he continues in his happy state. When the bill had tough sledding in his committee reporting out a bill that But to the most prosperous and robust the Senate in 1959, then National will not be passed by the Congress or veterans, even as to those who are less American Legion Commander Preston supported by the Administration. fortunate, veterans pensions are like a

J. Moore cited the benefits that the It is up to those who have a stake in disability insurance policy, paid for with House and the Veterans Administration the matter to make their wishes known service to the nation rather than with had predicted as reasons for the Legion's to their Congressmen and to the Admin- cash premiums. support, and as reasons why the Senate istration, so that they may be receptive The nation has always awarded vet- should support it. to the amendments which the Legion erans pensions, ever since the veterans

The Senate did then support it. will ask Mr. Teague and his committee of the American Revolution approached This year, The American Legion will to report out. advancing years. again earnestly seek the amendments Every Legionnaire has a stake in this No matter what provisions of need or without which 86-211 cannot be justi- law, as does every other veteran. Every necessity are attached to them, veterans fied. member of The American Legion Auxil- pensions have always been honorable, The American Legion's specific pro- iary, and every other wife or widow of within the meaning of the word "pen- posals that came out of the 1962 a veteran has a stake in it. sion" (which connotes an award for a

National Convention will be outlined Veterans pensions are not and never service rendered ) in detail here next month. have been a certain endowment for As it stands today, 86-211, your vet- National Commander James E. Pow- every veteran. Only when veterans of erans disability insurance, is as meagre ers has announced that he will call on any war were relatively few and very as welfare, and is looked upon by many Legionnaires all over the country to old have pensions been paid to them in high places as nothing but a welfare lend their support when the time comes en masse. provision. On at least five occasions dur- to alter the law in the direction Traditionally pensions go to veterans ing the 1962 hearings, VA testimony was indicated. who are hobbled by age or disability that 86-211 is nothing but a welfare law, The support of the membership, when and are in need of the benefits. and should be kept so. called on, is vitally important if con- Many veterans never get pensions. But welfare is paid only for need so structive action is to take the place of But pensions are paid under condi- extreme that it goes to people whether ---Exciting Hew Way To Earn $6.44 An Hour--- INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS

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or not they ever rendered a service to Walter Krutsky and John Ondeck and Michele Pillo (all 1961), Post 144, Middleport, Pa. anyone. William J. Storm (1959) and Austin R. Minnick 86-211 (1962), Post 204, Philadelphia, Pa. should be amended this year John Luopa (1962), Post 707, Pittsburgh, Pa. to a step above that. Norman Rhoads and Samuel A. Webb (both 1962), Post 832. Philadelphia, Pa. You, as an honorably discharged war John Cyra, Sr. (1962), Post 76. Arlington, Wash. Thomas C. Gibson and L. Evan Griffiths and veteran, have a record of service to the Clarence Hayden and Ben N id, ell (all 1960), Post nation that entitles you to something, in 143, Twisp, Wash.

case of adversity, that is a step above Life Memberships are accepted for publication only on an official form, what is awarded to the needy without which we provide. Reports received regard to any services they ever ren- only from Commander, Adjutant or dered or to any debt of their society to Finance Officer of Post which awarded TO AN ISLAND HIDEAWAY the life membership. them. They may get form by sending IN THE SUN. ..$!/% down stamped, addressed return envelope to: I V/iMONTH "L. M. Form, American Legion Maga- zine, 720 5th Ave., New York 19, N.Y." On a corner of the return envelope Spacious 80' x 125' homesites on LIFE MEMBERSHIPS write the number of names you wish GREAT EXUMA, S. E. of Nassau, The award of a life membership to a to report. No written letter necessary ideal for vacations, retirement, invest- Legionnaire by his Post is a testimonial to get forms. by those who know him best that he ment. Powder-soft sandy beaches, has served The American Legion well. near stores, excellent harbour, Below are listed some of the pre- viously unpublished life membership good transportation and roads. Post awards that have been reported World-famous fishing and boating. to the editors. They are arranged by States or Departments. $695-NO INTEREST • NO TAXES PEOPLE IN THE NEWS J. Henry Mathis (1962), Post 25-58 Texarkana, BAHAMA SOUND U.S.A. Bernard Anderson Walter E. Alessandroni, Nat'l Executive Price increases Feb. 28th to $795 and Max G. Hopper and John F. Kaminski (all 1961), Post 243, Lemont, 111. Committeeman for the Pennsylvania | Act NOW and Save $100! Jasper Sciackitano and Frank Sidote and John 1 Smolenski and Philip Sodote (all 1962), Post 330, American Legion, appointed Attorney BAHAMA ACRES, LTD. f»[tm£*u$ Calumet City, 111. General of Pennsylvania by Gov. Wil- Chamber of Commerce Bldg. ^.cn'«1S»i!1 Arthur A. Boostedt and Daniel T. Bresnahan and 141 N. E. 3rd Ave., Dept. N-2 \$gS*^KSl Patrick A. Bresnahan and William E. Brophy (all liam W. Scranton. Miami, Florida ^$<*^%o»^£ 1962), Post 348, Chicago. 111. Frank J. Fetta and Joseph Karbowy and Henry Please send me your FREE Color Brochure Kiedrowski and John C. Kluczynski (all 1959), Post William 419, Chicago, 111. C. Doyle (N.J.), Chmn of the Name Elbert C. Wayne (1962), Post 1187, Winthrop Legion's Nat'l Security Commission, Harbor, III. Address Stanley W. Anderson and Theodore B. Nabhan named Sup't of New Jersey Memorial (both 1962), Post 279, Gary, Ind. Home, Vineland, succeeds City— State- Julius Schultz (1962), Post 366, Hillsboro, Kans. N.J. He W. Hugh L. Garrity (1962), Post 40, Plymouth, Mass. Rex McCrosson, former Nat'l Legion Herbert E. Parker (1961), Post 154, Dorchester, Mass. Rehab Chairman. Everything You Need Howard E. Fuller (1962), Post 225, Wrentham, FREE! Mass. To Start Your Own Business Harry O. Johnson (1962), Post 32, Livonia, Mich. Richard B. Ott, Nat'l Legion Vice Cmdr John J. Shemky (1962), Post 87, Crystal Falls, Mich. in 1947-48, named Chief Justice of the Put yourself in the $600 a month class immediately. Earl P. Secor and William Sharp and Murray Supreme Court of the State of Wash- We'll send you everything you need to own your own Walker and Dr. L. M. Zimmerman (all 1962), Post home-based shoe business. Free Portable Shoe Store 135, Imlay City, Mich. ington. to producers. Free demonstrators. Walter J. Single (1962), Post 163, St. Joseph, Offer exclusive Spring-Step Cushion Mich. John Sommerfield and A. Theil, Sr. Shoes to neighbors and fellow and L. Van M. L. Lyckholm, retired as Adjutant of Gieson and Jeff Williams (all 1962), Post 261, East workers. Earn up to $10 on each Detroit, Mich. The American Legion of Colorado, after sale. Instant cash commissions, Robert J. Inghram (1953) and Frank V. Kapugia monthly cash bonus, free life insur- 34 years. (1961) , Post 283, East Lansing, Mich. ance and opportunity to be a man- Casper Hanson and Roy M. Paulson (both 1960) ager—all can be yours if you act and Alvin A. Olson and John G. Torney (both 1961) now. No investment. No experience. , Post 99, Minneapolis, Minn. Richard I. Eliason, named Alternate George E. Luke Age is no barrier. Full time and (1962), Post 265, Duluth, Minn. Raymond A. Barker Nat'l Executive Committeeman for the part-time men and women needed. and Kenneth A. Cole and Bernard H. Conner and George W. Farnham (all Wire collect name and complete Alaska American Legion, succeeding 1962) , Post 472, Minneapolis, Minn. address or write today: Onus L. Malone (1962), Post 13, Starkville, Miss. Edward S. Van Horn, Sr., deceased. ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO. Anthony Amodeo (1960), Post 49, Tupelo, Miss. Earl F. Janes (1961), Post 36, Gering, Nebr. 3032 Brand Road Arthur A. Howard and Francis V. Roddy (both Salem, Virginia 1962), Post 163, North Platte, Nebr. EES Earl L. Mit h»"l (1962). Post 354, Pleasant Dale, Nebr. Past National Commander Arthur J. Make Rubber Stamps for BIG PAY Andrew W. liermer and David P. Stevens (both 1962), Post 3, Nashua, N.H. Connell (see p. 30). George Carrelli Need more money? Earn $30-$50 (1962), Post 28, Absecon, N.J. a week, spare time, at home mak- Joseph J. DeLuccia (1953) and Charles S. Mod- ing rubber stamps for offices, fac- son (1962), Post 187, Paterson, N.J. U.S. Senator Robert S. Kerr, Oklahoma, tories, individuals. Hundreds of uses. Hundreds Ernest Eyer (1961) and Rev. Richard P. Camp of prospects— ev- a leader in the Senate, a Past Depart- erywhere. Right in your own com- (1962) , Post 171, Fair Lawn, N.J. nty. Turn out special stamps for Michael J. Clark and Pat Diserne and John A. es, addresses, ment Commander of the Oklahoma notices, prices, etc Reilly (all 1957), Post 391, Brooklyn, N.Y. mutes with table-top machine We Elton re- furnish everything and help finance you C. Hyde and Edward W. Kandt and O. American Legion (1925-26) and a Write for free facts. No salesman Dudley Kay and Harold M. Kinzly (all 1961), Post calls cipient of the Legion's Distinguished RubberStampDiv.,1512Jarvis Ave., Dept. R-8-B,Chicago26 410, Lockport, N.Y. Frank Sciascia (1961), Post 762, New York, N.Y. Service Medal (1959). Charles G. Burnett and Howard Chamberlin and Dr. M. Crants (all 1962), Post 922, Painted Post, N.Y. E. Sokolsky, King Features col- BROKEN? Clifford O'Shea George TOYS (1962), Post 1405, Brooklyn, N.Y. Edwin Coe (1960) and Carl V. Aiken and Fred umnist on national and world affairs, a fix it quick with Armitage and Irwin L. Blystone (all 1962), Post 468, Sylvania, Ohio. first-hand witness of the Russian Revolu- Harry Handwerker (1963), Post 746, Dayton, tion, and a frequent collaborator and Ohio. PLASTIC WOOD C. Leslie Montague and Einer L. Olsen and voluntary consultant with The American Albert W. Peil and Norman A. Peil (all 1962), Handles like putty-hardens like wood! Legion in the exposure of internal sub- Post 9, Easton, Pa.

36 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 version in the United States and related advocated by the Legion than anything Fisher Wood, Secretary of both the Paris problems. since President Truman's swift opposi- and St. Louis organizing caucuses in tion to Communist expansion in Korea 1919, none of these survive. Ralph M. Merrow, National Executive twelve years earlier, with, I would say, Q. Three cheers for Nat'l Commander Committeeman for the Maine American justifiable results so far. Since there are Powers' statement that he will ask the Legion from 1955 to 1958. always those who yell for weakness what Legion membership actively to support has the Legion done to back the Presi- our heretofore lagging legislative pro- Edward S. Van Horn, Sr., Alaska's dent? gram through their own Congressmen. Alternate Nat'l Legion Executive Com- A. National Commander James E. Pow- There are plenty of us waiting for march- mitteeman, and father of Past Nat'l Vice ers gave the President the Legion's im- ing orders. But how will he organize us Cmdr John H. Van Horn. mediate telegraphic support in October, to act effectively without stepping on

and later confirmed it personally during everybody's toes? John Links, Jr., of New Orleans, La., a call at the White House. A. Just as you would expect — through American Legion Area C Rehabilitation Q. Your Jan. report of the death of Eric liaison teams from national to state to Chairman. Fisher Wood, of Pennsylvania, noted county and/or district to Post to indi- that he was an honorary Past National vidual. There should be no toe-stepping Joseph S. Clark, Florida's Legion Com- Commander of The American Legion. problem since the job is to carry out mander in 1933-34. Who else has had this title? mandates that came up through the A. Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of same path. Keep in touch with your B. Levi Donley, Nat'l Executive Com- Missouri; Milton J. Foreman, of Illinois; Post and read your Legion publications. mitteeman for the State of Washington Henry D. Lindsley, of Texas; and Theo- Q. I am told that among the remarkable in 1923-24. dore Roosevelt, Jr., of New York were all programs run by some of our state or- voted the title of Past National Com- ganizations are statewide American Le- Henry C. McShane, Utah's Legion Com- mander in addition to Wood, in recogni- gion highway patrols operating as volun- mander in 1961-62. tion of the leadership they gave to the teer, trained adjuncts to the official state formation of the Legion. In addition, police. Is this true?

J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of The Gen. John J. Pershing and Marshall A. There are uniformed Legion volun- Sporting News, the "baseball bible." He Ferdinand Foch, U.S. and French mili- teer state highway organizations operat- was the recipient of a special Legion tary commanders in WWI, were voted ing as adjuncts to the official state high- award last May for his "unselfish sup- the title of Honorary National Com- way police in Ohio, Idaho and Florida. port of American Legion Baseball mander. With the 1962 death of Eric Q. They say that the Legion must have through the pages of The Sporting News."

John C. Volz, of Oxford, Indiana, who, at 101, was reputed to be the oldest living member of The American Legion.

Hattie Frost, at Penn Yan, N.Y. A WWI nurse she was, at 95, believed to be the oldest living woman Legionnaire.

Q's & A's On Many Subjects Readers ask us to settle arguments, or just enlighten them, on almost every- thing under the sun. Here are some recent queries that seem to be of fairly general interest: Q. I like the idea voted by the Legion to propose a commemorative postage stamp to honor the Mayo Brothers, founders of the Mayo Clinic and Foun- dation in Rochester, Minn. But I thought they were still alive. I am sure that quite recently Dr. Charles Mayo was active on the Legion's medical advisory board. A. Legionnaire Dr. Charles William Mayo, who has rendered distinguished service to the Legion, the profession of The secure future your family deserves will take both money —and medicine, and the nation, is the son of the freedom to enjoy it. Save both with U.S. Savings Bonds. the late Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, who, with his brother, the late Dr. William James Mayo, set up the Mayo Founda- U.S. SAVINGS BONDS tion in 1917. Q. It seems to me that President Ken- nedy's action on Cuba in October comes closer to the sort of firm U.S. action This advertising is donated by The Advertising Council and this magazine.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 19G3 37 Shrinks Hemorrhoids NEWS

New Without 106th Inf Div-(July) Robert Pierce, 474 Federal Way Surgery lost upwards of 60,000 members by St., Warren, Ohio. deaths in 1962. Did we get enough new 111th Inf Reg't (WW2) (Midwest Area)-(May) Stops Itch -Relieves Pain Everett Huffman, 1922 E. Rudisill Blvd., Ft. members to offset this loss to any sig- Wayne, Ind. Inf Reg't-(May) John Fischer, 114 South For the first time science has found a nificant degree? 121st Holmes St., Memphis 11, Tenn. now healing substance with the astonishing A. loss by deaths is not an official 328th Field Art'y (WWI)-(June) Leslie W. Red- ability to shrink The hemorrhoids and to relieve daway, 306 E. Bishop Ave., Flint 5, Mich. pain — without surpery. figure but the 60,000 estimate may not 690th Field Art'y Bn (WWl)-(July) B. C. Hight, In case after case, while gently relieving 204 N. 3rd St., Sanford, N. C. be far off. However, as the books were pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. 729th Rwy Op Bn-(Aug.) Albert H. Colello, 4251 Most amazing of all — results were so closed on 1962 on Dec. 31, membership —4th Ave., Altoona, Pa. 813th Engrs Aviation Bn—(Aug.) Willard Giese, thorough that sufferers made astonishing was 2,635,729, for an increase of 6,997 statements Box 392, Willernie, Minn. like "Piles have ceased to be a 863rd Ord. Heavy Autom. Maint. Co.— (Aug.) Hans " over 1961's year-end total of 2,628,732, problem ! G. Ehlers, Grelna, Nebr. The secret is a new healing substance which looks like a gain in new members 938th Field Art'y Bn-(Apr.) William Seeger, Jr., (Bio-Dyne 1*) — discovery of a world-famous 25 Greentree Lane, Malvern, Pa. research institute. of something between 60,000 and 70,- 967th Field Art'y Bn-(May) F. A. Donatelli, 56 Holly Blvd., RD Vincentown, N. J. This substance is now available in sup- 000. #3, pository or ointment form under the name NAVY Preparation H®. Ask for it at all drug- 1st Seabees-(Feb.) Mac H. Corray, 1401 Garden counters. Lane, Champaign, III. 2nd Marine Div— (July) Hugo V. Genge, P.O. Box i DISTRESS COMRADES IN ! 113, Willow Springs, 111. "THIS HOME BUSINESS ______j 3rd Marine Div— (July) John J. Maholland, 246 Dimarco Dr., Philadelphia 14, Pa. Readers who can help these com- 16th Seabees-(Aug.) Tom Dowling, 8115 So. $4 HOUR/' to do so. EARNS AN rades are urged Claremont Ave., Chicago 20, 111. Notices are run at the request of 34th Reg't Engrs, WWI-(Aug.) George Remple, Legion Nat'l Rehabilita- 2523 St., 5, Ohio. says Walter M. Ringer Jr., The American N. Main Dayton President, Foley Mfg. Co. tion Commission. They are not ac- 64th Seabees-(Aug.) Mitchel E. Boe, 1615 Homer "Since 1932 we have shown hun- cepted from other sources. St., Metairie, La. 114th Seabees-(Aug.) Ralph Evans, 235-99th dreds of men how to start their Readers wanting Legion help with W. own business at home in their St., Stone Harbor, N. J. serv- spare time," says Mr. Ringer. "You can do it, too. If you claims should contact their local 501st CBMU-(June) Paul B. Gillespie, 4648 Har- yourself do on your job, you will work as hard for as you ice officers. bord Dr., Toledo 13, Ohio. can earn S4 lo SB an hour—be your own boss. I will set Service officers unable to locate CBMU'S 627, 628, 629-(Aug.) Ralph Evans, yon up with a service every community needs and pro- W. vide vou with equipment that can't be needed witnesses for claims develop- 235-99th St., Stone Harbor, N. J. simply filing beat. What is this business? ment should refer the matter to the MAG 25 (S.C.A.T.)-(Aug.) Robert J. Biggane, hand and circular saws on automatic 34 Euclid Ave., Delmar, N. Y. experience needed. All my Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission equipment. 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BRIDGE IS FOR EVERYBODY (Continued from page 26)

If you were to sit down to play Bridge (d) any grand slam (seven bid) — 37 cellent trump suit. Your partner can with three very good players, you would points. have no less than A Q x x. (The mini- be subjecting yourself to an unpleasant Games and slams are very desirable mum requirements to open the bidding session. It is very possible that you would to bid because you gain high-scoring with a major suit — spades or hearts — are be browbeaten, scolded and lectured un- bonuses for making them. But if the a four-card suit containing at least five

til you were convinced that Bridge is not combined hands have fewer points than points, or any five-card or longer suit.) the game for you. The main reason for are required to bid a game, you should That wasn't so complicated, was it? an unpleasant game is unbalance of abil- stop bidding at the lowest safe contract. Now for another illustration. Suppose ity among the players. Now let me give you a few illustra- your partner opens with one notrump,

It is true that Bridge is more complex tions. Suppose your partner opens the the next player passes, and you hold than other card games, and consequently bidding with one spade, the next player *KJ10

it takes more time to learn. But this passes, and you hold: Q J 7 doesn't mean that you have to be a col- AKJ109 0 K 10 3 2 lege professor to learn it. Many times VAK7 *742 I have heard non-Bridge players say, 0 Q J7 You should bid three notrump. (A one "you must have a 'mathematical mind' *986 notrump opening bid shows 16 to 18 and 'card sense' to play Bridge." Nothing You should bid three spades. I know points and guarantees a balanced hand — could be further from the truth. Anyone what you're thinking. You have 14 no void suits, no singleton suits, and not of average intelligence can become a points and your partner says he has at more than one doubleton suit. Balanced good Bridge player if he is willing to put least 13; since 26 points are enough for hands are good for notrump play.) Your forth the effort. game, why not bid four spades directly? ten points plus your partner's minimum

Mr. Henning is of the opinion that The answer is, any jump bid by the re- of 16 points are enough to bid a game, modern bidding is complicated: Let's se,e sponder forces the opening bidder to and your balanced hand makes a raise how complicated the modern bidding keep bidding until game is reached. As of notrump better than bidding a suit. system really is. The objectives of bid- long as you know your partner cannot Now let's bid a slam. Suppose your ding—in all bidding systems — are to find pass, there is no need to bid game di- partner opens with one notrump, the a good trump suit (eight or more cards rectly. This is one of the refinements of next player passes, and you hold: of the same suit between the two hands) bidding you will have to learn; but if AK98 and to decide how high to bid — whether you were playing in a mediocre game, AKJ to bid a part-score, a game, or a slam. four spades would be a very satisfactory 0 QJ 109 Although there are many bidding sys- bid. *QJ 10 tems, the Standard American System is Furthermore, spades will make an ex- You should bid six notrump. Your 17 accepted by almost all players. So this is the only system you are interested in you can help save many lives, one out learning. of four of your employees will prob- The basis of this system is the method of valuing your hand, called point count. ably develop cancer at some time in

One phase of it goes like this : ace — four their lives, if the present rate con- points, king — three points, queen — two tinues. What is worse, many of them points, jack — one point. The deck has 40 ...key executives, valued clerks, high-card points and if you are dealt ten points you have an average hand. skilled workers, or experienced sec- The minimum count required to open retaries... may die needlessly! the bidding is 1 3 points — three points above the average. Of course, the more This year, about 177,000 cancer complicated part of bidding is communi- patients will be saved. But 88,000 cating with your partner. more could be saved if they went When you stop to think about it, bid- ding is very challenging. Just imagine, to their doctors in time. That's you and your partner must decide which where you come in! suit to name as trump and how many tricks the combined hands will win in By helping us tell your employees the play; and you must do this with only how they can guard themselves a 15-word vocabulary: three, one, two, against cancer, you might save four, five, six, seven, notrump, spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs, double, redou- many lives. ble, and pass. Call or write to your Unit of the To play Bridge it is essential that you know the point requirements for bidding American Cancer Society for infor- games and slams; these are key numbers mation about a free employee edu- and must be remembered. Partners must cation program, geared to your have in their combined hands to bid: particular factory or office. (a) three notrump, four spades, or four hearts — 26 points. (b) five diamonds, or five clubs — 29 points. from where you sit... AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY (c) any small slam (six-bid) — 33 points. Thi3 space contributed by the publisher

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 41 points plus your partner's minimum of trump game, which should be explored 16 make the 33 you need to bid a slam, before settling for a minor-suit contract and your balanced hand makes a raise (it is better to try for a nine or ten trick MEN PAST 40 of notrump better than bidding a suit. game, than for an 11 trick game). If You should take notice that opening necessary, you can support diamonds Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, notrump bids describe the strength of a later in the bidding. Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, hand more accurately than one-of-a-suit 3. TWO HEARTS. This response shows Nervousness, Tiredness. opening bids (one-of-a-suit opening bids six to ten points and adequate trump range from 13 points to as much as 22 support — three strong cards, or any four If you are a victim of the above symp- toms, the trouble may be due to Glandu- or 23 points). The bidding is easier lar Inflammation—a constitutional Dis- when your partner opens the bidding ease for which it is futile for sufferers with notrump. to try to treat themselves at home. For the last illustration, let's bid a In men of middle age or past this part-score. Suppose the opponents never type of inflammation occurs frequently. It is often accompanied by despond- bid and the bidding goes one club by ency, emotional upset and other mental partner, one spade by you, one notrump and nervous reactions. Neglect of such by partner, and you hold: inflammation may cause men to lose their vigor, grow old prematurely and A KQ 108 often leads to incurable conditions. ^652 Most men, if treatment is taken in 0 107 5 3 time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- *K9 CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- You should pass. When your partner mation. If the condition is aggravated by lack of treatment, surgery may be makes an opening one-bid and then re- the only chance. bids one notrump, he shows that he has a minimum-range opening bid (no more NONSUWCAL TREATMENTS than 15 points) and a balanced hand. Your is The NON-SURGICAL treatments hand also balanced (good for used at the Excelsior Medical Clinic notrump play) and you have found out are the result of discoveries in recent that the partnership has a maximum of plus years of new techniques and drugs 23 points — not enough to bid a game. over 20 years research by scientific As I said earlier, if the combined hands technologists and Doctors. have fewer points than are required to Men from all walks of life and from over 1,000 communities have been suc- bid a game, stop bidding at the lowest "Little girls don't jump out of any of ours. cessfully treated here at Excelsior safe contract. If your partner had a and com- Why don't you serve milk and cookies at your Springs. They found soothing stronger hand, he would have made a forting relief and better health. club meeting?" more encouraging rebid than one no- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE EXAMINATION REDUCIBLE trump, and then you might have bid AT LOW COST HERNIA again. When you arrive is also amenable to By now you should have a general cards or longer. A response of two dia- a mild Non- Surgical at the clinic, our treatment available idea of how the bidding is done. The monds is out because your hand is not doctors — who have here. more you know about the special mean- strong enough to respond with a new years of experience RECTAL-COLON this field make ings of the different bids, the better re- suit at the two level. in — DISORDERS sults will get. players a complete examina- Are often associated you For those of you who 4. TWO HEARTS. Many would tion. Your condition with Glandular in- feel inspired to take up Bridge again, incorrectly jump to three or four hearts is frankly explained flammation. the quiz on page 26 may be a little be- with this hand, because of the very strong and then you decide Either or both of these disorders may at if you will take the yond you this stage, but I recommend heart holding. But you have already told be treated at the treatments needed. same time you are that you try it anyway. The analysis of your partner that you have an opening Our treatments are receiving Glandular the answers should be helpful to you. bid and you certainly have no additional so mild, hospitaliza- Inflammation treat- ments. For those of you who want to start en- values. If your partner cannot bid over tion is not needed. joying Bridge, there's no better way than two hearts, your side does not figure to Write For Today Our + to arrange a foursome of enthusiastic make a game. Our New Free Book novices and begin playing right away. 5. PASS. Your partner's response is a gives facts that may save you painful, ex- Soon you'll be a welcome fourth with the specialized bid. Any two-of-a-suit re- pensive surgery. Tells good players. When that day comes and sponse to a one notrump opening bid HOW and Explains WHY NON-SURGICAL you are subjected to playing with a weak shows from zero to seven points and a treatment methods are player, I trust you will remember how five-card or longer suit. Your 17 point so successful today. you once felt and not bawl him out. hand plus partner's maximum of seven is Write today. No obliga- tion. not enough to bid a game. If you chose ANSWERS TO BIDDING QUIZ to bid over two hearts, you would prob- EXCELSIOR 1 . ONE SPADE. It is generally advisable ably be overboard. MEDICAL CLINIC to bid your longest suit first, but in this 6. TWO HEARTS. When your partner i Dept. H-1151 that his Excelsior Springs, Mo. case you should not. When your partner bids two suits, it is best to assume J is as long, or longer, than I Gentlemen: Kindly send me at once, your opens with one-of-a-suit, you are re- first-bid suit New FREE Book. I am interested in full I quired to have at least ten points to his second-bid suit. Although a pass of I information (Please Check Box) ' Hernia Rectal-Colon Clandular respond with a new suit at the two level. two clubs is somewhat acceptable, it is I Inflammation You may respond with a new suit at the likely that hearts would make a better NAME- one level with as little as six points. trump suit. Any other bid is out. (When 2. ONE SPADE. The only other accept- you take your partner back to his first- | ADDRESS- able response is a raise to two diamonds. bid suit, you are showing a preference TOWN- One spade is better because it sets the and not making a constructive bid.) STATE. stage for a possible major suit or no- THE END

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THE GENERAL AND THE HORSES (Continued from page 23) FOR THE MAN and get those horses," Patton said firmly. Czechoslovakia," the spokesman for the WHO ENJOYS

Now it was General Patton on the Allied Commission said. "They must re- telephone setting things in motion. The main there until we decide with the Rus- general realized that he had to move sians as to just how they should be dis- fast before the case was snarled in red- posed of." tape and the Soviets carted the horses "Man, you're crazy," the captain told off while we were unraveling the tape. him. "As soon as Ivan finds these horses, "Colonel—" they're gone—" "Sir!" "I'm sorry," the civilian shrugged, "I'm giving you a small task force and "but I can't permit you to—" SIR WALTER RALEIGH captain in the captain said, "just stop some trucks. I'm putting a "Chum," If you're a judge of pipe tobaccos, charge with orders to bring out those talking and get out of our way. We're you'll appreciate getting this horses." coming into Austria. When General Pat- full-size package of Sir Walter Raleigh free. Kept 44% fresher in "But can they?" ton tells you to do something, you do it." the new pouch pack. It's choice The colonel then went on to explain General Patton settled the Spanish Kentucky burley, extra aged. that a group of well-meaning but naive Riding School in Wels, a comfortable Smells grand, packs right, smokes civilians at the border were stopping town on the Traum River and a center sweet, can't bite. To get your free pouch pack, write: traffic because what was coming across for refugees at that time. Colonel Pod- Sir Walter Raleigh might belong to the Russians. hajsky and his riders remained there un- Dept. Ml, Box 355, Louisville, Ky. "The German Army didn't stop us," til the Russians left Austria. The Soviets the general said, "and no darn group of tried to lure him to Vienna upon many EAR NOISES civilians is going to do it, that's for sure." occasions. They even repaired the riding The task force, made up of five tanks hall in the center of the city on Josef- relieved! reported . . thousands and an equal number of trucks, crossed platz, which they were occupying. Wonderful relief from years the border into Czechoslovakia. When "We would never think of taking your of suffering from miserable ear noises and poor hearing it arrived at Hostau, the older horses horses," the Russian general told the caused by catarrhal (excess were put in the trucks and the younger colonel. "We just want you to return fluid mucus) conditions of the head. For the past 23 ones were led back toward the frontier to Vienna where you belong." years that's what folks (many past 70) reported after using our simple Elmo is no!" the on foot. But at the border, the force ran "The answer simply, Palliative HOME TREATMENT. NOTHING into trouble. colonel told TO WEAR. SOME of the symptoms likely to them. noises go with your catarrhal deafness and ear ; "You can't take these horses out of THE END mucus dropping in nose or throat every day better hear — but don't understand words ; hear ear noises on clear days — worse on bad days ; like crickets, bells or others. Write TODAY for PROOF OF RELIEF and 30 DAY TRIAL OFFER. Pay only if helped. THE ELMO CO., Dept. 3AL-5, Madrid, Iowa A WAY OUT OF TRAFFIC JAMS (Continued from page 19) REF. H'ATE PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG. ILLUS- lESSk at exorbitantly increased costs when the being gouged open to make way for TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report /'ntW making substantial incomes. Start and run your* /BOOfff/ need for rail service became unquestion- giant expressways and mammoth down- lear easily. Management, Appraising, Loans. Mortgages, and f ffOWfi ably evident.) town parking lots. The realization has related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in class- —=M1 rooms in leading cities. Diploma awarded. Next, Europeans build a "metropoli- dawned abroad, as one expert put it, that Writft^JODAV for free bookl No obligation. Approved for Korean Veterans tan" railroad to handle major passenger autos and cities simply don't go well WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (Est. 1930) 3521A Broadway Kansas City, Mo. movements within the city itself; this is together, and that a city's center area labeled a Metro (Paris), Underground has to have fast, high-capacity, mass- (London), Tunnelbanan (Stockholm) transit service in order to survive and or plain old subway (New York). Final- prosper.

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pansion program can ever be devised Europe, the Swedes have managed to that will beat the pace at which factories combine the best features of both road NO MONEY DOWN! can turn out cars." and rail service. The first sections of European cities have to contend with Stockholm's subway system were opened

one unusual limiting factor that may in 1950, and expansion is still going on. paradoxically prove their salvation: their Today, a half million passenger rides are

old city centers with churches, forts, recorded daily along its 25 miles of lines palaces, guildhalls and marketplaces in smooth-running cars, through gleam- have an overriding historical and cul- ingly modernistic, escalator-equipped tural significance. They are going to be stations.

preserved and will not be leveled for ex- Sweden also is an object lesson on pressways. The resulting transport pat- how city planners integrate transporta- tern is for highways to be built in con- tion development with housing and com- centric circles at varying distances from munity planning. Rolling hills & stately pines in beautiful Rainbow Park the city center. These cut across mass In the city of Vallingby, where 60,000 transit lines radiating out from the down- people live only a few miles outside of Lovely FLORIDA town area, which in turn, channel the Stockholm, this reporter found the rail flow of people that cars and buses gather line running directly through the com- Homesites in hills & lake region together at the city's outskirts. munity. Stores and shops are built over- GREAT FISHING Copenhagen officials neatly point up head, with highrise apartment buildings y4 ACRE this approach. lines clustering within minutes' Unusual opportunity to own property in pictur- Rail radiate out from around a few esque central Florida for investment or retire- this gay port city like fingers of a hand. walk of the station. Parking lots were

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only where volume is present in concen- tion of the HVi-mile long Victoria Line trated quantities. European officials, subway which would connect with every when asked if their urban transportation existing Underground route and many approach would be different under con- surface railroad stations, and redistribute ditions existing in the United States (1. much of the load in downtown London. SPECIAL OFFER More people living in scattered individu- Yet the problem of handling this peak al homes rather than in apartments and, passenger load remains. As one official to readers of 2. A greater popular ownership of auto- cogently commented: "I don't believe mobiles) generally answered that in the London or any other city has enough larger cities the same emphasis would wealth to provide enough capacity to American Legion

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 45 ally no paper or cigarettes clutter up the These informed officials expressed out- ing a massive flood of money from high- floors. For the average Russian, here in- right horror at the way Americans way users to be spent for highway pur- deed is a grandiose touch in a drab life! build expressways into cities with ap- poses, while no system exists for acquir- "We have done everything possible to parently little thought of coordinating ing money for rail transit. Thus, if cities make our subway as little as possible like these fine auto roads with existing sur- are to develop rail transit, they are faced a subway," stated a pretty lady engineer face and underground railroads. And with the need to levy special taxes, float from Metro headquarters. where rail services exist in American special bond issues or dip into general

It costs five Kopecks (about SVz cities, Europeans are incredulous that government revenues which are already cents) to ride anywhere in Moscow on public officials want these facilities to over-obligated for myriad other pur- the Metro. The communists expect sur- pay their way all the way, and in addi- poses. One of President Kennedy's cur- face traffic of taxis, buses and trucks to tion, contribute tax revenues to general rent proposals for urban transportation increase considerably in coming years government purposes (some of which legislation attempts to right this lopsided and therefore are anxious to have the sometimes include the creation of com- road-rail situation by providing funds people continue to use rail transit instead petitive facilities). Railroads and sub- for transit development from the Federal of cars — if and when available. The ways on the Continent do not pay taxes treasury. The big cities themselves, communists are even thinking of allow- because they are publicly owned, in the meanwhile, have done all too little at the ing free travel on the Metro, official first place, and because they usually run local level to meet this challenge, and thinking being that it will be cheaper to at vast deficits, in the second. much of what they were doing has now the over-all community to provide free As seen from abroad, one of the major ground to a near-halt as everyone waits subway fares than to attempt to build United States problems (perhaps the to see if Washington (meaning the United enough highways and parking lots to ac- major one) is that governments here States taxpayer) will put up the dough. commodate Western-style street traffic. have set up elaborate systems for obtain- Despite their background of public Much of this same viewpoint exists in transport ownership, Europeans don't Western Europe. Holland has been hesitate to go to bat for private opera- conducting studies and holding meetings tion of mass transit. In fact, they insist among top transportation leaders to con- that municipalities seldom give private sider paying the full bill for construct- companies an honest chance. An official ing highways to handle auto traffic in of the International Union of Public cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Transport in Brussels, the association The unpublicized conclusion was that representing the world's big urban tran- such a program would not only bank- sit systems, told this reporter: "You rupt the nation, but might even increase FOR FEBRUARY can't expect private businesses to sustain street congestion by inducing people to By Rev. Thomas B. Cannon, S.J. operating losses indefinitely and also buy and use still more autos. Further de- Dept. Chaplain, bleed them white by taxation." velopment rail transit is therefore be- first virtually of Philippine Dept. So the step that all ex- ing pushed to the hilt. And the radical perts everywhere agree should be taken all step of barring all private automobiles Great God of nations under here is to wipe out all taxation on mass from downtown streets may eventually Heaven, from Whom all just au- transit facilities. The tax savings would be taken. This has already happened on thority proceeds, and by Whom all give operators a better chance to tailor key shopping streets in Amsterdam, and men were created equal, grant us fares to build up passenger volume and Copenhagen recently tried out a novel the grace to appreciate the bless- to buy attractive new equipment and experiment of letting pedestrians take ings of our democratic form of services. government. Enlighten the minds over its colorful main street, Stroget. It is also imperative that area-wide of those not understand A city's subway system in Europe is who do solutions be hammered out in our big expected to have a fare structure which the benefits and the difficulties of urban areas. Americans must think in and bless our public will cover its operating and equipment democracy; terms of coordinating the use of all the costs but never any tax payments and officials, our President, our legis- transport resources available, whether seldom the capital investment for build- lators, our judges, that they may public or private, rail or road. We must ing tunnels and laying track. Govern- guide us according to Thine eternal also come to grips with the problem of ment units generally put up the money law. Grant us a true and lasting the splintering of government jurisdic- for country, a love found- for original construction and charge it love our tions among city and suburban public ed on our love for Thee, a love off to general public services — ".. . much units, as well as State and Federal agen- as we would the cost for our water sup- which will enable us to see Thy cies, and start planning for area-wide, ply and fire department," as a Belgian image in the souls of all men, even consolidated community and transport of other lands, and love them for put it. If fares were raised high enough development. If suburbanites are to work spirit to cover both transit operating and orig- Thy sake. Grant us such a in a city and use its facilities, they ob- inal construction costs, Europeans fear of patriotism that we will be will- viously should also help pay the costs they would probably be so high that cus- ing to die for our country rather involved. than betray her; and also, what is tomers would not be attracted out of Above all, America must find ways to often more difficult, to live for our their own cars. The major problem is allow rail and mass transit services to honesty that motorists add up and compare com- country, serving her with become the best. If facilities and services muting costs in terms of gas money and and justice for all, with charity at and road-rail transfer methods are not parking fees and ignore car purchase and home and among those with whom very good, they won't induce people to the au- repair bills. No transit operator can do we daily deal, because switch from driving their cars. And this, is derived this, however; so fares must cover all thority of our country in the final analysis, should be our ulti- his expenses. from Thee, and because our free- mate objective: to harness rubber and is the freedom of the sons of Many transport authorities overseas dom steel wheels— the motor vehicle and train have visited the United States and closely — into a smooth working team that can studied America's problems in order to roll together in meeting the nation's ris- acquire ideas on what to do with their ing transport problems. own ballooning automobile traffic. THE END

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THE PRIVATE WHO LOST AND WON (Continued from page 15) f#££Vacation Guide German forces reached the outskirts of As Private LaFond describes it: "The Eschweiler on the morning of December Germans began coming in close, off to 18. George had attended mass that the east. Reconn vehicles dispersed morning, and had received Holy Com- throughout the town began to open up Colorful new picture munion, as he had on most mornings with their guns. Little did we know then book tells all about Great Smoky Mountains National Park, during his stay in Eschweiler. He had that the Germans were upon us in great Tennessee's 22 Great Lakes with wonder- stood guard the night before when the strength. Our CO, Captain Meisenhelter, ful fishing and water sports, famous Civil of artillery pounding in the dis- gave the order to move out, the plan sound War battlefields, homes of 3 presidents, the tance presaged some action. So far being to attempt to break through and other features you'll see and enjoy!

George had been lucky. In his final let- German encirclement. . . . Lieutenant ter to his parents on leaving the United Hughes, second in command, wanted MOUNTAINS States he had written: "There really isn't the troop to move out in a compact col- LAKES • HISTORY anything to worry about, and with a umn. The sad thing was that the wrong good confession under your belt nothing road was chosen."

is terrible." The six-vehicle column moved out

Now it was about 9 a.m., and when over a back road, the most direct route he came out of the church the few vil- to Wiltz. George was in a jeep with a lagers left were highly excited. The Ger- driver and the CO. A machinegun was mans were reported in the nearby town. mounted on a tripod in the rear of the Father Bodson came down the steps jeep. As the column neared the Cafe TENNESSEE DIVISION OF INFORMATION with George. Some of the troop were in Halt it became obvious that the woods 713 Cordell Hull Building, Nashville, Tenn. their vehicles, getting ready to pull out on both sides of the road were filled with Please send Free Vacation Guide —there was no contact with headquarters Germans. LaFond continues: "The Ger- NAME at Wiltz only four miles away. George mans saw us very well, but we couldn't ADDRESS.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 47 and joined division stragglers the next called him from his early Army days at "Passing through the meadow, with its morning on the Wiltz-Bastogne highway. Camp Hood, Texas, lay dead in a shal- melting snows, she noticed a colored

Private Vocasek writes of what he saw low grave hidden by snow for 97 days photograph. Picking it up she recognized in that engagement, and since he was before he was found and his true fate it as one that George had shown her and near Mergenthaler, his is the only close- became known. Only God and some her brother Michel. It showed George's up account by an American of what hap- German soldiers knew on the morning parents and his girl friend in New York. pened. He writes in substance: Mer- of December 1 8, when the troop was Curious, she gazed around. A flash of genthaler's jeep was in the center of the caught in a German ambush, that Mer- purple caught her eye, and the sight of column which had halted suddenly. A genthaler was dead. The rest of the a mound sent a tremor through her. It German nearby let go a burst with a Americans in Eschweiler — 59 besides was George, all right — she knew it im- machine pistol or "burp gun," as Ameri- George — either were killed, wounded, mediately. She notified Father Bodson. cans tagged it. Vocasek reports that after captured or managed to make their way He checked and confirmed her report. the initial burst from the German every- back to other division units. The body was left at rest on Sunday, one ducked down and tried to locate By March 24. 1945, when Virginia was removed on Monday and placed in him. Mergenthaler was already up by Huberty found the remains of her good the drafty church, and then buried that the machinegun, bringing it into play. friend, the 28th Division was fighting off afternoon. 'The whole village was cry- Suddenly someone yelled, Vocasek re- death in the frozen Vosges Mountains, ing after I have told the news,' Virginia ports, "There's the son of a bitch down and the few old-timers left in the divi- recalled. 'We have all thought he has in the ditch! Get him!" Vocasek swung sion's 28th Cavalry Reconnaissance escaped and is free, but we wondered " around, spotted the German, and fired Troop hoped against hope that he had why we did not hear if that was so.' at him with his M-l. His shot struck the only been wounded, and was being held Virginia and the rest of the villagers had German in the hand. Meanwhile, Mer- prisoner by the Germans. They knew he returned to their farm homes after the genthaler's machinegun had jammed, had won a good many fights in 18 Battle of the Bulge had come and gone — and he was working frantically to free it months of combat with the "Bloody and the winter snows had hidden the — making a perfect target standing in Bucket" 28th in Europe; they were not truth about George. the jeep. The German, cradling his ma- to learn until the end of March that he The Mergenthaler family, mindful of chine pistol in his injured arm, spotted had lost his biggest fight. what solace the village church had given Mergenthaler and aimed at him. Merg LaFond writes: "About the end of their son, contributed towards its re- yelled at Vocasek and the rest to make a March 1945, Lieutenant Hughes tele- storation, furnished a new organ, new run for it. They took off, and there was phoned me from troop hqtrs., asking me windows and many other features. a burst from George's machinegun — to identify what George was wearing Today Eschweilers speak of George again it jammed. The distinctive sound when I last saw him. ... I mentioned when they sit around their kitchens with of the "burp gun" cut through the noise, that light purple sweater. 'That's him their pungent Ardennes hams, bread and and Mergenthaler slumped over in the exactly,' said the lieutenant. 'They found wine, or their gekochter Kas', a cheese specialty of the region, and their glasses jeep. Vocasek and his buddies got him buried in a shallow grave' . . . then through a nearby clearing into the woods I prepared a casualty report for George, of mirabeW Quetsch, the strong drink dis- but their luck was short-lived. They were changing it from MIA (missing in ac- tilled from plums. They speak of this captured soon afterward, and Vocasek tion) to KIA (killed in action). How I American for whom a House of God has spent the next five months in a German wished that it was for somebody else that been dedicated in Eschweiler as a memo- rial — in POW camp. Vocasek concluded his de- I did not know." perhaps the only community scription of the action with: "You can Virginia Huberty, sitting at her kitchen Europe and possibly in the world that bet your boots Merg did his best!" table and knitting, told about her sad has a church for a memorial to an Amer- "Merg," as his fellow soldiers had discovery that Saturday afternoon. ican soldier. The Great Seal of the United States is in one of the church's stained-glass windows, a medallion and plaques are in the vestibule and a granite marker inscribed in French marks the spot where he was found dead. Every time Eschweilers enter their St. Maurice Roman Catholic Church they see dramatic and poignant remind- ers of George. As the village priest in- tones in Latin, and candles flicker by the Holy Crib, the parishioners can gaze up at one of the most unusual religious paintings in the world. On the right altar

wall, in brilliant hues, is depicted the Biblical scene from the Gospel accord- ing to John, Chap. 6, Verse 51: "I am the living bread which came down from

Heaven: if any may eat of this bread, he shall live forever." Those words are inscribed under the painting in Letze-

burgesch, the dialect which is a mixture of German, French and the native idiom. In the scene, standing beside the figure of Christ, holding a basket of bread, is an American soldier — the likeness of George Mergenthaler. Visible under the "That's funny — He was here a minute ago." robe covering his shoulders is his com- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE bat jacket and a bit of his purple vest.

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The youthful figure is handing a loaf of another grave — back in America in the photographs, dog tags (an extra set), bread to a supplicant, and gazing down family burial plot in Rochester, N.Y., a and a helmet. Suddenly Michel pointed at her with an expression of understand- community removed from Eschweiler in toward the church. "You are the first ing and compassion. The scene perpe- so many respects. The people of Esch- American here since 1945 except for tuates the memory of a good-hearted weiler — who live not far from two Bel- George's parents — why is that? Why American who contributed his Christmas gian border communities of renown don't your people come and see the packages to Eschweiler children for the called Bastogne and Malmedy — are sor- church of our hero?" December 6 village Christmas party, at ry that George was taken from them in Michel had referred to the Mergen- which he portrayed Saint Niklaus, or the November, 1947. They tell you today he thalers visiting Eschweiler in May of European Santa Claus. Through his con- is in "Amerika," but there is little more 1954 — their first pilgrimage to a sad duct on December 18 he exemplified the they can say about his resting place — site which concerned their only child. ". Princeton remainder of the 51st Verse: . . and they are simple people, and in their sim- "Merg," a 1943 graduate of the bread that I will give is my flesh, ple and honest way they wish he could University, who had previously volun- which I will give for the life of the have been left with them. They shake teered for Army duty and finished his world." their heads, but after awhile they con- accelerated studies program in January There are other reminders of George fide to you that they understand why he of 1943, had come a long way from the for the younger generation of Eschwei- is gone. They tell you they can under- campus to Texas, Wales, England and ler. A few hundred yards from the stand why the Mergenthaler family then Normandy with the 28th Division church, beside a wooded cartroad, there wanted their son's body sent back home — the first American unit to enter Ger- is a large stone memorial — marking the to them. They also tell you in their quaint many — through the Siegfried Line and spot where his body was found under patois that as long as there is an Esch- into Luxembourg to rest, and then on to melting snows on March 24, 1945. It weiler in Luxembourg there will always an icy road toward a German armed was erected in the New Yorker's honor be the special grave for "Georgsch," as with a machine pistol. As Joe Vocasek by Andre Wolff, at that time Luxem- they call him in their Letzeburgesch dia- had expressed it: "Merg did his best!" bourg's Commissioner to the United lect, and only for him. It will always be Eschweilers knew he would, and they States. The inscription is in French, but preserved in their cemetery for the smil- wanted to show what he meant to them. at the base, in English, are the words: ing stranger. They held him close to them for 30 "Do not fear, Father — I will defend At Huberty's home, Michel took down months, and then they lost him — but you," a somewhat refined version of his from a shelf an American safety razor. today his grave is considered honored actual words to Father Bodson. "George has given me this," he said ground. Eschweilers know George will Eschweilers en masse attended a com- proudly. "He said to me: 'Here Mike, not be back, but they feel that the spirit memorative mass for George in their you take this. I can get these free from of their favorite is here, and always will church on October 8, 1945, with the the Army.' " Virginia then brought be. minister of the United States to Luxem- downstairs some letters of George's, THE END bourg, the late George Piatt Waller, at- tending. On the catafalque before the altar, draped with the American flag, and surrounded by burning tapers and flowers, was George's helmet, rifle and WILL YOU SMOKE MY bayonet. At that time, Minister Waller wrote to the Mergenthaler family, describing NEW KIND OF PIPE the service: "... after the ceremony we went in procession to the cemetery . . . 30 Days at My Risk? The view from your son's resting place By E. A. CAREY is one of the most beautiful imaginable. I Truly your son rests in peace, in the dear All want is your name so I can write soil which his precious blood was poured and tell you why I'm willing to send out to save! I can appreciate your desire you my pipe for 30 days smoking with- to have him near you . . . but if you could out a cent of risk on your part. see his grave with its surroundings, and My new pipe is not a new model, not a new The claims I could make for this new principle in if you could understand the love and the style, not a new gadget, not an improve- tobacco enjoyment are so spectacular that no pipe smoker would believe them. So. since "seeing is gratitude which every inhabitant of the ment on old style pipes. It is the first believing", I also say "Smoking is convincing" and pipe in the world to use an ENTIRELY sweet little village of Eschweiler holds I want to send you one Carey pipe to smoke 30 days NEW PRINCIPLE for giving unadulter- at my risk. At the end of that time, if you're willing for . . . would feel that even the him you ated pleasure to pipe smokers. to give up your Carey Pipe, simply break it to bits — to and return it to me — the trial has cost you nothing. most splendid marble mausoleum I've been a pipe smoker for 30 years Please send me your name today. The coupon or which you might confide his body across always looking for the ideal pipe— buying a postal card will do. I'll send you absolutely free my all the Atlantic would be less beautiful than the disappointing gadgets — never complete trial offer so you can decide for yourself finding a single, solitary pipe that would whether or not my pipe -smoking friends the situation and circumstances under are right smoke hour after hour, day after day, when they say the Carey Pipe is the greatest smok- which he now rests ... I would urge without bitterness, bite, or sludge. ing invention ever patented. Send your name today. As one pipe smoker to another, I'll guarantee you that you both come to Luxembourg and With considerable 1 doubt, decided to work out the surprise of your life, FREE. Write E. A. Carey, something for myself. After months of experiment- visit the grave of your son at Eschweiler 1920 Sunnyside Ave., Dept. 2JG-B, Chicago 40, Illinois ing and scores of disappointments, suddenly, almost ." before making any decision . . by accident, I discovered how to harness four great [~E. A. CAREY, 1920 Sunnyside Ave., natural laws to give me everything I wanted in a pipe. The Mergenthalers decided finally to I DEPT.246-B, CHICAGO 40, ILLINOIS It didn't require any "breaking in". From the first | Please send facts about the Carey Pipe. Then I will I in it smoked cool it smoked It bring George home, and November puff — mild. smoked right i decide if 1 want to try it for 30 Days at YOUR RISK. I down to the last bit of tobacco without bite. It never Everything you send is free. No salesman is to call. I 1947, his remains were exhumed, sent has to be "rested". AND it never has to be to Rotterdam, and placed aboard the cleaned! Yet it is utterly impossible for goo or sludge to reach your tongue, because my invention Name. Dutch liner msterdam for the trip New A dissipates the goo as it forms! back home. Soil from the grave accom- You might expect all this to require a complicated Address. panied the casket. mechanical gadget, but when you see it, the most sur- prising thing will be that I've done all this in a pipe City. .Zone. State. Today, Private Mergenthaler rests in that looks like any of the finest conventional pipes.

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50 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 SCIENTISTS MADE TO ORDER (Continued from page 13) Now! Life Insurance company for a while until both he and or better. In GE's Honors Graduate BirthVII III toIV Age4 80 the company have a clearer idea of what Study Program — a special arrangement First he likes, what he can do, and where he for people of high aptitude — candidates can best contribute. His further formal are generally expected to do at least 30 Days education may not start until he has been B-average work, with no more than one ONLY 25< on the payroll several years. C per semester. 1000 Per Policy This "bounce around" period serves In general, a company will pay any- CASH FOR YOUR FINAL EXPENSES. other purposes too. "We have to get to where from half to all of an employee's AVOID BEING A BURDEN TO YOUR FAMILY know a man before we can justifiably tuition costs. Many will also pay for Introductory Offer. Answer these 9 questions on plain invest a lot of money in him," says one books, lab fees and other school ex- a piece of paper and mail with only 25c for 30 days' protec- executive. "We've got to have some basis penses. Some companies, such as GE, tion. Regular rate shown on policy. for guessing whether he'll stay with us leave many such questions up to the in- Amount* uaunlly IhkikmI without doctor examination. after we've helped him go to school." dividual manager or supervisor at the NEW LOW RATES. Ages Amount Ages Amount There's a feeling, too, that a man is employee's plant or office. 0 to 80 $1000 15 to 60 $2500 probably tired of sitting in classrooms When does the employee go to school? 1. Print full name and address. by the time he gets his B.S. degree. Says Some programs are designed mainly for 2. Date of birth? 3. Height? 3a. Weight? Sanford B. Cousins, vice-president and night study. The employee is expected 4. Occupation, kind of work? 4a Name and address of to his school time if possible. employer personnel chief of the American Tele- make own 5. Race? phone & Telegraph Company: "A man Many in-company courses are scheduled 6. Beneficiary and relationship to you? 7. To your knowledge have you had heart, just out of four years of college wants to in plant buildings at night or on week- lung, diabetes, cancer, or chronic disease? wants Are you deformed, lost a hand, foot, eye, go to work and to compete. Give him a ends. In cases where an employee or ever rejected for insurance? job that he can really get his teeth into. to take a course that isn't offered any- 8. State condition of health. 9. Amount desired, and sign your name. Challenge him." where nearby at night, most companies NO AGENT WILL CALL The arrangements by which companies will let him take time off during the day Actual policy will be mailed you direct from Office. offer higher education to employees are — sometimes on full salary, sometimes Home You be the judge. Mail to: S. B. Hunt. President almost as varied as the companies them- without pay. AMERICAN LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. 344 American selves. Some simply make money avail- In addition, many companies have Life Bids., St. Louis 8, Mo. able and let the employee seek education formal work-study programs in which on his own time and initiative. Others employees divide their time between FALSE TEETH have thick books full of rules specifying working and learning. Lockheed Air- KLUTCH holds them tighter when, where, why and how the employee craft Corporation has a typical arrange- KLUTCH forms a comfort cushion; holds dental may go about it. ment called the Master's Degree Work- plates so much firmer and snugger that one can eat and talk with greater comfort and security; in many Most companies require that the Study Program. It's designed for men cases almost as well as with natural teeth. Klutch courses taken have at least a remote aiming at degrees in mathematics, engi- lessens the constant fear of a dropping, rocking, chafing plate. ... If your druggist doesn't have bearing on the employee's job and prob- neering and physics. Men enrolled in the Klutch, don't waste money on substitutes, but send us and we will mail you a generous trial box. able future career. Exceptions to this program work 3Vi days at Lockheed, 10c KLUTCH CO., Box 220B, ELMIRA, N. Y. rule are growing, however. Among them spend the rest of the week at universities. is IBM. Under IBM's Tuition Refund They must have high performance rec- Program, an employee is usually eligible ords to get into the program and must for company help if courses he takes are keep performing well, both in school and part of an "approved degree program," at work, to stay in it. whether or not they bear on his job. Then there are the still more gener-

IBM's founder, the late Tom Watson ous programs in which a man is sent to Sr., expressed the thinking behind this. a university full-time at company ex- "Education can't do anything but make pense. These programs are usually re- a man more valuable to himself and to served for people of exceptional talent. us," he once said, "no matter what An example is IBM's Advanced Educa- a Permanent "Cash Account' branch of education it is." tion Fellowship Program. It's set up to you can draw on anytime YOU like... The amount of company help also help scientists and engineers get master's Amount 24 Monthly varies. Some companies make the or doctoral degrees. The student goes to of Loan Payments 1. Send in Coupon $100 % 5.93 dependent school full-time re- amount on how well the em- and continues to $300 $17.49 2. Return Loan Form ployee does in his courses. Grumman ceive his entire salary and other em- SSOO S27. E9 3. Cash the Check Amount 30 Monthly Aircraft Engineering Corporation is an ployee benefits. IBM pays the whole ol Loan Payments Yes, just 3 simple steps to get the $100 to $1,000 cash that is waiting for you cost: tuition, SSOO S35.28 example. Under Grumman's Scholar- books, even family moving but that's not all! Your confidential Sl.OOO $42.92 ship Program, an employee gets a full expenses to and from the university. Loan -By-Mail will automatically es- tablish for you a Permanent Cash Account you can tuition refund if his grades average at IBM's attitude is: "Study is considered draw on whenever you need money for any purpose! Repay loan in small monthly installments. No co- A level; he gets 85 percent with a B the employee's job assignment. Rewards makers. Everything private. Clean up your bills now. average, 75 percent with a average. for outstanding educational achievement And also have established permanent credit, money C that'syoursto command whenever you like! No matterwhere Below that — no refund. are made in the same manner as rewards you live, rush coupon. Loan Order Blank and Permanent Caen Account offer mailed free in plain envelope. No obligation. Other companies simply require that for any other outstanding work achieve- |\|AI FINANCE CO. 410 Kilpatrick Building Dept. 2-092 Omaha 2, Nebraska an employee's school work be "satis- ment." In other words, a student can 1/IAL factory" even get a 2 " 092 or his courses be "satisfactorily raise while in school. I DIAL FINANCE CO.. Dept. Kilpatrick Bldg., Omaha 2, Neb. Still 1410 completed." others set a cutoff point; Many companies have a combination Rush FREE Loan Order Blank, Permanent Cash I Account Offer. if a student drops below it he has some of programs, ranging from full-time fel- Name.. explaining to do. Under the American lowships like IBM's to informal ar- Machine & Foundry Company's Tuition rangements where the employee goes to Address. Reimbursement Program, an employee school on his own time. Says GE's re- Town Zone.. .State...... | gets full tuition if cruiter Amount you want to borrow $ his grades stay at C Hill: "The idea is to make the | |

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 53 educational opportunities adaptable to arrange a curriculum to fit the com- the company before he can enroll. This individual needs and work situations." pany's needs. The company school can cuts down the likelihood that people will In many cases, too, companies adapt offer highly specialized courses that join the company just to get a free edu- education to fit their own special needs. might not pay their way in a university cation, and then, having received it, quit. Instead of depending on existing uni- that must cater to more general needs. In addition, some companies have versities to teach the specialties their The majority of such programs are special college programs for outstanding employees must learn, they establish designed for people who already have young high school graduates. GE, for their own schools. IBM, for example, college degrees, or who have at least instance, started an Apprentice Program has some 25 education centers scattered made a start in college on their own. in 1949. Youngsters of high caliber are across the country. These centers are Understandably, stockholders don't want picked for the program. They spend sev- manned by more than 600 full-time in- to get in the position of paying for every- eral years learning skills under veteran structors employed by IBM. In addition, body's education from high school up. employees, and along the way they pick hundreds of college professors and tech- As one personnel officer puts it: "We up two years' worth of college credits. nical experts teach courses there on a sometimes have nightmares in which After that they're on their own. They part-time or occasional basis. hordes of high school kids come up here can continue going to college at night, Some of these in-company courses every June and say, 'Here we are, edu- in which case they can apply for com- even give credit toward college degrees. cate us.' " In general, companies con- pany help through GE's Tuition Refund This can only happen, of course, when sider undergraduate education to be a Program. Or they can apply for a two- the company has been able to get the re- man's own responsibility. He has to fi- year leave of absence to finish the four- quired recognition for its courses from nance it as best he can, out of family year college they started. In this case state education authorities. The easiest funds, through scholarships or by work- GE usually won't pay their costs, but way to get this recognition is to turn over ing part-time. may help them out with a loan. the operation of the courses to some But in the past decade, a growing One thing is certain. Industry's tui- nearby university. Western Electric number of companies have set up pro- tion bill is going to get bigger as tech-

Company's Master's Degree Program is grams to help non-college men and nology advances and grows more com- an example. The classes and laboratory women get degrees. Almost all these plex. Big scientific and engineering com- sessions are held at the company's Engi- programs are of the informal type, in panies know this, but it doesn't seem to neering Research Center near Princeton, which the company does nothing but pay trouble them greatly. "We spend millions N. J. But the teaching staff comes from all or part of the tuition costs and the of dollars a year improving our plants Lehigh University. In effect, what hap- employee must study after work. Many and equipment," IBM's Tom Watson pens in a case like this is that a little of the programs have strict limitations used to say. "We would be foolish if we piece of a university takes up temporary to protect the company. For example, didn't also spend money to improve our residence on company property. Com- some require that an employee have a most important asset of all, our people." pany and university together can thus certain number of years' service with THE END

ALGER HISS: A REMINDER (Continued from page 17) official, "I know that you will call on run out, Hiss could not be tried under analysis—solidified the evidence against me." Francis Sayre, U.S. representative the punitive terms of the Espionage Act Hiss. on the U.N. Trusteeship Council, felt of 1917. He stood trial, therefore, under (Hiss's argument, tentatively offered "distressed and keenly regretful that you the perjury statute for denying that he before the grand jury and later whispered are being subjected to unfair and totally had been a communist spy. to reporters, that Chambers must have unjust accusations." Clarence Pickett, The formal charges against Hiss were crawled through a window of the Hiss executive secretary of the American (1) that he had not been associated with house one night to copy—without being

Friends Service Committee, suggested Whittaker Chambers after January 1, discovered— a four-foot stack of docu- that Hiss's lack of "total recall" demon- 1937, and (2) that he had not turned ments, was never presented in court. strated his innocence. Senator Herbert over classified State Department docu- The grand jury reaction had been laugh- H. Lehman expressed his "complete ments to any unauthorized person for ter, and Hiss's lawyers were too wise to confidence in your loyalty" and found transmission to the Soviet Union. The try it in the presence of the public. In Hiss's testimony "forthright." date of his association with Chambers, fact, the trial record shows such an air- Ralph Bunche called the hearings "an former courier for a Soviet apparatus, tight case that it becomes obvious why utterly shameless attempt to smear your was of importance because the docu- the defense devoted most of its efforts to good name." Scores of others added their ments and the so-called "pumpkin the smearing of Chambers rather than mite—and the letters were duly mimeo- papers" turned over by Chambers to the to any cogent rebuttal. graphed and distributed by Professor government bore dates in late 1937 and But this is only part of the story. James T. Shotwell of Columbia Uni- early 1938. During the trial, the government was versity. In her column and in personal On both counts, the prosecution hampered by fear of reprisal on the part correspondence, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt proved its case beyond a peradventure of those who could have testified to attacked Hiss's accusers and argued that of doubt. It showed that the secret docu- Hiss's communist activities and by the were he a communist, she would have ments in question had been typed on a refusal of the State Department to open known it. Woodstock machine which Hiss con- up its records to the Justice Department. What was the crime to which they so ceded had been in his possession at the After Hiss's conviction, new evidence valiantly blinded themselves? Was it time and to which Chambers had no ac- against him began pouring in, and Con- "nonconformism" or "liberalism"? cess. It was demonstrated through in- gress succeeded in breaking down the Because the Constitution narrowly de- dependent testimony that Hiss and State Department's wall of secrecy. To- fines treason as an "overt act" giving "aid Chambers had been in close contact day, Hiss could easily be convicted with- and comfort" to an "enemy," Hiss could after 1937, and that Hiss lied repeatedly out the testimony of Whittaker Cham- not be tried as a traitor, even though the in an effort to deny that affiliation. Such bers. United States has been at undeclared war matters of record as bank accounts and As a result of what is now on the with the Soviet Union for many years. car registrations—of great significance record, it can be argued that Hiss's lesser Because the statute of limitations had but too complex to recount in a brief crime was espionage. In the late thirties

54 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 and in the forties, Hiss did far more port to the U.N. Trusteeship Council. A TEXAS OIL COMPANY damage to this nation by twisting and On the day the story appeared in the Wants corrupting United States policy in a man- newspapers, Hiss could nowhere be a Man Over 45 ner obviously designed to do the Soviet found. He was not at his office in the WE NEED a good man at once and we are will- ing to pay top earnings. We prefer someone be-

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trips . . . and can call on small town industrial Here, in brief, is a small part of the of his appointments. Finally, he turned and rural property owners. new evidence: up, late in the afternoon, at the office of WORTH $14,000.00 1. On February 19, 1952, Nathaniel Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson Our top men in other parts of the country draw exceptional earnings from $12,500 to $18,000 in a under- that "oh, so sorry," it was Weyl, a former member of an to say he was year. This opening is worth just as much to the ground communist cell in the Federal just a mistake. As a result of this "mis- right man. We pay earnings in advance. Write a confidential letter to H. A. Crawford, Vice Pres., government, testified that he had at- take," the negotiations for the air bases Texas Refinery Corp., Box 711, Fort Worth 1, Tex. tended secret communist meetings with fell through and there was a wave of Alger Hiss in 1934 and had seen him anti-American feeling in Panama. YOUR GROUP NEED MONEY??? SELL OUR COOKIES. PROFIT 100% OF COST. paying his party dues. 6. When the records of the Institute "Plezall Cookies Please AH Tastes." Easy to sell because people buy cookies regularly. In- Pacific Relations examined by 2. At the same series of Senate* of were Personalized packages in carrying case. We pay ternal Security subcommittee hearings, the Senate Internal Security subcommit- freight on Z5-case minimum order; guarantee re- fund on unopened cases returned in 30 days. Write former Ambassador William Bullitt told tee, it was discovered that Hiss worked for brochure on organization letterhead. PLEZALL COOKIE CO., INC. this organization. Ac- of a conversation with French Premier hand-in-glove with 5S49-L N. Clark St., Chicago 40, III. Daladier in 1939. Daladier warned him cording to the subcommittee, the IPR that French intelligence had discovered was "considered by the American Com- that two State Department officials, munist Party and by Soviet officials as I WANT EVERY READER of this Paper to have my b!q red brothers named Hiss, were Soviet agents. an instrument of communist policy, jgj^ EARLIANA TOMATO Bullitt answered that he had never heard propaganda, and military intelligence." 9 ^ of the Hisses and added, "That isn't even It was Hiss's role to arrange for quiet I "KING OF THE EARLIES" ' Big solid, scarlet fruit, disease a name. It's a noise made by a snake." meetings between high State Department ? resistant, heavy yielder. Ideal for table or canning. Send met Alger Hiss and officials and now-identified Soviet agents. \ 25 SEED Subsequently, he 5c for mailing 125 seed informed State Department superiors of Repeatedly, he also appointed pro- and copy of Seed and Nursery Catalog p|^££ CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN Now Combined With ignored. his conversation. He was communists to important State Depart- R. H. SHU M WAY SEEDSMAN, Dept. 309, Rockford, ILL. 3. In 1946, a political gossip columnist ment policy-planning groups. These m published the complete order of battle agents, we now know, were in large part FEMALE HELP WANTED British troops fighting communist responsible for convincing the depart- of $23 WEEKLY for wearing lovely guerrillas in Greece. An investigation by ment that the Chinese reds were really dresses supplied to you by us. Just show Fashion Frocks to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State J. "agrarian reformers" who should be sup- ?sho friends in spare time. No in- sal Anthony Panuch disclosed that this in- ported by the United States—and that the vestment, canvassing or experi-° m Fashion Frocks, cle; formation, so damaging to the anti-com- anti-communist Nationalist Chinese | ence Decessarv. hoi Dept. L-21491 Cincinnati 2, O.J munist military effort, had come from should be deprived of American aid at a Alger Hiss. time when they were in a life-and-death 4. As director of the Office of Special struggle with red military forces. EARN be aTAX CONSULTANT Political Affairs, Hiss used his influence— The documents Hiss turned over to Our students earn lucrative fees in 3 MORE month busy tax season preparing income against the direct order of Secretary of the Soviets made them privy to some of tax returns in spare time — and operate profitable Business Tax Service yielding steady State Byrnes—to find employment at the our most carefully guarded secrets (one monthly fees of $10-$50 per client, year 'round. Enjoy professional standing in dignified full or part United Nations for a group of Soviet document is still classified and could not time home-office business. No experience necessary. We train you at home and help you start. Write agents then in the Federal government be submitted in evidence during the today for free literature. No agent will call. State Approved Course. who were feeling the heat of the first trials.) By working with other Soviet UNION INSTITUTE, Lakewood, W-17, New Jersey loyalty - security investigations. When agents, he was able to plant the seeds called before the Senate subcommittee for the Yalta agreements, to prepare the in 1952, 27 of these key men in the U.N. way for the downfall of China, and to SONG IDEAS hid behind the Fifth Amendment. A lay the groundwork for the Korean war. NEEDED Federal grand jury investigating the epi- He was not the most important man in ^-—T—^ Songwriters, with publisher contacts, (Sa'i want song ideas. SHARE ROYALTIES. sode reported "startling evidence" of Washington, but one State Department Send Poems — Free Examination infiltration at the U.N. by "an over- memo describes his "Svengali-like in- SONGWRITERS' ASSOCIATES whelmingly large group of disloyal fluence" on Secretary of State Edward Studio 72, 1650 Broadway, New York 19, N. Y. United States citizens"—the men Hiss Stettinius. had recommended. For his espionage, he served a term 5. In 1946, the United States was in in Lewisburg Prison—boasting to his "* the midst of important negotiations with fellow inmates that he was covering up LOOK FOR Panama for renewal of leases to air bases for Franklin D. Roosevelt. For doing his necessary for the protection of the Canal best to subvert American foreign policy, THIS EMBLEM Zone. Though there was strong com- he has remained relatively unscathed. munist agitation in Panama against this, The public airways are offered to him the negotiations were proceeding satis- and a great television network is willing It is displayed only in a factorily. The Canal Zone is Panamanian to jeopardize its standing and its adver- Legionnaire-owned store . territory for which the United States tising revenue to rehabilitate him. Some pays rent. But Hiss insisted that the zone Park Avenue doors were closed to him be reported as an American "possession" when his wife left him—for non-ideo- m m stopped mmm»^ ,N A " FFY to the U.N. This caused a furor in logical reasons. But there are always I ivfl Hi m H or money back Panama, and Hiss was told never to do others who are ready to propagate the Medical Science can now stop the tormenting eczema, rashes, acne, chafing, athlete's this again. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 59 "

THE HEALTH WITH 'EM I'm sick of "sick" comedians, Sick novelists and playwrights Who celebrate their parlous state With very far-from-gay rites DADTIWf! What form of medication will Cure those who live so sickly? I'd think a prussic acid pill Would do it very quickly.

They make me sick; and if I had A spear, I'd love to stick 'em Or find a sick dog (meaning mad) And egg him on to sic 'em. Jeff Matthews

FEMININE PASTIME Some girls can be very boring when they give you a beau-by-beau description of their activities. Theodore Rubin

ALL FOWLED UP IN THE HOME NEST My family calls me chicken,

And say, when I ask how come: "You must be, or you wouldn't work For such a poultry sum." S. S. Biddle

AUTOMATION Starting out as a two-cell creature in the ocean depths, man has progressed until today he's a multiple series of holes in office machine cards. A. G. Lockhart

FOR THE BIRDS

The state of world affairs these days is enough to make the dove of peace a little 'Just once I wish we could fly somewhere first class' cuckoo. Dan Bennett

SAD TRUTH A sharp salesman reminds you PRACTICAL APPLICATION With logic and vim: doll entered a model agency, a desk A dainty went up to marked "Ap- "You can't take it with you—" plications" said, "1 and want to apply for a job as a model." Then he takes it with hiin. Without looking at her, the blase clerk reached in his desk drawer, Leonard K. Schiff took out a tiny, elastic bathing suit and held it out to the doll. "Fill out this form," he said. Russell New bold

IT FIGURES Adam and his son were out strolling, and happened to pass by the Garden of Eden. The boy stared, then turned to his dad, "Say, that's a swell place; why don't we live there?" "We did," Adam replied sadly, "until your mother ate us out of house and home." Fred W. Norman

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TRAFFIC JAM The lady motorist's car had stalled and traffic was piling up behind her. DANCER As impatient motorists honked their horns, a passing policeman ap- proached the harassed woman. "Use your noodle, lady," he yelled at the confused motorist. "Use your noodle!

"My goodness, officer, where is it?" she cried. "I've pushed and pulled everything in the car!" A. T. Quigg

60 TH E AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1963 ! .. 5

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