The American Legion Magazine [Volume 47, No. 6 (December 1949)]

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3579 to Post Office Rebellion on the Moon (fiction) . .by robert a. heinlein 11 Box 1055, Indian- A master of science fiction projects you into apolis Indiana. 6, space and the future says The Amencon Legion Mogo- The Commies Go After the Kids by j. b. William T. Penrod matthews 14 zine is the officio) publication of The American Legion How the reds inject their poison into children Miami ond is owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copy- right 1949. Published month- Those Amazing Radio Detectives by philip weck 16 ly at nOO W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Acceptonce Some of the boners that spill out of your for mailing at speciol rate loudspeaker of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, How to Survive a Crash by lester david 18 "I Stand straighter, 1925. Price, single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, This article may some day save you from a skull $1-50- Entered os second fracture or class matter June 30, 1948, death feel better, thanks at the Post Office at Louis- to ville, Ky., under the Act of March 3, 1879. You Can't Eat California's Climate, .by hannibal coons 20 EXECUTIVE AND If you're thinking of moving to the Golden State, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES read this Indianapolis 6, Indiona EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING More Heat for less Money by george h. waltz, jr. 22 SUPPORTER BELT!" One Park Avenue Ways and means of economizing on your fuel bill New York U, N. Y. WESTERN OFFICE Give a Hobby for Christmas by h. van walther 24 333 North Michigan Avenue How^ to start someone on an interesting pastime Chicago 1, Illinois

James F. O'Neil, Man- chester, New Hampshire, Our Best-Read Edition by j. c. keeley 26 Choirmon of the Legion Publications Commission; Blind veterans learn of the Legion through the Lowrence V^. Hager, Owens- Braille edition boro, Kentucky and Dan V/. Emmett, Ventura, Colifor- nio, Vice-Chairmen. Mem- bers of the Commission: Vilas H. Wholey, Racine, (p- The National Legionnaire 29-36 Wis.; Tom W. McCaw, Dennison, Ohio; Theodore Cogswell, Woshington, D. C; Poul B. Dague, Downing- FEATURES town. Pa.; Josephus Daniels, Jr., Raleigh, N. C.; George Products Parade ... 4 Report from Hollywood. . 44 D. Levy, Sumter, S. C; Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa; Eorl L. Meyer, Alli- Editors' Corner . ... 6 Vets With Ideas 50 ance, Neb-; Chorles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; Sound Off! ...... 8 life in the Open 58 That's right, Mr. Penrod! Men in all A. C. Jockson, Lubbock, Texos; Max Slepin, Phila- walks of life report that 64 "BRACER" Sup- delphia, Fo.; Roland Co- Newsletter 27 Parting Shots porter Belt helps them look trimmer, creham. Baton Rouge, La.; feel better, helps relieve fatigue. George D. Boron, Bethany, Conn., Long Armstrong, No other similar garment offers all Spokane, Wash.; Earl Please notify the Circulation Depai*menr, Publications Division, P. O. Box the features of "BRACER": full 2-uay Hitchcock, Glens Foils, N.Y.; Indianapolis, Indiana, if you hove changed your address, using Edgar G. Vaughn, St. Paul, 1055, stretch all-elastic seamless belt gently sure to Minn.; Harold A. Shindler, notice form 22S which you will secure from your Postmaster. Be Sut firmly pulls your stomach in, helps Newburgh, Ind.; Emmett cut off the address label on your magazine and paste it in the space pro- both your you stand straighter, your clothes fit Safay, Jacksonville, Flo. vided. Always give your 1950 membership card number and new and your old address. better; special design of waistband Director of Publications assures snug fit, minimum roll; soft, James F, Barton roomy, no-gape fly-front pouch is self- Indionopolis, Ind. adjusting to any position; exclusive Ass't to Director When v/e first saw this month's cover tubular Frank Lisieckl elastic leg bands— no crease, It was a blistering hot August day. no curl, no roll. Editor Too hot even to enjoy all the snow Ask at your department, men's wear, Joseph C. Keeley Reg Massle was showing us in his drug or surgical store for the Advisory Editor painting. Now, however, we can really Alexander Gardiner supporter belt first in popu- appreciate the beauty of this Christ- Managing Editor larity —"UKACEK" $350 mas scene. The beckoning warmth of Boyd B. Stutter the house, the soon-to-be decorated "BRACER*" Royal . . .wider, Art Editor cooler, tree, all creote the feeling of that more porous waist- Al Morsliall band with $500 wonderful Yuletide spirit. And for more support . Associote Editors those of our readers who are always FOR FREE BOOKLET of hints on correct dress, Robert B. Pitkin Irving Herschbein trying to place the location of our write Dept. N9-12, Bauer & Blacl<, 2500 S. Advertising Director cover, this is upper New York State. Dearborn St., Chicago 16, III. ,^ „ 3 „^ Fred L. Maguire Eostern Advertising Manager BAUER & BLACK Russell Holt PICTURE CREDITS: Bob Isear, 16-17; Bob Isear by permission Westcliester Western Advertising Diyition of The Kendall Parkway Commission, 18-19; Ron Partnde and Koss Madden from Black Star, Company, Chicago 1 6 Monoger 20-21; U. S. Rubber Co., Anthracite Institute, Worsham Co., Inc., 22-23; Bo* Fred E. Crawford, FIRST IN ELASTIC SUPPORTS Jr. Isear, 26; Pennsylvania Game Commission, 50. 2 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 Hon. Democracy \

In atom-bombed Hiroshima policemen have begun learning to "boogie-woogie." The police chief believes that dancing will help promote "peace and democracy" and that it fits in with the town's new slogan, "We always do things in a Model 510 "Target- big way here." Part of the police master" bolt action station has been turned into a ball- single-shot 22. Neot, compact; feels and shoots righr. room, with policewomen serving as dancing partners. Model 511 "Score- master" bolt oction box Max Factor, renowned Hollywood magazine repeater. Seven- make-up expert, has been receiving shot capacity. letters from Japanese girls inquir- ing: "When you kiss how do you Model 512 "Sport-

make the lipstick stay on?" . . . master" bolt action tubu- "Does lipstick make kisses taste lor magazine repeaterwith exceptionally large maga- that you . . . "Is it a rule better?" zine. have to keep your eyes shut?"

Model 521T^a sharp- Thieves invaded the Imperial shooting combination hunt- Palace grounds in Tokyo — once ing and target rifle. considered sacred soil — and made off with 15 chickens that were raised personally by the Empress.

Red Flag, a Communist newspaper in Japan, bitterly charged Tokyo city officials with luring away prospective communists by offering them free baths. CHRISTMAS Conducting a survey of "democratic habits," the Public Health Bureau in Tokyo discovered that of these male college students kissed coeds 60 per cent of the time, waitresses 20 per cent of the time, maids 10 per cent of the time and other miscel- REMINGTON 22's laneous females the remaining 10 per cent of the time. Start a son, brother or pal on a lifetime of shooting fun with one of the "500 A youth organization in the town famous Remington Series" 22's. Every Remington 22 is built with of Wajima passed a rule that a fine fast, easy action. It balances and points like a dream. And Remington of 50,000 yen would be levied against 22 rifles are built for extra strength and superb accuracy. They have any member who touched alcohol. high-quality steel barrels and genuine American walnut stocks, self- It decided that it "isn't democratic" cocking bolts, unusual safety features. For hunting, pUnking or target to drink liquor. shooting, say "Merry Christmas" this year with a Remington.

Emancipated by the new demo Give your shooting pals REMINGTON "HI-SPEED" cratic constitution, Japanese women have begun invading what were once men's beer halls. 22 cartridges in bright new Christmas wrap

Make that gift complete. Give Remington "Hi- Hisao Hashimoto, of Osaka, Mrs. Speed" 22's. These get-up-and-go cartridges have to climb the has twice attempted fine accuracy, lightning speed and smashing power. Omine, although mountain of Nara Famous Remington "Kleanbore" priming assures barred women from ancient monks fast, snappy ignition. Won't cause rust or corrosion. there as "unclean." Each time, however, considerably peeved men prevented her from following through. Mrs. Hashimoto declared that under a democracy a woman had as much right to climb a mountain as a man. The men retorted that "even democracy does not make a woman clean." 'If It's Remington- BY HAROLD HELFER It's Right!"

"Torgetmafter," "Scoremaster," "Sportmoster," "Hi-Speed" and "Kleanbore" are Reg. U. S. Pot. Off. by Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport 3, Conn. The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 When you use

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A sampling of items whicli are in process of development or are coming on do for you on hard- the market. Mention of products in no way constitutes an endorsevtent o] tliem, since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers. packed snow, or ice SOMETHING FOR CHRISTMAS PACKAGES. For those who fuss over holiday packages there's something new this year. The Fredarl Paper Corp., 230 Fiftli Ave., New York, THEY . . . is introducing a line of Christmas wrappings "with the scent of the Christmas tree." • eosier • START STOP shorter The wrappings are available in twelve exclusive designs at gift, specialty and depart- • HOLD straighler • LAST longer ment stores. A package containing two large sheets will retail for 2.V.

BECAUSE OF . . . • Two-Way Grip — COMPACT TAPE RECORDER. If you want a fascinating hobby Right and Left Hand Twist which requires no complicated apparatus or technical skill, a new tape recorder being offered by the Revere Camera • 288 Gripping Points Co., Chicago 16, is worth considering. Simplified so that • Heel-and-Toe Action anyone can record speech or music, the Revere Recorder provides excellent fidelity and records for a full hour on Ask for — insist upon — a single reel of tape. It comes in a compact, handsome caiTy- WEED-AMERICAN V BARS by name ing case, and the entire unit, complete with playback unit ^•member... Drive Sofely... "Thm Ulm You Sovt May B* Your Own" and microphone, weighs only 25 pounds. The price is $159.50. —NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

BACON AND EGGS. A dual-purpose cooking utensil being offered by Homemakers Haven, 7304 37th Ave., Jackson Heights, N. Y., will interest those who dote on bacon and eggs. Called the Bacon-Egger, it is a double-deck frying pan. Bacon is fried on the top, and the fat drips down to fry the eggs, thus automatically draining the bacon strips. Made of long-wearing chromium, it costs $2.95 postpaid.

WANT AN UNUSUAL CHRISTMAS TREE? By means of ultra- violet light playing on specially treated ornaments you can have a Christmas tree that will be the talk of your neighborhood. A set of 48 ornaments together with an ultra- violet lamp and base, to be placed at the foot of the tree, is now available for $12.95 from the Magic-Glow Corp., 1706 N. Larrabee St., Chicago 14. Ornaments consist of stars, angels, chains, bells, etc. The special lamp provides a cool source of light and there is no wiring to come in contact with the inflammable tree branches. Having a life of approximately 2500 hours the lamp will last several seasons, and it draws only 15 watts. Additional ornaments can be obtaiiK-d at a price of one dollar for 12 assorted designs.

NEED MINNOWS? If yoli do. Legionnaire Charles G. Bosweli, of Lebanon, Ind., has the answer in his new Bosweli Minnow Trap, which he maintains is totally unlike any other minnow trap on the market. Made of seamless cast Lucite tubing, it has conical ends which are held firmly in place by a stainless steel connecting spring. A permanent lure of red glass beads strung on a nylon leader entices the minnows into the trap. Light in weight, it takes up little room and can be tossed into any pool without danger of breakage. The price is $5.95 postpaid.

FOOT WARMER, NEW STYLE. An upholstered footstool with a built-in electric heating element is now available for those who like their feet warm. Besides providing comfort or it is said to give relief to people suffering from arthritis In BusinessJor Your Safety poor circulation. The cord is inconspicuous and the stool ob- AMERICAN CHAIN & CABLE comes in red, green or blue. Selling for $15, it can be tained from the Gary Specialty Co., Route 2, Box 128A, . COMPANY, INC Aurora. 111.

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 JUST FOR MONEY. A new kind of billfold, for folding money only, is the Flap-jack being made by the Early Co., 200 Boulevard, New Haven, Conn., and retailing for a dollar plus 20 percent tax. Bills are inserted under a strap in the center of the Flap-jack, and when it is folded the bills can be withdrawn from the other side, one at a time, leaving other bills securely in place. A choice of leathers is available—black or brown morocco, tan pigskin, and red, green, blue and brown cowhide.

DOWN THE DRAIN. A novel way of cleaning clogged drains which requires no chemicals or "snakes" is offered in the Quick Drain, made by the A. G. Busch Co., 2632 N. Central Ave., Chicago 39. The device consists of a length of rubber tubing to which is attached a rubber cup. The tube is coupled to the faucet and the cup forms a seal over the drain. The hot water is turned on and after a minute or so it is turned off and cold water is run into the drain for about five minutes. The hot water is said to expand the drain pipe enough to allow water to get under the accumulated dirt. The cold water then flushes the residue from the pipe. The Quick Drain sells for $1.95.

BABY STUFF, Legionnaire John J. Scanlon, of 1562 Unionport Road, New York City 62, has patented and is introducing an ingenious device which makes any chair a baby's high chair. Called the Ti-Chair, it consists of a collapsible feed- ing tray that straps securely to a regular chair, holding the baby safely. It comes in natural wood finish, with bright plastic trim, felted back and rubber tipped legs to protect the chair. The retail price is $3.98.

INVENTORS VS. BURGLARS. A short time ago The American Legion Magazine published an article telling how burglars get into homes. Since then three inventors have written to tell us about locks they have developed to foil the second-story workers. A. O. Hunt, of Ashland, Wis., has a Travl Lok, selling for a dollar postpaid, which will keep a burglar from coming in the door. It consists of a heavy steel hook which wraps around the door handle, and is clamped to the door frame with gripping teeth. F. Rappold, of 122 Delaware St., Tonawanda, N. Y., has an "Open Window Lock" which permits you to open your window a little bit without letting crooks in. This he sells for 67^ postpaid. Another window lock has been worked out by Hugh H. Story, Friendship Route, Arkadelphia, Ark., which he asserts is "the only window lock ever invented that actually locks." Story's lock ranges in price from $1 to $1.50.

/jpr SINK-PROOF DUCK DECOYS. An innovation in duck decoys is the Duraduck, a self-inflating, life-size, authentically colored decoy that can be rolled up and stuffed in your pocket. When it is opened up the Duraduck fills itself with air and is ready to float off. A patented air pocket keeps it riding realistically. In case you miss the duck and hit the decoy you won't lose it since the shot holes seal themselves. Mallard Duraducks weigh about eight ounces, Blacks and Pintails about 6V2 ounces. Selling for $2, they are being and Almy, Prfnce made by Dewey Cambridge 40, Mass.

TO PREVENT BATTERY TROUBLE. To prevent short circuits in the wiring system of auto- Albert mobiles and motorboats, a Battery Circuit Breaker is being introduced by Inventory Specialists, 25 Broadway, New York City 4. The unit is attached between the battery Anen'ca's Urgest-Se/lihg and ground to break the current and is controlled by a push-puU switch from the instrument panel. Besides preventing such annoyances as a shorted horn, and pro- StAOyOt^Q- TOBACCO viding a safeguard against car theft, the gadget is said to prolong the life of a battery by stopping seepage. It retails for $9.95 and installation charges are said to aver- ^ To bring a smile to the age a dollar. » face of any pipe smoker on your Christmas list — or to any man who likes to roll his SOMETHING NEW IN MUSIC. An unusual musical instrument which is a cross between Qwn cigarettes — give Prince a clarinet, harmonica and button accordion is being produced by the Magnus Har- Aroert! Choice, crimp cut monica Corp., 439 Frelinghuysen Ave., Newark, N. J. Called the Keymonica, it is made tobacco — mild and full-fla- of Bakelite and has 10 button keys regulating the tone of 20 notes. This permits it to vored! And the big one-pound cover a wide range of musical selections. It is designed as an elementary musical tin comes gift - packed in a instrument for the teaching of basic fingering techniques, and comes with an instruc- colorful Christmas package— tion song folio permitting beginners to learn musical notes by means of a simplified with a "built-in" gift card number system. The Keymonica retails for 98^. right on top!

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The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • YOU CAN'T HUNT WHITE WHALES Mr. F. H. Wooding, of the Department of Fisheries of Ottawa writes to tell us that the author of Want to Catch a White Whale?, our September Life In The Open article, was a little off base. Mr. Wooding says that the Federal Department of Fish- eries of Canada does not permit belugas (white whales) to be hunted for sporting purposes, because the white whales are too important to the way of life of Hudson Bay Indians. Our article gave the definite impression that Hudson Bay white whales were a sporting proposition for vacationists. It is still true that special excursions to Hudson Bay in midsummer offer a unique vacation in many ways, and that you may see the white whales cavorting in the Bay.

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On page 10 we offer a $500 prize for tlie most interesting letter telling how a Legionnaire plans to spend his NSLI dividend. Why do we do this, since we have no dark plan to send salesmen knocking on your door? The answer is that editors can never know too much about their audience. Every month, in these pages, we publish one or two articles which we believe are helpful to many readers. You've seen some of these articles — Hoio to Paint Your House, How to Treat Stomach Ul- cers, How to Get a Job. Right on page 22 of this issue is another — More Heat for Less Money — telling what's new in the matter of keeping the old homestead warm in the winter. We believe, as a result of this contest, wc can learn a lot more about the immediate needs and problems of Legionnaires. The answers will help us stick closer to what you want in future issues. Certainly the things you plan to spend extra money on are things that ai'e very close to your heart.

STAY AWAY FROM CALIFORNIA, PLEASE Assuming you aren't already in Cali- fornia, do you dream of moving out there and settling down to an easy existence in the fabulous sunshine? Urban Stewai't hopes you don't — not for a while, anyway. So do millions of others in California. Just who is this guy Stewart? Who is he to A Holiday toast to you say you shouldn't come to Califoi'nia? Turn to page 20 and read Hannibal Coons'

from the National of Quality . . Champion , article, You Can't Eat California's Climate. It'll introduce you to Stewart, and to his daily worry about how veteran newcomers to the Pacific Coast will make out in the job market. We might add here that the Legion De- partment of California spends more money on veterans' rehabilitation than does the National Legion Rehabilitation program. This is no reflection on our National Re- hab Commission, but indicates in part another phase of the growing pains now wracking California. Practically every

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Did you know there is such a thing as WERE WON WITH ENGINES EQUIPPED WITH sf ? Yes, we said si. Sf has long had quite a following. There are a large number of competent producers of sf right here in this country. In recent years one man, among all the present day sf masters, has risen above the rest. His name is Robert Heinlein, and we are proud at last to present you with some of his very best sf CHAMPION 1 right here in our magazine. Sf stands for science-fiction — in which good rip-snort- ing stories are projected into the robot SPARK and rocket universe of the future. We did not coin the term sf. It is the regular handle for science-fiction in the writing 100-MILE NATIONAL AAA CHAMPIONSHIP AUTOMOBILE RACES trade. To see how enjoyable sf can be, read our opening story by Mr. Heinlein, Arlington Downs, Texas DuQuoin, III. Rebellion on the Moon. Milwaukee, Wise. Syracuse, N. Y.

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Movies and radio have it all over books. Milwaukee (200 miles) Springfield, III. Particularly when it comes to telling detective stories. The author of a detective book has to remember that if you don't UNLIMITED CLASS SPEEDBOATS quite follow the clues you can turn back a few pages and check up on what the Gold Cup Detroit Memorial author said. You can't turn back a movie Silver Cup President's Cup very well to check on the clues, so some Harmsworth U. S. Speed Record Run of our worst detective movies sometimes Gull Lake Detroit River Marathon work out the solution in a high-handed manner. But when it comes to radio, the detective stories have been getting away with all sorts of murder. Of course that's OUTBOARD MOTORBOATS what makes a detective story — getting away with murder. But the way they sling Notional Outboard Regatta—15 out of 17 first places clues around, and conjure up deductions Albany to New York Marathon on the radio has gotten so terribly out of Portland, Oregon Marathon hand that it made Philip Week sore. He started listening real close and finally decided that radio sleuths just don't play fair. And now he has written his conclu- OTHER AUTO RACING CLASSICS sions, which we pass on to you as a bit of entertaining and innocent criticism. Pike's Peak Climb See Those Amazing Radio Detectives, Mille Miglia (1000-mile Italian road race) page 16. Belgian Grand Prix BOOK Holland Grand Prix A new book on our desk is Power LeMans, France 24-hour road race Skiing Illustrated, by Tyler Micoleau. (A. S. Barnes & Co. $2.95.) It's the sim- National Midget Car Championship,

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LOOKING AHEAD THESE ARE BUT A FEW OF LITERALLY HUNDREDS m Coming up in future issues of your AND HUNDREDS OF VICTORIES ACHIEVED BY Legion Magazine are the following: The Story of Burnet. Texas — the town that CHAMPION EQUIPPED ENGINES served as a guinea pig in the Legion's THIS YEAR IN NEARLY EVERY TYPE AND Community Development Plan, and did an amazing job of lifting itself by its boot- CLASSIFICATION OF RACING!

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The American Legion Magazine • Decembor. 1949 • 'J SOUND OFF! Writers must give name and address. Name with- held if requested. So many letters are being received it is not possible to promise answers. Keep your letter short. Address: Sound Off, The American°^% Legion Magazine, One Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y.

SMALL, BUT TOP NOTCH combat it to some extent. Don't hide the fact that you served your country. Be In the October issue of the Legion proud of it! It is because of those men and Magazine I read the very interesting arti- women who are willing and ready to serve cle They Came, They Saw, They Said, that the United States of America endures. and would like to correct a misapprehen- Edna C. Schierenberg sion of one of the Legionnaires quoted in Post 79 this article. Dept. of N. Mexico Legionnaire C. E. Plotner of Peterson Ruidoso, New Mexico Post 431, Gowrie, Iowa, believes that his As our correspondent notes, this matter Post is the smallest in the country with a Department Championship Drum & Bugle of heroes today, bums tomorrow is the history of nations in crisis and in victory. Corps. His Post has a membership of one This magazine has more than once called ffJ- hundred and thirty-two, which is fifty- attention to the noted lines of Francis after two more than the Raymond A. Garbarina ^0 Quarles (1592-1644): Post 1523 of the Department of New York has at this time. Our God and soldier we alike adore, BBMIHGTOH With our seventy-eight members we When at the brink of ruin, not before; have won the Department of New York After deliverance, both alike requited. Championship for three successive years Our God forgotten, and our soldiers and at Philadelphia this year we won the slighted. ^ShurShot, National Championship. To top this, the Kipling's Tommy is the most famous Post has been organized just four years. modern expression of the public's short This letter isn't a knock at a fellow memory for soldiers, once the shooting Legionnaire but we might as well keep ends. But he also gave bitter testimony SHtUi the record straight. to this same failing in his poem about James V. Doyle the appeal of the remnant of the Light Long Island City, N. Y. Brigade ("Noble six hundred") to Tenny- son in the early '90s of the last century, FORGETFULNESS, CENSURE and shames that same public with his Absent Minded Beggar. WWl veterans I read Mr. Felsen's article in the Sep- were called Treasury Raiders; there will tember '49 Legion Magazine entitled What be an equally bitter term for those who Army Are They Talking About? helped save us all in WW2. Editors You complain that the writers of stories about the men who served their country, What army was Henry Felsen talking picture them as half-wits, etc., and that about anyway? Come, come, Mr. Felsen, these men were wonderful fellows until let's be honest about this thing and admit victory was assured. It has happened be- that it was the same old Army that you, I When the game is smaller, you'll fore and will again, if we fight another and several million others served in a find power a-plenty in lightning- war. It is up to the men and women who few years back. If I can't in retrospect saw active service to remain loyal to their fast Remington Shur Shot shells. match the language word for word and service buddies and squelch this sort of They give you the wallop to bowl the characters man for man in a half talk with "That isn't true. I was there. dozen or so old outfits in which I served 'em over for . . . plus keeps perfect I know." with those in The Naked and the Dead, patterns shot after shot. And they I served with the Army Nurse Corps in for instance, I'll eat that worthy novel have exclusive "Kleanbore" prim- France in 1918-19. While the war was page by page — all 721 of them, so help me! being fought, we were the "Rose of No ing that won't cause rust or corro- Julian Yocum Man's Land." But the war ended, and we sion of gun barrels. Get yours to- Steubenville, Ohio came home to find that we were con- day for that next hunting trip. sidered prostitutes because we had served PRAISE FOR A VA HOSPITAL with the Army! If you have read any of the articles about nurses — written by Much has been said about the Veterans some stay-at-home — you found the pic- Administration and the hospitals, and ture quite different from the actual facts. doubtless they do make mistakes, but as I suggest that you read the poem by a recent patient in one of the hospitals, I Rudyard Kipling, about Tommy Atkins — wish to testify to the skill and kindness who is a wonderful person when his coun- of the veterans hospital at West Los An- try needs him — but when the war is over, geles, Calif. — "If It's Remington—It's Right!" it's a different story. The slander hurts As a World War I Nurse I had a major

"Shur Shot" and "Kleanbore" are Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. by even after 30 years — but with a wonder- operation there and left there as living Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport 2, Conn. ful organization like the Legion, we can testimony to the efficient treatment given g • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 there. As a member of the Hollywood ting any used view cards you'd care to Women's Post 185 I am more appreciative pass on to me. We Gold Star Mothers can of the value of belonging to The Ameri- stand to have our morale bolstered a bit can Legion, for not only my own Post at times too. Comrades but members of many other Mrs. Astrid A. Rydeen Posts made the days pass more happily 11801 S. Stanford Ave. for the patients there. More power to the Los Angeles 2, Calif. Legion and Veterans Hospitals. Member Echo Park Aux. 414 Holhjwood 28, Calif. HOME EMMETT'S CONTRIBUTION Ever try to build a home under $10,000 with a GI loan? The Banker said that my plans for a $6000 home (that didn't include my own labor) wasn't large enough — it had to be

1000 sq. ft., where my home called for 800. Then again, I wanted a view home over- looking the city on the Hollywood Hills. Of course that would be out of the ques- In the ad At Euclid Post tion because the bank doesn't loan money on "Hillside property." However, they Maybe this should go to the "It's a Small would be glad to lend money on any of World" editor. Anyway, the advertise- the sub-divisions property. . . . My home ment opposite the inside front cover in is built on my $6000 figure without gov- The American Legion Magazine, Septem- ernment help, but the loan cost me a THIS IS THE ber issue, caused me to scurry to the photo bonus plus 6 percent, plus penalty clauses. files for a duplicate of your illustration. I have what I want in a residential area G.l.^ PICTURE 'Twas taken last spring, when Euclid consisting of houses worth anywhere from Post 343 entertained a bus load of crippled $20,000 to $100,000 within a half block youngsters at the Grotto Circus in Cleve- of me. There's no slop, no slurp, no fancy land's Public Auditorium. Your clown Shouldn't the GI loan be applied to cases glamour boys making like heroes and is ours the same incomparable Em- like mine after the home is built and in this picture, Joe. No speeches, mett Kelly, in each picture doing his bit proved to be a good investment? I wouldn't no glory, no fruit salad . . . just to make the world a happier place for un- trade my location and home for a block plenty of chicken and griping and derprivileged and handicapped kids. of some of the Sub-division property I Jerry Horna have seen. sore feet and aching backs— Post Commander I'd still like a 4 percent loan on a house by the numbers. Euclid, Ohio I can afford. L. D. McKay This isn't the generals' show, Mac

Gl INSURANCE DIVIDENDS Dr. Sterling Pierce Post #577 . . . this one's all yours— the way In today's papers they gave out the pay- 2158 Lyric Ave. you were when you wore that sharp Los Angeles Calif. off scale on GI Insurance. Why or what 27, brown suit and got your pay was the reason that the men who were 40 WITHOUT DOWN PAYMENT (occasionally) from your Uncle and under when they took out their poli- Sugar and ate off the fat of the cies, were paid the highest dividend. They I have just finished reading your article paid the lowest premiums. What's the big Homes Without Down Payments and land, which was slightly thinned reason? William L. McNeely thought it was a wonderful idea. But how down so it would fit into a Pasadena, Calif. could we ever have anything like those K-ration box. Fowler (Ind.) Post around here? My husband would be glad to even put his time in helping to build Ain't it the truth . . . you never The dividend is based on the difference our house if we just had someone to help it so in your life! between the total amount of had good premiums us get it started the way those wonderful paid and the amount paid out in death men in Painesville did. There are a lot of But this is straight— you never saw a claims, through 1948, for each major age other GI's that would be willing to work group. While the "over-forties" paid picture so good in your life as high- for a home if they had something to go er premiums the of number death-claims on, and probably it would save a lot of for that group was proportionately larg- marriages that are going bad because of M-G-M'S FINEST PICTURE! er, too. Editors the housing shortage. How about telling us more about the idea and what we could VIEW CARDS WANTED do to get something like that started Would you run the following in the aroimd here? Mrs. Charles Brooks November issue under Soxmd Off? My Atlanta, Illinois gripes are too complex and numerous to PASS IT ON list them here. I have found that it helps, though, while one is ironing out one's How the human mind is susceptible to difficulties, to help the vets with their the right suggestion! With a new Legion hobbies. I send them A.P.O.'s, stamps, member I went to the big Philadelphia match folders, advertising pencils. Tour- parade. On the train we both read his • nament of Roses folders and what not. September issue of the Legion Magazine. RICARDO MONIALBAN GEORGE MURPHY Also make scrapbooks for them. While we watched he had it folded in his The other members of the Southern pocket. Then when the parade was well MARSHALL THOMPSON • lEROME COUIiTLANO • DON TAYLOR

California Post Card Club have been under way, we gave it courteously to an BRUCE COWLING • lAMES WHITMORL • DOUGLAS POWLEY wonderful in helping me out with mate- elevator man and he thanked us for LEON AMES • GUY ANDERSON • THOMAS E BREEN rial for the boys. In return I try to get "something about this great Legion of DENISE DARCEL • RICHARD • cards to trade with the members of the ours." The "pass it on" idea as expressed JAECKEL IIM ARNESS kind each one saves. in the spot notices in the Magazine is SCOTTY BECKETT • BRETT KING

Wondered if some of the readers would what suggested our act. Story and Screenplay by ROBERT PIROSH Asiociate Proaucei drop me a line on a view card (not a Dan T. Balmer Directed by WILLIAM A WELLMAN Government card.) Would appreciate get- Reading, Pa. Produced by DORE SCHARY A l^tTRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURE The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • g

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The American Legion Magazine wants to know

Within the next few months most of tlie younger readers of The American Legion Magazine wiU be getting checks from the Veterans Administration. Some of the checks will be for as much as $528, but it is estimated that the average will be about $200. This money represents overpayments made on National Service Life Insurance.

The American Legion Magazine wants to know what you plan to do with the money you receive. Are you going to use it to help buy a car, improve your home, buy clothing,

take a vacation, put it in the bank, buy additional insurance, or what.-* (We aren't going to use the information you give to send salesmen to your door.)

For the most interesting letter entitled WHAT I PLAN TO DO WITH MY NSLI INSURANCE DIVIDEND, The American Legion Magazine will pay $500. For the ten runners-up, awards of $10 each will be paid.

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Include in your letter the amount of money you Letters become the property of The American think you will be getting, and tell what you plan to Legion Magazine and the judges' decision will be

do with it and why. Also, we'd like to have you tell final. No letter can be returned and we cannot enter us something about yourself —what kind of job you into correspondence concerning letters submitted. have, and how many there are in your family. Address your letter to CONTEST EDITOR, THE You have until January 31, 1950 to mail your let- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 1 Park Ave., ter, but the sooner you send us your letter the better. New York 16, N. Y.

Winners tvill be notified March 1st, and announced in our April issue. By ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

HAPPENED ON THE MOON in the spring of 1999. The beginning ITof it all, as far as Johnny Dahlquist was concerned, was right after breakfast when the Executive Officer sent for him — "Lieutenant Dahlquist, reporting to the Executive Officer." Colonel Towers looked up. "Ah, John Ezra. Sit down, Johnny. Cigarette?" Johnny sat down, mystified but flattered. He admired Colonel Towers, for his brilliance, for his ability to dominate, and for his battle record. Johnny had no battle record; he had been commissioned on completing his doctor's degree in nuclear physics and was now junior bomb officer of Moon Base. The Colonel wanted to talk politics; Johnny was puzzled. Finally Towers had come to the point; it was not safe (so he said) to leave control of the world (Continued on next page) in political hands; power must be held Towers switched it off. "We've by a scientifically selected group. -In started," he said. "We know who is Rebellion short — the Patrol. safe and who isn't. Take Kelly—" He Johnny was startled rather than waved at the loudspeaker. "Kelly is On the Moon shocked. As an abstract idea, Towers' politically unreliable. You noticed he notion sounded plausible. The League wasn't at breakfast?" (Continued) of Nations had folded up, so had the "Huh? I thought he was on watch." United Nations; what would keep the "Kelly's watch-standing days are Federation from breaking up, too, and over. Oh, relax; he isn't hurt." thus lead to World War IV? "And you Johnny thought this over. "Which know how bad such a war would be, list am I on?" He asked. "Safe or un- Johnny." safe?" Johnny agreed. Towers said he was "Your name has a question mark glad that Johnny got the point. The after it. But I have said all along that senior bomb officer could handle the you could be depended on." He grinned work, but it was better to have both engagingly. "You won't make a liar specialists. of me, Johnny?" Johnny sat up with a jerk. "You are Dahlquist didn't answer; Towers going to do something about it?" He said sharply, "Come now — what do had thought the Exec was just talking. you think of it? Speak up." Towers smiled. "We're not politi- "Well, if you ask me, you've bitten cians; we don't just talk." off more than you can chew. While it's Johnny whistled. "When does this true that Moon Base controls the Earth, start?" Moon Base itself is a sitting duck for Towers flipped a switch. Johnny was a ship. One bomb — hlooie!" startled to hear his own voice, then Towers picked up a message form spotted the recorded conversation as and handed it over; it read: I HAVE having taken place in the junior offi- YOUR CLEAN LAUNDRY - ZACK. cers' messroom. A political argument "That means every bomb in the Try- he remembered, which he had walked gve Lie has been put out of commis- out on ... a good thing, too! But being sion. I have reports from every ship spied on annoyed him. we need worry about." He stood up.

"THAT should convince you I'm a half-wit — vou slimy mistake!"

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"Think it over and sec me after lunch. Major Morf«an needs your help right away to change control frequencies on the bombs." "The control frequencies?" "Naturally. We don't want the bombs jammed before they i'each their targets." "What? You said the idea was to prevent war."

Towers brushed it aside. "There won't be a war — just a psychological demonstration, an unimportant town or two. A little bloodletting to save an all-out war. Simple arithmetic." He put a hand on Johnny's shoulder. "You aren't squeamish, or you wouldn't be a bomb officer. Think of it as a surgical operation. And think of your family." Johnny Dahlquist had been thinking of his family. "If you please, sir, I want to see the Commanding Officer." Towers frowned. "The Commodore DAHLQUIST grabbed the gun, shoved it between the guard s li'f;s, aiul jerked is not available. As you know, I speak for him. See me again — after lunch." to the airlock. He pulled it wide open. ly the handle raised before his eyes. The Commodore was decidedly not The guard motioned him back. Air from the bomb room rushed available; the Commodore was dead. "Hey! Nobody goes in without the Ex- into the lock through the spill valve. But Johnny did not know that. ecutive Officer's say-so." He shifted Dahlquist felt his space suit settle on Dahlquist walked back to the mess- his gun, fumbled in his pouch and got his body as the air pressure in the lock

room, bought cigarettes, sat down and out a paper. "Read it, Lieutenant." began to equal the pressure in the suit. had a smoke. He got up, crushed out Dahlquist waved it away. "I drafted He quit straining and let the guard the butt, and headed for the Base's that order myself. You read it; you've raise the handle. It did not matter; west airlock. There he got into his misinterpreted it." thirteen tons of air pressure now held space suit and went to the lockmaster. "I don't see how, Lieutenant." the outer door closed. "Open her up, Smitty." Dahlquist snatched the paper, He latched open the inner door of

The marine looked surprised. "Can't glanced at it, then pointed to a Hne. the lock. As long as it remained open,

let anyone out on the surface with- "See? ' — except persons specifically the lock could not operate; no one out word from Colonel Towers, sir. designated by the Executive Officer.' could enter. Hadn't you heard?" That's the bomb officers. Major Morgan Before him in the room, one for "Oh, yes! Give me your order book." and me." each projectile rocket, were the atom Dahlquist took it, wrote a pass for The guard looked worried. Dahlquist bombs, spaced apart to defeat any faint himself, and signed it "by direction of said, "Damn it, look up 'specifically possibility of spontaneous chain reac- Colonel Towers." He added, "Better designated' — it's under 'Bomb Room, tion. They were the deadliest things call the Executive Officer and check Security, Procedure for,' in your in the known universe, but they were it." standing orders. Don't tell me you for- his babies. He had placed himself be- The lockmaster read it and stuck the got them again!" tween them and anyone who would book in his pocket. "Oh, no, Lieuten- "Oh, no, sir! I've got 'em." The misuse them. ant. Your word is good." guard reached into his pouch. Dahl- But, now that he was here, he had "Hate to disturb the Executive Offi- quist gave him back the sheet; the no plan to use his temporary advan-

cer, eh? Don't blame you." He stepped guard took it, hesitated, then leaned tage. in, closed the inner door, and waited his weapon against his hip, shifted the The speaker on the wall sputtered while the air was sucked out. paper to his left hand, and dug into his at him. "Hey! Lieutenant! What goes Out on Moon's surface he blinked pouch with his right. on here? You gone crazy?" Dahlquist at the light and hurried to the track Dahlquist grabbed the gun, shoved did not answer. Let Lopez stay con- rocket's terminus; a car was waiting. it between the guard's legs, and jerked. fused — it would take him that much He squeezed in, pulled down the hood, He threw the weapon away and ducked longer to make up his mind what to and punched the starting button. The into the airlock. As he slammed the do. And Johnny Dahlquist needed as rocket car flung itself at the hills, dived door he saw the guard struggling to many minutes as he could squeeze. through and came out on a plain stud- his feet and reaching for his side arm. Lopez went on protesting. Finally he ded with projectile rockets, like can- He dogged the outer door shut and felt shut up. dles on a cake. Quickly it dived into a a tingle in his fingers as a slug struck Johnny had followed a blind urge second tunnel through more hills. the door. not to let the bombs — his bombs! — be There was a stomach-wrenching de- He flung himself at the inner door, used for "demonstrations on unimpor- celeration and the car stopped at the jerked the spill lever, rushed back to tant towns." But what to do next? underground atom-bomb armory. the outer door and hung himself on the Well, Towers couldn't get through the As Dahlquist climbed out he handle. At once he could feel it stir. lock. Johnny would sit tight till hell switched on his walkie-talkie. The The guard was lifting up; the lieuten- froze over. space-suited guard at the entrance ant was puUing down, with only his Don't kid yourself, John Ezra! came to port-arms. Dahlquist said, low Moon weight to anchor him. Slow- Towers could get in. Some high ex- "Morning, Lopez," and walked by him ILLUSTRATED BY AL MUENCHEN plosive against (Continued on page 42)

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HEN AN OUTFIT labeled as sub- preached in Galilee, However, this is just one organiza- versive by the Congressional They would lay Jesus Christ in tion of many which is busily working Committee on Un-American His grave. to the same end. Activities goes in for Christmas carols Some years ago, the communists surprising results may be expected. This can be considered a fair sample published a pamphlet dealing with And surprising results there were of the work being done by one subver- their tactics and objectives for chil- when People's Songs, Inc., came up sive organization to bring the class dren. The title of the pamphlet is "The with their version of a Christmas carol struggle to the kids. Naturally, in this Road to Mass Organization of Prole- in December 1946. Judge for yourself: "carol" there is no hint of "peace on tarian Children." It bears the imprint earth to men of good will" since the of the Young Communist League of When Jesus came to town, the objectives are otherwise. Beatrice the United States, then located at 43 working folks around Landeck, writing in one of the monthly East 125th Street, New York, N. Y. Believed what He did say; issues of People's Songs, provided the This pamphlet contains the key to The bankers and the preachers key when she said: "It is surprising present-day communist efforts to cor- they nailed him on a cross, how much of the meaning of a song is rupt and win over the children of

And they laid Jesus Christ in absorbed by a child while singing it . . America. Quotations from the pamph- His grave. I know one child of a wealthy family let are necessary, even though they who heard the recording 'Union Maid', make dull reading. In their drive for Poor working people, they follered who plagues her father constantly by enlistment of our children, the com- him around. singing, 'I'm sticking to the union.' 'The munists said in this pamphlet: "To Sung and shouted gay; House I Live In' and 'Free and Equal liven up our mass work such forms as Cops and the soldiers they nailed Blues' make a deeper and more lasting the living newspapers, entertainments, Him in the air, impression than twenty lectures on demonstrations, films, lantern slides, And they laid Jesus Christ in the same subject. This is basic educa- mass games, excursions, rambles, pub- His grave tion that even reactionary school prin- lic reading of the children's press, fes- This song was written in New cipals cannot object to." tivals and camps, are good means. York City, Miss Landeck's remarks give a More emphasis must be laid on that. Of rich men, preachers and pretty clear indication of what People's Here some of the methods used by the slaves; Songs aims to do for our children. bourgeois children's organizations, If Jesus was to preach like he ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT especially the Boy Scouts, should be 14 tried, since they stimulate the interest and initiative of the children, enhance the sturdiness of the proletarian children and are attractive to them: sporting games, codes, signals, following of the trails, map reading, hiking with a compass, camps, mass gatherings, or- chestras, uniforms, military parades, etc." There you have most of the compre- hensive program of the communists to win over and indoctrinate our children. Shrewdly, the communists recognize the difference between grown-up traitors and the kiddies whom they would enlist in their traitorous fifth column. The official pamphlet of the Young Communist League which has been cited, in the foregoing quotation, has this to say: "Children are not adults. They need amusement, play commies mouth the words, but the Kremlin masterminds call the tune and recreation." THE MUSICAL A large part of the work with communists do among children is under the supervision of the International Workers Order. The children's activities of the IWO include costume dances, drum and bugle corps, dra- matic plays, comic strips, short stories with a "class struggle" angle, essay contests, and summer camps. The old- est and largest of the IWO children's camps is "Wo-Chi-Ca," situated in the northwest New Jersey hills. The camp's name is derived from the words, workers' children's camp. Paul Robeson is the hero and best-known sponsor of "Wo-Chi-Ca." When he last visited the camp, he said to the children who were camping there under these Communist auspices: "When I look at you, I know the future is safe." All over the United States, there are summer camps for children which are run by the communists and the numerous organizations which are under COMMIE-RUN youth camps are not greatly concerned about sound minds in healthy bodies communist control. The number of these camps runs into the hundreds. During the summer of 1949, not less than 50,000 American children went to these communist-controlled camps. Those who follow the Daily Worker, the communist party's newspaper, can easily learn the names and locations of some of these summer camps which take children. Space permits the nam- ing of only a few of them. There is Camp Kinderland at Hopewell Junc- tion, New York, advertised "for an ideal vacation for your child." Camp Kinderland is under the management of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, a unit of the International Worker's Order which has been listed as subversive by the office of the Attorney General. There is also Allahen, a camp at Napanoch, New York, whose cultural program is conducted by the School of Jewish Studies which has been listed as subversive (Continued on page 60) THE COMIC books ground out by the fun-loving commies are not put out just for laughs 15 THE SUPER SLEUTH has to find the body, the clues and the ci-iminal in a half-hour, with time out for the commercials

Those Amazing Radio Detectives

By PHILIP WECK THE BODY of the dead man lay on the living-rooni floor, head pointing toward a window, face up. Any resemblance to real-life In his right hand was a .38-caHber revolver; a bullet-hole was directly above his heart. Until the detective entered, everything pointed to suicide. detectives on certain crime broad- Within five minutes of his arrival, however, the detective, in the best traditions of fiction, declared emphatically that: (a) the man had been killed by casts is purely coincidental a bullet fired from a .357 Magnum, not the .38 revolver; (b) the gun in his hand had been placed there to simulate suicide; (c) the fingerprints of the dead man on the revolver in his hand had been made when the killer closed his lifeless fist on the gun's grip. WHITNEY DARROW, JR. This was on a radio program, of ILLUSTRATED BY Detective Wave Length and his alter the of experts on ego, Private Eye Van Meter, however, course. Take word a fanatic belief in thousands of pseudo- It couldn't have happened overlook this point consistently. To the subject: scientific steps that patently are absurd. life. detective, instead of them any bullet from any body is im- in real The Just to keep your favorite script proving a murder, would have made a mediately fit for comparison purposes. writer on his toes, here's a list of some fool of himself on all these In life, a bullet recovered from a body first-rate of the boneis you'll hear frequently. have been back on a generally has smashed into a bone points and would See how many times you can trip him morning if he had been and become so badly misshapen it can- beat the next up. of flesh and blood instead of not be used for comparison. This is made Let's start with what he calls ballis- script and sound effects. just about 100 percent true of a bul- tics. That is a boner in the first place; detective let that's penetrated the skull and some Actually, no cautious he means firearms comparison and attempt to estimate the size of experts estimate that it's 50 percent would identification. The word ballistics re- death bullet from the size of an en- true of all bullets recovered from a a fers to the science of the motion of in a dead person's body. body. trance wound projectiles; Funk and Wagnalls' dic- bullet cuts, rips and tears and fre- Another common error that hits the A tionary defines it as "the science that not make a clean hole. It kilocycles with annoying frequency is quently does deals with the impact, path and veloc- often enters its target at an angle, the one about identifying a spent bul- ity of projectiles." However, the Eng- which of course would vary the size let at a casual glance or by the simple lish language is flexible and ballistics of the wound. Further, it penetrates expedient of weighing it in the hand. is so commonly used in this sense to- through folds and wrinkles of clothes Detective Wave Length will take a day that quite probably future diction- skin, which smooth out or shift, bullet from the coroner or the medical and aries will yield, and include firearms stretch or shrink when the wounded examiner, peer at it and declare in identification and comparison as one person falls. It may leave two holes in tough, clipped accents, "A thirty-two." branch of ballistics and justify Detec- outer garment, two tangent circles If he's a bit cautious he might make an tive Airwave on this point. into one large circle on this, "Probably a thirty-two." Unfor- which merge The most highly publicized aspect a prone body, almost twice as large as tunately, though, he's more apt to say, of firearms identification is compar- the bullet itself. "A thirty-two Smith and Wesson — a ing, thi-ough a microscope, bullets from As for the rest of the detective's woman's gun." the body of a murder victim and bul- deductions: Aside from the fact that a .32 Smith lets fiom a suspect gun. Microscopic man's hand cannot be closed and Wesson is hardly a woman's A dead flaws always exist in a gun barrel; grip a in a proper manner. Also weapon, consider that Detective Wave to gun these flaws will leave identical mark- — and this startle you — finger- Length doesn't have the least idea at may ings on bullets fired through that same prints are so on a re- this time what kind of gun fired that found seldom barrel. Provided, of course, that the volver or automatic that many police shot. A .32 is so-called because the bullet is in any shape for comparison departments, including the wizards inside of the barrel is approximately when it is retrieved. of New York's Centre Street, often do thirty-two hundredths of an inch in not bother to look for them. diameter. The cai-tridge case that held And to make the whole thing com- this bullet before firing was a bit more pletely stupid, a .357 Magnum revolver than thirty-two hundreths; the bul- fires a .38-caliber cai tridge. let itself was a bit less — a Smith and This detective, unfortunately, is not Wesson .32 short is .313. the only man who has displayed his Now, a 7.65 Mauser automatic fires ignorance in front of a potential au- a bullet that measures .309. And since dience of millions, either on the radio the first World War, 7.65 Mausers have or in other forms of fiction. Somehow not been uncommon in this country. the public has been fed so much mis- When Sergeant Wave Length (he's informalion on the subject of scientific been promoted for his brilliant deduc- THE POWERFUL Smith & Wesson crime detection that most persons have tions in last week's episode) stated that Magnum revolver fires not only a .357 the bullet was a .32, he actuallj' was only a vagvie knowledge of the hun- magnum bullet but a .38. ilhislraled. dreds of things that can be done and as supplied by the Remington Arms Co. declaring that (Continued on page 37)

EXPERTS OF THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT DON'T FOLLOW RADIO SCRIPTS

BULLETS DON'T come out of a corpse RADIO SLEUTHS can heft a bul- TRACING A CRIMIN.AL via finger just as they leave the factory. This let and identify it. Police experts prints is a long, tedious job. Fictional is what the coroner often finds have to use sensitive instruments detectives rarely go to sucn trouble How To Survive

Almost killed in a head-on plane crash, ITui>h For months young De Haven, then barely 19, lay in the h(jspital. reliving the crash a thousand times, seeking the answer to the puzzle. Why was the De Haven wanted to know w h^ . What he has learned other pilot virtually unhurt while he himself was nearly killed? The planes were identical, they cl ashed head-on, they both fell the same distance, both about accidents may someday help save your life fliers wore the same gear. It just didn't make sense. Out of that persistent "why?" during those pain-wi-acked months an idea crystallized in De Haven's mind, By LESTER DAVID an idea which today holds out more hope than ever before for your sur- |t was a routine training flight vival in automobile and airplane in Texas 31 years ago. The smashups. landing field lay just ahead, Ever since that grim January morn- partially obscured by a cloud ing in Texas De Haven devoted his bank. Hugh De Haven, shivering a bit life to finding out what kills people in tlie January rawness, pointed the in crashes and what can be done about

nose of his tiny craft at the Held, then it. He is blazing a new trail in air felt a surge of terror in his throat when and road safety by pioneering in a the other plane loomed suddenly out now science, crash safety. of nowhere. De Haven is director of the Crash The two ships tore into each other, Injury Research project at the New prop to prop, and plummeted to the York Hospital-Cornell Medical Cen- mottled Texas grass. ter in New York City, the country's

De Haven lay crumpled in his fii st and only clinic devoted solely to shredded craft, both legs sticking out the study of smashups. at crazy angles, the fuselage pinning How important the work of the his body to the ground. But the other clinic is to every home and family pilot crawled from his wreck, slood up cannot be overstated. Sudden deaths IIIXHI DE HAVEN and the plastic replica and walked! on the highways are rising alarmingly of a head which he uses in li is tests

SALVATOKE .M.\t UI shims the "head" against a ni>n-iesilienl frame THE MAKER of this car features a crash-pad over the dashhoard WHEN A CRASH is inevitable, rest your head forward on your arms and brace yourself for the shock of the collision

all over the nation. Grim new rec- of the serious airplane accidents can of the human frame in relation to the oi'ds for death and destruction were be avoided, that auto deaths and in- materials with which it comes into chalked up on every holiday weekend juries can be minimized considerably. contact when crashes occur. this year, according to figures of the The answer, De Haven tells them, The desks and floors of his three- National Safety Council, which has lies in eliminating the death-dealing room suite of offices at the great labelled this needless waste of human factors which manufacturers are un- medical center which overlooks New life "a national scandal." And the car- wittingly building into their planes York's oil-flecked East River are nage is continuing, especially during and cars through ignorance of why cluttered with bits of wreckage from these winter months, when icy roads people die in crashes. Already many crashes where fliers died. Stuffed into make the going treacherous and blind- of his recommendations are being filing cabinets is data complete to the ing storms put two strikes on the embodied in the construction of air- last detail from thousands of actual motorist. craft, and motor car companies are falls, suicide leaps and plane and The project, actively supported by beginning to pei-k up as they note the motor accidents. the U. S. Air Force and the Civil Aero- decline in fatalities. Much of the material was gathered nautics Administration, has aroused What, then, is a "crash clinic"? How at first hand by the little scientist him- the intense interest of the aviation and does it operate and how can its find- self. He arranged with the Police and automotive industries. De Haven is ings help you? Here's how: Fire Departments to tip him off on showing them things they never sus- De Haven and a small corps of suicidal or accidental plunges. When pected . . . that 60 percent of all fatal assistants have made exhaustive stud- the calls came, he'd clap on his hat crashes in private flying can be eli- ies of the toughness and weakness and scurry to the scene, measuring the minated, that more than 75 percent PHOTOS BY BOB ISEAR height of the (Continued on page 41) 19 You Cant Eat CAUraMS ClMTE

"Please stay away," begs California, whose

growing prosperity can't keep up with the new

hordes pouring over the mountains from the east

Left, Urban F. Stewart, the man with the headache. His organization finds more jobs for veterans than any other stal? in the country, but is getting absolutely nowhere. California is his beat, and every time he finds jobs for eight veterans ten more move into the state. Stewart is Califor- nia representative for the Veterans Employment Service. Now 180,000 veterans are unemployed in the state.

By HANNIBAL COONS

SINCE THE WAR moviegoers in Cali- ment Service. Tonight in California fornia have sometimes been star- there are 180,000 veterans who need tled, as the lights went up for jobs. In this audience are men who the intermission, by a tall, powerfully have jobs for them to do. Tomorrow built man of 60 getting to his feet in morning, when you get to your offices, their midst and saying, "Just a mo- call us about the jobs — we'll send you assembly — at his own request. As ment, please!" the veterans. Thank you." usual he did not waste, or mince, As their shuffling stills, he continues: Stewart resumes his seat, and the words. "At this moment," he said, "My name is Urban F. Stewart. I am show goes on. But the next morning without preamble, "there are more with the California Veterans Employ- several more California veterans have unemployed veterans in the state of jobs who would not have had them California than the entire state mem- EXPERT puzzles over new Freeway inter- section for clotted Los Angeles traffic otherwise. bership of the American Legion. If you Riders on the morning commuter men don't find jobs for them, who trains into San Francisco from the will? ..." southern suburbs on the peninsula This Urban F. "Stew" Stewart is a have a thorough acquaintanceship man with as heartbreaking and unend- with this same man. "Good God," they ing a job as any in this nation. Most say, "here comes that veterans em- men worry about a family of three. ployment guy down the aisle to collar As head of the California Veterans us about veterans' jobs again." Employment Service, Stewart has a "But there's hardly a morning," "family" of 1,800,000 veterans to worry says the man in question, "when I don't about, with 15,000 more a month pour- have several additional jobs for vet- ing in upon him from every state in erans by the time I get to the office." the union. Today California has over Last July, the state convention of 1/10 of our total veteran population. the American Legion at Long Beach, Of California's entire employable California had hardly convened when working force, 20% are veterans. And this same man was introduced to the still they come— pouring into the state LEFT, young job-seeker stands outside Oakland office of State Employ- some of liis competition line up at 8 a.m. outside Lockheed ment Dept., awaiting tests for Lockheed aviation factory job. Above Los Angeles plant. They have taken tests, have papers in hand

CALIFORNIA HOUSING JAM

NEWCOMERS in Los Angeles real estate office. Warns Chamber of LOS ANGELES school budgets are adequate for about half Commerce: "Have a place to stay or money to buy one or pay high rent" of enrollment, which keeps leaping ahead of facilities

like deluded locusts. In the month of pouring in needing still more jobs. No erans would only stay where they are June 106,211 more out-of-state cars task in the country is so akin to pound- for one year, maybe we could get the drove hopefully into California, the ing sand down a rathole. welcome mat out again." usual percentage of them driven by Stewart, the man perpetually on the As it is, California's welcome mat still more veterans coming to join the spot in this Pied Piper rush of our for out-of-state veterans has been endless search for sunshine and jobs. veterans to California, is fortunately pulled in and the door slammed. Not Since the war the California Vet- not a man who is easily daunted. At by Stewart or his remaining staff of erans Employment Service has led the 60 he is a tall, fair-haired, rough-hewn assistants (Stewart's odd reward from nation's VES in "job getting" for vet- man with the inner verve and drive an economy-blinded Congress is some- erans, consistently outstripping run- of one at least ten years younger. His thing we will take up in a moment), ners-up New York and Texas. Yet conversation is as salty as a sailor's. but by California's harried employers, from last November to April the Cal- It is not till he takes out a cigarette taxpayers, and civic groups. In the ifornia Department of Employment's that you notice that eight years of last year even the usually rosy-hued active applications from veterans arthritis have left his hands as gnarled Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce needing jobs rose from 77,350 to 139,- as a bowl of pickles. He pays absolute- has taken a leading role in "The May- 910. Today the best available estimates ly no attention to it, and, after a mo- or's Committee" founded for the un- place the number of unemployed vet- ment, neither do you. Stewart's only usual purpose of telling veterans not erans in California at approximately interest is the job at hand, and as to to come to California. Letters were 180,000 — compared to a total state the present status of his work he written to 2,700 Chambers of Com- American Legion membership of makes no bones. "It would be crimi- merce east of the three Pacific states, around 160,000. The more jobs Stewart nal," he said, "to encourage any more pleading with them to tell their local and his economy-decimated staflF find veterans to come to California at pres- veterans to stay where they were. All for them, the more veterans come ent. You can't eat the climate. If vet- Los Angeles (Continued on page 52) 21

has his basic trio of camera, projector, and screen — film splicers and editors, If you know someone with a hankering for a spare- lights, exposure meters, titlers, rolls of film, additional lenses, and books and magazines. time pursuit, now is a good time to get him started. This There is one thing that is very well worth trying if you are considering giving someone a camera or camera article tells you how and how much it will cost equipment, and that is the used- camera market. If you buy from a reputable dealer you often can be By H. VAN WALTHER lucky enough to pick up a bargain that has the "new" look. There's just one precaution; if you don't know cameras ITH December here, and the double his camera enjoyment. Instead and camera prices take someone who Holidays less than four of taking his exposed film to the cor- does along with you on your Christmas weeks off, the old perennial ner drugstore or the neighborhood shopping tour. question of what to give to photo shop, he then will be able to coax Few men, when they were boys, es- whom, and with what, is with us again. them into actual being himself. caped the period when they wanted This year, why not solve your If your camera fan is more advanced to grow up to be locomotive engineers. Christmas problems by giving hob- and already has his own darkroom, That accounts for the great popularity bies? The gift field is just about un- there still is plenty of room for Christ- of model railroading. It has got to the limited, and you spend as little or as mas giving. He probably would like an point where one of the best ways to much as your budget will allow. You exposure meter ($19.95 and up), make a hit with "Pop" is to give his can either start someone off from photo-flash equipment (beginning at young son electric trains. Actually, scratch by giving him the barest ne- about $8), a tripod (also beginning at there is a model railroad layout to fit cessities for a hobby, or in the case about $8) , and finally an enlarger (this just about any home, no matter how of someone who already has a spare- can cost you as little as $10 or set you small, and any budget. You can spend time interest, you can add to the hobby back as much as $3,000). as little as $30 for a complete set of equipment he already has. Even the veteran lens bug, who ap- parts to build a pint-size railway sys- Because it is a hobby that, can be pears to be fully equipped, always tem that will fit on a bridge table, or enjoyed by all the family, and one needs some one thing that will make you can use up the better part of $50 that can be followed with varying de- a good gift possibility. You can make for a Diesel-type locomotive for a grees of avidness, photography is one your choice from among such acces- model system that fiUs up the attic or of the most popular. If you have a sories as darkroom timers, print wash- the basement. camera fan on your list, your Christ- ers, film, paper, flash bulbs, flood lights, As for the hobbyist who already has mas shopping should be easy. If all print trimmers, special lenses, filters, an operating model "pike," there are he has is the yen to own a camera, you print driers, carrying cases, and photo always things that he needs. It would can buy him one at just about any albums. You can start at the bottom be hard to go wrong by giving him price ranging from a few dollars to of the price list for as little as 25 cents some miniature figures of humans or well over several hundred. If he al- and work your way on up. animals to help dress up his model ready owns a camera, the field is still If you aim to start someone off on a landscape, a bridge, some track, or a wide. You can either buy him a bet- sparetime career of amateur movie kit for building a station, a house, a ter one, or set him up with the basic making, your Christmas gift is going water tower, or an additional car. You equipment for a darkroom — develop- to cost you a little more all along the can spend from 25 cents on up. There's ing trays (50 cents or more) or a de- line. Movie cameras start at about $90, just one word of warning, however. veloping tank ($3.50), a darkroom safe projectors at $70, and portable screens Before you buy any such gift for a light ($2), and a simple contact print- at $12. But again, as with still photog- model railroader, make sure you know er ($9). By giving a camera owner raphy, there are all sorts of movie- the scale of his layout. Model railroads what he needs to develop and print his making accessories that make ideal are built to various gauges or sizes own pictures you will more than gifts for the movie-maker who already (O, 00, H, S, (Continued on page 48)

23 More Emfor Less Money

New developments in heating appliances make eration. Not so long ago, specialization was the rule. When you bought an oil burner, you got just that and were stuck with it regardless of oil short- it possible for you to keep your home warm in winter ages, price boosts, and electrical power failures. Not so today; the trend now is toward greater flexibility so that without spending too much for fuel furnaces can be fired with any one of several fuels. Basically, most of the home heaters By GEORGE H. WALTZ, JR. being produced today by the leading manufacturers are hand-fired coal furnaces. But they are so designed and engineered that they can easily be IB LTHOUGH EXPERIMENTAL Solar Since the war, heating equipment changed over to automatic heat simply LM houses that get their heat manufacturers have been working by installing an oil-burner unit or an ^ free from the sun and pro- hard to cut down the householder's automatic coal stoker. And what is posed atom-powered fur- fuel bills. During the last few years, just as important, they can be changed naces fueled by pea-size pellets of they have brought out scores of new back again to a basic coal furnace just U-235 make interesting news items, and improved furnaces that provide as easily and quickly. In most cases, they are strictly things to come. The more heat for less money. New gadgets all that is necessary is to remove the problem confronting most home own- and controls that make it possible to automatic unit and replace the grates ers, now that December has rolled improve the operation and efficiency of and one or more furnace doors. around again, is how to get dependable old and ailing heating plants also have In one new combination heating unit heat at low cost in the immediate, not been made available. And, for the tech- recently put on the market by the the distant, future. nically-minded home owner who real- Crotty Manufacturing Corp., any ly wants to get to the bottom of his standard gxm-type gas or oil burner TfflS THERMOMETER-STUDDED man- heating problems, there's even a spe- can be mounted on a hinged door at ikin sliows Iiow one's body is affected cial test kit that can be used to check the rear of the basic hand-fired coal by heat from Uslcon electric heating the efficiency of small automatic fur- furnace. When a change is desired or panels in the ceiling with a surface naces so that money-saving adjust- required from oil or gas to coal, the temperature of 102. The room is about 69 ments can be made. burner is simply swung back out of In the design of the new furnaces, the way, a metal plug which is pro- economy of fuel, compactness, and easy vided is placed in the burner hole, the convertibility from one kind of fuel to combustion chamber removed through another have been the prime consid- the firing door, and a coal fire built.

USING TWO separate grates progressively, this Worsham Co. furnace transforms soft coal into coke and combustible gases. The gases are burned first, then the coke )

units IS one manufactured by Norge. A scientifically constructed burner head creates a concentrated swirl and turbulence that forces the oil and air to mix thoroughly before being ignited. Greater efficiency also has been engineered into the newer types of coal furnaces. Newest is the Anthratube, developed by the Anthracite Institute and produced by several manufacturers. An 80 percent efficiency is claimed for it, which means a saving in coal costs of more than one quarter over run-of-the-mill hard-coal furnaces. The Anthratube, operating on the principle that a small amount of coal burned quickly provides the maximum heating efficiency, burns pea anthracite under forced draft and is completely automatic. There's not even any need for manual grate shaking. The new heater, compact in size, gets its name from its tubelike combustion chamber that receives coal from a feed-bin at one end and ejects burned ashes at the other. For home owners who use soft coal, there's a new hand-fired "gas-producing" fiirnace that is both smokeless and efficient — the ideal home heating unit for those who live in soft-coal areas. Through the use of two separate grates, used progressively, soft coal fii'st is transformed into coke and combustible gases. The gases burn during the pre-heating process and finally the coke formed is burned when it is trans- ferred to the second grate. The furnace literally burns its own smoke. The manufacturers, the Worsham Co., of St. Louis, Mo., claim that the furnace

requires ( Continued on page 40

THIS SLEEK furnace uses hard coal. Called the Anthratube it burns a little at a time

MADE HEAT-CONSCIOUS by the coal strike and the cosf of fuel, many home owners have been making changes in their heating plants. Here an oil burner conversion unit is installed

The entire change-over can be made atures becomes uneconomical when by the home owner in a matter of min- the temperature takes its periodic utes — a handy unit to have around mid-winter deep dives, there is a new when oil or gas prices soar or the elec- combination gas and oil furnace. Pro- tric power goes off and leaves you duced by the Norman Products Co., heatless for an extended period. the unit normally operates on gas, but Tops in convertibility probably is automatically switches over to oil provided by a deluxe double-duty heat- when the outside temperature drops ing unit manufactured by the Diesel Oil below a preset level. Then, when the Burner Coi-p. A simple flick of a con- outside temperature goes up again, it venient hand switch changes the heater automatically switches back to gas. A over instantaneously from oil to coal or thermostat mounted on the outside of from coal to oil. The heater consists of the house controls the change-over two completely separate combustion mechanism at the furnace. chambers—one for oil and one for coal. Considerably more heat for less The conversion switch operates the oil- money now is provided by the im- burner controls and changes the con- proved types of gun-type oil-burner nection from the main flue from one heads now available. Designed espe- combustion chamber to the other. cially to break the fluid oil up into For home owners who like the con- smaller droplets and produce a better venience of gas heat, but who live in air-oil mixture, they make it possible localities where the cost of gas, while to use the cheaper catalytic fuels with economical for normal winter temper- high efficiency. Typical of these new HOWARD NEISEN READS ONE OF THE THREE VOLUMES IN I iir BRAIllE THAT MAKE UP A SINGLE MAGAZINE ISSUE Best Re Edition

Not many Legionnaires are

aware that this magazine is read by thousands of blind veterans who know Braille

By J. C. KEELEY

T ALL STARTED about ten years groups for its support, and it has publishing of magazines and books in I ago with a letter from a Cali- operated thus since it was started in Braille, however, is the most import- fornia Legionnaire. "Why May, 1903. Its founders were Georgia ant of the projects. not," he wrote, "pubUsh The D. and Florence B. Trader. Georgia In arranging for the publication of American Legion Magazine in Braille who lost her sight when she was 11 The American Legion Magazine for so veterans who are blind will be able years old, dedicated her entire life to the blind it was first necessary to de- to keep abreast of what our organiza- helping other sightless persons. She cide which kind of printing would be tion is doing?" died in 1944, but her devoted sister most desirable. There are several types The next time the Publications Florence who had worked closely with — Lime Letter, New York Point, Moon, Commission met the Caiifornian's let- her throughout her career, carries on Braille in full spelling, Braille IVz, and ter was read to them. They voted the work they started at Clovernook. Grade 2 Braille. Since the three types unanimously to authorize a limited At the present time 38 women and first mentioned are not widely used, Braille edition to be circulated without girls live and work at the Clovemook the question was which of the Braille charge in hospitals and anywhere else Home for the Blind, which resembles systems was best for the purpose. The that groups of bhnd veterans who a small college rather than an institu- decision was to use Braille IVz- This could read Braille might be gathered. tion. Work and living quarters are consists of the alphabet, numerals, and The next step was to determine who spacious and comfortable, and the punctuation marks, but it permits a should do the printing. There are sev- Home's 29 acres supply much of the saving in space since it also employs eral Braille publishing concerns but food consumed by the residents. Under 63 contractions. The letter "c" for in- the contract was eventually given to the supervision of Anne Costello the stance means "can," the letter "w" the Clovernook Home for the Blind, women work on various handicraft means "will," etc. Grade 2 Braille was in Cincinnati. An important reason for projects and their output is sold in not used because it has about 200 con- this was its background and its meth- stores in and near Cincinnati. The tractions, and most blind people do not od of operation. Clovernook, unlike know so many. On the other hand, AT CLOVERNOOK blind girls other Braille publishers, is of 2 Braille non-com- make it possible for blind vets to readers Grade can read IVz- mercial. The work done there for the learn about The American Legion The first issue of the Magazine in blind is done hy the blind. The Ameri- Braille was issued in October, 1940, can Legion therefore felt that the and it has been going to blind veterans money spent with them would doubly ever since. When the first copies of the benefit people without sight. regular edition of the Magazine come Clovernook's background also fig- off the press, one of them is promptly ured prominently in the decision. It is edited in the New York office and air- a privately supported institution which mailed to Cincinnati. No advertising depends entirely upon endowments appeal's in the Braille edition and of and contributions from individuals and course there (Continued on page 59)

26 , . Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

December 1949

PRESIDENT SIGNS VET. BENEFIT BILL: avocational and recreational training in particular.

The Legion 's omnibus benefit bill raising compen- . . .Aviation courses, for instance, are now permitted sation and disability payments to veterans, their if they can be Justified in terms of present or con- dependents and beneficiaries, was signed by Presi- templated business or employment ... .But in general all courses determined by the VA to be recreational dent Truman on October 11. . . .The compensation increase in basic rates becomes effective December 1. or avocational are out (P.L. 266, 81st Congress) . . . New procedures, effective November 1, for applying 1949. and will be reflected in the January checks. . . . The new law (now Public Law 339, 81st Congress) pro- for additional education or training benefits, or vides: Additional compensation for vets --with de- change of course, or change of institution, are: . . . pendents who are rated 50 percent or more disabled; (1) Change of course or £idditional education or increases compensation for WWl vets with presumed training will be approved if such course is in the service-connected disabilities to the rate cur- same general field as the original educational or

job objective, or a normally related objective . Thus, rently paid to direct service-connected vets ; establishes progressive compensation ratings for vets a vet training as an automotive mechanic may take with arrested tuberculosis -- 100 percent for first training in body and fender repair and other related two years, 50 percent for next four years --and in- courses; or a vet in an institution of higher learn- creases disability ratings; increases death coming may work through his Bachelor, Master, and Doc- pensation to wartime widows with one or more chil- torate degrees, so long as he has entitlement. . . . dren; and liberalizes present rules barring payment (2) Veterans seeking training in a different general of compensation for injury or disease incurred while field must undergo advisement and guidance to determine need for such course. Determination is made under military or civil conf inement . . . .Of great

by VA. . . After November applications importance is the 8.7 across-the-board increase for . (3) 1, 1949, service-connected disabilities for vets of both for training must show the course elected aind the VfWs....New rate for total disability is $150 per institution in which the course will be pursued. This is to help VA determine whether or not the course month instead of $138. . . .This means that the vet rated 10 percent disabled will get $15 instead of is in the prohibited recreational and avocational category, and also to show that the institution has $13.80, and so on up to the maximum. . . .VA estimates that 2,024,000 vets of WWl and 2 and of the Spanish- been in existence more than one year .... (4) If training is approved, VA payments will begin with the American War will benefit by the increased rates. . . Also VA estimates the cost at $112,000,000 a year date the application is filed, or the date the vet The increases will be made automatically by VA-- enters training, whichever is later.... VA has no application is necessary, approved the Legion's request to permit applicants for Certificates of Eligibility to study in aji under- THAT NSLI DIVIDEND AGAIN: graduate institution as an "undergraduate course."

In mid-October a wild-eved story was sent out from . . .This will permit the veteran the same degree of Washington saying that NSLI dividend checks to WW2 freedom as the non-vet in the selection of a major vets "might be available" before Christmas. .. .The field before finishing his undergraduate course. . . story was widely published, raising a lot of false Enrolees in specialized institutions, such as col- hopes and more needless letter-writing and tele- leges of law, medicine, dentistry, engineering, etc., or vocational schools will be able to use phone calls. . . .The VA stopped the roorback as quickly as possible with a statement by Harold W. Breining, generalized course titles for application purposes. Assistant Administrator for Insurance ... .He called Certificates issued before November 1, will be the news story "absolutely false and without founda- honored after that date provided the veteran is not tion," and added, "Our present schedule calls for the going into a new field of study or to a new school. first checks to be dispatched about the middle of ARMED SERVICES GET A PAY BOOST: January . "... 12 million vets have already applied for When President Truman signed the new Armed Forces their slice of the $2,800,000,000 melon. . . .NSLI pro- pay bill on October 12 every soldier, sailor and gram has been stabilized. . . .The turmoil and confusion of the first few years after the end of the war has Marine from the freshest recruit to the highest been overcome, and the progrsim will from now on run General or Admiral got a hike in his monthly pay in routine much on the ssine line as the more than check.... It was the first general increase in 40 years, but in that time the pay of a recruit was 30-year-old Government Life program for WWl vets. . . . Already plamning aliead, VA has first to complete the jumped $21 to $75 a month. . . .Because of these in- big dividend distribution of surplus up to anni- creases in pay of men in the ranks while pay of officers remained at old levels, the really important versary date of each policy in 1948. . . .Then, VA is hopeful that in 1951 it can pick up and make distribu- take-home money goes to top-ranking officers. . . . tion of dividends earned between 1948 and 1951 .... Recruits get $5 a month raise; other enlisted and Thereafter, it is planned to make annual distribu- non-commissioned grades get small increases, but tion in accordance with the excess earnings back some Brigadier Generals will get an almost 50 percent

boost, counting base pay and allowances. . . of each policy. . . .And that is not a bad thing for .Military NSLI policyholders to look forward to. personnel got their first pay at the new rate on October 31. VA REVISES ITS CRACK-DOWN ON GI SCHOOLING: ILLINOIS HOLDS UNDELIVERED BONUS CHECKS: Bowing to th§ storm ra ised by its September 12 crack-down on GI education and training, the VA (on Illinois veterans of both World Wars who applied October 5) rescinded its hard-boiled Instruction for the State bonus and did not get their checks may

1-A... .Another Instruction (1-B) was issued with a have a welcome Christmas gift coming. . . .State Au- more liberal interpretation of the intent of Congress ditor Benjeunin 0. Cooper is holding checks for 400 in placing restrictions on courses in general and WW2 vets and for more than 100 WWl vets which have been 27 . . . . : . ,

returned by the postal authorities. . . .The applicants pears headed for passage early in the new session moved and left no forwarding address, in most cases. next year ... .Bills calling for return were intro- year Auditor Cooper has duced in the Senate by Senator Tom . . .Since the first of the Connally, Texas, made a nation-wide search for the rightful owners and in the House by Representatives Lloyd M. Bentsen, of the checks . . . .A brief appeal in Newsletter (June Texas, and Charles R. Howell, New Jersey. . . .Return 1949) he says, brought "a deluge of letters from of the standards as a good-will gesture was urged almost every State in the Union and several foreign by the National Executive Committee of the Legion countries, providing us with absolute information or last May in approving a resolution initiated by the clues to the present whereabouts of men on the Department of Mexico. . . .Property of the U. S. Gov- " list . . . .To date Auditor Cooper has located 700 WW2 ernment, the flags are now exhibited at the Military owners of unclaimed checks, and 9 for WWl vets whose Academy at West Point, where they were placed by checks had been gathering dust in the State House executive order of President Polk, dated February vaults for 25 years. . . .Illinois paid a liberal bonus 16, 1848. to its servicemen in both wars. . . .Men who have not been paid, but made application, will do well to ERROR IN BENEFIT BILL CAUGHT BY LEGION: follow up this lead. . . .Write Ben.lamin 0^ Cooper. An error in language in the Omnibus Veterans Auditor of Public Accounts. Springfield. Illinois. Benefit Bill (now Public Law 339, 81st Congress) which would deprive some thousands of WWl vets of the IDAHO HOMESTEAD LAND OPEN: increased rates was detected by the Legion's watch-

A new section of 4.489 acres of irrigable public ful team in Washington. . . .Now, thanks to the prompt land, comprising 50 farm units, in the Payette Divi- action of the Rehabilitation and Legislative division of the Boise Project in Ideiho has been opened sions the oversight has been cured by a special for homestead entry. . . .Preference is given to WW2 bill. . . .Director T. 0. Kraabel and his staff of and vets. . . .The area lies just north of Middleton rehabilitation experts questioned the wording of Notus, marking east and west boundaries, at eleva- the Bill, which attempted to rectify an injustice to tions ranging from 2,300 to 2,500 feet above sea WWl "presumptives" . . . .The intent was to restore level ... .Veterans interested can get further in- full compensation to all such presumptive cases, and formation from the Department of Interior . Bureau of to give an overall 8.7 increase in basic rates.... Reclamation. Washington 25. D^ C^ or from the Irri- VA legal experts ruled that the bill as written gation Manager . Notus. Idaho . . . .All applications and ready for passage did not do this; that a substan- for land in this opening must be filed in the office tial number of the WWl vets were not helped, or were of the Irrigation Manager . Bureau of Reclamation. only partially helped by the measure. . . .Legisla-

Notus. Idaho b^ 2:00 p.m. . January 5j. 1950. tive Director John Thomas Taylor then attempted to cure the defect by a recommended aunendment, so as to ORCHIDS TO STATE VET SERVICE: provide coverage certainly and without question The New York Division of Veterans' Affairs reported for a group of over 160,000 WWl vets who otherwise in mid-October that a total of 4,630,401 services would not be entitled to an increase in the basic had been rendered veterans and their families through compensation rates ... .When this failed in the in- its several offices during the four preceding years. terest of early enactment of the measure, immediate

. . .The agencies gave advice and assistance on matters steps were taken to secure remedial legislation. .. . of personal interest, including employment, educa- Director Taylor requested Congressman John E. tion, training, compensation, pension and medical Rankin to introduce a Legion draft clearing the benefits matter ... .This measure (H.R. 6301) was introduced

by Mr. Rankin on October 3. . . .The House Committee of DISABLED URGED TO REINSTATE NSLI Veterans Affairs, (Mr. Rankin, Chairman), reported

Representative John E. Rankin Chairman of the the Bill favorably on October 14. . . .Passed by the

House Veterans ' Affairs Committee, inserted a notice House on October 17, the Senate gave its approval on in the Congressional Record to all service-connected the following day. . .As a result of this alert and disabled veterans of WW2 who have dropped their Na- timely action - The American Legion was the only tional Service Life Insurance, that they have a right vet organ ization t o urge it - the basic disability to reinstate it up to December 31 . 1949. without compensation rates of all war veterans rated 10 to examination. . . .Chairman Rankin warned that if they 100 percent will be increased, effective December 1, should fail to take advantage of this opportunity (see "Vet Benefit Bill", page 37.).... The Legion between now and December 31, they and their families bill rushed through Congress under a priority label would lose the protection which this insurance guarantees that no disabled vet will be left out in provides the cold as a result of the original inadequate wording of H.R. 5598. GOOD-BYE TO THE WAR HORSE: The horse has had its day but must now give way ARMY TO RELEASE 30,000 DRAFTEES: to the mechanized arms of the United States Army. . . . Beginning December 1. a total of 30,000 Army Only 327 horses remain in the service of the Army, and draftees will be permitted to go back into civilian

20 of these animals are attached to the ceremonial life, says Gordon Gray, Secretary of the Army. . . . company at Fort Myer, Va....The remainder are The discharges will be offered to draftees with at scattered, used as draft animals and as mounts for least a year of service. . .Gray said the decision was guards patroling widely isolated areas at certain made by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, and

Army posts. . . .June, 1944, saw the last of the horses is designed to meet budget cuts. . .The cutback will, in artillery units. . . .The last cavalry unit turned insofar as possible, be made in service troops in its mounts in December, 1944. . . .Army's horse rather than in combat units... No cuts are contem- breeding program was shifted to the Department of plated for the National Guard or the Organized

Agriculture in July, 1948. . . .Now, the Army has an- Reserve Corps. nounced that it is definitely through with its par- FIGHTING MEN: ticipation in horse shows and other equestrian THROUGH THESE PORTALS PASSED events. . . .Lack of mounts and pressure of military Camp Kilmer. Brunswick. New Jersey, will be affairs in a mechanized force does not permit long deactivated as a military installation, beginning training needed to qualify show riders. December 1. . . .As the staging and processing camp for the Eastern area, more than five million troops RETURN OF MEXICAN BATTLE FLAGS: passed through Camp Kilmer, going to or coming Legion -sponsored legislation to return to Mexico from overseas points, since its establishment in

66 battle flags captured in the war of 1846-48 ap- 1942. . . .Its operations will be shifted to Camp Dix.

28 : The Natioivai Legionnaire

Programs For 1950 Laid Down By National Executive

Committee; Major Legislative Objectives Are Fixed

First Emphasis to be Placed Eisenhower and Johnson Speak LOS ANGELES WINS 1950 On Rehabilitation, National I \ On Unification and the State

i; NATIONAL CONVENTION \ Security and Americanism Of the Armed Forces

\', lected as tiie place for holding the \> At its regular fall meeting held at the acquaint doctors with the proper method 1950 National Convention by oflScial |' National Headquarters at Indianapolis J; of making medical statements accept- ]i action of the National Executive i\ on November 3d to 6th, the National >' able to VA, and requested the appoint- Committee as one of the first items 1|

Executive Committee, presided over by i\ of business when that body convened ment of a qualified nurse, veteran of ||

National Commander George N. Craig, i| at National Headquarters on Novem- |' either World War, as Director of the 4. fixed ? laid down one of the most extensive and !| ber The dates for the con- Nursing Service of the VA. wide-flung programs for 1950 the Legion |i clave were October 9 to 12. 2 <' This is — National Security has ever attempted; fixed the major a return engagement the Z 'i\ National Convention of 1938 was ? legislative progi-am for the second ses- The Legion's long standing program 1| held in the City of the Angels. The sion of the 81st Congress, and set the \ of National Security Training of all the Organization, both from the local ? I house in order to attain all objectives. J nation's youth was reaffirmed, and op- 'i and national viewpoint, will move J The national governing body heard u into high gear very soon to com- z position to the peace-time Selective

General I plete Service announced. Dwight D. Eisenhower chal- I arrangements to care for the ? was The resolution

lenge the Legion and every citizen to !| nation's largest annual convention. > declared that the Selective Service Act At the same time the National X "put his counti-y above self," and heard !| of 1948 was a milked-down substitute ? Executive him blow the whistle on the armed serv- Committee awarded the i for the National Security Training pro- 1951 National Convention to the Z ices on the squabbling between the I gram and recommended that it not be i twin cities of Miami and Miami 7 sei-vices over unification; listened to extended by Congress upon expiration z Beach, Florida. Final approval will ? Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, in June, 1950. It was also urged that a Z be given by that body after condi- X Past Congress set National Commander, in an off the ^ tions concerning housing and hotel t up an adequate civil de- cuff talk, give an ominously clear re- X rooms and finances have been met. z fense program to be ready for possible view of the state of the services. i The Legion has held two national 7 atomic warfare; that all atomic energy Internal affairs of the national or- z meets in that area — in 1934 and X information be retained as the exclu- again ganization were given major attention, in 1948. sive property of our counti-y "for the >^ ^ much of the time of the five long ses- good of humanity as a whole;" that sions was devoted to tightening the unification of the Armed Forces be com- lines, closing up gaps, adopting a bud- into session. Out of all these several pleted speedily with "complete accord get within the expected revenue of the meetings came suggestions, reports and between the various components," and cun-ent year, and organizing for vigor- recommendations for the consideration that the third Saturday of May in each ous, forthright campaigns for the ob- of the Legion solons. year be set aside and observed as Armed jectives to which the Legion stands Forces Day. committed. Rehabilitation Program Clarified Americanism Program Strengthened Of prime importance in fixing this A number of resolutions were adopted progi-am was the major legislative concerning rehabilitation and readjust- Supporting National Commander agenda which, by unanimous vote, gave ment of war veterans covering objec- Craig in initiating a program to bring priority to tives both legislative and administra- together in a solid front all patriotic, 1. Rehabilitation, the first objective, tive. The Legion, because of the in- civic, church and other groups that have including all measures and mandates creased load of disability claims, fully enlisted in the fight against the Russian now pending for the rehabilitation and recognized the imperative need for ex- brand of totalitarianism, Americanism readjustment of veterans of the two pansion of the rehabilitation facilities, was made the third point in the priority World Wars. and provision was made for such expan- legislative agenda. The progi-am, how- 2. National security, embracing all sion to meet the current needs. Among ever, is much broader than the cam- commitments looking to the develop- the more important pronouncements paign against communist, fascist and ment of security in every phase, mili- were: other subversive movements; it includes tary and civil. 1. Vigorous objection to any consoli- all measures that further the well being 3. Americanism, covering a broad pro- dation of the Veterans Administration of our youth and our national life. gram laid down by the National Con- with any group which would end spe- The Committee approved the Nixon vention, and also includes uncompleted cialized hospitalization for veterans, and Bill (H.R. 3342) and the Hobbs Bill mandates of former years. any cutback in the VA hospital con- (H.R. 10), now pending in Congress. Prior to the convening of the Na- struction program which would elimi- The former would require members of tional Executive Committee, the sev- nate 16,000 beds. the communist party to register as a eral standing Commissions and Com- 2. Raise in income limitation applying matter of public record, and the latter mittees were in session at Indianapolis to pensions for veterans and widows of would put teeth in the alieia deportation to formulate progress reports and to veterans to $1,800 without dependents, laws. Another resolution urged "exten- make recommendations for the coming and $3,000 with dependents. The present sive publication of all dangers to lib- year. The annual Conference of Depart- limitation is $1,000 without dependents erty" in warning of the misrepresenta- ment Commanders and Adjutants, with and $2,500 with dependents. tions fostered by the communist pro- the top ranking officials of nearly every 3. Urged program of recruitment of gram. Department present, was held on the physicians for the VA, and asked that The readmission of Fritz Kuhn, de- three days immediately before the Na- a training program for psychiatrists be posed leader of the German-American tional Executive Committee was called continued. Called for a campaign to Bund, into this country was opposed;

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President Truman's loyalty program "The breath of those close behind us is Commissions. Chairmen and Vice Chair- was approved ; Federal Judge Harold R. warm on our neck. Our weapons must men, who will work with National Com- Medina, who presided at the months- be developed for use, not against a mander Craig to mold and direct the prolong trial of the 11 communists in New theoretical enemy, but for defense grams and policies of the Legion are "service against York, was commended for his a great land power. Our strat- AMERICANISM COMMISSION - Chairman, to God and Country and his fellow egy must be to strike where he is likely James F. Green, Omaha, Neb.; Vice Chairmen, Dan C. Hartbauer, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Robert Americans." the weakest— his long lines of communi- R. Wright, Ironwood, Mich. Condemnation of the "intemperate cation and transportation, his produc- ACCIDENT PREVENTION COMMITTEE — Chairman, Clarence Lynch, indiscriminate use of derogatory ap- tion facilities and to defend ourselves E. Burlington, Vt.; and — Vice Chairmen, Eugene W. Biscailuz, Los Angeles, pellations tending to impugn the loyalty against the strategy upon which he is Gal., and Ben T. Watkins, Macon, Ga. LAW AND ORDER COMMITTEE-Chairman, citizens" was expressed ; and full ap- likely to concentrate — a blitz ground of George Mingle, Columbus, Ohio; Vice Chairman, proval and endorsement was given to attack against the nations friendly to Erwin R. Lehmann, Langdale, Ala. MARKSMANSHIP - No Director appointed; H.R. 157, now in Congress, which au- us and atomic raids upon our industrial Assistant Director, Abe Shelly, Steelton, Pa. thorizes the Attorney General of the cities. SONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION - Chair- man, J. B. Koch, Norman, Okla.; to award to outstanding, "We believe," the Secretary con- Vice Chairman, United States Joe Kise, Moorhead, Minn. courageous young Americans a medal tinued, "that we still have munitions CHILD WELFARE - Chairman, Dr. A. H. Wittmann, for heroism, to be known as the "Young that can inflict greater damage on ad- Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice Chairman, David V. Addy, Detroit, Mich. Area Chairmen: American Medal for Bravery." This versaries than they can inflict upon us, (A) Harry Kamens, Terryville, Conn.; (B) measure has passed the House. and better defenses to thwart their ag- John C. Donovan, Washington, D. C.; (C) Charles M. Mitchell, Monroe, La.; (D) Glen B. Hillis, Resolutions thanking the Ford Motor gressive designs." Kokomo, Ind.; (E) Edwin G. Hobbs, Albuquerque, N. Mex. Area Vice Chairmen, (A) Thomas P. Company, and J. G. Taylor Spink, pub- The Secretary stressed the impor- Athridge, Roslindale, Mass.; (B) George A. Leber, lisher of The Sporting News for excep- tance of the Navy in a conflict with a Tonawanda, N. Y.; (C) Dr. Garland D. Murphy, Jr., El Dorado, Ark.; tional service in support of Junior Base- foreign power, and outlined the mission (D) Cliff Bomberger, McPherson, Kans.; (E) Stanley F. Dunmire, ball were adopted. The 20 National of that arm against a potential enemy Napa County, Cal. Commander Scholarships, which have of today in keeping open the sea lanes EDUCATION OF ORPHANS OF VETERANS — Chairman, Major General P. C. Harris, Wash- been awarded annually, were dropped, to any part of the world. ington, D. C; Vice Chairmen, George O. Demke, El Reno, Okla., and Amos Hughes, Albuquer- with provision that all scholarships "The United States Navy," he said, O. the que, N. Mex. previously awarded will be valid until "as a vital member of our unified na- NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMISSION Chairman, Vincent A. Carroll, Philadelphia, Pa.; December 31, 1953. It is believed that tional defense must be adequately Vice Chairman, George H. Stott, Larchmont, N. Y. many times this number of children of equipped at all times in the way best CONTEST SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE - Chairman, J. veterans can be aided through scholar- designed to fulfill the roles and missions Earl McCurdy, LaPorte, Ind.; Vice Chairman, Stephen A. Manning, Marlboro, Mass. ships available from other sources, arising out of these objectives. We must DISTINGUISHED GUEST COMMITTEE - Chairman, III.; through assisting eligibles to obtain have a Navy that guarantees us freedom A. L. Starshak, Chicago, Vice Chairmen, John Hale Hackley, Cleveland, Ohio; such scholarships. of the seas." Edward J. Barrett, Springfield, 111.; Charles Rochester, New York, N. Y.; General Frank Schwengei, New York, N. Y.; Col. Jacob Arvey, Eisenhower Stirs Comment Chicago, III.; Dr. Martin Spellman, Boston, Mass.; Glenwood J. Sherrard, Boston, Mass.; Jerry J. Highlights of the week of meetings Brown, New York, N. Y.; John Ford, Hollywood, DAILY PRAYER FOR WORLD Cal.; Earl Coffman, Palm Springs, Cal. were the addresses of General Dwight TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE - Chair- D. Eisenhower delivered to the Execu- PEACE ASKED BY LEGION man, F. H. Baird, New York, N. Y.; Vice Chair- men, Frank W. Wilson, Jacksonville, Fla.; F. G. tive in session, and that of Committee Fitz-Patrick, Chicago, III.; Frank Roark, Seattle, At its meeting at Indianapolis on Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson at Wash.; J. T. Garbett, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Charles November 6th, the National Execu- National D. McNaught, Topeka, Kansas. the Commander's dinner at the tive Committee adopted a resolution ECONOMIC COMMISSION -Chairman, Law- Indiana Athletic Club. Both, as would calling for a noontime Daily rence J. Fenlon, Chicago, 111.; Vice Chairman, Moment Paul Brown, Shreveport, La. naturally be expected, dealt primarily of Prayer for world peace, and asked AGRICULTURAL AND CONSERVATION with the Armed Services and national that all officers of the Legion "seek COMMITTEE — Robert D. Morrow, Brandon, Miss.; Vice Chairman, D. Kingsbury, Lowville, to have this of C. security, and both speakers could quali- Moment Prayer ob- N. Y. fy as experts on their subjects. served by Legionnaires as an ex- EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE - Chairman. ample and an encouragement to all Spence S. Boise, Bismarck, N. Dak.; Vice Chair- Speaking as an old soldier to men of men, Salvatore North Hollywood, citizens in futherance of a common A. Cappodice, a common service, General Eisenhower Cal.; Frank G. Orndorff, Waynesburg, Pa., and aspiration." John L. Connors, Hartford, Conn. did not dwell on flights of oratory, but "Having complete confidence in HOUSING COMMITTEE-Bertram E. Giesecke, got right down to earth and to solid the ability Austin, Texas; Vice Chairman not named. of our fellow men, with LABOR RELATIONS COMMITTEE - Frank facts. "We must stop this fight between the aid of Almighty God, to estab- R. Kelley, Dorchester, Mass., representing indus- the armed services or the dream of uni- lish a just and enduring peace in try, and Walter L. Angle, Waterbury, Conn., representing labor. fication will become a nightmare," he de- the world," the resolution recites in VETERANS' PREFERENCE COMMITTEE - clared, adding that the responsibility for calling for the Daily Prayer. "It is Chairman, Raymond R. McEvoy, Stoughton, friction could recommended that all Legionnaires Mass.; Vice Chairmen, Willard W. Smith, Cali- not be charged against ente, Nevada; Herbert Jacobi, Washington, everywhere pause for one minute in J. any one of the services. D. C, and Norman D. Dunbar, Los Angeles, Cal. each day at noontime in their em- "We're spending too damn much FINANCE COMMISSION -Chairman, William ployments of whatever kind to raise J. Dwyer, Cortland, N. Y.; Vice Chairman, Harold money to be careless about it," the Gen- their hearts and minds Redden, Springfield, Mass. to God asking EMBLEM COMMITTEE - Chairman, Julius eral continued. need planning in "We that He help us to so adjust our Levy, Uniontown, Pa.; Vice Chairman, Dee advance and more co-ordination be- differences among men as to enable Holder, Los Angeles, Cal. INVESTMENTS POLICY COMMITTEE — tween the executive the nations of this to secure and legislative world Chairman, James R. Favret, Cincinnati, Ohio. branches of the Government. The ap- an equitable and abiding peace." OVERSEAS GRAVES DECORATION TRUST Originating in Henry J. Sweeney — Chairman, George N. Craig, Indianapolis, Ind.; pearance of strength is our greatest Brown, Post, Manchester, New Hampshire, Vice Chairman, Perry Beaumont, Texas; assurance of safety in the world today. Treasurer, Neal Grider, Indianapolis, Ind.; Secre- the resolution was presented by Rev- tary, Henry H. Dudley, Indianapolis, Indiana. Conditions in the world do not justify erend Father Edward J. Carney, FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMISSION - complacency. O.S.A., National Chaplain. Chairman, William Verity, Middletown, Ohio; "Throughout Vice Chairmen, Charles A. Gonser, Spokane, the world people are Wash., and Leon Happell, Stockton, Cal. asking: what is the temper of the United INTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION -Chair- States? Our strength man, William J. Lowry, Hartford, Conn.; Vice must be not only Chairman, Max Brents, El Centro, Cal. military but economic and industrial Appointment of Committees CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS COMMIT- TEE — Chairman, Samuel M. Bimbaum, New and, call it what you will, spiritual." One of the final acts of the National York, N. Y.; Vice Chairman, Walter E. Rountree, Tallahassee, Fla. Must Keep Ahead Executive Committee was to confirm GRAVES REGISTRATION AND MEMORIAL the report of the Committee on Com- COMMITTEE — Chairman, Mancel B. Talcott, Waukegan, III.; Vice Chairman, Jack L. Newman, Secretary Johnson pointed out that mittees, listing the names of more than Jr., Ponca City, Okla. atomic energy has been developed "in a thousand Legionnaires who will serve MEMBERSHIP AND POST ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE-Chairman, J. Victor Giasson, Las other lands" and that the country must during the current year as members of Vegas, Nevada; Vice Chairmen, Irvin R. Snydar, move swiftly to maintain its supremacy. the National Standing Committees and (Continued on page 36) 2Q * The Amexiccm Legion Magazine • December, 1949 : .

the City of Philadelphia of approximately 5500 employees in connection Congress Accepts Recommendations with the National Census. The bill specifically provided $875,000 to cover cost of moving the Veterans Administration Of Legion At Close Of 1st Session office to other unspecified quarters in order that the Census Bureau could oc- conduct." As enacted, Public Law 339 cupy the present VA offices. Such a move Many Veteran Gains Won In did not provide for increasing compen- would have been extremely inconvenient sation for approximately 150,000 World for the Veterans Administration and Spite of Fight to Sabotage War I veterans being compensated by would have impaired the efficiency of Established Benefits Public Law 141 — 73rd Congress. To that office. The National Legislative Di- correct this discrepancy. Representative rector presented the matter to some of John E. Rankin (Mississippi), the BY JOHN THOMAS TAYLOR Chair- members of the House Senate Con- man of the House Veterans' Affairs ference Committee considering H. R. National Legislative Director Committee, introduced our bill, H. R. 6427. As finally adopted, the bill makes Following one of the longest peace- 6301, during the closing days of the provision for housing of the 17th Decen- time sessions in the history of the coun- session. Unprecedented speed in the nial Census at Philadelphia, but it was try, the first session of the 81st Congress legislative clearance of H. R. 6301 was agreed by the managers on the part of adjourned on October 19. In addition to largely due to the able and aggressive the House and Senate that space in the length of the session, Congress broke leadership of Chairman Rankin and Philadelphia is to be provided for the its peacetime record in the amount of Senator Walter F. George (Georgia), Census Bureau, without moving any of- expenditures authorized. Barring any Chairman of the Senate Finance Com- fice of the Veterans Administration. unforeseen emergency, necessitating the mittee. The law was signed by the Presi- Hospitalization calling of a special session, Congi-ess dent on October 29. will not again meet until January The President signed the American 3, Veterans Administration 1950 when the second session will con- Legion-supported bill, H. R. 6022, in- vene. Additional appropriation of $15,000,- creasing the rates of compensation of Since our report in the November is- 000 for administrative expenses for the certain employees of the Department of sue of the American Legion Magazine, Veterans Administration for the 1950 Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans legislative developments of particular fiscal year was provided in a supple- Administration (Public Law 349). Interest to The American Legion were mental appropriation bill, H, R. 6427, Social Security outstanding. Before the 81st Congress approved by Congress and sent to the convened last January, an economy President. These funds will come from By a vote of 333 yeas to 14 nays, the drive of considerable proportions, par- the unobligated balance of funds appro- House passed H. R. 6000, the Social ticularly directed at veterans' benefits, priated for such purposes for the 1949 Security Expansion Bill. Of particular had developed. This trend continued all fiscal year. The amount originally re- importance to all veterans was a provi- during the session, being greatly en- quested by the Veterans Administration sion in the bill recommended by The couraged by recommendations of the was $17,500,000. However, the $15,000,- American Legion to grant a wage credit so-called Hoover Commission on Reor- 000 will enable the Administration to to veterans of World War II of $160 per ganization of Government Agencies. operate with a possible shrinkage of 700 month for time spent in military service. Also, those same elements which not reduction in personnel, which will be As passed by the House, the bill carried only opposed our legislative program absorbed by freezing replacements. out in whole or in part eight additional for the benefit of veterans and their This bill was also amended by the American Legion recommendations, as dependents, but endeavored to secure ad- Senate to provide funds for housing in follows ministrative or legislative action to de- 1. Remove penalty on veterans A. S. S. I. prive veterans and their dependents of (Resolutions 799, 1947 National Convention benefits heretofore granted, have been THIRD MEMBER OF FAMILY and 754, 1948 National Convention). 2. Extend coverage in OAS! to uninsured extremely active. The employment and WEARS WWl 2nd LT. BARS groups (Resolutions 802, 1947 National Con- vention and 754, 1948 National Convention). retention rights of approximately one 3. Disability insurance (Resolutions 803, million veterans now on the Federal pay- 1947 National Convention and 754, 1948 Na- tional Convention). roll, as well as thousands of veterans 4. Permanent extension of Section 210 (3 undergoing education and training pro- year clause), (Resolutions 800, 1947 National Convention, and 754, 1948 National Conven- grams under the American Legion's GI tion). Bill, have been jeopardized by a well- 5. Increase benefits to children (Resolutions 801, 1947 National Convention and 754, 1948 organized and well-financed fight to National Convention). sabotage the Veterans Preference JLiaw. 6. Grant ADC Federal Reimbursement partially on economic capacity of State (Resolu- Regardless of these and other obstacles tions 798, 1947 National Convention and 754, we have had to overcome, it is gratifying 1948 National Convention). 7. Assistance for Mothers who stay home to to report that the veterans and their care for ADC children (Resolution 797, 1947 dependents have not been deprived of a National Convention and 754, 1948 National Convention) single benefit heretofore provided by 8. Include Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands Congress while, on the contrary, laws under provisions of Social Security Act, as recommended in previous Legion resolutions. have been enacted improving and At a graduation ceremony held at strengthening the position of the veter- Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Ol^lahoma, The Chairman of the Senate Finance ans and their dependents. WWl veteran Bradley R. Taylor, Rhine- Committee has indicated that hearings lander, Wisconsin, proudly pinned the on H. R. 6000 will commence shortly Omnibus Benefit Law "family 2nd lieutenant bars" on the after Congress convenes in January. The President signed The American shoulders of his son. Lieutenant Perry The National Legislative Commission Legion's Omnibus Bill, H. R. 5598 (now Taylor. The bars are older than the has made formal request that represen- Public Law 339), to increase compen- young officer. They were first worn by his tatives of the Legion may appear and sation for World War I presumptive father when he was commissioned a 2nd present our recommendations. service-connected cases, provide mini- Lieutenant, Infantry, in WWl, and then Housing mum rating for service-connected ar- again by his brother, Douglas, who was rested tuberculosis cases, increase cer- graduated from cadet training in 1944. The President signed The American tain disability and death compensation Legionnaire Bradley Taylor, member of Legion-supported measure, S. J. Res. rates, liberalize requirement for de- Rhinelander Legion Post, is a member 134, to amend the National Housing Act pendency allowances, and redefine the of the Legion's National Legislative Com- (Public Law 387). The resolution was terms "line of duty" and "wilful mis- mittee. amended so as to permit national banks

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 * 31 to purchase securities and otherwise totalitarian, subversive and other or- of our National Executive Committee, participate in the military rental hous- ganizations. we will require the wholehearted coop- to establish 100% eration and assistance of members of ing program, and a Merchant Marine secondary market for GI loans. This the Legion and Auxiliary, as well as latter amendment was extremely impor- The House Committee on Merchant all friends of veterans. Our Legislative assistant to veterans in that it provided for Marine and Fisheries favorably reported Bulletin has proved of invaluable the purchase by the Federal National The American Legion-supported bill, tance not only in keeping our members Mortgage Association from banks 100% H. R. 5346, to amend the Merchant Ma- promptly informed of developments in of their portfolios of GI home loans un- rine Act to fui-ther promote the devel- Washington, but in obtaining their as- der Section 501 of the Servicemen's Re- opment and maintenance of the Mer- sistance in connection with particular adjustment Act. Authorities in the field chant Marine. legislative problems. It is of the utmost of home loan mortgages have indicated importance that the Legislative Bulletin Postal Rates that this provision will greatly improve receive the widest possible distribution, the availability of 4% money to veterans. The House Committee on Post Office particularly to Legion Posts and Aux- and Civil Service favorably reported iliary Units. Homesteads H. R. 2945, to readjust postal rates. The Renewals and new subscriptions for President Truman signed the Ameri- Senate Post Office and Civil Service the Legislative Bulletin for the Second can Legion-supported bill, H. R. 2514, Committee had previously repoi'ted a Session of the 81st Congress, which con- authorizing direct Government loans to similar bill, S. 1103. During considera- venes in January, should be sent in homesteaders on land in both the United tion of these bills by the Senate and promptly. Subscription of $3.00, which States and Alaska (Public Law 316). House Committee, The American Legion is less than our actual cost, includes all The law authorizes the Secretary of presented testimony in opposition to Bulletins and Supplements issued dur- Agriculture to make loans to homestead- rates originally proposed, which would ing each Session of Congress. Subscrip- ers for any purpose specified under have increased the mailing cost of The tions should be sent to the National terms of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Ten- American Legion Magazine approxi- Legislative Commission at the tempo- ant Act on the same basis as loans now mately $700,000. As reported, neither of rary address of the Washington Office, made to farmers. Veterans having 90- the two above bills would provide any 734 15th Street, Northwest, Washing- day preference in applying for home- increase in the postage rate on our ton 5, D. C. stead land, will be greatest beneficiaries magazine. Displaced Persons under the law. During the closing days of the Ses- Automobiles for Amputees sion, the -National Legislative Commis- i; PENNA. POST WON FIRING Congress passed and sent to the Presi- sion was faced with a real fight to carry dent the American Legion Bill, S. 2115, out the mandate of our Philadelphia \ SQUAD CONTEST AT PHILA. i; to authorize payments by the Veterans National Convention in opposition to of Administrator on purchase of automo- \\ The Firing Squad Glenside |1 any liberalization of the Displaced Per-

(Pennsylvania) Post No. 248 captured \\ I biles or other conveyances by certain J sons Law. In accordance with this reso-

1 the American Legion Firing Squad 1 \\ disabled veterans of World Wars I and lution (No. 54) , the National Legislative championship with a score of 87.73 n. The bill would provide automobiles \\ Director testified before a subcommittee \\ in a spirited contest with six other \> for World War I and World War II vet- of the Senate Judiciary Committee in

'\ of use of one or both arms, one or both tion at Philadelphia. This event had \\ Our resolution demanded of our Gov-

>\ with the Color Guard legs, or the sight of both eyes. Estimated been combined |[ ernment heads that they strictly adhere

J in 1947 1948, and in tot- ;> cost of the measure is $25 million. This I contest and to the existing laws and quotas allowing ting up the long list of winners of the *\ Act was vetoed by President Truman on \\ immigration to the United States, and \> various events it was again counted October 31. (I particularly adhere to the laws now in ji as a combination and credit was \\ force applying to displaced persons; also • 1 given James De Armond Golliday Veterans Preference \\ that steps be taken to curtail as far as \\ Post No. 8, Kokomo, Indiana, as the ;> The House passed H. R. 4285, to retro- possible any further immigratioh to this \\ winner of both competitions. h actively advance in grade, time in grade, \> The Keystone State unit is entitled \\ country at the present.

<\ in firing and compensation certain employees in to all honors as champs the \\ A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee had <\ squad division, while the veteran the Postal Field Service who are veter- |[ been making an extensive study of the !; Hoosier Color Guard has honor ans of World War II. This bill would |> entire immigration and naturalization enough in its own field. Due apology s take care of a very limited number of \\ problems, and its Chairman, as well as Ji has been made to the splendid Glen- \\ Federal employees who are veterans, a subcommittee chairman of the House

22 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 Speaking of building projects, the West * Virginia Legionnaire for October has * * * LEGIONITEMS * * mention of seven Mountain State Posts now in new home-making work, ranging from Chester Post No. 121, at the extreme Pueblo (Colorado) Post No. 2 has unveiling. . . . Four BuUer brothers, all northern tip, to War Post No, 43 in the awarded an American Legion Medal for overseas veterans, are members of Yel- southern tier. Between are Hamlin Post Heroism to Walter Styduhar for saving lowstone Post No. 4, Billings, Montana. No. Ill, Robert M. Deaner Post No. 169, 3-year-old Bobby Blackwell from . . . Also, the seven fighting Marchiondo Sophia; Tyler County Post No. 48, Mid- drowning. Hero Styduhar was com- brothers, all overseas combat vets, have dlebourne, and Fairmont Post No. 17, mended not only for the rescue but also reupped for 1950 with their home Legion which has outgrown its present fine for resuscitation by administering arti- unit, Vaughan-Moore-Buhr Post No. 5, home Some years ago Guy E. Herrick, ficial respiration. . , . The Department Raton, New Mexico. 28 Shepard Street, Westfield, Massachu- of New Mexico has for the past nine setts, found a silver finger ring of WWl years owned a one-story building at Luke-Greenway Squadron No. 1, Sons vintage in the Westfield River. The ring, Albuquerque, used for headquarters. of the Legion, of Phoenix, Arizona, was obviously made of a carefully pounded Having outgrown these quarters, a national winner of the 1949 rifle postal out French silver franc piece with the second story is being added at a cost match. Last year this team of dead- lettering "Republique Francaise, Liberte- of $54,000, which will give the space shots annexed the State Junior Cham- Egalite-Fraternite, 1918" still legible. In- needed for the Legion and office rooms U. pionship in small bore. . . .The Village scribed are the words "Art. Lt. W. to rent. . . . Edwin C. Creeger, Jr., Post Council of New London, Ohio, extended Hudson, 54." Herrick would like to return No. 168, Thurmont, Maryland, has a an official vote of thanks to Broome- the ring to its owner — if Lt. Hudson is new home under construction. Wood Post No. 292 for putting a coat still kicking about, he can get his sou- * of paint on the jail. One member venir by making proper identification. The national champion drum and donated the paint, another the spray bugle corps, sponsored by Raymond A. outfit, and three more did the work. . . . Frank J. Schneller, Madison, Wiscon- Gabarina Memorial Post No. 1523, New "Long on ambition but short on cash," sin, Past Department Commander of York City, got a royal official welcome as Adjutant Harvey Goodwin puts it, the Wisconsin Legion and for years at City Hall, after a brilliant parade, on the members of Cleveland Graphite Director of the National Markmanship October 4. On this first official appear- Bronze Memorial Post No. 600, Cleve- Committee, is the new National Com- ance after winning the title at the Phila- land, Ohio, are getting ready to build mander of the Military Order of the delphia National Convention, the Corps a Post home. Though they do not have Purple Heart. . . . Associated veterans received a certificate of "distinguished a building lot, members of the Post are organizations gave a testimonial dinner and exceptional service," and words of making the cement blocks, and have at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, to praise from Mayor William O'Dwyer, lined up manpower for the actual con- Irving Geist in appreciation of his ef- (Legionnaire), and Deputy Mayor John J. struction job. forts in behalf of wounded, sick and Bennett, Past Department Commander disabled veterans. Mr. Geist was of New York. . . . T. W. Anderson, Ad- ARMY-AIR FORCE GET NEW awarded the Novelli Medal, created in jutant of Burton Beyer Post No. 120, PENDANT FOR OLD RIBBON 1941 by the New York Legion. . . . Palmer, Nebraska, was given a chicken During the course Members of Earl D. McVey Post No. feed and a Life Membership card on of WW2 the green 16, Mansfield, Ohio, presented a variety completion of 25 years of service as Post and white Commen- show to hospitalized veterans at Crile Adjutant. He then turned the job over dation Ribbon was General Hospital, Parma. Ice cream, to Wayne Gee. created as a token of cakes and coffee were served to the 650 * * * meritorious achieve- patients. Rev. Harrison H. Black, D.D., 1949-50 ment or service. No Department Chaplain of Georgia, has medal was contem- Commander George C. Reinmiller, served as Legion Chaplain in Florida, plated at that time Hollywood Post No. 105, Portland, Ore- the Texas, Washington and Georgia. Can and award was gon, is a WW2 Navy vet, plays in the called simply a "rib- any Chaplain match this record?. . . . State Legion Band, is President of the Two brothers were installed as Post bon." On second Portland Americanization Council, mem- Commanders in a ceremony at Bridge- thought a metal pend- ber of Naval Reserve, member of Draft ville, Pennsylvania. The brothers are ant, which, under Board, Director of the Oregon Prison Keith Bee, who will command Bridge- other circumstances Association and Y. M. C. A., is active in ville Post No. 54 in 1949-50, and George would be called a the Lions, Elks and Eagles, and practices A. Bee, who will skipper the Oakdale medal, has been struck and is available law on the side. His wife and two to all eligible holders of the Army-Air Post No. 151. . . . David F. Perry was daughters, Karen and Sandra, are mem- installed as Commander of Captain Force Commendation Ribbon. bers of the Auxiliary, and the four sons, Edgar Dale Post No. 81, El Dorado, It is estimated that 500,000 Army and George, Robert, Bill and Allan, are Mem- Kansas, by his father. Past Commander Air veterans have been awarded the dis- bers of Hollywood Squadron, Sons of tinctive green and white ribbon and are Frank Perry. The senior Perry is a the Legion. . . . Tennessee Legion has veteran of the 31st Infantry in service now eligible to wear the pendant. It is a launched a state-wide "Teach Religion" in Siberia in WWl. bronze hexagon with an American bald campaign. Department Commander eagle on the obverse and the words "For Frank G. Clement calls the program "the Military Merit" on the reverse. most important ever conducted by the A permanent memorial exhibit honor- Army personnel can obtain the pend- Legion" and has requested Post officers ing the late Amelia Earhart, ace woman ant (medal) by applying to The Adjutant to contact church and religious leaders flyer, unveiled in the National Air was General of the Army, Washington 25, of all faiths in every community to in- Museum of Smithsonian Institution, D. C. Air Force personnel should apply form them of the program. Washington, on October 7 as a climax to to the Director of Military Personnel, three years' effort of Amelia Earhart Headquarters U. S. Air Force, Washing- Post No. 678, Los Angeles, California. ton, D. C. When Alvin N. Dugar was installed Central piece is a sculptured bust of Miss A copy of the commendation and the as Commander of Drapeau-McPhetres Earhart by Mrs. Grace Wells Parkinson. specific authorization for the award must Post No. 80, Danvers, Massachusetts, Other pieces were gathered by the Legion be forwarded with each application. In two National officers of the Legion were— committee from various sources. Credited the case of deceased personnel to whom present to assist . in the ceremony %vith initiating the movement, Miss Ann the Commendation Ribbon has been National Chaplain Edward J. Carney, Rambo, Junior Past Commander, pre- awarded, next of kin may apply for the Lawrence, and National Executive sided as mistress of ceremonies at the decoration. Committeeman Tracy Dibble, of Lynn. The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • gg :

contest. It is provided, however, that NSLI Dividend Checks Will Advise Veterans no history which has been awarded a prize in any former contest shall be ^'Use It Wisely -Buy U. S. Savinys Bonds" eligible for consideration unless it has been revised and brought down to Jan- The American Legion has pledged its Assistant National Adjutant, repre- uary 1, 1950. the Treasury De- complete support to sents the Legion on this Committee. The judges will consider the histories in achieving the success of a partment From the Legion's National Head- in two parts: the printed volume and most important promotion. Throughout quarters requests will soon go out to manuscript supplement which brings the nation Legionnaires will soon be Department Commanders and State the history down to January 1st. Scrap- urged by national and local leaders to Auxiliary Presidents asking that they books will not be accepted for judging set aside some part of their National appoint Bond Chairmen for their respec- unless they form a part of the history Service Life Insurance dividends in tive organizations. and are clearly indicated as an appendix. United States Savings Bonds. Already across the nation, Legion All histories entered in this contest Shortly after the middle of January, posts have swung into action. On Octo- (which will become the property of 1950, 16,000,000 WW2 veterans will be ber 18 George Hearn, Commander of National Headquarters) must be filed the recipients of a financial windfall, the Georgia Department, wrote to Post at National Headquarters not later than dividend when payments totaling $2.8 officers throughout his state urging that the end of business on July 3, 1950. billions are distributed. Payments will they try to convince their members to average around $150, and in some cases invest at least 50 percent of each divi- will reach $528 — the maximum. dend check in Savings Bonds. Here is What the veteran does with his divi- Commander Hearn's plan of action. JOHN SULLIVAN TO DIRECT I dend payment — whether he spends it 1. Discuss this program in open 1950 BROTHERHOOD WEEK wisely or foolishly, how much of it he meetings. I uses for today's needs and how much John L. Sullivan, Manchester, New 2. Appoint a committee to distrib- jj he sets aside for the needs and emergen- ''< Hampshire, former Secretary of the ute Savings Bonds literature cies of tomorrow — is a matter of seri- <', Navy, has been named General and urge every member to invest ous concern to bankers and businessmen Chairman of Brotherhood Week, as much of his check as he can which will be observed nationally alike. Furthermore, it will exert a very J; in Savings Bonds as a splendid February 19 to 26, 1950, under the real effect on the economic well-being of J> means of conserving these funds to the brotherhood of man under the area; the cooperation the urge \', prac- Bonds." Thus 16 million veterans will Fatherhood of God and to the of banks in recommending Sav- tices of the principles of brotherhood be reminded that what they save they \\ ings Bonds to veterans as checks throughout the year." have — and that United States Savings ]; is are cashed. |> Chairman Sullivan a Past De- Bonds are still the safest, surest, most

24 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 -

FATHER KETTELL KILLED COMRADES IN DISTRESS IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT OUTFIT REUNIONS

Co. E, 212th Infantry, Camp Blanding:, Fla. - Reverend Father George F. Kettell, 731st Ordnance (L-M) Co., 31st Infantry Divi- Need statements to fcupport claim for injury from D. D., Past National Chaplain of the sion— 2nd annual reunion at Hotel Astor, New a fall in 1944; particularly Captain Mallory and York City, April 29-30, 1950. Write Edgar G. Luther Hamilton. Bernard J. Davis, Jr., 4912 Legion, was instantly killed on October Bryant, 332 Mamaroneck Ave., Mamaroneck, N. Y. Forest Hills Ave., Richmond 24, Va. 19th when his automobile crashed into 9th Army and Attached Personnel — Reunion at U.S.S. Monrovia — Statements urgently needed Beekman Towers, Ist Avenue and 49th St., New from shipmates to prove claim for back injury in a downtown building in Rochester, New York, December 10. Write or call William E. 1943; particularly Cox. Townsend; H. T. Orrell; York, his home city. He was returning Guth, 1935 McGraw Ave., New York 62, N. Y. Bozman, G. C. Halloman and Wilson. Please con- Talmadge 9-0199. tact Harold W. (Bill) Donis, Goldendale, Wash. from a visit to another priest shortly 29th Division Association — Bth annual get-to- Regt. Hdqrs. 303rd Infantry, 97th Division — after midnight when, to avoid a speed- gether under sponsorship Pittsburgh Post 76, Feb- Need to hear from service comrades; very import- ruary 3, 1950, at Cadillac Hotel. Pittsburgh, Pa. ant. Granville (Jake) Powell, Coalton, Ohio. ing automobile, he swerved his car, lost For details write B. A. Goldsmith, 731 Copeland USNTC, Brainbridge, Md. — Urgently need to control and struck the building. St., Pittsburgh 32, Pa. locate men who served with me at this base 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion — Reunion October 4 to December 20, 1946. William L. Mar- Father Kettell was elected National planned for 1960, following successful 1949 meet tin particularly. Write John Benjamin Holbrook, Chaplain at the National Convention at at Cambridge, Mass. Members of Battalion who P.O. Box 235, Salyersville, Ky. have not been informed, write Herman J. Parker, U.S.S. Vermont (1917-1918) - C. Albert Burgy, Louisville, Kentucky, in 1929 and served 4 Terrace Ave., Taftville, Conn. 1318 Green St., Philadelphia 23, Pa., needs state- in the administration of the late Na- 193rd General Hospital — 1950 reunion in plan- ments from shipmates who know of injury to his ning stage, all personnel. Write Emily Hausmann, right shoulder at Hampton Roads, Va. Write him. tional Commander O. L. Bodenhamer. 392 N. Charlotte St., Pottstown, Pa. U.S.S. Underbill — Shipmates who served with Funeral services were held in Old St. U.S.S. Venus (AK-i35) — All shipmates being Robert E. Burkett in 1943 write his widow. In- called for first reunion at St. Louis, Mo., July, formation needed. Mrs. Vivian Burkett, Rt. 7, Mary's Church of Rochester, of which 1950. For full details write Rodney R. Robillard, Crawfordsville, Ind. he was pastor, on October 22 and inter- 1046 86th Avenue West, Duluth 8, Minn., or C. M. ST-1019—Men who served on this ship in Europe Smithen, 1232 West 2nd St., Pomona, Cal. in 1944, particularly Mike Oreskovich, Ph. Mate, ment followed in the Holy Sepulcher U.S.S. Houston (CL-81) — First reunion being please write. Help needed to establish claim. Cemetery. Rev. Father Edward J. Car- planned. All personnel write Peter J. Mahoney, R. R. Armstrong, 1406 18th St., Altoona, Pa. 3rd, 130-10 Van Wyck Blvd., South Ozone Park, U.S.S. Minnesota, 1905-1908, (U. S. Marines) ney, National Chaplain, represented the N. Y. — Urgently need to hear from old Marine service national organization of the Legion at 15th Engineers — 30th annual reunion at Fort comrades on board Minnesota on cruise around Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 29, 1950. Both the world, or stations at Charleston, S. C. and the last rites. World Wars. For info write William H. Turner. Mare Island who know of my injury by gun ex- Secretary, 238 8th Ave., Laurel Gardens, West plosion at target practice aboard ship, and also View, Pittsburgh, Pa. while playing ball on Marine-Navy team. George 214th CA GRP, 950th AAA (AW) Battalion Ligon, 221 33rd Street, Manhattan Beach, Cal. 3rd annual reunion at Providence, R. I., March Co. B, 313th Infantry (WWl)-Harry Schroeder COMMUNITY SELF-HELP IS 18-19, 1950. Write John Headley, 42 Van Buren needs statement as to injury received in a fall St., Lakewood, R. I. into a ravine while in active service in France. SPURRED BY PENNA. POST U. S. Naval Armed Guard — Reufiion planned, Has been hospitalized for more than two years. guard personnel all ships. For information, date, Write Herman Zapf, Service Officer, Box 43, etc., write William Monnot, 428 East 136th St., Lincoln Park, N. J. Hazleton (Pennsylvania) Post No. 76 Bronx 54, New York, N. Y. 203rd General Hospital, France — Raymond Sat- is proud of its part in the three-year 23rd Engineers Association — Annual meeting, terfield, care O'Reilly VA Hospital, Springfield, Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111., Friday, January 27, Mo., urgently needs to locate Taylor Gooch, (last campaign by which that anthracite- 1950, at 8 P. M. Ex-members 23rd Engineers known address Rt. 4, Paducah, Ky.), who served region city raised a no-strings-attached (WWl) and 23rd Armored Bn. (WW2) will at- with him as electrician helper in above hospital. tend. Contact James P. Henriksen, Secretary, Statement wanted. fund of $659,000 which persuaded the 2922 North Kilborn Ave., Chicago 41, 111. Battery D, 54th CA (Corregidor, 1933)— Was Electric Auto-Lite Company, Toledo, 209th Coast Artillery (AA) and parent organi- injured while working on Malinta Tunnel about zations, 1st N. Y. Cavalry and 121st Cavalry — September 3, 1933. Need statements from service Ohio, to place a $2,000,000 plant there. 2nd annual reunion at Culver Road Armory, comrades. Please write. Christopher C. Lynes, The Post gave $1,000 to the fund, and Rochester, N. Y., February 11, 1950. For info and Moline, Kansas. reservations, write 209th Association, 145 Culver Co. I, 135th Infantry — Mother of Staff Sgt. every one of its 700 members also made Rd., Rochester, N. Y. Larry G. Walter (killed in action Jan. 6, 1944) a contribution. needs to hear from his service comrades, particularly the one who sent her money loaned by the In 1946, with a roll of 4,000 unem- deceased. Anyone who knew Staff Sgt. Walter in ployed and with coal mining prospects service write Homer C. Berlin, Commander, Loft- NEW YORK POST HAS YEAR- ness-Bandow Post, The American Legion, Gibbon. poor, the citizens realized that a new Minn. enterprise with a hefty payroll was the LONG CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Battery A, 14th FA, Fort Sill, Okla., (WWl) — Need statements of service comrades who know best answer to their problem. Every of Combining the Yuletide spirit with my hospitalization and operation at above post. group in the city chipped in to the Worked in YMCA off duty hours, helping in box- the spirit of service, Advertising Men's ing program, etc. Clarence A. Millet, 420 West "cash only" campaign, climaxed in mid- York City, each year Main, Jerome, Idaho. October by the opening of the plant. Post No. 209, New Company B, 302nd Inf., 94th Division — Urgent- solicits gifts from its members and ly need to hear from service comrades, particular- Governor James H. Duff and Theodore the weekly welfare ly William Plato, Victore Fischer, Tony Battista, Roosevelt, 3rd, Secretary of Commerce friends to augment Tony Calondona, Marvin Bailey and Edsel Par- pool and contributions to the Post rish. Claim of Pennsylvania, congratulated the city pending, need statements about con- Christmas dition when treated in dispensary in Germany and the company on the achievement, Welfare Fund. Just before and hospital in Czechoslovakia, Julius (Jules) each year these gifts are auctioned off. Cortez, 1669 Front St., Morgan City, La. which they hailed as a triumph of the auction, running 68th Coast Artillery (AA), Co. B — Need to spirit of free enterprise. Proceeds from this locate a former officer, Paul F. Solecki, last seen well over $2,000, are put into a separate, by me in Italy in 1944, also Col. King. Statement wanted. William H. Beaton, Big Sandy, Tenn. interest-bearing bank account and are Co. F, 47th Infantry (WWl) -Calling all serv- restricted to use for direct aid to vet- ice comrades of William Henry Bogart who * needy Post know of hospitalization or treatment of this vet- "JOIN LEGION" STICKERS erans in hospitals and for eran for bronchial trouble, asthma or tuberculosis members. Expenditures are made from during service or shortly after discharge, or if he had any treatment on or after 1923. Statements ON SALE AT HEADQUARTERS the fund throughout the year. In a just needed by widow to establish service-connection. issued bulletin, the Post sums up tan- Write Mrs. William H. Bogart, Box 27, Redondo A new "Join The American Legion" results since last Christmas: 28 Beach, Cal. sticker for use in membership drives, gible Medical Officers, Camp Stewart, and 414th CA for Emerson radios with Sonotone bone Battalion — need statement from medical officer car windows and business places, (Major) at Camp Stewart May, 1942, and also has been placed on sale by the Em- conductor hearing attachments; books medical officer, 414th CA Bn. who treated me in blem Sales Division at National and periodicals in quantity; new type Iceland in 1942. W. F. Dunaway, 1131 3rd Ave., Chula Vista, Cal. Headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana. for previously purchased embossograph 26th Seabees — Need statements from men who These stickers are sold at one and machine; plastics, wood, textiles and were with me on Guadalcanal; please write. I was one-half cents each, with a minimum SClc. Ralph W. Rutledge, 8 Caldwell Apt., Fort other materials for rehabilitation pur- Dodge, Iowa. order of 25. poses ; 125 air-foam rubber seat cushions Guadalcanal Vets. — Army or Marine personnel Another item which is believed with covers for wheelchair who remember Dale Land, Navy survivor who will help to stabilize membership, washable came through Guadalcanal in December, 1942, patients; combination air compressor please write. Spent 21 days traveling through and which has already found a ready Island, arriving Henderson Field about December acceptance wherever it has been and paint sprayer for manual arts shop; 6. Also survivors of U.S.S. Walke. Need state- used, is a "Certificate of Initiation." milling machine and shaper; printing ments; vital records lost. Dale E. Land, 38 Nor- man St., Green Ridge, Pa. Attractively designed, this certificate paper and three fonts of printing type; U. S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. - Ship- is intended for presentation to new photography accessories, and two cold mates of Harry D. Bellingham at this station be- members. The retail price is ten tween June, 1918, and January, 1919, please write. food conveyors. All these went to near- cents each, regardless of quantity. Statements needed to complete his claim for pen- 4 by veterans hospitals for use of the sion. Mrs. Harry D. Bellingham, 42 All States Court, St. Petersburg, Fla. patients. The Americcm Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • 35 .

LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION - Chairman, Elmer W. Sherwood, Indianapolis, Ind.; Vice Chairmen, Lynn G. Peterson, Los Angeles, Cal., Welcome Accorded National and Donald R. Wilson, Clai-ksburg, W. Va. Royal PUBLICATIONS COMMISSION - Chairman, James F. O'Neil, Manchester, N. H.; Vice Chair- men, Dan W. Emmett, Ventura, Cal., and Law- rence W. Hager, Owensboro, Ky. Commander Craig by His HomeTown NATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMIS- SION — Chairman, Herman Luhrs, Birmingham, Mich.; Vice Chairmen, Frank J. Becker, Lyn- Indiana, did itself proud on next year as leader of the Legion and Brazil, brook, N. Y., and Robert Attkisson, Clermont, Thursday, November 3, when it staged spokesman for veterans, will be very Fla. REHABILITATION - Chair- of the greatest homecomings ever much in the public eye. COMMISSION one man, Robert M. McCurdy, Pasadena, Cal.; Vice accorded a newly-elected national com- The big parade began to form at Chairman, John H. Walsh, Waltham, Mass.; Con- sultant, Watson Miller, Washington, Legion. In his noon at a rallying point six miles west B. D. C; mander of The American Executive Section, Joseph F. Dixon, Natchez, home city of 9,000 population, more than of the city limits — the motorcade in- Miss.; Carl J. Staas, Oklahoma City, Okla.; cluded a car for every Legion depart- Arthur Price, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Hendricks 30,000 Legionnaires and friends gath- Lackey, Mountain View, Ark., and Donald Leh- ered to do honor to George N. Craig ment, all well-filled with representatives. man, Portland, Oregon. Area Chairmen, (A) George M. Daly, Lebanon, N. H.; (B) Frank wish him well in his administra- The motorcade was joined at the city A. and to Kanter, Yeadon, Pa.; (C) Jack Stallings, Hous- tion of the affairs of the greatest of vet- limits by the marching units, musical ton, Texas; (D) James F. Burns, Milwaukee, organizations, and other groups. Start- Wis., and (E) John Dunn, Los Angeles, Cal. Area erans organizations. Vice Chairmen, (A) Clarence Campbell, Barre, A carnival atmosphere gripped the ing promptly at three o'clock, the parade Vt.; (B) James A. Hageman, Baldwin, N. Y.; (C) Edmund H. Martin, Ocala. Fla.; (D) Her- city. 33 police was headed by Commander and Mrs. A squad of state troopers bert E. Michaels, Cincinnati, Ohio, and (E) did their best to hold traffic in check, Craig, the Commander's parents, Mr. Merle P. Briggs, Silver City, N. Mex. INSURANCE ADVISORY BOARD — Chair- aided by the local foi-ce, and what a job and Mrs. B. C. Craig, and Mrs. Craig's man, Milo J. Warner, Toledo, Ohio. they did. Everything moved along in the mother, Mrs. Anna Heiliger, riding in NATIONAL SECURITY COMMISSION - Chairman, Erie Cocke, Jr., Dawson, Ga.; Vice most orderly fashion, and when the an open convertible. The official party Chairmen, Edward J. Quinn, Portland, Maine; more than two-hour parade passed down reviewed the parade from a stand in Patrick J. Petrone, Chicago, 111., and Bruce P. the stem, the court yard, Henderson, Warren, Ohio. main the onlookers were house where for more AERONAUTICS COMMITTEE - Chairman, packed eight deep along the sidewalks. than two hours, moving in close forma- Roy B. Gardner, Mansfield, Ohio; Vice Chairmen, Roscoe Turner, Indianapolis, Ind., Barney Side streets were turned into parking tion, the colorful pageant of six miles of and Keegan, River Forest, 111. lots. Business was suspended. It was bands, handsome floats, 3,500 marchers, CIVIL DEFENSE COMMITTEE - Chairman, Allen, Grants George Craig's day. 40 and 8 box cars, and stunters moved by. Niel R. Pass, Oregon; Vice Chair- men, J. Strom Thurmond, Columbia, S. C; and It is believed that never before has More than 40 musical units were in Albert J. Mills, Key West, Fla. MERCHANT MARINE COMMITTEE - Chair- the Legion in its wide-flung line of march. Smartly dressed bands- outposts man, James Phillips, Angleton, Texas; Vice been so generally represented at a Com- men and drum and bugle corpsmen, high- Chairmen, William Burns, Chicago, 111., and George Huddleston, Jr., Birmingham, Ala. mander's homecoming. as it was skirted majorettes representing Legion Held MILITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - Chair- on the open date between the adjourn- Posts, high schools and colleges —r and man, Ed. J. Zoble, Caspar, Wyo.; Vice Chairman, Robert T. Ellis. the the all-girl Mobile, Ala. ment of conference of Department Hormel Legion Band of NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE - Chairman. commanders and adjutants and the con- Austin, Minnesota — were roundly Arthur F. Duffy, Queens Village, N. Y.; Vice Chairmen, Emmett G. Lenihan, Seattle, Wash., vening of the fall session of the National cheered as they marched down between and Governor Paul Dever, Boston, Mass. Executive Committee at the National the jampacked lines of onlookers. It was NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING COM- MITTEE Chairman, not named; Vice Chairman, Headquarters at Indianapolis, there a parade that would full credit to — do Jack Porter, Tulsa, Okla. were 46 department commanders in at- most any Department Convention, and INTER-AMERICAN COMMITTEE - Chair- man. Warren Atherton, Stockton, tendance, in addition to other official as colorful as the Royal Dragoons on Cal. representatives from each Legion De- dress parade. partment. Foreign departments, Canada, Climaxing the day of the whopping THE AMERICAN LEGION France, Italy, and the Philippine Is- homecoming were the more formal ex- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS lands, were there, as were notables in ercises in Brazil high school gymnasium INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA civil and militai-y life from the Hoosier when the Hormel all-girl Legion band SEPTEMBER 30. 1949 State and a half dozen surrounding put on a national radio show, with ASSETS

states. Morton Downey, famous radio tenor, Cash on hand and on deposit. . .$ 622,054.19 Governor Henry F. Schricker and as master of ceremonies. There were Receivables 245,922.94 Inventories 461,101.40 Lieutenant Governor John A. Watkins, speeches by Governor Schricker, Na- Invested Funds 961,740.96 tional Permanent Trusts: and Senator Homer E. Capehart, of Commander Craig, and by other Overseas Graves Decoration Indiana, were among the early aiTivals. distinguished Legionnaires, Trust Fund ..$ 251,779.83 Employees' John H. Weaver, President of Brazil Lashing out at the termites are Retirement the who Trust Fund 1,048,515.95 1,300,295.78 chamber of Commerce, was general boring at our national life from within. Real Estate, less depreciation.. 279,556.76 chairman of the affair, while heading Commander Craig pulled no punches. Furniture and Fixtures, less depreciation 275,793.27 up the Distinguished Guest Committee "Our first job is to eliminate the enemy Deferred Charges 150,769.19 were former Governor John Stelle, of termites in our midst," he asserted. $4,297,224.49 Illinois, Past National Commander, and "There is no room in the United States LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE Linn Kidd. Governor today for both the American Legion Schricker pro- AND NET WORTH claimed a state-wide "Craig Day," and and communism, and the Legion does Current Liabilities ...$ 160,993.75 Mayor Archie Hamm, of Brazil, set the not intend to move out." Funds restricted as to use 269,204.54 day apart as a holiday for the 9,000 Deferred Income 975,624.26 Permanent Trusts: people of his city and for the strangers Overseas Graves Decoration within its gates. NATIONAL COMMITTEE Trust $ 251,779.83 Employees' Retirement Two downtowTi streets were roped APPOINTMENTS Trust 1.048,515.95 1.300,295.78 off. Big tents Net Worth: mushroomed for two (Continued from Page 30) blocks. Enough food and drink for a Restricted Capital: Tujunga, Cal.; Louis Nagy, Monongahela, Pa.; Reserve Fund ..$739,580.76 good sized army was spread out on George J. Hearn, Monroe, Ga.; Arthur R. Chop- Restricted Fund 13,023.14 Reserve for construction of tables under the tents. And everywhere pin, Baton Rouge, La., and John Arnold, Shaw- nee, Okla. Washington the characteristic Hoosier friendliness PILGRIMAGE COMMITTEE - Chairman, Office 331,975.27 Real Estate . . . 130,000.00 1,214.579.17 bubbled — any place where the stran- James J. Murphy, Washington, D. C; Vice Chairman, Dr. William B. Adams, Washington, Surplus 167,281.92 376,526.99 gers gathered. D. C. Excess of 'income over ex- National Commander and Mrs. Craig RESOLUTIONS ASSIGNMENT COMMITTEE pense 8 month s. 209,245.07 1.591.106.16 — Chairman, Thomas J. D. Salter, Winnemucca, $4,297.224.49 held an informal reception at the Earle Nevada; Vice Chairmen, Harry Benoit, Twin House, where thousands stood in line Falls, Idaho, and Louis J. Canepa, Los Angeles, Most of the dues for 1949 have been re- Cal. to shake their hands — but many only ceived and credited. The excess of income TROPHIES. AWARDS AND CEREMONIALS over expense will be available for operations got close enough to take a peep at the COMMITTEE -Chairman. Clyde E. Rankin, Har- for the remaining three months of 1949. risburg. Pa.; Vice Chairman, D. Trotter Jones, distinguished Indianian who, for the Birmingham, Ala. 3g * The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 THOSE AMAZING RADIO DETECTIVES

( Continued from page 17) glance he could distinguish dividual that individual, with value) woodwork, ash-trays, glasses. And at a single provided , between .313 of an inch and .309. his prints, is available for comparison. frequently, the walls themselves about

That is, to say the least, improbable. One example of this is the Heirens cEise shoulder high. That's because a person But Sergeant W. L. goes even further in Chicago. The print of the third finger entering an imfamiliar room in the dark when he balances that bullet in his hand of a right hand was found on the ransom will feel his way along the wall as soon and makes his assertion from the weight. note left behind by Heirens. Actually, the as he enters the door. Let's make the gun he names a Colt this fingerprints of Heirens were on file, not But there won't be any fingerprints on time. A .38 bullet made for a Colt weighs in Chicago but in two other places in clothing, on a human body or on the 130 grains. A nine-millimeter Bayard slug Illinois. Even if they had been filed in fabric of furniture. weighs 126 grains. A grain is one seven- Chicago, all the fingerprint experts in the And almost without exception there thousandth of a pound; there are approxi- city, working together, would have taken won't be any fingerprints on an auto- mately 437 grains in an ounce. Wave two generations to go through the crimi- matic or a revolver. The stock of a rifle Length certainly has a fine sense of touch. nal records of the city, reach the ITs and or a shotgun will retain prints but the True, there are more .38 Colts than name Heirens as the killer. grip or handle of a handgxm is covered nine-millimeter Bayards here. But try it What really happened is a record of with an oil so thin it won't hold an im- sometime, if you wish, on some more com- dogged perseverance. Sergeant Thomas pression, it's generally too rough and on mon American guns. Try a Winchester, Laffey of the Chicago Bureau of Identifi- top of that it is not handled in such a .44 rifle bullet, weight 230 grains, and a cation kept an enlarged photo of that way as to leave prints. Trigger guard and Winchester .38 rifle, 180 grains. Fifty print beside him and each time a new trigger are too small. In the thirties, grains actually is a big difference, isn't set of prints came over his desk — in a defense attorneys at one trial ridiculed it? Just about a tenth of an ounce. city the size of Chicago there would be the New York police for not testing a If a bona fide detective were loquacious a lot of them — he got out his pocket- suspected gun for fingerprints. An assist- at all, which he generally is not, he would glass and compared them. He did this for ant to the then District Attorney Thomas take these bullets from the coroner, put months and finally Heirens was arrested A. Dewey in rebuttal testimony revealed them in a box or an envelope imme- on a prowling charge, his prints went to that in seven years, examining thousands diately and say, "Let's send these to the Sergeant Laffey and that was it. of guns. New York City police had not lab and see if the boys there can identify Fingerprints are tremendously over- found one with a fingerprint on it and no the type of gun they came from: I couldn't done in fiction. Chances of finding enough longer looked for them. tell a thing without a micrometer and a prints for classification in an apartment, Furthermore, if detectives do rim into delicate pair of scales." for instance, are about a thousand to one, an article that might have a print on it, That's elementary firearms comparison. if not more. Even a single print that is they do not wrap it in a handkerchief. But Inspector Wave Length likes to go clear and legible is something rare. That's This would obliterate the prints. Instead further. He's even identified a shotgim by because most people, when they put their they pick it up with a string or a pencil. peering at a single pellet, and he's sent hand down on any surface, slide it along What about this business of putting the enough information about a bullet by somewhat, superimposing the impression gun into the hand of a dead man? It, too, teletype to tie it to a particular gxm a of one ridge upon that of another and can't be done. A dead man's hand is limp thotisand miles away — both of which are leaving only a smudge. before or after rigor mortis sets in and impossible. His adversaries frequently Fingerprint men, of course, keep right it will relax into its original position when carry a silencer in pocket or purse, on looking for that one chance in a you try to manipulate it. During rigor although a silencer is at least twelve thousand, however. That's their job. mortis you couldn't move it with a chisel. inches long. When they go over an apartment they In none cases out of ten a suicide drops Let's try something more simple than don't blow dust aroimd indiscriminately, the gun he killed himself with anyway. firearms, then. What about fingerprints? either. They concentrate on spots where Sometimes he falls, rolls or even walks Did you say simple? Not when our prints conceivably might be left, a tele- quite a distance from it. In one New York friend gets through with the subject. phone, for instance, a doorknob plate (not City case the suicide was found in an Time after time, on the air, the print the knob itself; a round object will retain entirely different room from the gtm, of a single finger is found in the imme- so little of a print it's generally of little although she died instantly upon shooting diate vicinity of a dead body, a cop goes to the files and from that fingerprint alone ptills out the criminal record of the torch singer, previously xmsuspected of the crime. Or he sends the classification of that single print to the FBI, which, from its civilian files, proves that the book- keeper was fingerprinted in a war plant and is the slayer. Fingerprints are classified by the difference between the prints of at least three fingers and a thumb. A single print can't be classified; a criminal's record can't be pulled from fingerprint files with only the print of a single finger as guide. The FBI does have a single-print file, true, but it actually is a combined modus operandi and print file. When a bank robber leaves the print of one finger behind him, the FBI goes to the bank- robber file, pulls out some 10,000 prints and takes a month comparing through a microscope each one of the 10,000 prints in the file, hoping for an identification. Try that sometime with the 107,000,000 sets of prints in the FBI's civilian files. You should live so long. "Big game tomorrow — we're just having a light workout this afterjtoon." A single fingerprint, of course, can be AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE tied definitely and irrevocably to an in-

The Ameiiccm Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • herself. Reflex action had carried her that lying there undiscovered, something had Skin covering the bony parts is stretched far, and an eye-witness backed up the been wrong with the heating apparatus tight and would stretch further when torn almost unbelievable medical testimony. and the temperature dropped consider- by a bullet, enlarging the hole. Skin on Another story that's pretty hard for a ably. Later the front door of the apart- a fleshy part of the body would fold, mak- gun expert to swallow is the one about ment was left open; cold air blew in on ing the bullet-hole smaller. a person who accidentally kills himself a thermostat and as a resvilt the heat in Frequently doctors will diagnose on while he's cleaning a revolver. If you're the bedroom itself rose to a stifling de- sight wounds in a body as stab wounds, actually cleaning the revolver, its cylin- gree. Defense attorneys for a man ac- probe them and find bullets, as in the der is swung out of position and no matter cused of slaying her claim she was killed case of Ray Woolf, shot to death in his what you do to the trigger or hammer, on a Friday; the state has its own doctors auto trailer near Wichita, Kansas, this those cartridges can't be discharged. to testify she met death on a Sunday. year. Doctor Marten, assistant New York About the only way such an accident Even medical men in this case can't get City medical examiner, tells of finding a could occur, really, is if you're not clean- closer together than two full days. pencil -point red spot in the skin of a ing, but polishing the gun, and in some Another test for time of death is the dead man ostensibly deceased from nat- awkward and wildly improbable way you rate of coagulation of blood, but again ural causes, probing the spot and digging swing it aroiind, while you're rubbing it, that is of value only when a physician out a broken scissors blade that had pene- so it's pointed at you. And in some equally arrives fairly soon. After the blood has trated the heart. Cases are numerous in improbable manner you're using a polish- coagulated completely, then what? which bullet wounds disappeared in the ing cloth of sufficiently tough texture to Deterioration of the body itself is any- same way, such as in the death of Hazel McEachin in catch on the trigger and pull it, and thing but regular, depending upon too Arkansas. Her death was somehow, by some fantastic maneuver many factors, such as outside tempera- presumed to be natural until an under- you do manage to catch that improbable ture, condition of the body and cause of taker noted a lump behind her ear, cut it bullet fell tough cloth on the trigger and jerk it death. The same thing applies to rigor and a out. hard enough to pull that trigger while mortis, which sets in anywhere from two Another common mistake Captain Wave the gun is pointing at you. to twelve hours after death. And ten Length makes is in noting powder burns hours is enough to fix up anybody's alibi. around a wound and instantly stating How about the time of death that's so Actually, police depend upon external suicide, homicide or accident and esti- readily and positively established on our evidence the distance at radio programs? mostly to determine the time of mating which the gun was death, such as the exact minute when held. Again, that's fiction. Even a doctor shots were heard. One important factor This is fine, presuming that the detec- won't commit himself on this except un- can be learned from an autopsy with the tive knows the type of cartridge used and der unusual conditions. assistance of external detective work. The the condition it was in. Otherwise it's There are a couple of tests, both too rate of digestion is fairly constant in useless. Black powder usually will pepper incomplete to help in many cases. Body everybody and it ceases upon death. If a wound at six feet; smokeless powder heat decreases after death at an estab- detectives can learn when a person took sometimes leaves no trace of either lished rate, two degrees per hour, vmtil his last meal, the autopsist can tell the scorching or powder markings at two the temperature of the surroundings is interval of time between that meal and inches. No shot fired into a body at con- refiched. But if the temperature of those cessation of life. tact range will leave surface powder surroundings is 98 or 99 or anjrwhere The size of a wound itself is another bums; the force of the explosion will car- close to normal body heat, it's reached variable and undependable factor. Try a ry it all inside the wound. almost instantly. Inside a heated room, simple experiment; flex your arm. Note In spite of this a lot can be deduced this test is useless if more than a few the loose flesh and skin just above the from the corpus delicti — provided the hours have passed. elbow. If a bullet entered that spot it corpus delicti is the dead man's body. For 1946 The slaying of Miriam Green in might conceivably make a hole corre- it often is not. "Corpus delicti" means Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was one in sponding to the bullet's own size. Now proof of the crime; it must be established which temperatures and the time of straighten the arm out as a dying man in any criminal case, from burglary on death still are being debated in various would in falling. Notice how the skin has up, and it doesn't have anything to do courts. Mrs. Green, an attractive divorcee, stretched. The hole itself would be twice with the body of the deceased except as was found dead, and nude, in her bed- the original size. the body helps to establish proof of a room. At one period while her body was This applies in many spots on the body. homicide. Cases have occurred in which no body ever was found but corpus delicti of homicide was established — by eye-wit- nesses or by the tremendous amount of blood discovered. Frankly, though, when Chief Wave Length blabs about the corpus delicti, establishes the time of death at a glance and the caliber of the death gvm from the size of the wound, he isn't being quite as stupid as he was when he messed up the .357 Magnum and the .38 revolver. For a .357 actually is a .38-caliber gun, and it can and does fire a .38-caliber Spe- cial cartridge. It's called .357 instead of .38 because it also fires its own powerful, high-velocity .357 cartridge, which is of the same diameter as a .38 but longer. Actually .38 is not the precise diameter of any gun; most .38's are very close to .357 in measurement. No wonder Commissioner Air Wave makes so many boners. Wait till you hear him mess up the evidence of blood-typing or human hair or saliva tests, or ultra- violet and infra-red rays and the spec- troscope. And the little imderstood and much abused lie-detector. He really goes to town on them. the end mount Studios looked longingly. A real estate firm tried to get it for a subdivision. With such competition, in face of war needs, Cheviot Hills Post nearly gave up. 1943 -The scramble for the land continued, but somehow Cheviot Hills Post managed to stall off all deals. 1944 — After eleven years of lobby- ing, persuading, cajoling, fina- gling and fighting, Uncle Sam finally agreed to sell its lien in the property to the city for $200,- 000. The city happened to have the cash on hand and earmarked for park purposes, and so the deal was made. At long last They Wouldn't Rancho Park was in city hajids. 1945 — Busy with the war effort, the city did little, but the Post made f/ sure that everyone in the city government understood that Take Rancho Park was to be a city // NQ park for public use. 1946 — Engineers began to draw plans for buildings and landscap- ing. How a Legion Post got a public park 1947 — The first spade of earth was turned and the project was un- derway. 1948 — The ground was graded so that there is no more than a 2 1933 -The U.S. government took bright idea. Would the federal percent rise between any two over Rancho Park, 185 acres in government, it asked, trade Ahe golf holes; $22,000 was spent in Los Angeles, Calif., on a tax lien. city -owned balloon field, which seedings, $12,000 in shrubs, 15,000 Public spirited Cheviot Hills Post the U. S. leased in another part feet of irrigation pipe was laid, 501 of The American Legion sug- of town, for Rancho Park? Uncle and buildings began to take form. gested to the city and the U. S. Sam wasn't interested. Another 1949 -On July 9 the city opened that the land be made a public idea: would the federal govern- Rancho Park to the public — a park. But the city declined to buy ment swap Reeves Field on Ter- park complete with an 18-hole and the federal government de- minal Island, which it leased from golf course, a 9-hole pitch and clined to give. the city, for Rancho Park. Uncle putt course, club house with 1934 - While the Post continued its Sam was interested. The deal lockers and dining room, refresh- efforts to get the land for public went on the ballot and the vot- ment stand and parking lot. On use, the U. S. put it up for lease ers agreed. But along came Los the same day, Rancho Park be- to the highest bidder, who hap- Angeles' Harbor Commission to came the scene of the National pened to be an individual who overrule the election results be- Publinx Golf Tournament, a $20,- wanted to operate a private golf cause of the technical misuse of 000 event, vinique in two re- course. the word "grant" on the ballot. spects: that so important a tour- 1935 — The individual operated his 1940 -Undaunted, Cheviot Hills nament would accept a new private golf course under a legal Post got busy cultivating contacts course, and that none of the lease and the Post could do noth- and enlisting the aid of such players had ever played the ing but a bit of wishful thinking. groups as the Garden Club, Wo- course before. There was a parade 1936 — Still under individual lease, men's Club, P-T-A, the Legion and there, in prominent position, the land satisfied some golfers Auxiliary and property owners was an old 1905 model auto filled but not Post 501, which renewed concerned. with Cheviot Hills Post members its efforts through municipal and 1941 — Uncle Sam sued Los Angeles waving a banner proclaiming to federal channels looking to the (which also had a tax claim all that Rancho Park was their day the lease would expire. against the property) for a quit idea and the product of their 1937 — These efforts succeeded to claim on the theory that the fed- persistence. the point that the city's mayor eral government had priority. It 1950 - The future is bright. The city made a trip to Washington to push was a friendly suit to put the city expects to complete, before the the project. But the local Internal in a position to acquire the land. year is over, a recreation hall Revenue official was against it But before this could be settled. with auditorium, a swimming and no progress was made. World War II was on. pool, baseball diamond, casting 1938 - The individual who held the 1942 — With war, everybody wanted and wading pool, children's play- lease died and the deal was wide Rancho Park. One company ground and a bicycle track mak- open again. But Los Angeles re- wanted it for oil wells, claiming ing Rancho Park a $1,000,000 deal called its mayor and so Post 501, the nation needed all the oil it for the pleasure of the ordinary from the standpoint of its con- could get. Another firm proposed Mr. and Mrs. and their kiddies. tacts, had to start all over again. to use the ground for low-cost Moral: When they knock you down, 1939 -Cheviot Hills Post had a housing for war workers. Para- get up. THE END —

MORE HEAT FOR LESS MONEY (Continued from page 25) attention only once every twelve hours. This water then is fed to the water ra- house being built - about $250, complete The 1949 prize for furnace compactness diator (similar to the ice-cube compart- with thermostatic controls. Where elec- could well be given to two pocket-size ment of your refrigerator) of a large re- tricity is cheap, the Uskon radiant-heat- warm air heaters —"Saf-Aire" manufac- frigerating system which then extracts ing panels are well worth considering. tured by the Stewart- Warner Corp. and the heat and uses it to warm the air of a In the manufacturers' crusade against a midget unit put out by the Chimney conventional warm-air circulating sys- high heating costs, the owners of old but Furnace Corp. The Stewart-Warner unit, tem. Because the refrigerating unit is re- still usable heating plants have not been which bums either natural, manufac- versible, the "fuel-less" furnace also can forgotten. There are a wide array of new tured, or bottled gas, is so compact that be used as an air-cooling unit in summer controls available that are designed to it can be installed between the studs of to literally suck the heat out of the house coax more heat out of any fumace. any exterior wall. Sold complete with a and pump it into the earth. There's a brand new automatic tem- floor level thermostatic control vmit, a Three manufacturers now are offering perature-control system that can be "Saf-Aire" vmit can be installed in each these heat-pump furnaces to home own- installed on any hand-fired furnace by room of a house to provide "zonal" heaters and more are planning to go into pro- any home owner. According to its man- ing in which the heating requirements of duction. Although their cost, at the pres- ufacturers, the Minneapolis - Honej^well each room are met individually. The ent moment, is more than one has to pay Regulator Company, it eliminates much heating units are particularly adaptable for a conventional coal, oil, or gas fur- of the bothersome guesswork of manual to small homes. nace, the additional cost is offset some- furnace operation. The Chimney Furnace Corporation's what by the fact that they not only serve If your home is heated by a conven- midget is a warm -air oil fximace that fits for winter heating but for summer cooling. tional hot-air fiumace, its operation can into a 25-inch square chimney. Provided The manufactxxrers have hopes that full- be improved efficiency-wise through the with forced circulation, it forces the air scale production eventually will make a use of Thermo-Matic Registers made by down ciround a metal pipe which serves $1,000 package unit possible. That price the Dole Valve Co. With an individual as the furnace's flue and out into the would compare favorably with the $700 thermostatically controlled register in rooms. The "chimney furnace" is particu- that the home builder on the average now each room, the temperature of each room larly well suited to basementless houses. has to pay for a conventional heating sys- can be controlled according to its use Most revolutionary of all modem home- tem minxis the added luxury of hot- bedrooms at a comfortable sleeping tem- heating units, however, is the "fuel-less" weather air-conditioning. As to operating perature, living rooms at a comfortable furnace. It burns none of the conventional cost, in communities where electricity living temperature — with no unneeded fuels like oil, gas, or coal, but gets its costs no more than 1 cent a kilowatt hour, heat wasted. Shutters in each register au- heat from the earth! the "fuel-less" fumace compares favor- tomatically open and close to maintain Basically, the "fuel-less" furnace op- ably with a furnace that burns coal at $14 the desired room temperature. erates on the same principle that is used a ton or oil at 10 cents a gallon. At the Valuable heat that goes up the flue in your home electric refrigerator. In moment, "fuel-less" furnaces are provid- after an oil burner shuts off can be saved your electric ice box, a refrigerating unit, ing winter and summer comfort in homes with an automatic chimney-draft control which by means of a compressor and ex- as far north as Milwaukee and as far produced by the Sampsel Co. Operated pansion valve compresses and expands a south as the Gulf! by a thermostat, the device opens the gas, extracts the heat from the freezing In the rapidly -growing radiant heat- flue damper after the oil burner stops, unit. This collected heat then is dissipated ing field, the newest wrinkle is offered by preventing the chimney draft from pull- into the room by means of cooling coils. the United States Rubber Co. in the form ing the heat out of the combustion cham- Although the amount of heat given off is of easily installed Uskon radiant heating ber and closes it just before the burner small, because the refrigeration unit is panels. The 4 by 4 foot panels, made of starts up again. small, your electric refrigerator does help rubber that by a trick of chemistry con- Still another heat-saving gadget for to keep your kitchen warm. In the "fuel- ducts electricity and transforms it into automatic furnaces is the Breathe-O-Stat less" furnace, heat is extracted from the heat energy, can be mounted in the ceil- developed by the McClarty Systems. It earth by a much more powerful refriger- ing of a room to provide downward ra- takes care of sudden winds and tempera- ator mechanism and is used to heat the diant heating. In areas where the cost of ture drops that chill a house quickly. By entire house! electricity is comparatively low (IV2 cents responding to outdoor weather changes, Water circulated by an electric pump a kilowatt hour or lower), a five-room it allows the fumace to operate for a through a loop of pipe extending down house can be heated by this easily installed longer period when these conditions exist some 200 feet below the surface of the radiant-heating system for about $50 a and, by anticipating the indoor tempera- earth extracts the heat from the earth. year! Cost of installation in a five-room ture change before it exists, saves fuel. If you own an automatic fxirnace — oil, gas, or coal — and haven't had it checked CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? HAVE YOU for some time, the chances are that at If your address has been changed since paying your 1950 dues, notice of such least a third of the fuel you pay for is American change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The going up the flue instead of into heat Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana. to warm your house. You can now solve BE SURE TO GIVE ALL INFORMATION LISTED BELOW the mystery of your mounting fuel bill NEW ADDRESS yourself with the aid of an ingenioiis furnace testing kit sold by the Bacharach Instrument Co. The kit con- Name Industrial (Please Print) tains all the necessary equipment — chimney draft gauge, flue-gas analyzer, and Street Address etc thermometer — to measure the efficiency and comes City Zone State. of automatic home furnaces, complete with an easily understood 1950 Membership Card No trouble-shooting chart to help you spot (Include Prefix Letter) troubles and correct them. Although the — Post No State Dept.. kit is fairly expensive -it retails for $40 OLD ADDRESS there's no reason why you can't get together with your other fuel -wasting

Street Address etc.... neighbors and buy one on a community basis. You'll be surprised just how much City Zone State. money a thorough furnace check-up can save you. the end

• The Ameiiccm Legion Magazine • December, 1943 HOW TO SURVIVE A CRASH (Continued from page 19) jump, the depth of the impression where your planes! Seventy-five percent of the Weak cockpits which crush on impact. the person landed and the materials on 1,500 small- plane fatalities in 1948 were Dangerous seats. The front and rear which he fell. caused by head injuries. seats in tandem types are too close, with He learned some startling things. A From air safety, De Haven has taken the rigid metal backs of the forward seats young woman washing a window of her the obvious next step and investigated lethal to the rear occupant. small suburban home leaned too far and automotive safety, where exactly the Unsafe design and arrangement of con- fell ten feet, dying at once. But a man, same principles of physiology and laws trol wheels. who fell from the roof of a seven -story of physics apply. Auto crashes differ from Clusters of tubes and exposed steel apartment house while fixing an aerial, plane smackups, he says, only insofar as braces. stood up, rubbed his bruised body and the crash is seldom downward. But when Failure of existing types of safety belts. walked back upstairs. they're fore and aft, sideways or back- In 185 accidents, involving 308 persons, De Haven points out that the woman wards, the drivers and passengers meet 104 belts either snapped or failed to pro- landed on her head on a cement walk the same perils and the same precautions vide adequate protection. while the man fell on a parked car. should be taken for crash protection. The The Crash Injury project provided the A human skull falling on an imyielding instrument panel is just as deadly, the manufacturers with its findings and these surface, he explains, can crack sufficiently steering wheel just as liable to puncture are the changes which are now being to cause death if it drops six feet or more. an abdomen or chest. wrought because of De Haven's work: iBut the hood and front fenders of an What, then, are the precautions a 1. The instrument panels on many new automobile are sheet metal, which can driver or his passengers can take when planes have been smoothed out and soft- yield and absorb the energy of a 100-foot crashes are imminent? ened. One manufacturer has removed the faU. Obviously, De Haven points out, a switches from the upper left hand side 'It's almost impossible to break a man's driver must remain cool and utilize every and grouped them in the lower center skull with resilient sheet metal," De Haven facet of skill to steer away from the emer- portion of the panel. He constructed the said and proved it dramatically. gency. But when the point is reached at panel itself of energy- absorbing sheet From a table stacked high with weird which the crash is inevitable, there are metal .04 of an inch thick. Others are widments in his office he picked up a a number of things which can be done mounting the panel about knee level and plastic shell shaped like a man's head and to avoid or minimize danger. still others have moved the entire instru- filled with a gelatinous mass. Developed "Remember this and remember it well," ment board forward out of head range. ior crash experiments it duplicated accu- he says. "Injury in crashes comes from 2. Seats in six types of planes have rately the weight and strength of a human hitting something too hard with your been moved back. In several tandem and skull. He mounted a chair and hurled it head. That's not a flippant remark. It's four-place models more space is pro- with all his force upon a thin metal radia- fundamental It means that acceleration vided between the front and rear seats. tor cover. It bounced off imharmed. toward a solid structure does the hairm. Six models are now using pivoted back "Now hand it to me again," he ordered. So if that acceleration can be avoided, rests on forward seats to lessen chances I did. Still standing on his chair, he incresised safety will result." of head injury by rigid structures. Three dropped it on the tile floor of his office, When a crash is at hand, then, he ad- manufacturers have reported stronger xising no throwing power. The head vises, get your head against something. seats and seat anchorages. :^ttered. Rest your head forward on your arms 3. Some manufacturers are installing Now how can all this help save lives in and brace for the shock. safer control wheels which are designed air and road crashes? In this way: Brace, he says, not relax. The time- to "catch" the upper part of the pilot's body and keep his of danger. Potentially lethal objects are now clus- worn concept of relaxation in an accident head out 4. Several have eliminated tered on the dashboards of airplanes and won't help. Bones are just as brittle, new models horizontal vertical bracing cars. When a plane, for example, cracks whether the body is tense or relaxed. or tubes near the pilot. Eight have moderated or cut 'up in a 60-mile-an-hour fall, by a simple If you're the driver, cradle your head out entirely solid transverse structxires law of physics the pilot's body moves in your arms and lean forward. within forward range of the pilot's head. forward at that speed until stopped by If you're a passenger sitting in front, 5. Designers are developing planes something. If that "something" happens lean over and put your head, resting on new special to be any one of a dozen hard knobs on your arms, upon the dashboard. with ruggedness of cockpit structure. the dash, his head splits like an eggshell. If you're sitting in the rear, place your 6. Practically all manufactiirers have But if it happens to be a metal dashboard arms against the seat in front, and rest increased the strength of safety belts in which has "give", he'll suffer no more your head on your arms. their aircraft and the C.A.A. is consider- than a bad headache. Serious injury can also be avoided by ing a requirement for a further increase. De Haven rxmimaged on his desk and diving to the floor of the vehicle, if there Hugh De Haven is no armchair cru- "picked up a little primer knob, an inch is time. But make certain, De Haven sader for safety. His favorite mode of in diameter and weighing less than two cautions, that your head is resting on your travel is flying. Past 50, he can handle a ounces. He threw it back on the desk and arms against solid structure. plane along with the best of private pilots. it made a harmless tinkling sotmd. Bxis passengers should scramble to the Crash safety is his complete preoccu- "That thing killed a man two weeks floor and nestle against the base of the pation and he spreads the gospel wher- sgo," he said. seat in front, if it is a wide, solid struc- ever he finds it needed. One day he was "It was on the dashboard of a small ture. Never stand or lie down in an aisle, strolling along an east side street near plane where the pilot's head could strike because the acceleration upon impact may the medical center when he saw a couple it. The plane snagged a telephone line and hurl you the full length of the bus. of eight-year-olds racing down the hill ploughed into a suburban street. The There have been many instances in in a home-made soap box "plane," with pilot's head snapped forward, hit the which lives have been saved when quick- stubby wings. The gadget hit a rut, veered primer knob. His head split open. thinking persons covered themselves or and smacked against a parked ice truck. "That's just half of the story. There was others with a heavy blanket or car robe. The kid in front banged his head against a passenger in the plane and his head was One mother swathed her child in a quilt the improvised dashboard. propelled forward at the same speed when when she knew her car would crash. The De Haven rushed up and explained to the crash came. Fortunately, his head baby was hurled through the windshield the kids that a pair of good jet pilots struck the metal dashboard at a point but the quilt prevented injury by the wouldn't "fly that stuff without shoulder where there weren't any instruments. The broken glass. harness." dash was dented six inches but he walked As for airplanes: eight years of re- Two days later, on his way to the office, away." search have convinced De Haven that the he saw the kids again. They were both So, far and away the most important following death-dealing factors, in addi- wearing safety belts and shoulder harness advice De Haven is giving manxifacturers tion to the instruments on the dash- made from their fathers' suspenders. is this: Get rid of the lethal objects in board, have been built into planes: THE END

The American • • Legion Magazine December, 1949 4J REBELLION ON THE MOON (Continued from page 13)

the outer door — then the air would easily destroyed — but the bomb itself is cut out noise of "background" radiation whoosh out, our boy Johnny would hard to destroy because of its very sim- at the level then present. It reminded him drown in blood from his burst lungs—and plicity. Johnny decided to smash the uncomfortably of the danger of staying the bombs would be sitting there, unhurt. "brains"— and quickly! there. He took out the radiation exposure They were built to stand the jump from The only tools at hand were simple film all radiation personnel carry; it was Moon to Earth; vacuum hurt them not ones used in handling the bombs. Aside a direct-response type and had been at all. from a Geiger counter, the speaker on fresh when he arrived. The most sensi- He decided to stay in his space suit; the walkie-talkie circuit, a television rig tive end was faintly darkened already. explosive decompression didn't appeal to to the base, and the bombs themselves, Half way down the film a red line crossed

him. Come to think about it, death from the room was bare. A bomb to be worked it. Theoretically, if the wearer exposed old age was his choice. on was taken elsewhere — not through himself enough in a week to darken the Or they could drill a hole, let out the fear of explosion, but to reduce radiation film to there, he was, as Johnny told him- air, and open the door without wrecking exposure to personnel. The radioactive self, a "dead duck." the lock. Or Towers might even have a material in a bomb is buried in a "tam- OflE came the cumbersome space suit; new airlock built outside the old. Not per"— in these bombs, gold. Gold stops what he needed was speed. Get it done likely, Johnny thought; a coup d'etat de- alpha, beta, and much of the deadly and surrender — can't hang around in a pended on speed. Towers was almost sure gamma radiation — but not neutrons. place as "hot" as this. He grabbed a ball to take the quickest way — blasting. And The slippery, poisonous neutrons which hammer from the tool rack, paused to Lopez was probably calling the Base right plutonium gives off had to escape, or a switch off the television pick up, and got now. Fifteen minutes for Towers to suit chain reaction— explosion!— would result. busy. The first bomb bothered him. He up and get here, maybe a short dicker— The room was bathed in an invisible, al- started to smash the cover plate of the then woosh! the party is over. most undetectable rain of neutrons. The "brain," then stopped, filled with reluc- Fifteen minutes — place was unhealthy; regulations called tance. All his life he had prized fine In fifteen minutes the bombs might fall for staying in it as short a time as pos- apparatus. back into the hands of the conspirators; sible. He nerved himself and swung; glass in fifteen minutes he must make the The Geiger counter clicked off the tinkled, metal creaked. His mood changed; bombs unusable. "background" radiation, cosmic rays, the he began to feel a shameful pleasure in An atom bomb is just two or more trace of radioactivity in the Moon's crust, destruction. He laid into it, swinging, pieces of fissionable metal, such as pluto- and secondary radioactivity set up all smashing, destroying! nium. Separated, they are no more ex- through the room by neutrons. Free neu- So intent he became that he did not at plosive than a pound of butter; slapped trons have the nasty trait of infecting first hear his name called "Dahlquist! together, they explode. The complications what they strike, whether it be concrete Answer me! Are you there?" lie in the gadgets and circuits and gun wall or human body. In time the room He wiped sweat and looked at the TV used to slap them together in the exact would have to be abandoned. screen. Towers' worried features stared way and at the exact time and place re- Dahlquist twisted a knob on the Geiger out. quired. counter; the instrument stopped click- Johnny was shocked to find that he had The circuits, the bomb's "brain," are ing. He had used a suppressor circuit to only wrecked six bombs. Was he going

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By JACK MENDELSOHN

This is father as he is seen He'll always look like this To his 14-year old daughtei by the unbiased eye. He to Junior, as long as he his ideas about how shi doesn't lool< quite the same holds the mortgage on should conduct herself to the rest of the family. his forthcoming bicycle. places him somewhere be tween The Holy Wars am the Battle of Bunker Hil

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to be caught before he could finish? Oh, take!" He started to use the few minutes this, I'll never even try to beat a red no! He had to finish. Stall, son, stall! gained. light." He kissed the picture and put it "Yes, Colonel? You called me?" He stopped almost at once; it dawned back. There was nothing to do but wait. "I certainly did! What's the meaning on him that wrecking the "brains" was What was keeping Towers? Johnny of this?" not enough. There were no spare "brains," wanted to make sure that Towers was in "Uli, I'm sorry, Colonel." but there was a well -stocked electronics blast range. What a joke on the jerk! Me Towers' expression relaxed a little. shop. Morgan could jury-rig control cir- — sitting here, ready to throw the switch "Turn on your pick up, Johrmy, I can't cuits for bombs. Why, he could himself — on him. The idea tickled him; it led to a see you. What was that noise?" not a neat job, but one that would work. better: why blow himself up — alive? "The pick up is on," Johnny lied. "It Damnation! He would have to wreck the There was another way to rig it — must be out of order. That noise — uh, to bombs themselves — and in the next ten "dead man" control. Jigger up some way tell the truth. Colonel, I was fixing things minutes. so that the last step, the one that set off so that nobody could get in here." But a bomb was solid chunks of metal, the bomb, would not happen as long as Towers hesitated, then said firmly, "I'm encased in a heavy tamper, all tied in he kept his hand on a switch or a lever going to assume you are sick and send with a big steel gun. It couldn't be done — or something. Then, if they blew open the you to the Medical Officer. But I want not in ten minutes. door, or shot him, or anything — up goes you to come out of there, right away. Damn! the balloon! That's an order, Johnny." Of course, there was one way. He knew Better still, if he could hold them off Johnny answered slowly, "Uh, I can't the control circuits; he also knew how with the threat of it, sooner or later help just yet. Colonel. I came here to make up to beat them. Take this bomb: if he took would come — Johnny was sure that most my mind and I haven't quite made it up out the safety bar, lonhooked the proxim- of the Patrol was not in this stinking con- yet. You said to see you after lunch." ity circuit, shorted the delay circuit, and spiracy—and then: Johnny comes march- "I meant you to stay in your quarters." cut in the arming circuit by hand — then ing home! What a reunion! He'd resign "Yes, sir. But I thought I ought to stand unscrewed that and reached in there, he and get a teaching job; he'd stood his watch on the bombs, in case I decided you could, with just a long, stiff wire, set the watch. were wrong." bomb ofT. All the while, he was working. Electri- "It's not for you to decide, Johnny. I'm Blowing the other bombs and the val- cal? No, too little time. Make it a simple your superior officer. You are sworn to ley itself to Kingdom Come. mechanical linkage. He had doped it out obey me." Also Johnny Dahlquist. That was the but had barely begun to build it when "Yes, sir." This was wasting time; the rub. the loudspeaker called him. "Johnny?" old fox might have a squad on the way All this time he was doing what he had "That you. Colonel?" His hands kept now. "But I swore to keep the peace, too. thought out, up to the step of actually busy. Could you come here and talk it over setting off the bomb. Ready to go, the "Let me in." with me? I don't want to do the wrong bomb seemed to threaten, as if crouching "Well, now, Colonel, that wasn't in the thing." to spring. He stood up, sweating. agreement." Where in blue blazes was Towers smiled. "A good idea, Johnny. He wondered if he had the courage. something to use as a long lever? You wait there. I'm sure you'll see the He did not want to funk — and hoped that "I'll come in alone, Johnny, I give you light." He switched off. he would. He dug into his jacket and my word. We'll talk face to face." "There," said Johnny, "that should con- took out a picture of Edith and the baby. His word! "We can talk over the speak- vince you I'm a half-wit — you slimy mis- "Honeychile," he said, "if I get out of er, Colonel." Hey, that was what he

While his Poor brother-in- Only his wife understands

daughter, he appears lives in constant fear of be- law just knows he's got him! . . . She sees him as he slightly less glamorous. ing tapped by him for a loan. $80,000 hidden in a hollow really is. Especially when she's en- table leg. tertaining a boy-friend.

The Amaiican Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • ^3 . ) ^^PORT FROW HOLLYWOOO ( Continued from page 43 wanted — a yard stick, hanging on the tool By R. WILSON BROWN rack. "Johnny, I'm warning you. Let me in, December's Best Films or I'll blow the door off." A wire — he needed a wire,_fairly long and stiff. He tore the anteima from his suit. "You wouldn't do that, Colonel. It would niin the bombs." "Vacuum won't hurt the bombs. Quit stalling." "Better check with Major Morgan. Vacuum won't hurt them; explosive decompression will wreck every oirciiit." The Colonel was not a bomb specialist; he shut up for several minutes. Johnny went on working. "Dahlquist," Towers restimed, "that was a clumsy lie. I checked with Morgan. You have sixty seconds to get into your suit, if you aren't already. I'm going to blast the door." "No, you won't," said Johnny. "Ever hear of a 'dead man' switch?" Now for a counterweight— and a sling. He'd use his belt. "Eh? What do you mean?" "I've rigged number seventeen to set off by hand. But I put in a gimmick. It won't blow while I hang on to a strap I've got in my hand. But if anything happens to me— up she goes! You are about fifty feet from the blast center. Think it THREE CAME HOME (20th Century- important. Jean Negulesco's directing over." Fox) with Claudette Colbert and Patric gives Miss Colbert the same sincerity There was a short silence. "I don't be- Knowles. and inspiration he gave Jane Wyman lieve you." in his prize-winning Johnny Belinda. "No? Ask Morgan. He can inspect it, This is the true story of an Ameri- Miss Colbert, so often associated with over the pick up." Johnny lashed the can, Agnes Newton Keith, her British TV comedy, is magnificent — in fact sur- belt of his space suit to the epd of the husband and their 5-year-old son in prising — in her role of Mrs. Keith. yardstick. British North Borneo before and dtir- Vets who know the meaning of Jap said the pick out of ing the Japanese occupation as taken "You up was concentration camps may resent inci- order." from her book of the same title. It dents of kindness portrayed; never- "So I lied. This time I'll prove it. Have picks up where her first book, "The call me." Land Below The Wind," leaves off in theless, in the actual experiences of Morgan Presently Major Morgan's face ap- her story of life in this primitive land. Mrs. Keith, there were instances of "Lieutenant Dahlquist?" There are no heroics in this narrative both cruelty and kindness, passive peared. great of people, gentle bred, who meet terror heroism and mutual helpfiolness, and "Hi Stinky. Wait a sec." With care Dahlquist made one last connection practically ctnd spiritually. In it war is this story follows those experiences. the yard- only a background for something more Well worth seeing. while holding down the end of stick. Still careful, he shifted his grip to the belt, sat down on the floor, reached

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• The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 ? out and switched on the TV pick up. "Can you see me, Stinky?" "I see you," Morgan answered stiffly. "What is this nonsense?" "A little surprise I whipped up." He Can you explained it — what circuits he had cut out, what ones had been shorted through, just how the jury-rigged mechanical se- quence fitted in. Morgan nodded. "But you are bluffing, answer Dahlquist. I feel sure that you haven t disconnected the 'K' circuit. You don't have the guts to blow yourself up." Joe's question Johnny chuckled. "I sure haven't. But ( that's the beauty of it. It can't go off, so

Joe's enlistment is about up and he's heard a lot of his buddies talking about the lifetime security offered by an Army career. "What does lifetime security really mean?" asks Joe. "What's

in it for me?"

Maybe you could give our buddy Joe the right

answer. You'd probably tell him that <^^^

personal security for the Regular Army soldier

doesn't stop with a 30-year career . . .

you'd probably drive across the idea that Army-wise,

financial peace-of-mind goes beyond actual active "I know it's called a 'John', but I don't know how to work it." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZI.VE service— A' extending through later life. long as I am alive. If your greasy boss, you'd giving steer, too! ex-Colonel Towers, blasts the door, then And be Joe a good I'm dead and the bomb goes off. It won't matter to me, but it will to him. Better It doesn't take a stack of Army Regulations to prove tell him." He switched off. Towers came on over the speaker shortly. "Dahlquist?" that the Army's Retirement system is tops! "I hear you." "There's no need to throw away your life. Come out, and you will be retired on Compctre Army retirement with thcrt offered by most full pay. You'll go home to your family. I promise." Johnny got mad. "You keep my family civilian occupations, /\ /\ and you'll see that out of this!" | "Think of them, man." "Shut up. Get back to your hole. I feel the Soldier has life-time security money can't buy! a need to scratch and this whole shebang might just explode in your lap."

II And what goes for Joe, goes for you, tool Through Johnny sat up with a start. He had planned advancement — dozed; his hand hadn't let go the sling, but he had the shakes when he thought progressive duty assignment about it. —and good pay, today's Maybe he should disarm the bomb and soldier benefits more than depend on their not daring to dig him most civilians with similar out? But Towers' neck was already in jobs. Ask your CO. about hock for it. treason; Towers might risk current re-enlistment oppor- If he did and the bomb were disarmed, tunities . . . today! Johnny would be dead and Towers would ^ have the bombs. No, he had gone this far; he wouldn't let his baby girl grow

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up in a dictatorship just to catch some Towers switched oft'. COMPLETELY SECRET sleep. Johnny got out his film again. It seemed He heard the Geiger counter cHcking no darker but it reminded him forcibly and remembered having used the sup- that time was running out. He was hun- HEARING pressor circuit. The radioactivity in tlic gry and thirsty — and he could not stay near reality with room must be increasing, perhaps from awake forever. It took four days to get a scattering the "brain" circuits — the cir- ship Earth; ULTRA-SMALL AID up from he could not expect cuits were sure to be infected; they had rescue any sooner. And he wouldn't last Thanks to a remarkable "wireless cir- lived too long too close to plutonium. He fovu' days ~- once the darkening spread cuit" printed on wafer-thin polystyrene dug out his film. plastic, the hearing aid that many ex- past the red line he was a goner. perts said "couldn't be built" is today a The dark area was spreading toward His only chance was to wreck the reality. the red line. bombs beyond repair, and get out — be- The powerful Telex 200. new He put it back and said, "Pal, better fore that film got much darker. which weighs approximately 3 ounces without batteries, can break this deadlock or yovi are going to He thought about ways, then got busy. bring you undreamed-of hear- shine like a watch dial." It was a figure He hung a weight on the sling, tied a ing happiness. For the 200 sets a of speech; infected animal tissue does not line to it. If Towers blasted the door, he new standard in clear speech glow — it simply dies, slowly. hoped to jerk the rig loose before he died. nnderstanding . . . yet it is smaller and lighter than any The TV screen lit up; Towers' face ap- There was a simple, though arduous. hearing aid Telex has ever built! If you want all the joy of the bright world of sound ... if you want to hear the voices of friends and loved ones in vibrant, unmistakable tones ... if you want to capture the words you now miss in church, at social gatherings . . . then you owe it to yourself to discover hearing happiness with the Telex 200. For more news about the exciting Telex 200, and for a free booklet on how to test your hearing at home, write: MR. ALLEN HEMPEL Box 1182, Dept. U-19-12, Minneapolis 1, Minn. Write TODAY!

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Legionnaire Retailers "Wow! What a story! Certainlti tops the one I've got for the doc-Ior Ite in!" This magazine is right now entering when comes the home of every member of your AMEItK AN I.KCKIN M-'VCAZlNt Post. Its advertising pages are being read by your best customeis. Display the products advertised in your magazine on your shelves and counters. pearod. "Dahlquist? I want to talk to way to wreck the bombs beyond any You can tell your customers — you." capacity of Moon Base to repair them. "Go fly a kite." The heart of each was two hemispheres "It's advertised in our "Let's admit you have us inconve- of plutonium, their flat surfaces polished AMERICAN LEGION nienced." smooth to permit perfect contact when "Inconvenienced, hell — I've got you slapped together. Anything less would MAGAZINE" stopped." prevent the chain reaction on which "For the moment. I'm arranging to got atomic explosion depended. more bombs — Johnny started taking apart one of the "Liar." bombs. "— but you are slowing us up. 1 have He had to bash off four lugs, then LEARN RADIO a proposition." break the glass envelope around the inner — TELEVISION "Not interested." assembly. Aside from that the bomb "Wait. When this is over I will be chief came apart easily. At last he had in front Train at Home-Make Good Money of the world government. If you will co- of him two gleaming, mirror-perfect half (•ft .\ctual Lesson and G4-r)age book— both FHKIC. See operate, even now, I will make you globes. now 1 train you AT HOME for good jobs and a bright my I'ulnre in .\ni(Tica's fast growing industry. You get the — and one was l']l.\(-ric.\l, administrative head." A blow with hammer h;.\1'I-:I1IK.\0E building Kadio. Tester eli' with kit's many of parts 1 send. ilaleiit. t'N.t.s 1 Johnny grunted. "Towers, what a Hours later, dead tired, he went back ; Nat'l Uidio Inst., Washington 9, D. C. : ilail me Sample Le.sson and liook FKKK. prime stinker you are. You spoke of my to the armed bomb. Forcing himself to ! >iame Age family. I'd rather see them dead than steady down, with extreme care he dis- S Address living under a two-bit Napoleon like armed it. Shortly its silvery hemispheres City. /.one State. you. Go away — I've got some thinking too were useless. There was no longer a Check if Veteran to do." usable bomb in the room — but huge for-

• The American Leqion Magazine • December, 1949 tunes in the most valuable, most poison- Johnny wished that he could see her face ous, and most deadly metal in the known more clearly. Was she angry? Or proud world were spread around the floor. and happy? Johnny looked at the deadly stuff. "Into Proud though unhappy — he could see your suit and out of here, son," he said her better now and even feel her hand. aloud. "I wonder what Towers will say?" He held very still. He walked toward the rack, intending Presently his cigarette burned down to to hang up the hammer. As he passed, the his fingers. He took a final puff, blew it Gciger counter chattered wildly. at the Geiger counter, and put it out. It Plutonium hardly affects a Geiger was his last. He gathered several butts counter; secondary infection from plu- and made a roll-your-own with a bit tonium does. Johnny looked at the ham- of paper found in a pocket. He lit it care- mer, then held it closer to the Geiger fully and settled back to wait for Edith That's nothing! counter. The counter screamed. to show up again. He was very happy. Johnny tossed it hastily away and He was still propped against the bomb My REGENS is completely started back toward his suit. case, the last of his salvaged cigarettes As he passed the counter it chattered cold at his side, when the speaker called again. He stopped short. out again. "Johnny? Hey, Johnny! Can automatic, too! He pushed one hand close to the coun- you hear me? This is Kelly. It"s all over. Single motion 4 ter. Its clicking picked up to a steady The Lafayette landed and Towers blew his

' lights and closes roar. Without moving he reached into his brains out. Johnny? Answer me. pocket and took out his exposure film. When they opened the outer door, the "Slide-out" tank 4 lights pipe, It was dead black from end to end. first man in carried a Geiger counter in too front of him on the end of a long pole. Windproof "weath- I Ill He stopped at the threshold and backed er-guard" design Plutonium taken into the body moves out hastily. "Hey, chief!" he called. "Bet- Easy-filling f quickly to bone marrow. Nothing can be ter get some handling equipment — uh. removable tank done; the victim is finished. Neutrons and a lead coffin, too." Precision made 4 from it smash through the body, ionizing Ten years later, 2009, the on June 17, of solid brass tissue, transmuting atoms into radioac- Neio York Times editorial. After Ten Guaranteed for 4 tive isotopes, destroying and killing. The Years, rehashed the great honors they one full year fatal dose is less than a tenth the size of gave him. Said the Times (film 38, Times a grain of table salt — an amount small Archives): STILL THE BEST LIGHTER BUY enough to enter through the tiniest scratch. During the historic "Manhattan ''Nine ships blasted off from Moon In nickel, chrome, enamel, $1.50 to $5.00 Project" immediate high amputation was Base. Once in space, eight of them etched or rhodium finish the only first-aid measure. formed a r/fobe around the smallest. Johnny knew all this but it no longer They held this formation all the way disturbed him. He sat on the floor, smok- to Earth. ing a hoarded cigarette, and thinking. "The small ship displayed the in- The events of his long watch were I'un- signia of an admiral — yet there was ning through his mind. no living thing of any sort in her. He blew smoke at the Geiger counter She was not even a passenger ship, and smiled without humor to hear it but a drone, a robot .ship inteuded for For best results with any lighter use chatter more loudly. By now even his radio-active cargo. This trij) she car- Regens Yellow Flints, Regens lighter Fluid breath was "hot"— carbon-14, he sup- ried nothing but a lead coffin —and a AT BETTER JEWELRY, DRUG, TOBACCO AND DEPT. STORES posed, exhaled from his blood stream as Geiger counter that was never qniet. Regens Lighter Corporation carbon dioxide. It did not matter. "Four days it took the little shij) 7 East 46th Street, New York 17 There was no longer any point in sur- and her e.tcort to reach Earth. Four rendering, nor would he give Towers the days vjhile all of Earth's people satisfaction — he would finish out this awaited her arrival. For ninety-eight watch right here. Besides, by keeping up hours all commercial programs were the bluff that one bomb was ready to off television: instead there was an blow, he could stop them from capturing endless dirge — the Dead March from the raw material from which bombs were Saul, the Valhalla theme. Going made. That might be important in the Home, the Patrol's own Landing Or- long run. bit. He accepted, without surprise, the fact "The nine ships landed at Chicago that he was not unhappy. There was a Port. A drone tractor removed the sweetness alraut having no further wor- casket from the small ship; the ship ries of any sort. He did not hurt, he was iras then refueled and. blasted off in not uncomfortable, he was no longer even an escape trajectory, thrown away hungry. Physically he still felt fine and into outer space, never again to be REEVES FABRICS his mind was at peace. He was dead — he used for a lesser purpose. make strong, sturdy knew that he was dead; yet for a time "The tractor progressed to the Illi- he was able to walk and breathe and see nois toivn where Lieutenant Dahl- UNIFORMS. ..WORK AND SPORT CLOTHES and feel. quist had been born, while the dirge

He was not even lonesome. He was not continued. There it placed the casket Ask your dealer for uni- alone; there were comrades with him — on a pede.stal, inside a barrier mark- forms, work and sport the boy with his finger in the dike, ing the distance of safe approach. clothes of Reeves Fab- Colonel Bowie, too ill to move but insist- Space marines, arms reversed and rics. Reeves Army Twill', ing that he be carried across the line, the heads bowed, stood guard around it; of which Uncle Sam bought 90 million yards, dying Captain of the Chesapeake still the croivds stayed otUside this circle. insures extra wearabilify and good looks. with deathless challenge on his lips, And still the dirge continued. Demand Glengarrie Poplin* for matching shirts. Rodger Young peering into the gloom. "When enough time had passed, HEHS^n*Sanforized— residual shrinkage less than 1% They gathered about him in the dusky long, long after the heaped flowers bomb room. had withered, the lead casket was en- And of course there was Edith. She closed in marble, just as you see it ^^f.. REEVES BROS., INC. was the only one he was aware of. today." THE END U-'-^^ 54 Worth St., New York 13, N.Y.

American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • The /^'J GIVE A HOBBY FOR CHRISTMAS (Continued from page 23)

TT) , and the ardent railroader is a stick- ler for scale. If you are wondering what to give someone who would like to own a basement woodworking shop, or someone who already has one, just visit any large hardware store. Its shelves will be full of /Christmas ideas at all prices. There are individual tools that cost under a dollar and complete motorized shops that cost close to $200. For the beginner, you can spend NO FINER GIFT $15 for a hammer, a saw, a hand drill, and a screw driver, or pay $30 for a set of seventeen hand tools complete with a THAN A BOOK storage chest. For the man who has his heart set on a motorized home workshop, you can get him started for as little as $10 by giving him an electric motor (Va FOR THE HOME HANDYMAN horsepower or more) or, if you feel like Now Only $1.00 -Was $3.50 THE WOMAN'S FiXIT BOOK spending $50, you can get him a circular USE OF TOOLS By Arthur Symons saw plus a motor. Once you've given a By Fremont Davis and workshopper his motor or his saw, your How the woman of the house con moke Marjorie Van de Water future Christmas problems ai'e solved as routine repairs without male help. $2.95 All the basic tools for home workshop far as he is concerned. Each Christmas and repairs — and how to use them — told TAKING YOUR BABY'S PICTURE from then on you can add another piece in pictures and text. of equipment — a band saw, a wood lathe, By Stieri THE POPULAR MECHANICS COMPLETE a jointer, or a sander — for about $40 BOOK OF HOME REPAIRS AND Hundreds of ideas and illustrations for each. IMPROVEMENTS — Only $2.98 the new parents. $1.95 A baseijient machine shop is a more FOR HUNTERS AND SHOOTERS expensive proposition. Wletalworking THE RIFLE BOOK WHY NOT LOAD YOUR OWNI lathes start at around $200 and run on up By Jack O'Connor By Col. Townsend Whelen to well above $2,000. Companion ma- The most practical and inexpensive hand- chines, such as drill presses, shapers, and The gun and hunting editor of Outdoor loading book ever published. Learn what milling machines sell at comparable Life has put into this book all his knowl- thousands hove already learned — that you prices. There are, however, many low edge of rifles, shooting, cartridges and con load fifteen cartridges for the price of and medium-priced accessories— benches, equipment. $5.95 two factory loads. $3.50 tools, and similar small equipment — that THREE IDEAL GIFT BOOKS — YEAR-ROUND FAVORITES make excellent gifts to the man who al- THE AMERICAN PAST A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEGION ready has his shop. By Roger Butterfield By Richard Seelye Jones Metal crafting, another branch of the A magnificent pictorial history of our The fascinating story of the world's metal-working hobby, by comparison re- country. $10.00 greatest veteran's organization. $2.75 quires neither a great deal of space nor THE FIRESIDE COOK BOOK THE AMERICAN EVERYDAY DICTIONARY the expenditure of a gi'eat deal of money. By James A. Beard edited by Jess Stein With a few inexpensive tools and a corner Over 1,200 basic recipes and variations. An up-to-date, full-sized, 570-pa9e dic- workshop consisting of a table or an old Illustrated in color by Alice and Martin tionary of 60,000 everyday words and desk, the hobbyist can turn out all sorts Provenson. $5.00 meanings. $1.00 of attractive copper, silver, and pewter TAX TIME SOON bowls, ash trays, coasters, trays, candle YOUR 1950 INCOME TAX By J. K. Lasser holders, and plates. A start in the metal A new helpful guide by America's best-known tax consultant Only $1.00 craft hobby can be made for about $8 — NEW UNIT HISTORIES $2 for the sheet metal, 55 cents for a fiber 3rd Infantry Division $5.00 $6.00 41st Infantry Division $10.00 398tli Infantry Regiment mallet, $3 for a planishing hammer, $1.50 6lh Infantry Division $5.00 66th Infantry Division $5.00 Isl Special Service Force. .. .$5.00 30th Infantry Division $4.00 305th Infantry Regiment $5.00 442nd Combat Team $5.00 for a wood tray or bowl mold, and $1 for 33rd Infantry Division $7.50 363rd Infantry Regiment $5.00 3rd Marine Division $5.00 a file. As the metal crafter advances, all

Write I II us for complete free list of available unit histories of both World War and sorts of additions can be made to his equipment in the form of tools ranging r ORDER NOW: CASH OR C.O.D. in cost from a 25 -cent pair of tweezers AMERICAN LEGION SERVICE j BOOK to anvil heads and gas torches at $3. I 734 15th St., N. W., Washington 5, D. C. Leather working, like metal crafting, i Gentlemen: Please send me the books indicated. also is a relatively inexpensive hobby that I I enclose $ Send C.O.D. requires only a minimum of work space. Precut kits for belts, wallets, and pocket- I books can be bought at prices progressing I from about $1.50 to $13. All the hobbyist I has to do is tool the leather and assemble I the parts. A small kit containing eight Name (please print) I basic leather-working tools can be had I for $4 while a more complete kit will cost I you $12. In other words, you can get a City Zone I person started in leather working for DEC/49 about $5.50 ($4 for tools, $1.50 for a simple project kit). Pottery making, thanks to a new process that now makes it possible to create beautifully glazed waterproof pottery without bothersome firing in a kiln, is fast

(^g • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 becoming a popular homu hobby. Vases, trays, book ends, lamp bases, tea tile, dishes, cigarette boxes, and similar deco- rative objects can be molded easily on a kitchen table. A pottery -making kit for beginners, containing the molds and all From where I sit the special materials necessary lor making three separate pieces, costs only $5. Additional molds of different shapes and sizes can be bought for about $1 each. A model making kit is an ideal Christ- Joe Marsh mas present for the man or boy who likes ^ to use his hands. Kits are available for making scale models of just about anything from boats and airplsmes to old- time automobiles. No great array of tools and equipment is necessary. Most kits contain all the materials necessary precut to size and shape; all that is necessary is to assemble the parts and put on the finish. For these kits you can spend as Now Hospitals Are little as $1 for the simpler ones or $15 and upward for the more complicated. Model making is the type of hobby that appeals "Bonks/' Too! to the handicrafter who likes small detail, doesn't mind working a good many hours to complete a project, and t- njojs delicate ''Hospi- work. Doc Simpson was saying, For the electrically minded on your tals are building up 'bone banks' that Christmas list, don't overlook the hobby of radio hnildimi. Here again, kits can work just like blood banks. When bone solve youi- Christmas problems. They is needed, the surgeon takes one from come in a wide vai'iety and at all sorts of prices. You can spend as little as a few a refrigerator, cuts it to the right shape dollais for a two-tube receiver kit or as much as $195.50 for a kit containing all the and simply splices it in." parts and directions for building a !50-tube television set! "You doctors are sure making prog- Because plastics like Lucite and Plexi- glas (known as acrylic plastics) can be ress," I says, "but tell me, are any of worked easily, plastic cvufl is a hobby the patients fussy about whose bone that requires few tools. The plastic can be cut with a jigsaw or a small jeweler's they're getting?" saw, bent and shaped by softening it in the kitchen oven, and decorated carved or "No sir!" replies Doc. "No more with the type of motor-driven drill and tool that can be held in the hand. Although than they worry about whose blood the special hand tool is not necessary for many types of plastic work such as they get. No one yet asked for a bone picture frames, book ends, decoi'ative from a man who went to the same novelties, etc., it makes it possible to do internal carving, a type of plastic decora- school or church he did." tion that makes it appear as if three- dimensional objects have been imbedded From where I sit, it would be a in the material. It is also a handy tool to have around the house. The tools range better world if we were half as willing in price, but average about $25 complete to other people's ideas with an assortment of cutters, grinders, accept and and polishing accessories. tastes, as we seem to be willing to ac- Wood carving is still one of the old their and blood. There'll standbys where hobbies are concerned. It cept bone is whittling glorified. If you have a whit- always be differences. Some like but- tler in your house, get him some carving tools and a wood practice panel and watch termilk, others would rather have a the chips fly. Sets of wood-carving tools sparkling glass of temperate beer. But (they can also be used to carve linoleum) sell for about $4, while wood bowls, trays, underneath we're pretty much the bracelets, belt buckles, cigarette boxes, same—deserving each other's respect napkin rings, and jewelry boxes smoothed and ready for carving can be bought for and tolerance! an average price of about 60 cents each. If your gift list doesn't include any hobby prospects other than yourself, you might try a few well-placed hints at the dinner table some night. Remember, the family is probably having as much trouble trying to figure out what you want as you are trying to guess what they'd like. THE END Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation

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FIGHT SCENES are part of the exciting hunt for the red spy master RUPTURE-EASER FOR MEN. WOMEN AND CHILDREN the young physicist — is the lead now in search. In his younger days, in college, A strong, form fitting, wash- at)le support. Back lacing ad- the West Coast production of the Broad- he had mistakenly joined the Young justable. Shaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap. Soft, way musical hit "Kiss Me Kate." Communist League because he thought it flat groin pad. No steel or leather bands. Unexcelled for With the script ready and the actors was the smart thing to do. Now he is ap- comfort. ^Also used as after- $39S selected, Leven set out to finance his pro- the to help them get operation support. Give meas- proached by commies ure around the lowest part duction. Here he ran into a cold recep- details on the work being done on the of the abdomen. Specify Doubl* 4.V5 right or left side or double. tion. Either the people he approached Long Island Project. Steve goes instead We pay postage except on COD's. PIPER BRACE CO. 308 East 12th Dept. AL-I2 Kansas City 6, Mo. were against the idea of an anti-commu- to the FBI and is told to work along with nist film or they felt that picket lines and the reds. The agents hope with Steve's harassment from the reds would keep the help to find the unknown spy leader. MAHE EXTRA MONEY film from completion. Leven had harbored Even if the story did not deal with UNION LABEL BOOK MATCHES no illusions about the difficulties he would communist treachery, it would be a first- BUILD STEADY REPEAT BUSINESS encounter, but the shortsightedness of rate action thriller. As it is, "Project X" No Investment ... No Experienco Advertising Book Matches bring daily profit. Be people who agreed with him in his idea is an entertaining as well as instructive a direct factory representative of tlie World's Largest but would not back it up, left him dis- film. The pattern of red operations is dis- exclusive UNION LABEL Book Match .Manufacturer. Prospects everywhere. We feature PETTY mayed. It was only by using his own played in unmistakable terms for all to Glamour Girls, LAWSON WOOD almo.st human series, GARRITY'S HillbUlies— money that the shooting of the picture see. While it may strike some as being Double books — Jumbo books— nearly 100 color combinations. New 1949 port^ could be started. overdone, we would like to remind our folio, 224 pagesotselllngdynamlte FREE. Make big profits QUICK— DaUy com- In making television films. Transcon- readers that their daily newspapers, radio mission In advance. Write today. tinental had learned to hold down costs broadcasts and magazine articles by by utilizing actual locations instead of people who know, have unveiled similar building costly sets. This technique was incidents and some even more shocking put to good use in "Project X" and again, than those portrayed. as in the case of the cast, the authenticity Events here and in Canada the last few GETTING DEAF? imparted to the picture is a strong point years have uncovered evidence that makes Don't let deafness kill the joys of living. Do in its favor. no secret of the commie hatred of our as hundreds of thousands have done. Let a Quite in contrast to the usual movie form of government or way of life. In one home trial prove you can even hear a whisper. guarantee if any practice, Leven hoped to finish the pic- short speech, Henderson, the FBI agent, Here's Zenith's amazing — $200.00 hearing aid outperforms Zenith's ture without publicity. feared that the the of the picture and ex- He keynotes theme newest, tiny, 6 Vk oz. single-unit "Miniature" commies would set up picket lines which plains the outcries of the commies against Radionic Hearing Aid in both efficiency and our h s crew would refuse to cross. The Daily this picture and everything else which economy, your money back —under 10-Day Return Privilege. Only $75.00 complete, ready Worker found out about the picture, and tries to expose them. He says, "They spy to wear. For authorized Zenith Hearing Aid managed to obtain a copy of the script. on you and it's all right, but the minute Dealer in your locality, consult your classified They wasted no time in attempting to you do the same thing to them it becomes telephone book; or write us for complete coast-to-coast dealer list. Free descriptive liter- smear everyone connected with the pro- deceitful and justifies in their eyes any ature upon request. Address: duction. Letters and telegrams, protesting action they care to take." Zenith Radio Corporation, Hearing Aid Division the filming of the picture, poured in on We believe you will add to your friends' Dept. 1282 Leven and he began that he enjoyment of the picture if you do not to doubt 5801 West Dickens Avenue, Chicago 39, Illinois would be able to finish. reveal the ending which is, in the Holly- Makers of World Famous Zenifh Radio, When "Project X" was completed, the wood jargon, "a twist." FM ond Televisioft Sets company's problems were not over. 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The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 '51 YOU CAN'T EAT CALIFORNIA'S CLIMATE (Continued from page 21) branch plants of out-of-state firms — 254 shortly filling the state with train loads " that he could move the entire 60-ycar-old of them — were asked to explain to their of easterners and middle- western farm- firm from Boston to Los Angeles. Ameri- eastern home ofRces that migrating vet- ers, come to sit in the sun and get rich can Potash and Chemical moved out from erans were no longer needed, or wanted, growing oranges. In the 1930's, in our own New York. The Carnation Milk people in California. rememberable time, came the endless gathered up their "home office" employees Why? Just what has been going on in streams of beaten-up cars carrying the in New York, Milwaukee and Seattle, and the fabled land of sunshine? jobless refugees from the middle west's soon- the whole firm was contentedly at No one knows better what has been Dust Bowl. The invasion was finally home in Los Angeles. The Prudential In- going on in California than Stewart. He stopped only by the state simply assum- surance Company, after sending scouts on has been a resident of the state since he ing the powers of a separate nation and ahead like a traveling ant army, hired arrived in San Francisco alone at the age turning the hordes back at the state special trains and brought out hundreds of 17, shortly after the 1906 earthquake border even at gunpoint. (When you cross of home office employees en masse from and fire. He is himself a California vet- the California border by car you are the Prudential headquarters in Newark, eran from World War I. And he has been checked through agriculture -quarantine New Jersey, to establish a new "western head of the California Veterans Employ- stations by uniformed policemen as though home office" in Los Angeles. ment Service since 1936, during the most you were entering a different country.) All of which still worked out fairly well hectic times in the history of our most But even with all this history behind it, as long as the frantic postwar industrial hectic state. California has been somewhat astounded honeymoon lasted in California. Durins; It is not widely enough known just during the wartime and postwar years. the war and immediately following it, a what "the war" did to California. As one During the war all comers were wel- decent place to live in California was veterans' adviser told me, "It's a wonder comed, to work in the aircraft plants, the almost impossible to find, and if you did the whole state hasn't simply tipped over shipyards, and all the rest of the rapidly find it both it and food were impossibly like an over-crowded ferryboat, and slid flung together machine that made of high, but a man could certainly find a into the Pacific." With the population of California America's second most impor- job if he wanted one. the country at large increasing by 11% tant defense arsenal. California also Because there was a tremendous job since Pearl Harbor, California has grown prided itself on being a good host to the to be done. Since Pearl Harbor, the state by a fabulous 45%. Arizona and Nevada millions of servicemen streaming through where elderly citizens from Iowa still have grown by 30% just from the people its ports to the Pacific. After the war, it come to sit in the sun has undergone who ran out of gas. At the end of the was thought, all these people would say, a startling industrial revolution. Los An- war there was a slight pause, but this was "Thank you," and go home. geles alone now makes more furniture only the real migration getting up steam. Which of course has not been the case. than Grand Rapids, more tires than any-

Ever since, people have poured into Los Knowing a good thing when they saw it, whei'e but Akron, more clothes than any Angeles alone at the fantastic rate of most of the wartime defense workers city but New York; it has a bigger fish- over 5,000 new permanent residents a simply stayed on, and thousands of the ing industry than Boston, and assembles week! visiting servicemen hastened home only more automobiles than anywhere but Vast population increases are of course long enough to get their wives and chil- Detroit. In 1946, $155,793,492 were invested nothing new to California. This amazing dren, brothers and sisters, parents and in the Los Angeles area in new and ex- population magnet has increased its count grandparents, and often their neighbors. panded industrial plants. In 1947, 81,000 of humans by an unbelievable 45% -every- And then back they came. Plus Califor- new homes and apartment units were ten-years ever since the 1860's. The rush nia's own million or so veterans coming completed, enough to house a good-sized has hardly slowed down for a minute home from the wars. Plus the almost city. Tremendous new office buildings and since the Days of '49 when the in-rushing unbelievable spectacle of many large department stores and broadcasting sta- gold miners fought each other for beds, and well-established eastern firms mov- tions sprang up from one end of town to food, and enough water to wash in. Then, ing themselves to California lock, stock, the other like steel-and-concrete mush- with the completion of our railroads to and employees. Young Mr. Justin Dart rooms. It was difficult to drive along any the Pacific (1869-1885) the California accepted the presidency of the Rexall street in town any day without seeing a land merchants moved in, and were Drug Company only with the provision brand-new big building of some sort you had never seen before. Outlying bean- fields suddenly grew endless rows of new GEIVEIIAL MISCHIEF By S. B. STEVENS apartment buildings. The Los Angeles Post-office grew to 48 branches, with an annual revenue of over $32,000,000. During and immediately following the war, the whole state was gripped by this same feverish activity. The San Fran- cisco area matched Los Angeles' fantastic rate of population growth stride for stride. Across the bay to the east, the skies over industrial Oakland, like the skies over once-sunny Los Angeles, were filled with an impenetrable smoky haze rivaling the olden days of Pittsburgh and St. Louis. To the south, at San Diego, the housing developments were flung farther and farther into the suburbs. In 1946 and '47 California was really rolling. Just exactly when somebody started pulling the switches slowing down this statewide boom is a matter for debate. Most opinion is that things started "lev- eling off" during the summer of 1948. That was when the general business in- dex reached the top, paused, and started AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE down. Actually, however, it woiold seem that

52 * The American Legion Magazine • December, 1943 — the peak was passed well before then, them a favor by stopping them from during the winter of 1946-47. Since the jumping off the end of the dock." war California has been like a giant ever- In other words, if you're a "job hop- growing pump, which had to be primed per," don't hop toward California. It's with bigger and bigger doses of new and just that simple. If you can't find a job expanding industry in order to sustain where you are, you can't find one in to- its fabulously-growing population. And day's overcrowded California. All over in 1947 the investment in new and ex- California the newspaper help-wanted panded industrial plants in Los Angeles ads are getting back to the old "salesman" dropped from the more than $155,000,000 ads of the 1930's. "Commission only" of 1946 to $124,811,500; in 1948 it dropped salesmen for household gadgets, salesmen again, to $72,181,500. In new jobs created for roofing and siding, house-to-house by this investment, the 29,697 new jobs men. No experience necessary, and all created in 1946 dropped to 21,346 in 1947, the new men are making $100 a week, it and to 11,953 in 1948. In 1946, one-eighth says here. Remember those ads of the FOLLOW THE SUN of all new businesses started in the whole '30s? Well, they're back. IN A VAGABOND And, as in the '30s, any of the want ads that sound like a real job are getting very These new 1950 Models have been im- ADJUST MCNT^ blunt in their choosiness. I quote from a proved and newly styled, and are priced couple in this morning's Los Angeles from $2250.00 up. Several new floor plans Examiner: "MACHINISTS, PRECISION. and other features have been added. Must have 10 years experience in small BEAUTIFUL CATALOG SHOWS ALL MODELS ." precision work . . Write today for fully illustrated color "MACHINIST. Must be FIRST CLASS. catalog of all Vagabond Trailers. ." None others need apply . . They even demand experience in an ad for men to THREE YEARS TO PAY solicit dry cleaning. California papers are now available in VAGABON D practically any city or town in the coun- Coach Mfg. Co. try. If you can't buy them on a news- Box 432 stand, you can find them at your library. New Hudson, Mich. Before you think of heading for Cali- HIGHEST QUALITY fornia to look for a job, get the papers from whatever California locality you're thinking of heading for, and read the want ads. It is no longer necessary to drive two thousand miles to get a paper. You can read the California help-wanted ads just as well, and with a lot of less expense and heartbreak, in your nearest NEW CHEMICAL MITT city. You'll see the situation. If you're Sensational ! DRY Windo\i messy liquids. Chemically Treated. Simply glide leaves niass sparkling clear. No heating water, no prepared to buck it, come on out. If dows: _ ..eavy buckets to carry. No rags, powders, spongeb, cham- you dropped in, sir! ois. No mess or muss. No red chapped hands. Dust, dirt, grime. "Awfully glad you don't have unusual ability and expe- fog disappear like magic. Wonderful for auto windows, vnndshielda! We've been icondering if there were rience, or aren't prepared for a rough SAMPLES FOR AGENTS ^AfZ'^^llll any little bugs that needed to be eenti name at once. A penny postal will do. SEND NO MONEY— time while you prove you do have it, iu^- "o-.r name. KRISTEZ CO.. 1459 Bar Street, AKRON, OHIO. worked out of our 'Little Giant' hot stay where you are. The same month water heater." you drive across the state border into 31 |l FOR I A.MERICA.M LEGION MAGAZINE i-— DESIGNS California, over 100,000 other cars will be ^1 COMPLETELY NEW AND ! right on your heels from every state in ORIGINAL WAR MEMORIALS ROLL TABLETS country were started in Southern Cali- AND HONOR the union, most of them driven by a man CEOUESI PRE^EMEn CS \ fornia; only two years later, in 1948, who wants a job just as badly as you do. FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL Southern California had one-seventh of And with the other 100,000 cars, you will IRON CO. all of America's business failures. be entering a state which already has DEPT. L MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. No matter when it started, by the sum- over 325,000 unemployed, with 180,000 of mer of 1948 Stewart and his men were them veterans. finding it harder and harder to locate If you're bound to come to California PARATROOPER-TYPE veterans' jobs. But the hundreds of no matter what anybody can tell you, thousands of people pouring into the state what do Stewart and his men advise you BOOTS to look for jobs continued at very near to bring with you? First and foremost, JUMP its peak rate. The result was the only one you should have a definite employment Direct From Factory possible — by last fall jobs began to get skill, with a record of continuity of em- New, sturdy, paratroopcr- really scarce. By November (1948) the ployment and good references — in other t>pe boots designed for all California Department of Employment words, you should be a man your own round foot comfort, built fu all hard outdoor wear. Mai had 77,350 "active applications" from town hates to see go; equally important, of heavy, pliable, qualit>' leatht-r uppt veterans who needed a job; in December you should have enough money to carry Takes brilliant shine. Goodyear welt con-itruction. Hard box toe. Fullprain- it to April jumped over 95,000, and by to you for at least four months, and pref- leaihcr Inner sole and mid sole, nearly 140,000. John J. MacGillvray and erably six months; and you should either weather non-skid rubber oute Non-trip rubber Herbert Schierenbeck, Stewart's remain- half sole. have a car, or have enough additional heel. Inner ankle webbing ing men in the busy Los Angeles VES money to buy one when you get there. and stitching, snug fit, firm support. Long rawhide laces. office, both told me, "Today the cream of In California you can hardly go down to the crop are coming in looking for jobs get a pack of cigarettes without getting YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED — and unskilled veterans are starting to in your car. Most metropolitan areas of GEORGIA SHOE MFG. CO. Flowery Bronch, Go. get hungry." sprawling networks, California are vast Send me o pair of "JUMP BOOTS." Mr. E. K. Young, Industrial Engineer with definitely inadequate public trans- Enclosed is check Money Order for $9.95. Postage C.O.D. or Add 25« in U.S.A. for the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- portation: everybody has a car, and the

NAME_ , — merce, stated the present situation with- result is that public transportation is de- ADDRESS. out any hesitation: "For really skilled cidedly under par. And with the postwar CITY labor, yes, we can use it. But not for the blossoming of housing developments Size and width of shoe_ semi-skilled or unskilled. You'll be doing twenty or thirty miles or more from the The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • 53 center of town, a decent car is more than chooses to cut the heart out of the Vet- came a minister. Stewart himself was ever an absolute necessity. erans Employment Service. Today the born on December C, 1839, at Houlton, Above all, don't forget to bring your California Veterans Employment Service, Maine, in the state's potato country. The billfold. As things get tougher, Califor- with a bigger job than ever before, is family shortly returned to Louisville, nia is getting increasingly weary of sup- being rewarded for an outstanding job in Kentucky, and it was there that Stewart porting impoverished citizens from the the past by having its funds and staff was brought up. east, or laying out money to send them cut to the bone. In 1943 the California VES Stewart's understanding of any vet- back home. They don't mind sharing the staff consisted of 30 men — Stewart, as erans' problem you care to mention is sunshine, but they are getting less and state head, with six assistants in the not accidental; he himself has had an less willing to share the jobs and tax various local areas selling the veterans' unusual variety of human experience. money that they need themselves. The program to employer groups, and 24 field When he first came to California he California taxpayers have spent most of men beating the brush from morning till worked as a young surveyor for several the year in a continual embroilment over night nailing down the actual individual railroad and land-development firms. the state's first billion-dollar budget, and jobs. (In all states, the Veterans Employ- Then he went to work for an ornamental the growingly outlandish pensions-and- ment Service representatives devote all iron firm as an estimator. In 1910 he went charities situation. their time to making and finding jobs for into business for himself as the St. Fran- As things get tougher for everyone, veterans. Their information is then im- cis Iron Works in San Francisco. In the they naturally get tougher for the vet- mediately given to the nearest state De- next seven years, helping to rebuild the eran. It's one thing to help a veteran find partment of Employment office, and the quake-and-f ire-ravaged city he still a job when you have a good job your- jobs are then filled from available quali- loves, he made a fair-sized fortune. When self; it's quite another thing to take any fied veterans on their rolls.) he sold his business in 1917 to enter the vast amount of interest in helping a vet- Through 1946 and early 1947 the Cali- Army, he was, at 28, a wealthy, retired eran find a job if you've just lost your fornia Veterans Employment Service was businessman on his own efforts. own. May I quote from a letter in this a well-staffed, adequately financed, and Due to his surveying and engineering morning's Los Angeles Times, headed A extremely going concern. Stewart in San experience, he was immediately shipped ". Non Veteran Pleads for a Chance? . .A Francisco and his six regional assistants off to Officers' Training Camp, and slior+.ly plain civilian hasn't got a chance. I be- throughout the state, working in coordi- commissioned a 1st Lt. in the Coast Ar- lieve in giving veterans their chance, but nation with national VES headquarters tillery. After a year of action overseas, we of the low civilian class have got to in Washington, talked day and night to he came out in November of 1919.

live too. . . . What is the matter with the civic groups, employer groups, big and With no need of a job himself, he nonvet? Isn't he allowed to live or is he little individual employers, anyone and watched other veterans pounding the supposed to go crawl in a hole?" That's everyone who had jobs veterans could San Francisco pavements looking for from a young guy who tried to enlist four fill. Employers were continually sold on jobs. "Right then and there," he says, "I times, and was rejected each time be- the value of the veteran as an employee, got interested in veterans' employment." cause of a heart condition from childhood the value of his military-trained skills, While occupying his own time as a free- rheumatic fever. A few days ago I picked the value of his excellent health and lance publicity man for various building up a nice-looking and well-dressed young trained discipine. As fast as employers and automobile firms, Stewart was soon guy who was hitch-hiking. He'd missed could be thus sold on veteran job prefer- running an equally free-lance job-getting the war due to an eye injury; he'd also ence, Stewart and his assistants and the service for San Francisco veterans, help- lost his job at a grocery concern some field men then descended on the actual ing many of them get placed. Since he four months ago, and hadn't found an- companies involved to place as many vet- could afford the time, he was also active other one since. "I think the veterans erans as possible. in community fund-raising campaigns. In should have something," he said, "but I "Getting jobs for veterans hasn't been 1923, for instance, he was instrumental in don't think they should have everything. only a job with us," said Stewart, "It's a the campaign to sell the $750,000 worth If they give all the jobs to the veterans, religion." of second-mortgage bonds that made San what's everybody else supposed to do?" Stewart comes naturally by this sense Francisco's new Elks Club possible. He That's a tough situation; those are tough of religious devotion to his duties. His has always been a born promoter who facts. But that's California today. father, an eastern hotelkeeper, met thrives on battling for any cause that

And in the face of this situation, this Dwight L. Moody, the famed evangelist, he believes in. After 60 years of it, his is the time that the national government in the middle years of his life, and be- light-colored eyes still hold a humorous glint and the gleam of battle. In 1929 things began to pick up for Stewart. First he lost most of his money in the somewhat noisy crash of that year. Then, as the importance of governinent increased in all our lives, it was inevi-

table that he would become a part of it. He first went to work for the government in 1934. His friend Cliff Anglim had been made northern California Director of the newly formed Federal Housing Admini- stration, and Cliff asked Stewart to give up his private interests and help handle some of the public relations probler^s of the project. He has been in government service ever since. In the fall of 1936 Stewart moved into his present job as head of the California Veterans Employment Service. He didn't seek the job, finally accepting it only at the personal urging of former California Senator William G. McAdoo, with the full backing of the California veterans' groups. Stewart had taken a growing part in veterans' affairs since 1933. In the fall of sick as usual." "Dinner was much better tonight. I don't feel half as that year, following the great congres- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE sional uproar for economy in the vet-

• The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 erans' program, the President appointed (d) maintain regular contact with regional Veterans Reviewing Boards to employers and veterans' organiza- review all veterans' disability claims. tions with a view of keeping employ- Stewart was appointed to the San Fran- ers advised of veterans available for cisco board, and California veterans soon employment and veterans advised of found that here they had a fair-minded opportunities for employment; and and staunch friend. (e) assist in every possible way in Also in 1933 Congress passed the Wag- improving working conditions and ner-Peyser Act, calling for the setting up the advancement of employment of of our now-familiar state employment veterans. offices. (We now have some 1800 of them, throughout the United States, Alaska, Between the first bill setting up the "I LIKE A MAN Hawaii, and Puerto Ricol) The portion of VES in 1933, and the G. I. Bill of Rights WHO LIKES A the bill having to do with veterans' em- eleven years later in 1944, much water of CIGAR" ployment problems was later strengthened course ran under the bridge. As Stewart The Cigar every mon Hkes in the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of puts it, "We got the problem of World is the mild, inexpensive 1944 -the Legion's "G.I. Bill of Rights" War I veterans almost licked, and I was — which stated: just about to put my feet up on the desk and become a bureaucrat, when that s.o.b. TITLE IV Hitler started this last war and we really Sec. 601 PROVIDES THAT THE had to go to work." VES (Veterans Employment Serv- Since the war, hours have meant noth- ice) SHALL, IN COOPERATION ing to Stewart or any man on his staff. WITH THE STATE EMPLOYMENT They speak in churches on "Veterans SERVICE: Employment Sundays": they speak at PANETELA (a) be functionally responsible for endless night meetings. One typical recent the supervision of the registration of night Ed Kemp, Stewart's man at Fresno, XMAS WRAP

drove 140 miles during the evening and Avoiloble ot your dealer.

spoke at five different meetings en route. H not, send $2.40 (or o box of WALLY No one considered this at all unusual. As 50 to Pennslale Cigor Corp., we have said, Stewart himself canvasses Philo. 34, Po. We pay postoge. the commuter train for jobs every morning on his way to his San Francisco office from his home forty miles south at Los Altos (married ten years ago, the Stew- arts have no children). Every man on the statewide staff works in the same way. Chanse a flat, repair motor, warn traffic, spot off" They all pay their own dues in the count- road signs, etc. — with less civic and fraternal organizations they brilliant Reddylite beam. "Stays have to belong to, to do their job. The put" at any Buy stenographers in Stewart's organization angle. at hardware, are all veterans — former Wacs, Waves, sport, elec- and lady Marines. Every member of the tric store. BOO tt. ^P"^ Lea 6-rolt organization is an American Legion member. There are no stars or prima donnas 6-volt ^ $325 in the outfit. (When I showed Stewart 3!f/te * first draft of this article he carefully the ELECTRIC cut out practically every personal refer- LANTERN ence, and I have since put most of them DELTA ELECTRIC CO., MARION, INDIANA back only over his protests.) On June 13, 1947, Congress gave VES START BIG BUSINESS WITH its first reward. The 30 men Stewart had were cut to 10. All over the country the GOVT INSURANCE REFUND VES lost all its brush-beating field men MAKE BIG MONEY FULL. SPARE TIME WITH LOW COST ONE- at one fell sweep. It made for a % cut in MAN SAWMILL the national VES force of some 500 men. TAKE your BELSAW Portable Saw- mill right to the trees—turn out valu- In June of this year another national 50% able lumber for local yards, all kinds of boildingmaterial—do"eustom saw- cut left Stewart six men — to handle the Inp;" for neighbors, fThousands of satisfied owntr^i. One writes; "I make $1000.00 a month, and do it easy!" No crew entire veterans' employment problem of needed. Power with old auto en- the state of California, with a veteran pine or tractor. Fast mechanical feed, positive top dops, steel con- population of nearly two million. As in struction, safety features. Beicrin- ners get excellent results at once. the days of 1933, a shortsighted and ill- BELSAWS last a lifetime. Low factory- >-you price. ..pay only $r,'2. 50 down. Build informed national economy move is hit- a bip-profit business. Send postcard for valuable FKEE BOOK, "How To Make Lumber." ting the veteran first, right in the eye. In the fall of 1944 Perry Faulkner, past BELSAW MACHINERY CO (From Decembt-r, 19J2 A. L.M.J state commander of the American Legion 887B Field BIdg., 315 Westport Rd., Kansas City 2, Mo. in Indiana, took over as national head of the Veterans Employm.ent Service at the veterans in local employment offices urging of Past National Commander Paul for suitable types of employment and McNutt, head of the War Manpower Com- for placement of veterans in employ- mission. "Faulkner is one of the most d'„ pants ment; sincere and one of the most capable men Genuine 100% GABARDINE rtectlons vory sHKht -h.irdly otii .ible (b) assist in securing and main- I have ever Worked with," said Stewart, 11 for dress r>l. pl.i> hard finish. Wrlnkl taining current information as to the "and I've worked with a lot of them. He's Beta ns ne.it press. ZIppi front. Roomy pockets. Blue. T.in. -Sand. Lt. various types of available employ- like this gang we've had out here in Brown. I)k. Brown. Blue- Gray. Waist: 28 to 4 2 -Send ame, waist ment in public works and private in- California — his religion is veterans' em- SEND NO MONEY ,t, 2nd and Pay post- dustry or business; ployment." Faulkner, like Stewart, has small postaKe (c) the interest of for good having promote employ- been rewarded a job by Back Guarantee. ers in employing veterans; (Continued on page 57) LINCOLN TAILORS Dept. AM-12 Lincoln, Nebr.

The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • 11 seuEVE rroR MOT -HOPE f/AS AN IMTHLLieENT (PEA!

stjys CROSBY

aiose>y'

Folks, this is fantastic, but old Hope has a great idea. He thinks everybody ought to give U. S. Savings Bonds for Christmas presents!

hope:

Thanks for the kind words, son. But no kidding, ladies and gentlemen, those Bonds are sensational.

They're appropriate for anyone on your list. On Christmas morning, nothing looks better in a stocking— except maybe Dorothy Lamour.

Old Ski Nose is correct. And don't forget how easy it is to buy bonds —you can get 'em at any bank or post office.

hope:

How about it, Mr. and Mrs. America? This Christmas let's all give U. S. Savings Bonds!

U.S. SAVINGS BONDS

Contributed by this magazine in co-operation with the Magazine Publishers of America as a public service. (Continued from page 55) So what do Stewart and his remaining his forces decimated by our current vet- men do, now that their water has been Spare Time Sample erans' economy plague. cut off? Do they sit in a corner and wring "What's the sense of that at a time like their hands? They do not. You don't know this?" I asked Stewart. Stewart and his VES gang in California. CASH+SUITS "There is no sense to it," he said. "It's Now, all over the state, Stewart and his due solely to the shortsightedness of men are redoubling their efforts to enlist Yours Without Paying budgeteers. It seems 'goofy' for Congress the help of volunteer groups — the service hamstring the VES, that pays such big clubs, the Elks, the Masons, the Knights Amazing i>lanl Sliow up-to-tlie- to ininute inon's suit styles and dividends back to government. . . . Divi- of Columbus, the organized veterans actual .saiiiiile woolens to friends, dends in hard cold cash for every dollar groups, local, county, state and federal neighbors, fellow workers Tako easy orders for finest niade-to- spent." agencies, and the California Department ineasure tailoring and earn cash Well, is he right about those cash divi- of Employment itself. In California there and your own surra without paving ono penny! Karnings up to $12.00 in a dends? Let's look at the record. During has never been any jealousy between the day easy No cxperieneo or investment needed. 1948 the total expense to the government Department of Employment and its mili- of the California Veterans Employment tary cousin, the Veterans Employment Outfit! Service, including salaries, office space, Service. Stewart and James G. Bryant, Send Name for FREE Just Bend your namc< secretaries, travel, stationery, phone bills, head of the California State Employment SKND NO MONEY! address, ago and occuiiation for big FHKK out- and w^hat have you, was approximately Service, have always got along fine, and fit containing over l.TO actual sample woolens, $10,000 a month. During the year they de- intend to continue to do so. As Stewart (scores of full-color Btyle illu.strations, and complete instructions You'll be amazed when you for veterans. These states it, to and veloped 15,707 jobs "We're married the CSES, discover how easy it is to earn CASH and win jobs averaged $225 a month (Stewart has it wasn't a shotgun marriage. We like SUITS with my amazing plan. Write today. never been interested in developing "jobs" them and they like us." PROGRESS TAILORING CO., Dept. Z-105 of leaf-raking or apple-selling; when he "But you know what breaks your 500 S. Throop St., Chicago 7, III. finds a veteran a job, he finds him a job.) heart?" said Stewart suddenly. "In vet- Remember, VES is not an employment erans' employment in California you agency in the usual sense. It develops never get anywhere. You work like hell Free for Asthma jobs for veterans. State agencies place the and figure you've had a real good month individuals in the jobs VES develops. To — the VES and CSES working together If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke and gasp for breath, if restful sleej) is difficult let's be conservative say that only 12,000 get jobs for maybe 8,000 veterans — and because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to of these jobs were filled. That means an then you look up the figures from the send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA income to the veterans of $2,700,000 a entry ports and you find that 10,000 more MEDICINE, a i>reparation for lemiiorary symp- month! The income tax alone from the veterans have come into the state looking tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. matter where you live or whether you have ." No for . veterans he found jobs paid the for jobs . faith in any medicine under the sun, send today expenses of his total operation a hundred- It might be added that nearly all the for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. Frontier Bldg. fold! He paid the total cost of his opera- VES representatives in California who Frontier Asthma Co. 264-D 4t)2 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N, Y. tion another hundredfold just by the vet- have been laid off by the recent cuts are erans he took off the so-called 52-20 club. still working long hours at their own Twelve thousand veterans drawing $20 a expense and on their own time — talking week is $1,020,000 a month. At a total cost to employers about jobs for veterans, of $10,000, Stewart saved all this, plus visiting the hospitals to advise veterans making the government that much more on job training, trying to get the veterans ButTat you BuiLO coin in income taxes. It seems that he is right back in business. . . . "Service to veterans Be DOLLAR WISE. A single source for plete pnrls ;ind etiulpment . All sleel conslriir when he says the VES pays dividends. gets into your blood," Stewart said. tlon. Aluminum exteriors. Goes toRetlier like a chllds I cin.slriicU.in set. SUmdard slsses avallalile 12' 111' aO' 24' has been rewarded by the govern- painful point in the con- 2S' .-t^' iMHly lengths, either Caravan or conventional He At a somewhat .siyle. .ScntI 10(? for catalog and further Information. U-BUILD-IT TRAILER, Transportation Specialties Inc., ment by having his organization cut down versation I decided I might as well be 917 Fremont St., P.O. 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The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • cementing better feeling and mutual respect between landowner and hunter. But LIFE IN THE OPEN December 19491 it only takes one hunter to leave the gate open and let the mare out, so you carmot yet convince a farmer that there is anything in it for him to let a bunch of strangers shoot up his farm and home. Meanwhile, in the more thickly populated areas, hunters generally have become so persistent that the farmer has the unhappy choice of chasing them all day or letting them alone and hating them. Usu- ally he has to settle for working up a good hate, for the cows must still be milked. Several years ago we in Pennsylvania asked ourselves a practical question. How about making it worth while for the farmers to let the hunters in? It was a novel, though sensible, approach. It has proved to be a fair one which now works with growing popularity every year, and is taking hold with variations in other states. We make trespassing worth while for the farmer in Pennsylvania by signing a contract with him whereby the Game Commission takes over the game rights to his property, usually for five years, and in return assumes responsibility for con- trolling those who hunt the farmer's land. In addition farmers who sign such contracts are given the opportunity to make money on jobs they may be able to do for the Game Commission, and they receive direct advice and assistance in matters of soil conservation and game conservation. Biggest appeal to the farmer is the protection we offer him. He is apt to be skep- tical when he learns he must still tolerate hunters. He is usually sold when he learns that vigilant game protectors will do his policing during the gunning season, that rules for hunting on his property will carry the authority of the Game Commis- sion rather than merely of the citizen- farmer, and that no one may hunt within 150 yards of his occupied buildings. We call farmers who sign our contracts A PENNSYLVANIA game protector gives cooperating landowner official sign to post Cooperators. Today there are more than safety 150 buildings. In season protectors enforce the rules zone yards around hunting 6,200 active Cooperators in Pennsylvania. Their combined holdings add up to over 600,000 acres. It is all good small game country, open to the public in hunting season under our control. A SENSIBLE APPROACH Most of this area is now posted by the Game Commission, with invitations rather TO TRESPASSING than trespass signs, but also State warn-

Why many Pennsylvania farmers like to let hunters inside the fences

By LEO A. LUTTRINGER, JR. it has always been the farmer who took the beating, whenever there was a beat- Chief, Division of Conservation Educa- ing resulting from trespassing after game. tion, Pennsylvania Game Commission The farmer's signs lessen his punish- WHEREVER there is intensive farming in ment, but not much. The signs repel the this country, and wherever there is law-abiding; the lawless ignore them. open country within easy reach of a fairly The well-meaning hunter has his feelings large population, there has always been hurt when ordered off the land, but after a considerable amount of bad blood be- all it isn't his cow or windows that may tween some landowners and some types be shot, his wheat that gets trampled, his of hunters. It is an age-old quarrel, caused fences that are cut. by the conflict between the legal right of Good sportsmanship and a proper re- the landowner to control his property and gard for the farmer's rights have been the inherited "right" of Americans to hunt preached until their advocates are blue in the open country. in the face. Many and many a sportsmen's TWO farm lads earn $1 per chick for raising Whatever the moral right of the hunter, club or individual hunter has worked at day-old ringneck pheasants to 12-week age

5g • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 — ings to keep clear of safety zones, as well OUR BEST-READ EDITION FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT as of the small fenced {^amo of GIVE EMRICK refuges (Continued from pafje 2G) AN two to ten acres which we set up, fence, and plant with good game cover. are no illustrations. However, the same 5 POWER The safety zones include areas near articles and featui'es you read in the regu- TOOLS buildings, workers, Uvestock and growing lar edition are carried in the books that IN ONE go to the blind. crops. The warning signs are official State MACHINE It takes three bulky volumes, ijrintcd si'-ns, and the areas are patrolled by our only game protectors. We pi'osecute violators on kraft paper, to make a single issue of of the rules, and the penalty for viola- the magazine. By means of specially de- machinery it is possible to space tion is $25.00. The simple and official ap- signed EMIIICK fj-in-l MACillNE — the gift he will really the letters so that the text can be printed enjoyi Easy to learn 83 operations, workinn in wood, l)cals of our signs are seldom ignored. metals or plasties. Cooperators get the opportunity to do on both sides of a page without overlap- An EMRICK includes bitr capacity, heavy-duty Lath.', Drill Press, Saw Arbor, Grinder, Sanfler — paying jobs for the Game Commission. ping. all in ONE power machine. usinK ONE motor. (^n!y $39.95 cash, or on Easy Payments. Christmas dc- They may raise day-old ringneck pheas- In producing the Braille edition, a livcrv assurod. 10-Day Free Trial. MONEY-BACK Thousands of satisfied customers — sighted person reads the copy which is GUARANTEE. ant chicks furnished by the Game Com- our 51st vcar buildintr high quality tools. mission, receive bird recorded on a Dictaphone. One of the Write for FREE Catalog, describing Rig Pre- and $1.00 for every Christmas Sale. EMRICK, INC., 1902 Clinton, reared to twelve weeks of age. Last year blind girls, playing back the recording, Kalamazoo, Mich. 48 farmers successfully i-eared more than transcribes the words on a metal matrix, 10,000 fine, healthy pheasants. Cooperators or plate, by means of a machine with a are also paid to remove surplus game keyboard somewhat similar to that of a I'll Put a "Shoe Store typewriter. This plate is then proofread, from their lands, and may reserve the Business" In Your Pocket! trapping privileges for themselves. a sighted copyholder checking the copy YOU GET EVERYTHING FREE! as a blind girl reads from the plate. Errors While Pennsylvania emphasizes protec- — jour ;,'rc'at Sample* Outfit. tion for farmers also stress bettor are corrected on a machine which smooths Tcstc-ii Sales Plan. Wo train we you to be a Certified Shoe cover and protection for game. We fur- out the raised dots, and necessary changes Fitter. 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Each Cooperator receives the Com- for mailing. mission's official magazine, in which spe- Contrary to popular belief, the reading cial articles discuss farm-game problems. of Braille is not slow and tedious. As INVENTORS A number of states are trying to solve evidence of this, the proofreaders at I'atent laws encourage the development of inven- their farmer-sportsman problems by en- Clovernook read the text as fast as the tions. Our firm is re.yistered to practice before tfie U. S. Patent Office. Write for further particulars couraging the landowner to carry on prac- sighted copyholders can follow the printed as to patent protection and procedure and "Inven- tices which will help wildlife as well as words. Their reading, however, is not tion Record" form at once. No oblisation. increase crop production. These programs merely mechanical. From their questions McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON Registered Patent Attorneys are usually geared to the U. S. Soil Con- and comments, it is apparent that the girls 1 16-B Victor Building \\ ashington I, D. C. .servation Program and largely financed at Clovernook have learned a great deal through Pittman-Robertson Act funds. about The American Legion through their These are good programs, but wherever handling of the magazine. That may ex- liunters are plentiful they will not solve plain the personal interest they show in ALL W00l\'rN.°N"J the trespass problem unless protection helping to tell the Legion story to those lor the farmer is included. A program without sight. the end Olliier styleil. W'l* a t h o r s e .1 1 e d by Impi-cgnole. .Si/.es 34-4ii; shorts, which provides more game attracts more iL'^'ulars, longs. Ust; it as: • hunters. 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The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 • THE COMMIES GO AFTER THE KIDS Wear Sample Suit (Continued from page 15) li PAY.' NOT TO by former Attorney General Tom Clark. Grenell was the "John Kieran" of that Here's an amazing plan! Write me today and I'll allow you how to get At Wanaque, New Jersey, we find Camp communist party program. Grenell was a fine, ail-wool made-to-measure suit (or yourself— to wear and show to Midvale under the direction of the Ameri- also a member of the board of directors of Just take a lew orders, that a Irlends. can Committee for Protection of Foreign the People's Songs, a communist outfit alll Here's an easy way to get your de- Ic, and also own suit without paying Born, a communist front organization signed to sing the bolshevik revolution make flne cash profit on every order you take. You send no money, now which has been listed as subversive by the into the minds of the receptive. He was or ever. Just rush name and address ,of.i»'"" -\ for Sample Woolens and Valuable Attorney General. also affiliated with the American Com- ,00 o'"""'! Sample Suit Coupon. Act now. , Villa Vista is at mPlill W.Z. GIBSON, SOOS.Throop Street Camp Buena located mittee for Indonesian Independence — a Chicago Illinois Dept. Z-405, 7. Cornwallville, New York, a camp for chil- bit removed from singing, but still a com- dren which is recommended by the Cer- munist front organization. vantes Society, a branch of the Interna- Everybody prominently connected with tional Workers Order which the Attorney the Young People's Record Club has a General says is subversive. record of affiliation with communist or- The Young People's Record Club is a ganizations. No small book could contain striking illustration of the fact that the all the details of their affiliations. What Ideal for Legion Halls "comrades" do not miss a trick. They work about the phonographic records which are away night and day at the business distributed by this outfit? We take one THE MONROE COMPANY, INC. 69 CHURCH ST COLFAX, lOWA^ of infiltrating and indoctrinating, a little example merely as an illustration, a song here and a little there. Even the smallest entitled "Building a City." In this song, assault upon the "system" is not neglected. the tots are told how a city is made pos- They have thought up a thousand things sible by members of the proletariat, those which are far short of erecting street bar- who work with their hands. The fellow PSORIASIS ricades for the final violent overthrow of who digs with the steam shovel, the man imperialistic capitalism. who pushes the wheelbarrow, the car- Now treated with internal medication

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The Young People's Record Club has penter, the painter, and the operator of been listed as a subversive communist the steamroller who helps to build the front organization by the California Com- streets are the only ones who receive mittee on Un-American Activities. mention in "Building a City." There isn't The president of the Young People's even a hint that manufacturers, construc- Record Club is Horace Grenell. Any ex- tion companies, bankers, architects, pert on the communist movement will draftsmen, or capitalist enterprisers have recognize said Grenell at once. He has anything to do with "Building a City." been listed as an instructor at the com- Hundreds of elementary schools have mimist party's Jefferson School of Social subscribed to the output of the Young Science, cited as subversive by the At- People's Record Club. Its records are ad- torney General. He was also an in- vertised as selected for two age groups: structor at the School for Democracy, 2 to 6, and 7 to 11. "Building a City" is MIDWEST RADIO & TELEVISION CORP. predecessor of the Jefferson School. intended for the younger kiddies. Dept. XI 05, 909 Broadway, Cincinnati 2, Ohio Grenell is a sponsor of the People's Radio Foundation, also listed as subversive by STAGE FOR ACTION, citcd as subversive the Attorney General. In 1942, the New by the Congressional Committee on *DDIESS_ Masses staged a series of meetings known Un-American Activities, specializes in the cmr as "Interpretation, Please," and Horace (Continued on page 62) gQ • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 .

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Aid Legion Programs . . . Buy From Notional Emblem Soles Serial Number of My 1950 Membership Card is (Continued jroui page 60) lows: "In the name of democi iu s' ami our white where all may read. Thus, in the so-called "living newspaper" type of faith in the new world born out of the pages of The Communist, official organ of drama for both children and adults. After most tragic of wars, we pledge ourselves the communist party, we find the follow- Stage for Action had put on one of its to challenge, fight and defeat fascism in ing: "A people's movement around the performances in a public school, the all forms." The initiated will have no schools can thus transform the latter into teachers sent the following note of ap- difficulty in recognizing the "Challenger's" popular forums for progressive social preciation to the organization: "We are 7iev> world as the bloc of Soviet states. action — ultimately into forums for the grateful for the opportunity you afforded The American Committee for Protec- revolution." Schools as forums for the our children and hope you will continue tion of Foreign Boni has given wide cir- revolution! That is precisely what the to bring the message to other young culation to one of Al Capp's comic strips communists have been working toward people." which contained material they obviously these many years. Stage for Action, always highly touted liked. Attorney General Tom Clark has Concerning the secrecy in concealing in the communist party's Daily Worker, listed this organization as a subversive their communist party membership. The has commanded the services of Norman communist front. Comnmnist says: "Communist teachers Corwin, Ben Hecht, Arthur Miller, Mil- Although communists and their front are, therefore, faced with a tremendous lard Lampell, and Earl Robinson, all of organizations have gone in lor propaganda social responsibility. They must take ad- whom have frequently placed their talents media which feature emotional appeals — vantage of their positions, without expos- and prestige at the disposal of communist camps, phonograph recordings, songs, ing themselves." And further: "Only when outfits. theatre, and comics — it should go Vv^ith- teachers have really mastered Marxism- The plays produced by Stage for Action i)ut saying that their primary drive for Leninism will they be able skillfully to uniformly follow the "line" of the com- children has been in our schools and inject it into their teaching at the least munist party, even though this is accom- school textbooks. risk of exposure." plished with no little subtlety. The tentacles of comnuuiism reach into the classrooms of our schools throughout SHOULD not be thought for a minute IT As MIGHT be expected, the communist the country. Secret communist party that communists are interested only in and their front organizations have not members sit on hundreds of faculties. the schools of New York City, Chicago, neglected comic strips and comic books. Posing as the guardians and dispensers of Los Angeles, and other great urban cen- Naturally, the class stmggle angle is unfettered learning, they are in actuality ters. The Communist says: "As a means of worked into this powerful medium of the agents of a foreign state which exists mobilizing the people in the villages and propaganda. by the enslavement of the mind. Under the countryside, steps should be taken to try The most impressive attempt in the cover of specious arguments about aca- to send communist teachers into rural comic book field for left-wing indoctrina- demic freedom, the communists and their communities, where they should become tion of children has been made by the fellow travelers have consolidated a pow- active in hh community organizations." Protestant magazine, a vehemently pro- erful position in American schools, alily Stalin's infiltration of our schools has communist and anti-Catholic publication assisted in their treachery by the blind- as its over-all objective the undermining cited as subversive by the Congressional ness of school administrators and the in- of the loyalty of American children to Committee on Un-American Activities. difference of the public. Comnuniists do their traditions, their way of life, and their The Protestant's comic books have ap- not really believe in academic freedom; form of government. The tactics involve: peared under the title of "The Chal- they only use it, as they do all other fi'ee- (1) the enlistment of teachers and aca- lenger." The "party line" is deftly woven doms in our society, to the end that they demic administrators in communist and into them. On the back cover of the books, may destroy it. communist front organizations; (2) the there is a plan for organizing children dissemination of Soviet propaganda into "Challenger" clubs. "Get together at THE COMMUNISTS have not concealed through school textbooks and classroom least 10 young people who have signed their views and aims with respect to instruction; and (3) the organization of the Challenger pledge card," the cover our American schools and school children. students of all grades into the commimist urges. The pledge reads, in part, as fol- They have set them down in black and party's fronts and auxiliaries. In other words, the Kremlin's plans call for our being softened up for a moral, intellectual, and eventually a military Pearl Harbor, not neglecting the corruption of our children. The injection of pro-Soviet propaganda into school textbooks is not limited to those used in colleges and universities. It is designed for the textbooks of elementary schools as well. In 1945, Doubleday and Company, Inc., published a textbook designed for use in elementary schools its title "We Are the Government," its author one Mary Elting. The volume has been approved for use in the public schools of some of our largest cities. Here is a fair sample of the ideological orienta- tion of Miss Elting's book in what she has to say about the Constitution of the United States: "Other people in other countries read the Constitution and were

excited by it. . . . And almost immediately our Constitution began to have influence outside the United States. Other countries, including Switzerland, Liberia, and the Soviet Union, have been adapting its ideas ever since."

THE ONLY "excitement" the Soviet Union has ever had with respect to the Consti- tution of the United States is to destroy it and the freedoms which rest upon it. There is no mystery as to why Mary

g2 • The American Legion Magazine • December, 1949 Elting wrote as she did in this elementary can become the exponent of communist ;^[}iiiiiiiiiiii[:iiiiiiiiiiiic]iiiiiiiiiiiit]iiiiinii[i;::ni;iiiiiiiL:;iiiiiiiiiiic]!^ school textbook. For five years, from 1937 ideas at home." Imagine a ten-year-old to 1942, she was an instructor in the boy instructing his petty-bourgeois father VETERAIV'S SCHOOL Moj Communist Party's Workers School. in dialectical materialism and helping to The communist party has for years had rid his father's mind of such petty-bour- . COLLEGE DIRECTORY I i c auxiliaries and front organizations espe- geois rubbish as the Fourth of July and cially aimed at the enlistment of young George Washington's Birthday! That's the people. These organizations frequently communist program, in part. change their names. At the present time, The Party's program declared that its the principal auxiliary for young people children's organizations "can organize PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE BIG, ILLUSTRATED CATALOG NOW! No obligation. Graduates report making is known as the Labor Youth League, suc- shooting practice, exercises and military DP to $1000 monthly. Start and run your own business quickly. Men, women of all ages, learn easily. Course covers

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R. I. P. PROOF POSITIVE Oh, shed a tear jor You haven't really proved ¥ Poor Harry Van Ness, you're or Whether man mouse He agreed when his wife Until you've spent a winter Said, "My hair is a mess!" With plumbing outside the house. — By Sylvia Bremer — By Al Spong M¥^^^ WELL, I'D... PORTIONS? SMALL Having finally won the hand of his loved A little boy returned from an oculist and COWBOY'S FOOLOSOPHY one, the youthful suitor broke the good was proudly showing an admiring little news to his father, who promptly began to here's a range sayin' — sister his first eyeglasses. Now dish out some advice. Not many can match it: "You know," he said, "I don't have to "Marriage should be a cooperative There ain't no use itchin' wear them for always — just for close affair," the father said. "If she wants to Unless yoii kin scratch it! work, the doctor said." take a walk, walk with her. If she's in the — By S. Omar Barker "What is close work?" asked the little mood to sing, sing with her. If she's drying girl. dishes, dry dishes with her. Get the idea?" HORSE TRADER "Well," stammered the boy, "you know The young man was thoughtful for a — for eatin' and such stuff as that." Sammy had just had a new baby sister. moment. "What if she wants to mop the — By Dan Bennett A neighbor, to tease him, offered to buy floor?" he asked. _ ,p j ^cInerney the baby and give him a dollar a pound PRESENT-LY SPEAKING for her, but Sammy refused. The neighbor WHY NOT? I like to consider myself a go-getter, then said: "Sammy, you seem to like your I fell in love with a girl named Kay; little baby sister a lot." But all of . . a sudden I'm sick Then Edith came in view. I've just read the list in the three-page "It ain't that," said Sammy, "but if you I found, though, that 'You cannot letter are going to buy her by the pound I'll wait Have your Kay and Edith, too.' until she grows some more!" My children have written St. Nick! — By Colonel Stoopnagle — By S. H. Dewhurst — By Henry A. Courtney SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND HE'S LUCKIER THAN WE WERE MUTUAL When his father came home after work, Building contractors have their troubles, When as a youth I went to school small Reuben sought him out and de- not the least of which is the poor quality I was quite dumb, you see; manded help with his work.' "I — 'home of lumber frequently offered to them. A In fact I found school very dull can't work this ole arithmetic," he pro- despairing contractor recently dispatched And that's how school found me. tested. "Teacher said something about this telegram to the mill that had sent him - By F. G. Kernan finding something called 'the least com- a carload of lumber: "Knot holes received, mon denominator'." LAST RESORT please send the knots." "My stars!" grumbled the father. — By J. C. Sheridan A famous theatrical agent appeared at "Haven't they found that thing yet? Why, his office one morning complaining of a they were lookin' for it when I was a GUESS WHO? violent headache. His staff gathered - By Boyd G. Wood She does impersonations, around him to sympathize, and a junior And for each song and dance, clerk volunteered: FACE VALUE We always know just whovi she means. "I had a terrible headache not long ago, I'll go no more to masquerades, She tells us in advance. it long. pulled but didn't last My wife me You needn't even ask: — By Harry Lazarus over on the sofa with her and gave me a I won first-prize the other night — I didn't wear a mask! — By Sidney R. Baron

MALICE IN BLUNDERLAND An efficiency expert in Washington asked a government worker, "What do you do?" The reply was "Nothing." The expert asked another clerk the same question and again the reply was "Nothing." "That settles it!" exclaimed the E-man. "This damned duplication has got to go." — By Pete Simer HORSEWHIPPED Whenever I ride, I endeavor, of course, To look like a part of my galloping horse; However, my riding is rather inferior and Somehow I look like a horse's posterior. WITHOUT GRAVY A southern mother took her small daughter up north with her last winter. The chUd, having never seen snow before, aroused her mother early one morning, exclaiming: "Wake up, mother, there is "I at the end of the was line first!" grits everywhere outside!" — By Mrs. O. M. Hubbard

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