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Neither chance nor mere good for- employees. We are organized as we are new capital needed to meet the service tune has brought this nation the in order to carry that policy out. opportunities and responsibilities ahead. finest telephone service in the world. There is a tremendous amount of in the future The service Americans enjoy in such Bell Telephone Laboratories lead t!ie work to be done near and re- abundance is direcdy the product of world in improving communication the System's technical and human sources to do it have never been better. their own imagination, enterprise and devices and techniques. Western Elec- Our physical equipment is the best in common sense. tric Company provides the Bell operating companies with telephone history, though still heavily loaded, and equipment of the highest quality at we have many new and improved facili- reasonable prices, and can always be ties to incorporate in the plant. Em- The people of America have put bil- counted on in emergencies to deliver the ployees are competent and courteous. lions of dollars of their savings into goods whenever and wherever needed. The long-standing Bell System policy building their telephone system. They of making promotions from the ranks have learned more and more ways to use The operating telephone companies assures the continuing vigor of the the telephone to advantage, and have and the parent company work together organization. continuously encouraged invention and so that improvements in one place may initiative to find new paths toward new spread quickly to others. Because all horizons. units of the System have the same serv- With these assets, with the traditional spirit of service to get the message They have made the rendering of ice goals, great benefits flow to the public. through, and with confidence that the telephone service a public trust; at the American people understand the need same time, they have given the tele- Similarly, the financial good health for maintaining on a sound financial phone companies, under regulation, the of the Bell System over a period of many basis the essential public services per- freedom and resources they must have years has been to the advantage of the formed by the Bell System, we look to do their job as well as possible. public no less than the stockholders and forward to providing a service better employees. In this climate of freedom and and more valuable in the future than responsibility, the Bell System has pro- It is equally essential and in the pub- at any time in the past. We pledge our vided service of steadily increasing value lic interest that telephone rates and utmost efforts to that end. •to more and more people. Our policy, earnings now and in the future be ade-
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SAYS GOLF CHAMP Vol. 46 LLOYD MANGRUM No. 5 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE 'Got hair aiS hard POSTMASTER: May 1949 Please send to handle as a copies returned under labels Form CONTENTS trap shot? 3579 fo Post Office Step This Way, Sucker! by michael macdougall 11 Box 1055, Indian- When you head for carnival concessions you head Indiana. apolis 6, for trouble
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James F. O'Neil, Man There's something to see in the sagebrush hills :60-gecondWorfe)UtX Chester, New Hampshire of Montana Chairman of the Legior Publicotions Commission Monsters in U. S. Rivers and Lakes. . .by barney peters 54 Members of the Commission Vilas H. Wholey, Racine Our Life In the Open department tells about Wis.: Tom W. McCow, Den nison, Ohio; Theodore Cogs some whoppers well, Washington, D. C. Paul B. Dague, Downing town, Po.; Josephus Daniels Jr., Raleigh, N. C; George D, Levy, Sumter, 5. C; Dr The National Legionnaire. .. .29-36 Charles R. Logon, Keokuk Iowa; Eorl L. Meyer, Alii ance. Neb.; Charles E FEATURES Booth, Huntington, W. Vo. A. C. Jockson, Lubbock Editors' Corner 3 Newsletter 37 Texos; Max Slepin, Phila
delphia, Pa.; Roland Cocre Previews 4 Report from Hollywood. . 44 [/I ham. Baton Rouge, La. George D. Baron, Bethany, Sound Off! 8 Vets with Ideas 49 Conn., Lang Armstrong Spokane, Wash.; Earl Hitch Parting Shots 64 cock. Glens Foils, N. Y., Edgor G. Vaughn, St. Paul Circulotion Department, P. Box Minn.; Harold A. Shindler Pleose notify the Publications Division, O. Indionopolis, Indiana, if your address, using Newburgh, Ind. 1055, you hove changed notice form 22S which yoo will secure from your Postmoster. Be sure to Director of Publications cut off the address label on your magazine and paste it in the space pro- give your card and both your James F. Barton vided. Always 1949 membership number new and your old address. Indianapolis, Ind. Follow Lloyd Mangrum's example. Take . ^. Ass't to Director 50 seconds to massage. Vitalis' special for- Frank Lisiecki Our May cover is a nostolgic design not only prevents dryness but stimu- Editor mula epit- Alexander Gardiner of the resurgence of Spring, the lates your scalp as no non-alcoholic dressing ome of life reborn. One notes that it Monaging Editor can! And massaging with Vitalis routs loose wfiom v/e see Boyd B. Stufler is a boy, not a man, dandruff, helps check excessive falling hair. through the cJogv/ood herding cattle Executive Editor life. On 10 seconds to comb. Now Josepli C. Keeley — yet another symbol of new the other hand there ore some sordid your hair looks naturally Associate Editor Artist Wally Richards studied well-groomed. No greasy Robert B. Pitkin details. rural landscape of Ohio, Kansas, Mis- "patent-leather" shine Art Editor souri and Connecticut for this job, and mineral Al Marshall Vitalis contains no analyzing 15(1 Make-up and Production spent over fifteen hours oil just pure vegetable oil. — Editor prints of dogwood blossoms — as is, Get Vitalis today. At drug Irving Herschbein and OS used in design by other artists, counters for home use, at Advertising Director Japanese and American. barber shops for individual Fred L. Moguire application. Eastern Advertising Monoger Russell Holt NEWS, Western Advertising PICTURE CREDITS: WIDE-WORLD 14; WIDE-WORLD, INTERNATIONAL 26-27-28! For handsomer, Manager ACME 15; J. A. CROSS 18-19; RAY J. MANLEY OF WESTERN WAYS AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, KEYSTONE VIEW CO. 54. Product o1 Fred E. Crawford, Jr. Bristol-Myers healthier-looking hair 2 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 HOLD ON AND LOOSEN YOUR JAW
Before you turn to page 54 lubricate your jaw a little so it'll drop in amaze- ment without dislocating. This month's Life in the Open is a little piece called Monsters in American Rivers and Lakes, with photos. It is going to amaze you un- VETERANS less you live along the lower Mississippi or in the Pacific Northwest. Why Hang your Career When Gordon MacQuarrie, outdoor editor of The Milwaukee Journal, said on on the Wall? our pages recently that one of the daily duties of an outdoor editor is to settle That discharge of yours stands arguments between drunks about record- for a wealth of hard-earned ex- breaking big fish, we raised the same perience. Put it to work for you! argument in a sober moment. Ever since we can remember we have heard folks Re-enlistment in the Regular quibble about the biggest muskie ever Army or Air Force places a pre- taken with rod-and-reel, or the biggest mium on all the skill and black bass ever taken on a spinner. We schooling you've acquired. had a new question to ask and we got hold career as professional soldier of Barney Peters to find the answer. A a "Listen, Barney," we said, "the devil with or airman will reward you muskie, bass, rod-and-reel, spinner or greatly. It means the chance for any other trimmings. Find out for us an interesting job, with sure what the biggest fish is that has ever been advancement and pay increases known to live in American fresh water in as you become more proficient. modern times. We don't care who caught military career means the it or how — or what kind of a fish it was. A Just bring in a record of the biggest." satisfaction of service to yovtr It took Barney a long time and he'll country, with a varied list of never know if he has the last word on important assignments through- the subject. But hold onto your chair out the world ahead of you. and turn to page 54 to see what he was New friends, new surroundings, able to discover. and, always, a job to be done that THEY'RE FORGETTING AGAIN requires all your initiative and determination. Lest We Forget, page 24, is of course our special feature for the month in which As a prior-service man you have Memorial Day falls. Two things of in- many choices and opportimities terest may be said about (1) the article available to you as you plan itself and (2) the sentiment it expresses. your new future. Visit your local The news items you will see on pages Recruiting Station for complete 24 and 25 never appeared that way. Most details concerning qualifications. of the items were prepared for this issue as they would have appeared if there had That discharge certificate looks been no censorship at the time they were good on the wall, but remember written. They come, in some cases, from —you can't frame your futvire! actual reports of war correspondents as they wrote the stories before wartime U.S.ARMY AND censors cut out the revealing details. The U.S.AIR FORCE details of the Pearl Harbor clipping were not known until some time later. RECRUITING SERVICE As for the sentiment of Lest We Forget — there is growing evidence that the boys who fought in War Two — and their widows and orphans — are now being IS AMERICA'S forgotten, just as the boys who fought in PEACE War One — their dependents — were and MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS eventually forgotten to the extent that IHE NEWARMT AND AIR FORCE OFFEfb; the public could turn a deaf ear to the • WIDEST CHOICE OF CAREER JOW work and doings of the Legion and other • eSSt OPPORTUNIIT FOR ADVANCEMfWF veterans' organizations. The big economy • UNUSUAI RETIREMENt BENEFITi drive is under way. The VA budget is being slashed. The veterans' hospital pro- fU.S.ARMYandU.S.AIR FORCE RECRUITING SERVICE
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gram, finely written but not yet delivered, is being drastically reduced. On all sides people who once supported the fine War Two veterans' programs are saying, "We weren't really playing for keeps. Give us back our marbles." All over the land the symbol of forgetting shows itself in War Two honor rolls rotting, rusting, tarnish- ing, and falling into disrepair. get 0 motor Legionnaires will read more in future issues of the growing inclination to make that will toke you the disabled pay for the rest of their lives for what the war cost them, now that the shooting is well behind us and the able- ere there's water bodied and able-minded feel secure. HOW TO EAT AND LIKE IT ur boat Our medical article this month is about stomach ulcers and it is by a former patient. If that ancient and painful disease, gout, is nature's punishment for living too • Yes . . . with this revolutionary drive you can go "anywhere there's water to float well, then that modern and equally pain- your boat." And what a world of differ- ful disease, stomach ulcers, is nature's ence that makes to your fishing fun ! punishment for struggling to make enough No longer need you dodge reeds and weed to live well enough to have gout. Of course
beds ! Or hurriedly cut the power when you it's not as simple as that — but stomach approach shoal water. Or get out the oars where ulcers are the product of "nervous worry- foul with logs, snags, rocks. the bottom is ing" and most of us worry nervously about gives you the FISHERMAN Only Evinrude making both ends meet these days, if There's nothing like it for Drive {patented^. we're the '49 worrying type. One could also carefree cruising in all waters ! And for get ulcers by fretting over his Pekinese's it's yours on three of America's finest fishing chance to win the dog show or from fear- motors . . . Sportsman, Sportwin, and the four- cylinder Zephyr. ing that the neighbors are saying unkind things about him, and spending all his SEE YOUR EVINRUDE DEALER . . . and see the complete line of 40th Anniversary Evinrude models ... 1.5 to 50 certified time dwelling on the retort he's going to ' . . . the right motor for every boat. Look for horsepower make or should have made. Worry isn't your dealer's name under "Outboard Motors" in the yellow pages of your phone directory. Catalog Free . . "real," physically, but when a man has
! N. 27th write for it today EVINRUDE MOTORS, 4282 worried himself into ulcers the ulcers are Street, Milwaukee 9, Wisconsin. In Canada: Evinrude Motors, Peterboro, Ontario. very real. Then he can worry about the ulcers and make some more of them — a Only Evinrude gives you Fishern^an Drive. vicious circle which happens and is very unpleasant. Our family doctor and some of his friends have read My Two-Dollar Ulcer Cure, by John Reese, page 20, and find nothing wrong with it when taken exactly as stated by Reese. They add that any- body who feels he's under pressure could profit from Reese's "treatment" whether he has ulcers or not. FREE WHEN IN MONTANA SEE THIS Write today for cata- log of complete line Because of Henry Plummer and his ilk, of_40th Anniversary Virginia City, Montana (not to be con- Evinrudes. fused with that other Virginia City of Western lore in Nevada) is the site of some of the most daring stagecoach rob- beries and most brazen conspiracies be- tween law-officers and outlaws in all the FIRST IN OUTBOARDS 40th YIAR rugged history of the West. And there the Vigilantes rode in the night — decent citi- zens re-usurping the law from cutthroats, One Year Written Guaranteel YOUR ^^^^ finally restoring sanity and order to ground VINDALE ARMY AIR CORPS rich in minerals and red with the blood 16 JEWEL of innocents. Just before Christmas, 1862, Hen Plummer — a shrewd, slender, blue-eyed, Lt. * ELGIN $19.95 intelligent man with a black shadow hov- Made for Pilots and Navi- ering over his past — rode into Bannack, gators of the U. S. Army accom- Air Forces. They had to adjoining Virginia City. He was Own your own home at a be good. Sturdy 16 Jewel panied, because he could not shake him price you can afford to pay. Elgin men's wrist watches. Shock resistant. quarrelsome com- Write today for free litera- Sweep second hand. Luminous hands and dial. ofP, by a wheedling, ture on the 30 and 23 foot Stainless steel back. Unbreakable crystal. Water panion, Jack Cleveland, who knew his Vindale models. repellent. Made by ELGIN, one of America's outstanding watch manufacturers. Fully recon- past. ditioned. One year written guarantee sent Plummer came, he told Cleveland, to with each watch. Supply limited! SEND NO VINDALE COACH CO. life. He MONEY. Simply pay postman $19.95 plus 10% make a new start and an honest Division of The BrookviJIe Prod. Co., inc. tax and postage on delivery. Cash orders sent concealed from townfolk the fact that he Dept. At, SROOKVlUE, OHIO postpaid. UNITED PRODUCTS CO. 7941 S. gang and led Halsted St., Dept. RES-1130, Chicago 20, III. had already run a robber
• The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 a life of seduction and crime in California. He married a local girl and became a "reputable citizen." In a drunken brawl he slew the blabbing Cleveland — dan- YovLve in good compamy gerous key to his past — and soon found in Bannack and Virginia City members of his old gang, to which additions were quickly made — including the cannibal when youve Boone Helm. got Plummer's poise, his seeming respect- ability, his fearlessness among the local toughies who were really his friends, and his speed on the draw soon won him the office of sheriff. From this responsible post he led an amazing double life — and di- rected his cronies in the robbery of the gold-laden stage coaches. Seldom if ever did a witness survive. An entire party of merchants and miners moving out with their profits was robbed and slain in the mountain passes to California. The Plummer interlude in Virginia City and Bannack, from the day he arrived to the time the amazed Vigilantes strung their sheriff up by the neck with twenty- three of his companions, is a thrilling, dark chapter in America's early history of bold crime and quick justice. Virginia City is a monument to days gone by when strong hands and strong hearts carved a nation out of the wilderness and held it against despoilers. It is one of the few such monuments which is being pre- served for you to see today in a form not unlike that which it possessed in its hey- day — as Parker A. Kimball reports in A Ghost Town Comes to Lije, page 26.
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They called it Unification of the Armed Forces, so they went ahead and made a third one and stymied the Defense Secre- tary and now we have three armed forces scrapping like cats and dogs where we once had only two. In next month's issue National Commander Perry Brown, who has been battling for sensible national security for three decades, gives you an inside peek at the Unification scrap in an ^11'means Rpe Appeal article called A Fighting Chance for Uni- fication. It's an eyebrow lifter. Also coming your way between our covers in June is the testimony of several outstanding optimists who say a man can still make a million dollars — and do it The NEW HUMIDOR TOP-locks OUT honestly. Harold Heifer reports their the air-locks IN the freshness and flavor. • See for yourself why Prince Albert rosy views in You Can Still Make a has Million. long been known as the National Then there's a prizefight yarn about a Joy Smoke! You'll find that P. A. is easy man who could only win by being on the tongue . . . specially treated to in- knocked out. And again we'll bow to the sure against tongue bite! That choice millions of Legionnaire home-owners, tobacco is rich-tasting . . . and crimp cut, this time, with a short but sound article to smoke cool and even on what you ought to know before you right down to the bottom paint your house, by paint expert Jim of the bowl! Jenkins, Jr. More, too. Ben Gitlow, who once ran R. i. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Wlnnton-Salem, N. the Communist Party in America before 0 he saw the light, tells What Makes Them Communists. Myron Stearns, outstanding traffic-safety expert, explains How Truck FAMOUS CRMP Drivers Suruiue — fascinating stuff about pX^ ClGAf^ETTES^ men who lose their jobs if they don't CUT MAKES know more the hidden language about flOLLUPfASJANOEASf of the highway than ordinary folks like us. All this and more too in your mailbox before June 1. „ „ „ R* D, P. The national joy smoke The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 Far and away — the most important contribution to your game in years! reviews OF PRODUCTS — revolutionary, new INVEIVTIOIVS IDEAS
A sampling of products which are in process of development method of golf ball construction or are coming on the market gives Wilson Top Notch and K-28 balls amazing new performance. LESS WEIGHT LESS RECOIL. Two completely new autoloading shotguns, lighter than previous types and with astonishingly little recoil, have been announced by the Remington Arms Company, Bridgeport, Conn. Known as Model 11-48 and the Sportsman 48, the guns will be available in 12, 16, and 20 gauges. Through advanced design and new materials, approximately a pound has been saved in the 12-gauge gun. They will be on the market in quantity by the time hunting season opens, and each will sell for $99.95.
TO KEEP CLOTHES LINED UP. Legionnaire Wilbur E. Frey, of 114 Fifth Ave., West Bend, Wis., is offering a gadget which a lot of people will find as useful as it is inexpensive. In effect, it's a clothes-pin for a coat hanger, to keep it from slipping when it is hung on a line. Called a Clip-it, the item resembles an oversize rubber washer which wraps around the line and is held firmly in place when the hanger is inserted in it. You can get a card containing three Clip-its for 15c postpaid.
the greatest golf ball — ATOM ENGINE FOR SHIPS. Scientists and engineers of the Westinghouse Electric development since the Corporation have been assigned the job of building the world's first "atomic engine" advent of the v\^ound ball to drive Navy ships. Under an Atomic Energy Commission contract, the nuclear reactor for shipboard use will be engineered and built in the Pittsburgh area, but Every Top Notch and K-28 ball will be tested at a remote location.
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FIRST AID FOR CRACKED PLASTER. A 30< investment in an ingenious item called Peter Putter's Plaster Pencil will save you time in filling cracks and nicks in plaster, wall- board and woodwork. Resembling a large crayon, it requires no preparation except to remove an outside film on the tip of the pencil. The pencil is drawn firmly and evenly over the damaged surface and smoothed with a putty knife. The surface can be painted immediately if necessary. The Plaster Pencil is made by Schalk
And remember — matched and registered Wilson Chemical Co., 351 E. Second St., Los Angeles 12. Strata-Bloc woods and Precision Built irons (with Wilson patented Reminder-Gruv-Grip) give better club control — greater accuracy. There are no finer clubs. WOOD VS. STEEL. The Nationa' Iron & Steel Institute may not like this, but two ex-service are spreading the that metal boxes cause fishing gear to rust. Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago men word fA subsidiary of Wilson & Co., IncJ The reason, they say, is because water condenses on the inside, and that isn't good. Branch offices in New York, San Francisco So to remedy matters they are going into production with a wooden fishing tackle and other principal cities box. Made of waterproof plywood with locked corners, its dimensions are 13" by 6%" by 7", and it is finished inside with waterproof velvet flock. An added attraction is a partitioned tray, also finished in velvet flock, and the box has an unbreakable plastic handle with solid brass fittings. All this for $4.95 postpaid from the vets, operating as TODAY IN SPORTS EQUIPMENT The Boxmakers, Box 1045, Watsonville, C'al.
The American Legion Magcizine • May, 1949 SPACE-SAVING DEPT. In February we told you how to save some closet space with a gadget that folded up. Now we save you some more space with a gimmick that swings out. By September you may be able to move a baby grand into your closet, if we keep piling up your space. This time the space-saver is the Stack-a-Door. It's a sectional cabinet, 22" high, 20%" wide and 4" deep, made of heavy gauge steel, and it slips over the pins on a flat hmge easily installed behind any standard door. When closed it's a dust-proof cabinet big enough to hold a lot of stuff on its three shelves, and you can hang as many as three Stack-a-Doors on a single door. The price is $5.98 each, with all hardware, and the manufacturer is Dubofi and Company, 1150 Broadway, New York 1.
NEW LIFE FOR OlD BEACH CHAIRS. When the canvas of your beach chair becomes hopelessly weather-beaten, it is now possible to replace it without being an expert needleman. All you need is a scissors to cut the old canvas and a Hook-on Sun Seat, made by the M.D. Pinner Co., P.O. Box 181, Times Square Station, New York 18: This is a replacement canvas cover which snaps into place with S-hooks around wooden rods. Adjustable to all standard size chairs from 47" to 50" seat lengths, it is made of strong, water repellent drill in multi-stripe combinations of blue, brown, green and orange. It retails for $1.89 postpaid.
MUSIC COMES IN COLORS. Record enthusiasts may argue about the relative merits of the new 33% and 45-rpm discs, but RCA-Victor can safely claim the edge so far as looks are concerned. Their new small-size records will come in seven different colors — ruby red for classical music, mid- night blue for semi-classical, jet black for popular, lemon- drop yellow for children's, grass green for Western, sky blue for international, and cerise for folk music. The release announcing this said nothing about a striped red-and- white disc for barber-shop quartets, but that of course may come later.
NAME TAPES YOU NEEDN'T SEW. A new wrinkle in name tapes makes it a simple matter to attach them to laundry, linens, etc., to prevent loss and make identification easy. By means of a thermoplastic backing, the new tapes can be ironed on permanently in ten seconds, and according to the manufacturer they cannot be removed by V0(/8LE ACTION washing, dry cleaning, ironing or wearing. Called Presto-Name Tapes, they cost $2.00 for 150, or $3.00 for 300 postpaid, with your name printed clearly in color-fast black or red dye on white cotton. The manufacturer is March Products Co., 274 Pearl St., New York 7.
FIVE-POUND BOAT. Some sort of a record for portability MOTOR OIL is set by a new boat called the Bil-Boat Sr. Although it will hold several people (one photograph shows five children and an adult), it folds into a box 16" by 16" by 8", and weighs only five pounds. Made of heavy-duty Vinylite, it is inflated through four valves, each of which feeds an independent air channel. Further safety is pro- STAYS TOUGH/ vided by a level, inflated bottom which prevents tipping. Suggested for camping trips, overland portage, water- skiing, fishing or as an extra dinghy, the boat sells for Sound your "l!' when about $25. The manufacturer is Bilnor Corp., 71-73 Baruch Place, New York 2. A much smaller version, the Bil-Boat Jr., for youngsters, is you drive in for the available at about $10. genuine. Sold coost- FLIP-UP TELEVISION ANTENNA. Borrowing an idea from the umbrella, Transvision, to-coost by better Inc., of New Rochelle, N. Y., has brought out an ingenious TV antenna which flips up into position. Capable of receiving all television channels, it is said to eliminate the dealers at this sign. need for two separate antenna installations for high and low TV bands. It comes pre-assembled on a rotatable base, ready for use, and is pre-wired so its two terminals need only be connected to the lead-in. List price is $9.95, and additional information can be obtained from the manufacturer.
FOR PROFESSIONAL PUTTYING. A new double-ended putty knife that simplifies window- puttying has been announced by the Fastener Corporation, 860 Fletcher St., Chicago 14. In addition to the usual fiat spreader, the Duo-Fast Putty Knife has a V-shaped blade that packs and shapes the right amount of putty tightly in place. Excess putty is s^^^'elubricalv^ trimmed ofE through a slot in the shaper end. The knife retails for $1.00. J. c. K.
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The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • ENJOY power riding, the fun-way to go places ... at low cost ! You'll be amazed how easy the Harley-Davidson 125 handles, how peppy and smooth it is, how safely and comfortably it takes you anywhere you want to go. Ideal for riding to school, shop, office, picnics, outings and errands. Very economical to operate. Owners report 90 miles and more per gallon. Thousands now in use. See your dealer and ask him for a FREE ride today. Writers must give name and address. Name or not, I was the only American. There HARLEY- DAVIDSON MOTOR CO., DEPT. AL. MILWAUKEE 1, WIS. withheld if requested. So many letters are were two Germans, one Swede, two it is to promise being received not possible Norwegians, and one Frenchman, yet all answers. Keep your letter short. Address: of them were born in this country. Sound Off, The American Legion Maga- Don't you think the fault lies in our zine, One Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y. homes, and our schools as well? Try this SPRINGFIELD THAT GOOD? experiment. Ask any child you meet what nationality he is, or an adult for that The minute I saw the picture of Main matter, and listen for the answer. You Street, Springfield, Massachusetts in the will be surprised, I know, because I ex- January issue of your magazine, I just perienced this sort of thing in schools had to read the article under it, Where where I taught music. Right there and Do You Want to Go? by Jimmy Jemail. then, I made up my mind that before the Time out for a plug for Springfield. It semester was over, all the, children who has everything anyone could want in a so eagerly replied anything but "Amer- home town, whether he has rural or urban ican" would be taught to say "I am an leanings. Springfield has all of the assets American." and none of the drawbacks of both city I shall never forget the time I asked and small town life. Try it and see. Johnny's mother about her nationality. Mrs. Eugene Wein She replied, "Irish." Johnny looked up No. Adams, Mass. BUILT FOR SAFE RIDING quite embarrassed and said, "Mother, why don't you say 'American,' you were born • Brakes on both wheels • 3-speed trans- POSTAL VETERANS' PAY mission • Big wheels, big tires • Easy steer- in America, weren't you?" "Oh yes, of ing and handling • Brilliant night lighting This being "Brotherhood Week," I course," replied Johnny's mother. thought it be appro- perhaps would an See what I mean? priate time to write the following article, Martha Marlowe which is intended to be constructive Service Officer criticism. Like many thousands of my American Legion II discharge World War buddies, upon Department of Illinois from the armed forces after serving sev- eral years, I have been employed in the PACIFIC COAST BASEBALL — SOLE LEATHER U.S. Postal department, and have obtained The three Legionnaires in my office a Civil Service appointment, WWl and WW2 both represented — came EBERLE TANNING CO., WESTFI ELD, PENNA. I wish to call your attention to a spe- running in a few mornings ago to place cific section of Public law #134, a law on my desk the February '49 issue of PIPE COLLECTORS which granted an increase of $400 to those your magazine with your excellent article IMPORTED "HUNTSMAN" employed in the Postal department as on major league baseball prospects for clerks, and carriers, prior to July 1, 1945. our fast growing Pacific Coast (The Pacific Here is an unusual Bohemian pipe imported direct from What the basis for passing such a law Coast Baseball Rebellion). Europe. For a new smoking S'A" designating that certain date was, I'll To say I enjoyed your article, and your Long thrill, try this rare and JH. beautiful old-world pipe, never know. But I know that it indi- recognition of my efforts to help us "attain briar iil^jft bowl packs a rectly is a discriminatory piece of legisla- our majority" in our one vulnerable in- t^fgm heap of cool, sweet smoking. Has hinged lid for draft con- tion. Thousands of ex-servicemen and stance of civic immaturity, would be an trol. ^Kb Length 6V4". Remov- their families, who likewise need and understatement. Particularly did I enthuse Imported ^BB able bottom for easy clean- '"^^ mail coupon. Upon should be receiving the same considera- over your discussion and illustrations of Bo'w[ BBs'"^' ^g2
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By MICHAEL MacDOUGALL ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT At carnivals and county fairs the TANDiNG IN the middle of the lot, surrounded by the unusual sights and sounds and smells of the carnival, a tingle of anticipation runs ferris wheels and popcorn are on up your spine. Adventure, excitement, pleas- ure—all these and more are promised. the level. But this expert claims The Ferris wheel creaks to a stop, picks up a new load of passengers. The merry-go-round sights and sounds bring back nostalgic memories. In the center of the games are crooked as a pretzel the midway a weight guesser kids a fat lady. The odor of buttered popcorn and crushed grass mingles with the heat of thousands of uncovered electric lights. To the left a line of concessions extends down the midway, where 11 AT THE CRY ••lk\, liube,' the carnival men descended on the friends of the. local boy who had been slugged for protesting so-called skill games predominate. chance, the hundred thousand men and down on number nineteen. The opera- Toss three balls in the bucket and win women who own and run these profes- tor brings the wheel around so the un- a blanket; knock down the bowling pin sional pseudo-gambling devices, are played number is just to the left of and get a brand new suitcase; roll the all penny-ante swindlers, truly ene- the indicator, and starts it twirling. marbles into the correct holes for a mies of the suckers who patronize You've seen nothing wrong, but that handsome prize. man steps into the A them. That's the name they give their wheel will stop on number nineteen. roadway counting a fistful of bills. customers — suckers. Just before the starting thrust the "Hey, Mac," he calls, "I just won See the wheel where for a dime you operator stuck a silver dollar which twenty dollars." can win ten dollars? You can examine had been palmed in his right hand onto "That's the way to start the eve- that wheel as much as wish, you take . the back of the wheel directly opposite ning," you think. Win enough to pay it apart and put it together again, and number nineteen. Because the wheel your way into all the shows, all on the still the operator can prevent you from is finely balanced, and the soft indi- rides. Have a wonderful time, and all winning. How? Suppose all the num- cator offers little resistance, that added for free. So you head for the conces- bers are covered except nineteen. The weight, responding to the law of grav- sions, and financial disaster. For of all concessionaire shouts the usual warn- ity, carries the silver dollar to the bot- the tens of thousands of outdoor gam- ing: "Here she starts and around she tom and number nineteen to the top. bling booths operated by professional goes, where she'll stop nobody knows. Ever notice that the man behind the personnel at fairs, carnivals, exposi- Put your money back in your clothes, counter, and all his assistants, are ex- tions, or bazaars, scarcely one is on no more bets for Old Man Mose." tremely fond of chewing gum? That's the level. That little ditty means that no more because they need a mouthful every Get that. Scarcely one. wagers can be made after the wheel now and then to hold the silver dollar The inhabitants of these streets of starts spinning, hence no one can get in place. Simple when you know how, 12 - Here Are A Few Of The Tricks By Whicll Carnival Games Rook Honest Townfolk WIN MONEY! Drop the discs so they cover the red circle! Only trouble is the red circle is just a little off true on one side, and one of the discs is too. Put the ofl-shape disc just so on the off-shape part of the circle and the rest is easy. However, this game was planned by experts and the naked eye can't find the irregularities, which are ex- aggerated in our diagram. You might stack the discs all HOW DOES THE WHEEL always stop at the wrong number? One way together to find the odd one the operator manages it is to stick a silver dollar on the back — but if you seem too smart of the wheel, behind the number opposite his own selection. Chew- you'll never hold them all at ing gum holds the dollar on, and it stops at the bottom, bringing once. the operator's desired number to the top. There are lots of other ways to do this trick too, so beware. HOLD THE BALL beside the bowling pin and push it away. If it knocks the pin down on return swing you win! If the pin is centered this is impossible, but that's hard to believe when the operator does it any time he \ wishes. Gimmick is the spotting peg" on counter, /which fits into hole too big for it, and allows off-center placing of pin. Black outline is centered pin, which can't BE A BOB FELLER! Step right up and knock the pussy cats off the be downed. Slid to red posi- shelf! Show the little lady your stuff! But remember that one of tion return ball Iiits pin. those little tabbies has a nice heavy weight concealed in its innards. You can knock it down all day, but not off the shelf when it's placed away from the edge. isn't it? But you can't beat it even then. Of course the merchandise conces- in a game that's all tricks and deception. Perhaps you'd like to win a basket sions let the player win occasionally, It all started when the directors of of groceries at the corn game. Any time especially the first few nights a carni- a large Eastern State Fair asked me to the proprietor wishes he can throw the val is in town. That guarantees plenty investigate the honesty, or lack of it, prize to one of his numerous confeder- of word-of-mouth advertising, the best of various concessionaires to whom ates simply by having the counterman business getter there is. All of the they had rented space. I was forced to mis-call the numbers when he is sup- games are rigged so the player wins turn the job down because I knew I posedly checking the winning card. when the owner wants him to win, didn't know enough. I had built up a Feel like trying to knock the black loses when the owner wants him to reputation as a private detective spe- cat off the rack for a chance to win a lose. But as for winning a cash prize — cializing in gambling swindles, and five-dollar bill? That cat has a heavy that's unheard of generosity. Any con- wanted to maintain that name. Card weight at the bottom. Placed at the cessionaire who allowed that to hap- sharps, dice hustlers, racetrack con- back of the rack the lightest touch will pen would likely have his license to nivers — with all these I was familiar. send it tumbling down. That's what steal revoked by the outdoor thieves But carnival racketeers weren't my happens when you accept the cat- guild. He'd be guilty of giving a sucker dish. man's offer of a free practice throw. an even break. This particular form of crooked But when you've put up your quarter, I may sound harsh in my judgment gambling is little understood even by the cat is moved to the front of the of these itinerant gamesters but, be- professional gamblers. Only the con- rack and the hardest pitch wiU fail to lieve me, I know whereof I speak. I cession owners and their agents are win the prize. You can knock it down learned the rackets the hard way. I familiar with the various gimmicks, a thousand times, but you'll never spent two seasons with these traveling and they are an exceedingly close knock it off. grifters learning the tricks of the trade mouthed clan. (Continued on page 56) 13 . SCENES SUCH AS THIS were common when communist-infiltrated and anti-commie unions fought at studio gates How Communists Make Stooges Out of Mo\le Stars By RICHARD E. COMBS Chief Counsel of the California State Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities [hen the ten witnesses indicted by Congress for their refusal to answer questions concerning their party affiliation were dismissed from their studio jobs, only the surface was scratched. The With more time and money hidden dangers remain a constant threat. Infiltration of communism in the motion picture indus- than brains, many movie stars try started in 1928, has grown steadily, and is still growing. Management cannot have failed to know that. This leads to the conclusion that management has been too busy with are pushovers for Kremlinites. the business of making money to be concerned. The dis- missal of the ten indicted men wasn't a sincere effort to clean house. It was merely an effort to appease public Others aren't so innocent . . reaction. That immediate public reaction having been appeased, no further action is being taken. With one exception — So far as my personal investigation is concerned, the 14 ) HERB SORRELL set off the strike. He THE FILM COLONY is very tolerant of Paul Robeson's consistent devotion has a remarkable ability to follow to Moscow. Flanking him are two more stalwarts, Vito Marcantonio and the line of Stalin's favorite Party Leo Isacson only studio that has made a conscien- the average cinema devotee has often board of directors as a fat, smug, soul- tious effort to clean house without fan- wondered why, if the Stalinist grip is less exploiter who lolls in his Cadillac fare is Paramount. It remains to be as solid as he has been told, he doesn't and at his summer place on the lake seen what happens at R-K-0 now that see more communist propaganda in while he squeezes the last ounce of it has changed ownership. pictures. The plain truth of the matter energy from his lean and hungry em- On the surface it may appear that is that the communists do not and ployees. There is a tendency to em- democracy has won; that communism never have exercised control over any phasize racial and rehgious intoler- has failed. But it is not the surface that motion picture studio. Furthermore, ance, discrimination, poor housing, counts. Just as vermin breed in filth the left-wing writers who have man- crooked politicians, and unemploy- and dark, so communism breeds be- aged to entrench themselves through- ment and at the same time to play hind closed doors. Thus the hidden out the entire industry are far too down the priceless heritage of indi- dangers are the ones to be sought out smart to make the mistake of trying to vidual enterprise and cherished free- and destroyed. Let's look at the situ- inject any obvious subversive propa- doms that our way of life affords. ation. in ganda the pictures they write. But this is comparatively insignifi- A great deal has been written about To be sure, they do inject a Marxian cant. It is subtle propagandizing communist infiltration of the motion twist here and there. They have a ten- through repetition, but it is doubtful picture industry. So much, in fact, that dency to portray the chairman of the whether the ( Continued on page 42 THESE FIIM VIPs rushed by plane to the defense of the characters being questioned by the Un-American Activities Committee. Some of them are always in there pitching for the Reds. Others later admitted that in this case they had been duped WRONG WITH US. HISTORY of 7,000 students, 1,705, or 25 percent, did not know that Abraham Lincoln was President during our American Nothing's wrong— except that too many know Civil War: 25, indeed, thought that George Washington was President at that time. too little about it. Here, a former teacher suggests Is it any wonder that in a great con- vention a picture of Stonewall Jackson some remedies. was substituted for that of Andrew Jackson without anyone's being the wiser, or that in a university senior class of 250 only 19 knew when the Dec- laration of Independence was signed! It is obvious that no one can love By JOHN DIXON anything or take pride in it without ILhVSTRATED BY HAL MacINTOSH first knowing something about it; and it stands to reason that there can be no adequate appreciation of America _yj FEW YEARS ago a widely eluded in the curriculum of every ele- and what it represents without a W^M known newspaper column- mentary and high school. These laws knowledge of its history, its traditions ist* headed the day's column, are excellent so far as they go, but they and its accomplishments. THE RE-EDUCATION OF do not indicate that American history There was a time not so far back EDUCATION, and said, (the italics shall be taught as a separate, individual when the studies of United States his- being mine), subject; they do not indicate how much tory and the American Constitution time per day, how many days per "I am very much afraid that the were emphasized in the schools, but week, or how many weeks of the year revelations of the New York Times these demands seem now to be out- this history must be taught. So, one of the abysmal ignorance of moded, and a conglomeration made of two things may readily happen: so- American college freshmen re- up mainly of essays about history, and called social science may be substituted garding American history will re- so-called social science, has taken the for American history, or because of the sult in nothing. Parents and Con- place of the studies of American his- pressure of many subjects and activi- gressmen will insist that more tory and American government. ties upon the teaching program the American history courses be put There was a time not so long ago time given to American history may be into grade and high schools, and when the great documents* of Ameri- cut short. Under such circumstances everyone will settle back in com- can history, the Mayflower Compact, the spirit of the law is not fulfilled, fort. the Declaration of Independence, the and students "are not taught history." Introducing more history courses American Constitution, the Bill of Just to refresh our memories, the will accomplish little. The fault is Rights, the Ordinance of 1787, the survey referred to above covered 700 not that students are deprived of Monroe Doctrine and the Emancipa- American colleges and universities, in- history courses; it is that they are tion Proclamation were studied, ana- cluding 600,000 undergraduates, and not taught history." lyzed and understood, and when that revealed that 82 percent of these edu- challenge to dictatorship and the The proof that students are not de- cational institutions did not require Divine Right of Kings, — "We hold prived of history courses is evidenced any study of American history, that 72 by the fact that in these truths (Continued on page 40) almost every one of percent did not even list it as a pre- the States there are laws requiring requisite for entrance, that 91 per- and *The success of the Freedom Train, which car- that United States history must be in- cent of the students were not taking ried some of these documents around the na- tion, shows the intense interest of our people *Dorothy Thompson courses in this subject. Out of a group in their history - EDITORS 16 How ]>luch Do You Know About These HLsiorical Events? Correct answers will be found on Page 40. You should get at least six fire to plant Old Glory on alien soil are and they made both ends meet. Name one tumes tell you the approximate date, dead. What year was it? railroad. Where was it? Quiz Shows from One of radio's pioneer question - and - answer men takes you behind the scenes in quizland By JOE A. CROSS AST YEAR, somewhere in the neighborhood of four miUion dollars was just given away in this wide land of ours. It was given away on various radio quiz shows. Of course, not all of this was in the form of good old Fort Knox cabbage. Instead of being in cash, an awful lot of it was in the form of Re- ARLENE FRANCIS AND JOE CROSS, the big wheels of frigerators, Stoves, Cars, Trailers and "What's My Name." Below, warming up contestants Trips for Two—all expenses paid—over Niagara Falls in a Barrel. It's always interesting to ask how any business amounting to millions of the Inside dollars got started in the first place. that question-and-answer shows were What was the first Quiz Show? going great guns on national networks. Actually, there never was a "first" A significant step was taken in 1938 quiz show, complete with studio au- when "Information Please" went on dience, eager contestants and an M. C. the air. This show provided a variation spouting prizes like Old Faithful. Quiz on a theme which many listeners had shows went through a process of evo- found irritating — the smug, know-it- lution. As far back as 1928 there was all quiz-master who knew all the a quiz show of a sort in a question- answers (since they were written on and-answer program called "Jack cards held in his hand!) This program, Says: Ask Me Another." This, spon- which made John Kieran a national sored by a Hartford, Conn., tire dis- figure, put the experts on the spot. But tributor, is credited by some as the more important it gave away things, granddaddy of quiz shows. However, encyclopedias, to be exact. Not long it was just broadcast locally. afterward there were variations, no- Four years later a new wrinkle in tably the "Quiz Kids," while still other radio was heard over a Houston sta- innovations were popping up. To tion. This program took a microphone freshen your memory, Uncle Jim was out of the studio and asked questions conducting his question bee, people of the man in the street. The program, who couldn't tell the truth were pay- supplying another of the elements of ing horrible consequences, and Phil the modern quiz show, was called "Vox Baker was bringing to the language a Pop." In it phrase, "the 1935 "went network." How- $64 question." RALPH EDWARDS believes in making his ever, it was not till the late thirties Me, I was (Continued on page 39) contestants pay, and pay, consequences QUIZ KIDS Mike and Mark Mullen learn some- thing about animal life by going right to sources TOP TEN In 1940 "What's My Name" asked listenprs to sub- mit brief biographies of famous people, for possible use on the broadcast. Scores of thousands of listeners responded. Following are the personalities most often mentioned, in the order shown: 1. Ben Franklin 6. Henry W. Longfellow 2. Theodore Roosevelt 7. Edgar Allan Poe * 3. Victor Herbert 8. John J. Pershing 4. Abraham Lincoln 9. Thomas A. Edison 5. Mark Twain 10. Charles A. Lindbergh For those who wonder why such famous Americans as George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt did not make this list, one theory is that the people sending in biographies may have felt that everyone else was writing about them. SPECIAL DIETS ease ulcers, an opera- tion on the Vagus nerve may cure them. But their cause is "nervous- ness," their real cure, calmness MyTwo-Dollar Ulcer Cure By JOHN REESE ILLUSTRATED BY WHITNEY DARROW, JR. Ulcers enjoy a morbid popularity these days, since they are assumed to be an occupational ailment of tense, Doctors say this patient's advice can do no dynamic people doing big things in a big way. But ask the man who owns one! He'll tell you the distinction just harm — and millions might benefit from it, isn't worth the cost in pain, money, lost sleep and shortened life expecta- tion. You'll find him a rebellious including those who don't have ulcers, yet member of the great, world-wide lodge whose secret sign is the hand placed over the wine glass just as the waiter starts to pour. He also recognizes other sad brothers by the mystic glass of warm milk, when others* are gorging INDLY DO NOT PUSH, ladies and fessor room. There will be a short on steak or lobster, by the synchronized gentlemen. Especially the prologue, for the benefit of those who belch, bend and grimace, by the look, gentlemen, who are four or do not have ulcers — yet. (They will or leer, of wistful hatred given a side five times as likely to have have, or they wouldn't be reading this dish of cole slaw. Ordinary people may stomach ulcers as the ladies. And keep depressing document. They'd be out have bags under their eyes; a man your money out of sight. There is no having fun.) Please be seated for the with an ulcer recognizes a man with medication to buy — no pills, salves, prologue, after which, without even a another ulcer when he sees bags under elixirs or ointments, no roots, barks, tune on the electric organ, we will the bags. "Duodenal or gastric?" he herbs or berries. There is no occult in- plunge into the subject of how to cure asks. That's the password. fluence to woo, no fakir to fee. The two your ulcers. Special facilities have These are the two kinds of stomach dollar honorarium has already been been provided for showing your fav- ulcers. It isn't a very big selection, is paid and you all ride free. orite X-Ray negative of your mucous it? The way it generally works out is Kindly step back and give the pro- membrane. this — the man with a duodenal would 20 rather have a gastric, and the man most painful, dangerous and unre- a quack, gentlemen. It has taken me a with a gastric would rather have a warding surgeries in the trade. I don't long time to come to the point, but duodenal. Women are more prone to care if it is the middle of the night — here we go. I'll give it to you in the the gastric, men to the duodenal, and call him! Ask him, "Say, did you read exact words of the man who taught don't ask me why. Which yours is that fool article on how to cure ulcers me. He, too, could write M.D. after his depends on where your stomach ulcer- in The American Legion Magazine?" name, and often did. ates; and since you could wring the He'll say of course he didn't. You tell He was a physician — so new a phy- organ out like a mop between your him you're dropping your copy off at sician that he could still understand two hands — and probably would love his office on your way to work in the the Latin on his diploma, an intelligent to do it — the difference works down morning and will see him at the usual young man so intense that he surely to a matter of centimeters. Ulcer Hour that afternoon. must have ulcers of his own by now. What I'm talking about, though, is When you do, he'll say, "Yes, but." Ours was strictly a chance meeting. any kind of an ulcer, and what I say You two go ahead and encourage each I had been dealing with one of the about it is — get rid of it! I did. It is other. Talk it over frankly. Admit you best "ulcer men" in Los Angeles, just eight years ago this month that I wouldn't have read this fool piece at gradually losing an argument ovei- woke up one morning and remarked, all, only your ulcers woke you up whether I should submit, as they rather nonchalantly I thought, "Well, about two in the morning (as usual!) phrase it, to the knife. Submit! What I guess my ulcers are cured." Since and there wasn't another damn thing else can you do, with that ether dingus then I have never turned down cole in the house to read. Be patient as he over your face? slaw or a thick, rare steak with onions, thumbs through his dog-eared copies I had two bad duodenal ulcers and until I got tired of the former and of the Journal of the American Med- a third incipient one just about to the latter passed eighty-eight cents a ical Association, pinching his chin and burst the barium and yell whee. pound. After eight gluttonous years I saying, "Hm." Luckily, the first two weren't over any can afford to be jocular about it. I don't If he says your particular ulcer is of my arteries but this third little even care that no one regards me as too acute, you can stop reading at the rascal was perched right on top of one the dynamic type any more. I'm the end of this paragi-aph. If he says this of my favorites. Two "spots" on a poky old party up to my elbows in piece is "medically unsound," you can twenty-dollar X-Ray plate is par for French fries covered with ketchup and bill me for one apothecary's pound of the course. Three, and you can start Worcestershire sauce, with shreds of Sippy powders, F.O.B. any place in nominating trustees for your widow to dill pickle on my tie. the United States. If he says "... go sue. As the second ulcer said to the Put aside your paregoric and join ahead and try it, what have you got third, "You almost missed the party, me. But first call your physician, the to lose?" he'll be but echoing the ad- youngster. Look at old Number One very one whose watchful care now vice of every other doctor I ever dis- there. He's practically suppurating" stands between you and one of the cussd this with. No, the professor is not Replied the (Continued on page 50) 21 Kids County By WILL OURSLER Youngsters in more than a third of Nebraska's counties try out the learn-by- doing technique of government HE CHARGE against the defend- ant was desertion of wife and child. He sat in the prisoner's box in county court. A few feet from "YOUR PLATES, SIR," says Joe Sherlock, as Peggy Washburn him, in the witness chair, the young types record card for Trucker Oppy, Manhattan, Kansas "wife" spilled out the story of how this "prisoner" had abandoned her and their little boy. only one phase of numerous activities, behind his plan is that local govern- It was a moment of high tension, in designed to give a "laboratory dem- ment "is the very foundation on which a case exemplifying how the machin- onstration" of how local government the American dream has been built." ery of American justice reaches out operates. War against delinquency — and in protection, whenever the sanctity Launched only two years ago, under against the spreading viius of com- of the home — or the rights of mother sponsorship of the Nebraska Depart- munism — are two main "objectives" and child — are in jeopardy. ments and its Auxiliary, in coopera- of the project. Both are pushed for- What made this trial startling, how- tion with other state organizations, the ward by giving the youngsters not ever, was the fact that here all parti- "junior county" plan is now regarded merely something to be against ~ but cipants—including the judge and jury as an important development in the also something to be for. — were youngsters still in high school. "on the spot" technique in modern "What we're trying to bring home These boys and girls — who had teaching. to them," Judge Simmons told this themselves invented the "tragic facts" Already the project has reached writer, "is how much they've got to which finally "convicted" the accused nearly twenty thousand boys and girls believe in, right in their own county in this mock trial — were all members in thirty-two counties which served government, run by their own neigh- of the junior class in high schools as "testing ground," and in the next bors, people they've known all their throughout the county. For this day, two years will expand to cover all high lives." they had taken over all offices in the schools in all ninety-three Nebraska Actual "office holders" under the local county government. counties. plan are all eleventh grade high school The day marked the climactic point, Scores of letters seeking information "juniors." But students of all high following weeks of study, campaigning on the new program are starting to school classes take part in the program, and elections, in the State of Nebraska's pour into Nebraska's magnificent State which extends over several weeks, dramatic new technique in citizenship House at Lincoln. The unique adven- beginning with registration of all building — the project known as the ture in education for citizenship is students for one of the two parties — Cornhusker Boys' and Girls' County. starting to "catch on." "Federalists" or "Nationalists." In other communities across the Nebraska's Chief Justice Robert "We want as many kids as possible State, thousands of high school teen- Simmons, creator of the idea and head in the thing," Legion Assistant Adju- agers were taking part in similar of the non-profit Boys' and Girls' tant Roy Lang, director of the pro- programs in which mock trials were County, Inc., says the major premise gram, explains. "When the kids take 22 and come along. We've got somebody to pick up." No trouble was anticipated, but as a precautionary measure the sheriff kept the boys in the background until the arrest was completed. On the way back, however, the suspect noticed the boy sheriffs and observed gloomily, "Never figured I'd be taken in by a Sunday school class." Older officials are careful to shield the youngsters from personal contact with unsavory characters brought in. But the one-day sheriffs are allowed to follow every step of procedure after an arrest — including fingerprinting, THE BOYS AND GIRLS do themselves proud on primary booking and questioning. day at St. Agnes Academy in Alliance, Box Butte County "Don't forget— some 'customers' are even younger than these kids," one Sheriff reminded me. "I'd rather have over, every school sends along a full on the bench while he went through them like this — on my side, learning quota of officials. If a county has fifty a routine morning session. Not to be my job and how and why I do it." schools— it'll find itself on that day with outdone, the county attorney allowed Idea for the "youth movement" came fifty rambunctious new sheriffs." the "small fry" county attorneys to to Judge Simmons back in 1946 — an Although the mock trials are among read out official complaints to the court outgrowth of his conviction that too the most popular events, main em- as cases came up for hearing. few Americans understood the tre- phasis of the program centers around In another instance, a county sheriff mendous role local and county officials actual participation in the operations found himself facing a serious problem play in the machinery of democracy. of the various county offices. on the morning the youngsters "moved He knew about Boys' and Girls' If county court is in session with real in." He had to go out and pick up a State, the project run by the Legion cases, part of the day is given over to very real suspect in a bad check case in Nebraska and elsewhere to give allowing teen-ager judges and court — and the arrest couldn't be put off. youngsters a first-hand knowledge of officials to observe and even take part At last he decided the simple course how their state governments operate. in actual grown-up cases. was to take the batch of junior sheriffs He backed that plan all the way. But One judge, for example, permitted with him. "You've all been duly elected he believed still more had to be done. three "junior justices" to sit beside him in your schools—so pin on these badges "I wanted (Continued on page 62) THE SPECIAL QUALITIES of a shelter belt sprig are explained b y expert Arthur Moseman to Dakota County group THREE DAYS POWER- CANTIGNY MAY 31, 1918-FOR COUNTER-ATTACKS LAUNCHED AGAINST FU GERMAN DIVISION, WHICH ELEMENTS OF THE 1ST U. S. HARD-WON GROUND. REFUSED TO YIELD ANY OF 45 OFFICERS AND 1,022 DIVISION CASUALTIES TOTAL KILLED IN ACTION... MEN OF WHOM 199 WERE ^'^H THE 38TH INF jniY k ,n,o STOPPED '^^^"^^^^ GERMANS COLD rnnAv n OF 3D U 9 n,w ^tCOND PLATOON SURVIVE... 1941 7:55 THIS PEARL HARBOR, DEC. 7, -AT MORNING MORE THAN 300 CARRIER-BASED THIS JAPANESE PLANES, ALL TYPES, STRUCK A BASE WITHOUT WARNING, AND LEFT IT OF SHAMBLES. 4,576 CASUALTIES REPORTED, WHOM OVER 3,000 DEAD... Futile ^^^^^^^^ ^foTdV BAH retreat after CARRIERS, TWO '''' '''' CRUISFRS H ^'^^RA HOUSANDS OF MEN. WE LOST CARR FR mmRim These dispatches are not arithentic, of course, but had censorship not existed they could have been GUADALCANAL, AUG in Tr„r, HAVE MARKED ALMOSt' EVEfiy^M S'^/''""™' '^'R «» SEA BArriF. .ARMED ACROSS THE Bm oZl' " T d7Sn CRUISERS ASTORIA, '-"^^ ^^Kf VINCENNf<; nn l,l . HEAVy ii 9 ESTERDAy, BUT "'^'^^ SOuS 0^,^' CANBERRA SUNK THIS IS FIRST MOVE ^ BACK TO phWines. A 9TH RUMANIA, AUG, 1. OVER PLOESTI, Tdevastating, low-lev « sJ^,"';; r «EF1NERV gen™ S^^^^^^^^^ ,H,s OIL ^g,,,,. SE:"AGrU°S"G^VpEED PEANES HOWIE... ARE STAGGERING -ONE SMALL QPi RFIOIUM DEC 18, 1944 ATTACKERS WAS HALTED 4*MENT OF GERMAN ROAD FROM MALMED^ ON NARROW SECTION OF O^aTS^IDENTIFIED EMEER PRIVATE MINES WHICH QPT OFF CLUSTER OF LAND PRIVATE of TANKS. THE p[^ED Sp Sn DIED IN THE BLAST... vritten. for their varied tales of American sacrifice are based on ichat actually happened in each case A Ghost Town Comesi Thanks to Charles Bovey^'s unusual hob- by, Americans can now visit a town just like the kind Jesse James shot up By PARKER W. KIMBALL PHOTOS BY RAY J. MANLY |wo-GUN, gold-dusty old Vir- ginia City, Montana, wedged between the sagebrush hills of the Tobacco Root moun- tains, technically never was a ghost town. Greenhorns, putting their brand new cowboy boots in their mouths, will be set straight by its old timers. "Ghost '69. town — ! Hell, I lived here since And I ain't no ghost by a damnsight." No, the mulish old town never cashed in all its chips. But until Charlie Bovey came along to spruce it up and give it back its pride, "Virginia," home to the Montana Vigilantes, the notori- ous Plummer road agent band, and 10,000 rough-and-tumble miners, was beginning to give up the ghost. For eighty years it had not hanged a single road agent. Not a street light had been shot out along its board- walked streets, nor had another "Cap" Slade spurred his horse into a saloon to be watered with whiskey. Henry Plummer, by day Sheriff of Montana Territory and by night leader of a cut- to Life THE MAIN STEM of Virginia City, Montana, looks like a movie set, but it's the real thing throat robber crew, was long since stretched and buried by equally ghost- ly Vigilantes, and the gold from the flanks of Alder Gulch had dwindled to a comparative dribble. Its population, in recent years barely 300, existed pri- marily for the few die hard sourdoughs who have always remained. All that was left of the Virginia City of 1864 was a lurid life story dealing with hangings and accounts of men who sought gold. In addition there was a row of framework buildings at the west end of town. The latter were fast disappearing via the woodpile route. Luckily, before the destruction of this vestigial remnant of early West- ern history could become total, it was halted. For ending the casual blitz, hundreds of people have looked up Charlie Bovey, beneficent godfather of Virginia City, to thank him. Many are travelers who came out from Jersey, Atlanta, or Sandusky ex- pecting to find an Old West the dupli- HERE'S CHARLIE BOVEY using the gold scales in cate of their Charley Russel print over the Wells-Fargo office. The gal's a mannequin 27 THE WAY THINGS used to be in the old days, with belle and red-eye the mantel at home. What they too- commonly found was a West authentic as a movie cowboy's dress shirt. "I drove over two thousand miles," said an Illinois businessman unhappily, "partly to see a real Western town. I thought I'd seen them — bucking bron- cos in neon lights, hyper-motels, and clip joints. Fortunately, I heard about Virginia City and came anyway. Now I've seen what I came to see." For three years, a wealthy Montana rancher Charles A. Bovey has labored to preserve for those who like their history in the raw, a genuine historic fragment of the West— as it was when. Out of his desire has emerged Virginia City — 1864 — sweaty, weatherstained and honest (Continued on page 47) BET YOU NEVER saw a Western movie with costumes and props like these IF YOU VISIT Virginia City you'll probably stay at the Fairweather Inn. This is the parlor /n conformance with a resolution adopted by the National Executive Committee at its November, 19i8, meeting. The National Legionnaire is con- solidated with The American Legion Magazine. The National Legionnaire acf'tio?? will be a regular The feature the Magazine each month, and will con- NationwLegionnaire of tain the same class of material relating to Legion programs and activities as used in that publication in past years. Legion's Pension Bill Loses In House By One Vote After Bitter 3-Day Debate — Returned To Committee erans' Affairs Committee. One member the vote as recounted stood 208 yeas to New WWl Age-Service Pension lost his head and viciously attacked the 207 nays — therefore the motion pre- Legion. He was promptly squelched by vailed and the bill went back to the Bill Introduced in Congress other members, including some who op- Committee. by Chairman John E. Rankin posed the pension bill, and following From the time the Miami National his remarks a number of members made Convention adopted the resolution By John Thomas Taylor it a point to compliment the Legion on favoring World War pensions, the pro- National Legislative Director its many accomplishments during the posal has been subjected to an unprece- past 30 years. dented smear campaign. Opponents Following one of the most bitter de- On the third day of the debate, op- have resorted to every unfair tactic to bates in the history of Congress and ponents continued their obstructive tac- defeat the legislation. They have grossly the use of unprecedented parliamentary tics. The first move to defeat was a misrepresented the provisions of the tactics, the House of Representatives by motion to strike out all after the enact- bill, greatly exaggerated its estimated a recounted vote of 208 to 207 voted to ing clause. This motion was defeated by cost and crucified supporters of the recommit the Legion's Pension Bill a teller vote of 159 to 168, but was im- measure, including The American Le- (H.R. 2681) to the House Committee mediately followed by a motion to send gion and the Auxiliary—the only vet- on Veterans' Affairs. This was a very the bill back to Committee. Chairman erans' organizations which whole- definite and positive move of the oppo- John E. Rankin (Mississippi) who had heartedly supported the legislation from nents to veterans' pensions to kill the done a heroic job in fighting off the op- the time the bill was introduced on measure. Such a movement was at- position and in diverting the attempts January 20. tempted on the day the bill originally to sabotage the bill by parliamentary The unfair tactics of opponents have came up for consideration, but was de- maneuvering, called for a record vote. only resulted in delaying enactment of feated by a vote of 223 nays to 187 yeas, When the vote was announced by Repre- a World War pension law. We have with 23 not voting. sentative John W. McCormack (Mas- been successful in the past in defeating Every opponent of the pension bill sachusetts), presiding in the absence of attempts of those who opposed just and voted to recommit. There can be no mis- the Speaker, it was 208 yeas to 209 nays proper benefits for veterans — we will take about the intention of those who against adopting the motion, but be- succeed on THIS important legislation. sponsored the recommittal motions — cause of the close vote he called for a re- How soon we win the fight depends alto- they were convinced that, on a record count. Subsequently he announced that gether on the cooperation of the mem- vote to kill the bill on the floor of the bership of the Legion and Auxiliary and House, they could not defeat the meas- our many friends. We must keep up the ure. they the indi- Therefore pursued fight to a successful conclusion. rect course, hoping to sabotage the bill 13TH AERIAL MEMBERSHIP without having to go on record as op- New Bill Introduced ROUNDUP SET FOR MAY 1 posing it. On the day following the vote of the A full quarter of a million mem- House to recommit. Chairman Rankin Loaded With Amendments Down bership cards are expected to be car- introduced H.R. 3821 to provide pen- ried to the National Headquarters On the first day of consideration of sions for veterans of WWl, at $72 per at Indianapolis on Sunday. May 1, the bill, when opponents failed in their month upon reaching the age of 65 in the Legion's 13th annual Aerial attempt to recommit, their principal Membership Roundup. Planes are years for those whose income does not leader moved to strike out the enacting expected to drop down on Weir exceed $2,000 per year, if single, or clause of H.R. 2681. This would have Cook Airport from nearly every $3,000 if with dependents. The bill definitely killed the bill on the floor of Department, bringing in cards embodies amendments adopted by the the House. That motion was defeated counted as a triumphant finish to House which included a reduction of the an intensive membership campaign. by a vote of 291 nays to 120 yeas, with amount contained in the original bill, Roscoe Turner, former speed king 22 not voting. Those voting yea know- and eliminated WW2 veterans. Consid- and one of the all-time greats of bill. bill give ingly voted to kill the aviation, now a member of the eration of this will an oppor- Following the defeat of this move- National Aeronautics Committee, tunity to those members who advocated ment, a large number of amendments has arranged with the Weir Cook and supported these amendments to were off'ered, but no record votes were Airport to care for a minimum of demonstrate whether they were sincere taken on any amendments. Most of 600 planes. Weather permitting, it in trying to improve the legislation, or is expected to be one of the greatest them were offered for the sole purpose whether they were following the old aerial events ever staged by the of confusing the issue and, if possible, practice of loading the bill down to Legion. defeat. to load the bill down in such way that The Roundup will be climaxed by bring about its The House Vet- it could not receive approval. a banquet for the visitors, given by erans' Affairs Committee has com- Also, opponents of t4ie bill, knowing National Commander Perry Brown, menced hearings on the new bill. that the measure could not be defeated at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Veterans' Hospitals on its merits, resorted to vicious and It is anticipated that General Hoyt Vandenberg. Chief of Staff. U. S. malicious attacks against the bill and S. The American Legion spearheaded Air Force, will be the guest speaker. its supporters, particularly singling out the attack in Congress in the proposed Chairman John E. Rankin of the Vet- cut-back in the veterans' hospital con- Tha American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • 29 : struction program. A special Subcom- session on S. 66, which is the Legion's not outlaw the communist party. It sets mittee of the Senate Labor and Public bill. The National Legislative Director, up specific regulations forcing its oper- Welfare Committee was appointed to Chairman Erie Cocke, Jr., of the ations out into the open and denying investigate this matter, with the follow- Legion's National Security Commission, its members certain privileges, includ- ing members: Senators Claude Pepper and Chairman Granville Ridley, of our ing the right to hold appointive Federal (Florida) Chairman; Hubert Humph- Universal Military Training Committee, offices or to secure American passports rey (Minnesota) and Wayne Morse testified in the executive meeting, pre- to travel abroad. They further state (Oregon). A comprehensive schedule of senting strong arguments in support of that "nothing has been changed from hearings was arranged and presented the Legion plan for UMT, and urged our original legislation which could in to the National Rehabilitation Confer- the Committee to promptly hold further any way weaken the legislation or cir- ence held in Washington. In addition, hearings on our bill. cumscribe its coverage of disloyal acti- contacts were made with every State Chairman Carl Vinson (Georgia) of vities." which resulted in the appearance of rep- the House Armed Services Committee, During hearings by a subcommittee resentatives of the Legion from each stated that his Committee will not hold of the House Committee on Post Office State during the extensive hearings. A hearings on UMT, maintaining that as and Civil Service, the Legion pi-esented large number of Legionnaire Senators long as the Selective Service Law is in testimony in support of H.R. 1002, re- and Representatives also appeared be- effect there is no necessity for universal quiring communist-front organizations fore the subcommittee opposing the training. Testifying before the Rules to identify matter sent, or caused to be cut-back. Committee, Chairman Vinson again sent, by or for them through the mails. said Housing that UMT will not be considered during this session of Congress. He Military Justice The President has signed the rent again advocated that the $800,000,000 National Legislative Director, control bill passed by Congress (H.R. provided in the President's budget for The to- gether with Franklin Riter, 1731). The principal provisions of the UMT be transferred to the 70-group Commander law are Air Force. of the Department of Utah, and John J. Finn, Legion Judge Advocate of the (a) Extends rent control until June 30, Americanism 1950. District of Columbia, testified before (b) Individual States could remove rent bills the House Armed Services Committee controls throughout the State, or in parts, if Several major were introduced the legislature passed a law calling for that. in Congress, the enactment of which on H.R. 2498 to provide a uniform code In event of veto of such a measure, the legis- of military justice for the Army, Navy lature could override the veto. would further carry out the American- (c) Requires the Housing Expediter to fix and Air Force. rents at a level to assure landlords a "fair During the 80th Congress, Legion net operating income. ..so far as practicable." (d) Empowers Housing Expediter to write CALENDAR OF representatives presented testimony in eviction regulations designed to apply uni- \ IMPORTANT accordance with our mandates before formly throughout the country. \ (e) The Expediter could sue for triple dam- \ LEGION EVENTS IN MAY \ this Committee. Many of the recommen- in case of rent over-charges. ages dations were included in a bill reported (f) The Expediter is authorized to recon- 1 National Aerial Membership |' trol any areas he decontrols on his own in- \\ to and passed by the House. When the itiative after 31. could recontrol Roundup, Indianapolis. ]> March He || Selective Service Bill was up for con- areas freed of rent curbs before that date 1-2 Meeting of National Commis- measure. With the able presentations action will provide more housing units, pre- \\ sumably by reconversion. |i 6 Laying of Cornerstone of 15 I Am An American Day. |l * 16-18 Economic Confer- <; Director appeared before the House and ance projects and low-rent public hous- Regional X ence. Salt Lake City, Utah. \\ Senate Committees on Post Office and ing projects initiated by local agencies; 2 23-25 Regional Economic Confer- J| Civil Service in opposition to proposed to provide for financial assistance for z Missouri. ence, Kansas City, Ji for increased farm housing, other legislation which provided and for purposes. 30 Memorial Day. ' MAY 30 LEGION'S NATIONAL MEET "In so far as the cases which come Arrangements have been made for The City of Philadelphia, where the to our attention are concerned, the the purchase and shipping of fifty 31st National Convention of The Amer- primary cause is the disability or sick- thousand small American flags to place ican Legion will be held on August 29th ness of the veteran-parent. All over the on the graves of American soldier, through September 1st, is preparing for nation we find serious child welfare sailor. Marine and Coast Guard dead in a record attendance. Centrally located workers of The American Legion who Europe and North Africa, National Ad- and within easy reach of a great Legion are organizing their efforts to see that jutant Henry H. Dudley announces. The population, preparations are being more adequate and prompt help is flags will be shipped in ample time to made to care for delegates and visitors brought to dependent children of our assure placement on the graves on or equal to or surpassing the attendance comrades." at the New York Convention in 1937 Area Conferences were held at: just before Memorial Day. . In addition, the sum of $4,000 has — which set the nation's all-time top Area "E", Hollywood, California, De- been forwarded to care for the expenses for convention attendance. cember 9-11, 1948; Area "D", Milwau- involved in hunting out and placing the The National Convention Corpora- kee, Wisconsin, January 7-8, 1949; Area flags and wreaths on the graves. The tion has established its offices in Room "B" Baltimore, Maryland, February details of distribution in Europe and 169, Old Broad Street Station, 1401 11-12; Area "A", Boston, Massachu- ' Africa will be handled by the Overseas Market Street, under the supervision setts, March 4-5; Area "C", Jackson, Memorial Day Association, of which of National Convention Director Edw. Mississippi, March 11-12. John R. Wood is Chairman. McGrail. Vincent A. Carroll is Presi- Thirty-nine resolutions adopted by The Department of the Philippines, dent of the Corporation and a number the five conferences have been referred under Department Commander Frank of committees have been named to care to the Executive Section of the National S. Tenny, will care for the graves in for the mass of details in preparing Child Welfare Commission for action that area, for which funds have been for and staging the Convention. The at its meeting in Indianapolis, April 21- provided. Allocation of funds and ar- Committee chairmen, so far as an- 23. A resolution, coming from Area rangements have been made to decorate nounced are: "C", which calls upon the Departments the graves in other areas in the Pacific. Housing, County Commander Samuel and Posts to establish emergency aid Funds for this purpose are provided J. C. Greene; Distinguished Guests, funds to extend direct temporary aid on from the interest on the Overseas Hon. Harold E. Stassen, President of an emergency basis to dependent chil- Graves Decoration Trust Fund, which the University of Pennsylvania; Trans- dren of veterans, is certain to receive was set up at National Headquarters portation, E. Walter Hudson; Badges, serious study by the Child Welfare several years ago and now amounts to Meyer Abrams; Registration, Edward Commission, according to Chairman more than a quarter of a million dollars. A. Linsky, Department Adjutant; Forty Addy. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • 31 Unification of the Services Is Aim of Secretary Johnson to urge the enlargement of the Air Past Legion Chief Takes Top Forces as a defense safeguard. In early 1939 he sparked the drive for 10,000 Defense Post— Selects Two planes, a program later enlarged to Legionnaire Aides 50,000 planes. He stumped the country, speaking in every State, for greater Paul Griffith Col. Renfrew military and industrial preparedness. West Virginia and served that Depart- When, on March 28th, Louis Johnson Secretary of War Robert P. Patter- ment as its first National Executive of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was son told the Legion's National Conven- sworn in as Secretary of Defense he Committeeman. He was Commander of tion at San Francisco in 1946 that it became the first Past National Com- was Past National Commander John- the Mountain State Department in 1930-31, and in the National mander of The American Legion to son's work as Assistant Secretary of 1932, at Convention at Portland, achieve Cabinet rank. He was named War in charge of industrial mobiliza- Oregon, was elected National after a by President Truman, (Legionnaire) to tion that helped cut hostilities short. Commander succeed Secretary James V. Forrestal, Secretary Johnson has had a long and spirited contest. Since the expiration of his term he has held high com- (Legionnaire) who had resigned, and distinguished record of public service many mittee appointments. of his most was sworn in by Chief Justice Fred in his adopted State of West Virginia, One constructive services was as Chairman Vinson, also a Legionnaire. (born in Virginia), and in national of the Legion's Postwar America Com- Secretary Johnson's first official act affairs. Establishing himself in the mission. This group of eminent Legion- after assuming his duties as head of practice of law at Clarksburg after his naires drafted the Legion's for the entire national defense structure graduation from the University of program postwar Economic readjustment. was to move decisively in his initial Virginia in 1912, he had won a post efforts to gain greater unification of He also served as American Vice the armed services. He ordered an President of FIDAC, the inter-allied almost complete reassignment of office organization of 8,000,000 World War 1 space in the Pentagon, the shift to be veterans in 11 countries, of which The completed within a matter of weeks, American Legion was an integral part in order to bring the three arms of the prior to WW2. together in unit. defensive forces one Griffith and Renfrew Picked He also named General Joseph T. McNarney to take on the job of "phys- Secretary Johnson, upon assuming ical changes of unification" that will his new duties, took two other distin- weed out a considerable number of the guished Legionnaires in service with boards and agencies that have grown him. Past National Commander Paul up during the years. These are esti- H. Griffith of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, mated variously at 450 to 800. At any became the Executive Assistant, and rate Secretary Johnson thinks there are Colonel Louis H. Renfrow of St. Louis, too many for efficiency's sake. Some Missouri, left the White House job as will be abolished, others consolidated Assistant Military Aide to the Presi- and their functions coordinated. dent, to become Military Assistant. Colonel Griffith, who had long and Forrestal Pays Tribute arduous service in both World Wars, Just before leaving the office. Sec- has been long associated with Secretary retary Forrestal in a public speech paid Johnson — Griffith was Department a high tribute to his successor. He said, Commander of Pennsylvania when in part: Johnson was National Commander. "I could hardly leave my job in better They were thrown together frequently hands. By experience, training and tem- Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson while on official duties, as the beginning perament, Colonel Johnson is admirably of an association that has continued in qualified to head our National Military as minority floor leader in the West many ways. When Colonel Johnson was Establishment. Virginia House of Delegates before the sent to India by President Roosevelt, "As Assistant Secretary of War from First World War. Colonel Griffith was his military aide. 1937 to 1940 he worked closely with the Entering the First Officers Training He is a six-star member of Lafayette Army, the Navy and the Air Forces, Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Post No. 51 of Uniontown. He served showing himself to be a tireless worker, Indianapolis, at the outbreak of the war as National Commander for the term a sound business man, an efficient ad- in 1917, he was graduated as a Captain 1946-47, presiding over the National ministrator, and above all a man of of Infantry. Assigned to the 80th Divi- Convention in New York in the last character. This same spirit, I know, will sion, he had hard service with his outfit named year. mark his administration as Secretary of in France, and in Germany with the Colonel Renfrow, second of the two Defense." Army of Occupation. In addition to major assistants, also has a long and As Assistant Secretary of War dur- medals and decorations earned from distinguished record of service to the ing the years just preceding WW2, Sec- his own Government, he holds the dec- Legion. A veteran of WWl, he became retary Johnson was one of the strongest oration of Commander of the Legion active in the Legion in St. Louis and exponents of increased strength for the of Honor from France. served his Post and Department in armed forces. His work in the organi- During WW2, in which he had many many capacities. He was one of the zation and harnessing of industry to assignments of honor and responsibil- organizers afhd a committee chairman meet the demands of a major war paid ity, he was sent as the personal repre- of the National Convention at St. Louis off in big dividends in the years just sentative of President Roosevelt, with in 1935. His Legion service has not after he left the War Office. This ac- the rank of Minister, to serve in India abated since he was called back to ac- complishment is credited with shorten- and the Near East. tive duty in WW2, and he is at present ing the war by many months. A charter member of Roy E. Parrish serving as a member of the National As the Nazi menace grew in Europe, Post No. 13, of Clarksburg, he became Emblem Committee for the term ex- Colonel Johnson began more and more one of the organizers of the Legion in piring in 1950. 22 * American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 So the conclusion of the dinner Post Com- mander G. Hewlett Cobourn presented Senator Tydings with a gold life mem- * • • • . LEGIONITEMS • bership card in Joseph L. Davis Post. * * ^ditftiii ofiQ'Q 0 q'(r(ra"a"q"oira"g"o"0'ii"0"o"(ro"o oTrg"o~o"o"a~o'o"o" ning to lead the troops in the final record is unique. . . Joseph D. Walsh, who has completed Any contest? . parade at the 82nd National En- 27 consecutive years as Post Adjutant. In Seventy men of the Navy's Patrol campment at Indianapolis, August 28 fact, Comrade Walsh has served his Post Squadron 23 signed up with Opa-Locka —September 1. These dates run con- (Florida) Post No. 144 on February 11. as an officer since January, 1921, when currently with the Legion's 31st Na- These men have an unusual assignment he became a member of the Executive tional Convention at Philadelphia. Committee. His WWl service was with The Hoosier city was chosen as — they are the "hurricane ' hunters" whose job is to fly into hurricanes, ob- the 107th Infantry, 27th Division. . . . the place for the 1949 meet, because Livermore (Iowa) Post has a new club it was there in 1867 — 82 years ago serve the path and pick up other infor- — that the first Encampment was mation for the protection of the public. building under construction. . . . The 3rd held. Six members attended the 1948 Annual Art Exhibit, showing works of This Squadron handles one of the most meeting at Grand Rapids, Michigan, vets dangerous, though interesting, of the and members of the armed services, when Penland was elected and the peacetime Navy's job in safeguarding will be held in June at the Santa Monica, decision made to hold one more public interest. . . Cal., Library Art Gallery under the aus- Encampment, then furl the banners . Three Hills Post pices of Douglas Aircraft Post No. 523 of the G.A.R. forever. Only 20 mem- No. 565, Lager and Hateras Streets, and the Santa Monica Art Association. bers of the once mighty organization N.S., Pittsburgh, Pa., wants to buy a are living. supply of tenor bugles. Adjutant Wil- Commander Penland is a native liam J. Hunkele, Sr., at the Post ad- of Goshen, Indiana. He enlisted in Dorsey-Liberty Post No. 14, dress, is the chap to write to. the Union Army for active service Lawrence, Kansas, has established ¥ ¥ ¥ a when only 16. memorial cemetery for all honorably For the purpose of instruction in the discharged veterans. The plot was set correct observation of flag etiquette, and aside for that purpose by the city; the to inspire a patriotic Americanism, the Post has expended $2,000 in landscap- Lowville (New York) Memorial Post Legion Post of Wellesley, Massachu- ing and plans to erect a monument. No. 162 is the home unit of two State setts, has had the Flag Code made a The first cemetery established by the commanders of major veterans organi- part of the curriculum of the Wellesley Post after WWl has been completely zations — Corydon D. Kingsbury, De- High Schools, reports Legionnaire John filled. . . . Tell W. Nicolet, then a mem- partment Commander of The American J. Garrison. . . . Clyde Powell, 22-year-old ber of Post No. 5, Pittsburgh, Penn- Legion, and Louis H. Yandeau, State hero of Fort Dodge, Kansas, who dived sylvania, was the first Legionnaire to Commander of the Disabled American in icy water and rescued three boys reach number 1,000,000. He was given Veterans. . . . Saranac Lake (New from drowning in late January, has been wide publicity and was presented to York) Post No. 447 starred in the awarded the American Legion Hero President Hoover at the White House International Bob Sled Championship Medal on recommendation of Lloyd L. as the one-millionth Legionnaire. Now races on the famous Mt. Hoevenberg Carr Post No. 107, Fort Dodge. ... At a resident of Maryland, Legionnaire run in late February. Four-man team Des Plaines, Illinois, (a Chicago suburb), Nicolet has presented his records and headed by Jim Bickford, all members 14-year-old Roberta Lee Mason rescued trophies, including a picture taken with of the Post, finished second. TufFy her three small brothers and a sister President Hoover, to John K. Fogarty Latour, another member, finished sec- from their flaming home, suffering Post No. 162, Lexington Park. ond in the two-man race. Saranac Lake almost fatal burns. Des Plaines Post Post sponsors an annual National Sled No. 36 awarded her a Hero Medal with Derby; open to all youngsters between citation, and wrist watch. Chicago and Davis-Kerber Post No. 653, Colfax, five and fifteen. . . . Joseph L. Davis local people built a home valued at Illinois, has erected and dedicated a Post No. 47, Havre de Grace, Maryland, $17,000 to replace the one destroyed. memorial monument to the 13 Colfax paid tribute to Senator Millard E. Legion presentation was made at the men who died in the two World Wars. Tydings, Legionnaire and one of the hospital by Commander C. O. Richards Entire cost was borne by the Post and Post's founders, at a testimonial dinner, of Des Plaines Post, and 9th Dfstnct its Auxiliary Unit. . . . Paul Herrick Post with more than 400 in attendance. At Adjutant Fred R. Wetterman. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • The Legion's New $2,500,000 National Headquarters Building. The Building will be ready for occupancy early in 1950. Elaborate ceremonies, including a big Indiana and other r.elated and inte- defense structure. The cornerstone will parade, will mark the laying of the grated groups. be laid by Clarence R. lyicN&bb, Chair- cornerst(?lie of The American Legion's The new home of The American man of the Board of Trustees of the new National Headquarters building at Legion will be 360 feet long, and 60 Indiana War Memorial Commission, Indianapolis on Friday afternoon, May feet wide, four floors, basement and who will use the same trowel and mallet 6. The event is scheduled to take place sub-basement, and is two and a half used in 1927 by General John. J. just after the adjournment of the spring times the size of the present building. Pershing in laying the cornerstone of mating of the National Executive It will extend for more than the length the Indiana World War Memorial Committee and will thus have official of a city block on Pennsylvania Avenue Shrine, the main building on the Memo- representatives from every Department on the Indiana World War Memorial rial Plaza. of the Legion in attendance. Plaza, opposite the old building, which Construction of the building has been faces Meridian Street. The structure in progress since July 21, 1948, when will be ready for occupancy early in ground was broken by high officials of 1950. RAYMOND FIELDS RESIGNS both the State of Indiana and the Johnson Will Speak PUBLIC RELATIONS PLACE Legion. The first shovelsfull of earth were turned by then National Com- The cornerstone ceremonies will start Raymond J. Fields, Guthrie, Okla- mander James F. O'Neil, Past National with a parade beginHing at 1 P.M. on homa, who has served as National Pub- Commander Mile Warner, Chairman of May 6, which is expected to last about blic Relations Director for the Legion a Special Committee on Enlarging the two hours. Indiana's Adjutant General, since the end of WW2, tendered his National Headquarters ; G.overnor Ralph Robinson Hitchcock, will be the Grand resignation effective on March 15. In Gates, a Past Department Commander Marshal. Legion uniformed groups and his letter to National Commander Periy of Indiana, and Indiana's current De- musical outfits from nearly every sec- Brown, Director Fields said that he had partment Commander, Harold E. Morris tion of the Hoosier State are expected, been long absent from his own business of Gary. led off by the Department Champions and that he desired to give full time to in the various divisions, which will in- his newspaper and radio interests in Indiana Makes Appropriation clude the Richmond Legion Band. The Oklahoma and Indiana. An appropriation of $2,500,000 was Kokomo American Legion Color Guard A Rainbow veteran of WWl, Direc- made in 1945 by the Legislature of will head the parade of colors, and will tor Field has been active in the Legion Indiana to provide new buildings 'to serve at the massing of the colors from for thirty years, serving his own Post supplement the present National Head- the several Departments at the corner- at Guthrie, as wefl as the Oklahoma De- quarters building, which the Legion had stone ceremonies. partment as Department Commander long before outgrown. Building costs Governor Henry F. Shricker of and six years as National Executive pyramided and instead of the three Indiana, and National Commander Committeeman. He took the public re- buildings originally planned, a single Perry Brown will deliver addresses, lation directorship immediately upon structure is being erected which is speaking for the State and for the his release from service in WW2. planned to house all of the National National Organization of The American Harry Guinivan, Beverly, Massachu- Organization offices and activities lo- Legion. The principal address of the sets, administrative aide to Fields, was cated in Indianapolis. The old building, day will be delivered by Secretary of named as Acting Director. He has been occupied since 1925, will continue to be Defense Louis Johnson, a Past National- on the division staff since March, 1946. used by the National Headquarters of Commander, who, on that occasion, will Graduate of Boston University, class the American Legion Auxiliary, the deliver his second major address after of '39, Guinivan is a WW2 veteran of Forty and Eight, the Department of taking office as chief of the national five years' active service in the Pacific. 24 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 duty at that hospital in February, 1944, who e.x- 51st Troop Carrier Wing— Reunion at Pitts- amined and treated him. Statement needed. burgh, Pa., July 29-31, 1949; hdqrs. at Roosevelt Service Co., 4Ulst Glider Inf., lOlsl Ab Div.— Hotel. Men oers of groups or units attached to Need to contact former members of this unit. the Wing are invited to attend. For reservations COMRADES Please write Henry R. Dmoch, Morrison Hotel, write Joseph Krotec, 40 Maplewood St., Etna Phoenix, Ariz. 23, Pa. Station Hospital, Camp Tyson, Tenn.— Will the 21st Engineers (L.R.) Society— J. H. Brooks, IN DISTRESS medical officer in charge of this hospital in Secretary, advises that the notice of reunion at October, 1943, please write. Statement needed to Chicago, published in this column in March, was establish claim of disabled vet. V. J. Sauter, Ser- in error. It is understood that the 21st Engineers "p a a 0 0 0 8 a ji trm o a oTirff oooooooo vice Officer, The American Legion, Fonda, Iowa. (Aviation) intend to form an association of Co. C, 254th Inf., 63rd Div. -Want statement of their own. Announcement of time and place of Flight A, 417th Bomb Sg.-Will Julian Dendy, 3rd Platoon medics, or anyone who knows of 28th annual reunion of the 21st Engineers (L.R.) please CO while stationed in Cuba in 1942-48, incident when I was taken to hospital while on will be made later. write. Believed resident of Texas. Statement maneuvers in Germany just after the war for 444 AAA Battalion— Former members write Leo Road, needed. Sterling L. Lentz, 811 Quentin treatment lor blood poisoning. Alfred Pfeft'er, Surdut, 4841 W. 25th St., Brooklyn, N. Y., to Lebanon, Pa. Parkers Prairie, Minn. arrange lor first reunion. Roland E. Ormsby, known as "The Baron," Btry A, 3U6th FA, 77th Div.-Will anyone who 95th Evac. Hospital, Sm-Bl— First reunion at last known address Fresno. Cal., write Elmer served with me in September, 1918, please write. Akron, Ohio, July 1-2, 1949. Contact Dick Sey- Eckam, 1407 E. Main St., Rochester, N. Y. Sig- Help needed to prove injury. Lewis Blake, Belden mour, 253 14th St., N.W., Barberton, Ohio, for nature needed to settle estate. St., Williamstown, Mass. information. Co. B, 38th Infantry— Anyone who remembers Co. A, 9th Armored Engineer Bn.—Men who 160th General Hospital— Second national re- me as being wounded, particularly Ailus Hill and know of my injury in Battle of Bulge are re- union at Philadelphia, Pa., May 28, 1949. For Kimmons, please write. Statement needed. Nelson quested to write. Known as "Whitty" Person, I details write Albert J. Ordini, Secretary, 10 (Pancho) Seals, 135 No. Sadie St., South Bend, was heavy machine gunner on a half-track. Par. Southard St., Paterson 3, N. J. Ind. ticularly remember Sgt. Ossi. Maurice E. Person, Co. D, 2nd Battalion, 21st Aviation Engineer Co. M, 119th Infantry (WWl) -Present address Rt. 3, Seymour, Mo. Regiment—Annual reunion at Hershey, Pa., June o4 Herman T. Brewington is wanted ; statement 817th Signal Service Co.— Am trying to estab- 18, 19, 1949. Write Ken Irwin, 118 Holmes St., needed in case of Colon McPhail, now disabled lish my claim for injury; anyone who served with Vandergrift, Pa., for information and reserva- as result enemy action. Write L. B. McLean, me in Leghorn, Italy, please write. Albert E. tions. County Service Officer, Lillington, N. C. Lane, Jr. 970 Lincoln Ave., Cranford, N. J. Co. E, 273rd Infantry, 69th Div.-Membeis in- 347th MG Co., 87th Div.— Anyone who remem- U.S.S. Indiana— U.S.S. Honolulu—Need to con- terested in a reunion to be held Labor Day week- bers John Bell, Jr., 148 Planderville Ave.. Gar- tact group~of sailors transferred from the Indiana end, in middle west, write F. Reemsnyder, P. O. field, N. J., being taken ill while drilling at Camp to the mainland about September 5, 1943; delayed Box 81, Calexico, Cal., or Wm. Gleason, 4050 Dix, please contact him. Statements needed. in Pearl Haroor and later sent to SF on the Blaisdell Ave., So., Minneapolis 8, Minn. Co. B, 148th Infantry—Members who saw action Honolulu. Help needed in claim. John A. Bel- 1330th Engineers General Service Regiment- in Belgium in 1918 please write Jack J. Collins, castro, Y2c, 400 East Huntington Drive, Arcadia, Second reunion at George T. Cornish Post 292, P. O. Box 146, San Fernando, Cal. Need support Cal. American Legion, Philadelphia, Pa., July 2-4, for claim. 1949. Former members please contact McKinney Co. 20, 164th Depot Brigade, Camp Funston- Miller, 424 N. 59th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Or anyone who served overseas (WWl) with Membership Getters U.S.S. Leedstown Survivors association — Re- John M. Delfosse, please write Commander Charles union and memorial service May 30, 1949. Con- Ave.. LeMay 23, Mo. tact Frank A. Wiseman, President, 126 F. Brown, 127 Teddy Willis Johnson, member of Denver West Btry A, 60th CAC—Need statement of George 82nd St., New York, N. Y., or George I. Malcom, Foley, who served at Port Mills, Corregidor, Edward Post, Pearsall, Texas, and Chef Secretary, 1842 Broadway, New York, N. Y. also Lohmann. Please write. Battery C, 217th CA (AA)-Fourth annual re- "Middleside," Harold Passe of Tri-County Voiture Vincent P. Geraghty, 627 Jackson Ave., Susque- de Gare union at Garden Center, Alexandria, Minn., Sat- hanna, Pa. No. 1295, 40 and 8, Natalia, had signed urday, May 14, 1949. Write Lyle B. Anderson, 97th Regt., IRTC, Camp Hood, P. O. Box 304, Alexandria, Minn. Co. A, 178th Bn., up 100 members for 1949 before Novem- Texas—Robert G. Bivens, Box 13. Saint Paul, 156th U.S. Army General Hospital— Fourth an- Ark., would like to hear from any of the officers ber 11. By early January he had en- nual reunion. Terrace Casino, Morrison Hotel, or platoon sergeants, especially a sergeant nick- Chicago, 111., on September 3, 1949. Information named "Shoats"; needs statement aoout truck rolled 134 and was still going strong. from Paul J. Schmidt, Jr., 6616 South Wood St., accident. May, 1944, to support claim. Another member of the Century Club Chicago 36, 111. 331st School Squadron, L,uke Field, Ariz. — Chemical Warfare Service Veterans Associa- is Legionnaire "Doc" Deponty, who had William A. West, 314 6th St., Bremerton, Wash., tion—Regional leunion dinner, Chicago, May 2b, needs affidavits to prove claim for disability; any- turned in a round 100 members to 1949. 13th annual reunion with American Legion one of above outfit who can help, please wi'ite. National Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., August Wenatchee (Washington) Post No. 10 28-September 1. Vets both U.S.S. Vulcan, AR 5, Division 7—Anyone who WWs and men now served aboard at Kure, Japan, between October, before the first of January. in active Chemical Corps service invited. I'or details write 1945, and March, 1946, please contact Kenneth George W. Nichols, Secretary-Treas- urer, Kingston, Ervin, Sr., Fl/c, 1307 Camp Ave., Wanamassa, RFD 3, N. Y. 4 77th Military N. J. Statement needed to establish claim for back Police Escort Guard Co.— Mem- injury. bers interested in reunion contact Albert M. U.S.S. Oahu-ARG 5-Donald R. Blackburn, 46 JL&JLSLSLSLSLSLSiJLSJIJLSLSlJiSLS^^ Becker, 572 Main St., Islip, L. I., N. Y. Btrys and E, 64th N. Miami Ave., Miamisburg, Ohio, wants to con- D CAC, WWl-Reunion at tact Chester Black and Harold E. Billings. Needs Toledo, Ohio, in June. Write T. E. Wartson, 1564 help in establishing claim. OUTFIT Colton St., Toledo 9, Ohio. Co. B, 14th Armored Infantry Bn.—Edward A. 52nd Engineers, R.T.C. (WWl)-Reunion at Clarence Dakota, Overstreet, on detached service in mountains in Parker Hotel, Minot, North July 22-24. Write J. A. Bell, National Adjutant, Northern Italy, disappeared April 21, 1945, and REUNIONS has been carried as AWOL since that date. Any 378 Neshannock Ave., New Castle, Pa. WAVES, Naval Air Station, Willow Grove, Pa. comrade with information about him is requested to communicate with Jesse Overstreet, (father), 'Tnj"ff"a~(reTrB~8"c"6"e"o"o'Tnj a a a yo'crinrins —Second biennial reunion of all WAVEs at this 73 Main Street, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. station will be held at Portland, Oregon, in June, 1950. For further information contact Miss Elaine U.S.S. Lunga Point, No. 1 or 2 Fireroom — 5th (Red Diamond) Infantry Division— Annual Morse, Rt. 2, Box 202, Newberg, Oregon. Need proof of injury when I fell on January 9, reunion, both WWs, at Providence, Rhode Island, Tanker Reunion—Stag dinner and reunion of 1945; will shipmates please write me. John A. September 3-5, 1949. Rhode Island Camp is host; "Tankers" of both wars on Friday evening. May Ecklund, 10«3 17th Avenue, SE, Minneapolis 14, headquarters at Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel. For at Manhattan Towers Hotel, Broadway Minn. information contact William Barton Bruce, Sr., 13, 1949, , and 76th Street New York City. Hosts, 749th Co. B, 324th Engineers, Camp Van Dorn, Miss. Secretary, 48 Ayrault St., Providence 8, R. I. Battalion —Will anyone who remembers my back injury 6th (Red Star) Infantry Division— Annual re- Tank and Tank Corps Post No. 715, write while bridge building please write me. John W. union at Louis, Missouri, July 1949. American Legion. For information James St. J8-30, Brooklyn, Tigert, 818 10th Street. Sioux City, Iowa. Headquarters. Hotel Jefferson. Write W. D. J. Gough, Jr., Adjutant, 773 Quincy St., N. Y. Co. I, 118th Infantry, (WWl)-Statement of Montgomery, 3216 Park Ave., St. Louis 4, Mo. U.S.S. Wilhelmina Band (WWl)-Members in- Walter J. Peters, last address Kankakee, 111., 30th (Old Hickory) Infantry Division—Conven- terested in a reunion at Philadelphia during needed to prove claim. Please write Leslie O. tion at Charlotte, North Carolina, June 16-18, Legion National Convention, August 29-Septem- Smock, P. O. Box 74 Kanawha, Iowa. 1949. For information write John W. Craig, ber contact Harry Breyn, 823 Prospect Ave., Co. A, 136th Combat Engineers—Men in this Charlotte, N. C. 1, Cleveland 15, Ohio. outfit stationed at Camp Cook, Cal. June to Sep- 37th (Buckeye) Infantry Division—Annual re- 390th Bomb Group— Meeting at Omaha on Feb- tember, 1943, who remember that Nelson B. Freer union at Philadelphia, Pa., September 3-5, 1949. ruary resulted in plans for national reunion was kicked on the head while wrestling in train- Headquarters, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. For in- 4, all former officers during summer or early fall. ing, please write him at 172 North 3rd St., formation contact Headquarters, 37th Div. Vet- Interested officers write P. Box Omaha, Hughesville, Pa. Especially wants statements of erans Association, Wyandotte Bldg., Colum- O. 654, 1101 Nebraska. Captain MelloAf, Sgt. Peters. Robert Finsmith, bus Ohio. 15, 3rd Air Force Finances Office— Reunion at Tam- George Shirk and Thomas GriiTy. 102nd (Ozarks) Infantry Division— Permanent pa, Fla., June 18-20, 1949. Write Albert U. Mixon, U.S.S. Boston—Frank C. Rousseau, 2436 Spruce Association formed at Philadelphia, February 24, 648 Princeton Ave., Birmingham 11, Ala., for Ave., Kansas City 1, Mo., would like to contact 1949. Former Ozarks are requested to contact details. any shipmates of the 7th Division who served J. H. Chaille, P. O. Box 683. General Postoffice, j76th AAA, AW Battalion, (Sep)— Former mem- aboard to September, 1945. Needs assistance in New York 1, N. Y., to complete rosters and to bers interested in a reunion write James H. completing records for disability claim. arrange for next reunion. Marks, 868 York Avenue, SW, Atlanta, Ga. 564th T.S.S., Atlantic City, N. j. -James T. Co. E., 327th Infantry, 82nd Div. (both WWs) 5U9tn Parachute Infantry Battalion— 1st An- Flanagan, (known as Pop), 170 Bergen Street, —Members write Irvin D. Robinson, 127 E. Chest- nual Reunion will be held in New York City, Newark 3, N. J., would like to get in touch with nut St., Hanover, Pa., to complete arrangements 28-30 at the Hotel Astor. For information anyone who served in this outfit from July to for dinner and reunion. May and reservations contact Captain Ernest Siegel, December, 1942, to aid in establishing a claim Co. A, 314th Infantry, 79th Div. (WW2)-Re- 1st Avenue, New York, New York. for disability. union at Cleveland, Ohio, August 5-7. Contact 274 National Association of American Balloon Paging Soldier McBride— I need the help of a John R. Hoke, 800 Quentin Road, Lebanon, Pa. Corps Veterans — 18th annual reunion. Hotel soldier named McBride who served with me at China-Burma-India Veterans Association— Sec- Philadelphia, Pa., August 27-31, 1949, Camp Stoneman, July and August, 1945. Believed ond annual roundup of CBI vets at Freeport. Shraton, concurrently with Legion National Convention. to be from Texas, and had graduated from para- Illinois, August 12-14, 1949. Ample housing and Craig Herbert, 3333 North 18th St., trooper school at Fort Benning. Trying to estab- amusements. For info and reservations write Contact S. lish claim. Harold McQuiston, Sandy Lake, Pa. Ellsworth Green, Jr., Vice Commander, 8 Galena Philadelphia, Pa. Destroyer Jarvis, DD 799— Based at Attu. Re- Co. G, 104 Ammunition Train, (WWl) -State- Ave., Freeport, 111. 111., July 30-31. Info from Floyd ment of Pvt. DeRoy Holmes, formerly of Provo, U.S.S. Henrico (APA 45)—Second annual reunion union, Decatur, Decatur, 111. Utah, needed to establish claim. Please write. Ben at Woodstock Hotel, New York City, May 28, N. Troxel, 1544 East Main St., Sea Bee Veterans of America— Second annual A. Liehr, 409 W. Washington St., Macomb, 111. 1949. For reservations and information contact City. J., September 9-11, Hospital, Nashville Army Air Classification J. Chiarini, 1721 76th St., Brooklyn 14, N. Y., reunion at Atlantic N. information write B. G. Adams, Center—Claude C. Pitts, 110 Williams St., Oxford, or John P. O'Hanlon, 1443 Taylor Ave., New 1949. For Room Trust Bldg., Atlantic City, N. J. Ala., is trying to locate 1st Lt. Toll, M.C., on York 60, N. Y. 700, Guarantee The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • ^ MACNIDER AND AINSWORTH SOME THINGS TO DISCUSS ON NEW PROMOTION LIST 1 FIVE MORE DEPARTMENTS IN YOUR POST MEETINGS Past National Commander Hanford MAKE '49 MEMBER QUOTA MacNider, Mason City, This number (May) of the Maga- Iowa, was one Five more Legion Departments — of three zine is chock-full of meaty articles nominated as Major Generals Vermont, New Hampshire and Kan- of particular interest to veterans as in the Officers Reserve Corps by Presi- sas, Minnesota and Wyoming—have Legionnaires and as citizens. Three dent Truman in mid-March. H, Miller gone over the top in filling the na- articles on the Legion-citizen angle Ainsworth, Luling, Texas, Past Depart- tional quota assignment for 1949. stand out, and are recommended for ment Commander and present National Eleven Departments in all have and discussion in your Post study Executive Committeeman of the Lone achieved this distinction, and four meetings. They are: more, with more than 90 percent Star State, was one of 26 nominated to of Kids' County - By Will Oursler. quota reported, are within striking the grade of Brigadier General. Page 22. A youth training citizen- distance. Both are two-war veterans. ship movement developed in Ne- General The six other quota-filled Depart- braska. There are some new MacNider had nearly all of the offen- ments are Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, wrinkles for serious consideration. sive operation in the Pacific in several North Dakota, Philippine Islands, How Communists Make Stooges commands. Most notable was the opera- and South Dakota. Just ready to Out of Movie Stars-By R. E. Combs. tion of his command, the 158th Regi- break the barrier are Arizona, Page 14. This is a revealing story mental Combat Team, in the Philippine Arkansas, Montana and Nevada. which proves that, as many have campaign, where for some weeks his suspected, some of our film celebri- outfit bore the brunt of fighting in ties are not quite bright. the What's Wrong With U.S. History Northern . Luzon. General Ainsworth — By John Dixon. Page 16. Maybe was a regimental commander in the COMMY WORLD CONFERENCE this will go a long way to explain 36th Division, particularly distinguished DRAWS FIRE OF PATRIOTS why some children fall for subver- in the campaign in Italy. sive doctrines. Past Depai'tment Commander Sump- A so-called "cultural and scientific ter Lowry, Tampa, Florida, Command- conference for world peace" sponsored ing General of the 51st Infantry Divi- by the National Council of Arts, sion, was a member of the promotion Sciences and Professions, held at New WW2 VETS ARE URGED TO board. York on March 25-27, flopped badly CONTINUE NSLI POLICIES because of adverse publicity. Despite strong Legion protests the Department Know Your Re-Employment Rights GI term insurance is approaching of Justice admitted about thirty foreign expiration dates for an increasing num- Many veterans, it is believed, are laid delegates, mostly from communist coun- ber of veterans, particularly for those off or suffer loss of jobs because they tries. Massed picket lines of various who went into the service early the are not familiar with the re-employ- patriotic groups surrounded the swanky Veterans Administration warns. ment provisions of the law. The Labor Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the conference These veterans must take action if Department has issued two helpful headquarters, attracting thousands of they wish to keep their National Service publications, "Know Your Re-Employ- spectators. A militant counter-demon- Life Insurance in force. Expiring con- ment Rights," and "Informational Slip." stration and conference by Americans tracts may be renewed for a new five- These pamphlets are available to vet- for Intellectual Freedom also helped year term or converted to a permanent erans, particularly to Legion Service to expose and discredit this latest com- plan. Officers, by writing Robert K. Salyers, munist-inspired confidence game. A full Term insurance taken out while in Director, Bureau of Veterans' Re-Em- report on this conference, listing its 600 service before the end of 1945 expires ployment Rights, Room 7318, Depart- speakers and sponsors, is published in eight years after it was issued. Many ment of Labor, Washington 25, D. C. full in the Americanism Commission's veterans took out their insurance early March issue of "Summary of Trends in 1941. Some of these contracts are and Developments in the Field of Sub- expiring now. THE AMERICAN LEGION versive Activities." VA will notify these veterans before NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS their expire. However, vet- INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA contracts Post Home on New Airmail Stamp erans should themselves check the ex- FEBRUARY 28, 1949 piration dates of their policies so that ASSETS The 6-cent airmail stamp commem- orating the bicentenary of Alexandria, they will be prepared to renew or con- Cash on hand and on deposit. . $1,091,324.81 vert before the original insurance ex- Receivable 209,523.98- Virginia, has a picture of historic Inventories 510,987.43 is by pires, or they will have no insurance. Invested Funds 959,265.96 Gadsby's Tavern, which owned GI Permanent Investments: and is the home of Alexandria Legion HOLD ON TO YOUR INSUR- Overseas Graves Decoration will ANCE!! Trust Fund 255.440.11 Post, in its design. The new stamp Employees' Retirement Trust be placed on sale at Alexandria on May Fund 1,018,299.76 printed Real Estate, less depreciation.. 561,320.94 11. Seventy million stamps were POSTON GETS ASSIGNMENT Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment, in the first issue. less depreciation 289,982.72 AS LEGISLATIVE ASSOCIATE Deferred Charges 110,193.14 $5,006,338.85 Child Welfare in Alaska Assistant National Adjutant Robert R. Poston, who has been stationed at LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE Perry S. McLain, Child Welfare Department of the National Headquarters at Indian- AND NET WORTH Chairman for the contributions of $500 apolis, has been selected as the new Current Liabilities $ 247,653.11 Alaska, reports Funds Restricted as to use 195,342.37 from Aleutian Islands Post No. 9, Adak Associate Director of the Legion's Na- Deferred Revenue 1,466,518.69 No. 1235, tional Legislative Commission. In that Permanent Trusts: and another 500 from Voiture Overseas Graves Decoration capacity he will work with National to be used for the relief of needy Trust Fund . .$ 255,440.11 Legislative Director John Thomas Tay- Employees' Retirement children of Alaskan veterans. Both units Trust Fund . . 1,018,299.76 lor at the Washington headquarters. are located away out in the outskirts, 1,273,739.87 contribution, says Chairman A veteran of WW2 with a record of Net Worth: and this of the year nearly five years of service, Poston is Restricted McLain, is the biggest boost Capital 750,128.90 child welfare. a member of Beaumont, Texas, Post Unrestricted for Alaskan No. 33. He is a native of Council Bluffs, Capital 1,072,955.91 "The Adak Legionnaires do big Iowa, and joined the national staff of 1,823,084.81 things. Last year they enrolled 1,000 The American Legion soon after his $5,006,338.85 members to boost the Department to release from military service in 1945. its top notch," McLain says. 2g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 ^ ; ; . . , . . ., ; . ,, , Veterans Newsletter A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE LIKE LY TO BE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU May, 1949 NEW STATE BONUS LAWS ENACTED: At the 1948 residents of State who served between elections the voters of several States January ]^ 1941. and January 1946. are approved proposals to pay bonuses to WW2 eligible .. .No restriction on post-war vets.... In each instance, excepting residence, and certain protection of Louisiana, (which is now ready to start rights is granted legal residents who payment) further legislation was neces- entered service from other States . . , sary in order to make the plans operative Administration of Act will be under Heber ....State solons wrestled with the prob- L. Edwards. Adjutant General. Fraine lems during their 1949 sessions, with Barracks. Bismarck^ North Dakota . . . the following results: Application blanks will be made available through Legion Posts, INDIANA: $10 per month for home, and $15 as well as official channels. . Payment per month for foreign service, up to a is expected to start about July maximum of $600 Vets with 10 percent l....This is one of the most or more service-connected disability draw liberal State grants, in monthly rate, no maximum, which $100 additional. .. .Residence in Indiana permits payment for all for six months prior to enlistment or service and in broad residential require- induction 90 days or more service between ments. December 7^ 1941, and September 1945 SOUTH DAKOTA 50 cents per day for state- 2j_ side ....Application forms will not be ready and 75 cents per day for foreign service up to a maximum of for and for a few months, but all applications , $500 home $650 for foreign, or combination of home must be filed before June 50. 1950. . .Act will be administered by Veteran Affairs and foreign service . . . .Eligible are legal Commission. World War Memorial Building. residents of not less than six months prior Indianapolis Indiana. ... Bonus plan is to entering WW2 armed forces who served to be financed by increase in gross income 90 days or more between December 7 , 1941 tax.... The gimmick is that no payments and September 2, 1945 . . . .Dependents are will be made until all necessary funds are entitled to bonus of deceased veterans.... Applications must be filed by July 1, 1950 collected . . . .May take five or six years to raise the fund. and all payments must be completed by IOWA: $10 per month for home and $12.50 December 51 1950. . . .Administered by South per month for foreign service, up to maxi- Dakota Veterans Bonus Board. J. J. Kibbe Director. Pierre . South Dakota . . . .Appli- mum of $500 . . . .Eligibility requirements are that vet must have been a legal resi- cation forms are being drafted, and pay- dent at time of induction and at least six ments are expected to start about July 1. months immediately prior thereto ... .Ac- * * * * tive service in U.S. armed forces btween WASHINGTON HAS NEW BONUS BILL: A bonus September 16, 1940 and September 2^ 1945 referendum approved by the voters of ....Next of kin entitled to bonus of de- Washington at the 1948 election was held ceased veterans, or to $500 if veteran unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.... died of service-conncted causes. . . Appli- The Legislature has enacted another bill cation blanks available about May 1. . . which is designed to cure the deficiencies Iowa residents get theirs at County of the original proposal . . . .This measure Courthouses. .. .Eligible lowans living authorizes a bonus to legal residents of elsewhere get blanks from World War 2 at least one year before enlistment, for Service Compensation Board. Des Moines service between December 7, 1941 , and Iowa. .. .Friendly court action involves September 2^ 1945 . . . .$10 per month for only question of payment of bonus from home, $15 per month for overseas service, surplus funds or from special property no maximum amount fixed . . . .Bonus of tax levy. persons who died while in service is MINNESOTA: Bills for a bonus are pending payable to dependents. .. .Payments will be in both Houses of the Minnesota Legislature made through the office of the State ....Voters at the 1948 election approved Auditor, Olympia. Washington . . . .Applica- the principle of a WW2 bonus, but the pro- tion blanks, when made available, can be posal fixed no rate of payment or plan for had from that office or from County Court- financing . . .Legislature was wrestling houses .. .Review by the courts is expected with the problem at the time this News- to determine constitutionality of plan of letter was closed. financing. . .If court clearance is given, NORTH DAKOTA $12.50 per month for home and payment to veterans is expected to start $17.50 for overseas, no maximum . . . .Legal this coming summer. 37 ...... , . . , ,, . , . . . , , . , . WEST VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA TO VOTE: Florida, Georgia, Idaho . Mississippi The Mountain State Legislature submitted Nevada. North Carolina. Utah. Wyoming and a veterans bonus amendment to the voters Virginia . . . .At elections in previous years in its closing hours in mid-March.... the voters have re j ected bonus proposals Proposal includes WWl vets who served be- in referendums in Maine , Missouri tween April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, Nebraska. Oregon and Wisconsin. and WW2 vets for service between December « * * * 7, 1941, and September 2j_ 1945 . . . .Six months residence in State prior to entering NSLI DIVIDENDS AGAIN: Growing impatience service is required. .. .Proposes to pay at delay in making distribution of accrued $10 per month for home, $15 for foreign surplus in National Service Life Insurance service, up to a maximum of $300 for all fund is reflected in stream of critical home , and $400 for foreign service . ... To letters flowing into the Newsletter from WW2 be voted on at general election in Novem- vets. .. .Latest official word is: General ber, 1950 . . . .The plan is unique in that it Carl R. Gray, Jr. . Veterans Administrator. is the only one submitted that includes told Legion Rehabilitation Conference that veterans of both World Wars ... .Pennsyl- "the best information I have is that we vania will vote to approve or reject a half will be able to pay before June 30. 1950" billion dollar WW2 bonus amendment to the ....He mentioned the tremendous task of Constitution at the next general election, auditing 19,700,000 separate insurance (Newsletter, April page 27) accounts to determine the amounts payable / 49 , ; did not know how much of the * * « * $7,500,000,000 surplus would be paid out in dividends.... BONUS LEGISLATION PENDING: Several State Meantime VA found it necessary to warn Legislatures, still in session, had bonus veterans against sharp-shooters and rack- bills pending when this survey was made. . eteers who are peddling "special dividend In New Jersey the House Delegates has of applications" at $10 and $15 to the gul- approved a liberal plan which calls for a lible.... It is a gyp game, pure and simple referendum at the next election . . . .Senate ....When application forms are made ready concurrence, with possible amendments, is they will be furnished by the VA without regarded as virtually certain. . . .Colorado, charge and Legion Service Officers will and Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Tennessee be ready to assist in filling them out, Texas Legislatures have bonus bills under also without charge consideration . . . .Most of these are given little or no chance for favorable action. * * * * * * * * ON THE COMMIE FRONT: Recent communist WW2 BONUS PAID BY STATES: Eleven States and activities have created a sensation two Territories have paid, or are now pay- throughout the country. . . .have also served ing, a special State bonus to WW2 servicemen to emphasize the extent of red infiltra- and women. . . Connecticut (deadline for tion. . .Delaying tactics of counsel for the applications July 1 , 1949) .... Illinois 11 head commies under trial in New York for (deadline July 1, 1949) . . . Louisiana. conspiracy to overthrow the Government . . . (payments just starting) . . . Massachusetts Arrest and indictment of a woman employe (no deadline for applications) . . . Michigan, of the Department of Justice and a Russian (time for filing applications expired engineer assigned to the United Nation s on March 20, 1949) . . . New Hampshire, (no charges of pilfering secret Government deadline )... .New York, (no deadline; documents . . . .The bold statement of Foster proposed repeal of section excluding New and Dennis, top red officials following York veterans not now residents to be voted the Kremlin line first laid down by red on at 1949 election) . . . Ohio (no dead- leaders in Europe, that should war come line) . . . Rhode Island, (all payments were between U.S. and Russia, the commies would completed December 31, 1947) . . . Vermont take the treasonable position of opposing (no deadline) . . . Alaska, (for vets who the U.S The new Mundt-Nixon Bill returned to Territory after war; stay- (S. 1194 by Senator Karl E. Mundt , and aways must have had 5 years residence be- H.R. 3342 by Representative Richard M. fore war and meet other requirements ; no Nixon) substantially in accord with Legion deadline) . . . Hawaii (for vets with 10 demand at the Miami National Convention, percent or more service-connected dis- tightens the provisions curtailing commie ability only) ... .Twenty States paid activities, provides tougher series of bonuses to WWl vets, at a total cost of penalties, includes a new section out- $400,000,000. lawing peacetime espionage, makes the * >f: * >!! statute of limitations inapplicable to of eace and ROUNDUP ON THE BONUS FRONT : In California treasonable acts in time p the Assembly Interim Committee on Military requires registration and publication of Affairs voted against the adoption of any commie party members .... Sponsors say that cash bonus plan. .. .Bonus measure was it does not outlaw the party, but sets up defeated in the Legislatures of Montana regulations to force it out into the open Federal and New Mexico . . . .Tabled in Committee in . . . .Right to hold appointive American passports to South Carolina . . . .No action on bonus office and to secure matters is reported by the Department travel abroad is denied commies in this Adjutants of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas measure 38 QUIZ SHOWS FROM THE INSIDE (Continued from page 19) one of the early riders of the quiz show erally makes himself agreeable. When- tell their friends about the fun they had bandwagon, a pioneer wagon- rider, you ever he finds somebody who talks up, is "when they were on the radio." We've might say. And my show was "What's My bright and interesting, he sends them found that a good excited contestant, who Name," a biographical program giving down to sit in the front row. (Tips for will tell everybody about it afterward, clues about well-known people. The clues, those who want to get out of the audience does an amazing amount of word-of- for any one contestant, get easier 'as they and up on stage at a quiz show: Sit on, or mouth advertising. go along. But the money gets smaller. I as near the aisle as you can. Look bright A feature of "What's My Name" in its figured that a craze was a craze, and it and interested in what's going on. Hold early days was using rounds of clues sent would burn itself out; maybe meanwhile your hand up if the director asks for in by members of the radio audience. We my partner, Ed Byron and I would have a volunteers. Get it up quick; don't hesitate. offered a prize of ten dollars for any biog- show that would ride this craze for three, Talk up loud and readily if a microphone raphy we used on the air - boy, did we perhaps even six months. I've got a great is pushed in your face; you don't have to throw cash around! But that must have time-sense, apparently. The show is still be brilliant, just be willing.) seemed pretty important money in those going strong, after eleven years. When that front row of seats is filled, unsophisticated days, because for a long, Somebody who has been with it ever he has about twenty-four "possibilities." long time we received an average of over since the beginning, and who is still go- Then, a few minutes before air time, he twenty thousand entries a week. ing great, is our very lovely and razor- takes a hand-microphone, which is con- But before very long we had to drop sharp lady M. C, Arlene Francis. People nected to the loudspeakers at either side this mail-pulling idea; partly because its are always asking me if Arlene is really of the stage, and interviews these people very success made it so expensive. Han- as bright as she sounds on the air, and if again. This time, with their voices boom- dling all that mail cost better than five those clever ad libs she pulls are really ing back at them from the speakers, the hundred dollars a week - a big item on a her own. The answer is that she is every ones who'd get mike fright begin to dry low cost show. The other reason we had bit as bright off the air as on, and those up, and either don't talk at all, or simply to drop the mail never even occurred to ad libs are strictly her own. They're really gulp monosyllables. But whenever Perry us when we started. ad libs, too. (To keep the record straight, finds somebody who still talks up inter- Let's say we decided to do a round of an "ad lib" is a spur-of-the-moment, un- estingly, he sends that person up on stage clues on George Washington. Well, lots written and unrehearsed remark.) No- as a contestant. of people would have thought that George body is more surprised than the program This brings us to a very persistent and was a good man to write about, and we director at some of the cracks Arlene peculiar class of individual — the Profes- might have as many as twenty-five thou- comes up with. Recently, for instance, sional Quiz Contestant. sand entries on him. So we would pick she was interviewing a young Marine in These pros turn up at broacfcast after one entry as the winner, making one per- front of the microphone. He was obviously broadcast, and will do anything short of son very happy. But we would also make very proud of the uniform he wore, and setting themselves afire to attract the di- twenty- four thousand, nine hundred and Arlene made quite a feature of his chest- rector's eye. Many of them calmly assume ninety-nine other people very mad. So ful of fruit salad, bringing out the fact that quiz programs are run for their espe- we dropped the idea. stack that he had accumulated an amazing cial benefit. They feel that after they have People sometimes ask if Quiz Shows of decorations. Then she went on to mar- come to the studio for several weeks on aren't rehearsed ahead of time. I doubt riage, it turned out that the young and their own initiative, that they have a it. People in front of microphones are man had just become a father for the 'right' to be chosen. crazy enough. They don't need instruc- second time. "Well, I'm certainly glad to These pros never seem to realize that tion. I know that "What's My Name" is hear that. Sergeant," smiled Arlene, "for the mere fact of their being professionals completely unrehearsed, and so was an- a while there I was afraid that you had rules them out as far as we are concerned. other show of mine - "Surprise Party" — given your all for Marines." the After all, we put on a program for just that was on the air a couple of years ago. are While on the subject of things that one reason— to further the interests of our That was probably the most complicated said in front of microphones, we were sponsor. We pick the contestants with two audience participation show ever at- greatly worried, when we first started the objects in mind. First, that they should tempted. To start off with, about half the program, about what Mr. or Mrs. Joe talk, be bright and help the show along. show took place outside the studio alto- Typical might say if they got flustered in Second, that they should go home and gether. We used two radio cars, that were front of the microphone. We had heard so many direful dirges of dreadful breaks that people were said to have made that we were plenty concerned, and for the first few months we were constantly on pins and needles waiting for that terrible "mustn't-say-it" to come. Well, thus far, it has never come. I can't recall a single case of a really bad break happenmg on our program— or on any other show I ever listened to. Granted, many people we have had on the program have been frightened into silence by the microphone (while some others have had a reverse reaction, and the problem has been to shut them up) . But nobody has yet said anything that has got us cut off the air. People at home sometimes wonder how the contestants for quiz shows are picked. The details vary, but the basic method is pretty much the same on different shows today. In the case of "What's My Name," the first row of seats in the studio is re- served, and as soon as the doors open before the show our director, Perry Laf- ferty, goes down into the auditorium and "Ever notice how little time those people actually spend working?" begins talking to people. He greets them, AMKKK'AN LEOION MAOAZINE asks them where they're from, and gen- The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • equipped with the darnedest collection of the door, they would poke a microphone we've had several different announcers shortwave equipment that ever made a in her face and say, "Good day madam, at various times. One of them was a bright Radio Ham's eyes bug out. These two cars you're on the air from coast to coast." And character; but he had crazy ideas. For were in constant two-way communication she was, too. However, Los Angeles, where instance, he wanted to do a quiz show in with the studio. A Master of Ceremonies the show originated, is a remarkable town. which unsuccessful contestants would rode each of the radio cars, and each had None of these ladies ever fainted. Most of have to do all sorts of silly things. Of a microphone on about a hundred yards them weren't even particularly surprised. course, as soon as he told me about it, I of cable, and so was free to leave the radio They would beam happily and go into a said, "Ralph, you're nuts. You can't get car and go calling; an engineer followed smooth ad lib conversation as though net- away with asking people to make fools of along behind him, paying out cable. work broadcasts took place on their fiont themselves. They wouldn't stand for it." These two roving M. C.'s went calling stoops every hour on the hour. I often wonder what happened to him. - actually and literally. They would step There was one other quiz show that I Nice fellow. Name of Ralph Edwards. He on somebody's front porch, and ring the came into sort of glancing contact with, wanted to call his show "Truth or Con- bell. When the lady of the house opened some years ago. On "What's My Name" sequences." THE END WHAT'S WRONG WITH U.S. HISTORY (CoTitinued /ro7ri page 16) to be self-evident, that all men are created structors and professors, although in a agation of alien aims and isms, and for equal, that they are endowed by their well scattered minority, and paid in most the protection of traitors. The subtle poi- Creator with certain unalienable rights, instances with money supplied by Amer- son which they dispense is thus introduced that among these are Life, Liberty and the ican taxpayers, undermine faith in the into the bloodstream of American youth, pursuit of Happiness, ..." was familiar very government which supports them. most of whom are too immature to realize to every pupil of the schools. But no A group of these self-styled Progressives what is happening. longer. has gone so far as to say, "Even the tax- When such conditions are prevalent it We hear much of the American Bill of payers have no special claim on the is not strange that conditions such as the Rights, but how many have ever read or schools; they are but the tax collectors following are found: Dr. Henry Link studied its wonderful guarantees of per- of society." In effect they say to parents posed this question to a cross-section of sonal liberty? and taxpayers, "Hands off; your sole 5,000 people: "If the government owned How many today are familiar with privilege is to pay the bills; we will decide and managed industries would you get Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give what is to be taught and how!" more or less for your money than you me death" speech, and Lincoln's "Gettys- "Academic freedom" under such cir- do now?" Among the general population burg," with the circumstances that cumstances becomes a cloak for the prop- 43 percent said they would get as much brought them about? How many are or more under Government ownership, familiar with the story of the march of while 63 percent of the students polled WHAT'S WRONG WITH U.S. the American Frontier to the Mississippi were of this opinion. This really means and on to the Pacific? How many have HISTORY that they have swallowed the foreign learned in its revealing details the long Herewith the solutions to the picture ideology that has made paupers and slaves and savage story of the American Revo- quiz 011 page 16, with the specific of half or more of the human race. lution or that of the American Civil War? answers in blackface. How did Since the bulk of our people gaui their No. In many of our present school his- you do? education in our elementary and high tories these epochal events and the great 1. 1945. The U.S. Marines raised the schools, the most important question is characters that played their gallant parts flag at Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, that of how Americanism fares in these in them are reduced to meaningless sum- Feb. 23. schools. intelligent or the maries that no person would 2. Union Pacific or Central Pacific. One obstacle that the elementary ever read unless forced to do so. Many They linked the continent at high school teacher is likely to meet is teachers pass over or the textbook. of the dismiss records Promontory Point, Utah, May 10, that of the poor Some of the wars fought by Americans to estab- 1869. textbooks that the teacher of American lish, to hold together and to preserve this history must use make any effective 3. Plymouth. The drawing is from nation as matters of but trifling conse- teaching and learning of the subject well a famous painting, "Pilgrims go- quence. How can Americans understand nigh impossible. There are some excellent ing to church." In the early 1620's. or prize a liberty whose price they do not texts that give splendid service to teacher 4. Woodrow Wilson. He's the blind- know? and pupil alike, but, unhappily these are folded figure of the 1917 draft A first means to more and better Amer- the exception. Most high school textbooks lottery, which was repeated in icanism in our schools is the cultivation on United States history are written by 1940. of an attitude which ranks America, its college and university professors so far 5. Lt. Col. George A. Custer. "Cus- history, its traditions and its accomplish- removed from the direct experience of ter's Last Stand," in which he ments, its institutions and its ideals, the teaching high school pupils that they have and four companies of the 7th men and women who have made its great- little conception, only slight comprehen- Cavalry were wiped out, was at ness possible, as something worthy of deep sion of the interests, capacities and needs the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876. respect; an attitude that recognizes the of high school pupils superlative worth of American privileges 6. North Carolina. The drawing de- There is a direct and sensible way out and advantages, and that cherishes a love picts the first heavier-than-air of this dilemma. It will necessitate the for things American. flight, Dec. 14, 1903 at Kitty discarding of some old and fixed ideas, One reason for the lack of such an atti- Hawk. Orville Wright aboard, and will require the expenditure of some tude is that in various lecture rooms of Wilbur Wright running. money. What is needed is a school history a considerable number of our colleges 7. John Wilkes Booth fired the gun of the United States in two volumes, a and universities where teachers are sup- in Abraham's Lincoln's assassi- volume for each of the two semesters of posed to learn their American history nation, April 14, 1865. Lincoln the school year, each volume to have a preparatory to teaching it, ideologies died early next morning. compass of at least six hundred pages. covertly hostile to the American way of 8. Delaware River. The place is now Such books would have room for the rich life, the American system of government called Washington's Crossing, N. and meaty story of American history and American conceptions and ideals are J. The date, night of December The pupil would need to master but a permitted to flourish. The dispensers of 25-26, 1776. half dozen pages a day, and his interest these false and misleading ideologies jus- 9. Aaron Burr, Vice President. in a live presentation would render the tify their practices under the specious plea Alexander Hamilton, former assignment easy and delightful. that any supervision of or interference Secretary of the Treasury and Also, American history should be taught with their methods violates the sacred victim in the duel at Weehaw- as American history, and should not per- right to liberty of expression. ken, N. J., July 11, 1804. mit any substitution therefor. For ex- So, these college and university in- ample, a text on "Social Living" may be ' The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 all right in its place, but it should not be who under whatever guise teach or em- The final great enemy of Americanism permitted to masquerade as American phasize foreign ideologies- the very ideas in the history classrooms is that the teach- history or as a subject to take the place and conditions that Americans left behind ing is sometimes static and dull, dry and of American history. The importance of them when they came to this Western sapless as a seasoned corn-husk. The vast American history to every citizen en- World in order that they might escape the majority of the teachers of American his- titles it to a prominent and individual fetters of caste, statism and tyranny — are tory are able, patriotic and devoted, but place in the schools. Colonel Augustin G. traitors to America. America in the in- in too many classrooms the teaching is Rudd in an address quoted in full in the terest of self-preservation should rid the vapid and colorless: no heart, no enthu- Congressional Record cites an uprising of schools of them. A government that has siasm, no concern, no life, no fire. the parents of Scarsdale, N. Y., against the due regard for the treasures that have Above all else we need a renaissance "integrated" hodge-podge substituted for been handed down to it will not coddle of patriotism in America's history American history. A parents" committee traitors in its classrooms. And, if those in classrooms, an informed and aggressive said, "We recommend that the term 'social authority are slow to act, the people who patriotism. We need more militant Amer- studies' be dropped completely", and "the have the welfare of America at heart icanism. We need a veritable revolution teaching of a continuity of undiluted his- should see to it that they or others put in the attitudes and methods of a great tory"; and again, "Simple subjects, singly in their places act not only with prompt- number of American classrooms. No taught accumulate more ultimate knowl- ness but with finality. teacher should be employed in any Amer- edge than any potpourri which is 'pre- One oi ^bp reasons why Americanism ican history classroom who does not dominantly social'." is not adequately taught is that many believe whole-heartedly and without any The eqtiipment for teaching American teachers have embraced the cult of being, reservation in American free enterprise, history is seldom adequate. There is a oh, so judicial-minded' So, they lean over in representative government, and in the long accepted tradition that a textbook — backward for fear that they might praise preservation of the dignity and inde- however sterile and uninspiring — a few anything American. One of these ultra- pendence of the individual citizen. maps, and some references in a public or judicial-minded intellectuals addressing It is a fact apparent to all that malign high school library are about all that the a state convention of teachers, said, "The and evil forces have penetrated many history department needs. In comparison, indoctrination oi democracy in schools classrooms and are seeking there as else- for example, with the departments of cannot be justified because indoctrination where throughout the nation to create chemistry, physics and biology the sup- cannot be reconciled with a belief in im- confusion and doubt and ultimately to plies allotted to the history department partiality." So he and the "open-minded" destroy the liberty and independence are comparatively insignificant. The most followers of his deluded philosophy would which is the birthright of every American valuable and attractive references in present all of the asserted virtues of state boy and girl, man and woman. It is high United States history qnd biography — socialism, communism and fascism, and time that something very definite and many hundreds of them — should have a while doing so damn American institu- very forceful be done, unless we are will- permanent place in the history class- tions, history and accomplishments with ing that the United States of America room, so that they may be available and faint praise reluctantly given while giving shall be relegated to that status where on the spot as needed. to anti-American doctrines false an'^ the state is everything and the individual Another obstacle in the way of teaching vicious emphasis. nothing. the fnd Americanism in the schools is that the dehnnker is abroad in the land. He is the Smart Aleck of the college history depart- ment and of the high school classroom. He sneers either openly or covertly at everything American. About the only thing that he seems to re- member about George Washington is that he had false teeth and that they did not fit; to him Nathan Hale was an over senti- mental adolescent who stupidly went look- ing for trouble and so got himself hanged. To this type of mind the American Revolution was only an insignificant up- rising of ignorant colonials who finally got their way only because England was too busy elsewhere to give them much attention; Lexington, Bunker Hill, King's Mountain and Saratoga were only inci- dents of guerrilla warfare that would re- ceive no mention in military reports of the present; the Constitution was created by a group of wealthy aristocrats to fur- ther their own selfish interests— and so on! The debunkers mislead by wrong em- phasis; they are enemies of America and infect the minds of young Americans with the virus of an evil attitude. Most of these debunkers are at heart disciples of foreign isms. If Americanism is to have an honest interpretation these debauchers of its his- tory and its traditions must be barred from its textbooks and its classrooms. American institutions, American enter- prise, American principles, American accomplishments, American liberties make up the most magnificent chapters in the entire history of the human race. They are worthy of knowing and of em- phasis. They have proved themselves. It is the business and the obligation of American schools to glorify them. Those The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • HOW COMMUNISTS MAKE STOOGES OUT OF MOVIE STARS (Continued jroni page 15) average movie-goer is very much affected Under the guise of protecting civil liber- California Labor School was cited by the by that sort of propaganda. ties, fighting discrimination and uplifting U. S. Attorney General as subversive in The communist infiltration of the in- the underprivileged, thousands of dollars letters dated June 1, 1948 and September dustry is, however, fraught with hidden pour into the coffers of the galaxy of 21, 1948 to the Loyalty Review Board. dangers of a far more serious nature than communist-controlled fronts — money for Communism first began to work in Los the use of the pictures as a medium for which no accounting is rendered to the Angeles around 1920. By 1934 the pene- selUng the American people the Marxist donors. tration of the motion picture industry was way of life. It is an infiltration smoothly Stars are easy to lure. They are wealthy, well under way. Most potent of the early geared to the ov^r-all scheme of revolu- have idle time, like publicity and are fronts through which the entering wedge tion—a scheme that utilizes the industry prone to want to aid the less fortunate. The was made were the John Reed Club as a source of funds; as a medium from control—the real powers behind the scenes (named in honor of an early American which the glamour of Hollywood is used —takes advantage of these traits and turns communist), the Pen and Hammer Club to bedeck the host of communist-con- these stars into sources of income and (comprised of the left-wing writing fra- trolled organizations that flourish there; window-dressing. ternity) , and a couple of short-lived pub- as a base from which large masses of When the American Youth for Democ- lications which carried the Party Line. people innocently attracted by the end- racy—that sweet sounding organization of From this rather inauspicious beginning less and glittering meetings are subtly in- "progressive" youth — was launched in there stemmed a whole galaxy of front doctrinated in the ways of the Party and 1943, the Los Angeles citizenry jammed groups, some of the more important of religiously followed up with literature, in to hear one of the nation's most prom- which were the Hollywood Anti-Nazi invitations to more meetings, and other inent crooners, Frank Sinatra, unwittingly League, the League for Peace and Democ- forms of recruiting; and the infiltration sing the praises for this continuation of racy, the League Against War and Fascism, and control of key unions of the industry the Young Communist League. To add to the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, for the purpose of fomenting paralyzing that window-dressing, there were other the League for Democratic Action, the strikes which can be used not only as a star performers—Peggy Ryan, Ann Blythe, Hollywood Independent Citizens Commit- powerful economic weapon against the Barney Ross and Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, tee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, studios but also to instill zeal, the gesture When the Hollywood Writers Mobiliza- the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, the of revolutionary power and defiance of tion was going full blast in the same year, Freedom frorn Fear Committee and a host law, and the symbol of the class struggle even the University of California was of others. into the rank and file of the Party's mem- bamboozled into joining with this Com- It is most revealing to take a look at the bership. munist front in the staging of a Writers documented record of how these left-wing By luring screen celebrities into front Congress on the campus of the University stalwarts affiliated with each other in one organizations, the astute handful of com- at Los Angeles. communist front organization after an- munists who manipulate the strings from At the seat of the State University in other—all ducks in a pond together. This behind the silver curtain are able to pack Berkeley, another joint affair was held evidence, in ABC language and docu- auditoriums with people who listen to with the California Labor School, which mented, appears at the end of this article. the highly trained propagandists in order is nothing more or less than a center of When the infiltration got under way in to see the star performers who follow later recruiting and indoctrination for Com- 1934, the first natural step was to obtain on the program. From the many com- munists. That was super window-dressing control of the studio unions which could munist writers and technicians, who do- as the Hollywood Writers Mobilization most effectively paralyze the industry. nate their services for the cause, these and the California Labor School could Among those on which the communists affairs are staged with all the glamour of answer their critics by loftily declaring concentrated their infiltration were the a typical Hollywood production. Many of that certainly the great State University Screen Writers Guild, the Screen Directors the people who habitually throng to any would hardly collaborate if there was Guild, Screen Office Employees Guild, the meeting where stars appear are influenced anything subversive about either organi- painters and set decorators, carpenters and by those stars whose very appearance lends zation. The United States Department of the teamsters. an air of respectability to whatever phase Justice thought otherwise and so stated The practical effect of this was made of the Party Line is being advanced. in unmistakable language. Indeed, the obvious in 1945 when Herb Sorrell, presi- dent of the Conference of Studio Unions, called a jurisdictional strike. The matter of jurisdiction was between the com- munist infiltrated and the anti-communist vmions. Sorrell selected Warner Bros, for the T CLfiUS strike as a matter of convenience. Its physical set-up—one main entrance gate as against several entrances at most other ATFORNEY studios; its location in Burbank—out of the congested district; and the fact that that studio at the time was heavily infested with communists allegedly all combined to influence Sorrell. Three thousand pickets—at least one- third communists and fellow travelers and the others disgruntled followers - took over. When the court ordered the num- ber of pickets reduced, the pickets took a to-hell-with-the-court attitude, shouted down the sheriff's deputies who read the order, and failed to comply. In defying the court, the sheriff, and even the safety of life itself, they defied the United States, its laws and its form of government. Riot- ing resulted. I was there. I saw police cars overturned, I World I helmets in the hands of "Why, that's exactly what mine does!" saw War strikers used as weapons to slap A^fERICAN LEGION MACAZINE men down. I saw them thumb their noses at 42 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 . . : officers of the law carrying out court It begins to look as though the industry ated with the same organizations. It will orders. I saw fist fights. I saw seriously as a whole is more anxious to prevent be noted that the same names appear over injured men prone on the ground. I visited a recurrence of any such unfavorable and over again. Of course many others the Emergency Hospital where an average publicity as attended the Washington have belonged to such organizations, but of fifty strike-injured men were received hearings than it is in doing a conscientious the names herein used are deliberately daily. job of housecleaning from fourteen years selected to show clearly how the same The studio was not only paralyzed, but of infiltration. It is to be hoped, however, tightly knit group sticks together through every person who participated in the that the industry will profit by exposure a series of typical communist organiza- picket line was conscious of the defiance already made and clean its own skirts tions. Here goes: for law and order and the processes of without the necessity of unfavorable pub- Each name is identified when first the courts. All of which is in perfect ac- licity. But if those in control do not see mentioned. cord with the teachings of the communist fit to do it, then official committees party in that "every strike," as Lenin put charged with the duty of exposure of sub- Ring Lardner, Jr. (screen writer) it, "is a tiny revolution." The party lead- versive activities would be neglecting ARTISTS FRONT TO WIN THE WAR ers behind the scenes use these strikes to their duty if they failed to do everything (577): John Howard Lawson (writer), Paul further the class struggle and imbue the Robeson (singer), Albert Maltz (writer), strikers with revolutionary defiance for Donald Ogden Stewart (writer), Alvah the orderly processes of government. It Bessie (writer), Guy Endore (writer), J. was a demonstration of power. Edward Bromberg (actor), Larry Adler (harmonica player), Rex Ingram (actor). Communism in Hollywood is directed Gene Kelly (actor-dancer). by Ned Sparks (not the actor) and Doro- Citizens Committee To Free Earl Browder thy Healy, the official heads of the party's (622) : Paul Robeson, Albert Maltz, Leo Gal- Los Angeles County organization with lagher (attorney selected to go to Berlin to offices in Room 525 of 124 West 6th Street. defend Georgi Dimitrov, who became the They in turn take their orders from Wil- head of the Comintern in 1935; Vito Marcan- liam Schneiderman (naturalized Russian- tonio (Congressman from New York), born citizen) who heads up the party's Dashiell Hammett (writer of three radio District 13 (made up of California, Ari- programs-The Fat Man, The Thin Man and The Falcon). zona and Nevada) with headquarters in Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee Room 701 at 942 Market Street, San Fran- (941) : John Howard Lawson, Donald Ogden cisco. Schneiderman, in turn, takes his Stewart, Carey McWilliams (lawyer), Vito orders direct from the national head- Marcantonio, Lillian Hellman (drama writer quarters in New York City. and producer). Gale Sondergaard (actress The Los Angeles County organization and wife of Herbert Biberman), Orson has several branches and many smaller Welles (producer, director, writer, actor) working groups. That's where the motion Signers of a letter in New Masses defend- picture people who are communists come ing American Communists (1356) : Paul Robeson, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Ham- in for their part. And as for furnishing mett, John Huston (producer, director, window-dressing—Hollywood glamour in writer), Lewis Milestone (director), J. Ed- the Hollywood way—and dollars, they've ward Bromberg, Frank Tuttle (director). done well. So well, in fact, that Los Signers of an open letter in defense of the Angeles County is probably the party's Moscow purge trials (1379) : Donald Ogden No. 1 source of income. Of course the fact "Oh, you poor dear! You Stewart, Carey McWilliams, John Howard that some of the donors actually thought had to stand again tonight! Lawson, Louis Budenz (an admitted Com- munist has since with the money was going to feed hungry chil- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE who broken the party, joined the Catholic Church and is now dren or feeble old ladies is beside the teaching at Fordham University), Albert point. Once the party gets the money it Maltz, Lillian Hellman, Samuel Ornitz (di- situation. makes no accounting to anyone. in their power to remedy the rector, writer) Yes, there are suckers. Lots of them. To Now for the evidence of how the left- Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade list their names would be like calling the wing stalwarts have affiliated with each (1651): Paul Robeson, Vito Marcantonio, roll of a great many of the screen colony. other in one communist front organiza- Albert Maltz, Dashiell Hammett. In this connection it should be stated that tion after another. Reichstag Fire Trial Anniversary Com- mittee (1532): Earl Browder (former the mere fact that a person's name appears If one will study the list of front organi- head of the Communists in America), Donald as a member of a communist front organi- zations he will note that the same indi- Ogden Stewart, Guy Endore, Leo Gallagher, zation by no means signifies that he is a viduals' names appear over and over Larry Adler, Lillian Hellman. communist or even in sympathy with again. In other words, these individuals communism. The very definition of a com- are not by coincidence joining just a few Samuel Ornitz (director, writer) munist front characterizes it as an enter- fronts, but appear to be deliberately join- AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND prise controlled by a handful of com- ing many organizations which have been DEMOCRACY (397): Earl Browder, Donald munists for the purpose of luring a great officially proven to be communist fronts. Ogden Stewart, Robert W. Kenny (at that individuals many innocent people into membership. Thus the very fact that these time Attorney General of the State of Cali- Most of these break away from the or- are affiliated with so many communist fornia), Paul Robeson. ganization when its true nature becomes front groups, and have been associated National Council of American-Soviet apparent. Others, including some of the together in this type of activity repeatedly Friendship (487) : John Howard Lawson, biggest names in pictures, have such a and over long periods of time, will help Donald Ogden Stewart, Frank Tuttle. Signers of the Statement Defending the long record of affiliation with one front the reader to draw his own conclusions. Communist Party of the United States organization after another that it is pretty Let us take a look at some of the indi- (649) : Aubrey Grostman (just named as the obvious where they stand. viduals prominent in the motion who are Pacific Coast head of the Civil Rights Con- But even the innocents are at fault for picture industry. In each case, the name gress and educational director of the Com- the reason that good sense would require of the person is first listed together with munist Party of San Francisco), Albert them to investigate organizations before various front organizations of which he Maltz, Paul Robeson, Dashiell Hammett. joining them. Lacking such good sense, is or has been a member. Each of these Congress of American Revolutionary they meanwhile lure by their very names organizations, officially declared to be a Writers (657): Earl Browder, Guy Endore. Lawson. —names such as Rita Hayworth, Olivia communist front by the Congressional John Howard Hollywood Writers Mobilization (786) de Havilland, Humphrey Bogart and Committee on Un-American Activities, is John Howard Lawson, Thomas Mann (au- Charles Boyer — crowds of people the of Appendix who followed by page number thor), Carey McWilliams. Hanns Eisler might be influenced, and dollars from the IX of that committee wherein the docu- (musician now deported and who had a crowds which believe "if it's okay with mented evidence is recorded. Then fol- branch of the Communist party in Los An- Olivia, it's okay with me." low the names of other individuals affili- geles named for him), Frank Tuttle. Ring The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • REPORT Lardner, Jr., Dalton Trumbo (writer), Guy Endore, Kenneth Macgowan (formerly a director, now on the staff of the University of California at Los Angeles) , James Cagney (actor) . Marc Connelly (author) International Labor Defense (831): Wil- STUPENDOUS THE KEW MOVIES liam Foster (present head of the Communist Party in the U. S.), Earl Browder, Leo Gal- lagher, Harry Bridges (head of the Inter- 1^^ national Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union) , Vito Marcantonio. Bji R. WILSOIV BROWI\ League of American Writers (968»: Earl Browder, John Howard Lawson. Alvah MR. BELVEDERE GOES TO English lad, who portrays Dickon — the COLLEGE country youngster with enough love in his heart to change the world. Dickon's A 20th Century-Fox picture with. Clifton attitude and the unfolding of a garden Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake, Alan give to the others the contentment, se- Young and Taylor Holmes. A sequel to curity and love which make up the birth- Sitting Pretty. right of every child, and which even form of comedy was developed A new changes Colin's embittered hunchback last year in Sitting Pretty in which the father (Herbert Marshall) into a man of character Lynn Belvedere, played by understanding. The children do the kind of Clifton Webb, was introduced. Now comes acting that tugs at the heart. Young Roper, hitherto unknown, becomes the kind of star movie-goers will demand to see again and again. Most unusual part of the pic- ture is the development of the neglected garden. While the film is in black and white, the garden scene is in color and the audience will actually see the growth of the garden from the small shoots of green grass to the final glory of nature's varied buds. It is a trick of photography that is commendable. THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY An M-G-M picture in Technicolor with Clifton Webb as Lynn Belvedere Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, works his way through college Oscar Levant and Billie Burke. "Posed for any good cartoons lately?" For the first time in nine years, the AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE singing-dancing team of Astaire and the second in what promises to be a series. Rogers is back again for its tenth picture In this. Belvedere enrolls in college to do together. It's the best dancing picture in four years' work in one (which is routine Bessie, Carey McWilliams, Albert Maltz, nine years. In addition to teamwork, procedure for one of his genius) and Donald Ogden Stewart, Ring Lardner, Jr., Astaire is tops in his solo. Pianist Levant despite the fact that his prior formal edu- Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett. adds to the musical worth of the film with cation had been limited to two revolting National Committee for the Defense of his playing. Along with Billie Burke's Political Prisoners (1177): John Howard weeks in kindergarten. His only interest comedy, all combine to furnish the best Lawson, Guy Endore, Marc Connelly. in college is to get a degree to become musical comedy in many years. This pic- National Committee for People's Rights eligible for a novel award. His funds tied ture presents Astaire and Rogers as a (1179) : Donald Ogden Stewart, Guy Endore, in up, he works part-time as a waiter a J. Edward Bromberg, Marc Connelly, Lillian sorority house. His whizzing through Hellman. classes, serving tables, life in a dormitory, Signers of a letter defending the Moscow and being the victim of sophomore hazing purge trials (1379) : Ring Lardner, Jr.. Carey furnish ample comedy situations. While McWilliams, Donald Ogden Stewart, Louis Budenz, Albert Maltz. others do good acting, it's Webb's picture Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from start to finish. Seldom does a review- (1651) : Paul Robeson, Vito Marcantonio. Al- er get excited over a film. In this case, bert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Dashiell however, superlatives are in order and Hammett. 20th Century-Fox is to be congratulated Herbert Biberman (producer, director, for entertainment over and above the tvriter) ordinary. AMERICAN PEACE MOBILIZATION THE SECRET GARDEN (432): Paul Robeson, Vito Marcantonio, Donald Ogden Stewart, Carey McWilliams. An M-G-M picture with Margaret Albert Maltz, John Howard Lawson, O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, Herbert Mar- Together-r-r again are those braw Dashiell Hammett. shall, Gladys Cooper and introducing bricht stars, Rogers and Astaire Conference on Constitutional Liberties in Brian Roper. Based upon a Frances Hodg- America (653) : Carey McWilliams, Albert Maltz, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dashiell son Burnett novel oj the same name. Hammett. The Secret Garden, one of the world's married couple working together perfect- Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (784): most beloved classics, brings together ly on the stage but continually fighting Donald Ogden Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March (actors), Robert W. Kenny. three lovable child actors. Margaret and making up in private life. While the Frank Tuttle, Lewis Milestone. O'Brien has the role of Mary Lennox—un- story is good and logical (something usu- National Federation for Constitutional loved, bitter and spoiled. Dean Stockwell ally not the case in musicals), it's the Liberties (1228) : Carey McWilliams, Albert plays Colin Craven—the boy who believes dancing and the music that make this Maltz, Vito Marcantonio, Donald Ogden he will grow up to be a cripple unless picture one every movie fan should see. Stewart, Alvah Bessie, Leo Gallagher, Paul death comes first. And for the first time It's the first Astaire-Rogers picture in Robeson, Dashiell Hammett. you will see Brian Roper, a freckle-faced color, and that helps greatly. (Continued on next page) 44 * The Ameiican Legion Magazine • May, 1949 . :: John Howard Lawson (writer) AdrertiBrment AMERICAN YOUTH FOR DEMOCRACY (566): Other sponsors — Robert W. Kenny, Ring Lardner, Jr., Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Dalton Trumbo, Carey McWilliams, Herb Sorrell (President of the Conference From where I sit of Studio Unions) Harry Bridges Defense Committee (599) Paul Robeson, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Orson Welles, Herb Sorrell. jiyJoe (781): Marsh Hollywood Democratic Committee Frank Tuttle, Herb Sorrell, Kenneth Mac- gowan, Herbert Biberman, Donald Ogden Stewart, Mrs. Fredric March, Robert W. Kenny, Lewis Milestone. American Writers Congress (974) : Alvah Bessie, Carey McWilliams, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Donald Ogden Stewart, Earl Browder, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hell- man. League of American Writers (968) : Earl We Both Won Browder, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Carey McWilliams, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett. This One Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (941) : Ring Lardner, Jr., Vito Marcantonio, Donald Ogden Stewart, Paul Robeson, Carey Blew my top the other morning when McWilliams, Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman, Dalton Trumbo. I discovered a shirt Fd put on had Motion Picture Artists Committee (783): Herbert Biberman, Robert W. Kenny, two buttons missing. Donald Ogden Stewart, Marc Connelly, Gene Kelly, Lewis Milestone, Herb Sorrell, "Joe " the missus says, "do you ever Frank Tuttle. Hollywood Writers Mobilization (786) read what you write? For a man who Thomas Mann, Hanns Eisler, Carey McWil- writes all tol- liams, Ring Lardner, Jr., Frank Tuttle, Guy newspaper pieces about Endore, Marc Connelly, James Cagney. erance, you sometimes show a lot of Donald Ogden Stewart (writer) race prejudice." SPONSORS OF ACTORS LABORA- TORY THEATRE (1948 CALIF., REPORT "Race prejudice!'' I hollers. "No P. 97): Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner, Jr., Al- one can accuse me of that.'* "/ mean prejudice against the entire human N? 60622 race" she interrupts with a smile. *'Why get mad at the world over two little buttons?" That took the wind I have received Membership Book out of me. From where I sit (I told the missus (SIgnatur*) that evening), we sometimes get too worked up over little things . . . little State .^ff^^. .. . District./.^.. differences of opinion or taste. One .' ale, Comty^. : . City . Z^^, person prefers beer or another prefers cider or lemonade. But why Section criticize the other fellow just because his tastes aren't the same as ours? "That sounds more like you, Joe," Be sure fo sign and return to the membership director. she laughs, snipping off a thread. (It so happens she was sewing on buttons.) J. Clark Sellers, handwriting expert, tes- tified before the California Committee on Un-American Activities that in his opinion the signature on communist membership card No. 60622, reproduced above, is that of Herb Sorrell, whose activities are described in this article. On the witness stand, Sorrell stated that his mother's name was Stewart, the name used on this card. Note how the "Stewart" is written — how the first "t" is written over an "o" as if by force of habit Sorrell had started to write "So" and then changed it to "St." Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • : :: bert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Marc Connelly, Lawson, Vito Marcantonio, Carey McWil- 25, 1948, the following, calling themselves Gene Kelly, Lewis Milestone, Samuel Or- liams, Paul Robeson, Orson Welles, Lillian the Cultural Freedom Committee of the nitz. Gale Sondergaard. Hellman, Dalton Trumbo. Hollywood Arts, Sciences and Professions American League for Peace and Democ- Reichstag Fire Trial Anniversary Com- Council, sent a telegram to the Los racy (397) : Earl Browder, Robert W. Kenny, mittee (1532) : Earl Browder, Guy Endore, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ornitz, Vito Marcan- Leo Gallagher, Lillian Hellman, Larry Angeles Board of Education protesting tonio, Lillian Hellman. Adler. with vigor the action of the board in re- National Council of American-Soviet quiring loyalty oaths from the teachers Friendship (487): John Howard Lawson, Herb Sorrell (President of the Confer- and other employees of the Los Angeles Frank Tuttle. ence of Studio Unions) public school system. The telegram was League of American Writers (968) : Earl signed by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ornitz, Browder, John Howard Lawson, Alvah AMERICAN YOUTH FOE DEMOCRACY Bessie, Carey McWilliams, Albert Maltz, SPONSORS (1948 CALIF. REPORT P. 183): Robert Kenny, Ring Lardner, Jr., Ring Lardner, Jr., Dashiell Hammett, Lillian W. John Hellman. Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Dalton National Committee for People's Rights Trumbo, Carey McWilliams. Hollywood Democratic Committee (781) (1179): Guy Endore, J. Edward Bromberg, Marc Connelly, Lillian Hellman, Samuel John Howard Lawson, Frank Tuttle, Ken- Ornitz. neth Macgowan, Herbert Biberman, Donald Signers of statement defending the Mos- Ogden Stewart, Mrs. Fredric March, Lewis Milestone, Robert W. Kenny. cow purge trials (1379 and 1617) : Ring Lard- ner, Jr., Carey McWilliams, Louis Budenz, Schneiderman-Darcy Defense Committee John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Lil- (1563) : (Schneiderman is the Communist Party lian Hellman, Samuel Ornitz, Dashiell Ham- head for California, Arizona and mett. Nevada) : Leo Gallagher, Carey McWilliams. American Committee to Save Refugees Harry Bridges Defense Committee (599) Paul Robeson, Donald Ogden Stewart, Lil- (362) : Herbert Biberman, John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Thomas Mann, lian Hellman, Orson Welles, John Howard Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Orson Lawson, Dashiell Hammett. Welles. Civil Rights Congress (1948 Calif, report Motion Picture Artists Committee (1138) p. 202): Carey McWilliams, Paul Robeson, Herbert Biberman, Robert W. Kenny, Marc Vito Marcantonio, Robert W. Kenny, Connelly, Gene Kelly, Lewis Milestone, Thomas Mann. Herb Sorrell, Frank Tuttle. Hollywood Independent Citizens Commit- tee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions Artists Front To Win The War (577) : Paul Robeson, Frank Tuttle, Alvah Bessie, Guy (1948 Calif, report p. 253): John Howard Endore, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Robert W. Kenny, Dalton Trumbo, Lawson, Albert Maltz, Hanns Eisler, Lil- Orson Welles, Larry Adler, Marc Connelly, lian Hellman, Gene Kelly, Larry Adler, J. Thomas Mann, Lewis Milestone, Frank Edward Bromberg, Dalton Trumbo. Tuttle. "Me?" Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE (942) : Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard And they are still at it. As late as August Dalton Trumbo, Carey McWilliams, Ring Lardner, Jr., Robert W. 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Better still, send $1 (Mrs. Herbert Biberman) 2 and we will mail you not only Homes You John Huston 1 Can Build STANDARD HOMES COMPANY Yourself, but three of our Rex Ingram 1 other nationally known Plan Books, Bet- Colorado BIdg. AL4, Washington 0. C. ter Homes at Lower Cost, Homes of 5, Fredric March 1 Today and Tomorrow and Homes fob "If you can pay rent, you can pay for a home" THE END i^g • The American Legiorj Magazine • May, 1949 A GHOST TOWN COMES TO LIFE (Continued from page 28) as a pair of miner's wool longhandles. around looking like the tail end of de- The old false-fronted stores bordering pression; but few people meeting him in lower main street hide no highpriced Virginia City would recognize him in tourist traps. Though the visitor may shop Great Falls, dressed up in a tailored suit the time-used stores, he may not buy. The and a late model convertible. These he few places he may plunk his silver dollar dons mainly when he goes to Great Falls — the mahogany bar of the Bale O' Hay to oversee his wheat, sheep, and cattle saloon, the Wells-Fargo Coffee House, the ranches or to Helena as a Montana state lovely Fairweather Inn — maintain stand- senator. For the most part, he is too busy ard or substandard prices. to bother with sartorial details, and be- So long as Charlie Bovey's around there sides, his work keeps his clothes dirty. is hope it will remain this way, because In other ways, too, Charlie is the anti- fortunately, Charlie is a hobbyist, not a thesis of what most people expect. Here is Ted Williams with the huckster. 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NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE AMERICAN LKGION MAGAZINE Size and width of shoe The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • 47 to inform me," he explains ruefully, "that Simultaneous with his purchases, his him into the formation of the Historic darned near every building was a land- ranch life, to all practical purposes, ended. Landmark Society and his unusual hobby. mark." Although he has kept his ranches and The Fairweather Inn was soon followed Still standing was the original Wells- maintained his home in Great Falls, most by his Wells-Fargo Coffee House which Fargo Express office, the big red livery of his time he spends in Virginia City, hap- serves daily menus that haven't been seen barn which served as first Montana Vigi- pily tangled up in working sketches for since the days of Buffalo Bill — venison, lante headquarters, the Bale O' Hay saloon, the restoration and carpenters' parapher- elk, and — yes — buffalo. For the parched, a general store, dress shop, and other nalia. Of his carpenterial skill he is mod- the gilded, garish Bale O' Hay saloon was venerable relics. These owed their exist- est. "The other carpenters tolerate me — reopened along with the old Gilbert ence to their originally good lumber, but I'm not very good." Brewery which now serves beer amid the handwrought nails, and the townspeople's With his purchases he also became the malty atmosphere of its original vats. fortunate lassitude toward tearing them most controversial figure to ride into town Gradually, Virginia City 1864 began to down. Charlie wouldn't have been nearly since the townfolks split over whether or shape up. Meanwhile, Charlie had a stroke so impressed by the Hanging Gardens of not to hang "Cap" Slade. Slade, inciden- of luck. Babylon. tally, was found guilty of a poker raise of One day while he was sweeping out the "One of the most interesting," Charlie "One Frenchman's ear!"—which he actu- residue of eighty years from a stable, a relates, "was a tumbledown livery stable, ally had in his vest pocket. (Hanged nice little lady offered to help. Since then, once the old Virginia Hotel. It was there March 10, 1864.) Zena Hoff, a five-foot-one ball of energy that Virginia Slade, after her heroic but Charlie was regarded variously as a and information, has been a Bovey lieu- fruitless ride to save her husband from gold brick salesman, a discoverer of a tenant. "As a scrounger," says Charlie the Vigilantes, wept over his body. I re- motherlode under main street, and an ec- admiringly, "she would turn an entire di- membered reading about it in Mark centric of some sort—harmless but crazy. vision of GIs green with envy." Scroung- Twain's Roughing It, as a kid." Who else would buy up those old "eye- ing is an important spare time diversion. Another tragedy, impending on this sores"? She and Charlie and Mrs. Bovey rake the very spot, was destined to influence Unfortunately this latter opinion was coimtryside, picking up such early Ameri- Charlie's life. shared by Sue Bovey, Charlie's chic, at- cana as stagecoaches and highbutton shoes As a sideline to preserving landmarks, tractive wife, daughter of a Great Falls for the general store. Many more articles Charlie had, some time previous, created Bank president. It took all of Charlie's of value have come as gifts of interested an "Old Town" — a replica frontier village charm and salesmanship, plus a recital local people and appreciative visitors. based on Henry Ford's "Greenfield Vil- of wedding vows before she gave up As travelers, many drawn by Yellow- lage" idea — on the Great Falls, Montana, and pitched in as a researcher and head stone National Park and the Idaho-Mon- fairgrounds. From time to time he still decorator. tana sports region, heard about the res- added to it. The first few months of the restoration toration of this dime-novel town, they He was secretly longing to buy the ro- had their hardships. Several of the more began taking the liver-jarring 15-mile mantic old hotel and transport it back to tottering buildings had to be jacked up side trip from Ennis where the road Old Town; but, he reasoned sentimentally, and re-roofed in sub-zero weather. Tim- branches off from Montana State High- the owner naturally would refuse to part ber and supplies were hauled over ice and way No. 1. with it, so he never inquired. This he has perilous mountain roads. Building mate- They found the tree-shaded main street never quite got over. On his next trip to rials were scarce, but a lumber mill on one hemmed by false-fronted stores stocked Virginia City, he found the building split of Charlie's ranches helped out. with merchandise of the past century and into kindling. First major project, construction of a staffed by display window mannequins "That's when I decided," says Charlie, badly needed hostelry, materialized in the Charlie refers to as the "wax brigade." still mourning, "that if something wasn't charming Fairweather Inn. Designed by An even more remarkable thing they done, there'd be no more old buildings. I Mrs. Bovey after the famous Goodrich encountered was Charlie's honor system. wouldn't sleep well the rest of my life." House in Bannack, Montana, it is as old They were invited to go in and freely Anxiously, Charlie inquired if any of fashioned and quaint as a bustle and none- wander about these stores—with rare ex- the remaining buildings were for sale. It theless attractive for modern plumbing. ceptions where the contents were irre- seems that the owners were looking for It was the ill-fated Goodrich House, placeable. As almost everything is, it is just such a sucker. Charlie bought them whose destruction for its lumber Charlie a close line to draw. The general store, for at his price. witnessed some years before, that jarred example, is a gold mine of knick-knacks of another era—a major portion extremely pocketable. "I don't know of anything that's been stolen yet," is Charlie's defense against lock and key. Actually, the few articles that have disappeared are extremely dis- proportionate to the number of visitors — a highly complimentary testimonial to the visiting public. The exceptions are guarded by small barriers that a good sized cat could easily upset. One is the dress shop with old fab- rics so fragile that they could be torn even by considerate hands. Another is the Wells-Fargo Express office with its crumbling records and correspondence. However, no one is excluded even from these sanctums. Ask for Charlie, Zena Hoff, or Dean Hauseman, custodian of the Gilbert Brewery. The latter two, native Virginians, are unofficial guides. They'll show you through and, gratis, toss in more Virginia City lore. Charlie came to Montana as an eighteen- year-old to work in a flour mill in which his father had an interest, after father, a director of General Mills Corporation, despaired of making a scholar of him. ( Continued on page 50) 4g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 ) POWER-MAKER yoo buy a Glider troiler When, for the first time in two years, So Foster, unwilling to let this chance of When you are assured of a complete the lights went on again in the big Bra- a lifetime slip away from him, instigated home equipped with all the zilian city of Belem a few weeks ago, there State and Federal legislative action to things that moke a real livable home. Your home is complete trib- to allo- were many flowery Latin-American enable the Federal Government — there are no extras to buy. utes to the young North American who cate funds to the state for this purpose — You have a trailer that will be in style for years to come. See made it possible. He was ex-GI John W. a case unique in Brazilian history. Gliders in construction, you are Foster, who had been an Iowa farm boy Thus, Jack Foster was able to raise the always welcome to visit our fac- ' dealers before he went into the Army. money to pay for his own work, and for tory. Remember, Glider have a liberal time-payment engineers literature. Belem, northernmost and third largest more than a year he and his W plan. Write for free city in Brazil, had been in a complete worked feverishly, tearing out entire sec- blackout for years tions of the antiquated British-built more than two because /*" Guaranteed by *v of an electric for foun- Housekeeping^ obsolete and unworkable power plant to make room new \^ W^^^ szpg^'^^'K^^^^ and power plant built in 1905 by a British dations for the huge new generating units company. For that matter, the entire State brought in from the United States. The of Para, of which Belem is the capital, tremendous job of rehabilitating the en- GLIDER TRAILER CO. was virtually in the dark. tire distribution system, and converting 1828 WEST KINZIE STREET, CHICAGO, lUINOIS Foster, who had organized his firm with it from single-phase to three-phase, in- a group of ex-GIs shortly after being volved wiring the entire city, lighting the mustered out of service, tracked this lead streets, and carrying the precious juice SERVICE CLUBS MAKE down and convinced the progressive- into thousands of homes that had been MONEY... minded Governor of Para to give him the without light. others make contract to rebuild completely the electric As important as it is for the almost one DOES THE WORK OF BIG MONEY 6 TOOLS IN 1 "Enclosed find 56 orders and power plant, as well as the distribu- million people of Para, it is of even greater Holds 20 times its representing 91/2 hours weight in water work on Monday and Tues> tion system. The contract involved more importance to John W. Foster. The con- day." "Enclosed are 12 Hands orders secured after sup- than four million dollars, and that was tract has catapulted him and his firm to per this p.m." the catch. The State of Para didn't have the fore of international engineering and Housewives Pleased Everyone that sees this the money. Neither did Foster, whose construction companies, and skyrocketed outstanding CELL-U-MOP immediately want one . . . original financing came from convincing his American Pacific Industrial Corp., That's the reason our dis- tributors are so success- his old Army colleague, Capt. Roy Rich- with headquarters at 70 E. 45th St., New lul . . . For MOPPING, WAXING, WALLS, WIN- ards, a Georgia banker and City, from a to DOWS. AUTOS and businessman York shoestring venture a CLEANING RUGS. Sells quick to Taverns, Clubs, and now chairman of the board of the solid and promising multi-million dollar Hotels, Hospitals. Stores. 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An original Galati design is "Rose," "I made about $900 last year with my $900 can compete because the art of making a candle with a large rose tip in a green, Foley equipment, candles by hand stem- like base, scented with rose oils. sharpening 950 saws has just about disap- and 240 lawn mowers IN SPARE TIME peared from the face of the earth. It is This one takes four hours to make for in my spare time." Leo H. Mix. known today by less than a dozen people each rose petal must harden before an- to in this country. Galati learned the ancient other can be added. Another is "Grecian Make up $2 or $3 an Hour With a Foley Automatic craft from an Italian family who had kept Pillars," candles 18 inches tall, with scal- Saw Filer you can file hand, band and circular saws so secret their own candlemaking process, loped bases. Another specialty of The they cut smoother and fast- er and bring you repeat it Candle Studio is a table centerpiece — a cash passing down through generations. business. No canvassing. Johnson and Galati candle resting in a water lily base, de- FREE BOOK "INDE- decided to go into PENDENCE AFTER business together after their signed to fit into a flower bowl. 40" shows how to respective start at home In spart' %" time with small in- discharges from the armed forces — John- With such a remarkable start, Galati vestment. Write today for Free Book. son from the Navy; Galati from the Army. look to triple their and Johnson business FOLEY MFG. CO. They based their partnership on Galati's in the next three months, by p. g. martin S39-9 Foley BIdg. Minneapo The American Legion Magazine * May, 1949 • ^0 ) (Continued from page 48) and water. But the informality about the that was close! Glass, plaster, neon "The only book I ever read cover-to- whole thing makes it seem more like home signs—." cover," interpolates Charlie, "was The than any place you've been since you What Charlie now plans is to rebuild Specialist by Chic Sale. I think maybe it left it. Nevada City and run stagecoaches be- influenced me." To complete the story in Some of Charlie's once-greatest skep- tween the two. There are nine or ten Charlie's words, "I came West with only tics, now hearing the tourist dollar clink fairly serviceable ones in Virginia at pres- my clothes, a large canvas tent, and ex- in cash registers all over town— the upper ent. And recently a Texas attorney, plicit instructions to forget I was the end of main street has a few operating impressed by his visit, wrote Charlie Boss's son. The tent was father's idea of businesses housed in some of the more suggesting a summer school in placer how not to be highbrow. I never learned time-resistant buildings — are suggesting mining for tired business men. With plenty to pitch the darned thing." that he is a shrewder businessman than of old time prospectors on hand for As sweeper ("the dirtiest job I ever godfather. teachers and the famous U.S. Grand and hope to have") to oiler ("my first and Actually, no one is more surprised than Easton-Pacific mines operating again, the only promotion") Charlie was ingrained Charlie that his old buildings are on the idea looks like a natural. with the workingman's viewpoint. And verge of making the city and him a profit. As Charlie says, the history of Virginia this does have a connection with Virginia Indeed, Charlie broods continually over City has taken a curious twist. Take the City. Virginia City's future. boys on Boot Hill — Haze Lyons, "Club- Even today, Charlie cannot bear to lay "We've got to keep it from getting com- foot George" Lane, Boone Helm, and Jack off an employee. For instance, when he mercial," he often expounds to his staff. Gallagher. With Henry Pummer they sold one of his sheep ranches, he trans- "If we don't keep it under control, we'll helped murder 120 men in a year and ported the personnel bodily to Virginia be just another honky-tonk town." His made the stagecoach routes into hell trails. City. The result was a mass misplacement perpetual horror is a large hotel or night- "You know, there must have been some of talent. spot of stucco and glass brick. good in them, though," says Charlie As an employee tells, "If all our quali- Recently, Charlie bought the site of philosophically, as another carload of fications had been listed, it wouldn't have Nevada City, Virginia's sister diggin' a sightseers sets off toward Boot Hill. required enough ink to dot an 'i'." mile and a half away, just in time to "Look what they're doing for Virginia To this date, if you ask the Bale O' Hay rescue it from a group who had just such City." Then he adds musingly, "If they bartender for a "Pink Lady", you'll prob- commercialization in mind. knew it, I bet they'd roll over in their ably get a "ditchwater highball"—bourbon Charlie still shudders and says, "Man, graves." , the end MY TWO DOLLAR ULCER CURE ( Continued from page 21 newcomer, "I'll race you both to see who he rarely did, and we had almost five of the United States. Ulcer patients who perforates first." dollars left. would be listed as critical, and made the My wife was expecting our first baby I wish you could have seen that young subjects of hourly bulletins elsewhere, are and I was expecting to lose my job. It was fellow's face when I said, "Doctor, I'm thrown out bodily at L. A. General and an accident I met this Doc. I was in- having an acute ulcer attack. Can you told to go home and take a spoonful of vesting in my teeth that day. For six write me a prescription for something to bicarbonate. They claim to have X-Rays months we had practically been support- lay me out for about twenty hours, end of ulcers that have ulcers. ing a dentist of our own, and for three to end?" I thought for a minute he would The young Doc looked haggard, days I had been walking around with my pick up his shiny new stethoscope and trapped. But there was his brand-new stomach in a black sling, so to speak. This move right out again. fluoroscope and his jar of barium meal, young physician had just moved into one You see, he had spent almost his entire and there I stood. He combined me and of the back rooms in the dentist's suite. interneship in Los Angeles General Hos- the barium and the fluoroscope and said, I was in such pain that I permitted my pital's ulcer ward. L. A. General is sup- "Yes, you've got ulcers all right. Two of wife to push me into his littered office. posed to be the biggest hospital in the them, possibly a third. Tsk, tsk." Well, I The dentist had miscalculated, something world and it's right in the ulcer capital didn't mind buying this information again. Then he sat down and refused to write a narcotics prescription. Instead, he gave me four rules, each of which was "med- ically sound" by itself. Combined into a "cure" they were practically subversive, he warned. The deans in the ulcer ward shook their headc as they whetted their knives. Too radical — required too much reliance upon the patient! "However," he said, "my own father's ulcers disappeared after he followed these four rules a few weeks. Understand, I do not say they were cured — I merely say they disappeared for some reason. I am not prescribing or advising because I will never take an ulcer case. I do not believe in the orthodox method of treatment and I will not use a method that is not ap- proved by the profession, even if it is my own. I will merely relate what I told my father. "Most doctors say that nerves are the chief contributing cause in ulcer cases. This is not just an untruth — it is one of those frustrating half-truths which betray us into quitting the search for the real thing. As a preliminary conclusion in re- sure "Think hard, Gramps. In all them Indian fights are you search it is a distinct advancement over just once?" you weren't defeated the theory that an ulcer is an evil spirit AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE in the belly. As a tenet of modem prac- 50 * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 tice it is just as primitive, because stand- ing by itself it cannot produce a single cure or prevent a single ulcer. "Nerves are the only cause of ulcers. Get that—the only cause. You could drink VALUABLE lye and eat razor blades, and while they might destroy your stomach they would not produce the inflammation we call an New Retirement Benefits ulcer. "You may think the distinction between FOR MEN OF THE ORGANIZED RESERVE! WALLY Under a recent act of Con- gress, all members of an active Reserve component, WereHere ir " T j officers and enlisted men, now acquire retirement credits on a new and liberal point basis. 1* Reservists receive point credit for previous active duty in any branch or com- ponent of the Army. 2« Active Reservists receive further credit by (a) attend- ing training assemblies; (b) participating in field exer- cises; (c) study in Army extension courses; (d) sit- ting on boards or courts; (e) assisting in Selective Service duties. 3* Your amount of monthly retirement income depends on: (1) Total credits accu- mulated during your 20 years' service; (2) the pay of the highest grade you have attained in service. Secure your financial future by re- (From May, 1934 A.L.M.) maining an active reservist —advancing in rank —add- ing to pay and longevity. 'chief and 'only' is a minor matter. But the former permits a physician to treat NEW RESERVE OPPORTUNITIES symptoms while declaring he can't find Under an expanded training program, more men will receive pay the cause. The latter restricts him rigidly for training and have new opportunities for promotion and Reserve to treating the cause, whether he likes it or not. The minute you touch that stomach commissions. Active -duty assignments with the Army, corre- you are treating a symptom. If we had spondence work and summer stopped at this stage in our attitude toward camp offer Reservists still smallpox, today we would still be pre- further opportunities to scribing salve for the pustules instead of advance in their miUtary inoculating against the bacillus. Now do specialties. you understand why I won't take an ulcer case? "Nerves are the only cause of ulcers. STAY ON THE Nerves are the only cause of ulcers. Is that clear?" FIRST TEAM (This was eight years ago, remember, before we knew about the surgery by FOR SECURITY which the Vagus nerve is severed. This is the scoundrelly nerve which turns on the hydrochloric acid in your stomach when- ever you get or upset excited or angered. More Reservists are needed at once! Do your part to strengthen our Too many turns of that valve and you've security. Members, stay in — non-members, join up! Visit your Reserve got too much acid, which eats a hole in the mucous membrane of your stomach. Unit Instructor's Office, nearest Post Commander, or the U. S. Army That's what an ulcer is. Clipping the and U. S. Air Force Recruiting Station in your locality, for full details. Vagus nerve plugs your hydrochloric pipeline. You have to take your hydro- JOIN UP! STAY IN! chloric acid with a spoon after this, for The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • a certain amount is essential to digestion. "So — get yourself a bottle of good port agrees with you and what doesn't. Use But it beats having an ulcer.) wine, grocery store grade. About an hour your own judgment. If you can handle a The haggard young doctor continued: before every meal, if possible, drink two pork chop now and then without too much "Obviously I cannot treat your nerves, ounces of it. If this causes too much dis- distress—why, have a pork chop! Don't go either, so I can't take you as a nerve case tress, reduce the dosage or dilute it with on too many such sprees, but let yourself instead of an ulcer case. You're worried warm water. enjoy a meal now and then. Be reckless! abount the coming baby, losing your job, "Then lie down and sleep until meal- Get out of the rut of fear and worry. Try money, similar things. What can I do time. Not until ten minutes before meal- to make meal time a pleasure again, amd about any of them? time—you don't want to wake up. Go to not an ordeal. "However, a man can worry decently, the table sleepy and sluggish and com- "Boiled cabbage is just about the worst without having a fit. Or if he's going to pletely relaxed. If you can't sleep at first, thing in the world for ulcers, most doc- have one, he shouldn't try to digest his lie down anyway. If you can't do it be- tors will tell you. My father did without food at the same time. You don't go swim- fore every meal, make evening dinner it for two years, and he loved cabbage. ming after a full meal, do you. You should your 'big' meal and do it then. If you Much to his surprise, he found he got postpone worrying in the same manner. can't sleep a whole hour some night, sleep along very well with boiled cabbage when That is quite impossible, of course. I am a half hour, ten minutes—three. Come to he nerved himself to try it once more. merely illustrating a principle, to reduce the table late, if necessary. If you can't lie Pretty soon he was eating ham with it. this problem to its simplest terms. We can down where it's quiet, lie down where it's Only an ulcer patient can know how much make it simple and logical once we start noisy. Turn the radio up so it drowns out pleasure that gave, and how much good our thinking with the truth that nerves the other noise, and you'll quickly find it did him. Little by little he conquered are the only cause of ulcers. this is an excellent substitute for quiet. other foods as his ulcers shrank, so that "Since we can't eliminate the cause of "You'll get the habit quickly, so don't from first to last it was easier, rather than harder, to worry, the only thing we can do—the only worry if you lie there tense and unhappy follow this rule. "It's ethical thing a doctor should be permitted the first few times you try it. You may your stomach, your ulcer. You to do—is to reduce its destructive effect think the experiment is a failure, but try know best how to get along with it. That's all on the stomach. Understand, I am not giv- it for a week and then go back to your old there is to it. ing you medical advice. I am merely re- habit. You'll see how much you have al- "Rule Three. Most doctors will tell you peating what I told my father, in an effort ready come to depend on your little sip of to eat a light meal, chew it slowly, and be to secure this result: port, your nap before dinner. cheerful at the table. Eat lightly, yes, but "Rule One. Most doctors will promptly "For the other two meals, at least take don't try to make your little dab last by bite tell you to swear off drinking. The reason your port. In the morning, take it in half chewing each to a slimy pulp. I for this is that a great many ulcer cases a glass of hot milk— let the cool port re- wouldn't blame your stomach for revolt- are also alcoholics, and the profession has duce the temperature of the milk. If you ing! And don't be cheerful at the table, not been diligent in asking why. Most eat a rush lunch in a restaurant, it is all either. Take a newspaper or book to the doctors will tell you that alcoholic bev- the more important to have your port first. table and read as you munch your little erages destroy the stomach tissues, caus- Even if you miss the nap, the rest, the meal. This is a particularly important rule ing ulcers; yet at the same time the same port will work while you eat and digest, for those hurried meals downtown. It is doctors use the same alcohol to preserve at least a little. And every little bit counts. more important for the reading to be light the same stomach tissues in their labora- "Don't worry about getting a 'wine than for the meal to be light. Don't pay tory bottles. This incongruity alone should habit.' Once you've got a whole stomach any attention to people who think you are have pointed unmistakably to the con- again you won't want to waste that hour rude. Ignore everyone, until you reach the clusion that the nerves that caused the before dinner, you'll be so full of vigor. point where you can carry your end of ulcers had also made the man rely on You'll cut out the wine because you'll find a conversation without the ulcer patient's drink! it makes you sleepy when you want to usual excitement. Keep your mind off "Alcohol is a sedative and is often pre- play croquet or mow the lawn. your food and your stomach, and read, scribed as such. Most beverage alcohol is "Rule Two. Most doctors will say to read, read! drunk as a sedative. The cocktail hour is avoid meat, gravies, coarse foods like bran, "Rule Four. About thirty minutes be- nothing more or less than a sedative hour, highly spiced foods, pickles, sauces — in fore bedtime, take another ounce of port used to relax nervous tension after a fact, all of the flavorful things that make in warm water. Just before you go to bed, strenuous day. eating a pleasure. Well, you know what eat lightly again, something you feel you can digest with a minimum of distress. Don't worry about it waking you in the GEI¥ERAL MISCHIEF By S. B. STEVERTS middle of the night—it will anyway! It's not the food in your stomach, but the emptiness after the food digests, that causes that horrible early morning pain. Food coats your ulcers and dilutes your stomach juices which, you know, are strong enough to dissolve everything you eat. "Most patients, when they wake up in the wee, small hours, all doubled up in agony, get up and drink a glass of warm milk and go back to bed, making a deter- mined effort to catch a few more hours of that wonderful, healing sleep. This is ex- actly the wrong thing to do and the proof of it is that very few times do you ever get back to sleep. "Since you know you're not going to sleep, write those hours off as a dead loss. When you wake up with that pain, get up and heat your glass of milk—only pour an oimce or two of that good port wine into it. Don't go back to bed and wrestle with sleep then. Stay up and read for an hour- detective stories, world events, anything that involve cerebration. AMERICAN LEOION MAGAZINE doesn't too much Don't go back to bed until you're good 52 * "^^^ American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 > and sleepy. The first night, this won't occur until almost daylight—but it would be the same if you had gone back to bed 0^ GOO) and tossed, and turned, and cursed. The next time, you'll find yourself getting sleepy a little earlier. 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(Alligator gar) Monsters in U.S. Rivers and Lakes By BARNEY PETERS WHAT IS the biggest fish in American fish that may lurk in fresh water some- fresh water? Is it the muskellunge, where in America. thought by many to be America's largest Ever hear of the paddlefish? Could it be fresh water gavie fish? People in certain the biggest? Harry Tennant, taxidermist localities would roar with laughter at of Arnolds Park, Iowa, mounted a paddle- any such claim. Let us discount the vague fish taken from West Okoboji Lake but not improbable account of a muskie weighing "nearly 200 pounds," according caught "about 1914" by an unnamed fish- to Mr. E. B. Speaker of the Iowa State erman in Intermediate Lake, Michigan, Conservation Commission. That puts the which is said to have weighed 110 pounds sluggish paddlefish ahead of the largest and measured 7 feet four inches. The big- known chinook salmon (which lives only gest authenticated muskie ever taken part of its life in fresh water). A chinook with rod and reel was caught in Favil taken in a fish trap at Point Colpoys, Lake, Wisconsin, on May 17, 1947. It Alaska, weighed 126 pounds and was 53 weighed 64 pounds eight ounces. Record inches long. It is now mounted and on lake trout run a little heavier. display at Petersburg, Alaska. The rod- Biggest authenticated lake trout and-reel chinook record is 83 pounds. weighed 68 V2 pounds, and was taken in At this point in our story residents of Lake Superior off Munising, Michigan, in the delta and bayou country are laughing November 1937 by Fred Matson of De- up their sleeves. They know the enor- troit. A lake trout said to have weighed 88 mous alligator gar, which lives entirely in pounds was taken at Grand Haven on fresh water, and is sometimes landed with Lake Michigan in 1864. the help of horses. This voracious fish Folks along the Mississippi and its con- with fearsome rows of sharp teeth has necting rivers and lakes know of catfish been known to come in very large sizes, much larger. But is the catfish the biggest and bite people. E. W. Gudger, fish ex- of all American fresh water fish? I have pert of the American Museum of Natural heard many tales of blue catfish coming History, says that E. A. Mcllhenny, of to 150 pounds, even 200. However, in a Avery Island, Louisiana, measured fifty six months' search for an authentic rec- alligator gars in a nearly dry lake during ord the best we could dig up was a 110 the drought of 1925 and found thirty of pound flat-head catfish, found in Lake them over seven feet long! But the largest Lawtonka, Comanche County, Oklahoma alligator gar Gudger reports having been when the lake was drained "about 1938." measured was taken at Belle Island Lake, Cats probably run larger, but authentic Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. It was nine records are hard to find. feet eight and one - half inches long, Even if catfish do run somewhat larger, weighed — hold on — 302 pounds, and was are they the biggest American fresh wa- witnessed by Mcllhenny. Natives of the if our lower Mississippi country say gars come KEVSTONK VIEW COMPANY ter fish? Remember, we don't care is fish or not, nor if he even bigger, however we lack a reliable WELL SHORT of the inland record is monster a game this llVi-foot, 826-pound Oregon stur- was taken with rod and reel or any other report of a larger one. geon shown beside captor, L. J. Farley way. We just want to know the biggest But is the alligator gar the biggest fresh 5^ * The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 , water fish in America? Don't jump to conclusions. On June 29, 1929 Mr. Frank Lapointe found a big lake sturgeon in his commercial pound net, at Batchewana '^'^'^m/^r /VORfO/f^ Mortimer Norton, known to Bay, Lake Superior. It weighed 310 thousands of fishermen as "Old Hi", is author of pounds! Batchewana Bay is in Canadian waters, but on July 3, 1943 Gordon Pe- the popular books "Fishing for the Millions" and ters found an injured lake sturgeon in Fishing." is U.S. waters of the same lake near Benton "Salt Water Sports He also angling Harbor, Michigan — and field officers of editor of the Outdoor Sportsman. the Michigan Department of Conserva- tion verified that it too weighed 310 pounds. It was seven feet 11 inches long. There you have the biggest known fish m THRILLS IN PAN FISHIN' , , OH YEAH ? residing wholly in American fresh water of which we could find a reliable record in a six months' search: a nine-foot-8V2- inch, 302-pound alligator gar and a seven- foot-11 inch, 310-pound lake sturgeon. HERE'S ONE FOR THE BOORS Their weights are so similar that among the unrecorded or uncaught lake stur- geons and gars the honor of being the THIS WAS THE heaviest may be a tie. PAyOff OUTFIT 8 FT. FLY ROD NOW hold on a minute. Even the gars BUT UVU FLY LINE I ^f^^m INTO BOTTOAf P and lake sturgeons are just minnows TIE AUTOMATIC REEL beside another leviathan. You may bet 3 FT. LEADER your shirt that the biggest fish to be WfH DROPPER LOOP found living part of its life in American fresh water is neither muskie, catfish, 2 SPLIT SHOT I paddlefish, salmon, gar or lake sturgeon. YOUNG CRAWFISH It is, by all odds, the enormous Oregon sturgeon. Here is a monster which, like BASS BUG J the salmon, spends part of its life at sea, but spawns in rivers of the Pacific North- west. Nevertheless this is not the same as BOTTOM MY EYE , a deep-sea fish being taken at the mouth EVER TRY TO BOAT 4 LBS. I GOT TWO ON... of river. Idaho, off OF JACK PERCH THRASHIN' "2i'^l"ACTI0N a shut from the sea by \ the full width of Oregon and WATCH IT,.. YOU'RE Washington MNNA AROUND AN ANCHOR ROPE I has produced an Oregon sturgeon weigh- IS TOPS IN FOUL THE ANCHOy^OPE WE DID AND GOT 'EM BOTH i ing half a ton! (Snake River, 1911.) In FISHIN' 1912 one of these fish was rolled up in a salmon net in the Columbia River, near THRILLS Vancouver, Washington. It was 12 Va feet WITH long, weighed 1,285 pounds — and is thor- oughly attested! The Oregon Fish and Game Commission told us recently that HI TACKLE though they keep no truly official records the largest Oregon sturgeon in their book was "reported" to weigh 1,500 pounds, and was taken from the Snake River "around 1925." But the granddaddy of them all may have been an Oregon sturgeon HORROCKS IBBOTSON CO., UTICA, N.Y. which, by several accounts, was caught Manufacturers of the Largest Line of Fishing Taclde in the World near Astoria, Washington in 1892. This was the largest fish ever to be taken in U. S. fresh water of which we have a modern legend. 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That's the beauty of it—this method cient reasons that most doctors distrust starts you. After that you coast. their patients' intelligence. Well, they can But within a week I caught myself No one but an ulcer patient can know read, can't they? In case of doubt, refer yawning as I got off the street car two what a change in outlook results when to this article. blocks from home, and in another week those black, depressing hours of night One nationally recognized physician I stumbled up the front steps with just agony are suddenly transformed into told me, "The doctor who gave you this enough energy left to reach for my little periods of real enjoyment. In some ways advice should have the moral courage to glass of port and stagger to the couch. I this is the most striking evidence of im- take all the ulcer patients he can get and didn't even wash my face or take off my provement—to fear the night no longer. supervise their treatment, keeping com- shoes. I collapsed as only a man worn out I have told a few other ulcer sufferers plete case notes, preferably in conjunc- with a long struggle with ulcers can col- about this method and one was actually tion with another doctor who is not 'sold' lapse. When guests prevented my taking desperate enough to try it. It is with par- on the method. When sufficient cases have my hour one night, I remembered he said donable pride that I offer to submit his been treated to warrant speculation, if not take at least three minutes. You've no idea testimonial if the hissing section desires a conclusion, he should offer his findings what just three minutes of sleep can do it. Another man talked it over with his for publication in for you, just before you take your ulcer the Journal. Personally, doctor, who was scandalized. Later, he to the table. I believe he could prove his method is "submitted" to a four hundred and fifty sound and successful, but he's got to have In the years since then I have found dollar operation, so I don't know what to myself, now and then, getting a form of the same courage Pasteur had when he say, hardly. After all, mine was free and indigestion which reminds me of the old gave his rabies treatment to those Rus- the doctor could probably use four hun- ulcer days. I promptly go back to my port, sians. A man who could do with ulcers dred and fifty dollars as well as the next indiges- what Pasteur did for rabies would my before-dinner nap, and the man. cer- tion disappears. tainly make a name for himself in medi- I have talked this over with many doc- I got to where I could sleep with fire en- cal history." tors, good ones. All describe it as "medi- "Why don't it?" I gines clanging down the street, doorbells cally sound," or in terms that mean much you do asked him. and telephones ringing, baby crying, pots "I'm the same thing. Their chief criticism is busy," he answered. and pans banging, and the radio playing that it requires intelligent behavior on Members of the profession may feel free so loud the piano strings hummed. When the part of the patient. Most patients, they to take full advantage of this article. Now, you can sleep that way your ulcers are on say, would rather take a pill and to hell who's got a guaranteed two-dollar remedy the defensive. But you've got to start do- with it. It is probably for good and suffi- for hay fever? the end STEP THIS WAY, SUCKER! (Continued from page 13) There was only one way to gain the taken for a slick financial sleigh-ride. of the agents called to me: "Hey, Buddy. needed information— join a carnival and The shills weren't connected directly Got a match?" I walked over and tendered fraternize with the operators. with any one concession but operated as him my lighter. I had already noticed The T. A. Wolfe Shows were booked free lances. They roved up and down the that this was a favorite method of getting for the following week at the Tri-State midway until a signal from one of the prospective customers to approach the Fair at Trenton, N. J. Opening day found boys behind the counter would bring them joints. me on the midway watching the sharp- in for the kill. I could never see exactly The concessionaire lit the cigarette shooters fleece the dupes. There were what happened when a player was being which dangled from his lips, then asked numerous types of thieving stores: tip- taken to the cleaners, because as soon as me if I had ever played the game. Without ups, roll-downs, cat-racks, bucket-shops, he started to gamble several outside work- waiting for a reply he went into his spiel. spot the spots, skill-o's, and so on, but ers would crowd around, forming a tight "Ya did me a favor, I'd like to do you there seemed to be only one method of semi-circle, and elbowing would-be on- one. Tha boss ain't here, so mebbe I can clipping the suckers. All the concessions lookers out of the way. Obviously, the give ya a break." Pointing to the hori- used "shills," outside workers who assisted only way to learn what happened to a zontal wheel, set in the middle of the the operator when a player was being sucker was to be a sucker. So, when one counter: "Got ten numbahs on tha wheel, an' ten numbahs on tha layouts." A sweep of his arm indicated the iDrightly colored oilcloth strips on either side of the wheel. "Ya pay a quarter to play, an' ya might win a fancy lamp. 'Course, if ya don't want tha lamp, I'll pay ya two-and-a-half for it. That's what they cost wholesale." One of the inevitable shills had edged in alongside me. "You mean I win two bucks and a half if the wheel stops on my number?" asked the "innocent" shill. "That's tha general idea," said the agent. Then to me: "Wha'dya say. Bud? Wanna take a chance?" "Okay," I replied, and tossed a quarter on number four. "You look lucky to me," said the shill. "I'll string along with you." He added his quarter to mine. A massive metal arrow, about two feet long, humped in the middle, was set on a small tripod. This was the pointer. The operator gave it a push. Noiselessly it glided around, the soft indicator barely whispering as it swept by the nails which divided the numbers. It stopped on nine. "Ya lose," said the agent, "but don't go 'way. I'll tell ya what I'm goin' ta do." He produced a wedge-shaped red cardboard. "Numbah nine won that time, so I'll block that numbah off. This time ya pay a hall- 5g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 dollar, an' if tha wheel stops on tha num- how or other they didn't find it necessary bah ya bet on, or on tha red cardboard, to bolster the confidence of the shill, who laid bill on apparently losing as much as I. I'll pay ya five bucks." He the was WANT TO EARN the counter as proof of his ability to pay. Four to win forty, eight to win eighty, "That's a good bet," said the shill. He sixteen for one hundred and sixty, thirty- SgOOO A YEAR? turned to me. "How's about it, partner? two for three hundred and twenty. Al- Then here's your chance to enter a business Shall we try it again?" He'd known me ways the agent would place the bills on offering an opportunity for unlimited earnings less than a minute, and already he was the counter with a flourish, always the . . . plus the satisfaction of rendering a worth- my partner! back-stop would chant words of encour- while service in your own community. Many of representatives a year I nodded, laid my half-dollar on num- agement, always the shill would bet on our earn $4000 to $9000 and more! the same number I had selected, and al- ways an unblocked number would come To find out more about the opportunities offered to you in a life insurance selling career, WALLY up. Finally only two numbers, one and send for our free booklet, "The Career for Me?" eight, were uncovered. For those who qualify our program includes "Let me understand this game," I said oU fine .jMddn'. an excellent on-the-job training course, and the to the operator. "If I play again for sixty- Mutual Lifetime Compensation Plan provides liberal commissions and service fees, with a IcjokiW ftjr ft four dollars and lose, only one number comfortable retirement income at 65. For com- will be unblocked. Can I then play that plete information send for booklet today. up tkese number to win?" "Sure can," replied the agent. "All ya THE MUTUAL LIFE gotta do is stick with it. We keep on INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW YORK playin' till somebody wins." New York 5. N. Y What was the gimmick, I wondered. I 34 Nassau Street M wasn't naive enough to believe I could play that last number and win, but what was the blow-off? The only way to find out was to pay and play. It was an ex- pensive education, but I counted out sixty-four dollars, laid it on number one. So did the shill. A slight push sent the arrow circling. Here's a Profitable It crept along so slowly one would think BUSINESS m£^^ FOR YOU im it was coming to a stop but I knew from MONEVMAKING OPPORTUNITY £^ WITHOUT INYESTMENTy experience that it would complete two or r Dealer for No aiperi »edfld to- -- - Local three full revolutions. It was then the trap MASTER Work Uniform garmenh. Evary bi proipacf. Advertijing embi comn was sprung. feature. Eajy. pleaiant worV. You receive cath daily. You can aaiily earn up to many thouundi of doll FREE. Writ* "This guy's unlucky," said the shill, to year. We lupply all Salei Equipment GEO. MASTER GARMENT CO., Dept. 331 no one in particular. "I'm going to split Ligonier, Indiana away from him." So saying he picked up the bundle of bills he had placed on num- ber one and transferred them to number eight. Obviously number eight would win, the shill would collect, and I'd be left holding the bag. "Oh, no, you don't" I thought. "I'll make you fellows work for your money." I reached These big leag'ue cut, down to pick up my wager also uniforms are quality tailored of sturdy Cricket Cloth. I but before could transfer the bet the $1 1 .95 Value. Our price only $6.95. 10 letters sewn on free. Write for illustrated cataloK and arrow jerked to a stop. On number eight, fabric samples. Equal Savings on all other baseball equipment. naturally. BACHARACH RASIN CO. Dept. 69, 14 N. Howard St., Bartimore 1, Md. (From June, 1933 A.L.U.) "Got another winnah," shouted the [ agent at the top of his lungs, thus adver- ber three. So did the shill. This time four tising to the passers-by that someone won. had won something. In a much lower tone Dees GARLIC "Shoulda stayed on numbah four," said he directed the other confederates: "Pratt Relieve GAS? the concessionaire. "Ya lose again, but 'im." Instantly the bystanders went into AXLIHIN relieves dtstressincr symptoms of heaviness after meals, belching, bloating: and action. around shill, don't go way. I said I'd give ya a break an' They crowded the colic dne to gas in stomach and inteatines. ALXiIMIN has t>een clinically tested by doctors I meant it." Out came another wedge of slapping him on the back, congratulating and found highly effective. ALLIMIN is the gently I cardboard, and number four was blocked him on his good luck. None too laivest aelluiK srarlie tablet in the world. For ale at dnut stores everywhere. Ask for off. "This time it costs ya a dollar. If tha was forced away from the counter, out arrow stops on the numbah ya pick, or into the road. But I wasn't altogether ALLIMIN Gar/ic Tablets on either one of tha blocked-off numbahs, friendless. One of the outside men joined ya win a sawbuck." This time he placed me, offered consolation. "You got a tough a ten-spot on the counter. break," he said. "You almost made it." Without waiting for the shill's blarney, Evidently aware that I still had some I plunked a dollar bill down on number money left: "I know a game that's much five. So did my new-found gambling part- easier. Let me show it to you." I- isreody ner. This time six was the winner. Again He walked me to a concession diagon- the winning number was blocked off, ally across the road. The entire back of for you again the stakes were raised. Dutifully the the booth was covered with gaily dec- NOW! shill and I each paid two dollars for a orated blankets. On the counter was a chance to win twenty. Of course we lost. shallow box, about a foot square, one inch Furnished complete, ready for you and By this time a half-dozen outside men deep. Its far end was divided into eighteen your family to live in and travel in. were gathered round the counter in a compartments numbered from one to six. With living room, bedroom, kitchen- tight group. These self-appointed advisers A half-dozen marbles rested in the near dinette and lounge. kept cheering me on. "He's trying to bluff end. A roller attached to the underside of SEND FOR you out," the refrain of thjeir song. the box, in the middle, kept it tilted to the was CIRCULAR Travelite Trailer Co. "If you play long enough, you're bound front, thus keeping the marbles in place. 4013 Wentworth Avenue to win. Don't let him scare you." Some- When the box was tipped upward the Chicogo 9, Illinois The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • marbles rolled to the other end, into the off a ten-spot, started to hand it to me. I told my story to the police officer. He numbered compartments. I never got it. Yanking it back, the agent turned to the other man. "Jack," he said, "Look at the layout," muttered my as- said: "Before we go on I've got to know "you heard this man. I'll have to pinch sertive guide. The "Layout" was a posted if you could have paid off if you'd lost. those boys for gambling." chart with numbers printed in different Have you got ten dollars on you?" The fixer removed a moist cigar from colored squares, announcing the pay-off "Sure he has," said the shill. "Go ahead, protruding lips. He spat on the ground, for various total scores. "Thirty-one num- show him you've got ten bucks." then addressed me. "Mister, if you insist bers; three green, eight red, twenty black. Another voice chimed in. "Don't let him on swearing out a warrant, those boys will Red numbers win, so the odds against the bluff you. Just show him you've got ten be taken into custody. But you admit that player are less than three to one. You win dollars." I looked around. The same half- you've been gambling too. Now that's agin ten dollars and it only costs a quarter to dozen characters who had helped me lose the law. So it seems as though you'll have play. Looks like a good game, don't you at the wheel were gathered around. to go along to jail. Don't you think it think?" I opened my wallet, spread it to show would be better all around if you just for- Anyone with an elementary knowledge my last ten dollar bill. The shill reached got about what happened? Charge your of arithmetic could see instantly that over, pulled the banknote out, handed it loss up to experience." something was wrong. The prize was ten to the agent. "See," he crowed, "I told "Maybe you're right," I said. "I've dollars; each chance cost a quarter. Pre- you he had the money." learned a lot today." sumably the odds against the player were The concessionaire tucked the ten dol- I had memorized the layout used by the more than 39 to 1. But it had just been lars under a box where he had already tip-up concession. That night I drew one pointed out to me that the odds were less placed the first ten-spot. "Tip it down from memory. Of the 31 numbers on the than three to one. Again, where was the again," he said. "If you score a red one layout, 8 were red: 6, 7, 8, 9, 33, 34, 35, 36. gimmick? you win the jackpot." Three were green: 10, 31, 32. All the others I didn't have time to study the layout "But I thought you said I had already were black. well, because the agent and my conductor won," I protested. The layout was not arranged in rotation, went into their well rehearsed routine. "Won? I didn't say you'd won. I said you so the reds were scattered. This gave the This time the shill started playing with- hadn't lost. You got a green number — impression the odds against the player out asking me to join him. He bet a thirty-two. That means we form a jack- were only about three to one when in quarter, and lost. Another quarter, an- pot, ten dollars each. That's why you had reality they were closer to three thou- other loss. Then he turned to me. "You to show your ten. If you get a red number sand to one. To get a winning total of six tip it for me," he requested. I did. Rapidly now you win the prize. Go on, tip it." all the marbles would have to go in the the agent counted the marbles. "Thirty- Need it be said that I scored a black compartment numbered one. And to get four," he announced. "A winner." He number? I turned away, pushed by the a winning total of thirty-six, all would handed ten dollars to the shill. encircling shills, and walked down the have to fall into the six slot. Improbable, That worthy looked at me, grinning. midway. if not impossible. "Thanks, pal," he said. "I knew you were This wasn't gambling, I told myself, this How could the agent cause the player lucky. Here's a buck for your trouble." was outright robbery. Granted that the to win? The answer was simple to the dollar, I reached out my hand for the majority of fair goers were too confused point .of absurdity. He had miscounted the shill my fingers closed on thin air. The by the fast talk or too fear-ridden to do total. Pointing to the first marble, he want jerked it back. "You probably don't anything, there must be a sizable number would say: "Six." Then he'd pick it up a gift," he said, "so instead I'll pay for a who complained. What happened in that and say: "Twelve." By so doing he dollar couple of chances." He handed the case? How were the grifters protected? counted seven marbles instead of six. Few to the agent. I stopped a fair guard, asked him where people would notice, fewer still would "Go ahead, tip it," said the man behind the police booth was located. He directed say anything. Whenever such a "mistake" the counter. "It's all paid for." me to an office under the grandstand. was made the agent was deliberately seated I tipped the box, the concessionaire When I entered a police sergeant counting up to a winning total. counted the score. "You did it again," he behind a deck was engrossed in conversa- The next day I approached several con- exclaimed. "Thirty-two. That's a green tion with a stout, flabby-faced man who cessionaires with a request for a job, and one. Don't you ever lose?" He pulled a I later learned was the "fixer" for the was curtly refused. They didn't intend to thick roll of bills from his pocket, peeled carnival. initiate a "town clown" into the intrica- cies of the carnival world. However, I fell into a bit of luck. The night before the fair ended I made the acquaintance of a pleasant showman, one Eddie Ma- honey, who managed the side show with the T. A. Wolfe outfit. I bought him a few drinks, told him I wanted to travel. It worked. When the show train pulled out for Winston-Salem I was on it, hired as a barker for the freak show. My salary? Fifteen dollars a week and all I co.uld steal selling tickets. I did little work, and no stealing. Since I was always well supplied with funds Eddie jumped to the conclusion that I was on the lam, hiding from the law. I let him think so. By buying him drinks I re- tained my nominal job as barker without having to do any actual work. My time was spent on thieves' alley, as the row of concessions was aptly termed. After I had been with the carnival sev- eral days the agents knew I was "with it" and allowed me to watch when a sucker was being clipped. If a stranger on a mid- way responds to an invitation to play by saying "I'm with it" he is telling the con- cessionaire that he too is a showman. I was especially interested in the Giant Swinger, a 15-inch bowling pin which was 5g • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 —! set on the counter. Directly above it a "Right," said the agent. "Let's go." chain was fastened to an overhead beam. The victim started to hand over the The other end of the chain was attached five dollar bill, slipped, and dropped it THE OUTBOARD to a five-inch Ebonite bowling ball by behind the counter. The concessionaire MOTOR WITH means of a screw-eye. When not in use the stooped over to pick it up. Out of the chain could be hooked over a nail on the corner of my eye I saw the Georgian move wall, keeping the ball to one side. Other- the bowling pin slightly to the right. I wise the ball would come to rest directly couldn't figure how he did it in view of Gear Shift Contro in the center of the bowling pin. the peg which fixed the pin to one spot on A small peg in the counter could be the counter and hadn't yet been dropped. I had thought this was to hold the bowling Now — start in neutral! pin steady. At the time the covert move Shift to forward or reverse meant nothing to me, later it was to be an Troll smoothly. all-important clew. Go like a flash, The agent straightened up, placed the new kindoi outboard, JOHNSON QD. lU five dollars on the counter, added fifty of horsepower (OBC cer- his own. The unshaven cracker carefully d brake h.p. at 4000 ball pin, it placed the alongside the gave m.) Only 56 lbs. Carry a slight push, and what couldn't happen, separately, easily, in happened. On the return swing the ball -Master fuel tank — knocked the pin down! pluf; it in, "click" The agent was taken aback, but only cruise for hours! Fuel gauge, rubber temporarily. He picked up the roll of bills. mountings, automa- "You win, buddy," he said. "Let's count tic motor speed con- the pot. Sticks will beef, you know." trols, 40 features! It's By now I was familiar with some of the different. See your carnival argot. I knew that sticks was Johnson dealer. another term for shills, and that beef U^^g for free Handy Chart which illustrates and de» rr f Ctcf scribes all features of this great motor, meant to argue. He was telling the shills JOHNSON MOTORS. 1350 Pershing Rd..Waukegan,IlI. to start an argument. This they did, with Johnson Motors of Canada, Peterboro a will. A few harsh words and two of the OUTBOARD outside workers started slugging each JOHNSON MOTORS other. The rest joined in, swinging merrily away. The poor sucker was badly mauled A REAL MIDGET RADIO! in the ensuing free-for-all. When the "He says hes been with us a whole fight was over, the agent broke the sad IN YOUR POCKET year now, and he wants a week's orks on new (lia pin. Raght?" the place for me. In Jacksonville Johnny CHICAGO 21. ILLINOIS . The Ameiican Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • ^9 J. Jones played day and date with Billie his prospect a free chance. The boy held Clark. It was an easy matter to skip from the plates about a half-inch above the one to the other. crimson circle, dropped them carefully, For purposes of protective coloration I but missed. By this time Tubby Winslow, Youll Find had purchased two hot-dog stands. All I shillaber extraordinary, had bellied up to did was pay the rent, order the frank- the stand. YOUR WAR furters and rolls, and let my managers do "I'm going to make it easy for you to the actual work. Thus I had plenty of win," Rat-Face said. "I'll drop the first complete with cognac, conquest, the snap free time, which I spent on robbery lane. four plates. All of bullets overhead, the grit of mud under you have to do is cover Once again I got a lucky break. your belt buckle — in the rest of the spot with the last one. Here, fellow called Rat-Face, owner of the AUDIE MURPHY'S A try it." spot-the-spot joint, was a hot-dog fan. I He handed over the final disc. Carefully TO HELL AND BACK let him have all he wanted for free; in the youth aimed, dropped it. At last, suc- Audle Murphy, who won every medal that return he bared the secret of the spot cess! He covered the spot. Rat-Face picked a good man could get In combat, has writ- which couldn't be spotted. it up, handed it to the boy again, and ten a story that has very little about Audie A large red circle, about eight inches said: "That's all there is to it. Now pay Murphy in it — and a hell of a lot about the in diameter, was painted on an expanse of me a quarter, I'll leave the four discs men who spent the war face to face with white oilcloth. The idea of the game was down and if you do it again you win a German infantry. Murphy fought with the to cover that red spot with five metal discs, prize." 3d Infantry Division from Africa till the each about five inches across. The player end of the war — and he knows the war that The potential victim hesitated. The other you remember. Only $3.00. who blotted out the red circle would became confidential. He leaned across the theoretically win a handsome Gladstone counter, whispered his good tidings. bag, or ten dollars in cash. I say theo- "I'm giving you this break because I retically, because no one ever won. It was want to get a few winners carrying these Rat-Face's practice to buy a dozen bags bags around the midway. That's good ad- An Official Guide To at the start of the season, and sell those vertising. Everybody will know you won same bags to the carneys on the day the it here." show closed. His doubts at last dispelled, the boy ITS PLANS The gaff was simple, but subtle. The wallet, extracted a five-dollar AND TACTICS opened his circle wasn't a true circle at all, but an bill. Tubby, peeking in the billfold, asked Prepared by the House Committee on For- oval, eight-and-a-quarter incTies in diam- a seemingly innocent question: "Are all plain, blunt truth eign Affairs, this is the eter one way only eight inches another. those bags guaranteed forty-liners?" He about Communism that every Americon has One of the discs was similarly off-shaped. was conveying the information that the been waiting for — with facts, figures, If the key disc were first, hori- twenty dollars. In carnival names, and know-how about the Commu- dropped sucker had zontally, it half-dollar, forty- nist conspiracy — and the story of what we was an easy matter to cover lingo a 'line' is a hence con do about it. Only $2.00. the spot with the other four. But should liner meant twenty dollars. the key disc be dropped vertically, or any Handing over the five-spot, the boy ac- AN OUTDOOR CLASSIC place except across the bulge, there was cepted the disc. Again he took careful aim, HUNTIN' GUN absolutely no chance of success. but this time he missed. While he had One night I was listening to Rat-Face been getting out his money, Rat-Face had By Walter Rodgers bragging about big touches he had made moved one of the discs already on the A man who began shootin' with black in the past, when a 13nky youth sauntered counter, making it impossible for anyone powder — who still runs a hundred-mile trap down the midway. Immediately Rat-Face to cover the spot. line in Idaho — writes about the most in- interrupted the conversation to solicit "You're nervous, shaky. Try it again credible and the most uproarious characters business. "Hey, Slim," he called, "what's and be more careful." Once more the con- you'd hope to meet in a lifetime outdoors. the address of the Union Hotel?" cessionaire dropped the first four plates. $3.50. Obligingly the boy walked over, sup- He dropped the fifth plate too, to prove SPECIAL Offer still open to Legionnaires plied the desired information. Then Rat- that the spot could be covered easily. Then Was Now Face baited his trap. "Ever play this he picked up the last disc. While doing this YANK: The Gl Sfory $5.00 $3.75 game?" he asked, and launched into an his thumb again moved one of the plates. THE SAD SACK $2.00 $1.00 explanation. With the ease of long prac- The kid missed, of course. THE NEW SAD SACK $2.00 $1.00 tice he covered the spot. Then he offered Rat-Face looked unhappy. "I'm anxious MALE CALL $1.00 $ .50 Or ALL SIX-$10.00 worth of books at orig- inal prices — for only $6.00. FREE complete list of unit histories available to Legionnaires— drop a cord to THE AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE 1608 K St., N. W. Washington 6, D.C. r n Order NOW: Cash or C. O. D. AMERICAN LEGION BOOK SERVICE 1608 K St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Gentlemen: Please send me the books indicated. I enclose $ Send C.O.D. Name (please print) Street "O.K. Try the starter again." City Zone State AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE MAy/49 gQ • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 to have you win one of these bags for viciously. It caught the youth alongside advertising purposes," he said. "You take the head. He staggered back, dazed. For two more chances and if you don't win a moment he stood motionless. Then he I'll give you one free." turned and ran, holding a handkerchief "You mean it?" Slim asked, eagerly. to his bleeding ear. I walked away, sick "You'll give me a bag if I don't win one?" to my stomach. "This gentleman heard what I said,"' in- Early the following night I was sitting dicating the shill. in the cookhouse, having coffee and cakes. Naturally the youth accepted. He A dozen townsmen, swinging baseball dropped the plates twice more without bats, came ambling up the midway. At half trying. After all, that Gladstone bag first I thought they were on their way was worth considerably more than one home from a baseball game, but when dollar. After the fourth failure he said: they reached the spot-the-spot joint they "Okay, give me the bag. I'll let everyone made a concerted rush. Rat-Face was Its weight and streamlined know where I won it." taken by surprise. A bat cracked over his shape help you cast easily, accurately. Even cast Rat-Face pretended bewilderment. I'll head, he crumbled to the ground. when into the weeds, it won't snag! thing — he put on a good act. Before anyone realized what was hap- say one In five sizes, for all game fish. "Give you a bag!" he exclaimed. "You pening the men grasped the concession misunderstood me. I meant I'd give you by the front supports and tipped it back- FREE BOOKLET a free chance if you didn't win. I'll leave ward. In no time at all the booth and "How To Fish John- it to this gentleman. Didn't I say I'd give the expensive luggage was a mass of son's Silver Minnow." . him a free chance?" wreckage. Everything happened so sud- LOUIS JOHNSON CO.,40.Q N. Wells St., Chicago, III. Solemnly Tubby agreed. "That's right, denly, so silently, that only those nearby boy," he. said. "He offered to give you a saw the attack. But the entire carnival AMERICA'S FAVORITE WEEDLESS SPOON free chance." was soon aware that something was amiss. Sourly the disillusioned player said: Showfolk who had seen the incident "Never mind the free chance. Just give sounded the alarm with cries of "Hey, me my four dollars change." Rube! Hey, Rube!" Little lantern "Sure. Haven't got the change on me. The concessionaires eating in the cook- You're my first customer. Wait a minute house rushed out, leaving me to watch LotsofUght' and I'll get it." He called to the agent in the battle in solitary splendor. From all the next booth. "Hey, Sam, get me change over the lot the carneys came running to • Keep this handy little for a finif." the scene. BUDDY LIGHT in glove Turning back to the luckless victim, They were flourishing all kinds of compartment, tool chest, or Rat-Face gave the signal for the shill to weapons — sledge hammers, stakes, iron drawer. It's compact, sturdy, and good looking! Switch go into his act. "You don't mind if you're bars, whatever they could lay hands on. g/ou's in dark. Buy at hard- duked in, do you?" he said to the boy. For a while the air was filled with the ware, sport, and electric stores. Uses 2 standard 1'4-mch flashlight batteries. Slim shook his head in puzzlement, but screams of the folk groans show and the DELTA ELECTRIC CO., MARION, INO. $175 Tubby got right to work. of the townsmen. Flailing clubs beat a "Would you drop the first four plates tattoo on the bodies of the unfortunate ELECTRIC for me if I played?" he asked. Rat-Face invaders. The baseball bats were quickly Sietiu BUDDY LANTERN nodded. "I give everybody a fair shake," wrested from their grasp, and used he said. against them. The boy, waiting for his change, watched When it was all over the intruders lay Tubby play. After losing twice. Tubby, on the ground, unconscious or badly turned to the sucker. "You covered the battered. Few of the carneys had been ROVED EASY spot once. Maybe you can do it again. hurt, none seriously. The outsiders were THE Try it for me, will you?" carried or escorted to the show train. Not From then on the farce was acted out till the last amusement seeker had gone DIST smoothly, just as it had been the time home were they released, with a warning I played the role of sucker back at the that any attempt to secure revenge would OF WM^^ The aromatic Trenton Fair. After the two swindlers only result in a worse beating. fumes of ASTHMADOR bring amazing relief from the symptoms had reached the point where the boy had The "Hey for Rube" had an aftermath of bronchial asthma. Try it today — been taken for ten dollars, they shot me which I hadn't foreseen. Some of the powder, cigarette or pip« mixture. another angle. The youth still had four boys had noticed that I didn't join in the DR R. SCHIFFMANN'S dollars change coming from his first five- fray. I was accused of being a coward dollar bill. Rat-Face laid this four dollars and a traitor. When, the following week, ASTHMADOR on the counter, Tubby picked it up. "I hate there was another riot, and I again re- to see you quit losers of eleven dollars," mained aloof, I was informed by the boss At All Drug Stores In U.S. and Canaila he said, "so I'm going to give you a break. man himself that the show had no room I'll add four dollars to this and we'll try for the likes of me. to win back your losses." Turning to Times change. First the movies, then Rat-Face he asked: "How much would the radio, now television. Each new in- this eight bucks win?" novation lures away more customers from "I'll give you ten to one," the other the outdoor shows. And gradually the offered. He pulled a roll of bills from his most ignorant yokel is learning that he And Big Money in Spare Time, Too We want Foa to wear this fine made-to-tneasaro eoitl pocket, counted eighty dollars on the can't beat the other man's game. There Make it yonrs b? sending a few orders, and earn BIG CASH PROFITS in spare time. Yoar snit will help yoa counter. few is still get more orders with scores of rich, qnality fabrics, ' A moments previously he plenty of thievery, but it grows lored-to-measnre to newest styles. Also Ladies' Taifo Suits—complete line. Writ« today for FREE SAMPLES. No had claimed he couldn't change a five- less and less. experience, no money needed. For anick actioo icii OS aboat yourself. J. C. HELD & SON, Inc. dollar bill. Vainly the youth protested Not long ago I visited the famous Harrison and Throop Sts., Dept. s- 1605, Chicaeo 7. IL that he didn't want to play, just wanted Danbury Connecticut Fair, and engaged his change. But Tubby kept brushing him in conversation with a flat-joint operator off, insisting they take one more chance. who, as far as I could see, hadn't had a The play followed the script: He lost. player all day. The youth knew he had been robbed "What's the matter? No suckers?" I INVENTORS and said so in no uncertain language. asked. Patent laws encourage the development of inven- tions. Our firm is reg^istered to practice before the There was an argument, Rat-Face struck He grunted assent. "Used to be the U. S. Patent Office. Write for further particulars as to patent protection and procedure and "Invention at the sucker and as the sucker struck suckers were in front of the joints. Now Record" form at once. No obligation. back, Rat-Face ducked under the counter, they're behind 'em." McMORROW, BERMAN & DAVIDSON Registered Patent Attorneys it came up with a hammer and swung THE END 1463 Victor Buildint; Washington 1, D. C. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • OWN YOUR EQUIPMENT KIDS' COUNTY AND MAKE YOUR {Continued from page 23) a program," he explains, "that would and pupils in some out-of-the-way school reach out to thousands of kids, teaching on election procedure. FUND RAISING them just how important local and county Procedure followed is patterned after government is in their lives." that of the county involved. But to keep It took an incident to bring the project things equal, party membership is chosen CAMPAIGNS to actual realization. One morning in 1947 by drawing lots, with odd numbers going MORE he happened to overhear the comment of a youth who had just been defeated for SUCCESSFUL! a post in Boys' State: "I guess there's Increase revenue at all your nothing to do now but run for some old affairs with Evans' equip- ment. Big selection of county office." Wheels, Bingo Supplies, There was, of course, no "junior count- Games of all types. Superior "flash" offers strongest ty" project at that time. It was just the attraction. Mechanical per- boy's way of expressing disgust over his fection insures fool - proof operation. Evans' 56 -year own defeat. reputation forsatisfying But the judge heard it with a twinge. strict requirements of professional Carnival and In long years of service, as Congressman Club operators is your in Washington and in numerous state assurance of more profitable fund raising activity! SAVE KINTAL COSTS! Write posts back home, he had learned at first for FREE Evans' Catalog today. hand the job done by the unsung officials Dept. H. C. EVANS & CO. whom this boy dismissed with utter 1528 West Adams Street • Chicago 7, Illinois contempt. The plan for the Cornhusker Boys' and Girls' County began to crystallize in his Free for Asthma thoughts. Details were still vague. But he talked If you suffer with attacks of Asthma and choke the plan over with experts in the Nebras- and gasp for breath, if restful sleep is difficult ka Department of Public Instruction, with because of the struggle to breathe, don't fail to send at once to the Frontier Asthma Company for Legion officials, with leaders of Rotary a FREE trial of the FRONTIER ASTHMA and Kiwanis and religious organizations. MEDICINE, a preparation for temporary symp- tomatic relief of paroxysms of Bronchial Asthma. All enthusiastically gave their support, matter where live or No you whether you have although it was the Legion which agreed faith in any medicine under the sun, send today for this free trial. It will cost you nothing. to take over actual sponsorship of the Frontier Asthma Co. 721-C Frontier Bldg. "junior county" idea, following considera- 462 Niagara St. Buffalo 1, N. Y. "Get a load of the tie he's wearing" tion and approval at its annual Depart- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ment Convention. But not until they had set up the juve- This Machine Should Cost $69.95 nile county project as a corporation—with POWER TOOLS in ONI Judge Simmons as president and seven to the Nationalists, and even numbers to Drill press pulls ,. . steel; sav takes 8" blade; lathe 10' 30" cen members of the Legion and Auxiliary on the "Feds." Ofll - — Ilooli the executive board — did they discover As now evolved, it's a four-year clinic H P. what a "revolutionary" idea they had in home-grown civics. Only juniors hold write todjy lor FREE ciUlog if! hit upon. offices, but everybody takes some active EMRICK, INC., ] S64 Clinton, Kalamazoo, Michigan fRU TRIAL TODAYS Nothing like this had ever been tried part in addition to balloting. Politically- before. In spite of the importance of coun- seasoned seniors serve as election super- ty government in America, literature on visors. Lower classes pitch in as "party the subject—suitable for study purposes- workers." Getinto BUSINESS was virtually non-existent. If they wanted "Registration Day" in the schools is a a textbook, they would have to write it fair copy of the real thing. Students line themselves. up in assembly halls to register with their That, actually, is what they've done. A party and registration books are carefully top Nebraska journalist is now complet- filled out and checked. "We keep them METALIZING ing a textbook giving the whole picture available at the polling places," one school of the dramatic role played by county official told me, "in case anyone wants to government. In the meantime, stopgap challenge a vote." Baby Shoes pamphlets prepared by the Legion give Some of the kid voters — adding a touch AT HOME, IN youngsters a chance to learn the duties of realism—did attempt, in several schools, SPARE TIME involved in various county posts. to vote more than once in the primaries. Get facta today about amazing money- "Nabbed" at the voting booths, however, making WARNER SUCCESS PLAN that Cooperation has come from all sides. shows you every easy step in a completely Full backing has been given by the De- they were given a chance to see how FREE charted path to personal independence — offer of with your home as your headquarters . . . partment of Public Instruction, the State difficult it is for "ghost" votes to get by. COMPLETE This proved and tested Plan is working like magic. It's backed by an old, reliable com- Teachers' Association, the press, and Every boy and girl in the junior class MONEY pany . . , And we send it to you on a No- office under the plan. In MAKING Risk Trial Money Back Guarantee. leading civic and fraternal groups. runs for some PLAN QUICK CASH WAITING Parochial and Protestant church schools addition, elected commissioners and su- • Demand for METALIZING Baby Shoes pervisors "patronage" to dole out SEND NO and other keepsakes is growing bigger also take part. On the group's Advisory have MONEY daily. Our Tested Plan Shows How to Do in appointments to a number of county Just Mall the Work, How to Bring in the Business, Council, in fact, are three prominent COUPON How to Make as much as $5 an Hour. Spare Catholic authorities — Msgr. George jobs. or full time, big steady profit3 are waiting for you. Send penny postcard or rush coupon for free Facts. Schuster, Rev. Paul Schneider, and Rev. Biggest excitement is, of course, the di- Ray Brandell, Mgr., WARNER ELECTRIC CO. vision into parties, the drawing up of 1512 JARVIS AVE., Dept. 165 CHICAGO 26, ILL. A. E. Egging. Protestant educational ex- perts on the council include R. M. Mote platforms and the waging of campaigns, ^Ray Brandell, Mgr., Warner Electric Co.» the stump speeches and the parades. I 1512 JARVIS AVE., DEPT. 16S. CHICAGO 26, ILL. | of the Seventh Day Adventists and E. rutih complete details your No-Risk Trial Moner I Please aboat | Charles Mueller of the Lutherans. Platforms are concerned mainly wtih Back Plan for Metaliziner Baby— Shoes. Everythins yoa send 13 FR£E and cost me nothing now or ever. | of interest to the county, school I County officials themselves, school problems teachers and members of the Bar Asso- or individual. "Junior committees" throw ciation have also given hours of time and themselves into platform sessions like effort. Some of the lawyers have traveled veteran politicans. Often their sharpness startles ! CITY ZONE STATE fifty or a hundred miles to "brief" teachers of insight into adult problems the g2 • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 grownups. Example is seen in a few And from grown-up county officials, learn — in Nebraska at least — how im- planks from a typical teen-age party teachers — and the pupils themselves — portant their own jobs are. platform: scores of letters discussing the project But it's the kids, of course, to whom "The party recommends that assess- have poured into Legion headquarters in it means most. You know how much it ment of personal property for tax pur- Lincoln, Nebraska. means when you talk with them about it. poses be made more effective by assessing Many have suggestions for improve- To the boys and girls in this program — all property at its actual value, and by ments. Some have complaints and they're pioneers, like their grandparents employing competent assessors . . . "gripes," citing instances where some and great-grandparents, only this time "The party recommends a program of phase of the project broke down. But not across prairies, but in the field of of laws in all respects; more specifically, all are enthusiastic about the overall education. strict enforcement of laws pertaining to program. "It's something new," one boy official minors in pool-rooms and beer parlors Letters from the youngsters are warm explained. "It's a way of learning that's and to drunken and reckless driving . . . and appreciative. Runs a typical excerpt: better than anything you learn from a "The party recommends a program of "I had the privilege of sitting in on three book. You're part of it every year you're consolidation of schools of the county . . . court cases that morning ... I had never in school. You won't ever forget." to secure better educational advantages been in court before and I didn't know He looked up at me. "My teacher's al- for the children ..." anything about it, but now I know the ways talking about some quotation on the Serious business for these teen-agers. procedure ... I believe this program should capitol in Lincoln. Something about how Apparently they take to heart the organ- be spread over the whole nation. ..." 'The salvation of the state is watchfulness ization's slogan. General Eisenhower's It is, actually, a program of learning, in the citizen,' " his lips broke into a statement that "Politics is a profession; not only for the youngsters, but also for grin. "I guess that's what this is — teach- a serious, complicated and, in its true parents and teachers and even the county ing us kids how to be watchful." sense, a noble one." officials themselves, who are beginning to THE END But there is also, in most of the plat- Miiiiiiiii(]iiiiiiiiiiiit]iiiiiiiiiiii(]iiiiiiiiiiiK]iiiMiiiitiic]iiHinniM(]MiiiniMn[]iiiiiiMnii»iiiiMiniiit]iHHiiMiiic]iiiiiiii forms, a blend of tongue-in-cVieek humor which indicates that the boys and girls haven't lost their perspective. VETERM S SCHOOL and I Usually this is seen in the unabashed appeals to student "self-interest." Exam- COLLEGE DIRECTORY | ple was a Federalist platform which iiiir]iininniii[]iiiniiiinic]iitniiiiMiniiimiiniiniiiiiiiHMiniiiiiiiiniic]iiiniiiiMiciMniiiiMii()iMiMiiiiMC)niiiiiMHin^ promised faithful constituents a complete recreation center, including swimming LEARN pool, tennis and shuffleboard courts, skat- ing rink and dance pavilion. MEAT CUTTING Opposition Nationalists must have got- through actual practice. Profit- ten wind of what their rivals were up to. able Meat Cutting and Success- BIG, ILLUSTRATED The Nationalist platform promised the PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, ful Meat Merchandising taught CATALOG NOW! No oblif?ation. Graduates report making easily, quickly in large cutting substantial incomes. Start and run your own business same staggering list of recreational facili- rooms and big modern retail quickly. Men, women of all ages, learn easily. Course covers meat department in just six short weeks. ties — plus an artificial lake stocked with Sales, Property Management, Appraising, Loans, Mortgages, and related subjects. STUDY AT HOME or in our classrooms fish. in leading cities. Diploma awarded. G .1 . approved. Nationally known. LEARN BY DOING AT TOLEDO REAL ESTATE (Est. 1936) The three- day campaigns waged by the WEAVER SCHOOL OF Training given under actual meat market IS E. 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PRACTICAL TRAINING LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOL NOT "HOME STUDY" Campaign "literature" is usually in Get actual experience in great (Now in Its 33rd Year) ft \ ArrnUTCUh DDD A\/Cf\ Room PE-47S0 Washington 7, D. C. shops of M.T.I. Leam all phases lighter vein, with candidates vying to see .Practical Electricity; Housewiring. Motors, Const.. Main- or jin- tenance, etc. Living arrangements. Part-time jobs, etc- who can turn out the best slogans A post card brings the story, gles. "To stay on pitch — vote for Mitch," MICHIGAN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, Dept. A 2281 W. Fort St., Detroit 16, MIchiqan runs a typical sample. A young lady named Peggy turned out scores of hand- written entreaties on the theme: "Don't BUILD A SOLID FUTURE NOW be an egg — vote for Peg." AT THE WORLD'S LARGEST WATCHMAKING SCHOOL . . thorough Last winter, they ran into near disaster Don't waste precious time on dead-end jobs . you — the worst blizzards of Nebraska's worst training in watchmaking now is your security as long as high-paying, fascinating profession at the winter. Nevertheless, most of the counties live. Learn this largest and best-equipped school of its kind. Graduate with held their programs as scheduled. Those a complete set of watchmaker's tools and work for established which to called off were held at had be business. Approved for veterans. — jeweler or start your own later dates after the snows cleared. ------As a windup for the programs, a sum- SEND FOR FREE 116-PAGE INFORMATION PACKET PENNSYLVANIA HOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE ming up session is held in each county — WESTERN | Desk 36 • 808 Ridge Avenue • Pittsburgh, Pa. | a time for reports on what each teen- I ager did in his job. Later, back at the NAME I I schools, pupils of all classes cross- STREET I examine the "office holders" on what CITY STATE they saw and learned. The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 • gg stable— walking. He handed the owner $6.00 and turned to go. "Where's my horse and carriage?" de- P^BnJVG manded the liveryman. SHOTS "Oh," shrugged the salesman, "I left them in the place I went to. A fellow offered me a lift, so I thought I'd save the DOWN ELEVATOR cost of the ride back." Although I see ten people run — By Henry A. Courtney And push the buzzer one hy one, I cannot overcome the yen MARTYR To push that button once again. The couple gazed at her biscuits. — By Margaret McAndrew Appraising the undersized sight; His eyes raised an unanswered question, AQUA PURA "All right," he said bravely, "I'll bite." "Couldn't, never drink," replied the — By Ruth Christiansen This took place in a little Georgia town. bum. The head of the household had been on a "Tell you what I'll do," said the gentle- SEE INSTRUCTIONS stem-winding drunken spree, but he man. "You come home with me and show young bride walked into a store finally got home and to bed. A drug my wife what happens to a man with no Long before day he awoke with a burn- and timidly approached the clerk. vices, and I'll give you five dollars." "That baby tonic advertise... it ing throat. His agony was great. He stag- you does — By Ray McCoffrey really make babies bigger and stronger?" gered to the kitchen, got the refrigerator "Well, sell a lot of it," said the clerk, door open, and finally found the water we TOUCH SYSTEM "and haven't had any complaints." bottle. That water tasted so good that it revived and exalted him. Wonderful, Breathes there a man with such restraint The young woman purchased a bottle and left. wonderful coolness! It was so good that That he never has touched where it says She was back in a moment however, and, there, in the middle of the night, he woke "Wet Paint "? leaning over the counter, whispered: up his wife and all his children and made —By S. Omar Barker "Just one thing — it — them share this delightful drink, too. more who takes — By August Burghardt FLORAL MORAL my husband or me?" - By F. G. Kernan MISS-DIRECTION He shyly said it with flowers, But girls didn't like him best. YES, CHILDREN No need to plead with all your might, His bouquets always got crushed on THE MONEYMOON IS OVER Or tease her with your taunts; Some other fellow's vest. Remember, dear, how I swore to be For when you start to say goodnight, — By Fairfax Downey Faithful and true till Eternity? You'll kiss her — if she wants. Remember, too, how I promised you — Bernard I. Sharfman By CHEAP AT HALF THE PRICE My revels were ended, my nights out few? HORRIBLE EXAMPLE In the early days of the traveling sales- Remember I vowed to be always good. man, a "drummer" stopping in a New Behaving exactly as husbands should? A neatly dressed man was approached England village found it necessary to hire Remember 1 promised to shun a skid? on the street by a tramp. "Got a dollar," a rig to call on a customer who lived a You do? Ah, yes. I was scared you did. he said. mile or so out of town. The liveryman — By Bob Elton "If I give you a dollar," replied the gen- made him a price of $1.50 to go to the tleman, "you'll gamble with it." place designated; but when the salesman SO WE'VE SUSPECTED "Oh, no," said the bum, "I don't gamble." returned, he was forced to pay an addi- When a man and wife both passed away, "Well, you'll spend it on some woman," tional $1.50 "for the ride back." they took different routes to their destiny. the gentleman said. He paid without protest, and strode off When the wife got to Heaven, she imme- "Absolutely not," said the tramp. "I whistling. Next morning he reappeared diately called her husband on the tele- never associate with women." and hired the same rig to go to a town phone. "How do you like it down there?" "Then you'll spend it on drink," said fifteen miles away, agreeing to pay $6.00. she asked. the angry gentleman. Late that evening he showed up at the "Fine," was her husband's reply. "All we have to do is wear a red suit with horns and every now and then, shovel some coal on the fire. We don't work more than 2 hours out of every 24. But tell me, how is it up there?" "My goodness," said the wife, "we have to get up at four in the morning and gather in the stars; then we have to haul in the moon and hang out the sun. Then we have to roll the clouds around all day long." "But how come you have to work so hard?" queried the husband. "Well, to tell the truth," said the wife, "we're kind of short of help up here." — By Dan Bennett A LOT DEPENDS ON THE INDIVIDUAL The stars were out in all their glory, Fireflies twinkled in their flight, And sweethearts, as in song and story. Met to praise the perfect night. The moon, a globe of gold, was keeping Vigil over the inspired. "MILDRED?" ""imir But I was under blankets, sleeping. mmmmmmmm I get tired. _ William W. Pratt • The American Legion Magazine • May, 1949 en day is done ./.you > / deserve You Travel in Style when you travel on Maine to California . . . from Texas to America's crack streamliners. And wher- Minnesota. Their likes and dislikes may ever you go, you'll find America "goes" differ— but they all agree that mild, mel- for Schenley. You meet people from low Schenley is friendly to your taste. RARE PRE-WAR QUAIITY BIENDED WHISKEY. Available in the familiar round bottle as well as the distinctive decanter. The straight whiskies in this prod- uct are 5 years or more okl. 35% straight whiskey. *65% grain neutral 4 Schenley Mark ef Merit Whiskey spirits. 86 Proof. Cop\ riglit 1949, Schenley Distillers Corp., New York City. PERMANENT f\lt AMERICAN LEGION AAAGAZINI I lived in Milwaukee.and I ought to know- ^at^ Is Milwaukee^ finest ^Beer says BRIAN DONLEVY, star of Amusement Enterprise's "THE lUCKY STIFF "I grew up in Sheboygan Falls, served in the Wisconsin National Guard and lived for a time in Milwaukee," says Mr. Donlevy. "So, when I say that, of all Milwaukee's superb beers. Blatz the finest, you can take my word for it. I lived there ... I ought to know.'" Malihu, I like to work around the "Like my tastr for Blatz, my interest in aviation "Here at my house in "arden. It's a form of recreation made all the more enjoy- i.- an old e^tllllsia^m . . . one I put to frequent use always amply stocked with Blatz." Hying to my tungsten mine up in the mountains." able by a refrigerator 3ktz IS Milwdube's feMId deerl ©1949, Blotz Brewing Co., Est. 1851 in Miiwauliee, Wisconsin