The American Legion Magazine [Volume 74, No. 3 (March 1963)]

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MIRACLE AT GUADALCANAL VICE, CRIME ANB MARIJUANA m The American MARCH 1963

Volume 74, Number 3

POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, lnd. LEGION The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., Magazine by The American Legion. Copy- right 1963 by The American Le- gion. Second-class postage paid Contents for March 1963 at Louisville, Ky. Price, single copy, 20 cents; yearly subscription, $2.00. Nonmember sub- NO EASY ROAD FOR FREEDOM .. 2 scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Department of The BY NATIONAL COMMANDER JAMES E. POWERS American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, lnd. The National Commander gives a first-hand report on our men in Vietnam. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, lnd., VICE, CRIME AND MARIJUANA 12 using Post Office Form 3578. At- tach old address label and give BY RODNEY GILBERT old and new addresses and cur- It is that learned rent membership card number. time we something about the Also be sure to notify your Post insidious drug we know as marijuana and the effect Adjutant. it is having, principally on our young people.

The American Legion Executive and PUBLIC RELATIONS RUSSIAN STYLE 1^ Administrative Offices Indianapolis 6, Indiana BY JAMES N. SITES lames E. Powers, National Commander, The American Le- Maybe we can learn something from the way the Russian gion, Indianapolis 6, lnd. leaders sell their people the idea that they should be proud of the fact that they live in the mighty U.S.S.R. The American Legion Publica- tions Commission: Edward McSweeney, Armonk, N.Y. (Chairman); Dr. Charles MIRACLE AT GUADALCANAL.. 16 R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa (Vice Chairman); Lang Armstrong, BY HORACE S. MAZET Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; The prospects looked dark for the men on Guadalcanal John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; as Japanese battlewagons moved in, preparing the Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge, troop transports. Avengers. La.; E. J. Cooper, Hollywood, way for Then came the Fla.; Clovis Copeland, Monit- ion, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, Downington, Pa.; Dan W. Em- THE FUNNY SIDE OF SPRING TRAINING 18 mett, Palo Alto, Calif.; Ray- mond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; BY BARRY GOTTEHRER Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Ga.; Herschiel L. Hunt, El Some anecdotes old and new about the way things Campo, Tex.; George D. Levy, used to be in the "good old days" when fun-loving Sumter, S.C.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N.Y.; Earl L. Meyer, baseballers liked to blow off steam with gags. Alliance, Nebr.; Morris Meyer, Starkville, Miss.; Robert Mitch- ler, Oswego, III.; Harold A. BIG - QUESTION: Shindler, Lafayetle, lnd.; Wil- THE ISSUE PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS ON THE liam F. Taylor, Greensburg, Ky.; Benjamin B. Truskoski, Bris- "SHOULD PRESIDENT KENNEDY BE GIVEN POWER TO LOWER INCOME TAXES?1L^ 20 tol, Conn.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville, Ala. pro: REP. JAMES C. CORMAN (D-Calif.) con: REP. JOE D. WAGGONNER, JR. (D-La.) The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue New York 19, New York THE GIDEONS AND THEIR BIBLES 22

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Managing Editor Anyone who has ever stayed at a hotel has seen, and Robert B. Pitkin often benefitted from, a Gideon Bible. This is the story the dedicated people who call themselves Gideons. Art Editor of Al Marshall Associate Editor TRY A WILDERNESS VACATION 24 John Andreola BY ERWIN A. BAUER Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson Few Americans know of the tremendous tracts of virgin Indianapolis, lnd. wilderness set aside for their use. But don't tackle Advertising Director this kind of a vacation if you like the easy-going life. Robert P. Redden Midwestern Adv. Mgr. NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 29 Ray A. Jones 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago 1, Illinois

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No Easy Road for Freedom

evening last December I sat in Vietnam with seven One But I found throughout the Far East a new and rising American soldiers who had just returned from duty in respect for United States leadership. It stems directly from no-man's-land, 50 miles from Saigon, where the war with our government's bold stand in the Cuban crisis of last communism is hot and total. These men were tough, dedi- October. cated, superbly-trained United States fighting men — sent to Khrushchev's reaction in Cuba made many of these peo- arm Vietnamese government troops and provide them with ple doubt, for the first time, the doctrine of communist in- the will and the weapons to win in one of the many areas vincibility. President Kennedy's ultimatum gave them where we are face to face with the communists. grounds for hoping that the "wave of the future" may belong I asked if there was anything I could do or get for them to the West. back in the States. "Until you forced the Bussians to pull their missiles out of "Tell the people we're out here," one said. "Tell 'em they're involved in this fight, too, and we need their support."

During two days in Vietnam I talked to many of the 11,000 GIs serving there in the United States military assist- ance command. I saw American helicopter pilots flying

assault missions into enemy zones. I heard our non-coms briefing Vietnamese soldiers on the tactics and deployment of the communist Viet Cong guerrillas. I came home with two deep convictions. First, these are magnificent fighting men — men we should all be proud of and grateful for. Their morale and sense of National Commander Powers (right) stopped at Hawaii to purpose couldn't be higher. They know they're there to stop share his observations on Vietnam with Gen. James F. communism. They believe the task is worth their lives. They Collins, the Army's over-all Commander in the Pacific area. wonder why all their countrymen don't feel as strongly about it as they do. Cuba," an official of a southeast Asian government told me, Second, our current policy of aid to those resisting com- "we didn't think you were serious about defeating communism in the Far East is the right policy for America. It's munism." starting to show results. A United States military leader in the area sounded the I had gone out there with serious reservations about the same view. "If you cringe when the reds hit you, they'll hit effectiveness of our military and economic aid program in you again," he said. He added that the morale and influence the Far East. The program, it seemed to me, had the look of our armed forces had climbed sharply as a result of the of another costly but limited show of force intended to con- Cuban showdown. dition the public for further retreat under communist pressure. Not one of the authorities I talked to — American or Asian — My ten-day tour of United States installations from Japan believed that the red threat to pro-West and neutral nations to Vietnam didn't remove every doubt. However, it en- in the Far East will be eliminated easily or soon. None be- couraged me to believe that repeated insistence by The lieved the tide presently runs in our favor. All believed we American Legion and others on a firm foreign policy backed have made a start at turning the tide. up by the full force of the nation's arms and will is bearing For advocating the strongest possible military preparedness fruit. program, Legionnaires have been accused of backing "diplo- Everywhere I went — Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and macy at gunpoint." I am more convinced than ever that this southeast Asia — there was impressive evidence of American is the only kind of diplomacy that Moscow and Peking military strength. We have 200,000 fighting men out there, understand. and nobody's apologizing for their presence. To millions of Our first line of defense in the Far East is not our economic Asians along the edge of the Bamboo Curtain, they bring or political effort. It's the line occupied by the land, sea and a message of hope and freedom. air power of United States armed forces. The outcome of the shooting war in Vietnam is still in We have the strength — material and spiritual — to halt doubt. The Viet Cong guerrillas have proved themselves communism in its tracks. We must lead from it. The courage skillful and resourceful fighters. The Vietnamese government that characterized our actions in the Cuban crisis must be the and army have yet to demonstrate the total dedication to rule, rather than the exception, in United States foreign victory that could rally all-out public support. In addition, policy. living standards are so primitive that a majority of the people Freedom claims a high price. For young Americans in Viet- show little interest in choosing between communism and self- nam, fighting a war 8,000 miles from home, the price is very government. high. I didn't hear one of them question it.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 PATRIOTS AND PEACE receipts from the parking meter cop. sir: Tlic soul of America is gasping for If we are to keep such valued allies as breath, smothered by those who would Tito & Co., we must all give till it forsake the honor of their native land hurts. for peace at any price. There are some, John D. Fay without an ounce of valor in their Carlstadt, N.J. own makeup, who prate that veterans are without honor, who question the UNDERPAID loyalty of patriots, treat them with sir: The "Personal" column of the contempt, and shower traitors with January issue says that salaries for esteem, making heroes out of heels. engineering graduates still have plenty Patriots abhor war as much as pacifists, of zip in them because engineers with but find appeasement the wrong way Bachelor of Science degrees can earn to avoid war. Sir Neville Chamberlain $540 a month. Was this supposed to did not avoid but encouraged war be a joke? A salary of $540 a month with his "peace in our time" negotia- isn't even good pay for unskilled labor.

tions with Hitler's Germany. Nehru's For a professional man it is an insult. neutrality did not prevent the Chinese Russell A. Pettis attack on India's border. A Cuban St. Paul, Minn. patriot has said: "The greatest asset the communists have in the United ENLIGHTENING States is that the average American is sir: My Dad receives The American willing to give them the benefit of the Legion Magazine which I read as soon doubt." as it arrives. Although I'm only 16, I Arthur B. McQuern read with interest stories about com- Laguna Beach, Calif. munist tactics and fighters against sir: Regarding "What Happened to for Our Own Indians," in the Decem- communism, such as "Key Targets of the Cyclops?" ship's ber issue, was one of several I have the log of the the Communists" and "Joan of Arc of U.S.S. F.J. Luckenbach might throw read recently, all telling the same Freedom." I know that your articles some light the question. shameful story of poverty, starvation, on We ran enlighten many uninformed people on into that terrible storm which rolled disease, and neglect on the reserva- the true nature of communism. I hope us over on our starboard side about tions. Perhaps many of you Legion- for the sake of The American Way 45 degrees, while we remained there naires have received letters from little of Life that you continue these articles. awaiting developments. The old man, Indian mission schools, begging dona- Carmen de Zirzio III on the bridge, reportedly said: tions. They probably get a few dollars "My West Paterson, N.J. God, we're all lost!" The exec, Lieu- here and there but I don't think that's tenant iMcDonald, USNR, signalled any solution to the big problem, and THREAT below to shut off the engine propeller the more I think of it the hotter I get. sir: Congratulations on the excellent on the starboard side, which was in The smoke hadn't even cleared away article "A Threat to American Indus- the water, hoping that the port side before we started rebuilding Japan, try," in the January issue. It's about propeller would help bring us around Germany and other places all over the time we reviewed the dangerous situa- on an even keel, which soon occurred. world. There were handouts galore tion objectively rather than allowing We then laid to for a day or more, from Bongo Bongo to Timbuktu ourselves to be duped by "smart" poli- headed into the stormy sea. The skip- and they are in pretty good shape in ticians and so-called "do-gooders." per, Angus McLean, said it was the those places today. But right here at Frank Klingbeil worst storm he had encountered in 50 home the Indian Wars have been over Altoona, Fla. years. This was in the fore part of for years and years, and there they March 1918. We were several days out are out in the hills and deserts that no TURNING 'EM LOOSE of New York, eastward bound for one else wants, starving to death, and sir: A recent news story told that France, zigzagging in a convoy of no one seems to care. Oh, I know President Kennedy had commuted the about 30 ships which got separated in that there is a Bureau of Indian Affairs, sentence of Junius Irving Scales who that wicked storm. The good ship U.S. Department of the Interior, but was convicted of being a Communist Cyclops sailed from Barbados on its funds and facilities are limited. And Party member in violation of the March 4, 1918. here we sit in our own area, with mil- Smith Act. former leader of the Jim McCausland lions of bushels of corn piled out on A Party in Tennessee and the Carolinas, Santa Barbara, Calif. the ground, as is wheat in other areas, in just going to waste. Other countries he was convicted 1955, won a new CYCLOPS don't want our grain surpluses. They'd trial on an appeal to the Supreme Court, sir: Gardner Soule's article "What rather have our cash, steel and muni- and was convicted a second time in Greensboro, N.C., on Febru- Happened to the Cyclops?" was very tions. But I'll bet those poor Indians ary 21, 1958. His first conviction was interesting. I served in a war declared could use it. After all, we stole the set aside when the Supreme Court by the United States on April 6, 1917. corn from them in the first place and ruled that a defendant was entitled to Which war was it he mentioned being beat them out of their land in the declared in 1916? bargain. see FBI reports involved in oral testi- Lee M. Johnson Dale B. Whitman mony at his trial. I wonder how effective the FBI will be under these Wilmington, Del. Galva, 111. circumstances. Will it able to catch sir: In "What Happened to the be Cyclops?" the following statement THEY NEED THE $$$$ and convict them faster than the Presi- ". dent and his Supreme Court can turn was made: . . he had joined up when sir: I heard a government official say loose? Let us that an in- the United States declared war in that by cracking down on business them hope 1916." Actually, war was declared on expenses the income tax people will formed public can do something about this type of justice. April 6, 1917. take in another $100,000,000 a year. P. Larrabee George C. Claghorn This may not be enough to take care John Tonasket, Wash. St. Petersburg, Fla. of Tito's foreign aid needs for a year

The only explanation: "Just one of and it certainly won't be enough for ." published in It! those things. . . The Editors. our chum Nehru. Still, every little bit Letters You Said do not necessarily represent the policy of The helps. So keep that in mind when you American Legion. Name withheld if re- INDIANS fill out that expense voucher. Call on auested. Keen your letters short. Address: You Said It, The American Legion Maga- sir: The article "A Merry Christmas the waitress for a receipt and demand zine, 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y.

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The Common Market our rival? . .

Social Security — up, up, up . .

20,000 proposed laws! PEOPLE AND QUOTES:

The Common Market, comprising six European countries helped FOREIGN RELATIONS: to their feet by Uncle Sam after World War II, may yet turn "Regardless of how persist- ent our diplomacy may be in cut to be our trade rival . . . The European Economic activities around Community (Common Market) was created in 1957 to attain stretching the world, in the final analysis economic cooperation and unity among France, West Germany, it rests upon the power of the Italy, Holland, Britain has been ." Belgium and Luxembourg. United States . . declares

eager to get in . . . But even without the United Kingdom, President Kennedy. the Common Market is showing remarkable strength for its NEUTRALITY: tender years . . . As a political friend of the West, the "Neutrality was never more Common Market could be a powerful ally against Russia and than an empty word," com- Red China, but as an economic rival, the EEC could become ments Israel's pro-Western

troublesome PDQ . . . Consider these facts about, the Common Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, observing that neu- Market : a population of 170,000,000 ; a rising standard of living with per capita consumption expenditures increasing tralist India, when attacked by the Red Chinese, turned to more than double the United States rate over the past the West, not to the neutral- decade . . . Already autos , TV sets, refrigerators, etc. ists, for help. .

are within reach of workers . . . Steel production is 80 percent of U.S.A. 's, but increasing at twice the pace MANPOWER: not only in steel, but in autos, machinery, chemicals, and "If we can produce enough properly guided men we won't other products . . . The Common Market is today the greatest need guided missiles," asserts

single world trading bloc ; and has a much greater pool of U. S. Marine Corps Com- scientific and technological skills and knowledge than mandant David M. Shoup,

does the U.S.A. . . . Now that we helped create a potential who adds: "Decrying present trade rival, we must find a way to make sure that the Common day youth ... is [a habit] Market will also be a friendly market for American export most apt to seize a man about the time a stomach, a bald goods . . . Washington optimists insist that President spot, a lack of imagination, Kennedy holds the trump cards with his new trade policy and a loss of curiosity begin

powers, voted by Congress in 1962, which would permit him to take over. . . . The young to protect us from rivalry of the Common Market, if and men of today are just about when necessary. what we make them."

WELFARE: While the Administration and Congress haggle over reducing "Just as man does not live taxes in general, one specific tax went up this year, and by bread alone, he does not

is scheduled to keep rising until 1968 . . . The Social die by atom bombs alone. He Security tax—assessed on a 50-50 basis on employer and can be killed by kindness — I employee —began at 2 percent in 1937, rose steadily to 6.25 mean ignorant kindness," comments Prof. Paul A. percent in 1963, will ascend to 9.25 percent by 1968 . . . Samuelson, of Massachusetts The maximum wage-earner Social Security tax was $30 in Institute of Technology.

1937; is $150 in 1963; will be $222 in 1968 . . . Benefits are increasing, too. POLITICS: "It is wrong for the Govern- Opening day of the current 88th Congress found 2,002 bills ment to do for the people what they can do for themselves," and resolutions ready to be popped into the House legisla- says George Romney, Michi- tive hopper . . . The Senate legislative mill gets off to a gan's new Republican Gover- slower start . . . Altogether, the preceding 87th Congress nor and regarded as a GOP was deluged with 20,316 pieces of legislation ... Of these, Presidential prospect in 1964. only 885 public bills and 684 private bills for the relief COLD WAR: of individuals were enacted into law over the two-year "I will shout hurrah when life of the 87th Congress . . . Some 12 other bills managed capitalism is buried," shouts to get through Congress only to be vetoed by the President. Russia's Khrushchev.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 7 IS LEARNING COMING BACK? BR. max rafferty has started his promised campaign to remodel public school teaching throughout California, in his new job as State Sup't of Public In- struction. His aim: emphasize content and deemphasize method. Emphasizing "content" (in other words, knowledge) has been out of style among educationists for at least 30 years, though many teachers, principals and superin- tendents have rebelled all of that time and smuggled knowledge into education. As a matter of fact, to call a teacher a "subject matter teacher" has often been a form of insult, and many a teacher will nod when we state that, in many school p for busy teachers systems, with this label tied on you, you could give up all hope of advancement. Knowledge being so annoyingly impor- hope for crowded classrooms tant, especially to get into college, many school systems have solved the problem by assigning mountains of homework, so Today, education in America one of the first ETV networks that the kids could teach themselves at home, while the daylight hours in the faces a severe challenge. An ac- in the country, now operating in costly school have been spent listening celerating world requires new and Hagerstown, Maryland. to the teacher voice his political or socio- tell jokes and in other broader curriculums. An expanding logical opinion, We have since helped pioneer ways make "the group" happy and him- population begs for more teachers, the first state-wide, closed circuit self popular or seemingly wise. (This of course is the situation at its worst, but more classrooms. Educational Television system, in there has been plenty of it). Many communities have turned South Carolina. We are reminded of the interview we secured for our favorite daughter with to Educational Television as an In doing this, we have developed the late George E. Sokolsky, when stu- in high writing class were imaginative way to expand course a transmission service that is low in dents her school ordered to interview a famous person. subjects, to bring more effective cost and makes use of the service "How can high school students be bet- teaching techniques into the class- and maintenance facilities of local ter taught to think?" she asked him, voic- ing a cliche that had been drummed into rooms without sacrificing personal- Bell Telephone Companies in com- her from kindergarten. ized instruction from room teachers. munities of any size. "Think!" roared Sokolsky. "Nobody but himself can teach anybody to think. Because of our long experience Helping communities like yours And nobody can think down a straight in the research and development of find the answer to better learning line without knowledge." Softening his voice: "My dear, knowledge is the tool telephone, television, defense is just and through ETV one more way of thinking. Thinking is the self-discipline communications networks, it was of putting Bell System research of handling knowledge. You can only think after you have learned. Sop up all natural that the Bell System was and skills to work serving you and the knowledge you can, and one day you called on to develop facilities for your family. may be able to think better than most of us." Pointing a finger: "But for your own good, discreetly ignore all these people who tell you that you go to school BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM to think. You go to school to learn, and if you can't learn with the help of your Owned by more than two million Americans teachers, then learn in spite of them!" It is too bad that George E. Sokolsky died in the month before Dr. Rafferty took office.

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THE MARIJUANA MENACE Dou may or may not have known that hashish is an oriental term for a drug that has been used to dope assassins so that their killing would come easier. Did you also know that hashish is the same thing as marijuana, whose use is all too prevalent in the United States? For much, much more on marijuana, read Rodney Gilbert's piece starting on page 12. A Lancaster, Penn., native, author Gil- bert knows "backwoods" China as well as any American. He did a steady stretch there from 1912 to 1929, mostly as a jour- nalist and, believe it or not, an ad man. In and since WW II he has been back to the Orient on government business. In our ' article you will see the relation between these experiences and his unique knowledge of marijuana, or hashish.

THOSE GIDEON BIBLES Qn this issue we give you the Gideon Society and the Bibles that it puts in hotels. Who are the Gideons? Some religious order, maybe, dating to ancient Rome? They are not a religious order and they got going in Janesville, Wisconsin. For the rest on the Gideons we switch you now to Loula Grace Erdman's story on page 22. Miss Erdman teaches creative writing at West Texas State College. She has a list of published works this long behind her, including the $10,000 Dodd Mead-Redbook prize winning novel, The Years of the Locust. Her next volume: Life Was Simpler Then, a book about Missouri, scene of her childhood.

ANSWER THIS ONE! you DF think you can anticipate almost any question that can be raised on any given subject, tread more slowly! After our January piece on Veterans' Burial Benefits, we had a nice letter from a highly civic-minded Legionnaire whose question temporarily floored us. He had willed his remains to Johns Hopkins Medical School, to aid the cause of medical education. Whether or not you think the sub- Every year thousands of people discover that Heathkits are ject gruesome, this is true Legion spirit — easy to build ... fun to own ... a satisfying hobby that pro- to be of service even beyond the grave. But it is also the Legion spirit to be vides years Of pleasure! The first time you turn it on . . . and proud of your service to your country and even jealous of the honors that ac- every time thereafter, you'll say to yourself, "I built it—it crue from it. Being entitled, as a war vet- works!" Even if you never built a kit before, you'll find as eran of honorable service, to a National — Cemetery burial, he wanted that too. His millions have . . . that Heathkits are beginner designed, en- question was: Could he carry out his civic intent to make his remains useful abling you to build the kit of your choice, in a matter of hours. and still have the honor of a military Experience a thrill of accomplishment that can not be duplicated funeral in a National Cemetery? Would we advise whether such a burial is per- . . . performance you would expect to find in custom built units missible without a body? We called on the Legion's Rehabilita- selling for twice the price, by building your first Heathkit SOON! tion office in Washington for help, and within a day were told that: "The Super- intendent at Arlington informs us that -( HEATHKIT - the only way this vet could have a funeral

in the National Cemetery is if he stipu- a subsidiary of Daystrom HEATH COMPANY lates in his will that when Johns Hopkins Benton Harbor 56i Michigan had finished with his remains they would Please send Free Heathkit Catalog be sent to Arlington Cemetery for full NAME_ military burial." And just to prove there's nothing new under the sun, we were ad- ADDRESS- vised "They have had cases similar to this in which they have performed funeral CITY _Z0NE_ .STATE services." r b p

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 9 THERE WAS A SLIGHT SHIFT in shot- gun buying during 1962, according to Shel- don M. Smith, President of the Ithaca Gun Co., Ithaca, N. Y. Both the 12-gauge and the 20-gauge guns of the Ithaca line gained a little in popularity while the 16-gauge dropped back. Whereas the old rule of thumb used to be 50%, 30% and 20%, for the 12-, 16-, and 20-gauge guns respectively, the 12-gauge now rates 55%, the 16-gauge is 22% and the 20-gauge is 23%.

MOST WOMEN SHUDDER at baiting a hook with a worm, Mrs. Frank Pochurek, A TIP FOR NIGHT PEOPLE comes from A PRACTICAL USE for discarded nylon of Mantua, Ohio, points out, and she describes a way of making the operation pain- Franklin L. Goll, of Santa Ana, Calif. He fishing line is suggested by Joseph Blu- less. She keeps a coffee can full of sand says you should never stare at an object at baugh, of Columbus, Ohio. He turns his with her when she is fishing, and when she night to detect what it is. He suggests that old line over to his wife, who uses it to you try moving your eyes around the ob- sew buttons on the children's coats and wants to bait her hook she drops a worm in the sand until it is well covered does ject in short, jerky movements, which will jeans. "The buttons never come off," he and the job by touch. "It works like a charm," enable you to detect the outline and any insists. movement of the object. she says.

TO KEEP ARROWS from being lost if THE SMELL OF CUCUMBERS in the they miss the target, Keith Swalley, of woods is a warning signal that should put Coshocton, Ohio, uses an old carpet which you on guard, says Bruce Robertson, of he suspends behind the target. If the arch- Secane, Pa. This can mean a copperhead ers are not in the William Tell class, the snake since the reptile secretes this odor. carpet should extend at least two feet on all sides of the target. A HOT NEW 6 MM CARTRIDGE has been announced by Remington and Peters, one which has an extremely flat trajectory for TENTING ON THE OLD CAMP GROUND long range hunting. The new cartridge, or anywhere else can be mighty uncom- which uses a 100-grain soft point bullet, has fortable in cold or damp weather. To pro- a muzzle energy of 2260 foot pounds. At vide a measure of comfort, Howard Siderits, 300 yards, its velocity is still 2420 feet per of South Bend, Ind., uses quarter-inch foam second and its energy 1300 foot pounds. rubber which he spreads on the tent floor. Remington will chamber the Model 700 Even in 11 -degree temperatures on Michi- bolt action rifle and the Model 742 auto- gan's Upper Peninsula, this made his camp- MARCH MAY PROVIDE weather cold matic rifle to handle the new cartridge. ing pleasant. enough to make car starting difficult, and George P. Jacobson, of Prior Lake, Minn., CAMOUFLAGING A BOAT can mean has an idea that might solve the problem. more fish. This is the contention of George He suggests that when an engine won't turn Podematis, a Brooklyn fisherman, who says: over, you use your wife's electric hair dry- "I have painted the boat I use for bass fish- er. That hot air blown over the chilled ing to resemble a shoreline complete with engine, he promises, will soon stir the

underwater lily pads, cattails, and brown breath of life into it. stumps that even have roots on the under-

side of the hull and motor. So far I have fooled several fishermen and seem to catch FOR YOUR ACHING BACK, C. L. Serk- more bass than anglers using conventional land, of St. James, A'linn., has a prescription craft." No guarantees accompany this sug- that seems highly practical. Since not many

gestion, but if widely followed it ought to outdoorsmcn carry a hot water bottle with produce interesting scenic effects. them, and muscles sometimes need a direct A BALL OF HEAVY TWINE thoroughly application of warmth, he recommends hot sand as a substitute. Sand should be warmed soaked in paraffin is a worthwhile addition FOR FISHERMEN who carry fishpoles in skillet, point, to your outdoor kit, says R. Miller of Lans- a almost to the smoking with hooks and line dangling, Trueman L. and into a other ing, Mich. When you want to build a fire then poured bag or some Rogers, of Billings, Mont., offers a sugges- suitable you merely unroll a couple of feet of the container. tion that is as practical as it is simple. He impregnated twine and it will burn long recommends wrapping a piece of tin foil enough to give the fire a good start. around the hooks to keep them from snag- A MONEY-SAVING HINT is volunteered ging clothing, car seat covers, etc., making by Harry Miller, of Sarasota, Fla. As he HUNTERS AND HIKERS who may have J. sure that you carry some extra strips of foil explains it: "Some years back I found to wondered about different colors they have for the return trip. my sorrow how easy it is for your wallet found sprayed on trees are given some to slip out of a hip pocket while engaged clues by Calvin E. Cook, of Unity, Wis. in outdoor activities. Ever since, I've pre- He explains that, under a color coding IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, and so that vented this misfortune by keeping a half- system adopted the family will not be of by Wisconsin-Michigan your unaware your inch-widc rubber band around the wallet. area of the Society of American Foresters, whereabouts hunting or fish- when you go Friction keeps the wallet from slipping out." and which is likely to be expanded, blue ing, draw a circle on a road map showing

markings on trees denote property bound- where you will be and leave it with your aries. Red is used to mark the boundary of folks. This is the suggestion of Paul D. If you have a helpful idea for this feature an area of woods to be sold. Yellow or Brey, of Ontario, Wis., who goes on to send it along. If we can use it we'll pay you

orange signifies that the tree is to be cut, say that it's also a good idea to write your $5.00. However, we are unable to acknowl-

while light green means it should stand. license number on the map, too, so in the edge contributions, return them or enter White means the tree is recorded for re- event they have to query police they can into correspondence concerning them. Ad-

search or for inventory, and aluminum is give them this important bit of informa- dress Outdoor Editor, The American Legion used for trails. tion at once. Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y.

10 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 . REVEALED ON THIS PAGE Tf'HE SECRET OF CATCHING BIG BASS! A DOCUMENTED, VERIFIED REPORT FANTASTIC DOCUMENTED CATCHES

1 Won First Prize for the largest just 18 months the Akron Bea- BY PAUL STAG In Bass caught at Akron, Ohio's largest The Weekend Fisherman con Journal wrote up and reported reservoir four out of the last 5 years. different news-making Now at last . . . after almost five over 36 Won both 2nd and 3rd place the other like year. years . . . the secret is out! Yes, now catches made by fishermen

using the Weed Wing . . . you and fishermen all over America yourself 2 Won the 1961 General Tire & Rub- can learn the actual secret of catch- giant bass like the 8 Lb. 9 Oz. fish ber Co. Fishing Derby. ing big bass. pictured on this page! 3 Won 2 Goodyear Fishing Week of that's just the beginning of From Akron, Ohio comes one And Contests. the most amazing reports ever re- the FACTS we dug up. vealed to fishermen anywhere. A Weed Wing won the 1961 General 4 Caught largest bass reported at Wingfoot Lake, Ohio, in 1959. documented, verified report of fish- Tire and Rubber Company Fishing ermen like yourself catching huge, Derby. 5 Caught largest bass reported at the largest bass in lunker-size bass . . . time after time, Weed Wing caught Lake Hodgson, Ohio, 1960.

. catching these reported at Wingfoot Lake, Ohio after time . . and 6 And WEED WING was used by unbelievably large bass from heav- in 1959. three of the TOP FOUR winners in the ily fished lakes only a few miles Weed Wing caught the largest bass recent 1962 Texas Eliminations of from the heart of Akron, Ohio. reported at Lake Hodgson, Ohio in the World Series of Fishing on Gran- ite Shoals Lake! Imagine! 6 pound ... 7 pound . . . 1960. even 8 pound bass being caught in And Weed Wing was used by three the re- hard-fished northern waters . . . of the top four winners in lakes surrounded by over a half cent 1962 Texas Eliminations of million people. the World Series of Fishing on And from southern waters comes Granite Shoals Lake! even more exciting news . . . news THE AMAZING SECRET OF THE of 10 and 12 pound bass being WEED WING LURE OFFICIAL PHOTO caught by fishermen like yourself Yes, documented, verified reports AKRON BEACON JOURNAL that . . . monster bass so big they make prove in case after case Weed 8 LB., 9 OZ. BASS headlines even in Florida news- Wing caught the biggest bass in the RECORD AKRON CATCH! papers! lake . . . caught bass when other Another WEED WING Record caught But here's the most startling part lures failed. And here's why! This May 12, 1962, in Magadore Reser- of all! Every single one of these revolutionary new patented lure is voir by Kenny Arnold shown above. giant bass were caught by fishermen completely different from any lure who switched from their usual you've ever used. methods and tried a brand new The instant you start to retrieve AMAZING TRIAL OFFER way of fishing developed by an Weed Wing it bursts into action. Mail No-Risk coupon below lo O'Neil. The jet-shaped nose breaks through Akron fisherman. ..Johnny OFFICIAL PHOTO have Weed Wing in time for your Unbelievable? We thought so until the surface of the water. The per- next fishing trip. Discover the real Florida Daily Commercial we checked the facts. And here's fectly balanced swept-back wings secret of catching big bass 11 LB., 2 OZ. BASS by action like a power- what we uncovered . . whirr into fishing in the thickest, most weed- caught by Johnny O'Neil, inventor of driven propeller. The specially de- choked waters you can find. See THE AMAZING SECRET WEED WING, the first time he fished signed body skitters in a most OF JOHNNY O'NEIL WEED WING in Florida waters! how effortlessly Weed Wing clears tantalizing, irresistible motion. But Weed Wing! A revolutionary new a path through the weeds . . . listen lure painstakingly developed and that's not all! Suddenly you'll hear to the exciting, irresistible sputter- invented by Johnny O'Neil. A lure it! Like a panic stricken animal sized bass can't resist the irresistible ing, splashing sound of Weed Wing. its life you'll hear so different it was granted a patent swimming for combination of sound and motion. And then watch out for the big- by the United States government. Weed Wing splashing through the The action and sound of Weed gest bass of your life!

. . . splashing so loudly that A lure so effective that it has outwater Wing is that of a living creature GUARANTEED TO CATCH THE it draws fish from a 40 foot area! fished . . . time after time in ac- frantically scrambling, struggling BIGGEST BASS OF YOUR LIFE . . . But that's not all! - OR IT tual competitions . . . the best lures and racing along the surface COSTS YOU NOTHING! Wing is one of the most from some of the world's largest Weed through these weeds . . . big enough Weed Wing is sent to you on an fishing tackle manufacturers. A lure highly perfected weedless lures in to appeal to the biggest bass feed- Amazing 6-Month Trial Offer with the world, if not the most! Weed with such murderous appeal that ing in the area . . . and so fast only this iron clad guarantee. Weed big bass can't resist! Wing will miraculously plow the biggest bass can catch it! Wing must catch the biggest bass Johnny O'Neil quickly made local through lily pads, splatter docks, The most wary monsters strike of your life or it costs you nothing! history using his newly created pickerel weeds . . . yes even through without caution and that's why If Weed Wing doesn't live up to Weed Wing. He has won first place the most matted duck wort that Johnny O'Neil's Weed Wing so every promise, simply return any- two years in a row in the Good- ever covered the surface of a lake. consistently catches big bass — the time within 6 months for full pur- year Fishing Contest. His fantastic Here's why! biggest in the lake — so consis- chase price refund. But don't de- Weed Wing uses a wire to shield catches were reported time and tently outcatches . . . out fishes . . . lay. Mail No-Risk coupon today again in the Akron Beacon Journal. the hook from weeds. But that's out performs any artificial or nat- for the thrill of your life! the beginning. The whirling And he even made headlines in a only ural baits it competes against. Now Free! Johnny O'Neil has written Florida newspaper (the home of wings, revolving at a fantastic at last you can go after and really a special pamphlet explaining in giant bass) when he caught an speed, actually clear a path in front come back with the largest bass in complete detail The Secret Of

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 H VICE, CRIME and MARIJUANA

For centuries cannabis or hashish has been

the dope of assassins. Now it is being used to corrupt youth, and

its use is reflected in increased crime.

By RODNEY GILBERT

Towards the end of the 1 1th century a master scoundrel named Hassam ben Sabbah, who had been a schoolmate of the poet Omar Khayyam in his youth, organized in Persia an efficient prototype of Murder Incorporated. His business was black- mail; and he made his demands for trib- ute businesslike by having anyone mur- dered who failed to meet those demands. According to all ancient accounts, including a colorful story by Marco Polo, Hassam's agents were drugged before undertaking a murder mission. Somewhat later a similar organization, which masqueraded as a religious cult, cropped up in Syria, with headquarters in the mountains of Lebanon. This may or may not have been an offshoot of the

Persian corporation; but it became pain- fully familiar to the Crusaders, who knew its chief as the "Old Man of the Moun- The assassins would drug themselves with marijuana before committing crimes. tain." Again, its operators were said to have been drugged before perpetrating a crime. of any reader of Oriental fact or fiction, Let us look into the background of the And the drug? Marco Polo, telling his thoughts of criminal violence. poisonous stuff. Whatever one calls the story at the end of the 13th century, But what is hashish? Maybe this is the drug, hashish, marijuana, or by a dozen makes this clear enough. Though he did right point at which to say that hashish is other names, it is very simply made from not actually name the drug, he called the marijuana and marijuana is hashish. Un- an otherwise innocent and commercially killers employed by the master criminal fortunately, this is not generally known. valuable plant known to everyone as ashishin, which is a very fair rendering If it were, people might take more inter- hemp. Botanically it is known as Can- of the Arabic hashshashin, which means est in news items, particularly police nabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica. Some "hashish-eater." Because of the stories court news, mentioning marijuana. They say that this describes two different spe- which the Crusaders brought back, this might properly be disturbed if they real- cies. Others say that there is only one Arabic word, with slight variations in ized that today's "reefers" are made of species and that both names describe the spelling, became assassin in most Euro- the identical drug that Hassam ben Sab- same thing. To keep out of trouble, call pean languages; and because of the part bah and the "Old Man of the Mountain" it cannabis, and be done with it. it was alleged to have played in cold- used to dope their thugs before sending The homeland of hemp is believed to blooded crime, hashish itself has only to them out to murder. have been Central Asia. At some pre- be mentioned to conjure up in the mind ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE WILSON historic time it was transplanted east-

12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 ward into China where it has been culti- Asia, where that use of it is still popular, was virtually unknown in Cuba and the vated ever since. Nearly, if not quite, and spread southward into India, Iran, United States. It had not then crossed

2,000 years ago it was introduced into Arabia and the nations around the east- the Rio Grande into any American com- Eastern Europe, and, in a relatively few ern end of the Mediterranean, where its munities except those frequented by centuries, its cultivation spread across use survives today as an infernal nui- Mexican migrant workers. Then, sud- the continent and into the British Isles. sance, a demoralizing habit, and as an denly, "reefer" smoking spread like a Then, after our earliest colonists began occasional stimulus to crime. contagious disease; the smuggling of to develop gardens, hemp came to the Using hemp as a drug almost certainly marijuana from Mexico into the United came to the Western Hemisphere by way States became big business, as it is today, of Africa. The best guess is that Arab and we began to have legislation against

slave traders took hemp deep into the the possession and sale of it. However, Dark Continent, together with instruc- we are just beginning to think and won- tions for its use as a drug. Even the little der about its relation to juvenile delin- pygmies in central Africa's rain forests quency.

know it as "bangi" from bhang, one of An explanation of what is really

its most common names, and grow it to wrong with the stuff, and the evil effects

pep up their festivals. it produces can be summarized as fol- Another theory as to how marijuana lows: came our way is based on the knowledge 1. It kills inhibitions.

that its intoxicating properties have 2. It produces hallucinations and il- long been understood in Brazil, where lusions. hemp had been early cultivated as a fibre 3. It destroys judgment of time and plant by African slaves. The slow ad- distance. vance of the use of hemp as a drug, By inhibitions I mean those restraints northward to our border, has no dates. which good upbringing, moral instruc-

But this we do know. Prior to 1930 it tion in school, religious instruction, and community traditions put upon a man or woman's conduct. These operate both consciously and subconsciously, and not even the criminally inclined are wholly free from their influence. But enough marijuana will dispose of them all, including even the fear of consequences. The young "assassins" described by Marco Polo were introduced into Has- sam ben Sabbah's service by giving them a sample of the life luxurious. They were then told by the master that if they carried out his commissions they would be readmitted to his earthly paradise. This was a great inducement, but scarcely enough to move a decent youth to go forth and murder in cold blood a man against whom he had no grudge, and of whom he knew no evil. So he was doped with hashish, and his compunctions and fears went overboard. (Continued on page 35)

Atlantic Coast of America, just as flax did. It is interesting and important to note that in none of these continent-wide and then trans-Atlantic extensions of the cultivation of hemp was there any recognition of the fact that all parts of it, except the woody stem at the ground, contained a resin that could be used as an exhilarating "dope." In China, from great antiquity until the immediate past, throughout Europe, and in colonial America, hemp was grown solely for the fibre from which rope, cordage and coarse textile could be made, and for the seeds from which oil was extracted. Then, one is entitled to wonder, when and how did the use of hemp as marijuana, as we know it, come to us? The route was devious. It is assumed that the discovery of the power of hemp to turn its consumers silly was made in Central Doped with marijuana, the Brazilian thought he was being charged, and fired.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 13 PublicRelations RUSSMN

Stbie The author near the Kremlin walls.

How the men of the Kremlin sell Russians the idea

that they are living in the greatest country on earth.

by JAMES N. SITES quite obviously moved by the music. Then I thought of other times and army band struck up the So- other places, of occasions when other Theviet national anthem, and the bands had played our own stirring noisy thousands jammed into Red "Star Spangled Banner." My thoughts

Square suddenly fell silent. As brassy rambled on . . . notes echoed oft the walls of the Krem- Remember the rousing songs that lin and the sprawling GUM depart- came out of World War I? Songs like ment store, I looked around at the peo- "Over There!" and "I'm A Yankee ple of many different nationalities, Doodle Dandy" were not accidents. noticing their intent faces. They were They sprang right out of the soul of a people who were bubbling over with patriotism and who tackled an awful The guide, left, and the director of a commu- mission with enthusiastic confidence in nity "palace of culture" provided propaganda. their position. How many such songs can you name that came out of World War II? Or iness that fired the spirit, stirred up Korea? people in every corner of the land, and Maybe you also remember some of got the whole nation moving in no un- the other homefront events of World certain terms. Maybe there was less to War I days. There were torch-lit block shout about in World War II — and

rallies with songs and speeches whip- less still during the Korean War. Youth- ping up support for war bond drives. ful exuberance and certainty had given "Victory Speakers" urging you to buy way to doubt and dogged determi- bonds interrupted movies to give four- nation. minute speeches. Even kids got into the And today, we find ourselves even act selling war stamps or putting to- more doggedly fighting a grim war of gether ragged collections of almond nerves and a slippery enemy who sel- shells for gas mask cannisters. And dom shows his face. Maybe a little old- when troop trains moved through town, fashioned corn would give us all a big practically every one flocked to the sta- lift. Certainly, the communists don't

tion to offer coffee, candy and some hesitate to use it. This is a major in- hearty cheers. gredient in their formula for mobil- Corny? Today, some 45 troubled izing the Russian people behind their

There is a bit of irony in this picture of a Karl years later, a lot of people seem to leaders' devious aims . . . Marx statue and a woman worker in Moscow. think so. Yet it was this kind of corn- My rambling was abruptly cut short

14 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 The cosmonauts afforded a fine opportunity for Khrushchev to stage another Even the flowers are enlisted in the crusade to Kremlin spectacular to convince the Russians of their nation's superiority. keep Russians aware of their duty to the U.S.S.R.

Workers are exhorted to produce by constant propaganda. The sign behind the car, a Volga, means "Glory to Labor!"

by a rousing cheer. Chairman Khrushchev, the top Kremlin hierarchy, and a flock of generals were mounting the podium atop the Lenin Mausoleum. With them were the two Rus- sian cosmonauts whose satellites had been circling the globe simultaneously the week before. date The was August 18, Mammoth Moscow University where Russians and 1962, and the Soviet peoples were being given not just big people from other lands are given "the word." doses of rousing corn but whole silos full. For this propaganda spectacular, the Kremlin walls and

buildings were decked with flags, banners, giant posters, are hounded by two primary compulsions. One is a total balloons and even a model spaceship. "A spontaneous dem- lack of confidence in themselves and the other is a terrible onstration," said my host. All day long stirring broadcasts fear of another war." had sounded over loudspeakers on the major city squares The first trait shows up in the bombastic breast-beating and at street intersections. That night five minutes of fireworks that goes on about Soviet progress. This appears in press filled the air; I saw three separate firing locations out of my stories, on radio and television programs, in every official own window in the Leningradskaya Hotel. It was indeed a statement, on posters along the streets saying "Glory to La- penetrating reminder to all of what Khrushchev repeatedly bor," "Glory to the Cosmonauts," "Glory to the Builders." extolled as a "great Soviet achievement." These all seem to be saying to the man in the street: "Look, Watching all this, the words a West German jurist had you're just as good as anyone else. No, you're even better! ." uttered the night before came to mind. "To understand and So let's act like it . . deal with Russians," he said, "you must recognize that they As an observer with (Continued on page 44)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 15 v by HORACE S. MAZET THE NAVAL BATTLE OF GUADAL- CANAL — "the fiercest naval battle ever fought," Adm. Ernest J. King called it — began at 0124 on No- MIRACLE vember 13, 1942, when the radar on the cruiser Helena picked up a strong Japanese bombardment force moving in at 27,000 yards: battleships Hiei and Kirishima, a light cruiser Nagara, and 14 destroyers. This invading fleet had a simple mission: knock out Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, our toehold in the Solomon Islands, by bombardment.

The fleet was bolstered by 1 1 Japa- nese transports loaded with troops, escorted by 12 destroyers, whose task it was to finish off the United States soldiers and Marines after the airfield had been reduced to rubble. To oppose the enemy, Adm. Daniel "If we only had something to hit them with tomorrow!" J. Callaghan, USN, commanded five In 24 minutes the deadly duel was cruisers and eight destroyers, but un- over. The San Francisco had been fortunately, his radar failed to give him heavily damaged and most of her staff adequate warning. It was a pitch black had been killed along night, intership communication was with her commanding officer, poor and island land masses confused Admiral Callaghan. Portland lay crippled and dead in the radar readings. When suddenly two col- water. Atlanta was mortally wounded umns of Japanese ships bore down on and sank that evening. the eight de- him, Admiral Callaghan went into action Of stroyers in the States fleet, four at 3,000 yards. The cruiser Boise roared United were sunk, three damaged. Next morn- at the dark shapes on both sides of her, ing a torpedo from Japanese submarine speaking with the steel tongues she had, 1-26 disposed of the Cruiser Juneau, and and the San Francisco was running the 700 of her crew all but ten men died. gantlet and taking a beating as she — — Dawn showed a sight far worse than went down the line, steady gun flashes the aviators on Guadalcanal had marking her progress. The Atlanta, the dreamed; while the Japanese main force, Portland and the Juneau were hammer- except cripples and their attendants, had ing at the black shapes and receiving in retired temporarily, it had lost only two return for courage, seamanship and in- destroyers and could be expected back. patient reserves ashore and let them flow finite valor, the wounds that cripple or As soon as it was light enough for up the beach and pour over the tired kill them. operations, Marine Cactus Air Force Marines. There would be no Dunkirk The sounds of the furious battle swept from Henderson Field took to the air, or Crete, for the U.S. Navy had no effec- over the jungle islands — it wrapped trying desperately to repel the invaders. tive fighting force within 300 miles. around the hills and crowded the valleys They found a wounded Japanese battle- As the Marines had done at the Teneru and came back again. It moved into the ship just ten miles north of Savo Island River, the Japs would do now — take the foxholes with the Marines, and it stirred and leaped on it with everything they had. bulldozers and scrape the bodies into a enemy troops in the swamps and hills to Six obsolete SBD's attacked and scored hole and use the blade to cover them up. yell and whistle and shoot off their rifles. one hit. Then four Marine TBF's led by The breach in the Rising Sun's outer de- It rose and died and rose again, and the Capt. George E. Dooley of VMSB-131 fense would be repaired in another day sea to the north flamed and went dark put one torpedo into the steel monster. or two, when Guadalcanal capitulated. and flamed. And then the burning ships Seven more SBD's swung down into an- Marine planes took off from Hender- lit the sky as they drifted. other assault. But they could not sink the son Field. They returned when their A Major in a blacked-out hut beside battleship, whose big guns could make guns and bomb racks were empty, and Henderson Field put down his coffee mincemeat of the airfield and destroy took off again. The pilots grew haggard. cup like a drunk setting down a shot the United States air defense. Then the Fewer and fewer planes took off and glass. It dropped the last half inch and Japanese could crowd their convoy in, came back. Maj. Richard Mangrum made a loud, sharp noise. "It's the Jap put their tens of thousands of fresh, im- looked at Capt. John Smith and shook battleships — I can tell from their big

guns . . . Now I know what it does to

the hero in the movies when he is going to be run over by the train — or by a truck." "If they can stop the battlewagons, okay," an officer spoke from the dark- ness beyond the dim table light. He spoke without hope, and there was none. The Jap ship was lying dead in the water, a victim of unrelenting torpedoes.

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 at GUADALCANAL

The situation seemed hopeless as the huge Japanese convoy approached the island.

Scooter kicked the Avenger around as he saw the battlewagon's big guns probing upward.

his head: "Five SBD's operational is dive-bomber who was not to survive the Woods would deploy his two dozen all," he said. campaign, pulled the chin piece from planes to meet the greatest threat of all, Captain Smith grinned through his his face and clawed at his grimy beard. the Japanese battleship almost within sweat and dust. "I have seven fighters His voice was a monotone of exhaus- range ... if by some miracle all his left — cheer up!" tion. "She'll be hitting us with plenty if planes remained operational. Marine At noon the weary flights were on the her damage control units can get her un- planes could not stop Jap air raids. They field again, refueling. A pilot, speaking der way. This morning she bracketed one could not stop the steady flow of de- with wells of anger overflowing in his of our crippled destroyers with a salvo stroyer-borne Japanese troops landing voice, said, "We can't stop the son of a from 13 miles away!" night after night to the east, at Kola bitch, Colonel! We've been hitting that The Colonel watched his men loading Point. battleship with everything we've got, but bombs by hand onto their battered What the Marines did not know was it isn't enough. How're we going to sink planes. Their work was slow and labori- that Adm. William F. Halsey, from his her?" ous. He too was tired, and he wondered Noumea HQ, had sent the wounded Col. Al Cooley passed a hand across how long until the end of this weeks- carrier Enterprise to help meet the threat his tired eyes. "How long — how long?" long desperation defense of Henderson of a major Japanese attempt to retake he asked. Field. He wondered how Gen. Louis Guadalcanal. Word of such an attempt Maj. Joe Sailer, the Marines' leading ILLUSTRATED BY DOM LUPO (Continued on page 48)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 17 by BARRY GOTTEHRER

HAPPENS EVERY SPRING — from ITbatting cages in Florida and Texas to sliding pits in Arizona and California. Veterans, suffering from too many beers and banquets, see old friends and exchange older stories. Rookies, suffering from inexperience and insecurity, sometimes listen and even occasionally learn.

For everyone, it is the annual, six- week ritual called spring training, the only time of the year when the scores mean nothing and baseball once again allows itself to become a sunny, funny game. When did spring training begin? Ac- cording to one historian, Lee Allen, it all began with the New York Mutuals The Funny Side who spent the spring of 1871 in Savan-

The legendary antics of yesteryear don't

fit into the big business of modern baseball.

worth the time or money until 1894. That was the year Ned Hanlon, the wily, innovating manager of the second-division Baltimore Orioles, decided spring training could be put to more practical use than drinking beer, brawling, and shaking up the natives. Taking a weak, undeveloped club to Macon, Ga., Han-

//" nMIiT Ossee Schreck marked his steak and

nailed it to the dining room wall. nah, Ga. But most baseball record books trace the first spring training back to Ted Sullivan, manager of the Washington Rube Marquard honed his Senators, in 1888. Herding his 14 players pitching eye shooting into a sleeper that spring, Sullivan light bulbs off a sign. headed for Jacksonville. "By the time we got there, four of the 14 players were against the favored New reasonably sober, the rest were totally York Giants, the Orioles drunk," said Connie Mack, then a light- Rube Waddell got or- successfully executed 13 hitting, lighter-drinking catcher. "Sulli- ders not to eat ani- hit-and-run plays and crackers in bed. van put us up in shacks, paying $1 for mal swept all four games. With Keeler hit- each of us including three meals a day. ting .367 and McGraw .340, Baltimore That was a lot of money then, but the Ion drilled his boys won the pennant by three games. "It's woman who ran the hotel never made twice a day for eight a new game they're playing," complained much money on us. There was a fight weeks, stressing fun- New York manager John Ward. "It's every night and the boys broke a lot of damentals and introducing the arts of just not baseball." But fans and other furniture. We played exhibitions during bunting, the hit-and-run, and hitting to teams didn't agree. Within a few years, the day and drank most of the night. In all fields. The Orioles of Wee Willie every team was using the hit-and-run those days, respectable hotels wouldn't ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler and and perfecting it in spring training. let a baseball player within 100 yards." John McGraw learned quickly and Even if spring training didn't always

It was fun, but few teams felt it was learned well. In the opening series produce innovators like Hanlon, it usually

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 "but those with the horns keep me awake all night long." In the early 1900s, baseball teams preferred Georgia and Texas (the exception was Jacksonville) as their spring training sites. And in those days, Texas offered the ballplayer a wide variety of diversions — gaudy girly shows, gam- bling, and hundreds of wide-open sa- loons. Rube Marquard, a great Giant pitcher and a greater night owl, found another diversion one year in Marlin Springs. To amuse himself, he started taking target practice with a six-shooter out of his hotel window at a sign advertising a girly show across the street. Giant manager John McGraw offered to fine his star pitcher, but exploded when the

smalltown sheriff still insisted on carting Springlraining Marquard off to jail. "We put this town on the map," snapped McGraw, "and we

can put it off just as quickly by leaving." Marquard stayed in his room, after a severe tongue-lashing from McGraw, the hotel was serving. After returning a and Marlin Springs stayed on the map. tough steak to the kitchen, he became One of baseball's toughest leaders, convinced that the waiters would merely McGraw was continually driven to dis-

bring it out and serve it to another play- traction by the spring antics of Casey

er. To prove it, he marked an X on his Stengel, who was pretty funny during steak and told the waiter it was too tough the regular season, too. One day when

Babe Ruth was advised to eat. Sure enough, minutes later the to rest his arm in a same steak with X was served to another Pullman clothes net. player at Schreck's table. Rushing back to his room, he grabbed a hammer and I^r^BBr^ the Giants arrived at nail and quickly returned to the dining the field for practice. room. As the hotel's guests watched with McGraw was nowhere amazement, Schreck picked up the steak in sight. Almost im-

with the X and nailed it to the dining mediately, Stengel, flicking a wet towel room wall. "This steak has now been and flipping off his teammates' caps, had served twice," he bellowed triumphantly. turned the normally staid Giant practice "It will not be served again." The next into a July 4 party. Suddenly a voice Wilbert Robinson bet he could catch year, Schreck and his teammates were boomed from the stands. "Get to work, a baseball dropped from an airplane. asked to look for other accommodations. you no good bums," shouted McGraw, Another spring, Schreck refused to "you rich humpty-dumpties. So you produced delightful characters and many sign his contract, thereby becoming one thought you could put something over on of baseball's funniest moments. One of of the first holdouts in baseball history. the old man, did you?" That afternoon, the greatest characters was Ossee Free- Money had nothing to do with it. the Giants practiced two extra hours. man Schreckengost (later shortened to Schreck was simply bothered by room- Stengel, however, did not limit his Schreck), a comical catcher who played mate Rube Waddell, who ate animal clowning to his days with the Giants. with the Philadelphia Athletics from crackers before going to sleep in the When he was with Brooklyn, he was in- 1902-08. In the days when hotel man- large, double bed they shared. "I don't volved in one of baseball's funniest prac- agers regarded ballplayers with calcu- mind the flat ones," said Schreck, after tical jokes. One day, Brooklyn manager lated disdain, Schreck was regarded with manager Connie Mack declared the bed Wilbert Robinson, a former catcher, fear. One spring, Schreck was particular- off-limits for Waddell's animal crackers, commented during spring practice that ly disturbed about the quality of steak ILLUSTRATED BY SYD LAND! (Continued on page 38)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 19 , PROCONWASHINGTON THIS MONTH'S BIG ISSUE:

Should President Kennedy Be Given

been pumped into the consumer economy within six months. That buys a lot of automobiles (which took PRO the worst beating of any consumer item in 1958) appliances and other goods. Added demand would Rep. James C. Corman (D-Calif.)

have produced jobs . . . and profits, for reinvestment Twenty-second District to make still more jobs. In 1958, we suffered our most The loss in revenue from such a reduction would recent serious recession. The have been far less than the loss we actually sustained. effects are still being felt. Un- The nation suffered its worst peacetime deficit, $12 employment remains high, prof- billion that year — not because of increased govern- its unsatisfactory, confidence in the economy question- ment spending, but simply and solely because of able. Many emergency measures have been taken to recession. "get the economy moving again." The tragedy is that Critics of increased delegation of authority by Con- all this might have been avoided if President Eisen- gress to the President recite a parade of "horrible hower had been given the tools to combat the recession consequences" if the trend continues. As a practical when it occurred. matter, such delegations ( with proper safeguards ) are President Kennedy has sought those tools. In 1962, essential in this complex world. The most basic Con- he asked for authority to reduce income taxes in peri- stitutional responsibility of Congress is declaring war. ods of economic distress by up to 5% for up to six Yet, no one suggests that an enemy nuclear attack be months (plus one six-month extension) subject to met by a convening of the House and Senate, a com- , disapproval by Congress. To understand how this au- mittee report, a rule, action in each body and finally thority would work, we should look to 1958. a Congressional declaration of war. The first (and That year, America's production of goods and serv- probably decisive) battle of a nuclear war would be ices increased only half of one percent (0.5%), while over before Congress could call the roll. Such an our rate of gain in personal consumption dropped in attack would, in fact, be met by the President, as half. In 1959, the economy rebounded, with gross prod- Commander-in-Chief, ordering our military forces to uct up 10% (vs. a 1947-57 average of 6.5%) and take action to protect this nation and its citizens. personal consumption ahead by $21 billion. But em- No one seriously questions the wisdom of such dele- ployment refused to respond. And the problem is still gation of authority. Delegation of emergency tax- with us. cutting authority to avert recession, though less Had President Eisenhower been able to make an important and drastic, also serves our national interest. emergency cut of 5% in personal income tax rates when the economy first showed signs of serious "soft- ness," $5 billion in new "spending money" would have

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

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

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 THE BIG ISSUES

Power To Lower Income Taxesf

have the desired effect on the economy. To the contrary, a federally-ordered emergency cut in taxes CON would run up a red flag to announce that danger was ahead, that the Executive had suddenly lost confidence Rep. Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. (D-La.) in our economy. Such a proclamation could only cause Fourth District further retrenchment. Being a firm believer in the It is doubtful if any election year would ever again Tightness of our Constitu- come without some "economic emergency" being man- tion, I feel that to grant such ufactured to justify a temporary tax cut. No matter authority would violate the how thin it was sliced, it would still be political ba- basic precepts of that instrument of our freedom. The loney, on an equal footing with buying votes. purely fiscal argument against the proposal is as tell- No, the proposal cannot be justified on the basis of ing, but secondary. what good such tampering might do to lift the economy Although Presidential Assistant Arthur Schlesinger at any time the President alone decided that it needed has stated, "Socialism is the best defense against Com- lifting. This brash power-grab lets the federalized cat munism," it would be difficult even for him to deny out of the bag because it can only be justified in terms that the Constitution does give to Congress alone the of its true intent: to add still further to the awesome power of taxation. power already concentrated in the Executive. The proposition that Congress surrender to the Ex- I, for one, have no fear of this nation's ability to ecutive a still greater portion of the remains of the weather the cyclical behavior of our economy. I have Constitutional authority it once had, is reminiscent of not lost faith in the Congress, slow, cantankerous, ex- the gag about the operation that was a success though asperating" as it sometimes is. I do not see the panic nor the patient died. hear any public clamor that says, "Abdicate your re- By substituting the whim of one man for the con- sponsibilities as a member of Congress! Turn over your sidered judgment of 535 elected representatives, we authority to the President, for he is all-wise!" would be flirting with a similar situation. We might No. Like the framers of the Constitution, I believe (though I doubt it) avert for a short time some cycli- that further centralization of power in the Executive cal downturn of the economy, but we would most sure- would herald the approaching death of human freedom. ly lose the patient, our Constitutional democracy. The proposal would have the bewildering effect of transferring a Legislative function (the right to levy taxes) to the Executive and transferring an Executive • function (the right to veto) to the Legislative. ft, ^/^^ru-H^r* There is no evidence that such tampering would

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE PRESIDENT KENNEDY NEEDS DOES NOT NEED I have read in The American Legion Magazine for March POWER TO LOWER INCOME TAXES the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: "Should Presi- SIGNED dent Kennedy Be Given Power to Lower Income Taxes?" ADDRESS.

TOWN -STATE.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 21 by LOULA GRACE ERDMAN

the spring of 1962 the president Inof Gideons International presented to the past president of the Ameri- can Hotel Association a Bible repre- senting the 50 millionth copy of the scriptures given by the Gideon Society.

Actually, it was only a token copy since no one will ever know with certainty who really received that 50 millionth copy. It could have been a tourist in the Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay, India; a nurse in Bolivia, tucking her white testament into her uniform pocket; an Ameri- can soldier in Iceland; a patient in a California hospital; a young boy in a Canadian jail. It could have been you, in some motel room in the United States.

If so, you probably took it as much for granted as you did the soap and towels. Travelers expect to find the Gideon Bible

in their rooms. It is also extremely un- likely that you had more than the most superficial knowledge about the Gideons,

the group responsible for placing it there. The Gideon Society was founded almost by accident and with no thought of Bible distribution. In 1898, two traveling men, strangers to each other, were obliged to share a hotel room in Bosco- bel, Wis. Before retiring, one of them took out his Bible and began reading, explaining that this was his nightly custom. His roommate joined in the de- votionals. The men talked far into the night, discussing the lonely life traveling men lead, and agreed that there should be an organization of Christian traveling Time and again a Gideon Bible has provided a dramatic turning point in someone's life. men. The next morning they went their separate ways. They met again a year later in Janes- Hotel in Iron Mountain, (now Superior) ville, Wis., once more by accident. This Mont. From that small beginning, the

time they formed the society they had program has grown to its present tre- discussed in Boscobel. Only three men mendous proportions.

were present at this meeting, but they It is one thing to make Bibles avail-

drew up plans and decided to call them- able; it is quite another to know whether selves Gideons, after the Bible character they are read. chosen by the Lord to deliver Israel from A businessman decided to make a test the Midianites. No matter about the for himself. He placed a stamped, self- small number; Gideon himself had con- addressed card with a dollar attached quered a great army with only 300 care- in a Gideon Bible and included a request fully chosen men, each armed with a that the finder return the postcard but pitcher, a torch, and a trumpet. The keep the bill. Although this card did not membership was to consist of Christian come back, he continued his experiment, traveling men; the insignia was to be a enlisting the help of relatives. Since white pitcher on a blue background with September, 1958, some $300 have gone a flame protruding from the opening. No into Gideon Bibles in 49 states and one so much as dreamed of giving Bibles several Canadian provinces, together away. with code-marked cards bearing this Today, the Gideon Society numbers message: "To Finder: Keep the special more than 19,000 members scattered dollar bill, but please mail the postcard throughout 59 countries in the world. to help in a survey. State main reason for

Although the distribution of Bibles is reading this book. Thanks."

only one phase of Gideon work, it is To date, all but 36 of the coded cards certainly the best known. It was started have come back. Various reasons for More than 50,000,000 Gideon Bibles have been in 1908 with the presentation of 25 reading have been given. For some it was distributed to people in every corner of the world. Bibles to the manager of the Superior a customary thing to do. Others turned

22 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 (5ideons and %Mx JBito

The story of the Bibles you find in hotel rooms and the people who put them there.

the Society, under the appropriate heading of "Returns." One woman writes that after her husband's death she felt she could not endure life without him and so determined to commit suicide. Filling the car with gas, and taking a cache of hoarded sleeping pills with her, she drove until she found a motel which she felt suited her purpose. She checked in and retired, placing the bottle of pills on the bedside table. As she did so, her hand brushed a book. That book was the Gideon

Bible. She picked it up and began reading. Finally she dozed off, not having taken the pills. When she awoke, the sun was shining. She got into her car and headed back home. Once there, she picked up her life where she had left off. "I've made a good thing of it," she wrote. The suicide motif recurs again and again. Granted that only a few people threatening suicide really mean to go

through with it, there is still no denying that people alone in hotel rooms are often lonely and desperate. Reading the Bible could well swing the delicate balance between the wish to die and the courage to live. The problems faced by the writers of these letters are as various and universal as the nature of man. A woman deserted by her husband; a girl, bewildered and alone for the first time in a big city; a salesman who has lost an important account; people who have sustained a great sorrow in the loss of a

to it for help, consolation, inspiration and guidance — a loved one; a man, wiped out financially; a woman, confronted woman whose son was in trouble, a salesman discouraged by the knowledge that she has an incurable disease; an alco- after an unsuccessful day, a man trying to make a job decision, holic, writhing in his own private hell. a woman seeking "Peace of Mind." The number of letters from alcoholics are almost as numer- The Gideons base their own estimates on the replacement ous as those professing a wish to commit suicide. rates. A Bible lasts, on the average, about seven years, during A man in a hotel called a minister, saying that he must which time it has probably been read by 950 people, an aver- have help. Once a successful businessman, he had become age of 127 per year. an alcoholic. As a result, his business was failing and his wife But the most accurate, as well as most heart-warming, threatening to leave him. answer comes from hundreds of letters flooding into the Chi- "Turn around and pick up the Bible off the desk behind cago office of the Society, each holding the story of what a you," the minister said. Gideon Bible has meant to the writer. Samples of these are There was a long silence. published monthly in The Gideon, the official magazine of (Continued on page 42)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 23 Breakfast is served on a pack trip in Montana's Gallatin National Forest

Try a wmmmHi Wilderness Vacation The explorers Lewis and Clark camped on this spot at Gates of the Mountains. You get there only by boat.

By planning now you can enjoy yourself in primitive surroundings this summer.

by ERWIN A. BAUER moose — and explored lost gold mines which cover about 14Vi million acres. and long-abandoned ghost towns. We Depending on size and location, they're One bright day several summers pitched our tent beside a different stream designated as Wilderness, Wild or Primi- ago my two sons and I rented beneath a different mountain peak every tive Areas. a jeep in tiny Cooke City, night. The whole week was a lively holi- Whereas the National Forests are Mont., just outside of Yellowstone Na- day which none of us will ever forget. meant for multiple use — for timber and tional Park. Then, equipped with fishing Since that summer we've visited a water management, for grazing and tackle, food, camping gear, cameras and dozen other Wilderness Areas from mining, as well as recreation — the Wil- a spare can of gas, we headed deep into Montana southward to New Mexico. derness Areas are never to be disturbed the mountains. We've hiked or ridden on lonely trails, or "improved." The idea is to keep them But our destination wasn't the interior climbed mountains, found forgotten cliff exactly as our ancestors found them, of Yellowstone, which we'd have had to dwellings and completely escaped the examples of primitive America. Even share with two million other summer ordinary. In so doing, we've discovered today some of the areas are roadless, visitors. Our goal was the Beartooth a whole new world of high adventure — which means you travel on foot, either Wilderness Area to the northeast, a a world which many more Americans your horse's or your own. But no matter magnificent bit of Rocky Mountain real should discover. whether you travel the Wilderness by estate which too few people ever see. Most of us are familiar with our splen- canoe or horseback, by jeep or shank's In the week that followed, we fished did system of National Forests. These mare, they are the best bargains in sum- in alpine lakes where the trout had never public lands, which total over 180 mil- mer holidays or vacations anywhere in seen a lure and where the rankest ama- lion acres in 40 states, are administered the land. You pay no admission or en- teur could have hooked the fish. We en- under the Department of Agriculture. trance fees and you need make no reser- joyed intimate glimpses of wild animals But not nearly so well known are the 80 vations. The Wilderness Areas are yours — of bighorn sheep, bears and bull wilderness-type areas within the Forests for as long as you want to use them.

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 virgin Since these areas offer something for derness system is made to order. One of beautiful area of cascades and timber, with a little-known but excellent almost everyone, let's consider a few de- the really great fishing experiences is to cast fishing hole. tails of a Wilderness vacation. escape from other anglers and to Suppose you're among America's 35 where few fishermen have ever cast be- Fishing Linville Gorge, like fishing million fishermen. In that case the Wil- fore. To be able to do so may seem high- most other Wilderness Areas, does re- ly improbable in this high-speed, high- quire a bit more effort than fishing else- tension era in which we live. But the where because it's off the beaten track.

truth is that any angler in the nation can But for the new, growing number of have a remote lake or two entirely to outdoorsmen, and for family campers, himself this summer in many of the Wil- that's all the better. It's fun simply to

derness Areas, and experience the fishing catch fish, but it's even more exciting if time of his life. you have to hike, ride or climb to do so. The Beartooth Wilderness is a good If, in addition, the trip is through some example. This region offers over 1,000 of America's most spectacular scenery, that adds more spice to the adventure.

It's often an accepted fact that our National Parks — Yellowstone, Glacier, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, the Smokies — contain the most beautiful scenery in the

United States. But that is not necessarily true. The state of Montana can boast the Chinese Wall in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, the Mission Range, and the Spanish Peaks Area, all of which must rate with the most magnificent scenery on earth. Visitors who see these places for the first time are always amazed at the sheer beauty of the scenes around them. In fact, there is a growing of wilderness buffs who spend Canoeing is perfect in the Quetico- Trail riding by following a stream number Superior Wilderness on the Canadian border. bed in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. entire summers visiting these magnifi-

This angler has an exquisite lake all to himself in Montana's The rugged beauty of scenery such as this rewards vaca- Beartooth Wilderness. There are hundreds of lakes in the area. tionists who ride into the Spanish Peaks Wilderness.

lakes, plus interconnecting streams, with cent areas and absorbing their beauties. crystal-clear waters containing trout — Teddy Roosevelt was the first prom- and unsophisticated trout at that. The inent American to encourage the setting

same is true in Utah's beautiful Uinta aside of wilderness regions, particularly Wilderness, where in a week of wander- those of great natural beauty. But it ing on horseback we never saw another wasn't until 1924 that the first area, the human being. But we did manage to Gila Wilderness in New Mexico, was sample about 20 different lakes and en- actually established. A few years later joyed great sport in all of them. another 138,000 acre portion of New But all of the good Wilderness fishing Mexico was designated as the Pecos isn't in the West. The Linville Gorge Wilderness. Area, which contains 7,600 acres near It would almost seem to be divine Asheville, N. C, is less than a day's guidance which prompted Aldo Leopold, You needn't leave your horse to catch trout drive from most of the large eastern Bob Marshall, and other early conserva- in the thousand lakes of Uinta Wilderness. centers of population. It's an unusually (Continued on next page)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 25 {Continued from previous puge) ter as in summer, San Gorgonio is join an AFA Trail Ride for only about tionists to toil for the establishment of probably America's best wilderness ski- $25 a day, all expenses included. the Gila and subsequent areas. Leopold ing area. Other areas are close to metro- This summer AFA Trail Rides will was a government forester who foresaw politan San Francisco, Seattle and Port- visit the following Wilderness Areas: how expansion and progress would even- land. Pecos (Sangre de Cristo Mts., New Mex- tually claim every corner of the country The largest Wilderness east of the ico), Teton (Wyoming), Bob Marshall for development. But he felt that Amer- Rockies is one that is officially designated (Montana), Maroon Bells-Snowmass icans would be richer and happier in the as Boundary Waters Canoe Area, but is (Colorado), Bridger (Wyoming), Uinta long run if they would set aside certain more commonly known as the Quetico- (Utah), High Sierra (California), San areas to remain undisturbed for future Superior Wilderness, located in extreme Juan (Colorado), Smoky Mountains generations. Now we know that his northern Minnesota. It contains more (Tennessee). In addition, AFA will thinking was sound. The true value of than 800,000 acres. There is another probably sponsor canoe trips into the our Wilderness is impossible to calculate. area of equal size established on the Quetico-Superior region and on the Al- "Wilderness has a decent influence," Canadian side of the international lagash River in Maine. Inquiries on these Supreme Court Justice William O. Doug- boundary. AFA activities should be addressed to las wrote recently. "It transforms men; Incomparably beautiful, especially in Dorothy Dixon, Director, Trail Riders brings out the spiritual values of life." of the Wilderness, 919 Seventeenth Most modern doctors and psychologists Street, NW, Washington 6, D. C. agree. They know that many of us need Another national organization — The the escape and solitude these places offer. Wilderness Society — also sponsors an- Any family planning a camping va- nual trail rides to the following Wilder- cation this summer might well consider ness Areas: Gila, Pecos, Teton, Bob the Wilderness Areas. They do not con- Marshall, Big Horn Crags and Salmon tain formal or elaborate campsites as do River (Idaho), Flat Tops (Colorado), the National Parks and Forests, but Rio Grande-San Juan. Inquiries should neither will you face congestion and con- be addressed to Don Clauser, Box 1229, fusion. A typical situation can be found Santa Fe, New Mexico, or to the Wilder- at Gates of the Mountains Wild Area, ness Society, 2144 "P" Street, NW, along the Missouri River in Montana, Washington 7, D. C.

which is particularly suited to families Still another group — The Trail Riders that are both camping and boating fans. of the Canadian Rockies — sponsors an- It's possible to launch a small boat along nual trips into remote portions of Banff

U.S. 91 north of Helena, Mont, and then National Park where there is excellent outboard to the same campground (at fishing. Americans are always invited to Coulter Gulch) used by Lewis and Clark join these trips. The cost of $18 a day is on their westward journey to the Pacific. lower than most trips in the United While camping at Coulter Gulch, States. For more information, write to which can't be reached except by boat, Claude Brewster, Box 99, Banff, Alberta, there are endless activities to keep every- Canada. one busy. Vacationers can climb, by THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE For detailed information on back- switchbacking foot trail, to the top of packing or trail riding in any of the the Gates which Lewis and Clark first autumn, the Quetico-Superior offers ex- California Wilderness Areas, write to believed would block their travel up- cellent fishing in hundreds of lakes. The the Sierra Club, 1080 Mills Tower, San stream. It's a steep, but not a difficult more remote the lake, the better the fish- Francisco 4, Calif. Information on ascent. Mule deer are plentiful and usu- ing. But even though this vast region of southern California and Barranca del ally can be photographed. Occasionally, half-land, half-water is roadless and ac- Cobre, Mexico, trail trips can be ob- Rocky Mountain goats can be spotted on cessible only to canoe travel (except in tained from Wampler Trail Trips, Box sheer canyon walls right from the camp. emergency not even aircraft land in the 45, Berkeley 1, Calif.

Rock-hounding is always profitable in area) it's easily available to any Ameri- If you're interested in a pack trip into the vicinity, and a morning of panning can with an adventuresome spirit. any of the Wilderness areas of Montana, in nearby Mann Gulch will usually pro- At Ely, Minnesota, a number of out- write to Montana Outfitters and Guides duce a few flecks of gold. Ospreys nest fitters will completely equip parties of Association, Billings, Montana. along this section of the Missouri in vast any size for budget trips of any duration. For a list of all Wilderness Areas, their numbers and are interesting to watch. They'll furnish everything from tents size and location, write to Clint Davis, In addition, there's good fishing. and cooking gear to canoes, sleeping Director of Information, U. S. Forest But this point is most important: we've bags, axes and waterproof route maps — Service, Washington 25, D. C. described Gates of the Mountains in de- all for as little as $5 per person per day. It's hard to say too much in praise of tail only because it's typical rather than Larger groups, such as Boy Scouts and our wonderful Wilderness Areas. We've unique in the number of activities which Explorer troops, can make a long trip already pointed out the economy of a are possible. No camper or traveler in for even less. Wilderness vacation, plus the mood of any of the Wilderness Areas need ever Exactly three decades ago this sum- complete escape and high adventure have a dull moment. mer, in 1933, a party of 22 men and which every wilderness traveler feels. There's also great variety in the Wil- women completed a six-day trail ride But something else also happens to a derness Areas. Not all are located in and pack trip through the Bob Marshall wilderness wanderer. He is touched by distant places far from big cities, and Wilderness. The trip was sponsored by inspiration. not all are in the mountains. Each has a the American Forestry Association and As one wilderness visitor commented wonderfully distinctive flavor. The 19,- was so successful that it became an an- last summer, "There's no better way to 000-acre San Gorgonio Wild Area is nual affair. Now the trail rides have been acquire a love and appreciation for only a short drive from Los Angeles, San extended to cover most of the important America than to sleep under canvas and Diego and the human concentration of Wildernesses across the country — and to hike for a spell in country exactly as southern California. As popular in win- they're open to everybody. Anyone can our ancestors found it." the end

26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 " t —NEWSLETTER- - A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

THE PROCEEDS OF GI INSURANCE POLICIES mittee. . ARE NOT — REPEAT NOT — TAXABLE . . That would be a "big gain" since not that many of our Representa- "Newsletter" reported at income tax tives went along with this major aim of time last year that the proceeds of life the Communist Party USA last year. ... To insurance policies issued to veterans counteract the lobbying of Frank by the Veterans Administration are not Wilkinson in the House Cafeteria against taxable. ... We were surprised to receive the Un-American Activities Committee, reports from many quarters that local Legionnaires in large numbers wrote their Internal Revenue Service offices disputed Congressmen in January to support the this, and had been requiring income Committee and its budget. . . . They report taxes to be paid on GI insurance that on the whole they got warm personal proceeds. . . . As a result, The American assurances of support for the House

Legion's Nat ' 1 Rehabilitation Office Un-American Activities Committee from requested the Commissioner of Internal most Representatives, compared to more Revenue to issue clarifying instructions routine, formal acknowledgments last year. to IRS field offices. . . . Should the The enemies of the investigation of matter be challenged again, we herewith subversion may pick up three or four quote from Internal Revenue Service votes . . . . But indications are that an Publication No. 17, 1962 edition p. 26: increase in the depth of feeling against "Veterans' insurance proceeds and them by the great majority of our legis- dividends are not taxable either to the lators may more than offset any small veteran or to his heirs. This is true increase in Congressional supporters also with respect to a veteran's endow- about which they may crow. ment policy paid before the death of the It is a pity that most Americans get veteran. their information on the House Committee Virtually no VA benefits paid to on Un-American Activities, and on the veterans or their dependents are tax- Senate's Subcommittee on Internal able. . . . One exception is the interest Security, via sobsister TV shows and earned (and only the interest) from divi- news columns that are edited more for "good dends on insurance policies left on journalism" than for "good informa- deposit with the VA. . . . And of course tion". ... If a woman who is identified the phrase "veterans' insurance" used in as a "housewife" goes on TV and says that the IRS instruction above does not apply she thinks the committees are "unfair", to commercial life insurance policies this may be all that the average John Doe held by veterans, but only to government gets to see of the issue. . . . The actual veterans' policies . . . Neither pension meat of the work of these committees can nor compensation paid to veterans or be truly grasped by reading, word-for- their dependent survivors by VA need be word, the full texts of the hearings that reported as taxable income. they hold. ... As we are privileged to HOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S WHAT have read the full texts of countless and IN DRIVE TO ABOLISH HOUSE COMMITTEE hearings, to have attended not a few, it almost makes us urp to hear "house- ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES: wife" whine on TV that they are "Newsletter" had to go to press before "unfair ."... It is a travesty on what is Congress dealt directly with the annual called "public information." drive to abolish the House Un-American What these committees are dealing

Activities Committee. . . . Predicters were with are very largely the most sinister saying that perhaps as many as 20 votes machinations against our country — a fact in the House would be cast by Representa- which "housewife" never mentions. . . . tives in favor of hamstringing the Com- We think you will find the actual pub-

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 27 .

lished hearings to be eyeopeners, if you think the idea is stupid and the failure will secure some and read them, cover-to- could be expected. ... We give them both

cover. . . . Most of the volumes cost only to Prof. Minnott. . . . The tragedy of pennies, and they are often exciting Peerless Patriots is that the same sort reading as well as horse's mouth informa- of interpretive junk runs through 118

tion in detail. . . . You may write to the pages of pretty good reporting — though U. S. Gov't Printing Office, Division of even some of the reporting is guessed,

Public Documents, Washington 25, D .C. and and guessed wrong. . . . Our impression is ask for its "1962 official list of that Prof. Minott has read an enormous

publications relating to Commmunism." . . . amount about his subject, but knows When you have the list you can select virtually nothing about veterans or-

some juicy titles and order them for ganizations as living things. . . . He small sums on the coupon that is pro- seems especially imbued with the idea vided. ... We especially recommend that Legion programs and policies are volumes of actual hearings. . . You will conceived by masterminds on high who get an entirely different view of what it foresee long-range effects in detail.... is that "housewife" as well as Mr. This is a howl to every Legionnaire who Wilkinson, etc., want to choke off at the is familiar with the actual process of source groping forward through endless debate, from the Post meeting to the National CORRECTION ON NAT'L CEMETERY BURIAL: Convention. . . . Every Legionnaire knows William J. Anderson, of Bull Shoals, that the price he pays for the virtues of

Ark. , was the first of several readers excessive democracy in the Legion is that to point out that in our January article he has to live with all the faults of on veterans burial rights we used a poor excessive democracy. . . . Prof. Minott choice of words in saying that a never found that out, so he never dis- veterans* spouse may be buried in a covered that the Legion's Americanism National Cemetery if the veteran agrees programs virtually all started as trial to be interred in the "adj oining and error experiments by Posts. ... He " space . . . . Burial would actually be in went to press thinking that they were the same grave and this could well have designed by a public-relations T largely a bearing on a decision to elect Nat ' 1 oriented ruling clique. ... It is not un- Cemetery burial for man and wife. usual for scholars who believe that living organisms can be evaluated from A SAD BOOK: what is on library shelves to miss the

A book about veterans organizations target by a country mile. . . . Zoologists by Prof. Rodney G. Minott, Assoc. Prof, don't make this mistake, but historians

of History at Stanford, is just out. . . . are prone to it. Called Peerless Patriots, it is a sad thing to read, because it combines ex- OLDEST LEGIONNAIRE? cellent scholarship, research and With the death of John C. Volz of organization with the most far-fetched Indiana at age 101, it has been suggested

interpretations. . . . The book is to us by Charles A. Wall, of Brooklyn, especially a study of patriotism and N.Y. that the oldest living Legionnaire Americanism as propounded by U. S. vets may now be one of his fellow members of

organizations. . . . According to Prof. U.S.S. Tampa Coast Guard Post 719,

Minott, The American Legion adopted N.Y.C., namely George W. McKenzie. . . . Junior Baseball (after it "discovered" McKenzie, who lives in Waterford, Conn., that youngsters like to play baseball) will be 99 this May 28. ... He retired and numerous other civic programs because from the Coast Guard in 1919. the general approval of these programs by the populace would result in making MILITARY DUTY AFTER JULY 31, 1961 fellow citizens and the youthful bene- EXEMPTED FROM GI EDUCATION TIME: ficiaries think exactly like the Legion Under a new law, enacted late last

regarding its offi c ial policies I year, time spent on active military duty According to Prof. Minott this master under orders issued after July 31, 1961 plan has failed to produce the uniform will not eat into educational deadlines thinking which he says was its aim. ... We under the Korea GI Bill of Rights or the are not surprised that it failed. ... We War Orphans Education Act.

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 OF THE m « w m AMERICAN LEGION AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS MARCH 1963

hospital — as PL86-211 does now. Legion's 1963 Pension Bill 7. Exempt unusual expenses. The Le- gion asks that unusual medical costs, and burial expenses of a spouse or child, Introduced Jan. 17 as HR1927 be deductible from income that must be reported to determine VA pension eligi- Seeks raise in payments, easing of income re- bility. strictions; Would abolish "spouse's income," raise Tables ceilings, cut step intervals from three to two; To simplify understanding of the present provisions and of the Legion's End of "welfare" concept urged for vets, widows proposed changes in pension rates (a very complicated piece of business be- The American Legion has drafted its 4. Eliminate "spouse's income" pro- cause of the intricacies of the present bill to revise the existing veterans' pen- vision. The Legion asks elimination of law) we publish tables on the next two sion law, in conformity with Res. #317 the present provision that income of a pages which show: of the 1962 National Convention. It was spouse over $1200 be counted as income (a) The amount of pension now pay- introduced in Congress, Jan. 17, by Rep. that acts as a bar to receipt of pension able to eligible veterans and widows, Roland Libonati (111.), member of The by a veteran. with and without dependents, and House Veterans Affairs Committee. The 5. Stop medical exams for vets over (b) The amounts proposed by the number of the bill is HR1927. 65. The Legion asks an end to medical Legion in HR 1927. Last month, on these pages, a lengthy examinations to establish 10% disability Our tables show the amount now pay- article went into the details of the pres- for pension purposes, where the veteran able monthly and the amount proposed, ent veterans' pension situation. is 65 or older, and unemployed. for veterans and widows whose other in- Here we present the specifics of what 6. Change the withholding of pension come ranges from nothing a year up to the Legion will ask Congress to adopt of hospitalized vets. The Legion asks the maximum present and proposed with respect to pensions — in HR1927. that the present method of withholding allowable income levels. The bill proposes amendments to a veteran's pension while he is receiving By "other income" we mean, in gen- Public Law 86-211, which went into prolonged care in a VA hospital be re- eral, income other than VA pension. effect in July, 1960 — many of whose vised. The proposal would continue to Figures are shown where other yearly shortcomings and related problems were protect the government from building income is $00; $200; $400 and so on at spelled out here last month. an unspent estate for the veteran with $200 step intervals. Legionnaires are urged to keep this pension payments in the event the vet- Any veteran or widow, with or with- information on file, as well as the article eran does not recover, without, at the out dependents, who is now or may be- on veterans benefits which appeared in same time, withholding the pension from come eligible for a pension, can readily this space in our February issue. Mem- him if he should be discharged from the find on our tables how much pension he bers may be asked at the right time to support HR1927 with direct communi- RESCUE TEAM OF AN OKLAHOMA LEGION POST cations to their own Congressmen. This published information will be valuable ^BfilBiiill Ij reference material at that time. lilllli Here are the major points of the Legion's bill: General Major Proposals 1. Raise income limits. The Legion proposes that the amount of non-pension income that acts as a bar to a veteran or veteran's widow receiving a pension be raised. 2. Increase pension payments. The Legion asks general increases in the amount of pension payable to eligible veterans and widows. 3. Simplify steps. The Legion asks that the payment of different amounts of pension to eligible veterans and widows in three different steps, according to how much other income they have, be changed so that there will only be two steps instead of three, and so that the bottom step will be appreciably ele- Members of Post 35, Oklahoma City, Okla., pose with their rad io-equipped Light Duty vated. Rescue unit equipment. Members are trained for Civil Defense and "norma I" rescues.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 29 (CONTINUED) Critics of veterans pensions frequent- The Legion's Pension Bill - HR 1927 ly refer to the VA pension program as "a plan to support all veterans for life." may receive under PL86-211 at present, under the present law, but that it would They are undoubtedly unaware that and under the Legion's proposal. stay at $105 a month under the Legion if a veteran is to receive a pension he Thus a veteran with two dependents plan, and not be reduced under it until must not only meet the income restric- ( wife and minor child, or two minor his other income reached $2,400.01 tions, but must also be in such a physical children) whose other income is $800 a (over $2,400). condition through disability, or a com- year, need only look at the chart for He would also note that his pension bination of disability and age, as to be VETERANS WITH DEPENDENTS. would be cut off entirely at present if unable to pursue substantially gainful He checks down the left hand "annual his other income should go over $3,000, employment. other income" column to $800. He reads but not until it went over $3,600 under Fortunately "all veterans" are not in across that line to the figures under "two the Legion proposal. this condition "for life" and the amount dependents." He sees that if he is eligi- of pension paid is scarcely enough to ble for a pension he may receive $95 a Notes "support" anyone. month at present, or $105 a month In the notes under each table, the The low amounts of payment and the under the Legion plan. basic eligibility restrictions that have restrictions — on income, on earning He may also note that if a slight in- nothing to do with income are noted. capacity, and on physical condition — crease in his other income should bring These are very important for a proper actually make the veterans' pension pro- it to $1,000.01 (over $1,000) his pen- understanding of veterans pensions and gram the most cramped of all accepted sion would be reduced to $75 a month the eligibility requirements. pension systems. Virtually no other pen-

VETERANS WITH DEPENDENTS - MONTHLY PENSION NOW UNDER PL86-211, AND AS PROPOSED

ONE DEPENDENT TWO DEPENDENTS THREE DEPENDENTS FOUR DEPENDENTS Annual Other Income Now Legion asks Now Legion asks Now Legion asks Now Legion asks $0,000.00 $90.00 $100.00 $95.00 $105.00 $100.00 $110.00 $100.00 $115.00 200.00 yy >> 55 yy yy

400.00 5» >? 5 J >> 55 yy yy 600.00 )> S) >> )> 55 yy yy 800.00 >> 35 yy yy 1,000.01* 75.00 75.00 >) 75.00 yy 75.00 yy

1,200.00 >> yy >> yy yy yy 1,400.00 >> >> yy >> yy yy yy yy

1,600.00 ?' J> yy >> yy yy yy yy 1,800.00 J? )) 55 >? yy yy yy 2,000.01° 45.00 45.00 45.00 yy 45.00 yy 2,200.00 " >> yy yy yy yy 2,400.01° 80.00 55 85.00 yy 90.00 yy 95.00 2,600.00 >> >> yy 5> y> 33 yy 9> 2,800.00 " >> 55 ?> yy 3> yy J> 3,000.01° 00.00 00.00 >•> 00.00 33 00.00 >> 3,200.00 >> » yy s> >J 33 3> >> 3,400.00 yy yy 79 yy 3» » 3,600.01° 00.00 5 5 00.00 >> 00.00 yy 00.00

Notes on income and dependents: a month extra for each dependent above Because of the prima facia disabling "Other Income" now includes earning one, no matter how many dependents, effect of age, under present law veterans of spouse in excess of $1200. Legion asks over the whole scale. Additions for de- at age 65 may meet the "totally and per that this provision be wiped out. pendents, up to four dependents, are manently disabled" qualification by "It is not now permitted that unusual included in the figures above. showing 10% disability. The Legion asks

medical expenses, costs of burial of im- Notes on disability: that where the veteran at 65 is unem- mediate family member be deductible Readers must not assume that the ployed no medical examination to de- from reportable income. Legion asks above income stipulations are the only termine 10% disability be required. that such expenditures be deductible. requirements for a veterans pension. The Reason: virtually all such veterans meet Present law adds $5 for each depend- veteran must also be adjudged totally the 10% standard when examined, and ent, up to three dependents, where other and permanently disabled, and sub- the examinations are an unnecessary ex- income is below $1,000. Legion asks $5 stantially unemployable. penditure.

30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 sion systems employ any of these fences. perience since 1960. National Convention since WW2 — a No veteran who is, or may fear that he Legion delegates and specialists at unanimity that included the most con- will become, eligible for a VA pension the 1962 Convention who had frequent- servative as well as the most radical in in recognition of his past services to the ly, and sometimes bitterly, disagreed on their notions of how to untie the pension nation, need apologize for the VA pen- what ought to be done, came together mess — a unanimity based on first hand sion or for seeking moderate improve- on Res. #317. knowledge of what 86-211 has done to ments in what will still be the most re- It was adopted with more unanimity people. stricted pension system in the nation. than any proposed pension reform at a For example, you will note on our ta-

The "Why" of the Legion Bill VETERANS WITHOUT DEPENDENTS Note on remarriage: The meat of the Legion's bill is its If a veteran's widow remarries, she proposed alteration of the pension rates MONTHLY PENSION PL86-211 loses entitlement to pension based on the and ceilings, but the other proposed NOW UNDER BY LEGION deceased veteran's war service. Legion changes are also meaningful. AND AS PROPOSED Annual asks no change. In that case, minor chil- Here is a summary of the reasoning dren of the deceased veteran may be en- behind the more important proposals. other income Now Legion asks titled to pension in their own right, as 1. Spouse's income. Counting income $ 000.00 $85.00 $100.00 they also may be, depending on their inof a spouse as "other income" that could 200.00 come, in any other case of the mother bar a veteran from receiving a pension 400.00 „ „ 600.01° 70.00 having no pension eligibility herself. was a new wrinkle, first applied in PL86- 800.00 Legion asks no change in children's en- 211 when it went into effect in 1960. It titlement to pension in their own right. was supposed to be a way to stop a vet- 1,000.00 Note on widows: eran with substantial income-earning 1,200.01° 40.00 If a veteran's marriage is childless, property from transferring it to his wife 1,400.00 his widow cannot qualify for pension in order to sneak onto the pension rolls 1,600.00 1,800.01° if, at the time of the veteran's death she in spite of a large unearned income. 00.00 80.00 has not been married to and living as Very little has been saved the govern- 2,000.00 spouse with the veteran for a set period ment by this provision since 1960, while 2,200.00 of time, the set periods varying accord- harm was done where a wife went to 2,400.01° 00.00 ing to the war of service of deceased work to hold the family of an unem- See also: "Notes in disability" below veteran. Legion asks no change. ployed disabled or aged veteran to- the chart on VETERANS WITH DE- gether. The very nature of VA pensions PENDENTS, which applies in this case VETERANS' WIDOWS - WITHOUT makes this sort of situation the general too. DEPENDENTS rule while the slick cheater is the excep- VETERANS' WIDOWS — WITH MONTHLY PENSION tion. Thus this provision has done little DEPENDENTS NOW UNDER PL-86-211 good but caused a lot of hardship. AND AS PROPOSED BY LEGION MONTHLY PENSION 2. Eliminating medical examinations Annual NOW UNDER PL86-211 at 65. At 65, age is the chief factor in other Legion asks AND AS PROPOSED BY LEGION income Now earning judging a veteran's diminished $ 000.00 $60.00 $65.00 capacity, and only 10% measured dis- Annual 1 MINOR CHILD 200.00 ability is needed. Nearly all people at other income Now Legion asks 400.00 65 are at least 10% disabled. The medical $ 000.00 $75.00 $75.00 600.01° 45.00 examinations are a waste of funds and 200.00 800.00 effort, their results being 99% a foregone 400.00 1,000.00 conclusion. They could probably be 600.00 1,200.01° 25.00 eliminated entirely for 65-year-olds and 800.00 1,400.00 save government funds. Even so the 1,000.01° 60.00 1.600.00 Legion, having met resistance to this 1,200.00 1,800.01° 00.00 55.00 sensible proposal, only asks that the ex- 1,400.00 2,000.00 aminations be eliminated where the vet- 1,600.00 2,200.00 eran at 65 is out of work. 1,800.00 2,400.01° 00.00 3. The changes in rates and ceilings. 2,000.01* 40.00 Note: In a sense, any such figures as those in 2,200.00 See also notes under VETERANS' our tables are arbitrary — a compromise 2,400.01 65.00 WIDOWS WITH DEPENDENTS, all between what ought to be, what is rea- 2,600.00 of which, except those pertaining to sonable, and what may be possible. 2,800.00 minor children, apply here. The Legion's proposals are far less ar- 3,000.01° 00.00 bitrary than those in the present law, 3,200.00 General Information which was an experiment, based on no 3,400.00 ( 1 ) Charts figures marked by experience. 3,600.01* 00.00 asterisk (*) end in 14 and show ex- The Legion's proposed figures are Note on more children: act breaking points of pension pay- based on almost three years experience Present law allows $15 extra for each ment amounts. with impoverished veterans and widows minor child in excess of one. Legion asks (2) Pension info applies to WW1, living under both the low scales and the no change. WW2 and Korean vets and their complicated conditions of Public Law Note on disability: widows, where vet had 90 days min- 86-211. Disability, though required of a vet- imum war service (less if discharged They are the product of the meeting eran if he is to receive a pension, is not for service-connected disability) and of many minds which have been con- required of a widow. Legion asks no discharge was not dishonorable. cerned with the problem in actual exchange.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 31 (CONTINUED) VA. Consider the case of the disabled, jobless Vermont WWI veteran whose - The Legion's Pension Bill HR 1927 wife passed away, and who was receiving a disability pension. Under Public that 86-211 has three arbitrary step- as a compassionate step for the needy — bles Law 86-211 the Veterans Administration downs in the amount of pension pay- has such a result — and it is a cause of was required to add up $541.93 insur- ment, as other income is higher. Look, suffering no matter the source of income ance benefits he received on his wife's for instance, at the table WIDOWS that inflicts the penalty. death, and calculate that this would DEPENDENTS. If her There is nothing arbitrary about the WITHOUT bring him income at a rate over $1,800 other income goes over $600 a year, a Legion's insistence that the step-downs (the 86-211 ceiling for a veteran without single widow in this class has her VA be reduced to two steps instead of three, dependents) , and stop his disability pen- pension cut back from $60 to $45 a and that the first step-down occur at an sion as of last September. month. (Similar step-downs appear in income level considerably higher than Appealing to this magazine in a shak-

all the charts ) . That is a reduction of in 86-211. Experience with 86-211 cries ing hand, after being advised by the Ver- $180 a year, where such a slash is nearly out for this reform. mont Legion Service Officer that that a third of her total non-pension income. Such is the thinking, and the basis of was the law, he said: This provision is the one that caused the thinking, and the sort of experience "After reading what you said about the not-uncommon case cited here last that lies behind the structure of all the 86-211 in your February issue I want month, of a 66-year-old widow in this Legion's proposed tables. you to know what happened to me, and desperate income bracket who suffered The entire set of tables, as recom- you are welcome to it if it will help you a total loss in income of $121.20 a year mended by the Legion, are reasonable in your fight to get it changed. My wife's because Congress had voted her an in- amounts and ceiling levels arrived at: last illness cost $700 for hospital, $330 crease in Social Security. Her Social (a) To overcome the proven hard- for doctors, and the burial cost $400. Security income crossed the $600 break- ships of the step-downs and ceilings of After spending the $541.93 life insur- ing-point. She gained $58.80 a year in 86-211, and ance I have $888.07 debt for my wife's Social Security and lost $180 a year in (b) To overcome the miserly "wel- last expenses, and only $70 a month in- VA pension. She had no other source of fare" levels of 86-211, restoring veterans come since they cut off my VA pension. income, or any choice in the matter. She pensions to levels that are proper for But they add up the insurance and de- is not alone in this experience, by a long a program that recognizes veterans' past cide that it was income for me in 1962, shot. services. and stop my pension, and are not per- In any "step-down" system, these VA pensions should not be, and never mitted by this cruel law to consider the things will always happen at breaking before were, merely a dole to paupers costs of my wife's illness and death." points. The cruel harshness of 86-211 is and indigents.

that it makes breaking points at such But the status of 86-211 is admitted, Cruel Law pitifully low income levels, so that the even by its defenders, to be just that — With cases like this, we leave it up to loss of income is not only felt, but adds in official testimony. the readers to decide if we are off base up to a very substantial part of the en- 4. Deducting unusual expenses. The in calling 86-211 "cruel" and "harsh,"

tire income of a person who is already Legion knows whereof it speaks when and to decide whether the Legion's bill, in desperate straits. it asks that unusual medical bills and HR1927, deserves the about support of It is a horrible irony when a Social burial costs be deductible from the in- comrades pledged to "mutual helpful- Security increase — politically advertised come that pensioners must report to the ness."

War Memorial loan from the U.S. Navy and maintain admission charge of 50^ for adults and The U.S.S. North Carolina it as a memorial. 25

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those who once served aboard the ship may get more information about the association from Charles Paty, Jr., 213 Milwood Place, Charlotte, N.C. At statewide Veterans Day ceremonies aboard the ship, hosted by American Legion Post 10, Wilmington, last Nov. 11, a former skipper of the North Caro- lina, Admiral O. S. Colclough, was a fea- tured speaker. Colclough, CO of the battlewagon during the battles of Iwo Jima, Luzon and Okinawa, is now pro- vost of George Washington University, and has continued a distinguished public-service career. He has represented the U.S. in Geneva Maritime Law discussions, and since 1953 has been a member of the Atomic Energy Labor- Management relations panel. A 50-acre state park around the ship is being landscaped. Address of the administrators of the memorial is: U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship Commission, Wilmington, North Carolina.

President's Message The U.S.S. North Carolina of WW2 at her permanent berth in Wilmington, N.C Three Heroes Johnson was not yet 19, having been Forrest E. Swanson (1962), Post 136, Monmouth, Three American servicemen who were 111. action born Jan. 4, 1944, when U.S. troops Paul M. Dunn (1962), Post 278, Divernon, 111. lost recently in hot cold-war were Henry Sokolowski and Dr. Thomas Tyrrel and were slogging up the lower half of the cited by President Kennedy in his State John Winkler (all 1962), Post 330, Calumet City, Italian boot in WW2 and had just land- 111. of the Union message in January. The William J. Byrnes and William H. Calhoun and ed at Saidor, New Sylvan S. Chase and George J. Chiles (all 1962), President saluted them by name (a Sol- Post 348, Chicago, 111. Guinea, in the Pa- dier, an Airman and a Marine) as sym- William T. Ross (1962), Post 410, Chicago cific. He joined the Heights, 111. bols of the sacrifices made by members Anton J. Kokaisl and Paul J. Koscielniak and Army Oct. 21, John W. Krzysko and Joseph J. Kubat (all 1959), of today's Armed Forces. 1961. Post 419, Chicago, 111. Here are the three Roger R. Schnitker (1962), Post 477, Chrisman, Sgt. Gerald Pen- 111. Major Rudolph Anderson, United George Bigger (1962), Post 765, Stronghurst, 111. dell, United States Otto Fikejs and Edward Weinberger (both 1962), States Air Force, shot down over Cuba Marine Corps, Post 805, Chicago, 111. on Oct. 27, 1962, while piloting a U-2 B. Berenice Ostell (1962), Post 919, Chicago, 111. killed Oct. 6, 1962 Christian J. Behnke and Warren L. Stamer (both 1962) , Post 1009, Chicago, 111. when his helicopter C. C. Niederhauser and A. D. Shultz (both 1960), crashed in the Post 22, Marion, Kans. Johnson Marion B. Parrish (1963), Post 12, Richmond, mountains of South Ky. Byron Cook and Harry V. Davis, Jr. and Walter Viet Nam. He was born in Colchester, J. Doerting and Wm. L. Doolan, Jr. (all 1962), Louisville, Ky. raised Post 15, 111., and in Macomb, 111., where Robert L. Keys (1961), Post 203, Covington, Ky. his parents now reside. Perry A. Martin (1962), Post 110, Mt. Rainier, Md. Pendell joined the Marines, June 4, James C. Barry (1962), Post 26, Charlestown. Mass. 1955. His widow, Donna, was left in Edward F. Convery (1950) and John F. Bigelow Macomb with four children, ages 21 (1958), Post 69, Maiden, Mass. Edgar H. Martin (1962), Post 160, Adams, Mass. months to eight years. Frank Edward Spayd, Jr. (1962), Post 218, Bel- lingham, Mass. Anderson Pendell Kenneth E. Beaman (1962), Post 238, Shrews- bury, Mass. LIFE MEMBERSHIPS G. H. Quinn (1962), Post 106, Grayling, Mich. reconnaissance plane on a surveillance Ray Altenberg and C. Oscar Hammond and George R. Simmons (all 1960), Post 147, North- mission. Major Anderson was born in The award of a life membership to a Legionnaire by his Post is a testimonial ville, Mich. Spartansburg, South Carolina. His par- by those who know him best that he Oscar Gimmestas (1962), Post 309, Belview, has served The American Legion well. Minn. ents now reside in Greenville, S.C. Below are listed some of the pre- J. Emmet Hannon and Wm. L. Higi and Fred W. Kuchenbecker (all 1962, Post Anderson joined the Air Force, Nov. viously unpublished life membership Jefferson and E. L. Post awards that have been reported 472, Minneapolis, Minn. 6, 1951, during the Korean War. His to the editors. They are arranged by Hubert B. Brown (1962), Post 78, Slater, Mo. States or Departments. Thomas A. Ansel in (1959) and Lenus P. Boyer family: wife, Mrs. Jane Anderson and (1962), Post 253, Festus, Mo. Elmer E. Eldredge, Sr. and Roland W. Paige two sons, aged five and three. Paul K. McGinnis and Joseph Mvles Simpson (both 1962), Post 35, Hampton, N. H. (both 1963), Post Montgomery, Ala. Specialist Allen Unit- 2, Frank P. H. White (1958), Post 38, Haddonfield, James Johnson, C. Myrtle Kinsev and Philip Taylor (both 1962), N. J. Post 497, Bloomington, Calif. ed States Army, killed on November 20, Thomas D. L. Menchion (1959), Post 41, Oradell, Mary I. Waters (1962), Post 156, Coral Gables, N. J. 1962, when his observation post on the Fla. Thomas Duke (1959), Post 369, Oakland, N. J. Joel Bragg and John McCreary (both 1962), Post Schneider Post 107, New York, northern border of South Korea was at- Macon, Ga. James A. (1962), 3, N. Y. R. C. Anderson and Robert J. Frizol tacked by North Koreans. Johnson was (both 1962), Thomas L. Smith and Leon G. Warters (both Post 66, DeKalb, 111. 1963) , Post 256, Canandaigua, N. Y. born and raised in Paris, Ky., where his William E. Bradbury and Loren H. Brigham and Harry J. Schiller (1958) and Charles C. Smith Arthur V. Coulter (all 1963), Post 69. Robinson, parents still live. 111. (Continued on next page)

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Life Memberships 103rd Inf Reg't-(Apr.) Louis A. Boulette, 9 Park ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit St., Skowhegan, Maine. (Continued) 107th Engrs (WW1 & 2)-(Aug.) Edw. C. Vick- I Of More Than Local Interest I strom, 2012 Washington Ave., Ishpeming, Mich. iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiniitiT and A. S. Stevenson (both 1959), Post 391. Brook- 112th Cavalry— (Aug.) 112th Cavalry Association, lyn. N. Y. P.O. Box 1112, Dallas 21, Texas. A Michigan American Legion Post has Mark T. Lambert, Sr. and Frank J. Moran and 113th Cavalry-(Apr.) George A. Reeve, 4701 KorfT Frank G. McGonigle and Leland H. Outwater (all Road, S.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. provided an excellent example, on the 1961 ). Post 410, Lockport, N. Y. 148th Inf (WW2), Co. K and Hq Co - (June) M. Nottingham local level, of Ralph DeMarte and Claude and George Cisinski, 517 N. Buckeye St., Celina, the cooperation with edu- George W. Reuning, Sr. (all 1962), Post 702, Wells- Ohio. cators that was evidenced on the na- Mile. N. Y. 202nd Engrs Combat Bn, Co C-(July) Eldon E. Percy A. Blake and William C. Hutchings (both Miller, Box 225, Topeka, Ind. tional level last year when the American 1961) and Russell F. Lewis and Clarence E. Root 206th Coast Art'y, AA—(Aug.) Dewey W. Gartrell, (both 1962), Post 734, Attica, N. Y. P.O. Box 211, Sweet Home, Ark. Legion and the National Education As- Egbert A. Elmore and Carl J. Grabb and Ken- 209th Field Art'y Bn WWII & 2nd Bn 161st Field sociation jointly produced the teacher's neth Graham (all 1962), Post 922, Painted Post, Art'y Reg't-(June) Jack K. Embrey, 1717 Pop- N. Y. lar St., Winfield, Kans. manual Teaching About Communism- Ernest Scnn (1962), Post 1449. Blasdell, N. Y. 210th Gen. Hospital (C.Z.) - (July) Lowell M. Philip Lustig (1963), Post 130, Cleveland, Ohio. Dean, 185 Central Ave., Westerville, Ohio. Guidelines for Junior and Senior High John H. Brighty and Harry Cooper and Vern J. 303rd Field Art'y Bn-(June) J. W. Redding, 1424 School Teachers. Cory and Wade E. Harroun (all 1962), Post 468, Amy Court, Whitting, Ind. Sylvania, Ohio. 329th Inf Reg't (WWl)-(Aug.) Leon G. Burson, Frank Wendtland Post 253, Royal George E. Sheets (1962), Post 34, El Reno, Okla. Milton Center, Ohio. Orion Reeves and Charles F. Sandt and Ray- 338th Engrs Reg't (WW2)-(Aug.) Henry F. AIl- Oak, Mich., bought copies of the man- mond P. Shirer and William R. Simmers (all 1962), geier, 3211 Norma Lane, Louisville 20, Ky. ual from Legion National Hq and placed Post 9. Easton, Pa. 353rd Inf Reg't (WWl)-(Aug.) John C. Hughes, Lester Alberts and Walter Allanhaker and John 829 East Ave. B, Hutchinson, Kans. them in the hands of the Royal Oak pub- J. Ambrose and William D. Baxter (all 1963). Post 359th AAA Searchlight Bn - (Aug.) Leon C. 86, Susquehanna, Pa. Auchenbach, 121 Mayer Ave., Pennside, Read- lic and parochial school faculties. George Rankin and Joseph Welgo, Sr. and Harry ing, Pa. Ziegler School officials were asked to read (all 1961), Post 144, Middleport, Pa. 476th AAA AW Bn-(Aug.) J. C. Perry, 12-21st St. Robert I. Boose and J. E. Herring and Robert S. Ct. N.W., Birmingham 15, Ala. the manual, and then request any addi- Kantner (all 1962), Post 181, Somerset, Pa. 489th Port Bn (Army Transpt'n Corps) — (Aug.) Fred C. Mathies, 37 Henderson Ave., Staten tional books, films, pamphlets, etc., Life Memberships are accepted for Island 1, N.Y. which in their judgment would be valua- publication only on an official form, 524th MP Bn-(Aug.) Carl Heimerl, Rubicon, Wis. which we provide. Reports received 742nd MP Bn - (July) Roy L. Maring, Box 61, ble for teacher study on the nature of only from Commander, Adjutant or Moulton, Iowa. communism. Finance Officer of Post which awarded 752nd Rwy Op Bn, Co C-(May) Nick Brezny, 2504 30th Ave., N.E., Minneapolis 18, Minn. the life membership. Four schools in Royal Oak have al- 830th Engr Aviation Bn-(Aug.) James G. Scott, They may get form by sending 341 Northridge Rd., Circleville, Ohio. ready made numerous requests for such stamped, addressed return envelope to: 1906th Engr Aviat'n Bn, Hq & Service Co's-(July) "L. M. Form, American Legion Maga- Edwin Wagner, P.O. Box 185, Marks, Miss. materials, and as promptly Post 253 has zine, 720 5th Ave., New York 19, N.Y." 3875th QM Gas Supply, Co C-(Aug.) Raymond purchased them and donated them to On a corner of the return envelope E. Show, 809 Stevens St., Iowa Falls, Iowa. Ameri.al Ordnance Ass'n—(Aug.) John F. Fuino, the schools. Members of the Post put write the number of names you wish 567 Ridgemont Dr., Rochester 15, N.Y. to report. No written letter necessary their names down as volunteer donors. to get forms. NAVY As requests for books, etc., come in from 6th Marine Reg't, 97th Co-(June) Donald J. Mills, the schools, the Post orders them. When Rm. 2018, 203 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago 1, 111. 12th Defense & AAA Bn, Marines—(Aug.) Joseph they arrive, the Legion volunteer donors P. Urban, 697 S. Franklin St., Palmyra, Pa. list are notified, in turn 25th Seabees - (Aug.) Clyde F. Sheppard, 565 on the and each ^IIIIIIHIIIMfllllllinilllllllllllMIHIIIIfMllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIII'A' Thomas St. Extension, Kirwin Heights, Bridge- may pick the book, the price (usually $2 ville. Pa. 43rd Seabees-(Aug.) I. K. Williams, 1005 Scarlet, to $5) and the school to which he wants OUTFIT REUNIONS Seneca, S.C. his donation to go. It is given in his ^riiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMinifiiii^ 71st Seabees-(Aug.) Robert F. Bartczak, 5117 Indianapolis Blvd., East Chicago, Ind. name as well as the Post's. . . . Reported Reunion will be held in month indicated. 91st Seabees - (June) Wm. C. Hoffelder, 5123 For particulars, write person whose address Exeter, St. Louis 19, Mo. by L. Paul Jacobs, Post 253, Royal Oak, Carrier Qualifications Trn'g Unit — (June) E. F. is given. Mich. Johnson, 253 So. Highland Ave., Aurora, III. Notices accepted on official form only. CUB 8 - (June) Ray Porter, 412 S. Broadway, For form send stamped, addressed return Salem, 111. envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion Naval Op Base 157 (Palermo, Sicily)— (June) An- The Du Page County (111.) American Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y. thony G. Sabia, 3100 Edgewood Ave., Parkville Legion has excited Illinois financial cir- Notices should be received at least four 34, Md. months before scheduled reunion. Submarine Vets WW2 (Michigan Vets) — (June) cles with a resolution condemning the James E. Lewis, 506 Burr Oak St., Albion, Mich. Earliest submissions favored when vol- USS California-(June) Jack Land, 100 Le Havre use of municipal bonds to finance indus- of requests is ume too great to print all. Circle, Florrisant, Mo. trial development. (That is: The floating USS Chanticleer (ASR 7)-(Aug.) Paul C. Cottrell, ARMY 3706 Walnut Ave., Long Beach 7, Calif. of tax-exempt municipal bonds for the USS Enterprise - (July) Kenneth Gaebler, 3002 1st Cavalry Div-(Aug.) Alfred E. Stevens, P.O. South Shore Dr., Mishawaka, Ind. purpose of buying or improving sites for Box 11201, Albuquerque, N. Mex. USS Gustafson (DE 182)-(Aug.) Donald M. Glad- 4th Armored Div.-(Apr.) Ed Rapp, 144-47 72nd industry) son, 2336 St. Paul St., Indianapolis 3, Ind. Rd., Flushing 67, N.Y. Leviathan (WWl)-(Apr.) R. Lincoln Hed- 4th Cavalry— (Aug.) Mike Loberg, Annandale, USS The resolution originated in Hinsdale Minn. lander. Box 22, Cat Rock Rd., Greenwich. Conn. Santa Fe (CL 60)-(Aug.) Dr. G. C. Trimm, Post 256. 11th Engrs (WWl)-(May) Joseph V. Boyle, 326 USS 421 Alamo St., Lake Charles, La. York St., Jersey City 2, N.J. investment interests in Illinois WAVES, WW2, NAS Willow Grove, Pa.-(June) Private 12th Armored Div-(Aug.) Lawrence E. Mintz, Mrs. Frances Hoxworth Lewis, R.D. 4, Box 291- this 20020 Snowden Ave., Detroit 35, Mich. cheer the resolution, as they view A, Easton, Pa. 16th Armored Div-(Aug.) Lester Bennett, 5820 form of borrowing as direct government Recamper Dr., Toledo 13, Ohio AIR 29th Div-(Aug.) B. F. Cassell, 525 Parksley Ave., llth Bomb Grp (H)-(Aug.) Robert E. May, 13000 competition with the private investment Baltimore 23, Md. Eckel Junction Rd.. Perrysburg, Ohio. business. 33rd Div-(June) William L. Engel, 176 West 20th Aero Sqdn-lst Day Bomb Grp-(Aug.) Henry Adams St., Rm. 1634, Chicago 3, 111. L. McCabe, 450 A San Vincente Blvd., Santa Page County Legionnaires 42nd Div, The Du Co G, (WW1 & WW2)-(Aug.) Bob Monica, Calif. Kubik, 4117 N. Catherwood Ave., Indianapolis 325th Fighter Grp-317th, 318th, 319th & Hq Sqdns spell out even deeper dangers to funda- 26, Ind. —(June) Stanley L. Wilson, Zelienople, Pa. 48th Evac Hospital, mental concepts which they feel are in- CBI Vets-(July) Owen D. 388th Bomb Group— (Aug.) Edward J. Huntzinger, Sheehan, 1112 Lakeview Terrace, Plainfield, N.J. 863 Maple St., Perrysburg, Ohio. herent in this use of the governmental 69th Div (WW2)-(Aug.) Sol Rosenblitt, 601 Pel- 507th Fighter Group-(Aug.) D. E. Beck, 15490 ham Parkway, Bronx 67, N.Y. Eastwood Dr., Monroe, Mich. borrowing privileges. 69th Sig Bn-(July) Selah E. Morey, Rt. 1 Bour- Aero Sqdns 35 & 801-(Aug.) Frank C. Erhardt, bonnais, 111. Chicago Tribune financial commenta- 1256 East La Salle Ave., South Bend 17, Ind. 84th Div-(Aug.) Lee C. Allen, P.O. Box 141, Love Field, Detachment 914th QM Co-(July) L. C. tor William Clark noted in a full column Canton 1, Ohio. Mosshart, 4205 Morrow, Waco. Tex. 88th Div, MP Co's A & B (WWl)-(Aug.) Albert P.O.W.'s, Stalag Luft III-(Apr.) Dave Pollak, on Jan. 11, the "interesting" participa- J. Meyer, Cumberland, Iowa. Pollak Steel Corp., 10300 Evendale Dr., Cincin- 91st Chem Mort Co-(Aug.) Rodney D. Jacobson, tion of the Du Page County Legion in nati 15, Ohio. R.R. 4, Oskaloosa, Iowa. what had been pretty much a private 99th Div-(July) James Fennie, MISCELLANEOUS 100 Rosary Ave., — Lackawanna, N.Y. Iceland Vets, All services, USO & Red Cross war in financial circles. . . . Reported by 102nd Div-(Aug.) Abe Mitchell, 2 McKay Rd., (Apr.) Dave Zinkoff, 2101 Walnut St., Phila- Post Chicago. Bethel, Conn. delphia 3, Pa. Michael Tymusz, 47,

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 VICE, CRIME AND MARIJUANA (Continued from page 13) New Guaranteed Fund-raising Plan Both the Bureau of Narcotics and the A few years ago, the New York and gives you police of big cities testify that the New Jersey police went to work on a peddling of marijuana "reefers" has clique of young people who were hold- been stepped up alarmingly in recent ing marijuana revels on Staten Island MORE PROFIT years. So has the incidence of juvenile and in adjacent New Jersey communities. FROM delinquency grown at an alarming rate It appeared that young fellows were se- in recent years. How much marijuana ducing girls with the help of marijuana EVERY SALE! has to do with this latter development it cigarettes, at parties which became pro- is next to impossible to establish, for miscuous sex orgies. Two of these girls, reasons to be explained later. But that arrested during a raid on such a festivity, it is playing a part in it is scarcely to be were asked why they smoked "reefers." doubted. Their reply was, "Because it makes us Shame is one of the first inhibiting feel sexy." This was not an accurate ap- forces to be jettisoned by women who praisal of the effect of the drug. All it trifle with cannabis, according to the did for them was to release their normal police and medical authorities in those "sexy" urges from all the controls that countries where widespread use of can- they had been brought up to impose nabis is a problem. So it is, according to upon them. Thus, released from such one Brazilian writer on the subject, that checks as shame and fear of conse- i m "J no respectable woman ever touches the quences, they were free to go sex wild. stuff. "For if she does," he wrote, "she How much of this we owe to our Latin is not respectable long." neighbors who keep us supplied with our Reach your goal easier, faster In Chinese Turkistan, where half a hashish, who knows.' century ago this writer got his elemen- Insane crimes of violence brought on with Dolly Deere Candy tary education in the ways of cannabis by over-indulgence in cannabis are not Here's what sell: smoking and eating, the arrival of visi- so common; but when they do occur you A delicious assortment of chocolates with tors in a mountain village is the occasion they are humdingers. Early in February,

assorted natural centers . . . Brazil nuts, for a meshirep or entertainment. A sub- 1914, after crossing the Gobi Desert almonds, cashews, Virginia peanuts, grapefruit stantial feast is arranged, preceded by a from northwest China, this writer en- peel, orange crush, raspberry crush and raisins. Covered with deluxe dark and musical number, and the equivalent of a tered the big Hami oasis in Chinese milk chocolate. Packaged in a handsome cocktail party. The village girls assemble Turkistan and found the community see-thru plastic serving container personal- ized with your organization's name, pictuie at one end of the headman's living room, agog about a ghastly crime. It was per- and/or insignia printed on the wrapper. pound their tambourines, and sing, rath- petrated by a normally meek and gentle er dolefully. All the other village men Turki who herded a few sheep not far Here's how it works: and women sit cross-legged around the from the commercial community. With There's nothing to buy! Just order your candy and we deliver it — with us paying padded walls. When the girls have tuned the New Year festival near, he had come the freight. You pay for it after you sell it, up, the host begins putting into circula- into town to try to sell a couple of fat and you pay only for what you sell. You keep 450 for every dollar sale! And you can tion little containers of a dark paste sheep to a butcher of his acquaintance. return unsold candy to us! Think of it: not known as mayjen. As it is passed along, There he was immediately cajoled into one penny invested on your part! each man unlimbers his sheath knife, a bhang smoking party. The calabash Here's how we help you sell it: digs out a bit of the paste, and eats it. water pipe went round and round, and There is an experienced Dolly Deere repre- This paste is a mixture of powdered the shepherd, had never the who smoked sentative right in your area to sit down with bhang (alias hashish or marijuana), stuff before, became loquacious to the you and help you plan every step of the way! He's free, too! brown sugar and herbs. The purpose of point of hilarity. Around the shop were this substitute for the cocktail is to make hung legs and quarters of sheep and Here's why you can't miss! everyone cheerfully talkative. Except for cattle. These seemed to fascinate him, This isn't just another "assortment of choc- one young fellow who was led out in and he made incoherent remarks about olates." It's different — and everybody goes

for it. All you need is enthusiasm! . . . the what seemed to be a state of hysterical them. Finally the butcher, seeing that his same enthusiasm that got your organization merriment, it seemed to do no more than guest had had more than enough, led going in the first place! that. him outside and urged him to go home. Get all the details on the extra advantages offered by Dolly Deere, the fund-raising plan This writer observed, however, that When the shepherd had returned to his designed with your organization in mind. the women all passed the little mayjen own abode, his wife was abroad; but his Clip convenient coupon below, mail today! containers along without sampling them, 16-year-old daughter met him in the SEND COUPON TO: t 1 and that it was not offered to the singing doorway. He pushed her back, drew a AL-3 I I Dept. girls. When asked about this the next knife and cut her throat. He then pro- Dolly Deere Candy Company j Box 4830, Delaware Valley day, my host said: "No Turki women ceeded to cut her up, as he would an Philadelphia 24, Pa. j but harlots use bhang. When one of oui animal, and to strew her members about Gentlemen: Please tell me more about I the Dolly Deere Plan. women takes to it, she is soon every the shack. I j man's woman." When his wife returned and viewed

| Name Those who have read up on cannabis the horrible scene she ran screaming to | elsewhere may feel that the foregoing is the neighbors, who disarmed the mad Address__ . contrary to the oft-reiterated statement shepherd and dragged him off to town. I Phone I that cannabis is not an aphrodisiac. It's He was soon sober enough to explain to

Organization i true that cannabis is not an aphrodisiac the authorities that he had mistaken his j and does not stimulate the sexual urge. daughter for a hog and had cut her up I City State I But is does wipe out those inhibiting in- with the idea of having a New Year pork Age (if under 21) fluences under which that urge is kept feast. Nothing could have done him less j under control by civilized people. good than this explanation; for the idea

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 35 of a Moslem craving pork was almost as is several hundred feet below sea level. dence that the careless one had been disgusting a thought as his terrible crime. This was near midsummer, so most of drinking too much. This is not very dif- He had been executed the day before I the population had taken shelter indoors. ficult these days, and cases of persons arrived, and, for the time being, bhang My old innkeeper and I were comment- charged with reckless driving while "un- smoking was certainly in bad odor. ing on the heat. There was no traffic on der the influence" are proved. But how Another story of an insane illusion the town's main street except for a few often do we hear of a man being charged came from Brazil in an official report pedestrians hugging the shade of the with responsibility for a traffic accident only four or five years ago. A heavy buildings. while under the influence of marijuana? cannabis smoker had gone to a railway Then, as we watched, down the street Or for that matter, how often do we station to meet a friend. He was thor- came a lone horseman at an easy lope. read that a man caught redhanded in a oughly doped before he went there. As He bowed to us from the saddle, and crime of violence, or that a juvenile he stood on the station platform a train then, a second later, came a near tragedy. delinquent picked up in a gang-war kill- pulled in and stopped. Passengers began Three men, whom we had not noticed, ing, was under the influence of mari- descending the steps of the car. The can- emerged from an adjacent doorway, and juana? This writer has never seen such nabis smoker got it into his befuddled just as the horseman was saluting us, one a news item, and he doubts that they ap- " head that what he saw was a hostile mob of the three, an elderly man, started to pear. charging him, to do him in. dash across the road. He was, of course, The reason for this is very simply ex- For some unexplained reason he car- ridden down, but was not seriously hurt. plained. Unlike a drunk, the guilty sur- ried a revolver. This he drew, and fired As the rider came back to protest that vivor of a traffic accident who has been six shots at the descending passengers. he could not possibly have avoided the a heavy smoker of "reefers" is likely What the casualties were, and what was jay-walker, and as numerous persons to walk steadily and talk coherently. done with the dope-crazed madman did were putting the latter on his feet and Furthermore, and most important of all, not appear in the report. But that does dusting him off, we got the explanation it cannot be detected on his breath or not detract from the fact that where from the injured man. in his blood. No test has yet been devised cannabis is available to the mentally un- First, he and his friends had just by the medical fraternity to prove that sound, such things can happen. emerged from a bhang smoking party. a trouble-maker had been doped with Next comes consideration of a really Of course he had looked up the street cannabis. Even if he has a "reefer" or so serious current problem — the effect of before trying to cross it. Of course he on his person, the police cannot prove marijuana on the vision of the driver had seen the horseman coming; but he that he has been smoking any. of a vehicle in our modern traffic, or had been coming very, very slowly, and This being the frustrating situation of upon his judgment of what he sees. was at least 50 paces up the street when those who would like to hold our con- There are differences of opinion about the bhang smoker had made his dash. sumption of hashish responsible for its almost everything pertaining to mari- There was naturally much discussion of share in our troubles, the reader might juana, but there seems to be no doubt in this among those who had assembled; be interested in knowing where mari- any competent observer's mind that a and it was from this that this writer juana stands legally. few "reefers" can seriously affect any learned for the first time how cannabis First of all, be it known that the smok- man's judgment of time and distance. can play the deuce with one's estimates ing of marijuana is not, in itself, a viola-

Now I must tell another story; one of time and distance. So it is easy to see tion of any law. Eating it, as they do in about my introduction to this problem. how "reefer" smoking may, and prob- many parts of Asia, is not yet popular Once upon a time I stood in the doorway ably does, play a part in many traffic among our demoralized elements, nor is of my inn in Turfan. That city is reputed accidents caused by some fellow's inex- drinking infusions of it, as is done in to be the hottest in Central Asia because plicably careless driving. In all such India, popular. But such indulgences it is surrounded by red hot deserts and cases the police are on the alert for evi- would be no more illegal than "reefer" smoking, anyway.

What is punishable under the Federal Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, or under

the various State laws, is the unlawful

acquiring, possession or sale of it. Since

no person is registered under the Federal Act at this time to produce marijuana in the United States, substantially all the hashish available to the underworld

in this country is smuggled in from

abroad — and most of it from Mexico. Relatively trifling quantities of cannabis can be, and are, legally imported for medical and scientific experimentation. Though vague hope persists that cannabis may prove to be an antibiotic, few medical men are interested. The World Health Organization, in 1952, reported that the use of cannabis in medicine was virtually obsolete, and that its continued use was no longer justified. A few decades ago cannabis appeared in the United States Pharmacopeia as a source of drugs used in American medical practice. It will not be found in current edi- tions of that work. This did not, of course, put a ban upon cannabis in American practice, but

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it coincided with the consensus of medi- with sagging shoulders as though waiting cal opinion in the United States, and it for us to do something with him, or to simply is not readily available from him. pharmaceutical outlets. After some hesitation my friend took MEN PAST40 The penalties for unlawful acquiring from a pocket under his broad brocade little metal of or sale, under the above-mentioned Tax sash one of those boxes Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, Act of 1937, as amended, are surprising- mayjem which the elegant ones carry to Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, ly heavy. The mandatory sentences for offer one another, as Mongols offer each Nervousness, Tiredness. other their snuff bottles. He opened the unlawful sale are not less than five years, If you are a victim of the above symp- nor more than 20 years for the first lid with a knife, dug it into the paste, toms, the trouble may be due to Glandu- offense; nor less than ten years, nor more and produced a small-sized pill on the lar Inflammation—a constitutional Dis- ease for which it is futile for sufferers than 40 years for the second. These tip of it, which he proffered to the to try to treat themselves at home. penalties are surprising because the law stupid one, who took the knife, put the In men of middle age or past this small tip in his mouth, swallowed what was on was enacted at a time when many type of inflammation occurs frequently. it, and it back. waited what medical groups and individuals were handed We It is often accompanied by despond- busy giving marijuana a thorough white- seemed to me some very long minutes. ency, emotional upset and other mental and nervous reactions. Neglect of such washing. Their confreres and other in- Then the light of intelligence began to inflammation may cause men to lose dawn on his vapid face. After another terested persons were led to believe that their vigor, grow old prematurely and friend said sharply: the smoking of a little hemp at a social long minute my often leads to incurable conditions. are you?" gathering was no more pernicious than "Who Most men, if treatment is taken in the dispensation of a little hard cider at With a sheepish look the other mur- time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- is . . a husking bee. mured: "My name Aziz . and you mation. If the condition is aggravated are Ibrahim Akhum, my good friend." One of the extenuating claims for the by lack of treatment, surgery may be looked at his innocence of marijuana was that use of He me, raised brows, as he the only chance. realized for the first time that I was a it did not result in "addiction." The foreigner, and gave me a stiff little bow. meaning of this is that a person might NONSURGICAL TREATMENTS When he finally announced that he was smoke or eat cannabis for an unlimited The NON-SURGICAL treatments going home, and Ibrahim was sure that time, and yet, when deprived of it, have used at the Excelsior Medical Clinic he was fit to go, a few bows ended the no craving for it. This is not unchal- are the result of discoveries in recent episode, and he was off down the street years of new techniques and drugs plus lenged, but it is so generally true that at a good clip. over 20 years research by scientific nothing is to be gained by quibbling over technologists and Doctors. father is wealthy," it. Yet, as a British Indian Army surgeon "His Ibrahim ex- Men from all walks of life and from plained. "He owns hundreds of camels. protested to this writer in Singapore over 1,000 communities have been suc- many years ago, there is only too often Aziz keeps his books, but he smokes cessfully treated here at Excelsior a mental condition, as a result of pro- bhang all day and half the night; he Springs. They found soothing and com- forting relief and better health. longed over-indulgence in cannabis, rarely leaves home, but when he does is too long abroad, which is an even more serious disability and this is what hap- EXAMINATION REDUCIBLE than a true addict's craving for a drug. pens. He forgets his name and where he AT LOW COST HERNIA lives, The commonest result is loss of memory. and recognizes nobody. There are When you arrive is also amenable to a mild Non- Surgical others like him here in Urumchi." at This took the writer back to another the clinic, our treatment available doctors — who have here. of his memories bhang in Chinese In the foregoing this writer certainly of years of experience has not provided a complete catalogue of RECTAL-COLON Turkistan. It was in Urumchi, the capi- in this field — make DISORDERS all the demoralizing effects that can- complete examina- tal of that Chinese province of Sinkiang, a Are often associate* tion. Your condition with (meaning, believe it or not, the New nabis, hashish, bhang, or marijuana can Glandular in- is frankly explained flammation. Frontier) have upon the human mind and char- and then you decide Either or both of acter. He would have to go to Egypt, or I was taking a stroll one midsummer if you will take the these disorders may be treated at the Syria, to Turkey, or India to learn all the day along the main thoroughfare of the treatments needed. same time you are Our treatments are receiving Glandular big Moslem suburb of Urumchi (Tihua, reasons why governments detest it and so mild, hospitaliza- Inflammation treat- fight it. to I ments. the Chinese), when met an amiable tion is not needed. young Turki whom I had not seen for Although hemp has been grown Write Today For Our # some weeks. When I demanded to know throughout Europe for something like Our New Free Book where he been hiding explained 2,000 years as a valuable source of fiber had he gives facts that may that he and a couple of friends had been and oil, and although the use of hashish save you painful, expensive surgery. Tells on a hunting trip in the hills. While I has been unfavorably known in adjacent HOW and Explains was being regaled with an account of parts of Asia for at least 1,000 years, the WHY NON-SURGICAL the trip, another well-dressed young use of cannabis as a narcotic did not treatment methods are so successful today. Turki came shuffling slowly towards us, cross the Hellespont until shortly before Write today. No obliga- and my friend stopped his recital to stare marijuana was inflicted upon us. Then it tion. at him. He might have been good-look- was brought into Greece by soldiers re- EXCELSIOR ing if he had had a trace turning from Turkey. of expression MEDICAL CLINIC on his face, but In Greece it is regarded as no light he was staring blankly i Dept. H-l 151 ahead of him with no more showing of burden on society. Much has been pub- Excelsior Springs, Mo. J human intelligence on his features than lished by both official and medical au- I Gentlemen: Kindly send me at once, your New FREE Book. I am interested in full one might thorities about the association I expect from a man in a of hashish I information (Please Check Box) trance. He would have made his way with crime, with citations of cases run- Hernia Rectal-Colon Clanduiar - Inflammation past us if my young friend had not ning into the hundreds. Here, the grow- caught his arm, swung him around and ing use of the stuff is only 30 years old ! NAME hailed him by name. He did then put on and in the estimation of most of our ADDRESS- J an expression of hopeless puzzlement, people, who learn next to nothing from \ TOWN- mumbled incoherently, and dropped his the news about its potentialities, its major \ STATE » eyes. He did not move, but just stood purpose is to develop gaiety at the parties

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 37 of the glamorous. That there is a market then ground and sifted again, and the the country to make a huge number of for it among juvenile delinquents has fine-grained quantity is ready to be pack- "reefers." The best reason why it doesn't not yet sunk into the national conscious- aged and smuggled across the Rio happen is that the average dope pusher ness. Only recently, the New York po- Grande to underworld operators who probably would not know a hemp plant lice gave some publicity to the vigorous make the "reefers" and distribute them from a cabbage. But that may not always campaign they are conducting against to the pushers. "Reefer" peddlers get be true. the peddlers of "reefers" — marijuana anywhere from a quarter to a dollar each Finally, there is little point in using cigarettes — to high school and college for them. so many words to establish that mari- students. This they have found has It is because of this traffic that we no juana is just as dangerous a drug in the reached the status of big business. longer grow hemp for those industries United States as hashish has long been Nor have the police much knowl- that use the fiber and hempseed oil. Such known to be in Asia, unless one can sug- edge that it is contributing to sexual cultivation is subject to permits, and the gest ways of checking its distribution debauchery among young women. So far harvesting and marketing of hemp is and discouraging its use. as we know, no underworld boss has yet subject to so many checks that, in nor- To begin with, it must be said that aspired to be a Hassam ben Sabbah and mal times, the farmer who once grew it there can be no overnight solution of to turn young marijuana-bribed assassins as freely as he did wheat or potatoes this problem. There must, first of all, be loose on us. But there is nothing in the will not bother with it. But there is a nation-wide appreciation of its serious- history of the stuff to persuade us that demand for it. The fiber has many ness. Heavy penalties play their dis- that isn't in the offing. Our medical folk familiar uses, and the oil goes into soaps, couraging part when they are imposed. haven't yet come up with a formula by paints, linoleum and other products. So But they are not imposed unless public which we can put responsibility for a it was that during World War II, when opinion insists that the police deliver traffic accident on a marijuana smoker, virtually all shipping was serving our culprits in court, and unless the courts but that does not rule out the great like- armed forces, the importation of foreign are convinced that public opinion favors lihood that "reefers" play a part in such hemp and oil came to a standstill, and the imposition of heavy sentences. crashes. prices rose sufficiently to make it worth Public awareness of marijuana as a In short, the public is not yet awake while in a half-dozen States to struggle subverter of morals and morale is there- to the fact that those who smuggle mari- with the formalities and grow hemp fore the first essential condition to a juana into this country from Mexico, again. But after the war, when foreign solution of the American hashish prob- and then peddle it in our big cities, with fiber and oil began coming in again at lem. To this the press can contribute ever-heavier pressure on the school-age low prices, hemp production in the Uni- enormously by taking seriously every market, are guilty of a serious assault ted States fell off once more. During criminal case in which marijuana plays upon the nation's morale. recent years not a single acre of hemp a part, and by encouraging the police to The penalties imposed in 1937, and has been grown in this country under expose more such cases. the strengthening of the penalties by the Marijuana Tax Act. It would help if the silly Mexican the Federal and State governments since This does not mean that hemp has word "marijuana" were gradually aban- then, do say all of that. But it is a notori- vanished utterly from the American doned, if hashish were substituted for it, ous fact in the legal world that police, landscape. Clumps of wild hemp may be and if newspaper readers were, as often prosecutors, judges and juries are never encountered almost anywhere. All big as possible, reminded that "assassin" keen on convictions which call for heavy birds are fond of the seeds; and some means hashhish. Then, too, the medical penalties, while public opinion continues small animals, like flying squirrels and fraternity could perform a great service to look on the offenses so heavily penal- chipmunks, add them to their winter by taking a new look at the physical and ized as rather picayune doings. Here re- stores, losing some by the way. Every psychological effects of cannabis on member prohibition! year New York City's police turn out body and mind, and giving some pub- The reader may by now be curious for their autumn hemp harvest, cutting licity to its findings. to know how this poisonous stuff is pre- all they find growing in vacant lots and Last but not least, state and local pared for export to us. It is very simple. on uncultivated land in the outlying school authorities should go into action

Any Mexican peon who can grow a little boroughs. Their haul is always surpris- to convince all students that marijuana, hemp can prepare marketable marijuana. ingly large, amounting to some hundreds alias hashish, the "assassin's" dope, is an The leaves and flowers are dried and of pounds. If all State authorities were abominable drug. Then we would be ground. The resultant particles are then equally assiduous, it would probably be making a start on the solution of our put through a sieve. The coarse stuff is found that there is enough wild hemp in hashish problem. the end

THE FUNNY SIDE OF SPRING TRAINING (Continued from page 19) he could catch a baseball thrown from at night, banging blocks together and with great confidence. Few of them paid an airplane. Stengel and several of his hunting for the elusive snipe. Others any attention to me. But that didn't mat- teammates didn't think he could and, on have spent hours trying to locate keys to ter. The important thing was that I was the next afternoon, hired a plane and bet the pitcher's box or a few dozen feet of going to spring training camp, and going against their manager. Robinson made shore line. For the rookies of the early on a train. I couldn't sleep all night, the catch — circling under the ball as it 1900s, spring training could be a night- wondering what it'd be like in the morn- dropped from approximately 400 feet. mare, and George Herman Ruth was no ing and all the days and months after But it didn't turn out exactly as he had exception. "I was 19 and I was the that. There was another reason I couldn't expected. Someone (many people think proudest, greenest kid in the country," sleep. One of the older players, a catcher it was Stengel) had substituted a juicy said Ruth about his rookie year. "I'll named Ben Egan, had easily talked me grapefruit for the baseball and Robinson never forget the ride to the station the into one of the oldest gags in baseball. almost drowned making the catch. day I left Baltimore and the orphanage. He told me, as dumb rookies before me

Most of the time it was the rookie, not The whole thing seemed like a dream to and after me have been told, that the the manager, who played the foil for the me. There were other players on the little clothes hammock that reached from veterans' spring pranks. Hundreds of railroad platform — players who knew one end of the berth was put there for rookies have prowled around woods late each other well and talked and walked me to rest my pitching arm. I held my

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arm up in this uncomfortable position all pitcher Red Ruffing, a needier who be- Step into one of the highest night, because more than anything I lieved a rookie should be neither seen wanted to act like a pro. The train pulled nor heard. He took one look at DiMag- paid jobs in business into Fayetteville, N.C. (site of the train- gio's outstretched hand, snarled, "So this ing camp) early the next morning with is the great DiMaggio?" and turned BECOME AN EXPERT the first spring training injury of the away. Fortunately for the Yankees, Di- year. A rookie named Ruth had a Maggio recovered, but, even as an es- cramped and sore pitching arm, thanks tablished star, he always remained quiet- to the rest he had given it." ly aloof from admiring rookies. ACCOUNTANT One of the wildest teams in baseball The war years brought drastic changes history was the St. Louis Cardinals of both to baseball and to spring training. ...AUDITOR.. .CONTROLLER. ..CPA the 1930s, nicknamed the Gas House In 1943, Joseph B. Eastman, director of Gang. They played hard and they wartime transportation, asked Judge LA SALLE The demand for trained clowned hard, and their king was a zany, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, commission- Accountants far exceeds the trains you supply. Salaries are at an all- in your spare hillbilly pitcher called Dizzy Dean. From er of baseball, to ban training from time high. Accounting-trained time at his first spring training, he almost California and Florida because of troop men move up to big positions was home in business. LaSalle's distin- sportswriter transportation agreed everyone's favorite. To each problems. Landis guished faculty prepares you in in his first camp, he gave a different birth and, in 1943-44-45, the training camps spare time at home for an Ac- counting career. You work with date and birth place. Accused of lying, were restricted to north of the Potomac actual Accounting problems, ac- he explained: "Hell, I wasn't lyin'. I was and Ohio Rivers and east of the Missis- quire real experience. Thorough, practical, enjoyable— and quick just helpin' those writer fellas out. Them sippi, except for the two St. Louis teams in results. Many students report up to pay increase even be- ain't lies — them's scoops." One after- which trained in Missouri. Spring train- 56% fore completing training. Low ACCOUNTING noon in his first spring training in 1930, ing remained a funny, but not so sunny cost. Mail coupon: LaSalle,417S. Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, 111. Dean sat on the bench as the Cardinals time of the year for baseball players. played the great Philadelphia Athletics The new camps were set up in Bear SEND FOR FREE BOOKLET AND SAMPLE LESSON and said, loud enough for everyone to Mountain, Asbury Park, Atlantic City, | LA SALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY hear, "What a bunch of bums! I wisht Evansville, French Lick, and other snow- fi A Correspondence Institution 417 S. Dearborn St., Dept. 15-021 Chicago 5, III. I was throwin' against 'em." Gabby swept northern cities. The training cer- J I Please send free booklet "Opportunities in Street, manager of the Cardinals, never tainly wasn't the same, but then again | Accounting" and interesting sample lesson. did appreciate brash rookies and he de- neither were the players. Name Age. cided it was time to teach Dean a lesson. In 1944, a rookie approached Chicago When the A's filled the bases with no one Cub manager Charley Grimm before a Address. out, Street told Dean, then only 19, to go spring practice session. "I'm 4F," said City & Zone . . in and pitch. Dean obeyed — and struck the kid. "I can hit better than Ted Wil- ! County....,..,...... ,, State.... out Al Simmons, Jimmy Foxx, and liams, throw harder than Dizzy Dean, , 1112 1 Mickey Cochrane in that order retiring play the outfield better than Joe DiMag- the side. gio, and, if you need me, I can coach, Another spring, Dean arrived at the too." FLORIDA Cardinals' camp in Bradenton, Fla., "You must be some kind of a nut," SUWANNEE RIVER broke and decided he had to get some said Grimm. Here's why you should buy today. money. One afternoon he got an idea — "That's right," said the rookie. "That's V4 acre — $295 full price he made a deal with an aviator to adver- why I'm 4F." S5.00 down, 110.00 per month. Free tise that Dizzy Dean would parachute Once the war ended, baseball returned title insurance. No interest. 60-day money his plane to normal, but spring training began to from the next Sunday and they back guarantee. All lots high and dry. would split the proceeds. He never did change. The move was back to Florida County maintained roads. Great Fishing, get to jump — but only because the Car- and the sunshine, but the philosophy was Hunting, Investment. dinal front office found out about his away from the sprawling, informal For free color folder — write plan and gave him an advance on his camps of the 1930s and early 1940s. Suwannee River Park Estates, salary. When he tired of clowning alone, The trend suddenly was toward a mono- Dept. 304 Box 87, Live Oak, Fla. he frequently joined teammate Pepper lith camp where an organization brought AD 62010 Martin in tossing water out of hotel win- all its players — major league and minor dows, riding in fire engines, and racing league — into one city. The biggest and midget autos. "I did some pretty crazy the best of these camps was Branch NO NEED TO WEAR things in my day," says Stengel, "but Rickey's innovation called Dodgertown those Cardinals in spring training had at Vero Beach. Set up in 1949, it housed everybody beat. The Yankees, well, they in its first spring 425 players from 23 A TRUSS were different. After Ruth, they didn't teams, 17 umpires, 17 ground keepers, raise too much hell." five trainers, and four doctors. For the Yet even the Yankees had their spring- first time, baseball rookies were treated FOR RUPTURE training characters. silent like college freshmen and given detailed camp A shy, That Binds, Cuts, Gouges, young man, rookie outfielder Joe DiMag- questionnaires to fill out. Unfortunately, Slips and Does Not Hold gio had said not more than a few words some of Brooklyn's rookies in 1949 ap- If you must wear a Truss for Rupture, don't to teammates Frank Crosetti and Tony parently weren't ready for high school. miss this. A Post Card, with name and address, is all you send to W. S. Rice, Inc., Dept. 8-P, Lazzeri during their entire cross country Question: "What is the state of your Adams, N. Y., to get FREE, and without obliga- drive from San Francisco to the Yan- health?" tion, the complete modernized Rice Plan of Re- kees' Florida camp in the spring of 1936. One answer: "Pennsylvania." ducible Rupture Control. Now in daily use by thousands who say they never dreamed possible Finally, he was introduced to the rest of Question: "How did you go last year?" such secure, dependable and comfortable rupture the Yankee veterans in the dressing One answer: "By train. Buses make protection. Safely blocks rupture opening, prevents escape, without need for bulky, cumbersome room. Everyone me sick." had heard of DiMaggio Trusses, tormenting springs or harsh, gouging and almost everyone tried to make him Stengel was another baseball man who pad pressure. Regardless of how long ruptured, size, occupation, or trusses you have worn. TRY feel welcome. The one exception was changed the face of spring training. A THIS, and send your Post Card today. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 39 delightfully impractical ballplayer, he sensations, Hartung proved a dismal dis- sent out looking for snipes, and many of was a thoroughly practical manager appointment, returning year after year them even know the correct state of when he joined the Yankees in 1949. only to be reminded of his previous fail- their health. "I heard from my father Modeling his camp somewhat along the ures. One spring, Bill Roeder, a fine, that spring training used to be a little lines of Dodgertown, he went one step young baseball writer traveling with the wild," said New York Yankee Rookie of further — setting up rookie camps and Giants, wrote a moving piece about the 1962, Tom Tresh, whose father Mike special classes before the veterans ar- faded phenomenon, standing alone and caught for the White Sox and Indians in rived in Florida. It paid off almost im- depressed in front of a pinball machine, the 1940s. "With the Yankees, it's differ- mediately (some products: Mickey while his teammates mingled together ent. It's like belonging to the best frater- Mantle, Tony Kubek, Gil McDougald, and joked. The story was so good that nity on campus. You get the feeling that and Tom Tresh). Other managers were each paper (belonging to the syndicate) you belong to the greatest team in the less practical and less successful. Among held off using it until the Giants played world. When Mickey Mantle and Whitey their innovations: track stars (Harrison in their town. In each city, Dallas, San Ford go out of their way to be nice to a Dillard and Leslie MacMitchell) to teach Antonio, and Houston, Hartung picked rookie, the rookie isn't about to forget players how to run, football coaches up his morning paper and read the same it."

(Notre Dame's Terry Brennan) to con- story about himself under Bill Roeder's Yet baseball today, fortunately, still dition them, and sharpshooters to im- byline. Finally, after the sixth day, Har- does have its characters. Frank Thomas prove their vision. tung exploded. He cornered Roeder, of the New York Mets still bets team- Yet the spring trainings of the 1950s grabbed him by the lapels, and shouted, mates he can catch barehanded any ball weren't all work and no play. Yankee "Look, when the hell you going to stop they throw, and writer-righthander Jim righthander Don Larsen, the only man writing the same story about me every Brosnan of the Cincinnati Reds still takes ever to pitch a perfect game in the World day?" Another tragic, though comical notes in the bullpen for his latest book.

Series, was convinced he could find a case was the small-town bonus boy who But king of the kooks is pitcher Bo laugh anywhere and wrecked his car came to Baltimore's spring training a few Belinsky of the Los Angeles Angels. An against an unbending palm tree one years ago only to discover he had a unheralded rookie, he arrived nine days spring night in pursuit of his ideal. mental block against pitching in front of late for spring training last year, im- Brooklyn's Billy Loes, since traded sev- big crowds. mediately called his own press confer- eral times, was one of baseball's original For the most part however, today's ence at poolside at the Palm Springs thinkers. ' Why should I try to win 20 ballplayer is less tragic than Hartung, less camp, explained that he was delayed by games?" he told a group of writers one colorful than Dean, and less amusing a pool tournament, and immediately de- spring. "If you win 20 once, then you than Stengel. Today's rookies are not manded a raise. Los Angeles general got to win 20 all the time. It's easier to manager Fred Haney, a master prankster win 14 all the time and everybody's hap- in his own right, was stunned. "This kid's py." And Warren Spahn and Lew Bur- got to be crazy," said Haney. "If he dette would have been a good match doesn't like what we're giving him, he even with Stengel in his prime, in the wet can go home and shoot pool." Belinsky, towels and water pistols departments. who wears monogrammed undershorts One of the writers' favorite ballplay- and $100 sport jackets, and dates show- ers was Billy Martin, the Yankees' cocky, girls and actresses, stayed and contrib- little hell-raiser who left New York when FOR MARCH uted heavily to one of the most comical the management felt he was leading training camps in years. Mickey Mantle astray. Never a great By National Chaplain Even the Los Angeles front office got ballplayer, Martin was the last to admit into the act. For each Angel, the man- Rabbi Albert M. Shulman his inadequacies. Four springs ago he sat agement provided a new bicycle with on a bench in a Lakeland, Fla., locker Temple Betb-El the player's name on it, for transporta- room, drinking beer and talking about South Bend, Indiana tion from the hotel to the ballpark. his favorite character — Billy Martin. "I'd better be careful," said owner- Religion is matter of aware- "Ted Williams was a great ballplayer, a cowboy Gene Autry, climbing on his ness. are aware of our spirit- right?" he asked a group of writers. We racer, "or I'll get bucked off." to are "Right," chorused the writers. ual obligations God. We "Hey, fat boy," pitcher Ted Bowsfield aware of our civil responsibilities "Could he hit better than me?" asked shouted to 240-pound first-baseman Martin. to our country. We are aware of Steve Bilko, "you need a bicycle built for "Yes." our moral responsibilities to life. two." And we are aware of our human "Could he field better than me?" As expected, Belinsky had the last "No." responsibilities to our fellow men. word. "That Haney, he thinks of every- This is our heritage as "Could he run better than me?" human thing," said Belinsky. "He'd do anything "No." beings. ... To serve our fellow to save bus fare." in every field of endeavor. "Could he throw better than me?" men As long as there are Belinskys — and "No." This is our heritage as free men. the supply seems endless — spring train-

. . . To use our many gifts to build "Well if Williams was great," said ing will continue to be the sunny, funny a better community and a stronger Martin, grinning, "what does that make side of baseball. "Sure, a player's got to me?" nation. take his baseball serious," said Stengel, Dedicated to such an ideal In every spring training, there are the as who did not have many laughs manag- exemplified in the aims of our rookie sensations who have six-week ing the feeble New York Mets in 1962. American Legion, we can only be tours of glory, then spend the rest of "But he can't be so serious all the time. grateful for the many blessings we their lives wondering what happened to If you don't have time to laugh and enjoy as free men living in a free them. Perhaps the most tragic was Clint clown around a little, you're missing out Hart ung, the Hondo Hurricane who was society. on everything. Baseball can be pretty Amen. ( going to hit 70 home runs, pitch 45 vic- damn dull if you don't know how to tories, and win the pennant for the New laugh." York Giants in 1947. Like most spring THE END

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"How did you know there was a Bible and reread as an example of some of the She read on and on — the ancient, on the desk?" the man finally asked. finest literature the world has ever pro- beautiful poetry of the Psalmist, the "Never mind — just read as I direct." duced." magnificent, singing words of the proph- Across the miles which separated That reader made another point. The et Isaiah. them, the minister suggested portions of Bible, he felt, like most other great "By and by I was calm," she said. "I the scripture which would prove helpful. books, is more meaningful when read went to bed, and to sleep. It occurred to The sequel, as well as the story itself, with a background of adult knowledge me to wonder how many others in this is on record in the Gideon files. The man and experience. One thing he did ques- small hotel, concerned as I was, were read the passages suggested, and went tion, however, was the lack of a concord- also drawing comfort as I did. It was a home to his family, sober. Through let- ance. The Gideons have an explanation kind of miracle that the Bible should be

ters he continues to keep in touch with for this omission. By and large, their there at a time when it was so much the minister and he is no longer a com- readers are not Bible scholars. A con- needed." pulsive drinker. The Gideons, being businessmen, and While the minister would know about as such, eminently practical, have no in- the presence of the Bible and certainly tention of leaving the distribution of approve of the society responsible for Bibles to miracles or happenstance.

placing it there, he himself could not be These books arrive at their appointed a member. For though the Gideon Soci- place according to a well worked out ety is frankly Protestant and Evangelis- plan — conceived, financed and executed

tic, it is interdenominational, and the by the organization. Nothing, except the inclusion of ministers might suggest to reading of course, is left to chance. some the possibility of an attempt to Individual membership dues — $15 a spread an individual church's belief. year — are used to maintain the central The Gideon Society has no crash pro- office in Chicago. The Camps responsible gram for enlistment, seeking neither for placing Bibles in their own territory large numbers nor great publicity. Ac- can do so only as they themselves raise cording to their own statement, they re- funds for this purpose. For the most part, cruit "Men who are spiritually mature, this money comes from voluntary gifts, who are meeting the public in pursuit of with churches contributing the greater their daily occupations, who have a share. measure of independence in the use of Once a year Gideons appear in the their time, who have a measure of finan- local Protestant pulpits in order to cial independence, and who think and act give an account of the work accom- administratively." The applicant must be plished. After this report, an offering is a member in good standing of his church taken to be used in future work. Actual- ". and have the recommendation of his . . But I like instant coffee." ly, although each Camp is self-sustain- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE minister. ing, the money so collected is sent to the If accepted, he joins a local group headquarters office in Chicago, with the called a "Camp." There are more than cordance would serve only to baffle them local Camp receiving credit. Fifty-seven 800 of these Camps in the United States, if, indeed, they knew what they were percent of this money is for local use; with additional hundreds scattered all looking for in the first place. 30 percent goes to the foreign program; over the world. Gideon Camps see that Instead, there are suggested readings, 3 percent is used for administration; Bibles are distributed in their own lo- giving chapter and verse, together with 10 percent is earmarked for providing cality. the page on which they may be found, servicemen with testaments. After experimenting with various telling what the Bible says about God Once the money is collected, the Gide- translations, the Gideons settled upon and Man, Heaven and Hell, Faith and ons go about the business of Bible dis- the King James Version. These are Life, and Christ and his life and work. tribution.

printed by the National Bible Press in One of these readings is the best known In the early days, a few hotel Philadelphia at a cost of slightly more verse in the Bible, John 3:16, which the managers objected rather vigorously to than one dollar each. On the cover is Gideon Bible has translated into 22 of placing Bibles in hotel rooms. They imprinted the Gideon insignia, the pitch- the important languages understood by maintained that hotels were not religious er with the protruding flame. three-quarters of the world's population. institutions, but catered to all who came, The Gideons are always pleased to The Bible draws no division line of irrespective of their beliefs. However, know that a great many ordinary people, faith or creed in offering comfort in time this hostility long since has disappeared. harboring no desperate problems, also of need. A young Jewish woman states Recently, when a large hotel was built turn to the Bible they find in their rooms. that she had taken her mother to a in Chicago, the local Camp found itself "I picked up the Bible out of sheer hospital for tests to determine a possible without sufficient funds to order Bibles boredom," one man relates. "There was malignancy. Worried and distraught, she for each room. The manager, when told simply no other reading material at checked in at a hotel to await the report of the situation, sent a check for $500 hand." It had been years since he had on the tests, due the following morning. to help out on the enterprise. read the Bible and now he was amazed Once there, she picked up a Gideon "I believe it's good business to have to find how much it interested him. He Bible lying on the table. The first verse Bibles in hotel rooms," he explained. read on and on. Finally he looked at his her eye fell upon was that beautiful one Perhaps the following incident, related watch. Two o'clock, and he was still from Psalms 121. "I will lift up mine by a hotel manager, might explain the reading. eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh reason for this attitude. "I had forgotten, if I ever knew," he my strength. My strength cometh from A man appeared at a hotel desk, ready said, "how magnificent the Bible is. If the Lord, who hath made heaven and to check out. He hesitated, and then for no other reason, it should be read earth." finally blurted out his story. Broke and

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desperate, he was without money either Bible. One large chain has ordered that FOLLOW THE LEADER on his person or in the bank with which it be placed on the bedside table rather It's the to pay for his room. Finally he had de- than in the dresser drawer in order that NEW of course cided the only way to meet the situation it will be more easily accessible to guests. was to forge a check. Having made the Perhaps, in part, this eager acceptance Put yourself in the driver's decision, he reached into the desk in his is due to the fact that in the early days seat! Your El Dorado Dealer will gladly show you why room for a pen with which to write. And of their existence, motels achieved an HONORBUILT COACHES ISSL are "out front of 'em all" there, lying in plain sight, was a Gideon ill-deserved reputation for being sin- in interior styling, crafts- manship and finest mate- Bible. spots. Today, with every man and his rials. using "Suddenly I realized the real nature devoted family on the road and Whether you choose a CAMPER COACH of the thing I was about to do," he said. motels freely, the stigma has ceased to or the revolutionary NEW TRAVEL TRAILER "I have come to tell you I do not have exist. / if HONORBUILT the money, but if you will permit me to With Americans traveling everywhere, made it you know it's the go home, I'll mail you the amount of my it was only logical that the work of the Best by Test. El Caminchero, the ONLY Trailer made for COMPACT CARS. Mention choice when writing bill as soon as I am able." Gideons be extended to include countries to nearest Factory for FREE Brochure and name of Dealer. Since the story seemed genuine, the all over the world. As in the United TRAILER MFG. CO., INC. manager agreed to give the man a States, each foreign Camp is composed HONORBUILT chance. Eventually, the bill was paid. of businessmen from that particular area. 19940 HANSEN AVE., LAKEVIEW, CALIF.

Occasionally, someone asks if it is While they are helped in their organiza- MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS possible to buy the particular Bible which tion by the Gideons of the United States, 22616 Pacific Highway So. 6 Cornwall Street Midway, Seattle, Wash. Springfield, Mass. was instrumental in changing his life. once in existence these foreign Camps Waldeck Avenue Milmay, New Jersey Such requests are always refused, no work as individual units. And what a set matter how real and touching the re- of problems some of them must face. OUTFIT STARTS YOU IN quest. Gideon Bibles are simply not for There are Camps in Formosa, sitting FREE big money SHOE BUSINESS! sale. Not all hotel guests are honest in the very shadow of Communist China; Run your own profitable 'shoe store' enough to ask; now and then a Bible is in Hong Kong, crossroad of the world; business from home! Represent fast growing million dollar firm in stolen. In a novel, popular some years in West Berlin, overlooking the Wall; in spare or full time. We give you — FREE— complete Starting Outfit ago, of the characters off strife-torn South Africa; in Brazil. lapan one walked that makes you $217.00 EXTRA with the Bible in her room. Apparently has them, and Greece. Crete, where ac- each month for just 2 easy orders a day. You feature 195 her conscience gave her no trouble. cording to St. Paul, Titus had been left fast-selling dress, sport, work shoe styles for men and ". women. Air-cushion shoes, many other special features! There are, however, letters in . . to set in order the things that are on record Sizes 2'/2-15—widths AAAA toEEEE. Draw on 200,000 pair the Gideon office from people who, hav- wanting," has a Camp. To paraphrase, stock. Also horsehide jackets. Start now selling to friends, folks where you work. Rush postcard for FREE Outfit I ing Bible, restitu- the stolen a wish to make though you take wings of the dove MASON SHOE, Dept. H-671 CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS. tion. and fly to the utmost ends of the earth, One woman wrote, "I was in a cheap there too will be a Gideon Bible. Among hotel. I had sat there for hours, planning them, these International Camps have RUPTURED to end it all. Then I saw the Gideon Bible distributed more than 715,000 Bibles BE FREE FROM TRUSS SLAVERY and began to read. I read the rest of the and 2,000,000 testaments. Surely you want to THROW AWAY night. I have a confession to make. When These testaments are, for the most TRUSSES FOREVER, be rid of Rup- I checked out the next day I couldn't part, published in the language of the ture Worries. Then Why put up with wearing a griping, chafing and unsani- leave that Bible. I deliberately stole it. country where each is distributed, and, tary truss? For there is now a modern So please accept the enclosed check for insofar as is possible, by the Bible As- Non-Surgical treatment that is de- $100." sociation of that country. The Bibles signed to correct rupture. These Non- Such conscience offerings, although designated for hotels patronized by Eng- Surgical treatments are so dependable that a Lifetime Certificate of Assur- seldom this large, and always infrequent, lish-speaking tourists are in that lan- ance is given. are accepted gratefully, as are other guage. Write today for our New FREE contributions from people not hounded In one of the world's trouble spots, BOOK that gives facts that may save you painful, expensive surgery. Tells by a sense of guilt. Saigon, in Vietnam, there is a Gideon HOW and Explains WHY NON-SUR- One of the amazing aspects of the with two English-speaking mem- Camp GICAL Methods of Treating Rupture travel world in the last decades has been bers, one of them the secretary. This are so successful today. Write today the spectacular growth of motels and group has distributed more than 10,000 Dept. H-1135 motor inns. During the past ten years copies of the New Testament, a record Excelsior Medical Clinic, Excelsior Springs, Mo. alone, the number has increased by ap- for such a small Camp. Perhaps they are proximately 20,000. (From 42,000 to driven by a special urgency, feeling as 62,000). This does not include new they do the hot breath of the commu- IfeBorrowBYMAIl. rooms or units added to those already nists breathing down their necks. existing, in themselves presenting a figure One Gideon points out an interesting estimated this to be about 41 ,000 yearly. And fact in connection. Enjoy the things you want* NOW with a confidential EH3II the head of a large motel association In theory, he says, it is possible to LOAN-by-MAIL — get any amount, $100 to $1,000. Pay back foresees an additional 12,000 motels be- assume that all United States contacts in small monthly installments Amount 24Montr.lv fit paycheck. to your No co- mak- ot Loan Payments fore 1970. would be broken with a country — am- ers. Everything private. No matter where you live, rush this coupon $too S 5.93 Naturally, the Gideons do not neglect bassadors sent home; missionaries driven now. Loan Order Blank mailed FREE $300 $17.49 in a plain envelope. No obligation. Act! so great an opportunity. They are right out; American servicemen and business- SSO0 $27.69 DIAL FINANCE CO., 410 Kilpatrick Bldg. Amount 30Monlhl> there with Bibles for every room of each men, together with their families, evacu- Dept. 3-092 Omaha 2, Nebraska ol Loan Payments S800 $35.29 new motel, calling this their "front line ated; Peace Corps asked to leave — and 3-092 I Dept. DIAL FINANCE CO.. 51,000 $42.92 410 Kilpatrick Bldg., Omaha 2, Neb. ministry." These Bibles are presented in we would still have one means of con- ! Please rush FREE Loan Order Blank. a formal dedication ceremony before the tact. Namely, the Gideons. Native busi- official motel opening, with the manager nessmen, they would remain, liaison and personnel, together with local Gide- agents in a spot where they could well ons, in attendance. prove vital to our interests. City. Zone State.. Motel managers welcome the Gideon Guests in hotel and motel rooms. uAmount you want to borrow $

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 43 while often in need of help and consola- in white, these Bibles bear the Florence their services to include the presentation tion, are still not as badly off as are Nightingale Pledge printed on the inside of New Testaments (with the Psalms and people in some other situations. Prison- cover. Of course, no nurse is urged to Proverbs added) to men and women in ers, for instance. Realizing this fact, the accept this testament if it is not her wish the armed forces. Later that same year, Gideons have extended their ministry to to do so. However, most of them seem the women's auxiliary added nurses in include jails and penal institutions. In a to welcome the gift. the service to their list. With the begin- Cook County jail, 1,700 Bibles were Naturally, no nurse would force a ning of World War II, the Gideons placed by the Chicago-West Camp. An patient to listen to scripture against his adopted this slogan, "Arm them with the inmate, doing five years for robbery, was will. But even so, countless numbers Bible, too." so affected by reading one of them that write of the help they have been able to This program continues. Each day he was paroled for good behavior and give by means of these testaments. Re- Gideons go to induction centers to make now is a useful and respected citizen of ports come from around the world — their presentation. These testaments are his community. According to his state- from Japan, Australia and India; from not urged on anyone, yet one Gideon ment, in his own unit alone more than Uruguay, Singapore and Alaska. These says that in five years he has had only 200 Bibles were read with resultant de- range from stories of patients lifted out one or two inductees refuse the gift. sirable changes in the readers. of mild depression to tales of aid given Last November, when the Constella- Hospitals are also a natural place for to patients who appeared desperate tion carrying 74 young draftees crashed Bibles, housing as they do a great num- enough to harm themselves. over Virginia in one of the worst air ber of people in need of help and com- One issue of the Gideon Magazine disasters in military history, 22 of them fort. Again, there are hundreds of letters carried a most impressive picture of a were young men from Paterson, N. J. on file testifying to their effectiveness. class of African nurses, just graduated Each carried a service testament pre- Hospital Bibles are of two sorts. The from a hospital in Southern Rhodesia, sented him by the local Passaic County regular Bible is placed in reception with each nurse holding the white testa- Gideon Camp. When, 19 days later, the rooms, while a special New Testament ment presented her by the women's aux- next contingent of Paterson draftees de- containing the Psalms is placed in the iliary of the local Gideon Camp. parted, this time by train, the local hospital rooms. This is larger than the The Bible does, indeed, speak a Gideons were on hand again to present regular testament, thinner in format with universal language, cutting across the each young man with his testament. bigger type, making it easier to handle boundaries of creed and race. A native John Glenn, father of the astronaut, and to read. Bound in red, it has a bright of Pakistan, a Parsi Zoroastrian, wrote is himself a Gideon. Just before his son's and cheerful appearance. that he had read the Bible for inspira- historic flight into space, the Camp of Bibles are also placed in physicians tion and encouragement, even though he which Glenn, Sr., is a member naturally waiting rooms. The receptionist in one himself was not a Christian. And where planned to treat the young man just as office decided to find out whether the did he find his copy? In his stateroom on they would any other local lad going

Bible was read. She found that 1 1 out of the Queen Mary. For the Gideon Bible into the service of his country. 26 patients read it in one day, during does go down to the sea in ships, just as However, in recognition of the some- the week, 119 made use of it. it cuts through the heavens in planes and what special nature of Col. John Glenn's The wives of Gideons have their own whirls across the face of the earth in service, they did not give the customary auxiliary. Their special service consists trains. testament. Instead, they presented him in providing testaments for nurses upon In April of 1941, eight months before with a special edition, leather bound, the occasion of their graduation. Bound Pearl Harbor, the Gideons expanded Gideon Bible. the end

PUBLIC RELATIONS RUSSIAN STYLE (Continued from page 15) public relations experience, I arrived ated to get maximum indoctrination of whitewashed "right." Yet, as an old pub- in the U.S.S.R. last summer with a spe- the individual. lic relations axiom holds, "You can't cial sensitivity to communist propagan- Everywhere you go in Russia, on whitewash a manure heap." And on da techniques. I came on an Eisen- statues and on posters, "Big Brother" more than one occasion — the Hungar- hower Exchange Fellowship, traveled —Lenin himself— is seen. (An occasional ian massacre, for instance — the stench widely and talked with people on an picture of Marx also appears, but Stalin has been getting through even to the open and frank basis. has just about vanished except in his Russian people.

The average Soviet citizen, I found, native Georgia.) Lenin is not portrayed How far the propaganda machine is covered in every walk of life with a as a warm-hearted, friendly leader by goes in achieving impact shows up in blanket of propaganda aimed at con- any means. The portrayal is cold, hard, such small things as the ashtray in a trolling his thoughts and spurring him tough-looking; it implies that here is a room in the Moskva Hotel in Kiev, to act along acceptable party lines. man who not only knows the way peo- which was cunningly contrived into the Even Westerners who find themselves ple should travel, but is warning them shape of a white dove of peace. And without newspapers and two-sided of the consequences if they don't. postage stamps cover the whole gamut comment for a few weeks begin to lose The communist propaganda ap- of impressions from Russia's space ex- contact with reality. Nor is it simply a proach brings these old phrases to a ploits to pictures of black, yellow and matter of broadcast and publication Westerner's mind — bread and circuses white boys locking hands in smiling techniques. On the job, the Soviet and pie in the sky. The Kremlin seems union. Such incidentals remind you worker is besieged by factory commit- to be dishing out a little of the first, a forcefully of the extent to which a tees and all sorts of devices to boost lot of the second and great gobs of the sleeping free world has allowed the productivity and make him happy with third. Whatever is lacking today is communists to appropriate and mer- his lot. If he goes to a movie or partic- promised in abundance in the future. chandise the meaningful symbols of ipates in any kind of public gathering, Communist propagandists engage not peace and friendship. The calculated similar treatment is dished out. And so much in the "big lie" technique as in attempt to deceive by these approaches obviously, the schools, shops and other the "big whitewash." No matter how is pointed up most simply by their community facilities are likewise oper- foul a deed they perpetrate, it is always bare-faced application of the phrase

44 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 "People's Democracy" to some of his- delicate question by a lesser official is, To ORGANIZATIONS tory's worse tyrannies, such as Red "You'll find the answer in the Com- China and East Germany. munist Party's Program." One of the unusual aspects of the The crackdown on opposing views communists' closed-information system and imaginative thinking has produced 100 CUP is a remarkable absence of public ten- an embarrassing sterility in art. A Pol- Automatic URN sion over the latest world emergency or ish architect pointed out to me that SPECIAL news development. People in Western most Russian building is still following Earn this Urn FREE capitals, including Europe, are kept a style which passed out of fashion in for selling only the edge of their seat the West in the 1920's "And no one much more on 24 BLACK PEPPER through wide-open news reporting anywhere is particularly interested in and which occasionally magnifies a story. copying the muscled, strident, graceless 36 PURE VANILLA

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 45 "we're right; you're wrong." It's as and friendship. Red Army soldiers ap- people were interpreting the suffering simple as that. pear on every hand, atomic tests con- and deprivation of World War II as Are the reds even using the Russian tinue in disdainful profusion and rocket part of the cause of communism. The people themselves as a tool in the propa- threats are waved like clubs over the Kremlin obviously encourages this. ganda war? As late as 1958, any individ- world's head. The world's young people are a pri-

ual visiting Russia was almost a rarity. . . . While communist propagandists mary target of Kremlin propagandists. Then Intourist blossomed forth as the preach principles of self-rule and free- I got a clear idea of communist tech- 'Agency for Foreign Travel in the dom for nations, Moscow gives aid to niques used in courting the young while U.S.S.R.," and 10,000 Americans toured communist revolutionaries and subver- visiting in Helsinki last July at the time the country in 1962. Why did the Krem- sive movements around the globe. the Party-sponsored World Youth Fes- lin decide to let outsiders in at all? Since communists have indicated that tival was being held there. This meeting The answer seems to lie first in Rus- was rigged as one of the recurring plat- sia's need for foreign exchange reserves forms at which students are drowned to buy essential industrial and military with a deluge of anti-American, anti- items obtainable only outside the Soviet freedom hate propaganda. bloc. Yet the communists also may have But such a meeting is only part of been counting on the fact that the friend- the picture, as I was later to find out by ly Americans would fall in love with the coincidence in Tbilisi, when I attended a equally friendly Russian people and go colorful performance by Greek and home with a big soft spot in their hearts Georgian dance groups. The Greek (or in their heads), thinking the people students were returning to Cyprus after are a reflection of their leaders. attending the Helsinki Festival. Their Intourist guides themselves are in busi- Asia and Africa are primary targets for performance, the high point of which ness to promote their product — Russia conquest, race relations loom large in was a United States-style harmonizing and communism — and discussions with the propaganda war. Thus, they have set trio, was preceded by a one hour ha- them, as with the real Party members up the Patrice Lumumba University in rangue on what had been picked up at who number some ten million and make Moscow especially to serve (and in- Helsinki. They promised to deliver the up about 4 percent of the U.S.S.R.'s pop- doctrinate) African students. The 40,- message to Cyprus.

ulation, are empty and sterile. It is al- 000-student Moscow University is also By sheer coincidence, I ran into a ways surprising to find that two guides' crammed with students from around the Rumanian dance group in Kiev a week answers to a question will be practically world. And even though colored students later, with identical results. Presumably, the same in places 1,000 miles apart. If maintain they are subjected to many virtually every national communist you ask about their attitude toward kinds of racial discrimination by Rus- group at the Helsinki meeting was going Stalin, for instance, you get this: "Well, sians, the communists never intimate home to conduct a similar follow-up he made a few mistakes when he got there is anything but full racial equality campaign among young people. older, but he really did a lot of good." in the U.S.S.R. The free world cannot lightly dismiss (Such as murdering millions of peasants Personal contacts with Arabs, Asians the combined impact of meetings such

who resisted collectivization?) and Africans during a year of travel have as this. It is a three-part affair — the Intourist's guided trips always skirt convinced me that no people as a nation preparatory drumbeating in every coun- the seamy side of Russian life. The will consciously choose communism as try, the event itself with its new platform agency apparently supposes that the their way of life. Even the newest coun- for world reporters, and the follow-up

ordinary traveler will succumb to the tries and most naive of peoples now back home again. A lot of it is pure comforts of his hotel, food and drinks recognize this as a vicious brand of "corn" but I couldn't help asking myself: and carefully arranged trips to museums, foreign domination. Communism ap- What is the free world doing to beat the monuments, parks and theaters, and not parently triumphs only where there are communists in this decisive battle for the venture out on his own. impossible class and economic condi- world's young? "You feel after a while that you've tions (which makes Latin America such A dominant trait among communists passed through here on a cloud," one a dangerous breeding ground) or where is the confidence they always express in complained after ten days on the Intour- a nation is so new and politically weak their own victory. The notorious "we will

ist circuit. "Suddenly it's departure time that it cannot cope with an internal revo- bury you" phrase by Khrushchev is and you abruptly realize you haven't lutionary movement by a handful of typical of these outbursts. Many strike really met anyone and don't have the armed communists. you as stereotyped assertions uttered faintest idea what the people are like, Significantly, communism has never much as a child recites a poem. Like what they're thinking or how they live." been sold internally as anything other many successful politicians elsewhere, Russia is almost impossible for an out- than another form of Russian patriotism. communist propagandists "never defend, sider to assess intelligently, not only be- The Party-line has been intimately bound never retreat, never apologize." They cause of the thick layer of propaganda up with the Russian's great love of coun- contend communism is the great wave of on everything but also because of these try. Only the gullible of other lands (ex- the future, and apparently have at least

staggering contradictions in Soviet life: cept Red China and Yugoslavia) con- most of their own subjects believing it.

. . . The ordinary people you meet bear tinue to believe that communism has Yet the wave of the future is neither no resemblance whatever to the flinty some world-wide appeal or significance communism nor capitalism nor any hardness and stone-wall unreasonable- other than as a tool for Russian conquest other ism. It is youth itself. Whatever ness of Russian diplomats and commu- of their countries. In Kiev, a woman who philosophy or way of life wins the al- nist officials. had been a Red Army soldier during the legiance of youth will win, period.

. . . While Khrushchev talks of vast long siege of Leningrad told me with in- The Russian's outlook on the world growth and economic achievements, the tense fervor and shining eyes of the is gradually being broadened through a elderly dress in rags, people wait in long "great goals" of communism and how surprisingly large number of holes in lines to buy food at exorbitant prices, she and millions of other Russians like the Iron Curtain. For instance, while and shacks sprawl behind the towering her had fought and worked hard to at- newsstands have no independent West- apartment blocks in the big cities. tain these goals. It was only then I real- ern newspapers for sale, the made-in-

. . . While the Kremlin talks of peace ized the extent to which the Russian America "Worker" is available, and I

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 47 of strategy and tactics in selling, we are could use a bit more old-fashioned faith longing of men for freedom from po- falling short mainly because we have in freedom's convictions, the courage to litical tyranny, dictatorial action and become too polished, too sophisticated uphold them, and patriotic support for thought control.

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MIRACLE AT GUADALCANAL (Continued from page 17)

had come through Navy Intelligence. Now Scoofer glanced at his dash tactical situation was not mentioned on The Enterprise was under orders to aug- clock; 10:30 a.m., the morning of No- the morning dope sheet. What was the ment the strength of the besieged island vember 13, 1942. What was going on true picture? Apparently either the ac- with her hard-hitting Navy squadrons down on Guadalcanal, he thought? What tion of the previous night was unknown of fighters and torpedo bombers. But the sort of service would they provide for his to Enterprise, or they had received word Enterprise, some 250 to 300 miles away, Pickle Pushers? What about all this fox- after Scoofer led his Buzzard Brigade did not know the desperate plight of the hole business? What would Marine chow away under radio silence. aviators at Henderson Field or of their be like? What in hell were the Japs doing One thing was crystal clear now — the futile attempts to stop Hiei, the Jap in the jungles of that dark, rugged 90- battlewagon must be blasted! There were battlewagon, from making repairs and mile island anyway? no dive bombers to prepare the way. blowing them and their planes to bits. A The Buzzard Brigade flew close There was still no sign of his fighter miracle was in the making, a miracle formation, skirting to the west of the cover. The nine torpedo planes would stemming from a fortuitous series of island, and went through tendrils of have to bore in and depend on surprise coincidences. clouds which floated out from hidden to stop that Jap ship. On board the big carrier nine TBF's peaks and wet the blue wings and left "Goddam them!" Scoofer swore under of Squadron V10, and six Wildcat streamers of water on the plexiglass his fierce blond mustache. Searching fighters were ordered to take off and land hoods of the torpedo bombers. Cape the skies, he found nothing but clouds. at Henderson Field "to ease operations Esperance came into sight up ahead. That, at least, was good. He inhaled on the damaged ship." No rescue force, Savo Island — but what was that? Gun deeply, cupped the little black mike in they were dispatched simply because flashes near Savo? That meant a naval a number ten hand, flipped the radio Enterprise's forward elevator was out of engagement out there! Coffin looked switches and calmly said, "Tiger from order. The nine Grumman TBF Aveng- around for his fighter escort, but it had Mopper Leader — we're taking the big ers, pregnant with torpedoes the carrier become separated from the TBF's and one, Moppers. Let's go!" crew had loaded during the night, skirted wasn't in sight. Quick! Up behind the Tiger Thompson, executive officer of the bases of scattered clouds and flew clouds! Natural cover, the only possible the squadron, knew what that meant. close formation at 1200 feet. Squadron move for the slow TBF's until the entire Months of training with emphasis on air leader of the nine torpedo planes, picture of what lay ahead crystallized. discipline was going to pay off now. Lt. Albert P. Coffin, USN, believed in "Bandits below on the surface!" This was the moment the Moppers had flying close support among his planes. Scoofer spoke incisively on the inter- been praying for. This was it! He wanted the man flying wing on him plane radio. Scoofer couldn't see whether the other

so blasted close that it looked as if his Now a thin, misty cloud cover sur- planes pulled away from him in the prop would chew off an aileron. rounded them. The island-studded ocean clouds to follow Tiger. He couldn't see The squadron of "Pickle Pushers" stood dimly exposed to the pilots. if the remaining four were close in on had been in the air for some time and Scoofer Coffin saw ships, and his heart his tail. In fact, he did not question if gradually the shadowy outlines of sank as he recognized their silhouettes. the other planes were going to follow Guadalcanal loomed on the horizon, a Before him lay a heart-rending sight: him down. He took it for granted. His blue gray blur against the sea. And be- three U.S. warships, crippled but stand- pilots, his planes — this was how he had yond it, thunderheads towered far into ing their ground, dead in the water just trained the squadron, and this was zero

the sky. off Henderson Field, wounded but pa- hour! 1 1 : 20 a.m. "Scoofer" Coffin glanced at the photo- tiently waiting. North of Savo, her great When Coffin broke out beneath the stat on the chart board resting on his batteries already belching flame and clouds he felt naked and defenseless in knee. From the map he knew he could smoke, a damaged Kongo class Jap the sunshine. Speed would help, as much fly around either end of the island; he battleship (Hiei) probing for anything in speed as he could muster. He rubbed would not risk plowing through those reach. She was guarded by four destroy- the smooth ball of the throttle with his rain-filled clouds covering the mountain ers and leader, or light cruiser and she palm as he turned and dove downward. peaks. He decided to take the western was under slow way toward Henderson He flipped the radio switch and called approach. field! his radioman, "This is going to be rough, Only that morning Comdr. John "No airfield or planes can survive a Kraft. Keep your eyes peeled for Zeros!" Crommelin, one of the Navy's outstand- 15-inch bombardment," Scoofer mut- "Aye, aye, sir!" his radioman an- ing aces, had said as Scoofer clambered tered to himself. He began to curse, swered, sounding cheerful even with his into his cockpit, "Why don't you ap- hating himself and the impotence of the voice flattened out by the earphones. proach around the west end? You might defenders against such Japanese might. Scoofer thought about the radioman see something interesting around The Why hadn't Navy Intelligence warned and the gunner, riding down without Slot." him of the enemy force in the Slot! The being able to see what was going on,

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A again was sailing into combat to repel great fish in the stern had slowed the invasion. Although the transports, shorn battleship and rendered her rudder use- of their protective warships, had turned less. In addition, she bore two gaping to flee, they were doomed. Their bat- holes forward. So they hit her again with tleship had failed to knock out Hen- three out of six drops, making a total of derson Field. six out of 14. Then four TBF's led by Up now to 12,000 feet. There they Marine Capt. George E. Dooley of were, off to port! Three Grumman VMSB-131 put a torpedo into the Avengers, with Coffin, Tiger and Rappo mortally wounded monster. at the controls dove into position for Bullet holes sprouted in ever- their final glide-bombing pushover. Tiger increasing numbers in fuselages and with four bombs took one setup and the wings as the day wore on and the same Mopper leader with Rappo selected an- planes returned again and again for the other. attack. In all, five attacks were mounted Down — down — down. The Zeros on in company with Marine MAG-14's dive their tails were being picked off by bombing SBD's, and finally the weary defending Marine F4F-4 Wildcats. pilots had to quit. The Jap battleship Rappo's gunner nailed one with his tur- was lying dead in the water, victim of ret guns. Down! Down! Down! Frantic unrelenting torpedoes and 1,000 pound ack-ack met them, but by this time the bombs. That night the Japanese gave up Moppers were used to it. and scuttled her. Eight Zero fighter Scoofer automatically lined one of the planes sent down from Buin to protect "I told you I'd get a refund!" transports in his sights. Then suddenly Hiei were shot down by Marine F4F's. his eyes widened as a flaming Zero shot Next day, the morning search, flying past his wing, downed by a pursuing THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE up toward mountainous Bougainville, Wildcat. As he looked, the Jap pilot found the enemy troop convoy of the struggled free of his fiery cockpit and Imperial 28th Division coming down jumped. He turned over and over, then The Slot to recapture the island. There had gone down. Concussion took care his parachute opened. The Zero, a mass were 10,000 fanatical soldiers aboard 11 of the swimmers. of flames, hit the sea and exploded. transports, escorted by 12 destroyers, It was time to go again. Slowly, the Jap dropped lower and lower and they had to be stopped. "Pick your targets, Moppers!" Scoofer toward the inferno below, until at last The Buzzard Brigade and every plane sang into his microphone and pushed he fell, in spite of struggles with the at Henderson Field that was operational forward on the stick. risers, into the middle of the flaming took to the air and climbed to attack They swung low over the surface and gasoline. positions. headed for two transports. Out of seven Coffin's altimeter spun dizzily back- Planes from Guadalcanal were rein- fish dropped they scored three hits, ward. Three thousand, 2,000, 1,700- forced from the Enterprise with strikes stopping both ships dead in the water, and three thumbs pressed release but- by SBD dive bombers of VB-10 and all the while strafing the area with tons. Three pilots started their slow re- VS-10, plus a dozen F4F's under "Reap- machineguns and fighting off a horde of covery. er Leader" Cdr. James Flatley; these land-based Zeros from Bougainville. They were accurate. Coffin and Tiger planes refueled and rearmed at Hender- Coffin called his boys to reform and joined up and headed for home. Behind son Field, flying dozens of missions head for Guadalcanal. The Buzzard them flames and smoke towered high in against the transports and escorting de- Brigade and the Marine fliers returned the air from the transport vitals. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • MARCH 1963 55 HOW-COMENTARIES Leaf Her Be How-come a lady will scatter sections Of Sunday papers in all directions? Well there's no use to be sour and bitter, She won't learn better — so let her litter. Don't Look Now, But — How-come a lady will don a dress That doesn't leave much for the men to guess,

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