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The American Legion Magazine Is Published Monthly at 1100 Magazine West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., by the American Legion ' AMERICAN 15c • JANUARY 1963 MAGAZINE — ... mmuli hi i in * The American JANUARY 1963 Volume 74, Number 1 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3S79 to P.O. Box 10SS, Indianapolis 6, Ind. LEGION The American Legion Magazine is published monthly at 1100 Magazine West Broadway, Louisville, Ky., by The American Legion. Copy, right 1962 by The American Le- gion. Second-class postage paid Contents for January 1963 at Louisville. Ky. Price: single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscrip- tion, $1.50. Nonmember sub- scriptions should be sent to the THE BIG ISSUE - PRO & CON ARGUMENTS ON THE QUESTION: Circulation Department of The American Legion Magazine. P.O ' Box 1055. Indianapolis 6. Ind. 'SHOULD CONGRESS CURB THE FILIBUSTER?" 4 pro: SEN. PHILIP A. HART (D-Mich.) CHANGE OF ADDRESS: con: SEN. RICHARD B. RUSSELL (D-Ga.) Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind.. using Post Office Form 3578. At- tach old address label and give old and new addresses and cur- A THREAT TO AMERICAN rent membership card number. INDUSTRY 10 Also be sure to notify your Post BY WILLIAM R. KINTNER Adjutant. Some anti-monopoly actions play into the hands of The American Legion the Soviet, anxious to weaken our economic structure. Executive and Administrative Offices Indianapolis 6. Indiana James E. Powers, National Commander, The American Le- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CYCLOPS? 12 gion, Indianapolis 6, Ind, BY GARDNER SOULE The American Legion Publica- tions Commission: After 45 years there is still no clue as to the huge Edward McSwcency, Armonk, Navy collier that disappeared suddenly, without trace. N.Y. (Chairman); Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa (Vice Chairman); Lang Armstrong, Spokane, Wash,; Charles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; THE INVENTOR GETS A BREAK 14 Roland Cocreham, Baton Rouge, La.; E. J. Cooper. 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Yet in EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE 1962, we can ship arms to red-loving sir: Reading "The Return of the Un- India in a matter of a few days. known Soldier" by Dewitt Nicholson Seith Moss in the November issue was quite an New York, N.Y. emotional experience for me. It is one of the greatest articles yet featured in FORGOTTEN ADVICE our magazine. Both the magazine staff internation- sir: The great passion for and the author are to be commended. alism that is demonstrated by this ad- I hope that this is one article that all brings to mind ministration inevitably Legionnaires read and not just pass the fear of our Founding Fathers for over. alliances with European nations. From Kenneth M. Russell bitter experience they knew how such Ft. Carson, Colo. alliances had kept Europe in turmoil for centuries and they wanted to get MAN VS. SCIENCE away from foreign intrigue and war. sir: In the article "Fewer Fatalities Per So wc had the Declaration of In- Mile,'' in the October issue, considera- dependence, the Monroe Doctrine, ble space is given to the modern elec- Washington's Inaugural Address and tronic devices now in use to control other statements sounding the neces- traffic flow on the John C. Lodge Free- sary warnings. But today, professors way in Detroit. Having traveled this the Legion adopt, organize and project who know, oh, so much more than highway recently, let me call attention a national program which would at lo- the men who established our Repub- to a situation which proves that sci- cal, state and national levels seek to ence, at its best, defeated lic, seem to have succeeded in teach- even can be promote the welfare, education and ing their apt pupils that Americans by lack of common sense. In proceed- advancement of every child who sits should have "interdependence" not ing northward along John Lodge from in any classroom in our land. As goes independence, and that the Monroe its dow ntown terminus, one assumes the youngster in the classroom, so goes that the exits are all made from the Doctrine is just a scrap of paper. But all our creative genius with all its sup- — do these pedants know that another right-hand lane a normal situation porting galaxy of talents to support with expressways. Democrat once took as strong a posi- respect to So when and maintain not only rugged eco- tion against internationalism as George confronted with the sign "Edsel Ford nomic competition abroad but the mil- Washington did? His name was Expressway Next Exit" or words to establishment so necessary to itary that effect, does the driver Thomas Jefferson, and in his inaugural what do? protect it. Of course, he moves over to the right- address he said he wanted: "honest Arthur O'Brien entangling J. hand lane. But then, at about two- friendship with all nations, Framinghmn, Mass. tenths of a mile from the actual exit, alliances with none." Clifford Moore he sees a sign informing him, for the J. "X X" first time, that the exit onto Statcn Island, N.Y. to make sir: This was sent to the President of the Ford Expressway, he is supposed the United States by the undersigned: to be in the left hand lane.
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