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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. Hollywood, BY LESTER DAVID Fla.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Daguc, Getting a patent is relatively easy, but getting a buyer Downington, Pa.; Dan W. Em- for one's patent presents a problem. Now inventors get help. mett, Palo Alto, Calif.; Ray- mond Fields, Guymon, Okla.; Chris Hernandez, Savannah, Ga.; Herschiel L. Hunt, El Campo, Tex.; George D. Levy, Sumter, S.C.; Frank C. Love, VETERANS' BURIAL BENEFITS 16 Syracuse, N.Y.; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Nebr.; Morris Meyer, BY STEPHEN BEACH Starkville, Miss.; Robert Mitch- various that veterans' ler, Oswego, 111.; Harold A. A concise rundown of the benefits Shindler. Lafayette, Ind.; Wil- families are entitled to when a veteran dies. liam F. Taylor. Greensburg, Ky.; Benjamin B. Truskowski, Bris- tol, Conn.; Robert H. Wilder, Dadeville, Ala. THE PEACEMAKING GENERAL 18 The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices BY TOM MAHONEY 720 Fifth Avenue New York 19, New York The man who wrote the Rules of Order was a General Publisher, James F. O'Neil who has had a profound influence on the democratic process. Editor Joseph C. Keeley Managing Editor Robert B. Pitkin A SEVEN-NATION CEREMONY 20 Art Editor Al Marshall BY LEWIS K. GOUGH Associate Editor Veterans from seven countries participate in the John Andreola Sacred Torch Ceremony, and promote international amity. Editorial Assistant Eli L. Kerins Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson Indianapolis, Ind. NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 25 Advertising Director Robert P. Redden Midwestern Adv. Mgr. Ray A. Jones Departments 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago 1, Illinois YOU SAID IT ... 2 NEWSLETTER .23 Publisher's Representatives West Coast Arden E. Roney & Assoc. EDITOR'S CORNER BRIEFLY ABOUT BOOKS 33 Los An^clcs & San Francisco, Calif. PERSONAL LEGION SHOPPER 44 Northwest The Harlowe Co. Seattle I, Wash. ROD & GUN CLUB 22 PARTING SHOTS 48 Southeast The Dawson Co. Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, Miami, Fla. & Atlanta, Ga. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. W

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MELLINGER CO., Dept. J301, 1554 S. Sepulveda, Los Angeles 25, Calif. SPEEDY DELIVERY in Philadelphia at any time. The ship sir: When I read that we were rushing is on the Delaware River waterfront, amis to India I could hardly believe at the foot of Chestnut Street, not far my eyes. I well recall that in 1947 when from Independence Hall. Chiang Kai-shek wanted help to aid in Edmund A. Crenshaw, Jr. his fight with the Chinese reds we were Philadelphia, Pa. awfully slow on the trigger. 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. At 60 miles AFFLUENCE Don't take the word of a communist, an hour (and nobody drives any slower sir: I stopped over for a couple of son. on these expressways) that gives him hours between trains while passing If yon do, you will suffer a loss, 12 seconds to cross three lanes in front through Paris the other day, and had For the Karl Marx sign is a danger- of traffic to make the left-hand exit. the same experience that you did. A ous one- that! It's the mark of the Double-Cross. How about Cadillac limousine was waiting outside Edward Bodin E. W. LlTTLEFIELD a jeweler's when a gorgeously dressed Lily Dale, N.Y. Delmar, N.Y. lady came out and was obsequiously seated by the chauffeur. There were WANTS NAMES REMINDER many people passing, and one man re- sir: The communists and their socialist sir: Here in Philadelphia we were marked to me in somewhat broken helpers try to water down the truth greatly pleased to see the excellent ar- English: "There goes some more of about them so it is no longer effective. ticle by Dewitt Nicholson on the "Re- Uncle Sam's money." They say we may speak of issues, but turn of the Unknown Soldier" in the J. Ingvald Axdal not personalities. But evil does not ex- November issue. As a supplement, I Bergen, Norway ist in the abstract. It exists only through tli ink your readers, especially the Navy the evil deeds of evil persons. The reds veterans, would be interested to know But Mr. Axdal refers to an item in "Editor's want us to shadowbox with theory. that the good ship Olyvipia is still in Corner" for August which described a there can't be murder without murder- existence, preserved and taken care of shopping foray on Fifth Avenue by ers, subversion without subversives, group of veterans, all vol- by a Navy treason appease- ladies, nationals of one of the without traitors, or two unteers, who have restored her to as nations." The Editors. ment without cowards and deceivers. "emerging nearly as possible her appearance in We cannot expose the reds and those 1898. We have collected an outstand- who serve their evil purposes unless we ing collection of photographs, prints, MAJOR PROJECT name them and publish their records sir: of us would like to see The documents, uniforms, weapons and All of service to communist purposes. It is con- other relics of the Navy of all periods, American Legion, in this time of time to stop being "chicken" and go to but particularly of the Spanish War flict and national peril, strike out on the offensive. period. ship has been visited by achievement in keeping with its initial The Kenneth L. Myers thousand persons, es- contribution to our way of life—which several hundred Wichita, Kans. in many instances meant a foreign pecially school classes whom we try to Letters published in You Said It! do not indoctrinate in the history of our journey with no return. Such achieve- necessarily represent the policy of The ment can only come with selfless ded- Country and what the Servicemen have American Legion. Name withheld if requested. Keen your letters short. Address: a objective. It done for it. We hope that we may have ication to common You Said It, The American Legion Maga- would be my happiest moment to see visits from any veterans who may be zine. 720 Fifth Avenue, New York 19. 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PRO Unrestricted talk in the Senate, which in the past has often had no close relevancy to the matter at hand, Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.) not only is damaging to the national interest, but makes a mockery of this body in the eyes of the world. first vote in the Senate The affairs of the nation must move forward. Mywas on a rule to limit the The rules of procedure are not in themselves an end. filibuster. It provided that de- They are established to aid in the orderly completion bate could be cut off by the de- of business, and not to defeat that very objective. cision of two-thirds of the Senators. I voted no. The The struggle against the filibuster goes back more proposal was far too feeble a weapon. than 100 years. Action to reasonably limit debate dates But it passed nevertheless, and the filibuster is still back to 1789, when the first Senate adopted 19 rules, with us. A bill can still be talked to death if only one- of which seven related to debate in, and the taking of third of the Senate — plus one — is against it. the time of, the Senate. The filibuster does not promote responsible legisla- Since 1917, only five of 22 attempts to adopt cloture tion. It does not educate. It does not preserve freedom. have been successful. Filibusters have delayed — or It certainly does not contribute to effective democratic defeated — many needed bills. In 1846, the Oregon Bill action. —designed to prevent war with Great Britain — was What it does do is give veto power to a minority. filibustered for two months. In 1946, fair employment And I believe the time to end this minority rule is practice legislation was killed by a filibuster. long overdue. Recently, the filibuster struggle has focused on civil Resting with the Senate is the grave responsibility rights. It has been an effective roadblock to meeting to legislate efficiently. If that body is to be effective, it the minimum requirement of democracy — to assure can not, and must not engage in delay merely for the equal treatment to all citizens regardless of race, creed, sake of obstruction. In this fast-moving age, we can or color. Not only do we fail to bring social change not afford to legislate by exhaustion. We can not afford through orderly means, but we can not bring equality to judge the merits of proposed legislation on the basis to all people when the threat of a Senate filibuster of vocal and physical stamina. blocks or makes ineffective any proposal. This is not to say debate isn't an important part of the Senate's operation. I do not seek a trespass on the liberty of speech. But a restraint on an abuse which frustrates the deliberations of that body is both reasonable and desirable.

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4 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 THE BIG ISSUES

The Filibuster?

CON people without being suppressed or gagged by the transient majority. The Senate is the last stronghold Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) of our federal system of states and of the rights of the minorities. Without the right to be heard in the Senate, — The united states Senate is —of each Senator to "speak his piece," the United unique among parliamen- States will eventually go the way of every pure de- tary bodies of history. mocracy where a temporary though misguided major- Its creation was necessary to ity of one can destroy all of the liberties and rights, produce our federated union under the Constitution. including the right of property, of the individual citi- The Senate is the forum of states, where each state, zen. large and small, has equal representation to enable An untrammeled Senate exercising freedom of de- each state to protect its interests from the imbalance bate has served the country well. In 173 years, not a of representation as between the states in the House single vital piece of legislation has been killed by fili- of Representatives or from aggression by either the buster. During that period many bad bills have been Executive or Judicial branches of the government. delayed, exposed and eventually defeated by the utili- It is the diversity of interests between the states and zation of freedom of debate. the sections of our Nation which have contributed to The right of one Senator, or of a small group of the meteoric rise of our country. Senators, convinced of the righteousness of their cause What may be good for California is not necessarily and with the courage of their convictions, to bring to good for Maine. The equality of representation of the the attention of all of the people the evil consequences states in the Senate has enabled each of our states to of proposed legislation, is an essential part of the make the maximum contribution to the national prog- American system. ress. The lack of power to force conformity through- Under the present Rules of the Senate, provision is out the land, guarded by the Senate of the United made to end debate whenever it is the considered will States, has been the single greatest contribution to our of the Senate to do so by two-thirds vote. national strength. Any change that will enable a mere majority to gag The Senate is the only area of our government the minority could well be a mortal blow to the Ameri- where representatives of small, thinly populated states can system and our vaunted civilization. meet the representatives of the largest, most populous and wealthiest states on equal terms. Senators have sought to make sure that the spokesmen of every state should have the right to present the views of their

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I have read in The American Legion Magazine for SHOULD NOT CURB THE FILIBUSTER January the arguments in PRO & CON on the subject: SIGNED, "Should Congress Curb The Filibuster?" ADDRESS.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE JANUARY 1963 5 LESSON FROM INDIA t a cost of thousands dead and missing, with more casualties certain to come, India has finally learned a lesson. The lesson is that a supposedly brilliant man can behave in an incredibly stupid manner and thereby cause death and ag- ony for many of his countrymen, and jeopardize the very existence of his nation. Such a mari was, and is, Krishna Menon. Brilliant-a product of the London School of Economics, which has turned out many similar products — Menon years ago developed a strong attachment for com- This deceptively simple equation is the real reason munism and an intense dislike of capital- why you enjoy the best and the most telephone service ism and the Western world. Willing to accept handouts in the world at the lowest possible price. of billions in foreign aid from the United States, he made no secret of his contempt for this country. Mean- It represents the relationship between three basic units while, like so many "intellectuals," his that equal one unified Bell System. arrogance made him feel that be could do business with people like Khrushchev 1. Patient research and development by Bell Telephone and Mao Tse-tung. For years he sided with these gangsters, presumably believ- Laboratories create constantly improved communica- ing that they would line up with him in a tions techniques. (Telstar is one recent example.) showdown. We don't know if Menon now knows better, despite the evidence 2. Efficient manufacture by Western Electric delivers of his failure. Such "brilliant" people have an amazing on, year-in, equipment you can depend year-out. ability to ignore facts, even when the facts are before them in the form of countless 3. Skillful operation by 21 Bell Telephone Companies cadavers. But it is obvious that his boss Jawaharlal Nehru is now aware of the supplies service at a high standard of performance to facts of life, though his tolerance of his families and farms, to industry and government. wily advisor for sweet friendship's sake certainly casts this presumably intelligent leader The work of these units is closely coordinated by the as a prime chump. As for the hap- less Indians, they can only hope that time American Telephone and Telegraph Company, advising hasn't run out on them because of the and planning for the progress and efficiency of the kind of leadership they kept in power. entire system. AT ANY PRICE seem to be on That's why we say, "Three equals one"— and why you the mailing list of an outfit that goes under the name of can pick up your own telephone at home and talk to General Strike for Peace, whose com- plexion is evident almost anyone else in all 50 states of the union or any from the names of some of the sponsors. The "big name" of this of 167 foreign countries around the world — quickly motley crew is that hardy perennial, Ber- and economically. trand Russell, the British peer. Another notable name is Babette Deutsch. Babette's

son Adam Yarmolinsky is a big man in Washington, special assistant to the Sec- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM retary of Defense, no less. Before that he worked for Doc Hutchins' Fund for Owned by more than two million Americans the Republic.

Anyway, as this is written, everyone is supposed to be on strike, and if you did any work during the week of November 5th you're probably nothing but a fascist imperialist who wants to plunge the world

6 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 into a nuclear w ar. The strike called by ". these people was . . to stop the cold war, to stop testing nuclear amis that arc poisoning us, to begin settling their present differences, and to begin bold measures for total disarmament." All of which is highly commendable, but maybe these people haven't kept up with the news. presents O Most people are aware that we have held [ interminable meetings with the Russkys, trying to find a way to end the arms race. However, the Russians have a word for EXCITING all this, and it's one they repeat endlessly— "N'yet!" Unless everything is done on their terms, and unless we take their worthless word that they have beaten — FILMS their swords into plowshares "Nyet!" SPORTS The "literature" passed out by one f for club or group social night entertainment bunch of peace strikers in New York, | whose headquarters was given as 14th A selection of over 150 Street, contained the following significant AVAILABLE A thrilling films covering great statement: "The leading manufacturers of moments in sports. All our country are working for war. There Hi** films are in 16mm sound is hardly a big manufacturer who docs not . . . most of them in ." have some 'defense' contract. . . free! beautiful, natural color. i Now turn to page 10, read "A Threat to American Industry," and draw your own conclusions. CONTRAST "THE BEST OF BASEBALL" BHE SIGHT OF PEACE MARCHERS shuffling along in picket lines and keeping an eye open for press photographers and TV cameras brings to mind a word picture of another type of American, the American man-at-arms, that General Douglas Mac- r " Arthur presented in his eloquent farewell m southcrh 500 to West Point last year: ALL N** including order "In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battle- iL,p instructions for fields, around a thousand campfires, I have -.»_ UinCJ tn& your convenience. witnessed that enduring fortitude, that f-/S/'/"y Film Section patriotic self-abnegation and that invinci- „ >mnAD1 AMCC MILLER BREWING CO. "HYDROPLANES state street ble determination which have carved his 4000 West Milwaukee 1, Wisconsin statue in the hearts of his people. ... I UNLIMITED" could see those staggering columns in the First World War, bending under soggy »1H fOR P.S. packs on many a weary march, from drip- Make MILLER HIGH LIFE ping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging part of your pleasure picture! ankle-deep through mire of shell-pocked Serve and enjoy the beer that's brewed only in roads; to form grimly for the attack, blue- HflflET lipped, covered with sludge and mud, Milwaukee . . . Naturally I chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and, for many, to

the judgment seat of God. I do not know

the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died un- questioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory. Always for them: Duty, honor, country. Always their blood, sweat and tears, as they saw ." the way and the light. . . In contrast, we see today the lines of the craven, whining for peace at any price and proclaiming that they'd rather be red than dead. These are a different breed from the men that MacArthur led, but, thank God, there arc not many of these pitiful poltroons.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 7 MEN PAST40

Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, Nervousness, Tiredness. INFORMATION THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH EVERYDAY PROBLEMS If you are a victim of the above symptoms, the trouble may be due to Glandu- If you buy the same goods and services this year that you purchased in lar Inflammation—a constitutional Dis- 1962, you will pay about a penny more on the dollar. In other words, prices ease for which it is futile for sufferers to try to treat themselves at home. over the coming 12 months are expected to have a slow upward tilt of 1% In men of middle age or past this (the rise last year was about 1M>%). type of inflammation occurs frequently. Most of this mild lift probably will be in the cost of services. It is often accompanied by despond- ency, emotional upset and other mental and nervous reactions. Neglect of such The big reasons you won't pay much more for manufactured goods are: inflammation may cause men to lose 1) competition is holding prices firmly in check, and 2) manufacturers are prematurely their vigor, grow old and building more efficient plants and equipment. This year alone, McGraw-Hill often leads to incurable conditions. economists predict outlays for capital goods will be at least $38 billion, up Most men, if treatment is taken in from year time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- 3% the before. CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- Long run, though, this may raise a question that will start a lot of rough mation. If the condition is aggravated debates. Here's the point: by lack of treatment, surgery be may About 20% of the money earmarked for new facilities will be spent on the only chance. automated gear— that is, equipment which requires a minimum of human NON-SUR$WAL TREATMENTS attention and control. What will this do to employment? While the thinkers and planners are trying to crack this tough nut, you The NON-SURGICAL treatments already can see two trends: used at the Excelsior Clinic Medical • The so-called "blue collar" class is dwindling markedly. are the result of discoveries in recent • big unions are talking seriously than ever about the 35-hour years of new techniques and drugs plus The more over 20 years research by scientific week. Much longer vacations, too, may get attention. technologists and Doctors. Men from all walks of life and from The chemical industry has come up with a couple of gambits worth noting: over 1,000 communities have been suc- • FIELD, DuPont is going to put all its chips on nylon and cessfully treated here at Excelsior IN THE TIRE Springs. They found soothing and com- Dacron. The company now has closed its last remaining rayon plant, ap- forting relief and better health. parently betting that nylon will take over most of the tire business by 1965. Right now, nylon has about 60% of the passenger-truck replacement field, EXAMINATION REDUCIBLE 100% of airplane and off-the-road trade, and about 40% of original truck AT LOW COST HERNIA tires. Rayon has the rest — including just about all original passenger tires. When you arrive is also amenable to a mild Non- Surgical But, DuPont thinks, the switch is on. at the clinic, our treatment available doctors — who have here. • IN BOATING, Union Carbide expects big things of its Dynel plastic as years of experience RECTAL-COLON sheathing material. The idea is that you affix this synthetic fabric to a hull in this field — make to make it abrasion-resistant, prevent mildew, and give extra strength. a complete examina- DISORDERS Are often associated tion. Your condition with Glandular inflammation. is frankly explained Don't be surprised if your youngsters ask you one of these days to help and then you decide Either or both of them work out problems in "binary" arithmetic. This is the number system if you will take the these disorders may be treated at the used in computers. Many schools now are teaching the fundamentals. treatments needed. same time you are Our treatments are receiving Glandular Unlike our decimal system, which uses ten symbols, the "binary" system so mild, hospitaliza- Inflammation treat- — ments. uses only two 0 and 1 (to correspond to the behavior of a computer's election is not needed. tronic brain cells, which can only be "on" or "off"). Here's how the progres- Write Today For Our % sion from 1 to 10 looks in binary figures: Our New Free Book 1 = 1 3 = 11 5 = 101 7 = 111 9=1001 gives facts that may 2 = 10 4 = 100 6 = 110 8 = 1000 10 = 1010 save you painful, ex- a decimal-system into pensive surgery. Tells To convert standard number a binary number — and HOW and Explains this is what your kids will ask you to do first — keep dividing the decimal WHY NON-SURGICAL number by 2 until you reach the end of the line; the remainders after each treatment methods are so successful today. division — when read upward — will make the binary number. Thus if you Write today. No obliga- want to write "13" in binary language, here's how you get the translation: tion. 2 ) 13 remainder of 1

EXCELSIOR 2 ) 6 remainder of 0 MEDICAL CLINIC 2 ) 3 remainder of 1 Dept. Bl 151 2 1 Excelsior Springs, Mo. ) remainder of 1

Ccntlcmon: Kindly send me at" once, your 0 New FREE Book. I am interested in full upward, the remainders spell is information (Please Check Box) Reading 1101, which the correct binary Hernia Rectal-Colon Clandular notation. Inflammation

NAME_ SALARIES for engineering graduates still have plenty of zip in them, says ADDRESS- the Engineering Manpower Commission. In private industry, a bachelor now TOWN can figure on a starting salary of $540 a month; a master's degree brings $630; and a Ph.D. $870. STATE By Edgar A. Grunurald

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With the passage of the Sherman strategy as a major item on the com- phrased it: "The American monopolies Anti-Trust Act over 70 years ago, the munist political warfare agenda. are the guiding force of international re-

United States took the lead in prevent- It is an old communist war cry that action, the main bulwark of all the anti- ing the growth of restrictive industrial the United States is dominated by Wall popular and fascist forces and neo-colo- monopolies. Other major industrial na- Street. As Lenin put it: "Monopoly, in nialism." The efforts of the Cuban tions have either tolerated cartels de- the form of finance capital, governs the people to free themselves from Castro's signed to dampen competition or even present society in all its aspects." He communist regime are explained by com- helped build monopolistic combines. But continued: "A monopoly . . . inevitably munist propaganda as being derived free competition and monopolies don't penetrates into every sphere of public from "the American monopolist dream mix and, consequently. Americans want life, regardless of the form of govern- about regaining the opportunity to in- our anti-trust laws enforced vigorously ment and all other 'details.' " The com- crease their riches at the expense of the and fairly. munists charge that monopolies not only Cuban worker." No mention was made The communists loathe America's big dominate almost every phase of Ameri- of the resentment of the Cuban people industry, but for their own reasons. can life, but "government and business toward their new Russian masters. Knowing that America's economy poses are completely interdependent." Speaking before 2,000 students on a threat to their plans to subjugate the The communists assert endlessly that May 23, 1962, at Michigan State Uni- world, they are doing their utmost to de- the United States is the major imperialist versity, communist leader Robert stroy it. They conduct an unceasing power and that the substitution of mo- Thompson "put the finger on the mo- campaign of propaganda to discredit nopoly for free competition is the heart nopolist powers that profit from war and American industry as an integral part of of imperialism. Ignoring the fact that push the dangerous arms race." our social system. They are often aided in America competition is still very much All this has a familiar ring. Back in in this program by various and sundry alive, the communists blame the "im- the thirties, a committee headed by Sen- dupes, as well as by zealots with an anti- perialistic" United States for the cold ator Gerald Nye conducted an investi- business axe to grind. According to war. The leaders of the monopolies, state gation seeking to prove that the United Lenin, who was the first man to make the communists, started the cold war be- States entered World War I at the behest communism an operational threat, mo- cause it would bring them a flourishing of Du Pont and Bethlehem Steel, charg- nopoly is the last stage of the decadent business from which they alone would ing that they wanted to reap vast powers capitalist system. benefit. As might be expected, the com- from the manufacture of ammunition

Tn this stage it degenerates into im- munists charge that the cold war is the and battleship steel plate. This commit-

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DU PONT ing the public to the menace of the cold war." According to Kremlin spokesmen, the real master, finance monopoly capi-

talism, is camouflaged. The communists have designed an agitation program to sell their line against monopoly capitalism. In the communist technique of immediate demands, each demand in itself may seem insignificant, but the total impact seeks to destroy the American industrial complex. Among communist proposals are, "nationaliza- tion of the key branches of the economy and democratization of their management, the use of the entire economy for peaceful purposes, radical agrarian reforms, etc." Such reforms "would help to isolate the reactionary forces and facilitate the unification of all progressive forces." But agitation by itself will not do the

trick. For it is "the class struggle that is the primary teacher for the working class." So communists, with an agita-

America's position as "the arsenal of democracy" is based on giant industries. tional banner for everyone to follow, EASTFOTO

Russia has been forging ahead, trying to match our great industrial strength. In Red China, these backyard steel fur- naces exemplify "the great leap forward." tee, one of whose counsels was Alger education. Even worse, the monopolies, Hiss, introduced the phrase "merchants according to them, are part of the big urge labor to give a new impulse to the of death" into America's political vo- three-corner coalition between the ultra- movement against monopoly and against cabulary. President Truman later de- right, "fascist big business," and the co- the ultra-right. They wish labor to share scribed this inquiry as irresponsible dem- alition of the big brass. To justify mili- honors with the "Negro, the youth, the

agoguery which played a large part in tary expenditure it is necessary, accord- women and the professors." Finally,

our unpreparedness on the eve of World ing to the communists, for the American peaceful coexistence is the ground from War II. Government to invent a "menace loom- which to carry on the fight against mo- The communists are not satisfied with ing over their country." Furthermore, nopoly. The ultimate purpose of this

their often repeated lie that big business asserts the communist publication Inter- program is to facilitate the "creation of has looted the Federal treasury and mili- national Affairs, the United States Armed an anti-monopoly government which tarized American industry's science and Forces are given a leading role in, "rous- (Continued on page 37)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 H By GARDNER SOULE There was not a single word of alarm in the wireless message that Chief Electrician Francis Edward What happened to t Cotton, USN, tapped out from the U.S.S. Cyclops on 5 March, 1918. The Cyclops, a Navy collier and one of the world's largest fuel ships, was proceeding routinely, Chief Cotton radioed, on a In 1918 a huge Navy collier disappeared suddenly journey from Barbados to Baltimore. The weather was fair. Cotton's Morse code was received by and without trace. The mystery remains unsolved. the Vestris, a British passenger steamer of the Lamport & Holt Line. The Cyclops' radio call to the Vestris, re- garded as matter-of-fact on the day it was received, occupies a place in naval had done so well, in fact, that on 3 Cotton, the wireless operator, was history because the Cyclops failed to fol- March she had reached Barbados (from typical of the experienced hands aboard. low it up with any other messages on her Rio de Janeiro), ahead of schedule. She From Phoenix, Ariz., he had been in the course, condition, and further progress. was hauling manganese ore, vital to Navy nine years. Lt. Harvey F. Forbes By 13 March, when the Cyclops was steelmaking and therefore to the United of Port Huron, Mich., had shorter naval due in Baltimore, radio stations all along States war effort, and took on coal as service, but plenty of time afloat. He the Atlantic coast were trying to contact fuel at Barbados. She sailed from Bar- had been a sailor on the Great Lakes in her. So were all the wireless-equipped bados 4 March. peacetime- And Ensign Schonnof, only merchant vessels in the crowded, war- 30, had many years in the Navy. The time shipping lanes off the southeastern ship's doctor, Burt J. Asper, had less — United States. A host of naval, Coast but even he had joined up when the Guard, and French Navy ships had also United States declared war in al- — 1916, joined in the search for the Cyclops most two years before the Cyclops' last from Maryland south to below the West trip.

Indies. And if all the seagoing experience in Not one of the thousands of radio her own crew were not enough, the calls sent by shore stations and by hun- Cyclops had additional help she could dreds of ships at sea was ever answered. call on. She was carrying, as passengers, When Chief Cotton spoke to the Vestris, 64 enlisted Navy men and six Naval the Cyclops communicated with the officers, and two Marines. She had one world for the last time. She was never other passenger: the U.S. consul general heard from again. She was never seen at Rio, Alfred L. Morgan Gottschalk of again. She simply disappeared, the big- New York City, who was traveling home gest U.S. naval vessel ever to go missing. to volunteer for the army. The Cyclops trip from Barbados, in- Among the Cyclops' crew and pas- stead of ending at Baltimore, wound up sengers, there were 15 who had special in a file in Washington as one of the most reason to look forward to the port she The Vestris picked up the puzzling mysteries in the annals of the routine wireless message. would never reach: their homes were in U.S. Navy. The status of the mystery Baltimore. Dr. Asper, one of them, had today — almost 45 years later— Unsolved. Her captain, Lt. Comdr. George married a Baltimore girl only the year Says the director of naval history, Rear Wichtmann Worley, USNR, with 28 before. Adm. E. M. Eller, USN (Ret.): 'The years in the Navy, was thoroughly ex- There was no conceivable reason why disappearance of the Cyclops is as baf- perienced in her and in her ways. He the Cyclops should not have been able

fling a mystery today as it was in March, had commanded the Cyclops since her to answer radio calls. Should her engines 1918." maiden voyage eight years before. He have failed (and there is no record that The more the Navy Department pon- was anxious to reach the United States. they did), she had storage batteries to dered the disappearance of the Cyclops, He had sold his home in Norfolk, where power her wireless set. Nor was she in a

the less understandable it became. It was his wife, Selma, and their child were liv- lonely part of the ocean. The sea lanes pointed out at the time that, if she re- ing while he was at sea, and the skipper off the eastern United States, and from mained lost, she would be the first radio- and his family were looking forward to a there south to Latin America, were — equipped U.S. Navy ship to have gone long leave (overdue for him) in Cali- and are — among the heavily-trafficked

missing. She achieved this unwanted dis- fornia. World War I was at its height, routes. Here ships are seldom more than tinction. The Cyclops was not an old and the Cyclops' officers and crew were 50 miles apart and are frequently in sight ship, but was in her prime. She had been not just out of boot camp or indoctrina- of each other. The route was guarded, at

commissioned only eight years before. tion school. "Better than well-manned," that time the Navy was patrolling it. But she was old enough not to have the English sea writer Alan Villiers de- The search for the Cyclops got under- been jerry-built during the feverish ship- scribed the Cyclops. Her people were way long before the day she should have

building period of World War I. She trained and competent. There were a reached Baltimore, and as soon as it be- had cost $923,000, plenty in those days, surprisingly large number of them, 236, came apparent that she was maintaining at the shipyard of William Cramp and because 63 served at a job now abolished radio silence when she should have been Sons, Philadelphia. — as firemen who stoked the coal fur- reporting. There did not exist, in 1918, She was fast for a collier, having a naces. the kind of search by airplane that to- normal cruising speed of 14 knots, and ILLUSTRATED BY DOM LUPO day criss-crosses the ocean and frequent-

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Was there a sea monster?

ly locates a wreck in hours instead of and drew (when loaded) 27 feet 8 Indies. Mrs. Worley, the skipper's wife, days. But there were thorough surface inches of water. She had twin screws, was among those who thought that the searches. This was one of them. and had carried coal without incident to ship might have put into harbor for some Both American and foreign vessels, the Baltic, to France, to the Atlantic unknown reason, such as engine trouble. merchant and naval, were called on. Fast fleet repeatedly, and to Brazil, on what West Indies fishermen were questioned. ships were detailed to zig-zag across and was to be her final trip south. She dis- The results of the search! No trace parallel to the route the Cyclops was ex- placed (when fully loaded with a 10,547- of the Cyclops. No word of her any- pected to have followed. The lookouts ton cargo of coal), 19,360 tons. Another where. No bodies, no life preservers, no knew what they were searching for: a indication of the size of the Cyclops is lifeboats, no wreckage (not even a spar) big ship with a superstructure that tow- that the Jupiter, a sister ship, was con- Nothing. ered out of the sea something like a grain verted to become the Langley, the Navy's On 15 April, over a month after the elevator. The Cyclops, larger than al- first aircraft carrier. Cyclops had been due in Baltimore, and most any other naval ship of her day Besides the open sea, the search ships after the next-of-kin of the people aboard except a battleship or cruiser, was 542 looked into harbors and stopped at out- her had been notified, the story appeared feet overall, 65 feet in moulded beam, of-the-way islands all through the West (Continued on page 42)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 13 The Inventor Gets a Break

How the government is trying to get inventors Published details of self-service pump brought a flood of inquiries to inventor Bennett Harris.

and businessmen together so everyone benefits.

By LESTER DAVID Only now is the service starting to move into high gear, and the prospects THE GOVERNMENT HAS GONE into look excellent for continued successful the matchmaking business with matches as it rolls along. one of the most practical, not to Consider what happened when one mention novel, aids to the little guy to gadgeteer in need of a backer was Thomas A. Cooper, left, invented this heating unit emerge from Washington in quite a brought in contact with a manufacturer now being widely sold, thanks to a listing. With spell. seeking a good new product. him is Irving Maness, SBA Deputy Administrator. Do you have an ingenious new prod- Michael W. Bennett of Washington, uct or invention, but not enough cash D. C, had created an original heat dis- to put it on the market? Uncle Sam will tribution device for the home. Millions try to find you a manufacturer. of homes, he felt, were plagued by the Are you a manufacturer or business- problem of unequal heat distribution man looking for a slick new customer- through warm air systems. His unit — a catching item to make and sell? Uncle small, electrically operated booster fan Sam will help you locate one. with thermostatic control, provided a It's all part of a new service for the simple and inexpensive answer. small inventor and small businessman. Attached to the air vent, the fan went A little-known branch of the Small on automatically the moment the heat Invented by Dr. J. Bay Jacobs, an obstetrician, Business Administration compiles lists of the furnace reached it. The device this instrument prevents any mixup in infants. of new inventions and processes that would then pump the hot air into the otherwise might never see the light of room as long as it kept rising from the day, and sends them to thousands of burner. As the duct cooled, the little prospective backers all over the United booster would shut itself off and remain trator John E. Home and his deputy, States. The latter look, study and some- inactive until the next cycle started. Irving Maness, were seriously concerned times — buy. Mike was sold on his gadget, which because the work of America's small in- Already the program has given many he called "Boostair," and formed his ventors was not getting to the correct hundreds of attic and basement handi- own firm. He then began beating the people. They knew that vast numbers of craftsmen the chance they dreamed bushes for a company to handle the independent creators of products and about — to have their creations placed manufacturing so that he could concen- processes would hopefully take or send on the market. trate on sales and marketing, but two their devices to several companies, have But now a caution. Don't get the idea years of hunting proved futile. Finally them rejected and then, discouraged and that every inventor can have his choice he heard of the SBA program. not knowing where else to turn, would of angels who are panting to part with Within a short time, the American put them on their workshop shelves to their cash on his behalf. Or that every Art Works of Coshocton, Ohio, makers gather dust. plant owner automatically will find a of precision metal products, became in- The department's officials were con- jackpot item that will send his sales terested and decided to produce "Boost- vinced that there was gold beneath that graph soaring. air." The device is now on the market dust — and that a number of these in- What is important is that a new kind and selling at a merry clip. Mike is ventions had excellent chances of

of meeting place is now available where happy, the manufacturer is happy — and making money provided they reached

inventors and manufacturers can find the SBA is beaming like a godfather at the right hands. The SBA began publish- one another and see what the other has the two of them. ing a booklet, listing devices which it to offer. From these meetings many in- Interested in the details of this unique felt had money-making possibilities. ventors have made money — some even service and how you can participate? Called "Products List Circular," this lots of it — and at the same time in- It's all done by the Products Assist- magazine-size publication describes the creased the profits of the manufacturers ance Program, a branch of the Small inventions briefly and concisely, explains who backed them. Business Administration. SBA Adminis- the materials used in their construction

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ties. Proof lies in the fact that we receive an average of seven specific, interested 61-9-26 GASOLINE VENDING APPARATUS - SIC 3581: inquiries on each item published." Patented (CI. 222-2) The ideas really get around too. Mr. To attach to present or newly built gasoline pumps for the Reynolds points out that often trade purpose of vending gasoline on a self-service basis in re- associations will spot devices that relate to coin or credit card insertion. Machine is capable sponse to the particular needs of their indus- of accepting only bona-fide cards and will reject all others. tries. They will thereupon circulate the It dispenses gasoline, records sale, gives customer receipt and turns off and resets the entire unit. Machine enables all details in their own publications. This service stations now to remain open on a 24-hour basis without means more potential angels will see the need for personnel during heretofore unprofitable hours. It inventions. So far, some 12,000 new (unmanned) on self-service also makes possible single unit service stations a ideas have been spotlighted by the pro- problem of motorists running out of gas at odd hours. basis, reducing the gram. Claims endorsement by New York City Fire Department, Police Department, and There is excellent reason right now the A. A. A. It can be tied in with current credit systems and coding can be changed at periodic intervals, by an unskilled person, to bring the credit for the big surge of interest in new prod- system up to date. ucts by the small businessman. Despite rugged competition from the mammoths and much entanglement in government red tape, prospects for the future are 34 PRIVATELY OWNED INVENTIONS . APPLICATION FOR PATENT FILED nonetheless bright. A recent report prepared for the Ref. No . 62-5-134 DEVICE FOR BOOSTING FLOW OF AIR Federal Reserve Board asserted that FROM DDCT SYSTEM - SIC 3564: neither of the twin ogres, big business Patent Pending and automation, "have reduced small especially for residential "Comfortron" designed business to insignificance or even stifled use to automatically increase flow of heat in warm its growth in most of the major sectors air duct systems. Simple installation by home owner corrects problem areas. Low die and proof the economy." Many experts, more- duction costs. Has been successfully tested in over, predict that the sixties will see four (4) major markets. Model for central air-conditioning availabl e. Trade the greatest expansion in the country's mark registered.

I SMALL. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION • WathinftaA ?>. D. C. 62-6-6 METHOD OF IDENTIFYING NEWLY BORN INFANTS - SIC 3841: Patented (CI. 128-346) Products1 List Circular Uses a disposable clamp and a plier-type instrument, housing inter- IN I —.PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT AND TECHNICAL ASUSTANCf changeable alphabetical letters, for imprinting and compressing john e. MotNE. clamp on the umbilical cord. By one simple operation, the cord is clamped and positive new bcrn identification established, while baby is still attached to mother. Initials of doctor appear on one side, and the mother's product. ..-king n.v initials on opposite side. Existing methods require two separate operations, and are subject to error; first cord is clamped, then some time after baby is detached from the mother, identification means are used. During this interval, due to many common circumstances, baby mixups can occur. Method has been used by obstetricians.

ssssaaFf^t.oi which *r* in"*«..* of product* n. following .*. Po" tad Mrnltur. ,p.c. v, vi. Floor

and illustrates each invention with draw- backer is interested and arranges a meet-

ings showing the parts needed for its ing. Occasionally, when the SBA outfit

manufacture. Thus a prospective "angel" is especially keen about a new device, it can tell the nature of the product almost will tip off a prospective manufacturer at a glance, and how easy, or tough, it and urge him to take a look. But gen- noor toJ»T will be to mass produce. Since many of erally, the SBA serves only as a clearing these inventions are comparatively house to help inventor and manufacturer polishes- simple and inexpensive to produce, they get together. appeal to smaller firms. The SBA be- Where does the SBA division find the

lieves that small firms are just as capable inventions it lists? Officials in various as large ones of developing products — branches all across the country cull the indeed, providing they have sufficient Official Gazette of the Patent Office and capital, often more capable. select likely prospects. Or perhaps some- Each device is listed not with the in- one, somewhere, somehow, hears of a How the SBA alerts inventors to the ventor's name, but with a reference good new gadget or process. The officials current needs of manufacturers. number for identification. The circular get in touch with these patent owners is mailed to thousands of business ex- and invite them to list their creations. history. They foresee the population executives across the country who check Do businessmen really study the lists? ploding by an additional 30,000,000 the lists, select those that sound like the Deck Reynolds, chief of the Products persons and a 50 percent rise in the

rustle of greenbacks and then write to Assistance Program, states: "We know gross national product — that is, we'll be the SBA's New Products Branch, saying that people with money to invest are producing half again as much of every- in effect: "Looks good. Tell me more." searching eagerly these days for good thing as we are right now. The division gets in touch with the new consumer products. They literally Thirty million more Americans means inventor, informs him that a potential fine-comb the products lists for possibili- (Continued on page 31)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 15 .

Veterans' Burial Benefits

A list of things that it is better to know before the need arises.

by STEPHEN BEACH lected. The pertinent military record of the veteran must be provided at the time of the request — one more reason why M funeral passed as a man was standing in front of a store. your military service records should be carefully preserved. £AHe turned to the dour storekeeper and asked: "Whose 8. If your JL Jkm funeral is that?" spouse's death precedes yours, she may be buried "John Schmidt's," answered the merchant. in the National Cemetery of your choice, if you sign a state- desire "John Schmidt's!" the man exclaimed. "You don't tell me ment of your to be buried in the adjoining space (which, he's dead!" in this case, may be reserved for you) "Well," was the answer, "what do you think they're doing 9. Space for your wife may also-be reserved if you die first. with him — practicing?" Her reservation is then subject to review every two years, as Let this anecdote remind you forcefully that there are no remarriage revokes it. In some circumstances, your children "practice-runs" in funerals. It is a final production, with no may be buried adjoining you in a National Cemetery, too. rehearsals, and if it is to be accomplished with a minimum of grief and expense, a little forethought and foreknowledge are 10. The Veterans Administration allows $250 toward the helpful. burial of an honorably discharged veteran, whether in a Na- Of course there are those who would rather cut off their tional Cemetery or in a private cemetery. Funeral directors right arms than plan their own funerals, and if you are one, are familiar with details of claiming this benefit. these words aren't for you. On the other hand, there are millions less squeamish, who would like to make sure that, in 11. There are no charges for space, for opening or closing, or the absence of any rehearsal, their families have the best infor markers, in any National Cemeteries, so that the VA formation in advance. allowance frequently covers the entire burial cost.

As there are very special burial rights for veterans, there is flag is Adminis- more advance information for them than for non-veterans. 12. An American furnished by the Veterans tration to cover the caskets of honorably discharged veterans, For instance, application may be made for burial in a National and is given later to the survivors as a remembrance. Cemetery for every war veteran whose last separation from military service was honorable; and there are both federal 13. A Government headstone or marker may also be provided ($250) and some state cash burial benefits for such veterans. free for the grave of an honorably discharged war-veteran. Of course, many veterans, in spite of their National Ceme- tery burial privileges, would prefer interment in their family 14. Locally, your Legion Service Officer; your funeral di- plots, so there is nothing imperative about securing all rights rector; and your clergyman are sources of more detailed in- due. However, here is a checklist which many families who formation. (See page 68 of The American Legion Manual for have been through the experience would agree contains valu- Post Service Officers, 1962 revised). able information and suggestions. 15. State Veterans Burial Benefits: 1. Tell your spouse your burial desires, and leave a record of (a) One half of the states assist in the expenses of the burial them in writing in a known place. of honorably discharged war veterans. Cash state assistance ranges from $50 to $250. 2. Consult your clergyman about details better planned in (b) Nineteen states report giving assistance that is con- advance. Include a summary of them in your written wishes. tingent on a showing of need. These states are, alphabetically: 3. Get an estimate in writing from your funeral director of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kan- Jersey, the cost of the sort of burial you may prefer, and attach it to sas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New your papers. New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Wiscon- sin, Wyoming. 4. If cremation is desired, choose the most inexpensive casket. (c) Six states report assistance without stating that it is based on need but one or more of the six may have a "needs 5. Select a National Cemetery nearest your home from the list clause" not noted here because of an omission in reporting. below if you wish interment there (provided your last military These six states are, alphabetically: Arizona, California, In- separation was honorable). diana, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania. All 25 states not named above report that they have no 6. Space in National Cemeteries cannot be reserved in ad- (d) the burial of veterans. vance, but arrangements may be made when needed by the state assistance for war funeral director of your choice, or by anyone whom you may (e) Some state laws are quite restrictive, others quite liberal. have asked to do so in an emergency. For detailed information if yours is a state listed above, your local American Legion or the county level of government are 7. The request for interment in a National Cemetery should the most usual sources of accurate information on state burial be made to The Superintendent of the cemetery you have se- benefits for veterans.

16 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 NORTH CAROLINA New Bern National Cemetery New Bern, North Carolina Raleigh National Cemetery Raleigh, North Carolina Salisbury National Cemetery Salisbury, North Carolina Wilmington National Cemetery Wilmington, North Carolina OKLAHOMA Fort Gibson National Cemetery Fort Gibson, Oklahoma OREGON Willamette National Cemetery Portland 66, Oregon PENNSYLVANIA Gettysburg National Military Park and Cemetery Gettysburg, Pennsylvania PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico National Cemetery Bayamon, Puerto Rico SOUTH CAROLINA Beaufort National Cemetery Beaufort, South Carolina Florence National Cemetery Florence, South Carolina SOUTH DAKOTA Black Hills National Cemetery Sturgis, South Dakota TENNESSEE Andrew Johnson National Monument Greenville, Tennessee Chattanooga National Cemetery Chattanooga, Tennessee Fort Donelson Military Park and Cemetery Dover, Tennessee Knoxville National Cemetery Knoxville, Tennessee Memphis National Cemetery Memphis, Tennessee Nashville National Cemetery Madison, Tennessee Shiloh National Military Park and NATIONAL CEMETERIES HAVING SPACE AVAILABLE Cemetery Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee Stones River National Military Park ALABAMA of the Pacific Loudon Park National Cemetery and Cemetery Mobile National Cemetery Honolulu, Hawaii Baltimore 29, Maryland Tennessee Mobile, Alabama MINNESOTA Murfreesboro, ILLINOIS TEXAS ALASKA Alton National Cemetery Fort Snelling National Cemetery Fort Bliss National Cemetery Sitka National Cemetery Alton, Illinois Minneapolis 23, Minnesota Fort Bliss, Texas Sitka, Alaska Camp Butler National Cemetery MISSISSIPPI Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery ARKANSAS Springfield, Illinois Corinth National Cemetery Fort Sam Houston, Texas Fayetteville National Cemetery Mound City National Cemetery Corinth, Mississippi San Antonio National Cemetery Fayetteville, Arkansas Mound City, Illinois Natchez National Cemetery San Antonio, Texas Fort Smith National Cemetery Quincy National Cemetery Natchez, Mississippi VIRGINIA Fort Smith, Arkansas Quincy, Illinois Vicksburg National Military Park and Alexandria National Cemetery Little Rock National Cemetery Rock Island National Cemetery Cemetery Alexandria, Virginia Little Rock, Arkansas Rock Island, Illinois Vicksburg, Mississippi Arlington National Cemetery CALIFORNIA IOWA MISSOURI Arlington, Virginia Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery Keokuk National Cemetery Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery City Point National Cemetery San Diego, California Keokuk, Iowa St. Louis 23, Missouri Hopewell, Virginia Golden Gate National Cemetery Jefferson City National Cemetery KANSAS Culpeper National Cemetery San Bruno, California Jefferson City, Missouri Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery Culpeper, Virginia San Francisco National Cemetery Springfield National Cemetery Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Danville National Cemetery San Francisco, California Springfield, Missouri Fort Scott National Cemetery MONTANA Danville, Virginia COLORADO Fort Scott, Kansas Fort Harrison National Cemetery Custer Battlefield National Monument Fort Logan National Cemetery Richmond, Virginia KENTUCKY Crow Agency, Montana Denver 14, Colorado Glendale National Cemetery Camp Nelson National Cemetery NEBRASKA Richmond, Virginia DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Nicholasville, Kentucky Fort McPherson National Cemetery Hampton National Cemetery Soldiers' Home National Cemetery Lebanon National Cemetery Maxwell, Nebraska Hampton, Washington, D.C. Lebanon, Kentucky Virginia NEW JERSEY Richmond National Cemetery FLORIDA Mill Springs National Cemetery Beverly National Cemetery Richmond 23, Virginia Barrancas National Cemetery West Somerset, Kentucky Beverly, New Jersey Seven Pines National Cemetery Warrington, Florida LOUISIANA NEW MEXICO Sandston, Virginia Alexandria National GEORGIA Cemetery Santa Fe National Cemetery Staunton National Cemetery Andersonville National Pineville, Louisiana Cemetery Santa Fe, New Mexico Staunton, Virginia Andersonville, Georgia Port Hudson National Cemetery NEW YORK Winchester National Cemetery Marietta National Cemetery Zachary, Louisiana Winchester, Virginia Long Island National Cemetery Marietta, Georgia MARYLAND Farmingdale, LI., New York WEST VIRGINIA HAWAII Baltimore National Cemetery Woodlawn National Cemetery Grafton National Cemetery National Memorial Cemetery Baltimore 28, Maryland Elmira, New York Grafton, West Virginia

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 17 The

Few people have done more for

democracy than the Civil War

Officer, Henry Martyn Robert.

by TOM MAHONEY

Fifty years ago, street gangs terrorized the lower East Side of York City. Arguments were settled with New General Robert in 1869. This was the year in which he printed fists. Big boys bullied little ones. The weak shut up. A the first small leaflet of the now famous Rules of Order. few idealists ventured into the slums to teach democracy to the sons of immigrants who had come to America looking for it. army officer and the courtesy of a southern gentleman. The In 1914, one of these missionaries persuaded William Ed- Robert of the rules was all these and more. When he died in win Hall, a successful young lawyer, to visit one of the first 1923 Robert had become the final authority for settling all Boys' Clubs. A fight was brewing. One side wanted to table parliamentary disputes. the proposal of the other side, but the proposers wouldn't Henry Martyn Robert, the name that has settled a million give up. The 12-year-old chairman asked the grownups: "Can fights, belonged to a physically frail but gregarious and deter- you debate a motion to table?" mined U.S. Army Engineer officer. He was born May 2, 1837, Hall, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, didn't know, at Robertville, S.C., a place founded by his Huguenot ances- but an 1 1 -year-old in a tattered red sweater triumphantly pro- tors. His father was a Baptist minister who moved around the duced a worn copy of Robert's Rules of Order. He showed country. When Henry was 16, he was appointed to the U.S. where it says you can't debate a motion to table. Peace re- Military Academy at West Point from Ohio. In 1857, he was turned. graduated fourth in his class and assigned to the Corps of Hall was so impressed that he devoted the rest of his career Engineers. In 1859 his health was permanently damaged by to promoting Boys' Clubs. In the 38 years he served the move- tropical fever contracted in Panama on his way to fortify San ment as national president, he diverted millions of boys from Juan Islands in Puget Sound, Washington Territory. gangs to clubs. In 1860 peacemaking failed. Although a southerner by "Get a gang to run on Robert's Rules," Hall said, "and you birth and temperament, with a dozen relatives in the Confed- have a club. They introduce something new and precious, erate Army (an uncle, Brig. Gen. Alexander Robert Lawton, personal dignity." became quartermaster general), Lieutenant Robert remained Robert's Rules force club members to practice democracy. loyal to the Union. As he built defenses for Washington, D.C. They are based on a few golden principles: and Philadelphia, history was posing questions about the Abide by the will of the majority. rights of assemblies versus members, majorities versus minori- Listen to the minority. ties. In 1863 an embarrassing experience challenged him to Consider one thing at a time. find a better way for men of good will to handle differences Give everybody a chance to talk. of conviction. Keep the discussion impersonal. Robert was fortifying New Bedford, Mass. against attack These principles have long been the basis of good manners. from Confederate raiders preying on the whaling fleet. A well- Robert's Rules apply them to every conceivable tangle of mannered, devout young Baptist, he was asked to run a human wills. To do this gracefully takes the logic of an engi- stormy church meeting. Although he had no experience as a neer, the conscience of a minister's son, the discipline of an presiding officer, the 26-year-old West Pointer felt that the

18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 sible for people to join together for a common purpose even if they don't know each other. They are the essence of what George Romney, Republican Governor of Michigan calls "voluntary

cooperation." Romney regards it as the secret strength of America. Recognizing these values, youth organizations and many high schools now teach Robert's Rules to build character. Seven-year-old Blue Birds practice against the day they will "fly up" to Campfire Girl meetings run on Robert's by repeating together the Blue Bird wish "to remember to keep my temper most of the time." Young officers of Future Farmers of America and 4-H Clubs are trained in Robert's Rules, sometimes by grownup officers of civic- clubs. Both organizations encourage officers to demonstrate by putting on model meetings for their members, and by en- tering contests at which judges rate com- peting teams on the correctness and elegance with which each executes a pre- scribed parliamentary maneuver. Boys in Junior Achievement, Inc. have to organize and run the Board of Directors meetings of their miniature corporations on Robert's Rules. Character building aside, familiarity

with parliamentary technique is now as essential to modern life as driving a car.

Millions who didn't learn it when the\

were in school, fill in at adult education courses. There are movies, educational television programs, correspondence Almost two million copies of the book have helped to keep order in countless meetings. courses, and taped lessons. Elaborate materials were developed a few years ago honor of his uniform required him to ac- every kind of community organization by corporations undertaking to teach cept. He faced a nightmare. One man had to be founded by settlers from dif- their executives how to participate in kept shouting "out of order, out of or- ferent parts of the East. Robert kept the politics. To be sure of order at their der." Neither Robert nor any one else rules which worked best, discarding vari- meetings, the policemen's association of knew whether he was right. ations. Washington, D.C. took lessons in Rob-

When it was over, he turned to books The rules Robert refined make it pos- (Continued on page 34) for help. Exhaustive search turned up only two, "Jefferson's Manual of Parlia- mentary Practice," a digest of the rules of Congress compiled by Thomas Jeffer- son when, as Vice President, he presided over the Senate, and "Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice," a similar 1844 work by Luther Cushing, a judge who taught at Harvard. But both were meant for continuing government bodies of paid members. Starting from scratch, Robert began to think out what would work best for brief meetings of voluntary groups. Af- ter the war he taught military engineering at West Point, spent four years in San Francisco as chief engineer of the Pacific military district, and worked in Arizona and Southern California map- ping trails, including those which developed into present Highways 66 and 80. Wherever he went, he attended meetings. Rules varied widely. Differences were es-

pecially troublesome in California, where Running an orderly meeting is no problem for the officer who knows the rules.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 19 By LEWIS K. GOUGH

he Great War had ended nearly

I ten years before, but the memo- t:ries of it were still fresh among the lowland farmers and villagers of Flanders. Rubble remained on the cob- blestone roads ripped by heavy German artillery years before. Human casualties were everywhere. Some had legs or arms

missing; some still carried pieces of

shrapnel; others still suffered from the burns and horrors of deadly mustard gas. Belgium had known war more inti- mately than any nation in Europe. Now

it was struggling to survive the after- math. There were shortages of food, warm clothing, fuel, housing and medical supplies. But there was no shortage of misery. In the fall of 1928, one of Belgium's dominant forces was the National Fed- eration of Belgian Veterans. These were the survivors of a valiant but decimated army that had helped to save the nation from German domination. Each man had known at least the loss of a good friend, but more probably a father, a brother or son. It was fitting, as the tenth UNITED STATES: At Arlington National Cemetery each torch was carried by a anniversary of the armistice neared. that distinguished military leader representing the country where it had been lighted.

FRANCE: Co-Chairman Lewis K. Gough, of ENGLAND: Torches are carried from West- CANADA: U.S. Veterans Committee of People Veterans Committee of People to People, re- minster Abbey, London, by National President to People joins with Canadian veteran leaders kindles flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Maj. Gen. Sir Richard Howard-Vyse, and Sir in ceremonies that were conducted at the War Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Roy Bucher, of the British Legion. Memorial in Ottawa.

Belgium should prepare a ceremony hon- captured the enthusiasm not only of all rial, located in downtown Kansas City. oring these men. Belgium, but of six other nations includ- Torches from France, England. Italy, An idea for dramatizing the nation's ing the United States. Last year, on Vet- Israel and Mexico were marched in pro- gratitude J. came to L. Martin, at that erans' Day, November 1 1 , torches from cessions at the three locations, along time the Director of the Journal of Vet- Belgium and other nations were rekin- with those from Belgium. The rites were erans. He proposed that relays of veter- dled at focal points on the East and West sponsored by the Veterans Committee of ans be dispatched from far points of the Coasts and, for the first time, in the Mid- the President's People-to-People Pro- Belgian frontier to carry illuminated west as Americans reaffirmed their faith in gram. National and State leaders of the torches to a central point in Brussels. the principles of freedom and friendship. American Legion, Veterans of Foreign The relays would converge on the Sacred As in the past two years, Sacred Torch Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where in Ceremonies drew thousands of people to AM VETS, Catholic War Veterans and a ceremony the nation would rededicate Arlington National Cemetery in Wash- Jewish War Veterans received the torches itself to the ideals for which these men ington and to the Servicemen's Monu- from abroad and bore them in the cere- had fought. ment at the Court of Freedom at Forest monies. Bands, honor guards and youth Thus was born the Sacred Torch Cer- Lawn, Glendale, Calif. The newest cere- groups also participated. emony, an event which subsequently mony was at the famed Liberty Memo- One of many activities sponsored by

20 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 President Eisenhower to carry out the purposes of the People-to-People Pro- gram. The reorganized program, inaug- A SEVEN-NATION CEREMONY urated at the rededication of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City in November 1961, is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan program in the cause of in- The Sacred Torch Ceremony in which veterans from seven ternational understanding and world

friendship. General Eisenhower is chair- nations take part has given impetus to a better man of the Board of Trustees and Presi- dent Kennedy is honorary chairman. In sponsoring the Sacred Torch and understanding veterans of the free nations. among other activities, the Veterans Committee

is working to keep alive the ideals that the Belgian ceremony fostered in 1928. the People-to-People Program, the Sa- senting the six leading American vet- At the Forest Lawn observance in cred Torch Ceremony has given impetus erans' organizations, are: W. C. "Dan" 1961, Congressional Medal of Honor to a better understanding among veterans Daniel, American Legion; Fred Tonne- winner Colonel Raymond Harvey of the free nations. As a result of this macher, AMVETS; Robert L. O'Leary, summed up the purposes of the Sacred and other activities, "veteran ambassa- Catholic War Veterans; Joseph F. Burke, Torch Ceremony. His tribute to the sym- dors" are now promoting the People-to- Disabled American Veterans; Sam Shai- bolism of the torch was a tribute to People Program in their countries. An kewitz, Jewish War Veterans; and Ted growing friendship among free nations. "ambassador's manual" is distributed to Connell, Veterans of Foreign Wars. In Said Colonel Harvey: "The liberty to foreign veterans' leaders to use as a addition, all national commanders of discover and pursue a natural happiness guide in their People-to-People work. these organizations serve as voting mem- and the liberty to grow wise and live in In addition, an expanded Veterans bers of the committee during their terms friendship with God and one another— Leaders Exchange Program has devel- of office. this was the Sacred Torch that each of

oped to encourage visits between the for- The Veterans Committee was one of them carried . . . even unto death." eign and American veterans' organiza- 34 committees established in 1956 by THE END

BELGIUM: Officials of the National Federation of Veterans TURKEY: Turkish troops stand at attention at the War Memorial in Ist- of Belgium attend Sacred Torch ceremonies at Antwerp. anbul as Lewis K. Gough leads People to People memorial exercises.

tions. In most countries, the committee finds veteran leaders eager to discuss matters they feel are not properly understood by the United States. With continued success, the project is expanding to Africa and the Far East. The Veterans Committee also distributes films

and pamphlets through veterans' posts abroad. It sponsors a "Fraternal Bookshelf" of 99 volumes- history, biography, science, literature — in strategic locations such as veterans' posts, schools and churches. It also encourages letter writing, especially among first and second generation citizens and those who have maintained contacts abroad. Responsible for these activities are co-chairmen Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, famous World ISRAEL: The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Jerusalem was the set- War I ace, and myself. ting for this ceremony where Israeli veterans joined with U.S. Commit- Appointed members of the committee, repre- tee members.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 21 TO KEEP YOUR GUT LEADERS soft and flexible when you store them, wrap them in a glycerin-soaked cloth. R. Miller of Lan- sing, Mich., who submits this idea, says the leaders will keep longer if they are so treated.

ALL NEW FOR '63 is the 17th Annual edition of the Gun Digest just issued. Ed- ited by John T. Amber, this year's Digest has 384 pages of gun lore and information FOR THE MAN CLUB about the current crop of firearms. The WITH AN INTEREST IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS price is $3.95.

A LIFE-SAVING HINT is offered by Bill 8 Vi -inch barrel, and the cartridge chamber

Bishop, of Pcrkasie, Pa., who takes no is located at the rear end of the barrel. The chances when he is crossing frozen water. breech block replaces the conventional cyl-

"I carry two 'ice picks'," he explains. "To inder of a revolver, and it rotates 50 degrees make them, take two pieces of broom from its firing position to its open position. handle, each six inches long, and put two Extremely accurate at 100 yards, giving nails in each, with a quarter-inch of each groupings of less than 1 % inches at that dis- nail projecting from the wood. Put corks on tance, it represents a new challenge for var- the nails and string them to your belt. If the mint hunters. It is described as "the most ice breaks, dig the nails into the ice to hang logical handgun now made for telescopic SOME ADVICE FOR BEAGLE OWNERS on till help comes or to pull yourself out." sights." price, The S87.50. is passed along by Clarence Zimmerman, of Scranton, Pa. The advice — be patient. He SPEAKING OF COLD WEATHER, Em- points out thgt even if a beagle does not WHILE SHOOTING GROUND HOGS one mett R. Dawson, of Coronado, Calif., has sound off on a fresh rabbit track, even when day, Mike! Miller, of Point Mo., this suggestion to make: "If you expect to Lookout, you have seen the rabbit, that does not had difficulty lining up his target because be camping in cold country, don't use a prove that the dog is not doing his best. "In his spotting scope was pointed toward the zipper in the door of a floored tent. If you my experience with beagles," he says, "I sun. night he figured a solution do and the weather turns wet and then That out to have found that while one rabbit will leave the problem and he passes it along to others. freezes, you'll have to cut your way out." a strong scent, another will leave hardly any. "I took the cardboard tube from a roll of I have gained my experience by watching toilet paper and slipped it the of on end my dogs of good pedigree being fooled by scope. This extension eliminated the sun rabbits that left little or no scent." problem entirely, and it's much cheaper than lens shades from a purchased scope TO GIVE STREAMER FLIES more color maker." and flash, string one or two brightly colored glass beads on the leader tipper before tying on the fly. John Whitton, of Folcroft, MOST SHOOTERS have had trouble with Pa., w ho makes this recommendation, says breast pockets which have gotten in the that the beads serve more than one purpose. way when a quick shot had to be taken. Besides attracting fish, they carry the fly Wilhelmina Krause, of St. Louis, Mo., has deeper and also provide the weight needed MORE ATTRACTIVE WOODLAND is as- a simple cure for the "danger pocket" that for casting easily w ith spinning tackle and sured by an amendment to the New York can snag a gun butt. Rip it off before you light line. State Conservation Law which restricts the go hunting. use of advertising signboards within the A PORTABLE BULLETIN BOARD to hold State's famed Adirondack park. Under the fishing flies and plugs is described by law, the Department may remove illegal ALMOST AS SIMPLE and practical, is Charles V. Mathis, of Wildwood-by-the- signs or advertising from private property the solution to another problem, offered by Sea, N. J. To make it, you cut a plywood if the owner fails to do so within 30 days Harold Roberts, of Detroit, Mich. The board, 'A -inch thick, to approximately 1- of being notified of the violation. Exempted problem is the familiar one of putting heavy foot square. Shoot 5/16-inch staples all are signs on private land advertising only boots on when they are damp. To make around the board and the staple crowns a business operated on the property where your feet glide into them, Harold recom- will protrude just enough to hang plugs the sign is located. Also excluded are signs mends the use of a piece of strong plastic, and flies on them. When you've loaded the erected and maintained within the bounda- such as a polyethylene bag. "Put it in the board with your equipment, you can see ries of incorporated villages. back of the boot and you can easily slide at a glance exactly what you have available. the boot on. The plastic is of course pulled out before lacing the boot." A HANDSOME NEW CATALOG has just WHEN METAL FISHING LURES become been issued by Remington and it's yours tarnished, their polish can be restored by for the asking. Handsomely illustrated, it WHAT ARE THE HOTTEST ITEMS in the soaking them overnight in water in which not only shows you the complete line of potatoes have been boiled. Wilfred E. gun world at the present time? That is, the Remington arms and ammo, it also contains models that keep manufacturers busy trying Beaver of Chicago, 111., who makes this sug- a lot of information that is helpful to shoot- to meet the demand? At Remington they gestion, says that when you remove them ers. The price? Free. Just drop a note to the water they should be rubbed with tell us that their most popular item is the from the Advertising Department of Remington recently introduced Model 700 rifle firing a damp cloth and then wiped dry. This, he Arms Co., Bridgeport 2, Conn., and ask for the 7-mm. magnum. Sturm, Ruger says its says, will work on even the most darkened their catalog AA-02. If you wish, you can hottest number just now is the Convertible lure. say we sent you. Single-Six revolver which comes with two If helpful this feature cylinders so the shooter has a choice of .22 you have a idea for If it we'll THE HIGHEST VELOCITY ever achieved caliber or .22 magnum. Ithaca's Deerslayer send it along. we can use pay you $5.00. However, are unable to acknowl- in a commercially produced handgun, 2,350 is again keeping the gunsmiths busy far we contributions, return or enter feet per second, is claimed by Sturm, Ruger above Cayuga's waters. At High Standard, edge them for its new "Hawkeye," single shot pistol business continues brisk for the "Super" into correspondence concerning them. Ad- designed for use with cartridges of the .256 derringer, the two-shot double action hand- dress Outdoor Editor, The American Legion Winchester class. The "Hawkeye" has an gun that was introduced late last year. Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N. Y.

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VETERANS JANUARY 963 ^^^^j^ j^

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

COMMANDER PROTESTED ABC based on the death-experience in the age- in one time NIXON SHOW WITH ALGER HISS: group you happen to be at any T When ABC-TV cancelled a war-veteran it is very cheap when you are young and the program on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, to sub- death-rate among your contemporaries is low, stitute one called "The Political Obituary and very expensive when you are old and the of Richard M. Nixon" and placed Alger Hiss on death-rate among your age group is high. . the panel, Nat'l American Legion Commander The premium rates on all VA term insurance are James E. Powers sent the following protest to readjusted ever upward every 5 years, and prohibitive Leonard H. Goldenson, President of ABC ; with reach a point where they become copies to Thomas W. Moore, vice-president . . .Most veterans convert to a permanent form in charge of TV, and James Hagerty, President of insurance at a level premium before such Eisenhower's former press secretary, now time. ABC vice-president in charge of news: The last Congress passed a law for relief "The national organization of The of the 14,000 who still carry their WW1

American Legion regrets that on November 11, insurance in the term form. . .It allows them The American Broadcasting Company saw fit to to switch, after their 65th birthday, to a cancel a planned program honoring America' special Endowment at Age 96 policy, whose war veterans in favor of a program which chief virtue is that the premium rate remains offered a forum to a man who is a convicted fixed. . . After 65, those with USGLI term perjurer. In our opinion, this must be con- insurance may surrender their term policies sidered an example of poor taste and judg- in exchange for the special endowment ment by an organization which is one of the policies. . .For an extra fee, they may at the maj or channels of information to the nation. " same time buy a disability waiver of premium with the endowment policy. VETS WILL GET 1963 VA INSURANCE There is a gamble involved in making the DIVIDENDS IN JANUARY, AND NSLI switch, since all the older USGLI policies

WELL GET "SPECIAL" DIVIDEND t have a built-in provision which permits By Presidential order, regular divi- maturing the policy for permanent and total dends on veterans' gov't life insurance disability ... Those who swap for the endow-

(both WW1 and WW2) will be paid in January, ment policy give up this feature . . . the en- 1963, instead of on the anniversary dates of dowment policy matures only as a death-claim, the various policies throughout the year. or on the insured reaching the age of 96 . . Holders of NSLI (WW2) insurance will also But the original USGLI policies may mature get a s pecial dividend amounting to about for disability, when the insured may (a) keep 40% of the regular dividend, payable on all the face value of the policy as insurance and participating policies that were in force in pay no more premiums or (b) elect to receive August, September, October or November, 1962 a monthly income from the policy ($5.75 per ...The regular dividends result from claims month per $1,000) , slowly reducing its value failing to require the rate of premium as a death-claim. charged. . .The special NSLI dividend results The American Legion Rehabilitation from a review of the contingency fund in- Commission suggests due caution in any dicating that it may safely be reduced. decision to swap the old for the new policy. . Said the Commission, in an instruction to

HOW VETS WITH WW1 TERM INSURANCE Legion Service Officers : "At age 65 or older, CAN CONVERT TO A SPECIAL ENDOWMENT it is not too difficult to meet the VA's PLAN AT 65, TO AVOID ZOOMING PREMIUMS: definition of permanent and total disability About 14,000 veterans whose military for insurance purposes. Perhaps a majority service antedated WW2 carry USGLI gov't life of these term policy holders could mature insurance in the form of term insurance. . their contracts now, if they would file a Since the premiums on term insurance are claim. It is even more probable that all of

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 1962 23 ...... these term contracts can be matured in the residences of veterans who have business next few years. Upon maturity, the insured is with the VA. not only relieved of the payment of premiums, VA HOSPITALS "CRITICIZED" but, in addition, is paid a monthly IN DECEMBER ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: . The December Atlantic magazine con- benefit . . " We add , if he so elects Some 7,000 of those affected will be up tained a "critique" of Veterans Administra- for a new and higher premium rate on their tion hospitals on which readers have asked our comments ... In our view, the public term insurance this year . . .They would be well-advised at least to apply for maturity deserves a higher standard of criticism of of the term policy if they have some the Veterans Administration than this piece established disability and are no longer . . .Dr. Richard Dillon, now chief resident working, and not consider swapping until physician at BrynMawr, Pa., Hospital, and unless rejected in their application to served two short training stints at one of mature their present policies. VA' s 169 hospitals. . .On the basis of this Judgment after that is an individual experience he proposes in Atlanti c that the matter... To assist in it, here are the U.S. give the VA hospitals away to private a nnual premium rates for new Endowment at ownership (ie : his own profession) . . He downgrades the ailments of patients Age 96 policies ; with, and without , a waiver of premium in case of disability ... There admitted under VA management, sometimes are also monthly, quarterly and semi-annual hardly short of ridicule, claiming that VA admits patients for trivial reasons in tables. . .These premiums remain at the level stated for the age at which you take out order to keep beds full and justify the the policy .. .Rates above age 80 are also budget. . . (There * s a waiting list of 17,000 available veterans for VA beds and VA denied 33% of applications last year) Annual Premium Per $1,000 Dr. Dillon casually stated that a Age Without With f patient was admitted "for dandruf " . . . VA at Premium Premium looked into the case... Its report: The Issue Waiver Waiver veteran whom Dr. Dillon said was hospital- 65 $31.89 $44.53 ized "for dandruff" contracted a skin fungus 66 32.72 46.42 (jungle rot) in New Guinea in 1943. . .He 67 33.67 48.55 still has it. . .Lesions of the face , scalp and 68 34.73 50.80 ankles have required three hospitalizations 69 35.79 52.92 with radiation therapy. . .At the time of the 70 37.09 55.28 admission reported by Dr. Dillon, the vet- 71 38.51 57.65 eran was feverish with a secondary infection 72 40.16 60.01 . . .Dr. Dillon' s characterization of this 73 42.05 62.49 as a hospitalization "for dandruff" typifies 74 44.42 65.44 his article in the December Atlanti c 75 47.37 69.22 in our view. 76 50.80 73.59 Dr. Dillon complained in Atlantic that 77 54.93 79.03 it took 18 days to confirm a diagnosis in 78 59.89 85.76 another case, saying that an efficient 79 65.92 93.91 operation would have done it in two or three, 80 73.00 103.24 as only three tests were needed. . .VA VA TO CLOSE 26 MORE FIELD CONTACT looked into this one too, and reported that OFFICES, OVER LEGION OBJECTION: Dr. Dillon himself had ordered 33 separate The Veterans Administration announced laboratory examinations for this patient, in November that effective Dec. 28 it would as well as X-rays and an electrocardiogram. close out 26 more of its field contact A veteran whom Dr. Dillon characterized offices, leaving only 9 open in the nation. . as having been admitted for "athlete's The American Legion strongly protested the foot" was, VA reports, an ambulance driver closing of 161 similar offices in 1961, and in the ETO who incurred a severe foot infec- current Legion policy continues to oppose tion after wearing wet boots for days on

' the shutdown . . . The field offices provide end. . .Flare-ups since then have required personal contact for veterans seeking seven courses of X-ray therapy. . .To this VA services in numerous areas, and their day. because of the "swollen and weeping closure requires veterans to contact the VA condition of his feet" he is frequently in- at regional offices, VA centers and hospi- capacitated at home, unable to wear footgear tals, many of which are distant from the ...Athlete's foot, indeed.

24 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS JANUARY 1963 22 probably would not have come about. The Senate, the Veterans Administration Legion Moves to Broaden and the President all correctly understood it, and favored it. Legion requests for reforms in the im- Liaison with U.S. Congress perfect veterans pension law which became effective in 1960, and which many Plans to increase liaison between fair with some veterans by reopening members of Congress are dissatisfied members of the U.S. Congress and Le- National Service Life Insurance for one with, failed to move onto the House floor gionnaires in their home Districts and year (the insureds paying the adminis- in 1962, at a time when Congressional of the States were outlined as an important trative cost) : to make partial amends leaders actually sought the help American Legion objective in the legis- for (a) the closing out of the issuance of Legion to ward off extreme pension de- lative field for 1963 at a top-level Ameri- WW2 veterans' insurance in 1951 with- mands brought on by the imperfection can Legion meeting called by National out warning or any deadline at all and of the present law. Commander James E. Powers in Wash- (b) the giving of a scant 120 days after The 1962 compensation increase ington, D.C. on Nov. 19 and 20. discharge for Korea vets to take out which was adopted by Congress for war- Commander Powers told a group of NSLI. disabled veterans emerged in a form national officers and staff members that The bill would have reopened the in- which undercompensates the majority the legislative mandates adopted by the surance to provide a decent deadline for of war-disabled veterans in relation to National Convention could more effec- closing out its issuance permanently. the degree of their disability. tively be pursued by increasing contacts, The record of the defeat of the bill in No increase at all was adopted in the in an organized way, between members the House clearly showed, from the lim- compensation paid to widows, minor of Congress on the one hand, and Legion ited debate, that many members mistook children and dependent parents of men and Auxiliary members on the other, in it for a proposal permanently to enlarge who died as a result of war service, in the states, counties and communities. the government's veterans insurance ac- spite of the havoc that inflation has The Legion's record on the national tivity rather than one to close its issu- wreaked on their compensation since the scene in 1962, he pointed out, was ance out gracefully in 1963, instead of present rates were set. As this is a spotty, though there was much that was disgracefully as in 1951. payment which discriminates in the good. Had more Legionnaires been effec- amounts paid, based on the military rank

The national defense policies of the tively organized to contact their own of the deceased breadwinner, it is espe- Federal government have more and Congressmen and explain the fairness of cially hard on the widows and minor more come to parallel historic Legion the proposal, the surprising misunder- children of deceased enlisted men w hen beliefs. standing of the bill in the House on Aug. corrections for spiraling living costs are In some areas of foreign policy, no-

tably the Cuban arms blockade, the stiff INVENTORY OF SERVICE stand on Berlin, and the military assis-

tance in Viet Nam, the government is taking measures of the sort long advocated by the Legion — and has behind it the broad public support provided by the Legion. On the other hand, reforms in veterans programs urged by the Legion in 1962, including some brought into the National Convention by a large number of state delegations, did not fare too well. The Legion's record in supporting the government was, in short, more effective in 1962 than the government's record in supporting sound reforms in veterans affairs.

A classic example was a simple bill to correct an injustice, at no cost to the government, which was independently proposed by both the Legion and the U.S. Senate. It met surprising resistance, hos- tility and misunderstanding in the House, where it failed of passage, in a procedure that severely limited debate, and under a rule from the Rules Com- Members of Post 230, Wilmerding, Pa., pose before a sampling of the materials they make available for the sick. The wheelchair, two walkers and crutches are for loan in the community. mittee that virtually doomed it from the In a year the Post also provided the following for three hospitals: 1500 novels, 200 library books, start. 50 magazines, uncounted puzzles and phonograph records for patient recreation, as well as That, of course, was the bill to play 350 dozen homemade cookies from the Auxiliary.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 25 delayed by inaction in Congress. of commissions are printed in italics. tration ir Memorial, Herbert D. Black,

Delegates to the 1962 National Con- AMERICANISM: Daniel J. O'Con- S. C; Membership and Post Activities, vention of The American Legion man- nor, N.Y.; Counter-subversive Activities, Eugene W. Hiatt, Kans.; Pilgrimage,

dated the Legion to support action on all Dr. J. E. Martie, Nev.; Americanism Stewart W. Parker, D. C; Resolutions these matters in 1963, at the same time Council, G. Emory Sipple, Wise. Assignment, Charles W. Griffith, S. C; that they again voted sweeping support CHILD WELFARE: Dr. Garland D. Trophies, Aivards 6- Ceremonials, Reed

of the Administration and Congress on Murphy, Jr., Ark.; New England Area, Beard, Ind. other matters. Ray Greenwood, Vt; Middle Atlantic LEGISLATIVE: Clarence C. Horton,

It was to avoid a repetition of the in- Area, Dr. Samuel A. Loveman, N. J.; Ala.

action on reasonable Legion requests Southern Area, Maurice T. Webb, Ga.; PUBLICATIONS : Edward McSween- that National Commander Powers met Midwestern Area, Eugene V. Lindquist, ey, N. Y.; Advisory, Joseph P. Donovan. with some key commission chairmen and Minn.; Western Area, Rav H. Sherritt, Ind. staff members in mid-November to make N. Mex. PUBLIC RELATIONS: C. D. De- preliminary plans to call on many more CONVENTION: James V. Demarest, Loach, D. C. Legion and Auxiliary members in their N. Y.; Contests Supervisory, Archie REHABILITATION: Robert M. Mc-

states and communities to acquaint their Pozzi, Jr., Nev.; Distinguished Guests; Curdy, Calif.; Area A, Sidney J. Harris, legislators with the Legion's key bills in A. L. Starshak, 111. Mass.; Area B, W. Rex McCrosson, N.J.;

1963. ECONOMIC: Dr. Almo J. Sebastian- Area C, John Links, Jr., La.; Area D, Present at the meetings, in addition to elli, Pa.; Employment, William Chis- James F. Burns, Wise; Area E, Philip National Commander Powers were: holm, Colo.; Housing, Dr. Tom B. Clark, E. Watson, Calif.; Problems of the Clarence C. Horton (Ala.), Legisla- Okla.; Veterans' Preference, Raymond Aging, Milton S. Applebaum, 111. tive Chairman and former Director of R. McEvov, Mass. NATIONAL SECURITY: William C.

the Alabama Department of Veterans FINANCE: Harold P. Redden, Mass.: Doyle, N. J.; Aeronautics

DeLoach (D.C), Public Relations INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Herbert J. Tenn.; Military Justice and Appeals,

Chairman and Ass't Director of the Fed- Jacobi, D. C; Constitution repeal of 1938 Federal Firearms Act. apolis, Oct. 31-Nov. 1. The meetings, tators abroad. 348. Opposes weakening of basic U. S. immi- 13. Opposes executive clemency for convicted chairmanned by Nat'l Commander gration law. communist Junius Scales. 377. Suggests a standard "minimum" loyalty James E. Powers, heard reports of all 25. Urges Constitutional Amendment to guaran- oath for all government operations requiring one. tee right of public prayer. Nat'l Commissions and committees, ap- 406. Seeks Congressional investigation of Black 27. Urges halt to postage free flow of communist pointed members and chairmen to all Muslim movement. literature into the U. S. 408. Endorses "The Firing Line", anti-sub- national policy bodies, and adopted a 31. Reiterates request that Congress investigate versive publication of The American Legion. American Civil Liberties Union. total of 40 resolutions. A digest of the 418. Disapproves flight of U.S. motion picture 32. Supports House Un-American Activities production abroad, arid in particular its use of approved resolutions appears on page Committee. communists in foreign productions. 33. Asks Congress investigate Foreign Policy 29, following a digest of all resolutions 419. Pledges continued exposure of the use of Ass'n and its "Great Decisions" program. identified communists in U.S. motion pictures. adopted by the National Convention in 41. Asks that Legion observe "Bells Across the 443. Seeks better facilities for absentee voting Nation Day" each April 19. October. by servicemen and gov't employees on service 52. Suggests organizing a group of well-known Below are the chairmen of national abroad. speakers to counter anti-American propaganda. 482. Endorses Radio Free Europe. bodies whose appointments 56. Urges vigorous prosecution of communists were ap- 483. Urges that U.S. youth be better educated who are in violation of Sec. 7 of the Subversive proved. COMMISSIONS are in capital in the fundamentals of Constitutional government. Activities Control Act. letters, committees and other divisions 58. Seeks penalty for violation of U.S. flag code. (Continued on page 28)

26 TH E AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, 1962-63

Below are the 58 Department Com- Department Convention in the late Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puer- manders of The American Legion for spring or summer of 1962. to Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, Mex- the year 1962-63. The American Legion Departments ico, Canada, the Philippines, Italy and Each Commander was elected by his include the 50 states, the District of France.

Henry W. Ryan John E. Gurule F. Herrick Connors L. R. Brady, Sr. Sam Tolchinsky S. G. Luginbuhl C. B. Witcraft A. C. Friesen New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 27 . .

Digest of Nat'l Resolutions 572. Urges strong reiteration of the Monroe (continued) Doctrine as the basic U.S. policy regarding foreign intervention in InterAmerican affairs. 485. Endorses the loyalty oath required for gov't ed, setting nat'l per capita dues of The American 629. Urges that U.S.-Latin American coopera- loans under the Nat'l Defense Education Act. Legion at $2 for 1963, an increase of 50c\ effective tion and aid be based on reciprocal support of 493. Commends FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. with memberships issued or renewed as of Jan. 1, basic Western Hemisphere objectives for liberty 544. Reaffirms support of amendment to Social 1963. and freedom. Security to permit continued payment of benefits to Foreign Relations children while Internal Affairs in school, until age 21. Foreign Aid and Trade 60. Asks Federal gov't it 560. Urges sterner penalties for peacetime sabo- to make easier for 153. Asks U.S. to be more positive and effec- tage and treason. gov't employees to participate in military funerals. tive in matters affecting the lives, security, prop- 82. increase 608. Urges immigration priority for children of Seeks in wearing of Legion uniform erty, and liberty of Americans abroad. U.S. veterans residing abroad. by officials at official functions. 384. Asks that U.S. policy on communism be 631. Commends Roy Rogers and Dale Evans 94. Urges members to do all possible to resolve tailored to the long range objective of ending the differences for more than 5,000 contributions to Rehabilitation, between American Legion and 40 & 8. communist threat to the world. 130. Seeks change in Nat'l Convention housing Child Welfare and Americanism endeavors of the Legion. 497. Asks President and Congress to review the allocations. operation of the State Department in order to 634. Commends joint Legion-Nat'l Education 381. Expresses appreciation to Netherlands for keep public confidence in it at a high level. its Margraten Cemetery for U.S. war dead. Ass'n committee for its manual "Teaching About Communism." 567. Asks U.S. reevaluate its whole foreign aid 382. Urges a study for the purpose of improving program, and deny any of Child Welfare form U.S. aid to any the structure of the Sons of The American Legion. country unfriendly to the U.S. or which trades 423. Seeks postage stamp commemorating 50th 17. Commends the aims of the Salk Institute with the Communist bloc. anniversary of The American Legion in 1969. for Biological Studies, under construction in San 655. Asks that American destruction of Custer Battlefield Diego, Calif. Legion Magazine pub- 472. Opposes lish an analysis, understandable to laymen, of the Nat'l Monument; asks that its administration be 150. Outlines a 5-point attack on traffic in operation from of Interior Defense Dep't. obscenity and pornography. of the U.S. foreign aid program and its transferred Dep't to use of tax dollars. 516. Commends former U.S. Supreme Court 278. Endorses Youth Conservation Corps. Treaties and Agreements Justice Felix Frankfurter. 612. Urges retroactive payment of Aid to De- 220. Reiterates without qualification American 610. Seeks modernized broad national policy on pendent Children benefits when bureaucratic de- Legion opposition to national cemeteries. lays have caused delays in eligibility. any weakening or nullifying of the Connally Reservation re: jurisdiction of the 630. Endorses proposed Memorial Park on Cor- 613. Seeks end to exclusion of foster children World Court over U.S. affairs. regidor Island," in the Philippines. from Aid to Dependent Children provisions of the Social Security Act. 223. Asks a constitutional amendment in line Legislative with the main purpose of the original "Bricker 614. Asks that children otherwise eligible for 232. Again seeks establishment of a Veterans Amendment" proposal to prevent international community welfare benefits not be disbarred for Affairs Committee in the U.S. Senate. lack of sufficient time of residence. agreements entered into without the advice and 233. Seeks' law specifying that no act of Con- consent of the Senate from becoming supreme Constitutional Amendments the gress shall pre-empt a field of legislation from the law of the land. No Constitutional Amendments were adopted. states unless that is spelled out in each such act. Economic 573. Reaffirms Legion policy that Status of 609. Seeks establishment of a gov't commission Forces agreements be modified to extend U.S. con- to restudy U.S. Veterans program in the Philippines. 15. Seeks better protection of job rights of Re- stitutional rights to members of our Armed Forces servists who are called to training or active duty. and civilians who are placed on duty abroad by Rehabilitation 43. Supports federal and state agencies that 9. Seeks presumption of service-connection for the U.S. gov't. promote veterans employment. is manifested within one year United Nations and Disarmament psychoneurosis that 213 and 214. Ask Labor Dept and Civil Service of war duty that involved combat or extra-hazard- 169. Asks that the U.S. seek enforcement of Comm'n to survey workload and programs of fed- ous duty. the financial responsibility provisions of the UN eral and local Veterans Employment Representa- 24. Asks that during a period of hospitalization Charter, in keeping with the opinion of the Inter- tives. for service-connected disability such disability be national Court of Justice, and seek suspension of 215. Supports Bureau of Veterans' Reemploy- compensated as total in degree. voting rights of all nations who are delinquent in ment Rights of the U.S. Labor Dep't. 44. Authorizes continued Legion study of VA their UN dues and assessments, as provided in tin 217. Seeks Executive order to disability rating schedule to assure that ratings are halt Civil Ser\ ici UN Charter. practice of requiring a longer probationary period always just and valid. 180. Opposes "general and complete disarma- than provided by law lor veterans to achieve Vet- 102 and 611. Oppose disposition by the VA of ment" as proposed by U.S. representatives to the erans Preference retention rights in federal its domiciliary homes. jobs. Geneva Disarmament Conference, and any other 262. Seeks increase in amount veteran can bor- 118. Supports a "modified life" plan of NSLI form of disarmament which does not provide iron- row on Gl home loan, without increasing gov't insurance. clad safeguards against its secret abrogation by any guarantee (to adapt program to 157. Seeks payment of war-disability compen- special conditions signatory. in Alaska ) sation in proportion to disability, as it was until 532. Asks Congress to make a complete and 281. Supports activities that promote 1952, and seeks extension of compensation for de- employ- open investigation of U.S. -UN relations to deter- ment of the handicapped. pendents for all service-connected disabled vet- mine whether it is still in the best interests of the 282. Opposes any weakening of veterans' erans, in proportion to degree of disability. rights U.S. to remain in the UN. in federal emloyment. 173. Authorizes Legion study of VA request for Far East and Southeast Asia 283. Urges a priority recruitment of veterans increase in transportation mileage allowance. 178. Endorses President's statement that the for time spent in military service un- temporary Christmas employment in Post 237. Asks that U.S. would not remain inactive in the face of ag- Offices. der President's emergency call-up not count as gressive actions which might threaten Formosa. 367. Seeks expansion of U.S. and State elapsed time toward veterans GI education dead- Employ- 179. Endorses the affirmative action of the U.S. ment Services' functions on behalf of older lines. workers. in support of South Vietnam and Thailand, and vets burial allowance specifi- 428. Seeks a national "Hire a veteran" week. 238. Seeks $100 suggests a new collective security treaty for the 564. Asks Legion Posts to cally for the gravesite and its servicing. ascertain il Veterans defense of Southeast Asia. 266. Seeks broadened authority for VA to con- Preference Act is being properly administered lo- 434. Opposes any and all trade with China cally. Red tract for medical care of eligible veterans when by the U.S. or any of her allies. ( as in Alaska gov't hospital care is not feasible. 617. Seeks to reduce obstacles to ) employment 517. Continues to oppose admission of Red of older workers. 285. Seeks cost-of-living increase in compensa- to the China UN and any U.S. recognition of Red tion paid eligible survivors of war-killed veterans. 618. Seeks legislation to provide thai Veterans China. 286. Again seeks to have NSLI vets insurance Preference will apply in all laws concerning federal Berlin and Soviet Russia reopened for 1 year, the insured to pay administra- employees unless specifically excluded. 177. Strongly supports the President's position tive 619. Opposes Armed Forces replacing costs. civilian on Berlin in detail, and opposes any U.S. recogni- employees with uniformed 287. Seeks sufficient funds for VA to provide ex- servicemen. tion of East Germany as a political entity. panded care for the chronically ill and the aged. 620. Seeks power of subpoena for Civil Service 266. Reaffirms Legion policy of 1961 on the 317. Seeks reforms in veterans pension law for Commission lor Veterans Preference hearings. captive nations, declares that the U.S. and the eligible veterans, widows and minor children. (De- 621. Seeks law to compel agencies to abide by free world should treat the communist movement tails summarized in Nat'l Convention coverage in Civil Service Commission rulings. and the Soviet Union as an enemy, because their our Dec. issue, and will be set forth at length here 622. Seeks strengthening of merit system in attitude and actions are those of an enemy. Civil Service. in an upcoming issue). InterAmerican 320. Urges reopening of 1-man VA contact of- 623. Opposes contracting of government serv- 230. Opposes any revision weakening U.S. treaty ices. fices. rights to jurisdiction over the Panama Canal, and 448. Asks that Oakland, Calif., VA hospital be 624. Opposes separation of GI loan program asks that U.S. news media give more public em- renamed in honor of the late double-arm amputee from Veterans Administration. phasis to discussions with Panama on this matter. Charles C. McGonegal. 625. Seeks same control of GI loan interest rates 499. Implores the President to take unilateral 452. Seeks funds to improve state veterans by VA as FHA exercises over FHA interest rates. action, if necessary, to end the Soviet anus threat homes. 626. Seeks to raise rent ceiling of Soldiers and in Cuba, using any means necessary to achieve 453. Opposes HR869, and any similar proposed Sailors Civil Relief Act from $80 to $133 monthly. that result. (This resolution, adopted 11 days be- legislation. 627. Seeks direct GI home loans for eligible fore President Kennedy announced arms blockade 481. Seeks better provisions for VA medical care veterans residing in Canada and Mexico. of Cuba, is— after that event—an endorsement of of eligible U.S. citizen veterans residing abroad. Finance his action, and of any stronger steps needed to 504. Seeks a 6-year time limit beyond which No numbered resolutions adopted under Finance, permit the people of Cuba to establish their own the military may not demand refunds of overpay- but the report of the Finance Committee was adopt- non-Communist government ) ments they have made to veterans.

28 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 519. Seeks an end to VA's new hospital admis- 302. Urges a 4-point program to be adopted by (her) from receipt of dependent parents' VA death sion procedure outlined in VA circular 10-62-130, management and labor to prevent interference with compensation for the war-death of an offspring. as unnecessary and offensive. production for the Armed Forces. 18. Seeks to extend time limit for applying for 602. Seeks presumption of service-connection of 303. Commends President for firm stand on VA burial allowance, in cases where a change in chronic functional neurosis that becomes manifest Cuba, and asks that in future the U.S. be diligent the nature of a discharge creates belated eligibility within 3 years of discharge from war service. not to aid "liberating movements" which are ac- for such allowance. 603. Seeks amendment to requirement for waiver tually communist in nature. 19. Seeks extension of Grant-in-Aid program lor of refund of overpayment of VA benefits. 459. Asks U.S. to keep pay promises made to medical care of service-connected disabilities of 604. Seeks reform in VA method of testing hear- Philippine Scouts in WW2. Philippine veterans. ing defects. 447. Commends the readiness and sacrifice of 20. Asks that VA issue Medic-Alert bracelets 606. Seeks exclusion of life insurance benefits in 119,000 Reservists and Nat'l Guardsmen who re- to veterans whose physical condition requires spe- determining income for death pension purposes. cently served on active duty during the cold-war cial attention if involved in accident or other pub- National Security crisis on Berlin. lic medical emergency. 21. Supports proposal to create veterans' chil- Air

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 29 45th & I43rd Aero Sqdn-(May) Sam'l Paul. (1952-53) , at her home in Vernal, Utah. H. Charles A. Lenge, Jr. (1962). Post 240, Paterson, 540 E. Gravers Lane. Philadelphia. Pa. N.J. 45th Evac Hospital (E.T.O.) - (June) Calvin Stan. William J. Crawford (1958), Post 349, Fieldsboro, 410 North 10th St., Fairview, N.J. N.J. Joseph G. Weeda, Past Commander of 82nd Airhorne Div - (July) Carl L. Davis. 159 Theodore Figarovschi (1962), Post 23, New York The Department of the District of Gibson Ave.. Mansfield, Ohio. N.Y. 94th Inf Div - (July) Roger H. Keith. 170 Hillberg Joseph Ellinger and Albin Nelson and Charles Columbia 1960-61 ) and newly elected Ave., Brockton. ( Mass. Schwarz and Polignotos Vagis (all 1962), Post 86, 96th Inf Div - National Executive Committeeman of (July) Richard Klassen. Rt. 5, Kan- Bethpage, N.Y. kakee, 111. John Flaherty and Jacob Youdelman (both 1955) that Department of The American Le- 117th & 118th Field Art'v (WWI) - (Jan.) Walter and Walter A. Eckhoff and Louis Summas (both W. Schick. 2108 W. Fargo Ave.. Chicago 45, 111. 1956), Post 391, Brooklyn, N.Y. gion. 125th Field Art'y - (Feb.) Gordon Brooks, 4417 Clemens O. Gaul, Sr. and Anthony J. Haley and Robinson. Duluth 4. Minn. Harold W. Henning and Edward H. Hull (all 1961) 134th Field Hospital (WWl)-(Feb.) Wilkie L. Har- Post 410, Lockport, N.Y. Ira of Massachusetts, a Hamilburg, per. Harpers Double Four, Route 1, Eureka Charles H. Burley (1962). Post 746, Corning, Springs, Ark. N.Y. member of the Legion's National Se- 143rd Aero Sqdn - (May) Sam'l H. Paul, 540 E. Raymond L. Bates and Mason J. Bower and curity Commission. Gravers Lane. Philadelphia, Pa. Benjamin Brown (all 1962), Post 922. Painted Post. 209th Field Art'y Bn <& 2nd Bn) - (June) Jack K. N.Y. Embrey, 1717 Poplar St.. Winfield, Kans. Peter J. Walsh (1962), Post 1220, Jamaica. N.Y. 308th Inf - William Reed Altom, of Tennessee, a Reg't (May) Max Morris, 28 East 39th Edward J. Larkin (1960). Post 1222, New York. St.. New York 16, N.Y. N.Y. national leader in the Legion's Child 317th Field Sig Bn - (Apr.) John E. Pacheco, c/o Arthur G. Burtnett and John R. McCarthy (both Parker House, Boston, Mass. 1961) and Herbert W. Evenson (1962), Post 12X1, elfare attend- W program. He died while 354th Inf Reg't - (July) Ted Helbig, Vienna, 111. New York, N.Y. ing the National Convention. 360th Engrs Gen. Service Reg't (WW2) - (June) Louis E. Allen (1962), Post 1649. New York. Edward E. Ziats, Box 257, Marianna, Pa. N.Y. 545th Ord. Heavy Maint Co

Harold N. Rogers, Past Department Gns F. Reil (1953). Post 146. Oceanside. Calif. Daniel W. Orhaugh and Romeo J. Routhier Commander of Minnesota. and Charle> D. Thompson (all 1962). Post 1, Guate- mala, C.A. I COMRADES IN DISTRESS*! WHiiiiiiimn imiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiimmiiinmmiiiiiiiiiimi minimi * John P. Arnold (1962), Post 74. Sebring, Fla. i J Noah J. Stone (1961), Post 66, Decatur, Ga. Readers who can help these com- George LeRoy Gibons (1958) and Clyde H. Ross rades are urged to do so. OUTFIT REUNIONS (1962), Post 125. Princeton, III. of Frank A. Bertoncini and Roman B. Lach and Notices are run at the request A'mimmmiii mimmmiimmmimi iiiimimmmimmmimmmmiii'A Thomas C. Monte (all 1962), Post 134, Morton The American Legion Nat'l Rehabilita- Grove. 111. tion Commission. They are not ac- Reunion will be held in month indicated. Aloysius J. Graf and Norman J. Kaminski (both For particulars, write person whose address cepted from other sources. 1959). Post 243. Lemont. 111. Readers wanting Legion help with is given. Kenneth Pierson and Nicholas Quattropani and claims should contact their local serv- Notices accepted on official form only. Paul Radziejewski and Flovd Reed (all 1962). Post ice officers. For form send stamped, addressed return 330. Calumet City, III. Service officers unable to locate envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion Harry G. Arnett and Robert O. Baird, Sr. and Albert E. Bierma and Charles E. Bleicher (all needed witnesses for claims develop- Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, N.Y. 1962), Post 348, Chicago, 111. ment should refer the matter to the Notices should be received at least four James D. Broda and Charles S. Bubacz and Dr. Nat'l Rehabilitation Commission months before scheduled reunion. Roman C. Dalka and Thomas F. Dedic (all 1959), through normal channels, for further Earliest submissions favored when vol- Post 419, Chicago, 111. search before referral to this column. ume of requests is too great to print all. Ira J. Morgenthal (1962). Post 437, Chicago, III. Earl S. Stangeland (1962), Post 911, Wauconda, ARMY 111. 73rd Medical Supply Platoon (WW2) and Medical Elliott R. Kellar (1962). Post 1078. Dunlap, III. Base Training Camp, Camp Grant, Illinois: Men 2nd Field Art'y Bn - (June) Jack K. Embrey. 1717 James O. Eymer and Joseph F. Sexton and N. D. who served with Milton J. Rose, including Philip Poplar St.. Winfield. Kans. Vickrey (all 1958), Post 10, Marion, Ind Dunner and any others, at training camp or in 8th Armored Div - (July) Henry B. Rothenberg, Russell J. Best (1957) and Millard T. Hartman the ETO, are requested to contact him. Affidavits 134 N. La Salle St., Chicago. 111. and Owen E. Hinkson (both 1958) and Rocert J. are needed in connection with a claim. Write 9th Inf Div - (July) Dan Quinn, 412 Gregory Ave., Urban (1959). Post 50, South Bend, Ind. Milton J. Rose. 1321 Stillwater Drive, Miami Weehawken, N.J. Wm. L. Kelso (1962), Post 43, Atlantic, Iowa. Beach, Fla. 11th Field Art'y - (July) Robert J. Summers, 84 George Barnard and Alfred S. Christopher and 148th General Hospital, Saipan. Need to contact Parkway, Ampere East Orange, N.J. Stewart Foster (all 1962), Post 128, Sidney, Iowa. former Medical Technician Saul Shapiro, of 18th Rwy Engrs - (WW!) (Jan.) J. L. McAllister, Frank Muse) and Frank Novak, Jr. (both 1962), Philadelphia, or others, who had knowledge of 459 South Citrus Ave., Los Angeles 36, Calif Post 269, Chelsea, Iowa. the low blood count of Donald Hynden, taken in 24th Engrs - (WWI) (Mar.) Eric M. Unmack, 635 John Eckhoff and Frank E. McLean (both 1962). June, 1945. Affidavits needed in support of claim. Victoria St., San Francisco 27, Calif. Post 285, Parkersburg, Iowa. Write Carl M. Allen, Field Service Officer, 30th Inf Div -(July) Saul Solow, 42 Parkway Charles W. Meason and John M. Wallace (both American Legion Dep't of Michigan, 210 Gratiot Drive, Syosset, N.Y. 1962), Post 188, Kansas City, Kans. Ave., Detroit 26, Mich.

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THE INVENTOR GETS A BREAK (C nntm.ioH f r0 m page 1 more demand for goods and service tions should be enormously interested gether some cash and become his own right down the line. And while the mam- in a new kind of splint for broken limbs, manufacturer. For example, an east moths will be in there pitching, small one that could be folded into a tiny coast inventor fashioned a novel book- business fully expects to get its share. compact package when not in use. rest for the handicapped, invalided or With all this in prospect, many smart They had an idea for one that could just plain lazy readers who would ap- business folks are preparing right now be inflated like a Mae West life jacket preciate a convenient holder that would for their share of the market boom. when it had to be used. They worked at keep pages in place without permitting

They are scrounging mighty hard for it for long hours and days, eventually them to flutter. It can be set up on a new things to produce and sell to a devising a splint that could be unfolded chair, table or bed. The SBA people growing America, and they are finding to a desired length and kept rigid by air were so enthusiastic that he began them too, thanks to the SBA's new prod- pressure. But while Worland is great for making them up and selling them by uct service. scenery, it's somewhat short of makers mail order. He's happy he did because They found, for example, Bill Gewin's of medical devices. sales were brisk. clever little trolling aid and helped put The inventors learned about the prod- And word has come in to the pro- him in business. ucts circular, and had a description of gram's chiefs that a doctor located a

Gewin, of Dupo, 111., had perfected a their product published. At latest count manufacturer for a new type of X-ray method enabling a fisherman to troll they have received a number of in- holder he devised. In another case, the more efficiently from an outboard terested inquiries and have held serious inventor of a special kind of curtain rod motorboat. In trolling, a boat moves discussions with potential manufactur- arrangement for the home sold it out- through the water slowly, dragging a ing interests. The SBA believes their right for $1,800. hook or line behind it. Ordinarily, how- splint may soon be marketed. Suppose you're a small manufacturer ever, when the outboard is operated at What happens after the inventor and who can use a good new product, a busi- speeds slow enough for trolling, lubri- manufacturer are brought together? The nessman seeking a new item to promote cating oil has a tendency to foul the result may be an outright sale, a royalty or a fellow dreaming of his own little spark plugs, requiring frequent cleaning setup or a licensing arrangement. An enterprise. What can you expect to find or replacement. idea, SBA officials explain, can change in the products lists? Bill Gewin puzzled over the problem, hands for anything ranging from a few How about a disposable tooth cleaner? finally coming up with an inexpensive hundred to many thousands of dollars. It's made of a rough-textured, high wet- solution that would allow the motor to Occasionally, an inventor may be so strength paper on which a cleanser can be run fast enough to avoid the spark encouraged by the interest shown in his be spread. It's slipped over the index plug trouble, yet still keep the speed of creation that he'll decide to scrape to- finger and, when immersed in water, the boat down. His method was to rig up a simple device constructed of aluminum and place it in such a position The proof is in the puffing that it would divert water from the pro- peller of the outboard motor. This would permit the motor to run at a speed fast enough to prevent fouling of the plugs, TASTES FRESH but the boat would still move forward only at two or three mph. SMOKES COOL He called the gadget -> E-Z Troller," then started fishing around for a backer BURNS STEADY and found same, courtesy of the U. S. Government. A group of St. Louis businessmen looked at his device and liked what they saw. They put Bill Gewin in business, giving the Stentor Prince Tool and Manufacturing Co. of St. albert Louis an order to produce 100,000 of the devices — and that's just a start. One of the important plus factors of the products assistance program is the help it gives to inventors in remote sections of the country, where there are more cows and sheep than potential manufacturers. "It's hard enough for inventors living in industrial areas to get their work to the attention of the right people," observes Mr. Reynolds. "Imagine what it's like for the fellows in the far-off spots!" A prime illustration of inventors g 1962 K.J. KeynoMs Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. facing this dilemma was the team of Richard C. Leaverton and R. E. Bailey, The flavor most favored in the U.S.A. who hail from the town of Worland (pop. 5,802) in the rugged Wyoming hills. They figured that the armed forces, ALBERT civil defense and other installa- PRINCE medical

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 31 grips the digit and forms a puckered sur- froster, new shower heads, a gasoline Application forms can also be ob- face which can brush the teeth and mas- vending apparatus, plant thinning ma- tained from any local SBA office. There sage the gums. It's tossed away after use. chine, new trousers hanger, feed hopper, are about 60 of these scattered in key There's a toy submarine that will sub- leaf pulverizer, collapsible travel com- cities throughout the United States. If merge and surface in the bathtub with mode, and door guards. you live in a metropolitan center, con- a squeeze of a child's hand. He simply For golfers, there is a putter with a sult your phone directory for the ad- presses the flexible conning tower and spirit level in the top right corner which dress, listed under U.S. Government. the plastic or metal sub dives, automati- shows instantly whether the green is level Third, forward your application form cally reappearing after a short interval. or has a roll! to the SBA or any local office. If the offi-

You can find a knockdown, easily Now for some facts about you and cials of the program feel it has possibili- stored and assembled playpen that can your invention. If you want to take ad- ties, they will list it in a forthcoming cir- be set up on the rear seat of an automo- vantage of the program and perhaps get cular. There is no cost— the listing is free. bile. It keeps an infant safe and happy a moneyed backer interested in your Fourth, the SBA won't publish an in- during long rides. own device, here's advice on how to go vention if the patent is too close to ex- There's an automobile safety device about it: piration, so don't submit one that's ready for use when one headlight of a car goes First, obtain a patent or patent appli- to die. The reason for this is, a manu- out, always a potentially dangerous situ- cation. The SBA insists upon this pro- facturer must have time for marketing ation. A U-shaped reflector catches the tection for you. If you haven't got a research and all the other preliminary beams of an oncoming auto, causing the patented device but only an idea for one, steps and still have patent protection for rim on which it's mounted to be outlined the SBA can still help you. Experts there a sufficient length of time to get a profit in the glare. Thus, cars can see both will listen to your suggestion and give on his investment. headlights. you advice. They may also say your idea Of course, the program works the

There's an electrically heated shoot- is fine but someone else has invented it other way, too. If you are a small manu- ing glove for archers, powered by bat- ahead of you. Or they may like it, sug- facturer with a plant that can use an- teries, for use during the cold seasons. gest improvements, help you get a patent other good product, or if you want to There's a new kind of gate to confine lawyer and then list your creation in the start a little business for yourself and a child to a room or area. It fits any door circular. are casting about for a sound item, you opening, can't be climbed because there Second, if you have a patent or patent can take your choice of many. Ask the are no horizontal bars and uses no screws application, write to the following ad- SBA to send you its Products List Cir- or other fastenings that can mar wood- dress: New Products Branch, Research culars. work. Forked ends, adjustable to vari- and Development Division, Small Busi- Nor does the agency cast you loose at ous widths, fit into door jambs. ness Administration, Washington 25, this point. If you need advice on how to There's a 20-inch toy canoe with two D. C. get going, it's yours for the asking. Ex- paddlers and a steersman. The paddlers Ask lor Application Form SBA-312. pert consultants are available at SBA bend over like Hawaiian racers, then re- This is a single sheet upon which you field offices to help you locate needed turn to an erect position following each will state your patent issue number or materials and equipment, and assist in stroke. A motor, powered by a flash- patent application serial number, and plant layout, production methods and re- light battery, runs the craft. give a brief description of your inven- lated problems. However, don't expect

There are diaper rash preventives, a tion, setting forth its purpose, construc- them to perform jobs that require the check protector, hair curling devices, a tion, functions, special features and how services of engineering and other profes- power driven ice cream dispenser, a it differs from or improves upon similar sional firms. vacuum cleaner for phonograph records, items now in use. You will also state The SBA will hold out a helping finan- gardening implements, valves of all whether you wish to sell it, offer it for cial hand too, but there are special rules types, novel lawn sprinklers, a lock de- licensing or have other terms in mind. that must be understood.

If money is needed, you have to apply first to a bank or other legally approved lending institution. If you can get only part ot the funds you require from this source, the SBA will consider joining with the other lending agency in a "participation loan" to your firm, providing your proposition looks good. If the bank turns you down, the SBA may then consider a direct loan, providing you can put up adequate collateral. This security

is no more nor less than would be required by any lending institution. The SBA will lend up to $350,000 at the going rate of interest, if officials decide

upon investigation that your venture is a sound one. Now suppose both the bank and the SBA refuse to help out with cash because the risk appears too great. You

can still apply for a loan to special small business investment companies. These

are privately owned organizations, licensed and regulated by the SBA under a law passed in 1958. The SBA provides them with financial assistance and they, in turn, make financing of various kinds

32 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 available to small business concerns. the lender. It may well be that the in- There are three types of loans you vesting firm will require more than you could obtain from these private invest- want to offer—in which case, no deal! ment firms: You'll certainly be wise to have an at- First, a straight loan, under provisions torney talk for you by the time matters set down in the laws of your State. proceed to this point. Second, "equity financing," in which You should also know that if your the companies buy an interest in your venture doesn't succeed, and you're un- firm. able to repay, the lender can seize what- Earn big pay as a Third, "convertible debenture financ- ever assets remain and sell them to re- ing," the most popular of the three. In cover his money. Incidentally, there is TRAFFIC AND return for the cash you borrow, you give no limit you can borrow from these the investing firm debentures that can firms. Transportation be converted into stock of your company These, then, are the facts about Uncle YOU any time the lender wants to do so. Sam's new bureau for inventors and SALLE WtLCTRAlN ^SPARET.MEATHOM^ You should understand that under manufacturers. As with a marriage, go Expert the second and third methods, the pri- into it with your eyes wide open and Get out of a dead-end job- take advantage of today's demand for men trained in Traffic vate investing firm actually becomes a your head full of common sense, not and Transportation management. Unlimited part owner of your business in exchange Stardust. If you do, you might well find opportunities with national manufacturers, for the money it risks. The amount of yourself a good business match and live transcontinental and overseas shippers, leading transport lines. LaSalle helps you become stock or debentures you give is deter- happily—and perhaps more affluently— an expert on Rates. Classifications, Tariffs,, mined by negotiation between you and ever after! the end Routing. Methods of Shipping, Claim Adjust- ing, Government Regulations, etc. You learn Motor-Truck Traffic Management. Air swer to the problem of getting exercise Transportation. Railroading, Water Trans- limited amount of time can be when only a portation. Tuition cost is low. Send for free spared. booklet. LaSalle, 417 S. Dearborn, Chicago 5.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 33 THE PEACEMAKING GENERAL _____(Continued from page 19)____ ert's Rules in the lineup room. topic into a battle. Hundreds of simpler assembly to protect itself. We've been called a nation of joiners. books on meetings have been written. Although he was supporting a wife It's true. According to a 1960 survey Most big membership groups and unions and three children on a salary of $1400 made by Dr. Marguerite Rittenhouse, have chatty little booklets for the guid- a year, Major Robert had sheets for "meetings" are the leading destination of ance of their amateur officers. The Rules 4,000 books printed at his own expense. both men and women on a night out. themselves have been illustrated, acted In February, 1876, he paid S. C. Griggs We now support so many clubs, lodges, out, digested, and reduced to charts, dia- & Co., a Chicago textbook publisher, to boards, associations, societies, founda- grams, tables, and even slide rule form bind 1,000 books and send them for tions, leagues, institutes, sororities, fra- for ready reference in the heat of debate. comment to the leading parliamentarians ternities, brotherhoods, circles, unions But no one has devised a substitute. in every state. If these liked the book, and committees that it's hard for anyone Many officers dare not preside without Griggs would go ahead and publish it to escape an organized meeting. the "little old rules" and travel with and the next edition would profit by their All this joining has made "'Robert's well-worn copies of the small-sized book criticism. Robert had the type broken up Rules of Order" a unique publishing in their pockets or handbags. When there so that he would be forced to revise the phenomenon. It has sold 1,925,000 cop- is a dispute, nothing else will do. book after the first 4,000 copies were ies since the first pocket manual appeared No best-seller was ever so modestly sold. Since almost everyone who was

87 years ago for the use of "all classes of launched. In 1869, Robert paid the San known to need it had received a free societies, conventions, councils, associa- Francisco printer who published his sur- copy, the next edition did not seem im- tions, and assemblies." Since most of vey of Arizona, to produce an eight-page minent. these organizations are run by Robert's, leaflet on parliamentary procedure to give But a new edition was needed in five and they increase every year, the book away to people asking him for advice. It months! Ten thousand copies were sold sells faster the older it gets. Somebody was so well received that he felt some- in the first year and that many or more will buy the 2,000,000th copy in 1963. thing more was needed, but he didn't have been sold every year since. Sales

Legislatures and many organizations get to it until he was transferred to Mil- now run around 60,000 a year. To this have their own rules, but they are wise waukee to build lighthouses on the Great day, Scott Foresman & Company, which to specify Robert's for points on which Lakes. When the bitter winter of 1873-4 bought the Griggs firm, sends each new their own rules are silent. On the last shut down construction, he found time speaker of a state legislature a copy with day he presided over the United States to write a longer work. He sent outlines his name stamped in gold on the cover. Senate, former Vice President Nixon to New York publishers. "Cushing and There is a black leather binding for cler- suggested from the chair that Robert's parliamentary law are synonymous," one gymen, and an edition in Braille. While Rules would apply even to that proce- replied. "Moreover, what does an army many copies have been sold overseas, dure-proud body if his attempt to change officer know about parliamentary law?" the book has never been translated since the rules for a civil rights fight should All rejected it. an early German-language edition was leave it in doubt about how to proceed. Undaunted, Robert continued to work translated for German-Americans. Other

President Kennedy, incidentally, brought on his manuscript. He read it to his wife. democratic countries have their own spe- along a copy when he moved from the At her suggestion, he illustrated the bare cial ways, and so much hangs on each

Senate to the White House. rules and added a section explaining how word that translation is a big responsi- Social scientists have criticized Rob- a society is organized and conducted. bility. ert's Rules for stifling friendly, sponta- When he heard of the fight of a member During his long life, Robert conscien- neous exchange of opinion with formal, of a religious society against ejection, he tiously answered a steady stream of let- stereotyped procedure and making every added a section on the legal rights of an ters, sometimes 30 a week. Rules of a women's club, for example, required the president to appoint committees prompt- ly. She did so and then resigned. "The committees serve," answered Robert. "Can a candidate serve as a teller in an organization's election?" asked somebody. "Yes," ruled the General, "otherwise he might be made a teller to prevent his being a candidate." Another question involved a motion to place in a park some swan boats. While the motion was pending, an amendment proposed to add "equipped with roller skates." An amendment to the amendment struck out "roller" and inserted "ice." Robert approved. No amendment should be ruled out he said,

as long as it bears on "the immediately pending question." A member resigned, and was present when his resignation was accepted, but

later wanted to rescind it. "No," said Robert. In settling thousands of disputes like these, Robert clarified and refined the principles behind the Rules. Later editions profited. The various revisions,

34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 which have expanded the original 100 prone to become overzcalous," a Fed- pages to 326, give it copyright protec- eral court chided the lawyers in declar- OWN a Business tion until 1971. A few years before ing the move illegal under the Bar As- while Employed Robert died, his son, Henry Jr., a civilian sociation's own rules. "They assume that professor of mathematics and economics the ends justify the means. That theory We'll personalh/ train and help

you get established . . . starting at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapo- can never be sustained in a court ot part or full time. lis, was named trustee of law." the famous vol- The red-faced Washington lawyers • No Shop Needed ume. When the son died in 1937, his hastened to put their reform on the right • $9 Hourly Gross Profit widow, Sarah Corbin Robert, side of the law. an active • No Experience Needed clubwoman, succeeded to the role. Some years ago, company lawyers • Easy to Learn But no single individual can advise couldn't extricate the then chairman of • World-Wide Service all the many groups that now need in- AT&T from a motion to limit debate terpretations of If you are reliable, honest and diligent, you may ho the Rules. A whole new at a stockholders' meeting. Clubwomen just Ihe man (or woman) wo are looking lor at this time to profession has own and operate a Duraclean dealership in your locality. been created to cope with from every part of that huge auditorium If needed, we will help finance you. them. There This sound business grows from recommendations and are now Registered Parlia- shouted advice, until one of them repeat orders. Dealers often gross $9 hourly profit on own service plus on service man. They operate mentarians, like BACH from there are Registered marked the appropriate section in a copy offices, shops or home. Nurses. Duraelean's worldwide growth resulted from the safer Four hundred R.P.s have passed of Robert's she happened to have in her quick- dry absorption process rendered In homes and Insti- the examinations tutions by trained craftsmen. Customers tell friends how of the National Asso- pocketbook and passed it up to him. Duraclean eliminates the usual soaking, scrubbing and fiber ciation of breaking . . how quick-action foam, lightly applied, re- Parliamentarians, Inc., with Women are supposed to be innocent vives colors, and enlivens fibers. headquarters You have 6 Services. Duraclean cleans and revives in Miami, Fla. The Na- of fair play and even the issue in debate. fabrics and floor coverings with a new consideration for its life and beauty. Durashield soil and stains tional Institute of retards Parliamentarians is "While none of us can recall what it was . . . new look stays longer. Dura proof kills moths, carpet beetles . . makes fabrics repellant. 6 -TEAR Warranty. newer and smaller. we were voting on," a cartoonist makes Duraguard fiameproofs fabrics and furnishings , . avoids fires. Spotcraft safely removes spots and stains. Tuftcraft Parliamentarians get all kinds of prob- a plump clubwoman say, "I'm very repairs cigarette burns, moth damage. lems. We prefer you have no cleaning experience so you don't "At school," a little girl wrote pleased to announce that the majority of have to "unlearn" old scrubbing methods. A Duraclean dealer will train and assist you. lie* 11 reveal his Katherine E. successful Bowers, head of Parliamen- us were for it." Men fall in with this ways to build customers. Our staff and dealers work to-

gether . . . exchange ideas. You are hacked by national tary Consultants, a Washington firm, "the view because of the notorious disorder advertising. Parent's Magazine Seal. McCaU's Use-Test Approval and by fabric and rug maker's endorsements. members of the eighth grade organized of discussions in the home. George Price, Jobs come from ads. mailings, upholsterers, decorators, car dealers, stores. Customers are your best salesmen. a civic club. dollars establishes . We chose a president whom the cartoonist, once drew an embattled A few hundred your business . pay our rest from sales. We furnish electric equipment and mate- teacher recommended. But, sorry to family of seven demanding "a copy of rials to return your TOTAL investment. A post card will bring full details with no obligation whatever. Mail it say, we made mistake. a Our president Robert's Rules of Order" from a book- today . . now before your location is taken. is stubborn. I would like to know your store clerk. DURACLEAN Co.. 3-191 Duraclean Bldg., Deerfield, III. opinion on: 1. How to conduct a meet- The fact is that women are usually ing. 2. Should there be a vote if some- better parliamentarians than their hus- one suggests something? 3. Does he (the bands. They attend more meetings and stubborn president) have authority over get more practice. From Mrs. Robert the class? Would you please let me know herself on down, the most active pro- what you think?" The child's questions fessionals are women. Before she was were excellent, but answers to them head of the Women's Army Corps, could surely have taxed the keenest par- Ovcta Culp Hobby was parliamentarian liamentarian. for the Texas State Legislature. The STANDS SO STRAIGHT The camera crew which shot Mrs. National Association of Parliamentari- AS WHEN HE STOOPS Bowers' television film, "How To Make ans was founded and is run by women. TO HELP A BOY" Your Influence Felt" put it to her more L. C. Michelon of Republic Steel Cor- succinctly. "How can we get rid of our poration finds the situation "somewhat bum union president?" Trouble with or- unfortunate because many of the very JOIN YOUR ganization officers is a common prob- important meetings in the country are BIG BROTHER ASSOCIATION lem. One club had to call in a parlia- staffed and chaired by men." mentarian to save them from commit- Wilma Soss, the unquenchable presi- I WANT EVERY READER ments made by a recording secretary dent of the Federation of Women Share- ^j^.of this Paper to have my big red who rewrote the minutes to suit herself holders in American Business, has out- after having them approved. B m EARUANA TOMATO Also, salva- maneuvered chairmen of great corpora- "KING OF THE EARLIES" tion from a good amateur parliamen- tions at stockholder meetings. She once Big solid, scarlet fruit, disease resistant, heavy yielder. Ideal for tarian can be difficult. A union which stood unrecognized, shouting "point of table or canning. Send SEED tried to U5 get around an expert on Robert's order" at the president of the New York 5c for mailing 125 seed pppr Rules by dropping and copy of Seed and Nursery Catalog. If £ £ them in favor of Central Railroad Company until she had CONDON BROS. SEEDSMEN Now Combined With "common sense and majority rule" found to close her eyes from fatigue. Next R. H. SHUMWAY SEEDSMAN, Dept. 309, Rockford, ILL. that the Robert's expert was the only meeting, she brought a lady wrestler in member who could tell them how to case the management tried rough stuff. change the rules legally. Many corporate secretaries believe that Are you miserable with pain and aches of Lawyers due to don't learn parliamentary special rules should be written for stock- leg ulcers, swelling, itching, rash Send for FREE BOOK procedure in law school. Unless they get holders meetings. Mrs. Soss Lewis venous congestion? and and Full Refund Trial Plan on tested into politics, they can be as ignorant of Gilbert, a more decorous but equally VISCOSE home treatment. it as Edwin Hall was at his first Boys' persistent crusader for "stockholder de- L. E. VISCOSE company 100 W. Chicago Ave. • Chicago 10, 111. Club meeting. mocracy," disagree. "If a $200,000 * In opening its membership to Negroes chairman cannot master running an an- MAKE to $ 5°° AN HOUR AT HOME in 1956, the Bar Association of the Dis- nual meeting under Robert's Rules of Let Me Prove It To You FREE I'll show you how Plastic Sealing and trict of Columbia goofed with a voice Order," she says, "what he needs is a Laminating at home, spare time, can vote instead of the count required, to be cut in salary, not a new set of rules." give you as much as $5.00 each hour you j>_a operate. Table-top machine sets upany where. S V sure two-thirds favored the change in Like "stockholder democracy," "union Easy. Fun. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 35 ENJOY STEADY PAY EVERY DAY AS A national Bakery and Confectionery wave. It has protected the city ever since. NURSE Workers Union, abolished Robert's He was promoted to brigadier general Rules at the 1956 convention so that he and made Chief of Engineers shortly be- LEARN AT HOME IN ONLY 10 WEEKS y \ could seize control. "Parliamentary pro- fore retirement in 1901. While he con- Enjoy security, and freedom from money worries, v JiXA^ rv, Earn up to $65.00 a week as a Practical Nurse, /"y^{' cedure was made for Senators, not for tinued to lend his engineering talents to non- licensed. Age, education not important, bakers," told projects at Galveston, the Mexican port Send for FREE lesson samples. FN he the delegates. Since POST GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NURSING 1959, union members shut out by a dic- of Frontera and elsewhere, he spent most ROOM 37B13 — 121 S. WABASH, CHICAGO 3, ILL. tatorial leadership can sue under a proof his remaining years at Owego, N. Y., vision of the Landrum-Griffin Labor- his second wife's hometown. He en- NO MONEY DOWN Management Reporting and Disclosure thralled youngsters with stories of his HOME* Act forcing unions to operate under rea- adventures in the West, drew up a sys- SITES sonable rules such as Robert's. Labor tem of forms for Baptist conventions, $495 Department officials think that the rank made many speeches and gave many fees and file to charity. Lovely V* acre sites in Central Florida hills, speak up more than they used area $495, money down, $10 lake, grove no to do. often to reject the best contract Robert's lifetime of experience as a a month • 5 miles from famous Rainbow Springs • Electricity, phones • 22 miles to their leaders have been able to negotiate. peacemaker shines through later editions Gulf Coast • Fish, hunt • Invest or retire. FREE color folder • Write Dept. 603-B Company presidents who have to con- of the "Rules"; "Parliamentary Prac- Rainbow Park, Box 521, OCALA, Florida. tend with publicity-seeking minority tice," a short, elementary book on the stockholders can agree that democracy forming of organizations issued in 1921; "Parliamentary Law," a trea- Improved EZO Helps Relieve Pain is not always constructive. 500-page But it is worth the price. No one was tise published in 1923; and thousands of of Pressure and Slipping of more willing to pay that price than personal communications. FALSE TEETH Robert. "In your case." he wrote a "It is not allowable to arraign the mo- woman in 1915, "the only thing I can tives of a member," he advises meetings, Chew in comfort with NEW, SOFTER suggest is persuasion, 1 believe that with "but the nature or consequences of a measure EZO DENTAL CUSHIONS one exception I was president of more may be condemned in strong Government Boards and Commissions terms. It is not the man, but the measure, Grips Dentures Firmer, Quicker! than any other graduate of the Military that is the subject of debate." Helps Keep Seeds Out Academy. And yet I never failed to get "The presiding officer of a large as- Helps Ease Pressure on Gums a unanimous report of every board. sembly should never be chosen for any Helps Plate Fit Snug Helps Prevent Clicking Sometimes it seemed hopeless to others, reason except his ability to preside."

Ask lor New EZO Heavy Gauge Cinbions! but I never gave up trying till I suc- Robert's advice to presiding officers AT YOUR FAVORITE DRUG COUNTER 60c ceeded. You cannot force people to agree will be pertinent as long as human be- LEARN with you. But when persons are ap- ings assemble: "The chairman should proached in a conciliatory spirit, with never forget that to control others it is MEAT CUTTING an evident desire for the general good, necessary to control himself." Train quickly !n 8 short weeks ai Toledo for a bright future with securltv and willingness to yield personal prefer- "No rules will take the place of tact in the vital meat business. Ble; pay. full jobs -time — HAVE A PROFITABLE ences where it and common sense on the part of the MARKET OF YOUR OWN! Pay after can be done with no in- graduation. Diploma given. Job help. Thousands of successful graduates. Our jury to others, I have found people re- chairman." *fc 39th year! Send now for big, new Illustrated FREE catalog. No obligation. G T. Approved sponsive." "Know all about parliamentary law, NATIONAL SCHOOL OF MEAT CUTTING Dept. A-32, Toledo 4, Ohio Robert was a friendly but strict boss, but do not try to show off your knowledge. TURN 58c INTO $6.00 CASH PROFIT and an efficient presiding officer who sat Never be technical, or more strict than is absolutely necessary for the good AT HOME IN SPARE TIME— METALIZING leaning forward on the edge of his chair of the meeting." Now you can invest 58c in material and get back $6.95 listening intently to every word. "When and make $6.00 for your time in this fascinating home "One of the most prolific causes of business. Hundreds make good extra money in side- he found members of a Board of Engi- line work. So Easy— so much Fun! "Eternalize" baby neers apparently unable to agree," an confusion in deliberative assemblies is shoes, other keepsakes. Big market everywhere. No the neglect of the chair to keep the as- face-to-face selling. Write for facts FREE, plus fi- officer who served under him recalls, "he nancing plan. No obligation. No salesman will call. sembly well took the position that, as they were all informed as to what is pend- WARNER ELECTRIC, 1512 Jarvis, Dept. M-8-A, Chicago 26, III. earnest, honest, educated and equipped ing business." with loyal minds, the points of difference He died at 86, the oldest General and were due to different understandings of the oldest alumnus of West Point. When itch. . itch . . Itch c"S the premises. He would have these ex- Toastmasters International met in Wash- Now, get relief fast. In a jiffy D.D.D. Prescrip- tion stops tormenting raw, fiery itch of eczema, plained and if they were not agreed ington in 1954, a delegation of members rashes, acne, chafing, other itch troubles. upon, they would stay on this point until laid a wreath on his grave. Greaseless, stainless—cooling antiseptic. Helps prevent infection, promotes healing. Don't suf- they agreed as to what the premises were, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they fer. Ask druggist for D.D.D.—liquid or creme. what problem was to be solved, what shall see God," Jesus said in the Sermon

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A THREAT TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY (Continued from page 11) If you were born may serve as a bridge to socialism." however, absolute free competition is before 1912 . . Like Marx in 1847, the communists difficult to achieve. What we should seek of 1963 disdain to hide their views. The is the maximum amount of competition ... let us tell you how you life Sixteenth Convention of the Commu- that is consistent with John Q. Citizen's can still apply for a $1,000 policy (issued to nist Party of the U.S.A. stated that: "The needs and the greatest possible industrial insurance up age 80). Once your application election of an anti-monopoly coalition efficiency. We want the free market is approved, the policy can be government which would actively curb economy to do as much work for us as carried the rest of your life. the power to big business is our main it can. strategic aim in the period ahead." The On the other side of the coin, many of No one will call on you. You communists never admit that the Fed- our major industrial concerns have been handle the entire transaction by eral Government has done anything to subjected to a constant stream of un- mail with OLD AMERICAN, the company which helped pioneer restrict improper monopolistic practices. justified abuse. Such run of the mill com- insurance for senior Americans. On the other hand, they state that the plaints against big business follow a primary aim of government is, "the pro- standard catalogue. Among the allega- Tear out this ad and mail it tection of monopoly profits." Finally, tions fired against our major business today with your name, address since they wage the anti-monopoly concerns are the following: few impor- and year of birth to Old Ameri- struggle within the framework of the de- tant research discoveries have come from can Insurance Co., 4900 Oak, Dept. L157M, Kansas City 12, Mo. ceptive "peaceful coexistence" slogan, large industrial laboratories; big busi- No obligation! the communists manage to give disarma- ness tends to kill small companies; the ment a plug while castigating the United relationship between big business and

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 37 of the law. Our present laws would seem the anti-trust laws is economic racketeer- job. This means big business. We should far more appropriate if the government ing which gains no respectability by vir- not overlook the. fact that the Chinese would institute anti-trust cases only tue of the fact that the loot is secured by communists recently tried to produce where there is clear evidence that the stealth rather than by force." The same steel in many hundreds of backyard public is actually being injured. Perhaps outlook is reflected in the statement smelters and failed dismally. a reappraisal of anti-trust laws in terms made by New York Assemblyman Nor should we overlook the fact that of modern conditions is in order. Legis- Daniel T. Kelly, who launched a tirade our major corporations have grown as lation must meet today's needs. It should against AT&T Co. in which he asserted: the country has become larger. General serve the nation's economic welfare,,and "This company is responsible to nothing Motors, a favorite whipping boy of the provide fairness to the consumer as well that I can see." The American Liberal anti-monopolists, was created in 1908. as providing the economic foundations accused the Sun Oil Company of forcing The country then had only half as many of our democratic society. its gas station dealers into contracts that people as it has today. There were prac- During the first year of the Kennedy enabled Sun management to drive all tically no highways, almost none of the Administration there were 60 anti-trust competition out of business through industrial marvels that now surround us suits, compared to 90 during the last year price wars and other ruthless tactics. The and which reflect the dynamic contri- of the Eisenhower Administration. This existence of Esso, Gulf, Atlantic and bution our major corporations have drop in litigation caused many anti-trust numerous other gas stations is enough made to the American way of life. zealots to complain. Some even go so proof to deflate such charges arising The Allison Aircraft Division of Gen- far as to state that monopoly just does from emotional antagonism toward eral Motors is another illustration. GM not happen, but is derived directly from major corporations. bought out Allison in 1928 after its governmental policies which make it The effort to break up the largest cor- founder died, and when Allison Compa- flourish. Professional trustbusters assert porations rests upon the mistaken view ny had fewer than 200 employees. GM that business places far too much pres- that effective competition does not exist made Allison an integral part of the GM sure on government to go easy on the among some giant businesses — automo- team, pouring into it research and engi- monopolies, particularly since there are bile, soap, and cigarette, to mention a neering talent. As a result of this GM fewer counterbalancing pressures oper- few. What lies behind this attack, which financed effort, the United States came ating on behalf of the consumer or small the communists encourage, is an under- into World War II with an efficient businessman. lying uneasiness about bigness itself. Un- liquid-cooled aircraft engine which con-

The tenor of this position can be til we find some means whereby a home- tributed much to America's dominance gleaned from an unspecified broadside owner's do-it-yourself kit can produce of the air. This kind of farsighted devel- by Mr. Lee Loevinger, a former Justice a car, a tank or an airplane in the base- opment enabled General Motors and of the Minnesota Supreme Court and ment workshop, we will continue to need other major corporations to play their head of the Justice Department's Anti- organizations with the equipment, the great role in the United States defense Trust Division. "Conspiracy to violate engineers and mass of talent to do the effort. After Pearl Harbor, when the

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United States began to beat its pruning eggs in the bigger industrial baskets? FOR THE MAN hooks into swords, our major corpora- Most outlays for industrial research tions became the prime defense con- are made by firms of more than 5,000 WHO ENJOYS tractors. These corporations received employees. The corporations which government defense contracts and en- make the greatest effort in commercial joyed the subsequent advantages of these research and development tend to be contracts because there was no one else those which operate most extensively in around who was available or equipped the United States defense effort. General to do the job. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 39 nance over the United States. The com- duction designed for military purposes. American corporations whose trade munists have made progress in their In the Soviet Presidium, which corre- names show up on fixtures and appli- heavy industry through ruthless dedi- sponds to the United States National ances in every American home have cation to a single goal. They have built Security Council, there are long and de- been at the forefront of our race to main- the biggest military machine in the world. tailed discussions about technological tain technological supremacy. When In the areas of nuclear weapons, guided problems connected with missile re- David E. Lilienthal, former head of missiles and intercontinental ballistic search, development and production. In TVA, was Chairman of the American missiles they have stressed scientific prog- the Soviet system of competition, indi- Atomic Energy Commission, he asked ress that has. in some ways, outpaced vidual incentive is as persuasive as any AT&T, Bell Laboratories and the West- the United States. found in the West. The successful Soviet ern Electric team to take responsibility

The Soviet economic system operates technological genius is rewarded with for setting up the Sandia base operation on the principle of complete monopoly living standards, privileges and rank far to step up production of new weapons. in all industrial development. All politi- beyond his American counterpart. The Increased output was, according to Mr. cal and economic decisions are concen- top people in the Soviet industrial com- Lilienthal: "In considerable measure due trated in the Kremlin. For every major plex enjoy the rank and prerogatives of to the unique contribution of the Bell industrial area there is an All-Union an American millionaire, a four star system under the great scientific talents Ministry in Moscow, a built-in trust, general, a member of the National of the Los Alamos Laboratory." which is responsible for an entire in- Academy of Sciences and a top level Shortly after World War II. the Army dustry whether it be steel, electronics or politician. In the production field, the asked Western Electric and Bell Labora- chemicals. Soviet planning is tightly cen- competition is as severe as that which tories to help in the development of a tralized and under central planning and exists, for example, between the Pontiac, system of defense against high speed, direction, industrial production is de- Buick and Chevrolet divisions of General high altitude, long-range jet bombers. centralized into the various Soviet re- Motors and between all of them and the The ultimate result was the Nike-Her- publics and down to individual Soviet Ford Motor Company. In short, they are cules anti-missile defense system, des- districts. employing aspects of the capitalist sys- cribed as "one of the most complex prob- The Soviet efforts in military aircraft tem of the United States to full advan- lems in applied physics ever attempted." and missiles illustrate their industrial tage. Behind this system, if the political This was followed by the Nike-Zeus, de- procedures. When Hitler attacked the leadership deems it necessary, the full signed to shoot down enemy missiles, a Soviet Union in 1941, the communist economic, industrial and human re- problem comparable to hitting a bullet heartland was producing approximately sources of the Soviet Union can be in flight with a bullet. The AT&T and 500 military aircraft a month. The thrown. Bell team, with RCA as the prime con- Soviet air force was supported by a large Against this highly organized Soviet tractor, was also responsible for putting industrial base with component factories effort to achieve technological suprem- up the Distant Early Warning System geographically dispersed throughout the acy we can bring many resources to that stretches from the Aleutian Islands entire Soviet Union. Until the advent of bear. The prodigious production effort to Greenland's perpetual ice cap. At the Sputnik, American political and in- of American industry in World War II Cape Canaveral, the roster of big names dustrial leaders were very skeptical about needs no recounting. Since that war. we engaged in space ranges from Pan the ability of the Soviets to produce have been engaged in a costly defense American to RCA to General Electric modern technological equipment. Since effort designed to provide military power and Western Electric — a who's who of that time, there has been a more accurate to back American diplomacy. Major American industrial concerns. appraisal of the Soviet industrial system. There have been allegations that these We recognize that there is skill and depth corporations have made excessive profits in the structure of Soviet military pro- on defense contracts. In reality, most duction. large U.S. corporations have undertaken The Soviets recognize that technologi- defense contracts as a public service. In cal superiority, in the final analysis, rests the last several years, profits in the Aero with scientists, designers and engineers. Space Industry on government contracts Hence, their scientific education pro- FOR JANUARY has averaged 2 percent. Big companies gram and their technological training By Rev. Feltham S. James, D.D. can make higher profits from normal are major elements in their long term Past National Chaplain commercial production than they can plans for Soviet by cooperating with the government de- ascendency in indus- Almighty and Eternal God, who hast trial production for military purposes. created men in Thine own image, we fense effort. More importantly, if the The Soviets are currently turning out stand in humble gratitude for all the United States did not possess this pool mercies Thou hast ordained to rest far more engineers and scientists than of technological management-industrial upon us. We thank Thee for these the United States. As of 1960, there skill and scientific know-how, it would United States in which we live; for were 50,000 science teachers in already be far behind the highly organ- the those ideals of freedom, justice and United States, while there were more democracy that have made them a ized power-oriented industrial team than 250,000 science teachers in the shining star in the galaxy of nations. which the Soviet Union has produced. Soviet Grant us fearlessly to contend against Union. What does all this add up to in the those things that would undermine What are the key points in Soviet crucial question of free competition ver- the precious heritage of the peoples military production? First, the Soviets sus large portion of called America. Grant us the grace to monopoly? A have explored the technological ad- make no peace with oppression, no America's economic production is con- vances made in other countries and used compromise with evil, no yielding to centrated; and the fact that, in many the information gained to carry on their the godless philosophy of Commu- significant areas, a few industrial cor- nism. May we reverently use our free- own systematic research. Second, mate- porations dominate the American econ- dom, and help us to employ it in the rial and design have been adapted to the omy has been a natural development. maintenance of justice among men general level of technological maturity and nations, to the glory of Thy Holy Such domination is not the result of a which the Soviet Union has achieved. deliberate design on the part of govern- Third, the top political leadership has ment on the one hand and of the over- taken a direct and personal interest in reaching ambitions of certain industrial- every act related to technological pro- ists on the other.

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 41 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CYCLOPS? (Continued from page 13)

in the newspapers. The Navy announced and had come to this country as a child. "I saw it register 48 degrees to port and it was feeling "extreme anxiety" for the He was adopted in California, grew up 56 to starboard." ship. The New York Times reported under the guidance of a family named He had served as well on the Neptune, bluntly: "Hope has been abandoned." Worley, and, thanks in part to their kind- a ship identical with the Cyclops, where The story got an 8-column headline on ness, the immigrant lad rose to become he observed that her double bottoms the front page of the Times: "U.S. Naval a naval officer and to command the permitted water ballast to move all the Collier Cyclops Missing." Headlined the Cyclops. way across the ship during a roll. The New York Herald: "Big War Supply If this were not enough, there was the Neptune would "flop" ten degrees to one Ship Vanishes Without Trace." sheer impossibility of a captain deserting side or the other for no apparent reason. Other news of the same day: the to the enemy and taking with him a U.S. He learned that the Neptune had, on her Americans had driven back the Germans Navy crew as big as Worley's and a U.S. main deck, a series of manholes that on the right bank of the Meuse north of provided access to the coal holds. In Saint-Mihiel, there had been terrific order to help ventilate the cargo, these hand-to-hand fighting; General Ferdi- manholes were left open at sea. nand Foch had been given the title of A drastic roll on the part of the commander-in-chief of the Allied armies Cyclops could mean that the water in in France; Sir Douglas Haig was asking her double bottoms would rush to one his British troops to fight "with their side and add to her roll, whereupon her backs to the wall" to hold channel ports. cargo might shift, and add still more to Philip Gibbs was one of the war corre- her roll. At this point the sea could enter spondents whose stories appeared. the manholes and flood the holds, and Two months later, on 14 June, Skip- the Cyclops would roll right on, all the per Worley and all the other naval per- way over. sonnel aboard the Cyclops were declared Commander Tisdale entitled his arti- officially dead. cle, "Did the Cyclops Turn Turtle?" He What had happened to the Cyclops? thought she did. One answer after another was to prove He thought the Cyclops might have wrong. The Times, following a Navy run into heavy weather. There was one Department hint, spoke of the "prob- report of rough (but by no means ability of a German raider or subma- frightening) weather ahead of her. rine." Although German raiders had "This could all occur in a few sec- made round trips to Brazil, and although onds," Commander Tisdale concluded, German submarines were capable of "and the ship would be bottom up be- sailing to the West Indies from Europe fore anyone could abandon ship. Some and returning, there was no record of few men from the bridge and poop either a surface raider or a U-boat in the might have been thrown clear of the "Thy speedometer runneth over." area. Nor was any other Allied ship at- ship. But with everything secured for tacked in the vicinity. After the war, little wreckage. Re- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE sea there would be records of the German Navy were stud- member that there would be nothing ied to check this point. The answer: adrift except such gear as would be free there was no raider or U-boat anywhere Navy ship as large as the Cyclops, with- to float off during the few seconds during near. Neither, it was discovered, had the out leaving even an inkling behind. the turn. There would be no debris such Germans planted mines anywhere One suggestion wilder than the idea as always follows a sinking due to other around. Thus the obvious explanation, that Worley had stolen the ship was that marine casualty, as in the case of mine enemy action, was sunk. the Cyclops had been attacked and over- or torpedo. There would have been no Because of the importance of the whelmed by giant squid. Giant squid, time for an S O S. There would have Cyclops' cargo — manganese to a nation ten-armed, octopus-like creatures, whose been no time for anything. The few men at war, it was suggested that German longest tentacles may sometimes stretch in the water could not have lived long agents might have planted explosives in out 50 or 60 feet, probably live about of their own accord." the cargo or in the engine room. But it 700 feet beneath the surface of the I asked Vice Admiral (Retired) Tis- would not be likely that a ship sunk by ocean. They almost certainly could do dale if he by now had had any occasion saboteurs' bombs would go down with- little more than scratch the Cyclops. to change his belief. He answered me out a trace, or without time to send an For many months, the ward rooms of late in 1962 with a letter from Vallejo, SOS. It was even doubtful, in the first Navy ships hummed with speculation Calif. "No, I have nothing to add to my place, that German agents could have about the Cyclops. Then a new explana- theory that the Cyclops turned turtle. It gotten enough bombs aboard to sink the tion of what might have happened ap- would seem that the passing of time has ship. peared. It was printed in the U.S. Naval proved my theory to be correct, inas- A rumor went around to the effect Institute Proceedings (published at much, as far as I know, no one has come that Skipper Worley had deserted to his Annapolis) for January, 1920. Its au- up with a better one or attempted to native Germany, and had taken the ship thor, a participant in wardroom dis- refute mine . . . with him. Mrs. Worley denied it vehe- cussions, was Lt. Comdr. Mahlon S. "I remember vaguely that someone mently. Besides, Commander Worley Tisdale, USN. Commander Tisdale had denied that manganese would shift. had his own reason for being loyal to the served very briefly aboard the Cyclops; Maybe he's right. If so, I still believe United States. His rise in this country he was for ten days communications that the shifting of water ballast would had been at least a minor version of the officer under Worley in 1916. He had have capsized her. I am not a naval con- stories by Horatio Alger that were still noticed she had a frightening tendency structor—just a GI of the line—but no popular at the time. Worley had been to roll. Watching the clinometer one engineers have denied my theory. born George Wichtmann, in Germany, night in a gale off New England, he said: "I, for one, am just as certain as I was

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JANUARY 1963 47 A MATTER OF DEGREE Anybody who can raise enough money to go to college these days doesn't need an education. Franklin P. Jones

JAZZ YOU LIKE IT < Sister is a twister -1±\±A±YU ' And Brother is another. Father has a yen for jazz And so has Mother. We're hep, for fair, although a Square Or long-haired appleknocker Would say "Poor souls, their rocks and rolls Have rocked them off their rocker!"

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SMART BUSINESSMAN Then there was the umbrella manufacturer who saved his money for a sunny day. F. G. Kernan

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MONKEY BUSINESS Think of the monkey in the zoo "Hasn't anyone got a king-size?" Who offers a lesson to me and you. He wastes no time in gossipy twitting, But much prefers to tend to his nitting. Tom Wei ls LIGHTHOUSE BLUES QUIET COUPLE A young man in charge of a lighthouse on a lonely island in the South Seas got married and brought his young bride to live with him on his Once upon a time a girl who loved to desolate little coral reef. The young girl soon found life so restricted that quarrel met a boy who loved to quarrel, she asked her husband to buy her a piano with which to while away some so they married and lived happily ever of her time. They both waited impatiently for it to arrive and at last the after words. island boat appeared in the distance. But, as they looked through powerful S. S. Bidole binoculars, nowhere on the deck of the boat could they see the piano. When the boat got close enough for hailing, the young husband yelled angrily: "Hey, didn't you get that piano we ordered?" "Sure," yelled back the native captain of the little sailing vessel. "We've

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HOGWASH The old farmer was moodily regarding the ravages of the flood. "Hiram," yelled a neighbor, "your pigs were all washed down the creek." "How about Smith's pigs?" asked the old fanner. "They're gone, too." "And Layne's? "Yep."

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3 x 5-ft. flag; 6-ft. pole No. 72800 $ 7.40

4 x 6-ft. flag; 8-ft. pole No. 72801 10.00

Reliance cotton, printed stars and sewed stripes

3 x 5-ft. flag; 6-ft. pole No. 72802 $ 4.00 Six or more, each 3.50

4 x 6-ft. flag; 8-ft. pole No. 72803 6.20 ALL PURPOSE SETS SHIPPED PREPAID

UNMOUNTED U. S. FLAGS Fast color with canvas headings and metal MEMBERS RING grommets. (Prices Popular priced Sterling of other sizes and qualities on request.) Reliance Defiance Nylanin Silver ring with gold-plated Cotton Cotton (Long wear wool (printed stars, (sewed stars texture 75% nylon, emblem for every Legion- SIZE sewed stripes) and stripes) 25% wool) naire. (Sizes 7 to 13 from 2x3 feet $ 2.70 $ 7.20 stock. Other sizes add 3x5 feet $2.50 5.50 12.50 4x6 feet 3.50 7.30 18.90 $1 .50 with 2 weeks delivery) 5x8 feet 11.00 29.00 No. 73880 $2.75 6 x 10 feet 14.00 39.00 8 x 12 feet 22.00 62.50

LAWN U. S. FLAG SETS Two piece, 12-ft. wood pole with brass capped lawn socket.

Defiance cotton bunting 3 x 5 ft. flag with dyed stars and sewed stripes. No. 72837 $15.00 Reliance cotton 3 x 5-ft. flag with dyed stars and sewed stripes. No. 72838, each $11.00 NYLON JACKET Six or more, each 10.00 Lawn sets F.O.B. New York City. Two weeks delivery. Lightweight washable 100% nylon. "Hurricane" FLAG MATERIAL (not illustrated) type two-button stand-up Let's Be Right on Flag Etiquette— 20-page pamphlet. Ques- tions and answers. collar. Navy blue (No. Each No. 72600 $ .15 70271) or white (No. 70275) Per 100 7.00

in sizes Sm., Med., Lg., Flag Code— Illustrates and describes the correct way to dis- Ex-Lg $6.95 play the American Flag. Each No. 72601 $ .04 Per 100 3.00 Per 1000 20.00

Flag Code Newspaper Mat— Set in standard newspaper columns. Can be cut into sections for periodic or partial use. Each No. 72602 $ 1.70

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