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THE American Legion in honoring and marines will prove more than a ican Legion's more than a million mem- me by naming me its leader during match for whatever enemy they may bers and our half million Auxiliaries. this critical year in the history of be called upon to face. It is the mandate that the country has our beloved country has given me a man- It is up to the American people been waiting for. It will cheer our date which I accept wholeheartedly. specifically, American industry and gallant allies and strike terror into the That mandate is to tell the people of labor—to see that there is no break in hearts of the totalitarian peoples. In the United States that the veterans of the production line—that every gun the occupied countries it will tell the I9i7-'i8, fully convinced that our and every tank and the ammunition to slaves of Hitler's New Order that the enemies must be utterly crushed, de- serve them, every piece of equipment long night is nearing its end, that the mand that industry and labor unstint- our men and those of our gallant allies day of deliverance is at hand. ingly back up the men on the fighting need gets to them in the quickest pos- The home front of America cannot fronts, to the end that there shall be sible time. To do less than that is to win this war, but it can lose the war no slowdown on the production front invite defeat. The pace of that produc- for us if it does not make good in the here at home. tion line must not be lessened; it must supreme test that lies ahead. The gallant American boys serving be increased, and the line must never We of the Legion are determined •with comrades of ours of twenty-four stop moving—short of complete victory that under God this nation will give years ago, are giving of their all that for our arms. A work stoppage in a war of its utmost for this cause to which this nation may remain free. We who industry now that Congress and the we, like our forefathers of 1776, have know the extent of their sacrifices, be- President have furnished the machinery dedicated "our lives, our fortunes, and

cause we have seen war face to face, for adjudication of differences, is trea- our sacred honor." As Woodrow Wilson

are confident that, given adequate son against the United States. said in his war message of April, 19 17, weapons, these American soldiers, sailors This is the mandate of The Amer- "God helping her, she can do no other."

"A work stoppage in a war industry, now that Congress and the President have furnished the machinery for adjudication " of differences, is treason against the United States

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The Message Center CONTENTS COVER DESIGN You hear all sorts of statements By Frank Bi.nsinc; these days about the relative effi- OLJR DUTY TO OUR ciency (or inefficiency) of American FIGHTING MEN 1 warplanes and those of our allies and By Roane Waring National Commander our foes. Here is what an American THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL who knows as much about these things THERE 5 By Gridley Adams has to say on those as any man alive Drawing by William Heaslip heads PULL THOSE JAP FANGS 6 "American airplanes are the best in By James R. Young the world for the job they were de- Cartoons by John Cassel signed to do. As everybody knows, the INDIAN SIGN ON U-BOATS 8 Flying Fortresses are without a peer. By a. D. Rathbone, IV Drawing by Carl Pfeufer It is impossible in the case for instance War has wrought changes of a fighter plane to provide for it RED FLASH 10 By Tyler H. Bliss superiority in every one of the cate- in the quality of a lot Illustrations by Mel Phillips gories of speed, maneuverability, ability it hasn't PANTRY OF DEMOCRACY 12 of things, but fire power and armor. to climb high, By Ben James fine quality of Right now a fighter is in production changed the DOGS OF WAR 14 whose general qualities will stand com- By Frank J. Taylor parison with the best any other nation STREAMLINED FOR VICTORY 16 can produce and which in addition has a By Boyd B. Stutler goes away beyond that fire power that NOT STANDING. NOT WAFTING 20 anywhere." of any other plane By John J. Noll MOST DISHONORABLE RAKE 22 GETTING out a monthly magazine By R. G. Kirk Illustrations by E. Pyles and trying to stay topical in a V. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT world that is characterized by such THANKS FOR THE BIRD 24 BOURBON WHISKEY By S. E. Lawrence things as the fall of France in just 39 Illustration by Wallace Morgan days, the whole history of the Nazi A FEW LINES TO SAY 26 name on a bottle campaigns in Russia (remember the That By Frank A. Mathews, Jr. prediction of many American military marks a bourbon made to Illustrations by George Shanks "experts" that Hitler would take Mos- standard WALLGREN'S CARTOONS 28 the same high cow in three weeks, the Nazi leader's EDITORIAL: The Legion .Speaks 28 which won it the reputa- now famous expression of the fall of A YEAR ON THE ALERT 30 1941 that "Russia is broken and will tion, Head of the Bourbon never raise its head again," the famous A GATEWAY TO THE WAR 34 Family. backs-to-the-wall defense of Moscow, VICTORY SCRAP 40 {Continued on page 73) BURSTS AND DUDS 76 TAX NOTE: You pay no tax on the quality of a tohiskey — only on the y^*"* convenience if you wish to have the maga- quantity. Why not choose * ^ zine sent to another address will be found on 71. the beat ? IIVIPORXANX page

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4 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine At Francis Scott Key's grave in Frederick, Maryland, Old Glory flies through the night as well as by day

By GRIDLEY ADAMS Chairman, National Flag Code Committee

Gridley Adams knows more abouf displaying the United States Flag than any other living person. When he says Old Glory ought to fly at night he's entitled to the respectful attention of every

American citizen. Is he right? YOU tell us. Address Flag Editor, American Legion Magazine, One Park Avenue, New York City

j^^^V DEAR Allan Thompson: You have written me: facts as completely changed his viewpoint. Of course, you remember Luther, a champion of one religion and at the time "The people in this town persist in flying the Flag going, penitently and supplicatingly. up a long flight of steps over the County Court House 24 hours a day. Legionnaires have on his knees, when he instantly changed his mind and became protested without result. I'm sure this practice is not only in- a convert to another religion. The Episcopal rector of my church correct but a violation of a recently enacted Federal law. Is this became a Christian Scientist. He confessed to me that he had manner of flying the Flag illegal? If so, how can I stop it?" preached for years against it, but had never read a word of its

Now, fill your pipe, have a couple of cigars handy or a pack- literature. age of cigarettes nearby, 'cause this is going to be a long chat. Take my own case in regard to the proper way to display

You've asked a sincere question; it deserves as complete an the Flag of the United States of America in order to show the answer as I can supply. Did you ever realize how many of us respect due Old Glory. For years and years I was one of millions

have "thought such-and-such" without thinking about it at all? who, when hanging the Flag vertically, simply tipped it over Go back to Voltaire, who, in order to find from its horizontal position. But one day facts to justify his opinion, dug up such Illustrated by V LLIAM HEASLIP I began the {Continued on page 52)

NOVEMBER, 1942 5 Pull Those Jap Fangs I

Jimmy Young spent 1 3 years as a newsman in

Japan, the last 6! days of it in a Tokyo jail

because he wouldn't color his dispatches to please the war lords. What he tells you here he's told U. S. airmen in a tour of our camps

seemed but a blur; so speedily did the

splendid blade whirl that it .'teemed to create in the gentle air a semi-disc of glittering Hght. It was the man whose body now twisted in the mud, whose head lay three feet away, whose spouting blood stained brown water and green rice shoots. Tsuna had made his choice on purely technical grounds. No distinction between the man's life and the dog's had swayed him. He would just as willingly

have killed the dog, had it not been that the hair of animals was considered bad for finely tempered edges, no matter what the quahty of the steel. His sword had sliced off the man's head as easily

as it could have lopped off the top of a

daikon plant ; that was enough for Tsuna. Tsuna wiped the blade tenderly with a silk cloth, tossed the rag beside the quivering body, sheathed the weapon and rode on toward the village drinking place, his mind now completely at peace, entirely empty.

PERHAPS something as coldly ruthless as Tsuna's act occurred as a matter of course in Europe one thousand

years ago, but, if Japanese literature is By JAMES R. YOUNG to be believed, such incidents were a matter of course in Japan less than a century ago. For less than a century TSUNA, a ronin of the daimyo of mind was vacant. One was his pride in ago the dark ages still held in Japan, the Oyeyama—which means he was a new sword that swung its four-foot Shogunate prevailed, the United States among the privately-hired thugs of the length in a wooden scabbard at his had not opened the so-called Empire of head gangster of a district not far from leather-armored side. The other was a the Rising Sun to world contacts. the imperial capital of Kyoto—trotted slight discontent that marred the pride. The western world has had a thousand his pony along a damp path that led The sword had not yet been blooded. years to learn things humane. The Japa- through the wide rice fields. Its tine edge had not been tested. nese have had less than a century of Ahead of him beside the path, trans- As he approached them, Tsuna's vague western civilization, and that has proved planting the tender shoots of the spring attention rested upon the bent farmer too short a time to abolish cruelty and crop, the peasant Onaga bent in back- and his dog. His small black eyes trav- treachery, to instill fair play as an in- breaking labor. And on the path beside eled almost with disinterest between ani- stinct. his' master stood Onaga's mongrel dog. mal and man, but, almost unconsciously, So it was with cruelty unrestrained, This being a rare time when the he was making a choice. Because sword- with brutal desires still fresh from the daimyo of Oyeyama w'as not engaged play composed most of his interest in dark period through which all races in the collection of rice taxes and was life, he was very adept, and so quickly must pass to the light of civilization, at peace with his fellow barons, Tsuna did he act when his pony was nearly that the samurai class of Japan, the com- was an almost completely idle fellow. upon the peasant and dog that his hand's Thus, with two small exceptions, his motion would to an observer have Cartoons by JOHN CASSEL

6 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Magatint Free milk for the child if the By orders of his officers, he They roughly hustled the Sis- mother will smoke the opium bayonets prisoners to death ters of St. Joseph into prison

manders of the troops, entered this great women and children together in chains Japanese so far: indiscriminate rape, ap- all-out war against the hated westerners, of fifty, drenched them with confiscated parently by sanction of the high com- and for that reason occur these outrages Standard Oil gasoline, and set them mand; deliberate starvation of prisoners, against the nature of humankind that afire—alive. bayoneting of women and children as we are beginning to hear about as the Never in the days of Attila, never in well as men, torture of captive soldiers, lurid scroll of the far Pacific conflict un- the days of the medieval czars of Mus- burial alive, bombing of hospital ships, folds. covy, were such horrors perpetrated as doping of prisoners, gas and bacterio- A Japanese soldier will fight bravely the Japanese have inflicted for more logical warfare. when on the attack, but he does poorly than five years on the Chinese and now, As Under Secretary of the Navy in defensive struggle and he would rather according to reports slowly leaking to us James V. Forrestal stated recently in a kill himself than fight alone. But, through censorship, are inflicting on radio address from Pearl Harbor, the through centuries of as cruel a govern- Americans and British who fall into Jap soldiery did these things in the ment as the world can recall in all his- their hands. initial fighting on the Solomon Islands: tory, because his veneer of what we These horrors stand proved against the I. After pretending to surrender, shot know as civilization is of our Marines in the back. the thinnest, your Japa- 2. Killed in cold blood nese soldier sees no dis- American doctors who honor in attacking the were caring for Japanese weak and unarmed, no wounded. shame in torturing the 3. Slaughtered Jap ci- helpless. vilians building fortifica- As we know now, he tions, when U. S. troops binds prisoners and prac- were on the point of cap- tises sword thrusts on turing them. them, the game being to "You know," Forrestal see how long he can keep went on, "this nation of them alive by skilfully ours is confronted by a avoiding a vital stroke. savage, competent and By orders of his of- ruthless foe who has been ficers, while his fellows preparing for war for 20 watch him gleefully, he years, whose object is to bayonets prisoners to drive the flag and the death, stabbing them first power of the United in the buttocks to make States from the Pacific. them leap, then through "But I know that you the shoulders, the arms, will not rest in response the legs and finally, when to this challenge until the they have become too last warship of Japan has weak to offer good sport, been sent to the bottom through the heart. of the sea and until the At the vast and ter- last Jap soldier has been rible sack of Nanking, whipped from the lands according to the attested they have invaded." stories of missionaries who believe in the sanc- FROM the terrible in- tity of the oaths they vasion of Korea in took in their affidavits, 1592, through the 1932 the Japanese soldiers machine-gun and bayonet roped old men and It's got to be done. We'll do it {Continued on page 46)

NOVEMBER, 1942 By A. D. RATHBONE, IV

Legionnaire Rathbone went to sea to see, and what he saw was plenty. The rattlesnakes we know as U-Boats are signing off on bothering our Atlantic coastwise shipping, and here's why

hour of 0350 is a hideous down the harbor with extreme caution. silently and suddenly out of the dark- THEtime to roll out of bed, unless A dimmed-out, traffic-congested, wartime ness. Doubled look-outs in the bow, on a fellow is headed for his harbor is a spooky place at best and with the stem, up on the flying bridge peered favorite fishing grounds, for 0350 the blackness of the night still upon us, anxiously into the pre-dawn haze. The in the Navy means, in civilian life, ten it was difficult to determine whether the skipper. Ensign McCallum, stood at the minutes to four in the morning. Never- involuntary shivers were due to the helmsman's elbow in the blacked-out theless, the motors of the VP igi began ghostly shapes of ships riding sulkily at wheelhouse, checking our snail-like prog- to rumble at 0350 and, as a matter of anchor, the penetrating chill of early ress with the few red, green, and white fact, we were going fishing—fishing for morning air, or the thought that one of ' beacons that still necessarily remain in that elongated thing known as subfnari- Schicklgruber's submarines might be lurk- harbor service. It's a ticklish piece of niis Nazi, on which the season was legally ing somewhere outside. business, this getting safely out of harbor opened December 8, 1941, for an indef- At half-speed on our two Diesel en- to become one of a group of small fight- inite period. gines we felt our way along, dodging ing ships that will act as convoy to a We backed slowly away from the pier unexpected gray shapes that loomed up string of helpless freighters for a couple at the Navy base, pointed our bows of hundred miles along the Atlantic coast. toward the Atlantic Ocean, and proceeded Illustrated by CARL PFEUFER If the 2 5 -year-old timbers of the YP

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Ships that "Sight Subs-Sinl{ Same"

1, Flying boaH of the Navy skim the skies above convoys and far on out to sec

2> Navy blimps over New York on way to sea

3a Once a private yacht, now in naval service

4. Coast Guard cutters, like the U.S.S. Cham- plain, join YP boots and Limeys in patrol

igi could have talked they might have Long Ijiand waters—and her present that will lead the convoy, as well as the reminisced about another dark night, crew will tell you that she brought the Coast Guard cutters and the stodgy,

October 2, 1918, for this YP boat is a scent of her trade along with her. Tem- plodding freighters, for which we shall all veteran of the last war, and after years in porarily her daily cruises for fluke and serve as guardians. We circle cautiously private ownership, she's now back in the flounder, for bass and bonita are ended. and suddenly a bulky shape looms out of Navy for the duration of this one. Now she spends her days and nights the darkness, just off our port bow. It's Originally a member of the famous searching for bigger, grimmer game in the the Limey and we give a brief blinker Splinter Fleet, she was once designated as ocean's depths. This harbor exit was the signal of recognition and are answered. an S.C. Class boat—one of those iio- start of one of those searches, and as we Now we stand by, and gradually the foot, wooden-bottomed sub chasers that slipped gingerly through the Narrows, eastern sky lightens with dawn's warning. braved the Atlantic's bullying storms to you had a feeling the old Splinter Boat There's a sudden roar in the sky as convoy our ships overseas. was back where she belonged—hunting two speeding patrol planes, wing-to-wing, Yes, if the YP igi could talk, she the U-Boats. streak overhead and out to sea. Things could spin some great yarns of the sea. Soon we're beyond the Narrows, out are happening fast. In the now rapidly Along with many of her sister ships she where the harbor yawns into the very increasing light of dawn the squat sil- was sold to private owners after the face of the Atlantic, and with speed cut houettes of freighters app>ear, like gray Armistice. They say the 191 was in the to a minimum our thin-beamed Splinter gnomes up from the deep; there are two rum-running trade, off Florida, for a time. Ship rolls and careens crazily in the ocean more Coast Guard boats; the Limey Just prior to Pearl Harbor she was known swells. It's still dark, but somehow we trawler has taken her place at the head as the Usona, a chartered fishing boat in must locate the armed British trawler {Continued on pa^e 44)

NOVEMBER, 1942 Q —

insignia of The American Legion. He kissed her. It was one of those things she loved about him. He never forgot to kiss her and they weren't perfunctory

kisses either. He always acted as if he

meant it. And after all these years of married life! Brandon's outboard motor was tied up to one of the public docks. It was almost a mile from the house and on RED FLASH the way down he had plenty of time to think. It was probably wrong not to By TYLER H. BUSS^^^^^s^ have told Delia about Leif but he just couldn't. Postpone the inevitable. He hadn't really come to fish. That was just a stall. As a matter of fact, the putt-putt wasn't equipped for deep- sea fishing. There wasn't room for anything on board except the necessary mechanism and the marine radio, which definitely He was an Old Crock, but the was frankly a luxury. Delia had been

more than nice about it when he con- zing he had shown in 1918 might fessed his wild splurge. "Luxuries are pretty often more vital than necessities," she had said. Although had the same sense of the month, isn't it? Let's see them." BRANDON he didn't know it then, he was more of foreboding he had experi- He handed them over, stuffing the than glad he had the radio before the enced before when the postman official envelope in his pocket. She day was done. gave him the other letter in the studied them with her bright blue eyes, official envelope. That first one was eyes that Leif had inherited and must about his eldest son, Joe, Junior, who have come originally from that Scan- had been killed on Bataan. He turned dinavian forebear. the thing over in his hands long min- "Not as bad as they might be. Light utes before he summoned the ner\-e to and power, telephone—we don't have open it. to pay those for a while yet—the milk." It was what he had dreaded all along. She smiled up at him. Her face was " —with deepest regret—inform you broad and pleasant and she didn't look your son Leif—torpedoed at sea—must older than her age, which was some- be presumed to be dead—:in the service where in the mid-forties. "What you go- of his country." ing to do today, Joe?" So Joe, Junior, wasn't enough. Now "Thought maybe I'd go fishing." This it was Leif, "Leif the Lucky," the kid wasn't true, but he had to say some- who had quit college to join the armed thing. service, the kid who had been whim- "Hope you catch some big ones. I'll sically named after a dead and long be around in case anything happens." forgotten ancestor of Brandon's wife He tried to grin. Delia. "You wish me luck and I'll wish us They'd quit printing the casualty list both luck." in the papers long before, of course. Aid They were on the front steps now. and comfort to the enemy. Now they The house was greenish gray located on merely sent formal notices to the next a side street and flanking the front door of kin in those damned official envelopes. was a "Tourist Accommodated" sign. He thought briefly of the hundreds, When strangers asked his business Bran-

perhaps thousands of men, some of them don told them it was real estate, but no older than Leif, who must have per- this was the nearest he had ever come

ished when the torpedo struck. Through- to it. And even the "Tourist Accommo- out America parents, wives, brothers, dated" going was pretty tough. Rates sisters were readLig letters just like were seventy-five cents and a dollar a this, identical even to the punctuation. night, depending on the proximity to the But you couldn't expect the Government bathroom. Special reductions, of course, to devise personal messages of con- if people stayed on, but they seldom dolence for ever>'body concerned. The did. The war, gas and rubber shortage people at Washington had never heard and God knows what. of them, nor of the sons who had been Still, if he hadn't been drawing com- dying all over the world. pensation for that wound he got at St.

Brandon couldn't tell Delia yet. She'd Mihiel it would be even worse.

find. out about it soon enough. But she "If you're going fishing I'll get your must have heard the postman stop. She sweater."'

was coming down the stairs now. She brought it down. It was thin, "Any mail, Joe?" neutral in color with long sleeves. Mos- "A couple of bills." That had been quitoes and sand flies came in waves true enough. and a man had to have some protection. "I forgot," she said. "It is the first On it was pinned the gold and blue

10 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jnt Across the stem of the putt-putt he the neighborhood to ship aboard the Illustrated by MEL PHILLIPS had painted "Joe, Jr." after the boy on torpedoed vessel. The O'Hares and the Bataan. Brandon had been a little Levitzkys on the same block had sons Girl complications probably. Nick was ashamed of it at the time because it who'd gone. It had been something of a handsome devil. seemed over-sentimental and he didn't a social party. "Wot you catching, Zhoe?" go in for that sort of thing. The letters "If I'm going to be killed I might Brandon spread his hands out apolo- were gold, outlined in black, and they as well have some of my pals around getically, standing up in the bow so he stood out well against the woodwork. instead a bunch of strangers," Leif had could be seen. Nick Sparta crowed. He was a good painter. He'd done the written in one of the few letters that "Me, I got free dolphin, wan sail- "Tourist Accommodated" thing himself. had reached him. Poor Leif! But Timmie fish. Almost catch marlin, bot—" he He started the boat and it chugged O'Hare and Morris Levitzky were tine broke into— a lurid vocabulary in his own out into the Bay, the bow cleaving the lads, too. Their fathers and mothers tongue "line bost. Now I go home. Bot water. must have received the same kind of except for dat"—more incomprehensible "Well," Brandon thought, "there's official letter. Greek—"of a marlin, not bad for de old still Stanley." Stanley was his other "Oh, Zhoe!" Mount Olympus." son, somewhere in Ireland. He'd be safe Brandon couldn't see the man—he Nick's craft, the Mount Olympus. enough there unless all this talk of a was too far away but he knew the voice. That was certainly a funny name for a

Second Front amounted to something. Nick Sparta. That wasn't it, of course, fishing boat.

Brandon had given Joe, Junior, and now but it was as close as anybody could Then it happened. A white streak Leif to his country. He couldn't be get to it phonetically, plus a lot of through the water—and there wasn't blamed if he wanted Stanley to come heterogeneous syllables. A Greek who anything left of the Mount Olympus. home all in one piece. had miraculously escaped from his na- Just Nick's body seeming to hang mo- The Joe, Jr. was in deep water before tive land after it had been overrun by tionless in mid-iar, his hands still he snapped out of his reverie. He hadn't the invading hordes, and had been on clutching the heavy rod. And something realized how late it was. He'd been a his way to join his fellow countrymen that looked like a bit of tubing poking it- coward to run away. By now. someone in their Tarpon Springs sponge fisheries self inquiringly above the sea. must have told Delia. when he'd been waylaid on the East Right here at home, too. Not Burma, Leif hadn't been the only one in Coast. not Malta, not {Continued on page 60) AMERICA is not only the arsenal of By BEN JAMES u democracy; it is also the pantry. A thousand shiploads of food have already been sent from our farms in this, their pounds of food from American farms and one month of the year a certain port is bumper year, to the soldiers and civilians ranches, process it, move it to seaboard, free of ice and it must last through of the United Nations, and still the food load it on ships and send them overseas months of sub-zero weather until the ships sail in steady procession. It is a would be a sizeable job even in peace- ships can come again next summer. There provisioning feat unprecedented in mag- time. But this is only the beginning of must be potatoes for the troops in the nitude. the difficulties. The sea lanes are slow Libyan desert where water is too scarce The sheer bulk of products moved in and perilous and stretch ever further; to be used in boihng them, and food to impressive; just to gather 6,000,000,000 food must be processed and packed to be carried on the heads of porters to men withstand longer voyages and rougher in the African jungle where water is a handling than ever before. Ships are steaming curse. scarce and needed for arms, so that cargo Hundreds of problems like these have space allotted for food must be used with taxed to the utmost the ingenuity of new ingenuity to cram the utmost pos- American inventors, manufacturers and sible nourishment into every cubic foot. administrators. But the problems have Tin is scarce, which knocks out ac- been solved, and some of the solutions customed ways of packing hundreds of are likely to change the world's eating products and necessitates invention of habits—our own included. new packages. This world-wide network of life lines

On top of all this the fighting nations is operated from an office in the rambling want—not wheat and corn that can be south building of the Department of handled like coal — but an incredible Agriculture. diversity of food to be eaten under an I sat through a typical day. Fifteen or amazing diversity of conditions. There twenty of us, in shirt-sleeves or in sum- must be orange juice and milk for the mer coats against the Washington heat, babies of England—but remember, dire arrived on the dot of ten and filed in scarcity of tin and no refrigerator ships. together. A rangy, quick-moving man Russians within the Arctic Circle must behind a desk nodded greetings to the

have food; it must be delivered in the foreign buyers and his own staff, asked a

It has been a year of bumper crops for the United States, and all the rest of the free is getting of In these cases are food- world a share the store stuffs, the real sinews of war which we have been able to accumulate

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne Fresfi eggs on the way to be- Dehydrated beef, which can be eaten coming powder. One small bar- right out of the can when necessary. rel will hold the equivalent of At left, the smiling young woman seventeen cases. When cooked shows the way army cooks prepare they'll be the real McCoy it under non-emergency conditions

co-worker in an aside heard all over the lars' worth of food. drickson commented. room, "Did you catch the Seattle boat This day his customers were the Rus- "Melt snow, add one ounce of acid to with that salt pork?", got an affirmative sians. The head of the delegation, a 24 ounces of water, and it's vinegar," nod, picked up a flimsy carbon copy of somber man in a brown suit, his hair, the Russians explained. "The acid doesn't the agenda and said, "Well, let's start." close-cropped, his face leathery, fished a freeze in the Arctic; vinegar would. Be-

The man at the desk was 38-year-old child's copy-book out of his pocket and sides, it saves space." Roy F. Hendrickson, who in this fabulous through an interpreter read off the Soviet "Can we get that much together by grocery store does a food business of requirements. Wednesday, for a ship sailing out of $5,000,000 a day. Under the direction of Dried eggs, so many thousand tons; Seattle?" Hendrickson asked. Secretary Wickard, he is head of the vegetable oils, thousands of tons; rye "Have it at shipside in 48 hours," one Agricultural Marketing Administration, flour; butter. And last, 100 tons of of his staff promised. which has bought, processed, inspected acetic acid. This was the ship that must make the and delivered a billion and a half dol- "That's a lot of acetic acid," Hen- {Continued on page 42)

Why our troops overseas will feed better than you did in T917-'18 aaoooTONs OF FOOD IN BULK AVERAGE SHIPLOADS

SAME AMOUNT OF FOODSTUFFS 1 LEAVING 5'fREIGHTERS DEHYDRATED SHIPLOAD SHRINKS TO FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF WAR. MATERIALS 5,000 TONS i 1

HOW DEHYDRATION REDUCES THE WEIGHT AND VOLUME OF 3 STAPLE FOODS

FOOD IN 350 POUNDS DOZEN 4 GALLONS BULK EGGS OF MILK

SAME FOOD 90 POUNDS 5X OUNCES 3 POUNDS DEHYDRATED (POWDER) (POWDER)

NOVEMBER, 1942 13 Mr. Spitz ready to send out a great Dane carrying a short wove de- vice, through which he can be directed on the battlefield. The dog of the man-and-dog team requires three months' training. Ten days are enough for the man

ofUIRR Bv FRRHK J. TRVLOR

might hide. If the soldier hears nothing land. Just before the Japanese attack, until Blackie comes back, he knows that he delivered the first graduating class of

all is well. But if the dog barks, he military dogs, all trained for sentry SENTRY duty at Port Stockton mili- hustles to his aid, ready for action. If work. They included, in addition to tary depot, crammed with supplies Blackie has found a marauder, the Blackie, Rudy, another Doberman, Rex, for Army posts from Panama to Alaska, chances are he will have him disarmed King, and Thor, all shepherd (German used to be a lonely, perhaps hazardous and at bay by the time Joe arrives, be- police) dogs. His second class was soon vigil for Private Joe Brown. Now things cause he has been so thoroughly trained ready to join the armed forces. It con- are different. Private Brown has a de- by Carl Spitz, one of the country's out- sisted of Nickie, Skipper, Scout and voted aide and comrade. Every evening standing trainers who is turning Holly- Stumpy, all Dobermans, Alex, a boxer, he goes to a kennel, calls a young Dober- wood's canine stars and pets into volun- and Caesar, a shepherd. man with alert eyes and ears and a sen- teer soldiers for the United States Army Spitz bought the dogs in his first class sitive nose, and hooks a leash to the and Coast Guard. from their owners and paid the men who dog's collar. "Sit, Blackie!" the soldier Spitz is a German-born American citi- helped train them out of his own pocket. orders. The dog sits. "Down!" Blackie zen and one of the best trainers of dogs Three in the second class were donated lies down. A brief routine of commands for work in motion pictures. He first by people who heard of Spitz's work. means to the Doberman that it is time offered to drill a battalion of dogs for Nickie was the gift of a newsboy. Scout, to go to work. the Army in 1930 but it was not until a one-year-old, was given by a breeder.

On their post, Private Brown unleashes 1 941 that the Army got around to ac- Stumpy was owned by an elderly man the dog and commands, "Revier!" cepting Spitz's offer—to train the first who donated him because he thought the Blackie slips away down the long aisles fifty dogs free in appreciation of the Doberman had the makings of a trooper. of supplies behind which a saboteur good fortune that was his in his adopted "He bit the Japanese gardener," ex-

Veteran of the German Navy in 1918, Carl

Spitz shows his gratitude for what America

has done for him, by training dogs for the

Army. Maybe your dog could help. Mr.

Taylor's article gives you the here's how.

Boofs of Randolph Field They're in the Army Now!

14 Thi AMERICAN LEGION Magazine plained his owner. When the man who sold Rudy, of the first graduating class, heard what Spitz was doing, he returned Spitz's money, saying, "If you can do that, I can do something, too."

Spitz is convinced that dogs are the only kind of allies that can cope successfully with the infiltration tactics employed by the Japanese in their con- quests. Therefore he trains them not only as sentries; they scout hidden enemy troops at the front, run messages and carry signal corps wires, and take first aid equipment to the wounded. He perfected a radio receiving set, so light and compact it can be strapped to a scout or messenger dog's back. With it, the signal corps officer can command his canine trooper far out in front of the transmitting set. To familiarize the dogs in his school with the radio voice. Spitz has all of the kennels equipped with loudspeakers through which he talks several times daily from a central trans- mitter to the rookies. Spitz's dream of a large force of trained dog soldiers for the Army is now a reality. Dogs for Defense, Inc., a new organization recognized by the American Kennel Club, has established headquar-

Part of the Job is to wash the dog with which you're teamed. Above: His pal was being shipped out, and the Top Kicker was going to miss her

der supervision," says Spitz. "You can't modern a..ny had a head start on us in

learn it from a book. My staff and I using dogs for war, but in this way we could train eighteen soldiers and twice could make up for lost time fast." that many military dogs every ninety A war college for dogs is the natural days. Each trainer could set up a dog outgrowth of a lifetime spent training school in an army camp and train more dogs. Now forty-seven, Spitz says, "I trainers and more dogs. Every other {Continued on page 54)

ters at 22 East Goth Street, New York

City, and is working through local kennel clubs the country over to mobilize dogs and raise funds for their training. The Army has assigned Colonel E. M. Daniels of the Quartermaster Corps to command the first corps of dogs. Fifteen thousand trained dogs, Spitz estimates, would provide a contingent for every American combat unit fighting the Japanese, two guard dogs for every mile of seacoast in this country, sentry dogs for every army and navy supply depot, and every essential defense installation such as reservoirs, bridges, power plants. This calls for an all-out training program for dog trainers as well as dogs. "The trainers learn by training dogs un-

NOVEMBER, 1942 safe

With Department placards as a background, the newly elected National Commander, with Mrs. Waring at his side, acknowledges the acclaim of the Legion's first wartime convention, at Kansas City, Missouri

By BOYD B. STUTLER

Legion has spoken. all needed sacrifices, come what may. THENeither its pronouncements at Sacrifices there will be, as Donald the Kansas City National M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Convention nor its tones can Production Board, warned the con- be misunderstood by the people in vention in a frank, straightforward our homeland or by the murderous address. Sacrifices, he said, that will forces of Hitler, Hirohito and Com- call for the cultivation of an en- pany with whom we are at war. First durance that this generation has never and foremost the Legion's objective known. We shall have to cut farther

is to win the war, win it on the battle- and more deeply into our civilian

fronts and win it in the battle of economy than even the British have production at home—win it as quick- done, except in the matter of food, ly as possible so that we can have to win the war, the nation's produc- total peace. tion boss added. To that objective the Legion is Unity and harmony was a marked pledged to exert every ounce of its characteristic of the convention. All energy and every scrap of its in- differences of opinion on the various fluence, and to that end the Legion, resolutions and proposals, many of Josephine Antoine as she speaking for a great cross section of them of a highly controversial nature, sang the National Anthem American citizenry, is willing to make were worked out in the committee i6 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Legionnaire "Jimmy" Ulio, Adjutant General of the Army, accepting •for Douglas MacArtnur the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal, presented by National Commander Stambaugh

The Secretary of the Navy telling his comrades of the problems his fighting sailors and marines face on, above and under the seven seas chambers. Only once was a committee universal service legislation and drafting important actions taken. Hardly second report challenged on the floor of the of both capital and labor for wartime in importance to any other act of the Convention. The Legion is united in the use; a call for lowering the conscription convention was the election of Roane will to win. age to i8; opening the ranks of the Waring, Memphis, Tennessee, attorney, Out of those committees came the Legion to the men and women who are as National Commander. Under specific chart of policy and plan of action for fighting the current war, and the adop- mandate of the Convention, Comman- the next year. This includes a reiterated tion of a ringing declaration of war der Waring will call public meetings demand for the immediate enactment of principles. These are but highlights of throughout the United States for the purpose of acquainting the nation with the necessity of making universal serv-

ice effective for the duration, so that it may at the earliest possible moment be enacted into law. As speaker after speaker declared that right now we are losing the war, and called for tough-minded realism in speeding up the production of necessary machines and munitions, the delegates became more and more serious in their deliberations. These were not defeatists or fifth-columnists, they argued, but men highly placed whose words of warning were entitled to a respectful hearing. The War Memorial at Kansas City, dedicated during Tnese Legionnaires responded with a the National Convention of the Legion 21 years ago declaration denouncing strikes, cessation

NOVEMBER, 1942 17 ;

of work, lock-outs and discrimination in employment and other interruptions of war production, whether caused by labor or capital, as sabotage and treason, and demanded that they be dealt with as such. The immediate removal of incompetents and misfits wherever found in the war program was demanded, and Americans were called upon to show the same spirit of sacrifice as our soldiers and sailors, and to forget old differences and selfish gain. The convention also condemned religious prejudices, racial and national antagonisms, declared Americans must have unity of purpose in prosecution of the war, and pledged the Legion's undivided loyalty to the President. Other pronouncements of the convention were demands for legislation safe- guarding the rights of the soldiers and sailors of today; opposition to measures pending in the Congress to create prohibited areas in and about army camps and naval bases in which beer, wine and liquor might not be sold; suspension of naturalization of enemy aliens; military control over Japanese concentration camps; approval of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reaffirmation of faith in the Dies Com- mittee, and demand for the speedy de- portation of Harry Bridges. In a broad way the several resolutions adopted touched every phase of our national war effort and, indeed, all internal affairs of the Legion itself. It was a streamlined convention, stripped to the bare bone and muscle. It was a sober, serious gathering of high- purposed men and women assembled to consider the state of the nation in the organization's first wartime national gathering. There was none of the glittering show of hundreds of musical organizations and other gaily uniformed bodies marching and counter-marching through the streets. There was but one band, the Greater Kansas City Legion Band, an organization of finished musicians that draws its members from twenty-five Kansas City Legion Posts. That band was used at all the formal sessions of The new National Vice Commanders. From the right: Herman H. Lark, Steelville, Missouri; Arthur J. Connell, Middletown, Connecti- cut; Jefferson Davis Atwood, Roswell, New Mexico; John Batten, Birmingham, Alabama; Fred G. Fraser, District of Columbia. Com- rade Fraser is a former Chef de Chemin de Fer of the 40 and 8

both Legion and Auxiliary Conventions. clock marched down flag-lined Kilbourn Two drum and bugle corps turned out, Av-enue at Milwaukee last year. Dash sponsored by city Posts, for brief sere- and color were lacking; instead there was nades—Fitzsimon Post's corps on Satur- grim determination written on every day evening under direction of Sam face. Miller, drum major, who has carried off Missing, too, was the carnival of fun honors for excellence at several National that has always run riot through jam- Conventions, and on Sunday evening the packed streets of the convention city. Power and Light Post's corps, which was The amateur vaudevillians and their im- under the direction of Earl Guimple, and promptu acts were conspicuously absent. with Tom Hays as drum major. These There was none of that—or so very little were the representatives of the five hun- that the few feeble attempts to revive dred magnificent musical bodies that for the carnival spirit of the old-time con- twelve hours and thirty minutes by the ventions died a-borning. i8 Th,- AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 0 •

It was indeed a "delegates only" convention, this Kansas City gathering, as may be seen from this general view of the first day's session. At right, the new chaplain, Rev. Paul DeForest Mortimore of Pocatello, Idaho

Instead, the lobbies of such hotels as ing of a standing committee for nearly National officers and members of the the Muehlebach, Phillips, President, every delegate and visitor present. It national standing committees was ob- Robert E. Lee, Aladdin and other was, as it was intended to be, a working served with the strictest fidelity. The hostelries set apart for Legion use were convention streamlined for victory. crowd in attendance was somewhat larger not crowded with mixing and milling Never before in the history of the Legion than the estimated 5,000, but the excess Legionnaires. The street crowds were was attendance at the several com- was made up of Legionnaires who reside made up to a great extent of local citi- mittee meetings and at the general ses- in and about the Kansas City area whose zenry and of the thousands of soldiers sions so rigorously obser\'ed. presence, even in a city so jammed and who are stationed in and about the city. The admonition of the National Ex- crowded with war workers, did not in- Those attending the convention were to ecutive Committee given to the several terfere with the flow of railroad trans- be found in committee rooms—and there Departments at its May meeting to re- portation. The Legion kept faith. It held was a convention committee or a meet- strict the assemblage to elected delegates, {Co7itiniied on page 66)

Elbert H. Burns of Champaign, Illinois, chosen Chef de Chemin de Fer of the 40 and 8. At left, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, his convention badge showing, reporting on the Army's progress, and Production Boss Donald M. Nelson, who told the convention luxuries, gadgets, comforts must go for the duration

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The above colorful picture was presented at the opening of the Auxiliary's Twenty-Second Annual National Convention in Kansas City in September. Present and past national officers, and the convention pages join in the pledge to the flag. At left, Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, National President, who presided as chairman

'E ARE at war. . . . Some- how I feel this is our lot Standing, Not Waiting time to show the women of the nation that we are keeping faith not only with the armed By JOHN J. NOLL forces but with ourselves—so, no formals for Kansas City." Thus in language that women under- manship, the vast program of the con- of local communities who are now train- stand, Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, National vention was carried through with dis- ing in distant camps or are stationed President, announced to the more than patch. Legionnaires watched the pro- in far-off places where war is being 535,000 women members that the 22d ceedings of their companion organization waged. Annual National Convention of the with particular interest because one of To prepare the agenda for the con- American Legion Auxiliary held in Kan- their own fellow members—Mary Whit- vention sessions, the members of twenty- sas City, Missouri—the birthplace of the taker Murrill served as Chief Yeoman three committees which cover the wide organization in 1921—would, in keep- (F), U. S. N. R. F., during our war range from Rehabilitation to National ing with the Legion's "streamlined" con- had directed the destinies of the Auxili- Defense and from Education of Orphans vention, be devoted entirely to the ary during a trying year with outstand- of Veterans to Pan-American Study, consideration of the serious problems ing success. were in meetings a full twenty-four hours which are found in a nation at war. Twenty-one years of devoted service before the convention was called to Further, Mrs. Murrill said: "Knowing to the disabled veterans of the First order. Following custom, the Auxiliary that husbands, sons and brothers are World War, to the widows and orphans met in joint session with the Legion on facing death on far-flung battlefronts, I of those who have gone ahead, to their Saturday morning, September 19th, and know you are not in the mood to enjoy communities in innumerable ways, to in her message of greeting from her the entertainment that has featured the the Legion in its widespread program, organization to the Legion, National meetings of other years, which I hope and now to the young men who are President Mrs. Murrill bespoke the will be resumed when peace returns, for serving in the armed forces of our coun- continued support of her more than a conventions are enjoyable occasions." try as we served a quarter of a century half -million members to every phase of So, missing were the pageantry, the ago, gives indication that the American the Legion program, referred to the pos- frills, the entertainment, the social func- Legion Auxiliary has not been satisfied sibility of the Legion opening its mem- tions—yes, even the social highlight of to follow Milton's oft-quoted "They bership to men now in service who in all past national conventions, the States also serve who only stand and wait." many cases would be sons and brothers Dinner. In many activities, the Auxilary has of Legionnaires, and added: The 874 delegates, representatives of taken the lead and has relieved the "No group in America today can bet- the largest membership the Auxiliary has Legion of those duties for which women ter visualize some of the problems that ever attained in its more than 9,400 are especially fitted—visits to veterans' lie ahead than the American Legion Units, abided by Mrs. Murrill's in- hospitals, care of families, establishing Auxiliary. Years of devoted, intelligent, junction, and under her splendid chair- of personal contact with young men unceasing service to veterans in hospi- 20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine tals throughout the nation have steeled but not hardened the hearts of our members. To the heavy burdens of other years, the Auxiliary members this >ear have added countless tasks consuming hours of labor, tasks necessitated by the present emergency, but there has been no lessening of our service to the first consideration of the Auxiliary—the disabled veteran and his dependents—and so we pledge to you that increased rehabilitation and child welfare problems of the future will meet the same un- swerving devotion to duty, for we will keep the faith." The ceremonies attending the opening session in the beautiful Music Hall of Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium followed established custom. There one

still saw the pageantry, the flags and colors of previous conventions in the processional of national officers and Past National Presidents escorting National President Mrs. Murrill to the flower- bedecked stage. The call to order was voiced by the National President, the national colors were advanced, the pledge of allegiance was led by Mrs. Norton Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, newly-elected National President, H. Pearl, National Americanism Chair- receives the congratulations of National Commander Roane man, and the invocation given by Mrs. Waring and the applause of the Legion Convention's delegates E. F. Hussman, National Chaplain. The leading American soprano of the Metro- politan Opera in New York, Miss Jose- and by the National Vice-Presidents, in her own right, to have had the honor phine Antoine of Boulder, Colorado, gave Mrs. Grace Gilbert King of the Central of being elected National President of

a stirring rendition of "The Star- Division ; Mrs. Nathaniel S. Hawthorne, The American Legion Auxiliary.

Spangled-Banner." Greetings were ex- Eastern Division; Mrs. Ernest J. Gop- A streamlined convention calls for a tended by the Auxiliary Department pert. Northwestern Division; Mrs. Rich- streamlined account of it. National President of the hostess State. ard Redwood, Southern Division, and Chairmen of the numerous committees The report of the National Secretary, Mrs. M. G. Andresen, Western Division. served also as Chairmen of the conven- Mrs. Gwendolyn Wiggin MacDowell, During the three sessions of the convention committees which considered and stressing the greatly-increased activities tions, the National Vice-Presidents were approved the reports rendered by the of National Headquarters due to the war called upon from time to time by Mrs. Chairmen as contained in the booklet situation, that of the National Treasurer, Murrill to occupy the chair. "Reports to the Twenty-Second Annual Mrs. Cecilia Wenz, relating the spendid In expressing the thanks of the Legion Convention of the American Legion

financial condition of the organization, for the Auxiliary's continued devotion Auxiliary," which is available to all and of the National Historian, Mrs. R,^ to duty and its cooperation, National Units. Those reports cover in detail the W. Waldrop, indicating the advance in Commander Lynn U. Stambaugh in- continued advances made by the organi- interest in the history of- the Auxiliary, troduced a personal touch by presenting zation in its splendid, all-enveloping pro- were approved. to Mrs. Murrill his own citation to her. gram of service. Greetings were expressed by the Na- It commended her year of service and Although National President Mrs. tional Chaplain, Mrs. E. F. Hussman singled her out as the first Legionnaire, Murrill reserved for her chairmen the privilege of reporting the work accomplished by national committees during the year, in her report to the convention she touched briefly upon accomplish- ments attained—such as 550,668 children served and visited and more than $2,700,000 expended for aid and service through the Child Welfare program; promotion of Americanism through citi- zenship classes, the Girls' States conducted by a majority of the Depart- ments, the added responsibilities the Auxiliary has assumed in the present war work—work based on more than twenty years of training in the problems of war. As with the Legion, foremost in the problems under discussion was that of opening the ranks of the Auxiliary to The new National Vice Presidents. From the left, Mrs. Lutie Long Smith, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters Missouri; Miss Marie Koch, South Dakota; Mrs. Russell B. Howell, New of men in the present fighting forces. Jersey; Mrs. W. J. Donforth, Texas, and Mrs. Hubert A. Goode, Oregon (Continued on page 62)

NOVEMBER. 1942 21 Hlost Dishanorable Rake

We always knew that the ''Made in Japan" lobel - - was attached to strictly phony goods, but now we're - done with those flimsy, dishonest wares for good *

chased anything within the last few years good tidings. Something was actually By R. G. KIRK that said "Made in Japan." Especially if going to cost less. the article required steel. A printed slip came with the water In my rake were a couple trashy bolts statement:

NEXT door neighbor has a tall and nuts and washers and some wire, all MY Water Department Offers Victory Gar- silk oak, which as you may know skimped down to the point where they den Growers Special Low Rates for is no oak at all, but the Grevillea from just held the tool together until put to Irrigating Plots Devoted -to Raising Down Under. Like most Australians it use. The steel so saved was manufac- Vegetables. shares a mutual regard with us, and it tured into more important things to send Then details. very generous allow- thrives here in Southern California, a to us than honest lawn rakes. We got A ance for garden watering at about one- lovely tree, with curious long comblike the first consignment at Pearl Harbor. third the normal rate, propor- golden flowers and brightly glistening But now, thank heaven, I no longer amount tional to garden size. most attractive foliage. It is evergreen, the old leaves need that rake. I'm through with raking A saving. Much cheaper to raise vegetables falling constantly as the new come on. my good neighbor's silk oak leaves—at than grass, was first thought. But I used to rake and rake silk oak leaves least for the duration. That foliage will my wait a minute. off my lawn, a chore I didn't mind. But make good garden mulch. I am about to I despised the most dishonorable bam- grow, so help me, carrots. It works out It is, however, strongly recommended boo lawn rake like with which I had to do it. this. that no one destroy existing lawns. Each time I used that rake it had to With the bills of a couple of months We need our lawns to help morale. be repaired. It was the cheatingest, fall- ago, of all surprising sources, appeared They beautify our homes. And nothing is as soul-refreshing in these trying apartest tool I ever owned. But you will war days as lovely settings for the know just it is if Illustrated E. how you have pur- by V. PYLES places where we dwell.

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Carrots then, for the armed I wonder what he would have said if 1

forces. And I'll bet young Mike, had told him that it wasn't primarily that thorough soldier, cats his carrots that had moved me to that share. mighty shoveling, but a determination

And then when it comes never again to use that lawn rake from Mike's turn to fly across Japan Japan. He would have asked, most likely,

I'll bet he sails directly over why I hadn't simply bought another the imperial palace, and lays rake. the special egg my garden water savings But I had gone into that. And every helped to buy, plunk in the center of bamboo rake I looked at made me want effulgence of the Son of Heaven (which to break the thing across my knee. For isn't what young Mike calls him the the mark on all the newer ones said, son of). "Made in Formosa"! One slippery out- And if the boys can eat raw carrots, fit—those manufacturers of dishonorable I can eat raw carrots. By the peck. goods. There were, of course, some fine Fresh pulled from my own victory gar- American lawn rakes, but no bamboo den by these very hands that nurtured all steel, high priced. And when I have them, fresh washed and beautifully a choice these days between fifteen war gleaming, crisp, crackly, firm and quite stamps to help buy bombs for Mike, and repulsive. But down the hatch. Then one a high-priced garden tool that I can day barge right into All American Avia- scheme to do without—I feel that even tion saying, "Look, buddy. Too old? a stern lawn-minded Water Department Me, with 20-20 vision? Test it." And man might see things my way. they take me on. Like that. As to my neighbors, I am still ex- One high hoorah for carrots, I'll ad- pecting a committee on soul-uplift and mit. But I gave out with it for the {Continued on page 6o) Water Department and my neighbors, to justify my tearing up the lawn. The man has been here from the Water Office and measured my garden. He was very hesitant for a while, because I had destroyed the lawn. He was If was tfie cheatingest, fall- quite stern about this; but finally, under

apartest tool I ever owned a hail of carrots, he succumbed, grant- ing my full low-rate irrigation allowance.

But there was my dishonorable lawn rake. No lawn, no rake. Besides, I could refresh my soul with carrots. I dug up the lawn. There was this, too. I was sore at AAA—All American Aviation. They wouldn't let me help build flying fortresses. Too old. I'd show them how old —with a garden spade. Where's there a tougher job than digging garden, especially through a wire matting of Ber- muda grass? Lawns beautify our homes. 0. K., so lawns beautify our homes. But let the Water Department show me anything as beautiful as young Mike around our house. Only grandson Mike. Army Air Corps. Bombardier. Whose mother, our daughter, and her splendid husband failed to come home from their visit to The Islands last December. They never will come back. Anything, however small, that will help young Mike to speed the square-up for December Sev- enth, and come flying home again, that thing his granddad will be doing, best he can. Even if it's growing carrots. Even if it's eating some. Yes, raw. So good-bye lawn; and welcome water savings to the war-chest, adding up toward another bond, and another bomb for Mike. Good-bye lawn and welcome carrots. You have read, no doubt, how eating He stopped me cold when I carrots raw improves the eyesight; and wanted to help build flying fort- how those fine night-fighting R.A.F. lads resses. The answer was, "Too old" who saved England ate them wholesale.

NOVEMBER, 1942 23 a

Thanks for the

BIRD They had it all figured out: Turkey was the only thing for Thanksgiving

By S.E. LHUJREnCE Some outfits got it one way, some another as the

A. E. F. celebrated, seventeen days after the Armistice

ALL down the ages peoples have had harvest, their hosts, their brothers-in- nished our fighting men at the ends of the xX. a season of rejoicing at the time arms, will understand Thanksgiving Day. earth in this year of 1942. It will be of harvest. From the remotest times, From the day after their first harvest a real test for our Chief of Transpor- the records, written or by word of in 1621 when the Pilgrims started it, tation, S. 0. S. mouth, have told of a fall festival— down through the time in 1864 when If there is a local turkey to be had, period of feasting to recognize nature's Lincoln thought he had settled on the rest assured he will be had, as he was gift to mankind "when the frost is on the last Thursday in November as that day had in numerous places on that memor-

punkin'." Maybe it took a deeply relig- of giving of thanks down to this final able Thanksgiving of 191 8, when so ious form and some deity was thanked, year of "double Thanksgiving," that many of us were away from the family as the Old Romans thanked Ceres for a Thursday has been our most typical board in a land which had to be initiated bountiful harvest or our own Indians American hohday. This Feast Day of into the mysteries of the U. S. A. "wrestled with Mondamin," or as our 1942—last or second to last Thursday Thanksgiving. Russian allies in the Ukraine made a rite of November—will be known to all What did that primeval urge for tur- of the gathering of the last sheaf of corn. peoples in all climes where the Yanks key lead them into in the A. E. F. in

Our British allies from the time of the in uniform have set their feet. 1 91 8? Well, early in November of that

Druids have celebrated a harvest of Of course it's one of the chief func- year scouting parties commenced to crops, choosing a harvest queen, and in tions of the Services of Supply to see scour the French countryside for possi- Scotland a young girl cut the last sheaf. that turkeys and cranberries are fur- bilities, and a more complete census of No matter where our soldiers of this turkeys was never taken before or since generation are this season of our own • Illustrated by WALLACE MORGAN in Gaul. A flock was reported owned by

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine an Englishman who had made his home Those darn poilus just didn't under-

in America for a time and now was pass- stand their own language when it was ing his dechning days on an estate near rendered (as they say in the Chicago that heap of ruins icnown in happier days stockyards) with an A. E. F. accent. The as Meaux. With typical zeal, a detach- Frenchman was on his way back to the ment which found itself in Meaux in- front and thought the Americans were quired for the fabled Englishman. A also front-line bound and looking for poilu, home on leave and glad to help, moral and spiritual release from their volunteered to guide them. many sins. Anyway, the good father, This French infantryman—one wound with a shake of his head, directed them stripe, three service stripes—with full to the English-speaking person in a local equipment, worn and faded blue puttees, shop having a horse's head over the wine canteen and two feet of rapier bay- door—which is to say that that kind of onet sticking up over his dented "cask," meat was sold there. Net results: Two very obligingly led the way. The soldats turkeys (one fair-sized gobbler, $26.75 americains in search of their national worth) from their allied friend, also two bird had their heart in their work and necks, one drumstick, three wings, the scrambled after him with the usual six extra pieces coming to some fifty merci beaucoup—about all the French cents apiece in our money. All of which they knew. cleaned out the shop. In a half hour of hopping over shell- Back they came and when that live torn streets, they wound up at the re- gobbler sounded off, it got a quicker out- mains of a church and dived down into door response in Camp Grigny than the ruins. The dim lights finally dis- Forsberg, their champion bugler, ever closed a couple of confessional boxes. got at reveille. With a perfectly good French salute, Not all the raiding parties (night req- wide grin and bon sante, the soldat fran- uisitioners) fared so well. Seventy kilo- ^ais departed for the front—his ten-day meters away, strategy and tactics were permission over. Those American engi- put to a sore test that night. Staff work neers just didn't get it, but out came a is the quiet essence of preparation. The It took o lot of pretty lame French long-frocked French priest with full staff idea had a firm hold on the A. E. F., to moke the priest understand beard, and motioned them toward the contrary to the belief of the French High confessional. One happend to be a Pres- Command, by Thanksgiving of '18. The of the farm houses, especially the low- byterian and his buddy an orthodox Jew above mentioned flock so carefully lo- tiled stone "hen" house and the stunted —and there they stood. It took some cated in October, so painstakingly recon- tree in which the fresh-air-loving feath- very lame French, words repeated with noitered from time to time, was ripe and ered emblems of our great day chose to gestures many times, but it all came ready for a final coup. A sergeant and a roost. The approach was all worked out right in the end. (We were probably detail of volunteers from a volunteer En- —flashlights, sacks, gasoline duly stolen, just dumb enough to pronounce it an- gineer outfit had studied the maps and flivver under control, orders repeated glaise—he thought we were saying eglise, the terrain itself. over and over—as air tight a maneuver which is of course church in French.) They knew the approach roads, the lay as the A. E. F. ever worked out. Each man had his personal orders and minute instructions, even to the emergency of

the farmer waking up at 3 a.m.. which wasn't likely. Even some corned beef was carried, to calm any restless dogs. It was a masterpiece, not a chance of anything going wrong. The moon was down at 3 a.m., the zero hour.

THE approach was to be along the east side of a hedge row, with the Yanks crawling noiselessly along. Four men with war-proved skill slithered along that line of stunted trees, each planning to account for three birds, to quiet them if necessary. One was left on the lookout, and one in the flivver half a kilometer away. Quite a load for a government sedan—they hoped for a return trip if everything clicked. Slowly, breathlessly they maneuvered —stopped dead when they heard a slight noise on the other side of the hedge, and then inched along, touching hand to foot. Finally they reached the end of their cover and slowly straightened up, only to fall flat on their faces. There was an un- mistakable feeling of the presence of an They discovered that they were not emy. Suddenly a flashlight caught the only doughboys on the prowl {Continued on page 50)

NOVEMBER. 1942 25 Illustrations by GEORGE SHANKS

FRANK A.

MATHEWS, JR.

"Pop just let Stinky's old man have it good and plenty" TO SAY

DEAR POP: Well, here I am, writing figure out by finding for what one of now than when I joined up. I have just a few lines to say the Censor won't these big bombers cost how many buck gained i6>^ pounds. let me tell you where, because if I did soldiers you could buy for the duration. Your growing boy, then you would know as much as the But figures always had me licked like Justin X. Gobb, Jr. enemy does, which would be giving away you did after you got my school reports military information which I would not on arithmetic, except I can count my DEAR. SON: Your Mom and me was do, anyhow. pay all right which any fourth grade kid awful glad to get your letter. It was so

But I can tell you we got here by a could do because it ain't complicated with long we heard from you we thought boat ride longer than you get on the 23d no bonuses for all overtime and Sun- maybe there was a shortage of ink Street Ferries. Believe me, Pop, I didn't day work. wherever you was. have to join no Navy to see the world. We don't have to worry about high Back home here there is getting to be I have seen more ocean than a lot of prices of food like maybe you do at a shortage of everything, including guys in tight pants and cutie caps at the home. We eat regardless. Where we are working hours. But the morale is very Philadelphia Navy Yard will ever see. the cost of living ain't measured in dol- good. Nobody is worrying about not

And I only seen the top of it, as the lars and cents but in good luck, ability winning the war. Only about how hard saying goes, which I am very glad I to take care of yourself and the amount they are supposed to work and how didn't have to go down no deeper. of guns and ammunition and planes and much they are going to get paid. I tried to transfer to the air service, tanks and boats and all that the people And everybody I talk to knows better but they wouldn't let me on account of at home can make and send to us. how to run the war than the people they have got more aviators than they Well, anyhow, up to date I am all who were elected by the people we got planes right now. Men seem to be right and have not lost any of my ears elected to do it, which ain't strange be- cheaper than materials, which you could or things. In fact there is more of me cause anybody could. I have never seen

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Masazinf us bungle a war so bad since 1917-18. body what read this letter Seems like people never learn nothing except you would know about wars, even how to stop them from who he was and where I starting. And it's the funniest thing, but was. Anyhow, we are the people of this here country don't mighty glad he is here never prepare for a war be- and from what I can find cause they don't believe out everybody in the one is ever going to start, United States feels the and after one does start same way about it. they prepare for it like it Lots more American sol- ain't never going to stop. diers are coming here all So we always get caught the time and I don't think short at both ends. the Japs like it. The Japs But everything is under are like a fellow who has control. Only the big argu- got a long race to run and ment seems to be—whose? starts out on a sprint. He The Government has been gets way ahead at first but begging for unity which I then his wind, which is think it has pretty well got. what he has got most of, Hardly nobody is bucking starts giving out. So is my the Government except it- paper, so I will close. self, which, of course, a Your affectionate government being a govern- Son ment has got a right to do which would "I am eating regular, be subversive if anybody else did it. which is important" DEAR SON: I am writing this letter Whenever things start to bog down before I have got an answer to my last Congress expropriates a few more bil- one, because where you are it takes so Like I wrote before, on account of lion dollars and everybody perks up long for a letter to get to you and an the censor I can't tell you where I am again. But I am old fashioned and be- answer to get back that maybe you have now at. lieve a war is a thing you have got to got married to some foreign woman in They won't even let me give the name win and not something which has got a the meantime and I am a grandfather of the General who is now got command "For Sale" sign on it. or something. of us because he is so well known in Of course we have got to spend money We have got a Civilian Defense in the world today if I wrote his name and lots of it, but what I mean is I the town like they have all over the or even where he think the men in the Navy—and you ^ United States, and I am a Air Raid come here from or birds in the Army, too, maybe—are Warden which I have to go to school what he did to the helping to win the war as much as this and learn all about unsanitary bombs Japs just before he Davis kid next door which has just got ' Continued on page 56) come here, any- out of high school and is making $87.50 a week, according to what his old man r tells people at the barber shop, slapping paint on a boat which maybe will go to Davy Jones's Locker with a lot of men what don't get that much in two months. Maybe it's all right. I don't know.

I just don't understand it and I can't find hardly anybody who does except the people who make $87.50 a week. Your Uncle John, who is a funny kind of bird because in the last war he was in the Army, I guess, says it is a matter of relativity which some guy by the name of Einstein is the only one which could figure it out. Your Mom was going to send you another cake, but it looks like now it would take so long to get to you it would have service stripes instead of icing, which ain't as good eating. I don't understand why the sensor is so fussy about what you write. Your handwriting is so bad I have to get your Mother to tell me what your letters says. So how the hell any slanty-eyed Jap could get anything out of it I don't know. Your affectionate Pop, Justin X. Gobb

DEAR POP: I am writing this letter before I have got an answer to my last one, because where I am it takes so long for a letter to get home and an answer to get back maybe I will have a "I have seen more ocean than a lot little brother or sister in the meantime. of guys in tight pants will ever see"

NOVEMBER, 1942 27 -H^e <^an<^ - aM -Hie

HEA-R- \ ir. uniform "/ The Legion Speaks

ITS first National Convention since the attack on Pearl INHarbor The American Legion spoke decisively for the scrapping of everything that slows up the United States

in its job of taking a full share in the task of smashing utterly the Axis nations arrayed against us and our allies. Declaring

bluntly it was absolutely necessary that "the sacrifices of all our citizens must be universal and equal," the National Con- vention at Kansas City, Missouri, on September 19-21, man- dated the Legion's National Legislative Committee to get Universal Service legislation introduced in Congress, and in- structed the incoming National Commander to hold public _ meetings throughout the land so that this principle might be enacted into law. The Universal Service resolution, reaffirming a policy which has been Legion doctrine for the past twenty-one years, minced

no words when it called for "conscription in time of war of

all the resources of the nation, including capital, labor, industry, and agriculture as well as the fighting manpower of the country in order to prevent racketeering, profiteering, infla- tion and sabotage." Buttressing this demand, the convention adopted also a resolution calling for an end to slow-downs, strikes and de- lays in war industries, adding, these telling words: "We condemn these actions on the part of capital, labor and selfish individuals and we urge that the slowing down of war production be deemed treason against the United States and dealt with as such." A sweeping declaration of war principles which reflected

the unanimity of the Legion in its stand for an all-out prosecution of the war by the American people was shown in the language which by unanimous vote of the convention set forth these ideas: "(1) We pledge to the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, our complete and undivided support in the prosecution of the war. "We have complete confidence and faith in his leadership. "We commend the loyalty, devotion and effort of the Ameri- can people in the national crisis. "(2) We call upon all of the people to demonstrate the same spirit of sacrifice and courage that is being evidenced by the service of our armed forces on the battle fronts of the world. "To win this total war, industry, labor, agriculture and government must make comparable sacrifices. "Persons, groups and organizations must not be permitted to use the war as a vehicle for their advantage. "We regard strikes, cessation of work, lockouts and discrimination in employment as sabotage. "Friction, jealousies and selfish contentions among those CAME. nwE. EVe. engaged in the war effort must not be tolerated. Careers and of -W& F(RS-r PAV^ selfish gain must be discarded. "Old antagonisms must be forgotten. Q^aJ^i/^ ^ busies Caucuses - t^to / '^'f'^ ARMISTICE DAY ^ * ^ * * vt ,1^11 1? / \ special Ccmmm^^

November I Ith A Day sacred to the memory of those who did not come back. i A Day of dedication to the purposes for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

A Day in which to be humble in the presence of those of our comrades still suffering from their sacrifices in the First World War.

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine EDITORIAL VIEWPOINT THE If 'WW3/\k-s be!' tuos >j a qood ij^c wHife I

"There must be no delay in removal of incompetents and misfits wherever they may be found. "We condemn religious prejudice, racial or national antagonisms as weapons of our enemies. "(3) A united people, with a single purpose, standing stead- fast and with absolute confidence in the efficiency and might of our armed forces, and the valor and integrity of our Allies, assures a spirit for victory which will win this titanic struggle for the survival of our way of life. "Strict observance of these principles is necessary for victory. Implementing the stand on universal service, resolutions sponsored by the National Defense Committee called for a lowering of the military-draft age so that men of eighteen years may be inducted, and asked that no "younger men" be deferred by draft boards for civilian purposes "unless and until

it has been shown that the work done by these men cannot be done by older men or women."

FROM the standpoint of nation-wide interest the most important action of the National Convention was the adop- -tl^iS Nor -Tf^E "MCM-COMS," OR. OFF(C&RS. MES^ • tion of a resolution asking the Congress of the United States to amend the charter of The American Legion so that men who shall have gained an honorable discharge from service during the Second World War will be eligible for membership in the Legion. As every Legionnaire knows, membership has always been restricted to men and women in the armed service

of the nation who served between April 6, 1917, and Novem- ber 11, 1918, both inclusive, and those American citizens who served with armed forces of nations associated with the United States of America in that period. The action of the convention followed the lines laid down in resolutions to the same effect adopted by thirty-seven De- partment Conventions held during the spring and summer. Since more than a hundred thousand of the Legion's membership are back in uniform in the Second World War, with hundreds of thousands of sons and nephews, daughters and

nieces of Legionnaires also in service, it was felt that throwing open the membership to the men and women who are fighting soandso this war was in the circumstances eminently desirable. When and if Congress passes the legislation amending the charter, a considerable number of veterans whose military career has been ended due to wounds received since last December 7th will immediately apply for membership in the Legion. The press of the nation has told of many men sending to Posts the necessary papers and the money for a year's dues.

All in all, the 1942 National Convention of the Legion did a " splendid job of heartening the American people for the trials SbM£WHER& IN -Tt^E B^me 2>4E WAV VoM (jr

O^iAd , be

A Day in which to thank God for the opportunity of being of service once more to our country in its bitter trial. A Day of solemn determination that this time the fight will go on until we achieve complete victory. A Day for highly resolving that we shall co-operate with our VIE- MUGH~TO Bfe-rUANKHjtL- ToTS gallant allies in building a permanent peace. 29 NOVEMBER, 1942 William P. Con- ner/ Post of Lynn, Massachusetts, dedicated a new observation tower with appropriate ceremonies. It is an important link in the chain of the warning service A Year on the Alert

a full year hundreds of thou- foremost of their concerns being prep- them are located at strategic inland FORsands of pairs of Legion eyes aration for an adequate home defense. points—just how many and where lo- have been watching the horizon Aircraft Warning Stations were estab- cated it is not possible to tell. But when from thousands of Legion-main- lished. Many had not progressed beyond the Japs struck at our island possessions tained and operated Aircraft Warning the selection of a site and arrangements on December 7th the trained observers Stations as a civilian auxiliary to the for immediate service by a picked per- turned out en masse, and with them various Fighter Commands. It has not sonnel. In hundreds of other posts ci- volunteers who, after a practical training been a year, of course, only eleven vilian defense assumed its full wartime course, were able to take the burden of months since the Pearl Harbor attack, proportions and, months before Decem- keeping both the day and night watches. but even before Pearl Harbor hundreds ber 7, 1941, observation posts were fully These observation posts have not re- of Legion Aircraft Warning Stations had manned and great numbers of Legion- laxed! They have continued on a full been organized along both twenty-four-hours-a-day ba-

5ea coasts and the Gulf of sis since the declaration of Mexico. hostilities. It did not require the gift President Roosevelt, in a of second sight to note that, letter to National Comman- for a full year before actual der Lynn U. Stambaugh, involvement, our country cited the Legion for its was drifting nearer and leadership in the Aircraft nearer to a state of war. Warning Service. "I would Axis aggressions, deliberate like to express my personal and provocative, became appreciation," said the Presi- more and more menacing to dent, "for the cooperation our National Government, the Army has received from to our people abroad and to The American Legion and our shipping upon the seas. for the invaluable assistance While praying that the storm the Legion has rendered the might pass, Legionnaires Army in organizing and went about making prepara- maintaining many observa- tions for any eventualities, tion posts of the Aircraft Warning Service. Members of the Legion enrolled in the Since November, 1940, Robert F. Crandall Post of Kotonoh, New York, has maintained a Aircraft Warning Service watch tower—that's two years on the alert can take pride in the fact that our defenses against bombing raids are, to no naires were in training as an auxiliary inconsiderable degree, predicated upon force in practice blackouts and simulated the efficient operation of the posts they air raids. and thousands of other volunteers are

The Aircraft Warning Service is not manning." confined to the coasts alone. Many of That is praise indeed for a corps of

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine •

volunteers in a first-line service which, according to reports received from Army services by the Defense Division at Na- tional Headquarters, has never fallen lower than eighty-seven percent of perfect performance—and from that figure up to one hundred percent. It is impossible to determine just how many of the 700,000 enrolled in this defense service are members of the Legion— most Legion observation posts also have non-Legion volunteer watchers on duty. Massachusetts, for instance, under direction of Department Commander John H. Hall as chief of the service, has I, 278 Legion maintained and operated observation posts. In the New York City metropolitan area there are 364 regularly established Legion watchtow- ers, including one on the top of the sky- scraping Empire State Building in the heart of the city. That post was estab-

Grafton Hill Post of Worcester, Massachusetts, had a big part in bonnbing dennonstrations. Here are some of the officers with city officials

Island, in the Department Adjutant is the responsible Westchester directing officer—Edward A. Linsky in section and Pennsylvania and Glenn D. Elliott in other approach- Virginia. The Keystone State has ap- es to the metrop- proximately 1,200 active stations with olis, through an enrollment of 48,000 observers. The which no plane Old Dominion Department has 850 sta- has passed tions with 35,000 spotters. New Jersey, unobserved. with industries and shipyards vital in lished long before Pearl Harbor and it The eyes of thousands are upon them. the production of war materials, has is manned day and night by members In Pennsylvania and Virginia, to cite made the Aircraft Warning Service one selected from the city Posts. The com- two other outstanding defense organiza- of its first defense objectives and it has manding position of the Empire State tions, the Aircraft Warning Service is 850 stations with an enrolled staff of tower makes it the center of a network under the Legion direction and complete observers 23,000 strong. These stations of stations along the Hudson, on Long maintenance. In each State the Legion's are maintained at an average cost of

A window display crt the recent Department Convention at Pittsburgh, showing that Pennsylvania has 1,215 posts and 48,000 observers under Legion direction

NOVEMBER. 1942 31 —!

A practical demonstration of the workings of a control center for civilian defense made by

Norman J. Cornwall

Post, Chicago, Illinois,

Is one of the features of a course of Instruc-

tion In the Windy City

pensed with, but a tele-

phone is a necessity in every station, and these phones have been installed at varying costs in one instance it cost $1,000 to build a line and install the phone in a tower located at an isolated point. Charges of $300 are not uncommon at other stations for a similar service. And that

is only one item of ex- On accouni-a with varying numbers in between, Flor- pense that had to be reckoned with. ida, for instance, has 415 Legion obser- The Defense Division at National back: Set'^ice, m vation posts and something over q,ooo Headquarters tabulated the reports re- enrolled observers, but a point of inter- ceived from 872 Posts having a total

est is that Florida averages highest in of 2,018 observation stations. These 872 the number of women observers. The same system of observation stations is maintained on the West Coast,

' with volunteer stations operating in Cali- uom^isr QMe'fiCoai ouf • fornia and Oregon. Washington's obser-

vation system is under the direct control of the Army. While the volunteers are functioning just as efficiently in the Pa- cifis area as on the Atlantic seaboard, no statement of strength or number of stations under Legion direction has been made public.

It is assumed by the general public, as a matter of course, that the services of the observers are given freely on a $20 each per month, all paid by the volunteer basis. But what a great seg- local Post or out of the Department ment of the public, and indeed a great treasury. Delaware, with its congested block of inland Legionnaires, have not industrial area and long strip of bay been told is that the cost of mainte- coastal area to watch, has ii6 stations nance, also, is on a volunteer basis. A with 800 enrolled observers. These ob- very great number of observation towers servers, it must be said to their credit, have been constructed, most of them on Posts located in various sections were average sixty hours a month and that heights of land removed at some dis- paying out $6,138.45 per month, or at is the highest reported from any section tance from power and telephone lines. the rate of $73,661.40 per year, and of the country. Electric lights, of course, can be dis- the observers were driving their cars to And so it goes. All and from the sta- along the eastern tions 441,944 miles seaboard from a month, regardless Maine to Texas the of the tire and gas Legion keeps watch rationing. That is a and ward from thou- cash contribution to sands of observation our domestic safety, towers, working but it is only a part sometimes as the of the grand total of sole agency in a the contribution. given area, in others Volunteers as a single element Watchers in the in an integrated vol- night, through fair unteer service. weather and foul you Maine has 876 posts, have kept guard, Texas, with its long William Reaves Post of Huron, South Dakota, gives the kiddies a theater You will get no Gulf coast, has 75, treat after they come through with 5,000 old pho nogroph records medals, but rate a

32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Sons in service are the banner of the Sons of The American honored by Atlantic Legion. "Sons in Service" is lettered in lironze across the face of the base. (Iowa) Post in a per- Each name lettered on the V is pre- manent Honor Roll ceded by an appropriate star indicating

plaque. Cerennonies foreign or domestic service. Should it attend the placing of become the sad duty of the Post to star gold flags will new nannes on the roll change the to the be lowered to half mast during memorial ceremonies. The plaque was designed by throughout the division. Legionnaire W. W. Wright and constructed by Legionnaire George Voss. ons in tervice Post Commander S. M. Heggem says: "It is the heartfelt wish of every mem- Atlantic (Iowa) Post ber of Atlantic Post to don the uniform has inaugurated a new and join these fine sons who so nobly and inspiring ceremony carry on in the footsteps of their fathers in tribute to the sons in the fight for freedom, justice and long salute from Uncle Sam. of members of that Post who are in the democracy which, this time, will be to armed services. Central piece in this trib- lasting victory." Simulated Air Raid ute is a pla'que with a large victory V mounted on a cherry mahogany base Young Observer An evacuated four-block area of the Grafton Hill sec- Captain Russell (Buck) Day tion of Worcester, Massachu- of Frank C. Godfrey Post of setts, was theoretically reduced to Norwalk, Connecticut is on ac- smoking ruins in thirty minutes tive duty with troops in Iceland, on August 23d when seventeen but his five-year-old grandson, planes rained nearly 300 demoli- Russell Neil Rogers, carries on tion and gas "bombs" on the in the home sector. Once each area, starting "fires" and "kill- week when Mrs. Day takes her ing" scores. It was the first dem- place at the Post's aircraft warn- onstration of its kind in New ing station she is accompanied England and was regarded as a by the five-year-old observer, remarkably effective one. and this has been going on since About 240 members of the October, 1941, when the station auxiliary police unit of Grafton was established. Hill Post carried on special duties "under fire" in evacuating Old Colors the area, carrying the "wounded" to first aid stations and in doing When the old World War 90th police work. The Legion Post Division was reactivated at won commendation from city Camp Barkeley, Texas, recently, ofiicials and Army observers. In the pic- bearing the seal of The American Legion the colors of the old 357th Infantry ture on page 31 are, left to right, Paul in bronze in the center. Two miniature were passed to the new 357th with ap- C. Tasse, Post Adjutant; Herbert P. St. flagstaffs complete with halyards flank propriate ceremonies. The last sergeant John, Post Commander; John H. Hall, the V, one flying Old Glory and the other {Continued on page 64) Department Commander; Mayor Wil- liam Bennett, and Legionnaire Vernon Inett, Worcester's Civilian Defense Chairman.

Control Center

Norman J. Cornwall Post of Chicago, Illinois, has worked out a very helpful demonstration of the functions and operations of a control center in connection with civilian defense. Three of the Post's members, Louis Loeffler, William O'Con- nor and Verne Collins attended the Legion school for air raid wardens at Jacksonville and have been entrusted with responsible positions in the defense scheme—Chief Air Raid Warden, Chief Industrial Warden, and Chairman of Protective Services, respectively, in Division Four of the Chicago metropolitan area. This section has a population of 652,000 and includes many industrial plants. The portable control center is kept busy every night of the week at de- Another all-unifornned outfit is Schlitz-Mllwaukee Post with 112 members. fense meetings and at training centers Complete uniform equipment was bought for the National Convention last year

NOVEMBER, 1942 33 THEN and NOW

To R y

rps

'-'""•SV.rJ:':'''"' Branches' .

It was homeward bound for these men of the 158th Depot Brigade, Camp Hill, Virginia.

With their worldly goods, they awaited f-".' Punch"""'"''' ^"'•'"o,,.,, ^, ''«or/.rf transportation to Camp Sherman, Ohio

— Buller Right: Members of the Port of Embarkation staff at Newport News, Virginia, celebrated the first post-Armistice Thanksgiving in style. There was special reason to give thanks in 1918

WITH our fighting men tion, a member of Headquarters De- being shipped to battle- tachment No. I. We were barracked fronts in every corner behind Headquarters Building, down of the globe, Amer- along the water-front. The other, a ican seaports in far greater num- snapshot I took, shows a detachment ber than ever before are being of soldiers, barracks bags and all, taxed in their new roles of awaiting transportation from Camp points of embarkation. In our war fo the War Hill, Virginia, to Camp Sherman, of a quarter of a century ago, two Ohio. They were members of the 5th million soldiers passed through the Company, 2d Training Battalion, ports, though then the movement 158th Depot Brigade. was almost entirely across the At- "Newport News and Hoboken, New lantic—with a scattering of shipments ican Ports of Embarkation—that at Jersey, were the two principal Ports of across the Pacific to our Islands Newport News, Virginia—from Legion- Embarkation during World War I and and to Siberia. The east coast ports of naire Arthur Aleshire of the staff of the through these ports passed practically all New York and Hoboken and Boston and City Hospital at Springfield, Ohio. With of the men and material being sent to Newport News waved bon voyage to his account he sent the menu of the the A. E. F. Scores of thousands of our men, and greeted them again upon Thanksgiving Day dinner of his outfit in veterans will remember Newport News

their victorious return home. Some few, 1 91 8. and a snapshot of some of the as the place where they cast their last we remember, also embarked at Halifax. soldiers at Camp Hill waiting with their long, lingering look behind. Nova Scotia, Canada. barracks bags for transportation home. "Camp Hill, Camp Stuart, Camp Alex- When, twenty-three years ago this Pick it up, Aleshire: ander, and to some extent Camp Eustis, month, the fighting stopped, the move- "With two great national holidays ap- were the great reservoirs for the many njent through these ports was reversed proaching—Armistice Day and Thanks- thousands of troops ready for embarka- —preparations were made for the happy giving Day — I thought the enclosed tion from Newport News. Quietly and home-coming of all of the two million mementoes might be of interest to steadily the troops passed into these soldiers, with the exception of those who readers of Then and Now. First, a menu camps from training camps all over the would stay forever in the American ceme- of our igiS Thanksgiving dinner at New- United States, and as quietly, empty teries in France and Belgium and Eng- port News, Virginia, where I, with the transports slipped into the harbor until land. We get a vivid picture of the grade of sergeant, infantry, was in trans- camps and harbor were filled with men activities at one of the principal Amer- port service at the Port of Embarka- and ships. When all was ready the com-

34 The AMERICAN LEGION Maguzint mand was given to load transports and then things really began to happen. All through the night, the next day and the night following, the streets of Newport News would resound to the rhythmic tread of marching feet as camps were emptied and transports filled. "At the beginning of the war as much as possible of the loading was done at

night, with great secrecy. . . . Later, much of the furtiveness was dispensed with and the loading was done in broad daylight, with colors flying and bands playing—creating an atmosphere of fes- tivity. Who could forget those long lines of shouting, singing doughboys? "If there was much of lightness, there was also poignant tragedy enacted at this busy port. Among the mothers and fathers who rushed to the port for one last farewell to a departing son, there were many who arrived just in time to American doughboys and gobs enjoyed the hospitality of the Eagle see the ship upon which their son had Hut on the Strand in London, England, 1917-1919. There is been loaded slip slowly out into the bay now an American Eagle Club in London for our fighters overseas and down the channel toward the At- lantic. Others stood for hours along the curb to get a last glimpse of the boy as located along the water front near the long in the minds of the men who there he marched along, only to have him pass center of the city. Many will remember did their little bit to 'save the world for " by unrecognized in the long columns this three-story building of wood ex- Democracy.' of 0. D. tending a full block. All overseas soldiers This department knows that Comrade "Transport loading was a grueling task passed it on their way to the transports. .Aleshire would like to hear from the for those whose duty it was to check The building housed the ofiices of the men with whom he served and others these men and their equipment aboard. commander of the port. General Harley who passed through Newport News. Per- Many of us worked from 36 to 48 hours Ferguson and his staff, Rear Admiral H. haps the men in the snapshot may without rest, checking each man and each B. Jones, U. S. N., commander of the identify themselves and report. In- piece of equipment. Supphes, too, had to naval transport forces, and offices of the cidentally, Aleshire reports that he had be loaded. Hundreds of sacks of mail, Signal, Quartermaster, Ordnance and bought the camera with which he took which poured continuously into port, Medical Corps, their officers and enhsted the picture shown, and many others, must be loaded for distribution on the men. . . . from a doughboy who was on his way way over or for delivery in the A. E. F. "After the Armistice, Newport News to a transport and who had learned the

Many sacks of mail which had followed became a Port of Debarkation instead of camera would be confiscated. It is still outfits for hundreds of miles, arrived too Embarkation. In this new role it repaid going strong after twenty-three years' use late. First-class mail was forwarded over- in joy what it had taken in sorrow dur- and Aleshire adds, "I wonder if the seas at the first opportunity, but scores ing its earlier days. This transformation doughboy who sold it to me is doing the of boxes and packages of perishable tid- was punctuated by a grand feast which same?"

bits, fruit, cakes, and, occasionally, a was ordered by the General, to take place And another thing : Perhaps the author bottle of Scotch, never reached their on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, of the menu or the men who attended destination. Packages often had been igi8. The enclosed menu should bring the dinner can interpret for us the slogan handled so much that cord, wrapper, memories to all of the several hundred at the top. Does it read "Won the Lost address were all gone—and the contents who enjoyed the dinner and also to War" or "Won Lost the War"—and just had become little more than garbage. others who read this account. According what was the thought behind it? Let us Thus came to a tragic ending many a to last information, all of those once hear! precious package wrapped and addressed busy buildings had been destroyed—no with loving care. All were destroyed. doubt to be replaced by similar new EXCEPT for the American nurses, "All of this activity was planned, buildings to handle the thousands of soldiers, sailors and marines who supervised and executed by Port of Em- American soldiers again going forth to were stationed in England during the barkation Headquarters, American Trans- battle. But the memory of earlier build- \\'orld War in which we oldsters fought, port Service. Headquarters building was ings and the days spent there will linger this department's own experience indi- — —

cated that the average stay of our fighting men in the British Isles was rather fleeting. Our outfit landed at Liverpool, immediately entrained for Winchester escaping the reputed horrors of Camp Knotty Ash just outside of Liverpool stopped a few days in Camp Winnal Downs, whose companion "rest" camp was Morn Hill, thence by train to South- ampton and across the Channel to Le Havre and the A. E. F. We always assumed therefore that the city of London was for the favored few—that is, until after the Armistice, when men were permitted leaves. Facts and figures, however, prove otherwise. The American Y. M. C. A. in

England early in the summer of 191 7, purchased from the British Y a large hut, in course of construction in London, which became the far-famed Eagle Hut What more pleasant than bunk -fatigue? Wilcox and his soon to be known as "America in Eng- buddies of Company D, 33d Engineers, called this de land," where thousands of Americans luxe structure "Hotel du Gink." Nevers, France, 1918 were entertained. An ex-gob, Henry P. Williams of Wat- sonville (California) Post of the Legion, well—having lived temporarily in one of "We had plenty of work to do in brings Eagle Hut back to the memories the half-dozen cubicles they furnished 'Blighty.' Wire connections to the Ad- for more or less permanent guests. Eagle miralty, Post Office, Western Union Hut was the center of 'What's Doing To- House, Queenstown, HAEF (Headquar- night?' as far as the Yanks were con- ters, American Expeditionary Forces), cerned. We had professional as well as Paris and Brest. Our work schedule was amateur theatricals. None of us will ever eight hours of ten-letter code every day. forget two of His Majesty's guardsmen We handled so much code that a mes- who appeared every Saturday night and sage in plain English was a novelty played 'The End of a Perfect Day.' particularly the one from Captain Jack-

Maybe it was a streak of meanness which son in Paris to Admiral Sims which ran prompted me to request the 'Missouri something like this: 'I'm reliably in- Waltz' when a troupe of entertainers formed that an armistice was signed this visited the Hut. Quite a few boys from morning.'—That was the 'false' armis- the 'Show Me' State were quartered in tice!" London, and on this occasion we could Statistics as a rule are dull, but the pick them out by the tears they shed. I following will give an indication of what vas punished for that action when some- a great clubhouse for soldiers Eagle Hut one selected me to wrestle a bull-fiddle was during our war. More than 3,000 all the way down to Charing Cross Sta- men were served daily. In one month tion after the entertainment, through all alone (February, 1919), 134,566 meals that Strand traffic in the dark! were served; 3,193 sodas; 14,540 ices; of the thousands of American service- "The Hut entertained many prominent 19,335 cakes; 6,985 kits packed; 1,564 men who visited it, through the picture persons, including King George V, Gen- valuables cared for; 1,871 baths pro- he permits us to reproduce—the picture eral Pershing, Ambassador Page, Ad- vided; 11,438 men as overnight guests; of a group of Y workers, American miral Sims and Winston Churchill. 17,250 attended entertainments; 2,886 doughboys and sailors, with a few Brit- "We Yanks were well treated by the played billiards; 6,700 attended religious ishers among them, taken on the entrance Y regulars as well as the English and meetings; 13,394 served at information steps. Here is what Comrade Williams American volunteer workers, and I hope bureau and 675 articles of clothing told us: we showed our full appreciation, thus mended. Those figures were taken from "Recent reports from London tell us creating a more favorable impression of a copy of War Work of the American that an Eagle Club has been opened for the boys who have now followed us to YMCA in our library. the entertainment of American service England and are quartered in dear old {Continued on page 74) men stationed in North Ireland and Eng- 'Blighty.' land who are lucky enough to get leaves "Five of us Navy men had an to visit London. Those reports caused apartment near Clapham Common. me to dig up the enclosed photograph, Having access to the Army com- which was taken at the Eagle Hut of missary and being able to draw 1918 on the Strand. The only ones in sugar rations from the Army, as the group that I recall are Bargie Mc- well as through civilian ration Donald, who hailed from Poplar Bluff, cards, our apartment was a popular Missouri, who is at the lower right, and place. We had an abundance of Miss Mclntyre, Y. M. C. A. secretary, tinned goods, sugar, sweets (candy), from Brooklyn, New York, on the step and other desirable edibles that above McDonald. civilians were unable to obtain. "I served as Chief Radioman, U. S. N. When we gave a party we did not R. F., in Admiral Sims's headquarters in worry that our guests would not London and so got to know Eagle Hut appear.

36 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ABOUT F/RSTAID FOR BURNS

IF YOU'RE NOT A DOCTOR, thafs the first fact

to remember about first aid for burns. When a

burn is severe and extensive, treatment should be left to the recommendation and supervision of a physician. Gall the doctor without delay.

YOU ARE FAR MORE LIKELY to be called upon to give first aid for burns of less serious extent—lor minor burns and scalds, which comprise the great majority of civilian burns in wartime as well as peace. Be patient, be calm, be prompt!

ESSENTIALS OF FIRST AID FOR BURNS:

1. The first aid worker should endeavor to relieve pain and make the sufferer as comfortable as possible.

2. Even more important, the first aid treatment should guard against infection in the burn.

3. Third, the first aid treatment should not interfere with or delay natural healing.

The experience of many years in the treatment of many thousands of burns shows that the prompt use of Unguentine gives quick re-

lief from pain . . . reduces the risk of infection . . . and promotes natural healing.

UNGUENTINE RELIEVES PAIN—/V has local anesthetic effect.

UNGUENTINE FIGHTS INFECTION—// is antiseptic.

UNGUENTINE PROMOTES HEALING—M5Ma//j? without a SCar. The First Thought"* in Bums

•Btg. a. S. Pat. Off, UNGUENTINE NOVEMBER. 1942 37 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine IF YOU SAVED YOUR LAST WINTER'S ANTI-FREEZE...

Some of the ingredients of "Prestone" anti-freeze will last If your solution is brown or rusty-looking, don't bother to from one winter through the next— those, for example, take it to your dealer but discard it at once. Be extremely which protect the car against freeze-up. But to give pro- cautious in this regard. Your car is a valuable property: it tection against freeze-up is only one function of a good is in the interest of sound conservation to take all reason- anti-freeze. A good anti-freeze also performs other func- able precautions. tions, just as important. One of these is to guard against (B) To have the strength checked. You don't know, defi-

rust and corrosion . . . which is why all good anti-freezes nitely, what concentration you had at the end of the season. are "inhibited." These inhibitors do wear out; and when If your anti-freeze was "alcohol base," you almost certainly that happens the car is no longer protected against clog- lost strength before you took it out last spring. Even if you overheating caused rust. ging and by used "Prestone" anti-freeze, which contains no boil-away That is one of the reasons why you cannot use an anti- alcohol, have the strength checked just the same. You may

freeze indefinitely . . . why, for instance, we guarantee have lost protection through careless filling, slop-over at "Prestone" anti-freeze for "a full winter's use," and no the over-flow pipe, and leaks caused by road-shock and more. New, jresh anti-freeze is always to be prejerred over wear-and-tear during driving. anti-freeze which has gone beyond a single winter's driving. If you left your anti-freeze in your car, and have been

If, however, you decide to re-use your anti-freeze, take driving with it all through the summer, point B becomes the following precautions: even more important, for obvious reasons.

the take it If you stored your anti-freeze during summer, These precautions are the very least you can take to pro- to your dealer before putting it back in the car. There are tect your car. Remember, none of them will put back into 2 good reasons. the anti-freeze the rust and corrosion inhibitors which (A) To make sure that no dirt or foreign matter has were there when you bought it last fall, and which have

spoiled it. (Cans frequently rust through from the out- since been used up. This is one of the sound technical rea- side and from the bottom.) Dissolved impurities will later sons why manufacturers guarantee anti-freeze for only one cause rusting and radiator clogging. winter's driving.

IF YOU DID NOT SAVE YOUR LAST WINTER'S ANTI-FREEZE...

for leaks, rust, sedi- See, your dealer at once . . . and get "Prestone" anti-freeze Have your dealer check your car installed in your car. ment, or loose connections which may have developed As of the date this advertisement goes to press (approxi- during summer driving. Make sure your "Prestone" anti- mately July 15th) it appears that there will be enough freeze is used in a clean, tight cooling system. Then you "Prestone" anti-freeze this fall — after Army, Navy and can forget the anti-freeze problem. You will be protected lend-lease requirements have been met— to supply all reg- completely—against freeze-up, boil-away, dangerous and ular users. We make this prediction because we have in- obnoxious fumes, rust and corrosion. You can place com- creased our manufacturing facilities and because there will plete confidence in new, fresh, full-strength "Prestone" be fewer cars on the road this coming winter. anti-freeze. It is guaranteed for one full winter season. inti-Freeze this Fall

YOrRE SAFE AND YOU KNOW IT ONE SHOT LASTS ALL WINTER!

IT'S THE SAME "PRESTONE" ANTI -FREEZE, no matter which container it conies in—metal can or glass jug. To conserve metals for wartime use, the familiar "Prestone" nnti-freeze con was discontinued early this season, and the sturdy new glass jug was substituted. Your dealer may have cans or jugs or both. PRESTONE Buy either. No difference in the ANTI- FREEZE "Prestone" anti- freeze they contain.

Product of National Carbon Company, Inc. UntI of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation

General Offices: New York, N. Y. Branches: Chicago and San Francisco Thr n'orda " Kvrreiidu" and " Prfulone" art regtutfrrd

trade-nuirlui of Nationat Carbon Companu , hie. A steel mm scrap pile got this 4.7 field piece, thanks to Legionnaires of Sycamore, Illinois

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Lancaster, New York, Harris with part of the

Legionnaires give up a 1 2,000 pounds of scrap 1918 German howitzer, from their North Caro- confident their town will lina farm. Average get a 1943 model from American farm should Naziland yield 500 pounds

VICTORY in this war will be Unless the rapidly dwindling stockpile old electric irons, metal bedsteads, wash made of steel. Legion Posts of scrap for steel mills can be bolstered tubs—yes, even the kid's worn out roller throughout the country have by at least 6,000,000 additional tons by skates and sled-runners. been given the special duty of the first of the year, W.P.B. officials Work through your local Salvage Com- rounding up old cannon and similar rel- warn, there is no doubt that many open- mittee, national officials urge. If in doubt ics, and of organizing and helping run hearth steel furnaces will have to close as to how local scrap collections are to local community scrap campaigns to keep down. Ever>' shutdown of a mill means be made, call on your local Legion Post. steel mills running. Fifty percent of wasted days, lost production, failure to Since the Legion is playing an official steel comes from scrap. That's why it is provide tanks, planes, guns and ships for part in the scrap campaign, every Post so important in our production race our troops the world around. assumes a responsibility to see that the against time. Response of American Legion Posts local Salvage Committee gets its work The War Production Board has set has drawn the praise of officials, who done. up Salvage Committees in every county point out that heavy materials, such as Junk dealers will pay for the scrap in the United States. Legionnaires are old cannon, make ideal scrap with a and will see to it that it is started on its serving, it is estimated, on over 55 per- minimum of effort and time in handling way to the steel mills. The steel mill has cent of these committees. Their work in- and preparation for the scrap pile. But been called the halfway house on the road cludes getting out rubber, tin. cooking the need is so drastic that every citi- to the battlefield. For without steel

fats, burlap and non-ferrous metals, be- zen is being urged to ransack his home enough, fast enough, America still can sides quantities of iron and steel scrap. from cellar to garret for such items as lose this war.

Legionnaires of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, hitch up a Civil War cannon, notable landmark of their city, to a team of oxen, hauling it away to be turned in as scrap to help keep steel mills rolling. With nation's steel stockpile dwindling, sacrifices such as this are being called for in every community

40 Th AMERICAN LEGION Magazine WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LIFE INSURANCE «<

3 Important Provisions

IN LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

Have you ever read your life insurance policies? fits and options are and how they can best be used, Do you know that they contain a number of bene- we have prepared the brief "quiz" below on five fits and options over and above the guarantee to important provisions included in current Prudential pay a stated amount to you or your beneficiary? Ordinary policies of ?1000 or more. Because most people do not know what these bene- How many can you answer correctly?

7I. Name four ways you may direct The Prudential to pay your beneficiary.

Answer— (1) In one lump sum; or (2) as a fixed monthly income for a definite number of months; or, if the amount is sufficient, (3) as a definite monthly income for the beneficiary's entire lifetime; or (4) the money may be left with The Prudential until later, as you provide. Interest at a

guaranteed rate is paid to your beneficiary each year.

- ^ 2. What is The Prudential's "Waiver of ^ Premium" Benefit? Answer—This is a benefit The Prudential in-

eludes in standard Ordinary policies : If before age 60 you are totally and permanently disabled as defined in the policy, no premiums need be paid during such disability! But your insurance stays in force, as though you had paid the premiums.

3* Inwhat4waysmay you receive dividends? ^ Answer— (1) You may take them in cash; \y/ or (2) use them to reduce premium payments on your policy; or (3) use them to purchase additional,/;

4. In what ways can you elect to pay your 'premiums?

Answer—On regular Ordinary policies, premiums can be paid once a year (most economical), twice a year, or four times a year.

5» If you stop paying premiums, can you ever put your policy back in force? Answer— Yes, usually within three years, unless you surrender the policy for its cash value. Satisfactory evidence of insurability must be given, and back premiums paid with interest.

The above are some of the benefits and options included in Ordinary life insurance policies. We urge How muck do you know about Life Insurance? you to read your policies — then, if you have any Test your knowledge with questions at right. questions, ask your agent for his advice.

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NOVEMBER. 1Q42 41 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — PANTRY OF DEMOCRACY

(Continued from page ij) box Crackerjack ; a Crackerjack box holds fruit juice began when the Blitz blasted Arctic port before the ice closed in; part five and a half ounces of dried egg, Londoners out of their homes, broke up of the food was for isolated groups of equivalent to a dozen fresh eggs. families, scattered children over the coun- meterologists in the tundras of Siberia, There was a question whether the tryside and disrupted all ordinary modes making weather reports that are vital to British public would accept the new of life and channels of supply. We had Soviet tactics. product. The Food Ministry handled that plenty of oranges, lemons, grapefruit, Time and space always are pressing. with finesse. The smart clubs and swank ample juicing equipment. Tinned fruit Behind the Russian buyers came a group restaurants of London suddenly began juices went out in great quantities. Came of scientists and food processors to dis- featuring omelettes and souffles and Pearl Harbor and the tin shortage. After cuss new ways of getting more and more scrambled eggs—which had been almost that the fruit juices were concentrated, calories and vitamins in less and less unobtainable. That caused talk, and to take one-tenth the space and one- cargo space. The exigencies of this war pretty soon indignant citizens were de- tenth the tin. "A Godsend," said Lord have brought about a revolution in the manding why couldn't they have eggs, Woolton, British Food Administrator. food industry. The most startling results too? Well, they could, indeed, said the But we were not satisfied, and now have achieved have been in food drying. Take Ministry suavely—these new American developed a powder which takes even the amount of steel and other metals dried eggs. Available henceforth at your less space and no tin, and sacrifices needed to build one ship, use it to build grocery. almost none of the Vitamin C. Our own dehydrating plants, and in one year you In flavor they are above comparison parachute troops carry a thimbleful as save 874 ship cargoes. That is, the de- with the sun-dried eggs we used to get part of their field ration. hydrating plants will shrink 1044 ship- from China. Scrambled, or in an ome- Vegetables are mostly water. Eight loads of food so it can be packed into lette, nobody can tell these from fresh shiploads of potatoes can be dried into 170 ships. eggs; that's been proved over and over one shipload, and of all vegetables the "That's why we have been given pri- again. potato best retains its flavor, physical orities for steel," Hendrickson explained. An egg, after all, is three-fourths water, constituency and nutritive value when "Take eggs. At first we shipped eggs in and the loose-packaged powder still thus processed. Shredded and dehydrated, crates. A little less than a year ago I was wastes space. I have seen three eggs com- they appear on the table as mashed pota- with Hendrickson on a New York dock. pressed to the size of a yeast cake, so toes. Diced or sliced, they can be fried, He had been prowling warehouses and that a dozen eggs soon will bulk less than boiled or roasted. A new diathermy proc- ships to see if anything could be done to two packs of cigarettes. Our own troops, ess peels potatoes instantly and perfectly, lessen the terrific breakage. too, will use them. eyes and all, by a lightning-like charring "My God!" he moaned, "the stevedores But the high in concentration is vita- of the skin, at a loss of 3 percent in are romping over the egg crates down in mins, taken to shipside in armored trucks weight against 25 percent when peeled the hold as if they were full of cement. with armed guards because $5000 worth by the rookie on K.P. The British tell me they get worse treat- can be crammed into a small drum, However, dried potatoes won't do ment on the other side, where green $200,000 worth in a truckload. They go everywhere. Not in the desert, where hands unload ships in the dark, some- abroad by the millions of dollars worth. water is scarce. There the tank corps times under a hail of bombs. We've got To Britain alone we sent 200,000,000 gets canned potatoes and heats them by to find an answer." pounds of dried milk last year; this year's the simple expedient of setting the cans We turned first to frozen eggs, as a figures will be larger. The milk is sprayed in the blazing sun. stop-gap. They required refrigeration all into a superheated chamber and falls to A brand new creation of this war is the way over, and afterward. Dehydra- the floor like snow. Four gallons of milk dehydrated meat. Department of Agri- tion proved to be the solution. All egg- —minus water—can be put in a three- culture laboratories and the meat in- Properly processed long while drying plants are running full blast ; more pound paper sack. dustry cooperated for a to are being built. The eggs are first broken whole milk keeps well in this form, but perfect the process, and a few weeks ago and emulsified. After that, they are dried in extremely hot climates skim milk is two meat packers began turning out de- in metal trays with hot air, or on a belt less apt to turn rancid. hydrated beef in large quantities. The which carries a thin layer of egg through It is a striking fact that every British process shrinks 350 pounds of lean beef an oven, or they are sprayed under pres- child under two years of age and every to 90 pounds. The meat is shredded and sure into a high chamber heated to 160- nursing mother is getting an adequate passed for about a minute under rollers 170 degrees, and fall to the floor as a ration of fruit juice, rich in vitamins. at 100 pounds pressure and 337 degrees golden powder. Millions of dozens are That was never true before in Britain of heat, then dried for one to three hours packaged on the machines that used to or any other country. The clamor for at 160 degrees and packaged in tin with

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

Tve associate ourselves together for the of our association in the Great War; to safeguard and transmit to posterity following purposes: the principles of justice, freedom and to inculcate a sense of individual obli- democracy; to' uphold and defend the Constitution of gation to the community, state and the United States of America; nation; to consecrate and sanctify our comrade- ship by our devotion to mutual help- to maintain law and order; to combat the autocracy of both the fulness.- to foster and perpetuate a one hundred classes and the masses; percent Americanism; to make right the master of might; —Preamble to the Constitution to preserve the memories and incidents to promote peace and good will on earth; of The American Legion

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine NOVEMBER, 1942 ^3 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine an inert gas (neon or helium) to keep the daily output of our manufacturers unless they get to the front. Transporta- the fats from becoming rancid. It looks would float a ship. When we were asked tion is the most nerve-racking part of like corn flakes. Add water and it makes to supply isolated outposts in Africa Hendrickson's job. good hamburger, croquettes or meat pie. with a ration to supplement the meager No concentration of supplies is per- The restaurants of London all on the local food supply—and be carried in on mitted on the seacoast—ports must avoid same day offered an exceptionally wide the heads of native porters, so that every congestion, and they are vulnerable. Agri- choice of meat dishes—shepherd's pie, ounce counted—this soup was our un- cultural Marketing Administration ware- meat balls and so on. The customers hesitating choice. houses are inland, so located that they bought eagerly, went away happy. No More than 6,000,000 pounds of de- can put shipments into any one of several one told them it was a Food Ministry hydrated soup and 500,000 pounds of ports in 24 hours. test of dehydrated meat. tomato flakes have been bought for Lend- Teletypes link warehouses, ports, rail More than a billion pounds of de- Lease. In the drying process, cooked pulp centers and headquarters. Thousands of hydrated foods have already gone on is sprayed onto hot steel rolls. By the carloads of food are rolling over the their way to war, and with them almost time these big drums have completed one rails every hour of the day and night; 300 other items from pork to pectin, slow revolution, the food is a crisp film movement of each one is reported from some of them old-fashioned foods and which peels off in flakes ready for pack- point to point. others foods in a new dress. ing. Smoothing this flow from farm to ship

Pectin is good for making jelly and Tin plate has always been so abundant, is always an exacting job; sometimes it marmalade, and a million pounds of it cheap and satisfactory that the multi- is exciting. have been shipped. It is valuable, too, in billion-dollar food packing industry was Not so long ago the chief of New York field hospitals for treating cases of severe built on it. The change has been difficult headquarters was watching the routine bleeding. and painful, not merely because of one teletype reports of a dull Saturday after- There are time-honored foods, such as hundred years of habit but because so noon. He was about ready to go out for India Mess beef—ordinary cheaper cuts much of the industry's machinery and a late luncheon when a brief message put down in brine and pickled. British hence so much of its capacity was use- drove that and all other extraneous troops in India, in days of clipper ships, less without the tin can. thoughts out of his mind. It was an order

discovered that their beef would keep in Nobody believed it possible, for ex- for 10,000 tons of food to be delivered this way. Pickled pig jowls, too, are ample, to ship cooking oils in anything and loaded on two ships in Boston harbor popular in the hot countries, used in but tin. But oils and other liquids are by Sunday night. The ships were to have feeding civilian populations in islands now being packed in waxed cardboard carried other materials of war; these necessary to our military and naval out- containers which have stood every test. were delayed; the vessels must make a

posts. Among brand-new things is canned British army biscuits had been packed in rendezvous with a convoy Monday morn- pork sausage made with soybean flour. tin drums for generations. They must ing. We've already sent 71.000,000 pounds stay fresh through long voyages in the From head man to office boy, every- of it to the United Nations. A heaping damp holds of ships, stay crisp in jungle body jumped to the job. The specific tablespoon of soybean flour is as nutri- outposts, withstand rough handling. An items of food were located they were in ; trious as one egg. You'll be buying it asphalt lined cardboard container has, to various warehouses or rolling on the rails.

after the war because it is a sausage for everyone's surprise, proved wholly satis- Railways cooperated with experienced gourmets. factory. precision. Cars in transit were switched Dehydrated soups are not new—they When it isn't a question of saving tin out, special trains made up, and the food were first used in the Boer war. But the it is a drive to save space. Dehydration was speeding toward Boston before sun- product made today deserves a new isn't the only dodge. Just now, for ex- down. But in Boston, stevedores off duty name, it is so much better. The soup ample, they are experimenting with for the week end had gone to their homes stock is enriched with dried skim milk, hexagonal cheeses; there's a lot of waste or rooming houses or way stations. Paul dried and powdered peas and beans, soy- space when round cheeses are stacked in Reveres rode through the evening and bean flour, dehydrated vegetables and a hold. night and called them back to work. The

spices. It is packed in two and five pound War foods, no matter how ingeniously ships kept their rendezvous, filled to the cardboard containers, and the soup from prepared and packed, don't win battles gunwales with food. INDIAN SIGN ON U-BOATS

(Continued from page p) food will have, when we hear Cookie's fighting ships were equally occupied, and

of the parade ; a Navy blimp floats slow- lusty call: "Chow down!" and we make there was small likelihood of a Nazi ly in front of the first red crescent of our way carefully aft, grabbing hand- naval attack on the Atlantic coast, with the rising sun; more roaring planes ap- rails and anything we can lay hold of much of our Navy elsewhere. That meant pear from nowhere and instantly dis- to keep our feet on the rollicking deck. all too few ships to guard our coastwise appear to the same place; our convoy At breakfast, as at every succeeding meal freighter lanes against the submarines, gradually forms and we're off down the aboard, we find that the new Navy eats which were prompt to seize the oppor- coast, the freighters herded into line well and sumptuously, and as we stow tunity to hunt in coastal waters, actually behind the trawler like a flock of away cereal, pork chops, eggs, potatoes, in sight of our shores. To combat this waddling ducks following their leader. and coffee, we learn more about the business of smashing ships right on our Adjusting our speeds to theirs, the cut- background of the present convoy sys- front doorstep, we needed boats, scores ters and our YP boat flank the string of tem, the duties of the igi, and the men of boats, and the personnel to man them. merchantmen, and another guardian ship who man her. The Coast Guard and such few other closes up the back end of the box-like armed boats as were available performed formation. FROM the moment the first Jap bomb heroic deeds, with long, arduous hours With the sun comes a spanking north- landed on Pearl Harbor our Navy was on duty in the bitter winter months, but east breeze, quartering stern, and the old about as busy as the sergeant with St. it required more than all available units Splinter Boat begins to pitch, and toss, Vitus's dance who tried to pick cooties to patrol nearly 2000 miles of Atlantic and roll more than ever. As an in- out of his shirt. Our 171 destroyers had coastline, to say nothing of the Gulf and significant landlubber, we're wondering innumerable jobs cut out for them in all Pacific sea frontiers. whether we'll be seasick and what effect Seven Seas at once. The rest of our Long before the initial shock of the

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine MORALE IS A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS

J. here's Bill, reading that letter— again. Want glass of beer ... in the company of good friends to know what's in it? Well "Katie had her . . . with wholesome American food ... as a

birthday Thursday . . . Dad's an air-raid warden beverage of moderation after a good day's work. now . . . We're all going to see the football game A small thing, surely — not of crucial impor- ." tomorrow . . tance to any of us.

That's all. Just a letter from the folks. Noth- And yet —morale is a lot of little things like ing very important—except to Bill. this. Little things that help to lift the spirits, But it's important to him all right —the way keep up the courage. a lot of Uttle things are to all of us. The letters And, after all, aren't they among the things we get from home . . . old friends we meet . . . we fight for?

the pipe we smoke in quiet contemplation . . . Little things —but they mean a lot. They chase A cool, refreshing glass beer— the blues away . . . they help to keep morale up! of

a moment of relaxation . . . -^^ ^ in trying times like these they It happens that millions of Americans attach a special value to their right to enjoy a refreshing too help to keep morale up

NOVEMBER, 1942 4S When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — !

until the new crop heroic and tragic roles at Dunkirk. Many Jap sneak-thrust had subsided, the prob- to skeleton-crew them lem of more men was solving itself with would begin to sprout from boot school. were hopeless, some could be utilized for the thousands of volunteer enlistments The War Shipping Administration had short, close-to-shore patrols, and a few that daily poured into recruiting offices under way a program for the building of might be converted into really valuable of the Navy, the Naval Reserve, and the P. C. boats—approximately no- and protectors of our coastwise shipping. Coast Guard. Long-planned schools for 170-footers — but the requisite steel, A lot of work had to be done on them, Naval Reserve junior officers at various Diesel engines, brass fittings, and arma- but basically they were all right. They colleges, to supplement the existing ment remained as problems that slowed could still make a good speed, and as schools at Annapolis and on the train- production. soon as we get some machine guns and ing ship Prairie State, went into opera- About then history decided to repeat depth charges, we'll arm you to the teeth. tion overnight. "Boot schools" for sea- itself. According to shipping registers Meanwhile, here's a box of 25-pound men were inaugurated here, there, every- there are some 7300 privately-owned hunks of dynamite with 11 -second fuses where. Specialty schools followed, for pleasure craft, of which perhaps a score to use in place of the ash-cans you'll get men who would be motor machinists, fire- or so are steam-driven, ocean-going later, and here's a Tommy-gun for good men, signalmen, or who wanted to be- yachts. Between 200 and 300 are gaso- measure. Now get goin', you guys, and come proficient in the use of the sound- line-powered boats over 75 feet long, and patrol that coast detecting apparatus, so vital in the hunt the remainder are shorter and of all sizes, And that's the way some of the earlier for submarines. All in all, the man- shapes, dimensions, conditions, and sea- patrols went out to fight the Nazis. That power problem more or less took care of worthiness. In the last war, boats of this all happened months ago, and today the itself, with only the customary hitches variable class had played their parts veterans of the Splinter Fleet, formerly and difficulties attendant upon the influx they could do it again, just as the British known as S. C. Boats, now bearing the of great numbers of men. Of this vast had done it since Schicklgruber started letters "YP" on their bows (Yacht array of new sailors, many would soon his world bonfire. Patrol), are armed from stem to stern, be ready for service in a coastal patrol As in 1 91 7, the Navy promptly scouted from scuppers to flying bridge. They're that could and would chase the subs from every coastal harbor, yacht club, and manned by as fine and efficient crews our waters—but, where to get the ships? mooring place where feasible and service- from the "new Navy" as one would ever No time to build them, for they were able ships might be found. They came up want to see in action. They not only needed at once, and if boats were only with as variegated an assortment of patrol our coasts day and night, they available, enough sailors could be found bottoms as those which played such (Continued on page 72)

PULL THOSE JAP FANGS!

(Continued from page 7) without mercy as the thugee of olden We must face the fact that many of massacre of 3000 men, women and chil- India. the prisoners taken by the Japanese will dren in a Manchurian city, down to the Those who escaped from Bataan and die of disease. For years in Manchukuo latest reports of the war against the Corregidor before they fell verify the and in China proper a Japanese custom United States and Britain, the conduct peculiar Japanese pleasure of subjecting has been to hasten the ill health of pris- of the samurai soldiers has been a code the helpless to prolonged indignities. oners. Neutral and Red Cross repre- of blood thirst on the part of such men From dozens of occupied Chinese sentatives have been kept from the as Tsuna, trained for centuries to slash towns, and from Indo-China, the Malay inspection of filthy, insanitary and over- a head from a body without a second's Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and crowded detention camps. Two bowls of warning. the Philippines, trickle reports that the half-cooked rice daily is the diet of pris-

It is the Japanese way of life, prac- Japanese are not satisfied merely to kill oners in many of the camps; malnutri- ticed in a military establishment which captives. They see to it that their vic- tion, beri beri, typhoid and dysentery every man who can walk must sometime tims suffer much before death relieves afflict thousands of American, British, serve, expounded in literature, portrayed them. Canadian, Chinese and Indian men and in theatricals. women. For centuries sailors shipwrecked on American soldiers, sailors and marines the forbidding coasts of Japan were tor- are forced to do the labor of coolies or tured and slain as "hairy barbarians." accept death. A rear admiral, Mitsuo Eighty-eight years ago Commodore Mat- Matsunaga, whom I knew in Tokyo as thew Galbraith Perry obtained the sig- one of the most deceptively polite of the nature of the Shogunate government to Japanese ruling class, is quoted now as treaties presumably abolishing such prac- boasting of the continued hunger of tices. But the commodore was badly in United States sailors from the cruiser

error if he thought a written word would Houston in Japanese prison camps. abolish cruelty and trickery from the Americans caught on Wake Island, Japanese make-up, just as we of today working as stevedores at Osaka, plead were in error when we thought that a for dental supplies, letters and tobacco. century of grudging contact with west- But Red Cross packages are refused, ern civilization would make the Japanese ships to carry special provisions are soldier anything but a torturer. prohibited. International agreements to respect Brutalities the extent of which we are prisoners have no index in the Japanese just beginning to know were inflicted on military file; only when something is to at least 500 Dutch seized after the in- be gained is a victim's life safe. vasion by the infamous Japanese gestapo We are fighting an enemy of several in the East Indies. million hard-headed military gangsters, "All foreign influences must be wiped opium peddlers, roughnecks, ronin, and, "Say, fellows, I'm getting worried. out," was the word that came from the to use the Japanese corruption of an This submarine periscope wasn't dere Japanese gendarmerie headquarters, and English word, "gorotsukis." They are as an hour ago!" that seals the fate of those Dutch if I

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COPYRIGHT 1942 A N H E U S BUSCH SAINT LOUIS NOVEMBER, 1942 47 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine know Japanese expediency in handling the Japanese are practicing a form for- can be employed without danger to the prisoners. Few of those Dutchmen will bidden elsewhere—gas, bacteria, and Japanese themselves. live, particularly if they could be accused narcotics. Americans who escaped from interior of scorched-earth tactics to thwart the Following the Japanese army as "spe- China confirm the amazing reports of invader. cial service sections" which, as many of Dr. P. Z. King, director general of Shanghai's food and medical stocks us observed, are carpet-baggers, boot- China's National Health Administration, were seized by the Japanese, and nearly leggers and professional thieves. that the Japanese polluted drinking wa- lialf a million Chinese in the former In- They carr>' concessions to operate ter by introducing the carcasses of dis- ternational Settlement alone are thus gambling dens, opium factories and eased animals. starving and suffering from disease. brothels. In five instances, laboratory tests Americans and British, including a con- As Manchuria became the narcotic proved above suspicion that Japanese tingent of marines, are in a concentra- arsenal of Japan, occupied Chinese cities airplanes had flown low over Chekiang tion camp at Woosung. Prominent edu- have been developed into opium and province, scattering infected rice and cators and editors were imprisoned, heroin distributing centers. The same wheat grains and fleas to inaugurate bu- mistreated and mauled. At Hong Kong, as one of many established instances, 53 Americans were cramped five to a room in stalls six by eight feet. For five weeks they had no light, toilet facilities, exercise, outside contacts, baths, vegetables, milk or medicine. A series of frightful reports form a composite picture: gradually lessening food stocks, the looting of hospitals, including the theft of microscopes from the famous Rockefeller-endowed Peking Union Medical College, and the whipping with ropes of members of the faculty of Yenching University at Peking. Missionary schools are all military barracks now in China. Foreign business buildings have been seized and their owners interned. Canton Christian Col- lege at Lingnan was raided and occupied, and its faculty members were sent to congested Stanley Prison at Hong Kong to survive if possible on two restricted meals a day and no njedical aid. Throughout Japanese-held China and other occupied regions, hotels and entire formula is being used in the Philippines, bonic plague. Plague bacilli were dropped districts have been declared militan.' Thailand and Malaya. in translucent granules like shrimp eggs. brothels. Peking now has 600 houses of The opium habit is virtually forced on Infected rats were introduced, to start prostitution and more than 400 Japanese natives who, in their ignorance and a scourge that might not be ended for drinking establishments. Motion picture weariness, are peculiarly susceptible to years. theaters are now merely propaganda it. In some Chinese towns, to my per- Against such measures China could outlets, and radios blare Japanese sonal knowledge, the Japanese offered oppose little. She is sadly lacking in

"lessons" in ever>' language. Death is food and cigarets to entice men and sulfathiazole and its allied compounds. the penalty for hstening to a foreign women into neon-lighted smoking dens, I charge that the Japanese years ago broadcast. where opium was supplied at prices be- set up huge plants near Osaka for the The Japanese, who perverted Budd- low cost. Free milk was dispensed in manufacture of mustard gas, and have hism, whose Shinto is merely a creed of some cases to children, if the parents used it many times in China. I saw the emperor worship and obedience, have would use the bamboo pipe. Thus the Chinese victims of Japanese gas attacks no real religion, and have a particular Japanese are sowing a crop of debauch- at Changsha in October, 1939. That was hatred for foreign Christian missionaries. ery for all Asia. when the Chinese had repulsed the The Chinese report that, without reason, Americans are horrified, in recent news enemy, and the Japanese used gas to two Dutch Franciscan fathers were put dispatches, at the personal narrations of slow the Chinese pursuit. Since then the to death in Shansi province. Gendarmes prominent men and women who escaped Japanese have used chemical fumes to roughly hustled the sisters of St. Joseph from Hong Kong and lived to tell what cover all the many retreats they have into prisons. Women and children of the hapless people there underwent when been forced to make from the valiant Chinese Catholic families have been the Japanese took over. Chinese, until it has become almost an auctioned to lustful buyers. They told of direct brutality of the established technique. The sovereignty of neutral Portugal most horrible kind—prisoners butchered, The Germans may not use gas until is disregarded in the Far East. In Por- women ravaged, thousands denied food their final and complete defeat seems tuguese Macao, off Hong Kong, 400,000 and water. near. The Japanese, I predict, will em- persons are confined in five square miles, Such things can never be forgotten, ploy it ever>' time they are in transient st'ar\-ing. The Japanese isolated them by but time may dim the agony of them difficulties. embargoing rice, restricting water. Ema- in years to come. Anthony Eden told the British parlia- ciated bodies of men and women are Never, however, can the civilized ment of Japanese excesses at Hong Kong. carted off daily as so much street refuse. world forget that, of all warring nations But, statesmanlike, he was unduly con- The whole world knows and accepts since the start of time. Japan has em- servative, and did not tell the whole soldiers, guns, airplanes, warships and ployed the artificial dissemination of dis- story, the hideous detail. Francis B. tanks as the implements of this war, but ease whenever that unspeakable weapon Sayre, our former Philippines commis-

48 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine sioner, brought back to the States the Japanese assurances of excellent treatment to the people there, but we already have learned that these assurances have been turned into lies by Japanese actions. When our men and women return, IN they will tell the whole story of the A Lime WHILE youLL SEE SYSTEM SET-UP THAT Japanese-made hell at Hong Kong. They A CAN HANDLE 100 GALLOt^iS will relate how Canadians and Australians OF DRINKING WATER lined tied, marched were up, hands and AMiNUTE over stones without shoes; how faces were slapped and bayonets jabbed into bodies, and how prisoners were forced to witness beheadings. They will tell how the ape-like Japanese laughed as they photographed the torture, including the scene when loo British officers defending the Hong Kong powerhouse were captured by overwhelming numbers and were bayoneted slowly to death before the eyes of Chinese who were forced to look on "to see how foreigners should be treated," For sport, the Japanese gave foreigners the choice of pulling rickshaws or dying in Hong Kong. Weakened by hunger and illness, foreigners were forced to bury their own dead. Dr. King believes that half the Stan- ley Prison internees will die from mal- nutrition and lack of medical attention. Many babies, of course, already have died from lack of milk and food. All foreign consuls have been ousted, so no official investigation was possible, and the Japanese have refused all attempts at independent or neutral inquiry into conditions. These facts are all attested by escapees from Hong Kong who made their way to Chungking and other cities of free China. They told how captured troops were paraded for hours through Hong Kong, and were slapped in the face when they begged for water. At one place in Kow- loon a Chinese ran forward with a pail of water to the relief of the suffering men, and was bayoneted to death. These fugitives from the occupied Crown Colony said that prisoners in one camp were not fed for two days. In that camp there were no latrines. One small faucet furnished water for hundreds of

persons. In the first 1 1 days of imprison- ment, 200 cases of dysentery developed. There were no lights in the camp. The huts housing the Americans and English were without windows. To carry the story of frightfulness to

the Philippines, to show that if the Japanese occupied our continental home, hating us above all other enemies, we could expect no different treatment, American and Australian wounded were beaten as they lay on cots on the island of Luzon. Severely wounded Filipino Scouts were used for bayonet practice. Women were slashed with sabers.

The Japanese common soldier is an instinctive user of the bayonet and always carries it fixed, and his officers

NOVEMBER, 1942 49 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine are hereditary swordsmen. Bayonets and Japanese bombed it without regard for fornia attempted to ram a lifeboat on swords being of little use in a modem international agreements into which they a rescue mission. An Oklahoma City long range battle, the Japanese must had entered when they pretended en- aviator saw Japanese machine-gunning indulge their natural love of the knife lightenment and desire to join the American flyers in parachutes. An Amer- mostly when they have helpless victims brotherhood of nations. ican naval officer in the Dutch East before them, and on them they work Seventeen offenses were listed as Indies saw shells fired at unarmed rafts without restraint. cause for capital punishment when the of helpless survivors from a sinking The world will remember for a great Japanese took the Philippines. Among Dutch destroyer. many years that as China was invaded them was a rule that the conquered Each individual instance I have re- the Tokyo papers made much of a people remain in their homes day and lated here has been repeated time with- singular contest between two Japanese night. Unable to read posters or under- out telling in the horror that Japan has ofificers. They wagered as to how many stand orders in Japanese, many Filipinos released on the Far East. Chinese each could kill with his sword were shot in the streets. Why tell that eight missionaries and in a given time. No pretense was made There were many such incidents as a small child were confined in a barn that these Chinese were other than help- that of Fernando Tan, of the Scouts. for 16 days? Missionaries have been less prisoners on whom the officers prac- His body was found in a stream, the thus treated, and worse, throughout the ticed. The race became a great sports hands tied behind his back. Some Japa- Japanese area of occupation. event in Japan; no Japanese mind con- nese soldier, or perhaps several of them, Why tell that a Catholic nun from sidered it cowardly and despicable. What had practiced the bayonet on him, for Milwaukee was slapped in public by a we of the Western World know to be he bore innumerable stab wounds. His common Japanese trooper? Worse than diabolical, the Japanese mind considers assailants had not even granted him that has happened to nuns many times a matter of course. the mercy of a coup de grace. He had at the hands of Japanese. First move of any important occupa- been left in the water to die of blood- Why specify that the defenders of tion by the Japanese is a holiday for shed. Hong Kong destroyed 800,000 bottles of the troops. This seeming reward has an In Manila, for failure to respond to whisky to keep it from falling into the effect well calculated by the high com- demands they could not understand, hands of the Japanese army? The Japa- mand. It means sheer terror. The Nan- many Filipinos were bound to telephone nese soldier is a great drinker, but one king pattern is by now well established. poles. It then became the pleasure of who cannot handle his liquor—under The first step is general drunkenness. every Japanese soldier who passed to its influence he goes mad. The Japanese Wholesale rape follows. Then occurs the slap them, or nudge them with a bay- soldiery has never been sober after any devastation wrought by crazed beasts. onet. victory since the invasion of Man- Looting is too mild a word. It is destruc- Today the Filipinos—who attained churia. tion, by the blows of rifle butts on vast prosperity and freedom under Why relate that American Red Cross hospital equipment, by the burning of American rule—are the slaves of the supplies sent to Japan to aid suf- buildings, by the theft of whole stocks Japanese, forced to unbelievable hours ferers in the great 1923 earthquake of goods, and metals even to statues and of work, fed a handful of rice a day were held by the overlords from the power lines. each—the standard Japanese ration for people for whom they were intended, The Constitution of Japan, set up in prisoners—and denied all medical atten- and were employed against the Amer- the last century by men anxious to tion. Father Ingal, an escaped chaplain icans in the Philippines? There are so emulate western styles, grants freedom of the Philippines Army, reported that many instances of the kind in Japan's of religious belief, but the militarists conditions are "comparable to medieval dealings that one case applies to all. who have overthrown it, who see in galley slavery" for virtually all the Those of us who have lived in a Christianity an adversary of the Shinto Philippines population. The captors make Japanese world of face-slapping gen- which teaches blind worship of the Im- no allowance for the limits of human darmes, kidnapping, electrically-charged perial line, hate foreign missions. endurance, he said, and remarked that barbed wire about internment camps,

Therefore it was with calculation that he had seen a German in a Japanese wholesale rape, torture, theft from the missions in nearly all parts of occupied army uniform supervising the mistreat- helpless, trickery of the most shameless China have been attacked, that on ment of prisoners. kind under the mask of an obsequious three Sundays after December 7 Japa- Japanese atrocities extend to the seas, smile, are forced to ask: nese pilots bombed seven defenseless of course, for the Japanese Navy, always Are we so simple, so credulous, as Philippine towns, aiming their explosives jealous of the Japanese Army, will let to believe it cannot happen in the at the church throngs and the churches no prerogative of race escape. United States? whose distinctive architecture could not It is officially reported that a hospital The Japanese soldier of today is the be mistaken. ship from Manila was bombed nine same Tsuna who slashed off the head Manila was an open city, but the times. A Japanese submarine off Cali- of the helpless peasant.

THANKS FOR THE BIRD

(Continued from page 25) obscured their vision of their objective. some ICQ yards of the barnyard. They them right in the face. It was in the Slowly they raised their line of vision waited and then came the sound of a hand of a sergeant of infantry. You over the top of the wall. Nothing, abso- truck being wound up, sputtering into guessed it: Two raiding parties with but lutely nothing showed in their range of action and receding into the night. Their a single thought. sight. They straightened up, climbed the combined, too-poorly concealed spon- Like real commanders they made a wall, covered the entire limits of roost- taneous remarks awakened the dog—he quick decision—half a flock was better ing possibilities. Nothing, not a feather. got a rock, several of them. than none. They joined forces and Maybe someone had tipped off the Slowly and sadly those brothers of a sneaked across the barnyard, seven men Frenchman. lost cause found their way back to their all told. Maybe it was inborn distrust, A sound of a stumbling man—they respective camps as Thanksgiving Day, or lack of traditional honor among night had heard it on night patrols—a quickly 1 91 8, dawned cheerless and cool. requisitioners. They fetched up behind suppressed squawk and the subduing of Two days afterward it was reported on a stone wall some four feet high, which flapping wings come to them from across good authority and substantiated by cer-

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"Hot dog! Now I'se really mechanized." coming your way,

tain feathers in evidence that the 701st Stevedore Battalion, a white-officered colored outfit from Tennessee, billeted Junior ^ -k some 30 kilometers away, had had plenty of turkey for Thanksgiving, some twelve birds being cooked. The French- back your shoul- man put in a war claim, we found out HROW from reliable sources. From our best ders, son, be proud! Things a G-2 sources it was also learned that ten lot bigger and more important than mess sergeants from that number of out- Dad's old suit are headed your way. fits in that general vicinity, in addition Things like liberty, the right to to ours, had made preliminary plans for speak your mind, to worship as you securing a number of birds but that ten please. of them, including ours, didn't. The K. These are the most precious of C. Secretary, who got around, added hand-me-downs in history—and that the concensus, variously expressed, w e're fighting to 7mke sure that you was: "Those thieving stevedores ought get them. martialed for treating a poor to be court But some hand-me-downs we're Frenchman that way." They weren't, i2ot going to pass along simply however. — Rest assured, you who are favored of because we can do better. No one the gods and can express your feeling can improve on freedom—but we of gratefulness in terms of drumsticks, can improve some of the things that safe and in reasonable comfort, our far let us express it. Air conditioning, flung A. E. F. of World War Two will that gives us free choice of the celebrate Thanksgiving Day this year, climate we want; television, that and will long remember it. Maybe our brave Chinese brothers in frees us to look beyond the horizon. arms will see in it a kinship with their Electronics, plastics—and lots more mid-autumn festival Chung-Ch-in, and that are going to make your life wonder bit if too in America con- a we freer, fuller, richer. nect the moon with bountiful crops and It's an exciting, wonderful world feasting. you're growing up to, Junior. Be- Maybe the English, the Australians and New Zealanders will think English cause we're handing down to you ancestry is asserting itself in a "Harvest the same things that have always Home" celebration, especially if the made America strong and great party gets rough. Maybe the Irish in and because we're adding many new North Erin will want to show our lads things to make it even more wonder- how to throw their sickle and cut down j ful. So, when you're thinking about the last chosen sheaf of corn as a pre- t liminary ceremony to a general feast of these better hand-me-downs, think Thanksgiving at their particular "Har- of us.We're thinking of you! General vest Home." Electric Company, Schenectady, N. V. Or by chance if in Russia they will if -(^ -{r identify it with Kassovitza or Haymak- ing, and learn from our boys just what The volume of General Electric war the expression "haymaker" conveys in production is so high and the degree of 1942 Americanese. secrecy required is so greac that we cannot Collectively the soldiers of the allied tell you about it now. When ii can be nations will find grounds for a common told we believe that the story of ittdustry^ urge to express a mutual feeling of Thanksgiving. Be certain that the time developments during the war years will will come when they will all join in a make one of ihe mo si fascinating chap- Thanksgiving Day which many of the ters in the history of industrial progress. people of our deluded enemy nations will also welcome. May it be a day which will bind them together in a firm new bond of common understanding, for GENERAL « ELECTRIC the sake of future generations! 952-3&3M3-211

NOVEMBER, 1942 51 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine To millions of people the Cross, the THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE Crucifix, the Star of David are symbols of great religious faiths. Did you ever (Continued from page 5) societies were formulated without seem- hear of any church taking down such study of the Flag's history, and heraldry ingly digging into the facts bearing upon symbol from their places of worship in particular. To my surprise I found the elements in the Flag. The final re- after services, and not sending them that the elements in the Flag had very sult was, the following year The Amer- aloft again until the next formal period specific meanings; that the Union of ican Legion called a Flag Conference of worship. Similarly, the Flag is the the Flag was its honor point, therefore in Washington, attended by some seven- symbol of a great faith in a certain form should go to the honor position—which ty delegates representing patriotic and of government. Undoubtedly, the sight is to the Flag's own right, and not to fraternal groups. This conference unan- of a Cross, even at night, has meant the left, or "sinister," signifying "ig- imously adopted all of the changes I courage, hope, and firm resolution to noble, cowardly," which it is when the had advocated, thus making all Codes millions of people perhaps on the very Union is to the observer's right. It was then extant obsolete. It was not because verge of despair. I have before me a then that I prepared the sketches which / advocated them—they had "seen the cablegram which reads: "The Cross, the the late Claire Briggs, cartoonist on the light" based upon knowledge, instead Flag are the embodiments of our ideals New York Tribune, printed on Flag of blindly following what someone else and teach us not only how to live but Day, 1922. These sketches differed from had as blindly started. how to die. MacARTHUR." You will every Flag Code then extant, resulting Now what has all this got to do with remember how, when an officer in Ba- in the seventy newspapers which carried the questions in your letter? taan told General MacArthur that the Brigg's drawings being swamped with First, my dear Allan Thompson, to garrison Flag made a vulnerable mark protests against any such rules for dis- whom does the American Flag belong? for the enemy's planes, he replied: "We'll playing the Flag as I had prepared. But, Does the United States Government keep that Flag flying!" the flag authority and heraldry expert own it? Does the Navy own it? Does the What would be our National Anthem in the War Department informed the Army claim it? Doesn't it really belong had it not been for the inspiration Tribune that the sketches were 100 per- to every Mr. and Mrs. American Citizen Francis Scott Key got from seeing that cent correct! You see, all these numer- to display (properly and reverently, of Flag flying "from twilight's last gleam- ous codes issued by various patriotic course) whenever they choose to do so? ing" until the "dawn's early light"? For

IVonder What the Flag Thinks About {J Lesson) BY BRIGGS

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Back In 1922 the late Clare Briggs, one of the greatest cartoonists America has produced, told Americans something about how the flag should be displayed. All of it has since been incorporated in the Flag Code

Th( AMERICAN LEGION Magazine years the Flag has flown day and night over Key's grave at Frederick, Mary- land. So it is, day and night, over the Worcester, Massachusetts, War Memo- rial; over the Capitol at Washington over the White House when the Presi- dent is in residence. Whence came that long, a7td blindly- DONT BRUSH jollowed, custom of flying the Flag only between "sunrise and sunset"? In amiy camps they hoist the Flag at Reveille, the beginning of their business day, and FALSE TEETH lower it at Retreat to mark the cessation of such business day. There is nothing specifically significant about it, any m'fh Makeshift Cleaners more than the blowing of a factory's whistle to announce the start and finish of employes' labors. Ritualistic scenery,

I call it.

In my judgment it is wrong to say categorically that anyone flying the Flag after sunset is violating a federal law. The first draft of the Hobbs Bill contained the "sunrise to sunset" clause, but, when I advanced reasons (as outlined above) why that rule should not apply to civilians, they omitted all mention of any flying hours. But when the

Senate Committee got hold of it, they. blindly feeling the "urge of old habit," Toothpastes, Powders, Cleansers reinserted that rule. BUT—they virtually nullified it by adding, " 'However, Not Intended for False Teeth the Flag may be displayed at night upon May Ruin Dental Plates special occasions when it is desired to produce a patriotic effect." So this op- tion can hardly be called a "violation," PLAY SAFE ... USE POLIDENT can it? First, whoever displays the Flag except for "a patriotic effect"? Second, DENTAL PLATES are softer, more easily worn down than natural teeth. no "special occasions" are cited. . . . LABORATORY TEST SHOWS HOW That's vi^hy many dentifrices, safe for natu- To me, every day is a "special occa- MAKESHIFT CLEANERS ral teeth, are dangerous for false teeth. sion" for showing my allegiance, and the WEAR DOWN PLATE-MATERIAL Tests show that these makeshift cleaners Flag flies on my flagstaff day and night. ruin dentures. They wear down the fitting ridges, scratch polished surfaces, causing I don't care whether or not my neigh- stain and film to collect faster, cling tighter. bors see it—it is there to give continual POLIDENT CLEANS SAFELY inspiration to me and to my family! Approved by Leading Mak»r» of Plate Materiola But, if passersby do see it it may make Soaking plates and bridges in Polident dis- them (to quote an ex-President) "mind- solves ugly stains, dissolves food particles ful of doing the things that the Colors from hard-to-reach corners and crevices, without danger of brushing or handling. represent us to be. To salute every Flag Polident is recommended by many leading that passes makes my consecration to dentists and approved by the leading mak- the Country and the Flag a little more ers of modern denture materials. secure." Plate Wearers Often Right at this time, when we are en- Worst Breath Offenders gaged in a war for sheer survival, why Stains that collect on plates and bridges retain odors. The result is often "Denture shouldn't flying the flag at night over a AFTER Breath" probably the most offensive breath munitions — plant, for instance, be a vir- See how odor. Play safe! Polident leaves dentures tual must? Yes, I'd even floodlight it. brushing clean, odor-free and sweet. Millions call it with maki— blessing. The Good Lord knows how lacking we shift cleaner a wore down are in many things concerning our na- plate material, Only 30ff— at ail Drug Stores tional history. Imagine a young man changing contour Long-lasting 3 oz. size — 30(; 7 oz. — eOc", at all drug stores. Your money bad; if not delighted. not yet out of his thirties, a merchant, Today- get Polident! — ' a voter, a product of New England \\\\\W///// schools, getting up in the midst of sev- NO BRUSHING-NO SCOURING eral hundred other merchants I was ad- Do this every day: put one capful of POLIDENT in plate Vi> glass of luke warm water. Stir briskly. Place dressing on how to use the Flag in or bridge in this solution for 15 minutes, or over night matters of display, and asking me: "Why if convenient. Rinse well—it's ready to use. the thirteen stripes in the Flag? Why not twelve or fourteen?" . . . Have I, my dear Allan Thompson, answered your questions? POLIDCnT Right truly yours, The Safe Modern Way to Clean Pla'es and Bridges Gridlev Adams

NOVEMBER, 1942 53 ^X'HEN Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine DOGS OF WAR

{Contimied from page 15) Hollywood with all the business he could Spitz had trained became movie actors. began teaching dogs when I was six handle. He opened a boarding school for The silent films had given way to sound years old. My grandfather loved edu- the dozens of dogs brought to him by pictures and producers thought that dogs cated dogs and he let me help train his people who wanted them schooled in could no longer be used. But Spitz dem- pets," obedience, companionship, or to guard onstrated that his dogs could be trained During World War I, serving in the property and children. Almost before he by silent cues, a nod of the head, or a German Navy, Spitz broke all rules by realized it, Spitz had built up facilities movement of the hand. Asta, for in- smuggling dogs aboard his destroyer. for handling 150 dogs, had five assistant stance, was trained by Spitz to act as a When the war ended he spent many trainers, and employed a dietitian, Mrs. fighter and killer in "The Call of the months in a rehabilitation hospital. Hannah Heiman, to see that his students Wild." Buck, a Saint Bernard, given to While there he studied scientific dog had the right nourishment. Spitz says him by a woman who found the animal

training, hoping to make it his career. Finding little opportunity in Germany, he decided to migrate to America. "My two brothers were killed in the war," he explained. "I had seven cousins in the American Army, so I had more ties with America than with Germany. It took me eight years to save enough to get to New York. That was too close to the old country, so I located in Chi- cago and opened a dog training school. Everybody said, 'You ought to go to Hollywood.' So I did." Arriving in Southern California in 1928, Spitz's assets were sixty dollars and Asta, a smart, black, female Shep- herd dog he had trained for detective work. The money evaporated while he hunted customers who wanted their dogs trained. Spitz frequently went without meals, but Asta didn't. Then he hit on the idea of using Asta to smell out jobs and retrieve them. Calling at the homes of people who owned dogs, he asked them to name anything anywhere in the house that they would like to have his dog find—magazines, fountain pens, purses, anything. Standing on the front porch, Spitz gave the dog instructions. Asta brought back the prize, and Spitz nearly always had a new job. In his travels. Spitz picked up two that dogs, to be alert, must have a too much dog for a home, was taken orphan dogs and trained them. One Sun- change of food almost daily. In the by Spitz to Mt. Baker and trained in day he and a friend took the dogs, a school his dogs have salmon mixed with eleven days for a key role in a blizzard rope and a kitchen chair to a vacant biscuit on Monday, meat cooked with scene. In another picture. Buck rescued lot on a busy highway north of Holly- soup and broken-up dog biscuit on Tues- a man lost in artificial snow. The heat wood. Spitz had his friend bind him to day, raw meat on Wednesday and Thurs- under the klieg lights made the dog pant, the chair with the rope, then told the day, cooked meat on Friday, raw meat so to make Buck keep his tongue in and dogs to free him. By the time they undid with garlic on Saturday, and on Sunday his mouth closed, Spitz trained him to the knots and released him, a crowd had a kibble biscuit with milk. "That's to carry a small piece of wood. gathered. Next Spitz commanded his give their stomachs a rest," he explained. Prince, a Great Dane, has starred in a dogs to find key rings, gloves, pocket- "Most dogs are fed dog food out of cans, score of pictures, and once rescued a books, and other objects hidden in the so we have to change them over grad- child from in front of a speeding auto- cars by the motorists; he demonstrated ually. Full grown dogs have one meal a mobile. "When I first saw Prince, I how house dogs should be exercised and day. Pups under four months have three never thought he could be trained for trained. While he was busy answering meals, and half grown dogs are fed twice different movie roles," said Spitz. "I got questions, a police car drove up. daily." a riot call from a home near the school "You're stopping traffic for an eighth Spitz and his assistants train three that their dog had gone mad. When I of a mile down the road," roared the hundred dogs each year. This education reached the house, Prince had cornered officer. begins in the bath house where every a roomful of guests, had stolen the din- Spitz's audience begged that he and incoming dog is thoroughly scrubbed. ner, and was boss of the place." his dogs be allowed to go on with the The kennel yards are spacious and light. The Great Dane accompanied Spitz, show. The entire ten-acre farm, which Spitz who has a way with animals, to a dog "All right, all right," agreed the po- leased at first but now owns, is devoted hospital. As the trainer suspected. Prince liceman getting out his whistle. "I'll just to kennels and exercise yards. The center was suffering from a bad stomach. When stay here and direct the traffic." of the school is the huge sand-floored he recovered, the owner offered him to Several more of these extemporaneous classroom. Spitz for fifty dollars. Since then, Prince highway dog shows established Spitz in In the meantime, several of the dogs has graduated from college and has be-

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come the best paid dog on the screen, with the exception of the late Rin-Tin- Tin. One year Prince paid an income tax on $6500. His foil in the pictures is usually Toto, a little Cairn terrier female, left at the school by a woman, or "Mister Binkie," a Scotty. Spitz accepts almost any healthy dog that anyone offers and invariabl}' has a troop of twenty or thirty "atmosphere"' dogs when a director needs them for a mob scene. "You never

can tell when one of these dogs is going to turn out to be a star," Spitz says. Training dogs for pictures gave Spitz the groundwork for the military courses

upon which he is concentrating now. Re-

gardless of whether he is trained for companionship, movies, or war, every dog entering school goes through the same elementary curriculum. He goes first to kindergarten, which lasts from three to seven weeks. There each pupil has his own dog house which he must learn to keep clean. He has furniture which he learns not to chew. He is taught not to steal food or objects from the table. For the first offense a trainer scolds him verbally; for the second, he gets a light tap on the nose; after that, ''That old greenhead a light spanking with a leather strap. "I never strike a dog with a folded never guessed he'd be helping newspaper, because he will hate all news-

papers after that," is a Spitz rule. "I never hit him with my hand, because the U.S. Army some dayT' hands are to use to pet him."

As soon as he is house broken and able "%#OU KNOW, anti-aircraft gunnery and HUNTING HAS CONTRIBUTED greatly to to resist chewing or stealing, the pupil I duck shooting have an awful lot in the war effort. It has helped train soldiers is moved to the primary grade or obedi- common. I found that out the first day of for their specialized tasks; it has given ence school where a trainer talks to him anti-aircraft firing practice — I realized then America a reserve force of ten million day after day, calling him by name, it was a lot like my first duck hunt. shooters who know the fundamentals of walks him around the grounds on a I was just a kid then, so I was pretty ex- gun-handling. For the fifth time in its 126 leash, teaches him heel, not to to pull cited when Dad let me go with him. We years' history, Remington has turned from on his leash nor lag behind either, and got out to the blind just before dawn. its peacetime pursuits to help supply the to leave other dogs alone. Then begins It was windy and overcast, with a bite in country's needs. the course in command: taking hurdles the air. Mallards were flying high over- HERE'S ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP: Take on the order "hop," to lie with the com- head in close formation. good care of your guns and ammunition. mand "doyv'n," and a pat, to sit when "FIRST THING I KNOW, a big greenhead Keep your guns clean and in good told in an ordinary tone of voice. No hovers over the decoys, swings around mechanical shape. Wipe them off occa- one ever speaks harshly to dogs in the into the wind, and comes in with a rush. sionally with an oily rag to prevent rust- school. Within four weeks, most of them I'm so excited I let him have it about ing. A gun properly cared for will last in- react to these commands automatically forty yards away. He crumples up and definitely. Remove unused shells from the and are ready for the course in som- plumps in the drink. It seemed so easy pockets of a wet hunting coat and from panionship. In this, the pupil learns to I figured I'd have my limit in no time at all. your car. Store them in a cool, dry closet, respond to "come"; to walk beside his locker or cabinet— not in a hot attic or trainer without a leash; to carry objects "I KEPT POPPIN' AWAY, without SO much damp cellar. Remember, ammunition prop- beginning with a rolled towel or a news- as gettin' another feather. Long about erly stored stays good for years. paper, and working up to hard wooden 10 o'clock, Dad got his fifth clean hit, and objects. Then he learns to retrieve and said, sorta quiet-like, 'Son, don't shoot finally to jump over hurdles, and in and where they are; shoot where they're GET THIS PICTURE FOR YOUR

. . DEN. If you'd like to have a free out of ditches on command. His last to be.' . That holds good for the 'game' full-color enlargement of the lesson is to speak only when commanded we're tryin' to bring down right now, just to do so. as it did for ducks. Won't I be happy, painting above, suitable for write Dept. "Now he is ready to specialize," said though, to get back to that old duck marsh framing, to 19, flare in Remington Company, Spitz. "And it is time for his owner to again, and see those mallards up Arms

. . . idea of living." Inc. .Bridgeport, Conn. come to school and take lessons in how a cold sunrise That's my to handle the dog." In the grade school the dog trains for the movies, or to guard his owner's property, or for hunting; or, if he can pass the physical and nerve tests he can go to the war college. The military courses are the most

tedious and rigorous training of all.

NOVEMBER, iqiz 55 W hen Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ;

After a dog has passed the elementary use them." and obedience courses, it takes about After the disastrous experience of their Sa\oo\r all Cjold- \ m Admyal, or seventy-five days of drill to make a sol- troops in Malaya, the British War Of&ce braided ui^ift)r<^s", \ Comn^ydo^ dier of him—or of her. Females make broadcast an appeal to owners for dogs - ? ga2i^ but, i^aAks ) Of m' good troopers, particularly for Red Cross for their newly formed dog battalions. work. The best military dogs are not The Germans and Russians already have over three years old. They cost from thousands of dogs trained for war duties. $35 to $75 apiece untrained, and the Since there is no time to rear them, the training runs about $250 a dog. After American Army is likewise dependent the physical examination, the first test upon volunteers. Dogs for Defense, Inc., is to toss a firecracker at the candidate. believes that thousands of owners would

All dogs cower after such an experience, offer their pets if they understood that but one with steady nerves will recover the dogs might save the lives of soldiers. in a few minutes. If the dog is still a The first appeal is for Dobermans, bundle of nerves after ten minutes, the shepherds (German police), and boxers, military training ends right there, be- who have made the best troopers so far cause the chances are the animal will because they are strong, intelligent, be cowardly under fire. Only one out of courageous and quick on the attack. every four dog rookies makes the grade the intruder stands still. He even learns Spitz believes that Giant Schnautzers, of and becomes a soldier. to guard a captive while a soldier goes which there are few in this country, and Next comes what Spitz calls the course for help. After weeks of drill, the dog large Airedales, make equally good in activation—to make a gentle dog and his trainer have daily hunts for troopers. Smaller dogs, no matter how warlike on command. He is chained to suspects, others on the school's staff who intelligent and courageous, are unable a wall with a strong spring in the chain. hide on the ten-acre farm. It is astonish- to cope with a man, while the larger The dog is tantalized by the trainer who ing how quickly the dogs catch the idea dogs, notably St. Bernards, Great Danes, beats a sack with a stick, lunging at the and enter the spirit of the drills. are too slow on their feet. The age limit dog, then jumping back. In a few min- For sentry duty, a dog is ready to join for dog troopers is one to five years. utes, a spirited dog will become angr>' the Army as soon as he learns to flush The Army and the trainers want pure and snap and lunge back at the sack. an intruder, grab his gun and hold him or crossbreds because they learn faster. The spring in the chain prevents physical at bay until help arrives. When Spitz "Time is all important," declared injury from these lunges, which soon delivered his first class of sentries, he Harry I. Caesar, the New York banker teach the dog his own strength. Finally, spent a week training the soldiers how who heads Dogs for Defense. "We need the recruit is induced to grab the sack to use the dogs. "This is your dog: good dogs and lots of them. They must and hold on until commanded to let go. You're his master, and he's your aide be the pick of the canine world just Next he is taught to catch his tor- from now on," he drilled into the head as the sentries they supplement are the mentor's arm, which is protected by a of Private Joe Brown. "See that he is pick of the country's young manhood." sack and leather guard against the five- handled only by men in uniform. Give "Every European country has recog- hundred-pound pressure of the dog's him his daily drill before you go on nized the dog's military value for sentry jaws. As days pass, the tormentor duty. Never give him any of your lunch. work and more advanced assignments. brandishes a gun, and the dog learns to Don't play with him on duty. Don't So extensive has their use become that grab the gun arm and hold on, even .spoil him, or you may spoil your life- there is hardly a key spot in England when the gun is being fired, then to saver." or on the Continent where dogs are not snatch the gun as it falls from the tor- "A war dog is a one-man animal," used for night guard duty. All reports mentor's hand. Spitz explained. "He belongs to the sol- stress the fact that the morale of the Finally, the dog is unleashed and is dier who commands him.- Most of the sentries is increased by having the added taught to attack intruders, to disarm men whom I have trained in the use of senses of the dogs at their disposal. And them, to fight as long as the man fights, dogs like them and work well with them. yet, until now, the dog army of the but to cease fighting and to bark when A sentry who doesn't like dogs couldn't United States is still to be recruited."

A FEW LINES TO SAY . . .

{Continued from page 27) So guys like Davis is necessary to keep try? Maybe the way to defend democ- and how to put them out and tell peo- up the fighting spirit of the rest of us. racy is by giving it a vacation, but the ple what to do in a air raid so they won't When you got a war you got to be mad whole thing has got me worried. And get hurt, can cook their meals, wash at somebody and we ain't got no Japs or when it comes to making the whole their clothes or if they have to go to Germans here in town to get mad at. world safe for democracy I guess it is the bathrom and like that which even I think this town is fortunate that way like a patent cigar lighter I just bought a air raid don't make no difference. because Davis is very easy to get mad it is a fine thing if it works. Of course we ain't had no air raids at, and if it wasn't for him the only Well, I got to close now and go see yet and I hope we don't, and this bird thing we could get mad at would be the a air raid education moving picture Tom Davis next door just laughs at the Government, and this ain't no time for called "Bombs Bouncing off Britain" or whole business, won't do nothing about nobody to get mad at their Government. something like that. it himself and says it is foolishness. We got to support it. Except maybe at Your partly patriotic But I don't want you or any enemy election day, which has got me all up in Pop this letter may fall into the hands of to the air, because if I don't vote for the think that we have got disunity or any- fellows what are in office am I un- DEAR POP: Just got your letter and thing like that in these United States. American? a couple from Mom. Gee, it was good It ain't so. One swallow don't make no Or if I do vote for them just because to hear from you. summer, and this here Davis is just one they have already got their jobs am I It's swell and exciting and all over swallow I can't swallow. Neither can wrong when I believe some other candi- here and I wouldn't be anywhere else, nobody else in town. date could do a better job for the coun- but just the same Main Street would

S6 Thi AMERICAN LEGION Magazine look awful good right now. When we win this war and I get back home safe I will say what that fellow said who did that high dive into the little tank of water at The American Legion's carnival two years ago. Remember? After he done it his manager says to him "Well, Mr. Gibson, how did you like diving from way up there into that little tank of water?" And he says, "I wouldn't of missed it for anything." And ever>'body laughed. You just couldn't help it, although I guess he says the same thing every time he does it. But I guess he when youVe means it, too. I know I do. Now, don't get excited about young "Stinky" Davis making $87.50 a week. discovered that famous flavor found only in I don't like it no more than you do, but if that is the only terms on which him and a lot of other people will get Schlitz. That's because Schlitz methods of brewing us the stuff we got to have, then give them their $87.50 and let's have the stuff because we got to have the stuff. control capture only the delicate flavor of the Only maybe there should be other things to remember besides Pearl Harbor. So please remember to send me some money, hops, none of their bitterness. No wonder Schlitz if not $87.50. Your infant in the infantry, is honored around the world as Americas most Justin X. Gobb, Jr.

DEAR SON: Somehow or other your distinguished beer. Once you taste Schlitz— brewed two letters got here at the same time which was maybe because one was shorter than the other and could make with just the kiss of the hops — you'll never want better time. Of course I don't know where you are but I would certainly like to get my feet on the deck of a to go back to a bitter beer. boat headed for "down under" to see if I could find you. But the Navy won't take me back because they say I am too old according to some doctor's "opinion," which I think it is a damn funny thing when a country gets so proud or something it won't let itself be 'defended more than once by the same man. If they was more interested in what a fellow can do instead of just only how short a time he's been doing it, we would start going places. We had a blackout test in the town last week and it went off swell except for a coupla, little things. Like I think I told you, I am a Air Raid Warden. I have a pretty arm band and a card that says so. Some drunk over on Fifth Street stays outside and lights a match. I grab him and ask him what is the big idea and he says he wants to see the JUST THE OF THE HOPS blackout and it is too dark to see anything so he lit the match. Over in another zone some guy who finds he can't read his newspaper or do much else on account of the blackout suddenly gets the idea it would be a good time to burn up some trash in his back yard. Outside of that there was good corporation. In the familiar 12-ounce bot- I seen that girl you was running around tle. Now also available in the with before you left home on the street NEW Schlitz GUEST BOTTLE yesterday and she says why don't she containing one FULL <^UART. get more letters from you, which I find out she has got three to our one already and which is the girl every time you got THE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS

NOVEMBER. 1942 57 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine leave before you left this country you used to spend all your time at her house except when you ran out of money you would come home to eat sometimes. I guess you remember her.

I listen to all the news over the radio, which I can't make much out of because there ain't much to make anything out of, which is all right with me because I don't want to hear no news that is going to help the enemy even if it is good news, but I am getting fed up with high-powered chin music artists doing their bit by getting big pay to tell the rest of us we ain't doing ours. I am doing all I can find out they want me to do and so is most of the other people. What else do they want us to do? Run out in the street and beat our breasts and scream? I never was much on breast-beating and scream- ing never won much except maybe a hog-calling contest which maybe this war on the home front is getting to be a name-calling contest, and I don't think that is going to help the country much. According to the papers and the ration committees there is a shortage of auto- mobile tires, but according to the cars running around the streets there ain't. Personally, I don't believe in shortages. I am in favor of the more abundant life. But if shortages is really coming to in this one, and besides what I eat in We got to have the stuff. Now you let live with us for a long time I think we this Army is permanent which it wouldn't "Stinky" alone and don't get into no ought to treat them decent. After all, a be if I was being rocked in the cradle more trouble with his old man. We don't shortage don't just wish itself on you, of the deep on some old bobbing tub. want any disunity back home. and ignoring and high-hatting it won't Got to go out on a maneuver now. Geez, ain't I got trouble enough try- make it go away. I guess a shortage is Will write again later. ing to defend our country without hav- something people can't see they got Your affectionate, ing to be a guardian or something for a when they got it because the govern- Son danged sea-going, wave-drunk, barnacle- ment couldn't see it coming when it was covered, flag-waving out-of-date old mis- coming. MY DARLING BOY: I am worried guided patriot which according to bio- Well, your Mom is hollering that I about your father. He is heading for logical processes I couldn't control has should take a load of papers and tin trouble with Tom Davis again, on ac- got himself the honor to be my father? cans and stuff down to the town salvage count of both him and his son "Stinky" This hurts me more than it does you. pile, so I will close with "Happy Sal- having defense jobs and making a lot Your disappointed son, vaging," of money while your father can't get Justin X. Gobb, From your affectionate, Jr. Pop what they call "priorities" for his business and so it is not very good. DEAR SOMETHING- 1- HAVE- Oh, I do hope nothing happens like GOT-TO-CALL-SON: Well, that are going fine DEAR POP: Things that time in the Modern Tonsorial Par- there last letter of yourn has certainly up. From here. The boys are all pepped lor when your father hit Mr. Davis for got me in black cloth and sashes. Did I it looks as if it's the your last letter saying you were a slacker for going in bust into tears? And am I ashamed of confused people back home which are the Army because you figured the Navy myself? And ain't I humble and thank- ain't. out to lick the and all. We We're was going to have to do all the fighting. ful I have got a blessing having such a Japs and we're going to do it. Maybe Please, please, write to your father and wonderful off-spring which has sprung people got so many it's because you tell him not to do it again. He just so far off that he — things to think about and we only got won't listen to me. Why, listen, you mud-wallowing pop- one. Just you concentrate on getting us Lovingly, gun-toting truck-riding monkey-cap- the stuff we got to have, like I told you Mother wearing earth-worm of a soldier, what before. the hell do you mean trying to tell a wish I could tell what is going I you DEAR POP: I have got a letter from veteran of the U. S. Navy what it is all account, like I on here but I can't on Mom and she is more worried about you about? before, it be mili- also told you would than she is about me, which maybe I Now, get this, you pup tent. I ain't information. will certainly have tary I should have stayed home where it is been cruising around this here ocean of a lot to talk about when I get back, if dangerous and not be over here. life twenty-nine years longer than you I get back and I am able to talk. But Listen, Pop, I told you not to bother have and going through one of these don't do no worrying, now. I ain't. I about people who are making a lot of mad-house acts called a war without am eating regular, which is important. money in defense work. If Tom Davis knowing the points of the compass. "Vou always said they didn't do that in and "Stinky" don't care about nothing There is thousands and thousands and the Army, only in the Navy, which except getting theirs, that ain't your thousands of good Americans working in maybe was so in your old war but ain't business or mine. It's the Government's. defense plants and doing their stuff so

58 The AMERICAN LEGION Masazine that you birds can get yours, and they

would work longer and do it for less money if required. We ain't gonna spare no expense to git you the stuff. What kind of a old man do you think you got what wants his son to get killed fighting a enemy with not even a pair of brass knuckles to do it with?

Our American Legion is out to sell

Defense Bonds, but if you ain't interested in seeing that the money for them bonds buys the most stuff instead of just paying the most wages and profits, then I bet the men in the Navy has got better sense, whifh every one of you birds in the service has got to help pay back $25 a piece for every $18.75 somebody puts up if you come back, if you are able to work at a job if you can get a job. Vt const'"' What is the big idea of the whole thing, anyhow? To see how much stuff and e%cl"«' we can turn out for the money we Cooper*- spend? Or only how much money we can spend for the stuff we turn out? That's what I would like to know. Maybe I ain't a real American and am a misguided patriot for not getting steamed up about putting on a world's champeen money spending act, but in ''* them immoral words of that there great cause ,i,at.on, pe'^^ absorbs sailor, Pop-eye, "I yam what I yam an' 'at's all I yam." something like that. sWin Or lets the You take care of the Japs over there. Various , ^^^l I'll take care of the yaps back here. '» teeP "^'^'"''!n toe. Your burned-up you «arn>. Pop

MY DEAR SON: I am sorry to have \ to write this, but I guess nobody can HO B***'^- as I U {ainous | stop things that are inevitable. About Jockey * ibat I under- your father and Mr. Davis, I mean. the ^„ \ This time your father did not hit Mr. endss<»""r;f„a,or \ in Davis the Modern Tonsorial Parlor. cbafe- ,o,.us | >n He smacked him on the Post Office shorts J ^^y. better^ steps. I feel partly to blame, but how \ooW . ,er>voroovetJ was I to know? I sent your father to the Post Office to mail a letter to you and just as he got there Mr. Davis was talking to some fellow on the Post Office steps and telling him that he and "Stinky" were making more money in defense work than they ever made in their lives before. I will say your father R^^"'"", . Before exercised a surprising amount of self Uev'scottoo control then and went in and mailed the B'^'^^T letter. Unit f^^Vreturnsto and"-^ ^,^pe But when he came out Mr. Davis easily was saying to this other man that so far as he w'as concerned this war could

go on forever. That was when it hap- ... varied leg lengths pened. I don't know how many times tired shirts to match. your father hit him, but he let him have it good and plenty. Your father says the first crack was for you, the second was for himself as a veteran of the

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NOVEMBER, 194; 59 When Ansvtfring AnvFRTTspMrNTs Pi ease Mention The American Legion Magazine Now Mr. Davis says he is going to Gee, Pop, please excuse what I wrote just a danged old fool, like you said. sue your father. And because he couldn't before. I guess I am just young and Now I am sitting home nursing a sore go to work even yet he is going to have don't know what it is all about yet. hand. your father charged with sabotaging the But with blood like yours in my veins, Enclosed is ten dollars which I guess defense program. Oh, war is such a ter- if I don't get to be a general in this you can use and which I wish it was rible thing! I am so glad you are safe. man's Army it will be my own fault. more but people like Davis and his son With lots of love, Your proud and affectionate "Stinky" is getting some of the rest. I Mother Son just only hope they turn out the stuff. I guess I can't do nothing about the DEAR POP: I take it all back! I got DEAR SON: Forget all about what we rest of it and I shouldn't of done what Mother's letter about you and Davis. said in our letters to each other. I guess I did. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! What a pop! I don't know so much, after all. I am Lots of ways things are happening And am I proud to be your son! And beginning to think you're right. the same as they did the last time, which did the boys in my company give three What I done to Davis ain't prevented I hoped they wouldn't. Lots of ways cheers for you when I told them! They no strikes or stopped over-time, over- they are different, too, which I wish said you should get the Distinguished profits, double-time or double-cross or they weren't. But a war is a cockeyed

Service Cross. When I told them you nothing. It is just the same as it was thing, anyhow. already had it from the last war they before I tangled up with this so-and-so Your affectionate give you three more cheers. Davis. So it didn't do no good. I am Pop MOST DISHONORABLE RAKE

{Continued from page 23) der, and make lawn again. And let the wrecked my most dishonorable bamboo the beautiful to call on me—object, silk oak leaves fall where they may. For lawn rake, and tossed its sorry bolts grass. In which case I shall be prepared I shall then need only to step from my and nuts and wire and washers into the to yield and plant a blade or two. But front door, cut myself a fine high stem box in the garage which holds all odds trust me, what they lack in area these of grass, take it back to the work bench and ends, however small, of salvage shoots will make up in height. They will in the garage, and make myself an hon- metal. I hope it goes into a bomb, and go up like Jack's beanstalk. Bamboo, orable American bamboo lawn rake. that young Mike returns it to Japan. which is grass, and packs a very mean How from now on can any man ever And you have no idea how good it is, soul-uphft, grows, what I mean, in trust anything that bears the mark of not to have anything Japanese around Southern California. my dishonorable lawn rake? Yet there the place. Ever since last December I Also my post-war plans require bam- are such things by thousands and by have been half afraid to lay aside that boo. After my grandson Mike has set thousands here in America, marked in- tool while loading raked-up oak leaves the rising sun, and AAA gives me the eraseably with the brand "Japan." If I into the wheelbarrow. Its fan reminds old heave-ho, oozing with carrot juice had my way every single thing so marked me of the giant cobra's spreading hood. at every pore, I shall explode a long- would go back to the country where it And it was easy to imagine it rising up pent and profane farewell to rabbit fod- got that stigma. At any rate I have to strike me—when my back was turned. RED FLASH

{Continued from page 11) "Outboard motor Joe, Jr. Bay Bis- He stopped swimming instinctively. He Bataan—not any of those foreign places cayne. Observed periscope. Fishing boat knew that fish don't ordinarily attack you've been reading about in the news- Mount Olympus torpedoed!" anything that remains motionless. The papers and hearing about on the radio "Thank you." pain stayed, but the searing, cauterizing but right here in our own front yard Just like that. No fuss, no feathers. effect of the salt water seemed to be with the Gulf Stream still aglow and Then another streak of foam. doing a little good. the high buildings of Miami and Miami The sub couldn't have scored a direct "If I don't bleed to death first." Beach carved against the skyline. hit on the Joe, Jr. as it had on the Mount That was his last conscious thought.

Automatically Brandon knew what to Olympus. Otherwise there'd have been Then, after a long time. . . . do. He'd done some air spotting, he and no more left of his own boat than of "Easy, there!" a lot of other Legionnaires and volunteer Nick's. Poor Nick! As a target the Joe, Men were lifting him into a boat. He "civilians." You went up in the Uni- Jr. must have been too small. But some- awoke long enough to hear one say: versity or the Biltmore or the water thing was wrong. Undersea concussion "Is he gone? Look at that leg." tower where there were signs to guide maybe. "He will be if we don't get him over you and observed planes. Then you All Brandon knew was that he had to the ship first. Look, he's got a Legion dialed Army Flash and gave your post been cast into the ocean, that the Joe, button on." and a description of the plane and its Jr. was sinking and that with it went "Yeah, must be an old timer." height and speed and whence it was an investment of four hundred and fifty "Yes, but not too damned old. The coming and where it was going. But that dollars. Dirt cheap, the man had said. chief said he got a flash. Something was easy—routine stuff. When you dialed He started swimming desperately al- about a boat being torpedoed. This must Red Flash it meant that something ex- though he knew there wasn't a chance of be the guy that put it through." 'traordinary was taking place—an emer- his making shore, not even one of the And, after a lapse, other voices were gency. half -submerged keys. Then a searing talking:

This was distinctly a Red Flash oc- pain shot through his right leg. "What was it, doctor, a shark?" casion. Torpedo?—No, that's crazy. If they "No, sir, sharks cut through the bone. Into his marine radio he bellowed: couldn't hit the Joe, Jr. they can't hit His leg is stripped of flesh. Barracuda."

"Red Flash!" me. Besides, I wouldn't be here if they "They bad?"

• Immediately a voice. Then had. Must be a fish. "Plenty. Long time ago a girl, cham-

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pion swimmer she was, got attacked by "I think you'd better, dear." Delia a barracuda going across Tampa Bay. 0 ^ §^tfffP was calm. She was dead when they brought her He would have done almost anything

ashore." rather than open it, but it seemed he "How about this fellow? He ought to had to. get a medal of honor after what he did? "Dear Mr. Brandon—

I don"t want to make it posthumous." (It seemed they could be human after "I'll do my best, sir." all.) Then he was lying on a table and "In regard to the ship torpedoing of people were doing things to his leg. which you were recently informed, we Somebody was forcing whisky between have learned that several boat loads of his lips. Perhaps "forcing" wasn't the the men were saved. We regret" (there's word. Then— that damned "regret" again) "that while "He'll be all right. Walk with a limp, we have not as yet been able to ascer- but otherwise okay." tain the identity of the survivors and "Oh, I'd rather sit outside "You're a wonder-worker, doctor." do not wish to arouse any false hopes, here and enjoy the breeze." "Hell, I couldn't kill off one of these there is a fair chance that your son may old timers even if I wanted to.'' be among the number." "Keep quiet. He's awake." "Sub that got 3'our friend and almost "Here's the other letter," said Delia. Two men in uniform were bending got you." Brandon read: over him. Their faces were solicitous "Where've I been all this time?" "Dear Dad and Ma: This has to go respectful. "Out like a light. But it was your air mail and you understand I can't tell "Want to see something, old timer?" red flash that did the trick." you where I am. I got off in one of the Brandon didn't like the old timer busi- There was quite an escort to see him boats, but Timmie and Morris and a lot ness much, but he grunted an assenting: home. The neighbors persisted in re- of others didn't. Timmie and Morris "Ugh!" garding Brandon as a hero. Delia super- were swell eggs. So you can understand

"Think it's all right to move him?" vised the carrying of the stretcher into why it's my personal job to stick around "When he sees what we're going to the house. until I've settled accounts with interest show him he'll probably jump over- "Dr. Walsh will be here in a few min- with those— board out of sheer joy." utes, Joe. I just phoned him. And there He stopped. He was carried on deck and forward are a couple of letters here for you. "What he says isn't fittin' for man to where a little group of surly men One from the Government." nor beast, least of all for your shell-like was assembled. "I don't want to see it.'' It must be ears, Delia. Only when this war is over

"Crew of the sub," an officer ex- about Stanley. Wasn't it enough with 'Tourist Accommodated' is going to have plained. two of his boys gone that they had to one non-paying and permanent cus- "Sub?" pick Stanley for that Second Front? tomer."

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{Continued from page 21) Convention, and other advertising data." employment in industry of women with Preparatory to the favorable action The recommendation was approved. young children until all other sources

which was taken by the Legion national It was recommended by the Ameri- of labor supply had been exhausted ; that convention, the following recommenda- canism Committee that the American- if eventually such women should be em- tion, submitted by Mrs. Myrtle J. ism Essay Contest be continued for ployed, their help should be used on Chafee, National Chairman of the con- another year, the subject and title of such shifts as will cause the least dis- stitution and by-laws committee, was the essay to be "Making America turbance in their family life; that the unanimously approved by the Auxiliary Strong." The continuance of the project Auxiliary on that basis, cooperate and delegates of placing America's Creed cards in all lend its support in the formulation of "In the event the Congress of the hotels in the United States also received sound local, state and federal programs United States shall amend the eligibility approval, as was the resolution making of day care for children. The committee clause in the act creating The American a project of all Units placing the record- recommended that the usual contribu- Legion, this section [of the Auxiliary ing of the dramatization of "The Star- tion of $10,000 be made to The Amer- constitution and by-laws] shall be Spangled Banner" in all schools. ican Legion for child welfare purposes, deemed amended in conformance there- The Finance Committee recommended and that the Auxiliary continue to share with but subject to all consistent limita- that the annual sale of Poppies be kept with the Legion and its affiliated groups tions and restrictions now applicable to distinct from community and state war in the Child Welfare Area Conferences. members of the American Legion Aux- chest drives that are being adopted more It was recommended also that greater iliary." As Mrs. Murrill expressed it, generally throughout the country. From stress be placed on the prevention and this action will permit the membership the Pan-American Study Committee treatment of juvenile delinquency, par- of the Auxiliary to grow to undreamed- came the recommendation that the ticularly in view of situations that have of numbers. Auxiliary endorse the study of the Span- arisen due to the war emergency. Chairmen of the national convention ish language and that it sponsor neces- In addition to the recommendation committees who submitted the reports sary legislation in each Department to made by the Constitution and By-Laws of their respective committees for con- provide for a course in Spanish in the Committee regarding an amendment vention consideration, were: Miss curriculum of all secondary' schools. A which will cover the opening of the Blanche W. Scallen, Credentials; Mrs. study program of Argentina for the en- Auxiliary's ranks to women relatives of Harrison Smith, Permanent Organiza- suing year was also recommended. men now in service, a new article was tion; Child Welfare. Mrs. Lee W. Hut- Area Conferences on Rehabilitation approved making all subsidiary organi-

ton; Mrs. Myrtle J. Chafee, Constitu- should be continued according to the zations of the Auxiliary subject to regu- tion and By-Laws; Mrs. Harlan Briggs, approved recommendation of the Com- lation by action of the National Con-

Music; Mrs. Alfred J. Mathebat, Re- mittee which handles that important vention or the National Executive Com- habilitation; Mrs. Norton H. Pearl, activity, and the annual ten cents per mittee. It was specified that such or- Americanism; Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, capita contribution to the special Na- ganizations should not have national Civilian Defense; Mrs. Lutie Long tional Rehabilitation Fund, of which dues higher than the parent organization Smith, Community Service; Mrs. Joseph total sum each year $25,000 is allocated and that they be required to file a com- F. Miecynski, Education of Orphans of to The American Legion, should be again plete financial statement of receipts and Veterans; Mrs. C. D. Cunningham, approved. expenditures with the National Presi- Junior Activities; Mrs. Charles B. Gil- Recognizing the increasing numbers dent and National Finance Committee bert, Legislation. of women who are being employed in of the Auxiliary before each National Also Mrs. Frank D. Grantham, Mem- war industries, the Child Welfare Com- Convention. bership; Mrs. Lawrence Smith, National mittee submitted a resolution that the The Radio Committee presented a Defense; Mrs. R. Elton Warman, Pan- War Manpower Commission defer the resolution discontinuing the annual American Study; Mrs. E. M. Stone- braker. Poppy; Mrs. Harold Diers, Pub- lication; Mrs. Eben P. Keen, Radio; Mrs. Jett Thomas, Employment; Mrs. W. Harvey Stegman, Finance; Mrs. Lowell C. Allen, Resolutions; Miss Ade- laide Fitzgerald, Rules, and Mrs. John V. Lewis, Trophies, Awards and Em- blem. Special recommendations and resolu- - tions were offered for consideration by certain of the committee chairmen, but the only recommendation submitted by the National President was "that a campaign be conducted during the next administrative year presenting the benefits to be derived and the reasons for the desire to place National News in the hands of every member at a cost of fifteen cents per year, such subscription to be added to national dues. That the question of this increase be considered at ever>' Department Convention. That the National Finance Committee author- ize a sum sufficient to properly present this subject, such sum to include cost of sample copies at each Department 62 award of a bronze plaque to the radio offices was an all-important order of busi- Caucuses being equivalent to election by station or network whose programs are ness of the second session. For the office the convention-at-large—were presented selected as outstanding in supporting the of National President, Mrs. C. T. Mc- by the retiring National Vice Presidents. present w'ar effort, and that some other Quown, Department President of Georgia, They were: Mrs. W. J. Danforth, Fort appropriate form of recognition be given presented the name of Mrs. Pleasant I. Worth, Texas, Southern Division; Mrs. instead. This was in support of the Dixon of Thomasville, Georgia, and De- Hubert A. Goode, Portland, Oregon, metal conservation program. partment President Mrs. Joseph W. For- Western Division; Mrs. Russell H.

From the Past President's Parley came ster of California, placed Mrs. Alfred J. Howell, Highland Park, New Jersey, a resolution in which recognition was Mathebat of Alameda, California, in Eastern Division; Miss Marie Koch, given to the fact that thousands of nomination. There were no other candi- Aberdeen, South Dakota, Northwestern women are again taking their places in dates. Division, and Mrs. Lutie Long Smith, the service of the country. As the Par- The names of the women nominated Kansas City, Missouri, Central Division. ley's principal activity has always been for National Vice Presidents — their The annual Radio Award to the broad- furthering the welfare of women veter- choice by their respective Divisional casting system or station whose pro- ans, the resolution provides for the extention and broadening of its program to include the welfare of disabled and hospitalized nurses of World War II, as well as those of the first World War. It was recommended that the Window Display Contest be continued and re- THIS IS DISTANCE SWITCHBOARD solved that the Auxiliary, its Depart- A LONG ments and Units cooperate fully in the Legion's program of assisting in obtain- ing the vast number of recruits required by the United States Navy. These actions were contained in the report of the National Defense Committee. The Auxiliary through a resolution offered by the Civilian Defense Com- mittee went on record to assist fully the State Governors, State Defense Coun- cils, State Health Officials and law en- forcement officials in the campaign of fighting social diseases and attendant evils. Service of the Auxiliary was also pledged in securing enlistments in the Were can't get materials two newly-organized Army and Navy to build enough of women's organizations—the WAACS and WAVES, respectively. them. And those we Under direction of the 21st National Convention in Milwaukee in 1941, Mrs. have now are crowded Murrill appointed a Special Committee with war calls. on Combined Committees to study the advisability of combining some of the So please do not numerous standing committees of the Auxiliary. Mrs. MeK-ille Mucklestone, make Long Distance Past National President, as Chairman of calls to centers of war the Special Committee, reported its find- ings to the National Executive Commit- activity. tee at its meeting the day before the convention opened. The report received These girls are at the approval of the Executive Commit- battle stations tee and was accepted by the convention on the when presented by Mrs. Mucklestone. telephone front. They Its acceptance by the delegates resulted in the following changes: The have as much as they activities of the Music Committee were can do to get the war transferred to the Community Service Committee; the Emblems, Trophies and calls through. Awards Committee was abolished and the bestowal of awards was placed under the jurisdiction of the several committees that issue them; the activities of the Employment Committee were transferred to the Rehabilitation Committee. The National Defense Committee was re- tained as a separate committee, while the Civilian Defense Committee was given the new title of War Activities Committee by action of the convention. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Nomination of candidates for national

NOVEMBER, 1Q42 63 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine grams had perfonned the greatest service of the Legion of St. Louis, director. The Historian was approved. Mrs. Grace Gil- in the war effort was presented by Mrs. music was arranged by Legionnaire Bal- bert King was appointed National His- Eben P. Keen, National Radio Chair- lew and some of it was of his own com- torian. man, to the Blue Network, which was position. accepted by Edward Borroff, Vice Presi- An unusual situation arose when at AT THE annual Pouvoir of the 8 and dent, Chicago Division of that network. 12:30 o'clock of the last session, it was 40, the honor and service organiza- Many distinguished guests brought announced that the election of national tion of the American Legion Auxiliary, greetings and addressed the convention. officers was the next order of business. the following contributions were pro- Colonel Oveta Cu'p Hobby, Director of A stipulation of the national By-Laws is vided for: $1,000 to the National Jewish the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps that a twenty-four-hour period must Hospital, Denver; $1,000, known as the (WAACs), and Lieutenant Mary Daily, elapse between the nomination of of- "Jewel Box Fund," to The American Women Appointed for Volunteer Emer- ficers and the casting of ballots—and Legion Child Welfare Division; $1,000 gency Service, U. S. Naval Reserves, nomination had not been made until two to The American Legion Child Welfare (WAVES), reported the programs being o'clock the previous day. By unanimous emergency fund; $1,000 for a scholarship carried out by the women volunteers and consent this provision of the By-Law fund of the 8 and 40 to be used by war the splendid progress being made in their was set aside, and a roll-call vote taken orphans in the five Divisions; $250 to respective organizations. Among other for National President. After tabulation, The American Legion Crippled Chil- noted speakers were Dr. Walter Wilkins, it was announced that Mrs. Alfred J. dren's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida; Nutrition Division, PSA; William C. Mathebat of Cahfornia had been elected $250 to the American Legion Auxihary FitzGibbon, Special Assistant to Secre- National President by a majority of Children's Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, tary of the Treasury Henry C. Morgen- fourteen votes over the opposing can- $300 to the 8 and 40 Health Center, thau, Jr.; Alvin C. Eurich, OPA, and didate, Mrs. Pleasant I. Dixon of Tucson, Arizona; $250 to Hi-Pass Camp, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ian Frazier of Georgia. California; $100 to the National Tuber- England, National Commander Roane Waring of culosis Association's Research Division, To Mrs. Roy N. Pierson, member of The American Legion, whose election and $200 to the American Legion Auxil- the National Committee on Volunteer had been decided unanimously, was pre- iary to purchase cigarettes for men serv- Special Services of the American Red sented to the Auxiliary convention and ing overseas. Cross, went the pleasure of accepting bespoke his admiration of the splendid The above contributions were an- from the American Legion Auxiliary work of the organization and assured the nounced in the report of the 8 and 40 orders for five mobile units—one from women that the close cooperation be- made to the Auxiliary National Con- each of the five geographical Divisions tween the two organizations would convention by Mrs. Hal R. Whitehead, of the organization. They consist of a tinue during his year of ofifice. Chapeau National. mobile canteen for disaster service, three The impressive service of installation National officers elected for the ensu- blood-donor units and one ambulance. of the new national officers was con- ing year are : Mrs. Hazel Davis, Denver, Mrs. Pierson thanked the Auxiliary and ducted by Mrs. Melville Mucklestone. Colorado, Chapeau National; Demi- brought a message of greeting from the Past National President. Mrs. James Chapeaux: Mrs. Helen H. Barry, Port- Red Cross. Morris then presented to the retiring land, Oregon, Western Division; Mrs. During pauses in the busy sessions, the National President, Mrs. Murrill, the Frances Low, Chattanooga, Tennessee, delegates were entertained by a number national colors under which she had Southern; Mrs, Virginia McCarthy, of musical units, including the Greater served her term of office. Washington, D. C, Eastern; Mrs. Rose Kansas City American Legion Majorette The Twenty-Second Annual National E. Bassett, Detroit, Michigan, Central, Corps and several Auxiliary trios and Convention of the American Legion and Mrs. Eve Bunday, Brooking, South quartettes. Particularly effective at the Auxiliary was declared adjourned. Dakota, Northwestern, opening of the second session was the At a meeting of the new National Mrs. Nellie Backherus, Cincinnati, presentation of a musical pageant, "The Executive Committee within a short time Ohio, was elected I'Archiviste Nationale, Spirit of Victory," by the St. Louis after adjournment of the convention, the Mrs. Agnes Allen of San Francisco, Auxiliary Choral Club, composed of reappointment by National President I'Aumonier, Mrs. Eva Fortune of New twenty singers from the iith and 12th Mrs. Mathebat of Mrs. Gwendolyn Wig- York City, I'Concierge, and Mrs. Mabel Districts of the Auxiliary, and a narrator. gin MacDowell as National Secretary, Jarvis, Denver, Colorado, I'Avocate. Mrs. The script was written by Legionnaire Mrs. Cecilia Wenz as National Treasurer Pauline Rairdon, Indianapolis, Indiana, Clay Ballew of Fred W. Stockton Post and Mrs. E. F. Hussman as National was re-elected la Secretaire-Cassiere.

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(Continued from page 33) panded; matters that might become sub- the American way of life and to protect major of the old regiment, Lee S. jects for legislation should be partic- the principles for which its members Henry, now of Abilene, Texas, was des- ularly studied by this committee," says took up arms in World War I," the Wil- ignated by the War Department to make Commander Campbell. Men who have mington Journal said in an editorial the presentation. What a glowing record had practical experience in governmental praising the plan. "It is a character- the old T-0 made, and that record is affairs were named as members of the istically democratic way of preparing now the heritage of the new unit. committee. They are : H. Eugene Savery, for the future." Wilmington, Chairman; Earl Sylvester, A New Idea Harrington; William E, Matthews, Jr., Ambulances Smyrna; A, Bailey Thomas, Camden; Delaware's new Department Comman- William E, White, Claymont; John R, The war need has spurred a number of der, James A. Campbell, Jr., has set up Fader, Newark; John P, Benson, Wil- Posts to buy ambulances for community a new research committee to study the mington; G. Leslie Gooden, Dover; use. A half dozen reports of new machines changes in American life caused by the Daniel G. Conant, Rehoboth Beach, and bought and presented to the public has current war. "New frontiers must be Calvin E. Afflerbach, Georgetown. come to the desk of the Stepkeeper explored and the functions and respon- "This move is in keeping with the within the past month, each one with sibilities of The American Legion ex- Legion's earlier endeavors to maintain a picture of the machine and group of

64 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine the donor Legionnaires. That is more than use was considered a necessity. Past Commander Elmer Schaffer, space can be stretched to cover if used "As uoe qo ^'^'vhina., Chairman, one at a time. The next best thing is took the lead in raising the funds. When to group the presentations (with apolo- the purchase was made there was enough gies for not printing the pictures) and left over to set up a fund for mainte- thus give some notice of a fine piece of nance. Members of Kathryn Mae Joyce humane work accomplished by a half- Post joined in the project and helped dozen Posts. equip the machine and make it ready for First on the pile are two reports from use." the Department of Connecticut. George Chappaqua, New York, is a place that F. Young, Adjutant of Ernest Godreau will always be associated with Horace Post of Moosup, reports that his Post Greeley, the great American journalist. has purchased an ambulance and has It was his home town. Today Chappaqua placed it in community service. Irving Post of the Legion is a leader in the M. Thornton, Adjutant of Orville La- community life. A report comes from Flamme Post of nearby Jewett City, the Post with a picture of their ambu- says: "Our new ambulance serves the lance and Post leaders grouped around residents of the towns of Griswold, Lis- it, (no statement as to when the am- bon, Voluntown, Glasgo and Canter- furnished by our Auxiliary Unit. The bulance was put into service), but it is bury without cost at any time during Post also uses the machine to transport a useful community asset. The picture the day or night. It was presented to sick members to veterans' hospitals and was taken at a patriotic observance at the Post by a citizen of the community, for other services for veterans. The am- which Judge Hamilton Hicks, an active and is housed in the fire station, where bulance is driven by volunteers from the member of the Post, was the principal a member of that department has as- Post membership." speaker. sumed the task of keeping it cleaned and "The echo of the first shot fired at From Leo P. Hill, Commander of polished." Pearl Harbor had not been silenced Shearer Post, Geneseo, Illinois, comes a Then there are two reports from the when the Commander of Homewood report of civilian defense work engaged in Department of Pennsylvania. "Last year Post got busy on the telphone," reports by his Post and also of the rehabilitation

Charles R. Rowan Post gave a resus- Adjutant Earl J. Huff of Homewood of an old ambulance. citator to the city of Altoona for use in Post, Pittsburgh. "He called all the Post His report reads, "We had the old any emergency," writes Post Comman- officers and all the Past Commanders ambulance painted white, obtained all der R. S. Zimmers. "This year the Post and right there, by 'phone, formed an the necessary equipment for a complete gave Altoona a completely equipped emergency committee. As many indus- job, and presented the machine to the ambulance for use in any emergency trial plants are located in our post area, Civilian Defense Committee for use in call. each one busily engaged in making war any emergency." "A good part of the equipment was supplies, an ambulance for emergency' Boyd B. Stutler

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(Continued from page ig) the way from tales of hotels being taken convention buckled down to the busi- its most important national conclave apart piecemeal; water dumped out of ness at hand on Saturday morning. with a full representation of every con- high windows; carnival jinks on street Scheduled to convene at 9:30 in the tinental Department, and laid its course corners, to the assembly of the five great morning, the seats filled slowly and it for a full year of constructive aid and military leaders of the Allies—Marshal was not until 9:50 that National Com- assistance in bringing about the defeat Foch of France, Admiral Beatty of Great mander Lynn U. Stambaugh rapped the of the totalitarian forces. Britain, General Baron Jacques of Bel- old Liberty Bell, which has graced the When it became necessary, last May, gium, General Diaz of Italy, and our presiding officer's rostrum at every meet- to remove the scene of the National own General John J. Pershing—who ing since the Convention of 1926 at Convention from New Orleans to an in- were together there for the only time Philadelphia, and called the joint ses- land city, Kansas City was agreed upon after the cessation of hostilities in 191 8. sion of the Legion and Auxiliary to as the one place where, because of its Of that distinguished group only Gen- order. The great Arena of the Mu- splendid rail facilities, the assembly of nicipal Auditorium was more than well several thousand persons could be had filled, but delegations were seated with without seriously affecting general trans- a minimum of confusion by Sergeant- portation. Kansas City caught up the at-Arms William D. Browne and his ball—and carried it all the way down trained staff. The Greater Kansas City the line. The Kansas City National Con- Band had been playing for an hour be- vention Committee, headed by James A. fore the meeting was called to order; Young, crowded a full year's work into playing snappy World War tunes, inter- four months and was so well prepared to spersed with the old favorite Civil War handle the affair that praise and com- melodies. mendation was accorded from all sides. The Arena was lacking in the decora- Of course there was a shortage of hotel tions that usually grace the convention rooms. That was to be expected in any hall, and most noticeable of all was the city in America where Uncle Sam has utter lack -of placards announcing the moved his young men in for special candidacy of this man or that for high training in highly technical jobs. And Legion office, and also the absence of so it was that when calling upon men flaming banners put up by cities in the who had formerly entertained in sump- annual contest for the privilege of en- tuous suites one would more than likely tertaining the next National Convention.

old timer sharing a single-bed True it is there were condidates for find the "Glve me one good reason why room with another old timer. Or, per- office and cities bidding for the conven- Junior can't wear your uniform haps, the room would be further crowded tion, but in keeping with the spirit of to the U. S. O. dance tonight!" by the introduction of a cot. Complaints the streamlined meet, decorations and —none. C'est la guerre. banners were eliminated as non-essen- Service uniforms were everywhere eral Pershing is living, now eighty-two tials. Legionnaires back in service, trained years old, and he sent his warm, fraternal There was true reverence exhibited down to fighting weight and most of greetings to the men he led in the old when at the opening exercises the invoca- them looking ten years younger. The World War. tion was pronounced by the Rev. Father over Legion blue and the service khaki were But if youthful spirits bubbled Frederick J. Halloran, National Chap- mixed together on the floor of the great at the Kansas City Convention of 1921, lain, and the great audience turned to

convention hall and, in fact, in every it was fully compensated for in the face the flag while Josephine Antoine, committee gathering. Of the 100,000 serious deliberations of the fully ma- Colorado-born coloratura soprano of the Legionnaires who have been permitted tured Legionnaires of 1942. Perhaps, in Metropolitan and Chicago operas, sang to return to active service, a considerable happier days when the Legion has had "The Star Spangled Banner." The brief number obtained leaves of absence long the transfusion of new blood by the in- opening service, the patriotic fervor of enough to attend the meeting in their troduction of younger spirits Kansas the rendition of the National Anthem capacity as national officers or as dele- City will have opportunity to welcome gave just the right theme note for the gates. There they were, representatives another group as young as were the men sessions that followed.

of the rank and file, ranging in grades in 1 92 1. It will always be remembered Kansas City sits on the border be- from private and yeoman to major gen- as the place at which the Legion decided between two great States—Missouri and eral—though the intermediate grades of to invite into its membership those Kansas—with the city on both sides of captain and major predominated. Americans serving in World War Two. the line split by their own rivers, the

Kansas City is still the same friendly The official sessions were busy ones, Missouri and the Kansas. Though Kan-

burg that it was in 1921 when the young crowded with business and reports of sas City, Missouri, was officially the Legion met there for one of its first committees, and with a list of speakers site of the Convention, the contribu- great National Conventions. It still has —men who are leading America today tion of Kansas City, Kansas, was a the same kindly spirit of generous hos- in its civilian and war effort—that would very considerable one. So the Governors pitality so well expressed by Mayor John justify any press agent's reference to it of the two States, Forrest C. Donnell B. Gage when he welcomed the 1942 as a star-studded program. The same of Missouri and Payne Ratner of Kan- meet at the opening session. "It has dispatch of business was observed in the sas, the latter a Legionnaire, extended been twenty-one years since you, in the meetings held by the affiliated bodies a warm welcome, followed by Mayor days of your buoyant youth, took over the Auxiliary, Forty and Eight and Eight John B. Gage for the city; James A. this town," he said. "Our reconstruction and Forty. Young, Chairman of the American

is now complete. The keys to this city After a series of meetings of the Legion Convention Committee for the you do not need; you have had them national standing committees running committee, and Dr. G. A. Clason, re- all these years." through all day Friday, September i8th, tiring Department Commander of Mis- And there were many other references when the affairs of the year were rounded souri, for that Department. All these to that notable 1921 gathering running all up and complete reports formulated, the welcoming addresses were responded to

66 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine by Stephen F. Chadwick, Past National local and national radio systems gave who appeared as the spokesman of Commander. freely of time and of their facilities all the fighting men in the Navy, the Mrs. Mark W. Murrill of Massachu- and as a result these speeches were not Coast Guard and the United States setts, who during the past year led the delivered to the congress of World War Marines—the men who are fighting the Auxiliary to new heights in membership veterans alone, but to the entire nation. battles of the Atlantic, the broad Pacific, and constructive accomplishment, was Keynote speaker of the convention's in Tulagi, Guadalcanal, and of our little presented by National Commander opening session was Frank Knox, Secre- known heroes of the fleet submarines Stambaugh as "a noble American woman tary- of the Navy, one of the founding who find their targets in the waters that who has given her talents and character fathers of the Legion and first Depart- wash the shores of Japan itself. as an inspiration to us all." Mrs. Mur- ment Commander of New Hampshire, If Secretary Knox struck the keynote,

rill, a Legionnaire in her own right and the only Legionnaire who has ever served as National President of the Auxiliary, ! ITi U U briefly addressed the joint session. A dramatic note was added to her appear- ance on the platform; as she advanced to the rostrum her colors were also ad- Jlarlin vanced and as she faced the audience she was flanked by Old Glory and the Auxiliary national standard. Mrs. Murrill recalled that in 1921 a few delegates representing 131,000 members of the American Legion Auxiliary met in Kansas City for their first Na- tional Convention. Twenty-one years, she said, is a significant age, it marks the step from youth to maturity. At this second Kansas City Convention the delegates represented and spoke for 535,000 mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of the men who fought the war of nearly a quarter century ago. ^eep-cut "Ballard" ment, all Marlin rifles have been

President Roosevelt, who found it im- rifling was first thoroughly tested and targeted. possible because of the press of wartime introduced in 1875 by Marlin recently introduced a duties to accept the invitation to be Marlin in a single new chemical treatment for barrel present tendered him by National Com- shot rifle. The superi- bores which resists rust and corro- mander Stambaugh, sent a word of per- ority of this new type sion. This new im- sonal greeting. "I deeply regret that I rifling was so marked that Marlins provement adds to' have found it impossible personally to 1875 model soon became recog- the long life and join with you and your comrades," nized as the world's outstanding trouble-free use of wrote the Commander-in-Chief. "Rest target arm. Marlin rifles. assured, however, that I do appreciate For many years, Marlin rifles These famous Mar- the splendid strength of The American have featured Ballard type rifling for lin features are worth Legion and its Auxiliary. This strength accuracy and long life. Before ship- remembering after the war is won. is not only to be measured in the size THE MARLIN FIREARMS CO. of your membership, which is large, but I870 * 1942 as well and perhaps more importantly, NEW HAVEN, CONN., U.S.A. in the quality of its principles and in its force in America in the preservation of our freedoms and ideals of democratic government . . . With our advent into Getting Up Nights Makes war you rendered to the nation your full support that its war effort be vigorous and that all things be done that can be Many Feel Old Too Soon done to win the war. I am most grateful If you're feeling out o' sorts. Get Up Nights or which may become poisonous if allowed to ac- for your support in the furtherance of suffer from Burning Passages, Backache, Swollen cumulate, thus aiding nature in stimulating an in- Anitles, Nervousness, Rheumatic Pains, Dizziness, crease of energy, which may easily make you feel this nation's war policy, especially so Circles Under Eyes and feel worn-out. the cause years younger. non-systemic Kidney and coming as it does from men who have may be non-organic and Bladder troubles. Guaranteed Trial OfFer seen war and men who subsequently have Worry, Colds, working too hard, or over-eating Usually, in non-organic and non-systemic Kid- or drinking may create an excess of Acids and enjoyed the fruits of peace. Proud you ney and Bladder disorders the very first dose of overload your Kidneys so that they need help to Cystex goes right to work helping the Kidneys flush must be, as are we all, of those men flush out poisonous wastes that might otherwise out excess Acids, poisons and wastes. And this undermine your health. cleansing, purifying Kidney action, in just a day or among you who again have taken up Help Kidneys Remove Acids so, may easily make you feel younger, stronger and arms for their country." better than in years. An iron clad guarantee in- Nature provides the Kidneys to clean and purify sures an immediate refund of all your money un- A flood of oratory were unloosed at your blood and to remove excess Acids. The Kid- less you are completely satisfied. Get Cystex from neys contain about nine million tiny tubes or fil- your druggist today for only 35c. the opening session and continued right ters through which the heart pumps blood about Author's Note: Cystex is produced under the direction a licensed physician The down to the last fall of the gavel on 200 times an hour, night and day, so it's easy to of for Knox Co., see that they may get tired and slow down when one of the largest drug companies in the world Monday evening. A continuous proces- overloaded. with laboratory connections in the U.S.A., Canada, Fourteen years ago a practicing physician's pre- England, Australia and South America. The guar- sion of men highly placed in Govern- scription called Cystex was made available to the antee of money back unless satisfied is enforced ment, and in the Naval and Military- public through drug stores, making it easy and in- 100% and is a dependable form of expensive to help thousands suffering from non- assurance to all users of Cystex. establishments, as well as spokesmen organic and non-systemic Kidney and Bladder simple ways: 1. the for industry, labor and education, passed troubles in these three Help Now35e-75e-$1.50 Kidneys remove excess acids which may become across the stage at the huge Municipal poisoning and irritating. 2. To palliate burning and smarting of the urinary passages, and bladder Stex Auditorium, one after another. The '^. flush wastes Cy irritation. Help the Kidneys out

NOVEMBER, 19+2 When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine the address of Under Secretary of War U. S. Navy. Dr. L. J. Kosminsky, Chef was sustained. In the other, the report Robert P. Patterson—a fighting man de Chemin de Fer of the Forty and of the Committee on Constitutional who won a D.S.C. with the 306th In- Eight, reported for the shock troops Amendments calling for the remission of fantry in France in 191 8—was pitched under his command, and Legionnaire dues to the members of the organiza- in the same key. "Our job is to win the Governor Dwight H. Green of Illinois tion now in service, was defeated on a war," he declared. "Nothing else counts." delivered a brief but rousing address. roll call by a vote of 989 to 452. That And he recited a long list of the things On reconvening Sunday afternoon, roll call, other than for the purpose of necessar>' to do to win the war, admit- Thomas W. Miller of Nevada, who had nomination of officers, was the only one ting the possibility of defeat if there is a distinguished part in the formation of of the three days' sessions. not a complete national unity and a the Legion from the original meeting First of the official reports was that singleness of purpose put squarely be- in Paris, recalled that not since that of the Committee on Resolutions pre- hind the will to win. Of the criticism memorable caucus at Paris on March sented by its Chairman, William T. directed at American fighting planes he 16, 1919, had a Legion National Con- Joyner of North Carolina, who read a declared that "in all my travels I haven't vention assembled on a Sunday for the declaration of war principles for the yet met an American or an Australian transaction of business. Featured ad- guidance of the Legion. The declaration pilot who would trade his Kittyhawk pledged full support to the President; fighter for a Zero." called for the same sacrifice and courage The press of official business kept now being displayed by our armed Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somer- forces; denounced strikes, lockouts and vell, Chief of the Services of Supply, at cessations from work as sabotage, and his desk in Washington, but he sent his condemned religious prejudices and racial message to be delivered to the Conven- or national antagonisms as weapons of tion by Major General George Grunert. our enemies. General Somervell called on the Legion The report of the Committee on to assert its leadership; to guide the Finance was read by R. L. Gordon of people to realistic thinking, and to lead Arkansas, embodying a recommendation the nation in showing how to take it on that the annual per capita dues for the chin and come back for more. national purposes be fixed at $1 and The Legion has had its place on the further -recommending that, because of civilian defense front, a work that was the serious effect it would have on the begun long before the attack on Pearl national program, the proposal to waive Harbor and the declaration of hostilities dresses at this session were those by payment of dues by members now in by Germany, beginning even before Lieutenant General Ben Lear, com- service be rejected. January, 1941, when the Legion's mis- manding the Second Army, A. C. Flora, Thomas W. Miller of Nevada, Chair- sion, under National Commander Milo President of the National Education As- man of the Committee on Constitutional Warner, was sent to Great Britain to sociation, Brigadier General Frank T. Amendments, asked that action be with- study the British methods of home de- Hines, Administrator of Veterans' Af- held on the waiver of dues because of a fense. fairs, and William Green, President of report his committee had formulated. The Convention rose in welcome to the American Federation of Labor. Chairman Miller's report requested an Dean James M. Landis, Director of the The convention paused to pay its important and history-making one. The Office of Civilian Defense, when he was tribute to our dead in an impressive Congress was asked to amend the na- introduced by National Commander ceremony conducted by National Chap- tional charter of The American Legion Stambaugh as the official who gave the plain Father F. J. Halloran. Official to make veterans of the current war Legion its first specific war assignment, announcement was made of the deaths eligible to membership and, at the same that of training air raid wardens. He of two delegates to the convention, both time, presented amendments to the paid a distinct compliment to the or- stricken suddenly while going about Legion's Constitution to become opera- ganization for its work on the home their duties—Homa L. Morris of Paris tive if and when the Congress acts front, "but the Legion has not and Post. No. I, serving as Secretary of the favorably on the petition. should not be content with aiding with Committee on Internal Organization, and Harry Benoit, Chairman of the Stand- work of a semi-military nature," he de- Delegate Charles P. Brooks, Senior Vice- ing Committee on Constitution and By- clared. Commander-elect of Brockton (Massa- Laws, offered a substitute resolution in Past National Commander Louis A. chusetts) Post. The service concluded the nature of a minority report, provid- Johnson, former Assistant Secretary of by "There Is No Death," sung by Miss ing that if the war terminates before War, and Past National Commander Josephine Antoine, the official soloist. the next National Convention, the Na- Paul V. McNutt, who appeared before Reflecting the unanimity of thought tional Executive Committee be directed the Convention officially as Director of and action, committee after committee to petition the Congress to amend the the War Manpower Commission, one of made its report to the convention for national charter, and that the Constitu- the most important agencies in the final action, to have the report received tion of the Legion be amended to con- prosecution of the war, also addressed without debate and with a minimum of form therewith, admitting veterans of the opening session, as did William questions from the floor. The several the current war to membership. Roland Witherow, President of the National As- committee meetings had been open to B. (Billikin) Howell of Louisiana moved sociation of Manufacturers, and Colonel the proponents of every controversial that the substitute be tabled. A chorus

J. Monroe Johnson of South Carolina, issue—in fact the meetings of the more of "ayes" to table, with only a thin long a member of the National Execu- important committees were small con- trickle of "noes" was the response to tive Committee and now a member of ventions within themselves—and in the question from the chair. As the the Federal Interstate Commerce Com- nearly every instance the controversial National Commander declared the mo- mission, who presented the official medal- matters were ironed out before the tion to table sustained, Benoit turned lion to Acting Mayor John L. Bohn of propositions reached the floor. In only away with the remark "It was a good Milwaukee, commemorating the 1941 two instances were substitute resolu- idea, anyway." National Convention in that city. Mayor tions presented—in one case, that re- The parliamentary situation cleared, Carl F. Zeidler, the youthful Mayor lating to amending the Legion's Con- there was no question about the vote who was the gracious host last year, is stitution to admit the veterans of the to adopt the original resolution to ask in active duty as a Lieutenant in the present war, the report of the committee for amendment of the charter right

68 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine — now. A few minutes later a speaker re- brought the greetings of the British ferred to the Legion as a "dying organi- Legion. zation." "Not now," came a chorus from The fat of the easy years upon which the floor. "We fixed that just a few Americans have been living thus far in ATTENTION minutes ago." the war will be worn away within a Chairman Miller resumed his report year, was the grim prediction of Mr. with a recommendation from his com- Nelson. He told the 1,501 delegates LEGIONNAIRES mittee that the dues of all members that when the United States reaches its in the armed forces be waived for the full war effort, there will not be an That resolution was in direct ounce of strength, energy or wealth to duration. INVESTIGATE this NEW com- conflict with the recommendation of spare. "Right now," he declared, "ap- bination Mobile Hospital — the Finance Committee, and it was the proximately forty percent of our pro- Disaster — Demolition — Res- one question decided, with a minimum duction is going for war. By the middle of debate, by a roll call vote. The of next year that proportion has to be cue — Fire Fighting — Catas- recommendation of Miller's committee around sixty percent. No more luxuries, trophe Unit for YOUR com- was tabled by a vote of 989 to 452. The no more gadgets, no more comforts munity! recommendation of Chairman Gordon of nothing at all from mine or farm or the Finance Committee was then adopted factory except that which we must have by an almost unanimous vote. to keep fighting." Leo Duster of Iowa, Chairman of the Other speakers on the last day were National Convention Liaison Committee, James K. McClintock, Vice Chairman reported that invitations had been re- of the American Red Cross; Albert P. ceived from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Smith, Jr., 15-year-old Tennessee lad and Omaha, Nebraska, to receive the who won the Legion's 1942 National

1943 convention. He called attention to Oratorical Contest ; Carroll Parish, Cap- the war considerations of transportation tain, California Detachment of The Sons and housing and recommended that se- of the American Legion; Elbert H. lection of the next convention city be Burns of Illinois, newly elected Chef held in abeyance for action by the Na- de Chemin de Fer of the Forty and tional Executive Committee at a later Eight, and Mrs. Ruth Mathebat of meeting. The report was approved. Alameda, California, who had just been Howard Rowton, Florida's Depart- installed as the new National President The Catastrophe Unit is a combina- ment Adjutant, Chairman of the Com- of The American Legion Auxiliary. tion unit for Mobile Hospital. Dis- mittee on Internal Organization, and B. Routine business and hearing reports aster, Demolition, Rescue and Fire A. Brooks of Arkansas, chairman of the of committees proceeded with dispatch Fighting, self-contained in a twenty- Committee on Americanism, presented and without extended debate. First, two and one-half (22V2) foot body of special design. their reports, which were unanimously Chairman James Casserly of Louisiana It is presently equipped for providing adopted. These and other actions of the read the report of the Committee on care to 100 minor emergencies and convention are available in the Summary Education of War Orphans, in which a for seven major surgical operations of Proceedings, a copy of which is fur- provision was made to extend the scope in the field. It can carry twenty-five nished to every Post. of the benefits to the children of men disaster workers to the scene of a catastrophe together with a comple- Highlights of the Monday session of killed in the present conflict. Chairman ment of six doctors, six nurses and the convention were the address of Glenn H. Campbell of Ohio presented an orderly. Donald M. Nelson, Chief of the War the report of the Committee on Publica- Equipment to be carried includes a Production Board; the presentation of tions, and Lawrence Fenlon of Illinois roller operating table, cauterizing in- struments, the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal reported the actions of the Committee and a dozen doctors' and nurses' equipment kits. Space under to General Douglas MacArthur through on Employment. All three were adopted. the floor, and reached from the out- Major General James A. Ulio, the The first Rosenstiel Award of $1,000 side of the unit, holds acetylene Adjutant General of the Army; short- to that Legionnaire who has unselfishly torches, axes, tools, ilares, a resusci- tator, and other equipment which wave radio broadcast from the conven- made the greatest contribution to his might be needed in Catastrophe work. tion platform by National Commander community's welfare during the preced- Many other and unusual features are Stambaugh and General Ulio to General ing Legion year, was announced by James described in brochure, complete with MacArthur and his fighting forces on F. O'Neil of New Hampshire, Chairman photographs and sent on request. the other side of the world, and the of the National Americanism Committee Write presentation of Lieutenant Colonel Sir and Chief of Police of Manchester. The Comrade E. H. Underkircher Kalamazoo Coaches, Inc. Ian Fraser, C.B.E., M.P., blinded in award went to Harry M. Gambrel of Kalmazoo, Mich action in the old World War, who Sanford Brown, Jr., Post of Kansas City.

LEGIONNAIRE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

Roane Waring, Memphis (Tennessee) Post. William Heaslip, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. A. D. Rathbone, IV, Fancher Nicoll Post, Pleasantville. New York, Tyler H. Bliss, Harvey W. Seeds Post, Miami, Florida. Mel Phillips, Lynbrook (New York) Post. Boyd B. Stutler, John Brawley Post, Charleston, West Virginia. John J. Noll. Capitol Post, Topeka. Kansas. V. E. Pyles, 107th Infantry Post, New York City. S. E. Lawrence, Nicholson Post, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Frank A. Mathews, Jr., Frederick M. Rodgers Post, Palmyra, New Jersey. George Shanks, Reville Post, Brooklyn, New York. KALAMAZOO COACHES iE- Conductors of regular departments of the magazine, all of ivhom are Legion- naires, are not listed. Kalamazoo — Mich.

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man Maurice F. Devine of New Hamp- Past National Vice Commander J. Fred shire; Rehabilitation Committee by Johnson to the platform. And what a FOR YOU Chairman John Walsh of Massachusetts; nominating speech he made! He stirred Child Welfare Committee by Chairman the convention to its depths and still L. A. Williams of Washington, and had minutes to go when the delegates Trophies and Awards Committee by began tearing down the state banners Assistant National Adjutant Donald G. for the annual march to the stage. He Glascoff, were read and adopted, one had not yet named his candidate when after the other. the forward surge began, and he was A renewed demand for the immediate almost swept off his feet before he gave enactment of Universal Service legisla- the convention the name of Roane tion was made in the report of the Waring of Tennessee. Legislative Committee, to include pro- The ovation continued, and marching, visions for the drafting or conscription cheering, yelling Legionnaires took over of all of the resources of this nation, the platform while the camera men including capital, labor, industry and popped bulbs like a young Fourth of agriculture, as well as fighting man- July celebration. It was with difficulty power. That section, voted on separately, that the Sergeant-at-Arms and his husky was adopted with a fervor that could staff cleared the way for the National leave no doubt as to the attitude of the Commander to hear a motion that the Legion. It demands now, as it has for election be made unanimous. The ques- MacArthur is giving twenty years, equal service for all and tion was put, but Stambaugh's voice was HIS Ml.., are i/oi/p special profit for none. lost in the wave of applause of the rush- Another pronouncement of the con- ing, milling, banner-waving demonstra- vention of special importance to the men tors. This inspiring full-color poster makes in the armed forces of today was a de- The newly elected leader was brought a grand addition to the bulletin board of your school, club, defense plant or mand that no man be discharged from forward—shoved through by the pres- air-raid warden post. service until after complete clinical sure of the crowd, but the pressure that Send 25c for each copy to record has been submitted to the Veter- brought National Commander Waring THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ans Administration and determination forward shoved the presiding officer back made as to eligibility for federal bene- into the group. It will be noted that, in One Park Avenue New York, N. Y. fits, and further that, prior to discharge, the picture taken just after the election,

70 The AMERIC.'^N LEGION Magazine WHEN Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine — . the presiding officer was not at the desk Past Coiumander of Missouri. A number to receive his successor. What an ovation of seconding .speeches were made, but it was; great because it was spontaneous. all were cut short when National Execu- In a blistering acceptance speech. tive Committeeman Sam Rorex of Ar- National Commander Waring assailed kansas got the floor and moved that the those hampering the war effort as sabo- election of the five named be made teurs and traitors and said the time to unanimous. .And it was so done. deal realistically with them had come. Alf Shepherd of Idaho placed before He pledged the Legion's fullest support the convention the name of Rev. Paul to the President, and at the same time De F. Mortimorc, pastor of the Central called for the protection of personal Christian Church of Pocatello, Idaho, liberties "to the end that the Govern- for the office of National Chaplain. The ment continue to function along con- favorite son of Idaho, long a Legion stitutional lines." worker, was unopposed for the office and Order restored, the convention pro- his election was made by acclamation. ceeded to the election of tive National The concluding ceremonies included Vice Commanders to serve as teammates the presentation of the old stand of with National Commander W^^ring. On colors to National Commander Stam- roll call, Department Commander James baugh by Past National Commander Saliba of Alabama nominated John T. John R. Quinn of California, and the Batten; Arizona yielded to Colorado presentation of the new colors to Na- and Past Department Commander John tional Commander Waring as a symbol Decker named Jefferson Davis Atwood of his investiture and installation in of New Mexico; Department Com- office by Past National Commander Milo mander Edward J. Kelly of Connecticut Warner. "I present you your colors," gave the convention the name of Arthur said Warner. "Unfurl them to the wind, J. Connell, the immediate Past Com- be it fair or foul. Lead us out into the mander of that Department; Captain mighty and critical days ahead, mindful Joe Molloy, member of the National of the great trust which we have now This is no year to take chances on rust Executive Committee for the District imposed in you, and with renewed and and sediment that choke car cooling sys- out car radiators with Sani- of Columbia, presented the name of inspired devotion, because we will fol- tems. Clean Flush before you add anti-freeze. Costs Fred G. Eraser of his Department ; Flor- low you." only a few cents. ida yielded to Missouri, and the immedi- Another, and perhaps the most mo- ate Past Department Commander, Dr. G. mentous. Legion National Convention Don't take chances on just flushing with water. Sani-Flush is thorough. Use A. Clason, nominated Herman H. Lark, thus passed into history. it yourself, or ask your service station. Sani-Flush is absolutely safe in auto cooling systems, when used accord- HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? ing to directions on can. It's in most bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold in If you have changed your address since paying your 1942 dues, notice grocery, drug, hardware and 10c stores. of such change should be promptly sent to the Circulation Department of The Hygienic Products Co., Canton, O. The American Legion Magazine and The National Legionnaire in order to have uninterrupted delivery of the publications. Mr. Legionnaire, this is your job. Don't pass the buck to your post officers. Fill in the coupon printed below—it will serve for both publications. At the same time, if you have not already done so, give notice of change of address to your post adjutant. CLEANS OUT RADIATORS Why do we ask for prompt notice? In the year just past the Circula- tion Division received 14L814 notices from postmasters of their inability to deliver The American Legion Magazine and The National Legionnaire because of incorrect address or because the members moved without noti- FALSE TEETH fying the postmaster or the Circulation Department. Each notice so received costs two cents. KLUTCH holds them tighter

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{Continued jrom page 46) seaman on a veteran subchaser—and this Worries! are back in convoy duty, this time guard- time it's the "Dungaree Navy," an aptly worry and suffer any longer? Why in a descriptive for Learn about our perfected inven- ing our coastwise shipping manner term the fellows who man reducible rup- tion for all forms of that bodes very ill, indeed, for any Nazi the little boats that have chased the ture in men, women and children. Support fitted with automatic air under-sea raider that dares to invade the Nazis from Atlantic shores. While the cushion assists Nature in a natural strengthening of the weakened Atlantic coastal shipping lanes. In this officers dress in Navy khaki, the deck muscles. Thousands made happy. are assisted the I work they ably by modern crew, black gang, and Cookie all wear Weighs but a few ounces, is incori-

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most detrimental to the well-being of out to sea; sometimes it's directly above. Asthma 1 Mlucus any of those elongated, cigar-shaped Then those sky sailors steer their aerial "things." observation post up ahead of the convoy, Loosened First Day or astern of the last ship, always peering For Thousands of Sufferers BACK up on deck, after breakfast, it down deep into the blue waters from the Choking, gasping, wheezing spasms of Bronchial proves to be one of those priceless advantage of their height. Planes come ruin sleep and energy. Ingredients in the Asthma sea, the deep, blue, lazy and go. planes. planes. Civil prescription Mendaco quickly circulate through days at when Navy Army loosen the thick the blood and commonly help ocean swells blend perfectly with the Air Patrol planes, all take turns in wheel- strangling mucus the first day, thus aiding nature in palliating the terrible recurring choking spasms, cloud-flecked canopy that is the sky, ing, banking through the sky. The Limey and in promoting freer breathing and restful sleep. Mendaco is not a smoke, dope, or injection. when a gentle breeze brings briefly grin- trawler, at the head of the procession, Just pleasant, tasteless palliating tablets that have helped thousands of sufferers. Iron clad ning whitecaps as far as the eye can zig-zags back and forth, cuts circles, and guarantee—money back unless completely satis- see • . . and the war is far, far away. generally patrols the waters through factory. Ask your druggist for Mendaco today. Only 60e. But that reverie is short-lived. A bell which the freighters will pass, while the The American Legion rings, curtly, commandingly. There's a Coast Guard ship at the rear of the hurried scurry of feet, a swift movement parade goes through the same tactics to National Headquarters of lithe bodies as 16 of Uncle Sam's guard against a sneak attack from behind. Indianapolis, Indiana newer and decidedly youngish sailors Although the ocean seems peaceful enough August 31, 1942 spring to battle positions on the tiny this glorious morning, there's not an in- Assets warship. Machine guns are manned, the stant that you don't realize the close depth-charge crew stands alert to release proximity of war — ash-cans, machine- Cash on hand and on deposit % 440.01 1.17 Accounts receivable 42,116.90 a deadly ash-can, the skipper and his guns, and cannon on every ship are ever Inventories 146,932,52 their stations Invested funds 2,683,067.76 officers take —and the war at alert; beneath speeding planes and investment Permanent is right back in your lap again, even if hovering blimp may be seen bombs and Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 2 16,776.96 Office building, Washington, D. C. less it was only a practice call to General depth charges in their racks. Later, as depreciation 124,470.98 Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less Quarters. though to emphasize the nearness of the 44,127.05 depreciation But practice call or real thing, the war, the always-present menace to our Deferred charges 28,964.78 way that crew got to battle stations, the shipping and our shores, we sight several ?3, 726,468. 12 efficient manner in which they have wrecks, all victims of the earlier Nazi Liabilities, Deferred Revenue handled their ship from the moment it forays to disrupt our coastal shipping, and Net Worth shoved off—and many of them but a few when meager patrol was necessarily the Current liabilities f 82,940.43 weeks out of boot school—is something order of the day and night, and con- Funds restricted as to use 67,617.99 Deferred revenue 289.872.04 Hitler and Hirohito ought to see. It voying was unknown. Since last May, Permanent trust: would their first Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 2 16,776.96 doubtless disturb slumbers however, when the convoy system Net Worth: to learn that our new Navy, as truly went into effect, attacks and sinkings Restricted capital f2,659,163.05 Unrestricted capital .. 410,097.65 13,069,260.70 American as ever, with its Mulligans, close to shore have greatly decreased

13,726,468.12 Burkes, and Degnans, ia Luziettis, Mac- and even a Nazi submarine commander Leods, and Crosbys, can learn the ways would have to be ultra-fanatical today Frank E. Samuel, National Adjutant of battle at sea so quickly and so to stick his periscope up in the center thoroughly. For of the three officers and of a ring of ships bearing so many tons 16 members of the crew, all of them of death-dealing missives as does this Naval Reservists, only one had ever seen convoy. U.S. GOVERNMENT Navy service prior to December 7th. Although 447 sinkings in American ^ JOB That one was Quartermaster First Class, waters had been reported up to late John H. Hanson, of the U. S. S. Topeka August, the facts are that the ever- START $1260 TO $2100 YEAR in the last fracas, and a Legionnaire from present menace to Nazi subs, as offered

Ex-Service Men f FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Burlington (Vermont) Post. As with by our coastal convoys, has resulted in Get Preference. ' Dept. L-241, Rochester, N. Y. 32-Page Book Sir."!: Rush without ch.arKe. (1) 32- many another Legionnaire, Jack Hanson almost entirely driving these under-water page book with list of U.S. Govern- FREE. ment Jobs; <2) Ted me how to qualify found the call too strong to be denied, moccasins — which never warn before Mail Coupon Today. so he's back at sea once again a veteran they strike from close proximity to our .. — — SURE. / Address 72 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Purchasing Products Please Mention The American Legion Magazine ;

Atlantic shore. The war-like aspects of almost the entire 1888 miles of Atlantic our little ships, the constant alertness shoreline. of the Coast Guardsmen and the new Day after day, night after night Navy men who man the YP's, the ex- through roistering, breezing nor'easters; perience of the Limeys, are making his- under blue summer skies, the ships of tory in maritime safety. Under the the Inshore Patrol — former palatial leadership of Vice-Admiral Adolphus yachts, speedy, modern Coast Guard Andrews, United States Navy, Com- ships, and wooden-bottomed veterans of 1 mander of the Eastern Sea Frontier, the the last war—ply the black waters off convoy s>stem is working from Halifax, the Carolinas every night, grimly salute Nova Scotia, to the northern point of the wrecks off Cape Hatteras by day, Just what your boy needs Florida. and carry on, hour after hour, regardless to make him foot-happy! As additional men and more ships of anything and everything. Their crews, Dr. Scholl's become available, the convoys, with their youngsters all, are true descendants of deadly ash-cans, chunks of dynamite, the "iron men in wooden ships" who FOOT POWDER cannon, machine guns, their other arma- fought America's sea battles of yester- Ready to Mail ment, and their umbrella of aircraft will day, and well may the shades of John For tired, chafed, perspir- ing feet. Eases tight shoes. take over more coastal traffic lanes. They Paul Jones, Oliver Hazard Perry, and David Glasgow rigid will endeavor to provide complete pro- Farragut stand at Dr. 5cfio//'s tection in the Caribbean, whither the attention as the veteran Splinter Boats Nazis retired when the Atlantic coast and their fellow craft, with their nervy, FOOT BALM Ready to Mail became too hot. As this convoy covered ready-to-fight crews, furrow the Atlantic Soothing, refreshing to only one small segment of the coast, so sea lanes in the course of their con- tired, tender, burning other convoys protect their segments, tinuous, often monotonous, yet ever do feet caused by exertion and fatigue. Be sure thus guarding merchant shipping for dangerous duty. to mail one of each to your boy today. Sold at all Drug, Shoe and Department Stores. WHY WEAR THE MESSAGE CENTER DIAMONDS? When Diamomi-Daz/.hn '. Bin* -Wtulc (Contmued from page changed. The October issue was at that genuineZirrnns fromthc Mitu-Huf far- 2) away My.stif Siani arc so effective ancJ inexpensive. ThrilliiiH licaulies that etc., etc.). During the last summer it time on the press. So we cut out the stand acid; rut Klass and are full of diamond FIREI Exquisite niountiuKs! was given to us right out of the horse's line about the World Series, and let it Write for F'REE Catalogue. Address: NATIONAL ZIRCON CO. mouth that Rommel would be able to go at that. The Dodgers still had a Dept. 57 Wheeling. W. Va. roll up the British in Egypt, take Alex- chance to win at that time. To add in- andria, Cairo and Suez "any time he sult to injury (our injury, we mean) Do You Suffer With wants to." we had a picture of Larry MacPhail, COLON TROUBLES? "You know the answer to that one, General Manager of the Dodgers, sit- Are you bothered with Stomach or but maybe the words we have just writ- ting at his desk, a broad grin on his face, Intestinal troubles. Constipation, Piles, Fistula? To get information about these ten will come back to taunt us, for it's sitting at a desk whose one adornment common ailments often caused by colon the time we pound placard announcing quite a spell between was a propped-up infection, write for FREE book which this folderol out and the time when WE WIN. Alas, that was a 1941 pic- contains many diagrams, charts and you see it. These thoughts come to ture. This is 1942, and as we have tried X-Ray pictures of rectal and colonic conditions. The Thornton & Minor Clinic, us as we reflect on the unkindness of to make plain, the Dodgers did not Suite H 1187, 926 McGee St., Kansas City, the Brooklyn Dodgers, who were lead- win. However, we are proud of Mac- Missouri. ing the St. Louis Cardinals in the Phail, who is for the record Legion- National League by some ten games in naire Leland Stanford MacPhail. Be- fJWE August, only to fall apart and finally, fore the Dodgers were completely out ToAnySuitT Double the life of your on the last day of the season, be of the running Larry was back in uni- coat and vest with correctly counted completely out. The Cards in form as Lieutenant Colonel MacPhail, matched pants. 100, 000 patternsr" Every pair hand tailored to your measure. the meantime were putting on an amaz- serving under that other Legionnaire Our match Bent FREE for your O. K. before pants aro made. Fit ^aranteed. Send plooQ ing that tie of all of cloth or vest today. spurt saw them win 43 and whom we are so proud. Lieuten- SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANV 209 S. State Sb Dapt. 389 one game out of the last 53 games of ant General Brehon B. Somervell. Chlcaso the season for a final mark of 106 The Dodgers' didoes were so outrag- games won and 48 lost. During the eously unfair to us that we could only BACKACHE, summer, looking ahead to the October compare them to those of Othello, in issue, we had Legionnaire Charles E. whose mouth the renowned Mr. Shake- LEG PAINS MAY Parker, a sports writer who knows his speare put these words, and let all Flat- Dodgers, do us a piece about the wacki- bush and Brooklyn generally ponder ness of the Brooklyn baseball club over them in the stove league days ahead. BE BANGER SIGN the past fifteen or more years. There Thanks to Mr. Shakespeare, we know Of Tired Kidneys If biirkarlip and lec pains are making you miser- was very little in the article which sug- that Othello, just before he stabbed able, don't just eomrlaiii and do nothing about them. gested that the Dodgers were likely to himself after he had killed his innocent Nature may be warning you that your kidneys need attention. take part in the World Series, but as spouse, said: The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess acids and poisonous waste out of l)lood. help originally designed, the first page of the They most people pass about :! pints a day. the story had a "blurb" or come-on When you shall these unlucky deeds If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. line in big black type saying that the relate. These poisons may start nacging backaches, rheumatic loss pep gettiiig Dodgers would be under dogs to the Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, pains, leg pains, of and energy, up nights, swelling, pufTiness under the eyes, head- New York Yankees of the American Nor naught set down in malice; then aches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and burning sometimes shows there is some- League in the World Series. must you speak thing wrong with your kidneys or bladfler.

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P- THE A GATEWAY TO THE WAR Magazine American Legion {Continued from page j6) away back when? Gives you quite a kick, INDEX of We know that the original Eagle Hut doesn't it? Well, the picture of the guy did not long survive World War I, be- doing bunk fatigue, on page 36, is ADVERTISERS cause in Then and Now in The American a case in point and Blair S. Wilcox of '( ——— Legion Weekly for September 28, 1923, Manistee (Michigan) Post of the Legion, we published a letter from W. H. Stevens connected with the Morton Salt Com- American Telephone & Telegraph Co.. . 63 of London, England, an ex-British pany's works in that city, is delegated to American Tobacco Co. which quote this ex- tell about it: Lucky Strike Cover IV Tommy, from we the Gang Anheuser-Busch, Inc. tract: "Being a Londoner and passing "Not so long ago my sister sent me Budweiser 47 daily the Aldwych iu the Strand when the enclosed snapshot taken of myself going to my work, it has grieved me in Nevers, France, which I had mailed Brewing Industry Foundation 45 greatly to see the old Eagle Hut, con- to her from the A. E. F. in 1918, and Brooks Co 72 trolled by the American Y. M. C. A. for had entirely forgotten. You may be sure Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. all the Allied troops during the war, it brought back a few memories. Cover III Raleigh Cigarettes gradually disappear, until there is noth- "Company D, 33d Engineers, my out-

fit, moved into a field outside of Nevers Calvert Distillers Corp. and set up 'banana crate' barracks to Special & Reserve 65 live in while installing a railroad yard College of Swedish Massage 72 which was to be used for the repair of Coopers, Incorporated 59 hospital trains. The picture was snapped by our demon Ford driver, Private Hus- Davis, Dr. H. H 75 sey, who I believe came from Boston. D.D.D. Corp 70 "The bunk in the picture was the first Dean's Pills 73 one built by anyone in Company D and being a double two-decker was occupied Franklin Institute 72 by Corporal Reilley of St. Paul, Sergeant Cope, whose home town I have for- General Electric Co 51 gotten, Corporal McCutchan of Urbana, Illinois, and myself, who then hailed Haband Ties 70 from Marysville, Tennessee. We named the bunk, which had four railroad-tie Kalamazoo Coaches, Inc 69 ing now left but the site, which is about corner posts, 'Hotel du Gink.' Klutch Co., The 71 to be built upon. Knox Co. "Coming back to Nevers in December, "I thought it might interest some of Cystex 67 1 91 8, following graduation from the the men who were in the American serv- Mendaco 72 Saumur Artillery School, I joined up ice during the war to know the fate of with McCutchan and Edwards in a real Eagle Hut. At the hut during the war Marlin Firearms Co 67 bungalow built on higher ground to get I had some of the happiest times of my McCleary Clinic 75 away from some of the deeper mud. It life, and London does not seem to be a shack about 8x14 feet and all its ." was complete without it. . . National Carbon Company, Inc 38, 39 building material had been salvaged from The American Eagle Club, to which National Distillers Products Corp. passing French freight trains on the Old Grand-Dad 2 Comrade Williams refers, must be some- P. L.—M. R. R. The window was a where in the same vicinity that held the National Zircon Co 73 former Dodge windshield. For Hght, we Eagle Hut. It is at 28 Charing Cross Norwich Pharmacal Co., The used a headlight lifted from a French Unguen'tine 37 Road, just off Trafalgar Square and the locomotive. We built a three-deck bunk Strand. It was established in 1940 by with springboard sides and with mat- Pabst Sales Co 43 Hesper Le Gallienne (sister of the noted tresses made of burlap sacks. Page, E. R 70 actress, Eva Le Gallienne) and her hus- "We named the shack 'The House of Polident 53 band, Robert Hale Hutchinson, of Phil- the Falling Furniture,' because every Pontiac Motor Car Co 3 adelphia, and upon permission of our time you got off a chair, it would fall Postal Life Insurance Co 70 Government was taken over by the Amer- over. Later on we ran wires to the shack Prestone Anti-Freeze 38, 39 ican Red Cross in 1942, to be operated from a circuit that lighted a German Prudential Insurance Co. of America. . . 41 for Americans stationed in London or in prison camp nearby and with sockets that city on leave. Its functions are and bulbs, (courtesy of Nevers Opera Regalia Mfg. Co 71 similar to those of the old Eagle Hut House), enjoyed electric illumination Remington Arms Co., Inc 55 lodgings and meals are furnished, enter- and discarded the headlight. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. tainment is provided, tours conducted, "For years I have tried (and failed) Prince Albert 49 and through its good offices many Amer- to get in touch with any of the boys of icans in uniform have been guests in Company D, 33d Engineers, and I am Sani-Flush 71 British homes. Until recently, our soldiers hoping sincerely that some of them will Schlitz, Jos., Brewing Co 57 and sailors were permitted to broadcast, see the picture and this account and will Scholl Mfg. Co 73 through short wave and the Mutual write to me. Perhaps when this war is Seagram Distillers Corp 61 Broadcasting System, brief messages to won, we can stage a real reunion." St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce.. 75 their folks here in the States. That in- •Superior Match Pants Co 73 teresting service has, however, been discontinued. ANNOUNCED in this column, AS organizations have Texas Co., The Cover II u many veterans' many of you, while suspended reunions "for the duration" Thornton & Minor Clinic 73 HOW delving through old trunks in the attic, all looking forward to glorious "Victory

Union Carbide & Carbon Corp 38, 39 have run across long-forgotten pictures Reunions" after we have won this war. United States Playing Card Co., The .... 4 of yourselves or of your buddies, taken Some outfits, however, whose personnel

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BACK TO SEA!" Often Associated With Piles and Register at your nearest U.S. Employment Sereiee Qffire Constipation in Causing Many Ailments U.S. MERCHANT MARINE Colon disorders are commonly associ- liar Shipping Adminislralioii ated with other chronic conditions such as Piles, Fistula, Gastro-intestinal disorders and Stomach disturbances. Such MAN THE VICTORY FLEET common symptoms as frequent head- aches, dizziness, nausea, abdominal sore- ness and pain are often nature's warning of a diseased colon. Continued neg- lect can lead to many of the ailments originally was drawn from certain re- Dubuque, Iowa. indicated in the chart. 307th Inf.—25th anniversary reunion dinner- stricted areas, are carrying on. We envy dance, auspices 307th Inf. Post, A. L., Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. Dec. 5. Herman M. NERVOUSNESS them. A few even held reunions during Kahn, P. C, 28 E. 39th St., New York City. I the streamlined Legion National Con- Co. B, 3d Oregon, and 162d Inf. —43d annual banquet and reunion, Portland, Ore., Mar. 6, vention in Kansas City in September, 1943. R. E. McEnany. 1101 NW Hoyt St.. Port- land. although attendance was small. Co. A, 356th Inf.—Annual reunion at Wan- ger home, 504 N. No.ves Blvd., St. Joseph, Mo., This department is particularly grate- Nov. 11. C. R. Byland, pres., Bellevuo, Iowa. ful to Hal Burnett of his old outfit, the 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 6. Joel T. 3S3d (All-Kansas) Infantry, who at a Johnson, secy., 411 Essex Bldg., Minneapolis. 52d Pioneer Inf., reunion. last moment's notice succeeded in AEF—Annual Hotel Governor Clinton, New York City, Nov. gathering together about forty old bud- 14. Monthly meetings ai; same hotel, third Fri- day each month. Edw. J. Pollak, secy., 331 dies, some of their wives and youngsters, Tecumseh Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. for a special convention reunion, after the 37th Engrs., San Fran. -Oakland Chap.— Annual banquet, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 14. Sufferers from chronic ailments should regular regimental reunion had been held G. H. Vergnes, Rm. 347, Blake Block, 1121 inform themselves more fully about the Washington St., Oakland, Calif. causes, effects and corrective methods about two weeks previously. It was a 314th Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, of treatment for Colon disorders. Stom- ach Conditions, Piles, Constipation surprise treat in the midst of our assign- York Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 7. Bob Walker, and secy., 2720 Ann Av., St. Louis. associated ailments. For that purpose, a ment of work at the convention. Thanks, Btry. D, 80th F. a.—Reunion, Hotel New very informative 122-page book illustrated with Yorker, New York City, Sat., Nov. 7. Frank explanatory diagrams, charts gang! Grieves, 3931 N. Percy St., Philadelphia, Pa. and X-ray pictures will be sent FREE Write today to the 322D F. S. Bn.—For roster, write J. Merkel- McCleary Clinic, HC1166 Details of the following reunions and Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. bach. 1530 44th Av., San Francisco, Calif. ; No. other activities may be obtained from Calif, reunion, San Francisco, Nov. 7, Dr. John P. O'Brien, Flood Bldg., San Francisco: So. listed the Legionnaires Calif, reunion, Los Angeles. Nov. 11. David C. Levenson, Arcade Bldg., Los Anseles. 4th Div. Natl. Assoc.—Eastern Armistice Cos. A, B & C, 320th F. S. Bn.—Annual re- memorial ci remonies, reunion and dinner at the union, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 14. A. W. Rm. 312, 564 Market St. Francisco. Tough Club, 245 W. 14th St., New York City, Ward, San A Sat., Nov. 7, 6 P. M. Write Sgt. Jos. E. Taylor, Q.M.C., Fort Slocum, N. Y.—Proposed re- 39 Whitehall St., New York City. union and organization of 1917-18 vets. Write 87 Ave., J. NEW 5th Div.—History of Hth Div. still available. M. Vernon Bendit, Peck Newark, N. Five dollars. Wm. Barton Bruce, historian, 48 Base Hosp. 116—24th reunion. Hotel McAlpin, Ayrault St., Providence, R. I. New York City, Nov. 14. Frederick C. Freed, SERVICE 6th Div. Assoc., Sec. 1, Los Angeles—Regu- 59 E. 54th St.. New York City. lar quarterly meeting, Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. Subchaser 131 —Proposed reunion of crew. FLAG Roy P. Francis, 142 N. Concord St., South St. 19. Business and play ; annual election ; Christ- (REVERSIBLE) mas party, eats and dance. No charge. Write Paul, Minn. Sam S. Smithyman, pres., 3201 Castera Av., Utilities Det., Camp Dodge—Annual reunion, The "V" emphasizes the im- Glendale, Calif. Minneapolis. Minn.. Nov. 10. Ray H. Luther, portance of the VKTERAN to his home and to Victory. Made Div. comdr.. 5317 Park Av., Minneapolis. 82d Assoc. and 328th Inf. Assoc.—25th of heavy Krosgrain rayon and Armistice Pilgrima'-je, Allentown, anniversary joint reunion and dinner, Rosoff's USAAC's— ribbon (white and red) with Hotel, New York City, Sat., Nov. 28. Manny Pa., home of Camp Crane, 1917-19, on Nov. 7-8. embroidered star (blue). Size 10^^ x 8 inches SafTerman, 104 W. 48th St., New York City. Memorial .services and dinner for all former carh— $1.00 postpaid. Money refunded if not sat- 90th Div. Assoc.—Annual reunion, Fort USAAC'S and AFS men. R. H. Short, chmn., isfied. Special rates to Posts. Auxiliaries, other organizations and dealers. Worth, Tex., Nov. 6-S. Div. banquet Sat.. Nov. 718 Walnut St., Allentown. 7, 7 P. M. Write John D. Whitehurst, pres., or John Noll H. H. DAVIS, 206 W. State St.. Rockford, 111. O. R. McMurray, exec, secy., Hq., Hotel Texas, J. Company Clerk Fort Worth ; Arnold Utzig, northern exec, secy.. The

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LAMBERT FAIRCHILD, Past Com- Frederick, Maryland. He had just about j mander and present Chaplain of worn himself out, and his patience was Captain Belvidere Brooks Post, New running low. He tried for about five York City, likes the story told by the minutes to get a presentable line, but tough bartender. "I'm my own bouncer finally gave it up in disgust. "That's the and I'm hard," declared the toughie. durnedest fine I ever saw," he bellowed. "You gotta be to stay in this business. "All of you fall out and take a look at Look, this guy comes in last night and it for yourself." I don't like his looks, an' I didn't like the way he ordered his beer; so I lets him THERE'S a difference between vision have it with the old bungstarter. Down and sight, according to Legionnaire he goes, so I takes him by the collar Ed Hanna of Kokomo, Indiana, who and the seat of the pants an' throws him overheard a couple of youngsters discuss- stork made its first visit to the out into the street, the big bum—an' THE ing the subject. As a clincher, one of home of a young couple and left a then I throws his crutches out after them said: "No need to tell me there of him." pair of twins, chuckles Mark Morrow ain't no difference. Take last Saturday Marshall Field Post, Chicago. Papa and night when we went trolley ridin'; the were very much concerned about PUNSTER G. E. Ferguson of Cam- mama girl I was with was a vision, the one eron Post, Chicago, Illinois, says that the possibility of not being able to tell with you was a sight!"' his neighbor enlisted and now drives a them apart. They were named an hour after birth, then papa set about devising "jeep in the heart of Texas." 1EGI0NHEIR Robert Lee Hanson some means of identification. "Could u of Stoughton, Wisconsin, is respon- cut the hair on one short," he mused, sible for a yarn about Lem, scion of a "but theyuns ain't got no hair. Could mountain family, who was noted for his put a band on one of 'em, but that might general aversion to all kinds of work. sternt their growth. Nope, gotta think of He was sprawled out under a sycamore somethin' bright." tree, his eyes half closed, but engaged An hour later he had solved the prob- in giving himself a pedicure. lem. He got some leaves and roots and Lee's pappy ambled up, leaned on a mixed up a dye that he knew would hoe while he contemplated his son with stay put. Then, with mama watching the process, he bared the young bodies and with a sharp stick dipped in the stain, proceeded with the branding. On one he laboriously printed JOE. On the other he scrawled DAISY.

THE electric sign on a local theater, says Legionnaire John F. Glover of Morgantown, West Virginia, stopped a "These American Army plans for lot of people in their tracks. It announced a double-feature bill, one 1942, Toio—can you decode them?" flicker after another: / Married an An- gel and / Was Framed. 1EGI0NNAIRE Ben Savage of Me- j morial Post, Forest, Mississippi, WARREN ATHERTON, the Le- picked up a run-down-at-the-heel hitch- gion's national defense chairman, hiker while driving through the country, tells a story about a messenger boy who who gave his name as Mr. Hamm. Sav- got lost in the corridors of the War De- age sized up his companion, noted his partment building at Washington, but thin, emaciated condition, then re- came out three days later with a commission as lieutenant colonel. marked : "You don't look very much like years I've been wondering what a ham to me." The rider heaved a big "For FEW years back to do with my old razor blades." sigh. "No," he re- A plied. "Chitter- . when the home town had to depend lings." thoughtful eyes. "Son," he said sadly, upon cisterns or "whuffo y'allus sittin' 'round a pickin' wells as the source JAY JACOBUS yo toe-nails?" J of water supply • of Marina Post, Lem looked up, blinked his eyes. "Wal, writes Commander San Francisco, who paw," he drawled, "I ain't the kind of a of Ernest Pate of Da- is a member a fella that sits around a-doin' nothin'." draft board, declares vis-Busby Post, Cat- that when looking lin, Illinois, who is little French boy threw up his over registration also chief of the lo- THE he told his teach- cards recently he association, a hands in despair as 1—r ^i^^-^ \ of "It is impossible, this language found one which in \\ number of fires er, il mfTT^ yours that I am trying to learn. You answering the ques- KSJ{ scourged the town. told how to pronounce bough, tion about scars and The water supply have me and rough and other identifying was inadequate, and and cough, and dough, through. you tell me that marks reported scars with the usual re- But now cut apart and that it on both legs. The sult. One of the fire- cleave means to together, and I am registrar entered the men returned to the also means to put will never be able to un- notation, "Both legs "Slip Ahoy!" station, to be met by afraid that I English language." scared." his small nephew. derstand that great "Please, Unc," he burn a house can't board this plane," said BUS boy came ov . of the cafeteria begged, "the next time you ""^QU A " to the drunk. pantry pushing a ruck loaded with down can I go along? X the stewardess knives, forks and spoons. As he started "You're under the influence of liquor." much out on the trek down the service counter, ANEW sergeant was drilling a bunch "Shay," he answered, "I'm not so of liquor as shome he called out in a ringing voice: "Hi yo, . of rookies, says Legionnaire George under the affluence Silver." D. Biggs of Francis Scott Key Post, thinkle peep I am."

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