SEE PAGE M 15* THE AMERICAN PRIVATE LIFE LEGION RED POTENT! MAGAZINE SEE PAGE 16 How We Looked to the World in f JQ J U LY 19 5 7 •> MOORE * ill jrJL §f if W W ft. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH 94.4 PROOF • 100% NEUTRAL SPIRITS DISTILLED FROM GRAIN • GORDONS DRY GIN CO., LTD., LINDEN, N. J. — Meet a man whose business is your driving com- He's a forward-looking man with a growing fort and safety. He's a service station operator, an business. His professional way of conducting that independent businessman, whose helpful manner has business is a credit to both the oil and automotive earned the respect of everyone. industries he represents so well. He's a skilled man, whose training and experi- He's a good citizen, representing his community ence you can always depend upon. He'll take expert every day to out-of-town travelers. As a business- care of one of your major financial investments man, he supports various civic activities for the bet- your automobile. terment of his community. There are over 200,000 men like this ready to help you, and every motorist, on every highway and byway throughout America. Knowing that trained, experienced and friendly help is as near as the next service station makes motoring a carefree pleasure. America's service station teams give today's motorists the road-long reassurance that they never drive completely alone. ETHYL CORPORATION New York 17, N. Y. Manufacturers of "Ethyl" antiknock compound — used by oil companies everywhere to improve their gasolines. Golf has changed Vol. 63, No. 1j July 1957 since 1830 THE AMERICAN n;<.io\ but the good taste of TEACHER'S LEGION never changes! MAGAZINE Cover by Robert Moore Contents for July 1957 PILGRIMAGE TO EUROPE by Robert B. Pitkin 11 WHAT A LOT OF LEGIONNAIRES WILL BE SEEING. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A RED POTENTATE by Louis Lazar 14 INSIDE RAKOSI'S HOUSE OF HORRORS IN BUDAPEST. HOW WE LOOKED TO THE WORLD IN '76 by Theodore D. Lockwood 16 TO MOST EUROPEANS, THE AMERICAN COLONIES WERE ANOTHER WORLD. WHY BUY A WAGON? by Robert Scharff 18 ALL ABOUT THE MOST VERSATILE OF AUTOMOBILES. HOW THE LEGION HELPS LA. CELEBRATE THE FOURTH by R. Wilson Brown 20 THERE'S TRADITION BEHIND THIS BIG SHOW. A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE FARM SURPLUS PROBLEM by James N. Sites 22 COMMON SENSE AND SCIENCE MAY PRODUCE THE ANSWER. THE BATTLE OF TERRIBLE TEMPERS by William LaVarre 24 HOW A MINOR INCIDENT GREW AND GREW. BASEBALL'S BIGGEST BACKER by Virgil Cory 26 THE STORY BEHIND AN ENTHUSIASTIC SPONSOR. NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 33 Features SOUND OFF! 4 PERSONAL AFFAIRS .. 8 NEWSLETTER 31 EDITOR'S CORNER 6 PRO & CON 30 ROD & GUN CLUB .46 PRODUCTS PARADE 54 PARTING SHOTS 56 Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a seif-addressed, stamped envelope is included. The American Legion The American Legion Magazine Midwestern Executive and Editorial & Advertising Offices Advertising Sales Office Administrative Offices 720 Fifth Avenue Center rind Monroe Streets Indianapolis 6, Indiana New York 19, New York Bloomingtoii, Illinois Please notify the Circulation Dept., Publications Div., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind., of change of address, using notice Form 22- S which you may secure from your Postmaster. Remove your address label from the cover of the magazine and paste it in the space provided. Give your latest membership card number and both your new and your old address, and notify the Adjutant of your Post. Dan Daniel, National Commander, The American Legion, Indianapolis 6, Indiana The American Legion Cocreham, Baton Rouge, L. Meyer, Alliance, Publications Commis- La.; Clovis Copeland, Nebr.; Herschiel L. sion: John Stelle, Mc Little Rock, Ark.; Paul Hunt, Austin, Tex.; Downingtown, Leansboro, III. (Chair- B. Dague, George D. Levy, Sumter, Pa.; John E. Drinkard, man); Don W. Emmell, S. C; Dr. Charles R. Cullman, Ala.; Dave H. Ookdale, Calif., and Logan, Keokuk, Iowa; Fleischer, St. Louis, Rev. Milton B. Faust, Emmet Safay, Jackson- Mo.; Samuel J. Gor- Salisbury, N. C. (Vice man, West Hartford, ville, Fla.; D. L. Sears, Lang Arm- Toledo, Ohio; Harold Chairmen); Conn.; Earl C. Hitch- strong, Spokane, Wash.; cock, Glens Falls, A. Shindler, Newburgh, Charles E. Booth, Hunt- N, Y.; Howard Lyon, Ind.; Raymond Fields, ington, W. Va.; Roland New Castle, Pa.; Earl Guymon, Okla. Publisher, James F. O'Neil The Trophy is a replica of A sst. to Publisher Associate Editor Advertising Manager Frank Lisiecki Irving Herschbein WilliamM. DeVitalis the TEACHER'S TROPHY Editor Editorial A ssts. Eastern Adv. Manager Joseph C. Keeley Edward W. Atkinson Howard F . Par kes winner of P. G.A. held by Managing Editor Alda Viarengo Del ton Adv. Hep. Robert B. Pitkin Manager Adv. Sales Assoc. Seniors' Championship. West Coait A dv. Hep. A rt Editor Irving N. Larson Al Marshall Indianapolis. Ind. The Eschen Company The Legion and is The American Legion Magozine is the official publication ol American owned exclusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1957 by The American Legion. Pub- privileges author- lished monthly at 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. Second class mail Non-member ized at Louisville, Ky. Price single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.50. Magazine, HIGHLAND CREAM subscriptions should be sent to the Circulation Deportment of The American Legion P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. 86 PROOF • Blended Scotch Whisky Schieffelin & Co., New York 2 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1957 miss I Dont thefm ofsmoking Mildness is apleasure with PALLMALL Pall Mall filters the smoke but never the fun of smoking Mildness is a pleasure with PALL MALL because PALL MALL's greater length filters the smoke — but never the fun of smoking. You get every bit of the flavor that makes smoking a pleasure while PALL MALL's greater length of traditionally fine tobaccos travels the smoke further, filters the smoke and makes it mild. So don't miss the fun of smoking. Buy PALL MALL Famous Cigarettes in the distinguished red package today! Your appreciation of PALL MALL quality has made it America's most successful and most imitated cigarette. Outstanding For Flavor and Mildness . and theyare Fine Tobacco Filters Best! jflj/(f/ COPR . THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY TOBACCO IS OUR MIDDLE NAME OFFICIAL sets forth my position, which is ex- actly the opposite claimed for mc by LEGION FLAGSHIP Mr. Castle. I am against giveaways, and my book is a plea to stop give- aways completely and absolutely. My book and my activity in connection with the World Development Cor- poration is all on an investment basis. Further, Mr. Castle makes the mistake of saying that mine is a "ten to fifteen year" program, which is not true. It was developed as a hundred year pro- gram. I believe your pages should con- tain a correction. In addition, I would like to say that with the foreign in- vestment program as I envisage it, our gross national product can zoom to the point w here we can do all the things Mr. Castle said should be done, and at the same time also render a great service to the rest of the world S. S. AMERICA by keeping the peace through our economic contribution. American Legion Pilgrimage to Europe Benjamin A. Javits September 1957 New York City FAMILIAR STORY Arrive rested and relaxed. Sail on the A transcript of Mr. Javits's testi- Sir: I live within a stone's throw of Official Legion Flagship, from New York, niony before the Senate Committee on five veterans who have taken September 20. Other Pilgrimage Sailings WW2 Foreign Relations shows that he did advantage of all the GI Bills on the from New York: s.s. United States, indeed advocate that private enterprise books and yet do not belong to any world's fastest liner: September 6 and 19, and not Government should provide veterans organization. They believe in s.s. America: August 30. money for world economic develop- a union in their jobs, but paying dues Convenient sailings from Europe during ment. He was, however, correctly in a veterans organization is out. Not Oct. and Nov. for return transportation. quoted by Mr. Castle in the article as one of them would have a home of saying, "I estimate that it will take his own if it wasn't for the GI Bill CONSULT YOUR TRAVEL AGENT OR $2000 billion to begin the job. It may that The American Legion put UNITED STATUS LINES take 10 or 15 years." Further in his through. But they to see no need join testimony Mr. Javits proposed "that One Broadway. New York 4, N. Y., the Legion to obtain benefits for all Tel.: DIgby 4-5800 the United States underwrite an Inter- veterans. I have heard them criticize national Development Corporation. men will join unions who not but It could begin as a Government-spon- benefit that who by the advantages sored agency initially started with a unions have obtained for the working SPONSOR hundred million dollars, which would man. don't see that the They same be raised by the issuance of class A thing applies to veterans associations. voting stock to the United States Edward Egenberger A KADET Treasury." The Editors Gulfport, Fla. UNIT DEPLORE GIVEAWAYS 4 THE PRISONER CALLED BILL Sir: I have just read the article in the In Your Community Sir: I am writing concerning the arti- issue entitled, "Are Bleeding cle in the January issue of your maga- May We Here's a project that will reward Ourselves White?" I agree with Mr. zine entitled "We Learned About Jap your Legion Post members many Eugene W.