THE AMERICAN 20c«0CT0BER 1966 LEGIONM A G A Z I N E THE PROBLEM OF LAW-BREAKING From Rags to Riches . THE STORY OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALJ_ • THE HELICOPTER . PLANE OF A THOUSAND USES Good dog. Staunch on point. Steady to wing and shot. Call it a day. He gets a good brushing. You get a 7-Up and bourbon or gin or vodka. Or whatever you can scare up. It's a man's mixer in more ways than one. Seven-Up. The one you never outgrow. 7-Up the man's mixer "SEVEN-UP" AND "7-UP" ARE REGISTERED TRADEMAPKS IDENTIFYING THE PRODUCT OF THE SEVEN-UP COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1966 BY THE SEVEN-UP COMPANY : ; The American OCTOBER 1966 Volume 82, Number 4 LEGION POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1954 Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 Magazine The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10019 Contents for October 1966 Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor Robert B. Pitkin Art Editor THE PROBLEM OF THE LAW-BREAKING DIPLOMATS 6 Al Marshall BY THOMAS A. HOGE Assistant Editor John Andreola They park in front fire hydrants, of steal military secrets and Associate Editors sometimes smuggle dope in, but the worst that can happen Roy Miller to a foreign diplomat is that he be sent home. Hence, James S. Swartz modern indignation at an ancient custom. Assistant Art Editor Walter H. Boll Production Manager Art Bretzfield Copy Editor THE HELICOPTER . PLANE OF A THOUSAND USES 12 Grail S. Hanford BY JOHN L. KENT Circulation Manager Dean B. Nelson Twenty years after the chopper first came into civilian use, it's Indianapolis, Ind. finally starting to flex its muscles and show Advertising Director its possibilities for the future. Robert P. Redden Chicago Sales Office Nick Amos 35 East Wacker Drive Chicago, Hi: 60601 SHOULD CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BE ABOLISHED FOR 312 CEntral 6-2401 FEDERAL CRIMES? 20 TWO SIDES OF A NATIONAL QUESTION CHANGE OF ADDRESS: pro: REP. ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER (D-WIS.) Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1954, con: REP. JOHN DOWDY (D-TEX.) Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office Form 3578. Attach old address label and give old and new addresses with ZIP Code number and current membership card number. Also be sure to notify your Post Adjutant. FROM RAGS TO RICHES—THE STORY OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL 22 The American Legion BY JOHN DEVANEY Publications Commission James E. Powers, Macon, Just look what happened to the struggling Ga. (Chairman); youngster of the Adolph F. Bremer, Winona, Minn. barnstorming days Jim (Vice of Thorpe and Red Grange. Chairman) ; Lang Armstrong, Spokane, Wash. Charles E. Booth, Huntington, W. Va.; John Cicero, Swoyerville, Pa.; E. J. Cooper, Holly- wood, Fla.; Clovis Copeland, Little Rock, Ark.; Paul B. Dague, Downingtown, Pa.; PLANTATIONS OF THE OLD SOUTH 27 Raymond Fields, Cuymon, Okla.; Chris Her- nandez, Savannah, Ga.; George D. Levy, Sum- BY ALDEN STEVENS ter, S.C.; Dr. Charles R. 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This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material! 711 South Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90005 THE AMERICAN LEGION • MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1966 1 INTEREST AND EASY CREDIT SIR: As an indication of the readership LETTERS TO THE EDITOR you have in this area we have had quite a number of our customers ask us about a paragraph in your July article "The Organized Confusion of Easy Credit." not necessarily ex- Letters published do tremendous amount of scientific en- The passage noted that, in a national press the policy of The American Legion. Keep letters short. Name and address must deavor that is going into this and the sampling, the highest credit cost on a Expressions opinion and be furnished. of progress which the nation is showing. 72-month $4,000 student loan was $911 requests for personal services are appreci- Interesting, ated, but they cannot be acknoxcledged or because a large part of cen- by "a bank in Jackson, Mich." This was lack magazine staff answered, due to of for tral Oregon has been acclaimed as more from a report of the U.S. Office of Educa- these purposes. Requests for personal serv- ices which may be legitimately asked of OREGON D EPT. OF GEOLOGY & MINERAL INDUSTRIES tion. We are one of two banks in Jack- The American Legion should be made to son. Our total charges on such a loan your Post Service Officer or your state (Department) American Legion Hq. Send would be $733.63, and it would be made editor to: Letters, The letters to the under the Michigan Higher Education American Legion Magazine. 720 5th Ave- nue, New York, N.Y. 10019. Assistance Authority Act. Additionally, if the student who makes WHAT LITTLE BOYS NEED r the loan actually receives his degree, the sir: I would like to commend you on the \ ••V Authority will refund 50% of the interest picture story, Little Boys "What Do " incurred while the student was in school, Need?" (August). It answers many which, as a cost item for the student, questions that parents come to law en- would be subtracted from the $733.63. forcement officers with, in reference to Wendall P. Beckwith All one has to is study the -. % their boys. do Vice President and Cashier picture and read the caption. One doesn't •« The National of Jackson X i , \ Bank have to go any further for any explana- "Moon country" at Crescent, Oregon Jackson, Mich. tions. Larry Gillick, Sheriff-Coroner like the moon than any other spot on LAST WORD ON THE CONSTELLATION Oroville, Calif. earth. Our "moon country" is the site of sir: In recent issues you have published geologic training of the astronauts and letters from several readers taking ex- OREGON'S MOONSCAPE has furnished considerable material for ception to my statement, in my June sir: I found your review of the nation's laboratory testing by various contractors article on the U.S.S. Constitution (Old "moon program" ("How We're Practic- of the Apollo program. Ironsides) , that the U.S.S. Constellation ing to Put a Man on the Moon," by Gene Mark O. Hatfield, Governor Bylinsky, July), both fascinating and in- State Capitol was broken up in 1854. They pointed out, teresting. Fascinating, because of the Salem, Ore. correctly, that the Constellation is pres- ently berthed in Baltimore, and served as the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet in WW2 by providing office space at her moorings for the admiral of that fleet. There is no conflict between my pas- sing statement about the Constellation being broken up in 1854, and the later history. She was completely rebuilt in the period 1853-55, in fact, she was cut in two and a new section added to her middle, and, in general, was so over- hauled and refashioned that she em- erged as a first-class sloop-of-war of the 1855 period, whereas she had put to sea as a frigate in 1798. The extent of the overhauling was such that two schools of opinion em- doubles erged as to whether or not she was the old Constellation or a new ship com- prised in part of parts of the old. There's your a bit of history behind this controversy. Congress wouldn't build any new ships in 1855, and those who say she was a enjoyment! new ship claim the Navy pulled a fast one on Congress by making a new ship out of an old one. I am no party to an argument of this nature. I was correct in saying that she was broken up, and I said 60^ no more because I was writing about VALUE'. another ship—the Constitution. Your readers are correct in saying that the Constellation can still be boarded in Baltimore today, for she can, even aged7years though she was broken up in 1854, for the simple reason that she was put KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY together again.