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VOL. 52 No. 2

CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1952

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE KATYN MASSACRE 11

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AFTER ALL, SIR sentative in each country in which he is to

work an American citizen of American
Sir: In the December issue of the Legion
parentage who has lived and worked in
>-oumade statement that rather insults
a
that country and who knows its people
me. As I think it would insult anybody
and their good and bad points.
who applies common sense to what they K. S. Littlejohn
read. You stated that Supt. Goslin of Pasa-
Mexico, Z>. F.
dena got kicked out because the tax-payers
were fed up with Goslin's innovations
which had sent school costs to a record
high. Also they began to feel that their kids
were coming home a little fuzzy in the
head. Before that in the same column
(Editor's Corner) you made a sarcastic
smear at the Saturday Review of Litera-
ture and McCaWs. It seems to me if
WANT REFERENCE LISTS OF MOVIE STARS
you must smear such reputable and intelli-
gent magazines, and if you desire to let Sir: think the surest, quickest way to iiave
I

"us in on a little secret" you would do so Hollywood clean house is through its
intelligently. And your little secret was pocketbook. G. H. Morgan
one of the most stupidly vague secrets that Los Angeles
I ha\ e heard in a long time. \\'h>^ didn't
Sir: Concerning Did the Movies Really
\'ou tell usw hat "record high" and "how Clean House? in your December issue, why
fuzzy"? After
all, sir, there are some
don't you print on a separate sheet and
Americans who still question what they insert in every copy of next month's issue,
read in print. W'hetlier it's your patriotic an alphabetical li.st of all those individuals
magazine or not. I'm a student at Chico in Hollywood who are in any way con-
State College, taught that when one has
nected with the conmiunists?
freedom one must or should use that free- W. E. Purviance
dom intelligently. I should be interested in
Los Angeles
your reaction. But I am pessimistic enough
to think that you won't publish this letter. Sir: Congratulations on the movie article.
Criticism is according to
hard to take. And Iwould like to suggest that this be followed
your Sound Off! column onh' those that up by a monthly boxed article listing those
sound off favorably are ever heard. mo\ ies produced during that month in
John Dolan w liich our communist friends and fellow
Durham, Calif. travelers have a part in either production
or acting. H. A. Thomson
Upper Darby, Fa.

Sir: We can't clean the movies of sub- its

versives unless we kill theirsources of

funds. The answer is simple. Publish a
monthly of the pictures which are not
list

written, directed nor acted by any suspi-

cious characters. Starve these bums out of
existence. Harlan L. Reycroft
POLITICAL DIPLOMATS
}Vcst Hartford, Conn.
Sir: I get so worked up o\ er the billions
Sir: I believe Did the Movies Really Clean
we are sending to practically all the nations
House? to be the greatest piec; of anti-
of the free world and the apparent enmity
communist literature 1 have read in some
No wonder its exhibited towards us by most of tiiem that
I'x e tried to anal>'ze the cause. I am satisfied
time. Please do not give up the good work
and would suggest that each month you
Kentucky's om that peoples are friendly enough and ap-
preciative when and if they understanil our
peoples' unsclfisiiness in giving this help.
print a list of pictures in production or
about to be released that are employing
reds. Antliony Sinionetti
?a\/or\te Stra/ght The trouble stems from the politicians.
Washington has sent purely political ap-
Bronx, New York City
pointees, opinionated men, swelled with Almost every letter we received concern-
Bourbon Whisky their new power, who do not know the new ing this article asked that we print lists of
country or its people and, sometimes, even commies and pro-commies in movie-making.
their language. These appointees exhibit in However, the industry insists it is giadually
This Whisky Is 4 Years Old . 86 Proof cases an insufferable superiority. i\1y sug- eliminating sid)versive.s, so we'll wait and
EARIY TIMES DiSTILLERr CO. LOUISVILLE I, KENTUCKY gestion is tiiat Washington pick as repre- see. Editors

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 INTO INFAMY NOT WORTHY
Immediate Comfort
Sir: As a college graduateand recent stu-
Sir: It
which
isregrettable to witness a publication
purports to be the official voice of
dent at the University of Chicago I am And Relief for You
inclined to consider the Louis Budenz arti-
Tlie American Legion drag our organiza-
cle Do Colleges Have to Hire Red Profes-
tion into infamy. This publication is gradu-
sors.'' not worthy of comment.
ally becoming a prime threat to our demo-
cratic structure. The methods
our writers
have used to expose communists ha\ c cer-
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Chicago RUPTURE-EASER (A PIPtR BRACl PRODUCT)
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Movies Really Clean House? in Pravda eral hundred words, commenting. Editors
after a Russian purge, but this insidious
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can Legion. Perry E. Tudor Sir: We regret that the University of Pitts-
Yates City, III. burgh has been included by Mr. Louis F.
Budenz among the institutions having a
faculty member who is a communist. The
University of Pittsburgh would not and
has never knowingly employed a commu-
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Sir: You have again featured my daughter's never head of the department of Social
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picture at the beginning of your convention Work at the University. She was member
news (page 29, No\embcr issue). As >'<)u of faculty of the School of Social
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ANOTHER SLICE OF FUTILITY
One of the favorite topics of discus-
sion at United Nations seances is dis-
armament, but the going always gets
rough w hen the globulists ponder \\ ays
and means of checking on each other's
arms-making potential. The peace-lov-
ing Russkys don't want outsiders poking
into their factories. But we wonder just
what our diplomats think they'd gain
if they did persuade Stalin to let UN
inspectors look around (in return for,
say, Alaska, the Philippines, the U.S.S.
Missouri and a few billions cash).
It reminds us of a stor>' they used to

tell about the Krupp works in German>"

after the last war. Under the terms of

the treaty no war goods were to be
made and the League of Nations had
inspectors there to check on it.
Two plant workers had wives who
were expecting babies so the men
started stealing bab>' buggy parts to
assemble at home. One day the two
women met on the street.
"Gerta," said one, "how are you com-
ing with that baby buggy? Are you
having trouble?"
"Ya," said her friend. "No matter
how Max puts together the parts it
always comes up a machine-gun."

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW

We keep getting mail from people
who want to know as much as possible
about the menace of communism. For
those people and for every other Amer-
ican who wants to protect himself
against the greatest swindle ever per-
petrated, some new books are "musts."
Heading the list is a picture histor\'
of communism titled Si//CL' StiTliii. Com-
piled by Boris Shub and Bernard Quint,
it traces the course of comnuinism from

its beginnings as a philosophy, shows

how it blossomed through treachery

during \\'\Vl, and portrays the way
in which Stalin and his fellow cut-
throats have been spreading it across the
face of tlic earth ever since. However,
there's more to this book than pictures.
The text is equally well handled. Price
of the book is $3.95, and the publisher

is Swen Publications.
the new book by
Notew orthy, too, is
John T. Flynn, Tf'V.vVt' y'oii Slept, pub-
lished by the Devin-Adair Co., and
priced at $2.50. The Nezv York Times,
for one, reviewed this volume nega-
tively, but the reason is evident. Flynn
makes the same point made by Irene
Kuhn in Why Yoii Buy Books That
Sell Communism, published in this mag-

The American Legion Magazine February, 1952

azine in January of last \ ear, that the
Times has a lot to answer for.
However, we still think the best of
the recent books exposing the China
sell-out is Freda Utley's The Ch'ma
Story. And here's good news. The
Henry Regnery Company has just
brought out a paper-bound version for
50^. Copies are available from the
Committee for the Conservation of
Faith and Freedom, 1 8 E. 48th St., New
York Cit\'.
All those who liked the article Do
Colleges Have to Hire Red Frofessors?
in our November issue will like God
and Man at Yale, by William F. Buck-
ley, Jr., priced at $3.50. This too is re-
! Cute Baby. This is Betsy Helvcston 2' Big Girl Now. Here's Betsy as she is

as she appeared in a Bell teJephone today. She's grown a Jot and changed
quired reading for those alarmed at
advertisement in 19^0. a lot in the last twelve years.
what goes on under the cloak of "aca-
demic freedom."

MORE CAMPUS CAPERS JANUARY. 1952

Those of you who read Do Colleges 37,300,000 TELEPHONES
Have To Hire Red Professors? in our
November issue won't be too surprised
at the academic efforts being made in JANUARY, 1940
behalf of Dirk Struik, a self-proclaimed 16,500,000 TELEPHONES
Marxist, mentioned in that article. Struik
is a professor at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology who has been in-
dicted under a Massachusetts anti-an-
archy act. So, a group of 60 professors,
clergymen, etc., under the leadership of
one Dr. George Sarton of Harvard, are
raising funds for his legal defense. We
wonder hoiv many of these characters,
so preoccupied with justice, chipped in
even a dime for the defense of Mrs.
Hester McC/illoiigh. You may recall
that this housew ife was sued for $200,000
by a mouth organist named Adler and
a hoofer named Draper because she
dared to ask about the organizations
these "artists" had tied up with. B>- the
way the papers sa>' that Adler is tooting
his mouth organ for the troops in Korea,
courtesy of our British allies.
3' He's Bigger Too. Jn the last twelve years, the number of Bell
telephones has been increased from 16,^00,000 to 37,300,000.
THIS WILL BREAK YOUR HEART
Howard Fast, whose novels are high-
ly regarded by communists, is asking
people to subscribe money to get his We've Been Growing Along With Betsy
latest effort published. Now that Angus
Cameron, identified as a commie, no While Betsy has been growing up, the now more than three times as many
longer works for Little, Brow n & Co.,
telephone system has been growing too. Long Distance circuits.
that publishing house w on't handle any
more Fast stuff. The figures are impressive. But far The new coast-to-coast ^af/t'o
Another scribbler w ho "is having a more important is what they mean in ^e/at^ system not only means better
tough time is the whodunit author service to the people of this Nation. Long Distance service but also brings
Dashiell Hammett. The government Television to millions more people.
Millions who never had telephones
wants him to ante up $100,628 in back
beforenow have them because the Bell Above all is the value of good tele-
taxes. Hammetthas spent time in jail
for contempt. As an officer of the sub- System has added nearly 21,000,000 phone service to the producti\'e capacity
versive Civil Rights Congress, which new telephones since January, 1940. and security of the country.
supplied bail for the commies who flew Business and industry are better able Nothing is more important to defense
the coop, he refused to tell the court to serve the country because there are than quick, reliable communication.
the source of the funds. Dashiell seems
to have made a pretty big pot of dough,
for one w ho isn't keen about our eco- Bell Telephone System
nomic system
The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
7
 3V^ys Products
(^rKfsomer
Hair/ A sampling of items which are in process of development or are coming on
the market. Mention of products in no way constitutes an endorsement of tnem,
since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers.

FOR WINTER DRIVING

you have ever been stuck on packed
If
ice or snow you'll not only go for, you'll go
ivith a new product called Traxion being
made by the Shea Laboratories, Dept. AL.,
Keene, N. H. This is an effective traction-
producing powder, a mixture of mineral
with a harmless melting and non-corrosive
chemical, which causes tires to get a grip
where the going is tough. The product is
packaged in an ingenious blow-gun con- HOW TO START A NAIL
tainer which permits the powder to be sliot
right under the tire treads without cHort. Aningenious gadget tiiat makes it a cinch
Although the tube is compact enough to be to start a nail is being marketed under the
kept in the car's glove compartment, the name Third Hand Hammer Nail Clip. Fit-
contents will last an entire season. The ting most carpenters' iiammers, this clip
price is $1.25 postpaid. snaps o\ er the head and the nail is held in
a miniature claw, on either side. This per-
mits a longer reach when nailing, allows
one to hold wood with one hand while
hammering with the other, etc. The price
is and the manufacturer
.^Oe is the Amsco
Co., LeCcnter, Minn.

TV GLASSES
For those people who sit down before a
television set and never leave it till the

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Hassocks so designed tliat one fits into
another are being offered by Henry A.
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City 16. The hassocks come in pairs, and
since the top of each can be reniox ed they
can also be used as storage chests. Light in
weight but capable of holding up to 300
pounds, they are cox ered w ith \'in\ litc in
a stitchless, quilted finish \\hicii is easily
cleaned. Tiie nested hassocks will be a\ ail-
Lucky Tiger grooms your hair perfectly.
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burns out, there's a new development of
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sell for $8.75, and a dip-on type sells for
$5.75. They are available at any optician
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The healer element causes instant starting
a fishing reel is now available. Called the
Kant-Lash, it is an atlapler that
and is simply installed.
letchable type reels,
will fit most

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and thus, rapid starting. Installation is sai<l
To attach it you remove the reel handle and
attach to it guide shell and governor
weights. Then the entire assend)ly is re-
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the prelieater, wiring, switch and gaskets
sells for
act on what the manidacturer calls a "free-
action" principle.
governor anil not a brake.
In other words,
The price
it

is
is

$2.95.
a

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 What happened to the documents in the Pentagon that told . .

i numijuij i i
i
ii k
j ww^BiBpwippgiiijgiiiyf

THE IRIITH IBOn THE

KATYN FOREST
Served with a Congressional subpoena,

MASSACRE
Lt.

Col. Donald Stewart, left, at last puts his eye-

witness testimony concerning Katyn on the
record. With him is Congressman Ray S. Mad-
den, of Indiana, a Legionnaire who heads the
House Committee studying the massacre.

By ARTHUR BLISS LANE

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO POLAND
as told to the editors of
The American Legion Magazine

In 1940 Stalin's gunmen slaughtered

15,000 Polish officers. Because of

mysterious influences in this

country, the facts about this

red atrocity have been kept

from most Americans.

crime. The crime

has gone unpunished,
in factunexposed, as I write this, by
our Kremlin-appeasing officials.
German and Japanese criminals, re-
sponsible for the murder of defenseless
In most cases only one inexpensive bullet was necessary, shot into the head.
captives, have been convicted and
hanged. But the souls of fifteen thou-
sand brave Christian men still cry from
beyond a pagan Soviet mass-gra\'eyard
SNOW whirling around, in the pocketknife taken away ." and Americans have shaken hands,
THE
fields as
is

much snow as in Janu- Betu ccn these t\v o quotations

. .

from even feasted, with the murderers. What

ary ."
. .
"From dawn the day started in a spe-
cial way. Taken somewhere into a
wood, something like
Here a special search.
my watch, pointing at 6 a.m., asked
about a wedding ring. Rubles, belt,
by Polish officer, cap- has happened in, and to, our America
a last letter sent a
tive of the Red Army, to his family in that has made us, once the world's great
Soviet-occupied Poland, and from a people of international integrity, ap-
a country house. blood-smeared diary found on the body peasers for so long a time of pagan
I was relieved of of another Polish officer that was dug crimes and atheist criminals?
out of an evil Soviet forest there are The facts of this unpunished crime
long hidden facts of a savage, revolting go back, now, twelve duped years to

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 LONG-HIDDEN PHOTOS OF ALLIED OFFICERS
WHO OBSERVED THE 1943 KATYN EXHUMATION

Obtained by U.S. Intelligence Sources in 1945, these

photographs were kept hidden during the Nuremberg
War Crime Trials. They show (below) British and
American Army Officers attending Katyn autopsies.
Lt.Col. Van Vliet, then a Regular U.S. Army Major, is
seen looking at scene between British Army Colonel
Stevenson and British Army Captain Gilder, both of
whose Intelligence Reports, sent to Washington, were
hidden from the American people under strange
circumstances. At Katyn on Poles, and in Korea Exhuming the body of a
on U. S. captives, the same char- captive Polish Major
acteristic kind of knot was used. murdered by the Soviets.

"You are Regular Officers of the U. S. and you must have an interest in what hap-
British Armies," the Germans said. "Surely pened to officers of the Polish Army!"

(continued) JHE TRUTH ABOUT THE KATYN FOREST MASSACRE

the Spring of 1940. The Krcnihn, a few friendship, and rescuefrom the Nazis, Lieutenants, together with some 7,000
months treacherous instant
earlier, in a was the man who commanded the in- selected Polish NCO technicians, were
that suited Stalin and his Politburo, had vasion. Molotov in the Kremlin, and rounded up in Poland as prisoners of the
broken all its treaties Avith Poland, at- Timoshenko in Poland, had issued their Kremlin and deported, like cattle, far

tacked the Polish people from the rear
while they were trying to defend their
country from the Nazi blitzkrieg. Hitler
and Stalin, in a temporary alliance,
divided Poland and each taken a half.
notorious Order of the Day that, as of into Russia.
October, 1939, "Poland ceases to exist Into three of the 100 Polish prisoner-
as an independent state." of-war camps in the frigid Russian in-
had Two hundred and fifty thousand Po- terior all Polish officers were collected
lish officers and soldiers, including 12 and concentrated. These sites were then

The very Soviet General Timoshenko Generals, 250 Colonels, 500 Majors, removed by Stalin from the Red Army's
who had publicly pledged the Poles 2,000 Captains, and over 5,000 young command and placed under Beria and

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his Soviet secret police
NKVD. During the blizzardy winter of
1939-40 we know that Camp
contained 4,500 Pohsh officers, Camp
Starobielsk 3,920 officers,
Ostashkov 6,900 officers, hi these camps
the Kremhn's Beria, under Vyshinsky
and iMolotov, installed his most
"efficient" interrogators, photo-
graphing each officer front and
side, finger-printing him, and
compiling a life-dossier of each
captive and his Polish family.
These, as well said,
has -been
were the very flower of Polish
intellectual and military patri-
otism and Beria had the job
of blighting them.
"Poland no longer exists, and
never will exist again!" the
NKX^D specialists kept repeat-
ing, as the)' tried many devices
for turning Polish patriots into
Polish quislings. It is an ever-
lasting monument to all Polish
jaeople that, after five terrible
months of communist indoc-
trination techniques in these spe-
cial camps, Beria had obtained
only 20 of the officers as
quisling candidates.
\n Mnvch, 1940, Stalin, through
Molotov, through \^yshinsky
in that chain of brutal command
sent Beria a Kremlin order:
He was to "liquidate" the ada-
mant Polish officers as quickly
and as secretly as possible. With
the destruction of the Polish
added, would also
officers, Stalin
be liquidated, throughout Po-
land, "the whole apparatus of
the bourgeois Polish state, leav-
ing not one stone or skeleton for
the future."
Between April 3rd and
12th, 1940, the three
NKVD camps were evacuated of all
Those from the Kozielsk
Polish officers.
camp \\ere, we know, packed in long
trains, and sent through Smolensk to
an isolated railroad station at Gniez-
dovo. Here they were, around the
clock, unloaded, day and night, thirty
or more to a van load, and driven into
a deep NKVD-guardcd
the notorious officers did not know where they w ere
being taken. Some NKVD officials
Kozielsk jovially fooled them into believing the\'
were being "freed." From diaries found
and Camp later on their bodies some of the officers
really thought they were being liber-
ated, that soon they would be back in
HERE IS THE U. S. G-2
GENERAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VAN
VLIET AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
even
CLAYTON BISSELL
Placed charge of all U. S. Military Intelli-
in
gence by a mysterious Washington power,
he received the Van Vliet report, marked it
"top secret," ordered the junior officer into
personal silence because of "the possible
political implications" and then delivered it
to the State Department under circumstances
Congress is investigating.
May
special
Poland, with their families once again.
This evil forest of Katyn, 550 miles
west by south of Moscow, at the head-
waters of the Dnieper River, had, since
1934, been entirely isolated from or-
dinary Russians. Beria of the Moscow
Kremlin was its master. ^Vithin it he
had his notorious "Little Castle," over-
forest. The looking the Dnieper, a bestial hunting
THE RUINS OF WARSAW
Ambassador and Mrs. Lane inspect-
ing the ruins of the U. S. Embassy at
Warsav/, Poland vi^here he was sent
in 1945 where he saw Poland be-
trayed and many brave Poles
liquidated by a postwar Polish Gov-
ernment whose nucleus was a group
of Russian-trained communists.
lodge where "Senior NKVD
Officials"
indulged themseh es in lust and murder.
For many years, prior to 1940, it had
been the Kremlin's secret burial place
to which Russians who displeased the
Folitbiirowere taken, never to be seen
again by their families or friends.
Into the forest of Katyn some
fifteen thousand Polish officers
were taken that terrible spring
PENTAGON of 1940. Beria's NKVD execu-
tioners did their Moscow -or-
dered jobs with swift precision;
group by group the captive
Poles were led to the brinks of
great, deep pits, larger than our
swimming pools, and shot
through the backs of their heads
by most
Beria's pistol experts. In
cases onl>' one inexpensive bul-
let was necessary, shot into the
officer's neck, piercing his skull
and exploding where his hair-
line and forehead met.
Frequently, but not alwa>s,
the Polish officer's hands were
tied behind his back, with spe-
cial twine and with a peculiai-
knot that tightened into flesh if
any attempt to free the hands
w as made.
Into the prepared excavations,
30 by 50 yards in area and
sometimes 18 feet deep, the nuu^-
dered Polish officers were placed
in layers, heads in each layer ly-
ing on top of legs and feet of
the corpses below. Into just one
of these Soviet graves the Krem-
lin's executioners packed the
bodies of two Generals, 12
Colonels, 50 Lieutenant Colonels,
165 Alajors, 440 Captains, 542
First Lieutenants, 930 Second
Lieutenants, and 146 military
Then they covered
doctors.
over the excavation, stomped
down the sandy loam, and replanted it
with pine and spruce saplings. As fast
as one mass grave was packed and dis-
guised another was waiting.
Thus the Soviets Stalin, Molotov,
Vyshinsky and Beria massacred the
captive flower of Poland's virile man-
hood, in one gigantic, bestial crime.
Except for a twist of fate's sometimes
punitive coincidence this crime might
never have become known, or proven.
The Kremhn thought the saplings, in
summer of 1940, would
the spring and
grow quickly and that, soon, behind
their iron curtain, there would be noth-
ing visible at Katyn but the forest.
The disclosure of the crime of Kat\ n
came unexpectedly and suddenh', in
April, 1943. For three years the Polish
Government in Exile, based in London,
had been tr\'ing to solve the continuing
mystery of what had happened to the
Soviet-captured officers. For three years
(Continued on page 53)
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 ILLUSTRATED BY GUERNEY MILLER

The Army needs not only men but pigeon trainers

Sgt. A. Palermo, entertainment spe-

L.

Jay, N. Y., has to keep

cialist at Fort
on good terms with talent. He's shown
here with model Jean Carmine.

TII[Y NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD

Just because you didn't have duty like this doesn't mean this article isn't true.

By JOHN SHARNIK and HERBERT MITGANG

EVERY SO OFTEN soiiie draft-agc comic But the customer just shakes his head. in history have indulged in the con-
walks into the Armed Services re- "Naw, that sounds too dull," he'll say versational sport of swapping gags,
cruiting booth in the middle of with elaborate scorn. "Routine stuff! rumors and pipedreams about their ideas
New York's Times Square and wag- Haven't you got something with a little of the softest spot in the Army. Back
gishly asks tlie Army sergeant on duty more zip to it like male nurse in a in 148 B. C., if you happened to eaves-
there what he's got to offer in the way WAC hospital, or platoon guide for a drop on a couple of Roman legionnaires
of "a really good job." The sergeant, U.S.O. troupe?" lounging around their barracks between
with that gentle, big-brotherly air for Good gag? It's usually worth a mild rounds of the Third Punic War, you'd
which Army non-coms are so widely yak. The funniest thing about it, though probably have found them fancifully
celebrated (at least in recruiting cen- and certainly the most fantastic is shooting the bull about the sort of post
ters), begins to run through his list of that these jobs, or their reasonable fac- they'd like to be transferred to say,
employment opportunities in the infan- do exist!
similes, actually ferrying slave girls for the brass from
try, artillery, ordnance and allied trades. GIs and prospective Gls of every era Carthage to Rome.

14
 open Help Wanted columns the
Army lists something like 450 dif-
ferent "Alilitary Occupational Spe-
cialties," including such startling
Sgt. Osman is skipper of the
ones as lumberjack, animal order-
good ship T-160 which ferries
passengers between Governors ly, underwater diver, pigeon train-
Island and Staten Island. er, upholsterer, boatswain (\'es,
that's the Army we're talking
about), hammersmith, entertain-
Nowadays the barracks' yarn-spin- M/Sgt. McCracken, game warden at Aber- ment specialist, bath processor
ners manage to dream up equally cushy deen Proving Ground, tramps over thousands and sled driver. But some of these
roles which they'd like to fill in the line of acres of beautiful fishing and hunting land. conceal some highly
official titles
of military duty. The truth is that unofficial-sounding duties.
among the several million individuals How did it happen? Don't ask him. That "entertainment specialist" label,
anonymously riding the Army's vast All he knows is he got orders one day for example. "GI promoter" would
assembly line, there r.re some who have to report to a new assignment. Hospital more accurately describe the functions
strayed, stumbled or steered themselves Detachment Number So-and-So, and of Sergeant Angelo Palermo, who holds
into jobs that would suit almost any- there they were women, \\ omen, down that job at Fort Jay, N. Y. Paler-
body's wildest specifications for the women! mo is the camp's official host, party-
plushiest of all positions. There's at least one man in the Army^ giver, show-producer and general mas-
Take that waggish volunteer's crack who does manage to get a\\'ay from it ter of ceremonies. It
non-militar\'
about the job in a WAC
hospital. Any all and strictly on the legit. He's amounts to kind of one-man uniformed
a
GI can just imagine himself muttering, Master Sergeant Raymond L. McCrac- impersonation of Sherman Billingsley,
after a tough day in the ward, "\Vhat ken, of Roanoke, \'a. His occupation Elsa Maxwell, Rodgers and Hammer-
a spot to get stuck in! I join this man's GI game \\ arden. He and his GI depu- stein, and Casey Stengel with over-
Army to get away from it all, and what ties rule as kings over the lush wildlife tones of Bob Hope.
do I get? Women, women, women! domain of the Aberdeen Proving Some of the more unsoldierly activi-
Have to hold hands with them to take Ground, in Maryland. He draws his ties which the sergeant promotes are
their pulse, tuck them into their httle monthly pay for tramping around its circuses, barbershop singing contests,
bunks at night next thing they'll be 37,701 acres of land and 36,754 acres of ballgames, boat rides and fishing trips.
asking to have their backs rubbed marsh and water, enforcing hunting and ("Of course I get to go along. My
down!" fishing regulations. He finds time to motto is: The Promoter should always
Only that's not imagination. Those land an occasional catch for the frying be on the job.") When things get dull
are the words of a GI who actually held pan himself in season, of course. around the post, Palermo himself fills
the job his post was a WAC hospital But these aren't the only green or in with song, dance and fancy patter.
down in Texas. olive drab pastures. In its perpetually ( Covtiimed on page 61

15
 .

BASKETBALL .

Typical of Midwestern ba
fans are these excited young

You haven't seen basketba

crazy best until you've seen wh

on out in the heart of the U.S.A.

By DAVE CONDON

AvicTORY-srARVED eastern basketball

coach once corralled tlie late
George Keogan, for nian\ \ears
leader of Notre Dame's successful quin-
tets, if it were true the Midwest
to ask
bred its young \ms to be basketball
players and threw back the small ones.
"Well," George explained, "you go
around those small Illinois and Indiana
towns and almost every yard has a Chic
Sale and a makeshift backboard and
basket. Far as I can tell, the basketball
outfit gets more use. Midwest
the sport mighty serious.
"I guess," George allow ed, "that the
prairie states are the basketball belt of
America."
Drawing onl>" from Notre Dame's
home state, George had a bushel of evi-
dence to back up that claim. What col-
legiate coach would relish competing in
a state that annually could present such
formidable quintets as Indiana Univer-
sity, Purdue, Butler, and Notre Dame?
Any athletic director who expected to
w in everything against that competition
would immediately be carted off to the
funny house.
The company is equally as rugged
next door in Illinois, where one of
Keogan's most alert pupils, Ray Meyer,
has been fashioning brilliant teams at
13c Paul University. One was
sational quintet that won the
Invitation Tourney in 1945.
folks take
An alumnus, hungering for a repeat
of that recently wanted to
success,
know when De Paul again would ha\ e
the best five in the United States.
"Alaybe," answered Meyer, "when
w e've got the best team in Illinois."
To fill that tall order, the De Paul
quintet would have to be better than
its Chicago rival, Loyola; Bradle\' Uni-
versit)', down Peoria way, and the
Fighting Illini of University of Illinois.
All have been powerhouses in recent
national tournaments.
Wow! Eight major league teams in
two adjacent states! Basketball may have
been an eastern invention, but who cares
to argue that the Midwest doesn't hold
the patent?
the sen- There are even t]uite a few of the
National modern generation, too > oimg to know
about Dr. James Naismith and his peach
baskets, who think the w-hole thing
started withGeorge Mikan, the be-
spectacled giant from De Paul w ho w as
voted basketball's greatest star in the
Associated Press half-centur>- poll.
But it has taken more than great
teams, top flight coaches, and Mikan-
type athletes, to make the Alidwest
basketball's focal point. The other in-
gredient is thousands of Ail-American
fans who might flunk an elementary
histor>' quiz, > et w ho quickh' can tell
\"ou that no Indiana high school team
ever has won the state championship in
an unbeaten campaign; that Sam Barry's
University of Iowa crews shared the
Big 10 crown in 1923 and 1926, and that
Dale White scored 1,011 points for
Irving, Illinois, high school in 1946.
A few more rabid basketball bugs
even dispense such specialized informa-

16
great crowd by any standard, these fans packed the arena to see the opening game of the Illinois High School tournament.

THESE MEN HELPED BUILD MIDWESTERN BASKETBALL SUPREMACY.

Harry Combes Dolph Stanley John Wooden Ray Eddy

University of Illinois Beloit College U.C.L. A. Purdue Univ.

tion as the fact that University of Wiscon- course, it's still in the rough stages. You'll
sin's Bud Foster not onl) led the Badgers have to iron out the details."
to a national championship in 1941, but that Combes carefully scanned the fan's dia-
Bud was the largest baby ever born in Kan- gram, then sadly shook his head.
.sas at 133/^ pounds. "It's useless," said Combes. "You've got six
One of these enthusiastic fans early last players in the Illinois lineup!"
season sought out Harry Combes, University "Oh, sure," agreed the fan. "I said you'd
of Illinois coach. The fan had conceived a have to iron out the details. I just worked out
play to improve the team's scoring punch. the unstoppable part." George Mikan, named as the
"This is unstoppable," the fan raved. "Of (Continued on page 27) greatest player of the last
50 years by the Associated
Press Mid-Century Poll.
 CAN YOU GET GOOD CAR[

IN A VETERANS HOSPITAL ?
The Legion demanded the best possible

care at the least cost. Are we getting it?

By DONALD R. WILSON
NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION

ELEVEN YEARS AGO, in 1941,
American Legion let loose a blast
against the care that sick and dis-
abled veterans were getting from the
Veterans Administration.
The Legion said in effect that our dis-
abled comrades were not getting the
kind of care they deserved, and that the
public was not getting close to its
money's worth.
Still dissatisfied, in the dying days of
WW II, the Legion repeated its charges
and called for immediate complete re-
organization of VA
medicine.
Afew years passed and suddenly, in
1949, other groups of men-less familiar
by far than the Legion in the field of
veterans affairs demanded that veterans
medicine be wiped out; that a proposed
brand new general government medical
bureau take over the VA
facilities so
that the people could "get their money's
worth."
To tlie many. The Ameri-
surprise of
can Legion's answer to this idea was,
in effect, "Hold on there!"
Since the Legion, wliich had been
medicine's earliest and most persistent
critic, staunchly opposes efforts to scrap
veterans medicine as a failure, who
could be blamed for raising his eye-
brows and asking: "Aren't you the fel-
lows who were hollering the loudest not
so long ago? What goes on here?"
The very simple answer to what goes
on has been buried almost out of sight,
except in medical circles, in the battle benefit all Americans as well as the dis-
of the billions in Washington. abled veterans. For their "money's
By 1949, VA
medicine had already worth" in veterans care, the whole pop-
been revolutionized. The hue and cry ulation getting better medicine.
is
to abolish it that was raised on the out- In 1948, just three years after the A
side that year has continued since. Yet bomb on Hiroshima, the Bronx VA
fell
The most of the shooting is based on old Hospital in New York City began to
truths that only applied to a corpse by treat a "hopeless" victim of thyroid
1949. Three years earlier VA had ripped cancer with "atomic medicine." Noth-
its tottering old medical regime apart. In ing is yet a sure cure for cancer, but
its place was built the most valuable the fact that this patient returned from
medical asset in the history of nations. the verge of death and is back on the
The old stories die hard; yet today, job today symbolizes VA's leadership
the VA revolution that began rolling in in the development of atomic medicine
1945 is without parallel in medical his- for all. The VA has 16 atom labs in
tory. operation and 24 more due to open soon.
Now, in less than six years, VA Under Dr. George Lyon ex-Manhat-
developed the most progressive con-
has
tan District it has set up safety stand-
cept of public-supported medicine ever ards and regulations that are models for
to be put in practice. It has opened its other atomic medicine labs around the
doors to make the most of free cooper- country. VAhas trained 400 atom ray
ation between private and public medi- spotters for emergency service in the
cine. It has enlarged its horizon from event of an A
bomb attack. It has
that of "bureaucratic veterans medi- worked out an "atomic cocktail" to find
cine" to take in the whole sweep of brain tumors without cutting the skull.
American medical and medico-social A VA project at California U. has come
problems. It has done this by swinging up with a device to measure the tiny bits
iiway from trends toward "socializa- of radiation used in medicine that is, for
and at a price that is less than the
tion," practical purposes, 100 times more sen-
prewar cost of inferior veterans medi- sitive than the Geiger counter.
cine. VA reports on tuberculosis are the
The often indifferent treatment that most widely quoted in the world today,
VA many disabled veterans got ten \ ears and VA's Philadelphia library of 50
ago has vanished. They are now getting iiiillion TB X-Ray films is a marvel of
the best care that can be had in the source material for advanced study of
nation. the disease. The practical treatment of
VA is not only giving veterans the tuberculosis with streptomycin came
best care available, creating new-
it is out of a joint project of forty VA and
medicine to give them the best care two military hospitals.
possible. Today a landslide of new and Today, with hundreds of V^A-spon-
better "doctoring" flows outward from sored research projects, the editors of
VA hospitals, clinics and laboratories to professional medical journals find their

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magazines crowded with findings. VA VA does it. The VA
is causing other gram, and went on to trace its begin-
From 600 to 1,000 VA
medical studies medical excitement abroad. Four \^A nings.
find their way into professional jour- medical movies recently were among "As early as 1941," said Dr. Rennie,
nals each year. The figure before WW the prize winners at the 12th Inter- "The American Legion, becoming con-
II was about 40. national Exhibition of Cinematic Art, cerned with the inadequacies of medical
Recently, hundreds of psychiatrists held at \'enice, Itah'. Three were train- care, passed their famous Resolution
visited VA
\\^inter Hospital, in Topeka, ing films covering epilepsy, brain in- 528, which was highly critical of the
Kansas, to see VA
technician Paul Ro- juries and cancer of the lung. The prevailing policies of the \^eterans Ad-
work with the "living
land's astonishing fourth. The Road to Reason, deals with ministration. They strongly reiterated
dead" of the mental hospitals the cata- the of the mentally ill,
rehabilitation this in 1945. The result was a complete
tonic patients who maymotionless
sit and has been adapted for television and reorganization, the results of which are
and mute day after day. It was Roland's show n across the nation. These movies now evident."
five-year work with some 250 of these show your doctor and mine what the To those who have seen it all happen,
most hopeless of mental patients re- latest and best methods are. "evident" isn't a strong enough word.
turning some of them to their families Dr. Thomas A. C. Rennie recently Gone, today, are all traces of a con-
and jobs that caused all the excitement. boiled down the marvel of VA's medi- dition that would let any honest man
Last October, Dr. Charles L. Ne^\- cal revolution in an address before the label the VA hospitals as a closed order
berry of the U. S. Public Health Serv- National Association for Alental Health. of medical politics, where out-of-date
ice, published a "look at the VA" mes- The \'A's care of mental cases, said Dr. medicine could be practiced half-
sage to doctors in industr>% who treat so Rennie. ". compares favorably with
. . heartedly by a sleepy staff awaiting re-
many of our civilian amputees. Said Dr. that of an>' private or university center tirement pensions.
Newberry: "That our civilian attitude in America." Instead, \^A medicine is the opposite
toward amputees is radically wrong is Dr. Rennie, who is professor of psy- of a closed system. Full of juice and
proved by comparing the lot of the chiarr\- at Cornell Universit>' iMedical ambition, one of its best jobs is the fact
civilian with that of the veteran ampu- School, said that the cost of veterans' that few of its achievements belong to
tee. A
careful study indicates that the mental care is "far below" the cost in the VA alone, but are the combined
veteran an/pjitee n-ivds up ivith a bet- most private hospitals, and is "astonish- feats of the best tlicre is in American
ter job than he had before he lost his ingly low" w hen the high t>'pe of serv- medicine.
limb. The civilian, by contrast, is dotvn iceis considered. Today, VA facilities, laboratories,
graded . .
."
Dr. Rennie had more to say. He told wards and clinics VA problems and
Once, Germany led the world in the about the parts that General Omar assets are shared on a give-and-take
business of putting amputees back in Bradley and Major General Paul R. basis with the nation's leaders in medi-
circulation. Recently a six-man team Hawle\' pla> ed in starting the new pro- cal study, medical care, medical educa-
came over from Germany to see how PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS ( Continued on page 46)

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 100,000 AMERICAN CASUALTIES

15,000 AMERICANS KILLED*

THOUSANDS MORE BUTCHERED, BUT...

M By JAMES
OUICr ON IHE
C. JONES, JR.

An angry report by a Marine who recently returned from the Korean combat zone.

AMERICANS IN KOREA havc been doublecrossed by Americans
in theUnited States. And some of us who have come
back from that peninsula of misery are mighty ashamed
of the home folks.
Yanks of the 8th Army, an infinitesimal cluster of men
compared to the U. S. potential, have carried the fight for
a nation which gives every indication of not caring, which
appears to prefer looking the other way, which concerns
itself virtually not at all with the fearful casualties,
which has dedicated itself almost exclusively to the better-
ment of its individual backyards. Those families which
have members in Korea evidently are the only people who
side completely and devotedly with U. S. fighters.
V^eterans of Korea experience a momentary, ephemeral
exhilaration when the ships ease up to U. S. piers: We are
alive, not all of us are crippled, we are as healthy as can be
expected, and there is joy in knowing that the next minute
or week or year will not be spent fighting at lea.st, not in
Korea. Much of that exquisite, high tension happiness is
and life-saving. Yet tens of millions of back-sliding Ameri-
cans cannot be bothered.
Stepping on to U. S. shores is indeed a pleasant change,
environmentally, but more than a little disquieting. When
many of us made a similar trip home from the various
battlefields of World War II, we enjoyed an abiding sense
of pride. There was the feeling that the whole country
had been at war, seriously bent upon whipping the com-
and mon enemies. We survivors returned, knowing the nation
had been solidly behind us, had counted heavily on us, and
we were proud because we had not failed.
Precious little pride accompanies the current homecoming.
(And I speak for a sizable number of buddies, as well as
for myself. My military job as a combat correspondent
enabled me to meet many men, to learn much about their
feelings and convictions.) None of us can see where we
failed this time, but most of us can see where the home
guard corked off. No, homecoming is not the great fun
it was in 1945. Rather, it is a little embarrassing, because

dispelled in short order.
When we settle down enough
to permit a searching look
around, what we confirms the suspicions that were bred
sec
overseas. In the vernacular, nearly everyone here is fat.
Despite all the bellyaching about high prices and high taxes,
it is quite apparent that nobody is starving, that millions of
television aerials stud the house tops, that a vast number of
the cars on the streets are sleek new models, and that most
of the home-fronters are so busily occupied in tending their
own gardens that they seldom have time to drop in at a
blood donor center to squeeze oflf a pint for the guy who is
dribbling his away in a cruddy rice paddy. Giving blood
to the Armed Forces is quick, painless, free, soul-satisfying
some of us hatch the hot idea that we are little more than
red-faced suckers.
Bear in mind that we were probably less inspired about
going into battle in 1950 than any other Americans in any
other war. Why we were hustled into that stinking land
at all was well worth pondering. At first, many sloggers
entertained the notion that we were buying time for
America. What happened? Seven U. S. Divisions came to
Korea in the first four months of the war, then the tap was
shut off. W^e felt that we had purchased the time, at pro-
hibitive prices, but where were the rest of the soldiers our
nation of 155 million people was supposed to be supplying?
*Approximate, as of December 3, 1951

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 )
GROUND
IN KOREA
m OAf/e/s
'm
HALTS
Order;
HSl Ridgm Deny
Red JetsHJlCqmer^
Contradictory official statements have
confused and benumbed the public.
The reds butchered GIs. Officials re-
gretted the "timing" of the announcement.
A few were in Europe, but most of them were home,
and there still are but seven U. S. Divisions in the line.
That pittance of incoming manpower sent tumbling
the conjecture that we might be trying to keep the com-
munists out of Japan, too, for we learned belatedly that
another of the Yalta deals had situated the Russians only
a canoe's ride from Hokkaido, the northernmost island
of Japan. Keeping the Redsfrom engulfing Korea would
not prevent them from sweeping across the last American
bastion in that part of the world, if they had a yearning
to occupy Nippon. Seven not-so-hot-to-trot Divisions
in Korea would not, at any rate, and the lonesome pair
of U. S. Divisions now occupying Japan would be unable
to do much about it, either.
Morale could never be strong under such circumstances,
and mustering up courage (or developing a strong enough
feeling of futility) to attack that next hill was excruciat-
ingly difficult. Especially after that first bit of sweet
scuttlebutt concerning peace talks. The capers at Kaesong
soon appeared to be largely in the nature of international
diddling, though, and viewing it thus, the infantryman
found going up that hill a little easier, although he could
not see the worth of it. He might die, wondering to the
last if a cease-fire would be in effect next morning, or
even at the moment he died. It took more than the usual
allotment of guts, but he had it, and so he went up that
hillday after day.
Morale was anything but aflame in Korea, and it helped
not one whit to be prodded ungently by a long shaft from
the homeside. The American in Korea fought gallantly
because he was fighting for his life and he knew it.
( Continued on page 51
MY HUSBAND
IN ACTION IN
IS MISSING
KOREA
By Mrs. Ruby Peeler
WE ARE LEGION, we wives of those who are
Missing In Action In Korea, living lives of
nightmarish hopes and frustrations.
We hope that they live, and then are spiritually
convulsed with a feeling of guilt and selfishness for
such thoughts.
As with women throughout the centuries of wars
fought for the various causes of freedom, and isms,
and acquisitions, we Korean M. I. A. widows must
face the grueling fact that our soldiers, if living,
face the most torturous existence of any uniformed
men by having fallen into enemy hands.
From Taegu to Pyongyang, we wives have waited,
while most of the populace laughed. We have wept
calmly, and wept frantically, into our pillows,
whUe caressing the undented pillow on the other
side of the bed.
Some of us dream. Not good dreams, as we'd wish.
Sleep with pleasant dreams would help. But the
dreams we have are too deeply permeated with the
hopelessness, helplessness and brutality of the situa-
tion to give sufficient rest to body and soul.
Some of us have broken down, just as have wives
throughout the ages. I remember having had a
doctor called to administer a sedative, months ago,
when the first letters were received from prisoners
of war. I can still see the look of disgust on his
face as he said, "You can't live in the past, honey.
You've got to live in the present."
I was too sick in mind to ask, "What present?
What about a future?" What had I for my hus-
band's son? A country divided by party politics?
A country resurgent with organized crime? A school
ground surrounded with vultures who prey on the
young and bewildered with the offer of a drugged
existence that destroys all that for which men are
dying? Then, when the people stop to think, they
ask, "What are our troops doing in Korea, anyway?"
Bitter, ironic, and unpatriotic thoughts floated,
merged and kaleidoscoped through my tortured and
drugged brain, until, with relief, the foggy dreams
and questions were chased away by the "yellowish-
brown" men, with slanting eyes, creeping, with ter-
rible grins on their faces, from every nook and
cranny of my strange-familiar bedroom, to dance
'round my bed in a silly, bumpy, trotty dance, until
the shot the doctor had so optimistically given me
lent oblivion.
Oblivion! Blessed word! Wonderful thought! How
we yearn for it, hope for it, pray for it, only to
hang our heads in shame for the impulse.
We think of the blessedness of amnesia, of forget-
fulness. Then we awaken from stupid, dream-laden
sleep. The room is not familiar. The pictures on the
walls are stupid and meaningless prints of pictures
by stupid and meaningless, would-be artists. Who
dared hang them there? Who dared plan a room
with windows that, no matter how widely opened,
were airless, and cheerless, and without view? View?
Why should one need, or ask, that scapes of beauty
be opened when one was alone? What is beauty?
What is hope? My God, where am I? Where is the
familiar and loved?
One rushes to the window, and stares hard and
deep. Searches the surroundings with frantic hope
for the known, and believed-in part of a security
geographically one's own. (Continued on page 60)
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 A little extra effort will get you "top dollar" for the old bus.

By MORGAN MORRIS

(WANT TO sell my car. What's the best tape. You will lose a substantial amount less, perhaps because he is more con-
way todo it and how much should of money on the deal, of course, but venient, go back to him and tell him
I ask? Should I turn it in to the deal- that is the penalty on a turn-in. After what the competition has offered you.
er who is selling me my new car or all, the dealer has no intention of giving There is a good chance that he will try
should I try to sell it through an ad in you as much for your car as he will be to match their offer.
the newspaper?" able to sell for later. If possible, he
it The newspaper classified ad is prob-
Almost twelve million people will ask will make as close to 20 percent on your ably the best way to sell a used car. It
these questions this year. Few of them old car as he can and he would be a attracts the greatest number of people,
will find the right answers. The ma- poor businessman if he did otherwise. it is relatively inexpensive and it is read

jority will lose money, time and pa- There are exceptions. The car he is largely by people who are looking for
tience trying to make a "good deal" selling you may be so hard to dispose a car. It has disadvantages, too. You will
without having the slightest idea of of that he is willing to reduce its price be pestered by a lot of shoppers who
what a good deal used car.is in selling a by giving you an inflated amount for have no intention of buying, you'll give
The average American, when he sets your old car. Don't forget, though, demonstrations to people who are sure
out to buy a new or used car, is very that in this case you will get a corre- they want the car but who never come

U i9 ft Ui

Don't take the first offer. Shop around, and match Some people have trouble writing an Don't try to cover up anything out
the offers you get from competitive dealers. ad. They tell too or too much.
little of order. Honesty saves trouble.

conscious of price and will often go to
extremes to save a few dollars, shopping
in so-called "low priced" areas or buy-
ing makes and models which do not ap-
peal to him except in price. Yet, this
same buyer, when he sells his old car,
almost always makes a poor deal. He
fails to observe even the simplest rules
of used-car selling although there are
lessons to be seen all around him.
The easiest way to dispo.se of a used
car is to turn it in to the dealer from
whom you are buying a new or used
car. You drive it in, he appraises it and
gives you a price which he will apply
toward your new car. The whole
action is over in a matter of minutes
and there is no fuss, discussion or red
spondingly smaller amount for the new
car when the time comes for you to sell
it. If it's hard to sell now it will prob-
ably be hard to sell then. One general
rule applies to all turn-ins. The more
popular the make the dealer is selling
the less he will give you for your old
car.
Many of us, when we decide to turn
our old car in on a new one, make the
mistake of not "shopping around."
agree to the price offered to us by the
first dealer we happen to approach. Ac-
tually, another dealer, selling the same
make of car, may be willing to give us
trans- a higher price. If you find that this is
so and you still want to buy >'our new
car from the dealer who has offered you
back and you are tied to the house as
long as your ad runs. By and large,
however, these disadvantages are easily
outweighed by the additional profit you
will make by selling your car directly
rather than through a middleman.
One difficulty in newspaper selling is
the inability of most of us to write an
attractive classified ad that will catch
the eye of and appeal to the potential
We purchaser. We
either give too little in-
formation or too much and the sale is
lost as soon as the "prospect" reads the
ad. Take this example: "'48 BUICK
SEDAN. GOOD CONDITION. BEST
OFFER, 15 JONES ST." You won't sell
many Buicks or any other make with
this kind of ad. It gives almost no in-

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 car by describing it proudly, pointing
out its best features.
The real test of your selling ability
comes when the prospect arrives for a
demonstration. Have the car there
ready for him to see. Let him inspect
it thoroughly. Don't attempt to hide the

bad features, if there are any. It is bet-

ter for you to show him the broken
heater and offer to allow him for it in
the price than to have him discover it
himself. If he does he will think that
you are hiding it and that you are prob-
ably hiding other deficiencies as well.
Be friendly to the prospect and try to
show enthusiasm for the car.
Remember, he is spending a sizeable
amount of money and the purchase of
a car may be the biggest purchase he has
ever made. He is anxious to have a car
but at the same time is afraid that he
may be making an unwise choice. An
indifferent manner and gruff answers
formation at all. Is it a two-door or Although giving too little informa- to his questions will not put him at his
four-door sedan? Is it a large or small tion the usual fault in writing classi-
is ease or reassure him. If he brings his
Buick? Does it have an automatic trans- fied ads, giving too much is almost as wife with him to see the car, give them
mission? Does it have heater and radio? bad. If the ad is too long and involved a chance to speak privately before com-
What color is it? How much is it? or too flowery, the prospect will won- ing to a decision. If you don't, he may
These are things that the potential buy- der if there isn't something wrong. turn the car down, unwilling to take
er wants to know and unless your ad Why does this car need such high- the chance of finding out later that she
tells him, his eye will move on down the pressure selling? does not approve of the car.
column until he finds a more informa- If possible, always give a telephone If the prospect is satisfied and de-
tive ad. A far better way to write this number inyour ad rather than a house cides to buy, come to an immediate
ad would be -"BUICK 1948 ROAD- address and state the hours during understanding on how payment is to be

See what other individuals and Accept nothing but cash or a Be careful about those plates. It's obviously foolish to spend a
dealers are asking for similar cars. certified check, to play safe. Some states won't allow transfers. lot of money fixing up an old car.

MASTER 4-DOOR SEDAN. DYNA-
FLOW, RADIO, HEATER.
MAROON, WHITE- WALL TIRES.
PERFECT. $1400, MA-1899,
5." This ad creates a picture in the mind
of the reader. It makes him desire to
own your car.
The buyer wants to know
potential
the exact model of the car. He wants
to know what equipment it has and its
color. Most of all he wants to know
how much it costs. "Best offer" should
only be used in special cases, such as
very old (or rough) or very desirable
"new-used" cars, which are in great
demand. Where the average car is con-
cerned, decide on what price you are
asking and put it in the ad.
which you will be available. None of us
likes to make a trip to look at a car that
may be unsuitable when we get there
AFTER and a potential buyer frequently has
no form of transportation in which to
go to see your car. This may be the
very reason why he is buying a car.
If you make it hard for the customer he
will simply pass up your ad and go on
to another that involves no more diffi-
culty and bother than picking up a
telephone. Also, by using a telephone
number rather than an address you can
screen out many shoppers and those
who are merely curious.
When a prospect does call, tell
what he wants to know about the car.
If you can, try to make him desire the
made. He will probably offer a deposit
to hold the car until he can arrange to
pay in full. He should receive a receipt
for the deposit, containing a full de-
scription of the car (serial number,
motor number, model, etc.). He will re-
turn this receipt to you when the sale
iscompleted. Do not sign over the title
of the car to him until the full price
is paid.
Accept nothing but cash or a certi-
fied check for full payment. If the buy-
er pleads that he can give you half or
a third now and the rest Thursday, de-
cline, regretfully but firmly. Do not
him turn the car over to him until Thursday
(or whenever the full price is paid).
(Continued on page 44)

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DO YOU KNOW? HOW TO SHOW RESPECT TO OOR FlAG
3

A picture quiz which will show whether or not you know what you should about flag etiquette.

ANSWERS ON PAGE 28

9 10

THESE illustrarions correct

^^"^""^
usage being followed while in others
is

there is some faux pas. Under each photograph

space is provided for you to write whether or
not you think things are as they should be, and
why. When you have expressed your opinions
turn to page 28 to see how many of the sixteen
situations you have appraised correctly.
Incidentally, we wish to make it clear that
the folks shown in these photographs know the
right procedure in every case. They are
Legionnaires from James B. Whipple Post 86,
WUton, Conn., and where they acted out im-
proper methods of handling the flag it was only
to keep others from making the same errors.

PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS

15 16

25
 Legion Rod and Gun Club
IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR
CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAYOFF WITH SHELLS, CARTRIDGES, LINES OR LURES.
Ashort time ago during the deer season guns and patterns," this sportsman writes.
in one of our eastern states one of the long- "Most of the outdoor magazines and others
time residents of that particular state was that handle the subject make it so compli-
killed while riding his bicjxle to the farm cated that I don't know if I'm reading or
of a nearby friend. He was riding on a dirt looking at a problem in calculus."
road, completely unobscured by brush, First let me say that a shotgun is so-called
small trees, etc., and was dressed in bright because it fires a shell containing a quan-
clothing. The man w ho killed him claimed tity of lead shot. It is made with a smooth-
that he thought the handlebars of the bore barrel.
bicycle were "deer horns." Shotguns are made in several
Incidents of this kind, evidences of care- gauges, 10, 12, 16, 20, 28
lessness with firearms have led to hot con- gauges have been made in the past but are
troversy in political and sporting worlds. not in common use. These include 4, 8, 14,
"Morons and irrcsponsibles shouldn't be 24 and 32 gauges.
allowed to carry death in their hands. Tests The unit of gauge measurement is based
should be devised to stop them from buy- on numbers of lead balls weighing one
ing hunting licenses," say many sportsmen. pound. 12 gauge is approximately the di-
"Uh uh," say the politicians, "there isn't a ameter of a lead ball of which 12 weigh
could be dreamed up that would
test that one pound, 16 gauge is the diameter of a
measure man's reactions to certain emo- lead ball of which 16 weigh one pound, etc.
tional problems. And fitness tests aren't The one exception is 410 gauge, which is
any good." actually .410 caliber. In terms of gauge, it
would be 36 gauge.
Bore diameters in thousandths of inches
are as follows:
- .780"
10 ga. 20 ga. - .624"
12ga. -.730" 28ga. -.553"
What do you think? As a reader of the
16ga. -.678" 410 ga. -.410"
American Legion Magazine, and member of
Shell length is measured in inches; in
one of the most powerful gioups in the terms of the overall length of fired shell,
world your opinion is respected. Why not with the crimp open. This applies both to
send your reactions to this page, THE ROD Remington and Peters shells with the "New
AND GUN CLUB, and lend your thinking Flat-Top Crimp" and to shells with the old
on this problem?
style roll crimp. A2 measures about
'/<
" shell
We're interested in your thoughts and I'/z" to lYs" before it is fired, but l^i"
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Do any of you woods characters know
what the word Orienteering means? A few
of you might have practiced it during the
last war. It started in Sweden during the
war years and then spread throughout
Europe. Give up? It's simply the art of
. . .
using map and compass effectively in cross-
country traveling. If you know Orienteering
no country can be too wild, no forest too
deep. We're beginning to learn more about
it here.
well-known A book that might be convenient next to
and 410. Other your gun case is "Everyday Ballistics";
simple and down to earth it is written by
Charles S. Cummings II, and published by
Stackpole and Heck, Harrisburg, Penna
Choice information on your favorite
sport is as closeeasy to get as a walk
and as
to > our local sporting goods store. Places
like the Parker Sport Store in Manchester,
New Hampshire, and F.d Felix's Sports
Shop in Roxbury, Connecticut, are a couple
of small sports shops that not only handle
complete lines for the hunter and the fish-
erman, but are happy to answer tricky
questions. Give them a tr>-. Support your
local sports shops, and you'll find that
they'll support you.
. . .
The poor pups of America are in for
something new in food experimentation.
Now one of the major dog food manufac-
turers is getting ready to put up dog food
with chlorophyll added. Chlorophyll is sup-
posed to kill odor and has already been sold
in various forms to humans totaling a $150,-
000,000 annual take. Now with the produc-
tion of a (le<Hlori/e<l dog food guaranteed to
take the smell out of your pooch, we're
hoping that the geniuses will sit back and
Al*I'Rt)XIMA'rE A\'ERAGE
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 Basketball
Combes didn't consider tlie incident
unusual. When it's basketball time in
Illinois, almost everyone is a bit daffy.
Illinois is crazy about basketball, ad-
mittedly. Iowa and Wisconsin fans are
fanatics of thehoop game. But Indiana
is and raconteurs of Hoosier
delirious,
glories now skip over James Whitcomb
Riley, the Banks of the Wabash, and
other such nonsense to tell you about
foxy Everett Case, Cliff Wells, and
Johnny Wooden, a few of the bright
Hoosiers scattered in the corners of the
United States teaching basketball as it
was meant to be played Midwest fash-
ion, that is!
There was a sudden dwindling of
Indiana's younger male population
when Case, winner of four Hoosier high
school championships while at Frank-
fort, trotted to North Carolina State.
Then the youngsters began to bob up
on the State campus and the Wolfpack
started grabbing titles. Case won five
straight Southern Conference crowns
to enter this sixth season batting 1.000.
The Wolfpack's Ail-American for-
ward last year was Sam Ranzino, a 6
foot, 1 inch "southerner" from Gary,
Indiana, who probably was overlooked
by midwestern coaches because he's so
"small."
While Case was adding midwestern
style basketball to theNorth Carolina
curriculum, another gentleman from
Indiana was being saluted elsewhere in
,
Dixie. That would be Cliff Wells of
Tulane University in New Orleans, vet-
eran of a long coaching tenure at
Logansport, Indiana, High School.
A straightforward fellow. Cliff let the
New Orleans folks entertain no illusions
that they could get America's finest
quintet merely by hiring an Indiana
coach Midwest players were needed.
"Very few sections of the country will
catch up soon with the Midwest," Wells
explains. "The Midwest got about a
20-year start."
Only pensioners and film struck dolls
outnumber midwestern basketball
coaches in migrating to the Pacific
Coast. Wooden, an all-time great player
at Purdue, has won at least a division
title each of the last three seasons at
University of California at Los Angeles.
Currently keeping Wooden from be-
coming homesick for Indiana is John
Moore, a 6 foot, 5 inch dandy who won
Hoosier all-state high school honors.
And, fortunately for U.C.L.A., Moore
so far hasn't experienced the nostalgia
that once struck a gangly Iowa young-
ster the late Sam Barry welcomed to
University of Southern California.
This Iowa athlete was on the Trojan
campus only a week before packing for
home. "Mighty pore corn country out
here," he explained to Barry.
. . . Midwestern Style
(Continued from page 19)
Barry's feat of having shared two Big
10 crowns at Iowa before going west
was regarded
as adding distinction to
Southern Cal's basketball program un-
til Stanford hired Ev Dean, winner of
three Big 10 titles for Indiana. One of
Dean's greatest Stanford stars was For-
rest Anderson, who had wandered to
Palo Alto from Gary, Indiana. Ander-
son now is widely renowned as boss of
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ON LiBEI|nr'S TEAM
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BOV SCOUTS OF AMERICA
the Bradley quintets coming out of
Peoria, Ilhnois, and ranks as a leader in
cage coaching
the profession
Dean forsook this season.
Even Ev Case had a whirl on
the west
coast, serving briefly as Barr>''s assistant
after leaving Anderson, Indiana, where
he had built a winning high school team.
The graduations of Hoosiers Wells
and Case to top flight college positions
after outstanding records with high
school quintets aren't unusual incidents
in the Midwestern picture.
Baron Adolph Rupp, winner of three
national intercollegiate championships
at Kentucky, leaped into that job from
Freeport, Illinois, High School.
Dolph Stanley of Wisconsin's nation-
ally ranked Beloit College found his
prep coaching record at Taylorville,
Illinois, the springboard to a better field.
Dolph's last Taylorville five went un-
beaten in winning the 1944 Illinois high
school title and, when Dolph left,
a few of his Taylorville athletes
things lonesome around the old home
town. They solved this by enrolling at
Beloit.
Harry Combes didn't even switch
towns in moving to University of Illi-
nois from Champaign High School,
while Ray Eddy directed Madison to
the Indiana prep championship in 1950
before taking over at Purdue.
Loyola of Chicago's George Ireland
was at Marmion Military Academy un-
til this year and his predecessor at
Loyola, Johnny Jordan, who moved on
to coach Notre Dame, is only in his
second season away from the Windy
City's Mount Carmei High School.
The spawning of such illustrious
coaches brings suspicion that Midwest
high schools put a bale of emphasis on
the cage sport. That's absolutely cor-
rect as Ray Eddy can attest with a
7*-
hatful of statistics.
"We have only about 165 schools
competing in football in Indiana,"
"Around 250 play
Eddy
relates. baseball. More
than 750 have basketball teams."
The figures are proportionately the
same in Illinois, where better than 800
high schools compere on the hardwood,
according to the latest roll call made
by Albert Willis, executive secretary of
the Illinois High School Association.
Willis never ceases to be amazed at
the fervor reached over basketball,
which has come a long way in Illinois
since students at Farina played in a two-
room former church, dribbling through
a wide doorway in passing from one
end of the arena to the other. Those
were the days, too, when many countr>'
gymnasiums were heated by pot-bellied
stoves that infringed on the playing
floor and it was an effective, if unsport-
ing, defensive measure to manipulate
the opposing team's star into a position
where his backside could get just a feel
of the heat.
which
"You'll generally find a basketball team
representing any Midwest crossroads
junction where there's a house," Willis
explains. "Where there 're a couple of
houses, you might find two teams."
He easily could have added that most
of these hamlets generally sport mod-
ern gymnasiums, some with seating ca-
pacities exceeding the township popu-
lation.
This concentrated high school pro-
gram is fed by athletes geared to com-
petition from tender ages. Notre Dame's
Johnny Jordan claims parents no longer
brag when Junior takes his first step at
10 months they wait a few days longer
and proudly report he's sinking baskets
from 20 feet out.
"The boys young," Johnny re-
start
lates, "because it's round up a
easier to
quite gang for basketball, and all they need
found is some nondescript hoop and the ball."
Jordan and Ev Case are a pair of
coaches emphasizing that the Midwest's
long winter favors development of the
hoop game just as climatic conditions
help make California a hotbed of tennis.
This, of course, brings the question of
why other frigid areas fail to catch the
The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
27
basketball fever. Tulane's Prof. Wells
has the answer.
"Other cold areas have ice skating,
hockey, and skiing to bid for attention,"
Wells says. "The big thing in Indiana,
Illinois, and Iowa is basketball."
A youngster who looked for
worthy of skiing on in one of the
Three-I states. Wells allows, would be
in a fix similar to the Engineer
sought to fit his locomotive into a cor-
ner in the roundhouse.
Those lanky athletes who grow taller
than Iowa's fabulous corn also play an
important role in the success of the
Midwest's basketball program. Coaches
don't deny the pursuit of the string bean
fellows.
Adolph Rupp claims the doorway to
his office at Kentucky is almost 6 feet,
6 inches high and boys who don't
bump their heads entering aren't en-
rolled. Harry Combes has a similar out-
look at Illinois.
"You know the way you can see into
four states from atop one of those tall
Chicago buildings?" Harry asks. "Well,
I like basketball players tall
do that without going atop a building!"
There's no doubt a midwestern coach
knows more about legs than Billy Rose
and the coaches whistle when they
spot a long, spindly pair.
Consider Bill Postl, a Chicago high
school mentor. In January 1949, Bill's
Tilden Tech quintet was finding the go-
ing rougher than a bearded lady's chin.
Then, in a school corridor. Bill eyed the
most beautiful legs he ever had seen.
They belonged to Johnny (Red) Kerr,
then hining 6 feet, 8 inches.
Bill fast. Johnny admitted play-
talked
ing some
barnyard basketball, but
thought a person had to be invited to
play for Tilden.
"You're invited now," Postl
Less than two months later,
Tilden to the Chicago public school
championship and was being pursued
by De Paul, Bradley, and Illinois. He
ultimately enrolled at Illinois.
Though Kerr may have been a long
time finding his ability, he quickly dis-
a hill covered the fans' insanity. A few hours
after Tilden arrived at University of
Illinois to play in the '49 state tourna-
who ment, Johrmy rushed to Coach Postl.
"The people here are nuts," Kerr said.
"A fellow just offered |90 for my
tickets."
"I'm going to ask for a police escort,"
Postl wailed. "If anyone hears you boys
have tickets, we'll be mobbed. The gym
seats only 6,900."
The small capacity of the lUini gym,
which makes the Illinois High School
Association as tight-fisted with tickets
as a New York speculator with tickets
for "South Pacific," brings ridicule
from Indiana folks, who stress that for
their state tournament Butler Univer-
sity's fieldhouse can seat 15,000.
And, the Hoosiers add, more than
1,200,000 see the Indiana tournament
series, from opening eliminations to the
enough to
final. Unfortunates who can't get seats
listen to the play over more than 40
radio stations.
Iowa's claim for the fan champion-
ship is that its fans even pack Drake
fieldhouse for the finale of the high
school girls^ tournament. Sometimes,
these fans agree, this brand of basket-
ball isn't as polished as that displayed
by the males, but there is yet to be a
complaint about the form.
What breeds this great fan interest by
Midwesterners? One reason is the num-
ber of participants, who draw a propor-
tionately large number of fans. Other
reasons are commonplace anywhere the
game is played its simplicity makes it
easy to follow and the action works the
said. spectators into hysteria. Imagine the ex-
Kerr led citement at a football game if the teams
traded touchdowns almost every minute!
Basketball will make anyone nutty.
Fans are just more nutty in the Midwest
because there's more basketball.
Tom Morrow, a folksy Chicago news-
paper columnist, has allowed that bas-
ketball comes between cleanliness and
godliness in Indiana. That's also true in
Wisconsin, where St. Croix Falls (pop-
ulation little better than an even 1,000),
won the state championship one 1950
Saturday night, then postponed the cele-
bration until Monday.
Raised eyebrows asked the St. Croix
Falls fellows if they hadn't heard about
the custom of ringing bells, racing fire
trucks, and nice speeches by town offi-
cials, aswas a custom the morning after
a Midwestern school took a state hoop
championship.
Oh, yes, the St. Croix folks explained,
but a Sunday celebration was impossible
their
coach, Don Snyder, had to sing
in the church choir!
Nominations for the hottest shot ever
to play in basketball's hot belt virtually
have ceased with the dominance of
Mikan, though if Giant George's name
were eliminated, Johnny Wooden well
might be considered top man. A lot also
would be said for Andy Phillip of Illi-
nois, Ed (Moose) Krause of Notre
Dame, and John J. Schommer, Univer-
sity of Chicago AU-American before
World War I.
Regional differences in styles of play
throughout the United States are fading
away with increased intersectional com-
petition. Most areas employ similar
styles,and though the Midwest long has
been employing the style with the best
success, other sectors must be making
progress they aren't spreading those
midwestern boys quite so thin this sea-
son! And with those native sons staying
closer to home, the prairie state quintets
should become tougher than ever.
THE END

Correct answer to

Do You Know How To Show Respect To Our Flag?

on paK*s 22 and 23

1. Wrong. A frayed flag should always on the left side. The soldier is salut- be on the speaker's left as he faces
be removed. ing properly. the audience.

2. Correct. The flag should always be 5. Wrong. The flag should never be 11. Wrong. The flag should be at the
displayed in a ptjlling place. This one draped over a car. peak of the staff.
12. Correct. The flag should always be
is properly displayed, too, with the 6. The error here is that the use of
flown before schools and public
field in the upper left. flags on the speaker's table is incor-
buildings.
3. Correct. When carried in a proces- rect. Bunting should have been used.
However, the flag on the wall is
13. Wrong. This is no way to carry the
sion with other flags the flag of the
flag of our country.
U.S.A. should be on the flags' own correctly displayed.
14. Correct. When suspended like this
right, the marching right. It would 7. Correct. This is the right way to
the flag should have the field in the
also be correct in this case if the flag fold a flag.
upper left as you face it.
were in the center, ahead of the two 8. Correct. The minister at this burial 15. Wrong on two counts. The flag of
flags flanking it. at the head of the grave and the
is the United States should be on the
4. Wrong on two counts. When the flag's field is in the correct place. marching right and no other flag
flag goes by, a male civilian should 9. Wrong. The flag should be lowered should be elevated above it.
remove his hat and place it over his before dark. 16. Wrong. The flag should never be
heart. The lady in this case seems 10. Correct. The flag is on the speaker's allowed to touch the ground.
to have forgotten that one's heart is right, and any other colors should THE END

28 * American Legion Magazine February, 19S2


The
GROUP SEEKS TO DESTROY U.S.
VET'S PROGRAM IN FOUR MONTHS
"Citizens" Lobby Speeding
Would Make VA
Hospitals Public Institutions; Snarl Benefits
and Preference; Conflicting Groups Make Plans to Finish Job
The group that calls itself the Citizens
Committee for the Hoover Report held
a grand strategy meeting last October
in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New
York and decided to have one more fling
at breaking up the Veterans Adminis-
tration.
This time the group, headed by Dr.
Robert L. Johnson, President of Temple
University in Philadelphia, set next
June 1st as the deadline to push the laws
through Congress that would dismember
the Veterans Administration and break
up the federal veterans program. It was
decided to raise $150,000 more in gifts
from well-to-do persons and groups, such
gifts to be tax-deductible.
The big job for the Committee is to
get Congress to pass four major pro-
posals, three of which would dismember
the Veterans Administration and turn
the veterans hospitals into public insti-
tutions, while the fourth would end vet-
erans preference in getting or keeping
government jobs.
The Exact Opposite
TheCitizens Committee's lobbying
and "public information" program for
these laws in the past is expected to con-
tinue. It has concentrated on spreading
the word that its proposed laws would:
1. Save federal funds, through claimed
better management.
2. Avoid wasteful duplication in
ernment.
3. Make
better days for veterans
through less red tape.
4. Create better careers for veterans
in government jobs.
5. Improve the medical service.
The chief trouble the committee has
run into during the last three years is
that all conscientious and responsible
students of veterans aff'airs have ad-
vised that the Committee's proposed
laws would:
1. Make
the administration of veter-
ans affairs more costly by hopelessly
complicating them.
Create duplication, triplication and
2.
even quadruplication in government
where none exists now.
3. Vastly multiply the red tape that
faces the veteran with a claim.
4. Set government hiring back 80
years, by removing the last remaining
brakes to the crony system of hiring and
firing in Civil Service.
5. Break up the best government hos-
pital system (VA) and vastly reduce the
Xatioivai Legionnaire
Efforts to Hamstring Vet Claims.
amount and quality of care available to
veterans.
If you looked at the above closely you
would see that the claims of the Citizens
Committee and the conclusions of vet-
erans service experts are different. In
fact, they are the exact opposite.
Experts in every chartered veterans
organization, whose job it is to see vet-
erans claims safely through the bureau-
cracy, advise that you cannot save fed-
eral funds by making three agencies to
do what one agency does now.
For example, they say, many agencies
instead of one would have to keep their
own records and the complement of
clerks that goes with them on each
veteran that ever had a claim and on
each veteran that ever will have a claim.
With 18 million living veterans and
three million more now in the making,
the possibilities for paper work are fan-
FOURTEEN BILLS, ONE RESULT
These are the bills in Congress now
that would break up the Federal
veterans program (See story
page.).
1. Three identical bills to turn vet-
erans hospitals into public insti-
tutions under a U.S. Department
of Health. In the Senate, bill
number S1140. In the House of
gov- Representatives, bills numbered
HR-3305 and HR-3688.
Three identical "red tape"
2.
to reduce VA to a so-called
"Benefits Section," dependent on
other agencies to handle your
claims.
Senate - S-1151.
House - HR-3316, HR-3686.
3. Three identical bills to create a
separate government insurance
corporation to handle your serv-
ice insurance.
Senate - S-1138.
House - HR-3317 and HR-3677.
4. Five nearly identical bills that
would make veterans preference
in Civil Service unworkable.
Senate Already passed last
Oct. 19, as S-1135.
House - HR-2420, HR-2748,
HR-3311 and HR-3687.
You can help make your wishes
known by cutting out the numbered
items above and pasting them to a
brief note of your own, to be sent to
one of your Senators or your Rep-
< resentative.
'
tastic. Visualize 50 to 100 million rec-
ords where 10 or 20 would do.
Today VA keeps one master folder
on each veteran with a claim, and it can
apply to any sort of claim he may make.
The men who know the ropes in the
Legion, the VFW, the DAV and the
Am Vets predict chaos and wasteful ex-
penditure of money in a sea of unneces-
sary record-keeping, if the Citizens Com-
mittee does its job.
Less Red Tape?
Not only will many agencies handle
veterans claims, but many agencies will
handle the same claim. To get any ac-
tion, the veteran will stumble over the
usual growth of conflicting policies and
customs found in independent agencies.
This, say the experts, will bog veterans
claims down in newly created difficul-
ties between bureaus. New armies of
clerks, expediters, catalysts and other
by-products of too-cumbersome govern-
ment with which Washington agencies
are already clogged will be required, for
the experts on the government payroll
who render no direct service, but who do
business between bureaus, become more
and more necessary the more bureaus
there are. Especially when more bureaus
are working on the same job such as a
veteran's claim.
this The Citizens Committee doesn't think
so. It has been circulating rosy broad-
sides, newspaper editorials, mottoes,
slogans and simple cartoons that show
smiling, contented veterans in the world
of the future, enjoying the prompt, effi-
cient service of "good government."
The veterans experts warn that it
ain't so.
bills
VA red tape of today, they caution,
would be pure heaven beside the plans
for the veteran of the future put for-
ward by the Citizens Committee for the
Hoover Report. The veterans experts,
with thirty years of experience behind
them, say that a veteran who gets up to
his knees today in a snarl with the VA
would be over his head under the Hoover
proposals. For instance, at least two
bureaus instead of one will ensnarl the
war-wounded veteran seeking service-
connected compensation or hospitaliza-
tion. And just as neither bureau will
have the power to make the other act,
so neither will be fully responsible to
the veteran. When something goes
wrong in either bureau, each can blame
the other. Guess who will be the goat,
the veterans expei-ts ask.
All the chartered veterans organiza-
tions are quick to point out that their
claims service for veterans will be great-
ly impaired if today's single central
agency responsible to veterans is delib-
Th AmericoQ Legion Magazine February, 1952
29

erately wrecked, as recommended by the
Citizens Committee.
The chartered veterans organizations
spend the dues of their members and
gifts from the general public to steer
veterans claims through the VA at no
charge to the veteran, whether or not
he is a member of the organization. They
report that their service staffs, no less
than the bureaus, the taxpayers and the
individual veterans, would find the
Citizens Committee's multiple-bureau
cure-all a costly, wasteful, time-consum-
ing, energy- wasting piece of chaos. With
records, responsibility and authority in
veterans affairs scattered to the bureau-
cratic winds, the service officers would
be able to give less and less service to
fewer and fewer veterans. Each case
would cause more work and more de-
lay, while more and more stymied vet-
erans would seek the services of the or-
ganizations for more and more types
of claims.
Some service officers think the Citi-
zens Committee is made up of morons,
but this is far from the truth.
For instance, the Citizens Committee
has its own veterans organization, some
Jt2 well-to-do veterans at this writing,
who call themselves the Independent
Veterans Committee. This veterans
group seems to have no other purpose
than to lend the name "veterans" to the
support of the Hoover proposals. It has
no service program of its own, and no
obligation or dedication to veterans or
their dependents. Thus it has nothing to
feg,r from the consequences to veterans
of the laws it is promoting. Members of
this group assail the regular veterans
organizations as "undemocratic." Mean-
while the 42-man group itself, which
has no regular meetings, no veterans
program, no conventions, no posts, no
regular elections, and represents nobody,
offers to speak for all 13 million unor-
ganized veterans in favor of the Citizens
Committee. This manifestation of "de-
mocracy" will bear watching.
No More Vets Hospitals
The Citizens Committee's medical pro-
posal is to create a new U. S. Depart-
ment of Health and give it the veterans
hospitals for the purpose of turning
them into public institutions in sixty
days. The rosiest of cartoons full of
smiling veterans in hospital beds handed
out by the Citizens Committee cannot
dispel the sober meaning of this pro-
posal, based on sheer arithmetic. Your
service officers report that something
like 18,000 veterans are now on the wait-
ing list for care in the VA's all-veteran
hospitals. In addition the Armed Forces
are holding wounded Korea veterans in
service some of them overseas for
lack of veterans beds to hold them on
discharge. Nevertheless the Citizens
Committee is sponsoring three bills in
Congress right now, under which exist-
ing veterans beds would be divorced
from VA and shared with patients in
other categories.
The present shortage in all-veteran
beds is chiefly due to the stoppage of the
post-War II VA hospital construction
program in 1949, when construction of
16,000 beds was halted. The Bureau of
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experienced men and, by and large, the
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prestige. Doctors'and dentists' prestige
is borrowed to sell toothpaste and to-
bacco. Everything from whiskey to com-
the Budget made that recommendation,
munism is sold on the good names of
but the Hoover Commission claimed its
actors, athletes, channel swimmers, sing-
figures and advice were responsible for
ers, flagpole sitters, authors and kidnap
the Budget Bureau action.
victims. And it works. The Hoover
The Citizens Committee for the
Commission was packed with big names,
Hoover Report learned this year that it
at least one or another of which would
can no longer expect help from the Ad-
appeal to anyone. Such different people
ministration in its proposals to bust up
as Herbert Hoover and Dean Acheson
VA, which may be a backfiring of the
were on the masthead.
loss of prestige suffered by the Hoover
Commission through its bad advice on
Natural Target
the hospitals in 1949.
If the reader is puzzled as to how With so much prestige waiting to be
the members of the Citizens Committee exploited, somebody was bound to show
can reasonably hope that their laws to up with something that could be sold
bust up the VA
will save them tax by twisting the purpose of the Commis-
money in view of the tremendous tangle sion a little that way. The comparatively
and duplication they will cause in the high level of those parts of the nineteen
administration of veterans affairs there volumes of the Hoover Report that did
are two clues. not touch on the veterans program
serves to emphasize what events have
Source of "Savings" proved That the American war veter-
:
In the early Twenties many bureaus ans benefit program was the most
handled veterans affairs. It was so diffi- natural target for opportunism under
cult to satisfy a perfectly clear claim the Hoover Commission set-up.
under the veterans benefit laws of those There are two groups of people in this
days that a great number of claims country who hate each others' guts, but
went unsatisfied. The veteran couldn't who each have their own reasons for
fight his way through the red tape. wanting to strip the veterans program
Again, in 1946, when the VA's GI and a bi-partisan commission is the
insurance records were dispersed ideal spot to find them both.
through force of circumstance, it was One group is the welfare staters, who
so hard to attend to the simplest insur- look with longing eyes at the tailor-
ance matter that millions of veterans made veterans program as a building
dropped their insurance. block to be turned into everybody's pro-
The Citizens Committee's proposals gram. If you can keep the veterans in-
can recreate those conditions as an act stitutions but get rid of the veterans you
of will. The "savings" can come from are over the first hump. Then you can
unmet veterans claims that are lost in parcel the veterans institutions out po-
red tape and from veterans denied hos- any way you please.
litically or
pitalization because the beds are full of The other group is the ultra-conserva-
somebody else. It is significant that the tive camp who hate the welfare state,
Citizens Committee once passed the but also hate the expense of veterans
word down the line to its members that medicine and veterans benefits in gen-
they could promise everybody savings eral,and who don't like to see the gov-
of three or four billion dollars, but they ernment in the insurance business. Bust
were not to explain how the savings up the veterans and then the veterans
February, 1952
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institutions will just go away, they hope.
It seems apparent that these opposite
interests were present in the Hoover
Commission from the start, and that
therewas almost unanimous agreement
among them that their prestige could be
used to break up the veterans program
and with it the veterans' influence.
This seems to have been agreed before
the Hoover Commission began any of
the studies that were supposed to be the
basis of its conclusions, and it is borne
out by the fact that the Commission com-
pleted its studies of veterans affairs and
made its report without seeking any in-
formation from the men who know vet-
erans affairs best the major veterans
service organizations.
The Commission did not even apolo-
gize for by-passing the experienced rep-
resentatives of five million veterans. In
due time it submitted its report to Con-
gress that VA should be broken up into
chunks.
With its report complete, the Hoover
Commission passed out of existence, and
there sprang up the unofficial Citizens
Committee for the Hoover Report, which
took unto itself the Hoover name and
prestige, and began to write bills and
push them in Congress. Today, be it
noted, the Citizens Committee has wan-
dered pretty far from the Hoover Re-
port itself, and is using the Hoover
Commission name to write laws the
Hoover Commission itself did not pro-
pose. For instance, the Hoover Commis-
sion did not propose to set up a U. S.
Department of Health, but the commit-
tee for the Hoover Report does.
The welfare staters and the ultra-
conservatives are still playing along to-
gether in the Citizens Committee, like
Pappa Katzenjammer smiling at Hans
and Fritz with a club behind his back.
The conservatives seem to be putting up
most of the money and making the most
noise, but the welfare staters seem to
have the best brains and consequently
the best of the bargain in the legislation.
However, enthusiasm is high in both
camps.
Should their laws ever go through
(and apparently it is up to the proposed
victims, the veterans, to stop them) the
uftra-conservatives on the Citizens Com-
mittee are apt to be in for a big surprise.
False Hopes
The government will still be in the
insurance business, and it will still be
operating the veterans hospitals-but the
"for veterans only" sign will be gone.
The disabled veterans, and the widows
and orphans of veterans may still be
knocking at the door-not as proud and
deserving servants of their country but
as so many more people in a bigger,
longer line. The laws are tailored for the
welfare state, to wit Take medicine out
:
of VA and put it in a U. S. Department
of Health; Take insurance out of the
VA and put it in a government insur-
ance corporation; Change the name of
VA to The Benefits Section and get it
ready to go to "some other agency"
palpably the Federal Security Agency.
The conservatives on the Citizens
Committee, who are making big dona-
tions in the hope of tax relief, can't see
Legion Asks for State Laws to Curb Narcotic
Sale and Use; Vigorous Campaign
The American Legion's all-out drive
on the illicit sale and use of narcotics
is gathering momentum, according to a
progress report issued by National Child
Welfare Chairman Dr. A. H. Wittman,
Philadelphia.
"If the drive is sustained for another
12 to 15 months we should be well over
the hump and on the way to a complete
victory," Dr. Wittman added.
In 1950, long before the campaign to
end teen-age dope use had reached any-
thing like its present height, the Legion
sounded a warning at the Los Angeles
Convention. When this warning went
unheeded, the Legion took the initiative
in June, 1951, by calling the first nation-
wide narcotics crisis conference in New
York City.
Doctors, law enforcement officers, re-
ligious leaders, representatives of some
60 organizations, and even addicts took
part in this historic meeting. It gave to
America its first inclusive and authori-
tative picture of the extent and nature
of the present dope problem.
Having measured the problem in all
of its aspects, the next step was the
development of a plan of action. This
was done through a special narcotics
committee headed by Past National
Commander George N. Craig, of Indi-
ana. This committee, after sifting thou-
sands of words of testimony and weigh-
ing the many opinions expressed on the
subject, presented to the National Con-
vention at Miami a 15-point anti-nar-
cotics program.
This program was adopted and the
National Child Welfare Commission was
assigned the job of carrying out the
recommendations.
Some of the 15 points have already
been achieved, and through its five Area
Conferences this winter the Commis-
sion is organizing the strength of The
American Legion and its Auxiliary to
put into effect that part of the 15-point
program dependent on state and local
action.
The last session of Congress restored
the Federal Bureau of Narcotics to its
pre-war strength. The same session of
Congress also amended the Federal nar-
cotic drug act to provide severer penal-
ties for illegal sale of narcotics, in ac-
cord with Legion recommendations.
The next big step is to have State
legislatures provide similar penalties for
violation of State narcotic drug acts.
The necessary bills are in process of
preparation for submission to State leg-
islatures at their next sessions. Indiana
has already provided penalties to accord
that. If you are from the Moon, there
is a sort of grim humor in the eagerness
with which they are shelling out once
again to pay for what they hate the
most. If you're a veteran who may ever
have a claim, or help a buddy with a
claim, it ain't funny. You lose no matter
which side wins.
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Is Planned
with the recommendations made by The
American Legion.
Another objective is to secure adop-
tion of city ordnances which will pro-
vide for the mandatory commitment and
treatment of addicts under the city
health program in the same way that
quarantine is provided for persons with
contagious diseases.
As an indication of the prairie-fire
spread of the illicit drug traffic since
the close of WW2, Dr. Wittman cited
figures from the Federal Bureau of Nar-
cotics showing that in 1946 there were
only 2,944 arrests for violation of the
Federal narcotic drug act; in 1950 this
figure had more than doubled to 6,163.
Of even greater import is the fact
that in 1946 only three patients under
the age of 21 were admitted to the Fed-
eral Narcotics Hospital, Lexington,
Kentucky, while in 1950 there were 766
such admissions. The average age of
persons admitted to this hospital
dropped fi'om 37 years to 26.7 years
during the same period.
"We have made real progress," Dr.
Wittman said in concluding his interim
report, "but there is still a lot of hard
work ahead if this evil is to be ban-
ished from the shores of America. We
need the active help and support of
every one of the four million members
of The Legion and its Auxiliary."
SANDLIN ANNOmCES DEPT.
HISTORY CONTEST !N 1952
National Historian Monte C. Sandlin
has announced a Department History
Contest for 1952 as one of a series of
projects for Legion historians. All his-
tories to be judged in the contest must
be at the National Headquarters at In-
dianapolis not later than August 15, and
no entry will be considered unless it is
accompanied by a letter stating that the
entry, both text and illustrations, are
to become the permanent property of the
National Headquarters.
The contest as set up by National His-
torian Sandlin is designed for two types
of entry. The first type will include his-
tories covering the entire period from
the inception of the Department to any
time subsequent to 1948. The second
type is restricted to a supplement to a
history already issued, provided it in-
cludes the period where the earlier his-
tory ended and covers at least ten years,
thus bringing the entire series to date.
First awards will be $225 for Type
I, and $75 for Type II. Second award,
$150 and will apply only to Type I. The
awards will be accompanied by suitable
citations made to the individuals listed
as the author or compiler. Any history
to receive an award or a Certificate of
Honorable Mention must total not less
than 70 points under the standards of
comprehensiveness, arrangement, accu-
racy, readability, illustration, special
features, and table of contents and index.
February, 1952 '31

LEGION ASKS FOR FULL UMT LAW
Facing up to the national security
needs of today and for a long-range
plan for a great reservoir of trained
manpower for the future, The American
Legion has initiated a vigorous cam-
paign for the early enactment of a
sound Universal Military Training law
by the present session of the 82nd Con-
gress. This is a continuation of the
Legion's 33 year fight for a plan of na-
tional defense that embodies the train-
ing of youth as one of the most impor-
tant safeguards to peace and security.
Looking to that end, a Universal Mili-
tary Training bill which will assure
civilian control of the program, a maxi-
mum of training within a limited period
with the least disruption of school and
economic life, and economy of its oper-
ation has been introduced at the request
of The American Legion. Congi-ess is
required to act on the UMT legislation
before it within 45 legislative days after
the bills are introduced.
The principle of Universal Military
Training was completely recognized by
the present Congress by the enactment
last June of a bill which provided for
the appointment of a five-man National
Training Commission. This
Secui'ity
Commission, appointed by President
Truman and confirmed by the Senate,
was required to study the whole Uni-
versal Military Training problem and
the manpower needs, and to formulate
an effective plan to provide for such a
system of youth training. The Commis-
sion made its report and recommenda-
tions to the President and Congress on
October 29, but action could not be taken
until the Congress re-convened on Janu-
ary 8.
Civilian Control Demanded
The National Security Training Com-
mission appointed by President Tru-
man is composed of James W. Wads-
worth, New York, former Representa-
tive, Chairman Dr. Karl T. Compton,
;
Chairman of the Board of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology; Ad-
miral Thomas C. Kincaid, Retired;
Lieutenant General Raymond S. Mc-
Lain, Controller of the Army, and Wil-
liam L. Clayton, former Under-Secre-
tary of State.
The report submitted by this Com-
mission was full and complete, and with
it was a suggested draft of a bill which
would establish a National Security
Training Corps and provide for its
operation.
While praising the excellent work of
the President's Commission, National
Commander Donald R. Wilson declared
that its members "have not gone far
enough in spelling out the powers and
controls to be reserved for the predomi-
nantly civilian Commission." The
Legion's bill, prepared after a careful
study by a Special Committee of experts
on our national defense and security
training needs, differs from the
lecommended by the President's Com-
mission only in matters of making more
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secure the civilian control of the entire
program.
The Legion's Special Committee called
upon by National Commander Wilson
to make a study and analysis of the re-
port of the President's National Secur-
ityTraining Commission is composed of
Past National Commanders Perry S.
Brown, Warren Atherton and Paul
Griffith; Granville S. Ridley, Chairman
of the Legion's National Security Train-
ing Committee; Bruce P. Henderson,
Chairman of the National Security Com-
mission; Martin B. Buckner, Director
of the National Security Commission,
and Miles D. Kennedy, Director of the
National Legislative Commission.
Hearings on the UMT
bills were
opened by the House Armed Services
Committee on January 15.
"The bill sponsored by the Legion has
been drafted after a careful study by
the American Legion's National Security
;; SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
MONTANA BONUS FOR VETS
\i The Montana State Supreme Court,
on January 3, upheld the constitu-
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bonus for
tionality of a $22,000,000
WW2 veterans, paving the way for
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payment to about 55,000 veterans.
The five judges were unanimous in
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reversing a 1922 decision, when a
'I bonus to WWl vets was denied on
the grounds of unconstitutionality.
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Money for payment is to come from
a tax of 2 cents a package on eiga-
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'! year ago and has raised about
I; $1,500,000.
Commission to effect a universal mili-
tary training program which will bol-
ster our national defense, forewarn
would-be aggressors, and fortify our
foreign policy," said Commander Wil-
son. "The Legion reflects the will of the
American people in demanding early
passage of UMT legislation.
"Congress will welcome universal
military training as a means to
strengthen our military position. It
offers a long-range training plan which
is economically practical and wholly
consistent with our democratic tradi-
tions.
"Enactment of the UMT program will
do much to revive the respect for the
United States among the nations of the
world. International high-jacking on
men and material is perpetrated only
against nations known to be militarily
weak and vacillating. Universal military
training, with adequate civilian con-
trols, is a part of The American
Legion's doctrine for peace through
strength in the years ahead."
Highlights of the Bill
Under the proposed plan for a Uni-
bill versal Military Training Corps
young men who are physically fit would
be required to register upon reaching
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the age of 18 years. Through Selective
Service they would be inducted into the
Training Corps after their graduation
from high school and before they ac-
quire dependents or become established
in a job. In this way there would be a
minimum of disruption of the trainee's
personal life.
These youngsters would be trained by
the Armed Forces, but would not be
members of the Armed Forces. The
Corps would have its own code of con-
duct and health, welfare and morals of
the trainees would be rigidly safe-
guarded. During their six months in
uniform, the members of the Corps
would receive basic military training
conducted apart from the regular
forces, and differing in periods in the
four arms of service. There would also
be specialist school training, and on-the-
job training for some services, particu-
larly in the Air Force.
Upon completion of their six months
training in the Corps, the trainees
would return to their homes as mem-
bers of the Reserve. It is this Reserve
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a great pool of trained men which
would become the backbone of our na-
tional security. A relatively small stand-
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ing Army, bolstei-ed by a large trained
I| and ready Reserve, would be a deterrent
!j to any aggressor.
Civilian control of the entire program
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is stressed both in theory and operation.
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While the training would be military in
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character conducted by selected cadres
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from the Armed Forces, the trainees
would not be a part of the Armed Forces
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s and not subject to regular military serv-
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ice while undergoing their term in the
National Security Training Corps. The
objective is to educate the young men
for service in future should emergency
arise, and that, boiled down to its es-
sence, amounts to training for survival.
Personal Safeguards
Primarily, the control of the Security
Training Corps begins right in the home
area through the local Selective Service
Boards. Ample provisions are made for
deferment of high school students until
they graduate, or attain their 20th birth-
day. Students in college may be deferred
until the end of the current academic
year. Occupational deferments, particu-
larly for seasonal work, is recognized,
as is also dependency deferments in
cases of extreme hardship.
Provision for the personal safety and
welfare of the trainees has not been
neglected. Under the plan as given to
Congress the training agency shall pro-
vide hospital, medical, surgical and den-
tal care for the trainees, and they would
come under the provisions of the Sol-
diers' and Sailors' Relief Act of 1940 to
protect them against suits, eviction, im-
position of taxes. Certain reemployment
rights awarded to members of the
Armed Forces will be extended to train-
all ees, and they will have the right to make
claims against the Government for loss,
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Spiritual Re -Awakening Program Launched
by Legion; Special Service Set for February 3
Anation-wide movement for a spirit-
ual re-awakening of the people of
America "in one of the dark hours pi
our country's history" has been launched
by The American Legion.
National Commander Donald R. Wil-
son has called upon the 17,333 Posts of
The American Legion and the 14,000
Units of the American Legion Auxiliary,
representing a combined membership of
almost 4,000,000, to take the initiative
in a mighty and continuing re-dedication
of faith in God, a program urging
church attendance every Sunday and
prayer for divine guidance every night.
The movement will be inaugurated on
Sunday, February 3, ninth anniversary
of the date when the Four Chaplains,
representing three faiths - Protestant,
Jewish and Catholic surrendered their
life-belts to enlisted men and, praying
together, went down with the torpedoed
U. S. Transport Dorchester.
A special memorial service will be
held that date in the chapel of the Four
Chaplains in Philadelphia, of which Dr.
Daniel A. Poling, father of one of the
chaplains - Lieutenant Clark V. Poling
is pastor. Participating in the cere-
mony will be the National Commander,
Rev. O. G. Birkeland, National Chap-
lain, and Dr. Poling.
Prayers for Enduring Peace
In a letter to the Chaplains and Com-
manders of all Legion Posts and corre-
sponding officers of Auxiliary Units,
National Commander Wilson said:
"Sunday, February 3, 1952, commem-
orates the anniversary of the fateful
day on which the immortal Four Chap-
lains gave their lives when the U. S.
Transport Dorchester was torpedoed in
the North Atlantic.
"At the 33rd National Convention at
Miami a resolution was passed calling
for the recognition of this historic and
inspiring event by observing this date,
or the Sunday immediately preceding or
following it, as 'Go To Church Sunday'
throughout our nation, and encouraging
and urging our people to attend the
church of their choice and pray to God
to hasten the day of enduring peace.
"I urge the Chaplain and Commander
of every Legion Post and the Chaplain
and Commander of every Auxiliary Unit
make every
to effort to arrange appro-
priate services in the churches of your
community on the designated date. I
hope that these services will be the be-
ginning of a continuing movement of
church attendance every Sunday and
prayer to God every day."
Outlines of suggested activities such
as the organization of community church
parades, mass attendance in church by
groups, outdoor church services during
summer, use of window posters to pro-
mote church attendance, forming "Go To
Church" telephone committees, and pub-
licity material suitable for a community
church program have been prepared.
This material is available to all Posts
and Units upon request to National
Headquarters.
National Chaplain Birkeland has
urged all Department Chaplains to exert
every effort to cooperate in launching of
divine guidance movements throughout
their Departments.
MRS. RISHWORTH IS NEW
SECRETARY OF AUXILIARY
Mrs. Jane Gould
Rishworth, Aus-
tin, Texas, became
National Secre-
tary of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxil-
iary on January
1. She succeeds
Mrs. Gwendolyn
Wiggin Mac-
Dowell, National
Secretary for 23
Mis. Rishwoith years, whose re-
tirement was an-
nounced in early December. At the time
of her appointment, Mrs. Rishworth
was serving her fourth year as Secre-
tary-Treasurer of the Auxiliary's Texas
Department.
In her new position, Mrs. Rishworth
is administrative executive of an organi-
zation whose 975,000 members and
14,000 local Units make it one of the
largest women's organizations in the
world. All of the business and promo-
tional work of the Auxiliary's extensive
national activities pass over her desk
at the national headquarters in Indian-
apolis, Indiana.
In WW2 Mrs. Rishworth served as an
officer in the Women's Army Corps, with
initial assignments at the WAAC
Train-
ing Center at Des Moines, Iowa. For 16
months she was a Squadron Commander
in the 3rd Ferrying Group, Air Trans-
port Command. She was discharged with
the rank of Major.
Born at Farmington, West Virginia,
Mrs. Rishworth attended the public
schools and was graduated from the
West Virginia University in 1937 with
a Bachelor Degree in public school
music. She taught grade and high school
music in Marion County, West Virginia,
for five years, and was also organist and
choir director in churches at Fairmont,
West Virginia.
Mrs. Rishworth is a member of both
The American Legion and the American
Legion Auxiliary, holding membership
in Post and Unit No. 76, Austin, Texas.
Watch Your GI Insurance
This is a reminder for W W2 veterans
Are you holding your GI term insur-
ance? If so, watch that expiration date.
Be sure that you renew your term in-
surance, or convert to a permanent plan
before it expires. Otherwise, it's gone
for good.
The American Legion Magazine
40 & 8MEMBER GETTERS
MADE HIGH RECORD IN '51
A list of eight champion membership
getters, each of whom had signed up
more than 500 members, was featured in
an article in the September number of
this Magazine. Two more were added to
this list in the December number and
now the Forty and Eight reports its top
flight shock troopers in signing up
Legion members in 1951. Charles W.
Ardery, retiring Correspondant Na-
tional, compiled a list of 72 Voyageurs
who signed up more than 300 Legion
members each. Twenty-eight Voyageurs
of this elite corps signed up more than
500 each, six of whom were included in
the September and December articles.
The other 22 are: Gustave C. Marousek,
Voiture 7, New York, 1,685; Milton H.
Jacoby, Voiture 42, Pennsylvania, 868;
Paul C. Tarver, Voiture 441, Oklahoma,
823; Arthur J. Hopkins, Voiture 525,
Wisconsin, 758; Bert E. Barnes, Voiture
1193, Tennessee, 754; John E. Hoey,
Voiture 36, California, 663; John G.
Fritsby, Voiture 5, Pennsylvania, 640;
E. Nielson, Voiture 149, Ohio, 625;
Emile Champigny, Voiture 1113, Massa-
chusetts, 623; J. W. Uselton, Voiture
1397, Illinois, 621; Erwin Wall, Voiture
497, Wisconsin, 609; D. J. Boric, Voiture
677, Pennsylvania, 577; Thomas Dugan,
Voiture 17, New York, 555; Dave Foley,
Voiture 125, New Jersey, 550; F. J.
Gutherlet, Voiture 113, Maryland, 537;
Andrew Crumps, Voiture 71, Iowa, 537;
Francis J. Graig and Earle S. Homan,
Voiture 1, Pennsylvania, a tie 525
each; Francis V. Huber, Voiture 1370,
Pennsylvania, 509; George T. Schuerer,
Voiture 382, Pennsylvania, 506; Walter
E. Brown, Voiture 717, Illinois, 501, and
Frank Fuentas, Voiture 35, Arizona, 501.
GEORGIA-MISSOURI IN BIG
MEMBERSHIP SCRAP FOR MULE
Missouri Legionnaires are dead set to
get "Little Nell" back the mule won by
Geoigia in a memorable membership
contest in 1951 and another battle is
raging between the two Departments.
The Missourians have put up 40 acres
of their good land against "Little Nell,"
but if Georgia reports a higher percent-
age of its membership quota to National
Headquarters by March 31, Georgia
Legionnaires will keep the mule and
claim the 40 acres. Georgia Adjutant
Bob Joiner has worked out a battle-plan
that puts every one of his Posts on the
front line. His appeal is to save "Little
Nell" from the "terrible fate of having
to return to Missouri."
Old Battery Holds Together
Art Henry, Topeka, Kansas, Secre-
tary of the Battery A, 130th FA Asso-
ciation, reports that this WWl
outfit has
held together remarkably well, with an-
nual reunions and whatnot. Out of the
335 members in WWl war service, all
but 19 are accounted for, with current
addresses for the living. The next re-
union of Battery A will be held at
Topeka on the last Sunday in September.
February, 1952
 HIGH SCHOOL ORA TORICAL PAST COMMANDER HONORED;
CONTEST HITS NEW HIGH TURNS TABLES IN RESPONSE
At least 46 Legion Department Ora-
torical Contest winners will compete for
top honors in the 15th annual National
High School Oratorical Contest in 1952.
Ohio and Washington will not compete,
while New Hampshire is reported doubt-
ful.
This announcement was made by
Allen B. Willand, Director of the Na-
tional Americanism Commission, after
a survey of the 49 continental Depart-
ments.
Interest in the 1952 contest is running
high and indications are that the record
300,000-plus number of high school stu-
dents who competed in 1951 will be sub-
stantially increased.
This stimulation is nation-wide and
can be attributed in no small measure
to 16-year-old Jeanne Dickinson's feat
last year in winning the highest honors
in the national finals held in John Mar-
shall High School, Richmond, Virginia.
Miss Dickenson not only won the $4,000
scholarship with a thrilling display of
forensic ability, but she was the first
girl first-place winner in the 14 year
history of the contest.
A second basic reason for increased
interest was expressed only recently by
Director Willand, who said: "It is great
in these times for The American Legion
to sponsor this outstanding contest, the
basic theme of which is the American
Constitution. The heart of every adult
American should be warmed to see our
youthful citizens become acquainted
with the basic law of the nation and to
learn to cherish fervently the great
freedoms which Americans enjoy as
their inherent right under our demo-
cratic form of government."
The National Oratorical Contests in
1952 will consist of 12 Regionals and 4
Sectionals to be held during the week
of April 14-18. The winners of the Sec-
* tional elimination contests will be
brought together in the national finals
event at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on
April 21.
DATES FOR CHILD WELFARE
CONFERENCES ANNOUNCED
Three area child welfare conferences
covering all Eastern and Southern
States have been announced by Dr. A.
H. Wittman, Philadelphia, Legion's Na-
tional Child Welfare Chairman. Con-
ference dates and locations are:
Area B Charleston, West Virginia,
February 1 and 2.
Area C Little Rock, Arkansas, March
6-8.
Area A-Portland, Maine, March 14-
15.
These combined conferences of
will be
child welfare workers of The American
Legion, Forty and Eight, American
Legion Auxiliary, and Eight and Forty.
All persons interested in the advance-
luent of the Legion's program of service
ro children are invited to attend.
Previous conferences were held in Des
Moines, Iowa, and Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
For 32 years K.
S. Adams, Chair-
man of the Phil-
lips Petroleum
Company, Bartles-
ville, Oklahoma,
has served James
H. Teel Post No.
105 actively, effi-
ciently and in
many capacities.
First as a member
of the Post's
championship
football team in 1920-21-22; as First
Vice Commander; as Post Commander
in 1928-29, and always as an advisor,
consultant and elder statesman. A din-
ner in his honor and in appreciation of
his long service was held on the evening
of December 4.
Speeches were made; T. B. Hudson,
President of the Past Commander's Club
presented Past Commander Adams with
a Legion cap and diamond-studded Past
Commander's button. Then Post Com-
mander R. O. Mason had his turn he ; In
presented the Past Commander with a
gold Life Membership Card.
Past Commander Adams responded
in words and deeds. He said that the
greatest tribute ever paid him was the
250 Legionnaires who overflowed the
capacity of the Legion home banquet
room. Then the deeds - he turned over
to Commander Mason deed for a desir-
able corner lot in the business section
now used as a parking lot, to be used
as the Post sees fit, but with the hope
that it would provide financial security
for future Post work and room for ex-
pansion in years to come. The Post once
owned the lot, but it was given in ex-
change for the present club home and
building property.
Florida Post Home Burned
The clubhouse of Seminole Post No.
Ill, Tampa, Florida, burned on Novem-
ber 4, causing a loss of $40,000. The
building was started in 1934 and was
constructed by volunteer work of the
members. Plans are under way for the
building of another clubhouse of mod-
ern design, on which the members will
assist with labor and materials.
KEITH MacKENZIE DIES
AT HOME IN CALIFORNIA i|
Keith MacKeiizie, 20-year-old son
!|
'
and only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vic
;i MacKenzie, Carmel, California, for-
'\ mer National Convention Director,
died in a fire at Carmel Woods in the
;
early morning of December 24.
![ Death was caused by asphyxiation
from a mattress fire while spending
i the night in a friend's guest house.
s Funeral services were held at Car-
'!
mel, followed by burial on December
!; 28 at Salem, Oregon, the old family
][ home.
1 1-^^####^^^##############^*>> cake when they got at it.
PUBLIC MEN QUIZZED IN
NBC-LEGION YOUTH FORUM
The American Youth Forum, telecast
every Saturday from Washington, D. C,
by NBC-TV in cooperation with The
American Legion, brings national lead-
ers andyoung people into close touch.
Every week from 50 to 60 teen-agers
are brought together by the Legion to
ask their questions directly to men who
should know the answers.
These youngsters, senior high school
and junior college students, participate
in an unrehearsed completely extem-
poraneous question and answer period
with nationally known figures in govern-
ment, business and political life. The
program is aired each Saturday evening,
5:00 to 5:30, EST, with Theodore
Granik as moderator.
Among the prominent men who have
appeared on the program are Vice Presi-
dent Alben Barkley, Senators Cain,
Kefauver, Humphreys, Moody, Tobey
and Taft; Secretary of the Army Frank
Pace, General Lewis Hershey, Harold
Stassen, and George Meaney, American
Federation of Labor.
February Republican National
Chairman Guy C. Gabrielson will face
the panel on the 2nd; his counterpart,
Democratic National Chairman Frank
McKinney on the 9th, and Senator
Frank Carlson of Kansas on the 16th.
If you like the program or have sug-
gestions to offer, write National Public
Relations Division, The American
Legion, 1608 K Street N. W., Washing-
ton, D. C.
MIAMI CONVENTION MOVIE
READY FOR GROUP SHOWING
The five Schenley Posts for the third
consecutive year filmed the National
Convention activities 10,000 feet of 16-
mm, all-color, sound motion picture
scheduled to run about 30 minutes. The
film is now Departments
available to
and Posts most places, and is fur-
in
nished without cost, other than the
transpoi'tation charges.
The film contains all the highlights of
the great pageant, both on the streets
and in the Convention hall. It was pro-
duced with the cooperation of the
Legion's Public Relations Staff, and is
presented in newsreel style.
Requests for the film should be di-
rected to Frank Rinn, Schenley Indus-
tries, Inc., 350 Fifth Avenue, New York
\ 1, N. Y. Each Post should state the date
on which it would like to show the film
and give two or three alternate dates.
Films will be dispatched from the near-
!|
est Schenley office in which a film library
is maintained-and all requests will be
filled in the order of receipt.
u
!|
!;
Hanover Township Post No. 609,
;> Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, presented a
150-pound cake to the children in St.
i,
Stanislaus Institute-offered as a tribute
to George Steve, Post Commander. The
!;
children made short work of the huge

* * * LEGIONITEMS *
Cedar Grove (Louisiana) Post No. 6
has acquired a 5-acre tract on Wallace
Lake near Shreveport and is raising
funds to erect a club house. Before
December 1 the Post had exceeded its
all-time high membership of 198 under
direction of Commander R. H. Greenlee,
whose wife, Mrs. Jean Greenlee, skip-
pers the Auxiliary Unit this year. . .
Legionnaire Harold A. Eaton, Morris-
town, New Jersey, was awarded the Sil-
ver Antelope at a Region 2 meeting of
the Boy Scouts of America at Buffalo,
New York, for "noteworthy service of
exceptional character to boyhood." Cita-
tion lists outstanding Boy Scout service
in several capacities, among which are
"his greatest contribution to youth pro-
grams has been in the development of
the New Jersey Boys' State, held under
the auspices of The American Legion,
of which he has served as Director for
the past six years."
David M. Vincent Post No. 120, High-
land Park, Michigan, claims a unique
record in having on its membership rolls
the State Service Officers of four major
veterans' organizations. They are: Carl
Seaman, American Legion Department
Service Officer, and his corresponding
numbers, Sidney J. Allen, Disabled
American Veterans; Joseph W. Mann,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and John R.
Dagenais, Amvets. ... An Americanism
project taken on by Woodbury (Tennes-
see) Post No. 167 is the organization of
a band in the County High School. Proj-
ect has lagged for want of instruments
Americanism Chairman Ray Pettit, Box
62, Woodbury, would like to hear from
outfits that have discarded or replaced
band instruments. . Lange-Ostrander-
. .
Hurd Post No. 62, Columbus, Wisconsin,
honors its Past Commanders at a dinner
each year. At the meeting in mid-Decem-
ber, 21 of the 28 Past Commanders
Post were present three have passed on
and three were unable to be present be-
cause of illness or distance. The four
immediate Past Commanders are
vets, as is the current skipper. Com-
mander John Platz.
When the High School at Flagler,
Colorado, was destroyed by fire at the
beginning of the school year, the local
Nathaniel McBride Post No. 81 imme-
diately offered its home in order that
the school term might not be inter-
rupted. The Legion home will continue
to be used for the high school until a
new building is constructed. Here's
. .
a father-son combination serving as
Privates in the same outfit in WWl:
Donald W. H. Morse enlisted June 12,
1917, in Co. A, 1st Separate Battalion,
Engineers, Oregon National Guard; on
July 18 his father, Fred G. Morse, en-
listed in the same outfit-NG outfit be-
came Co. A, 116th Engineers, 41st Divi-
sion. Any others? The son died in 1923;
the father is a 6-star member of Seattle
* *
(Washington) Post No. 1. . . With
repairs under way
to enlarge the Glenn
Dyer Post No. 247 club house at Arca-
dia, California, city inspectors declared
the building unsafe for a scheduled
blood donor rally. But rallying under
Commander Ed Newman and Contractor
C. Cassady volunteer Legionnaires
P.
. worked three days around the clock to
complete the construction. Result: Blood
donors came to the home on schedule
time; 256 pints collected in the one day
Bloodmobile visit.
Kankakee (Illinois) Post No. 85 has
scheduled a series of 13 weekly broad-
casts over WKAN, covering the major
phases of the Legion's broad program,
with emphasis on local activities. The
series has attracted wide-spread atten-
tion, and has been most helpful as a
means of educating the non-veteran pub-
lic to the Legion work, reports Past
Commander Anker C. Jensen. South .
Park Memorial Post No. 675, Dayton,
Ohio, broke a record for blood donation
when donors gave 93 pints in a day. The
previous record from any community to
Brown Hospital was 69 pints. Com-
mander Ed Curtiss and Project Chair-
man Joe Stoecklein credit success to
good advance preparation and excellent
community cooperation. Legionnaires
and workers on the job were served re-
freshments by members of the Auxiliary
Unit. A Report on Madison County,
. . .
(Alabama), detailing its progress and
civic advancement in 143 years of history
in an illustrated volume of 104 pages,
has been issued by the County Board of
Commissioners. The Report was pre-
pared by Legionnaire James Record,
County Auditor, Huntsville, who has
served as Adjutant and Commander of
the Huntsville Post.
of the
IDAHO POST HAS THREE PAST NATIONAL CHAPLAINS
WW2
Joseph N. Barnett
.
Loren M. Trotter Post No. 35, Caldwell,
Idaho, has the unique distinction of hav-
ing three Past National Chaplains of The
American Legion on its current member-
ship roll. They are: Rev. Joseph Noyes
Barnett, 1930-31; Rev. Irvin Q. Wood,
Boise, Idaho, 1932-33; and Dr. Paul De F.
Mortimore, 1942-43. The Post held a big
get-together to welcome Chaplain Bar-
nett, who has recently been appointed
vicar of St. David's Episcopal Church at
Explorer Scouts Bob .McHenry and
Don Stewart served their daily good
turn recently at Springfield, Ohio, when
they out-ran a purse-snatcher in a chase
of several blocks, overpowered him and
.
held him for the police. The Scouts,
members of Explorer Scout Post No. 6
sponsored by Cultice-Ward Post No. 6,
Ajnerican Legion, were passing in a car
when the culprit knocked a woman down
and grabbed her purse. Dave Mc-
. . .
Manus, Adjutant of Comrades Post No.
283, St. Bernard, Ohio, has been trying
out a series of letters to eligible non-
Legionnaire veterans in his community
and he has found that it pays big divi-
dends. Just a chatty letter, telling of
some of the benefits of Legion member-
ship, some of the activities of Comrades
Post, social and service, and with each
letter he encloses an application blank.
Of course, the letter extends an invita-
tion to enroll with the comrades in Com-
rades Post. It's a good idea and worth
a trial in any community.
Vance T. Henry, Jr., 45th Division vet
who was wounded at Anzio, is making an
. .
extended stay in Germany as dancer-
entertainer at all the military bases in
the American zone. He is a member of
Hamlet (North Carolina) Post No. 49,
as is his father, Vance T. Henry, Sr.,
WWl vet, who attended the Legion Cau-
cus at St. Louis in 1919, and every Na-
tional Convention since. . .Arthur
.
Longfellow, Commander of Frank Fried
Post, Mena, Arkansas, has started a
movement for the construction of a
county war memorial. Plan is to con-
struct an aquarium of sufficient size to
display all types of fish and marine life
that exist in Arkansas, under the title
"Polk County War Memorial Aquarium."
Dickson City (Pennsylvania) Auxili-
ary Unit No. 665 presented a wheel
chair for use of disabled to the VA
Hospital at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Irvin Q. Wood Paul De F. Mortimore
Caldwell and removed to that city from
Wabasha, Minnesota, and to pay special
tribute to all three past national officers.
Chaplain Barnett's Legion service goes
back to 1919 when the Post at Grand
Junction, Colorado, was organized and
he became Chaplain. Chaplain Wood was
Commander of Loren M. Trotter Post in
1928. Dr. Mortimore has recently accepted
a pastorate at Bozeman, Montana, and
has removed to that city.
The American legion Magazine February, 1952
35
MARY WELSH GETS GOLD
LIFE MEMBERSHIP CARD OUTFIT REUNIONS
2nd (Indian Head) Infantry Division 31st re-
union, San Antonio, Texas, July 24-26. For infor.
mation contact Robert C. Barr, National Presi-
dent, 116 N. 3rd St.. Camden 2, N. J.
2nd (Hell on Wheels) Armored Division 2nd
annual reunion, New York City, May, 1952. Info
from H. J. Levy, Secy., Hell on Wheels, APO
262, Mamaroneck, N. Y.
4th (Breakthrough) Armored Div. Assn. 6th
annual reunion. New York City, June 19-21;
Hotel Statler. Address 4th Armored Div. Assn.,
P. O. Box 247, Madison Square Sta., New York
751st Field Artillery Bn. 2nd annual dinner-
dance. New York City, Maixh 29; Hotel McAlpin.
Contact Albert Peluso, 55 Brookside Place, New
Rochelle, N. Y.
106th Cavalry Group (106th and 121st Sqdrns.)
3rd annual reunion, Urbana, 111., June 20-21.
Write, Veterans, 106th Cavalry, Urbana Armory,
Urbana, III.
48th Battalion Reunion, Santa Rosa, Cal., July
4. Contact Ed Heis, 2033 Danbeck Ave., Santa
Rosa, Cal.
102nd (Ozark) Infantry Division National re-
union, Detroit, Mich., July 25-27; Fort Shelby
Hotel. Write Reade S. Pierce, Reunion Chairman,
220 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Co. C, 107th Ammunition Train, 32nd Div.,
(WWl)-( formerly Co. D, 4th Infantry, Wiscon-
sin National Guard Proposed 35th anniversary
)

10, N. Y. reunion. Black River Falls, Wis., July 13. Write

In recognition of more than thirty
years of devoted service to her Post, to
the Legion and to disabled veterans, Miss
Mary Welsh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
has been awarded a Gold Life Member-
ship card in Kathryn Mae Joyce Post
No. 509, Pittsburgh. A charter member
of the Post, Miss Welsh has served con-
stantly on all levels, Post, Department
and National, with emphasis on rehabili-
tation work. She has served as Service
Officer and Commander of her Post; as
District Commander; as delegate to De-
partment and National Conventions; as
Alternate Natl. Executive Committeeman.
- FULL UMT LAW
(Continued from page 32)
damage, destruction or abandonment of
personal property incident to training.
For the development of character and
good citizenship, every trainee will have
opportunity for religious worship in a
church of his own faith. A character
guidance program comprised of lectures
on the duties and privileges of citizenship,
religion and similar subjects bearing
upon the basic ethical principles undei--
lying our social structure.
Trainees will also be given an edu-
cational and informational course on
current events and their effect on the
individual and his country. While re-
strictive provisions are included to pre-
vent demoralizing institutions within a
reasonable distance from the camps or
stations.
The long experience of The American
Legion study of the national se-
in the
curity program and the need for a uni-
versal military training system is being
made available to the Congress, and to
its individual members, through Na-
tional Commander Wilson and
cial Committee. Legion Posts and indi-
vidual Legionnaires have been called
upon to throw their weight into the
8th (Thundering Herd) Armored Div. Assn. Lawrence E. Jones, 9 Main St., Black River Falls,
3rd annual reunion. New York City, July 4-6; Wis.
Hotel Astor. Write Henry Rothenberg, National USS Leviathan Veterans Assn. Annual re-
President, Suite 1008, 33 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, union dinner. New York City, Saturday evening,
111. April 26; Dunhall's Restaurant, 40th and Broad-
82nd (All American) Airborne Div. 6th an- way. Send reservations to R. L. Hedlander, Box
nual reunion, Chicago, 111., July 4-6; Hotel Sher- 22, Greenwich, Conn.
man. Contact Chester W. Novak, Secy., 6619 S.
Stewart Ave., Chicago 21, III.
83rd (Thunderbolt) Infantry Div. Assn.-An-
nual reunion, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21-23;
Deshler-Wallick Hotel. Write R. Catalano, Seey-
COMRADES IN DISTRESS
Treas., 1435 Clark St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa.
Co. M, 307th Inf., 77th Div., (WWl)-34th an-
niversary dinner and reunion, March 22; Wth Div. USS Armenia, (WWl) Will anyone who knows
Club House, 28 E. 39th St.. New York City. present address of Willium Herbert Lansing, Gun-
Write Henry H. Ringen, 85 Vermilyea Ave., New ner, above ship, formerly of Omaha, Neb., and
York 34, N. Y. his brother, Paul Lansing, Army vet., WWl,
601st Ordnance Bn. Reunion, Waterloo, Iowa, formerly San Francisco, Cal., please write
March 29-30. Details from Dick Street, 404 Com- Blanche Quaid, 50 Federal St., Boston, Mass.
mercial BIdg., Waterloo, Iowa. Lansing brothers are entitled to substantial lega-
415th RR Tel. Bn. SC-Annual reunion, Chicago, cies; must be located in order to settle estates.
111., April 26; Hotel Morrison. Info from James USS Wisconsin, (WWl) Will shipmates' please
J. Maher, Secy., 3723 S. Rockwell St.. Chicago write; need help to establish claim. Was Seaman
32, 111. 2/c, 2nd Div., June, 1917, to Jan., 1918, at York-
NOB. Palermo, Italy Reunion of Base and town, Va. Alfred P. Paquin, 113 Lincoln St.,
connected units, Chicago, III.. June 14. Write Lewiston, Maine.
W. A. Beam, P. O. Box 55, Moline, 111. 5th Receiving Co. Cadre, Camp Upton, L. I.
70th Naval Construction Bn.-Annual dance Will Sgt. Alexander Rispoli or anyone who
and entertainment. Feb. 1; annual smoker. April knows his present address please write. State-
18, with Stephen H. Kearns Post, The American ment needed in case of Frank B. Stevens. Address
Legion. Details from A. J. Benline, 2015 Municipal Theodore G. Newman, Service Officer, County
BIdg.. Dept. of Housing and Buildings, New York Bldf?., Goshen, N. Y.
7, N. Y. 306th Medical, 81st Div. and 77th Div.-Need
307th Infantry Vet. Assn., (WWl)-5th annual to locate James W. Wood, J. A. McBride, and
reunion and dance. New York City, April 26; John Kerr, 306th Medical, and Charles Putney
Hotel Vanderbilt. For info contact Henry C. and G. Sullivan, 77th Div., who were in hospital
Lopez, Chairman, 77th Div. Club House, 28 E. with me. Need help to establish claim. Write
39th St., New York 18, N. Y. Roger W. Jones, 19803 Mountville Ave., Maple
297th Signal Inst. Co. Reunion, Harrisburg,
Pa., October, 1952. Write John J. Thomas, 820
Heights, Ohio.
Camp Forrest and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. (WWl)
N. New St., Bethlehem, Pa. Urgently need to locate men who served with me
Co. G. 152nd Inf.. 38th Div., (WW2)-2nd re- in Warehouse CI, USQMC, June, 1918, to Feb.,
union. New Castle, Ind., Aug. 30-31; Armory. 1919, particularly Sgt. John Harper, Corp. Rison,
Contact Franklin Retz, 1620 Q Ave., New Castle, Buchanan, Lt. Hinkler. Capt. T. G. Tate, and
Ind. Major Strauss, MC. Claim pending. Roy G. Byrd,
Route 2, Norman Park, Ga.
NCTC, Camp Quoddy, Maine Need to locate
men who were working with me in machine shop
when I injured my back, winter of 1944-45, par-
THE AMERICAN LEGION ticularly Dewitt, IJrown of Texas, F. F. Bockel-
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS man, and the Chief in charge of the shop. Charles
W. Swartz, R2, Stanberry, Mo.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 18th Field Artillery Band (WWl)-Need to
NOVEMBER 30, 1951 hear from anyone who remembers me in order
to establish my
service; records lost and personal
ASSETS papers destroyed in fire, '^ill old timers please
write. A. D. McCampbell, 7610 S. W. 19th Terrace,
Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .$ 911,228.63 Miami 44, Florida.
Receivables 1,030,667.54 Co. B, 28th ET Bn., ASFTC, Ft. Leonard Wood,
Inventories 455,133.33 Mo. Important that I locate men in basic train,
Invested Funds 459,482.11 ing with me, April to June, 1945, when I injured
Permanent Trusts:
Overseas Graves Decoration
my back on obstacle course, particularly Sgt.
Linquest, Cpl. Precie, Pvt. Faulks and Sgt.
Trust Fund $ 254,515.84 Pound. Write John E. Carter, Box 65, Hammon,
Employees' Retirement Okla.
Trust Fund 1,230.597.65 1,485,113.49 Co. A, 21st Inf., 24th Div.-Will anyone who
Real Estate, less depreciation.... 904,564.12 served with me in SWPA, 1942-44, please write.
Furniture and Fixtures, less Statements needed for claim. Lawrence D. Bren-
depreciation 304,833.84 nan, 12 Ashmun St., Springfield, Mass.
Deferred Charges :. 67,217.48 Co. A, 56th Signal Bn. Will anyone who served
$5,618.240.54 with me in England on or about Dec. 10, 1943,
and knows anything about an accident which in-
volved injury to my back, please write. State-
LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE ments needed for disability claim, Darwin E.
AND NET WORTH Whitt, Room 262, Skyway Lodge, Fairborn, Ohio.
632nd Technical School Sqdrn., AFTTC, Gulf-
Current Liabilities 589,802.98 port, Miss. Will anyone who served with my late
$
Funds restricted as to use 472,943.67 son, John Bumbal in 1943-44, please write. Sus-
Deferred Income 1,613,221.23 tained injuries in camp. Help needed to settle
Permanent Trusts: insurance and to obtain pension as his dependent
the Spe- Overseas Graves Decoration widowed mother. Mrs. Susan Bumbal, 370 E.
Trust $ 254,515.84 163rd St., Bronx, N. Y.
Employees' Retirement 3rd Marine Division, (Mechanic Air Craft SSN
Trust 1,235,905.27 1,490,421.11 747F) Will anyone who was with Sgt. Raymond
Net Worth: L. Jones in Pacific area. February, 1944, to July,

1945, please write. Information needed about head

Restricted Capital:
battle for early enactment of a realistic Reserve Fund $ 23.464.13
injuries and hospitalization; widow and two
Restricted Fund small children need statements to establish record
universal military training system as . 17,939.98
.

for pension purposes. Write Mrs. Raymond L.

Reserve for construction
a backbone of our national security. Wash, office 780,294.40 Jones, 132 Oxford Road, Spartanburg, S. C.
Real Estate Hdqrs. Battery. 426th Armored FA Bn., Camp
Time is of the essence. Delay might .80.000.00 901,698.51
Bowie, Texas Urgently need to locate Corp.
Unrestricted Capital: Harold Clark; will anyone who knows his present
lose the battle. Congress is limited to Surplus 254,310.33 address please write. Statement needed for claim.
45 legislative days for consideration of Excess of Income over Expense John A. Battelle, (No. 11163), Box 149, Attica,
11 months 295.842.71 550,153.04
the Universal Militaiy Training law. N. Y.
1.451,851.55 Battery A, 586th AAA, Camp Bowie, Texas-
Write your two United States Senators Will anyone who remembers me in service at
$5,618,240.54
and your member of the House of Rep- above camp, November, 1944, please write. State-
ments needed for claim. Virgil M. Gauthier, Box
resentatives today. 634, Pascoag, Rhode Island.

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FEBRUARY, 1952

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

WWl VETS AND GOVERNMENT INSURANCE: NEW FILM FOR EMPLOYMENT OF HANDICAPPED:
Increasingly large number of letters indicate that many A new tool to overcome resistance to proper employment
WWl vets are confused about their rights to continue U. S. of the handicapped an excellent documentary 16-mm
is

Government Life Insurance. . . . Just to keep the record sound-color film. Far livelier than its prosaic title
. . .

straight, here are answers to most questions, right from the "An Investment in Human Welfare" the film was originally
VA. ... must be remembered that USGLI applies only
It made for local rehabilitation use in West Virginia, where
to WWl vets, WW2 vets have NSLI, and service people of Governor Okey Patteson is himself a double-leg amputee. . . .

the Korean conflict have another type. The quality of the film, both as entertainment and education-
The changes affecting USGLI, closing the door to new wise, led to a revision for national availability, produced by
insurance, are contained in Servicemen's Indemnity and Unifilms, Inc., New York City.
Insurance Acts of 1951 (Public Law 23) which became effec- The film documents amazing progress in fitting disabled
tive April 25, 1951. Under this law no new USGLI policy . . .
for jobs, reaches a high point in heart-warming scenes show-
may be issued except as replacement for insurance which ing men whose disabilities qualify them better than anyone
was surrendered for its cash value or for term insurance else for certain jobs. Running time, 21 minutes.
. . . The . . .

which expired while the insured was in active service after film is borrowable free for group showings through Regional
April 25, 1951. . . . Otherwise, WWl vets who were not in Offices of the Federal Security Agency. Name and address . . .

active service on or after the new law was enacted, are not of such FSA office in your Region is available by sending
entitled to new USGLI. . . . This means that such WWl vets your name and address clearly printed to REHAB FILM,
as allow their term USGLI policies to expire without American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
renewing or converting them are not entitled to U. S. Govern-
ment Life Insurance as veterans. SUES FOR DOUBLE-INDEMNITY:
But. There is a clause which softens the hardboiled
. . . The courts have been called upon to decide whether the
door-slamming. The new law does not affect lapsed
. . . fighting inKorea is a war or whether it is just a "police
USGLI term policies (as distinguished from expired term action." ... A Louisville, Kentucky, mother Mrs. Edna
policies.) . . . Nor does it affect lapsed permanent plan Smothers has filed suit against the National Life and
policies. . . . Therefore, WWl vets who have allowed either Accident Insurance Company to collect double indemnity on
their term or their premium plan USGLI policies to lapse the policy carried by her son. Private Patrick H. Ford, Jr.,
by failure to pay premiums when due, may reinstate them killed in Korea last 8.July Petition alleges that he was. . .

by payment of all premiums in arrears, with interest. . . . killed "accidentally" by a mortar shell in North Korea. . . .

Under another law (Public Law 101, August 2, 1951) holders Attorneys for the mother cite President Truman's statement
of USGLI term policies may renew them every five years, that the Korean fighting is a "United Nations police action"
without physical examination, with increased premium rate and not a war as authority. The insurance policy held by . . .

for each five years rate payable at the attained age of the Private Ford provides for double indemnity in case of acci-
insured at the time renewal is made. dental death, but contains a clause excepting the double-
indemnity provision in event death was due to service with
HEARINGS SET FOR KOREAN GI BILL: Armed Forces "at war." Case presents angles of interest
. . .

House Veterans Committee will open hearings early in to families of casualties both injured and killed over the
February on legislation to extend GI Bill of Rights privileges country.
to veterans of the Korean affair. Chairman John E. . . .

Rankin, Mississippi, says that Congress approves the if STILL AT WAR WITH JAPAN:
legislation, Korean veterans would have "virtually all the Notwithstanding the fact that a peace treaty was nego-
benefits which WW2 veterans enjoy." . . . This includes tiated with Japan some months ago, the United States is
educational privileges, home and business loans, etc. . . . still technically at war with that country. The wherefore . . .

However, the Administration has proposed a sharply scaled- is that the treaty signed at San Francisco has not been pre-

down program for Korean vets. Under its plan. Govern- . . . sented to the U. S. Senate for ratification. Washington . . .

ment tuition payments would be limited to half the actual scuttlebutt is that the treaty will be given to the Senate by
charge. .The maximum payment would be $300 a year
. . the State Department soon after the Congress convenes in
instead of $500 under the old program which gave educa- January but until Senate acts WW2, like Ol' Man River,
tion and training to 7,756,000 WW2 vets. still goes rolling on. . . . State of war with Germany came to
 NEWSLETTER (continued)

a legal end by Joint Resolution of Congress without nego- 1 Navy officer and 7 Marines, four of whom and
are living
tiation of a peace treaty signed by President Truman on 4 dead. . . . Army awards went to the following dead or
October 19, 1951. missing: Major General William F. Dean, commanding 24th
Infantry Division, reported prisoner of war; Pfc. Melvin F.
WEST VIRGINIA BONUS BONDS SOLD: Brown, Mahaffey, Pennsylvania; 1st Lt. Frederick A. Henry,
Good news for West Virginia veterans of both World Clinton, Oklahoma; Sgt. Charles W. Turner, Boston, Massa-
Wars. Through Governor Patteson's special committee
. . .
chusetts; M/Sgt. Travis E. Watkins, Gladwater, Texas;
of bankers, West Virginia banks and citizens took the first Sgt. William R. Jecelin, Baltimore, Maryland; Pvt. Joseph
offering of $37,500,000 of WWl and WW2 bonus bonds in R. Ouellette, Lowell, Massachusetts; Corp. Mitchell Red
record time. State had set up a backlog of $8,000,000 in
. . .
Cloud, Friendship, Wisconsin; Corp. Gordon M.
Jr., Craig,
funds for investment, but when the returns rolled in to State Elmwood, Massachusetts H. Story, Americus,
; Pfc. Luther
Treasurer Ansel's office it was found that only a small part Georgia; Pfc. William Thompson, Brooklyn, New York;
of this fund would be needed. Director of Veterans' Affairs . . .
Corp. John W. Collier, Worthington, Kentucky; 1st Lt.
T. H. (Pat) McGovran released the bonus applications on Samuel S. Coursen, Madison, New Jersey; M/Sgt. Melvin
January 2. Checks started to flow out before the end of
. . .
O. Handrich, Manawa, Wisconsin; Capt. Reginald B. Desi-
the month. . . . (See Newsletter, January, page 37, for details, derio. El Monte, California; Pfc. Richard G. Wilson, Cape
eligibility requirements, etc.) . . . Out-of-State vets get their Girardeau, Missouri; Sgt. 1/c Loren R. Kaufman, Dallas,
applications by writing Department of Veterans' Affairs, Oregon; Lt. Col. Don C. Faith, Jr., Washington, Indiana;
P. O. Box 5127, Capiol Station, Charleston, West Virginia. Pfc. Robert H. Young, Vallejo, California; Sgt. George D.
Libby, Casco, Maine; Sgt. Nelson D. Brittin, Audubon,
STATE BONUS DEADLINES:
North Dakota 2nd Lt. Darwin K. Kyle, South Charleston,
;

Inquiries continue to come in about State bonus provi-

West Virginia Sgt. 1 /c Junior D. Edwards, Indianola,
;
sions, and particularly about the deadline for filing appli-
Iowa; and Sgt. Charles R. Long, Kansas City, Missouri,
cations. ... A lot of eligible veterans have been out of luck
of the Army, and Major Louis J. Sebille, Chicago, Illinois,
because of procrastination. . . . Just for the record, and for
of the Air Force.
the benefit of occasional readers of these pages, the roll of
Heroes who lived to receive their Medals are: Sgt. John
bonus States with the deadlines is repeated.
A. Pittman, Tallula, Mississippi; Lt. Carl H. Dodd, Kenvir,
Twenty States and two Territories have authorized the
Kentucky; Sgt. Ernest R. Kouma, Dwight, Nebraska; Capt.
payment of a bonus to WW2 vets one. West Virginia, in-
Raymond Harvey, Pasadena, California; Capt. Lewis L.
cluded both WWl and WW2 vets in law. Honorarium . . .

Millet, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts; M/Sgt. Stanley

authorized in Montana, 21st State, by legislation and vote
T. Adams, Olathe, Kansas; Corp. Einar H. Ingman, Toma-
of electors, but is held up by court action. No action is . . .

hawk, Wisconsin; Sgt. Joseph C. Rodriguez, San Bernardino,

pending in the other 27 States and the District of Columbia.
California, and M/Sgt. Hubert L. Lee, Leland, Mississippi.
. . . Deadline date has passed in Connecticut, Delaware,
Navy Medal of Honor has been awarded to Lt. Thomas
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Penn-
Hudner, USN pilot, who survived to receive his decoration
Rhode Island, South Dakota, and the Territory of
sylvania,
from the hands of President Truman. ... Of the 7 Marines,
Hawaii. Four States Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
. . .

Pfc. Stanley R. Christianson, Mindoro, Wisconsin; Pfc.

New York and Vermont, and Territory of Alaska have no
Eugene A. Obregon, Los Angeles, California, and Lt. Baldo-
deadline for filing applications.
mero Lopez, Tampa, Florida, were killed in action; Sgt.
Deadlines for applications still open are: Michigan,
James E. Johnson, Washington, D. C, is reported missing;
June 1, 1953; North Dakota, February 17, 1954; Oregon,
and Lt. Henry Alfred Commiskey, Hattiesburg, Mississippi;
December 1, 1952; Washington, March 31, 1953, and West
Major Reginald R. Myers, Boise, Idaho, and Major Carl R.
Virginia, December 1, 1952.
Sitter, Pueblo, Colorado, survived.
GOLD STAR BUTTONS AVAILABLE: TERM INSURANCE PREMIUM WAIVERS:
Gold Star lapel buttons are now available to the next VA warns vets of Korean conflict who at time of dis-
of kin of military personnel who died in service in WWl and charge have waivers of premiums on U. S. Government Life
the Korean fighting. Distribution under Public Law
. . . 121, or National Service Life Term Insurance policies that they
August 21, 1951, which amends Act of 80th Congress must resume premium payments within 120 days after
authorizing such distinctive buttons for survivors of WW2 discharge Otherwise they will lose their insurance by lapse.
servicemen and women. Lapel buttons are furnished . . .

without cost to widows, widowers, parents, step-parents and NO PER DIEM FOR EX-POW:
foster parents of those Other family who have died. . . .
U. S. Court of Claims has denied plea of former Govern-
members may nominal fee. Emblems
get the buttons for a . . .
ment official who asked $8,130 in travel allowance for a
may be obtained by writing the Adjutants General of the 45 -month period when he was a prisoner of the Japanese. . . .

Army or Air Force, or for Navy and Marines, to the Navy Herman P. Havenor, budget examiner of Bureau of Budget,
Bureau of Personnel, all Washington 25, D. C. asked for $6 per diem pay for time spent in Jap prison camp
because he had been on travel orders when captured on
MEDALS OF HONOR FOR KOREAN HEROES: Wake Island in 1941. Budget Bureau declared him
. . .

Forty-two Medals of Honor had been awarded to heroes Comptroller General twice disallowed the claim.
eligible; . . .

of the Korean conflict as of December 26. Army honored . . . In turning down the claim, the Court pointed out that
33 in Army and 1 Air Force officer; 25 of whom are dead or Havenor had been paid his regular salary for the period of
missing; Navy awarded the nation's highest decoration to confinement.

42
 Wliich is your choice wet or dry ?

WET FLY DRY FLY

Quill Gordon Royal Coachman

WET FLY vs. DRY FLY: Fishermen have been argu-

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for trout or Atlantic salmon.

The dry-fly fisherman claims you get more thrills

when the fly is always in sight so you can see the
fish rise to take it. While the wet-fly partisan
argues that the thrill is greater when the fly

remains below the surface, thus adding the ele-

ment of surprise as the line tightens to the strike.

Actually, in high white water, the wet fly is usu-

ally preferable, while the dry fly is at its best in
still water. But, you're the expert you've tried
both and made up your own mind.

YOU'RE THE EXPERT in choosing whiskey, too!

You'll find a big difference in whiskies ... in
smoothness, mellowness and freedom from harsh-
ness. That's why we urge you to make your own
taste test between Calvert and any other whiskey.

MAKE THIS 60-SECOND TASTE TEST: Just ask a

friend or barman to pour V4 oz. of Calvert into
a glass, and the same amount of any other whiskey
into another without telling you which is which.
Compare each one for smoothness, flavor and
freedom from bite, burn or sting. Then pick the
one that really tastes better to you.
Naturally, we believe you'll choose Calvert, be-
cause it is blended to a taste determined by a
"Consumer Jury" of thousands of folks like you.

But if you still prefer another brand, stick with

it. Fair enough?

Calyert Challenges Comparison

with any whiskey. . . at any price !

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Suggest that a bank or finance com-
pany is better equipped to handle de-
ferred payments. He may be honest but
there is just a chance that he isn't. Also,
he may pay you part of the amount,
take the registration over and drive
away. A day or two later he returns:
"You didn't tell me that the car uses
a quart of oil every 400 miles. I don't see
why I should pay you the rest of the
money until you allow me for an engine
job." True, the car might need an en-
gine job or it might not. The car is in
his name now and you will have a long
drawn out struggle to prove anything
and lawsuits are expensive. The best
rule is the simplest one; full payment
or no transfer of title.
Even when the title remains in your
name, it would be foolish and dangerous
to let him use the car except for a
demonstration in which you accompany
him. If he has an accident you will be
sued. As long as the car is in your name
you are responsible for it.
Even when the buyer has given you
the full amount, you must be careful.
If you live in one of the 22 states (such
as New York) in which the license
plates cannot be transferred to the new
owner, the customer may ask to bor-
row your plates for a few days until
he obtains his own. Don't do it. In these
states it is illegal for anyone else to drive
on your plates. He will be prosecuted
and so will you.
The biggest single problem in selling
a used car is putting the right price on
it. Naturally, the seller wants to get just
as much money for his car as possible.
At the same time, he knows that he must
not charge so much that the car will
not sell. Nor does he want to have it
44 The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
How~- To
Sell Your Car
(Continued from pago 25)
his hands a long time until a buyer ample, that you are selling a 1939 sedan.
comes along who is willing to pay his The most a car of that age would be
price. worth, even in perfect condition, would
A little research is necessary before be, say, $300. Obviously, it would be
you decide what to ask. Don't take the foolish to go out and spend $100 on such
word of a friend who says they are a car before ofl^ering it for sale. It would
paying a lot of money for that make of be better to advertise it "As is" and get
car, or that nobody wants that model. rid of it for $200, thus avoiding the
He doesn't know any more about it nuisance of having it fixed. Anyway,
than you do. Read the automobile clas- you probably wouldn't get $300 for it
sified ads in your local paper or papers even after laying out $100. A new or
and note the prices on similar makes fairly new car is different.
and models. Make the rounds of local Obvious defects should, if possible,
used car lots and dealers. Find out be put in order before the car is offered
what they are asking for your model for sale. If they are not you will not
car. In a short time you will have a only have to come down in price out of
pretty clear idea of just what your car all proportion to the cost of repairing
will bring in your market. This, too, the defect, but there is a good chance
will keep you in line with ceiling prices that you may not be able to sell the car
for used cars established by the Office at all. If the defect is relatively minor,
of Price Stabilization. on the other hand, and you do not want
If your car is exceptionally clean and to go to the trouble of having repairs
in nice condition it may be worth a little made, show the prospective buyer
more than the average price. Converse- frankly what is wrong with the car and
ly, if it is in need of a fair amount of offer to allow him for it out of the
work you will have to shave your price price. Base your allowance on an esti-
to a more reahstic figure. Having your mate from a local, low-priced garage.
car appraised by a used car dealer is This will have the double value of re-
very useful. Take what he offers you lieving you of the burden of having it
and add to it about 20 percent, his nor- repaired and will reassure the buyer as
mal margin of profit. This will give you to your honesty. He will feel that if you
approximately the price that you can point out the defect and offer to make
hope to get for your car, although for good on it the chances are you are not
quick sale you will probably have to hiding other defects.
come down slightly. After all, the deal- Good appearance is 9/lOths of a used
er is prepared to keep the car around car sale. Professional used car sellers are
far longer than you are. so well aware of this that there are sev-
A question frequently asked by those eral companies in the country solely en-
who wish to sell their car is "Should I gaged in making used-car-appearance
sell my car the way it is or should I have reconditioning kits to transform dull,
it fixed up before I try to sell it?" The travel-stained cars into attractive pieces
answer depends largely on the age and of merchandise. See that your car is
on condition of the car. Suppose, for ex- washed and polished. Clean the interior
and see to it that
as well as the exterior
the glove compartment and trunk are in
presentable condition. A
sharp-eyed
buyer will form his opinion of the car
on the basis of such often overlooked
corners. If you are the kind of driver
who likes gimcracks and plasters his car
with beaver tails and fan dancers, re-
move them before you offer the car for
sale. The average buyer, perhaps right-
ly, assumes that such things are evidence
of irresponsibility or at least spottiness
and that the car itself has been over-
worked or carelessly handled.
It is best not to try any of the time-
honored tricks to conceal car defects,
such as packing a noisy transmission
with oatmeal or putting extra heavy
oil in the engine to conceal bad rings
and bearings. You may get caught and,
contrary to popular belief, there is a
chance that you may be sued success-
fully. A crooked dealer may get away
with such practices. He can always say
that he bought the car in good faith
and that he did not know such condi-
tions were present. The individual
owner can hardh' make such an answer.
After all, he owned the car and it is
unlikely that someone broke into his
garage and doctored the transmission.
Setting back the speedometer is of
doubtful value. Few buyers pay any
attention to mileage and if they do,
don't believe it anyway. If you have an
elastic conscience and you do set back
the speedometer, don't make the mis-
take that one used car dealer made. He
setit back from 80,000 to 35,000 miles,

but he forgot to remove the service sta-

tion's sticker from the door which stated
that the last oil change had been made
at 75,000.
If \'ou want to sell your car
don't
through newspaper ad and at the same
a
time don't want to take as big a loss as
that entailed in turning it in to a deal-
er, can sell your car on consign-
>'ou
ment. This means turning it over to a
used car dealer (or gas station opera-
tor) who will find a customer willing to
meet >'our price. He will charge \"ou a
flat amount or a percentage on the sale.
There are several objections to this
method. Unless the dealer is making a
sufficiently large profit on your car (in
w hich case you would probably be as
well off turning it in) he won't make
Paul Jones has made
much effort to sell your car.

may
Also,unless he is conscientious he
abuse your car or allow it to be the voyage more pleasant
abused by prospects taking demonstra-
tions. You'll never know. Finally, it is
not unknown for dealers with cars on for five generations!
consignment to deliberately refuse
offers on the car over a long period of
time. They then inform the owner that
it is impossible to sell his car at that And five generations of experience have
price and make him a low bid on it or produced a whiskey with tlie extra mildness,
have an agent do so. extra siiiootiiiiess, e.xtra-rich, mellow flavor you
If >'ou must dispose of your car im- usually expect only from mucli higher-priced
mediately you can "wholesale" it sell whiskies.
it outright without buying another car

to a new or used car dealer. You But, there's no extra charge for experience.

won't get a good price. If you must Tliat's why we tiiink you'll agree when you taste

w holesale yourit either to a

car, sell Paul Jones; just caii''t buy a bdUr drink!
used car lot or a car dealer who
new
consistently displays and advertises used
cars. Some new car dealers are not in-
terested in used cars and they whole-
sale trade-ins to other dealers. Such a
dealer will only buy your car if the
price is so low that he can make a profit
Paul
even though he
wholesale price.
in turn will sell it at

If you don't care for any of these

Jones
selling methods, you can always put a
"For Sale" (or even "4 Sale") card on
the window. If you do, don't forget to
, Paul ,

/ SINCE \
include a telephone number. Your car i Jones j
1^ 1865 J
isn't so desirable that a prospect is going
to find you by tracing your license
number.
A
last word of advice. Don't sell your
car to a relative. If anything anything
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The American Legion Magazine February, 1952

45
 Can You Get Good Care In A Veterans Hospital?
(Continued from page 19)

tion and medical research. Those who mental care might seem, the National \'A is setting up mental care units in

stillthink that VA
medicine moves Tuberculosis Association and the just about every one of its hospitals, so
along with its eyes shut, pa> ing no at- American Hospital Association cried that far few er mentally ill veterans need
tention to other medical agencies or to for years for TB treatment in local be shut up in jails and padded cells un-
outside problems, are six years behind or general hospitals with virtualK no til space can be found for them in some

the times. distant mental hospital. They can start

By tying in 76 of VA's 154 hospitals treatment immediately, near their
with 65 of the nation's accredited medi- homes.
cal schools, VA
has set up a medical Here the \^A is showing the state and
system that is the best and cheapest the THINK/ the communit\ that it is inhumane and
world has ever seen in peacetime. It wasteful of money to throw their psy-
gives the veteran patient the services chotic cases into the local hoosegow
of the nation's outstanding physicians until they can be sent off to the
and technicians at our big medical crowded state mental hospitals. The
schools. The best medical brains swap states and communities have been slow-
their services in return for use of the to follow VA's lead because of the ini-
VA's hospitals and
the na-
clinics as tial money involved, though \"A has
tion's biggest single resident-physician proved that over the years it is a mone>'-
training system. This swap makes a huge saving step. The idea of local mental
saving in taxpa>'er's cash. care all over America is a long-term
Making the best of its ability to ease dream of the National Association for
our dangerous national doctor shortage, Mental Health.
VA hospitals associated with medical Perhaps the best summary of VA's
schools are turning out 500 to 700 grad- position of world leadership in the ad-
uate medical specialists a year. Of the vancement of care of the tubercular
country's 28 top-rated schools of physi- lies in the w ords of the health commis-
cal therapy, 22 send all their students to sioner of a major metropolitan cit\'. He
VA hospitals for clinical training. Of recently told a VA official: "I sure hope
the accredited schools of occupa-
25 you know what you are doing in install-
tional therapy, all but two send students What do ing ultra-violet-ray germicidal lamps in
"Mostly about women. )oii/"
to VA hospitals for part of their train-
AMERH AN LEGIO.N MAGAZINE
your TB hospital here, because you are
ing. VA turns out a full quarter of the forcing us to take the same step."
nation's new class of clinical psychia- A VA-developed set of exercises to
trists every year. Thirteen percent of all takers until VA turned the trick. prevent chest deformit>' in TB pa-
dietitians who are undergoing training, Now, more than fifty VA general tients who need lung operations has
intern in VA hospitals. hospitals treat TB sound basis
on a been translated into many languages, for
Today, \^A shows the way in the na- medically, economically and humani- use around the world.
tional problems of overcrowded mental tarian-wise. The New York State Hos- As the world leader in treatment of
and TB hospitals. It has pioneered suc- pital system, seeing that it can be done, TB, the Veterans Administration
cessfully in the tradition-defying prac- is making moves in the same direction. spreads the gospel of its advanced work
tices of treating TB and mental patients Others will certainly follow, to the through many regional conferences.
ingeneral hospitals. Simple as this meth- benefit of the entire nation in health Most of these meetings are open to all
od of avoiding tragic delays in TB and and money. professional people w ho are interested.

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Such an annual conference in Texas at-
tracts VA and non-VA tuberculosis ex-
perts from all over the south and the Adverlisement
southwest. Here administrators and
technicians from TB hospitals and sana-
toriums lay their cards on the table so
that each may profit from the findings
of all. In one case the TB
chief of a From where I sit
5^ 6y Joe Marsh

Easy Makes His ^'Cat''

Tread Lightly
FIGHT
Driving back home on Three Ponds

HEART Road yesterday, I was flagged down

by Easy Roberts' boy Skeeter. "Take
DISEASE it slow, Mr. Marsh," he advised.
"Dad's crossing this road with our
state was fired because the
institution
conference showed how poor a job he tractor, just beyond the bend.""
was doing. In another, a hospital which
showed up one year with a bad record
When I got around the curve I saw
has since become one of the best non- why Skeeter stopped me. Easy had
VA hospitals in the south. laidtwo rows of old truck tires across
For the blind, V'A runs a program at
Hines \^A hospital that was pioneered
the road, and was driving his new
by the Armed Forces. The blinded vet- "Cat" tractor over them!
eran is prepared for life as a sightless
but well-nigh independent citizen. He "More trouble this way,'' Easy ex-
is trained to get around by himself with-
plains, "but it does keep those tank
out a dog. The Hines method is being
copied by civilian institutions, and their tracks from tearing up the asphalt
instructors get their basic training from when I have to cross over to our other
VA people.
Together, the \ A and the Armed fields. After all, the roads belong to
Forces set the pace for the entire nation all of us and I guess I'd get mad if
in care of amputees. Their work done
hand in glove with the National Re- someone else chewed them up."
search Council and the university la-
From where I sit, Easy is my kind
boratories has completeh' revolution-
ized the artificial limb industry. More of citizen.He doesn't just give democ-
than 500 appliances were tested in VA's racy lip service. He honestly believes
remarkable artificial limb laboratory^ in
New York before \^A came up with its it's his duty to consider the other
suction-socket leg for above-knee am- fellow's interests. Whether it's the
putees. It quickly became available right to use the public highways or
like all other prosthetic devices
VA
to the tens of thousands of Americans
the right to enjoy an occasional glass
who have lost limbs in civilian life. VA of beer, Easy's out to protect his
has helped train 300 surgeons and 400
neighbor's "right of way."
commercial limb fitters in the team ap-
proach for making best use of this new
limb.
In plastic surgery VA experts have
gone so far as to create an artificial face
for a man who lost most of one side of
his head, yet lived. Thousands who suf-
fer similar horrible disfigurements bene-
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The American Legion Magazine February, 1952

 fit from YA
cosmetic developments. specialty, if you please. It is called
Paraplegia (paralysis from the waist physical iiiedichie and rehabilitation.
FIRST AID i
down from spine injury) became well-
known to the public during and since
The moderns who
in VA are redeveloping the
learn this specialty
art of treat-
WW II. Most people think of it as in- ing patients as sick people. Physical

forAQD ability to use the legs. But the familiar

wa>'s in which VA
and the Armed
Forces have helped paraplegics to walk
medicine, applied on top of the special-
ties that pay attention to the sick parts, is
one more factor that is shortening the
again, drive cars and go to work is not stay of patients in the hospitals and re-

nniGEsnoN all of the story. Unseen is the frequent

serious impairment of the organs of the

lower body that accompanies many
ducing the number of repeat patients.
The other VA
answer to the problem
of specialized doctors is its development
spine injuries. The modern has VA of the "team concept" of medical spe-
faced up to all sorts of complications cialists. This is a model of medical effi-
the neighbors nev'er see in paraplegic ciency. Under the team concept, all the
victims. specialists who treat a single patient
One of these complications is gall- work equal teammates and arrive at
as
stones. A VA doctor, Arthur S. Abram- "team conclusions." VA
is getting far

son, found a paraplegic veteran with better results with the team concept
gallstones who was willing to undergo than under the older system of "doctor
extremely painful tests. It was discov- and consultants," where a group of
ered that the veteran's leg bones were specialists clear their ideas about one
shrinking away from idleness. Dr. patient through one man who, admitted-
Abramson guessed that the free calcium ly, is not an expert in all their specialties.
set loose from the leg bones was form- The Federal Security Agency, charged
ing the gallstones. The patient was re- \\'ith the rehabilitation of ci\ilians, is

lieved by getting up and about, no mat- trying to adopt the high standard of
ter how clumsily, to exercise the leg treatment, fitting and training that VA
bones. gives amputees. As a base it is using the
The veteran who submitted to the VA team concept, bringing together the
painful tests was Dr. Abramson himself, many different specialists who are
whose spine had been shattered by needed to truly rehabilitate an amputee.

SELTZER V r I . I I:
shrapnel in the ETO. Dr. Abramson
has also done remarkable work in re-
fitting victims of heart disease for use-
The wound,

problem call
the artificial limb, the
tional aspect of the patient and his job
for separate, widely differ-
emo-

ful living. ent expert attention.

Among the exciting VA medical ad- The 60-odd VA mental hygiene clinics
ventures have been two of its answers are standard bearers for the team con-
to the problem of how to adapt doc- cept, with the psychiatrist, the clinical
TASTING tors, who tend to specialize, to the pa- psychologist and the social \vorker han-
PLEASANT
tient w ho is a whole man. dling emotionally disturbed patients in
Specialization in medicine has cost us a team effort. The VA
is spreading the

some very much needed qualities of the advantages of its effective team idea as
old-style family doctor. V^A is a leader it demands this same high-standard ap-

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4g The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
with 43 independent mental Iiygiene
clinics. A comparable team approach,
for example, is in action at Union
County Clinic, Passaic, New
Jersey.
In January, our Legion magazine pub-
lished an article on the hard-of-hearing,
showing incidentally that
pates in all 23 of the most advanced
clinics for the hard-of-hearing. \^A
teamwork with other institutions is
clearly shown by the fact that two of
these clinics are all-VA affairs, two are
joint \^A and Armed Forces
four arc located in private institutions,
and fifteen are at universities or
cal schools. These clinics give
the best, but all of the best, care for the
hard-of-hearing in this country if not
the world.
A big question is, "Can we afford
such excellent care for veterans?"
Apparently we cannot afford any-
thing else. The Economy Act of 1933,
which sought to save money by brutally
kicking sick veterans out of the hospi-
tals, threw the patients onto overtaxed
community, state and private hospitals
and charities, and led to a popular re-
vulsion that put an end to the act in a
year. Meanwhile, VA has shown that
good medicine is far cheaper than poor
medicine, and that limited medicine
practiced in a closed agency is costlier
than expanding medicine that cooper-
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ates with the national medical institu-
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the frequent indifferent treatment of
veterans was the worst curse of the old
VA, and that waste of taxpayers' money
partici- went with it. More and better care
would not only justify the expense, we
said, but it would empty beds in a hurry
and actually save money. This has been
realized beyond our fondest dreams.
In 1950, when the VA
was giving the
clinics, best care in the world, it had vastly in-
creased its medical activities to give
medi- that care. Yet in 1950 the cost of
not only iiiedical activities iras Tiiore
million dollars less tha7i the costs under
the old 1941 system could have been in
1950, with four and a half times as many
veterans and the dollar value cm in half.
At the same time the VA
was giving the
taxpayers an enormous "kickback" in
national medical leadership.
How is VA
able to give infinitely
more for considerably less? Part of the
answer lies in the following interesting
figures.
In 1949, VA
celebrated a five-year
knock-down in the average hospital stay
of all veteran patients. The average stay
of all patients (including those who are
hospitalized for months or years with
mental or other long-term afflictions)
had been cut from tivo months and thir-
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the patients, on the average, were being
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fore with less likelihood of re-admission
for the same complaints. The shorter
stay of patients in the VA
general hos-
pitals allowed for the care of 130,000
more patients in 1949 than the saiiie fa-
cilities could have accommodated four
years earlier! VA
had knocked 17 days
off the average stay of long-term men-
tal patients. The average stay for all
patients was down by nearly a third
all VA even though TB patients were staying
than 100 longer than ever. TB patients in great
numbers used to leave the hospitals too
early. Nowthe\' are more willing to
stay for complete treatment, since bet-
ter care and a better atmosphere is giv-
ing them more hope of full recovery.
So much for the rosy picture. The
whole st()r\' of improved qualit>' and
cfficienc>' of VA medical practice since
1945 would, in the words of a Washing-
ton newspaperman, "fill a Sears, Roe-
buck catalogue."
But unfortunately for many veterans
and their families, the fine care that VA
now offers cannot necessarily be had by
allthose who are eligible for it.
Certain evils in the system of provid-
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 NO MORE after the nione>'
nish them.
had been spent to fur-
And now, in the last three
years, we have seen a governmental
to steerit into support of a phony cure.

In three >ears of lobbying for a new

medical bureau. Hoover Report sup-
commission which was entrusted with porters remain unable to say boiv a new
"Bay Windowl" the job of remed> ing rhoe evils, com-
mit several damaging acts that only
bureau can place hospitals more wisely.
The misplacement of hospitals is, of
tended to reduce still more the care course, a political evil, not a bureau-
available to veterans using the well- cratic one. Political pressures on Con-
known an excuse.
evils as gress and the Administration are chiefly
For instance, inany VA
hospitals in responsible. Before he resigned, cx-VA
the past have been poorly located for medical chief Dr. Paul Magnuson was
GRiAT!
Say, is a bulging belly
staffing. \Ve have seen money that was
appropriated for the care of veterans
reported to have complained that he
had not had a thing to say about the
making you look and
feel "all-in" like an foolishly wasted by building hospitals location of hospitals built under his
"o/rf-fimer"? Forget if,
friend! Just put on a
in places where not all the beds could medical administration. The chief of
"Chevalier" Health be put in use because of lack of medical any new medical agency could find
Supporter Belt and
presto! That "bay- personnel in the area. And we have seen himself in the same hole.
window" /ooks smooth Probably more than half of the
and sleek like a . . .
newly-built facilities go unstafTed and
real Beau Brummel unused in part because the money to troubles with which the Hoover Com-
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Amazing But then the Commission went on to did it face up to Congress and the Ad-
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The Truth About the Katyn Forest Massacre (Continued from page 13) The FINEST
Stalin, Molotov and Vyshinsky had lied wanted the International Red Cross to Flights
to many diplomatic missions, including send investigators but that organization,
our own United States Embassy. Two of which the Soviets were then mem-
years after his crime Stalin was still bers, could not, under its charter, act
lying; he did not know what had hap- unless both the Germans and the Rus-
pened to the 15,000 Polish officers. "I sians invited it to do so and the Krem-
personally have already given all in- lin angrily used its veto.
structions that they should be released," The witnesses whom the Germans
he told an inquiring diplomat. "I do had flown to Katyn examined the first
$ from NEW YORK
not know where they are.
I detain them?
."
. .
shouldWhy 982 bodies, of
identifiable.
whom 70 percent were
They agreed that they were and WASHINGTON... ^
The German army, however, had Polish officers, killed by assassination,
fought its way north into Russia and and buried three years, in other words THE D
occupied Smolensk and the Katyn prior to the occupation of the area by
forest in August 1941. On April 13th, the Germans.
1943, the Germans announced over
the Kept as a very top secret from all
radio that they had found mass burial Americans, and the rest of the civilized 0 hom SAN FRANCISCOr
graves in the Katyn forest, under small world, was one very important fact: LOS ANGELES, DALLAS...
trees; that their exhumations were prov- Among the observers at Katyn were
ing all the corpses to be those of Polish two captured U. S. Army officers, pri- THE DC-6
officers, killed in 1940 while prisoners soners of war of the Germans.
of the Soviets. During the first few days The Germans planned to dig up the from DETROIT, CLEVELAND,
of grave-opening 155 bodies had been whole Katyn forest in the fall of 1943. PITTSBURGH...
identified, from personal effects still in They brought in a group of Polish Daylight or Club Coach Flights^
the officers' clothing, including the soldiers, captured on another front, and
body of Polish Major General Smora- established them as a formal Guard of
in cooperafion with
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against them on this otherwise not very
NATIONAL
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the nazis, not by Russians. The Krem- Katyn Forest was in Soviet hands again, Airlines
lin's propaganda was picked up and permanently behind the Kremlin's iron
The A4oscow radio stepped up
promoted throughout Europe and the
United States.
curtain.
charges against the German Army
its
ITiis can be
OnApril 30, 1943, an internationally now with the graves in Stalin's sole
assembled medical group, at the insistent
invitation of the German army, reached
custody.
The chronology of the official at-
PELTA WORKSHOP
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of forensic and criminal medicine, Swiss, Harriman's in Moscow, to cover up the
Scandinavian, Dutch, Belgian, Italian communist crime, is as important, now
and Balkan observers and members of if not more so to Americans as the
the Polish Red Cross. The Germans actual Katyn Massacre. The attempt to

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hide this crime from the American
people has led into our major present
and international troubles.
Fishermen! national
W henever a report from the Polish
Government in Exile, or any other in-
telligence agency, reached Washington
that incriminated the Soviets the record
will show that such a report was
stampeti "Top Secret" and kept out of
the reach, or knowledge, of the Ameri-
can voters. Instead of facts the O.W.I.,
under Elmer Davis, continued to broad-
cast only the Kremlin's propaganda.
I was appointed in 1945, to Warsaw,
Poland, as United States Ambassador to
the Polish Government which had as
Helpful, Colorful 1952 its nucleus a group of Russian trained
Polish communists. I sta>'ed there
cS^zJe<^t2ea^\fxif\^ Book through the fraudulent elections of
Januar>' 1947. I saw Poland betrayed. I
and Fishing Calendar saw brave Poles, men and women, "li-
that General Collins had considered his
eye-witness and photographic evidence
so important, and so credible, that he
had had \'an Vliet flown from Europe
to Washington "with all haste." We
knew that Van Vliet had arrived at the
Pentagon on May 22, 1945, and reported
hastily to Major General Clayton Bisseil,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Military In-
telligence.
We heard that \^an Vliet was behind
the closed doors of General Bissell's
private office a long time, alone w'ith
the G-2 General. When he reappeared
in the reception office, we learned. Van
Vliet was flushed, seemed intensely but
silently angry. He went as directed by
Bisseil with the General's personal se-
curity stenographer across the corridor
to a smaller office. There Van Vliet had
dictated, with his Kat\ n notes in front

FEATUR/NG
quidated" by the Kremlin. of him, a long report which the young
With mounting wrath over the un- woman typed in his presence. Then he
NKW! Shakespeare Spinning Reel with 11 punished crime of Katyn and other took the document and his photographs
revolutionary features!
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developed

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Casting lessons, tackle suggestions by 4-
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matter with anyone in or out of that
service without specific approval in
writing from the War Department.
Your signature on a copy of these in-
structions left with the Assistant Chief
of Staff G-2 indicates that you under-
stand these instructions."
This was, indeed, a iiiost unusual mili-
tary order. Hundreds of vital intelli-
gence reports had been given and filed
in the Pentagon, with never such an
accompanying order of personal "si-
lence." There was nothing in this report
which any enemy could have used
against us. By what authority or be-
cause of what strange fear did General
Bissell, responsible for the collection,
evaluation, and dissemination of military
intelligence, order an army officer into
permanent silence because of his infor-
mation's "possible political
tions"? Whom was General
serving?
We learned, in spite of Bissell's
Secret" stamp and personal silence order
to Van Vliet, that the report was un-
smearable evidence against not only the
Soviets but against the Washington
bureaucrats who had sabotaged the
original Katyn facts, devalued the ear-
lier reports. A Regular United States
Army officer, of high repute as to his
intelligence and integrity well known
to many of our most patriotic combat
generals Major Van Vliet was, in 1945,
a living witness against the communists
whom no pro-communist, in the Pen-
tagon or State Department, could smear
or, happily, indoctrinate. Aiany patri-
otic officers wanted to get his first-
hand evidence before the American
people, and the still free world, as
quickly as possible.
But to honest American journalists
and historical researchers there was a
continuing iron curtain in Washington;
in the Pentagon and the State Depart-
ment. The American press took the
Soviet story, the Kremlin's propaganda
lies against the Germans, or they ob-
tained nothing. The O.W.I, and, later,
the Voice of America released nothing
contradictory to the false evidence of
the communists.
The Nuremberg the Yalta and
trials,
Potsdam conferences came and
peared into history, with their conse-
quences everlastingly with us.
In 1949 Americans
first learned the facts
about Katyn in sev-
eral newspaper
cles written
Epstein, a Vienna
born journalist
had become
trigued by
Epstein presented
JULIUS EPSTEIN
evidence pointing to
the Russians as per-
petrators of the genocidal crime and
suggested that an American Committee second report on Alay 11th, 1950, had,
for the Investigation of the Katyn Mas- we learned, been again ordered into per-
. . . sacre be formed. The Committee was sonal "silence" by the Pentagon and,
formed with Epstein as its Executive even more punitively, sent to Korea
Secretary, and subsequently his efforts out of reach of the American Congress.
resulted in a Congressional Investigating This 1950 Van Vliet memorandum is
Committee, an action taken by unani- a most interesting document. No mat-
mous vote of the House of Representa- ter what pressure was put on him this
tives, September 18, 1951. United States Army officer stood un-
At Committee
the instigation of the compromisingly on his 1943 eye-witness
in 1949, Congressmen who had many facts. The body of each Polish officer,
Polish-Americans among their constitu- Van Vliet insisted, had been searched
ents began asking the State Department very carefully^ examined by scientists,
and the Pentagon many Katyn ques- identified, and reburied. "We followed
tions. Like the press of America they our guide right down into each grave,"
received no facts, only evasive double- he wrote, "stepping on bodies that were
talk. On October 6, 1949, Congressman piled like cord wood, face down usu-
Dondero of A-lichigan wrote a formal ally, to a depth of about five to seven
letter to the Pentagon, demanding a bodies, covered with about five feet of
copy of the Van Vliet report and the earth. . All bodies had a bullet hole
. .
implica- Katyn photographs. The reply long in the back of the head near the neck
Bissell delayed was first, that the report was with the exit wound of the bullet being
"classified" and therefore could not be in the forehead or upper front part of
"Top given to Congress, and, later, that the the skull. German photographers
. . .
report and photographs had been "lost." were present and took both still and
It was not until September, 1950, that motion pictures of our party while we
the facts of the Van Vliet reports were inspected the graves. Copies of the still
obtained by Congress, and then only pictures were later given us."
These facts came from a sec-
partially. Colonel Van Vliet's conclusions, re-
ond report which the Pentagon, under peated in 1950 as he had given them in
continuing Congressional pressure, had 1945 to Major General Bissell, were:
ordered Van Vliet to dictate from "I hated the Germans. I did not want
memory. Van Vliet, after dictating the to believe them ... I tried every way
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 to con\ ince myself that the Germans in the black robes of Catholic priests . . .

We
^I^ibcin had done
of attack to
...
it. . . .

weaken the German story.

was only with great reluctance
It
pursued every hne military Polish chaplains."
He saw the bodies, the bullet holes
in the skulls, the hands tightly tied be-
that I decided finally that for once . . . hind backs, the Polish identifications,
AND OTHER COLD MISERY the Germans were not lying; that the the medical and other evidence that
When you take coldtake tabcin' facts were as claimed by the Germans. proved the officers to have been mur-
quick! Tabcin is the modern
cold formula of time-tested in-
"I believ^e," Van
Vliet I'epeated, "that dered in the Spring of 1940 when the
gredients to relieve the headache, the Russians did The rest of the it. area was under Soviet rather than Ger-
the feverish feeling and aches
and pains of a cold. Tabcin also
group that visited the site stated to me man, control. Before he left Katyn the
contains antihistamine to check that they believed that the Russians did Germans had located a total of seven
sneezes and sniffles.T-\BClN offers "
fnore complete cold relief!
it mass-graves but had opened only three
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did not like the Germans. But these men
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. .

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officer of the Regular Army. Surely you This is the Katyn massacre story as
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to officers of the Polish Army!" evidence. Up to this writing the original
"The
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on May25th, 1945, without making
copies, to a high official of the State
Department
three days after Van
Vliet signed it. But the State Depart-
ment, today, claims to have no record
of ever having received it.
There are still men in Washington
who want to hide Kat> n facts,
participation in sabotaging them, from
the American people especially so
now thatwe are about to nominate and
elect new federal officials. But three
very important questions for Ameri-
cans it is hoped, will be answered in
Washington during the Spring of 1952,
as the result of a Congressional inves-
tigation:
1. Who, very top levels of the
at the
United States Government, ordered the
iiiding of all intelligence reports un-
favorable to the Soviets, and the dis-
semination only of lies and communist
propaganda?
2. Who manipulated the techniques of
the 1946 Nuremberg Trials,
Van and other evidence
Vliet, Stewart,
was available, so that no Soviet crime
or criminal was punished; so that the
crime of Katx n, the greatest single mass
execution of captives of the entire war,
was never even mentioned in the tri-
bunal's verdict? The United States Con-
gress had authorized our participation
in these European trials for the purpose
of trying and convicting all war crimi-
nals.
3. Who, in the State Department, have
been acting as agent, or agents, of the
Kremlin, or as aiiiicus curiae of Soviet
communism:
The Poles through their long history
have been great friends of America and
to Americans. When they crossed the
Atlantic they have made patriotic
and their American citizens. Let us not forget that
two ver>- brave Poles Kosciuszko and
Pulaski and many of their countrymen
helped our young nation, against great
odds, to win our War of Independence.
Let us not forget, either, that the
hands of our army officers, our military
chaplains, our soldiers when we found
their cold bodies lying in blood on the
communist-overrun Korean soil were
found to be tied behind their backs,
just as the Polish army officers' hands had
been tied at Katyn; tied ivith the same
kind of tricky knot the coii/u/uiiists
used for their Polish captives. Our offi-
cers, soldiers, and military chaplains
were shot through the backs of their
when the heads and by Soviet made bullets!
How many of our men have suffered
this fate is not at this time known,
though official figures place the number
of such atrocities at between 6,000 and
8,000.
How different our present history
might have been had the facts of Katyn
been exposed to Americans and the free
world by our officials in 1943 before
the Teheran sell-out to Stalin and iMolo-
tov; before Yalta and Potsdam and our
other Washington blunders. the end

All's Quiet On The Home Front

(Continued from page 21)

Americans at home, most of us feel, thiswar is not being fought on a far-

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prompted many a bitter remark which Schoolmasters of the Republic," we lace on one side rayon sheer black magic
. . .

no American should ever feel called soon discovered, very often relegate on the other draped to the hip and
. . .

sheathed to the hem. Elasticized in back . . .

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HAPPPY HOP-AWAY sites less

Korea. The
bloody than the
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a war by
all too well that nobody wins
limiting himself to the use of
JUMPING terrible glare of combat was dropped only one fist. The homefront limited
RABBIT from the U. S., not Korea. true enough, but the sloggers suf-
itself,
Laughs Are you able to understand the fered because the wheels of America's
With Joy As thoughts that pass through our minds war machine, and the minds of many
Children when at mid-week we pick up news- homefront leaders, are rusty.
Ride Him! papers, almost any newspaper, and see We wore ourselves out puzzling over
Only 2-49 that the latest casualty report has re- the U. S. failure to employ the fleet that
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More fun and would a filler to the effect that "Texas blockading the China coast. Nor has
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we've ever seen in
any toy! Kids grab you understand our anger when we see question about why the Air Force and
his long ears, jnnip
on his back, and that an incon.sequential local gang kill- the air arms of the Navy and Marine
Happy hops around
the room with them, ing has crowded an important thousand- Corps were not permitted to clobber
squealing with joy
at every leap. casualty Korean battle off the front page the communist staging areas beyond the
BIG he's over 27 inches tall, 40 inches around and 20 and jammed it into an insignificant Yalu.
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was not statistically-minded. He's not 140 N. Dearborn St., Chicago 2, Illinois
IINCOLN TAILORS, Dept. jlfiB'J Lincoln. Nebr
The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
 alone. Millions of my Christian coun- longer fashionable to step forward like
DOES YOUR CAR BURN trymen, I am sure, could not tell me a man and serve in the toughest way
how many statistical troopers have gone possible by putting your life on the.
too MUCH OIL?
A
badge of honor no longer goes
cut oil use sharply down the drain. block.
restore compression Most veterans of Korea and II WW with that sacrifice. The temper of the
stop piston
WOBID FAMOUS ^^^^ have other figures on killing, figures times bids otherwise. The best thing a
slap
which emphasize the fury and intensity veteran of Korea can do, I find, is file
Save Gas! of this war. In the first 17 months of this his memories in dark slots (in the case

were of the two-war vet, he will just have

NO MONEY
SEND name
war,
WW
100,000 casualties
II was in its 20th month before
suffered.
to find room in those WW II slots),
Send us your and address today accept the unassuming government
we'll send you facts
testimonials that figure was reached. Over the first
which has forgotten its original purpose
PROOF that Piston Seal pays for itself 15 months of "two-bit skirmish,"
this
many times over! Takes minutes to apply the number of U. S. dead was more than in sending troops to Korea, and live
adds 10,000 new miles of economy
twice the number of killed-in-actions with the unattentive public. If he dwells
and power to your car! Absolutely guar-
anteed by world's largest line of overhaul
compounds. Send card or letter for full
for the same period in WW
II. And
at length on this matter of the subtle be-
trayal, the effect is as if he has had salt
details today to: LEONARD & POWERS that was the big war, the World War.
35 East Ave., Attica, N. Y., Dept. AL-2 There are those embittering home- rubbed in his wounds, had many insults
In Canada: 1269 Greene Ave., Montreal 6
front attitudes, and there are others, heaped on many injuries.
perhaps less galling, but serious, never- There will be one development we
can watch with interest: The armistice
FOLDING CHAIRS theless.
and its after-effect. Who leaves Korea?
' iM Stee OR UHxxi All the yapping about high taxes, for
Where will the new boundaries be es-
POLDINC BANQUET tables' instance. Well, perhaps that is some-
WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 1 what justified. The latest crop of vet-
tablished? Who won?
AND LOW DIRECT PRICES |
erans would like to know, too, just what
Nobody won, of course. We did not
J.R REDINCTON&CO. rid North Korea of Reds. We did not
happened to those between-wars bil-
D E PT. 197 SCRAMTOM 2, PA.J contain communism. Instead, the Chi-
lions for defcn.se. How was it that after
nese commies extended their borders to
those monumental sums w ere spent, the
include half of Korea. We were thou-
U. S. military could not afford to equip
sands of miles from the root of the fes-
its fighters adequately last winter?
tering sore that is communism.
AT HOME In leisure time. qulckLv. easily, m.ister Span- Could not even supply footwear cap-
ish, French. German. Kusslan. Chinese.
any of 29
langruaffes through Linffuaphone Conversational Method
able of withstanding the Korean win-
We can watch, all right, but we won't
World 's-Standard. Go Places! Add to .job. armed services,
school, travel opportunities. Fun for the family. Send for expect any briUiant change of pace.
FKEE book. Approved for VETERAN'S Tralnlnff. (c)1951 ter? Could not come up with much of
LINGUAPHONE INSTITUTE There is nothing in the record to show
anything in the way of new weapons?
154-02 Radio City New York 20, N. Y. us that our country will come through
Could not supply our broken-down al- What we will
with a sterling victory.

No Outside Director
MINSTREL needed with a lies, the Republic of Korea troops?
be watching for most closely w-ill be
SHOWS PROFESSIONAL
Or can you answer the questions of
the reservists who grabbed their night-
treacherous appeasement. That seems to
TYPE be the most likely course of action,
ORGANIZATION? SCRIPT sticks and sailed into the police action?
viewed in the light of previous per-
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SKEETSMAYOSfAGEPRGDUCTIONS reservists are now
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And while the veterans ponder all
NASHVILLE 3, TENNESSEE the dirty end of a political pole when this,and try to forget the disgusting
IF RUPTURED we were jerked from home and hurried
into battle. The situation could not have
home-front exhibition, they might be
excused for murmuring to their coun-
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been so desperate as all that, we learned,
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Comfort and Holding Security unit entered the battle line after Octo- in peace." the end
Without Torturous Truss Wearing ber, 1950. When he .saw the limp, loop-
An "eye-opening" revelation in sensible and holed draft law of the land, a friend of
comfortable reducible rupture protection may mine was convinced somebody had
be yours for the asking, without cost or obliga-
dropped the dunce cap on his head.
tion. Simply send name and address to William
S. Rice. Inc., Dept. 74-P 1, Adams, N. Y., and
"All you have to do, if your draft
My Husband Is Missing
full details of the new and diflferent Rice
Method will be sent yon Free. Without hard
flesh-gouging pads or tormenting pressure,
number is upcoming," he noted, "is In Action In Korea
here's a Support that has bro\ight joy and com- scrape up tuition money and enter col- (Continued from page 21)
fort to thousands by releasing them from
Trusses with springs and straps that bind and lege. Then, they let \ ()u take an exam,
cut. Designed to securely hold a rupture up Slowly, silently, ju.st as strange objects be-
and if you have Brain One, you pass it
and in where it belongs and yet give freedom one on a city street, as
of body and genuine comfort. For full infor- and you're automatically exempt from come familiar to lost
mationwrite today!
induction. When you graduate, you can one is oriented to one's surroundings, so the
hustle out and grab a defense job, be- strange scenes take the form of everyday liv-

^7fUnvu>c Folding
BANQUET cause they provide a period of grace
for that. The idea isn't what it used to
ing. The
street one's
place again becomes home.
own street.
The

r-l be. Nowada> s, > <)u don't do your bit Bathe your face in hot water, cold water
Direct Prices To for Uncle Sugar. He does his bit for go out and pick the morning paper up
American Legions you, if >'ou happen to be standing in the from the lawn. Read of the hand-to-hand
right spot. It's a big yak if you can stay
Clubs, Lodges fighting on Heartbreak Ridge. Scan the
Societies
Hotels home and let the other guy pound x\\c
casualty list. Some day, if you last long
Service Clubs hills for you. It adds up to that old Civil
enough, physically, spiritually, and mental-
Schools, Churches War stunt of bu>'ing your way out."
ly,some day, please God, you may read
WRITE The regulars, the career men, can
FOR frown right along with the reservists.
where there has been a truce .signed in
Manufactured by CATALOG
They do just that when they note the Korea, a cea.sc fire, exchange of prisoners.
THE nHovnoe. company dearth of voluntary enlistments. It is no Then, you will know!
69 CHURCH STREET COLFAX. IOWA

gQ The American Legion Magazine February, 1952

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LONG WEAR (reg.$J5;
(Continued from page 21
In line of duty, Palermo has organ-
)
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Genuine Beautiful Rockdale
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Occasionally the Army manages to
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MAKERS PER HOUR that sounds not only sharp but dow n-
WITHOUT A PRINTING PRESS nlaots and C. $4.1)00 to $10.(100
right shady. It employs a counterfeiter, jyands of firms need ttiem. We train j thoroly at liome in
for C. F. A'a examinations or ejteci e accounting pos
for one thing a sergeant named Philip frevious experience unnecessary t-ersonai traininir unoer huperv ijiuii
.

of staff of C. P. A's. placement counsel and lielp. Write for free

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F. Coccio, who goes around the Finance LASALLE Extension University, 417 So. Dearborn St.
PRINT colorful signs, po=.t. A Correspondence Institution Dept. 2361-H, Chicago 5, III.
paper, show cards-AN VTH I NG I'nn '
Center in Indianapolis deliberately try-
NO printing press or special equipi
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-NO EXPERIENCE or art ability nec-
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Diete illustrated detailed plan and color

SCREEN-PRiNT COMPANY. Dept. 202

1010 So. los Anceles St, lot Ungtiti IS, Calif.
they're printed on, and generally short-
changing the student cashiers. He not Busimsnat
MOMiVMAKING OPPORWNITr FOR YOU
only does it with the Army's blessings, WITHOUT INVeSTMENT.^
$TAMP COLLECTORS
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No experience needed to act as our Local
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Every business concern a prospect Advertis-
k U LQL
rif
b RATIVE COLLECTION. in.
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"
University Issues.
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-

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The Army's also got a horse trader
CAN PUT YOU IN
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1

HE-MAN VOICE!
STRENGTHEN your voice this tested scienfifie
country picking up bargains in saddle Rush Card TODAY for FREE SELLING OUTFIT
BUSINESS!

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voice ... in the prKacy of your own ion Innersole comfort shoes to f rieni
roomi Self -training lessons, mostly silent.
No music required. only gripe he's got is against one of his neighbors. fellow workers.
sport, work, safety shoes for men,
Dresy

FPFF
rilLC RnnVWrite TODAY for Eupene
DUUIV Fcuchtlngcr's prcat booklet
purchases a mule named Snowball. women. Never sold in stores. Make
SIO to $7 5. as much as $2O0
"How Develop a Successful Voice." It's ab- monthly just in spare time. No in-
to
solutely FREE! You must state yi.ur ape. Book- "Turned out he wouldn't work past vestment.
Fni':E
Send
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ton St.. Studio B-83. Chicaeo 6. III.

'1 was half crazy

must've read calendars as well as clocks,
because no matter what happened, he'd
always take Saturday afternoons off."
EOPARD 095 SATIN-LIXB
RICH-TONE" EACH
Besides the titles listed in the Army's DESIGN
from torture and pain official catalogue, there are a number Auto Seat Covers
TERRIFIC VALUE! New.
until Pazo gave reliefl'' of these unofficial specialties that don't deluxe RICH-TONE ma-
terial looks hke LEOP-

says Mrs. A. M., Engleivood, N. J. ever make the list possibly because ARD FUR. Kives beauty
and distinction to your
car. Adds new life t^i
Itching of simple piles drive you mad? Is their duties defy description in coo! old, worn interiors. Pro-
tects new car upholstery
agonizing pain daily torture? Amazing military terms. I. ^nime, sUiins. Rrciise.
Pazo* acts inaiantly to relieve such misery bad weather. Tough, durable, resists crack-
_ iiiKl Handsome Uiloied appearance. For ALL
Soothes inflamed tissues. Lubricates hard- There's an enlisted man, for instance, IIS. ALL vcais. ALL makes and models. NO pins! No
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ened, dry parts. Helps heal cracking, reduce who roams around the Pentagon telling 1 or off in a JIFFV! Best of all: they're only 2.95 foi
ont or rear seat.
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Suppository form- or tube with perfor- these acts of apparent brashness, he's
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*Pazo Oinlment and Suppositories^ got the protection of the palette and 131 West 33rd St., New York 1, N. Y.

The American Legion Magazine February, 1952 *

Q\
 brushes which he carries around with straight out of "South Pacific." The job
him. He's a portrait painter who's com- might be best described as "authorized
'My selling time actually shows me a profit of
memorating the mihtary bigwigs in oils castaway." Some months ago the Navy
for posterity. set it up by dropping him ashore on the
Until just a few months ago, the Pacific isle of Chi-Chi Jima, along with

2025"HOUR room>' Pentagon also housed an even

more e.xotic GI career. It belonged to
his w ife and child, to rule the place as
military governor. They're on their own
with Science's New Midget Miracle, the
Master Sergeant Robert T. Eilertson. in this domain never even see a sign
PRESTO Fire Extinguisher Until he retired from the service last of life described in the ofincial releases,
Jul>% at the age of 49, Eilertson earned except every so often when a Govern-
says M. R. Stanley of Montana.
his zebra's pay by burning paper. That's ment boat puts in to deliver their mail
Many others "cleaning up"-so can YOU! right. He was the man w ho put the and stocks of supplies.

1 kind of tire extinguish*

flame to the secret documents that the Themusical field has a number of
er. Tiny "Presto" (about
the size of a tIaslillEht I )
^ Army wanted to get rid of. He lived soft spots for the boys in Army uni-
does job of bulky extln- I
eruishers that cost 4 times _ ,t ui rrv
as much, and are 8 times - ** STANLEY
form. Consider the man who plays the
as heavy. Ends fires fast as 2 seconds. Fits
in palm of hand. Never corrodes. Guaran- triangle in an Army band he's got just
teed for 20 years! Sells for only $3.98!
of
Show it to civil defense workers, owners
homos, cars, boats, farms, etc. and to
one note to hit, and he doesn't have to
stores for re-sale make erood income.
<-'. S. Mellous made SI 75 In uist nrst 5 hit it very often. Or that extra-specialist
ilays. C. Kama, Sl.ddu a month. Write
for FHEE sales Kit. No obilKation.
IVIERLITE INDUSTRIES, Inc.. Dept. 292.
among bandsmen, the tympanist the
201 East 16th St.. New York 3. N. Y.
IN CANADA: Mopu Co. Ltd.. 371 guy w ho plays the kettle drums. One CjI
Science's Dowel St., Montreal I, P.Q. (If you want w ho has held dow n that spot in the Fort
New Midget
Miracle a regular Presto to use as a demonstra-
"PRESTO" tor, send $2.50. Money back if you wish.) Lee, Ya., band describes the merits of
SOCKS DARNED the job this way: "In the first place, you
IN 8 SECONDS don't work very often because you
NO SEWINGI No FussI this NF:W ea.sy
can't march with the outfit you can't
wav Just applv hffti w llh hot Iron or
IlKtilM lamp l>iilh Amazlnit Knit Kahrlr
M.n.ls ith s<-h ^>^.lalK us^lul for tt-ars carry a pair of kettle drums around. In
Hi tniii-f-r-. -.kin., ( liiiir jjil Nf*t<T,
the second place, \ou're a respected

^^y^\K^ Includrs .nir lull Si.lt Knll I)rn,^iii h1,1b^

man because there aren't man>' kettle
drummers around. In the third place,
PIASTI-STITCH. INC.. Dept. "B"70 E. 45lh St., N. Y. C. 17 ^W*
ifyou hit the w rong kettle drum, who's
ILLUSTRATED COMIC gonna know the difference?"
BOOKLETS This particular specialist eventually
THC fCfNO MEN lIKf. carried his specialty to an extreme. He
THE GIRIS LIKE IT TOO '
'

(VEST POCKET SIZE) became the kettle drum accompanist

They are loaded -with rare car-
loons. Full of Fun and Humor. for orientation lectures. One day a w eek
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he'd stand offstagefrom the lecture plat-
BULCO, Dept. 169, Box 382-K., G. P.O., N.Y.C. with form rolling out thunder, artiller>' fire
1
wite in town, got up each
his
morning like an\ w hite-coUar w orker, and other sound effects for training
films and talks. "The rest of the week,"
WALL went down to the office, and simple-
started warming up. Didn't even have
he recalls, "I'd go down to the post
pool and swim. I got to be a pretty good
(LEANER to stir the ashes that w as done for him
automatically by the incinerator.
swimmer."
^ . _ - TAC^'li'"^ amazing Costly
Wm
Redecorating
invention. Banishesold- Not that the Arnn- has a monopoly Undoubtedly, some of the cushier
jm
^s?
J!^;"*''^Ss^,stylehousecleaning mess and muss. No
J runs no stickr "doOKli" no red. swollen hands. No spots in the Army got to be that way
' more dangerous stepladders. Literally erases dirt like
.,
of such rare and pleasant occupations.
matfic from Wallpaper. Painted Wails. Ceilintrs. Window
bhades. Take ordf^ra from/rUnds/ Earn mont-yf Acttiowi Its ow n members traditionall\' look w ith
w ithout the design or approval of our
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jiial ui,iir }mmf. KRI STE E C O., Dept. 1461 A K RO N 8. OH lO fully cultivated and developed by the
men
,

traveling of the Air Force strang-

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EASY TO SELL
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ers to theground troops' natural habitat
of sand and mud. And the AF bo> s
themselves, are generally quick to admit
spotted their more exotic possibilities.
A pretty high standard for this sort of
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Cards, Gift Wraps, Gift Items, Station-
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PftOVAI. FREE NAPKIN SAMPLES - Write today
Allied censor of girlie shows in
I

CHAS. C. SCHWER CO., ISB Elm street. Westfleid, Mass.

Aboard the USS St. Paul there's an official

enlisted man Chief Cornelius M. Palermo, Sicily. Vital to the war effort?
Bowens w hose daih' "watch" consists came under the heading of "civilian
MAKE of baking birthday cakes, all neatly iced
It
morale."
and lettered with an appropriate in- As a censor, this particular character
LAWN MOWER scription to the celebrating crewman. showed a certain generous tolerance of
MONEY GRINDER!
^WITH THK
The Navy one enlisted man,
also gives w hat happened onstage. In a pinch, he
J Ben Mitchel Morris, grub and gear
his w asn't be> ond going on himself to lead
Enjoy a profitable lawn
mower sharpening; business. No previous for singing occasionally. Morris is a the chorines in a dance routine. Off-
experience needed- Place a hand or power
mower on the Universal Grinder. WUhon dramatic tenor assigned to the U. S. stage, he got official sanction to wear
one set-up you quickly grind Navy Band in Washington. But since civilian clothes and maintain a three-
the stationary blade and all
of the reel blades to proper most of the outfit's repertoire consists room apartment in one of the finest

^
clearance without removing
a single blade from mower,
of marches without words, he's called sections of the city matter of keeping
((b G. Spurlock of Ark.
writes; "1 have had
on to perform only at special capital up appearances with the public, you
Eventually, he married the leading lady
see.
my Univeretal Grinder
^^^^f only festivities.
two months. Live
\Yt miles from town. Yet have _ .
already made a net profit of S227.00." J.L. Peterman of
But no Navy man has much more of of a traveling operetta company, got
I*a. writes: "I averaj?ed $100.00 a week in May. and matie an official idyll than one enlisted man himself an overseas discharge, and
Sl.OOO.OO spare time this season." Write for FREE folder.
ROGERS MANUFACTURING CO.. Dept. A.22, Lindsey. Ohio whose duties read like something settled down to the expatriate life as

02 The American Legion Magazine February, 1952

 . .

co-owner of the troupe. Life of Riley? sengers. And on board the T-160 the allthese jobs share in common. It's the
Although the Army has long since sergeant is "captain." No bugles, no first thing with which no Gl could survive
lost its grip on the tail of this whirl- sergeants, no work details trouble in any spot the luxury of griping.
wind in C]l clothing, there have been Skipper Osman. He's one man whom Go back, for the moment, to that GI
others to carr\' on the flamboyant tra- the Army pays, not only to get away sitting in the recruiting booth in Times
dition. Some have carved out very quiet, from it all, but to get no farther away Square. He's got the rating c/f master
modest but no less attractive little niches than a short crossing plus subway ride sergeant, and no drill calls or bed check
for themselves like one guy on a from the heart of Manhattan. to bind him. He sits behind a desk in a
Quartermaster inspection team in Oc- How does a man in uniform land a glass-walled street-level office, and be-
cupied Germany. What did he inspect? job like that? Here's the way a per- fore him on any given day pass show
Girls. His appetizing task was to go sonnel officer explained it not long ago, way to and from work,
girls {)n their
around giving the once-over to models off the cuff: "There are thousands of models hustling their slick little hat
posing in WAC uniforms coming off jobs to be done, when you get down boxes aroimd to assignments.
the assembly lines at German garment to it, and somebody's got to do the nice
How
does he like it? "Like it!" a re-
shops. After all, somebody had to see ones. Now, let's analyze how you'd go
cent occupant of the job answered in-
that the uniforms were okay for hemline about getting one of them. First of all,
dignantly. "How would you like it if
length and other vital dimensions. there's luck you just happen to be on
you had to work in Times Stiuare, and
This lush sort of life isn't just part hand when something pleasant turns up.
you and your wife lived way out on
of some dead golden past, either. Right Second, you've got some practical, not
Long Island, and you had to ride all that
now, for instance, what would you just school, knowledge of some special-
kind of work. Even if it seems
way every morning and night hanging
think of a job cruising around the un- ized
onto the subway straps?"
troubled waters of New York harbor in remote, you've mentioned it and gotten
the GI version of a private yacht? That it put on your service record. Then,
He stopped, turned slightly in his
may not sound like any Army you've you also know how to type; a good swivel chair and nodded toward the
ever heard of, but that routine is simply many unusual jobs start out in an office. Air Force recruiting man at the desk
coffee and cakes to Sergeant Lee W. Finally,if I really knew the answer, do across the room. same rating, Same job,

Osman of Lemont, Pa. The good ship you think I'd be a personnel officer?" same bright lights surrounding him.
T-160 plies a lazy daily course between Whatever the merits of any argument "Now, you take those Air Force
Governors Island and 1" ort Wadsworth, as to just who in the Army has the soft- guys," the sergeant said. "They've got
Staten Island, mostly ferrying pas- est spot of all, there's one quality which the greatest deal in the world!" ihk nd i

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 "\^'hat"s that?" asked the first.
"^^'ell," was the reph', "she just can't
stand her husband. But, when a person gets
married, I guess there's always something."
Dax Bennett

CRUEL, CRUEL WORLD

I^rting Shots* Here's the lun,

Life's a
in n/oiirnfiil
phony and a fake,
It's a bogy in your slumbers
mimbers.

And a nightmare ivhe/i yon ivake.

Realism must remind ns

That there ain't no chance to climb,
RECIPROCITY
For our future is behind us
The projid yoznig fatber's filled ivitb joy, Buried in the sands of time.
but firmly, encircled the sweet oung thing
The doc's as sore as heck; j

The father has a l)oiii?cinfr boy, beside iiim. And the present's harsh and brutal

The doc a bouncing check. The cop stationed on the curb was past. The Facts of Life
Like the
watching with baleful eye. Sure enough, Indicate that you are futile
Cliff Walters
when the light turned green and the traffic And a zero in the strife.
started to mo\'c, that arm sta\cd right
WOW! Let us then be down ana doing
where it was.
Nothing, but with hopeless calm
Little Nancy playing with a group
\\ as "Hey, there, yon.'" bellowed the law.
Wait and face the fate ensuing
of very wild ciiiidren when her horrified "Use both hands!"
From the final atom bomb.
niotiicr called her into tlie house. After a "I can't, sir," beamed the >'oung man. "I
Berton Braley
stern lecture on the subject of her wayward have to keep one on the wheel."
little pla>niatcs, tiie mother concluded \'era Stocker
REVERSE ENGLISH
genth:
"Now, tell me dear, where do bad little WEEK-END CRISIS A bouncer in a Bow er\' di\ e kept tossing
girls go?" a free-lunch moocher out but he kept stag-
The ai'erage gi/y n ho becomes a G.I.
Nancy smiled winsomcly. gering back had
in again. Finally, after this
Isone on lelioni yon can (lel}en(!
"Everywhere," she replied. happened about dozen times, one of
a half
F. To do his job it ell: come high leuter or hell.
G. Kerxan the patrons spoke up and said to the
He will carry on right to the end. bouncer: "Know what >'ou're doing
But one thing, you can bet, leill bring out
BUDGET ITEM wrong? You're putting too much backspin
a cold siveat
Our on him."
budget's all iu tatters On even a man siicli as he: LIarold Helfeu
I wistfully tvisli it wasn't. The terrible fear that his name leill ajjpear
In handling money matters On the roster for Suiulay K.P.
My GROWING PAINS, DOESN'T IT?
wife acts like it doesn't. Rov K. Kline
Francis Tullius Our growing daughter's babbling talk.
PAGING MR. ANTHONY Her nonsense effervescence,
SAFETY FIRST Show why teen-age is but a stage
Two women \\ on a stair-
crc gossiping Described as addle-essence.
Recently on a certain busy Los Angeles way one morning and were discussing
tiicy Ray Romine
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ing held b> the red light. of them.
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The first car in the inside lane was a "Since your girl got married," said the
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young dri\ er w as in high spirits. This was "Oh, she's getting along fine," was the Joan sought out iicr father.
apparently due at least in part to the other's reply. "There's only one thing the "Daddy," she inquired, "was mamma a
position of his right arm that nonchalantly, matter." real naughty girl when she was my age?"
Chuckling, the father shook his head. "I
don't think so. Why?"
" 'Cause she wasn't," Joan persisted,
if

"how would she know exactly what ques-

tions to ask when she wants to know
whether Fve been naught) ?"
AVebb B. Garrison

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Jane Rehse

NEUTRALITY
"Ever>'onc in town is talking," remarked
the wife, "about the Jones's quarrel. Some
are taking her part and sor.i; his."
"And," replied her husband, "1 suppose
a few eccentric individuals arc minding
their own business."
Mrs. L. E. Lockridce

BACK TALK

Of those ivho talk behind one's back,

all

those in theaters are the most irritating.

Mary Alkus
The long august night was HOT-but not as hot
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Medal of Honor

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