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"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.
being examined, I'ery often the onl\ evi- of two Army vets I read your magazine Double $4.95 INCHES.
dence obtainable derives from persons who every month and wish to congratulate you WePrepay Postage Except on C.O.D.'s
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once participated in the conspiracy. Thus on your articles about communists. Con- Enclosed is: Money Order Check for $
ex-communists, and agents of the goitern- cerning Hollywood communists and their Send CCD.
ment who posed as communists, are often sympathizers, if the movie industry can't
the only source of evidence of trhat tran- Nome
clean house real Americans can siiow them
spired behind doors closed to the non-com- how. Wc may see fewer movies but at least Address
munists." This also explains why the reds we'll know our
hard-earned dollars won't f -
are desperately trying to discredit people be helping Russia. Mrs. D. L. Vance
like Budenz. Editors Lemont, Pa. RUSH THIS COUPON NOW!
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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
is Swen Publications.
the new book by
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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-
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-
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LONG-HIDDEN PHOTOS OF ALLIED OFFICERS
WHO OBSERVED THE 1943 KATYN EXHUMATION
"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!"
tacked the Polish people from the rear notorious Order of the Day that, as of into Russia.
while they were trying to defend their October, 1939, "Poland ceases to exist Into three of the 100 Polish prisoner-
country from the Nazi blitzkrieg. Hitler as an independent state." of-war camps in the frigid Russian in-
and Stalin, in a temporary alliance, had Two hundred and fifty thousand Po- terior all Polish officers were collected
divided Poland and each taken a half. 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 the notorious officers did not know where they w ere lodge where "Senior NKVD
Officials"
NKVD. During the blizzardy winter of being taken. Some NKVD officials indulged themseh es in lust and murder.
1939-40 we know that Camp Kozielsk jovially fooled them into believing the\' For many years, prior to 1940, it had
contained 4,500 Pohsh officers, Camp were being "freed." From diaries found been the Kremlin's secret burial place
Starobielsk 3,920 officers, and Camp later on their bodies some of the officers to which Russians who displeased the
Ostashkov 6,900 officers, hi these camps really thought they were being liber- Folitbiirowere taken, never to be seen
the Kremhn's Beria, under Vyshinsky ated, that soon they would be back in again by their families or friends.
and iMolotov, installed his most Into the forest of Katyn some
"efficient" interrogators, photo- fifteen thousand Polish officers
graphing each officer front and were taken that terrible spring
side, finger-printing him, and HERE IS THE U. S. G-2 PENTAGON of 1940. Beria's NKVD execu-
compiling a life-dossier of each GENERAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VAN tioners did their Moscow -or-
captive and his Polish family. VLIET AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE REPORTS dered jobs with swift precision;
These, as well said,
has -been group by group the captive
were the very flower of Polish Poles were led to the brinks of
intellectual and military patri- great, deep pits, larger than our
otism and Beria had the job swimming pools, and shot
of blighting them. through the backs of their heads
"Poland no longer exists, and by most
Beria's pistol experts. In
never will exist again!" the cases onl>' one inexpensive bul-
NKX^D specialists kept repeat- let was necessary, shot into the
ing, as the)' tried many devices officer's neck, piercing his skull
for turning Polish patriots into and exploding where his hair-
Polish quislings. It is an ever- line and forehead met.
lasting monument to all Polish Frequently, but not alwa>s,
jaeople that, after five terrible the Polish officer's hands were
months of communist indoc- tied behind his back, with spe-
trination techniques in these spe- cial twine and with a peculiai-
cial camps, Beria had obtained knot that tightened into flesh if
only 20 of the officers as even any attempt to free the hands
quisling candidates. w as made.
\n Mnvch, 1940, Stalin, through Into the prepared excavations,
Molotov, through \^yshinsky 30 by 50 yards in area and
in that chain of brutal command sometimes 18 feet deep, the nuu^-
sent Beria a Kremlin order: dered Polish officers were placed
He was to "liquidate" the ada- in layers, heads in each layer ly-
mant Polish officers as quickly CLAYTON BISSELL ing on top of legs and feet of
and as secretly as possible. With Placed charge of all U. S. Military Intelli-
in the corpses below. Into just one
the destruction of the Polish gence by a mysterious Washington power, of these Soviet graves the Krem-
added, would also
officers, Stalin he received the Van Vliet report, marked it lin's executioners packed the
be liquidated, throughout Po- "top secret," ordered the junior officer into bodies of two Generals, 12
personal silence because of "the possible
land, "the whole apparatus of Colonels, 50 Lieutenant Colonels,
the bourgeois Polish state, leav-
political implications" and then delivered it 165 Alajors, 440 Captains, 542
to the State Department under circumstances
ing not one stone or skeleton for Congress is investigating. First Lieutenants, 930 Second
the future." Lieutenants, and 146 military
Between April 3rd and May Then they covered
doctors.
12th, 1940, the three special over the excavation, stomped
NKVD camps were evacuated of all Poland, with their families once again. down the sandy loam, and replanted it
Those from the Kozielsk
Polish officers. This evil forest of Katyn, 550 miles with pine and spruce saplings. As fast
camp \\ere, we know, packed in long west by south of Moscow, at the head- as one mass grave was packed and dis-
trains, and sent through Smolensk to waters of the Dnieper River, had, since guised another was waiting.
an isolated railroad station at Gniez- 1934, been entirely isolated from or- Thus the Soviets Stalin, Molotov,
dovo. Here they were, around the dinary Russians. Beria of the Moscow Vyshinsky and Beria massacred the
clock, unloaded, day and night, thirty Kremlin was its master. ^Vithin it he captive flower of Poland's virile man-
or more to a van load, and driven into had his notorious "Little Castle," over- hood, in one gigantic, bestial crime.
a deep NKVD-guardcd forest. The looking the Dnieper, a bestial hunting 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
THE RUINS OF WARSAW grow quickly and that, soon, behind
their iron curtain, there would be noth-
Ambassador and Mrs. Lane inspect-
ing the ruins of the U. S. Embassy at
ing visible at Katyn but the forest.
Warsav/, Poland vi^here he was sent The disclosure of the crime of Kat\ n
in 1945 where he saw Poland be- came unexpectedly and suddenh', in
trayed and many brave Poles April, 1943. For three years the Polish
liquidated by a postwar Polish Gov- Government in Exile, based in London,
ernment whose nucleus was a group had been tr\'ing to solve the continuing
of Russian-trained communists. 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
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.
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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
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.
BASKETBALL .
Typical of Midwestern ba
fans are these excited young
By DAVE CONDON
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great crowd by any standard, these fans packed the arena to see the opening game of the Illinois High School tournament.
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
By DONALD R. WILSON
NATIONAL COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN LEGION
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
ELEVEN YEARS AGO, in 1941, The most of the shooting is based on old Hospital in New York City began to
American Legion let loose a blast truths that only applied to a corpse by treat a "hopeless" victim of thyroid
against the care that sick and dis- 1949. Three years earlier VA had ripped cancer with "atomic medicine." Noth-
abled veterans were getting from the its tottering old medical regime apart. In ing is yet a sure cure for cancer, but
Veterans Administration. its place was built the most valuable the fact that this patient returned from
The Legion said in effect that our dis- medical asset in the history of nations. the verge of death and is back on the
abled comrades were not getting the The old stories die hard; yet today, job today symbolizes VA's leadership
kind of care they deserved, and that the the VA revolution that began rolling in in the development of atomic medicine
public was not getting close to its
money's worth.
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.
Still dissatisfied, in the dying days of
Now, in less than six years, VA Under Dr. George Lyon ex-Manhat-
WW II, the Legion repeated its charges
developed the most progressive con-
has
tan District it has set up safety stand-
and called for immediate complete re- cept of public-supported medicine ever ards and regulations that are models for
organization of VA
medicine. to be put in practice. It has opened its other atomic medicine labs around the
Afew years passed and suddenly, in doors to make the most of free cooper- country. VAhas trained 400 atom ray
1949, other groups of men-less familiar ation between private and public medi- spotters for emergency service in the
by far than the Legion in the field of cine. It has enlarged its horizon from event of an A
bomb attack. It has
veterans affairs demanded that veterans that of "bureaucratic veterans medi- worked out an "atomic cocktail" to find
medicine be wiped out; that a proposed cine" to take in the whole sweep of brain tumors without cutting the skull.
brand new general government medical American medical and medico-social A VA project at California U. has come
bureau take over the VA
facilities so problems. It has done this by swinging up with a device to measure the tiny bits
that the people could "get their money's iiway from trends toward "socializa- of radiation used in medicine that is, for
worth." and at a price that is less than the
tion," practical purposes, 100 times more sen-
To tlie many. The Ameri-
surprise of prewar cost of inferior veterans medi- sitive than the Geiger counter.
can Legion's answer to this idea was, cine. VA reports on tuberculosis are the
in effect, "Hold on there!" The often indifferent treatment that most widely quoted in the world today,
Since the Legion, wliich had been VA many disabled veterans got ten \ ears and VA's Philadelphia library of 50
medicine's earliest and most persistent ago has vanished. They are now getting iiiillion TB X-Ray films is a marvel of
critic, staunchly opposes efforts to scrap the best care that can be had in the source material for advanced study of
veterans medicine as a failure, who nation. the disease. The practical treatment of
could be blamed for raising his eye- VA is not only giving veterans the tuberculosis with streptomycin came
brows and asking: "Aren't you the fel- best care available, creating new-
it is out of a joint project of forty VA and
lows who were hollering the loudest not medicine to give them the best care two military hospitals.
so long ago? What goes on here?" possible. Today a landslide of new and Today, with hundreds of V^A-spon-
The very simple answer to what goes better "doctoring" flows outward from sored research projects, the editors of
on has been buried almost out of sight, 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
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 and life-saving. Yet tens of millions of back-sliding Ameri-
in theUnited States. And some of us who have come cans cannot be bothered.
back from that peninsula of misery are mighty ashamed Stepping on to U. S. shores is indeed a pleasant change,
of the home folks. environmentally, but more than a little disquieting. When
Yanks of the 8th Army, an infinitesimal cluster of men many of us made a similar trip home from the various
compared to the U. S. potential, have carried the fight for battlefields of World War II, we enjoyed an abiding sense
a nation which gives every indication of not caring, which of pride. There was the feeling that the whole country
appears to prefer looking the other way, which concerns had been at war, seriously bent upon whipping the com-
itself virtually not at all with the fearful casualties, and mon enemies. We survivors returned, knowing the nation
which has dedicated itself almost exclusively to the better- had been solidly behind us, had counted heavily on us, and
ment of its individual backyards. Those families which we were proud because we had not failed.
have members in Korea evidently are the only people who Precious little pride accompanies the current homecoming.
side completely and devotedly with U. S. fighters. (And I speak for a sizable number of buddies, as well as
V^eterans of Korea experience a momentary, ephemeral for myself. My military job as a combat correspondent
exhilaration when the ships ease up to U. S. piers: We are enabled me to meet many men, to learn much about their
alive, not all of us are crippled, we are as healthy as can be feelings and convictions.) None of us can see where we
expected, and there is joy in knowing that the next minute failed this time, but most of us can see where the home
or week or year will not be spent fighting at lea.st, not in guard corked off. No, homecoming is not the great fun
Korea. Much of that exquisite, high tension happiness is it was in 1945. Rather, it is a little embarrassing, because
dispelled in short order. some of us hatch the hot idea that we are little more than
When we settle down enough
to permit a searching look red-faced suckers.
around, what we confirms the suspicions that were bred
sec Bear in mind that we were probably less inspired about
overseas. In the vernacular, nearly everyone here is fat. going into battle in 1950 than any other Americans in any
Despite all the bellyaching about high prices and high taxes, other war. Why we were hustled into that stinking land
it is quite apparent that nobody is starving, that millions of at all was well worth pondering. At first, many sloggers
television aerials stud the house tops, that a vast number of entertained the notion that we were buying time for
the cars on the streets are sleek new models, and that most America. What happened? Seven U. S. Divisions came to
of the home-fronters are so busily occupied in tending their Korea in the first four months of the war, then the tap was
own gardens that they seldom have time to drop in at a shut off. W^e felt that we had purchased the time, at pro-
blood donor center to squeeze oflf a pint for the guy who is hibitive prices, but where were the rest of the soldiers our
dribbling his away in a cruddy rice paddy. Giving blood nation of 155 million people was supposed to be supplying?
to the Armed Forces is quick, painless, free, soul-satisfying *Approximate, as of December 3, 1951
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)
GROUND
IN KOREA
m OAf/e/s
'm MY HUSBAND
IN ACTION IN
IS MISSING
KOREA
HALTS
Order;
HSl Ridgm Deny By Mrs. Ruby Peeler
Red JetsHJlCqmer^
Contradictory official statements have WE ARE LEGION, we wives of those who are
Missing In Action In Korea, living lives of
confused and benumbed the public. 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.
The reds butchered GIs. Officials re- Some of us have broken down, just as have wives
gretted the "timing" of the announcement. 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 few were in Europe, but most of them were home,
A country resurgent with organized crime? A school
and there still are but seven U. S. Divisions in the line.
ground surrounded with vultures who prey on the
That pittance of incoming manpower sent tumbling young and bewildered with the offer of a drugged
the conjecture that we might be trying to keep the com- existence that destroys all that for which men are
munists out of Japan, too, for we learned belatedly that dying? Then, when the people stop to think, they
another of the Yalta deals had situated the Russians only ask, "What are our troops doing in Korea, anyway?"
a canoe's ride from Hokkaido, the northernmost island Bitter, ironic, and unpatriotic thoughts floated,
of Japan. Keeping the Redsfrom engulfing Korea would merged and kaleidoscoped through my tortured and
drugged brain, until, with relief, the foggy dreams
not prevent them from sweeping across the last American
and questions were chased away by the "yellowish-
bastion in that part of the world, if they had a yearning
brown" men, with slanting eyes, creeping, with ter-
to occupy Nippon. Seven not-so-hot-to-trot Divisions rible grins on their faces, from every nook and
in Korea would not, at any rate, and the lonesome pair cranny of my strange-familiar bedroom, to dance
of U. S. Divisions now occupying Japan would be unable 'round my bed in a silly, bumpy, trotty dance, until
to do much about it, either. the shot the doctor had so optimistically given me
Morale could never be strong under such circumstances, lent oblivion.
and mustering up courage (or developing a strong enough Oblivion! Blessed word! Wonderful thought! How
feeling of futility) to attack that next hill was excruciat-
we yearn for it, hope for it, pray for it, only to
hang our heads in shame for the impulse.
ingly difficult. Especially after that first bit of sweet
We think of the blessedness of amnesia, of forget-
scuttlebutt concerning peace talks. The capers at Kaesong
fulness. Then we awaken from stupid, dream-laden
soon appeared to be largely in the nature of international sleep. The room is not familiar. The pictures on the
diddling, though, and viewing it thus, the infantryman walls are stupid and meaningless prints of pictures
found going up that hill a little easier, although he could by stupid and meaningless, would-be artists. Who
not see the worth of it. He might die, wondering to the dared hang them there? Who dared plan a room
last if a cease-fire would be in effect next morning, or with windows that, no matter how widely opened,
even at the moment he died. It took more than the usual were airless, and cheerless, and without view? View?
allotment of guts, but he had it, and so he went up that
Why should one need, or ask, that scapes of beauty
be opened when one was alone? What is beauty?
hillday after day. What is hope? My God, where am I? Where is the
Morale was anything but aflame in Korea, and it helped familiar and loved?
not one whit to be prodded ungently by a long shaft from One rushes to the window, and stares hard and
the homeside. The American in Korea fought gallantly deep. Searches the surroundings with frantic hope
because he was fighting for his life and he knew it. for the known, and believed-in part of a security
( Continued on page 51 geographically one's own. (Continued on page 60)
21
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 spondingly smaller amount for the new back and you are tied to the house as
extremes to save a few dollars, shopping car when the time comes for you to sell long as your ad runs. By and large,
in so-called "low priced" areas or buy- it. If it's hard to sell now it will prob- however, these disadvantages are easily
ing makes and models which do not ap- ably be hard to sell then. One general outweighed by the additional profit you
peal to him except in price. Yet, this rule applies to all turn-ins. The more will make by selling your car directly
same buyer, when he sells his old car, popular the make the dealer is selling rather than through a middleman.
almost always makes a poor deal. He the less he will give you for your old One difficulty in newspaper selling is
fails to observe even the simplest rules car. the inability of most of us to write an
of used-car selling although there are Many of us, when we decide to turn attractive classified ad that will catch
lessons to be seen all around him. our old car in on a new one, make the the eye of and appeal to the potential
The easiest way to dispo.se of a used mistake of not "shopping around." We purchaser. We
either give too little in-
car is to turn it in to the dealer from agree to the price offered to us by the formation or too much and the sale is
whom you are buying a new or used first dealer we happen to approach. Ac- lost as soon as the "prospect" reads the
car. You drive it in, he appraises it and tually, another dealer, selling the same ad. Take this example: "'48 BUICK
gives you a price which he will apply make of car, may be willing to give us SEDAN. GOOD CONDITION. BEST
toward your new car. The whole trans- a higher price. If you find that this is OFFER, 15 JONES ST." You won't sell
action is over in a matter of minutes so and you still want to buy >'our new many Buicks or any other make with
and there is no fuss, discussion or red car from the dealer who has offered you this kind of ad. It gives almost no in-
22
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
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- which you will be available. None of us made. He will probably offer a deposit
FLOW, RADIO, HEATER. likes to make a trip to look at a car that to hold the car until he can arrange to
MAROON, WHITE- WALL TIRES. may be unsuitable when we get there pay in full. He should receive a receipt
PERFECT. $1400, MA-1899, AFTER and a potential buyer frequently has for the deposit, containing a full de-
5." This ad creates a picture in the mind no form of transportation in which to scription of the car (serial number,
of the reader. It makes him desire to go to see your car. This may be the motor number, model, etc.). He will re-
own your car. very reason why he is buying a car. turn this receipt to you when the sale
The buyer wants to know
potential If you make it hard for the customer he iscompleted. Do not sign over the title
the exact model of the car. He wants will simply pass up your ad and go on of the car to him until the full price
to know what equipment it has and its to another that involves no more diffi- is paid.
color. Most of all he wants to know culty and bother than picking up a Accept nothing but cash or a certi-
how much it costs. "Best offer" should telephone. Also, by using a telephone fied check for full payment. If the buy-
only be used in special cases, such as number rather than an address you can er pleads that he can give you half or
very old (or rough) or very desirable screen out many shoppers and those a third now and the rest Thursday, de-
"new-used" cars, which are in great who are merely curious. cline, regretfully but firmly. Do not
demand. Where the average car is con- When a prospect does call, tell him turn the car over to him until Thursday
cerned, decide on what price you are what he wants to know about the car. (or whenever the full price is paid).
asking and put it in the ad. If you can, try to make him desire the (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
25
Legion Rod and Gun Club
IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR Do any of you woods characters know
what the word Orienteering means? A few
CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAYOFF WITH SHELLS, CARTRIDGES, LINES OR LURES. of you might have practiced it during the
last war. It started in Sweden during the
Ashort time ago during the deer season guns and patterns," this sportsman writes. war years and then spread throughout
in one of our eastern states one of the long- "Most of the outdoor magazines and others Europe. Give up? It's simply the art of
. . .
time residents of that particular state was that handle the subject make it so compli- using map and compass effectively in cross-
killed while riding his bicjxle to the farm cated that I don't know if I'm reading or country traveling. If you know Orienteering
of a nearby friend. He was riding on a dirt looking at a problem in calculus." no country can be too wild, no forest too
road, completely unobscured by brush, First let me say that a shotgun is so-called deep. We're beginning to learn more about
small trees, etc., and was dressed in bright because it fires a shell containing a quan- it here.
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 well-known A book that might be convenient next to
Incidents of this kind, evidences of care- gauges, 10, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 410. Other your gun case is "Everyday Ballistics";
lessness with firearms have led to hot con- gauges have been made in the past but are simple and down to earth it is written by
troversy in political and sporting worlds. not in common use. These include 4, 8, 14, Charles S. Cummings II, and published by
"Morons and irrcsponsibles shouldn't be 24 and 32 gauges. Stackpole and Heck, Harrisburg, Penna
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- Choice information on your favorite
"Uh uh," say the politicians, "there isn't a ameter of a lead ball of which 12 weigh sport is as closeeasy to get as a walk
and as
could be dreamed up that would
test that one pound, 16 gauge is the diameter of a to > our local sporting goods store. Places
measure man's reactions to certain emo- lead ball of which 16 weigh one pound, etc. like the Parker Sport Store in Manchester,
tional problems. And fitness tests aren't The one exception is 410 gauge, which is New Hampshire, and F.d Felix's Sports
any good." actually .410 caliber. In terms of gauge, it
Shop in Roxbury, Connecticut, are a couple
would be 36 gauge. of small sports shops that not only handle
Bore diameters in thousandths of inches complete lines for the hunter and the fish-
are as follows:
erman, but are happy to answer tricky
- .780"
10 ga. 20 ga. - .624" questions. Give them a tr>-. Support your
12ga. -.730" 28ga. -.553" local sports shops, and you'll find that
What do you think? As a reader of the
16ga. -.678" 410 ga. -.410" they'll support you.
American Legion Magazine, and member of
. . .
a man who knows his dranjs and yams, No. 5 .12 170 DOOR EDITOR, AMERICAN LEGION
guides my good right ami as I try to an- No. 4 .13 135 .MAGAZINE. We will do our best to help.
No. yo Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed en-
swer, effectively and simply, the question 2 .15
No. BB 50 velope for reply.
of one of our readers. "What about shot- .18
Combes didn't consider tlie incident Barry's feat of having shared two Big the Indiana prep championship in 1950
unusual. When it's basketball time in 10 crowns at Iowa before going west before taking over at Purdue.
Illinois, almost everyone is a bit daffy. was regarded
as adding distinction to Loyola of Chicago's George Ireland
Illinois is crazy about basketball, ad- Southern Cal's basketball program un- was at Marmion Military Academy un-
mittedly. Iowa and Wisconsin fans are til Stanford hired Ev Dean, winner of til this year and his predecessor at
fanatics of thehoop game. But Indiana three Big 10 titles for Indiana. One of Loyola, Johnny Jordan, who moved on
is and raconteurs of Hoosier
delirious, Dean's greatest Stanford stars was For- to coach Notre Dame, is only in his
glories now skip over James Whitcomb rest Anderson, who had wandered to second season away from the Windy
Riley, the Banks of the Wabash, and Palo Alto from Gary, Indiana. Ander- City's Mount Carmei High School.
other such nonsense to tell you about son now is widely renowned as boss of The spawning of such illustrious
foxy Everett Case, Cliff Wells, and coaches brings suspicion that Midwest
Johnny Wooden, a few of the bright high schools put a bale of emphasis on
Hoosiers scattered in the corners of the the cage sport. That's absolutely cor-
...Mi
United States teaching basketball as it rect as Ray Eddy can attest with a
was meant to be played Midwest fash-
ion, that is!
forwa1$d * 7*-
hatful of statistics.
"We have only about 165 schools
There was a sudden dwindling of ON LiBEI|nr'S TEAM competing in football in Indiana,"
"Around 250 play
Eddy
Indiana's younger male population relates. baseball. More
when Case, winner of four Hoosier high than 750 have basketball teams."
school championships while at Frank- The figures are proportionately the
fort, trotted to North Carolina State. same in Illinois, where better than 800
Then the youngsters began to bob up high schools compere on the hardwood,
on the State campus and the Wolfpack according to the latest roll call made
started grabbing titles. Case won five by Albert Willis, executive secretary of
straight Southern Conference crowns the Illinois High School Association.
to enter this sixth season batting 1.000. Willis never ceases to be amazed at
The Wolfpack's Ail-American for- the fervor reached over basketball,
ward last year was Sam Ranzino, a 6 which has come a long way in Illinois
foot, 1 inch "southerner" from Gary, since students at Farina played in a two-
Indiana, who probably was overlooked room former church, dribbling through
a wide doorway in passing from one
by midwestern coaches because he's so
"small." end of the arena to the other. Those
While Case was adding midwestern were the days, too, when many countr>'
style basketball to theNorth Carolina ^3t/vo MKIMIVmitSJ*ltY W9S2 gymnasiums were heated by pot-bellied
curriculum, another gentleman from BOV SCOUTS OF AMERICA stoves that infringed on the playing
Indiana was being saluted elsewhere in floor and it was an effective, if unsport-
,
outnumber midwestern basketball Baron Adolph Rupp, winner of three This concentrated high school pro-
coaches in migrating to the Pacific national intercollegiate championships gram is fed by athletes geared to com-
Coast. Wooden, an all-time great player at Kentucky, leaped into that job from petition from tender ages. Notre Dame's
at Purdue, has won at least a division Freeport, Illinois, High School. Johnny Jordan claims parents no longer
title each of the last three seasons at Dolph Stanley of Wisconsin's nation- brag when Junior takes his first step at
University of California at Los Angeles. ally ranked Beloit College found his 10 months they wait a few days longer
Currently keeping Wooden from be- prep coaching record at Taylorville, and proudly report he's sinking baskets
coming homesick for Indiana is John Illinois, the springboard to a better field. from 20 feet out.
Moore, a 6 foot, 5 inch dandy who won Dolph's last Taylorville five went un- "The boys young," Johnny re-
start
Hoosier all-state high school honors. beaten in winning the 1944 Illinois high lates, "because it's round up a
easier to
And, fortunately for U.C.L.A., Moore school title and, when Dolph left, quite gang for basketball, and all they need
so far hasn't experienced the nostalgia a few of his Taylorville athletes found is some nondescript hoop and the ball."
that once struck a gangly Iowa young- things lonesome around the old home Jordan and Ev Case are a pair of
ster the late Sam Barry welcomed to town. They solved this by enrolling at coaches emphasizing that the Midwest's
University of Southern California. Beloit. long winter favors development of the
This Iowa athlete was on the Trojan Harry Combes didn't even switch hoop game just as climatic conditions
campus only a week before packing for towns in moving to University of Illi- help make California a hotbed of tennis.
home. "Mighty pore corn country out nois from Champaign High School, This, of course, brings the question of
here," he explained to Barry. while Ray Eddy directed Madison to why other frigid areas fail to catch the
The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
27
basketball fever. Tulane's Prof. Wells Tilden to the Chicago public school traded touchdowns almost every minute!
has the answer. championship and was being pursued Basketball will make anyone nutty.
"Other cold areas have ice skating, by De Paul, Bradley, and Illinois. He Fans are just more nutty in the Midwest
hockey, and skiing to bid for attention," ultimately enrolled at Illinois. because there's more basketball.
Wells says. "The big thing in Indiana, Though Kerr may have been a long Tom Morrow, a folksy Chicago news-
Illinois, and Iowa is basketball." time finding his ability, he quickly dis- paper columnist, has allowed that bas-
A youngster who looked for a hill covered the fans' insanity. A few hours ketball comes between cleanliness and
worthy of skiing on in one of the after Tilden arrived at University of godliness in Indiana. That's also true in
Three-I states. Wells allows, would be Illinois to play in the '49 state tourna- Wisconsin, where St. Croix Falls (pop-
in a fix similar to the Engineer who ment, Johrmy rushed to Coach Postl. ulation little better than an even 1,000),
sought to fit his locomotive into a cor- "The people here are nuts," Kerr said. won the state championship one 1950
ner in the roundhouse. "A fellow just offered |90 for my Saturday night, then postponed the cele-
Those lanky athletes who grow taller tickets." bration until Monday.
"I'm going to ask for a police escort," Raised eyebrows asked the St. Croix
than Iowa's fabulous corn also play an
important role in the success of the
Postl wailed. "If anyone hears you boys Falls fellows if they hadn't heard about
have tickets, we'll be mobbed. The gym the custom of ringing bells, racing fire
Midwest's basketball program. Coaches
seats only 6,900." trucks, and nice speeches by town offi-
don't deny the pursuit of the string bean
fellows.
The small capacity of the lUini gym, cials, aswas a custom the morning after
which makes the Illinois High School a Midwestern school took a state hoop
Adolph Rupp claims the doorway to
Association as tight-fisted with tickets championship.
his office at Kentucky is almost 6 feet,
6 inches high and boys who don't
as a New York speculator with tickets Oh, yes, the St. Croix folks explained,
for "South Pacific," brings ridicule but a Sunday celebration was impossible
bump their heads entering aren't en-
their
from Indiana folks, who stress that for coach, Don Snyder, had to sing
rolled. Harry Combes has a similar out-
their state tournament Butler Univer- in the church choir!
look at Illinois.
sity's fieldhouse can seat 15,000. Nominations for the hottest shot ever
"You know the way you can see into And, the Hoosiers add, more than to play in basketball's hot belt virtually
four states from atop one of those tall
1,200,000 see the Indiana tournament have ceased with the dominance of
Chicago buildings?" Harry asks. "Well, Mikan, though if Giant George's name
series, from opening eliminations to the
I like basketball players tall enough to
were eliminated, Johnny Wooden well
final. Unfortunates who can't get seats
do that without going atop a building!"
might be considered top man. A lot also
listen to the play over more than 40
There's no doubt a midwestern coach
radio stations. would be said for Andy Phillip of Illi-
knows more about legs than Billy Rose
Iowa's claim for the fan champion- nois, Ed (Moose) Krause of Notre
and the coaches whistle when they Dame, and John J. Schommer, Univer-
ship is that its fans even pack Drake
spot a long, spindly pair.
fieldhouse for the finale of the high sity of Chicago AU-American before
Consider Bill Postl, a Chicago high school girls^ tournament. Sometimes, World War I.
school mentor. In January 1949, Bill's these fans agree, this brand of basket- Regional differences in styles of play
Tilden Tech quintet was finding the go- ball isn't as polished as that displayed throughout the United States are fading
ing rougher than a bearded lady's chin. by the males, but there is yet to be a away with increased intersectional com-
Then, in a school corridor. Bill eyed the complaint about the form. petition. Most areas employ similar
most beautiful legs he ever had seen. What breeds this great fan interest by styles,and though the Midwest long has
They belonged to Johnny (Red) Kerr, Midwesterners? One reason is the num- been employing the style with the best
then hining 6 feet, 8 inches. ber of participants, who draw a propor- success, other sectors must be making
Bill fast. Johnny admitted play-
talked tionately large number of fans. Other progress they aren't spreading those
ing some
barnyard basketball, but reasons are commonplace anywhere the midwestern boys quite so thin this sea-
thought a person had to be invited to game is played its simplicity makes it son! And with those native sons staying
play for Tilden. easy to follow and the action works the closer to home, the prairie state quintets
"You're invited now," Postl said. spectators into hysteria. Imagine the ex- should become tougher than ever.
Less than two months later, Kerr led citement at a football game if the teams THE END
Correct answer to
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
hospitals for the purpose of turning In the early Twenties many bureaus ans benefit program was the most
them into public institutions in sixty handled veterans affairs. It was so diffi- natural target for opportunism under
days. The rosiest of cartoons full of cult to satisfy a perfectly clear claim the Hoover Commission set-up.
smiling veterans in hospital beds handed under the veterans benefit laws of those There are two groups of people in this
out by the Citizens Committee cannot days that a great number of claims country who hate each others' guts, but
dispel the sober meaning of this pro- went unsatisfied. The veteran couldn't who each have their own reasons for
posal, based on sheer arithmetic. Your fight his way through the red tape. wanting to strip the veterans program
service officers report that something Again, in 1946, when the VA's GI and a bi-partisan commission is the
like 18,000 veterans are now on the wait- insurance records were dispersed ideal spot to find them both.
ing list for care in the VA's all-veteran through force of circumstance, it was One group is the welfare staters, who
hospitals. In addition the Armed Forces so hard to attend to the simplest insur- look with longing eyes at the tailor-
are holding wounded Korea veterans in ance matter that millions of veterans made veterans program as a building
service some of them overseas for dropped their insurance. block to be turned into everybody's pro-
lack of veterans beds to hold them on The Citizens Committee's proposals gram. If you can keep the veterans in-
discharge. Nevertheless the Citizens can recreate those conditions as an act stitutions but get rid of the veterans you
Committee is sponsoring three bills in of will. The "savings" can come from are over the first hump. Then you can
Congress right now, under which exist- unmet veterans claims that are lost in parcel the veterans institutions out po-
ing veterans beds would be divorced red tape and from veterans denied hos- any way you please.
litically or
from VA and shared with patients in pitalization because the beds are full of The other group is the ultra-conserva-
other categories. somebody else. It is significant that the tive camp who hate the welfare state,
The present shortage in all-veteran Citizens Committee once passed the but also hate the expense of veterans
beds is chiefly due to the stoppage of the word down the line to its members that medicine and veterans benefits in gen-
post-War II VA hospital construction they could promise everybody savings eral,and who don't like to see the gov-
program in 1949, when construction of of three or four billion dollars, but they ernment in the insurance business. Bust
16,000 beds was halted. The Bureau of were not to explain how the savings up the veterans and then the veterans
2Q The American Legion Magazine February, 1952
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tions to the President and Congress on rettes tax went into effect about a
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October 29, but action could not be taken '! year ago and has raised about s and not subject to regular military serv-
until the Congress re-convened on Janu- I; $1,500,000. j;
ice while undergoing their term in the
ary 8. National Security Training Corps. The
objective is to educate the young men
Civilian Control Demanded Commission to effect a universal mili- for service in future should emergency
The National Security Training Com- tary training program which will bol- arise, and that, boiled down to its es-
mission appointed by President Tru- ster our national defense, forewarn sence, amounts to training for survival.
man is composed of James W. Wads- would-be aggressors, and fortify our
foreign policy," said Commander Wil-
Personal Safeguards
worth, New York, former Representa-
tive, Chairman Dr. Karl T. Compton,
;
son. "The Legion reflects the will of the Primarily, the control of the Security
Chairman of the Board of the Massa- American people in demanding early Training Corps begins right in the home
chusetts Institute of Technology; Ad- passage of UMT legislation. area through the local Selective Service
miral Thomas C. Kincaid, Retired; "Congress will welcome universal Boards. Ample provisions are made for
Lieutenant General Raymond S. Mc- military training as a means to deferment of high school students until
Lain, Controller of the Army, and Wil- strengthen our military position. It they graduate, or attain their 20th birth-
liam L. Clayton, former Under-Secre- offers a long-range training plan which day. Students in college may be deferred
tary of State. is economically practical and wholly until the end of the current academic
The report submitted by this Com- consistent with our democratic tradi- year. Occupational deferments, particu-
mission was full and complete, and with tions. larly for seasonal work, is recognized,
it was a suggested draft of a bill which "Enactment of the UMT program will as is also dependency deferments in
would establish a National Security do much to revive the respect for the cases of extreme hardship.
Training Corps and provide for its United States among the nations of the Provision for the personal safety and
operation. world. International high-jacking on welfare of the trainees has not been
While praising the excellent work of men and material is perpetrated only neglected. Under the plan as given to
the President's Commission, National against nations known to be militarily Congress the training agency shall pro-
Commander Donald R. Wilson declared weak and vacillating. Universal military vide hospital, medical, surgical and den-
that its members "have not gone far training, with adequate civilian con- tal care for the trainees, and they would
enough in spelling out the powers and trols, is a part of The American come under the provisions of the Sol-
controls to be reserved for the predomi- Legion's doctrine for peace through diers' and Sailors' Relief Act of 1940 to
nantly civilian Commission." The strength in the years ahead." protect them against suits, eviction, im-
Legion's bill, prepared after a careful position of taxes. Certain reemployment
Highlights of the Bill rights awarded to members of the
study by a Special Committee of experts
on our national defense and security Under the proposed plan for a Uni- Armed Forces will be extended to train-
training needs, differs from the bill versal Military Training Corps all ees, and they will have the right to make
lecommended by the President's Com- young men who are physically fit would claims against the Government for loss,
mission only in matters of making more be required to register upon reaching (Coyitinued on page 36)
6-8.
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and only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vic
;i MacKenzie, Carmel, California, for- est Schenley office in which a film library
Area A-Portland, Maine, March 14- is maintained-and all requests will be
'\ mer National Convention Director,
15. filled in the order of receipt.
died in a fire at Carmel Woods in the u
These combined conferences of
will be
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early morning of December 24. !|
Legion, Forty and Eight, American from a mattress fire while spending Hanover Township Post No. 609,
Legion Auxiliary, and Eight and Forty. i the night in a friend's guest house. ;> Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, presented a
All persons interested in the advance- s Funeral services were held at Car- 150-pound cake to the children in St.
luent of the Legion's program of service
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mel, followed by burial on December i,
Stanislaus Institute-offered as a tribute
ro children are invited to attend. !; 28 at Salem, Oregon, the old family to George Steve, Post Commander. The
Previous conferences were held in Des ][ home. !;
children made short work of the huge
Moines, Iowa, and Las Vegas, Nevada. 1 1-^^####^^^##############^*>> cake when they got at it.
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Explorer Scouts Bob .McHenry and
* * * LEGIONITEMS * * * Don Stewart served their daily good
turn recently at Springfield, Ohio, when
they out-ran a purse-snatcher in a chase
Cedar Grove (Louisiana) Post No. 6 (Washington) Post No. 1. . . With of several blocks, overpowered him and
.
numbers, Sidney J. Allen, Disabled good advance preparation and excellent Longfellow, Commander of Frank Fried
American Veterans; Joseph W. Mann, community cooperation. Legionnaires Post, Mena, Arkansas, has started a
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and John R. and workers on the job were served re- movement for the construction of a
Dagenais, Amvets. ... An Americanism freshments by members of the Auxiliary county war memorial. Plan is to con-
project taken on by Woodbury (Tennes- Unit. A Report on Madison County,
. . .
struct an aquarium of sufficient size to
see) Post No. 167 is the organization of (Alabama), detailing its progress and display all types of fish and marine life
a band in the County High School. Proj- civic advancement in 143 years of history that exist in Arkansas, under the title
ect has lagged for want of instruments in an illustrated volume of 104 pages, "Polk County War Memorial Aquarium."
Americanism Chairman Ray Pettit, Box has been issued by the County Board of
62, Woodbury, would like to hear from Commissioners. The Report was pre-
outfits that have discarded or replaced pared by Legionnaire James Record, Dickson City (Pennsylvania) Auxili-
band instruments. . Lange-Ostrander-
. .
County Auditor, Huntsville, who has ary Unit No. 665 presented a wheel
Hurd Post No. 62, Columbus, Wisconsin, served as Adjutant and Commander of chair for use of disabled to the VA
honors its Past Commanders at a dinner the Huntsville Post. Hospital at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
each year. At the meeting in mid-Decem-
ber, 21 of the 28 Past Commanders of the
Post were present three have passed on IDAHO POST HAS THREE PAST NATIONAL CHAPLAINS
and three were unable to be present be-
cause of illness or distance. The four
immediate Past Commanders are WW2
vets, as is the current skipper. Com-
mander John Platz.
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. . .
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,
;
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.
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How~- To
Sell Your Car
(Continued from pago 25)
Suggest that a bank or finance com- his hands a long time until a buyer ample, that you are selling a 1939 sedan.
pany is better equipped to handle de- comes along who is willing to pay his The most a car of that age would be
ferred payments. He may be honest but price. worth, even in perfect condition, would
there is just a chance that he isn't. Also, A little research is necessary before be, say, $300. Obviously, it would be
he may pay you part of the amount, you decide what to ask. Don't take the foolish to go out and spend $100 on such
take the registration over and drive word of a friend who says they are a car before ofl^ering it for sale. It would
away. A day or two later he returns: paying a lot of money for that make of be better to advertise it "As is" and get
"You didn't tell me that the car uses car, or that nobody wants that model. rid of it for $200, thus avoiding the
a quart of oil every 400 miles. I don't see He doesn't know any more about it nuisance of having it fixed. Anyway,
why I should pay you the rest of the than you do. Read the automobile clas- you probably wouldn't get $300 for it
money until you allow me for an engine sified ads in your local paper or papers even after laying out $100. A new or
job." True, the car might need an en- and note the prices on similar makes fairly new car is different.
gine job or it might not. The car is in and models. Make the rounds of local Obvious defects should, if possible,
his name now and you will have a long used car lots and dealers. Find out be put in order before the car is offered
drawn out struggle to prove anything what they are asking for your model for sale. If they are not you will not
and lawsuits are expensive. The best car. In a short time you will have a only have to come down in price out of
rule is the simplest one; full payment pretty clear idea of just what your car all proportion to the cost of repairing
or no transfer of title. will bring in your market. This, too, the defect, but there is a good chance
Even when the title remains in your will keep you in line with ceiling prices that you may not be able to sell the car
name, it would be foolish and dangerous for used cars established by the Office at all. If the defect is relatively minor,
to let him use the car except for a of Price Stabilization. on the other hand, and you do not want
demonstration in which you accompany If your car is exceptionally clean and to go to the trouble of having repairs
him. If he has an accident you will be in nice condition it may be worth a little made, show the prospective buyer
sued. As long as the car is in your name more than the average price. Converse- frankly what is wrong with the car and
you are responsible for it. ly, if it is in need of a fair amount of offer to allow him for it out of the
Even when the buyer has given you work you will have to shave your price price. Base your allowance on an esti-
the full amount, you must be careful. to a more reahstic figure. Having your mate from a local, low-priced garage.
If you live in one of the 22 states (such car appraised by a used car dealer is This will have the double value of re-
as New York) in which the license very useful. Take what he offers you lieving you of the burden of having it
plates cannot be transferred to the new and add to it about 20 percent, his nor- repaired and will reassure the buyer as
owner, the customer may ask to bor- mal margin of profit. This will give you to your honesty. He will feel that if you
row your plates for a few days until approximately the price that you can point out the defect and offer to make
he obtains his own. Don't do it. In these hope to get for your car, although for good on it the chances are you are not
states it is illegal for anyone else to drive quick sale you will probably have to hiding other defects.
on your plates. He will be prosecuted come down slightly. After all, the deal- Good appearance is 9/lOths of a used
and so will you. er is prepared to keep the car around car sale. Professional used car sellers are
The biggest single problem in selling far longer than you are. so well aware of this that there are sev-
a used car is putting the right price on A question frequently asked by those eral companies in the country solely en-
it. Naturally, the seller wants to get just who wish to sell their car is "Should I gaged in making used-car-appearance
as much money for his car as possible. sell my car the way it is or should I have reconditioning kits to transform dull,
At the same time, he knows that he must it fixed up before I try to sell it?" The travel-stained cars into attractive pieces
not charge so much that the car will answer depends largely on the age and of merchandise. See that your car is
not sell. Nor does he want to have it 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-
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
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A
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stillthink that VA
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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
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FIGHT
Driving back home on Three Ponds
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.
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hide this crime from the American that General Collins had considered his
people has led into our major present eye-witness and photographic evidence
and international troubles.
Fishermen! national
W henever a report from the Polish
Government in Exile, or any other in-
so important, and so credible, that he
had had \'an Vliet flown from Europe
to Washington "with all haste." We
telligence agency, reached Washington knew that Van Vliet had arrived at the
that incriminated the Soviets the record Pentagon on May 22, 1945, and reported
will show that such a report was hastily to Major General Clayton Bisseil,
stampeti "Top Secret" and kept out of Deputy Chief of Staff for Military In-
the reach, or knowledge, of the Ameri- telligence.
can voters. Instead of facts the O.W.I., We heard that \^an Vliet was behind
under Elmer Davis, continued to broad- the closed doors of General Bissell's
cast only the Kremlin's propaganda. private office a long time, alone w'ith
I was appointed in 1945, to Warsaw, the G-2 General. When he reappeared
Poland, as United States Ambassador to in the reception office, we learned. Van
the Polish Government which had as Vliet was flushed, seemed intensely but
Helpful, Colorful 1952 its nucleus a group of Russian trained silently angry. He went as directed by
Polish communists. I sta>'ed there Bisseil with the General's personal se-
cS^zJe<^t2ea^\fxif\^ Book through the fraudulent elections of curity stenographer across the corridor
Januar>' 1947. I saw Poland betrayed. I to a smaller office. There Van Vliet had
and Fishing Calendar saw brave Poles, men and women, "li- 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!
communist atrocities, a number of back to Bissell's office.
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General Bisseil read the report care-
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toughest, smoothest, longest-wearing ever tee for the Investigation of the Katyn stamp it "Top Secret" after having Van
developed
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NEW! "Spinning" Questions and Answers others have tried to erase, assemble still- worded official memo which had been
by Henry Shakespeare. living witnesses. We wanted, particu- prepared while Van
Vliet was dictating
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shows best days to fish in 1952!
gence report which one of the two U. S. cer to sign it.
Casting lessons, tackle suggestions by 4-
"You have furnished to the War De-
time U. S. Pro. Champion, Ben Hardesty. Army officers wiio had been at Katyn
"Fitting the Tackle to the Man or Woman" was known to have delivered to the partment," the Bisseil memo said, "a
by Jason Lucas! Pentagon. This was a major effort, and special report covering a certain part of
a long battle in Washington. your experience. These have been re-
Shortly after he had been liberated corded exactly as dictated by you and
as a German prisoner-of-war, on Aiay will be held available for such use as is
WONDERODS REELS LINES BAITS 5, 1945, we knew that a then Major Van considered appropriate by United States
Dept. AL-2, Kalamazoo Michigan Vliet, whom the Germans had flown to Government activities. Due to the na-
1,
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mation's "possible political implica- Katyn photographs. The reply long in the back of the head near the neck
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serving? "classified" and therefore could not be in the forehead or upper front part of
We learned, in spite of Bissell's "Top given to Congress, and, later, that the the skull. German photographers
. . .
Secret" stamp and personal silence order report and photographs had been "lost." were present and took both still and
to Van Vliet, that the report was un- It was not until September, 1950, that motion pictures of our party while we
smearable evidence against not only the the facts of the Van Vliet reports were inspected the graves. Copies of the still
Soviets but against the Washington obtained by Congress, and then only pictures were later given us."
bureaucrats who had sabotaged the These facts came from a sec-
partially. Colonel Van Vliet's conclusions, re-
original Katyn facts, devalued the ear- ond report which the Pentagon, under peated in 1950 as he had given them in
lier reports. A Regular United States continuing Congressional pressure, had 1945 to Major General Bissell, were:
Army officer, of high repute as to his ordered Van Vliet to dictate from "I hated the Germans. I did not want
intelligence and integrity well known memory. Van Vliet, after dictating the to believe them ... I tried every way
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
UIVCLE WALTER
or, happily, indoctrinate. Aiany patri-
otic officers wanted to get his first-
IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT
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 HAS (T GOT AROMA 9 "^^"^ AND ITPACKS SO NEAT /
contradictory to the false evidence of l^/KN, AND HOW! /r RATES A BOW /
the communists.
The Nuremberg the Yalta and
trials,
Potsdam conferences came and disap- IT SMOKES SWEET IT CANT BITE!
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...
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"The
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Although the Army has long since sergeant is "captain." No bugles, no first thing with which no Gl could survive
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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
street corner the westbound traffic was be- the recent marriage of the daughter of one
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
topless jalop\' of ancient vintage, but its first, "how is she getting along?" Her puckered in \cxation, wee
brt)\\
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
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"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
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