The American Legion Magazine [Volume 74, No. 3 (March 1963)]

No Easy Road for Freedom: The National Commander Gives a First-Hand Report on Our Men in Vietnam by National Commander James E. Powers -- Vice, Crime and Marijuana: It Is Time that We Learned Something About the Insidious Drug We Know as Marijuana and the Effect It Is Having, Principally on Our Young People by Rodney Gilbert -- Public Relations Russian Style: Maybe We Can Learn Something from the Way the Russian Leaders Sell Their People the Idea that They Should Be Proud of the Fact that They Live in the Mighty U.S.S.R. by James N. Sites -- Miracle at Guadalcanal: The Prospects Looked Dark for the Men on Guadalcanal as Japanese Battlewagons Moved in, Preparing the Way for Troop Transports. Then Came the Avengers by Horace S. Mazet -- The Funny Side of Spring Training: Some Anecdotes Old and New About the Way Things Used to Be in the "Good Old Days" When Fun-Loving Baseballers Liked to Blow Off Steam With Gags by Barry Gottehrer -- The Big Issue- Pro and Con Arguments on the Question: "Should President Kennedy Be Given Power to Lower Income Taxes?" Pro: Rep. James C. Corman (D-Calif.) Con: Rep. Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. (D-La.) -- The Gideons and Their Bibles: Anyone Who Has Ever Stayed at a Hotel Has Seen, and Often Benefitted from, a Gideon Bible. This Is the Story of the Dedicated People Who Call Themselves Gideons by Loula Grace Erdman -- Try a Wilderness Vacation: Few Americans Know of the Tremendous Tracts of Virgin Wilderness Set Aside for their Use. But Don't Tackle This Kind of a Vacation if You Like the Easy-Going Life by Erwin A. Bauer -- News of the American Legion -- You Said It -- Newsletter -- Personal -- Dateline Washington -- Briefly About Books -- Editor's Corner -- Legion Shoppers -- Rod & Gun Club -- Parting Shots