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one Magazine National Publication of the Benevolent AND Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America. Published Under the Direction of the Grand Lodge by the Na tional Memorial and Publication Commission To inculcate ihe principles of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of American patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship. . . —From Preamble to the Constitution, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

Charles Spencer Hart Joseph T. Fanning James S. Warren Business Manager Editor and Executive Director Managing Editor

May, 1935

General Features This Month News ofElkdom X OUR reading fare in this month's number Cast and Broadcast, . 4 is widely diversified both insofar as sub Past Grand Exalted ject matter and locale are concerned. The Ruler Walter P. Ross Connelly topics of the featured stories and articles are: international diplomacy and poker; early Andrews Hole Card Wild. ... 8 American history and the making of rubber; the "West of the pioneers and real estate pro Charles Spencer Hart motion, and the adventures of a business man Grand Lodge Officers whose specialty is searching for oil, precious Injun Rubber Man. . 11 stones and gold. The localities involved are and Committees, London, the New England States, the Far 1934-35 5 Fergus Ferguson West and the wilds of Brazil and British Guiana. Croix de Guerre. ... 14 The Flag o£ the Elks. . 6 Next Month Salt—and a Dash of Another stirring historical romance by that prince of story tellers, Rafael Saba- Editorial 26 Mustard 16 tini— Myron M. Steams has written a thought- provoking article, "Luxuries Ahead," in which Max Brand he forecasts the effects that the many amazing Under the Spreading new inventions now being perfected will have Antlers Paradise 17 on the lives of all of us— In "Suppressed Desires," by Lyman Anson, you will meet a lovable character cast in the part of a fighting William LaVarre Irishman whose heart is stronger than his Meet the Good Will head— For golfers and would-be golfers, Joel Treasure Hunting P. Glass has interviewed Lawson Little, Ky Tour Ambassadors. . Laffoon and Olin Dutra— And don't over High and Loiv 20 look the timely news of Elkdom, including announcements regarding the forthcoming The Elks National Trap Grand Lodge Convention. Cover Design by Shoot and Golf Tour Walter Beach Humphrey nament

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Walter P. Andrews Past Qrand Exalted Ruler

Hn Saturday, March 16, Dayto™ ' ^rr'^eTived'^n?'"'' Committee on Distribution. kJ Ruler Walter Pemberton Andrews aiea i > Beach, Fla., where he had living f AssoeiatT:iy!;f.d7«S"ar4?r:siSeW years. Mr. Andrews was stncken iH m business, interest of his health he retired from a ^ S1928, Atlanta Lod^e vo?ed „S„too°us^y giving up his many responsibilities m Atian , move to Florida. . r- «n Tune 7. 1865, Mr. Me'r""Kuler. Att'the the Convention held in Los Angeles^a'iTE.aMthe ensuine Born in Mount Gilead, N. C., on J summer he was elccted to that office ^ ensumg Andrews was raised during tha Pemberton the son of the late Lorenzo D and MarUia in mSITMar^S", J"" "•= Methodist Chureh Andrews, of North Carolina. Mr. - \fter taking luthe rites AmongMarchthe18,greatwiththrongAtlantaof LodgefrSconductineaSd So from Trinity College now Duke ^^^University, he ciates who attended the services was Robert S Barrett" his law degree at Washington and Le ^^^5 special representative of Grand Exalted Ruler Michael F began the practice of law m Atlanta m Shannon, and former Chairman of the Grand Lodge State he was elected Representative to serve in th elected of the Genera! Assembly, and two district for to the State Senate where he served his home dis R E. Lee Reynolds, SecretiS-Treatrt' o^The GeS State Elks Association; and Colonel Sidney Morey S '"He^s'one of the leaders of President Wof sonal representative of the Hon. David SholL, Vice-Chair- son's memorable campaign of 1912, and man of the Board of Grand Trustees and Govermfr of other notable services to the Democratic • : _„r- Florida, were also among those present. vcrnor oi he was appointed by President Wilson as „ . Mr. Andrews is survived by his wife, the former Miss General to the Mediterranean and Balkan Spates Lcontine Chisholm. She is a member of a prominent interest of the Panama-Pacific Exposition of • pioneer family of Atlanta. Also surviving are four sisters served in many State, civic and fraternal .capacities- Mis. J. E Ashcraft of Fayetteville, N. C., Mrs. Mary Mr. Andrews became an Elk when he Vvnltnd Marshal Barrier of Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Elizabeth Ga., Lodge, No. 78, in 1904. He was e^ted Exalted Covington and Mrs. Ernest Heath, both of Monroe N C Ruler in 1910 and served two terms in that /. and a brother, William H. Andrews, of Miami p'la ' To 1911 he was appointed District Deputy t them and to his innumerable friends. The Elks Magazine and the following year was appointed to the ^^and ^ ^ Committee on Judiciary. In 1914 he served the Order as conveys the deep and sincere sympathy of the entire Order. IPfii liQu Lee jQckBon

Richard Bonelli, top left, fa Miss Bernice Clatre, top right, mous for some time as a leading is a blonde and enchanting dam American baritone of the Metro sel zvho used to decorate the politan Opera Coinpany, is the talking cinema. At present she latest opera star to go radio. He is doing a nice bit of singing is shozun beside a picture of himself zvith Frank Munn, tenor, for as Escamillo, the Toreador in "Car NBC's weekly American Musi men." Mr. Bonelli is featured with cal Revue—a program that Andre Kostalanetz over a Columbia- makesitself evident over JVF.AF Pf^ABC network Sunday evenings each Sunday at 9:30 P.M.

Rau tee lackson Joe Cook, left center, is a smiling Paul If^hiieman appears to be gent who seeks to amuse. He has qoing off on a highbrozv tangent for years and years been one of lately, featuring the soprano the New York stage's most voice of Miss Helen Jepson {at laughed-at comedians. Recently the lower left), in popular arias. he blossomed out with a week Miss Jepson, who is young and ly radio program broadcast beautiful and American, and oz-er NBC airwaves. One ivho can sing like a house afire, k hears him being funny is one of the Metropolitan over H'JZ on Friday Opera Company's latest and evenings at 10 P.M. most decorative acquisitions

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Grand Lodge Officers and Committees 1934-1935

GRAyD EXALTED RULER ELKS KATIONAIj FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Michael F. Shaxxox, Los Angeles. Calif., No. 99, 1017-21 Citizens National BanI: Building. JoH.N- F. Malley, Chairman (Springfield, Mass., No. 61), la State Street, Boston, Mass. GRAXD ESTEEMED LEADING KNIGHT 832), 500 Shorehamyi<^^-ChairmanBuilding, Washington,(Napa, Calif.,D. C. No. Clyde E. Jones, Ottuinwa, Iowa, No. 347. Mur^\y Hclbeut, Secretary, New York, N. Y., No. 1. 233 Broadway. GRAND ESTEEMED LOYAL KNIGHT James G. McFarland, Treasurer, Watertown, S. D., No. H. Olexn Boyd, Wichita, Kans., No. 427. 838. I GRAND ESTEEMED LECTURING KNIGHT ^"^Bank^BinuTlng Orleans, La.. No. 30, 1340 Canal Charles IL Grakelow, Philadelphia, Pa., No. 2. 2432 Joseph L. Clahke, Indianapolis, Ind., No. 13. North Broad Street. ' Lawrbxcb H. Rupp, Allentown, Pa., No. 130, 201 Allen- GRAND SECRETARY town National Bank Building. J. Edgar Masters (Charlerol, Pa.. No. Memorial Headquarters Building, 27o0 Lake View Avenue, Chicago, 111. COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY GRAND TREASURER JOHV E. Hdrley, Providence, R. I., No. 14, 1227 Narragan- sett Blvd., Edgewood. li. I. N»- M«rcpolton GRAND TILER James M. Fitzgerald, Omaha. Neb No qn J. Levi Mbader, Rochester, N. H., No. 1393. James J. Noo»\, Jackson. Mich., No. 113. GRAND INNER GUARD

The Elks National Home at Bedford, Virginia The Elks National Home at Bedford, Va., is maintained Secretary of the Board of Grand Trustees Th» o as a residence for aged and indigent members of tlie Grand Trustees shall pass on all applications. Board of Order. It is neither an infirmary nor a hospital. Appli cations for admission to the Home must be made in For all laws governing the Elks Natlonni writing, on blanks furnished by the Grand Secretary and Statutes, Title I, Chapter 9. SectlJnr62 ®to signed by the applicant. All applications must be ap 69a, inclusive, For information re proved by the Subordinate Lodge of which the applicant Is addressttuuit;ss Henryneuiy A. Guenther, Honie'^emhpr Home a member, at a regular meeting, and forwarded to tne (Jrand Trustees. Newark, N. J.. No 2i:Too 6lifton Ave The Elks Magazine

J UNE 14, 1935, calls to every Lodge "By the Dawn's Early Light, of the Benevolent and Protective Order The Proud Stripes and Bright Stars. of Elks for a proud, public confession Would Be Gallantly Streaming." of faith, that shall give strength to the Their words of historical reminder, weak, courage to the disheartened, and sage counsel, and fervent patriotism, defiance to the disloyal. uttered in their respective years of Today, marching shoulder to shoul leadership, may well be re-echoed on der in the ranks of the Order, are Flag Day, 1935. twenty-two Past Grand Exalted Rulers who have been the leaders through years of peace and plenty, years of war and depression, but whose con stant and unwavering faith is and always has been that— / Grand Exalted Rider The Flag ofthe Elks

Joseph T. Fanning—1903-04 lasting impression upon the membership and community. To Elks the niitional emblem is the major pattern in the Ihe service should be public, beautiful, significant, and pa- design of their Order. To its glorification they have dedicated Its purpose cannot fail to increase devotion to our themselves byoathand ritual. Upon the Altar of every Lodge Nation and its splendid historv, and in this time of stress of the Order it is draped. Their eager observance of Flag every loyal citizen should lend "everv efTort toward reviewing Day began more than ten years before June 14thwasofficially and renewing that love of Country which is too often dormant proclaimed." in the heart of man."

John K. Tener—1907-08 James R. Nicholson—1915-16 "In almost all Lodges something was done to show to the .. We may properly refer to the part which this Order world in a pleasing and impressive form the sacred position of ours has played in developing a patriotism in this Coiintry held by Old Glory in our fellowship." and in developing proper respect and revercnce for that Flag and a properappreciation of duties and responsibilities as well Rush L. Holland—1908-09 as the rights and privileges of American citizenship. . .1 believe that the annual Flag Day "A patriotic impulse which demanded the establishment Order is one of the strongest and most helpful in developing of a date for the 'rehearing of the history of our Country and real Americanism in our people." the Order, a day of apotheosis of our banner," has grown in fervor until now on the 14th day of June each year our Order will be found in one grand assembly rendering its part in Edward Rightor—1916-17 the public expression of patriotic devotion." "Burn brighter still that patriotism that IS ever our Order's chief aim, to help l

Bruce A. Campbell—1918-19 giving serious thought to the problems of our Country are those men spreading the Gospel of Elkdom by carrying on the "As we teach Americanism, let us drive from our midst great principles of our Order by helpfulness in community every element opposed to it and every person who does not problems, greater realization of the full responsibility of Rive undivided allegiancc to our Country, its institutions, citizenship and a better understanding of our Country and and its Flag, and who is not willing to subordinate every our opportunity, all of which make for a greater patriotism thing to the one idea of free and democratic government and and loyalty to our Country." leave America for those who believe in but one Flag, and that the glorious Stars and Stripes." John F. Malley—1927-28

Frank L. Rain—1919-20 _"Let the mind of the Nation adhere tenaciously to its tradi tions, principles, and ideals, and America will ever be the "We propose to see that our Country and its Flag shall be land of the free. . . . The right to live one's life in its fulness, respccted. free from all restraint except the divine laws and a proper 'Old Glory! the Red, White, and Blue; regard for the equal rights of every other person, that is The Star-Spangled Banner! liberty in a true American sense, that is the conception of Your Flag, our Flag, my Flag '" liberty that the Elks embrace."

William M. Abbott—1920-21 Murray Hulbert—1928-29 "That Flag, my friends, is calling, calling to you and to As a member of Congress Judge Hulbert induced President me, this night, as strongly and clearly as it ever called in a Wilson, in 1916, to issue the first Presidential Proclamation period of war; calling upon us to stand four-square upon this for the observance of Flag Day. He also introduced a bill proposition (against Communism), and I am proud tonight (later enacted into law) designating the Star-Spangled Banner that my request of a year ago that that Flag be kept flying as the National Anthem. from the flag staff of every Elks Club House in America has been complied with." Lawrence H. Rupp—1930-31 "It seems to me that all our plans for the future, all our William W. Mountain—1921-22 principles, all our hopes for the welfare and happiness of "There is nothing to fear if we will keep the obligation our friends, are interwoven with the things that are repre that each one of us has taken before the Flag of our Country." sented by our Nation's Flag. We are resolved not to abandon it. Indeed, we 'Believe, with courage firm and faith sublime J. Edgar Masters—1922-23 That it will float until the eternal morning ". .. Our Order .., has stood always for Americanism and Pales in its glories all the lights of time.' " Americanization. ... During the World War all Elks in the spirit of loyalty and cooperation gave themselves up to serve our Nation in the trying days. ... The world needs John R. Coen—1931-32 a clear conception of the principles that should obtain between "The Elks casting their lot definitely and for all time for man and man—charity, justice, and brotherly love. ... A the future of their Country, the founders made American million Elks teaching and living these principles means a citizenship the primary requisite of membership . and transformation in the life of America." thus captured the ambition of buoyant, optimistic m;n of America .. we feel and believe we can make large contri butions toward the upbuilding of a new American Relitrion Ja.mes G. McFarland—1923-24 ... produce for ourselves a perfect defense of American "Each man has his part to play in the great drama of life. mstitutions .. America is fundamentally sound and always Each citizen must give of his strength and substance in sup has been. . Stand by—stand by America. ... To this end port of right and of our Flag. 'When he can see his Flag—the Stars and Stripes— "• We And love it as he should; To die for it! But, better far, to live for it And to be understood! Floyd E. Thompson—1932-33 When he can bare his soul and tell the world ''How precious the thought that we are citizens of the onlv He lives with no regrets— Nation that has a birthday, knows when it is AnH » Then he's an Elk, American, Ul How ,„d .y'mbolfo A Gentleman who ne'er forgets.' " first IHag ever created to represent a people, a Flag that has never led our so diers in a war of oppression, and yrt one William H. Atwell—1925-26 that has repeatedly unfurled itself in crusades of mSy a Flag that strikes a chill to the hearts of tyrants -.nH ♦fc.r "This great Order is an Order of Old Glory. It believes anew the life-blood of the human family! ThU that no class, no political or sectarian organization, in par represents the loyalty to principle and the dWotion to ideal! ticular, but that all classes and all organizations and all of the citizenshi^p which made this country possible and whTch churches and all of the people, wherever they may be in this have enabled this government of free men to endure." land, have a right in the Stars and Stripes. This Order dedi cates the Flag as the representative of the government, as it is now constituted—not as someone else would constitute it Walter F. Meier—1933-34 but as NOW constituted—constitutionally. For this may it "Old Glory! .. We recognize in you a symbol of God's ever wave." love and care for your blue was taken from the eternal dome of Heaven and signifies that above all was the watchful care Charles H. Grakelow—1926-27 of the Supreme Architect of the Universe. Your stars are the never-sleeping eyes of your guardian angels that watch "A large body of one hundred percent .Xmericnns who are over an indissoluble union of indestructible States." The Elks Magazine Hole Card Wild by Ross Connelly Illustrated by George Howe

The Prince asked, "What is this &ame any how?" "Come to the party, everybody," the Ambassador called. "The fiame 'is called hole card wild"

The American Ambassador to the great empire grimaced as the fowl was put before him. But he caught himself embassy in the capital match them for sheer genius and and assumed the pleasant expression that effort had made tary attachf Avery-and he had the Colonel, his mih- habit. To the others he gave no hint that this magnificent The Ambassador let his eyes roam down below the salt, meat was so much savorless pulp; that his insides were a throb where the lesser dignitaries were cSsSred Avery, who never bing Gethsemane of pain; that he was a tired, old man, sick to needed ahaircut, who never appeared as ifhe had just had one, the very core of his heart. was holdmg h.s own little coSrt The Ambassador ruefully Well, he had asked for it! One who has underwritten the party deficit for eight lean years is in a strategic position to smiled at the memory of his earlier efforts to penetrate that make demands when political fortunes change. The dispenser Groton-Harvard-Oxford reserve Why did Avery address of the party's patronage had tried to satisfy him with a high- sounding job in some alphabetical futility. But then the D^vy'? Excellency" when to the rest he was Uncle dispenser of patronage didn't know Millie. In so many words The speeches would soon beein What a hell of a way to Millie had said that they would have the post to the great torture yourself! A lot of heavv food that you had to cram empire—or else. So the able and brilliant career men at the down your throat and hours of fistening to venerate phrases great empire's American embassy had another political superior that meant nothing. Judas' For two cents he would go home on their hands, who could cause them embarrassment. But he had fooled them! To be sure, diplomacy and the making of in -I that Millie was gone. automobile tires are not exactly analogous, But isn't it rea DavP ^'^^'P^tions. Wasn't that a laugh, sonable to assume that the proper division of responsibility and Sth.!N.chols back m Akron could hearto callof thatit a dayone! Go°d old old-fashioned teamwork can take a corps a long ways? Charley. He would never forcct the day when they were The Ambassador allowed himself to dwell upon the affection working for old man Trask and had decided on the that existed belv.-een himself and the staff, and the great work the moment to go in business on their own; and the pleasure accomplished. They were such fine, upstanding kids, loyal and Charley go out of telling old Trask what he could do w.t^h energetic, and so wholeheartedly considerate. Couid any his job, and afterwards they celebrated with a poker p . May, 1935 Charley's house, and both of them got boiled to the eyes. play it. By no means is it confined to your country." The big lummox wasn't much of a poker player ever. He "I am delighted. Do you know, Your Highness, that I am didn't have the card sense that the other boys had. tempted to cable the State Department that I have won for Boy! That old crowd used to have some real poker sessions. poker the great empire's full endorsement?" Every other Saturday night from eight o'clock on, with time "By royal decree," the Prince added smiling. out at midnight for the inevitable dutch lunch; dealers choice "And I should have these old bones perpetuated in fine and a ten cent limit. And if the party had been at Bill Donald marble for our Hall of Fame. ' Could an appreciative govern son's house you always missed the last owl-car and had the ment do less?" long walk home along the darkened streets, sometimes in snow "No less, Your Excellency. Now, if you were only a citizen to your knees. And you'd crawl into bed beside the fragrant of the great empire I would see to it that His Majesty would grant you a barony." "—rny crest a four card flush against a field "Your motto: know when to split your openers —how would one put that into Latin?" It had been a long time since the Ambassador Had indulged in such enjoyable conversational nonsense. Broken pacts, token payments, and bargaining for tariff or disarmament concessions are not the premises for small talk. The Prince, Itoo,of wildseemeddeuces."to be eased out of his characteristic ennui. Poor lad, his days were dismal enough. That very day he had opened a new wing to a children's hospital; had told a meeting of striking miners that His Majesty was not unaware of the fact that some of their claims were justified; had addressed a luncheon meeting of the Society for Prevention of Cancer; had met with some colony delegates who were getting dirty oriental com petition in textiles; had attended the premiere of a sordid Hollywood movie concerning gangsters; and had just terminated a one-way conversation with the gentleman on his left, who spoke onlv m ms native tongue. _ "During my Eastern trip last vear on the ]ourney out, we played a game called 'famine,' " the Prince said. _ "Famine?" the Ambassador furrowed his brow in recollection "I never heard of that one." It IS played the same as draw poker only it to win ^ better The Ambassador smiled and nodded his head m informative shakes. "Oh! Your Highness means aspirm." ° ;;You have played the game then?" Yes indeed, Your Highness. And I remember once when twenty-eight hands were dealt before took^itV''""" "Another game I learned when I visited America several years ago was called meadow- brook. Five cards are dealt to each player and the low card m the entire hand is wild. Then the dealer places five cards in the center, pips down, and these are turned up singly for the warmth of Millie, moving quietly so as not to awaken her; wagering. The player s hand is made up from the five on but only after placmg as a tribute, win or lose, a ten dollar the board and the five in his hand. There are no byes One bill under her pillow. bets or one must get out of the game." Excellency is unusually quiet tonight." "Up and down the river—the same game exactly. I know that one. Your Highness. It takes a royal flush or fives to u«A thousandL ^"^"^ssadorpardons,pulledYourhimselfHighness,"from hethe beggedpast withof thea start.em win the pot, for almost always some lucky fellow has four pire s hrst prince, ' l was not intentionally rude. I implore of a kind. age's penchant for living in the past." "Your Excellency plays often?" , The smile while it endured erased the "No," the Ambassador replied somewhat sadly "No Your mask-like soberness on the thin, sensitive face. Highness, I haven't played for a long, long time " Ambassador continued. "My rudeness cannot be laid "It is some time since I have played. I would like to play soon agam as I enjoy poker very much. I must see to it " whichLL base their successThere on truth are someand directness.schools of Idiplomacy shall be truthful—I was thinking of noker " .Kthoughtfully; the could find nohisdiplomaticclose-clippedprecedentwhite mustachefor what ••Poker !^' was runnmg through his mind. The last decade has seen manv "Yes, Your Highness, of poker. I was harking back to the a sturdy tradition wither away and die: yet you could hardly days of my infamous youth," say to a prmce of the great empire, "come on over Saturday •'1 have played poker, you know," the Prince said. "I think night, Prmce, I'm having a few of the boys in for a little it is a bully game and far more entertaining than bridge." penny ante." '"Well, now." the Ambassador chuckled. "I would never But some intuitive sense told the Ambassador to keep on have thought that Your Highness would be an enthusiast over and he said cautiously, "That should not prove difficult. Your one of our American pastimes." Highness. The clubs must be comfortably supplied with poker '•Poker is no longer American," the Prince argued. "Poker addicts." is an expatriate. It is known in our officer messes the world The Prince said nothing and was silent for a full half minute. over and I have seen some of our natives below the equator "Your Excellency?" The Elks Magazine

"Yes, Your Highness." are poorly equipped to instruct me in the amenities. A few "May I make an unusual request?" gentlemen are to be embassy guests this evening and I am "Your Highness has only to command." gojng to ask something difficult of you. I ask that you forget "I would enjoy an evening's play at the American embassy. for a few, short hours the weight of your exalted self-esteem Could it be arranged?" and help me in being a cordial host—perhaps I should say "The embassy would be honored and delighted, Your High gentleman, Avery!" ness, to be sure, and at any date that Your Highness suggests." "I understand," Avery said frigidly. "Tonight, Your Excellency, would do very well!" "Thank you, Avery. I hope that you do!" The Ambassador blanched, but not a muscle of his face Such was the tenderness of the old man that as soon as moved. Where in God Almighty's world was he to find a he had placated his own hurt feelings he longed to say some bunch of eligible poker players at this time of the night? thing that would alleviate the hurt he had caused Avery. But Practically the entire staff was on leave. Avery? Yes, he a knock at the library door sent into eternity the soft intention. could count on Avery. Colonel Phillips, too, if he was sober. Colonel Phillips entered. He was a tall, barrel-chested man "Mentally I have been counting. I think we can count on on the wrong side of fifty. His still attractive face had that four players. Your Highness can you suggest any others?" unhealthy, beefy ruddiness that told of long familiarity with "Captain Ashbourne. fermented grain. "Well," my equerry, will come," he indolently drawied, "I the Prince said. "That makes five." fine hour to be torn from "We really should pleasant companions. ^ I have another," the Am- _ bassador suggested. The Prince ran his ^ eyes down the long table. \ the wall' for a decanter, "Nogi was at Washing- ton for a number of years, I believe. He must have become familiar ' commanded. ''You will with the game that \.^ require your full facul- sador exclaimed in sur- orders from you eh. Sweetheart?" The Colonel filled his Who to "Put the decanter know if we maintain the down, Colonel," the Am- utmost secrecy? After ^||lMInHr bassador requested in a all, Nogi's government \ soothing tone. "You—" has done nothing more ^Sj "—You should thank than your lucky stars. Colonel, that you have an in- our ^, fluential senator for a I am so concerned about, ^ U•' ^ father-in-law," Avery Your Highness. am thinking of the possible "Otherwise I'd be in embarrassment to the "Yoti oTe o flood some dismal Philippine great empire." ^^UInB|M man, Uncle outpost," the Colonel The Prince dismissed Davy," he said, said evenly. "and I can't tell The Ambassador waved the possibility with a in|l|H you how sorry silent. "In a few slight wave of his hand. / am that u'C minutes. Colonel, the "All my life." he said somewhat have ' 1 "epa"r' rrince of the great em been most circumspect." ^ pire, his equerry, and He stopped suddenly and Count Nogi will be here smiled ruefully at the for an evening of poker. Ambassador. Please limit yourself to "Can you understand what that means, Your Excellency?" not more than three drinks during the evening. The Ambassador nodded sympathetically. "I do," he said. "Royalty, eh? Well, I^d just as soon take their dough as "I am sure that I do, Your Highness." anyone's." • Avery gave the Colonel a dirty scowl. This is to_ be a sociable game, Colonel Phillips, and not an opportunity to I HAVE finally located Colonel Phillips, Your Excellency," feather your nest." • , j Avery remarked coming into the library. "Swell, Mr. Boston Bean," the Colonel leered at Avery. There was a superciliou.s ring to A\'ery's "Your Excellency." "I'll deal 'em from the top of the deck. Or did he only imagine it? "Sober?" "Oh, drop it," the Ambas.sador pleaded wearily. He was "Quite sober—or rather, over the phone he sounded coherent beginning to entertain doubts concerning the evening s success. enough, sir." "By the way. Uncle Davy." the Colonel inquired from the "Nogi will be here, too, Avery." The Ambassador let his top of the desk where he had perched himself, did >ou know small bomb drop with quiet relish. that your little playmate. Nogi. pulled another fast one today. "Nogi! Why Nogi? What's up?" .Avery demanded bristhng. "What do you mean?" The Ambassador was alert. _ In his suave manner the .Ambassador explained the Prince's "His government got the sole rights to that Scandinavian request. Avery"s jaw set in hard, determined lines and when explosive, that's all." .,,, he spoke his voice was as chill as the tinkle of ice in a glass. "You're mistaken!" Avery exclaimed positively, but he "As first secretary. Your Excellency, I have a certain interest fidgeted with his hands nervously, „ in our conduct here. I am afraid, sir, that you—you have "Yeah? Have it your way. then. Sweetheart. blundered—" "You are mistaken." .^very insisted, ••\\hy. this very after He had never gone so far. "That will be enough, Avery." noon we agreed to finance the production on shares. the Ambassador insisted quietly, and paused for words that "Your agreement has been sold down the nver. Nogi went could cruelly sting, over the offer," , j • "Whatever the circumstances, young man, I happen to be "How do vou know, Colonel?" the Ambassador asked in a your superior so. in sjjite of your cultured background, you strained voice. {Continued on page 40} May, 193S

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Accidentally Goodyear dropped the ball on the red-hot surface of the old i iron stove Injun Rubber Man i>y Charles Spencer Hart Illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

I "^fl^rk great hands on the f been the hopes of these Roxbury men who had fewmidniffhtminuteshnnrof another aday steeple of Roxbury approached thed after ilayer i fabricof crudefootwearrubber andfor carefullytheirs hadcoveredbeen theitfirstwithrubLrlayer a= thev riiicT '"e" grumbled and groaned shoe factory in the world People on both sides of the Atlantic, boundarv "lin/ nf fu^ ^ secluded spot just beyond the equally as enthusiastic, had rushed to place their hard-earned Crnnnpff ah t Small Massachusetts factory town. sayings in the hands of the founders of this new industry Sherf nht; . disheartened, were several Interest throughout the world was at a high pitch. Everyone ir^-nfZ =>"1 affairs. was wild about India rubber. nhvciVni -A these people were hiding away, but the _ The samples which had been sent out from this first factory mpon lu ^ secret which, if it became known, would m Roxbury had attracted not only a flood of orders but in ivhiVV. ® and complete collapse of an industry into addition had excited the interest of the investing public to a lire opeful public had poured more than two million dol- great degree. But only a few hundred pairs had been released fiii A stood by the open grave—boxes and then after a short interval, they began to trickle back to hlled with rubber overshoes, some cracked and broken from the Roxbury warehouse. Purchasers in the South found that exposure to cold and others scarcely resembling their original the rubber -ran" and became like glue under the glare of the slape because of the intense heat to which {hey had been Southern sun. Those living in colder climes soon discovered subjected. that their rubbers developed the rigiditv of wood and then The Elks Magazine

For Goodyear was a dreamer—"a member of the chosen few. He never wore Doubt's bandage on his eyes, but held to courage and p • i hope because he knew that only cowardice and lack of faith can keep the seeker from his soaV cracked up like so many pieces of Christmas ribbon candy. So, to keep the world from knowing of their failure and to prevent complete collapse in the securities inte which so many people had dumped their all, these men of Rox- bury were burying their mistake, hoping that some one some day soon would solve their problem and make rubber behave. Into their picture of despair and ruin came Charles Goodyear, a young man from Philadelphia, whose repu tation for experimenting with rubber had reached the ears of these men of Massachusetts. Driven nearly frantic, they dared not suspend operations and permit the collapse of their plans, so on looking about for a savior of this infant industry Goodyear seemed to be the man.

But before going into the story of this remarkable man, in whose career the Roxbury debacle was but an incident, let us view the stage upon which he made his entry a hundred years ago. What epic days they were throughout the world! Maz- zini and Garibaldi were shaping the destinies of a new and united Italy—Louis Phillipe was being crowned the first constitutional King of France—Queen Victoria faced the dawn of Britain's longest and most glorious reign, and in America Old Hickory Andrew Jackson was busy fighting Indians and the national banking system at the same time. H They were years of zest and enterprise. Railroads were being built. Internal improvements, trade expansion and 9| speculation were the order of the day. American literature was entering upon a new and brilliant career. Washington Irving with his sketches—Cooper with his novels of the wilderness and Poe with his weird tales and poetry of beauty. Hawthorne and Longfellow, and Emerson with his essays. Daniel Webster and Edward Everett, Henry Clay and Calhoun were the orators and statesmen of the day, the like of whom have seldom since been seen in America. H The spirit of invention was being manifested in the H cotton gin, the McCormick reaper, and the iron smelting processes. Steamboats were beginning to make trips across B1 the Atlantic. America was becoming aware of her great- H ness. In her ambitious dreams of expansion she offered asylum for men of energy and inventive powers. No device was rejected because of its novelty, and so it was that rubber melt and to mould into any shape, but it never "stayed put." and its possibilities intrigued the interest of thousands who A shipload of rubber shoes brought into Boston from South were willing to invest in any scheme that multiplied their America in 1823 started the rubber craze. profits. Mr. James A. McLaughlin, in his splendid biography of Up to 1800. rubber had never been seen in the United States. Goodyear, tells how the South American natives fashioned It was first discovered by the Indians of South America where these shoes by dipping a clay last into the rubber sap some their children scraped it from the trees and made balls of it 25 times and smoking it after each dipping, thus contriving to play with in their games. It was called "caougtchaouc" to make it stand up. The shoes were heavy, poorly shaped because of the sound it made when stretched and snapped. and clumsy, but they sold readily and soon America began When first brought to Europe it cost a guinea an ounce, and importing them in large quantities. lumps of it were collected and put on display in cabinets in They became a challenge to Yankee inventiveness and in the homes of the wealthy, such as is done today with bits of genuity. With rubber costing but a few cents a pound by this jade and onyx. time, why should ignorant South American natives outsmart the The story of why the substance is called rubber goes back boys who invented the wooden nutmeg, the cotton gin and the to Priestley, the English scientist of that day who accidentally sewing machine? Companies sprang up over night, the public discovered that a bit of it would erase pencil marks. So he poured its money in, but rubber still was rubber. No matter put it on the ends of sticks and sold ihem to architects to use into what shape it was moulded, the fixing element was lacking in rubbing out their mistakes. and, like the children's snowman, it melted back to liciuid form. Not until 1823 was an attempt made to commercialize this peculiar gum, when a Scotchman named Macintosh put some rubber paste i)ctween two layers of cloth and made a cape of So it can be readily seen that up to Goodyear's time no man it. This he found to be rainproof, and raincoats are still called had made any real progress in developing rubber as a useful mackintoshes today. commodity. The stage was set for this man who became one Scientists and chemists in Europe and America began experi of the greatest inventors and public benefactors of the Nine menting with rul)ber. which by then was so well known that it teenth Century. had become an article of commerce and was frequently used as Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven. Connecticut, ballast by sailing \-cssels from South America. But all of their in December, 1800. His father was an inventor and manu researches ended in the ^ame biiiul alU-v. Rubber was easy to facturer of hardware, and a partner of (iovernor Eaton, yt^'-'j

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who founded New Haven. He made the first pearl buttons in Goodyear's meeting with the Roxbury men resulted in neither America. During the War of 1812 he furnished the metal a solution of their problems nor the prevention of their ultimate buttons for the United States Army and later engaged in the financial failure. But it did inspire him to greater effort. So making of farm implements. In the course of developing this back to New York he went with the firm resolution to carry business he moved to Philadelphia with his family and it was on regardless of what might happen. He was in the position here that Charles began his experiments in rubber. With most of Uncle Remus' dog which the alligators chased up a tree— of his small savings he bought one of the first pairs of over "Dogs don't climb trees, but this one had to." He firmly shoes shipped to America, and afterwards remarked in regard believed that he was destined to solve the rubber problem to them, "They were fine. I couldn't wear them out, because and he never lost confidence in his ability to accomplish it. I couldn't wear them at all." Money gone, and the patience of his friends exhausted, Good- Until he was 21 he labored as an apprentice in his father's year was reduced to severe straits. To the pawnshop went the hardware shop. Finally he was taken into the firm as a partner. trinkets of his wife and what furniture the creditors had not The venture failed. While others went into bankruptcy, Charles taken. Then two friends came to his rescue. One gave him Goodyear refused to escape in this manner. As a result he a room in which to work. The other, a druggist, furnished served his first jail sentence for debt, a sentence which was materials with which to continue his experiments. To mag to be followed by many similar ones in the course of his nesium and rubber he added quick-lime, walking several miles unhappy career. daily with a jug under his arm in which he carried back the He finally went to New York and in the course of his lime. This ended, as had all of his previous experiments, in experiments perfected a new life preserver. This was a vast complete failure. improvement on any that had as yet been attempted. In his He plastered all sorts of articles with his liquid rubber—book efforts to market it he went to New England where he became covers, furniture, hats, cotton sun shades—even rugs. One day known to those who were interested in the development of while trying to remove this coating from a piece of polished rubber. Through this connection he was called into consulta metal he used some aqua fortis, or nitric acid. To his amaze tion by the members of the Roxbury firm whose sorry plight ment he discovered that the acid cured and solidified the rubber led the partners to bury their mistakes. Possessing little knowl coating. Here was the goal of his labors. If nitric acid was not edge of chemicals and with no technical training, Goodyear the final answer he knew that somewhere in this powerful solu set about to achieve that which noted chemists the world over tion of sodium nitrate (saltpetre) and sulphuric acid there said was impossible. must be some element which, when {Continued on page 45) The Elks Magazine

A ^''Storiette'^'*—Complete on These Two Pages

1HE nurse had been sitting there along time and it looked just senseless and futile. Not many, but a few. And there as if her patient would never fall asleep. The night was was one thing—I don't know to this day whether it wasn't, too long for comfort and no breeze stirred the curtains. well—beautiful. The best thing that could have happened." "Yes," said the nurse, "of course I've seen some odd things. She rose and adjusted the shade on the light and stood look You see, I've been nursing over twenty years." ing down at it thoughtfully. "You were in the war. weren't you?" "You know," she said, "every once in a while the French She said, quickly: "Please. I don't want to talk about Government would get an idea that it wanted to reward some that!" And her eyes looked a little blind. of the regiments or divisions or companies of its Allies. And "Ass!" said the patient to himself. ''Sorry!" he said aloud. one day they sent out word that they were going to give out He saw that she had been at the front, not just in Paris like the Croix de Guerre to our Division. There'd been some bad some nurses. And, because he was a nice boy and sensitive, fighting and the Division was pretty well banged up." he was angry that his usual tact had deserted him. that he had She went over and looked out, through the open window, opened doors into sad and dark and ugly corridors of her life, toward the river. Her patient felt himself go white, He had brought to mind blood and hate and violence that were thought this was pretty bad for her, thinking about it, and he none of her making, and times whose every struggle, as the wished she would stop. world now knew, had ended in defeat for everyone. But she turned and looked at him and went on: '"Sometimes So he snatched another topic by the arm and whirled awav they honored just a regiment, by pinning the Cross on the with it. But the nurse sat and looked at him with the most colors. But this time they wanted to give out about a dozen delicate inflection of a smile and he saw that she knew what Orders to individuals and they left the choice to the Divisional he was thinking and feeling. And she swallowed once as if Commander. refusing to feel in any way frightened of what she remem "Well, the day came, and it was one of those swagger cere bered. And she said, in her quiet, professional voice with its monies—all dress uniforms, visiting dignitaries, buglers, and pleasant inflection which always made him feel as if the kindly exalted emotion—and the rain poured down and when it was sun were shining upon him: all over, the different companies, which had been relieved, "It really is silly of me to act like that about it—about the slogged back to the front lines." war. There were some things in ii that were not so dreadful. "With their decorations," said the patient, just to say Some things which were funnv, and a few things that weren't something. May, 1935

Illustrated by J 0 h 71 E. Sheridan

Rabbit would surely be the first man they'd choose to go out " The nurses face looked back over the years. -'IVe heard "Yes:; said the nurse. "And with Company K not able to AndAnTV I canAn seeI}, the Rabbit standing there lookinfrsomeoneif likethe. that. believe its eyes and ears." "Why?" Because Rabbit Schmidt had been picked for the Croix. hr?rv"n®-him trying to find the answer, trying to seehisliJne'Lss'the answer stretchaS' There were some other awfully funny choices that no one ing out before his eyes And I can see him shaking because could understand but the Rabbit was the funniest of all. And he was a coward while they were bold. And never, never coSd the Company was frothmg at the mouth " he get over h.s fear of life and death and blood and sheUs "What was the matter with the Rabbit?" She tried to think that over. "Apparently, everything," she Sought" think as they said. The men said he should have been drowned the day Still, he had a medal, ' said the patient, puzzled. he was born He was the only man I ever saw in aU that time Yes. And he was standing there with it in his pocket when who seemed to be yellow clear through an orderly clattered down the steps and a man w?s wanted- "They said he tried to desert two or three times and the men always said if they wanted to find him all they needed to fhpnthe" the Rabbit didn t haveNo-Man'sto answerLandthe andothers,cut forwire.no Andone do was to look down the nearest rat-hole. The Sergeant Drake started for the step, because hepresentlyhad no familya man andnamedhe Z "If him into something like a could attend strictly to the business in hand " "So Drake went?" with him.m TheyThPv finallyfi nrecommended ^ thatwashe uselessbe senttobackbotherto "No. Because suddenly the Rabbit, who was standing there wa^st^ f:r"t"h?r'e:tTfM° hysterical that it holding on o something m his pocket, laughed into Drake's went''" he boybovln^the'bed'in the bed asked^ h'"'mcredulously. the cToix de cJIrre?" the "The went." The patient whistled. After a minute when^ II Company nearly fell down he said: And did he come back^" Tn b^fh rhti General kissed him ^ and pinned on the medal. I had an hour off The Rabbit knew he wouldn't " She"Nolooked one thoughtat tL boy he would.in the R.KK-^i Tli and I couldn't beheve my eyes. The bed. You see, she said, all of a sudden he knew he had to live up to his medal. pop out. But he straight- The boy in the bed thought about that and!nS then alluof i a sudden5!," he seemedlookedto shrinkdownagain."at his medal, "^But he already had won his medal." he said, wonderingly But didnt they read the citations? What was it all The nurse agreed. -'Yes." She sat thinking. "A long tfme about? afte^ard, she said, "I was taking care of the Battalion CoS- , The Commander had the citations," said the nurse slowly. But they didn t read them on the field. Just pinned on the nfthat haddalways l' worried him.and Ithe wasseemstellinglhat methesomethingday the medals. And that night they went back to the front and the honors were given he was drunk. Instead of sending in the men m his squad tried to find out what he had done to earn list of citations, he sent m a list of men to be returned to the dug-out and they kept razzing him base because they were such yellow soldiers that thev were and making fun of him and telling him he was a pretty seldom bad for the morale of the men at the front." kind of hero and where had he been hiding all this gallantry The boy in the bed took a cigarette out of the box beside m action, and why had he been holding out on them with his him. lion heart. And they said next time there was a raiding party "Perhaps it was beautiful," be said, frowning, smoking. The Elks Magazine Salt—

and a Dash of Mustard

ii' h •• Ti Arthur H. Folwell

Illustrations by Arthur Crouch

Who throws out thefirst ball is a matter of interest Breasting the Crime Wave to thefans, but what the umpire would like to know is, who threw out thefirst pop bottle? His coming had been swift as a split second, silent as a shadow. a faint odor of "Your rings, quick!" he snarled, crowd witch hazel and a ing her into a corner of the hall. The butt strong one of of his gun had disposed of her escort, who was reeling, stunned, and temporarily out. A gloved and slender hand protruded from the sleeve of her evening wrap and this the bandit seized. He could see and feel the rings beneath. There were many. That hand alone would be a good night's work. "Off with that glove!"' Callous to everything but the spoils of crime, the thief tugged. And then— teen-button glove With a howl of terror, the scream of a over some old man unnerved, he fled. rings. It has a A woman's gloved hand lay, quivering, M handle like a bath- on the floor. ^ ^ brush and I hold Theshoplifterwho carriedaried a babywithbaby with her 't just inside my {Comes an interval oj jive minutes.') on business trips had a Ionshead. If an coat-sleeve. It infant has sticky fingers,2rs, it islikely that must have saved even a grand piano would adhere to the The little that re •otild adhere to the you about ten mains to be told is im little precious'.cious thousand tonight, portant. darling," and she "Is your head heller, made a quick appraisal of a real hand that spar dear?" a soft voice was kled. asking in a luxurious "I wish I could wear a rubber head in this town," apartment. There was remarked her still groggy husband.

T/ie Key to Glory

Once there was a hard-working young actress who made just a living and no more. Her name was Hannah O'Grady. Then one day, in an evening paper, under the head "Theatrical Notes." she saw that a balky typesetting machine had twisted the letters of her name hopelessly. She was, for the moment. Nahhan "^'grado. Did the young actress rage because one of her all too few "press notices had completely disguised her identity? She did not. Well, what did she do? She took the name out to Hollywood and got a swell job in the movies as a lovely imported star, Nahhan Vgrado, from Czechoslovakia. May, 1935 17 T^aradise by Max Brand

Illxistraied by J. Clinton Shepherd

WE came out of the only even that he sun-ftre into the dim down difficulty. He was and healing coolness of the loath to talk though Buck saloon. We had tied our tried him with everything saddle mules beside the long from weather to beef prices watering trough and when I to prospecting. When Buck looked back through the mentioned a rich strike that screen door I could see them hk ^ had recently been made in still drinking with their IBf the mountains, Paradise said: mouths plunged in deep, like I j "Gold, is for the youngsters horses. In the West, even P j with the luck to find it and mules lose their dainty mean & the blood to spend it." I ness and become hearty. Jjfc don't believe he said anything Behind me I heard Buck else before he gave us his Chalmers, my guide, saying m tired smile again and left the in that tone of respectful m saloon. He had a very regular consideration which he usu ^ dignified step as slow as ally reserved for his political wdHi ^ minister walking opinions: "Why, hullo, Para through his dise! It's a real pleasure to When the screen door had see you. I wantcha to meet jingled behind Paradise, Buck a friend of mine by name of looked after him for a long Wayland, here, what is seeing moment, gathering thought some of the country." So I ^nd words that made his long turned towards the bar which moustaches stir before they was unusually long because T f. spoken. He was one end of it served cus i looking towards the tomers of the grocery, gen 1 door as he pushed his glass eral merchandise, hardware, towards the bartender for re- and clothing store. The sense Though I had been of space was very pleasant out with Buck from the dude because all of it was dim and ranch for only eight days, I cool as water except where was already accustomed to the windows opened on the Wf these absent-minded gestures white dazzle of the outer day. of his. They had cost me a A tall man rose from one of good deal of money. the tables in the corner of the 4 jdiiit "And yet," said Buck, /- ^(^9^ "I've seen Paradise light up The red of the sun and ^ town like a rocket. I've the ache of it were not yet seen the day when he knew out of my eyes, so that at ' more congressmen than I first glimpse of the black hat mk '* Ik. A « ^ ever knew cowpunchers. But and the long, dark face, I ^ v ^ ' y Paradise Valley broke his thought I was seeing a young heart. He ain't been half a vaquero, a half-Latin repre- ^VB||^Hrj||||^PH a since then." sentative of the dying ro- I asked if Paradise had mance. Afterwards I knew, been a politician. by something tense about the Downby the creek itin thehe pale of the moonmoon- "He wasn't that big a shine. I found them closelose together, talking crook. He was only a pro mouth and eyes, that he was shine, I Joun em moter," answered Buck. "But entirely American. A close exammation made his youth vanish along with the romance. what, IT, ye seen. With,a stone to hestand wason real.and half I'll tella barrel you He was fifty, and a bad fifty, with sagging pouches under his of whiskey, I ve seen him promote a cross-trail in the desert eyes and slack folds in his cheeks to match them. The into a town with factories and a city hall until the folks in the black of his hat was dusty with time and his bow tie was crowd were fighting to get in their bids for corner lots on merely a string, pulled awry. He was a waste product, a Mam Street. He used to have colored fiags and he'd go about turned out thing, but while the fire was still in him I was sure and poke them into the ground—a blue flag for the post office that he must have been quite a man. Only a fellow of some and a black flag for the jail and always an American flag, parts would venture on bow ties that far west of the Mississippi. big and silky, for the city hall. I've seen him plant the lawn He greeted me with a weary ease of eye and smile and hand, in front of the city hall and grow the palms on it in half an like one who has known the world almost too well. hour; and he could raise a breeze that would stop the sweat When Buck asked him to have a drink, he accepted without from running on your face, and build five hundred miles of enthusiasm. There were three sorts of drink to be had in that railroad with a wave of his hand—yes, and bring in another saloon; whiskey, beer, or whiskey with a beer chaser. I had railroad and make 'em fight for the right of way. a whiskey in small sips to burn the dust out of my throat; "He could turn blow-sand into alfalfa fields and fill long Buck had whiskey and beer; but Paradise had a small beer freight trains with short horns that had the fat dripping off The Elks Magazine their sides. But Paradise was so big that even the whole " 'I see you know Jimmy pretty good,' said Paradise. 'And West got kind of small for him and no matter where he went the other person I want you to get in Roadan is Dolly Tucker.' and raised a crowd, there was sure to be somebody in it " 'She's on the stage singing songs and dancing plumb scan that had broken his teeth long ago on one of Paradise's ideas. dalous,' said I. The spread of Paradise's mind was doggone wide and nobody, " 'She's danced her way into a vacation,' said Paradise. wanted to sit in that kind of a shade and get sunstroke twice. 'You'll find her in Roadan. Tell her that I want her along with So things got pretty bad with him and he decided that he you and Jimmy in the Valley.' would sell the old home place. " 'I don't foller this,' I had to admit. "I mean to say there hadn't been any house on it for a " 'Boy, there's spring in Paradise Valley, just now,' stated hundred years or so but still it was home. You see, the Paradise. 'And Dolly is going to be the spring-song and the na mother of Paradise was a Mexican gal that had inherited tive wood-note wild. Tell her that I'm not taking her off the the last rights of her family to an old Spanish land grant stage. I'm just giving her the whole Valley to act in. I'm and all the last rights amounted to was the ten thousand going to bring in an audience, too, and what that audience acres of Paradise Valley." will want is near to nature's heart. Dolly is going to be part "Ten thousand acres?" I exclaimed, measuring them out of the nature and most of the heart. A calico dress and her in terms of the Berkshire Hills. "I know what you mean," said Buck. "You're thinking hair flowing loosely—' of a fine, rich, green country like this." " 'I've got ^ minutea betterwhileidea.I getThe a breath,'young saidhuntress I. Diana in Indian togs—I mean, a doe-skin shirt white as satin and fitted He waved towards the window. I shaded my eyes to look pretty snug, and a skirt not too long, and leggins, and moccasins out into the sun-glare. The air trembled with the heat. The I was going to say a bow and arrows, but I don't wanta ground and the sun-whitened grass which pricked the sand overcall my hand. An old-fashioned Kentucky rifle for her here and there, quivered with the recoiling waves of light. on would finish off the picture pretty good.' In the distance I saw the sheen of a mirage like the polished Paradise,' said I, 'you sure have me beat. W'hat sort of blue of a sword-blade and almost beyond ken was a wretched ^re you going to show her to?' trio of trees, keeping desperate company. I got a hand-pickcd lot of damn fools in mind,' said he, Buck had swallowed his second whiskey and was half through with his second beer. He licked the foam off his moustaches and parted them with the back of his red wrist. "You got in mind," said Buck, pointing outthewindow again "a good fat grazing country, like this here, but Paradise Valley was another thing. It was ten miles long and a couple wide and the cliffs all bright steel on one side and shining brass on the other. Over the cliffs, the mountains went jump into the sky, with a whoop and a holler. The winds had rubbed them down till they shone even by starlight, like they were made of hard glass. Those mountains were built fast and thev were built high and the only way to get to them out of the valley was up a couple of ravines chuck-a-block with granite boulders as big as your eye would hold without hurting. Only one end of the valley was really open, and that led out onto the desert. •'I mean 'desert' was no name for Paradise. It was the hell-hole of creation. The heat rose out of it so that the buz zards were hoisted a mile high when they flew over I've stood on the rim of the cliff and looked down and seen the dry rocks of the creek-bed in the middle shining like they were on fire and put out my hands to keep the flames from scorch ing my face. "You be minding the look of Paradise Valley when I tell you that I met up with Paradise himself, a few years back and he tells me to wait around till he finishes his poker game' which he does right pronto by holding an ace full and then a straight flush. He stakes those busted cowpunchers a ten spot apiece and comes over to me at the bar. "Then he says that he's been needing me. " 'What for?' said I. " 'To help me sell Paradise Valley/ said he. " 'I'd rather help you sell hell,' said I. " 'Shares in hell would sell right fast in Alaska,' said Para dise. 'It isn^t so much what you have to peddle, it's the fellow you peddle it to. You go and get hold of an eight mule team and a big wagon and hire that half-breed Chinese nigger George Wong, that can make frijoles and bacon taste like quail on toast, and get a couple of tents, and five or six camp cots with good soft, thick springs to put on them, and lay in some fishing tackle, and shotguns, and tell George Wong to fill up the wagon with everything he knows how to cook and lay in plenty of old brandy and whiskey. And down there in ihe town of Roadan you'll find Jimmy Tucker. Do you know Jimmy?' " -He's been in jail loo much for me to get to know him right well,' I said, 'and even when he's out. he's too fast for my eye to follow.'

The Easterners were already knocked cock eyed. but when Jimmy and Dolly blew in, you d better believe they opened their eyes May, 1935 'and while I do the picking, you do the rest. You four get " 'He wants you to come along with me,' said I. 'He's not into the Valley and all of you be brave and strong and innocent crazy but he's got an idea. I'll tell you more about it later on.' and kind of noble. You know. The old pioneer spirit that " 'Well,' said Jimmy, 'I owe a lot to the man that taught made the West what it is today.'" me how to deal Twenty-one with one hand. I'll go.' "Then I went over and hunted up Dolly Tucker. She had such a nice, frank, easy way about her, you wouldn't ever Well,anyway, I wound up down there in Roadan with a think what a dust she'd raised. She knew how to soften up pocket full of the cash of Paradise. I spotted Jimmy Purvis her eyes like Home Sweet Home and many a man decided to in the back room of a saloon sort of sitting and thinking. reform the first time he met her but the next time he was There wasn't many fellows that got drunk enough to play likely to postpone the change. Like they say in the books, Dolly poker with Jimmy. He was a big kind of a young gent with had seen about twenty-five summers, but when I looked at her pale eyes and he done a good deal of smiling. He'd showed his close, I knew that she'd seen a lot more than twenty-five talents right early and people had given him plenty of elbow winters. room ever since. He'd made his mark in the world, all right "I said: 'Dolly, you're wanted by Paradise.' —yes, right on the face of it. When he saw_ me this day " 'Maybe I'm going to travel,' said she, 'but you must have he stood up and says in his deep, soft voice will I sit down mixed up the stations, Buck.' and play a friendly little game? "I had to laugh at her. She was a nice sort of a hardboiled "I said: 'Jimmy, I wanta be your friend because I'd be girl. Across the street, she was as good to look at as I ever seen. scared to be anything else. But I don't wanta go broke, either. " 'I am speaking about Paradise, the man, and he wants I'm just here to talk about Paradise. He says he can sell his you out in his valley with some more of us to make a selling Valley if you give him a hand.' plant. He says that you're to furnish the spring-song and the " 'I never thought that Paradise would ever go out of his native wood note wild.' head,' said Jimmy. 'But the slicker they are the faster they " 'I'll be with him,' said Dolly. 'Anybody that expects me to go when they hit the skids. Nobody could sail Paradise Valley. be those things has got the sort of faith I want to find.' Not to an orphan asylum of the blind. The poor dope has gone "So it was all settled. I loaded up the big wagon with fifty crazy.' And Jimmy more than half meant what he said. kinds of grub, got George Wong drunk {Continued on page 36)

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High and Low A Business Trip through the South American JVilderness •v%:

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I HERE are many treasures on and under the earth's surface but to find them a man must concentrate. I learned that lesson when I sought adventure and profit as a boy, exploring the mountains of my native State for polecat skins. I've learned it all over again in the South American jungles where vast areas are still so little known that a curious man is tempted to wander too haphazardly. Today, however, the treasure I hunt is no longer polecat skin. It is made up of many different kinds—chickle and cassa- reep, the hides of capivara and anacondas and giant lizards, rare orchids, and such weird sounding things as iirali poison, liiari root, hiawa gum and balatd milk. Gold, diamonds, emeralds and oil are the premier treasures—and finding them constitutes the big moments of the march—but their discovery in this equatorial world of tangled swamps and gargantuan mountain escarp ments is highly speculative. A man who makes his living as he goes—as I do- would soon go broke unless he found it possible to derive a steady income from other more constant byproducts. Thus, as I go from the northern Carib bean coast southward, or from the twist ing Amazon northward, I have come to concentrate on everything that can have any economic or commercial value

Top, left: Boats on the rhers of Brazil and Guiana must station a negro like this at the hoia. There he stands ready to jight the treacherous it;aters 'with his (Jianl paddle end keep the boat alfjays headed upstream

Top, right: At the base camp the Carib Indians greet the expedition. The Carih ts chosen as hunter and guide because he is fearless and luilling to lead the treasure hunt through territory occupied by other tribes

Center: "The JVateru^cicjon," manned by 20-odd negro oarsmen, carries the expedition and its hundreds of pounds of supplies into the luilderness. At night the LaVarres sleep on board, while the blacks camp ashore Bottom: The giant canoes must he hauled over shalloivs. Fortunately cannibal fish usually haunt deeper ivaters, hut the going is hard and often camp is made ivithin sight of the previous day's resting place May, 1935

William LaVarre photographs by Ifilltam Lal'arre. Copyrifjht 1934-}5 by LaVarre Brasilian • Guiana bxpcdittoK-

Left: Mrs. Lal'arre and carriers up to their necks in one of the siuamps of the interior. These have to be crossed on foot, for the dense 'vegetation makes boating impossible

Right: When the expedition came to neiv rivers balloon boats

whether it be plant, animal or mineral. Sometimes this results only in much ex pensive sample-collecting — for example, barks or roots which I want to bring out fo" chemical analysis and experimentation. With each succeeding trip, however, this plan is resulting in better business for me. Each year finds me with a larger number of natives engaged in collecting those products which, brought out on some previous ex pedition, were found to have a cash value in civilization. The valuable byproducts of jungle ex ploration are not so scarce as one might think. Old Kaimang, my First-Indian, once had a violent pain in his stomach. But he would not drink my white man's medicine. His companions went out into the forest and brought him the fruit of a guaranambi tree which he ground into a bitter paste and drank with water. The pain ceased. And thus came to civilization a new and very potent base for a pharmaceutical com pound. In a Waiwai village, lost in a volcanic valley that looked like a Maxfield Parrish landscape, there suddenly twinkled at twi light a multitude of bright lights. Swinging from each thatched house was a gourd of heavy liquid, burning brightly from a cot ton wick. "Burning water!" the old chief said proudly. "We have plenty of it!"

Center left: While valuable orchid bulbs y^ere being packed in moss for shipment back to civdization, a $300 bunch of the e^;>s>te flowers ^^as gathered and presented to The White Mistress of the Expedition" Center, right: The Great Kaieteur Falls five times higher than Niagara, ivhere the mighty ^-aters come thundering doivn into the Potaro River gorge. The blacks are vjearing giant native leaves as sun shades In circle: .4 tarantula trapped by the "Death Lotus, a jungle floicer that literally absorbs insects as Us nourishment. The Petals usually close around the victim, but here the venomous spider zvas too large andhe escaped Bottom: The LaVarres and some of their negro earners resting on their climb from the loiL-er jungles to the high interior pene- plan. Thrills galore andincomparable scenery are encountered everywhere on such a trek The Elks Magazine Plenty of it I should say oozing up from a subterranean seepage. Another new source of petroleum was noted upon a topographical map. A group of Macusis Indians beat up the roots of hiari \J trees and threw them into the still water of a dammed stream. In a few moments fish came gasping to the surface. In a few moments more the fish were dead, and hungry Indians sat around a camp fire broiling them on sticks. "That's funny!" I said to myself. "That poison kills fish but doesn't harm the human beings who eat the flesh." So I brought a bale of similar roots out of the jungle and turned them over to chemists. A virulent poison, they have reported—but curiously a poison that will kill fish and in sects and not harm animals or humans! Have you ever had a fine dog die from licking arsenic-loaded flea powder, or a friend who became ill from eating arsenic-sprayed fruit? Well, we will try to fix that. A man who concentrates his attention on the native in- habitants_ quickly learns many secrets which might otherwise escape him. The scientists in our laboratories do not yet know everything. Not one of them, for instance, has been able to discover a formula for hardening and tempering pure copper. Yet 300 years ago the primitive metalsmiths of the Andes knew how to make arrow and spear heads, knives and even razors out of native copper dug from rich Peruvian lodes. A white man who could have eavesdropped on their secret would have left behind him a great fortune for his

Top, left: JVhhe men /« the Top, right: Ant bears are jungle might starve, but na- caught for their skins alone. ti'ves find the game plentiful. Natives ivill not eat the fiesh This hunter has bagged a because they believe it will pacca, deer, bush turkeys and cause the grovjth of a tivo- maams. The pet pelican (left) foot tongue sucii as these cjueer is ready to join in the feast animals have to hunt insects

Center: Negroes panning for Bottom, left: Often diamonds river diamonds and gold. are found in perfect form, The earth is dug out into the sparkling and ivith sharp 'u.-ater, inhere the blacks, pans fudges. Such discoveries are in hand, luash aiuay the gravel greeted by the blacks ivith to uncover at times valuable broad grins, for there's ali^ays golden nuggets arid diamonds a drink of gin in celebration

Bottom, center: Gold nuggets Bottom, right: Mrs. LaVarre, and rough diamonds ushich H'aist deep in the river, in iicere the cream of one exten specting a handful of dia- sive jungle trip. The ten- f'i07ids panned after only a cent piece at the left in the few hours' icork. The prize picture indicates the very con of the collection is a magnifi siderable size of the treasures cently preserved 31-carat gem

h- Top, left: Mrs. LaVarre in Top, center: A very young specting an electric eel, ci crea Jirubu stork making friends ture that not leave a with Mrs. LaVarre. The victim until it is shocked sense nestling ivas tame, l/ut

'^op. right: The explorer's first Center, left: Mr. LaVarre job is to make friends 'with the bartering ivith a native 'wo Indians of the territory in man for the chicken she holds. •Ti'hich he plans to ivork. The In some of the villages men Golden Rule and cigarettes are scarce, so the day's labors usually turn the trick, and make fall on the capable shoulders the going decidedly easier of the tribes' girls and 'women

Center, right: Children of a Bottom: Seated on a turtle primitive tribe cutting a casava shell, Mr. LaVarre discusses cake, 'which provides the main the price to be paid girl por sustenance in the jungle vil ters. Such business must be lages. It sicells 'when mixed carried on nvith the viomen 'with fwater, so most native of the White Indian tribe, the youths have bloated stomachs men of 'which disdain 'work

grandchildren. Some day I hope to emerge from one of my jungle journeys with this priceless secret. When I enter new territory I make a base niost important Indian village. ?so one watchi g ... think I had anything to do but laze around with any aboripnal gossipper who cared to drop in for a few of cigarettes. But I am all eyes and ears. Not an article community use escapes my study. c . „„m I note that this particular tribe burns lumps oi lret gum under their hammocks at night-that the slowly flaming rosin IS fragrant and that not a single mosquito seems to bother them, although they swarm around my own hammock net^ Good. We collect some of this gum and brmg it out to the microscopes and test tubes of civilization. Today,just as i started writing this article, a man wanted to know how m^h of this gum I could sell him during the next five years. His company makes an electrical mosquito repeller, but the com pound which he has been using is distasteful to the human sense of smell and not sufficiently repellent to insects. But it is not all smooth sailing and there are many wild goose chases The hardest month I ever spent was caused by an Indian who told me quite casually that he knew where there were diamonds as big as my head. I had pulled out a few rough diamonds panned from nearby creeks as I was tracing the diamondiferous flow of alluvial gravel. Showing them to him I suggested that I would give him some nice trade goods for similar objects {Conthmed on page 46) The Elks Magazine

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JOSEPH T, FANNING, Past Grand Exalted Ruler and Editor and Executive Director of the Elks Magazine EIGHT NEW CHEVROLETS PURCHASED BY THE ELKS MAGAZINE TO CIRCLE THE NATION Carrying the official invitation to attend the Elks Grand Lodge Convention at Columbus, Ohio, in July,eight new Chevrolets start their mission of Good Will on May 25. Two Chevrolets—a Master De Luxe sedan and a New Standard phaeton—depart from Lowell, Mass. A similar unit of Chevrolets begins the trek from Miami, Florida. Two more units of Chevrolets leave from Sacramento, California—one group heading for Columbus via thePacific Northwest, and another group traveling to the convention via the Pacific Southwest. May, 1935

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EDITORIAL

CHILD HEALTH DAY

AY DAY has a different meaning to different people and in differ- iK K. countries. It is the occasion for various celebrations and demon- strations. But in America, during the last twelve years, it has acquired a steadily growing significance in relation to the health of children; for it is on that date that those who have assumed leadership in the cause have sought to secure special consideration of child health. This is not a movement which is fostered only by zealots or cranks. Thoughtful agencies in all parts of the country have united upon it as one having direct and important relation to the public welfare. It is a matter fmm of peculiar interest to every parent as one affecting the well being of his own child. This year the day has been designated for the special promotion of an anti-diptheria campaign, the ultimate object of which is to stamp out this preventable disease, so fatal to children. Annually thousands of children die from this dread disease; and die needlessly, because they can be made immune to it by a very simple precaution if taken in due time. Parents seem slow to recognize this established fact. Many who do recog nize it fail to adopt the preventive measures because they think their own children are given such watchful care that little risk is involved. Yet a sus ceptible child may contract the disease despite the closest watchfulness. Im munization has proved the only effective safeguard. And even this may be too late when sought only after an epidemic has started. The child health movement is one of such general interest, and the special objective this year is of such obvious importance, that it is deemed appro priate to call attention to it in these columns. Every member of the Order, particularly those who have young children whom they love and desire to protect, should give consideration to the movement and cooperate for its success. It is a matter of self interest; it is also one of community service.

A SMALL WORLD? I expression, "it's a small world," is one of such frequent use, upon occasions when people meet in unexpected places, that it has become a recognized bromide. The fact that modern inven- tions have extended the limits of the contacts and personal activi ties of many thousands is often the basis for the same expression, as indicating how much more completely man's interests cover the whole world. And yet it is a pretty big world to most of us. When we read of some happening in Manchukuo which is stated to have possible international significance, how many of us know just where the event occurred, or what the suggested significance is? How many of us know what character of government China now has, and who is its official head? How many of us can name the Central American Republics, in which our own country has a peculiar interest—much less their respective capitals? How many of us can name the islands in the Hawaiian group, which is under our flag; or correctly designate the location of Puerto Rico; or tell where Guam is? This is not a mere list of questions to test one's intelligence. A person may be extraordinarily intelligent, even well educated, without being able to score a very high mark on such tests. They are suggested because our inability to answer all of them, accurately and fully, will remind us that it is not such a small world upon which we live; and that there is a very large part of it about which we know very little. It would, perhaps, be quite surprising to most of us if we would examine an atlas or globe and note how much of the world there is of which we know practically nothing, even from our reading—which is, of course, May, mS

second hand. Indeed, the great majority of people have real knowledge of only the limited area in which they move and have their business and social contacts. And this is likely to be true for long years to come, despite the increasing speed and convenience of transportation and the development of our facilities for communication. The different peoples of the world, their mental and physical attributes, their agricultural and commercial products, and their modes of life, are not likely to change materially. It isn't such a small world after all.

ELECTIONS AT HAND HE annual elections of officers in the subordinate Lodges are again at hand. In almost every instance they involve a change in the imm official leadership of the Lodge. A new administration assumes control. Entirely new policies may be adopted. These are matters of such importance that they should insure active interest on the part of the entire membership. Unfortunately such a general interest is not always displayed. The election is too often left to the faithful few who attend the meetings and give atten tion to Lodge affairs. How frequently it happens, after an election, that a member will ask one of these faithful few, "Whom did you^ elect Exalted Ruler?" Such an inquirer does not, even in his own thoughts, include himself among the responsible electors. He leaves the duty to others. The constant reiteration of the statement that this indifference should not exist, but that every member should recognize his responsibility to take part in the elections, may seem to be a useless repetition of the obvious. But the continuance of the conditions justifies the continued effort to improve them. If this comment shall prompt only one member in each Lodge to a higher conception of his fraternal duty in the premises, it will prove well worth while. That result would mean one more Elk in each Lodge won to the dis play of renewed interest; and this will likely lead to a continued interest on their part in Lodge affairs generally. It is with such a hope that the reminder is repeated here. Elections are at hand, and each member should participate in those held in his own Lodge.

KEEP LOOKING AT THE GOOD .nl F you stand before a picture whose general excellence strikes you, but which contains one detail which seems to you to be poorly pts drawn or badly colored, you do not thereafter let that one feature destroy your pleasure in the whole effect. If you read a book which is admirably written and which you appreciate and enjoy, but which portrays one character in a manner which you regard as unconvincing, or out of accord with the general plan, you do not thereafter measure the work by its one defect. You retain your appreciation of its merits. Yet how frequently a single personal -attribute is permitted to govern one s estimate of an individual who possesses many splendid traits of character. No one is perfect. Each one of us has some trait, some habit, some peculiarity, which may be regarded as a fault, and which may grate upon the sensibilities of our associates. There is likely to be more than one such irritant in our respective make-ups. But such faults control our attitudes toward their possessors only when we persist in looking too intently at them and shutting our eyes to the many qualities which command respect and affection. Brotherly Love, as an Elk virtue, prompts a member not only to look for the good in a brother but to keep looking at it when it is found, as it assuredly will be; so that the fraternal attitude may not be unduly affected by the inevitable discovery that the brother also has some faults. A friend has been well defined as one who loves us even though he knows all our vices. He is able to do this only because he keeps looking at our virtues inscribed on the tablets of his love, and really writes our faults on the sands which retain no permanent impression of them. A true Elk is such a friend to all his brothers. 28 The Elks Magazine Under the Spreading Antlers News of Subordinate Lodges Throughout the Order

The Pro-America Petitions Are Presented Left: Grand Exalted Ruler Michael F. Shannon addressing, the 299 Elk mem bers of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives as he presented the petition, bearing hundredsofthousandsofsigna tures, advocating his eight-point anti- communist legislative program. Vice-President John N. Garner, who respondedfor the Senate, and Speaker Joseph W. Byrns, who replied for the House, may be seen behind the peti tions. This impressive ceremony was held on the steps of the Capitol on March 26

Grand Exalted Ruler at Meeting of Columbus, O., Lodge The mid-March meeting of Columbus, 0., Right: The petitions Lodge, No. 37, was the best attended of any were delivered by in recent years. Grand Exalted Ruler Michael members of Wash F. Shannon was present, having come to ington, D. C., Lodge. Columbus to meet with the Grand Lodge Vice-President Gar Convention Committee, and staying over for ner, Speaker Byrns the Lodge session and initiation, Many of and Past Grand Ex the officers of the Ohio State Elks Assn., as alted Ruler J. E. well as representatives from 15 Lodges of Mastersare standing the State, were present. to the right of the Mr. Shannon was well pleased with the boxes progress which has been made in arranging for the Convention and with the program that was outlined for him. He was espe cially delighted with the singing of the terests. His record of service in numerous Impressive funeral services were held at Columbus Elks Chorus, whose members fields was exceptional for its diversification Mr, Benfey's home in Sheboygan, with mem rendered for his benefit a number of the and consistency. He was a former State bers of the legal profession, his fraternal selections they will sing during the Grand Senator, Dist. Attorney of Sheboygan Coun associates, and past and present members of Lodge Reunion in July. ty. ."Mderman of the First Ward and Court the State Legislature in attendance. The C. W. Wallace, Secy. Commissioner. services opened with a prayer by the Rev. As an Elk Mr. Benfey held an unusual Father William Elwell, after which repre State Secy. Theodor Benfey record, both in Sheboygan Lodge and in the sentatives of the State Elks Assn. took charge State Association. He joined No. 299 as a of the ceremonies. State officers and others Mourned by Wisconsin Elks charter member in 1895 and was Secy, of who conductcd the Elks Ritualistic Services The recent death of Theodor Benfey, aged the Lodtie in 1901, E.R. in 1902, and again follow: Past Grand Est. Lead. Knight 63, a prominent member of Sheboygan, Wis„ Secy, from 1911 to 1921, From the time of Charles E. Broughton; State Pres. Myron Lodge, No, 299, and Secy, of the Wis, State his affiliation he was a loyal member of the E. Schwartz; State Chaplain the Rev. Father Elks Assn., was a great shock to his com Lodge, attending all important functions and Henry Halinde; State Trustee Arthur J, munity. M-r, Benfey, widely known through serving on various committees. His first Geniesse; Past State Pres.'s William F. out legal, fraternal and political circles of election to office in the State Assn, came Schad and Chauncey Yockey, and E.R. Jacob the Middlewest, passed away at Memorial when he was named as Vice-Pres, In 1911 Federer of Sheboygan Lodge. Hospital, Sheboygan. he was elected State Secy, and served in Father Halinde delivered the funeral ora Although Mr. Benfey was active in the that capacity continuously until the time tion at the residence. Following the service? legal profession up to the time of his fatal of his death, save for one term, 1920-21, the Elks concluded their ceremony at the illness, he found time for many other in- when he held the office of Treas. grave in Wiidwood Cemetery. May, 193S

Order Mourns Past Grand member, had incurred a bill for room rent, Masters of Chicago; Hinkle C. Hays, of Sul cigarettes and telephone calls, and had then livan Lodge, a member of the Grand Lodge Trustee Charles F. 7. McCue disappeared without settling his obligation Activities Committee, and D.D. Wilbur V. The recent death of former Grand Trustee or surrendering his room keys. ' Spafford is Glover of Bedford. Mrs. Masters accom Charles F. J. McCue came as a severe shock carrying a white membership card, No. 667, panied the Grand Secretary, and was a guest to the membership of Cambridge, Mass., issued Jan. 24, 1934, showing dues paid to at the Hays home. The Grand Lodge officers Lodge, No. 839, of which he was a distin April 1, 1934. No other card has ever been were the special guests of the Lodge and the guished and important member. His fellow issued to him. Madison Lodge requests any affair prepared in their honor was the largest members feel his passing keenly. Lodge encountering him to take up his card and most successful staged by No. 911 in Mr. McCue was a life member of Cam as he was suspended from membership for many years. bridge Lodge, and had served as Exalted non-payment of dues on Oct. 1, 1934. A class of 16 candidates, designated as the Ruler, later becoming a District Deputy of E. J. Reese, Act. Secy. "J. Edgar Masters Class," was initiated by the Mass. Central District. His term as the Ritualistic Team of Sullivan Lodge and Grand Trustee of the Grand Lodge ran from III. E. Cent, Dist. Lodges Hold a special musical program was presented by 1918 to 1923, during the last year of which the Lodge's orchestra. Prior to the cere he was Chairman of the Board. As a Grand Inter-Lodge Relations Meeting monies, a dinner was given for the distin Trustee, he rendered conspicuous service in The East Cent. Dist. of III. opened its guished visitors, and the officers and P.E.R.'s connection with the building of the Elks Inter-Lodge Relations program recently with of the host Lodge. The Elks Ban* played National Home at Bedford, Va. a duck dinner held at La Salle. Eight of during the dinner hour and then headed a Among his activities outside Elkdom, Mr. the 10 Lodges of the District were repre parade to the Lodge Home. McCue was a Trustee of the Municipal Hos sented, with State Vice-Prcs. Harry P. Miller At the regular session short addresses were pital, and served on the School Committee presiding. A complete program of Inter- delivered by Mr. Hays and Mr. Glover. Mr. of Cambridge. He was at one time football Lodge Relations for the entire District was Hays, who presided, then introduced Mr. coach of the old Cambridge Manual Train instituted and the various sub-Chairmen ap Masters who delivered the principal speech ing School, now Rindge Tech. At a meeting pointed, The program includes inter-Lodge of the evening. A telegram from Past Grand of Cambridge Lodge, held February 6, in visits, dances, stags and bridge, bowling and Exalted Ruler Joseph T. Fanning was read. memory of Mr. McCue, a glowing eulogy ping pong tournaments. Visitors from the Mr. Fanning called attention to the fact that was delivered by the Hon. John P. Bren- N.E. Dist. included Frank P. White, Exec. the date of the meeting was also that of his nan, P.E.R., and Past Pres. of the Mass. Secy, of the Crippled Children's Commission birthday and he was glad to extend his best State Elks Assn. of III., State Secy. John S. Owen, and Stan wishes to the Lodge and its visitors on the J. J. Hourin, Secy., ley Nelson of Waukegan Lodge. occasion. A Committee was named to send Mass. State Elks Asst. Bcde Armstrons, Correspondent a telegram of felicitation to Mr. Fanning. Waukegan Lodge A social session and luncheon were held Madison, Wis., Lodge Warns later in the Club rooms. Delegations from Order Against Jack P. Spajford Grand Lodge Officers at several Lodges attended the meeting, among Madison, Wis., Lodge, No. 410, reports Sullivan, Ind., Lodge them being Elks from Robinson,. 111., and that it is in receipt of a letter from Fort A crowd estimated at 300 attended a ses Terre Haute, Martinsville, Indianapolis and Smith, Ark., Lodge, No. 341, containing the sion of Sullivan, Ind., Lodge, No. 911, to Bicknell, Ind. mformation that Jack P. Spafford, a former pay tribute to Grand Secretary J. Edgar R. P. White, P.E.R.

The Order Mourns Grand Treasurer James F. Duffy James F. DUFFY, Grand Treasurer elected at Milwaukee in 1933 and again of the Order of Elks, and a distinguished at Kansas City in 1934. He was serving member of Providence, R. I., Lodge, No. in that capacity at the time of his 14, died on Tuesday, April 2, at his home death. after an illness of several months, in his Mr. Duffy is survived by his widow, 65th year. He was a lifelong resident of Mrs. Mary T. Duffy, and a son, James Providence, F. Duffy, Jr. The funeral was held at Born on June 25, 1870, Mr. Duffy was his home, with a solemn high requiem the son of Patrick and Mary (Rogers) mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral. Duffy. He graduated from La Salle Delegations of Elks from all sections of Academy in 1884 and two years later New England gathered with representa completed a business course at Bryant- tives of national officers of the Order and Stratton College. Engaged in business with State and City officials to pay a last for himself until 1919, he had been in tribute. Several hundred members of retirement for the last decade and a half. Providence Lodge formed a guard of Providence Lodge presented Mr. Duffy honor at the Cathedral. Burial took as a candidate for election to the high place in St. Francis Cemetery, Pawtucket, office of Grand Treasurer in 1932, and where the Elks Burial Ritual was read by at the Grand Lodge Convention in national officers and officers of Provi Birmingham, Ala., of that year he was In 1923 Mr. Duffy was elected Trustee dence Lodge. elected. of his Lodge to fill an unexpired term of Among those present to pay honor to Mr. Duffy's career in the Order is a two years. He was reelected Trustee in Mr. Duffy's memory were Past Grand story of admirable service and loyalty. 1925, in 1928 and again in 1931., For Exalted Ruler John F. Malley. Chairman He became a member of Providence many years he was Chairman of the of the Elks National Foundation Lodge in 1907. In 1910 he was elected Board of Trustees. He was appointed Trustees; E. Mark Sullivan, Chairman Est. Lect. Knight, in 1911 Est. Loyal District Deputy for Rhode Island by of the Grand Lodge Committee on Judici Knight, in 1912 Est. Lead. Knight, and Grand Exalted Ruler Edward Rightor in ary; Michael J. Kelliher. Chairman of in 1913 Exalted Ruler. He served as 1916. and in 1919 Grand Exalted Ruler the Grand Lodge Auditing Committee; Lodge Treasurer from 1914 to 1916, and Frank L. Rain appointed him a member Judge Martin J. Cunningham. Past Grand in 1914 he also represented his Lodge at of the Grand Lodge Committee on Cre Est, Leading Knight; Edward W. Cotter, the Grand Lodge Convention held in dentials. At the Grand Lodge Conven former Grand Trustee; Michael H. Mc- Denver, Colo. Even as early as 1913 his tion in Chicago in 1920 he was elected Carron. Past Grand Tiler; John E. Hur record of service was so deeply appreci Grand Est. Loyal Knight, and at the ley, Past Dist. Deputy and former mem ated by Providence Lodge that he was following Convention in Los Angeles, ber of the Grand Lodge Good of the made a life member in token of his sus Grand Est. Leading Knight. In 1932 he Order Committee, and many District tained efforts for its well-being. was made Grand Treasurer, was re- Deputies and Past District Deputies. The Elks Magazine

Trustees. Mr. Maxwell was E.R. of the Lodge at the time the Home was built. During the dinner, which was served by the ladies, a program of music was presented. E.R. F. H. Har, who presided, introduced Roy L. Pell who acted as Toastmaster. Mr. Masters spoke on the aims and purposes of the Order and the scope of its humanitarian projects. Mr. Maxwell's talk was reminis cent. In an entertaining way he recalled to many of the older members happenings of a quarter century ago. Among the other speakers were D.D. John H. Gibson; P.D.D. Dr. J. A. Walser; P.E.R. F. E. Northup, who was one of the mem bers of the Committee in chargc of the building plans 25 years ago; Mayor G. W. Darling; former Mayor C. Conaway; C. H. Kemler, and E.R. Oliver H. Garland of Des Moines, la.. Lodge. The members and guests enjoyed a .=oci-l hour after the speeches. The celebration will be long remembered as one of the most out standing events in the history of tiic Lodge. Frostburg, Md., Lodge Initiates 18 A red-letter night in the history of Frost burg, Md., Lodge, No. 470, occurred when a class of 18 candidates was initiated, bring Speakers and Commtttee in charge of the visit of Grand Exalted Ruler ing to a total of 61 the new members gaincrl Michael F. Shannon to Bridgeport. Conn., Lodge No. 36 on that occa by the Lodge during the past year under the sion. Ih^ are, front row left to right: Arthur Dearden, P.E.R and leadership of E.R, John J. Hafer. A good Trustee of New Yorkl^dge; MayorJasper McLevy, of Bridgeport, Edw. sized delegation was present from Cum F. Nevins, Secy.^ of No. 36; Mr. Shannon. Back row, left to right: berland, Md., Lodge, Xo. 63. A buffet lunch Henry Gree^tetn, Daniel F. W. Hickey, Clifford B. Wilson, P.E.R. was served directly after the ceremonies and of No. 36; Past Grand Exalted Ruler James R. Nicholson; Dr. Philip a social session followed at which the best J. McLaughltn, P.E.R of No. 36,and George Ferrio, Jr. of fraternal feeling prevailed. D. E. Shaffer, P.E.R. Pa. Elks Attend Rally of Sharon, Franklin, New Castle, Greenville, Gov. La Follette of Wis. at New Castle Lodge Butler, Meadville, Warren, Bradford, Titus- ville, Rochester, Oil City, Beaver Falls, Joins Madison Lodge Close to 500 members of almost 30 Elk Corry, Ambridge, Coraopolis, Woodlawn, An outstanding event on the calendar of Lodges in the N.W. Pa. Dist. Assn. and Ellwood City, Grove City, Apollo, Kittan- Madison, Wis., Lodge, No. 410, occurred re points outside, met at New Castle, Pa., re ning, Leechburg, Allegheny, McKeesport, cently when the Hon. Philip F. La Follette, cently and participated in the fifth annual Braddock, New Kensington, Williamsport, Governor of Wisconsin, was initiated at the roundup and reception to Grand Lodge and Wilkinsburg and Harrisburg. head of a class of 41, one of the largest in State officers. From noon until past midnight the recent history of the Lodge. The clas,= the visitors were kept busy. Chartered buses William Welker, Correspondent, Williamsporl Lodge included, in addition to the Governor, Chief and auto caravans brought the various dele of Police William H. McCormick of Madi gations. son, and D. J. Minahan of the Wis. Highway The greater part of the afternoon was Commission, and many well-known business spent in informal meetings and social gather John E. Hurley of Providence and professional men. ings. A banquet was held at six o'clock at Lodge No. 14 Appointed The initiation was a feature of P.E.R.'s The Castleton Hotel in honor of Past Grand Night. D.D. Frank W. Koenig made the Exalted Rulers John K. Tener of Pittsburgh Grand Treasurer evening the occasion of his official visit to and Charles H. Grakelow of Philadelphia, Grand Exalted Ruler Michael F. Madison Lodge. The P.E.R.'s conducted both of whom addressed the diners. J. A. Shannon has announced the appoint the initiation. Both the Governor and Mr, Gormley, Pres. of the Dist. Assn., introduced Koenig spoke. Many prominent members by E.R. C. Leroy Hughes, presided as Toast- ment of John E. Hurley, of Provi of the Order was present on the occasion, master. Remarks were also made by Pres. dence, R. I., Lodge No. 14, as Grand among them Judge W. J. Conway, for Scott E. Drum, Vice-Pres. Frank J. Lyons Treasurer to fill the unexpired term mer Chief Justice of the Grand Forum; and Chaplain the Rev. M. F. Bierbaum, all of the late James F. Duffy who, as D.D. Waiter B. Chilsen and P.D.D. Frank of the Pa. State Elks Assn. P. Mc.Adams. Immediately following the banquet the 60 announced elsewhere in this issue, Sidney M. Schoyen, E.R. guests joined the huge throng of Elks assem died recently at his home in Provi bled in the Home of New Castle Lodge, No, dence. 69, for an initiation ceremony which was the highlight of the program. A class of 84 can Mr. Hurley is a distinguished didates was formally inducted into the Order member of Providence Lodge and a in a session at which E.R. Hughes and his Past Exalted Ruler. He was ap staff of officers officiated. The principal ad pointed District Deputy for Rhode dresses were delivered by Mr. Tener, Mr. Grakelow and Mr. Drum. The evening was Island in 1921 and served as a mem filled with many activities important to the ber of the Grand Lodge Good of the Order in Pennsylvania. A buffet lunch was Order Committee in 1926-27. served in the grill room. Among the prominent Elks who attended the rally were Francis T. Benson, member of the Grand Lodge State Associations Com Dedication Anniversary Observed mittee; D.D, John T. Lyons; State Trustee by Marshalltown, la., Lodge C. O. Morris; Past State Pres.'s John F Nugent and George F. J. Falkenstein; The 25lh Anniversary of the dedication JuliiiH luh'lalcin P.D.D.'s Joseph Riesenman, Jr., Walter C of the Home of Marshalltown, la., Lodge, Sidney Schoyen, E. R. ofMadison, De Arment, Robert R. Risher. and J. G. Boh- No. 312, was observed recently with a dinner Wis. Lodge; Governor Philip La lender; F. L. Bensinger, Secv, of Franklin served to 400 members and their guests, Follette of Wisconsin, who was Lodge, and George W. Wolf of Atlantic including two Grand Lodge officers, and a recently initiated into the Lodge; la., Lodge. ' program of speakers. The Grand Lodge Oswald Neesvig, proposer of Gov officers were Grand Secy. J. Edgar Masters Among the Lodges represented were Hill«- ernor La Follette; and George boro, 0.; Atlantic, la., and the Pa. Lodges of Chicago,and former Grand Treas. Lloyd R. Sayle, P.E.R, who conducted the Ma.xwell, a member of the Board of Grand initiation May, 1935 Westfield, N. J., Lodge Wins Ritualistic Contest A delegation comprised of officers and members of Westfield, N. J., Lodge, No. 1585, recently journeyed to the Home of Freehold, N. J., Lodge, No. 1454, for the State Ritualistic Finals Contest. Competing against the Lodges of Mount Holly, Nutley and Hoboken, Westfield Lodge won State honors, although only Yz point separated the scores of all four Lodges. The winning score was 99.84. In winning the Central Dist. Championship, Westfield Lodge had the distinction of turning in the highest mark of any of the 62 Lodges in the State of New Jersey. The Lodge will hold the State Cup for the coming year, and also gains perma nent possession of a handsome plaque. if An important event celebrated by No. 1585 The officers of Mankato, Minn., Lodge and candidates they initiated was the homecoming of State Vice-Pres. Herbert B. Gould, who is in charge of the to provide Christmas presents for indigent oughness and impressiveness that character Ritualistic work of the Lodge. The Home was families and toys for poor children. In addi ized its exemplification of the Ritual. well filled with prominent Elks, among them tion, the Lodge carried on its own charity Previous to the initiation ceremonies, a State Pres. Richard P. Hughes; State Vice- work, which included the purchase of coal, chicken dinner was served at two long tables Pres.'s Harvey E. Harris, Albert O'Hare and food and other necessities for deserving in the basement dining room, recently Nelson A. Pomfret; D.D. Edward L. Grimes; persons. equipped by the Lodge for such occasions. Past State Pres.'s George L. Hirtzel, John H. On February 22, No. 76 observed the 57th A. R. Lucas, Secy. Cose and Charles Wibiralski, and many Anniversary of its founding with the cus other past and present officers of the New tomary party at the Lodge Home. P.D,D. Andrews of Lawrenceville, Jersey branches of the Order. Walter J. Campbell, Correspondent III., Lodge, Initiates Son For the second time within six months, News of Delaware, Bethlehem, Pa., Lodge Praised Lawrenceville, 111,, Lodge, No. 1208, has en O., Lodge for Patriotic Activity joyed the rare pleasure of having a father The charity fund coffers of Delaware, 0., initiate his son into the Order. At a recent Bethlehem, Pa., Lodge, No. 191, was re- meeting, E.R. C. E. Duff yielded his gavel Lodge, No. 76, were recently enriched by cently commended by the Bethlehem Cham to P.D.D. T. L. Andrews so that he might several hundred dollars when the receipts ber of Commerce for the stand it has taken from a minstrel show and revue spon confer the Degree upon his son. The Lodge regarding the circulation of Grand Exalted work, as well as the dutch lunch which fol sored by the Lodge Glee Club were poured Ruler Shannon's petition for signatures look lowed the session, was enjoyed by a fine into them. The cast of the show included ing to the arrest of any citizen or alien more than 100 persons, both Elks and non- turnout of members. advocating the overthrow of the Govern Dr. C. E. Duff, E.R. Elks. The performance was presented in ment The Directors were pleased that the the Willis High School and was directed by ei-'ht-point legislative program of the Elks, John Hutchings of the John B. Rogers Pro as contained in the communication, was P.E.R.'s Night Observed ducing Company. The officers of Delaware along the lines of a pamphlet sent out by by Ashland, Ore., Lodge Lodge believe that the inclusion of non- the trade body to its members. Ashland, Ore., Lodge, No. 944, recently members in the cast, as well as the charitable J. G. Thvmm, P.D.D. obscrved_ its P.E.R.'s Night with a party aim for the proceeds, will go far toward which did much to stimulate the activity uuildmg good will for the Lodge. of the members. A large crowd was in at Last winter the Lodge turned over a large Silver Anniversary Celebrated tendance to see the P.E.R.'s preside over the portion of its charity fund to the Women's by Oregon City, Ore., Lodge regular session, and to partake of beer and pristian Union Fund, to which it was the Oregon City, Ore., Lodge, No. 1189, cele refreshments. After the meeting a social largest contributor. The money was u^ed brated its Silver Anniversary recently with session was enjoyed, during which the Elks a banquet and evening's entertainment. In joined in singing old-time songs to the ac nreoarin'' the celebration, the Lodge officers companiment of the Elks Band. mailed invitations to all present members Among the P.E.R.'s scheduled to sit in the and also to those who had at one time been chairs of office were H. C. Sparr, E. T. Sta on the rolls. The resultant attendance was ples, Dr. F. G. Swedenburg, J. M. Wagner, the largest ever witnessed by the Lodge. Of A. C. Nininger, D. Perozzi and A. G. Living- the 24 living charter members, 11 were ton. Five of them are charter members. nresent Interest was so great that plans are being made to make the occasion an H. G. Enders, E.R. annual homecoming event. F. H. McAnnlly, Correspondent Atlantic City, N. J., Lodge Celebrates 41st Birthday Under the auspices of the Activity Com Quincy, Mass., Lodge mittee, .Atlantic City, N. J., No. 276, cele Bows to P.E.R. s brated its 41st Anniversary by staging an PE R's Night was celebrated by Qunicy, Old Timers Night which was thoroughly Mass 'Lodge, No. 943, recently, bringing out enjoyed by members both old and young. a large number of the older members. A At its regular meeting on March 20, the buffet lunch was served. Thisthoroughly en- first hundred members whose names arc iovable affair was followed by vaudeville now on the roster were honored and each acts from the ERA, the program bemg pro was presented with an appropriate token in vided by the State Administrator. recognition of long and faithful service. The group included those in good standing who High Officials Honored at were initiated during the period of 1894- Frankfort, Ind., Lodge 1911. Delegations from Lebanon, Tipton, La During the course of the evening Dr. Fayette and other nearby Lodges partici- Edwin H. Coward, E.R., called on various nated in a meeting held by Frankfort, Ind., members for brief speeches, among them Lodge, No. 560, in honor of Grand Secre being P.E.R. Harold A. Brand; City Com tary J. Edgar Masters of Chicago; William missioner William F, Casev, Trustee, and C Groebl of Shelbyville, Secy, of the Ind. Director of Public Safety William S. Cuth- State Elks Assn., and Ollie M. Berry of Leb bert, who was initiated Oct. 26. 1904. Fol anon, D.D. for Ind. Cent. More than 200 lowing the meeting a buffet supper was Speakers at the dedication cere memijers of the Order assembled in the served in the attractive grill of the Lodge monies held by Idaho Falls, Ida., Lodge room to witness the initiation of nine Home. Atlantic City Lodge has occupied its Lodge on Washington's Birth candidates by the ail-State Champion De new Home on the Boardwalk for a year. day, when Salt Lake City, Utah., gree Team of Frankfort Lodge. The Team Harold L. Wertlieinier, Est. Loyal Knij^ht Lodge visited Idaho Falls came in for many compliments for the thor {Contimced on page 44) 32 C The Elks Magazine

A class initiated into Junction City, Kans., Lodge recently, with officers of Manhattan, Salina and Junction City Lodges in the background Central Edition This Section Contains Additional News of Central State Lodges

Officers of Southern Ohio Yankton, S. D., Lodge Conducts Inter-Lodge Relations program serves to ac quaint the Elks of the District with one Lodges Meet at Middletown Ping Pong Tournament another and results in an enthusiastic spirit Officers of 14 Southern Ohio Lodges at Yankton, S.D., Lodge, No. 994, recently of cooperation. tended a recent meeting of the Rehabilitation sponsored an Elks Ping Pong Tournament A. W. Lucier, Secy. Committee of the S.W. Dist,, held at the with 45 entries. Two regulation tables were Home of Middletown, 0., Lodge, No. 257. set up in the basement of the Home. They 20'Year Members Entertained The visitors were welcomed by E.R. John are now regularly equipped and in daily use. K. Maurer. Past State Pres. Ernst Von Dr. D. E. Wynegar, Organist of the Lodge, by La Crosse, Wis., Lodge Bargen, Dist. Delegate from Cincinnati is Chairman of the Committee, and to him At a meeting attended by 150 Elks, La Lodge, No. 5, presided. in a large measure goes credit for the success Crosse, Wis., Lodge, No. 300, entertained all Among the distinguished Elks who spoke of the venture. Much interest was aroused of its members of 20 years' standing. D.D. at the meeting were James S. Richardson, during the tourney, which lasted two weeks, Frank W. Koenig of Waterlown was present Chairman of the Board of Grand Trustees; the finals being attended by a large gallery on the occasion to make his official visit, and D.D. Kent Browning; State Pres. William of enthusiastic fans. the affair was a huge success in every way. G. Campbell; State Treas. William Petri; The 20-year roster contains many important The finals involved winning four out of P.D.D. Charles E. Buning; E.R. Jacob Kroll- names. mann, Jr., of Cincinnati Lodge, and P.E.R. seven sets, the matches leading up to the L. T. Palmer of the host Lodge. finals being three sets out of five. The finals La Fayette, Ind., Lodge D. R. Jones, Secy., were played between W. D. Alf and Chester Middletown Lodge R. Binder, the former winning four to two. Holds P.E.R.'s Night A silver loving cup was presented to Mr.Alf. More than 200 were present when La Former Chaplain Mourned by The event is to be made an annual one on Fayette, Ind,, Lodge, No. 143, held its An the Lodge's calendar. nual P.E.R.'s Night. Grand Secy. J. Edgar Moline, III., Lodge Secy. L. A. Reither, Correspondent Masters was the guest of honor. A dinner Moline, 111., Lodge, No. 556, mourns the was given for the nine candidates who were loss of a revered and much-loved member, initiated on that evening. Many visiting H. S. Fristoe, who was at one time Chaplain D.D. V. G. Croessmann Honored Elks from Frankfort, Logansport, Lebanon, of the Lodge, and who was always ready, by Murphysboro, III., Lodge Crawfordsville and Greencastle Lodges were after giving up his office, to serve whenever present at the regular meeting. the regular Chaplain was absent. In ap Honoring D.D, V, C. Croessmann of 111. preciation of the flowers sent to the funeral, South, Murphysboro, 111., Lodge, No. 572, A successful plan for creating interest in the following letter was received by the served dinner recently to 225 members and Lodge attendance has been developed in La Lodge from Mr. Fristoe's sister, Sidney initiated a class of 17 candidates. The meet Fayette Lodge. Prizes are donated by local Fristoe: ing was attended by the E.R.'s of Herrin, merchants and interested members of No. "I wish to thank the Moline Lodge of Elks Carbondale, Du Quoin and West Frankfort 143. They are advertised in the Lodge bul for the beautiful spray of flowers with which letin and then awarded those who earn them they expressed their sympathy at the time of Lodges. The South Dist. of 111. has been my brother's passing. coming to the front noticeably of late. The by attendance in the Lodge room. "The Elks I.odge and Club meant very much to him during his last years. He lived a strenuous business life for many years e%'ery day beiiiR a strict routine that took every moment of his time and which was very interesting to him. After his retirement from the railway service, his life would have been very dull and uninteresting had he not worked out for himself another program in which he could carry out some activity which afforded him interesting occupation. 1 think his old friends at the Elks Club realize fullv how he did this and how much the Club meant to him It is a fine fraternal Order which can offer such companionship and comfort to its aKincr members, as well as congenial comrade

More than 2,000 young.sters who were guests of Minot, N. D. Lodge at a circus performance. The circus, lasting a week, was sponsored by Minot Lodge for the benefit of its Crippled Children's Fund 34 C The Elks Magazine

Members and candidates who recently attended an initiatory meeting of Augusta, Kans., Lodge

Large Class Inducted into Fifty-three Candidates Initiated Atlantic, la., Lodge Augusta, Kans., Lodge into Mattoon, III., Lodge Honors Its E.R. Augusta, Kans., Lodge, No. 1462, recently Mattoon, 111,, Lodge, No. 495, brought to In appreciation of his achievement in initiated 50 candidates in the largest class a close an extended membership campaign bringing in SO new members and in paying ever admitted into the Lodge. The members with a ceremony which brought in 53 new the sum of $3,000 to be applied on the were honored on the occasion by the pres members. The prize-winning Ritualistic Team Lodge's indebtedness, the members of At ence of Grand Est. Loyal Knight H. Glenn of the S.E. District, that of Champaign lantic, la.. Lodge, No. 445, have voted a Boyd of Wichita Kans., Lodge, No. 427, who Lodge, No. 398, initiated the class. Every life membership to E.R. Byron Jones. The was accompanied by Jack Ringo, Roscoe Lodge in the District was represented and motion to reward Mr. Jones was sponsored by C. S. Brown at a meeting and voted on by secret ballot. A large crowd was present.

Membership Gain Shown by ^ t 1% f f I f % ^ V, Mendota, III., Lodge Mendota, III,, Lodge, No. 1212, brought « f s f f f ^ n's 5 f 16 new members into the Order recently through the concerted efforts of the P.E.R.'s of the Lodge. Under the direction of P.D.D. D. M. Lotts, the 16 applications were written and presented to E.R. O. J. Ellingen as a special year-end gift to him, together with a certificate of appreciation for his services signed by each P.E.R. of the Lodge. On the occasion of the initiatory ceremony, Past Candidates initiated into Mattoon. III., Lodge'and officers pictured with Grand Esquire Henry C. Warner, former them member of the Grand Lodge Committee on Judiciary, delivered a splendid address ap propriate to the occasion. State Secy. John Hanna and Robert Quick, fellow members. the attendance exceeded 200. The principal S. Owen was also present and spoke. Since April 1, 1934, Augusta Lodge has initi speaker of the evening was Col. J. C. Dallen- Mendota Lodge finds itself with approxi ated 62 new members and reinstated 13, and bach, Past Pres. of the III. State Elks Assn. mately 400 members this year, representing at the time of writing had live additional An Elks Luncheon Club, which meets twice a gain of 105% in membership over 1933, candidates waiting for initiation. each month, has been instituted by Mattoon with another normal gain over 1934. One Richard W. Johnson, E.R. Lodge. Guests are invited and the Club is H. O. Mayjgold, Secy. hundred and thirty of these members are in meeting with marked success. the Lodge's Bowling League which is made Dr. A. A. Jaffe, Chairman, up of 26 teams. Even the ladies of No. 1212 Pratt, Kans., Lodge Prepares Membership Committee bowl—30 of them. for State Convention in May Pratt, Kans., Lodge, No. 1451, has been busy for some time preparing for the recep tion and entertainment of delegates and vis itors to the Convention of the Kans. State Elks Assn, to be held in Pratt May 12, 13 and 14. Pratt Lodge is now in e.vcellent financial condition and owns its Home free of debt. Twenty-six new members have been initiated during recent months and 21 former mem bers reinstated. -Activities in the Lodge Home are considered responsible for the noticeable pick-up in interest displaved by the membership. Under E.R. O. K. Stewart one of the best Degree Teams in the State has been developed. The Team is planning to make the trip to Columbus, O., in July to participate in the Grand Lodge Convention. Forest E. Link, Secy.

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and threw him on top of the load. Then There was birds to look at and birds to eat. days was gone forever. But I was wrong. we drove across the desert and up through There was a river of ducks and geese pouring If this can be found in the West, then every the gap into Paradise Valley. down out'of the sky to hit that water, and man in the country ought to have a glimpse "Well, I wouldn't of known the place. shags and divers and willet. There was mag of a noble truth. In the fresh and clear air You know spring and summer and autumn, pies talking and blue jays sassing the little of the West, in the pioneer atmosphere of— on the desert; are crowded into a couple of birds and bobolinks singing from the yuccas er—of—' weeks in April, every three or four years and redbreasted robins and blackbirds and "He bogged down about there but nobody when it rains. The years in between are all moclung birds that sang till you tasted the noticed, because the engineer got under sail sand and waiting, but now and then the music on the back of your tongue; but most and made the talking for a while. desert blooms. This was blossom time in ly there were the humming birds off the "In the meantime, I was passing dinner Paradise Valley. desert-—winking around like patches of sun around to the guests, and talking very "The first thing that hit us, that evening, shine in rain—^jumping into your eye and deferential to Paradise—and saying—while was the sound of running water and it scared out—crowding five summers into two weeks I shoveled three pounds of roasted duck onto us. I thought I must have a touch of the and never missing a lick. And did we eat? the banker's plate, that Paradise was one of sun. We drove towards the noise. It grew Yes, we did eat! And just to make sure we the most honest men on the range. I may louder and then I saw the creek half full of had plenty of fresh mutton, a mountain burn an extra thousand years for having water, running the sunset gold down towards sheep came out on the edge of a cliff and said that, all right. But all the while I was the desert. It was clear water, sweet water, admired the valley and waited for me to waiting for Paradise to start his selling talk. snow water that frost-bit your lips when drop him off his porch in the sky. I'd heard him many a time wash the clouds you drank it and the mules kept soppmg it white and blue 'em in the sky; I'd heard up all day like beer. And by the jumping him lift the mountains and plant the trees thunder, when I looked around Paradise Then one evenirtg, about the right time, and grow them till they cast a shade; but I I heard a wasp drone over my head, but it Valley, I thought the whole place was un reckoned now I would get the finest earful derwater and the sunset reflecting in it, was too high to be a wasp. So I looked up I ever had found. and saw a monoplane swimming in the sky "Brother, I was wrong. Paradise was an blue and yellow, and violet, and green you like a goldfish in a gilded bowl. It came could look miles into, and plenty of red artist, and he'd piled so many effects onto scattered by handfuls. Then I saw that gold down not far from our smoke and out of it his stage that he didn't need to speak many stepped Paradise and the pilot and a banker was dripping off the lips of the cliffs and I lines. knew that that must be lluvia d'oro and that and a congressman and a civil engineer and "He just waited till the good hot coffee the color on the valley floor was no reflection just a plain damned rich man's son that was was passed around along with a jug of but just the blooming of five springs and the best of the lot. brandy—and none of the blockheads seemed summers and autumns that were all being "They stood around as though they didn't surprised to find brandy of 18S7 in a four crowded into a pair of weeks. Well, sir, it see us. When they came into the camp, they quart jug!—and then Paradise stood up and was a thing that fed you without eating. It were stepping high, wading through the color swept his hand around at the day that was made you laugh like you were hearing funny as though it were water knee deep. ending and the stars that was coming, and stories. The four of us just looked at each "Doggone me if I'm not sort of ashamed he says, simply: other and laughed. That's all we done. We of the things that those fellows met up with "'Gentlemen, you see it for yourselves; just laughed and laughed like a pair of fools. when they come into the camp. I mean, but I have to sell. I am land poor. Here There was poppies and violets growing there there was the ringing sound of an axe and I have ten thousand of the finest acres I in Paradise Valley, by God, and primroses, the deep baritone voice of Chuck Chalmers ever saw; but I'll sell it for twenty dollars too, or I'm a liar, and baby-blue-eyes, and —which I mean I could always sing a little, an acre.' verbena, and every doggone thing and a lot in those days. And when I see the strangers, what I wouldn't know the name of. And I drop the axe and come to the folks in a the mountains that was built so big to keep doggone outright, manly way, with the flat Twenty dollars an acre for a place that of my doggone honest hand held out to them. even the buzzards hated to fly over? A sort man from looking into that hell-pot, they of a cramp got hold of my heart and froze were up there now to keep the rummies and And I make 'em welcome. Me and my party had just happened along and was camping it dead still while I waited for one of the the dummies and the fools from getting in tenderfeet to bust out laughing. And then and footmarking the floor of God's prettiest in Paradise Valley, d'you see, when Paradise himself come down out of the sky with his the banker said through a mouthful of roast place on earth. duck—he was still feeding when the rest "'Have we been hypnotized, or is it real?' airplane loaded with suckers. were drinking—'What did we pay for that said Jimmy. "By the time the tenderfeet were getting located, there comes a yell out of the twi new addition to the golf course out home, "'How does it look to you?' I asked, Henry?' rubbing my eyes. light and then the galloping hoofs of horses "The rich man's son said: 'We got it for "'It looks like a royal flush in a million and here comes Jimmy, taller and nobler than anything outside of prison and the less than three hundred an acre.' dollar game,' said Jimmy. 'But where's the "'Twenty dollars?' said the banker. 'I'll gal going?' pioneer days, with a rifle balanced across "Dolly Tucker had slipped off the wagon the pommel of his saddle, and the quarters give you my check for the entire layout!' of a deer hitched onto it. And just ahead "I kind of found my brain staggering like and picked her hands full of flowers and now a horse on three legs and all the landscape she went walking away towards the sunset of Jimmy, sashayed Dolly Tucker in deer as though she had some place to go. skins and innocence with her chin pointed lifted and fell in waves. " 'She's just takin' a stroll back into the at the evening star and her lovely golden " 'Is that so?' said the congressman, speak ing cold and small. 'I think we'll all have good old pioneer days,' said I. 'Come on hair—she put the gold on it out of a bottle and pitch camp.' every day—streamin' out over her shoulders. a chance to share in this, Preston. Even if "Now I want to tell you that the Easterners you manage to speak first!' were already knocked pretty well cockeyed by " 'I rather think we won't be shouldered When I woke up the next morning I saw the kind of things they'd found in my camp out,' said the rich man's son. And he looked twenty little runs of water dropping over already—the smell of roasting duck being ace at the gold of Dolly's hair. the cliffs into puffs of spray and the wind high among the effects—but when Jimmy "Paradise said: 'The offer is open to all walked away with the shine of them; and and Dolly blew into the place carrying the of you, gentlemen. I don't want you to be the mules were remembering the desert and spoils of the chase, as the banker called in a hurry. I want you to take your time. freezing themselves up to the knees in the them, you better believe that they opened Look over the place carefully. The Valley creek and drinking; and I looked at George their eyes. They were hit so hard that they has been in my family for a long time. Wong and George looked at me and we just couldn't speak, hardly. I must say that Besides, I've more than half promised to laughed. So did Jimmy, and then stopped Dolly Tucker and all that gold beside the show it to a rich friend of mine in Denver—' and stared at Dolly. She was forgetting her camp fire was easy to look at. And her "Here the rich man's son said: 'The pair coffee and just sitting there with her eyes being simple and sweet was thicker than a of them look pretty thick. Engaged, maybe?' wide open. knife could cut, but it went down like candy. "He nodded toward Jimmy and Dolly "Wegot up the camp in a right good place I recollect her setting on the ground with where the creek had filled up a hollow a Tucker, who were fading out into the night, quarter of a mile across with a little green her arms around her knees and her head side by side. throwed back, as she smiled up to the con " 'No, no! Just old friends,' said Paradise. i-sland in the center looking at itself in the gressman and drank down the story of his "A minute later, he got a chance to step water. Wehad everything laid out and going life. Every man of the bunch of them fine, though we had to spend a lot of the on my toe and say: 'Go fetch in that wanted to pour some more of the same sort chuckleheaded Jimmy and his golden gal. time looking around because the ground was of brew for her. And I heard the banker living under us and the air was alive, too. This play ain't over till the last line is say: 'I thought the rough beauty of the old {Continued on page 38) May, 1935

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THE OF A GOOD TAIL The Elks Magazine {Contbuied from page 36) But the rich men were mighty nice and easy wrote by fountain pens in check books; and and good natured with all of us. Dolly and Jim are a main part of the show.' "I remember the big evening. I strolled out and went hunting for the two "It was at coffee time, and the son of the of them and found them down by the creek millionaire had just said: 'These days are in the pale of the moonshine, because a worth it. We should have known that cash crooked old sickle of a moon was lying on can't buy heaven.' its back on top of Mount Chester. They "The engineer spoke up. He looked like had their heads close together, talking. Mat a cross between a bulldog and a long-necked ter of fact, they'd been getting more and buzzard. He had no more lung space than more friendly all the time since we left a rabbit and that big, flat, bony face of his Roadan. never showed what was in his mind. " 'Listen, bozos,* I said, coming up to "He saicl: 'Maybe we've bought heaven, them, 'those suckers back there ain't buying after all—if this is what you call heaven. Paradise Valley, only; they're laying in a The only thing the valley needs is water. supply of the old romantic West. Have you It's true that it only rains here every few V forgotten that you're the pioneer days? Go years, but each spring when the snow melts back and do your stuff!' a flood comes down through the crcek. I've "Jimmy stood up and braced back his studied the water marks in the ravines. shoulders. He said in a quiet sort of a Boys, all we need to do is to build two way: 'I think I should do exactly that!' cheap dams and we'll have enough water "There was something about it that I to irrigate Paradise Valley from one end to didn't like, I can tell you. There was a 'till the other. If you fellows don't want to go death do us part' sort of a sound to Dolly's in on it, I'll do it all by myself. And I'll voice. Anyway, I drifted a little back of the put Jimmy in charge of the plant as soon pair of them as they wandered slowly back as he's married Dolly Tucker.' to the camp fire. When a girl like Dolly, with her eyes wide open, gets dizzy about a fellow who lives on dice, gunpowder, and That was the way the idea started. A SHE: the rattle of cards, you never can tell what day or two later, the millionaires flew away will happen. in their airplane and took Dolly and Jimmy "The millionaires were sitting around en- with them. I trekked back in the wagon Joying the gallon of old brandy and smoking along with George Wong, and he was drunk long cigars; they all looked up at Dolly and all the way. welcomed her back into the landscape. She "It was about a year later that I saw HE: didn't smile at them. She said; 'You'd better Paradise away down in Tombstone. Mind tell them everything, Jimmy.' you, he had paid me my split of the loot "You're ^ "I took three steps deeper into the night long before, by mail. and looked around, but there was no sign "When I saw him, he had a lost look in ^^^overed^c^.^' ^^ttyt j' of Paradise. his eyes like somebody whose horse has died "'•ppio/p.l;;:: the day before the race. |||How are things?' I asked. I STILL drifted away from the fire, but I 'Broke as usual,' he said. could hear Jimmy saying in a big voice: ^You've been spending fast, then,' said 1. 'Gents, you're being sold. Paradise Valley " 'I got to promoting an invention,' he is usually a hell-hole. It rains here once said, 'and after I built the factory I found every five or seven years. It's usually hotter out that the patent was no damned good. than a frying pan. Even the coyotes hate Rut listen: Have you heard the news? to cross Paradise Valley for fear of burning They're having the first anniversary of Para the soles of their feet. The fellow who's dise Valley, in a couple of days. Why not trying to sell you this layout is the slickest crook in the West; Buck Chalmers is his What^ have"P therethey beenwith ableme?' to do there left hand; I'm a card and gun man; and intone year?' said I. Dolly Tucker is just off the vaudeville stage.' "'They finished the dams six months ago,' "I noticed that the only man who rose said Paradise. 'And they've been growmg out of a trance was the rich man's son. He for half a year. Let's go see.' stood up and said: 'Jimmy, thanks a lot. So we went up to see. But we've just signed the papers and given But we didn't travel by mules and wagon, our checks. You're five minutes too late! crawling over the de«ert There was a couple But no matter what you've been, you're of ribbons of steel stretched all the way to honest now!' the Valley, and trains running regular and "He went right over and shook hands carrymg big loads, Quite a crowd had poured with Jimmy and Dolly. into the Valley before we got there, but the "Well, it was true. Paradise was gone, traui that carried us in was pretty well He faded out of the valley. It was a long loaded, too. time before I saw him again. It was one we come in through the mouth of 1007. KENTUCKY WHISKEY of the neatest jobs I ever heard of. He the Valley it was like stepping into the thick, cleaned up two hundred thousand on a piece damp air of a greenhouse. And that's what of land that wasn't worth ten cents! It was—a greenhouse, I mean, out the wm- "The queer thing was that the rich hom- dows we saw the sands of Paradise checked SHIPPING PORT bres didn't clear out right away. They said with irrigation ditches into square fields and that they'd paid fifty thousand dollars apiece right and left were millions of little almond for their vacation, and they spent a few days and walnut trees with their trunks white SS 100 PROOF eating our grub and fishing in the creek and washed, as neat as any cemetery you ever shooting. They even began to say that they seen. There were orange groves beginning THE BEST were getting their money's worth out of the to take root, and lemon trees, and miles and trip—that's what big shots they were—and miles were laid over with the green of alfalfa STRAIGHT only the engineer snooped around among the standing high enough to cut already. rocks at the head of the valley where the WHISKEY 1 didn't say nothing. Paradise didn t say two feeders came into the valley and never nothing. CSmppiNG Po'rt") AT SO LOW gave himself any fun at all. "When the train stopped and we got off "I kind of was amused by the slickness of at the station. Paradise grabbed me by the A PRICE Paradise and the way he had had those tenderfeet. It wasn't the sort of thing you arm and hung on. It you prefer Rye,ask could laugh at; it just slowly soaked through _ Chuck,' he said, 'we've walked into the for Wolf Creek, a fine you and made you smile the rest of your middle of a mirage. Close your eyes and Maryland straigftt It 11 all disappear.' life. But the two things that wiped out that "I closed my eyes and opened them, but Rye whiskey. inside smile of mine was the dead game the picture was just the same. In one year Made by Frankfort sports those millionaires showed themselves theyd not only bui't a fine little town at Diseillcries of Louisville, to be and the way Dolly and Jimmy were the end of it, with a post office and corner Ky. and Baltinjore, Md. acting up. They were dead serious and sad saloons and everything, regular and com America's largest hidepeiiiieitl distHUrs You would have thought that the two hun dred thousand had landed in their pockets fortable, but the streets were all paved as smooth as the top of a table. May, 1935

"We wandered towards the music that was in the air. BORIS KARLOFF "On one corner, Paradise stopped me and pointed, suddenly, at a big square brick Born in Duhvich, England Rosefrom building that had a fine stone trimming at mob-scene extra in 1918 to stardom.— the top, and all bay windows, and you could look through them at a lot of shining desks. tuith Universal—in 1932. Now playing Over the entrance brass letters said: in "The Bride of Frankenstein." Has smoked Union Leader since 1930. '"The James Purvis Real Estate Company.'

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"Four hundred dollars an acre for blow- sand! "After a while Paradise was able to walk this on again, but his eyes had a queer, distant look in them, and I knew that he was multiplying ten thousand by four hundred. Yes, the four rich men had spent a lot of money making the dams and building the tobacco town and checking the country with ditches, but when they got through with their ex penses, they only had to sell off a fraction against all your of their holdings to cover all the costs. The railroad would build on invitation just for the sake of tapping so much business. And fancy pipe mixtures so everything went like a dream. "Well, in the middle of the town there was a square, and in the middle of the square there was a bandstand, and right in the mid WHETHER you buy dle front of the bandstand was our four rich men sitting alongside of their drinks and fancy pipe mix fanning themselves, dead comfortable. "And the whole square was full of people tures, or any other kind, when the music stopped and up stood big Jimmy Purvis—and Dolly Tucker Purvis was it's the tobacco that on the stand not far away from him. "Purvis started out: 'Ladies and gents, counts, not the price! one year ago today, an airplane bearing four men of large minds and big bank ac And I've never found counts dropped out of the sky—' anything that smokes I LEAVE out the rest of what Jimmy said, because only bits of it stuck in my mind. finer or mellower than I was sort of dizzy. I leaned against Para dise, and Paradise leaned against me, while the old Kentucky Bur- Jimmy went on to tell how the valley would be ripening cantaloupe and watermelon while ley in Union Leader, It's the rest of the country was still in flannel underwear. He talked about the dome of got everything—smooth the courthouse, the columns of the post of ness, aroma, flavor. And fice, and the long-haired palm trees on the courthouse lawn. that dime price saves "Then Jimmy spotted Paradise and pointed to him; and pretty soon a dozen pairs of me money every day! hands had grabbed Paradise and shoved him up onto the bandstand. Doggone me if all (Great incigarettes, too.) of those four rich men didn't come and shake hands with him, and so did Jimmy © p. Lorlllard Co. Inc. and Dolly. "Jimmy shouted: 'Now, ladies and gentle men, we're going to hear a few words from a man who made all this possible, who gave his name to this valley, and the valley gave UNION LEADER a name to him, a man standing here beside me who out of the bigness of his heart sold this land for twenty dollars an acre—' "The speech got no farther. It bogged down right there because every man and woman in that big crowd all at once must of thought of the four and five hundred an acre that Paradise Valley was selling for just then; and they all began to whoop and roar and laugh and yell to Paradise that he was a philanthropist, And the whole band was laughing, and some of them did their laugh ing through the brass horns, and the drum mers beat thunder up, and it was like a whole army cheering. And Paradise just stood up there like a man in a trance, and finally he got down off the stage and went away with me. "We got to the nearest drink and poured {Continued on page 40) the great AMERICAM SMOhE The Elks Magazine

(Continued from page 39) "Since then he never prospered none. He it down, though it didn't do, me much good. seemed to lose his taste for things. He "'How did you feel, up there?' I said to dropped ten years the way you might drop him. ten cents. He always looks like he's about THE ELEPHANT "He still had a far-away look in his eyes to say something and then decides that it's and he made a big gesture, very slowly. 'I not worth while. I've had him in a restau seen the palm trees ori the court-house rant where he could order anything up to never/forgot/ lawn,' said Paradise, 'just the way I'd lobster, but he kept hesitating till all he planted and growed them a good many could think of was bacon and beans. The times in my booster speeches, Buck. And doctor talks about his liver, but I know there they were. All made out of dreams and he knows what's killing him. It's re but just as green as though they were real. membering the Paradise he sold and how it And there was the town built and the streets came true." paved and the water running over the old dry tongue of the desert. And all at once Well said Buck Chalmers, "shall we go I felt squashed between two ideas. Was I out and jog those mules along the trail a fool or was I a prophet? Have I been again, or shall we have another drink?" blind or farsighted? I can't make out!' "Let's have another drink," said I. Hole Card Wild

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"Oh, I hear things. Uncle Davy," he said. he exclaimed in bewilderment. "You've never "The dirty, yellow little son!" The Am seen Constance Bennett or Wallace Beery?" bassador exclaimed softly. "And he seemed "I always enjoy Wallace Beery," the Prince so grateful when I invited him tonight." said, "He touches somehow a common streak Avery laughed shortly. "I don't believe that must be inherited." The Prince a word of it. Colonel Phillips is merely chuckled. "That is if history is accurate." mouthing some idle gossip." The beginning was propitious enough, the The Colonel lighted a cigarette with irri Ambassador thought, and he might as \yell tating poise. "Don't believe it, smart guy. fall into the natural channels. "My affec But 'phone the foreign office just to be sure tion," he remarked, "for the movies was —you'll sleep better." abruptly checked with the passing of that Avery looked to the Ambassador for con grand old gal, Marie Dressier." firmation. Reading the answer in the old "The trouble with you, Uncle Davy, is man's face he picked up the desk phone and that you are a sentimentalist," Colonel Phi spoke for several minutes in a low voice. lips observed. "And in your present job was sore for weeks. Today the first sniff When he hung up his face was pale and his you're laying yourself wide open. Take this lips trembled. "The Colonel is right," he Nogi business now." ,. brought it all back and turned a peace- said. "The foreign office just got word and "What about Nogi?" the Prmce asked. loving zoo-pet into a vengeful rogue. were about to phone us." "He is coming, isn't he?" „ "Tough luck, Avery," the Colonel laughed. "He is here, Your Highness, said a Two easy steps will make buddies out "I understand these Equator embassies are smooth, suave voice at the door. ofthis pair. First—a thorough pipe cleaning. not as pleasant as this one. But if you're All eyes turned to the bland little man a good man you ought to climb back in who, with such excruciating politeness, stood Second—a tinof mild, fragrantSirWalter fifteen years or so." bowing. "What an unlocked for pleasure, Raleigh Smoking Tobacco. This friendly he smiled, "and what better_way is there than a game of chance to relieve the rigors blend of Kentucky Burleys is a pal to The Ambassador felt for Avery. He alone of the day?" knew the time and study Avery had given every living creature. Smokers and non- the prospectus and realized that the job The Colonel laughed a loud and rather smokers like its aroma. Well-aged and could have been the making of Avery's en flippant laugh. "You don't appear worn tire career. There would be some adroit put, Count, Not knowing anything about cool-burning, Sir Walter has raised pipe- explanations to Washington in the morning, it, I'd say that you had a good day. smoking to the«tK degree of joy.Try a tin. and mentally he counted the important Nogi smiled deprecatingly. ''Today one strings to pull. He must—he simply must meets with success, tomorrow brings^ humili Browa& Williamson Tobacco Corporation —save Avery. "Charge it to experience, ating reverses. That is diplomacy. Louisville, Kentuclcy. Dept. E-55 son," he said comfortingly, and with the benevolence of maturity. "Use the bad Well, gentlemen," the Ambassador cut .... FREE breaks for stepping stones." in, "we are all here. Shall we begin? Avery threw the heavy truism aside with BOOKLET All nodded. He rang and servants ar impatience. He started to say something ranged things. The strange, ill-suited me tells how to mnke but was stopped by another knock at the lange grouped themselves around a table. your pipe tnste door. A servant entered and announced the TAKE CARE "Well, who's going to be banker?' the Am better, sweeter, Prince of the great empire and Captain Ash- Write for (i copy. bassador inquired. "Me? Very w-ell, but bourne. The Captain was a pink, efferves I warn you. I refuse to be a^ dignined cent youth who accepted life with no con banker—I'm taking off my coat.'' cern whatsoever. Titled and wealthy, he :'That is part of the game," the Prmce dedicated his waking hours to his patron's said, risirig and doing likewise. -out it l and his own amusement. He came into the should take off my tie, which is also ac room chattering, and after introductions cording lo Hoyle I believe, I'd have to leave were out of the way, put the conversational without it—I never could tie one ot those ball into play. things." "I saw a thrilling picture today," he said "You'll be lucky if you have a shirt left, enthusiastically. '"Bloody Fingers.' My! H. R, H.," the Captain laughed. How they mowed 'em down with their ma "There is an exchange problem here, gen chine guns! Have you seen it?" tlemen," the Ambassador remarked. Whose "Mugsy is a movie fan," the Prince said currency are we to honor? With two or with an amused smile, "He would drag me three metallic bases to choose from, I may to a picture every day." have to cable for guidance." "Now, H. R. H.," the Captain cut in, "Let's play in dollars," the Captain said, ! "down in your heart you like 'em. All the ' our losses won't be so much then. But I royal guards couldn't keep you from a Garbo am warning you—I want no baloney in my picture." dollars." It^S 15^5—AND IT'S MILDER "I never go to the movies," .Avery said "And the limit?" the Ambassador wanted almost too emphatically. to know. The Captain showed his surprise. "What!" "When I was in America we played a two- May, 1935

bit limit," the Prince said. "I'm a poor man on an allowance." The cards were cut and Colonel Phillips won the deal. "Dealer's choice?" the Colonel inquired? "0. K. then, seven card stud." "Nothing wild?" Nogi asked. "Nothing wild but the players," the Colonel replied evenly, flipping the cards around the table. When the last card was fW OF A MAN turned, Avery, the Colonel, and Nogi had TRYING PENN MARYLAND folded up. The Captain was high on the board with a pair of kings showing. "There BLENDED WHISKEY they are, lads," he said betting a chip, "bet into 'em." FOR THE FIRST TIME "That's not enough royalty to intimidate me," the Prince stated. "I'll raise." It was possible that the Prince had made his spade flush; but the Ambassador missed his inside straight. "Like the Arabs, I'm folding my tents and sneaking into the night," he said, thinking it too early to bluff. "Although I wager I'm throwing the win ning hand away." "We've driven out the Yankee competi tion," the Captain gloated. "I'll raise." "You're proud of those kings, Mugsy," the Prince said to his equerry. "I'll try you again." The captain took the pot with kings full of deuces. The deal passed to Nogi who sat thinking for a moment. "Draw poker with deuces wild," he announced finally. "That's a screwy game," Colonel Phillips said agreeably. "What do you want to play that for?" "Play anything you want to, Nogi," Avery .«;aid. "Don't mind the remarks from the gallery." The Ambassador won Nogi's deal with three trays. "Pot A for Uncle Davy," he rejoiced, pulling in the chips. "I drew those trays, too." "You live right, Uncle Davy," the Captain said. "I can't do it." Avery's deal, and he called for spit in the ocean. "Wait a minute," he said peering in to the pot. "We're short on the ante." "Well, I'm in," the Captain said with finality. "The hell you are," Nogi said. "The Captain is in, Nogi," the Ambassador insisted. "I saw him throw his chip in." "Come on H, R. H.," the Captain de manded. "Throw in a chip. There isn't a soul here that saw you ante." "The hell they didn't." The Prince made an appeal to the entire board. "Didn't you see me ante?" There was but an eloquent silence. The Prince threw in another chip, "All I have to say is that I ought to win this pot with two antes in it." The play went on. A new atmosphere was in the room dispelling race and position and personal animosity; only poker's ritual existed. All else had been forgotten. The Ambassador, a sure, careful player had won but one pot in the entire evening. "Judas!" he declared, throwing down his hand. "There Be as skeptical as you like before trying your first drink of must be a conspiracy against my winning a Penn Maryland Whiskey. But do try it! Note its delightful pot. I wouldn't bid a club on this hand." "Cut out the beefing and deal, Uncie bouquet its mellow smoothness—its rich, round flavor. Davy," Captain Ashbourne said. "I can't You'll be convinced, as have thousands of others, that here make any money by listening to hard luck I JJloryland' stories." at last is the pre-war type ofblend America has been look B Di" Cuxe "Well, let me see," the Ambassador won ing for since Repeal. ... At allgood bars ami liquor stores. fllcnSrS BourVor i dered. "I think I'll deal hole card wild. Decorate the marble everybody." PENN MARYLAND DE LUXE (R/e or Bourbon) "That's not a poker game, that's a curse " PENN MARYLAND IMPERIAL Avery declared. "I never won one of those PENN MARYLAND REGAL damn things in my life." "Are there any other complaints before I deal?" the Ambassador inquired. "Go ahead—deal, Uncle Davy," Nogi in- •si-sted. "You can't please every one." Colonel Phillips, who had been talking across the table to the Prince, asked: "What's the game?" f BLENDED WHISKEY ^ (^Co)ilinucd on page 42) PENN-WARYLAND CORPORATION .A division o/NATIONAL DISTILLERS . NEW YORK, N-T. The Elks Magazine

{Continued from page 41) Ambassador felt a warmer glow; the clever, "Yes," the Prince wanted to know, "what little fellow, with the adaptability of his race, More Fun is this game anyhow?" had smiled himself into the spirits of the "Come to the party, everybody," the Am evening. The Ambassador's natural enmity bassador called. "The game is hole card and the resentment over Nogi's underhanded With a wild." coup earlier in the day were almost ob "Never heard of it," the Colonel put in. scured by the mellowed atmosphere. FREE NEW "Do you wear skis when you play it?" From the dark panelled walls the light- BOOKLET "Let's quit and do some embroidery work," distorted likenesses of other American envoys from the Captain. TELLS HOW stared down at their present successor, and "My grandmother," the Prince said, "used gaped with unbelieving eyes at the scene to tell us children that we were held ac beneath them. They had enjoyed the com countable for every idle word we uttered. pany of many a personage, and in their rib I know now that she was speaking of poker bons and honors and full court dress had players." felt at ease when brilliant and magnificent "Hole card wild," the Ambassador repeated men had paraded down below with hand distinctly and patiently. "It's the same game some pomp and circumstance. Tonight they This helpful NEW free booklet has as seven card stud. First two cards are hardly believed their eyes, and a glazed won been wntten to help YOU get more down, the next four up, and the last one sport with a .22 rifle. Gives actual in der fixed their stolid and mostly bewhiskered stances of200, 250 and 500 yard kills down. You don't know what your wild countenances. Was this young man with on vermin and game with Super-X, card is until you get the last card—and the crumpled shirt bosom, and who now was in thethunderbolt, long range .22iTells low card down is wild, and all like it, natu about remarkable shooting possible need of a shave, the rightful heir to the vast withSUPER-MATCH .22 L.R.smoke- rally." empire? How flip were his words and how less target cartridges. "I follow that," Nogi stated. "It is the disrespectful were his companions. And the same game as bankrupt." old man, and those of his household, all as THIS COUPON "You're mistaken, Nogi," Avery argued. disheveled as their royal guest. Was this the "Bankrupt is the same as Palm Beach, only SHOOT BACK TO US manner to carry on the rich traditions of the trays are wild. Deal 'em, Uncle Davy." American diplomacy? Why, this was min ' Western Cartridge Company, •' Dept.E43.Eastuept. fti.casc ^cun,Alton, Illinois.iimiuis. I ing camp and backwoods hospitality! I Send me your new,free booklet on Ride Shootine. Also I The .Ambassador dealt two cards down Only the oldest up there understood. He I free leafiets on the type of ammuotcioQ checlced here: | and one up. With the exaggerated caution had been down below when men had pow I DSmallBore • Shotgun of an old time poker player he peeked at dered their hair and when the street outside { Name his own down cards. Two deuces! Right was but an expanse of rough cobbles and ' Street off the bat his wild cards were assured. He mud and filth. He had known a Prince of had another deuce showing. That made three the great empire as well. A Prince that re I Post Office wild cards. On the next card he dealt him sembled the one below a great deal, and self an ace, putting him on top of the world who enjoyed cards and wine and hearty with four aces. The Prince and Avery were men's jests. And with him then he had as betting and raising to the limit. The best secretaries as gay a pack of dandies as the 2 DOG WORM cither could possibly have were fours lower young States could muster. This did seem than the ace. The Ambassador came in for like the good old days! each bet and raise, but grumblingly. ^CAPSULES "Caught in the squeeze between a couple Time passed; it flew, leaving no mark of of wild millionaires," he growled sourly. He its swift flight. When the library clock (xm^insd.u2\ dealt another card. Nogi had a flush on the boomed out in one of the lulls between deals Protect your dog's health; give him new H board; maybe a straight flush. He dealt the Prince exclaimed, unbelieving. Four "pep"; free him of tvorms -. . the causc of himself an eight spot. "Judas!" he exclaimed 75% of all dog ailments. It's easy now. No moro o'clock. It can't be! Uncle Davy, I m not Itucssicg which kind of worms afflict your dog; the aloud. "That didn't help me any." He exactly sure whether to call you a perfect new Pulvex Worm Capsules expel Tape, Round, and looked _over the board. No doubt about Hook Worms la one dosioft. No gassinii, gagging, or host or a hypnotist." .. harmful effects. At pet shopa and ... the Prince having four queens. Nogi bet. drug stores, 75c, or write us direct, Uackea by The Prince raised, as did Avery. Nogi raised. 'I am neither," the Ambassador said William Cooper & Nephews, Inc., 92 Years deprecatingly. "But if I were I would have 1929 cliftoa Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Experience "Who wouldn't raise on a straight flush," arranged for that poker adjunct, a dutch the Ambassador reasoned with Nogi. "I'll lunch. The servants are in bed and B III V# B (x>7n6incdum. raise just to be crazy." bV C ^ WORM CAPSULES "But have I a straight flush?" Nogi smiled. my guests go hungry. Wait a minute, he "Just like looking down a giraffe's neck," offered as an after-thought. "I the Prince said, looking over at Nogi's cards. quite handy with a frying pan—if youre The Ambassador followed when the next willing to take a chance on ptomaine po^on- card was dealt. He was content to keep •ng 111 cook up something myself. How his strength unknown. Colonel Phillips and about it?" the Captain had folded but the rest were "Great," the Prince said. "I could eat a going strong. The Ambassador dealt the horse. You're elected the cook. Uncle Dav>. gss last card, and quickly he peeked at what he Cashing in, they adjourned to the spacious TWiiler had dealt himself. An ace! He had five confines of the silent kitchen, and before the Coach open door of the great coolef the Ambas Travel in romfori' Do It thf cfonomlrnl wriy! Ilitrh aces. sador halted. "This branch of the govern :i SkJvcr Dome behind your cnr, nud your iiotrl iravcls Send Nogi bet. Avery with four obvious tens riebt with you, Hoa complete living accommo4iiiti4)>ip. 10c in coin Paya (vr iticif in hotel btlla »avcd. Four jjcu- ment is unknown to me, I hope to find $325 to Sl26i). Wcftl for busincyj" use. for 20 page called. The Prince raised. "I think I'll ?cnJ inc for l|{u«tratocl, "I was brought up that way. too. I 15 l>ays - What a gracious fellow Avery could be' demand an egg in^my coffee. By the way, 'd»*-o.*YourMtrror Prove Results.Yoor Colonel Phillips had taken but his alloted "se instead of napkins? MbAI 9|Ss|i"'>>''nGcd n^ thin out, norneed yoo be- quota of drinks. He was a fine stag com g^ijjapkms are but a modern nicety, Nogi bald. This Different Method stops k'J. >»• g'. w thinningontof hair,lifeless hoir.itch- panion, no gettingaway from it, His coarse The Prince flipped over several sbces of in^.dnndruff.threfltonedonncreasinfrening, prolonBinftthe life of hair for menbaldness and women.bystrenrth-»nd ness was in harmony with masculine fun yonr naroonowbefore it^R too late for free IS-doytest offer. and his little gems of anecdote kept the table toasting bread. "We can use the backs of iUEL OENN, 207 N. Mlthlflan, Oopt. 87, Chicago III in a constant good humor. Toward Nogi the great, great grandfather used nothing May, 1935 and see how preatly revered he is today." The meal was soon ready. Down to the service table they sat, allowing homely masculine etiquette to prevail; arms reached across the table for helpings regardless of the proximity of neighboring noses._ They could have been a group of congenial men on a hunting trip throwing aside the social graces as a sort of a masculine defiance to their ordinary, civilized lives. Content, they sat over refilled coffee cups, ilicking their cigarette ashes into the eggy debris on their plates, and holding converse with sport, the world, and this and that-— just pleasant man to man talk about topics that men enjoyed. The Prince, who had been a quiet listener for a time, yawned. It is late," he said, "and my day begins early." He rose, his features set again in their sober, impassive lines; once again he was the Prince of the great empire. The Ambassador winced as he saw the change. But that was life . . . laughter and joy one minute and in the blinking of an eye the gay scene is gone, and what remains is so very, very hard to endure. An old man's sigh escaped him. The others sensed the change. They rose with the Prince and followed him out to the hall. Sleepily, the Prince put his arms into the topcoat that Ashbourne held up for him, and he turned the collar high around his throat and broke the heavy silence. "Good night, gentlemen," the Prince of the great empire said, and yawned. "It has been a very pleasant evening—all such im promptu affairs are pleasant.^ I hope that one day soon we can do this again." The others murmured polite hopes, but the Ambassador knew that it would never be again. Life, like a shrewd humorist, rarely • ••1wasneverso repeats itself. "We are at your service, Your Highness," he said gravely, and with his own hand he embarrassedinmylife! opened the heavy, outer door. Outside the fog that was a threat in the early evening T'd bather take a beating than ai^ per the steel is fed through electrically was thickening, and through the heavy folds 1 pear in public again with a growth controlled furnaces exclusive with Gil he watched the Prince and the Captain dis lette. Temperature changes in accord appear past the light that the open door ofstubble on my face," confesses a man ancewith the requirements of the metal threw into the gloom. who tried to skip shavmg and get by. —assuring correct hardness for super- "Toodle Doo," the Captain called from Why should anyman risk therespect keen edges that stand up. Grinding, the thickncss. of others by failing to keep clean honing and stropping are automatic— "Good night," the Ambassador called. shaven !Today comfort andsatisfaction almost unbelievably accurate. "Good night, Your Highness." Very slowly are 'positively guaranteed when you sli^e he turned back into the hall, and confronted with the Gillette "Blue Blade We Inspection is uncompromising. No Avery face to face with Nogi; but neither faulty blade can pass. And—to protect was angry. In fact, there was a suggestion know beyond a shadow of a doubt that of a smile on .^very's face. no better blade can be produced. It is its perfectly finished edges—each blade "Well," the Ambassador forced himself to the product of manufacturmg facilities is firmly anchored in its envelope at explain. "What is this—another funny story? aud skill unequalled the world over. four points.It reachesyou as keen as it If you don't think it will shock me, let me in Relentless inspection begins with the left the factory. Get the benefit of un on it." He smiled. steel when it arrives from the miH. matched manufacturing care and skill. "No," Avery said. "It is not a funny Every reel mustanswerGiUettespeciti- story. I was just attempting to persuade cations-the most rigid known. Forab- For unusual comfort try the Gillette Count Nogi to dump this Scandinavian "Blue Blade" tomorrow morning. business in the League's lap—and for both solute uniformity andperfection oitem of us to abide by their decision." Reputable merchants give you what you ask for. In The Ambassador pursed his lips in stores where substitution ispractised'^INSIST ON thought. "Why do that, Arthur? After all there are but the two of us. Why not go back to our original 50-50 plan?" "I was going to suggest that," Nogi said GILLETTE BLUE BLitDES quietly. "My report has not yet gone in, and speaking' officially we would consider it a pleasure to be a partner in the ven IirOW 5 ^ 25^ • 10^.49^ ture." The .'Ambassador held out his hand; Nogi The ARISTOCRAT took it. "That's a gentleman's agreement," —New Gillette Nogi smiled, "and a poker player's. Good night, Arthur," he bowed low to Avery. One Piece Razor "Thank you for a pleasant evening. I have The Aristocrat is all one learned something tonight—something that piece, no loo.se parts. could well be applied to our everyday affairs. Heavily plated with Good night, Your Excellency." 24-Karat gold and When the Ambassador had closed the door guaranteed a lifetime. on Nogi his steps back to the hall were Price $4 complete in slower than before. The pain that followed smartleatliercasewith10 his every meal was tearing at his vitals. Gillette "Blue Blades." (Continued on page 44) The Sensation in flIR-COOLED PIPES flIRFLOUl

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Marinette, Wis., Lodge Adds 30 New Members Marinette, Wis., Lodge, No. 1313, held one of the largest initiatory meetings in its his tory recently when 30 candidates were initi ated and 10 former members reinstated, as the culmination of an intensive membership campaign. Among the 200 Elks who were present was D.D. A. H. Gruenewald who delivered a splendid address, outlining and emphasizing the program of the Grand Exalted Ruler. The new members are promi nent men of the locality and it is deemed by the officers that this was as worthwhile a campaign as the Lodge has ever conducted. Waller Setright, Correspondent News of Sturgis Mich., Lodge The biggest meeting of the year was held recently by Sturgis, Mich., Lodge, No. 1381, when 12 new members were taken in, five dimits were favorably acted upon and one member reinstated. More than 100 Elks were present to participate in the festivities and to enjoy a steak dinner. A Lodge of Sorrow was held by the Lodge in March in memory of six Elks who died during the past year. The ceremony brought out a large attendance. The Lodge also pro vided funds which made it possible for the wife of one of the Sturgis members to re main at his side while he is confined in a Veterans' Hospital in Chicago with a serious illness.

Snapihot of Axel W. Christemen, Chicago Injun Rubber "WAS MY FACE RED Man {Continued from page 13) Gentlemen: "And be sure to check the oil," I'd say to mixed with rubber, gave the combination which would solve his problem. the Quaker State man when I'd pull in after another At last, thought this sadly disillusioned of those 300-mile jumps, "the boys in our last town man, I have succeeded. Another friend was wouldn't let us leave on time and I sure put her found who agreed to finance the establish over the road today. Put in a couple of quarts to ment of a factory on Staten Island. Things seemed to be going well with him. The aqua' make sure." fortis process appeared to be a success. The man would go through the usual motions Then came the panic of 1836 which, in those days, was comparable to the one of and then he'd say—almost indignantly—"Why your oil our present generation, and Goodyear was is right up to the top, you don't need any." again wiped out. But it was just as well And then "was my face red" again. Seems because the aqua fortis process was not the ultimate answer. The surface of the rubber like I just wouldn't be convinced, so the thing was cured by this means but the under sec happened again and again. The only time I bought oil tions were as raw as ever. was when a Quaker State man drained my crankcase. Following this blow, Goodyear became As a result of my 10,000-mile happy, pound little better than a beggar. He worked at ing thrilling drive across the country last year, odd jobs here and there in order to support this Elks-Goodwill-Ambassador has this to say about his family, but never stopped his researches. Quaker State oil: Further experiments at the Staten Island factory, which by now had become a home It gave me ^ all times a sweet, smooth- for his family as well, came to naught. New running motor and ^ easy York and Philadelphia holding forth no en couragement, he set out alone for Boston. 'I sure hope we have Quaker State again He finally located in Woburn, Massachu this year.* setts, using an abandoned factory not many Cordially yours, y) / ^ miles from the place where the rubber shoes had been buried that cold winter night so long ago. He tried combining crude rubber with everything he could imagine, Again ^Editor's note: You will have Quaker State again I and again he thought he had conquered. He secured a government order for ISO mail bags to be covered and cured by the aqua fortis process. The order was completed. On the highways to Columbus, it's the They hung on the walls of the little factory building for everyone to see and admire. His dismay and his complete disillusionment can be imagined when the bags began to fall apart, the rubber to drop away and disinte QUAKER STATE MOTOR OILS grate. Penniless and completely destitute, nearly Quaker State Oil Refining Co., OilCity, Pa. {Continued on page 46) The Elks Magazine (Continued jrom page 45) The years of suffering, the hours of an guish, the disappointments and the humili naked in fact, he did not know which way ation seemed not to have been in vain. He to turn At a public sale auctioneers dis sold his manufacturing rights to a syndicate posed of the few pitiful ^is of rubber shoe men, asking only a royalty still call his own. Friends, members of his of one-half cent per pair—one-tenth of what family public officials-all descended upon he should have received. him, demanding that he admit failure and Rubber again became popular. Business decide that rubber could not grew by leaps and bounds. But patent in It was impossible to secure further _funds fringements were countless. Ill-health pur No one would help unless he sued him and what little money he received give up his fool goal. No one would pour went to pay old debts and to finance further more money into this bottomless pi . experiments. Daily he was pressed for money. Broken in health, but with his enthusi This in spite of the fact that he was being REDUCE hailed here and abroad as the greatest in asm unabated, he defied friends, family and ventor of his age. He went to Europe to creditors. He was determined to succeed^ further the development of rubber. Kings 4 to 6 Inches People were convinced he was crazy. Boy and scientific societies hailed him. He was shouted at him in the streets. They called awarded the Legion of Honor but again him "Injun Rubber Man." hard luck followed him because on the day ...without druqs dropped into the village store of Woburn. he was to receive this recognition from the Standing near the pot-bellied stove, he •wjj hands of the French Emperor, Goodyear engaged as usual in discussing his_ was jailed for debt. After six years in Europe . .without dietinq subject, answering seriously the jeering q he returned to America, worn and broken in tions of the village loafers. A ball of un- health and, at the age of 59, he died at the cured rubber mixed with sulphur was m his old Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. hand. Accidentally he dropped it on the Though he founded a new industry that was red-hot surface of the old iron . , . .orYour Money Frantically he looked for somethmg with then making millions for others, he died as which to scrape it off, then paused m aniaze- he had lived—penniless. He left to his faith Refunded ... .i ment. Instead of melting ^'^e mola^es it ful wife and children only the honor of his curled like leather. It smoked but did not distinguished name, a heritage that revolu dissolve. Heat had been the Neincsis of tionized the world, and debts that took more Goodyear for years but now it was his salva money than his estate ever produced. tion. With a zeal that became almost a frenzy Goodyear followed through on his new dis It is impossible to estimate the importance covery. His hour of triumph was almost at of rubber in the progress of the modern hand. He knew that at last he had hit upon world. It is a part of the machinery of the great idea. ,, almost every great industry. The German For two more years he haunted the locai war machine broke down before its collapse factories, seeking permission to use the lur- was expected largely because of the lack of wore the Director Belt and reduced naces after the plants had closed for e rubber. The Allies had so hemmed in the my waistline from 42 to 33 inches. Prac night. 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Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111. fabulous emeralds—gems Gentlemen: Without obligation on my part for 21 days—only to find that the diamonds- pk'ase send me the complete story of Director as-big-as-my-head were not gems at all, but 3or«dors spilled so much blood.^vhich the Conquista Belt and give full particulars of your trial ofier. tremendous quartz crystals. mineral and gem deposits are Once you've shown an Indian gold, every located the native Indian is of little use. Dig- thing that shines is gold, even though it is a mountain of mica schist lit up by the mellow tne ground is taboo. That is where light of the setting sun. And in their eager hp'iihe ll kill all the casava anyoneand pumpkinannoysfields,him ness to take part in a white man's cavalcade mat IS why m my expeditions there are al they have led me on manv a fool's errand. ways full quotas of giant blacks from the May, 1935 coastal plantations. They may at times be afraid of Voodoo gods, but not of Indian devils. And they are only too eager to dig all day long and pan tons of gravel to get the bonus which comes with the discovery of each golden nugget and sparkling gem. The search for the source of the diamonds OLD BUSHMILLS that are scattered over so much of the northern corner of the Continent—the vol canic pipe from which the river gems have IRISH WHISKEY been eroded—is one primarily of eliminating negative zones. Every river system is a separate index, a plus or minus thread in A BLEND— 100% whiskies the tangled pattern of jungle, mountain and valley vastness. There is no such thing as haste if one wants to assay accurately. iW^'' V made in Ireland;youngest nine During the prospecting and pioneering stage there is no Pullman car geologizing, al though once I gloriously cheated the earth of much of its treasure by flying through the sky, spying out oil. Sounds fantastic, I know. A lot of my friends thought I was sunstruck. No one had ever found oil by flying through the air. But I had observed during months •T-OID tUSHMIlLS' of strenuous searching out oil formations UNDtH THE S»M6 fO«MUW ( across the Venezuelian delta, that every time I found oil seepages the jungle around them was dead. Often 10 or 15 acres were stark naked, with only whitened tree trunks rear ing up out of the black earth. "Why can't I save all this discomfort, get branu ^2" a plane and a mapping camera, and fly over the whole country?" I thought. "After I've located all the spots where the jungle looks 'S^BUEND dead I can send ground cre%vs directly to Use it in a them by compass." Not all oil seepages are commercial petroleum reservoirs, but within a year we had found comfortably a lot that were. But as yet I have discovered no way i limitco MANHATTAN of spotting minerals or gems from the sky, and until I do I'm just a crawler, lugging as much as a year's supplies along with me. Its body and fullness Except for short wave radio on these make it the perfect ingredient treasure hunts, we are cut off from the world entirely. All my food is packed in for every whiskey drink. carefully menued cases—each case giving me a balanced diet, exclusive of native produce, for a week. If a case or so is damaged or lost in the rapids it merely means eating less rather than doing without some important on every bottle item. After a while one can get used to Ourtrade mark SHAW knowing in May exactly what he's going to have for Christmas dinner. Among the blacks THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF QUALITY there are men skilled with various hunting implements and tools. Most important—we can make our own boats. As a matter of ALEX D. SHAW & CO., INC., 120 BROADWAY, NEW YORK fact we can between us all provide every thing that is required to sustain life com pletely. Sometimes on coming out at the end of 14 months, as we did last season, there are many surprises. We who are supposed to 9.502 PERSONS DIED OF live "dangerously" learn that a friend, stroll CANCER LAST YEAR IN NEW ing down a quiet street, has been hit on YORK CITY ALONE the head by a falling flower pot and is now crack-brained. New wars, new maps and a year. Urge your friends to do new political conflicts greet us, I would the same. (2) Buy and use the much rather explore new worlds than be Committee's labels on your pack part of the unceasing squabble over old bones ages. We will ghidly send you a of contention. supply at the rate of 20 for The world is still unexplored. Make no 9,502 in one year! And this in a Si.oo.$1.00. mistake about that. One has only to ap- fitv ' We ask for both your moneymo and praise geographic knowledge to peg out for 1 I- • 4-1 tr. your interest ... that ihittthis y thene tbouxandsthousands maifma,, be . .laved. gist's microscope has ever peered. Reading cut down tliis fearful toll. To do »•»* « * the glowing accounts of the many scientific this we need your co-operation. You are cordially invitedto h attend expeditions here, there and everywhere, we Cancer can often be cured ifthe Committee-sCommittee's Exhibit at the t Hotel are apt to forget that the earliest explorers , 1 1 • Plaza, New York, from MayMny M to 20. were men who went out across strange seas treated properly m tlie early A^i^ilksionAdmis.sion is free. not as scientists but simply as adventurous stages. A new pamphlet "High'"Highways of business men, looking for new products for Ypu can eo-operate. (1) Have a Health" will be ready for distribu an ever expanding civilization. medical examination at least once tion this spring. The man, today, who would like to live nut under the skies has only to choose his For jyainphlelx aiul further information xcrito or 'phouv to . . . own bailiwick and concentrate on discovering things which other people need. 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Send your entry Route No. 4—Sacramento, Calif., to Columbus TODAY. (For (via Northern States) Elks only.) Albert Rasmussen, rated by Chicago Her Jr., SEND NO MONEY WITH ENTRY ald and Examiner as Lnd leading member of associate member, j \ C. W. Wallace, "Chicago's Best Male Lodge Activi- • Elks Home, 256 East Broad St., Quartette." Featured "es Committee. Hon- Columbus, Oliio artist on Station KYIV orary l,fe member nf and other networks. Here is my entry for Has appeared on such mncdTo trapshooting nationally known pro tivities in b7hal^f ""of golf 'check which) grams as A and P crippled children. An Gypsies and National My handicap is earnest worker in the Albert Rasmussen Barn Dance Order's interests Richard f. Flood, Jr. Name fplease print i 1 HE Good Will Ambassadors start consists of Chevrolet Master de Luxe Lodge No Address. their long Convention treks on May Sedans and Standard Phaetons, both 25th. If your Lodge is on one of the with Fisher Bodies* Quaker State routes be sure to go when they are wel Motor Oils and Greases; Ethyl Gaso comed. It will prove to be an ex line; United States Tires (for Routes perience you will never forget. The 1 and 2) and Goodrich Tires (for Tour s physical equipment this year Routes 3 and 4) Being Tossed ty aTMld Broncto is Tame Compared to aJ^&rw-aut CCcclde^ SATS HUB WHITEMAN BRONCHO^ BLUSTER

Life-Saving Blow-out Protection ... Now Free I'LL ADMIT that wrestling with charg until Goodrich engineers perfected the /heat CAUSES BLOW-OUTS- ing steers and riding wild bronchos amazing Life-Saver Golden Ply. This re is plenty dangerous. But I've been in markable invention resists heat. Rubber THE LIFE-SAVER GOLDEN PLY tougher spots," says HUB WHITEMAN and fabric don't separate. Thus, blisters RESISTS HEAT-PREVENTS "The very thought of that blow-out 1 had don't form inside the tire. The great, un ^ THESE BLOW-OUTS when I was on the way to Fort Worth seen cause of blow-outs never gets a start. gives me the jitters. No broncho ever lurched as wildly or got so completely Extra safety and mileage! out of control as that car of mine. Right Go to your Goodrich dealer. Press your plumb for a ditch it headed. Beheve me, hand on the deep-grooved Silvertown I had some luck to pull out of thai acci tread. Feel those big, husky cleats hold dent alive. Now I'm using Goodrich your hand like a vise. That's the way they Golden Ply Silvertowns." grip wet, slippery roads ... how they *** keep your car "straight in line." If you could look inside your tire, you'd Do this, too: Check your mileage u WiiA know how treacherously a blow-out when you put Goodrich Safety Silver- works. As the wheel spins around at 40 or towns on your car. Watch how they last SILVERTOWNS FOR ELKS' TOUR! 50 miles an hour the inside of the tire be months longer than ordinary tires. Yet in The drivers of the Elks' Good Will Tour comes as hot as boiling water. Rubber spite of all this extra mileage, in spite of Cars can't afford to Ramble on tires. They and fabric begin to separate. You can't the fact that they are the only tires in the have places to so—a touKh schedule to meet. That's why they've equipped iheir see it.. . the fire looks perfect. A blister world that give you Golden Ply blow-out "convention specials'", bound from Sacra forms and grows—bigger and bigger— protection, Silvertowns cost not a penny mento to Columbus, with Goodrich Safety until "BANG"! A blow-out! Yes, today's more than other standard tires, Silvertovvns. high speeds were too much for tires— Copyright. 1935, The B. F. Goodrich Co. NEW Goodricli Silvertown^^ WITH riFE-SAVER GOLDEM PMT BASEBALL Melvin Ott

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