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My Brothers: I am most grateful to you for the substantial increase in membership received by our Order on November 14th on the occasion of the initiation of the Joseph T. Fanning National Class. A detailed report of this Class will be pub lished in the January issue of The Elks Magazine, but I am happy to announce here that it was the largest National Class initiation in the history of our Order. The showing made on this occasion was a great tribute to the Dean of our Past Grand Exalted Rulers, and one which made him very happy. Let me urge you, my Brothers, not to stop here. Let this success he an incentive for greater activity in the rein statement of worthy Brothers and the proposition for membership of desirable candidates. I am deeplyappreciative of the present Brothers of our Order who, despite depressed economic conditions, have retained their membership and have continued to support our activities. I am now calling tipon all of you for your continued cooperation in my next activity, THE RETEN TION OF OUR PRESENT MEMBERSHIP. We want every Brother on our rolls this year to remain a Brother so that, when April 1st, 1936 arrives, tve can report that our Order has been able this year to hold its membership. Will you cooperate with me in this effort with the same loyalty and devotion which you have shown in the initiation of the Joseph T. Fanning Class? With sincere appreciation and gratitude, and wishing every one of you a very merry Christmas and a truly happy New Year, I am
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Mishi's deed by driving his son away and polishing ofF IN THE winter wild, as all who live there know, half the cannibal feast himself It had tided them both the creatures spend their time in killing and the through the leanest month of a lean winter. other half in avoiding being killed. This is rnost Now Mishi had come into man's estate; he had wooed trying, particularly so to those intermediate ones iiKe and mated the shrewish female of his choice Threp Mishi, the gray Canada lynx, who belong neither to lynx kits mewed and staggered about in the domestic the one side nor the other, but to both._ With "is g y den and Mishi was paying the inevitable penalty for whiskered face, tufted ears and pei*ennial outraged ex that cannibal heritage of his kind. He had been banned pression, Mishi looked like an old man of no very nice from the comforts of bed and home. His snarly spouse character, whose evil had become indurated witn ag . an ardent mother, as all cats are, wished to bring ud Mishi knew nothing of Nature's law of balance, which her kittens where the sins of the parents would not be is that life must go on only through death ; that many visited upon them—in short, where the father wouldn't should die that one might live, and that o"®' be fussing about. She had chosen her den and nursery living, should die at last that through his death still with care—in a hollow six feet up in a blasted cedar others might find life. But he did know that be had snag—and Mishi was not allowed within twenty yards his paws full to survive. He had pijtty well to of the spot. date. When less than a year old, he had killed and He had his other troubles, too, this winter. It had eaten one of his sisters, much to his own ^i^ j been a bad year all round, a year of hunger, fear and advancement. She had been the runt of ^he fa . savage feud. Something was wrong with the winter was no loss to anyone anyhow. s fathei, » woods. It seemed not a thing that anyone could lay had happened along at the time and had sanctioned December, 1935
claw or finger on, however. Just what it was even was a "year of no rabbits." Science has since recognized not at all clear, yet all the forest folk, those who were them as natural "die-offs," Nature's periodic times abroad, that is—and they seemed very few—seemed to for taking inventory. creep about stealthily with fingers to their mouths as Mishi had been hunting fully five miles from home it were, and there was a distinct hush over everything. of late—a thing he had never done before, and at that It was more than the stillness of winter; it was a quiet the pickings were lean. Nothing had come to weight surcharged with a definite mystery. his stomach in twenty-four hours save a lean and stringy stoat he had surprised the day before in a tangle of windfalls. On this particular afternoon, very Small game seemed entirely gone from the forest; cold and dank and dumb because of gathering snow grouse and rabbits in particular. And when the snow- clouds, Mishi lay in one of his favorite resting places, shoe rabbit is gone from his runways in the thickets, deep in the dark embrace of an ancient spruce from it plays hob with everyone and everything. whose dense shadow he could watch without being seen This is truer than anyone realizes, or has yet been the life of the undei-ways. He was purring today, able to set down. No one places any importance to gently but withal a bit horribly. And he was wearing speak of in the feckless and finicky tribe of the rabbits. his old man's smile of omniverous expectation. His They are endless and meaningless so long as they are appetite, as usual, was a public danger. present, inconsequential as the leaves. But let them disappear as they do mysteriously every ten years, and their vast importance is felt in the economy of forest COVEY of grouse were feeding just out of sight affairs. beyond the shoulder of a bluff, drawing slowly nearby. While rabbit meat is plentiful, the larger killers find If they came another twenty yards closer, before seek it expedient to recognize truce between one another. ing the trees to roost, Mishi would know how to handle They respect, to a certain extent, each other's ranges the situation. Odd green sheens and shadows kept and avoid one another's lairs through a sort of common drifting across the lynx's pale and unforgettable eyes prudence. But when rabbit and grouse hunting are as he waited. gone, all that is changed. The fiercely individual blood- Suddenly his bob tail gave a twitch and he screamed drinkers of the forest begin warring, cousin upon —not with fear but with rage and vexation. It sounded cousin, even family groups turning upon one another, as if an escaped demon had been caught and dragged because the foolish, skipping legions of the rabbit folk back to the nether regions again. The grouse had ab are always the main food supply and therefore the real ruptly risen with a whimper of wings and Mishi knew mediators of the wilderness. Long ago the northern his long wait had been useless. Indians noted these phenomena; they called such a time But the grouse had come to rest in the low spruce The Elks Magazine that clothed the ridge. Mishi disappeared fr6m his fangs, and their ears were quite flat to their heads. branch. He did not so much seem to move as to be gone. Then their two right forepaws whizzed up in exact uni The swart shadows beneath the trees swallowed him up son, flickered, poised an instant and dropped again and when next he materialized it was beneath the while the moaning was redoubled. They were trying roosting birds. to frighten each other, for all cats from the lion down will refrain from battle if victory can be gained in any T* other way. 1 HEN a weird thing happened. As he glared rav Those two, however, knew too much about each other. enously upward, two of the grouse began to quiver, their They ceased their bluffing presently and sank to the heads drooped and they fell from their perches, stone ground. No one could have told how they came to be dead. The rest of the flock went whirring away as locked and grappling half an instant later. They did Mishi sprang forward striking two smashing wicked not seem to have moved, yet there they were, rolling, blows with his big oversize paws. The banquet, how screaming, wrenching and roweling in a horrid tangle ever, was already defunct. Also, it was almost fleshless. fur. Red chaos followed, wholly indescrib Those birds had been stricken with some strange mal able. Over and over they rolled, Mishi on top most of ady, quite possibly diphtheria. Certainly there was the time, but that meant nothing in a cat fight. In something passing strange about it, and Mishi crouched tact, the coveted position was underneath and on one's there over the bodies looking overhead and roundabout back, tor then the terrible roweling hind-legs could have with that psychic gaze all cats possess. lull play. The wild-cat's hind-legs worked overtime, With no sound nor warning a gray ball came bound levolvmg like twin buzz-saws, with all the power that ing down the slope above. It was a big male wild-cat was in them. who had long been lord paramount over the range ad Times the two broke apart and reared on their hind- joining Mishi's, a beast of Mishi's own size and one of hurled in again, spinning, reeling, the most wicked catastrophes that hunted on four legs. devil's clinch was broken a few Mishi needed no books to tell him about this customer. seconds later and they crouched again six feet apart, He knew the wild-cat of old for a terror and a night mare before whom even the timber wolf broke trail. Vu not thesunsetsuninthat thetinged last lightthem, of Presumably it was the wild-cat that had put up the grouse in the lirst place. At any rate he approached overnvpr^il one eyehad anda deep a redgash trickleon one downshoulder, both forelegs.a gouge
They seemed not to have moved, yet there they were, rolling, screaming, wrenching and rowel ing in a horrid tangle of leaves and fur. Red chaos followed, wholly indescribable
literally on end with rage and drew up, sidewise and Mishi had scarlet grid-irons on his chest and belly and all on tip-toe, about a spring and a half away, bristling shredded ears, but the working parts of him were still and moaning softly to himself. Mishi swung sidewise, sound and he hadhfiH lostInst no more blood than waswno healthy too, and joined in the moaning, magnified by the bris For a time thereafter both crouched moveless, glaring tling of all his wonderful coat. at one another. One thing was plain to both—all too For two whole minutes the pair of them remained plain. They were too well matched by far to make the thus, swearing horrible things at each other beneath profit in hand worth the peril. Both drew the same con their whiskers. There was a wet glisten to their bared clusion simultaneously, and both chose the same alterna- December, 1935
tive. They had an exorbitant love for life, these two, footed pack would have its inning. Only at such a time perhaps because they and death met so often. As if as this would the wolves have tackled a bear, but mad timed to a hair each pounced upon the nearest grouse, dened as they were by famine and excitement, the warm snatched it up and streaked away into the forest, spit scent of meat was overpowering. Again and again they ting and hissing like a couple of squibs touched off with pulled the bear down by weight of numbers amid a a match, each evidently under the illusion he was being chaos of sounds as from the Pit—snarls, bellowing and pursued. the horrid click of snapping It was a very serious matter teeth, and in between times for all that. What Mishi had ^ they fought and at such done was to start a very pretty • members of their own crew little blood feud and burden himself with a life-long foe i the bear had maimed or who would ever be waiting to .. ..T-..-%/•r- I In the end the surviving do him in and who for sheer wolves closed like a gray wave evilness had only one equal in bear—he happened to all^the —himself. be a small one—and after a j^nal struggle, laid him low. 1^.'^ As the deep throaty fighting snarls of the wolves subsided tor for such an appetite as • to a petulant, intermittent his. His hijnger had become snapping as they bickeredwith more than a name, it was an one another over the kill, incubus that would not let him Mishi began letting himself rest. Furthermore, that unholy stealthily down from his tree. row attendant upon the battle The scent of all that meat and had aroused all game and all Jr blood was well nigh madden- hunters for a half a mile vMC ing and there being only five around as imperatively as wolves left, he had it in mind a huntsman's horn rouses ^ ^ short dash on the chance of seizing something Therefore some half hour ll», himself. later and three miles toward " > other citizens, however, had home he heard a rush upon ^''•'i\M a similar idea. Half way the snow. Ten long, lean gray yjifffaHM down Mishi halted and it was shapes shot toward him out of just as well. A fox sat not the_ spruce shadows. Fangs far away beneath a spruce whiter than snow gleamed ' bough watching the feast, and like drawn blades against fur, in the low branches of another and clicked at Mishi's stern as aiEs dflBE' tree crouched Mishi's late an- he went bounding away on his tagonist, the wild-cat. Both of abnormally long hind-legs like ' these quickly shrank into a great india rubber ball. themselves at sound of some- Even the wolves were feeling thing else wending the blue- the pinch of famine this year ® black shadows beneath the as their unwarranted bent for spruce. tough and stringy cat meat Slouching along slowly, fol proclaimed. Though they could lowing the trail the wolves travel like the wind Mishi drew away from them as if had left, came two slovenly, squat, forbidding shapes. they were standing still. He headed the forest bill as a They were a pair of wolverines, the devils of the north splinter, but like all his kind his bolt was soon shot. ern woods, the spirits incarnate of the cold, hunger and Up a tree he went and from a high branch bent down cruelty of the North. They were between a badger and insolently and told the wolves where they were at liberty a bear in size, with coarse heavy coats of brownish fur, to go in the worst lynx language. And a good few of heavy-limbed and heavy-muscled, and of dark scowling them did for just there it pleased Fate to spring one of visage, savage and vindictive beyond compare. Rarely did the startling surprises for which she is famed, followed these solitary beasts hunt together, and when they did by numerous things which were not upon the program it was proof indeed that famine stalked the winter wild. as originally intended. Two of the wolves milling below were suddenly precipitated downward beneath the crust "ssdlong into a yawning hole. Straight up to the wolves the newcomers slouched X hp'® been matted over with brush and snow; and there was seen then the weight that lay back of the ^ ^ debris of leaves and bark, the name of wolverine in those parts. They were two 1^1. bear. " The bear was not dead, against five full-grown, famished and half-crazed wolves, only hibernating; in other words, as dangerous as frozen yet the outcome of that clash was never for a moment dynamite, for nothing exceeds the wrath of a bear in doubt. Fear and faint-heartedness was left out when roused from hibernation in the middle of winter. He the wolverine was made. Acting in perfect unison the knows he is doomed to wander the snowy woods sleep wolves might in the end have killed the wolverines, but less and half starved until spring. The two wolves it was certain that only one or two of them would have landed fair upon the stomach of the sleeper and what survived the encounter, for the wolverine is the greatest followed was possibly the biggest thing in fights that in-fighter this continent has ever known. had ever shocked that hillside since the cave lion ranged For a space the wolves stood their ground, snarling those ridges and the giant ground sloth gallumphed in horribly, their faces masks of utter rage. All the wol the valleys. verines used were their sinister, green-shadowed eyes. The wolves, all ten of them, hurled themselves upon But the eyes had it in this instance, hands down. Slowly the dazed bear and the bear, uprisen on his hind-leg"S, the five retreated giving over their hard won meat, put up a wild Thermopylge at the opening to his den. He and without ado the two squat, imperturable beasts swung his great forepaws like a boxer and laid about fell upon the kill, nor did they stop feeding until the him, bash, smash, crash, and with each swing a wolf lay greater portion had disappeared. The wolves, mean stretched on the snow or crawled feebly away, howling, time, were busy burying some of their dead, their own for bruin is a one-punch fighter at all times. The bear fangs and gullets serving for the spades and graves. could not balance long on his hind-legs, however, and Mishi, watching his chance, was just about to slip the moment he would sink to all fours again the nimble- down from his pei'ch and make (Continued on page AO) The Elks Magazine Decemhery 1935
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Above, Miss Lynn Fontanne.the Queen of this Depart :"• ~ .•' i, v., i ment's Heart, with her husband, Mr. Alfred Lnnt, in the Theater Guild's robust presentation of "The Taming of |\ ITI the Shrezu." Aliss Fontanne is not seated upon a full- blooded Arabian stallion. Upper right, the crap-shooting sccne from the Theater Guild's current opera, "Porgy and Bess," the outstanding musical sensation of the season, by Dubose Heyward and George Gershwin. In these two ventures the Guild has outdone itself—zvhich is doing a lot of outdoing. Right,Mark Plant^ as Eros, the God of Love, and Mary Boland in Jubilee, the much touted musical comedy of the season. I\Ir. Plant is built like a brick skyscraper and Miss Boland is practically the funniest zuoman alive. Cole Porter Wrote the music. Lozver right-hand corner, an electrifying moment in Blind Alley, ISew ^orks most hair-raisini/ melodrama. Roy Hargrave, zyith pistol, presents perhaps the truest characterization in any play on the boards this zvinter. Belozu, Billy Quinn, Burgess Meredith and ]\Iargo in a scene from Maxzuell Anderson's "Winterset," Mr. Anderson s best play to date and already a hot competitor for the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Meredith confirms the well- considered opinion of practically everyone that he is the finest young actor of the day.
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Above is a caricature of N. T. G. {Nils T. Granlund),one of theflowers of NBC's 1935 flock. At top, right: Eddie Cantor, cracking his perennial gags in weekly broadcasts for CBS. At his right is Ann Lester, whose rich voice is one of the treats NBC has to offer. Below them are Peg La Centra, who puts verve and vivacity into slightly tired jazz,andWallace Beery, a swell rnaster-of- ceremonies on the Shell Chateau program, presented by ff^LAF. The radio is a new venture for Mr. Beery. At right, center, are two beeyootiful ladies: Dorothy Lamont, a singer of soulful \ solos for J'FJZ, and Agnes Moorehead, the villainess who plays dirty tricks on Helen Hayes in ''The Neio Penny," broadcast over WJZ. Miss Moorehead does not re motely resemble the viper she reveals herself to be in "The New Penny." Kate Smith, whose picture appears below the ladies, just goes on corning up mountain three times a week for WABL. One marvels at the endurance displayed both by Miss Stnith and tire rnountain. At right is Nino Martini, still this Depart ment's preference in tenors. JVe have been complimented frequently on ourstrength of character in never referring to Mr. Martini as a beverage, either sweet or dry. Bottom: Fred Allen, a funny fellozu zuho makes vierry quip and jest over IFEAF- He is put to shame by the Metropolitan s lovely Miss Gladys Sivarthout who appears serenely at hisright.MissSicarthoutsingslike a goddess and makes neither quip nor jest. December, 1935
Above: Down crowded sidewalks and across traffic ridden streets the dog guides lead their sightless masters. These fine animals are the blind's salvation
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movement of machine guns, wherever, in gerous job could be done as efficiently by a dog as by -• -v....:, a man. At the close of the war, Germany foy® ^ nearly 50,000 dogs engaged in service. Most oi tnem seeing Eye has used French Bna.ds. Labrador Retrievers and Doberman depends almost wholly o" Af The See- police dog) for its guides foij" the blj^d. itself ing Eye they say that the shepherd ,P most to a wider range of have other breeds, and its reliability and w g Above: Teaching the dog to judge height. This is a most been proved through centuries of service to manKinu inleresting phase in the training of the canine guide. The throughout middle Europe. HPVploDed in apprentice dog is first introduced to the problem by means Dog guides for the blind were deve^P|a of a rope stretched across the sidewalk. If the dog fails to Germany in 1915 when the opportunity notice it the instructor, just as he is about to bump, slaps it blinded war veterans Some 4,000 with his hand, and pulls back on the harness. Below; A SWhtrd? now blind men and women mGer- dog guide leading her master around sideivalk obstructions It^was an American the service to this breeding ex- Dorothy Harrison Eustis t-egan intention to periment m Switzeiland. It Qualities which recapture in the shepherd many show purposes, had been lost through bieedmfc developed At her estate. Fortunate Fields do^^ for Swiss pohcework, for work with boundaries m the the Italian Metropoli- ever conducted with higher ^nim^s. Jhey S^t^^en mo^^ wis the contributi^^^ they made to the welfare of the blind—The beeing ^^Much has been written about Seeing Eye dogs and their amazing precision in guiding bhnd people through traffic. That there has never been a seiious accident is sometimes offered as evidence that the blind are safer with their dogs than they would be it they had eyes. But the remarkable work which these dogs are doing does not consist wholly of solving for December^ 1935
the blind the problem of automobiles and pedestrians, coal holes and low awnings. That is of itself a splendid job— as much as anyone would ask. Yet these dogs are doing another job, and its importance 1-^- 'V^l is just beginning to be understood. In bringing the blind physical independence. The Seeing Eye is bringing mental liberty as well. By guiding her master into jobs—more f:-r and different jobs—the dog is guiding him' also into a new conception of his own capacity. Now blind people are beginning to realize that they are fit for something besides chair caning and basket weaving. Why shouldn't they, f ^ when men and women with Seeing Eye dogs are successful as lawyers, newspapermen, salesmen, store keepers, execu tives and stenographers? And as for the public (which means you and me). The y *- Seeing Eye is just about awakening us to the fact that because a man loses his sight, it does not necessarily mean that he has also lost his brain. Since The Seeing Eye was established in 1929, one per son has openly refused to recognize that this new service of dog to man has in it the elements of importance or even of necessity. She—it was a woman—acknowledged readily enough that lack of sight was confining and that blind people ought not to risk traffic unaccompanied. But to be led by a dog—that, she said, was degrading. How much better it would be, she suggested brightly, if the 110,000 blind in this country were led by Boy Scouts! Give your sympathy not to the scouts but to the blind For their problem goes deeper than that. They don't want just to have some person lead them about. They want to be free of human aid. W And above all they want recognition of their capabilities. They don't want it believed any longer that their minds I: cannot function because their eyes cannot see. What is it like to be blind? Ask a blind person, as I have. But do it honestly, seeking information and not just to satisfy your curiosity, or you will never find out. I have talked with men and women whose sight was grad ually dimming into a blur of grey and black; to others whose eyes were irretrievably gone. I have asked those who have regained unhoped for freedom through The Seeing Eye, and others who do not know of the school's existence. Here is one answer. A young blind man is to spend the day at his aunt's house. A friend leads him over in the morning and leaves him at the gate. The blind man edges his way cautiously up the steps and into the house. Inside, he calls for his aunt, and his uncle. There is no answer. At top of page: Buddy guiding his blind master. They have forgotten that he is to come. He waits for them Morns Frank. Mr. Frank has given many lectures on in a chair in silence. Minutes become hours. Finally he the great ivork that Tlie Seeing Eye is doing. At decides to call up for someone to come and take him home. center: Mrs. Dorothy Harrison Eiistis tvith three of He gropes his way to the telephone but it is a dial instru the dogs* It is Mfs, Eustis who brought The Seeing ment. He has never used one; someone has always done Eye service to this country. Below: A dog guide it for him. (Continued on page 45) pulling his master back as an auto passes. fFith a perfectly trained dog it is safe to cross any street Left: A young dog at ^ The Seeing Eye. In- telligent, quick to
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"What other reason ?" Collins knew from long experi ence that messengers often had bits of information to add to written reports. ,. ,, The Corporal shuffled his feet. His eyes_, showing the MD-3S whites sharp against the scarred black of his tace, starea over the white man's head. "I'nkns?" lage he held court for an hour or two and then went on "Don't pretend. Come on. Any more news . The hills became steeper and if possible, rockier. There Kambove twisted awkwardly. He looked f/om side to was little shade. As hour after hour passed Collins' side. One hand opened and closed spasmodically, temper grew worse. Why did people, if they had to die porting white people was dangerous. One could in his district, choose the farthest corner of it. He guess how the news would be taken. kicked a stone viciously. He was a fool to take anv "Well," Collins spoke sharply. There was something stock in the "hooting of an owl." The party had seemed behind this reluctance to speak. ^ on reasonably good terms when he had seen them. Youna "Messenger says there is trouble in camp ot white Walker and Anna, the girl, had joked together and he had not noticed any resentment on the part of the four ^"What kind of trouble ?" Memory of the older men. He trudged along thinking. The sun had marked face of Hertzog and Doerwald s curious ^arded gone and the veldt grew cooler. A night jar flapped un grin as contrasted with the clean lean faces of from the path and skimmed away on silent wings, Colonials flashed into Collins' mind. And theie v. as tne ahead Collins could hear the throbbing beat of tomtom girl. from a native village. The calling rhythmic soun^ nulsed over the veldt like the beating of a great heart Oom. oom, oom, oom, as it on the omnipotence "The white men have ^0""^ something-'' Kambove of man. Collins frowned. Ordinarily the throb of the spoke reluctantly. "They quarrel. Mes^"^fA^7nd he Sums was pleasing but tonight they grated and threw death hangs over the camp. hog an uneasy foreboding over him. He tried to whistle to hesitated, then finished defiantly. "Twice the owl has drive the feeling away but the sound died away on his been heard at night." „ , „ ,-nst lips. It sounded silly, ineffectual against the powerful Collins did not smile. The hooting of an o^l was just beat which rolled over the veldt. an expression. If an owl had not footed a hyena would Collins expected to find the party camped close to the have been heard cackling in the J r-irf7im- village of Bunybunj^amma. It was one more annoying- would have used that as a portent. Undei uicum^ fact that he had to tramp another mile to find the grouS stances would he admit that it was his o\ of grass shelters which housed the prospectors under a tion of events that led to a report. Many huge baobab tree. Standing in the middle of the camn ghosts and witches roamed at large. If he only lepoited Collins stared around closely. The glint from a rifle signs which had been shown no harm could come. barrel caught his eye. A couple of empty water sacks Kambove coughed. Collins glanced up. "We will go tomorrow." There would have to be an hung from a pole. An unlit lantern stood on a table inquest, though it meant a long trek across the veldt. Everything was as it should be. Collins stood quiet as "N'dio, I'nkos." The Corporal saluted and melted if listening to something. He had entered the camp so away, the night swallowing him as though he had been quietly that not even a native had awakened. The only whisked away by a witch's wand. sound was a steady snore which came from the blackness For three days Collins trekked through the valley. It of a shelter to his right, and the beat of the tomtoms was the end of Septemt^er, hot and du.sty. At each vil- from the village. December, 1935 Collins frowned. An uneasy feeling as of trouble Collins, studying the men, saw. that Smit's eyes never brewing-had settled on him. What was it about this left Doerwald's face. He was. glaring fixedly atlthe old apparently peaceful camp that affected him? He glanced man, his eyes burning with an expression the police slowly about. Nothinpr unusual. Not one thing which man could not name. Was it fear? Hate? Kambove was not exactly as it should be. His look fell on his kicked the remains of the fire together. Little flames natives. Thuy, too, were uneaay. danced up. Their flickering light played over the rifles Collins shrugged and called out. "Doerwald'" in the hands of the men and threw unnatural shadows There was a rustle in the shelters. The snores ceased across their faces. Tall and sunburnt, they glowered Collins felt the pressure of eyes staring at him from the down at the man who had the authority to call them out darkness. "Doerwald." His call echoed oddly under the huge of bed. tree. It was as if the night resented the sharp call and "Anybody with Jackson when he died?" Collins tiled to muffle the sound. Not far away a jackal yipped asked suddenly. A figuie appeared from a shelter. The moonlight No one answered for a long moment. Then Walker, glanced in a thin line along the shining barrel of a rifle the youngest of the four men, spoke. Above It Collins could see the shaggy outline of a heaw "I was." beard. Other figures moved. "So. Well, what happened?" ^oe^'wald straightened up and ad vanced still holding his rifle. "What's the idea of rout r HE boy—he was hardly twenty-five—swallowed hard ing people out in the middle of the night?" and scuffed his feet. He sensed the tone of suspicion irritated. at his unwelcomeabout Jackson'sreception.death." The Collins others was in the policeman's voice. crowded up, the girl one of them. Without her hat she "We went down to get a drink," he began defiantly. was prettier than he hadthought. Themoonlight played "Yes." on her tousled hair, spinning it out into a fairy halo "There was no water in the bags. Before we started Collins eyes narrowed slightly as the pocked marked for work Jackson and I went down to the river. We had a drink. Then just as we stood up Jackson sort of Didnt.t rememberedyou expect me?as Hertzog shouldered close to her swayed and fell into the river." Walker shivered and shook himself. "Tomorrow maybe." Doerwald's voice snapped the "The crocs got him." Hertzog spoke in a thick voice. policeman back to earth. "Hell! It was only an official Collins was staring at Walker, who had closed his eyes. 16T^01 "Sit down." Collins pulled out a chairfor himself and "Look for him?" Collins asked Doerwald. pushed one toward the old man. But Doerwald remained The old man shrugged. "What was the use? Plenty standing. Walker stood close to Anna on the opposite of crocodiles here, you know." side from the grinning Hertzog. Smit, nondescript and "Crocs, eh?" It was Smit who spoke. Collins glanced disheveled from sleep, remained apart. at him. His face was twitching but his eyes were still fixed on Doerwald. "Crocs!" {.Continued on 'page 3A)
Hello, Collins, said Doerwald still holding his rifle. "What's the idea of routing people out in the middle of the night?" The Elks Magazine Condition—with a Capital C by Artie McGovern Drawings by Jay Irving
'^Accumulatiom of fat must se SilOdViEO OFF AND MOST OVEGWeiGWT PERSOfOS PP.IL TO co-opecAxe '''
I'll never forget the day back in November, 1925 Success stories of famous men carry many recipes when Christy Walsh, Babe Ruth's manager, brought him for reaching the top of the ladder, but the one most to my gymnasium. Feet first, he had returned to New seldom mentioned and by far the most important is: to York, following a general physical collapse. And how the be great a man must feel great, and to feel grea , swaggering Sultan of Swat stood before me, as sorry a must be fit! . physical specimen as I have ever seen. His blood pres Today's leaders in business or in any other enterprise sure was low, his pulse high. He tipped the scales at 254 pay strict attention to physical condition because tney pounds, all of which was loose flabby muscles and soft know they have to. Generally speaking, big^en—ana i rolls of fat. His was a story of excesses and extremes— don't mean heavyweights—recognize the fact too much food, too little exercise, too much and the ing in the best of health is an absolute wrong kind of diversion, too little sleep and rest. expect to make the long climb back up the hill to p "He's through!" the sports writers insisted, and it perity. Most of them coasted down the mil "nan- must be admitted that anyone with an ounce of skepti cial disaster, or very near it, during the Big Tobogg cism in his makeup would find it difficult to believe the Slide of 1929, and they know that the second ascent is contrary. Fortunately the Babe, himself, came to the twice as hard as the first, so they must be in condition, bitter realization that there were no two ways about it with a capital C. j t Either he had to get back his health and good physical Such men as Hon. Grover Whalen, Wilfred J. Funk, condition—or else, tu Gene Sarazen, Hendrik "else" meant the end of Willem Van Loon, A. B. his baseball career; speij, See, Hugh Lofting, Paul ^'<300D DI _ ing tragedy for himself Whiteman, Henry Mor- DEPE.MOS UPOM for baseball in general genthau, Jr., Hon. Nathan EMJOVf^Sl^T OF FOOD- J. V? and for the countless Straus, Jr., Samuel L. fans whose idol he was ("Roxy") Rothafel, Mor i Five months passed, it ton Downey, Mario Cham- March, 1926. Rut}^ lee, James Melton, Philip ^ F walked out on the practice Merivale, Basil Sydney, field in St. Augustine; Lou Gehrig, Jack Demp- once more the great Bam- sey, Babe Ruth, Vinnie 4 .A V bino, and he looked it— Richards and Johnny Far- A 210 pounds of solid flesh rell have sought good phy sical condition as an aid mFC •PUj vs. and hardened muscle. He to success. In their vari k J^ ,. * ®veritable mountain ous fields of business, iSWiagr"of reserve strength, and sport, finance, acting, Wr K '-w n .1^ during the following sea- singing and writing, they gy son aslaurels,he soughthe hadnew occa-bat- found that they had to keep fit. I know this be " sion to use every ounce of cause, at one time or an ^as- ^ C^ - that stamina. But now he other, they have been I isa '• j^ad to give, as his rec under my care. ord for that year shows. December, 1935 It was an inspiring feat, yes! But not a miracle. After twenty-five years of coaching the great and the near-great—the bankers, the bakers, the athletes, and the candle-stick makers—in the art of acquiring good /e health and physical fitness, I can say emphatically: "Good physical condition with its accompanying self- assurance, poise and confidence, is never gained by any miracle or shortcut. The accomplishment in every case is the result of the application of common sense methods to your everyday life." Because Babe Ruth had for so long flouted the rules of good health, the consequences in his case were much more apparent, and therefore, his startling comeback seemed all the more remarkable. But the Babe's prob lems are the problems of many so-called "average" men ' Vou CAf^^4oT \VI SH Fat AVaV/-' among the millions who are constantly waging a battle against fat. The only difference is that Babe fought his Sufficient it is, then, to say: "If Ruth, against all battle and won! He has reduced more, and more consist natural odds could keep his weight down, his health up, ently, than any man I have ever known. From 1925 and still remain a batting champion long past the play- to 1934 Babe Ruth probably lost 10,000 pounds, and niost baseball stars; then the business man, even that is a conservative estimate. But he had to the machinist, the telegraph operator—the average man— work to do it. Obviously, he was designed by Nature to manage to take off the paunches and curves." be a heavyweight. He is one of those healthy individuals N(rt, however, with the nostrums on the market today with an pormous appetite who can get more fat from a which enthusiastic manufacturers sell to a public that single slice of bread than the ordinary person does from IS as lazy as it is gullible. You cannot wish, wash, pat, roll, scrub, or drink away fat. So if, in a moment of a whole loaf. susceptibility, you have bought some pills, salts, or per haps one of those extraordinary pink-handled reducing 'to ee great, a man brushes in the childish hope that through the use of MOST FEEL ments with the medicine ball, dumb-bells, wand drills, athamd treadmill and other gymnasium apparatus. He boxed, played handball or squash—^whatever appealed to him in the way of recreative work—but he had to keep moving. His workout ended with an electric cabinet bath and thorough massage. The main thing for all you fat folks to remember, however, is that Babe Ruth, himself, cooperated to the nth degree. And that'^ where most overweight persons fail. It was no hit-and-miss affair with the Babe. If he wavered for one day, he made up for it with more strin gent rules, the next. And if you are sincere in your efforts to reduce, you must adopt, as he did, a day-to-day discipline. "My life," he used to complain, "is just one round of diet and exercise." So it was, and so it must be in a modified form, for all those who are ovei-weight and v'ho, in fighting fat, still want to keep fit. The Elks Magazine EDITORIAL
LET'S PLAY SANTA CLAUS AGAIN HRISTMAS is primarily a religious festival; and many denomina- observe it with special formalities and ceremonials. But to the great majority of people its technical religious significance has become subordinate to, if not completely merged in, the cele bration of the day as one of which Santa Claus, under various names, is the patron saint, and which is an occasion for the expression of good will, for gift giving and the performance of kindly deeds. Simply because the Order, as such, does not permit religious considerations to play any part in its activities, and not because it considers the primary sig nificance of the day unimportant, the fraternal observance of Christmas by the subordinate Lodges is undertaken in that wholesome spirit which is more generally pervasive. And the quite universal celebration ofit has been accepted by the Lodges as affording an opportunity for special fraternal activities to promote the happiness and welfare of the poor and needy, as their particular contributions to the observance of the occasion. So generous have these contributions been during past years, that they have become recognized in the several jurisdictions as important 'features of the seasonal community charities. Failure to continue such activities by any Lodge would not only create a noticeable deficit in the local aggregate, but it would cause keen disappointment to many to whom the Elks have been their only Santa Claus. As the happy day approaches, may the true spirit which should attend it grow large in all Elk hearts; so that, with characteristic generosity and kindliness, they will again bring that cheer and happiness to others less fortunate, which comes most assuredly from a realization that they have not been forgotten dur ing the season of universal good will. Let s play Santa Claus again in every community in which there is an Elks Lodge.
ENLIGHTENED PUBLIC OPINION UBLIC opinion is undoubtedly the most potent factor in the deter- ^ mination of any question presented for decision by the American ^ 1^^^ peoplethat publicor their opinionofficial eachrepresentatives.citizen contributesTo thetoaggregate the extentforce of hisof individual attitude plus his personal influence exerted thereby upon others. It follows that such attitude should be intelligently assumed after appropriate consideration of all the elements involved. Some wit has said that there are always two sides to every question and fre quently three or four. No fair minded man will definitely form an opinion thereon without giving thought to every one of those sides. And yet many are unwittingly led to do so. They read but one newspaper whose editorial comments naturally reflect the editor's own preconceived view point and are often one sided arguments rather than helpfully informative. Their associations are usually with a limited group having like interests with themselves and who are actuated by similar mental processes. Prejudices are unconsciously permitted to sway judgment. The result is an unduly narrow concept of the matter in issue. Every person desiring to take an enlightened stand upon any particular ques tion should read expressions presenting different views__ based upon other con siderations deemed important. He should extend his contacts so as to enlarge his opportunities for hearing other opinions and the arguments supporting them. He should eliminate prejudice, and give unbiased thought to the sub ject. Only in this way will the combined force of what is called public opinion become truly intelligent so as to logically justify the influence it exerts. The Order of Elks is made up of so vast a number of individuals that the Decembery 1935 effect of their opinions is an important contribution to what constitutes public sentiment. The real value of that contribution depends upon the fair minded intelligence with which the individual opinions are formed. And the fraternally patriotic obligation rests upon every member to exercise that fair mindedness and intelligence in considering all phases of a given question. By the faithful observance of the obligation, and only so, can the Order be come the force and influence it should be in the formulation of an enlightened public opinion which will inevitably control the ultimate decision and attend ing results.
WINTER ITH the coming of December, Winter has definitely settled upon whole country. In some portions the climate is less rigorous than in others, of course; but over a very large extent of our terri- tory weather conditions essentially multiply the needs of human beings as related to mere creature comforts. Unhappily the season itself brings to the great body of the economically unfortunate no compensating increased abilities to meet the unusual needs. This means greater suffering among those who compose this class unless those who are more fortunate share generously with their neighbors who are thus brought into distress. The word neighbors is used in its larger charitable sense, as embracing all our human brothers; and not with its restricted meaning, as including only those who live in our small physical neighborhood. As you read this, you are most likely to be comfortably situated; wearing seasonable clothing; sitting in a warm room; with a body amply nourished by good food. You may not have much, or any, money in the bank. But you are quite sure to be in a position which, without any great sacrifice to you or yours, admits of your sharing something of your comparatively much with those in your community who have such a pitiful little. Why not follow the generous impulse which stirs you, before your attention is distracted, and make some contribution to the comfort and wellbeing of those of whom you can easily learn by calling any relief agency on the telephone.^ That's a good fellow!
LIKE AN ELK esfpression like an Elk" is frequently used in reference to a fi^^l^^rnal act; and it is interesting to analyse the meaning which usually attaches to it and which speaks volumes for the general repute in which the Order is held. A deed performed like an Elk means one that is actuated by the purest unselfishness. It seeks only to benefit others with no idea of any substantial or material return. It implies an uncalculating generosity. It looks only to the need to be met and how completely that need may be served; not merely how little can be made to do. It connotes a cheeriness that bespeaks a real happiness derived from the act; not a mere complacent recognition that a duty has been perfunctorily performed. It involves a manner whicli is born of thoughtful consideration of the feel ings of others, and which seeks to avoid inappropriate publicity. And it embodies a true dignitywhich is conscious of the worthiness of the act. A deed so performed is a concrete expression of the highest virtues taught by our Order and which every true EJk strives to exemplify in his daily life. If it lacks any one of these suggested features it fails to measure up to that full ness of benevolence which must attend it, if it is to be really like an Elk. Members of the Order should have a special pride in the use of the expres sion by those who are not members; for it shows they have come to realize what that membership implies and how generally its benevolent obligations are observed. And they should be alert to maintain and enlarge that fraternal reputation by their own conduct so that it be always truly Elklike in the best The Elks Magazine
0., Pres. ; 'G. William Allen, Honolu V-?'--;?,-. "r lu, Vice-Pres.; Nelson J. Galipeau, Appleton, Wis., Secy., and G. W. Miller, Pulaski, Va., iS-eas. Under the . Nelson J. Galipeau California North District Elks Meet at Sacramento Spreading The annual conference of officers of the California North District was recently held at Sacramento, Calif., in the beautiful Home of Sacramento Lodge, No. 6. The pro Antlers gram started with an initiation of candidates in the middle of the af ternoon, the initiatory ceremonies being conducted by officers of va News of Subordinate rious Lodges of the District. The conference was called by D.D. William J. Quinn, of Stockton Lodge, No. 218, who introduced the Lodges Throughout 75 officers who were present. Fol lowing the conference, Sacramento Lodge entertained the visitors with the Order a fine dinner served in the banquet room. Entertainment was provided. Some of the officers present trav Series of Class Initiations in eled over 200 miles to attend and Los Angeles, Calif.,'Lodge all were highly satisfied with the In addition to its Joseph T. Fan work accomplished. It was an ning Class, initiated on November nounced at the meeting that every 14 in honor of Past Grand Exalted Lodge in the District was enthu Ruler Joseph T. Fanning, Los An siastically planning for its Joseph geles, Calif., Lodge, No. 99, is bring T. Fanning Class to be initiated in ing into the Order this month an November in the respective Home other large group of candidates in of each Lodge, and reports have honor of Past Grand Exalted Ruler shown that the total number of new Michael F. Shannon. The Lodge has members brought into the Order embarked on an ambitious program through these classes is of gratify of initiations with a class for every ing proportions. month. William, J. Quinn, D.D. In January, P.E.R. Marshall F. McComb, a member of the Grand Pekin, HI., Lodge Dedicates Forum, will be similarly honored. Memorial Pipe Organ The name of P.E.R. John J. Doyle, Pekin, 111., Lodge, No. 1271, for Grand Esquire, will be given to the mally dedicated its pipe organ re February class when a number of cently with impressive ceremonies in prominent Los Angeles citizens will the presence of upwards of 500 become members of the Order on Lodge members and guests. _The "Doyle Night." organ was installed as a memorial to Each of these events is the out the late Jacob Schmidt, editor and standing monthly date on the Lodge publisher, and a charter member of calendar. Elaborate programs of Pekin Lodge; Lawrence J. Duffin, entertainment, speaking cards, and who served as Est. Lead. Knight for refreshments occupy that part of several years, and the late Herold D. the evening which is not taken up Taaks, also a charter member, who with the regular Lodge meeting. served on many committees during his 17 years of membership. National Home Elks Hold The donors of the Memorial were Golf Tournament Mrs. Ida E. Schmidt, widow of Jacob Schmidt and aunt of Lawrence Duf The Fall Tournament of the Elks fin, and Mrs. Carolyn J. Taaks, the Bronx, N. Y., Lodge National Home golf club was _run mother of Herold Taaks. Mr. Taaks Holds Charity Ball off in October with much enthusiasm Bronx, N. Y., Lodge, No. 871, held and display of golfing prowess ex was also a nephew of Mrs. Schmidt. hibited by the participants. John The gift of the pipe organ, one of the its Charity Ball on November 4 at finest made, was reported in these the Concourse Plaza Hotel. The Ball A. Tipton, of Buffalo, N. Y., won columns several months ago. That it first prize, S. H. DeHoff, of Towson, was heartily enjoyed by the Bronx Md., second prize, and William^ S. is appreciated by the membership Elks who credit the Community Wel Campbel, of Latrobe, Pa., third prize. was evidenced by the universal ex fare Committee of the Lodge with its While golf is played throughout pressions of members as well as the success. the year on the National Home links guests present at the dedicatory cere The Glee Club of Bronx Lodge, at Bedford, Va., no more tourna monies. The program was presided under the direction of Fred Vettel, ments will be held there until the over by E.R. Everett A. Stropes. has been giving a succession of con- spring season opens. The _Club Opening and closing prayers were cert.s in Homes and Hospitals in New claims to be the only golf club in the made by the Rev. Arno A. Zimmer York. The Glee Club will be heard "United States with members hailing man. The Memorial Address was in February at the "Follies of 1936" from nearly every State in the delivered by Judge John T. Culbert- to be presented in the Bronx Winter Union, and from Hawaii and the son, Jr., immediate Past Exalted Garden. Bronx Elks are already Philippine Islands. The present of Ruler of Pekin Lodge. looking forward to this musical treat. ficials are Peter J. Malott, Columbus, Roy S. Preston, Secy. George B. Bley, E.R. December. 1935
Left, at top: the officers of Glendale, Calif., Lodge, who comprise the State Champion Ritualistic Team of California. The Team eliminated all other contestants in the competition (It the resent California State Elks Association Convention at Santa Monica
heft, center: The diamond ball team, sponsored by Valley City, N. D., Lodge, tchich won the local championship
Left, beloiv: A group of dis tinguished members of the Order who saiv Leavenworth, Kans., Lodge, gain a record- breaking class of candidates at a recent initiation
Philadelphia, Pa., Lodge Moves into Old Home After an absence of 10 years Philadelphia, Pa., Lodge, No. 2, has returned to its former Home at 1320 Arch Street. It was here that some of the greatest strides of any subordinate Lodge in the Order were accomplished. The ceremo nies incidental to the re- establishment of the Lodge in its old Home met with enthusiastic acclaim by hundreds of old time mem bers who had for various reasons been obliged to forego the privilege of membership during the past decade. f \L. Past Grand Exalted Ruler Charles H. Grakelow,' P.E.R. of No. 2, installed the new Lodge regime in its present quarters in his usual happy style. With Deputy Attorney - General Adrian Bonnelly as Ex alted Ruler and Dr. Calvin 0. Althouse, Commander- in-Chief of the Philadel phia Consistory, as Est. Loyal Knight, the Lodge is making rapid progress in fraternal circles in Phila delphia, and there is every indication that it will in the near future be up top among the subordinate Lodges of the Order. Record-Breaking Class Initiated Lodge. The combination of the Philadelphia Lodge, which built hy Leavenicorth, Kans., Lodge bands of the Senior and Junior High for itself a nation-wide reputation Schools and the band of Leaven for hospitality, is doing everything Leavenworth, Kans., Lodge, No. worth Lodge gave the parade a mu in its power to create within the 661, recently broke the State's all- sical unit of more than a hundred walls of its Home the true spirit of time initiation record by the induc pieces. Elkdom, and looks forward with a tion into the Order of a class of The members and the candidates great deal of pleasure to the opportu nearly 150 candidates. The Class is were guests at a chicken dinner nity of welcoming Elks from other the foundation in the Lodge's plans after the disbanding of the parade. Lodges in the Order. for making itself the largest Elk The crack Degree Team of Kansas Recent business as well as social Lodge in the State. From as far City, Mo., Lodge, No. 26, performed meetings have been extremely in away as Omaha, Neb., prominent the initiatory work. Judge LeRoy teresting to the membership. Some Elks journeyed to Leavenworth to T. Hand delivered the address of wel of the guest speakers have been Su witness one of the longest civilian come and Mr. Kelsey addressed the preme Court Justice George W. marching parades ever staged in the assemblage. The District Deputy Maxey, former Attorney-General city. The procession was led by a made his official inspection of the Francis Shunk Brown. Attorney- car driven by Mayor J. H. Miller Lodge on this occasion, and was General Charles J. Margiotti and bearing D.D. James B. Kelsey and highly pleased with the conditions he Owen B. Hunt. E.R. Arthur Fowler of Leavenworth found there. Max Slepin, Esquire 26 The Elks Magazine A Telegram to the Joseph T. Fanning Class from President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Elks 19th National The three divisions are five-man, may be secured by writing Secy. Bowling Tournament two-man and individual. The All- John J. Gray, 1616 South 16th Events is determined by the aggre E.R. George F. Conver and the Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Gray gate . score in the three divisions will be glad to help arrange dates members of Cincinnati, Ohio, Lodge, rolled by the bowler. It is not nec No. 5, are working diligently on and other details in connection with essary to enter all divisions in order the meet. preparations for the 19th Annual to bowl in the tournament. Elk John J. Gray, Secy.-Treas., Elks National Bowling Tournament bowlers may enter either of the divi Elks Bowling Assn. to be held in Cincinnati next March sions, any two or all as they may and April under the auspices of the desire. Addition to Home Dedicated by Lodge. They hope to smash all pre Reduced fares will prevail on all Weehawken^ N. J., Lodge vious records for entries. railroads for Elks attending the With over 500 persons witnessing Many Elk Lodges throughout the tournament. Further information the ceremonies, Weehawken, N. J., East and Middle West have signified their intention of sending large dele gations to participate in the tourney. Reservations have already been re quested for their members by Pitts Prize Winners of The Old Gold-Elks Magazine burgh, Louisville, Toledo, Chicago, Oak Park, Fremont, Detroit, Mil Baseball Contest waukee and St. Louis Lodges. Spe cial committees are working in Cin Robert L. Miller, L. M. Gagle, Mrs. Celia Mendelson, cinnati for entries and a monster 145 Marathon Ave., 317 11th St., S.W., 147 Catherine Ave., booster meeting is one of the events Dayton, Ohio. Washington, D. C. Muskegon, Mich. on the Lodge's program. The local Lodge expects to enter 100 five-man C. F. Kemps, A. B. Shoemaker, J. G. Sommer, 220 E. Dayton St., 6 West Jefferson St., 1237 Potomac Ave., teams. South Bend, Ind. Quincy, Michigan. Hagerstown, Md. Diamond medals or trophies, with engraving emblematic of the bowling Virginia Pohlman, Ross H. Belbeck, C. M. Seaton, game and of the Elks Bowling Asso 350 West 11th St., RFD 3, 7627 Phillips Ave., ciation, will be awarded the cham Fremont, Neb. Lansing, Mich. Chicago, 111. pions of each division. The Lodge A. V. Cloutier, L. Bruce Myers, Roy A. Cochran, represented by the team declared as 935 West 9th, 207 Crescent Ave., 471 Beacon Road, the five-man team champions will be Des Moines, la. Ellwood City, Pa. Newark, Ohio. awarded a beautiful trophy in addi tion to the medals given the indi Mrs. P. R. Fisher, C. J. Harris, E. A. Simon, vidual members of the team. 3749 Montgomery Ave., Box 473, 202 N. Liberty St., The entry fee is $3.50 per man in Norwood, Ohio. Gainesville, Fla. Galion, Ohio. each division with no other charges. December, 1935
Lodge, No. 1456, recently dedicated a delegations from the Lodges of Gulf- Bollard, Wash., Lodge Band new addition to its Home. Throngs port, Biloxi and Pascagoula, Miss., Presents Flag and Pole to of visitors congregated on the spa and Pensacola, Fla., attended. The cious grounds as E.R. Frank R. Hel- Degree Team of Birmingham, Ala., Convalescent Home linghausen opened the ceremonies fol Lodge was also present. After the On Sunday, October 20, the Elks lowing the invocation by Chaplain initiation ceremonies a dinner was Band of Ballard, Wash., Lodge, No. Nelson Fairweather. Mayor John held, followed by a dance and floor 827, presented to the Orthopedic G. Meister, a member of the Lodge, show. Convalescent Home situated on the delivered a brief introductory ad Talks were made by Mr. Tardy; Lake Washington Canal, a hand dress in which he conveyed the con State Trustee Sam Lefkovitz of En- some flag and flag pole. Past Grand gratulations of the township upon sley, Ala., Lodge, No. 987; P.D.D. Exalted Ruler Walter F. Meier, of the splendid record of the Lodge and Harry W. English of Birmingham Seattle, Wash., Lodge, No. 92, under the high esteem which it holds in the Lodge, No. 79; P.E.R. Ed N. Levy of whose leadership the Washington community. Demopolis, Ala., Lodge, No. 681, and State Elks Association built the Grand Trustee William T. Phil Secy. W. W. Walker of Pascagoula, Home, made the presentation lips, Secy, of New York, N. Y., Lodge Miss., Lodge, No. 1120. speech. A bronze plate, bearing the date, the Lodge num- ber and the names of the J members of the Band 3 Committee, was placed on * the pole. The Band ren- 11^111^^ dered an appropriate con- cert for the occasion. Henry C. Fox is the Di- rector of the Band Com- mittee, and Joseph T. Gogerty, Manager. The other members are P.E.R. M. T. Bowie, Reuben Carlson, Milo Robbins and Byron Hogan. No. 1, for nearly a quarter of a cen Joseph T. Gogerty tury, was the principal speaker. He recalled that he helped to install Wee- hawken Lodge 15 years ago and spoke of the steady advancement Top: Officials at the dedica that it has made up to the present tion of the Lodge Room and time. Grill addition to the Home of The dedication ceremonies were Weehaivkeuy N. Lodge. impressively performed by Mr. Hel- The principal speaker was Grand Trustee William T. linghausen and his officers. The Phillips, (8th from right) speeches of D.D. Nelson A. Pomfret of Paterson, N. J., Lodge, and State Pres. Nicholas Albano of Newark, N. J., Lodge, were features of the 2nd picture from top: Mem program. Among the other promi bers of Globe, Ariz., Lodge nent New Jersey Elks present were who attended a surprise party State Vice-Pres. John H. Killeen, to Past State President Joseph Weehawken; P.D.D.'s Richard F. F. Mayer Flood, Jr., Bayonne; Dr. William A. Dittmar, Jersey City, and Thomas Osborne, Kearny; E.R. Thomas A. McCarthy, Bayonne; P.E.R. Patrick 3rd picture from top: The H. Sullivan, Jersey City, and P.E.R.'s uniformed hand of Duluth, John Roeder, Jr., and Frank Bucino, Minn., Lodge Hoboken. The cost of the addition was $12,- 000. The money was raised during the past two depression years and just before the dedication not only were all bills connected with the work ^ J of construction paid, but an addi tional sum of more than $3,000 was deposited in the Lodge treasury. Henry L. Schroeder, Jr., Treas. .V V Large Class Initiated at Mobile, Ala., Lodge At a meeting held on October 24, Mobile, Ala., Lodge, No. 108, initi ated the "C. M. Tardy Class of Can didates," numbering 24 members. E.R. Fournier J. Gale, Secy.-Treas. of the Ala. State Elks Assn., pre sided over the meeting. The class was named in honor of Clarence M. Tardy, Pres. of the State Assn. The ritualistic work was per formed by the Degree Team of Bloc- ton, Ala., Lodge, No. 710, champion Degree Team of the State. Large Some of the 700 Elks who attended a picnic given by Medford, Ore., Lodge recently S tSiriit-i ^^,£,'5 SiFUviori Gtftiitifns ^iitttftenfttt^
Above: a picture taken on the occasion of the Anniiul Elks Children's Day, recently held by n^est P(dm Beach, Fla., Lodge. The entertaining of unfortunate children is one of the principal activities of the Lodge
At left: the officers of Englewood, N. }., Lodge, whose administration of the affairs of the Lodge have put it on a firmer foot ing than it has enjoyed in many years
bering 60 candidates. The year 1935 has been the most successful one that the Lodge has enjoyed in its history. John W. Caffey, E.R.
York, Pa., Elhs Make Good Will Tour So successful was the good will tour of York, Pa., Lodge, No. 213, to Gettysburg, Carlisle and Harris- burg, that plans were made imme West Palm Beach, Fla., Lodge cipal event on the program, although diately for other similar pilgrimages. Holds Annual Children's Day track events were also stressed and A caravan of 27 automobiles made heartily enjoyed by both participants the trip to the neighboring com Thousands of children gathered at and spectators. munities. The party included of Bethesda Park recently where mem ficers and members of York Lodge, bers of West Palm Beach, Fla., Anniversary Banquet at the 20 members of the Elks Chorus Lodge, No. 1352, had assembled a Greensboro, N. C., Lodge and the 32 members of the prize-win free luncheon as one of the features By the time this item is published, ning Spring Garden Band led by its of the gala annual Children's Day conductor, Lester K. Loucks. sponsored by the local Elks. The Greensboro, N.C., Lodge, No. 602, children were picked up at West will have celebrated its 35th Anni At each of the places visited the Palm Beach, West Gate, Kelsey City, versary Banquet and Ball on Novem caravan was met by a reception com Riviera and Palm Beach in taxis, ber 16—one of the most important mittee and always before its depar buses, trucks and private cars. First social functions ever held by the ture refreshments were served and they were taken to the Kettler Thea- Lodge. Grand Exalted Ruler James entertainment presented. The of tre_ and the Arcade, the same film— T. Hallinan and Past Grand Exalted ficers of York Lodge, headed by E.R. "Girl of the Limberlost"—being Ruler Fred Harper of Lynchburg, James E. Chalfant, took an impor shown at each theatre. Both houses Va., accepted invitations and were tant part in the tour. A total num were filled to ovei-flowing. scheduled to appear, as was Gover ber of 105 Elks made the trip. Ben The children were then taken to nor David Sholtz of Florida, Approv jamin Eby was Chairman of tho the Park for luncheon. The FERA ing Member of the Board of Grand Committee on Arrangements and playground force managed the ath Trustees. Walter S. Souder co-Chairman. letic program arranged for the chil Greensboro Lodge was also sched Several days later the Lodge of dren under the supervision of the uled to have initiated on November ficers and a party of members visited FERA Recreation Director, Ralph 14 the largest single class of can Chambersburg, Pa., Lodge, No. 600, Studebaker. Baseball was the prin didates the Lodge has ever had, num- and performed the initiatory work Horace rr. £:tcarZcy-, iSm&Mm D. G«T\t and P.D.D. Mayor V.. of 14 Yo %. "n "n D.D. Houlihan Visits Bohlender. Mr. Gent had ^P" Among those present were JJ.D. Concord, Mass., Lodge pointed by Grand Exalted Ruler John P. Doyle of Mount Kisco Lodge, P.E.R. Frank D. Houlihan of James T. Hallinan to serve as Dis No. 1552, and P.D.D. James Demp- Framingham Lodge, No. 1264, D.D. trict Deputy for the Northwest sey Jr. of Peekskill Lodge. Ed for Mass. Cent., recently made his District of Pennsylvania, and Mayor ward J. Donnelly was Chairman of Bohlender was elected State Trustee the Clambake Committee. official visit to Concord, Mass., Lodge, Cluirles F. Frie&mann, E.K. No 1479. Accompanying him as for a five-year term at the Grand Esquire was State Secy. Convention of the Pa. State Elks Jeremiah J. Ilourin, former pecy. Assn. , .J J Activities, JP^elfare and Social, in Fj R. Lawrence Kinaelman presided of No 12(54. A large and dlStlll- «ia Toaatmaster. P.D.D. J&tllGS B. Ticonderoga, IS, Y., Lodge mkM suite of visiting Kip Bni-lanrl, !i elmi'ter member oi the ^ Rental chair, wltll instruments rcapecta to thp pi«Lrict Tinfltre. welcomed the visitors, ii^onfr and accesBoriefs, was preseili^cd to During the cvenini? a class Ot CftnOl- the apeakera were State Pl'SS. Fl^lllC the public last year by Ticonaeroga, dates was initiated after which Mr. N. Y., Lodge, No. 1494, and installed Houlihan delivered his address. J. Lyons, State Chaplain the Rev. Father Diamond, and Past btate in the Central School. Two well Short speeches were made by known dentists, Karl Bowers and PD D's Frederick T. Strachan, Pres.'s Max L. Lindheimer, George Winth'rop, John F. McGann, Somer- F J. Falkenstein, Howard Davis ana John Low, who are members of the Scott E. Drum. Mr. Gent and Mayor Lodge, have each given one day a ville, H. Wesley Curtis, Arlington, week during the school year for the and Edward W. Sheehan, Concord; Bohlender also addressed the diners. Near the close of the program, Mi . purpose of attending to the needs PER Ivan D. Servais, Concord, and Borland presented a beautiful silk of the children. Their services were Mr. Hourin. The Eleven O'Clodc handkerchief embroidered with the free. The sincere gratitude ex Toast was given by P.D.D. David F. Elks' emblem to State Pres. Lyons, pressed by the parents of the young Walsh of Framingham. _ A buffet patients is considered ample payment supper followed the meeting. explaining that it had been one of John J. McWalter, Secy. his prized possessions for forty years. by the Lodge for its help and by F. L. Bensinger, Secy. Dr. Low and Dr. Bowers for their work. Betty Bacharach Home Exhibits Ticonderoga Lodge held its an Work at County Fair Peehskill, N. y., Lodge Holds Annual Clambake nual clambake recently at Paradox, For many years a prominent place N. Y. The bake was enjoyed by among the exhibits at the Atlantic Peekskill, N. Y., Lodge, No. 744, more than 500 persons. County Fair, held annually at Egg held its 33rd annual clambake at Arthur D. Spring, Correspondent Harbor City, N. J., has been set aside Wallace Pond Grove. A net profit for samples of the work of the chil dren of the Betty Bacharach Home at Longport, N. J- The display is sponsored by the Board of Gover nors of the Home. Rug and basket weaving, sewing, bead work and the making of sewing outfits and other household objects, both useful and ornamental, are among the varieties of work represented. The Betty Bacharach Home lor Afflicted Children is the main charity interest of Atlantic City, N. J., Lodge, No. 276. The Home has re- white ribbons for its exhibits at the Atlantic County Fair for the past several years. Elias Rosoibaum
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Above: a picture taken at the Clam bake and Outing recently enjoyed by the Past Exalted Rulers Associa tion of the East District of New York at CrotoTi Point Park, N. Y. A The Elks Magazine The Grand Exalted Ruler's Visits
1HE officers and alarge number Among the dinner guests were of members of Freeport, N. Y., F. William Wolters, a member of Directly beloiv, members of the Canal Lodge, No. 1253, gathered in the the Grand Lodge Auditing Com Zone Lodges welcoming Judge Halli dining room of their beautifully mittee, P.E.R. John Scileppi, and nan on his recent visit to Panama, and appointed Home on October 16 to Secy. James D. Moran, all of beneath them, standing on the dock enjoy with Grand Exalted Ruler Queens Borough Lodge; Past State are: James O. Ded Londes, P.E.R. James T. Hallinan a dinner given Pres.'s Joseph Brand of Bronx John IF. Dwyer, E.R. John A. Wright, by the Lodge in his honor. E. R. Lodge and Philip Clancy of Niagara Judge Hallinan, and P.D.D.'s R. M. Herbert A. Mcllroy, who presided, Falls Lodge; State Trustee Gustav Davies and Charles F. Magee introduced P.D.D. Peter Stephen H. Papenmeyer, Hempstead Lodge; Beck as Toastmaster who, in turn, Judge L. D. Van Woert of Otsego presented Judge Hallinan as the County, a member of Oneonta only speaker. After complimenting Lodge; Mayor Robert E. Patterson the Committee on Arrangements of Freeport; P.E.R. Wilbur L. Losee upon the success of the occasion, of Montclair, N. J., Lodge, and the the Grand Exalted Ruler delivered Rev. Father John J. Mahon. The a vigorous address to the assembled P.E.R.'s of Freeport Lodge in at Elks that stimulated the hearers to tendance were Leo Fishel, George tremendous enthusiasm. Announce Morton Levy, Franklin G. Hill, ment of an increasing number of Clarence A. Edwards, Peter Ste applications for membership as well phen Beck, Worden E. Winne, as for the re-affiliation of many for George M. Bird, Arved L. Larson, mer members was cause for a re F. Harold Loonam, Isadore Lewis, newal of hearty applause. After Joseph P. Glynn, Lyman R. Young, the termination of the function William J. Murphy and George S. Judge Hallinan held an informal re Johnson. ception, greeting many old friends At 3 o'clock on Saturday after of Freeport and many who were noon, October 19, the Grand Exalted visitors from neighboring Lodges. {Continued on page 32)
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Top large picture: Judge Hallinan surrounded by Panama Elks at a reception held for him in the Canal Zone Lower picture: Distinguished members of the Order at a dinner tendered the Grand Exalted Ruler by Queens Borough,N. Y., Lodge December, 1935
The Home of Fond-du Lac,- Lodge, where the fFis. State Elks As'sn. met
Vews of the State Associations
^ Vermont nington, Vt., Lodge, No. 567. After Colorado attending a meeting of the New HE Eighth Annual Reunion of York State Elks Assn. at Syracuse, On Tuesday, October 22, a special the Vermont State Elks Asso- Judge Hallinan had been entertained get-together meeting of the Colorado ciation was held in the LO.O.F. Hall, at dinner by the Bennington Elks. State Elks Association, called by m Springfield, Vt., on Sunday, Oct. 6. He was accompanied by his Secre State Pres. Jacob L. Sherman of Representatives of the 10 Lodges in tary, James D. Moran, Secy, of Denver Lodge, was held in Colorado ^e State were present and State Queens Borough, N. Y., Lodge. Springs. Over 400 enthusiastic Elks Pres. Lawrence F. Edgerton, a Among the prominent Vermont attended, many driving great dis? P.E.R. of Springfield Lodge, No. Elks present were Past Grand Es tances through a blizzard. Mr. Sher 1560, presided. The one-day session teemed Loyal Knight Riley C. Bow man was accompanied by Past Grand was devoted to the business of the ers of Montpelier Lodge; Past State Exalted Ruler John R. Coen of Ster Association. Pres. Charles F. Mann of Brat- ling, Colo., Lodge, and Past State Grand Exalted Ruler James T. tleboro Lodge, and P.D.D. John T. Pres. Milton L. Anfenger of Denver Hallinan motored to Springfield with Nelson of Barre Lodge. In a dele Lodge, an associate member of the E.R. Robert E. Cumraings of Ben- gation from New Hampshire were Grand Lodge Activities Committee. Frank J. Kelly, Con- The long list of prominent Colo cord, the first President rado Elks at the meeting included the of the N.H. State Elks names of some of the most prominent Assn.; State Pres. Ben- and zealous members of the Order in jamin P. Hopkins, the State, among them being Grand Keene Lodge; Dr. C. J. Esteemed Loyal Knight Dr. Lloyd R. Washburn, Concord, Allen, Colorado Springs; F. A. Hum State Inner Guard, and phrey, Fort Collins, a member of the State Trustee Bernard Grand Lodge Committee on Creden J. Gilbo, Keene Lodge. tials; George L. Hamllik, Central The Gi'and Exalted City, D.D. for Colo., Cent., and W. Ruler delivered a five- E. Daley, Loveland, D.D. for Colo., minute radio address to North; Past State Pres. H. D. Tobey members of the Order of Boulder Lodge; State Chaplain and friends over Sta- Val Higgins, Denver; State Secy. W. tion WNBX at Spring- P. Hurley, Fort Collins; and the en \ field. His presence at tire Board of Trustees of the Colo. : the State Convention State Elks Assn. consisting of Z. D. i added much to its suc Havers, Denver, J. Raymond Kis- cess both from a social sock, Fort Collins, and Lawrence E. Accola, Pueblo. James Clark, Treas point. After his speech urer of Fort Collins Lodge, who has the Bennington Elks es not missed a meeting of the Lodge Sandcortedfi'aternalhim to Albanystand since 1915, was a member of the where he and Mr. Fort Collins delegation. Moran took a train to The Longmont Elks Band, led by New York. Jimmie Carrol, contributed to the Officers elected to pleasure of the gathering. Lodges serve the Association represented besides those already during the ensuing year mentioned were Canon City, Cripple are: Pres., Arthur L. Creek and Victor, and many Elks Graves, St. Johnsbury; were present from various localities throughout the State. Bowers, Montpelier; Business of the State Association and matters pertaining to the Order ward Charron, St. Al- were discussed. A banquet was one bans; 3rd Vice-Pres., of the main features of the gather Photos bu SJ'eb"i/0U't Prisss Francis E. Morrissey, ing and an initiation was splendidly Top picture: The Sheboygari Drum andr 5Bugle Bennington; Secy., Jut- staged by the officers of Colorado Corps as it appeared in the parade which ivaswas the Longmoore, St. Springs Lodge. The meeting was closing feature of the Jt^isconsin State Elkscs Asso- Asso Johnsbury; Treas., Car- not only one of the most constructive ciation Convention held in Fond du Lac earlysarly in rol Hardigan, Burling but from a get-together standpoint August ton. one of the most enjoyable ever held Sidney J. Paine, by Colorado Elks. Lotver picture: The decorative float enteredi in the Correspondent, W. P- Hurley, State Secy. parade by Oshkosh, Wis., Lodge Woburn, Mass., Lodge {Continued on page 33) 32 The Elks Magazine The Grand Exalted Ruler's Visits {Continued from page SO)
Ruler and a host of Grand Lodge and Mr. Courtney delivered addresses from nearby Lodges who attended officials and members of the Order on Americanism and Fraternalism. a dinner in honor of the Grand Ex assembled in the Mirror Room of the During the evening Judge Hallinan alted Ruler. A regular session of Hotel Morrison to join in the cele was presented by Mr. Eisenman the Lodge was held after dinner in bration of the 59th Anniversary of with a handsome cocktail set, suit the Masonic Temple adjacent to the Chicago, 111., Lodge, No, 4. An initia ably engraved, intended, however, Lodge Home where the assemblage tion and banquet had been arranged for Mrs. Hallinan. The Grand Ex was augmented by other delegations and Judge Hallinan was the honored alted Ruler graciously accepted the arriving from neighboring Lodges guest on this eventful occasion. gift for his wife, and then addressed State Trustee Gustav H. Papen- In response to an invitation ex the assemblage, thanking the mem meyer and P.E.R. Dominick Guando bers of Chicago Lodge for his recep headed the delegation from Hemp- tended by E. R. Irving Eisenman of stead Lodge; P.D.D. Thomas F Chicago Lodge to perform the work tion and all those who had come to Cuite headed the delegation froni of initiation upon a class of 116 can pay him homage. The demonstra Brooklyn Lodge, and the Glen Cove didates, the P.E.R.'s Degree Team tion which took place at the close of delegation was headed by D D of Oak Park, 111., Lodge, No. 1295, his speech was indeed a tribute both Michael A. Petroccia. From Free- officiated. The members of the Oak to the personality of the Grand Ex port Lodge came P.D.D. Peter Park Team are P.E.R.'s Roy F. Cum alted Ruler and to the wisdom and Stephen Beck, E.R. Herbert A. Mc- mins, Wilford D. Prest, James Finn, clarity of his message as head of the Ilroy and a large number of mem William J. Savage, Harry Reiser, Order. The releasing of a thousand bers. P.E.R. Horace Sullivan of Frank P. White, Clarence B. Hetzel red, white and blue balloons added to Lynbrook Lodge and several mem qnd A. J. Busscher. The newly initi the excitement of the moment. bers were present. The Grand Ex ated Elks and assembled guests wit Over 400 telegrams and letters of alted Ruler's own Lodge—OuepnQ nessed a perfect exemplification of congratulationwere received by Chi Borough, No. 878—was FeprelSd ritualistic work. The Class numbered cago Lodge on its Anniversary. by P.E.R.'s F. William Wblters a many men prominent in the civic, Among the members of ^e Lodge member of the Grand Lodge Audit political and professional life of introduced by Judge Feinberg were ing Committee, P.D.D. Matthew T Chicago. Harry Armstrong, who became a Merritt, James D. Hampton, George member of the Order in its earliest A. Burden and a very large deleeS, days, and Louis A. Cohn, one of tion of members. 1 HE Chicago Lodge of Antlers oldest living members on the Lodge s E.R. Irwin R. Browner of Great then initiated 19 candidates into its Neck Lodge, in presenting JulS own organization in a manner that ^°^he banquet was followed by en Hallinan, stated that the tie tS?! brought forth praise from all who tertainment lasting syeral hours^ binds Great Neck Lodge to Queen^ witnessed the work of the young Every theatre and cafe m Chicago Borough Lodge was more than I'T, f men. Chicago Lodge is exceedingly fent members of its company or floor an ordinary one, inasmue>. proud of its Antlers Lodge and all of to take part in the program. Queens Borough Lodge wa? the members present were gratified iT^^eredThe Elevenb^PastO'ClockGrandToastExaltedwasRulerde- garded as the Mother Lodffe nf xt®' to hear the congratulations and com B^uce A. Campbell. On Sund^, 1543. ^ No. pliments contained in the speech de livered by the Grand Exalted Ruler Sr 20, Judge H»1 -nan^ at the conclusion of the ceremonies IjjARNESTLY and eloquenthr and also in the remarks of Grand Grand Exalted Ruler pointf»J Trustee Henry C. Warner of Dixon, the objectives of the order 111., Lodge. A reception was then called upon all members of p held for the visiting Grand Lodge Neck Lodge for cooperation in dignitaries which continued until Many of the older moting a successful administii»?^'°~ time for the Anniversary Banquet Mount ^Tuesday evening, of its affairs during the year at 7:30 P.M. at the Lodge Home Rev. Edward J. Donovan, John P. Harding, General Chair October Exalted Ruler Chaplain of the N. Y. State Pm?® man of the Anniversary Celebra Mhifofflcial viait to that Lodge, Assn. in 1922-23-24, spoke bripfl ® tion, escorted Judge Hallinan into Sfh'ere he wat greeted by a large the advantages enjoyed bv the Cameo Room of the Hotel in Representation of the membership. Neck Lodge and pledged full ^ which the banquet was held. Over 800 A^nmber of P.E.R.'s were present, port in carrying out the Gran/i®^^" Elks were present. In the Grand Ex alted Ruler's policy. Past Exal?''; alted Ruler's party were Past Grand fncluSng sIdney A. Syme, P.D.D., Rulers of the host Lodge nJp ^ Exalted Rulers Bruce A. Campbell of and M. Burr Wright, Sr. on the occasion included Hpvk East St. Louis, 111., Lodge, Floyd E. At the regular session of the Ninesling, State Vice-Pre
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California sports were again enjoyed. Over of the Association will be held in 700 ladies took advantage of the ar Oakland. The presence of Past Grand Ex rangements that had been made by Early in the afternoon more than alted Rulers William M. Abbott of the host Lodge for visits to the 4,000 Elks marched in what was San Francisco and Michael F. Shan movie studios and to private homes pronounced to be the finest parade non of Los Angeles was a feature of of famous picture stars. ever held at a California State Elks the annual convention of the Cali The Chantex's of various Lodges Convention. Official police estimates fornia State Elks Association held held their annual contest in the eve placed the number of those who wit at Santa Monica. The duration of ning after which the Annual Hi nessed the procession at 50,000. Be the assembly was three days, all of Jinks for delegates, visitors and fore the vast throng filed bands, them replete with accomplishment their ladies was held in the Auditori- drum and bugle corps, drill teams, and social activity. 3,500 being present. The and a mile of floats and novelty en The Convention opened at 10 A.M. affair was under the direction of the tries. Snappy uniforms and gay on September 26 with Pres. Milton members of Santa Monica Lodge. bunting added to the general gay R. Standish presiding. Among the The Eleven O'Clock Toast was given and vivid effect. Entries from prominent visitors and State officers J and at the close Glendale, Long Beach, Los Angeles, introduced were Past Pres.'s Abbott of the Hi Jinks dancing began, last- San Pedro, Redondo Beach and San and Shannon, Ralph Hagan, Harry mg several hours. Fernando were among the largest M. Ticknor, Richard C. Benbough, Lodge delegations. Elk bands from Mifflin G. Potts, William E. Simp Merced, Inglewood, Glendale, Re son, John J. Doyle, Fred B. Mell- Final reports from various com dondo Beach, Santa Monica and other mann, Horace S. Williamson, F. E. mittees were submitted at the Sat Lodges of the State supplied stirring Dayton, Horace H. Quinby and J. urday morning business session music. All along the line of march Thomas Crowe; Vice-Pres.'s Harry which was opened by the Antlers of the uniformed Drill Teams of San D. Hyde and Gerald B. Adrian; Huntmgton Park Lodge with the in Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, Pas Trustees George M. Smith, Hal E. itiation of a class of candidates for adena, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, Willis, Edgar W. Dale, Frank H. t^ir Lodge. The work of the young Inglewood and Huntington Park Pratt, Roscoe W. Burson and Joseph officers was practically perfect and Lodges executed intricate maneuvers. K. Choate; Secy., Richard C. Ben- was received with expressions of ap- Drum and bugle corps adding color bough; Tiler Thomas Abbott; Chap probation by Mr. Standish and by to the parade came from Santa Bar lain the Rev. David Todd Gillmor, and me delegates and high officials of the bara, Taft, Anaheim, Compton, San Sergeant-at-Arms Aubrey N. Irwin. Order who were present. Past Grand Fernando and Long Beach Lodges, The opening session was given J^xalted Ruler Shannon addressed and the American Legion and Native over to reports from all the standing .,® Convention on the communistic Sons were also represented. Among committees followed by the annual in the State and told what the larger floats in the great num Memorial Service under the direction the Elks had accomplished with the ber were those entered by Hunting- of Mr. Potts, Past Grand Esteemed aid of Committees from the Ameri- ton Park, Long Beach and Santa Leading Knight. The speaker was can Legion and the Junior Chamber Monica Lodges, the Venice Mardi P.E.R. Dr. A. R. Schultz of Redlands of Commerce of California to sup Gras Assn., the Santa Monica Life Lodge, and the musical program was press communistic activities, and also Guards, the Venice Police, and the presented by the Chanters of Los outlmed plans for further action. city of Santa Monica. Hal Clark Angeles Lodge. The next order of business was the Sanborn, Santa Monica Public Works The afternoon offered much in the election of State officers for the en Commissioner, was Grand Marshal. way of amusement and outdoor suing year. They are as follows: sports. Many played golf. An auto Pres., George M. Smith, San Jose: tour had been arranged for the la Vice-Pres.'s: Charles W. Merz, 1 HE Annual President's Ball, held dies and a large number attended- a Marysville; John 0. Kroyer, Santa in the La Monica ballroom on the polo game. In the evening the an Kosa; James A. Greenelsh, San Luis pier in the evening, was a beautiful nual banquet in honor of the State Obispo; A. P. Anderson, Taft; spectacle as well as an enjoyable af President was held, over 700 being Jo^ph L. Hofer, Huntington Park, fair. It was the final feature of the present. A floor show and other a^nd Leonard P. Bonnat, Anaheim; Convention. splendid entertainment lasting un Trustees: Edgar W. Dale, Richmond; The list of winning Lodges in the til well past midnight were presented John B. Scherrer, Gilroy, and Arthur different contests staged during the by Santa Monica Lodge. B. Cheroske, Long Beach; Secy., three days of the meeting is as fol The second business session Richard C. Benbough, San Diego, lows : State Cup: Band Contest— opened at 10 A.M. on Friday morning, and Treas., Edward J. Mahoney, Class A, Glendale; Class B, Merced. September 27, with Pres. Standish Tulare. The President-elect then re- Bowling—875 Class, Whittier; 825 again presiding. Various other com appointed the Rev David Todd Gill Class, Glendale. Drum and Bugle mittee reports were received. Past mor, Stockton, Chaplain, and Thomas Corps—Anaheim. Drill Team—Sac Grand Exalted Ruler Abbott was the Abbott, Los Angeles, Tiler, and ap ramento, Glee Club—Los Angeles. speaker of the day, and interesting pointed James J. McCarthy, Santa Golf—4-man team, Huntington and instructive talks were made by Monica, Sergeant-at-Arms. Park; low gross, Robert C. McCrys- many of the delegates relating to the The final report of the Registra tal, Huntington Park. Parade—Taft work of the Order in the different tion Committee showed an attend Lodge. The State Cup in the Ritual parts of the State. It was shown ance of 2,506 registered at Conven istic Contest was won by Glendale that a steady gain in membership tion Headquarters. Closing reports Lodge. Santa Ana Lodge was had been made. P.E.R. Leo V. were made after which presentation awarded the Shanly Cup for second Youngworth of Los Angeles Lodge of a gift for his home was made by place and Vallejo Lodge the Hoerlin spoke on what had been done by Past State Pres. F. E. Dayton to the Cup for third place. All of the con California Elks to check the growth retiring President, Mr. Standish. test winners were given first prize of Communism in the State. After The Convention then adjourned un cups by Santa Monica Lodge. the close of the meeting outdoor til 1936 when the annual meeting Richard C. Benbough, State Secy. Tambati! {Continued from page 19)
A slurred chuckle broke from his lips. Kneeling, Collins fished .out the mass "That's a lie!" Walker said hotly. "Shut up!" Hertzog snapped. —a bunch of sticks. He was about Collins had permitted Kambove to Smit subsided. to toss them back when he noticed speak to see what effect it would "Why do you have your watering how pulpy they were. He examined have on the man before him. place at the rapids ?" Collins fired the them more closely. They were soft "It's no lie. Walker," he contra question suddenly. and mushy, their ends were clean dicted softly. "I found the boiled "Because of the crocs," Hertzog cut, and they were all about the same sticks below the rapids." rejoined. He seemed to have assumed length. Collins turned them over "But Anna wasn't cooking muti. the leadership of the party. "Not so thoughtfully. Where had he seen She was making bird lime. Do you many in fast water." something like this before? Suddenly think she'd murder Jackson?" The Collins was not satisfied. The an his face cleared only to have a deeper boy's eyes blazed and he took a step swers were perfectly straightfor frown crease his forehead. Some towards Kambove. "You filthy nig ward. It was late and he was tired. sticks just like these had been used ger. I'll " Perhaps things would be clearer in as evidence in a witchdoctoring trial "Steady, Walker." Collins leaped the morning. He stood up. at the Boma some months before. He up and stood in front of him. He "All right. We'll make a formal gathered up his find and walked snapped a question. "What made you report in the morning." slowly back to his camp. There he say murder? Do you think it's mur He walked off towards his camp sent for his Corporal. der?" site. But tired as he was, Collins lay "Kambove. Go to the village. Talk "No!" the boy shouted in anger. awake for a long time. Why should with natives. Find out who here has "Damn you, Collins, you leave Anna a man suddenly topple into a river been boiling medicine." out of this." He whirled about and early in the morning? There couldn't stalked away. have been enough sun for sunstroke, nn The remainder of the day Collins and Jackson had not looked the type 1 HE native went off and Collins put in poking about the camp. He for heart failure. He was thin, but sent for Walker. When the young saw that Anna, in true Dutch fash wiry and tough. And that sly smirk fellow arrived he stared at him for a ion, was in charge of the food and of Hertzog's and Smit's outburst long time before speaking. Walker busy with yeast making, using hops, meant something. Walker had been stared back for a while, then he potato water and sugar. Walker scared. And then the girl. Her eyes looked away. hung around but Collins did not see had not left his face for a moment. "Anything to add to what you said him speak to the girl. The three The camp, Collins realized, was a last night?" Collins asked. Dutchmen had disappeared. Ponder turmoil of emotions and suspicions. "No." ing the situation, Collins wondered "Jackson drank and just fell into if the finding of a mine had split the the river, eh?" He stared at Walker party. The Colonials would stick to He was down at the watering and rustled the pages of the note gether against the three Dutchmen. spot the first thing in the morning. book lying open on the table before But there was Anna. Was she on her It was cold and mist smoked up him. "Didn't call out or speak?" uncle's side or on that of Walker in off the rushing water. A great rock "No." whom she was obviously interested? ran out into the stream ending "Why was there no water in As yet Collins had no proof that the sharply as if a chunk had been camp?" camp was split. Still, that uneasy "What there was had just been distrustful air which he had sensed broken off the end. Collins stared upon his arrival persisted. The camn down. A strong swimmer would boiled. The bags were hot." was not at rest. There were under not have much chance in that. Collins was silent. Was he trying currents at which he could onlv There were no footprints. Turning to uneai'th something that did not guess. Collins was certain that SmiV he made his way to shore and fol exist? That Walker had anything to for instance, hated Doerwald +1 + lowed down the river. There was do with Jackson's death he found it just a chance that Jackson's body difficult to believe. Yet he felt the he was afraid of the old man.' And might have escaped the crocodiles boy was concealing something. Hertzog s bullying attitude suggested and lodged in an eddy. At the end "What have you fellows found that he was on Doerwald's side that of the rapids he sat down on a stone down here, Walker?" As he did not the two had for some reason joined and stared at the river. On a spit answer, Collins continued, You 11 forces against the others. Collins downstream a crocodile lay sunning have to file papers with me eventu shiugged. It was too much for him himself. Blocks and pools of yellow ally. Might as well tell now. What He went to bed. Late that night he ish foam eddied about. Collins is it? A mine?" awakened suddenly. He could not stared at the croc. The reptile lay "Yes," grudgingly. have told what sound he had heard motionless but he knew it was watch "Valuable?" yet abruptly he found himself wide ing him unblinkingly. "They say so." awake, his eyes staring into the dark A dark mass, lodged against a Kambove came up and saluted. ness. For a moment he listened. stone in the foam, caught Collins' Collins turned to him and spoke in Gently pushing his blanket back he jumped up. The crocodile native. The Corporal answered rap sat up and reaching down felt for rushed into the water with a splash. idly. his shoes. Years on the veldt had December^ 1935 taught Collins not to go barefoot. Too many thorns, scorpions, spiders and such. He groped beside the bed. Suddenly he stiffened. His hand touched something he was sure had not been beside his bed when he blew out the lamp. He felt cautiously about. What he found felt like matches stuck on end in the dust be side the bed. Carefully he picked one up and held it against the moonlight outside. A grunt escaped him. What he held was a short, pointed little stake, the sharpened end darker than the rest. Poison! The poison stakes the natives set before a hut to pierce the feet of him they fear. Collins felt for his shoes. They were gone. For a long time he sat staring out between the flaps. Boiled bits of roots in the river below the rapids. Now poison stakes. Some one had sneaked into his tent so quietly that he had been able to plant those deadly things and steal his shoes before he awoke. Collins lay down. The bed creaked with his movements and then he lay still thinking and watching the door. Kami3ove said the girl had been boil ing some sort of native medicine. Walker had burst into a denial but it seemed to Collins that the boy was trying to convince himself as much as the policeman. He had been wor ried. There was bad blood in the camp, probably about the mine. Walker cared for Anna and unless he was badly mistaken Hertzog, too, had his eye on her. Jackson was dead. Neither Doerwald nor Smit would talk. _ A movement outside caught Col lins' eye. His body tensed. Some thing or some person was approach ing cautiously. A shadow loomed against the tent. He turned his head to get a better look. The bed creaked. The Oift Instantly the shadow vanished. But not before Collins had seen the form. It was a young, slender body, dark TO CHEER HIS MOROTXGS against the moonlit canvas. Anna. Or Walker. Collins lay back again. He tried to FOR MOXTHS TO COME keep awake to think but suddenly he slept. The sun was shining when he you can imagine. Make up your awoke. Sleepily he gazed at a fly SEARCH the gift counters— you can imagine. Make up your crawling on the canvas. Then the O hunt for hours in the jostlingiostline list now. Justwrite Gillette "Blue night's events flooded back. He Christmas shopping crowds and Blades" on your shopping list for stared at the floor. The stakes were you couldn't find a more men who "have everything" or gone. His shoes stood where he had pl^ed them upon retiring. thoroughly acceptable gift at are hard to please. He ate his breakfast in puzzled anything like the price of this at Most dealers have the special silence. For minutes at a time he tractive package of 50 Gillette Christmas carton or can get it stared at the veldt while his food "Blue Blades." Here's a gift that for youquickly. Save cooled. will cheer a man's mornings for yourself endless notebook Collins months to come — assure him steps and be sure of a BtUE thethP wi notes he had made.HeThere read over was hundreds of clean, easy shaves. a warm reception If | not much that was definite. Only his finding the stakes. The boiled sticks The Gillette "Blue Blade," for your gift. Ask ^ and Jackson's death might be just especially made for tender skin, your dealer for the • ^ ' •I coincidence. Anna might have been is first choice of most men every Christmas carton W cooking up some roots for a native where. It is the blade in demand of Gillette "Blue liniment or making bird lime. After —themost logical, practical gift Blades." all she had been raised on the veldt and knew about the roots the natives used for medicines. But those little stakes? Collins flipped his notebook GILLETTE BLVE BLADES shut. The only evidence he had 36 The Elks Magazine
pointed tiirectly at the boy and girl "Fnkos?" -- • gether." He faced the Dutchman and he just would, not believe it! The policeman looked up. ' who glowered at him fiercely. "Getting to be an old fool," he mut "I'nkos. Trouble." The - native "No," answered Hertzog. "I go tered. Yet he could not" drive out-of nodded towards the other camp. , i with DoerwalH." his mindcthe suspicion that Walker "WTiat's happened?" Anna broke the tension. "Hertzog was concealing something. Some "Two white men not come back to can go with me." thing that related to Anna. Why night." "I don't trust him," Collins said should he, Collins, try to twist the Collins jumped up. "Which two?" coldly. facts around because a boy and "girl "The young one and the tall Dutch "You think I murder, eh?" The had fallen in love? man." way Hertzog slurred the word made In the evening after the others had Walker and Smit. Collins seized an it sound ghastly. Anna shook her head. "He won't returned Collins walked over to the old coat and pulling it on, hurried camp to visit. Doerwald greeted him over to the prospectors' camp. Doer hurt me." civilly enough but Smit and Hertzog wald and Hertzog were sitting be "All right," Collins made up his mind. "Come on, Doerwald." sat silent and lumpish. . Watching fore the fire. For a moment Collins Collins had prided himself on his their faces Collins wondered how did hot see Anna just beyond on the veldt knowledge but as he hunted the Walker had ever come' to join up farther side. ^ "What's happened here now, Doer veldt with the old Dutch prospector with such a group. Beside the other he realized he knew scarcely any men he seemed a kid. Just then he wald?" .. X, thing of the fine points of tracking. was sitting beside Anna beyond the "Nothing." It was Hertzog who answered. There was a rasp of bit He saw a sign now and then but for glow of the fire. Collins noticed that the greater part was content to fol Hertzog kept glancing at them. An ter feeling in his voice, but Collins low, realizing that Doerwald was not angry glitter flicked into his eyes felt that it. was directed more at following a trail so much as using but seeing that Collins was watching Doerwald than at him. his experience of the country to guess he turned his head and dragged on "Shut up," he snapped, I didn t where a man like Smit would go his pipe. The two youngsters got up speak to you. What's happened, hunting. The tracks of game seemed suddenly and walked away towards Doerwald?" ,, to mean more than almost any other the river. In the gloom it was diffi ' The older man looked up. Walker sign. cult to tell which young, slender body and Smit went off hunting^ and was which. haven't come back yet. Thats all. Hertzog's voice broke the silence Why?" Hour after hour went by. The gratingly. "Doerwald, you told me—" "Hear any shots? sun climbed up and burnt viciously A glance from the old man silenced • Doerwald shook his head. Wind and searchingly on the men. Heat him. Smit grinned evilly. Hertzog, the wrong way." .. waves danced over the veldt. The Collins observed, was really jealous 'Collins sat down. HI wait trees wobbled crazily. Collins wiped of Walker. awhile." Ife glanced at Anna. Her the sweat from his face and plodded hands were folded in her lap. T^y on only to come to an abrupt halt as were tightly clenched. No o"® a shot broke the noon stillness. It D OERWALD was the first to leave Doerwald sucked on his pipe and sounded far away behind them. the prospectors' camp the next morn stared into the fire. "Wait a minute, Doerwald." ing. If he was aware of Collins trail slumped back, ^is face larg y The old man stopped. The natives ing behind him he gave no sign. shadow. Now and then the fire tell huddled together. Collins listened Steadily he tramped up a worn trail in upon itself and flames ^kered f^ intently. Nothing. beside the river. Collins, behind, just a moment. By their l^ht Com^s, "What was that?" kept him in view between the trees. watching, could see Hertzog s pock Doerwald lifted his shoulders. At a turn in the river Doerwald van marked face. It was grim with a "Hertzog shot something." ished. Collins hurried up cautiously. Sering twisted grin. His eyes were "Not a signal?" There was no sign of the old man fixed on his bearded companion with "No. Three shots, then two shots. anywhere. The path kept on but a triumphant glare. You know that, Collins." Doerwald Doerwald had turned off. He turned Suddenly the silence was shatterea turned and went on. Collins followed back looking for fresh boot marks. by the booming roar of a lion. Anna Doerwald grunted and pointed to "Following me, eh?" started violently. As:ain and again some eland tracks. Following them Collins started. Doerwald stood the sound tore through the darkness were the flat crunched marks which before him. "You damned police and echoed and re-echoed aniongst only boots can make. They increased man," he ground out the words in the hills. A jackal cried out shrilly. their pace, and Collins discovered anger. Anna jumped up and ran hurriedly that they had been traveling in a "It's a free country, Doerwald." into one of the shelters. Collins thought he heard a sob. Anna was great loop and were not far from "Not for policemen." Doerwald camp. spoke the last word as though it wondering, Collins guessed, whether Suddenly Kambove spoke excitedly tasted bad. "We don't want you the lions were worrying a body. and pointed. Not far beyond vul here." Hertzog turned his head to watch tures were wheeling and circling "I've noticed that," Collins ad her but did not speak. Another halt close above the trees. Others sat mitted wryly. He stared at the tall hour went by. The fire had died down. A chill dampness stole into about. With a sickening realization bearded man. "Who murdered Jack of what lay ahead Collins ran for son?" he snapped out suddenly. If camp from the river. The lion had ward. Three huge birds ran heavily he had hoped to startle the old man not roared again but a leopard was along the ground and took wing into betrayal he failed. hunting the bank below the camp. clumsily. A brown thing lay sprawled "No one. He fell in the river." A bushbuck barked explosively. under a tree. Collins ran to it and Collins tried another tack. "Going Hertzog stood up. "Going to bed, he announced, "'night, Doerwald." turned it over. The vultures had to work at your mine ?" picked at the head and hands but "There's no mine here." Without a glance at Collins he disap "What are you hanging about for peared into his hut. The policeman they had only increased the horror of then?" rose and flexed his limbs. the black swollen lips, the black "Looking." "I'll be going, Doerwald," he fingers and the frozen grimace of Collins gave up. Shrugging his stopped and looked down at the agony on the dead man's face. Un shoulders he walked past Doerwald silent man in the deck chair. "If der his anger and horror Collins felt and returned to his camp. Walker's not back by morning we a surge of relief. It was the dour About seven, just after he had will look for him." Smit whose body they had found. finished his supper, Kambove ap The veldt was cold and grey when Collins turned to Doerwald. proached. Collins was staring mood Collins routed out the others. "Who did this?" ily into the fire. "Hertzog. You and I will go to- The Dutchman stared at him im- December, 1935 passively and said nothing. The na tives were in a tight little group, their eyes rolling in fear. Collins felt they read more in this death than he did. He signed to Kambove and ordered him to dig a grave. Nerving himself he bent over the body and examined it as best he could. There was not a mark on it. The sun was very low when they 1T«I1 buried Smit. It was not much of a grave but Doerwald did not seem to care and Collins was too preoccupied with his thoughts to suggest more ceremony. Silently he followed as the prospector headed for camp. The giant, baobab loomed ahead. A fire blazed beneath, throwing the weird, thick branches into pinkish relief. The two men rounded the tree and stopped short. Two figures sat by the camp fire. One was Anna. She was bent over, her head resting on her hands. The other was Walker. Collins strode forward. "Where have you been?" he asked the youngster. The boy did not answer. Collins looked into his face. Then he shook him. "When did you get here?" Walker's head fell forward. He groaned and relaxing, would have fallen from the chair had not Collins pushed him back. He turned to Anna. "What's the matter with him? When did he come in?" Anna did not look up. She sat has placed Seagram's Crown Whiskies in a "Kingdom staring into the fire. Her voice All Their Own"... It has made them America's Favorites ... Crown sounded hollow and far away. "I don't know. He is sick. He Whiskies are made with Seagram's traditional skill in distilling and was here when I came." Sudden suspicion flamed in Collins. blending—gained through more than three generations of experience. "Where's Hertzog?" Anna motioned towards a shelter. insure this taste —now, and for years to come —Seagram's "There." holds in reserve a vast treasure —millions of gallons of rare whiskey. Something in the girl's voice caused both Collins and Doerwald to start for the shelter. The Dutch man seized a lantern and held it high. Hertzog lay on a rude bed breathing heavily. "Drunk," muttered Doerwald. Col lins grunted sharply and bent over the man. "Look." Hertzog's left leg was matted with blood. Collins pulled out his knife and cut away the trouser. A ragged hole gaped in the white skin. A hole made by a soft nosed bullet. "Take care of him," commanded Collins. He returned and sat down near Anna. For a minute he watched the leaping flames of the fire. Be hind the river boomed dully. "Anna," he spoke quietly, "what kind of a mine have you found here?" The cook passed carrying a basin of hot water. The girl did not look up. "Anna." "Yes?" "What kind of a mine have you ^ udMa c4taote^ ^ Seagram-Distillers Cort>.—Executiver- - OfUces:vs/r Newv» York » 38 The Elks Magazine
Collins sucked his breath in fright was pitiful. Collins nodded. were following the man whom you sharply. When he spoke his voice "Yes. I have known several days." suspected of poisoning Jackson, the had a steely quality. "When the new He hesitated. "Anna. See here. man who planted the poisoned stakes railway comes up this valley from You're just a kid. So's Walker. beside my bed." Salisbury the mine will be worth a I'm not promising anything but if Everything clicked in Collins' fortune. Just like the mines at Vic you tell the truth I'll do everything mind. He rose and hurried to the toria. So you and Walker got rid of I can for you." Dutchman's camp. Rounding the Jackson, then you tried to poison "You think I did it?" Her aston baobab tree he entered the hut in me." He paused. His voice rose a ishment was too real to bs feigned. which Hertzog had been lying. little. "Yesterday Walker killed "You think Bob killed Smit? No! A lantern hung from a pole. There Smit. And you tried to kill Hertzog. No! He never could. No!" was no one in the shelter but the You—" "What were you doing with those Avounded man lying on the bed. He "No. No. We haven't killed any sticks then?" was conscious now. body." Anna dropped her eyes to her "Where's Doerwald?" "Then what were you doing out hands. "I—I was testing them." "Gone." Hertzog ground his teeth side my tent three nights ago?" "Testing them?" Disbelief rang and his face twisted with pain as he "I was following somebody." in Collins' voice. "Testing them?" tried to sit up. "The dirty swine There was a dull thump. Walker he reE>eat€d. Why?" He's—" had fallen out of his chair. Anna "Because—oh, I can't tell you.' "I know." Collins rushed out of jumped up with a cry and bent over "Because you saw Walker boiling the shelter. Doerwald was not to be them, eh? Or because you saw him found. The Dutchman had heard the form lying in the dust. him coming and cleared out into the "Bob. Bob." She tried to raise put something in Jackson's food. night. Collins walked slowly back to him but could not. She turned her Isn't that the reason?" his camp. Anna was standing wait white and tear-stained face towards "No. Bob had nothing to do with ing. the policeman. "Do something for it." Anna's voice gained strength. him. He's sick. Won't you do some "How did you test the sticks? I'Your uncle has gone," Collins said. thing?" A sob broke in her throat. "I boiled thom and I fed some of The girl swayed with relief Collins stooped over and picked up the water to one of the little birds I "Oh," she said, "I was so afraid '' the limp form. Holding the boy in had." Anna closed her eyes. Col Tears were in her eyes as she left his arms he looked about and then lins waited for her to go on. Collins running lightly into the t^nt strode off to his own camp. Anna "And then?" where Walker was sleeping. followed and stood by the cot as Col For a w^ile Collins sat moodily lins laid Walker down. Kambove watching the fire. Then he called appeared. A SHIVER shook the girl. Her Kambove and gave him orders to "Medicine chest," Collins ordered. voice had lost its ring of defiance. It track the escaping Dutchman as soon For an hour neither spoke. Deftly hopped about for a while and then as there was ight Pouring himself the policeman stripped off Walker's took a drink of water and then—ana a drink he lollowed the girl into the shirt and sponged him with cool then—" tent. water from the bags hanging outside. "Yes?" He forced some brandy between "Then it fell over dead." Anna's "Why did you shoot Hertzog*'" the boy's teeth and continued his voice was so low Collins had to lean CT, tc me." chafing. The patient stirred and forward to hear. But he straight She laised her head proudlv "Nn muttered. His knees doubled up and ened quickly. A hard, grim look of body has done that." then straightened with a jerk. He understanding settled on his f^ce. Collins nodded. "That'q t gurgled. His eyes opened slowly. His eyes narrowed. Jackson had thought." He sighed and sat down "Bob," exclaimed Anna. "Oh, died of native poison. The trial Col "He isn t badly hurt " Bob!" lins had attended several months ago Collins passed the night dozing in returned to his memory. He remem his chair Once he got up and went bered too, of reading in some ot the to look at Hertzog. He was sleeS S HE would have dropped onto the old office records of the poison which mg, Anna sat at the foot of Walked bed but Collins pushed her back. only took effect after drinking water. bed watching. Collins wondered that "Here. Drink some more of this." And he remembered that thei'e naci she could remain awake. He held a large spoon of brandy to been no drinking water in camp. the sick man's mouth. Walker swal Collins sat on the edge of the box lowed it and then closed his eyes. staring into the fire. Anna watched Toward dawn she slpnt u -1 Collins watched him for a minute. him fearfully. The policeman was and Collins spent the morning S- He stood up and motioned Anna thinking furiously. A thought was ing the invalids comfortable. S outside. dancing in the back of his mind. bove and his men. returned a IMe "He's asleep," he told her and Suddenly it came through. He knew after noon They were carrying a pointed to the chair before the fire. now how Smit had_ been killed and heavy burden. The rnrr.r.,."Ii "Sit down." what was wrong with Walker. proached Collins. With a glance back into the tent "Someone boiled roots and mixed "I'nkos." Anna sank into the chair. Collins the poison with Jackson's supper. Collins looked ud. u drew a box forward and sitting Did he come in late?" The girl the burden the man was; down, began his questions again. nodded miserably. "I thought so. It was Doerwald He "Who were you following that "Yes?" stood up. He ate alone. He went to bed. All "I'nkos, we found " night?" night long that poison worked in his "I don't know." body. Early in the morning Jackson The Sergeant raised tj ''It was Walker, wasn't it?" He woke up. He wanted a drink. There had seen the covert frightened look was no water in camp so_ he went fyas™l"ng 'ur^^S' talker Anna had east towards his tent. down to the river." Collins' voice on Anna's shoulder.^ Th^elr ^ "^No. No. I didn't see anyone." grew harsh. "He went to the river "But you thought it was him. and drank. Ar.d he died." He cSmoyedCollins moved out"'?out of earshot.banket: Kam You did think so. Didn't you?" stared hard at Anna. bove resumed his report Anna did not answer. "You know who gave Jackson that "What were those roots you were poison. You saw something or boiling?" found something. But you had to be She turned her white strained face certain. So you tested the stuff towards him. Her eyes widened and yourself?" It was more a statement leather pouch and extracted some her lower Hp hung down. "You than a question. "Anna, it was you thing which he handed Collins. "In know—you know about that?" Her outside my tent that night. You his pocket I found this." December, 1935
It was a small gourd. The narrow open end was corked with a bit of rag". Collins started to pull it out. "No, I'nkos!" Kambove exclaimed. "I'nkos! Tambati!" The poisonous dust from a ground- up mululemma root, which natives float on the air and which strangles those who breathe it. It was what he had finally figured out the night YflCRTIOn before. Doerwald, after Collins had left him on the path to the mine, had Ever Conceived followed Smit and Walker. It had been easy for that experienced back- veldter, just as it had been easy for him to slip into Collins' tent and set up the poison stakes. Once he had located the two men, Doerwald had drawn abreast of them and floated the fine, impalpable dust down upon them on the faint wind. Smit had ^ELEBRITIES in American life tation without extra charge to every inhaled the full dose. Walker, young and strong, breathed just enough to . . . golf champions and thea resort interest in and near Miami, make him terribly ill. Of course ter stars ... leaders in American and guest membership in the famous Doerwald had been able to find Smit's body. He had known all society, business and professions ... Florida Year-Round Clubs. along exactly where it was lying. together with hundreds of other ex Not only do you have the greatest The long trek had been just a ruse. He looked Kambove in the face. perienced vacationists . . . choose to resort hotel in America in which to "Dig a grave under the baobab," spend their winters at the Miami enjoy your winter holidays, but a he ordered, "and then take water to the Dutchman, Hertzog." Biltmore, "Center of the Wintertime COMPLETE VACATION is included As his Corporal saluted, Collins World" . , . one of the world's at no additional cost . . . the biggest turned towards his tent. He must prepare for his trek back to the really great resort hotels. vacation value you can find ... Zambesi with the invalids. Why? and regardless of its moderate cost, First, the hotel estate is one of the the BEST at ANY PRICE. The Grand Exalted most beautiful in America. What sport hobby do you particu Ruler's Visits Second, the Miami Biltmore offers larly prefer? Golf? Tennis? Horse (Continued from page 32) the most luxurious refinements in back riding? Fishing? Sailing? fairs was shown to exist. An in hotel living. Swimming and aquatic sports? Fly- spection was made of the entire Third, there's always more "doing" ing? Bicycling? Bridge? Dancing? premises under the guidance of Or just comfortable relaxation? At Grand Trustee Henry A. Guenther, at the Miami Biltmore than any other Home Member, which disclosed that winter play spot. the Miami Biltmore you have the best the efforts of Mr. Scott and his staff facilities for indulging sports and to enhance the natural beauty of Fourth, the Miami Biltmore grants recreational diversions to gratify the surroundings had been highly privileges and economies that are successful. The lawns and shrub every mood, every taste, every age. bery were in excellent shape, and available nowhere else . . . extra Here's keen living for you . . . the buildings and live stock were ordinary courtesies worth hundreds also in splendid condition. The at packed with action and exciting mosphere of the Home is that of a of dollars to a guest in the course of country gentleman's residence and pleasures or the comfort of loafing the guests enjoy all the comforts a winter vacation—such as transpor- in the good Florida sun. and pleasures which a real home provides. The scenic view from the porch is beautiful at every season of the year and a constant source CENTER OF THE WINTERTIME WORLD of pleasure to all the residents. On Saturday evening, after the Board had completed all of its busi ness, a delightful program was pre For particular information (name your sented, under the able direction of favorite sport!) and reservations, ad dress the hotel direct ... or New York Mr. Scott, for the entertainment of office: 521 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2421-25 the residents of the Home. They . . . Chicago office: 180 North Michi- were briefly but warmly addressed gan Avenue, Room 1015. by the Grand Exalted Ruler who re ceived a hearty welcome. Judge Hallinan introduced Madam Basha Malinoff who, in private life, is Mrs. Lloyd Maxwell, the wife of the ^minmi Chairman of the Board of Grand Trustees. Mrs. Maxwell enter tained with a group of songs, the closing number being "Mighty Lak' BILTmORE a Rose." So enjoyable was her pro gram that the audience was loath CORAL ©ABLES, MIAM FLORIDA 40 The Elks Magazine
to permit the singer to leave the icy with respect to intensifying in HELPED SHIFT PIANO platform. One of the finest films of terest in the Order. His message the year—"Naughty Marietta"— was punctuated with frequent AND STRAINED WRIST held the close attention of all for bursts of applause, and aroused en the remainder of the evening, and thusiasm to a high degree as was from the pleasure and satisfaction manifested at the termination of registered on the face of every the Lodge meeting when the Grand guest of the Home, it was evident Exalted Ruler held a reception and that- the entertainment had been greeted every member personally. a complete success. Judge M. A, Tierney, a P.E.R. of In addition to Grand Exalted Troy Lodge, responded for that or Ruler Hallinan and the members of ganization. E.R. Robert L. Ricker- the Board of Grand Trustees, which son presided. includes the Chairman, Lloyd Max A large number of the Lodge's well; Vice-Chairman William T. Past Exalted Rulers were on hand, Phillips; Secretary Henry C. War including Past State Pres. Dr. J. ner; Approving Member David Edward Gallico. Many prominent Sholtz, Governor of Florida, and Elks attended from out of town, Home Member Henry A. Guenther, among them being George W. Den- there were present Past Grand Ex ton of Gloversville Lodge, and Past alted Rulers Joseph T. Fanning and State Pres. Philip Clancy, of Nia Rush L. Holland; Grand Secretary gara Falls Lodge—Pres. and Secy, J. Edgar Masters, and James D. respectively of the N.Y. State Elks Moran, Secretary to the Grand Ex Assn., and Past State Pres. William alted Ruler. E. Fitzsimmons of Albany Lodge. Accompanied by Mr. Phillips and On Friday evening, November 1, Mr. Moran, the Grand Exalted Ruler Pittsfield, Mass., Lodge, No. 272, paid his next official visit on Thurs was host to Judge Hallinan who day evening, October 31, to Troy, was accompanied by a large dele N. Y., Lodge, No. 141, and was the gation of Troy members and by a guest of honor at a dinner and at delegation from Bennington, Vt., the subsequent assembly of Lodge Lodge. The enthusiasm occasioned members. The occasion also marked by his visit to Troy Lodge was the annual meeting of the Past Ex equaled at the Pittsfield meeting, alted Rulers Association of New and again the Grand Exalted Ruler York, N.E., and representatives of convinced his hearers of his sin But good old every Lodge in the District were cerity and his firm intention of present. making this year one of healthy Absorblne Jr. Judge Hallinan outlined his pol- progress for the Order. Gave Quick Relief STEPPING to the aid of two The Die Off servantswho were shiftinga (Continued from page 9) piano back into place, Mrs. D.* painfullystrainedher leftwrist. a dash for it when there fell upon rifles. His tasseled ears lay tight When discomfort and swelling his keen ears another sound which back on his head at that and he be continued to increase during turned him to stone. came but a wraith, a half-guessed the day, she thought of an The wolverines heard it, too, and shadow whisking through the forest. Absorbine Jr. bottle in the even they froze in their tracks. By devious and circuitous ways he bathroom and started frequent From a mile away in the direction arrived at last in the vicinity of his from whence they had come, a ring home den. Something had drawn him applications. Pain and swelling irresistibly thither. For many days both rapidly subsided and she ing, terrifying sound came echoing through the woods—the bloodthirsty past he hadn't seen his mate and he was able to enjoy a good night's baying of hounds. Those wolverines, wished to find out how it went with sleep. In a couple of days the like all their kind, had been playing her. He approached, however, like a incident was forgotten. hob with trap-lines and live stock thief in the night, in case of misun and had called vengeance down upon derstanding. For years this remarkable old them. The hide crawled along their Five yards from the maternal den- liniment has been the good spines with a premonitory chill as mouth he stopped and crouched, still friend of countless families. they faced back along the trail they and dumb as death. Silence swathed There's nothing like it for sore had come. Short of leg and clumsy the place, nothing more. Could his muscles, aches, sprains and of movement they could not hope to wife have spirited the kittens away bruises. Kills the fungi that outdistance the dogs, so they climbed to some more secret place? Or had cause Athlete's Foot, too. And up the big leaning spruce in which she in the infinite provision of her costs very little — because a Mishi crouched. motherhood seen fit to slay them? little goes so far. All druggists', Mishi scrambled higher. He knew Such things happen in the feline $1.25 the bottle. For free sam too much about wolverines. Out world, though the reasons passeth ple, write W. F. Young, Inc., along a high limb he crept and finally mere human understanding. Springfield, Mass. jumped for it, a splendid leap, Mishi took two steps nearer, hiss twenty-five feet out into a deep drift. ing and growling softly in his rufE. 'Baaed on actual letterfrom ourfiles Then away through the blue snow- Abruptly the growling was echoed shadows he streaked, half insane from just within the den, and there, over turning his back on all that limned in the darkness, was the meat, but still more so over the din malign flat face and sinister eyes of ABSORBINE JR of dogs and men. From far behind his enemy, the old male wild-cat. Relieves sore muscles, bruises, he heard presently the furious treed- He did not know that the night be muscular aches, sprains, cry of dogs, shouts and later the fore, his wife in her extremity of Athlete's Foot short, slapping, vicious report of hunger had attacked a big porcupine December, 1935 and in the struggle that ensued one kicking report of a rifle rang out of the long quills on the animal's just there, and stretched her twitch barbed tail had penetrated her brain, ing in the snow. One of the hunters mercifully ending her long unequal had run Mishi's fresh trail and dur battle to survive. The wild-cat had ing the fight had approached unheard learned of it, however; and no flies on whispering skis. ever settled on him or his ideas. He had sought out the lynx's den for the express purpose of killing and eating -And Mishi? He had melted spook the young of his foe of foes. like into the primeval hush and All of this, or most of it, flashed shadow of the spruce, given speed through Mishi's brain in the first in by a .318 copper-tipped bullet which stant. He had caught the wild-cat came whining after him and lifted a literally red-handed, and he dealt good-sized puff of fur from one with him swiftly and to the purpose. shoulder in passing. Because of that Only one thing exceeded Mishi's and other things he did not stop frenzy to get into that den, and that when he had made good his escapje, was the wild-cat's frenzy to get out but fled on and on all the rest of that of it. The resulting mix-up was ap day and night and most of the next palling, stupendous. In the midst of day too, heading blindly southward, it the wild-cat lifted up his voice for whither a repentant nature now saw help—it was the voice of a night fit to draw him. He covered more mare, no less, a fiendish scream that than a hundred miles before he came belonged to the nether regions. His at last to a region much to his liking, mate heard it from afar and came at an elder swamp flanked by low hills the speed of the wind. She found furred with spruce and pine. And her lord stretched out in a very m the heart of the swamp was vouch safed a miracle—a fresh rabbit track dramatic and picturesque attitude, —the first he had seen since early and knew at a glance what the Fall. And not far from that was a trouble was. It was death that was fresh lynx-track made, though he did the trouble, for parental outrage had not know it, by a half-sister of his lent Mishi the fury of demons. who had been driven away from "IS THERE A DOCTOR And glaring at her over the car home for economic reasons the win cass of her mate was Mishi himself, ter befoi-e. red and unforgettable. A moment All in all, it looked as if things IN THE HOUSE?" they stood there bristling. Then the were going to be a bit easier from she-cat was aware that Mishi was now on. The rabbits and grouse, a dame doesn't need a doctor. not looking at her at all, but past few at a time, were beginning to fiit JL Just let the hero clean out his her, and down the slope behind, and back from the unknown place into across his gooseberry eyes there which they had gone. Hope of life, gassy briar and send out for a tin of flitted the shadow of sudden fear. and even of love, through the winter the tobacco that's swell to smell and That was the last thing she ever saw could now be revived. Nature was cooler to smoke—and let the play in this world, for the sharp, clear, all-wise. go on to a happy end. Sir Walter Raleigh is the mildest, pleasantest blend of well-aged Kentucky Bur- Condition—with a Capital C leys ever offered to men who like pipes but dislike pipe-nip.Exagger (Continued from page 21) ation? Can't be—sales growth says it's simple truth. Trya tin keptfresh minerals in your menu. These things sugary syrups) ; and then take in the in heavy gold foiland rave withus. are important. whole category of vegetables; spin Never limit yourself, therefore, to ach, carrots, lettuce, celery, broccoli, Brown & W^illiamson Tobacco Corporatioa one or two items of food, as some of kale, string beans, tomatoes, cabbage, Louisville, Kentuclty. Dcpt.E-512 our ridiculous "sure-fire" i-educing onions, beets, turnips—either raw or diets would have you do. Give your cooked without elaborate sauces. self enough to eat in proportion to They are good for you and taste good FREE the physical activity you indulge in as well. BOOKLET during the day. Get enough variety If you do this you will find your tells [inw to lunke into your meals so they don't become your pipe tnstc self with little or no craving for an ''i belter, sweeter. a monotonous bore. After all, good other hot roll, a second helping of yntr f1p'E _ .. ' Write for n copy. digestion depends for a large part mashed potatoes or chestnut dress upon your enjoyment of food. Per ing, to say nothing of that last sonally one of my favorite dishes is splurge on the hot mince pie. While a medium broiled steak with all the I m at it, I may as well let you in on vegetable fixin's, but I should hate a little trick that has helped many to be sentenced to lifetime servitude of my reducers to ward off the de on such a diet. Maybe your idea of sire for starch. If you are a bread Heaven is all the pie-a-la-mode you and butter fiend, or find your life is can get; but could you really stand not complete without French fried it three times a day for a week. potatoes, try this ... put two or Eat what you like—but not too three slices of raw apple on your much of it. If you feel hungry after butter plate and use it as a substi cutting down on what you consider tute. It sounds strange, but it tastes top rich or fattening, fill in the gaps grand! Moreover, it satisfies that with more bulky substances—all the craving for a bite of "something" to fresh fruits; melons, oranges, grape go with your main dinner course. As fruit, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, for dessert, there's really nothing It's 15 AND IT'S MILDER (go lightly on fruits stewed with better to top off a good meal than 42 The Elks Magazine
a bit of fresh fruit. Take a ripe spective games, but it just wasn't pear, or a small bunch of grapes in enough. What happened—we added stead of the atrocious French pas seventeen pounds to Johnny's frame tries which carry entirely too many and twelve to Sidney's—and both calories for your welfare, even reached heights to which they had with tnQ though they may tickle those tricky aspired, but never quite attained. taste-buds in your tongue 1 We usually find in the thin person FinEST BRIflR Now that we have covered the (barring organic disease of course) Pabeni Applied dietary question, our second thought the high-strung, nervous type who For 1935 on reducing is exercise. I don't care thinks he must do everything at top OA MAN'S PIPE how much you cut down on your diet speed. This sort of individual is L.irRe bowl gives —you may starve if you like—you taught, first of all, to relax, to take loDg cool smoke. ©EASILY will never in this world reduce cor a more phlegmatic outlook, to go CLEANED rectly and sanely if you do not com easy. We also find in such cases that ©spiralA twist andla out.the bine exercise with your restricted there is not a complete assimilation 2 AIR-CELLS diet. Oh, you may lose weight, I'll of the food they eat. Consequently, Exclusive Patented ••Smoke Conditlon- grant you that, but what's the sense exercise is concentrated on the ab Ing" design. of taking it off, if the tissues are to dominal muscles to give them greater For the remain flabby and soft, without life strength and tone. With Farrell, as or tone ? The fat that has accumulated with many another underweight per (Han UJho Knows in the body must be burned up son, there was a definite sagging of through physical activity, and physi the internal organs, known medically The Fine Art of Smoking cal activity involves exercise. Ten or as ptosis. Exercise does much to cor New patented "Smoke Conditionine" design, im- VOTtcd AlgerlaD briar, larec bowl, and balanced linndllne fifteen minutes each day devoted to rect this. More rest is essential. I ease make Alr-Cooled Airflow the pcrfca pipe. It is cu^m built siXLijinUhcd by hand to a beautiful natural polUn. regular exercise is enough for the do not necessarily mean more sleep, AIRFLOW IS EXTRA COOL. Study the diapcram. person who wants to reduce; pro although thin men and women need Noto 2 Alr-Cells. All moisture, sludge and flakes caught In spiral chamber. Top cell smoke cocdlUons-—produces a vided of course he is not grossly more than fat ones, but I do mean Beosatioaally cool, clean Imppy smoke. overweight. If the regular routine frequent intervals of complete relax SENT ON TRIAL. Smoke an A ^ Airflow at no risk. Airflow sent on exercise described in this article does ation throughout the day. You may •HIJ TESTandTRIALbasls. Aspeclol not appeal to you, then make up for not be a professional golfer or a ten V TODAY. rDCC pipe and TOBACCO POUCH it in extra walking, tennis, golf, nis star, but if you are underweight rilLE, monogram in 22-K GOLD swimming or whatever sport you like you will require periods of "laying- LANDON&WARNERDept. p.47 ; best. A form of exercise such as a off." High-strung business men find 360 N. MIchiEan Ave.. Chicago, II). • game, which you enjoy, is often bet it helps a lot to give themselves at- cs—send TREE details on no-rlsk, no S obligation, smoke on trial offer. • ter than work which you probably least ten or fifteen minutes' rest after look upon as a chore. If your inter luncheon. You don't need to lie down Naint est and enthusiasm are aroused, the —just sit in a comfortable chair in mind is stimulated and the work of some place where there is no hurry Tmcn reduction is a source of pleasure. and bustle and relax every muscle. If you find, in mid-morning or after noon that the tension is becoming too B,UT mind you, even the systematic great and every nerve i.s "on edge," exercise which I advocate and which walk away from your work bciich or lia3 been so succes.sl'ul for maiiy desk—wash ynur I'aco and hunds BARLUM vears, mav easily be ovenlonc. Watch with cool water, Hmoko a cigaretto, your reactions to physical i^xavckp. ffo nox-t door aiitl say "Hcllo" to a HOTEL and always remtimVjei" Ihtlt it 13 far fellow worker—do unyihitig to get WHERE OLD-FASHIONED hotter to do too little than too much away from the immediate problem at at a time. Not everyone can play hand, and give brain and body a HOSPITALITY AWAITS YOU long, hard, and fast; so start off chance to escape if only for two or slowly and gradually increase your three minutes. I've known expert work as you become more accus accountants to work for hours over tomed to it. All physical activity is a column of figures without finding a problem which the individual must the error they sought, but it fairly i solve and depends entirely upon the leaped out at them once they re OUTSIDE type of person he is, the amount of turned to the task after a brief inter ROOMS val of "changing-the-subject" so to ar.d energy he spends in an ordinary day's work, and the kind of work he speak. is engaged in. So much for our fat folks. The lean ones have equally as difficult a 1N addition to rest, mild physical A DAY. AND UP task, even though they may not get exercise is conducive to greater mus quite so much sympathy or publicity. cular relaxation and this, in turn, Take Johnny Farrell and Sidney leads to i-estoration of nerve' and Wood, for instance, two of my fore brain energy. Diet too, plays an im DETROIT most "skinny" examples. portant role in the life of the person Farrell came to me back in 1927. who is underweight. You can eat CADILLAC SQUARE He couldn't imagine what was wrong yourself thin, paradoxical as it may BATE.S STOEET with his golf game. In short ses sound. Very often we find the thin sions with the little white pill, man who consumes a large quantity Johnny was second to none. But long of food but gets no value from it. He tournaments found him lagging far is simply calling upon his internal behind the leaders. He simply didn't organs to do entirely too much work, U. S. Government Jobs have the physical stamina to carry especially if they are weak and run Start $1260 to $2100 a Yr. him through. The nerve strain was down already. We need food for MION"—W'O.MKN. New in-hoiir loo great for his frail body. Like- strength, it is true, but if we do not ivirk miaiis iiiany I'o^l OflU-i: uii- piiinliiicnts. Writv luimcilialoly v>ise, Sidney Wood, another thin properly assimilate it, it will do us for rii'P .'?;!-i>aKv lumk. witli lial of po»Hlijiis ami jiartlculnr^ tell youngster, was "tops" in tennis little or no good. A thin person may ing how to Ket llii'iii. when he was in condition. These eat all the things forbidden to a fat FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Dept. E237 Rochester, N. Y. boys knew all the rules of their re individual and still not gain an December^ 1935 43
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Raise the left leg and bring Merivale whose work on the stage the right arm foi-ward as though try has thrilled thousands. None of them ing to touch the toes with the fingers. has need for the muscles of a Demp- Keep the leg straight. Return to sey or a Gehrig or a Babe Ruth, but starting position without touching they recognize the fact that if they the floor with heel or hand. Count expect to continue as outstanding each time you return to starting posi figures they must "keep fit to keep tion. Repeat the exercise with the ^ome shotguns fail to great." entirely eaclose the shell head in right leg and left arm. a protectingrine ofsteel! A serious back> Each may have his own way of No. 4—In the same starting posi fire into your face is possible, if there keeping fit, since perfect health rules should be a weak spot in the shell bead. tion as in Exercise 2, raise both arms must suit individual living methods. Western shells with the patented STEEL- and legs straight upwards. Kick LOCKED head protect you against injury! But every one of these great men, your right leg downward and bring Paper tube, base wad, brass and a PRO and many more besides, regard these TECTING RING OF STEEL are LOCK the left arm over the head. Alter ED TOGETHER!.. .And Western jrives health rules probably far better than nate with the left leg and right arm. you theextra advantageofpatentedSEAL- you or I. You may not be famous, TXTE moisture-proof wads. Do not touch the floor with heels or Get complete details and FREE you may not be great, you may just hands. Count each time the left leg booklet shown here, it will im prove your shooting. 11 ""'t: be a hard working business man. But is down. to be that, you must still be well. No. 5—From a flat position with BOOKLET FREE! The important point to remember, the arms extended straight out be no matter what your sphere in life I ll yond the head, feet stretched out I WESTERN CARTRIDGE CO. may be, is to give the best that is in straight, with knees stiflt and toes ,1 Dept. L-43, East Alton. HI, you, to feel ready for any emergency. I Send-leafiets on Westcra Shotsbclla and the booklet, pointed; raise both legs up at right I "HOW TO HIT 'EM"—free. In other words, "you may never be angles, at the same time bringing I Name. great, but you can always feel great the hands fonvard in a complete I Address. providing you keep fit." half circle toward the floor. Do not PostOiEcc. touch the floor with hands or feet. No. 6—In the same starting posi In the following paragraphs you tion raise the body to a sitting posi will find a set of exercises, all of tion without bending the knees, and which are performed from a supine try to touch your toes with the tips position. They are a condensed ver of your fingers. 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Count each time you return to bo^r permanent'ongor period.reductionHundredsresultsoffrompurchaserswearing thisare five or six for a week or two; then with results obtained In sucrt Quick time. the starting position. Repeat the iftc LewU Rcdttcinfc Belt notv offered at a gradually add the other movements same movement but with the left leg. Netv Low Pricc Wear.Ts of Lewis RcduclnR Bo(t to your routine until you have com No. 12—Lying flat on your back look bettor and fccJ bettor. They have
He tries dialing aimlessly. Finally traffic may seem at once more hazard a voice responds. ous and difficult. Dogs guiding the "Operator." blind are no novelty in Morristown. "I want to get Walker 6575," he Drivers do not slow up because they says with relief. see the master and his dog in the "Will you dial it, please?" street. The residents there know "I can't. .. ." how thoroughly the dog has been "Just dial W-A-6-5-7-5." educated. "I can't. I'm blind." As the traffic clears for a moment, There is a short, merry laugh. the dog throws her weight foi'ward "Ha Ha. That's a good one." a bit and our blind man, obedient to The receiver clicks in his ear. He the pull on the harness, steps with is disconnected. her off the curb. Several cars ap proach; she stops to let them pass. Another opening, and they proceed A ND here is another answer. A to the center of the street. The dog month had passed since a blind man, waits as one car, two cars, go by. the head of a family of four, had There is another coming, a little way been given a haircut. Each morning off. Quickly judging the distance, he had said to his wife, before she she leans into the harness and, with went out to work, "Tell one of the her master responding in synchro kids to come home right after school nized movement, takes him safely in and take me to the barber shop." front of it, with ample space to spare. CUSTOm BUILT Each morning she did this and each At The Seeing Eye they will tell day the "kids" forgot. Six weeks you that the dog's job is to giiide. K O Y A L £ had passed before one of them re If, for example, an ash can obstructs a4-TUBt membered. When they got to the the sidewalk, she guides her master shop the youngster spied a friend. around it without once slowing the super radio-muiical injtrunient -was created "I'm going to talk to Billy," he said, pace. If a low awning endangers his for tliOiC discriminating and exacting few "wko "I'll be back for you. Dad." head, she guides him away from it. mjiit on tkc finest, most beautiful, most precisely tuilt In twenty minutes his hair was cut radio oktainaLle. A set of rare distinction, musically Even a broken or irregular sidewalk and artistically perfect, the Royale offers over 100 but his son had not returned. He does not escape her alert eyes and she features. . . assuring a luxurious and idealized type of never did return, and later, when the guides her master where he will not trIIliant,sparkiing,guaranteed»-orld-widcperforinance shop was closed, the barber led him stumble. ..•heretofore unattainakle. It is today'sonly ''aged" home. But the master directs the dog. radio... offers € tuning ranges...4J'^to2^00incters...etc. The answer to what blindness is Blind people usually have a mental This 24-tule achievement out- like might be summed up in one performs other receivers. Assures picture of their own communities; if Unlimited iScope Full Fidelity word: frustration. they haven't, they learn at The See Audio range is 20 to 1(},000 cycles | ing Eye how to form this picture by per second . . . 40 watts undistorted B^H| | T using landmarks which a person with output. Fully guaranteedfor 5 years T tB ; 1 HESE simple problems of getting eyes would scarcely notice. Uneven .. absolute satisfaction assured | from place to place are solved daily pavement, the smell of a bakery or The 30-day FR£E Trial Offer en- I : and in a hundred ways by The See alliesyou to try the B.oyale in your It I drug store, unusual air currents, „ own home, without W: K JSw ing Eye dog. There are other, more identify a district to a sensitive blind deep seated, obstacles which she over r,Rjl obligation. \V^ritc for person as certainly as the Empire literature now or mail comes as well. But first, let us watch her at work guiding her sightless State Building marks for us the Island of Manhattan. master, on the streets of the Seeing 47 COTALE CAEIO CCAFTCC# Eye's home city, Morristown. (J^iviston ^li
render dangerous in some cities a him and was told he should do it for system of instruction which might himself. He had to cut his own food, be thoroughly dependable elsewhere. too. He tried and found that, like 8 INCHES OFF When a blind person has learned to unpacking his bag, it wasn't so hard. use a Seeing Eye guide, he can do so There were eight in Alden's class, WAISTLIHEjH* anywhere. Last summer one young and all of them struggled to over man went with his Seeing Eye guide come old habits of helplessness. "Director reduced waistQne from to Europe and visited places of in Their lessons the first two days of 42 to 34 in. Feel 10yearsyounger. CONSTIPATION CONE — No tired, terest as independently and with as the month's course consisted wholly bloated fceline after meals." C. Newton, Troy, N. y. much pleasure (and probably with of lectures—how to care for the dog; less fuss) as any tourist. How did to feed and brush her and how to WORKS AWAY he find his way around strange for win her affection. Instructors taught Massage reduces—so does Direc tor. Its elastic action, with every eign cities? He asked questions, just them the technique of command—the movement of your body, causes a gentle, changing, vibrating as all the other tourists did. tone of kindly authority which wins pressure that easily, comforta the dog's respect and later, her affec bly works away abdominal fat. RESTORES VIGOR tion. Directorputssnapinyour RiEMARKABLE, you say, for a Their first lessons with their dogs step, helps to relieve"short breath." restores vieor. blind man. Well, he didn't seem to consisted of obedience exercises— You look and feel years think it was unusual. But this in youn^r as soon as you setting up exercises. The Seeing Eye wear Director Belt, dependence is not made possible calls them. Once a dog will sit, lie Break Constipation merely by handing over a highly down, and fetch for her new master, Habit Loose, fallen trained dog to a blind man and wish the actual lessons in guiding begin. abdominal muscles go back where they belong. ing them Godspeed. The dog is not At first these lessons are given on Massage-like action of Director increases elimi trained at all, she is educated. And residential sidewalks, where a pedes nation and regularity in a normal way without the. like the well bred lady she is, she trian rarely is encountered. The stu use of harsh, irritating, harmful cathartics. never forgets the principles of her dent must learn to obey instantly the SENTONTRIAL-Send) education. slightest pull on the harness, for the. TODAY for FREE detail., of NO-RISK TRIAL offer. ^ That blind man whom we watched dog, whose education is already com going through traffic in Morristown plete, expects her guiding to be fol I LANDON & WARNER, Dept T-5 • 360 No. Michigan Ave., Chicago, III. was a student ready to graduate. He lowed. Until the student becomes YES, send me FREE details on TRIAL offer. had to be taught to do what he did. adept, his instructor always follows While he was studying at The Seeing immediately behind, prepared to stop Name. Eye, he was treated precisely as if the dog or the student in case of I j Address. he were a sighted person enrolled for danger. a brief university course. The fact But before this education of the ! Cily State that his instruction was in inde student can take place, the dog her pendence and not, say, in architec self goes to school. It requires three ture or law, made necessary a most months of daily study before The unusual curriculum. It is one which Seeing Eye will certify a dog as hav was varied to suit his temperament ing shown sufficient proficiency to and that of his dog. It is one in guide a blind man. which tact and timely words of en couragement formed an important rp part of his instructor's equipment. 1 HE Seeing Eye people will tell That curriculum opened for him a you that the dogs are educated, not new way to life. Let me illustrate. trained. The distinction they say is When he arrived at The Seeing important. A trained animal reacts Eye, anxious and hopeful, our blind only upon command, either by word man (shall we call him Frank Alden, or gesture. An educated animal—a Mie yourself away to tlio places you have long wanted to see. TravellnK cosls liltic if you own a Silver Dome. for that was not his name?) was at Seeing Eye dog—is taught to think «omi)lete Uvliip, vatinu and sleeping accoinmoilallons. I ays fur itself in hold hills saved. Five ncir 193() models. first surprised and hurt at the treat for herself, and should any command body stylcR! New interior arrmiKement and ecjuip- ment given him. Oh, they were civil endanger the safety of her master Vi"-tamp for^•"elvliterature.luxury, nnivenienceDealers: Write andfor comfort!pronositlon. Send 3c enough. After he said good-bye to she will disobey. She will disobey SILVER DOME. INC.. 466 York St.. Detroit. Mich. his wife, a young man, an official of the letter of the command, that is, the school, confidently walked him but she will carry out the spirit of it. about the house putting his hand on Suppose an obstruction completely furniture so that he could identify blocks a sidewalk. The dog guides WIND PROOF its location mentally. Alden's hand her master up to it and stops. With was made to feel walls to learn where an exploratory toe or cane the master doors were. In his own room his feels the obstruction, but, of course, hand was placed on soap, towel and he cannot see how to go around it. his bureau drawers. His mind was Because he wishes to proceed in that A GREAT XMAS OIFT FOR OUTDOOR SMOKERS confused trying to remember every direction all he can do is command, ZIppo's man-sized flame thing. At home he had never had to. "Forward." To a trained dog this liKlitj siir4 x 6 closed. You simply can't wear out this TT HE instructors at The Seeing ple who show the greatest promise Suality product. 22-karat gold name, address, lodcG emblem lee. Tills eoffruTiner ordlsarUy costa extra. Eye are all young men. or the greatest need. It is a difficult job. To become An uninitiated visitor at The See Direct-To-You ONLY ^3— head instructor takes four years of ing Eye would hardly be impressed Enclose $3.95 Money Order or Check. Sent C. O. D. grueling work which must be supple if you prefer. State lodge emblem wanted. All arti with the visible results of this care cles fully Buaranteod. Your money cheerfully refunded if mented by considerable classroom not thoroughly satisfied, two weeKs* trial. ful selection during the first two or ^ /) Wnte for FRclE card cata- lecture work and outside study. A W^OftV Jog of novel, useful gifta. three days of work with a new group Morcliants, manufacturers, year ago eight apprentices began the of blind students. Despite the fact insurance men, tailors—with preferred customers—profit by ourquiintitydiscounts on personalized giftgood-willbuilders. Seeing Eye four-year course. These that a blind person must have an ex eight men were handpicked from the ceptional amount of courage to be LANDON & WARNER Oapt. H*aO Cbleacoi Ilk best of several hundred candidates, accepted by the school, I had the yet only five of them have managed feeling, during these first hours, that to finish the first year. A Seeing every one of the students was afraid. Eye instructor must learn animal The fear was partly hidden by hope, ' Natlnnwide onpor- tunities for trained men. Qualify in leisure Good Pay psychology, he must have the tact and but it was unmistakable. It was not time. Previous cxiH-viencc iiruvcd uiincccj- patience to ^win the confidence of fear of The Seeing Eye, or of the sacy. FKEB Bowk Kives lictalli. Fascbatiog LEWIS HOTEL TRAINING SCHOOLS Work sensitive blind people and equally new experience ahead. That, appa Room LW-6590 Washinftton. O. C. sensitive dogs; and, if he is to de rently, was the basis for hope. These velop other apprentices, he must be blind people, and thousands of others able to teach what he knows. He can like them, I have since discovered, never hope for large financial reward, were afraid because they had been XV"-' jj'' ['|, -f' lo'u'iJo for The Seeing Eye is a philan taught to be afraid. BiirkjMrJ ponvl sturls you, Aiiv climnio sultalilc- Wrlle for TltEK FUOG HOOK. thropic organization run on Spartan When I first visited The Seeing American Frog Canning Co. <138-X) New Orleans. La. 48 The Elks Magazine Eye, I considered it, as you may also, a pattern. If it is easy to recognize After Miss Draper had finished her to be an interesting place where won a graduate of Harvard or Oxford, it performance, I went backstage to derful things were being done with is even simpler to identify a blind offer my congratulations. Miss Kel dogs. But as my investigation led person who has been through the ler was there being introduced. Tap me further I began to analyze its mill of institution routine. By and ping a steady tattoo into the palm of value more carefully. I looked about large he is afraid to attempt any her secretary, who interpreted orally, for some means by which to measure thing which does not come within" the Miss Keller described the scenes she its work. Since there is no other narrow compass of his learning. The had ^mpst, enjoyed. If she missed institution just like it, I found that outstanding exceptions make the gen anything in them, then so did the it must be measured by the yardstick eral application of the rule more rest of us. of organizations working in one way absolute. Helen Keller is exceptional, of or another for the welfare of the Consequently, when he reaches the course.. But a few months ago I blind. I tried to make such a com age limit or finishes school, the young looked in on one of the many artistic parison of its value in a dozen differ blind man is wholly unprepared to "little theatres" which come to life ent ways. Each time I was unsuc associate with seeing people. They each year in Connecticut's summer cessful. Whenever I tried to measure are strangers to him, and because colonies. 'As part.of the entertain it by some other organization, The the stamp of the institution is so ment a one act play was given by Seeing Eye became not the cloth but unmistakable, even his family, and amateur actors. It was one of those the yardstick. It is the blind wel old friends.are apt to find him a little average- perfonnances such as you fare organizations themselves that "queer." Soon he seeks out the local might see anjnA^here. Nothing bril hfeed the measui4ng. It is they who workshop where other blind people liant, yet jt was done with an easy seem to be-responsible for this psy herd together and there he begins confidence which is sometimes lack chosis of fear which I saw in the caning chairs and weaving baskets. ing in seasoned troupers. When the blind students at The Seeing Eye. Now he feels more sure of himself. curtain dropped there was a round •' Welfare work for the blind in this He is among his own kind. or two of honest applause and the country has three major outlets: the The problem of eliminating this usual curtain calls.. Few in the publication of books in Braille, the fear complex in many of its students audience knew until after the lights operation of schools corresponding is most difficult for The Seeing Eye. went up, and we were told—and some to public grammar and high schools, Records on file at Morristown de refused to believe even then—that and the maintenance of workshops scribe case after case where months three of the four actors in the play where the blind are kept busy caning and years of persistent effort have were blind. chairs and weaving baskets and belts. been expended to build up sulficient Those blind people certainly were T.d administer these activities (and courage in a promising blind person getting something out of life I numerous lesser ones such as homes before he has finally enrolled, hope learned, on inquiry, that they did not for -the -aged and special schools) ful, but still afraid. have Seeing Eye dogs though they there are a vast number of local and hoped some day to get them. Cer state associations and commissions, tainly from my observations their regulated for the most part by con Wh... -lAT can a blind person get out chances for real happiness will be science and tradition. Remember of life ? Is the dog guide the only road infinitely greater with a dog guide that word—tradition. It is the key to happiness? Not even the Seeing than without one. to the psychosis of fear. Eye people claim that. What anyone And now, one more story. If our average schools for the gets out of life depends on the indi The unusual devotion and consid blind are giving education to the vidual, whether he has eyes or not. eration which Seeing Eye dogs show sightless, as, indeed, they are, they The fingers of a sensitive blind per for their blind masters have prompted are also teaching them to be blind— son can reveal to him the beauty of many to inquire whether or not the to live always as a blind person. If sculpture, if not of painting; his ep-s dogs know that the men and women they are instilling the rules of arith are enough for the theatre, movies, they guide are blind. Do they some metic and spelling, they are at the music, the radio; Braille brings lit how recognize and respect a differ same time teaching that blindness is erature to his finger tips. How about ence between people with eyesight a fate to be accepted and not a handi Clinton Russell, the blind man who and those who cannot see? The See cap to be overcome. By uncon shoots a round of golf in less than ing Eye can't answer this. Yet it is sciously inculcating in impression 82? a fact that around the house where able blind people the philosophy that Last winter I sat almost next to the dogs do not guide their masters, life is drab at best but somehow it Helen Keller in a theatre where Ruth they will invariably step aside to per must be lived, they are almost in Draper was appearing. Anyone who mit a blind man to pass, though at delibly instilling the belief that life, has seen Miss Draper's monologue the approach of a seeing person they except within the narrow limits of characterizations knows that she gets will remain where they are without the world of the blind, is something her greatest effects through slight the slightest concern at being at once mysterious, awesome and gestures, through facial expression bumped into or stepped on. never to be attained. and with revealing words which may All this is but a reflection of the be no more than bits of conversation. rp traditional conception of blindness; The movement of her arm may indi 1 HE inimitable Alexander Wooll- the afflicted will seek out the afflicted cate a stage full of people, if you see cott has told an interesting talp and comfort one another. And this the movement. If not you may miss about Buddy, the pioneer Seeing Eve conception, however false, has been the point. •? Woollcott accepted by blind people and has re Miss Keller never missed a point. tells It, Buddy s blind master Morris sulted in one of the most damnable With her secretary telegraphing the Frank, was giving a lecture on The methods of administering welfare words and action into the palm_ of Seeing Eye one afternoon at which a ever devised by man—segregation. her hand with machine gun rapidity. number of blind people were Drpsip-nt If there ever was a system more Miss Keller smiled at humor, sympa When Mr. Frank had finished Buddy successful in stifling the initiative thized with sorrow, her face continu guided him off the platform and of a handicapped human being than ously alive with interest. Yet to her started toward the rear of the audi that of herding him with others sim eyes and ears the room was empty torium. As the two of them walked ilarly encumbered, it has by now of everything save black silence. up the narrow aisle many hands been humanely outlawed. Only an We were in the first row and sep reached out to give Buddy an affec open display of pity can approach arated from the orchestra pit by a tionate pat. Every so often Buddy its devastating effects. brass railing. During the intermis slowed down almost imperceptibly The segregation of the sightless sion the orchestra played and Miss and licked one of the outstretched in schools (in those enlightened Keller kept one hand on the railing hands. And, swears Mr. Woollcott, states where there are any special to pick up the vibrations. 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